skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read that comment as attacking you, but rather as a variation of what older people always say to younger people: "you think that's old? you're just a kid". It's a cliché, but it isn't mean. It's basically a kind-hearted way of pointing out that the younger person has a lot of life ahead, with a touch of wistfulness about their own case. And they in turn get the same treatment from their own elders.

Of course I don't know what the GP actually meant, but this is where one can follow the site guideline that asks "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." By contrast, charitable interpretation can't do very much with "did you have a point or did you forget your medication again". That's why I gave the moderation reply to you rather than to the GP.
I'd rather go full chaos monkey and shake out such bugs (/design flaws) than try to avoid them.
I'm curious, if you email me a sample I can tell you what's possible.
Does it send discs from a series out of order? (I'm looking at you, Netflix!)
At workplaces without civility, jerks are often rewarded if they deliver results, and management tolerates them because they make them look good. OTOH, not separating out punishment of the brilliance from the jerk is an equally-damaging lack of nuance.
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They'd leave over the removal of a $1-2k subsidy?
Its pretty smart to use neural networks to exploit the non uniformity of the data, but I thought they were going to have replaced just the hash function part of a bloom filter, instead of the entire algorithm. I wonder if it could preserve the speed of the bloom filter while exploiting potentially non uniform data.
Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died
Woah... just woah, so am I mathing this wrong, or from 2006-2012 there were ~250 pain pills per person (man, woman, child) sold in America? Because if so, I don't know how on earth any executive couldn't be fucking liable for knowing the vast majority being manufactured and sold were being used illicitly.
Nice! I did the same thing for ASR technologies a while back. Results here. https://drive.google.com/a/bolcer.org/file/d/1CJTHikHldMYTMv...
(methodology: same parts of speech analysis on exact transcripts ran through different services).

All OCR services, BTW, have the same threading problem. They work really well for sequential text, but as soon as you start getting into more complicated "marketing" formats, they don't work at all.

They best use of the online OCR services I found was figuring out published dates for news articles that typically don't show up in anything other than images. Even w/ both Azure, AWS, and Google, I still needed a post-capture regex to figure the stuff out.
https://drive.google.com/a/bolcer.org/file/d/16vujemgD91Ebuu...

We've got a long ways to go.
Never take your health for granted. Be grateful for every day that you have.
But the goal is to make your cooktop _more_ responsive, not _less_ responsive.
That has not really been the case ever since the advent of modern birth control.
is decompression faster than gzip/zlib?
Yea has no one played WatchDogs, this is the literal prelude to dedsec.
The risks are usually known, the problem is more that it's a slow process to get everyone to update their stuff and have it ready for new versions of whatever languages and tools they are using.
Not necessarily, the amount of data that is collected in France vs the US for example is much much lower.
It's still the case now. There's a very large subpopulation who aren't really capable of using birth control effectively.
Or perhaps some global preferences setting hidden in the shadows to the left somewhere
As a sorta-kinda testimonial, Concourse just released a version[0] that switches its volume streaming compression from gzip to zstd. It consumed so much less CPU that they were also able to introduce parallel streaming.

On a test workload which slings around many large volumes these changes made it approximately 20x faster[1].

[0] https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v5.4.0

[1] https://github.com/concourse/concourse/issues/3992#issuecomm...
Tesla’s new V3 Supercharger can charge up to 1,500 electric vehicles a day
Yeah, I doubt that most people support Dunleavy. A lot of people are very angry with him. A few years ago the state could barely afford to repair roads, which get very rough after freezing and thawing every year. Also, cutting the ferry system essentially cuts off some people's only means of transportation out of small towns for months at a time. And there was already not enough space in homeless shelters in Anchorage.
"Jerk" isn't a quality of people, but a maladaptive pattern of negative behavior that often harms the morale and well-being of others. It's a choice of interaction patterns. It's possible to be brilliant, honestly call out deficiencies without making it personal and seek excellence without being a dick... often, it's just a shortcut that leaves much trauma and bitterness along the way.
> Have you seen how pharma reps treat doctors? I have. Hundreds of dollars worth of dinners/lunches (one of the dinners my gf and I were invited to, it served unlimited Wagyu beef for bbq; of course, we had to sign in before the dinner). I am disgusted by how cozy the relationship between pharma companies and docs are.

In France (and California), there's a website where you can see how much your doctor got from pharma.
Isn't SHA-256 vulnerable to length extension attacks?
> Only the highest quality pre-consumer food waste will do.

...why? I guarantee the ants don't care about this.
We only use C++ as "C with Classes", not the unholy nightmare that is the STL, so you may fit in more quickly than you expect... :)
Cancer Vaccines
Yes, technically it's possible, but it is too complex and too permanent to run on every machine and server I log into. Perhaps I should set those registry keys on my own Windows VM though. Thanks for the reference.
It’s laughable to me that after all the years of investment and business development in these steaming services it’s still much, much, much easier to use p2p networks to get content you want.

I wonder if there would just be more profit in injecting advertisements in tv shows and distributing them openly using BitTorrent? Think of the size of the audience, yeah people will cut the ads out but a lot of people couldn’t be bothered.
I know of at least one warehouse management system (and in fact maintain a deployment of it as part of my day job) where all the source code for the business logic exists in a SQL Server database; the vendor developed their own IDE of sorts for it that queries the different types of language objects for editing and eventual compilation. Most of the logic itself exists as "process objects" consisting of lists of code elements to execute (comparisons, assignments, database operations, even subprocesses) and pass/fail branches, all manipulated via the IDE's GUI. I suspect it's possible to manually edit the code via SQL (and in fact I'm looking into this, since the IDE is Windows-only and I'd like to do my editing in Linux), but much more tedious (lots of UUID manipulations and joins and such).

On a different note, Lisp would lend itself well to what you seek. While most Lisp/Scheme programming happens in a text editor, Lisp is inherently syntax-agnostic; sure, s-expressions are the most typical, but once upon a time there were M-expressions[1], and Scheme has support for alternative syntaxes[2]. Projects like Scheme Bricks[3] take this even further into visual representation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression

[2]: https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html

[3]: http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Brick...
>They started going downhill with every original show losing logical consistency after the 1st or 2nd season

Is this any different than network shows?
"singletons" in this context is apparently some mechanism applied here to type-check matrix dimensions... :

> we put dimensions of data types on the type level to avoid a large set of errors that might arise at the runtime stage. During the compile stage, one may check some properties of matrix dimensions expressed via type-level natural numbers and find out the reason of that error as a type error.

> In this part, we describe our approach to the matrix data type that is parameterised via its numbers of columns and rows

> In this approach, matrix dimensions are lifted to the type level with the use of the Singletons library. At first glance, our solution looks a bit sophisticated. Why? There remains a question about the way to make it less devious and more idiomatic. In other words, we have to recognise the restrictions of Haskell expressive opportunities. What about performance? Also, our approach helps to remove only errors that affect the dimensions of arrays. Can we track other array parameters to reduce a set of possible runtime errors even more?

... not the horrible "singleton" design pattern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern

Prior art for identifying errors due to mismatched array dimensions include:

* (Eigen, C++) support for compile-time static assertions in some situations: https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicAssertions.html

* (numpy, python) raising ValueErrors at runtime about shape misalignment
I bet it had to do with losing content. If you review something and Netflix removes it you either lose that data or Netflix has to display shows they don't carry anymore.
> On the one hand they need to placate the apparent programming masses who are frustrated with Go’s lack of features.

If anything, it would be easier for the Go team if people who don't like a lack of features abandoned ship.

Unless Google is heavily monetizing Go to where lack of adoption is costing them money, there doesn't seem to be any concrete reason they need to "placate the masses."
If you don't have private tracker access, usenet is probably best for speed and content availability since usenet providers have insane amounts of bandwidth to spare and there are publicly available nzb sites for searching usenet.
It feels that way, but there is definitely a different utility value in “searchable by the whole world” and “leaked in obscure formats in small nonpublic forums”.

Troy has absolutely added value here, although 100% of the data is all “public” from having been leaked already.

Searching over data that was publicly available some time in the past (but isn’t now) is also a value, sort of like time-shifting of the publicness of the data...
Case study on finding a “product-need” fit
Hi everyone, I've visited here many times, but it's my first time to post. Hope everyone is doing well!

I just wrote a Medium article on how my team found a "product-need" fit after launching our MVP.

Can I get some feedback on whether this is helpful/original or new enough/etc? Any feedback would be appreciated.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Jay
The thing is openssl runs on so many platforms, which may or may not guarantee anything except a barely working malloc/free, so it makes sense to ship a custom allocator.
It certainly isn't more problematic. You should see the volume of complaints we used to get :-).

A lot of the issues are usually around authentication and user mapping. Kerberos is complex, and Unix people don't understand Active Directory. That's usually the core of it. Once you get a connection things mostly just work (except for Windows ACLs, for which I blame the Linux kernel developers who refuse to add Andreas Grunbachers RichACL patch set for ideological reasons).

Sadly enough, if you want ACLs to "just work" on Linux you have to use a license-incompatible ZFS backend for which Samba has native ACL support. Or just use ZFS-on-FreeBSD where the license isn't a problem.

It's one Linux filesystem developer in particular who is blocking the RichACL patch, who is known to be,... shall we say... "difficult" ?
> I really wish however that every Linux system had a clone of the old DOS edit command which was beautifully simply and straightforward and met most needs highly intuitively.

The nano editor experience is pretty close to the old DOS edit feeling.
It's not hard to see which of the rules in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html it breaks.
That Larkin poem is exactly what I thought of.

Although not poetry, you might enjoy Thomas Bernhard as well if you don't know him already. "My Prizes" is a good short starting point: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/02/10/darkest-comedian...
While I love to rag on SPAs as much as the next person, doing that is ripe for antitrust. "They're trying to force the web to look like what they want"
Zstd is awesome. I’d love to see desktop archive software include these algorithms. There’s a fork of 7-Zip called 7-Zip ZS that includes zstd and some other algorithms and I found they performed really well for my use case, proving fairly comparable compression to alternatives at a much, much faster speed. Handy for when you want to archive a massive directory of files or a small number of really large files.
Yes! Three or more times faster.
In the TL, if I click out, it remembers where I left off

really? One of my major gripes with twitter is I'll be about 20 (ajax loaded) pages down the timeline, click on some retweet or name, and lose my place. At best it takes me to the bottom of the first page. What browser/os are you using?
Serious question: assume that people bite the bullet and continue buying all this stuff. Thus paying the co2 tax. How is the money used?
Keeping things fresh with stale-while-revalidate
I think this is a fair point, that the headline suggests a systemic problem, but its narrative is highly focused on one bad player, albeit someone who took advantage of highly exploitable weaknesses. Full disclosure: I used to work at PP years ago and my time overlapped with the author's, so I'm obviously biased. One takeaway I got was that the system is easy to game – particularly in applying to CMS for a NPI number. And apparently, insurers just assume or don't care that CMS does minimal vetting to stop fraudsters. And currently, it seems insurers are optimized to eat the costs (and ostensibly, pass it on to customers) than to actively root it out, which has its pros and cons ("cons" including being overaggressive and making it harder for regular people to get treatments approved.

While the system overall seems ripe for abuse – the story says CMS officials can't recall any instance in which someone has been sanctioned for applying w/ fraudulent credentials, and it's hard to believe that Williams is the first to discover the vulnerabilities – the story ultimately doesn't know the total costs of this kind of fraud.
You may enjoy a dvorak keyboard. Up and down (j and k) are the c and v keys. Left and right (h and l) are j and p.
I would assume the skia wasm blob can be integrated with cairo canvas, as it has the same exposed api.
They can characterise the (browsing) behaviour of all their visitors, and then further characterise those who fall outside their "normal" thresholds. The outsiders that exhibit some sort of correlation (ie their characteristics are not independent of each other) are banned. Any quirks or patterns your systems have would be identifiable as "artificial", and even those that are randomised or seek to emulate humans will have features that are identifiable. An NDA is ineffective against machine learning.

The countermeasure would be to have a bunch of humans use the websites in any way they want, totally undirected, then use the totality of that browsing to facilitate your scraping probabilistically. It would be less efficient, but very difficult to catch.
You just have to realize that somewhere out there is someone who is hating on you too. We're all the envy of someone else. It gives you perspective that will help you transcend the envy.
The Mastering Emacs ebook.

https://www.masteringemacs.org/
His excellent "How to Speak" lectures can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F536001A3C605FC
The Apple Newton was capable of online OCR (doesn't have to do with internet connectivity in this case).

As you mention, online OCR is when you input the strokes directly on the device vs offline OCR where the input is an image.

Some trivia:

The first version of handwriting recognition engine of the Newton was developed by ParaGraph International (founded by the founder of Evernote).
Another version (Print Recognizer) was later developed by Apple.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120324055221/http://www.beanbl...
The assumption that age comes with wisdom is a gross oversimplification. Age is strongly correlated with dementia. Rather than they elderly having greater than normal lucidity, they often lack it, sometimes completely.

We don't let teenagers vote because they're known for being hotheads, but when an 90 year old man forgets the names of his children, we still let him vote. That's nuts, and it shows that what we have right now is not a 1-person-1-vote system. We already have a system of selective enfranchisement, but it's not been configured in a rational way. It's not been configured in a way designed to give good results. In fact, it's proven itself quite harmful. Go ask any climate scientist what our future on this current trajectory looks like. Trying to stay the course is suicide.
This video of a talk that Bram Moolenaar (the author of vim) gave at Google in 2007 has some pretty good advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX9m3g5J-XA

Mainly the idea is to not try and learn everything about vim, but instead pay attention to how you use it, and find things that are inefficient or could be easier, and then go figure out how to make vim do that thing more efficiently.
I didn't like that you took a personal swipe in a Hacker News comment.
A little off-topic, but one of the most exciting things in my mind about Phoenix LiveView [1] is that you can get some dynamic web applications and not have to navigate this JS-rendering minefield. When a LiveView page is request, the server sends over the full page as just static HTML. The JS half of LiveView then upgrades to a websocket connection, and your page becomes dynamic.

Not a good fit for everything, but it's great if you want to add some fancy form validation to, say, your landing page. You can render whatever you want with LiveView, get your fancy dynamic stuff, without having to worry about making your page more indexable.

[1]: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
That page mentions the 'uncap' tool which I have been using for a while. It is excellent. Download the few kb executable from GitHub, launch it once, place it in your startup folder, and it just works forever.

If you don't have admin then you'll need to launch it every boot since you can't put it into the startup folder.

To get to the startup folder, open the start menu, right click on an application (might have to be a windows-included app, like Edge, instead of a 3rd party one), and do 'open in folder', then go up to the Start Menu folder if necessary and then into the startup folder. Google says the path of that is this, but I haven't verified:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Programs / links in there get autorun at boot :)

I haven't tried it but it appears there's a user-specific startup folder which might work without admin: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
yes - new writes consume space.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1448/gbciq.htm...
I don't really have a problem with selling off parts of 44/8 that are unlikely to ever be used.

I do have a big problem with the ARDC unilaterally doing this without any public discussion or real accountability.

They should have created a new foundation with board members from various amateur radio organizations (ARRL, AMSAT, IARU, TAPR, etc) in order to manage the (rumored $50 million) funds.
I assume you work for ArangoDB?
I find that the muscle memory for my personal config is keyed off the visual appearance of my preferred color scheme. So I have no problem context switching between personal config and default config, provided the color schemes are right for each.

(Or anyway, that was the case until recently when I switched to evil-mode. I'm totally helpless in default config emacs.)
I look forward to clarification someday from the operator - but that custom header will still block non-extension browser-side calls in v3, and I bet the ACAO header isn’t present to allow it either.
I am trying the interface after first login via google drive and cannot find out how to start a new document. I am not presently an orgmode user and use EccoPro on Linux.

Is there a way to create a new document in the mobile interface?
50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing – Google Doodle
> Fortunately, I only have to deal with yearly eye exams to get contacts

Try http://daysoft.com
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/singletons

Singletons is a Haskell library. In this context, it is used to emulate dependent types which Haskell does not yet have.
But it's not _your_ mail/phone.
He was a great man, I loved his courses at MIT. Definitely the best teacher I have had. RIP Prof. Winston.
I love the stable UI too, because I've applied my own custom CSS to it, and written a userscript to give myself some extra functionality I want, like some highlighted tags in the popup window, and it never breaks.

Even without any tweaks, it works, and that's way more important than being pretty (to Pinboard's userbase of nerds at least). Usually UI refreshes come with features being broken or dropped altogether.
FaceApp Shows We Care About Privacy but Don’t Understand It
Snap! (https://snap.berkeley.edu/) has a Scratch like UI that can be almost entirely navigated and edited by keyboard, Unreal Blueprints allows for a lot of keyboard based editing as well. The reason I mention this is one of the criticisms of visual programming is that it is inherently mouse based, and mouse interactions are inherently slower than keyboard.
I'm the other half of the cat and mouse game that Antoine is referring to, and I just wrote another rebuttal that people here might find interesting [1]. It goes into a little more detail about what his test site is actually doing, and also walks through the process of writing a Puppeteer script to bypass the tests.

- [1] -https://www.tenantbase.com/tech/blog/cat-and-mouse/
I wouldn't call React a framework, it's more like a library.
Yeah, but people utilize the reputation of institutions (like the NYT, Wikipedia, universities, churches, public figures, etc) all the time to add legitimacy to their ideology. If we want to spread a rational understanding of the world, then we need our own trusted institution. I think Wikipedia has shown that a user edited source can be a positive influence in this area. It's not sufficient, but it would help. Right now you have people flinging one-off scientific articles at each other and almost nobody who does this has any clue how actually important (or, more often, not) these articles are.
Damn, heavy blackpill. You can always go to a legal brothel in Nevada. No shame in that, men have been doing it since the dawn of time.
The results speak for themselves and public opinion polling confirms it (https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-y...). Old people voting is disastrous for the environment.

Are they malicious? Maybe, maybe not. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter if they're malicious, senile, or just plain old apathetic.

(Perhaps you can find a political issue for which young people throw caution to the wind and old people exercise appropriate caution, but I can guarantee you that the impact of that issue will not be as severe as climate change.)
> Backups are so simple

Disagree. A high-confidence backup plan that includes continuous restoration is of middling difficulty to design. Many get backups wrong and only find out when their archives turn out to be incomplete.