skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since xml2rfc and the rise of markdown I would agree in std land because troff markup for RFCs was a big thing
A lot of recruitment processes do unfortunately
> A nuclear fission world will never happen due to the economics of it.

'Economics of it' means different things to different people, but I'm just looking through the wiki page for electricity costs [0]. I'd bet when a lot of older people talked about solar being too expensive they set their expectations based on prices in the 80s [1]. Or they mean that renewables are horrible value technically for the money spent because they have highly cyclical output vs. consistent controllable output of a thermal plant. The economics of nuclear aren't the best, but they also aren't that bad.

Government policy routinely changes the price of things by 10-30%. We can cope with that easily, and that brings a fully nuclear world well into the realm of the possible.

Investors aren't scared of the high upfront cost of nuclear. They are scared by the risk of spending the high upfront cost of nuclear then having the rug pulled out from under them by hostile government policy. If there was no risk of government interference and a supportive policy environment (eg, blanket ban on competition from fossil fuels) investors would be more than happy to invest. They are looking to park their money somewhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Price_history_of_silicon_...
You're using a constant factor (human nature including a tendency to confirmation bias) to explain a change (a supposed current decline in journalistic standards).
It looks pretty impressive, but I’m struggling to find the practical problem it solves. Lots of jargon, eg “constraint language for modelling data structures”. How will that practically help making development easier / better / more secure?

It does bring a bit of a flashback to the GoF / UML craze of the 90es. UML supports visual constraint modelling, abstract state machines etc. The academic’s wet dream was being able to generate code from these abstractions to any language.
Thanks for the note. This may help: please click on the button 'web', which is below the title of this thread. This will open a Google search result and the first result should be this FT piece and hopefully, when you click on that, it's accessible.
Google Chrome supports a set of rational kbd warrior controls across Gmail photos, and the like.

i sometimes wish they'd bullied website Devs the way they did with amp to enforce hjkl vi/Emacs motion support.
You make a good point. Birds, especially, tend to float in water, given that they evolved specifically to have a low density in order to fly (i.e. float in air). A bird left floating for a long time will probably die of starvation or dehydration; but it's much less likely than a mammal to drown when it tires. So there's a better chance that it will still be alive when it washes up on some other beach, if that happens within a couple days.
Setting Up Slack SAML SSO with Keycloak
These days every desktop environment integrates an increasingly featureful fast search feature front and center because they know you aren't going to be able to keep up.
Yes, it's not either-or, but both-and. On its own, consuming and producing less probably isn't enough.
Maybe I'm just old, but when I hear that name in a software context, I think of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignette_Corporation
This is an astute observation about this site. I too have noticed, on many topics, that the comments here tend to acquire a different character when it's the middle of the night in California.
Not all people are equal in the carbon equation. Per capita consumption mattes.
There might be more signal, but there's also a lot more noise.
I would guess that over half of their current customers use Mathematica for development and prototyping (but don't put anything into production). This would effectively mean that they would let go of ~50% of their revenue over night (we're this to be true). So that line of thought is why I'm so confused. Does that make sense?
Isn't it still 'cloud'? It's still on a server somewhere that I don't think about, which is really all 'cloud' tends to mean.

I don't care whether Amazon use virtualisation to get me my 'instance'. They're always careful to stick with 'instance', and never to commit to 'VM'. Wise move, now that they're offering physical ('dedicated') instances [0]. Time will tell whether they take an interest in low-horsepower dedicated instances.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/dedicated-instances/
He's been extremely consistent in his remarks: privilege and wealth result in higher test scores for environmental reasons.

I'm undecided as to whether or not I agree, but she/he's been very consistent in their stance.

Also, accusing someone of "bragging" when they're providing anecdotal evidence for their point of view assumes bad faith where there may be none.
So I said:

I didn’t have to go get help before school from an overworked teacher who volunteered to help kids, but I could get all the help I needed at home?

And

I know plenty of people who took the test more than once, got help by going to “SAT prep” classes before school etc. and didn’t get any better.

The difference being that while SAT prep was offered by overworked teachers who volunteered to help a class full of students before school started, that was a lot different than having one on one help with a college professor. Also, even the kids who could get help before school were fortunate enough to get a ride to school. Some students couldn’t make it before school because their bus came too late and their parent(s) couldn’t take them because they had to be at work.

Have you ever thought about instead of just lashing out you could ask for clarification when you don’t get the point - that others actually did get?

And how is it “bragging” to say that I had relatives who were teachers and I did very well in what I admitted was one of the poorest cities in the country?

In fact, growing up in the segregated south as my relatives did, one of the few and ways to guarantee a middle class job was to go into education. My relatives were among the first to actually be able to teach in an integrated school - we aren’t talking about a lot of “privilege” here.
An Asteroid with Its Own Moon Will Zip Past Earth Tonight
Actually my work laptop is expanding because of its battery. It’s had some usage but nothing like a phone. It’s usage isn’t far from what you describe but with considerable time kept powered.

I’m thinking it could be heat related. That machine heats up because I use it for “desktop” tasks. But Apple long ago stopped making laptops aimed at being cool internally and cool to the touch.
Well the Green New Deal doesn't have any actual policies, so it's impossible to put a real number on it. https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/how-much-will-the-green-ne... [Edit: I don't mean to be snarky here, the resolution posted by AOC https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.go... is just a position paper.] And it's important to compare the cost of radical action on climate change against the cost of not taking radical action on climate change. The options are not $10T vs. $0.
History shows any group that is disarmed by another group is about to get run over. The logic scales from the individuals of a nation to the nation itself.
I always imagine myself in a movie. What would I want the protagonist to do? Usually leads me to be more outgoing and not staying at home.
I don't remember any popups back when I was on Windows 98, it started with XP and IE6 for me but czech sites might've been a little different. And yea, there were blinking and scrolling on personal sites but sites like seznam.cz were clean.
Yes please LinkedIn.
https://react-etc.net/entry/exploiting-speculative-execution...
I don't think I can actually name you a Chinese mainland newspaper that isn't government owned and controlled. So calling it a demise might have actually undersold it, I don't think independent journalism plays a role at all.
Just because you had some advantages doesn't mean your accomplishments are worth nothing.

If you start out on home base and end on second you did well. If you start out on second and finish a home run you did well.

Let's please not have this attitude that the only people who can take credit for any kind of accomplishment are those born in awful circumstances. It's just not true. Everyone has the opportunity to achieve something relative to their circumstances, and many do, and deserve credit for it, at all levels.
> Some of these are write once and immutable afterwards.

Got an example of something like that that'd make it impossible to soft delete a person? I'm struggling to think of any datastore in regular use that's write only.
> The idea is to move away from documents (which org-mode is very good at), and towards smaller, rich chunks of information (which org-mode can't handle that well - I hacked things up with properties, but that namespace is flat).

I've noticed this weakness in org-mode as well. It's really a fantastic tool, but it still has a few gaps here or there. I'm optimistic about its continued development though.

It's good to hear that you liked the Oscean/Nataniev tools; I haven't tried them and it could easily have been all style no substance. They certainly sound impressive. From what I've read, I have a feeling there might be something worthwhile there. And XXIIVV itself looks amazing, although I know that's just one implementation.
read a lot, and i'd say read more or less any and all competent texts you can find.
Use the opposite algorithm: cull by lifetime value descending. Gets the bots and the viral celebrities!

(I know it's untenable, but I'd honestly love to see what the equivalent of https://millionshort.com/ for Twitter or YouTube would be like, where the top million contributors and all shares/comments about them were hidden. What would be "hot"? High-value niche-interest stuff?)
The specific claim, page 3 of the pdf

> Apple sells, rents, transmits, and/or otherwise discloses, to various third parties, information reflecting the music that its customers purchase from the iTunes Store application that comes pre-installed on their iPhones. The data Apple discloses includes the full names and home addresses of its customers, together with the genres and, in some cases, the specific titles of the digitally-recorded music that its customers have purchased via the iTunes Store and then stored in their devices' Apple Music libraries (collectively "Personal Listening Information").

It goes on to say that after Apple discloses, 3rd parties append personal info -- gender, age, HHI, etc -- and resell.

Later, they basically show the dataset available for $80/M, or $1.5m/full.

As for the api, it seems to want a requestUserToken
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skcloudse...
which seems to be only available to code running on iOS or tvOS.

Unless I'm being dumb, my guess is some advertising middlewares started grabbing these user tokens, scraping data, and reselling. It doesn't seem obvious how you would get a token to get a specific user's data without running on that user's ios or tvos device.

Also, one of the vendors, CDW, says their population is 18,188,721 (presumably unique users?). There has to be way more ios users who've purchased songs than 18m.
The ease-of-use of OpenGL meets the performance of React.
https://openai.com/blog/musenet

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/music-transformer

https://www.aiva.ai/creations
What you’re describing is the amazing benefit of both blind faith and confidence. There’s jokes about piano teachers teaching kids extremely difficult classical sheets and the kids nailing it. Then someone says “how do you get them to play such difficult music?”

“Stfu, don’t tell them it’s difficult.”

The older I get the more I realize most things are not difficult. I make them more difficult than they are. If you’re in an environment where someone encourages you that “you can nail this on the first or second try”, you probably will. Most of my work is me winging it. Especially when others fail. In things I really don’t have any civilized justifiable reason to even attempt. But I, I don’t know, just do things. Mostly with research. But yea. I started to find out, in the past... 5 years? ... that a lot of silver spoons feel the same way. They just do things. And it works for them because they don’t have the emotion of difficult or easy.

That’s probably the lesson in all of this. Do things. Don’t worry about easy, difficult, credentials or sobriety.
How is this any different from turning our perception of what's real over to mechanical turk systems like newspapers and TV news?

This is like saying why being scared of atom bombs when we already had swords.
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IQ is partially heritable, and also correlates separately with socioeconomic status. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

I feel like it doesn’t matter if the belief is exaggerated or not, either way it’s a symptom of inequality.
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Ok here's an "argument" version: I argue that it is more likely that these problems were due to taking the wrong side of trade offs based on incomplete knowledge, weak foresight, and poor judgement. I argue that there is little or no evidence that executives or engineers at Intel actively didn't care about their reputation or their customers.

(Somewhat ironically, I think "Hanlon's razor is just a saying, not an argument" is just a saying, not an argument.)
But what if what you want the protagonist to do is a non-stop 80s montage?
In my opinion the farm analogy doesn't work because you can't fork a farm and continue working where the original left off. In my opinion Dominic should have simply stopped maintaining the package, and maybe added a message stating that the package is no longer being maintained. If someone wants to take over then they would need to fork it. That would force people to consciously switch to the newer forked versions and there would be no surprises about a new maintainer suddenly inserting malicious code.
That’s why I avoid those companies and I’m both in an area of the country where it’s not part of the recruitment process and have nurtured a network over a couple of decades that allows me to jump through fewer hoops.
Newspapers and TV couldn't
(a) Collect as much, if any, individual data
(b) They couldnt tailor their content on an individual basis
(c) There were not as many sources of data tracking your likes, location, buying patterns, eating patterns, entertainment patterns, writing patterns, voting patterns, reading patterns, etc.
(d) Those sources of data could not be collated together

I think fundamentally the issue is that too much personal data is being collected, and put together, making profiles on people that can be used and abused. Social media is the first major area where that data is being employed and often being deployed irresponsibly (although I question the idea that so much personal information could ever be deployed responsibly).
I'm not a particular supporter of the green new deal as a whole, however most attacks on the cost of it seem rather simplistic at best and factually misleading at worst.

A substantial portion of that cost estimate is the single payer healthcare, but this is money that is mostly already being spent by the US gov, individuals and companies. Regardless of the wisdom of a single payer system, this is mostly just shifting the cost, not creating a new one.

The other major part of this is guaranteed jobs, is a pretty broad estimate that spans a whole order of magnitude.

In order to get that 10 trillion a year estimate you have to ignore the first issue, take the top estimate for the second and then round up. Also, the global GDP is about 75 trillion so that 1/3rd number is pretty far from true regardless of the other issues.

Which is not to say it isn't an expensive plan, but throwing around misleading numbers is unhelpful.
Its very much in the same class of vulnerabilities, arguably its completely impossible to secure SMT, because it leaks information about what other threads are doing by the very virtue of how it works (using CPU resources the other thread isn't utilizing in a very fine grained clock-for-clock way)
I am a big fan of the viumium extension, it add easy keyboard navigation to any webpage. I'm not touching this mouse this if I can avoid it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
“Autism is a spectrum” doesn't mean what many people think it does
You know there's a substantial middle class in the Argentine and Chilean Patagonia right?
This is a highly questionable idea.

If anything, social media is worse in Asian countries, being used for massive scams, for genocides, for vigilante justice (which often targets completely innocent people), massive amounts of fake news, etc.
R u happy with Syria's situation right now? I don't know where you get the conclusion that "several thousand innocent young activists were killed by the Chinese government", as there is no any evidence to support that, even one of the students' former leader. But people would only believe what they intend to believe. Meanwhile, as a Chinese, I would not trust those young college students, and I don't believe they are intelligent enough for what they were doing, and the impact for China's future. And I feel fortunate that that event didn't succeed. Otherwise, China would be another South America, India or Syria.
Yes, limit orders aren't local but sent to the exchanges like market orders except with an advertised price that they will accept.

This is called Level II data and goes beyond the simple bid, ask spread of Level I. The feeds are cheap and usually free if you have enough money in your account at any traditional brokerage.
> effective pumped hydro requires very specific locations (a sizeable river with sufficient flow; a comparably high drop, and space for a large reservoirs not only above the dam but also below the dam) which are quite rare

I also thought that pumped hydro needed all that to work, until I found a study about potential locations for pumped hydro in my home state. First of all, you don't actually need a river with that much flow; you only need enough flow to replace the water lost through evaporation, and for the initial fill of either the lower or the upper reservoir. Second, both reservoirs can be completely separate, the lower reservoir doesn't need to be directly below the dam of the upper reservoir. Both reservoirs are connected by a tunnel, with the generator/pump being at some point within this tunnel.

So what you actually need is a pair of areas with suitable geology for a reservoir, one being higher than the other, close enough that the tunnel isn't too long (that study had tunnels of over 4 km, so they don't have to be very close), and a river near one of them.

> The best spots for it are already used; you can't simply take a normal hydro power dam location and use it effectively for pumped hydro.

The best spots for normal hydro would be the ones where the river is near the upper reservoir; pumped hydro allows using spots where the river is only near the lower reservoir. That's the insight I was missing before I found that study.

You could even use an already existing hydro power dam as the lower reservoir for pumped hydro, as long as there's a suitable spot for the upper reservoir nearby.
Can anyone explain attack vectors? How does this happen?
Write down your plans, decisions, and reflections. It's something you should probably be doing anyway.

The only silly part is calling it a meeting, but people do seem to agree that's the terminology the IRS wants to see.

Actually, I guess there are two silly parts, although the second is arguably more sad than silly: you must be 100% clear that you are engaging in these activities with a profit motive and not for the love of learning, doing, helping... and if the IRS decides that your motive is not sufficiently (im)pure, you will owe considerable back taxes, interest, and fees.
A possible alternative is to instead disable JIT for JS. The only reason the speculative execution attacks so far worked via JS is that we got a tight, optimised native code with specific instructions close to each other.

Interpreting the code instead should completely kill any chance of exploits of this class. It will also completely kill the performance though. Even tor dropped that idea https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21011
I miss going into a locally owned coffee shop with a bunch of bored people reading worn paperbacks or writing in journals, often interested in striking up a conversation with a random stranger.

Big coffee chains changed that experience. And smartphones have raised the bar, the opportunity cost to meeting a random stranger is higher, because you could be distracting yourself on the Internet.

On the other hand, having a collaborative encyclopedia in my pocket at all times is pretty great.
I didn’t say that my accomplishment are “worth nothing” but I’m also not naive enough to think my “success” is solely because of my “hard work” and none of it can be attributed to luck. I didn’t start programming in 65C02 assembly in middle school in the mid 80s because I knew a couple of decades later that it would be a thriving field. Even when I graduated college in the mid 90s, computer science wasn’t paying that much more than any other college degree. There are plenty of people who “work hard” in other fields that don’t make as much as I do.
My two cents: you don't need "full stack developers", but you also don't want "front end developers" and "back end developers". You want people who can play either role (and many more) as needed, but with training friction in between.
agree, I really doubt people were like "let's compromise security for performance". More likely it was something like:
"hey here's an idea for how we can get more performance"
"convince me it's correct"
"oh, that's cause X, Y, Z..."

and either no one thought about the security implications, or no one could come up with a security problem at design time - likely just no one thought about side channel problems.
> If you’re utilizing your smartphone cluster, I can imagine your fleet overheating.

iPhones survive long sessions of 3D gaming even when wrapped in protective plastic shells. If it was an issue, use a bigger passive heatsink than the one they cram into the smartphone form-factor. You could never do that with a server-grade CPU.

With a high-power CPU, the heat emissions are more concentrated than if we use many low-power CPUs.
Yes, including analog television. The new television system is stupid and is no good.

Now we have many bad thing such as: the mess being made of WWW (they try to put everything in there, even though many things are better without), complicated computer design with anti-features and other stupid stuff, blu-ray movies, DMCA, USB, etc. Much of that stuff they did not have so much in the nineties.

Of course, we do have good stuff now too, not only the bad stuff. Many improvements are made, but stuff is also made worse stuff too.