skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this a story about them doing just that, though?
Dimensional analysis, one of the topics in the book, is a favorite of mine. Unfortunately the more useful parts of the subject are not that well known. Fortunately, this book seems to have a fairly standard introduction to the subject.

Most people seem to think dimensional analysis is limited to checking that the dimensions are consistent ("dimensional homogeneity"). But dimensional homogeneity is a constraint which can simplify problems, sometimes even allowing them to be solved up to a constant. The latter often requires additional reasoning to determine which variables are relevant and which are not. Kolmogorov famously made use of this approach to obtain his "5/3" law in turbulence: https://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/kolmogorovs-53-la...

The details of dimensional analysis seem only to be taught to engineers taking fluid dynamics or heat transfer classes. I understand why: the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid motion typically can't be solved in practice (for the most part), but we usually know which quantities are involved because they appear in the Navier-Stokes equations. Then it's useful to use that as a basis for analysis. In other areas, you can usually solve the equations, so dimensional analysis may not be necessary. Add on top of that the use of physical models (not mathematical or computational models), which may be scale models like a small scale airplane in a wind tunnel. Dimensional analysis provides a basis for scaling.

I'd recommend reading the relevant chapter of the book if you're interested. Dimensional analysis is most useful for physical problems, but you sometimes can generalize the idea of a "dimension" such that two things have different dimensions when it does not make sense to add them.
Not simple enough to attract anybody but geeks. The landing page of a project with ambitions to replace the existing web should target simple users and let them get in, see and access the value in a matter of a click on a very visible button labeled in a very obvious way rather than requiring them to learn how it works (the majority of people bringing money to the internet have no idea of how it works and little desire or capacity to learn that) and expecting them to get a clue they are supposed to click a button with a mysterious label "get a POD" and making them decide if they want their free pod to be provided by a commercial or a non-commercial entity (I bet they will rather click "apps" but there seems to be nothing there). Geeks like us are probably going to love it but geeks alone can't replace the web and fill it with economic value, we are to attract ordinary users.
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Honestly, if I had widely used software with an enforceable EULA term which allowed me to benchmark but not publicly disclose bad results I found, it would make for even worse PR for the company: I'd be able to go to a tech industry reporter saying "I ran benchmarks on this software, and I think many people would be interested in the results, but the company forbade me to release them publicly. I will still share them non-publicly with any interested parties under NDA." Or if private dissemination were also forbidden, I'd change the wording accordingly.

The better way for a company to handle this concern, if they feel it's important, is to proactively run and release benchmarks including commentary on the results, together with everything necessary for anyone to reproduce their results. Even better if they fund a trustworthy neutral third party to do this instead, with proper disclosure of the funding.

They can then respond very effectively to bad PR about badly done benchmarks. Unless their performance is actually bad, or course.
No serious alternative to jira (if you have one, I would love to know about it).

Hard to find a decent alternative to confluence for an internal wiki, particularly one with a good ACL system. We need certain customer details locked to just the people servicing those accounts.
I have used JIRA for 5 years and came to it begrudgingly when the project was complex enough. It handled the complexity, details and customizations of the project well enough though.

It's funny reporting benchmarking is being banned. The guise of web apps being too complex to be reasonably communicated is laughable.

There is a 15 year old bug open to reduce the flood of emails Jira can create from updates. JRASERVER-1369 [1] could be it's own community.

With minimal java/jvm tuning experience, it seems likely the oncloud product is aggressively cached and resource throttled. Once a page or filter has loaded, it generally loads quicker.

The speed of an on premise install of JIRA compared to the cloud can be staggeringly faster.

One solution might be for some clever person to first crawl an entire Jira or Confluence site, and then continually ping all the pages to keep the system performing better.

[1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-1369
Right. Even in Hindi it makes perfect sense to often skip You, I etc.
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Yeah this is perfect!
The author is Sanjoy Mahajan. He has another interesting book, "Streetfighting Mathematics".
And should they ensure that encryption always has backdoors to enable this too?
How strict is your employer about butt-in-seat schedule?

If you have full flexibility, I’d suggest aiming to hit 40 hours on a weekly basis rather than 8 on a daily basis. That gives you the flexibility to work, say, 10 hours one day because you’re really on a roll, and to stop at 6 hours the next afternoon when you’re tired and distracted without feeling guilty.

Don’t go over 40 hours on a regular basis. That’s a recipe for burnout. A week of crunch time every 3 months is one thing. But regular 50-hour weeks aren’t sustainable for most people.

I’d also suggest setting goals in the morning for what you want to accomplish in a day. Put down your work when you reach the goal, unless you’ve got several more hours in the day. In that case, set another goal for the remaining hours. If it becomes clear that you won’t reach your goal within a reasonable number of hours for the day, put your work down whenever you hit a stopping point close to the time you’d planned to wrap up for the day.

More experience should help you make increasingly accurate estimates of what you can accomplish in a day, so you’ll hone this process as time passes. Plus it’s great practice at estimating, which is a difficult and valuable skill.

It’s unusual to hire junior engineers fully remote in part for this reason: more experience in a “typical” work environment give you more context for these sorts of judgement calls.
Apartments need to build charging areas. Bringing a lithium ion battery into your home is a bad idea. Any apartment complex with any liability will ban them.

Tesla’s and Ferrari’s get stolen. Everything can be stolen. That’s what insurance is for.
I focus on gaining meaning and happiness in life from things other than achievement. The things I do mean less to me than the experiences and relationships I have in life. I don't need a $100 million yacht and a Wikipedia page to love the people around me and feel loved in return. I think what I have is a lot more valuable.
What does the ratio of customers to caching boxes have to do with the size of the proposed discount?
I don't think Netflix subscribers are as worried about privacy implications of P2P as Netflix is(not interested in sharing data). Netflix already has all history data of all subscribers and can decide to sell/use it as it seems fit thought policy changes. As subscribers, it's no different to have our data visible to one profit driven company vs to all subscribers. Moreover, having this data available publicly would of immensely help in creating transparency among people and bringing then closer.

World would be a lot better place if we starts becoming comfortable with sharing our real thoughts/preferences openly, and it would simplify transition to truly public-sprited internet platforms based on etherium, etc.
That was my first thought also...

"We have specially trained staff members who give students additional information about our sponsors while they enjoy their coffee."

What's not to enjoy about a fresh cup of coffee, payed for by a stranger who has special training in reading ads at you? Specifically at you.

I wonder if the customers<?> are allowed to not pay attention? or give incorrect information?
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Ironically, this book brings up how it disagrees with the most upvoted comment's book "Getting To Yes".

This book (Never Split the Difference) was also pretty helpful to me, but it's easy to forget to apply in scenarios.
A 5 year MS is where you get both a BS and MS in 5 years. So basically you graduate a year late.
Saying "shove it up your ass" is a common idiom that is, while rude, not "advocating for sodomy".

(Which, by the way, is something that is generally A-okay - "sodomy" refers to gay (usually anal) sex, and Western societies have generally decided that's not a crime anymore.)
> You can, although the instructions published actually result in you still being root (and using password authentication, erk)

Huh? Maybe this was true on alpha4 (I have no idea), it certainly isn't true now.

> even if you go out of your way to become a genuinely non-root user, you can still read, modify and replace system files for example.

Root can't even replace system files anymore due to packagefs; but in general, there was a massive refactoring and cleanup of the VFS layer between alpha4 and beta1 which means filesystem permissions are actually enforced now.
Usually in that situation, you both show your phones, to show you're doing it.
Depending on the topic, it's potentially a means to avoid plagiarism and cheating; there's only so many assignments you can squeeze out of the same textbook semester after semester, at which point you're at the mercy of students who sell their homework for quick cash.

It's also possible- again, depending on the field of study- that the professor's textbooks are substantially cheaper for students than those from larger publishers. I had a few professors do just this because they were able to get special rates for the shop at the school they taught at.

And yeah, it's entirely possible that your kid's professor is a jerk and ripping them off.
I trust no government, especially the US government, to require the implementation of a wiretap. It has already been shown that they have greatly abused any trust given to them.
Law enforcement already has the FISA court, Stingrays, PRISM, and enough other stuff that they don't have an issue breaking in to stuff.
In every known circumstance that took a tech giant to court, the FBI just used a third party to provide them a method of gaining access to a physical device. It is absurd for them to receive implementations of wiretapping on any service when they should just do their job and unlock the physical devices.
It is also blatantly clear that they tried to force Facebook's hand by using this case. I mean really why do you think this case involves MS13 members?
If the nominal discount was $1/month, most customers with an unmetered connection would take it because it's effectively free money. From the company's perspective it could even be revenue positive by raising the price $1 and offering it back as the discount.

You're also not considering the power law distribution. If nineteen customers have 1Mbps uploads and one has symmetric gigabit, the average is >50Mbps. And the discount could be per-byte -- set it at half whatever the cost of central servers would be.
A. The presidency isn’t a publicly traded company.

B. Obvious joke about “but it’s for sale like it is” :)

C. Anyone still arguing about Trump Tweets is being obtuse the bias in media. He found a loophole to get his message out, I don’t agree with the content usually but can’t fault him for the workaround.
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Do you think that building codes should require every bedroom to have a microphone connected to the local courthouse, to be activated only in the event that the authorities suspect the occupants are going to discuss a crime?
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I thought the ellipsis would be enough to represent sarcasm, but I guess not. lol
Err ... no? The problem with the ARM port is the lack of device drivers, and the fact that there is no userland/syscalls ABI set up yet at all. So there's still a lot to be done here.
Similar to Shiny is Bokeh for python, which appears to be trying to replicate the Shiny experience. While you can only get so much control without resorting to JS injections, it's pretty good for [select options -> search -> visualize result] type of problems.
You can easily reach 1% or below at that asset level. It’s effectively free.

You can also negotiate a payment plan with the government, depending on your financial situation.
It also depends on whether your indicator for success is writing CRUD endpoints in the latest web framework vs inventing new data structures, algorithms, and AI systems.
It's normal ceo behaviour to run your statements by PR people, but it isn't normal to have that forced onto you by your board after you were just fined a 20 million dollar fine by the SEC because you went on a twitter bender
My comment is less focused on the cause and more about accepting the result. I have no strong opinion on nature vs nurture but regardless my genes and upbringing have led me to accept I'm not that type of person
A: Except, it kinda is. Trades are made, goods are exchanged, in many ways it's similar, just depending on different rules
I was surprised nobody mentioned openstax, which is organized by Rice University

https://openstax.org
> 1. A WebID profile and browser certificate from one of the Solid-compliant identity providers, such as solid.community.

Hmmm, a centralized WebID eh? No thanks.

Even the "How it works" page [0] indicates how your solid pod becomes your id.

"In order to prove ownership of your data, you need a way to identify yourself. Rather than relying on a third party, you can use your Solid POD to say who you are. So no more “Log in with X” or “Log in with Y” on the Web — just “Log in with your own Solid POD”."

It'd be nice if it didn't replace one type of SSO with another, but proposed a way that SSO wasn't required at all.

[0] https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works
It's alive because original author keep seeding the content. Nothing headline worthy to read.
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I think you should also include restrictions in your EULA to prevent people from publishing statements about your code quality too. Very few are qualified to measure it, and spreading potentially false information can hurt a business. I can think of several other items that have limited expertise in evaluating and could cause negative PR harm if done falsely, so you probably should just enumerate those in the EULA too.

Also, I gather from your comment in support of these restrictions, they are more than boilerplate and you will pursue offenders.
I could imagine a few reasons for this:

• CBS is being malicious, and it's intentionally refusing to play the video if they detect tracking protection. (It sounds like a lot of people on the thread are assuming it's this one, and it very well may be.)

• CBS is being lazy, and didn't bother to test with tracking protection and work through any technical issues (like implementing graceful fallbacks).

• CBS is being cautious, and knows they haven't tested tracking protection as much, so they're leaving "disable tracking protection" in as a troubleshooting step, since it certainly does reduce the number of variables.

• Firefox is being unreasonable, and makes it enough of a pain to implement a website that works with tracking protection that CBS doesn't want to play ball. As a simple example, if Firefox's tracking protection blocked all cookies, plenty of honest parts of the internet would break (so it works differently, apparently with a domain block list). It sounds like others have had trouble with blocked domains that are sometimes used for tracking and sometimes for legitimate non-tracking purposes (like force.com, apparently), but I don't have a good sense of how common that really is.

Anyone have enough experience with these things to know how likely/reasonable the different explanations are? (Or if there are other reasons that I missed.)
> I've never found JIRA buggy

I'm not sure how you can have used the UI and hold this option. I feel like I've been greeted by the same basic bugs time and time again, like clicking on an issue ans it not opening until the second click, or opening the previously viewed issue.
Why? The web seemed to grow on with this kind of roll out.
I think I saw a few example apps linked elsewhere -- the apps section of the marketing-oriented website just said "coming soon." I think it'd be a good idea to show these apps off, even if they are unfinished. I know I'm personally skeptical of any specification that lacks working examples, and the website, due to its lack of apps, implies there are none (hence my "afaict.") good luck with the launch!
The driver can ask to show your screen when giving the rating.
No, I consider that giving law enforcement too much access. Others may disagree.

From the article: "Telecommunications companies are required to give police access to calls under federal law, but many apps that rely solely on internet infrastructure are exempt. Facebook contended Messenger was covered by that exemption."

I think it's good that law enforcement can tap calls if necessary, and I see no convincing reason why the existing law and precedent should not extend to apps like messenger which are used just as traditional phones are by many people. Therefore I'm comfortable extending the law to internet based communications.

The powers granted to government should not be absolute, but there must be powers that are granted, so we debate about what powers to grant. The debate cannot be resolved on an a priori basis using abstract principles, it can only be resolved on a case by case basis. If we only rely on abstract principles we will inevitably be pulled toward absolute power or absolute impotency.
He's not covering anything, and unless he buys it at the price it was right before he tweeted it's arguably another instance of securities fraud.
> I wonder if this is how people felt when the World Wide Web was first invented.

It did feel like a new beginning.. combined with a "that's it?", combined with a "how will they ever get everything online?" At the time, no one was really online or knew what the internet was. Protocols like Gopher, Archie worked ok, and there was a BBS world..

Still, the web just felt unspeakably different to what came before in an indefinable way.

If application logic can be separated from data in Solid, this could be meaningful evolution to the web.

Imagine plugging in all of our existing data in one app or database into any other app or database.
Note that this is rather old news, it was actually some time ago that the coffin was opened and the book was found. (in the year 1104)
You should assume that Equifax or the like will eventually implement a Chinese style social credit system which Banks, Employers and Landlords etc will use and will be judged legal because "contracts"

Your daily habits, used for who knows what purpose over the many decades remaining in your life, are worth a hell of a lot more than a latte.
Yes - there's a paper documenting the approach and metrics here. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5569963 .

It was removed in 2014 in favor of central distribution.
I have a max 2 since almost it was released and even if it can work as a display, it isn't ideal

ghosting and a lower resolution needed to have a better refresh rate, kills a lot of the charm.

imho, they can work but on a pretty niche way, but I wouldn't buy one just to use it as a display.
> Doesn’t quantum mechanics leave open the possibility that our universe is fundamentally probabilistic?

Not really. A wave function propogates in a perfectly deterministic manner. There's not anything probabilistic baked into QM.

Probability comes in at what's called the Measurement Problem. Right now, we ad hoc apply the Born rule to project complex amplitudes into probability distributions whenever convenient, but there's actually no good understanding of why the Born rule works at all. It's just sorta tacked onto QM at this point.
Yeah, Jira is horrible. Between the workflows, search filters (create one, apply it to a board, but then you can't edit it?) and everything else, it's really clunky to use.

I've done test runs with other tracking software, and I can't really find anything better. Every tool sucks in its own way. Do you have a recommendation on something that you've found that's better than Jira?
No merged PR builds in CI either. Bitbucket is terrible.
I think (hope) this is the beginning of a big new trend.

Instead of having people and services steal my personal information to show me BS ads, let me sell my own personal data and maybe then you can show some ads for stuff I might actually be interested in.

You might argue that advertisers have too much access to our personal data, but I'd argue they don't have enough.
I advise public to google the term "staged encounter," "encounter specialist" and the guy called Rao Anwar
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The main reason is production costs. A single 13" screen is being sold to manufacturers for over 350.
>The presidency isn’t a publicly traded company.

Yes. But it is enormously more important than a simple publicly traded company. If a company fails to follow rules, it might bankrupt itself / cheat shareholders / cause minor economic harm. Maybe the shareholders lose all their money.

If the president fails to follow the rule of law, whole countries will perish.

In a way, the presidency should be held accountable at a far more higher level of compliance than a publicly traded company.

>Anyone still arguing about Trump Tweets is being obtuse the bias in media. He found a loophole to get his message out, I don’t agree with the content usually but can’t fault him for the workaround.

He can get his message out anyway he wants. Tweets, facebook posts, sms, heck even an RFC document. Nobody cares. What everyone cares about is the timing, the potential for vast damage that a single tweet at the wrong time can do, the inherent limited text of tweets having the potential to be misinterpreted.

It's not what he can do, but whether he should do it. A person running a whole country ought to be more responsible and should be held responsible for his actions. And for such a person with enormous power, every small act, counts.

Imagine the president wearing the Hindu swastika (a deeply religious symbol to Hindus) for Diwali celebrations at a state event,but the clip holding the swastika symbol slips, and the swastika turns a bit. There would be seismic changes in people and societies around the world instantaneously. Now, is the president responsible for the loose clip, perhaps not. Is the president responsible for making sure such things dont happen, absolutely.
CDNs are also centralized servers, you just have more of them.
Where is the “old interface” link?
I think you can reduce it down to the formula:
You should assume [US entity] will eventually implement [Chinese Government method of social control].
He didn't find a loophole to get his message out. He's the President of the United States. He can call a press conference and everyone will report on his message across the country. There's no need for a loophole. The complaint is that he's communicating irresponsibly in a way that needlessly hurts others.
It's easy to use. What is not easy is to take a large code-base that doesn't use it and change it so it now uses.