skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've long felt that RMS/FSF's very specific and nonintuitive usage of "free" was intended to be misleading. If someone says "free" (which has many, many different meanings, all positive) when they really mean "copyleft" (which has one very complicated meaning), they're not trying to clarify anything, rather they're trying to muddy the waters so that people who don't understand copyleft or the FSF's political philosophy might think it's much simpler and much less specifically (and restrictively) defined than it actually is. Even the phrase "free as in freedom" doesn't actually disambiguate it, as it's a very specific type of very atypically defined freedom.

It always felt like a certain type of PR strategy, where the intent is to intentionally mislead people who aren't paying close attention, and that's always rubbed me the wrong way. Source: observing 3 decades of neverending confusion, flamewars, and arguments over this very topic.
I became unable to understand conversations in noisy bars and restaurants. I had my hearing tested, and it was normal. I can hear one person talking quietly from across the house, but can't understand a person right next to me in a bar. It's very frustrating.
There are probably a fair number of consulting firms you can find for that.

But another (part of the) solution is using workflow software. Something that allows you to define and share procedures, indicate status of various taskings along the defined workflows, move data and such along. This clarifies to the employees what's needed, and gives an opportunity for them to provide feedback for improvements (too much granularity, not enough, too inflexible, etc.). Management, then, also gets better insight into the actual status of projects and taskings. It's part of continuous improvement to constantly be evaluating these sorts of procedures and clarifying, culling, adding to them. Management that's unfamiliar with these concepts is just bad management.

In the manufacturing world, the Procedural Consulting firm would conduct "lean events". (NB: Many, if not most, places do this incorrectly.)

The correct way is to collect metrics (meaningful) over time, encourage and reward employee feedback about ways to improve things. Then improve them (sometimes as a move across the board, but often by conducting experiments to see how well the new concepts work, then roll out to everyone). The risk is that improved efficiency will obsolete employees, some fear this (like may have actual panic attacks about this level of fear). Instead, you need a culture that sees this improved efficiency as an opportunity for growth (the same number of employees can now do more once people get retasked to new things).
The thing that's helped me deal with impostor syndrome the most is to really internalize a couple realizations. It's less than my perception of my own competence was too low, it's that my perception of my peers' competence and depth of understanding was too high. Nearly everyone actually is kind of an impostor to a certain degree. Successful people are just less bothered by it - they let other people assume that their understanding is deeper than it actually is. You assume people know waaaay more than you, but really they typically know exactly enough about the subject to present that impression.
Yeah but it's easier to pair down the antenna and underpower the radio than to go the other direction :)
Thanks, I had missed the discussion of the reading list!
Time is how long it takes to run, which is based on how many operations you will use.

Space is how much memory you need to run it.

Frequently in operations there is a tradeoff between time and space. The classic example being that saving previous results in a lookup table requires more space but saves time because you eliminate repeat calculations.

We already had O(2^n) time with O(n) space, or O(2^(n/2)) time with O(2^(n/4)) space. This algorithm represents a new tradeoff between those two points.

Note that these are all worst case scenarios. In practice for sets of modest sized integers, subset sum is solvable in reasonable time and space. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum_problem#Pseudo-poly... for details.
Opening the link you provided above with Firefox and bringing up network motior, I get the same as you; 109.18 KB "transferred", 131.65 KB "size", and gzip was used according to headers. I thought that maybe "transferred" might be the size of the data after decompression, and "size" would be "transferred" plus headers, but then I checked Chromium and I see 110 KB there as well.

It seems very strange that the size reported by the parent is varying. Why would it do that? Are they all the same file or different ones?
looks good - they should give them out at concerts, sell them or rent them. Why isn't anyone selling them at concerts anyway? The cost of goods at scale (millions of pairs per year) must be miniscule, it's basically free money that could be shared with concert venues and has no downsides of any kind whatsoever.

why aren't these being sold at concerts? (vending machines etc)?

I guess people just don't care. (not enough 'demand').
Until Google pulls the plug because they are too famous. They don't have own infrastructure and own algorithms.
Your ears compress sound to a degree when it gets loud, I wonder whether there might be a difference in that capacity.
I also can't hear a word in a noisy environment, I'm relatively sure my hearing is "fine"
Meh result from Google for me.

Sitting in Mumbai, India and the first result is :

https://www.tripadvisor.in/Restaurant_Review-g45399-d2219937...
that's cool - maybe I go to different places. I'm in Europe and go to just general concert venues or clubs etc.
I came back after reading/seeing the photographs to post the same quote. My jaw dropped when I read it. Unbelievable, yet so topical.
Apple’s Mysterious AirPods Delay Marks Rare Misstep
Wait are you saying that the new shareholders take over a company, borrow a lot of money from a bank. Sell off it's assets. Pay all of it's new found cash out to it's shareholders through dividends. Then goes bankrupt, and screwing over the bank?
Please provide a "counter-example" where the United States murdered 100 million people.

Thanks.
Mindblowing.
I would at least try a couple of the articles before you write Chapman off completely. Anyone is going to sound dumb if you just read their thesis statement, but he backs it up pretty well in the succeeding writings. Try the bits about fundamentalism [0], the two counter-cultures [1], and the history of going from pre-modern to modern thinking and the problems it created [2]. You may not think the has the Ultimate Answer, but he's not a New Age BSer either.

[0]: https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-moder...
[1]: https://meaningness.com/countercultures-fail
[2]: https://meaningness.com/meaningness-history
If you want the book from 2006, it's available on Amazon.[1] Most of this material is available on line, from the National Archives or the University of California.[2][3] It's not new.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Impounded-Dorothea-Censored-Japanese-...
[2] https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/ja...
[3] https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/t11/jarda/
The most crucial thing for the future of information freedom is to fix American intellectual property and network access laws.

"Walled gardens" exist because anyone who effectively frees a user's data on the user's terms is at least sued, if not jailed, under statutes like the Soviet-era, pre-Internet Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and luddite interpretations of the Copyright Act that consider a RAM copy that exists for milliseconds an infringement.

Allow coders to make it easy to cart your data around and suddenly the major tech incumbents will have to compete on merit instead of merely holding your data hostage, which is exactly what they don't want. The powerful make laws to prevent others from challenging their power.

If we update copyright and the CFAA to address conventional internet use (from the user's perspective, not the corporate giants who were quick to legislate themselves a safe harbor with the DMCA) and constrain the scope of browsewrap and clickwrap agreements to reasonable liability disclaimers, we'll have no problem maintaining a vibrant and accessible marketplace for user-facing services.
It's unfortunate that it comes down to this but... maybe people will use an alternative to Google when it stops looking like this: https://framadate.org/images/date.png

Unfortunately for these projects, user experience is pretty much everything. Yes people care about privacy, but obviously not enough to have to use lesser products.
It might just be some calcium. The horror!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water
No dispute here over relative merits, but if moral superiority over the perpetrators of the holocaust is all we are aiming for then the bar is frighteningly low.
That's interesting.

"Soon after, I realized that AI was a dead end, and left the field."

His bluntness and pith there are refreshing anyway.
Struggling to be yourself? Read this
Wth is that? How does it work? How does the token become 'eval'? Could this sonehow be blocked in browsers?
It can also be a neurological or psychological issue. I had my hearing tested after years of being totally unable to pick out voices in a noisy environment. Turns out my hearing is actually above average. My ENT suggested that I might just be "bad at hearing", in the same way that one might have poor memory, or have poor visual-spatial awareness. It's apparently a skill that can be trained.
A friend of mine works as a public defender in Los Angeles (and prior to that, worked as a public defender in San Francisco). His advice is to never call the cops in all but the most extreme situations. The risk of them maiming or killing someone, performing unwanted illegal entries and searches, making an arrest based on unrelated things they see (suspected drug paraphernalia, etc), spurious complaints to child protective services, baseless detention and arrest, or just plain mistreatment and harassment is too great. In addition, if there is any person on parole or probation present when the cops show up, that person's chances of going to prison are very high, because a cop can say almost anything and have that be taken as a parole violation.
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The last straw
I tested a ton of cdn networks. What i can say for sure is that the ms cdn is the fastest. So, i guess they use it for cdn at least.
I have a similar problem in loud spaces. Given my activities (motorcycling, guitar playing, powertools, etc) I had assumed my hearing was bad, but when I went to an ENT/audiologist for unrelated things I had them give me a good test on a whim.

For me, the results were that I have hearing ability on-par with a ~5 year old, and they only see adults like me every 18 months or so. I've got a printoff of the chart around here somewhere, but it's well outside the normal, especially for my activities.

On the flipside, I'm very ADHD, which I think hurts my loud-space conversational abilities some. I always figure my ears are trying to listen to all of it at once.

(Most lightbulbs and televisions drive me up a wall, because I can hear them all the time)
Don't forget the detention centers for "migrants" (often people fleeing war) and the fact that the UK has now legalised a surveillance state that the stasi would have had erotic dreams about.
By RMS? Why would he make his message intentionally less clear?
I'm in agreement with the other replies here - this seems more useful within a datacenter (and any unit smaller than that, such as an AWS Availability Zone) and not so much useful over the general internet. Too much unpredictability in how things get routed, what types of routers are hit, etc.
Shure SE series are good for this as well. Sometimes I just have the earphones in with no music to cut background noise.
> The increasingly centralized online services provided by sprawling giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft (GAFAM) pose a threat to our digital lives.

Curious that they don't talk about browsers. Your browser sees everything and knows everything it wants to know about your online life, it's arguably the most sensitive piece of the puzzle. All major browsers except Firefox are owned by "GAFAM."
There's a little bit of a life-hack for this (assuming your hearing really is okay) in loud environments... Push the little flap of the recipient's ear (the flap is called the 'tragus') over their ear canal to seal it off. Then you can lean in and speak loudly enough to overcome the ambient noise without hurting them.
Being an American, I'd put Samuel Clemens up against Wodehouse and, having read both extensively, make it too close to call.
My usual goto about "free" software and "free" service:

"Free speech is not the same as free beer."
This. I find DDG is the vim of search engines. Small learning curve but immensely powerful.
And he would probably have been right, had he not coupled it with a war of aggression against enough of the world to get every major power not in the Axis aligned against it.

The Nazi's downfall wasn't the genocide against Jews and other "undesirables", for all that that became the basis of punishment for some ex-regime figures after the Nazis were defeated.
There are illegal aliens in this country because this country let them come in. We let them in so they can pick fruits, landscape our lawns, babysit our children, all at a huge discount.

So yes, we all got financial benefits out of it. Now, suddenly turning around to punish people who we benefited from strikes as hypocritical, to put it politely.

If were are just enforcing the laws now, it would be only fair to write a big fat check to each deportee before sending them on their way.
Well, the master password is complex enough to have to really guess at it, even if they had the raw keepass file. And I can change it regularly without affecting any other login.

If someone does crack it, at least I have a handy database of websites and logins I have to change the password for.
maybe a dumb question, but how do you get yourself tested? does a doctor have to order tests? is it a self-test?
I suspect my experiences bartending lead me to having the problem GP describes. Too much noise over and over... (although the summer jobs working with machinery and not enough ear protection and all the concerts probably contribute too).

But during bartending a few things are true:

* it's not too loud when you have time for a conversation.

* if it is too loud to converse, you're probably busy enough that interaction very simplified to a small subset of language - so lip reading becomes a big contributor to understanding. (e.g. basic greeting scripts, "can i get a..." and so on)

* when it's loud, it's pretty socially acceptable for the bartender to lean in to the conversation to hear - the "personal space bubble" of the speaker tends to shrink in that instance. Similarly a bartender asking you to repeat that a bit louder isn't considered rude.

edit: I wish I was clever enough to say this in as few words as BurningFrog did :)
Interesting! I can totally see having hyper sensitive hearing being very annoying too. From one rider to another, make sure you always wear hearing protection under your helmet :)
tl;dr, but concluded it is sophomoric rubbish?

The author is pretty well known, technically, and has been applying Buddhist-style inquiry patterns to a western vernacular for a long time. I don't think the knee-jerk cynicism is warranted. You may disagree with his conclusions, but he isn't a superficial guy.

And the fact that you think a search for meaning outside traditional religious models is 'mysteriously neglected' is baffling. Nothing in your comment seems to correspond to David's work, as far as I can tell.
Teaching a child to use Google will show you that there is indeed quite a learning curve. It is not intuitive how you evaluate your results and refine your search to get good results.
It might have been different if America had not 110000 people to deal with, but 5000000. It might have found its own final solution for the Japanese. Nazis only got to the final solution quite a bit into the war. There were various plans over the previous years to move undesirable people elsewhere, like Madagascar, etc.
Probably just the drummer in me, but it's driving me nuts that there isn't something like this:

<audio class="closedhihate" data-key="83" data-stop="audio.openhihat" src="sounds/hihat.wav"></audio>
Yes, this is common. That's a throughput-latency graph. What isn't being plotted in that graph is that there's actually an underlying controlled variable which both throughput and latency are responding to---the number of clients/outstanding requests at any given time.

The reason you're seeing a "wall" is that the system has some peak throughput, and once you reach full saturation, the average latency for requests is going to go up to infinity. (So, it's actually not exponential growth, it's approaching an asymptote.)
Google, Sony and Oculus Unite to Establish VR Industry Standards
They standardized ARM with UEFI and ACPI.
All bets are not off, Secure Boot was defeated :)
My mother has this issue (and so do I). Her doctor told her that the problem was a cognitive issue. Apparently some brains have a hard time filtering all of the noise into something we can understand. Have no idea if it's true but seems plausible.
I think most Americans will, at this point, agree that the Trail of Tears was terrible. The National Park Service has an official historic trail covering the route, with many exhibits describing the terrible suffering.

Turkey, on the other hand, still tries to pretend that the Armenian Genocide did not happen, even prosecuting people who say it did.

We are by no means perfect, but I think nations which are able to acknowledge and learn from the mistakes of their past have a leg up on those that try to pretend everything was great.
I'd say the "better-ness" of Google services these days is strictly the fact that everyone already uses them (which is critical for something like instant messaging). Individually they are (IMO) no better than most alternatives. Unless I'm real serious about a certain tool, the one I already have is the one I'm likely to start using - and most of the adult internet right now probably already has a Google account - and I'm pretty sure the kids are still signing up w/them, so no end in sight here...
It once all fit in a 1MB executable, and it hasn't gained much functionality since then.
> there is a major difference between cryptographic and non-cryptographic hash functions. SeaHash is not cryptographic

Is this in reference to most used hash functions not leaving any way to trace the contents of what was hashed, or not being able to reliably reconstruct contents to generate a certain hash? Or something else entirely?
I believe this is true. But I also have found that sometimes the user experience is diminished when not "logged in" to encourage people to create accounts. Pinterest has a box that slowly covers up more of the screen as you scroll drown. Facebook has a login prompt box that stays at the bottom of the screen and occasionally expands as a reminder. Quora prevents internal redirects to new pages. With enough know-how these can be worked around but it is an effort and I often find myself making the undesirable choice between doing the work around, ignoring the content, or signing up for an account.
It's less confusing when you focus on the 'freedom of the users'.

Maybe that's the part of the message that's been most lost over the years. Focusing so much on free/libre that the group to which it applies (everyone (else), end users) is forgotten.

Freedom for the users is the empowerment to treat ideas and expressions of ideas as simply that. A restoration to the laws of nature which make the cost of copying an idea merely seeing it in action.

Yes, that brings hard questions to the table as well. However my answer to those is mostly that works covered as free/libre software should be public works. Common infrastructure that everyone is supposed to have access to. An open and level playing field for the advancement of education and the useful arts of science. They should also provide a useful platform for more transitory productions like games and videos.
No not a self test: you need to be tested by a professional. It's done in a sound proof booth using a standard set of tests, including mechanical things like measuring how well your eardrum responds to sound vibrations. I think I pay ~$75-$100CAD per checkup.

You usually don't need a referral as most hearing aid clinics will just let you call up and schedule an appointment. If you want to talk to an ENT specialist though, you'll probably have to go to your family doc first.
I never thought of it that way but it makes sense. My hearing is fine and I can pick out quiet sounds, far away sounds, high-pitched sounds, etc... But I always have trouble turning the sounds that comes out of people's mouths into words especially if there's other noise. It's not a focus issue, either. I'm probably just bad at hearing speech in those situations for some reason.
"Maintaining the confused stances—eternalism, nihilism, and existentialism—is actually impossible, because they are obviously wrong. At some level, we are always aware that they require extensive make-believe."

Wow. How does the author know all this absolutely? He must be 'all knowing', therefore a god. I feel so complete now.
That's not a very good comparison. 60,000 people being executed over 6 years is very different from rounding up 3 million people, alive, in some camps. China also has no free press and a heavily censored internet.

Building huge camps and housing millions of people is simply impossible to do in secret.
The x86 emulator idea was first tried in 2010 with Drawbridge on Experiment 19.
It's mostly paper.
Scalping is just arbitrage. The core issue is that the retail price of the tickets is lower than the market price, which is probably high because the supply is limited (and probably artificially so by Ticketmaster et al).
You have described my problem exactly. It's impossible to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it. I've been tested and other than tinnitus, I'm told my hearing is normal. This could be awesome.
Google gets some special perks from the Government if they don't...
Git has some work in progress in that direction, starting by changing all the internal data structures to use a struct rather than a hardcoded array of bytes the size of a SHA1.
Is signing up for an account really that big of a deal to you?
I can put your mind at ease: I took a bit of poetic-mathematic license with that number. I figured that the big sites and the small sites together would average a perfect 1000 fresh-cache vistors a day, but in all probability I'm off by at least 3 or 291 visitors :)
Not writing down passwords made sense >20 years ago when the main threats you wanted to defend from were "local" because internet connectivity was not ubiquitous, and you would have only one password or two to manage...

In today's world with widespread internet connectivity and dozens of passwords to manage, password managers and/or writing down and (certain) dual factor identification approaches make more sense...