skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably related to the (somewhat shortsightedly named) 4.2 kiloyear event when climate change and aridity caused the collapse of multiple long standing civilizations like the Egyptian and Indus valley civilizations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2_kiloyear_event

https://phys.org/news/2014-02-decline-bronze-age-megacities-...
https://www.livescience.com/20614-collapse-mythical-river-ci...
while AWS delivers some of the worst.
Where (else) should someone(they) have gone to get an entry-level job that starts them on the desired career path?

That's a question that I don't think has been explored.
Were. Still are. But they were, too.
(I work at scale)

Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should probably also be added to the bibliography and website in some form

Contrast this with the nuScenes website, which was also annotated by Scale, and whose data format set the standard for this dataset: they credit Scale pretty reasonably
We wrote a program where atomicity was mission critical, and tested the hell out of power loss recovery. I can confirm experimentally that the rename trick is not good enough.

It was nearly good enough on Linux. Corruption was very rare, but we still caught issues. On Windows corruption happened something like 1 in 10 poweroffs.

For low performance ACID we write the whole file out twice and fsync between each write. First write is to the backup file, second is to the primary file. This method passed our tests.

For high performance, we use another strategy entirely that's a lot more involved.
I worked at a company (since acquired by Deloitte) that had the security room for the original iPad. There were not many setups of this.

I joined about 6 months after release of iPad but a lot of Apple OS X and iOS consulting was done by folks in the company.

From iTunes to the original Apple Store app there were small, sometimes single person, teams assisting Apple writing this software day in and day out.

They barely reported to anyone, and barely discussed their work. Just clocked full-time consulting hours on behalf the company.
Very interesting that women consistently rate salary as a lower priority and w/l balance as a higher priority than men.
The audience for a JS book is is also possibly tiny; people who want a JS book already either already have one (or more) and are not looking, or else are likely going to choose one of the many JS books that you didn't write.
I used to use Vimeo for hosting product videos that I embedded onto my website. It was better than YouTube because it didn't show "recommended videos" (often with competitors' products or useless videos) after it finished playing. But then Vimeo started doing it too for embedded videos, so I switched to YouTube since users are more familiar with its UI.
Shit. What about NO DEGREE in general?
When the Earth Had Two Moons
I think most of it is just that you know you can easily switch to watching Youtube instead of reading, rather than actual physical act of reading on a glass screen.

I also think reading is like a muscle, I find it very difficult to even read a paper book. I'll often make it half way down a page and realize I have no memory of actually reading it.
I was an undergrad CS intern (and Chaos enthusiast) assisting the physicists at Los Alamos Natl. Labs Center for Nonlinear Studies when he visited to give the monthly “Tea Talk” on some subject in nonlinear mathematics/ chaos theory back in ‘88. I didn’t understand most of what he said. I asked the Deputy Director, a long-time PhD Theoretical Physicist, about the gist of the talk afterwards. He said “I didn’t understand most of what he said. Maybe if I had been collaborating with him for a few months...”

Feigenbaum was a fascinating man and some of his writing is what made me want to get an internship at the Center. I never dreamed I meet the man over tea.

A great man.
Also ban hashing algorithms ?

Ban random data ?

And ban the universe from being quantum ?
Math's Beautiful Monster
Yes, it's sad. Even more so since there is not even a potential competitor in sight.
I think the real value of spending time with others is having a support network. I often don't do well in groups and simply don't enjoy it so I do a lot of things alone. But the major drawback is that I don't have much of a support network outside of close family. I am definitely worried that if something happens to me nobody will help me.
"LANugage" would be a perfectly cromulent name for a LAN network optimization and metrics tool.
I left a reply on the OP (before seeing this), which links to NIH, CDC and a review of the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511244

It's not that the symptoms don't exist. It's that the symptoms are almost certainly auto-immune or neurological in nature. There is nothing "chronic infection" about the situation, and thus any attempt to treat it with extended anti-biotics, probiotics, diet restriction, etc are almost certainly destined to fail.

Patients need to spend more time listening to rheumatologists and less time listening to "Lyme Literate" providers selling uninsured woo at $2000 a pop.
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You're somewhat more generous than I am. I'd have told my wife to just block that number, and waited until I got back from vacation to explain that it'll happen to anyone else who calls my wife for anything other than an existential emergency as well.
We rather look for nice, pleasant people. When I get excited to be around them, I do better job. I believe it works for others too.
Just added Boston to the filter dropdown. Honestly, we've just been adding cities as we go and totally overlooked Boston, thanks for pointing it out!
Some items from my “reliability list”
I drew an interesting parallel to this story with John Snow’s cholera well analysis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_ou...

This is widely considered to be one of the first modern geospatial analayses to be conducted. It’s interesting how urban problems in London have led to advancement in various scientific fields.
Diet is bigger than people realize. Do adjustments to the foods you eat and see how it plays out the next day or two (takes a while for digestion to process) also if you are somewhere where the climate varies throughout the year, you may need to adjust what foods you take in based on the weather.

Be wary of foods changing their ingredients too, i.e. aspertaime doesn't do good with me so I avoid diet sodas, now some generic brand non-diet ones contain it - check the ingredients. Also when you feel lousy think back to what you consumed the last day or two to find a pattern.

I didn't see mention of exercise, that's important oo.
Would just like to say that this is a fantastic point, and really makes the case for a formal education. It takes a special kind of self-motivation (which I readily admit I do not have) to diligently learn those uninteresting-but-necessary parts of the CS curriculum.
Basically the wealthier folks don’t like the aesthetics of these things

Isn't TFA a wealthy guy raving about how great the flea market is? Clearly a lot of wealthy folk do like the aesthetics.
> On Election Day in 2018, the “Go Vote” reminder Google displayed on its home page gave one political party between 800,000 and 4.6 million more votes than it gave the other party

Interesting. I assumed they displayed those for everyone. Did any whistleblowers come up saying how they decided who to show that and who to not show that message? Because if they only picked out voters they assumed would vote Democrat that would be troubling. Though, I guess it is tempting to say, they are using their resources however they see fit, but even then I'd at least hope they are transparent and clear were they stand, and not try to pretend to be unbiased.

> A growing body of evidence suggests that Google employees deliberately engineer ephemeral
experiences to change people’s thinking.

Does anyone from Google here even knows about or heard the phrase "ephemeral experiences"? Search suggestions I guess could change people's opinions, but I am not sure about the deliberate manipulation part, and that it's concerted internal effort.
"It attracts minorities and the poor" is wokespeak for "It drives up the crime rate, lowers the value of the property you're still paying mortgage on, makes it less safe to go out at night, and makes it more likely that your child will accidentally step on a used syringe."
Is malta where they have those wheel ruts in the stone from centuries of use?

Yep:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/prehis...
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I think he's taking about how the stall door doesn't overlap the walls. Instead it is next to the walls and there is a significant (5 mm maybe) gap that lets you see into the stall. No it makes no sense.

I think it's just like that because that's just how it has been traditionally done in America. Their toilets are also a different shape - much wider, lower and shallower. And urinals always have flush handles.
Pardon the interruption... I've been scratching my head over a similar query. What if you want to get OSM/OVERPASS to show all toilets within 1km of a navigation route (i.e. 1km from any point along the path). Is this even possible?
I made both comments!

I think I had static type systems in mind when I asked the question, but that was helpful all the same. It seems in the case of Self it does in fact keep the reference around.

I suppose the whole point of a static type system is moot with a fully prototype-based language. Instead maybe you can enforce compile-time checks (contracts?) on the messages an object is expected to receive.
Came for interviews with self taught people who are now full time developers.

Found interviews with self taught people who hacked together websites and built businesses.

Admirable but misleading. Suggested title: “No CS Degree required - interviews with entrepreneurs who learned to hack code”
That actually was about as close to free as it gets. At least it was for the similar money (same program) that Wisconsin turned down.

In Wisconsin’s case it was about $800MM with no local match needed and the catch was committing to running the service for 20 years.

Even as someone who wasn’t a big fan of the project I’m still annoyed because we’ve now spent significantly more than 20 years of operating costs for work that would have been paid for if we took the money.
Postal code (available via weak geocoding) of work + home locations is 90% effective in identifying a single individual.

Anynymised hash caad09aeb361e1d6052c81db1db0e8523e34fca0909b6b2f21bd2ae39f9045e2 with > 0.90 probability of nocturnal location X and diurnal location Y is not anonymous.
Yeah I never understood it either, it's very simple to have the components overlap. You don't need to worry about additional parts or tolerances or anything like that. Everything stays the same but the arrangement changes.
An engineer with a degree and a contractor can both build you a bridge.

The difference is one will remain standing after an earthquake.
Neil Armstrong’s Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6M Settlement
But given a hypothetical question like “What play should a football team run when they are on 2nd down and 3 with 2:19 in the 3rd Quarter while leading by 3 points” — wouldn’t a professional NFL coach’s opinion be given more credence than mine? Einstein may have been wrong on quantum mechanics but if you had 1000 physics question it would be hard to think of a better person to ask.
If a search query on your data would contain all the components of the original hash, i don't have to walk backwards and break the hash. i just have to hash my query terms in the same way.

Also I suggested you store the daily hash forever. But even if you really erase it every day, as you say, If you or an attacker makes the same request every day at a predetermined time, when you/they get your logs, you/they can use that predictable request to get the daily secret too.

I consider the information to be stored in plain text, and that you would have to have requested permission just the same. You pretty much have an identifiable user (via IP/UA/access time) stored in your logs.

Anonymization is removal of information, not encoding it in a convoluted hash.
Agreed -- I used the word "fundamental" to suggest that it emerges from pure mathematics. In that sense, Feigenbaum's constants are in the same class as \pi and e, which is distinct from the traditional "fundamental constants" of physics like c, \hbar, fundamental charge, etcetera.

The fundamental constants of physics have, as yet, no known mathematical origin. Feigenbaum's constants, on the other hand, emerge from pure mathematics and also appear in nature. That they are expected to be irrational, like \pi and e, only adds to the charm.
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i.e. "exiting"
Nope, as far as I can tell, the schmidt-kalman filter is a way of reducing dimensionality in a KF. You split the states between those you are interested in and those you aren't. Sometimes those states you don't care about (e.g. sensor biases) are still important for estimating those you do care about (e.g. position). Adding a state to a typical KF for each of these dimensions is one solution, but it's expensive (covariance calcs scale quadratically with dimension). The Schmidt-Kalman filter is another solution.
Google/Twitter/Facebook are the ultimate stage in media consolidation. 3 mega-corporations controlling the information feeds for the vast majority of people in the world. Even with the best intentions, I can't see how this arrangement can fare well. The amount of power wielded is just astonishing.

In historical context, US media has been undergoing a unabated consolidation for the past 3 decades. "In 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by 50 companies; as of 2011, 90% was controlled by just 6 companies and in 2017 the number was 5.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh....
It's either nutrition or environmental. Get out of your current environment - go on holiday. Stop work. Re-evaluate everything. Most people never do and their life is over before they know it.

People spend a crazy amount of time thinking something is wrong with them but it's a reaction to the environment you're in.
I don't understand how much more privacy your looking for. It's not like people can look in on you. Are you worried someone is going to hear you poop and find out that you're a person who poops?
I’ll argue that if your company is running more or less the same binary on 25 VPS servers, Kubernetes is definitely something to consider.
Police use cat filter in murder conference: when live-streaming goes wrong
I normally find Stephen Wolfram insufferable (and he still is, in this article) but boy what a privilege it is to have a friend who will eulogize us like this. If I was an intellectual associate of Wolfram’s I’d ask him to write this article for me to read before I died.
I like how the authors studiously avoided mentioning the gender tradeoff between wages and work-life balance that's right there in the graphs, staring them in the face.

I also like how I'm the first person to mention this in 266 comments.

Obviously this is a throwaway account.
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I just researched scale before your comment here ! I tought : "This isn't done by scale ?"
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Also, the viewer packaged with nuScenes was built by Steven Hao from Scale, and while it was packaged as part of nuScenes it should probably be called Scale's viewer instead of nuScenes' viewer. The original viewer in the nuscenes SDK has the Scale logo, but it looks like Lyft removed that in the fork. Maybe a bit of public shaming will fix that...

Dear Lyft marketing person who wrote this: we are a data labeling company, and you may think that means we have a bunch of useless bozos working here like most other data labeling companies, but that's not true - e.g, Steven is one of the smartest people in the world - https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/3113 - he learns ridiculously quickly - e.g, gets to number one on random video games in a few weeks and learned to boulder L10 in a few months from scratch (normally takes years/decades and most climbers never get there)
You can pass rel=0 to YouTube iframes to only recommend additional videos from the same channel. https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#rel
For me, it's primarily a relatively simple way to utilize a few servers to scale test/qc deployments for applications. We're developing applications that get deployed with different configurations for differing clients. Getting that variety deployed in one-off configurations has been painful to say the least, and testing has been difficult.

Currently setting up a pilot for one smaller app to get deployed for each configuration profile to a small cluster. This will allow for better test targeting for integration tests as well as QA and Demo environments.

If it works, we may adapt the tooling for client deployments and application maintenance.

It's not a matter of being the best tool, it seems to be a good enough tool with enough weight behind it. It's not deployed publicly and we aren't sharing hosts with untrusted third parties.
General Magic documentary is finally getting a theatrical release
This is such garbage. If you clickthrough on this guy's "research", you'll find that he objects to Google's "Go Vote Today" reminder is unfair politically because:

- It increases voter turnout across the board (which favors Democrats marginally)
- Google users tend to be younger (and hence more left-leaning)

Google has many questionable practices, but simply reminding people when it is an election day is not one of them
It could be that “get out the vote” drives generally benefit Democrats more than Republicans - I seem to recall reading a few studies that support this.
Google did show it to everyone. If you follow the link and read his "analysis", his argument boils down to the assertion that Google users overall are left of center so reminding Google users to vote unfairly benefits Democrats. Furthermore, he argues that Google could theoretically remind only subsections of the population and in doing so skew the vote more significantly at some point in the future.

Frankly the whole letter and article is quite conspiratorial and backed up only by references to his own equally bombastic claims.
Google search has gone down the proverbial shithole in the last 2 years, and has been struggling long before that. Even for non political searches it returns horrible results. It's a threat in the short-term, and then it will be replaced since the algorithm is falling apart.
Can you give an example? In Australia, you'd need to buy hardware or software for more than $30,000 per unit to be forced to depreciate it over multiple periods. Anything cheaper than $30,000 can be expensed right away. So I'm looking at it through Australian optics and having "Hardware/software" under expenses would be fine for almost every small business here.
>Interesting. I assumed they displayed those for everyone

They did. Epstein's argument is this:

1. Google is run by liberals

2. Higher voter turnout is better for Democrats than Republicans.

3. The liberals that run Google used their position to increase voter turnout.

4. He uses some hand waving to approximate actual numbers

Most importantly, none of that claim is peer reviewed and he is citing himself for it, with no real way to verify if his numbers or conclusion is accurate or even realistic.

fwiw, here's his cited source:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/another-way-google-manipulates...
The Algorithmic Colonization of Africa
The Costs of Automated Thinking
Would love to see your version... do you mind sharing?
Robert Epstein - the self citing author of that testimony - had his website flagged as a security threat by Google a few yeas back and he's been on a vendetta ever since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Epstein#Criticism_of_Go...
>MS had already declared that IE6 would be the last version of IE

Never heard of this. Do you have a source?
Completely agree with the last paragraph. The economy is tilted way too far towards incentivizing value extraction instead of incentivizing value creation.

Don't know that I agree with some of the previous stuff though. Even if we assume a steady state population, if the economy doesn't grow every year, we're playing a zero or negative sum game literally by definition.

RE your second paragraph, I both agree and disagree. As far as I can see (at least the US system) is predicated on ~4-7% economic growth being the way that people systematically grow relatively small savings into a large nest egg for retirement (not that this appears to be working particularly well, see your comments on pie stealing.) If we assumed a steady state for the population and economy, I don't see how people working for average salaries can set enough aside for retirement (without pushing themselves to a pretty low standard of living) without the benefit of ~4-7% compounding.

I have a developer's salary, so I could probably put away a couple million cash before my retirement even without the benefit of compound interest paid by economic growth. That's not the norm, or even the average though. Participating in society/the economy has to be an attractive enough proposition to incentivize people to do it, or bad social problems start popping up. In a steady state system, I don't see how we can make an offer more attractive than "Enjoy your subsistence lifestyle up to retirement, so you can have barely enough to have a subsistence level lifestyle in retirement."
But all the important IP work done in this field is currently closed...
Did they terminate other people's tickets? The interesting article does mention booking the extra seat and not using it.
@JumpCrisscross: "A portfolio of stocks and bonds held in a Mauritian entity costs a few tens of U.S. dollars of extra accounting costs to do taxes on a year; a portfolio in India held by a foreigner can easily cost hundreds of dollars for an American investor to comply with."

Yea, it's got nothing to do with extracting the maximum amount of revenue out of the host country whilst managing to avoid giving anything back in taxation :]
The living room in my grandparent's house was basically for show and never used, and they were by no means affluent. It was (and still is) a collection of antique and early-sixties furniture, often inherited, thick carpets and baroque wallpaper. They gradually stopped using the room and converted the dining room into a second living room after their children were out of the house, and by the time I was a child, the room was basically a museum where children were not allowed. My grandpa is 90 and lives in the house alone now, he still never uses the room. There even is an alibi television set in there that was last used in the 70ies.