skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do what I can to share useful information. In addition to to speaking out on HN, I blog about things like homelessness and LGBTQ issues.

If you wish, I could direct you to some of my writing. Beyond that, I don't personally know. "The System" tends to not have good answers.
A similar idea that we're working on: https://pocketweb.io/
Nim is style insensitive, so `foo_bar`, `foobar` and `fooBar` all resolve to the same symbol. However, `Foobar` won't.
This looks really neat. I don't personally have a use case for it, but I can imagine this being really useful for (overworked) TV censors. Could also have applications in automatically censoring radio broadcasts, because stations can face major fines for airing profanity.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_v._Pacifica_Foundation
Page A loads content for X seconds and Z seconds loads ads. uBlock overhead is Y second but saves Z seconds by blocking ads. Total time with uBlock is X+Y-Z. If page has zero ads the time will be X+Y-0 which is greater than X+0.
An unoptimized query?
bootstrap 5 is dropping IE support: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586
Having a leadership position comes with its own checks and balances. RMS isn't special to go over that.
Thanks for the enlightening nitpick, this is one of those terrible/terrific things about English that I love/hate.
If I recall he used power of two trapazoids to bound above and below? Paywalled article.
Ahh! I missed that only new items are dropped, while updates are always accepted. That avoids the “umm, I have stale data” issue. That was my main worry!
Pulsar is built on top of BK. BK has it own consensus mechanism (ZK, etcd), and Pulsar also has its own (low traffic) consensus via ZK. The article cited above does a very good job of addressing the advantages of Pulsar's architecture over Kafka's. Pulsar also provides for user defined functions (that can run on the broker). This is reminiscent of Postgres's User Defined Functions.

BK provides ledgers, DistributedLog provides log semantics on top of those ledgers. Pulsar builds a full blown messaging/streaming system on top of that.

Per this thread's OP, it seems to make more sense to use BK/DL directly if you want a WAL component to build a DB.
What would the three be? Alphabet is obviously one. Microsoft does far more mid sized and big acquisitions than Facebook. Even Amazon does more known or consumer facing company acquisitions (Ring, PillPack, Souq (big If you’re in the Middle East countries it’s big in) in last few years)) than Facebook.
> strict standards getting a license, red p’s for 12-24 months + 120 logbook hours

It was an open secret (by secret I mean bragging) that people would forge their logbook hours - that hour rule only came in semi-recently so I'm not sure on the age of some posters here who haven't mentioned this.

Either way, P plates statically have a high propensity to get into accidents although from experience alone I would not say the majority of these are the "aggressive" drivers you see on the street. Maybe it's my own bias but it feels like the majority of P platers are trying to drive safe because of their inexperience, it's the full licence drivers who believe they know best and start showing aggressive behaviours.
We don't know that yet! The post explains what they did but not the why of the problem. Maybe they have a good reason, maybe they don't.

But no need to jump to conclusions. I've seen plenty of bs fragile ducktape databases. Some of them exist because because someone wanted to hand-roll everything. And some exist because they were afraid to invent anything and ended up hacking together a bunch of garbage MySQL nodes. Because they didn't want "reinvent the wheel".

Specifics matter!
> It's unfortunate that internet people have been falsely conditioned to believe the people who create the media we consume shouldn't be paid.

I mean if I happily give away all my blog posts for free under creative commons, why is it unreasonable to expect most other people to do the same? People who derive value from the Internet should just create one or two things per year to give back, whether that's a blog post, an app or website, open source software, or something else.

I do think there is a need for a small percentage of people to create content full time. But at the same time right now there is also a huge oversupply of content, and we'd probably all be better off if 95% of it went away.
Factoring has already been done. For the size number factored it did use much more energy than it would have taken on a classical device, but it did utilize quantum effects/Shor’s algorithm:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization_record...
Presumably because uBlock's baseline overhead is approximately 1 second. Therefore on other sites there is enough overhead from ads or tracking that it is still worth it to use uBlock.
Your parent comment said nothing about paying in order to avoid ads and made no assumptions about any of the points you responded to. It was just lamenting ads.
Why assume that the people are "biased"? If the people are labelling things the way that people generally do, the software will return labels that are useful. Any kind of filtering needed to censor this for people's personal comfort should be implemented on top.
Now makes more sense. Thanks for the explaination
To add onto point 2, areas are really powerful, because it makes changing layout based on screen width really easy.
i certainly appreciate what you have to say, but as a somewhat ardent atheist i contend entirely the idea that you absolutely have to understand and trust that Jesus came to suffer and die for our sake in order to get started on the right path, if only because there are several other religions across the world with their own disparate belief systems that have nothing to do with Jesus and im pretty sure some of those people came to the same point without accepting Jesus' suffering. so, if they can do so without it, then I think there is more than one way to do it, and certainly a secular way that doesn't require one to accept extraordinary claims without the requisite extraordinary evidence to back them up.

that being said, i would not ever want to try to convince someone who isn't interested in doing so to give up their faith, so please don't take this as a form of that. only trying to be intellectually fair and consider those outside of the situation you have represented.
Can't believe I missed that! Thanks for clarifying that.
This is ingenious! Love the use of Google Street View.

Reminds me of a small project I put together which offered a reverse perspective of the ISS: http://www.loworbit.co/
Medium -> incognito
Yes, because they failed to use a possessive here. The headline should have been “Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns Slip”. Then we’d parse Returns as a noun rather than a possible verb.
Fresh mushroom picking always seems like a dangerous game to me. How were you 100% sure it was what you thought it was and not something that kills you?
I don't think my leap from murder to war was greater than your leap from some gauche remarks during a talk in the '90s and a handful of emails lawyering about word choice that might have put some people off working in the speaker's discipline to murder. Other than that, what exactly is your point? At no point did I imply that rms's life history should be compared to the Allied intervention in Europe; I merely brought it up as as an example that proves there is no such thing as a universally accepted rule against trading off murders and people saved.

("Wow, I've seen everything on HN to attack RMS. (...)")
So you didn't learn the lesson of the 20th century dystopian future predictions, and you'd rather implement your own and learn the hard way?
And then? What comes after the walls? Toppling them? A period of perceived freefom and disruption followed by more walls?
You're not tolerating anything, you weren't entitled to know in the first place.
Agreed. You have to draw the line somewhere and I can't believe people are actually arguing against this like they have a leg to stand on.
For all we know Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon would all be much more powerful if Microsoft got split up. And maybe throw in a few other companies like Oracle.
> incredibly sheltered.

> privileged

I'm coming to realize more and more—those aren't the same thing.
I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I wasn't paying complete attention on the sign up page, and I pasted my new password into the "Pick a username" field because I expected it to be a password verification field.

Also, there is apparently no way to change my username (even though I sign in with my email address, so I assume my username is not a primary key), or change my password, or delete my profile.
Michael hasn’t had anything to do with Ansible for the last few years.
I think if you go for privacy it is best to resolve queries recursively. You can do QNAME minimization with unbound for example and whatever network you are trying to reach will likely see your address anyways some way or another. I mean i for one am more worried about a centralized service like offered by cloudflare then i am worried that individual nameservers tracking me. And if you are worried about people being able to sniff on your traffic protecting only dns from that wont help you much.
As someone who has done some dev in F# professionally I think a lot of the comments above could come from trying to use F# like C#. WPF (and in general older .NET Microsoft frameworks) is probably one of the worst cases for F# however; the framework is designed pretty much exclusively for C# usage (i.e. PropertyChangedEventHandlers, generated C# classes from XAML, etc). From a functional language perspective there's different ways of solving the above problems. While you could code WPF in F# it's clunky and doesn't pass the cost/benefit test IMO in its current state; you would be coding in C# style with just a different syntax since the framework enforces a given coding style.

Performance wise I find it depends on what your doing. I've had nicer code run faster in F# than C# with inlining and such. You can resort to mutable coding if you have to in F# as well so I don't think its truly the case. If your using immutable data structures and writing a WPF app on top without understanding them I can see why you would get the performance hit as an example.

I haven't had a problem with Intellisense, IDE niceness (e.g. Rider, VS Code), Go To Refs seem to even work in VS Code etc. All the Resharper goodies aren't there; but after awhile you find you just don't need them as much in a more leaner language.
That's a lawsuit of a movement if it happens in the workplace.

What seemed like an enlightened powerpoint presentation that couldn't fail is turning against them. By activity seeking out these viewpoints google should have expected to make internal changes that promoted fairness over value. Google refuses to prioritize empowerment over functioning process and there is a mismatch between what they say and do.

Google can't have teams decide by a manager picking who they want because they may be biased. Culturally that's a big change.
Any System 76 laptop
Standard Definition Notes
IRR takes into account the investor valuations of the unicorn investments. It would be absurd to do otherwise.
As a native English speaker, I can't say I've found this to be the case. "Enormity" does tend to be used for dramatic effect, most often on moral issues, but I don't think that makes Scott wrong to use it here.

I don't know if I've seen "enormousness" before this thread.
Terry Gross' excellent and astonishingly comprehensive interview of each and every member of the E Street Band.
Congratulations Nim team!

Last year I wrote a book on building applications with Nim, now I think it's the time for all of the people waited for 1.0 to pick it up https://xmonader.github.io/nimdays/
In Drunken Text, Kik CEO Threatens to Quit: ‘I’m Not Going to Jail for This’
A 2% bump in efficiency hardly seems like a revolution. This is still cool though, I look forward to bikes that need lower maintenance because of the lack of chains
Your analogy explains itself away - maybe you knew how everything inside a vcr worked but I didn't, I just knew what the buttons did and how to clean the head. I'm sure we will figure our way around these quantum knobs as well!

(Seriously though, why the hell did those vcrs have such a large green board??)
"Horrible" is sometimes subjective. There are things that pretty much every reasonable person would agree are horrible.
How does the rider trigger the shifting? The interviewee refers to the system as "wireless", and I assumed that meant "no shifter cable" (as opposed to "using electromagnetic energy for communication" or something). I can't quite see in the video what they're doing to cause the shift up or down to happen.
As far as I know YC doesn't have a single 10,000x investment (i.e., $100B+ exit). Not one. Yet I once listened to a YC video where Michael Seibel (President of YC) discussed some of their stats. He said they've funded over 2,000 companies, and of those have 17 unicorns that are worth ~$100B in aggregate valuation. So that means their hit rate is generously

17/2,000 = 0.85%

Compare to i.e. Jason Calacanis who on his own has a hit rate of better than 1 in 20. Now assuming YC paid $100K per company and gets to keep a blended 1% of the $100B (is that too small?), they've put in about $200M in funding to get back

$100B*1% = $1B

to net roughly $800M in profit for their stakeholders. So they're a 5x fund. But that's really...not that good...(at least it's not world class).

But am I missing something? They've definitely gotten a lot better at picking companies during the Sam Altman era (by, IMO, funding deep tech companies that actually have the chance of 10,000xing), but it'll still take another 5-10 years to really prove that.

Now YC might argue that they're not purely a profit-driven fund. And that's true. But isn't it a bit worrying that after thousands of investments they haven't funded a single $100B+ company? YC has an enormous influence on the startup ecosystem. Is an institution with a 0.85% hit rate really sending us the right lessons?
The penalty for check fraud is not deportation, I'm sure you know that. The US is free to decide who gets to reside here and who doesn't. Obviously the case you linked is an outlier.

I don't understand why you're being so pedantic about this. You absolutely know that people use the 'misdemeanor' phrasing to make it seem like crossing the border is as innocuous as jaywalking. It's not. It has real effects and has been a major problem in the US for many decades.

> It's to put it in perspective when folks try to act like crossing the border is a crime against humanity.

Sure, crossing the border is not a crime against humanity, but neither is enforcing the law.
Curious how Infinity compares to AirTable or Monday.com?
But the list of criteria itself looks like a lobbying piece. It's not, say, medical products. It's among others products that are part of China's own industrial strategy.

If you are punishing China, why would you leave out the sectors China considers as most important and on which it aims for strategic dominance?
Would be interested to know too.

They have use some js to manipulate the DOM - the linkage isn't there yet (webassembly cant talk to DOM directly), but I guess it's a small point that there has to be a little glue to have that magic work at the moment.
So question: is there a good reason to use Avro over protobufs?

Just from a hand wavy aesthetic perspective I like protobufs but I'd like to get a clear picture.
Sounds like it might be pretty loud
It's incredibly sad that a horribly abused dog viciously attacks humans; it didn't didn't deserve that life. You still put it down.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars

There are arguably legitimate reasons not to use your real name online, including "I don't wanna."
> I try to avoid advertising as much as possible, and it's sad that they are one more place it's invading.

It's unfortunate that internet people have been falsely conditioned to believe the people who create the media we consume shouldn't be paid.

Wow. I am actually amazed at the disingenuousness of that twisted interpretation of what you quoted.

People will pay for what they value. The value of media has been utterly destroyed by ads. Ads are the problem.
When I hear "novel" and "patentable" mentioned in a video, I'm quite sure it's made solely to impress investors and immediately assume most of it is BS.
Hey this is great. It might not be super polished but the book titles I have found so far are amazing. It might just be we like the same things but I am totally on board if this stays small and we have a bunch of great contributions to stacks. If it grows big I hope you find a way to keep the good quality of stacks.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/container...
So this new system saves about 2% of effort, which is large savings for competitive cyclists.

For 99% of cyclists, though, it doesn't matter. The overwhelming part of your work goes into air resistance, then rolling resistance at lower speeds, and probably the chain in last place.

In the last few seconds of video the mechanism can be heard -- oh boy, it is loud. The pawl in bikes can range from nearly silent to annoying, but this one seems to be even worse.
So it has 1 second of startup cost? I have a hard time believing uBlock would add that much time to every request. Ideally this would make a more realistic measurement that doesn't include startup cost.

Or maybe it's just random variation.
I've been using screen for a while and came here to post the same question motivated by my thought that most likely we're probably not missing out on anything.
> This is just a funny misunderstanding, but a lot of “the government is so corrupt” type ranting is rooted in these sorts of erroneous readings of legal documents.

Great point! I have seen my views change on many things once I started to read up/listen to experts who know the law.
Yes? lol. Why does everything always come to the Trolley Problem?

I think anyone who was ever in favor of any war would agree that sometimes a death is justified when it saves many more?
This is like saying that voltage is a scalar real number, which explains nothing about the physics of electromagnetism, and in my opinion is probably the worst way to explain physics of anything. It especially tells nothing useful given the question is about the stuff that a qubit is made of (which is different from "how do you mathematically represent an ideal qubit on paper?").

And going beyond that, as Peres puts it, "Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory."
I think they are arguing for NPR to get more funding from the government, in the form of taxes. That is how public radio was traditionally funded.
Made my Mexican immigrants in the US :-)
If you want erasable forever, get a glass white board.

Many of the popular brands have two identical white boards, one slightly cheaper and differing by a digit in the product code. The more expensive one is the one that can be erased more easily.
I thought it went against HN policies to post about startups that actually follow through on their pie-in-the-sky ideas?
Inside The Crash of WeWorks Magic Millenial Real Estate Kingdom
https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite

This software uses a license that seems to solve both the problem of ensuring the user has control over the software and also allowing the author to sell and distribute binaries without worrying (too much) about others undermining his control over the market.

It appears to work quite well in this case. Although I do not know how much he actually makes from software sales, it appears to be non-negligible based on its popularity within a niche community and the fact most users would rather pay $15 than learn the skills necessary to compile from source.
I recommend reading “The Wonder Weeks”, a book about different developmental phases infants go through - with some caveats. It has helped us immeasurably to understand what their little minds and bodies are going through as they grow into their next developmental phase. Check it out, it’s worth a read and is based on scientific research, though not without controversy, so take it all with a grain of salt. Personally / anecdotally, we have found fussiness has lined up perfectly with the jumps in our first child, while it’s about two weeks early in our second child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Weeks
How do you decapitate a skull?
One on one sure but in packs they will eat you alive.
How hyperbolic. Everyone is on a health continuum, and I know people who are incredibly active, informed and intelligent, and further with healthy who use a variety of drugs recreationally, including nicotine.

Many people use these things because their concept of well being differs from yours, and not every in an individualistic way (like antivaxx). There are a number of benefits to nicotine and if it can be taken safely then all the better.
> OSS predates Stallman

If you are talking about the term OSS, then you are completely wrong. It came long after "Free Software" was coined and was named differently to mark a different movement.
With just free software concept, it goes nowhere. Once have open source inclusive of free software, it explodes.

You need innovation even in licensing. One man is just one human. Humanity is much larger then one man abd one sex.

Walk on.
Lol In the 90s the venerable ti82, 83, 85 just had battery backed ram. No long term memory.

Get off my lawn.
It can be used in that way, but the neutral usage is valid too. I'd even argue the "evil" undertones of the usage you describe borders on archaic.

"Enormousness" isn't a word in common usage that I'm aware of.
If it's a marketing name, it completely misses the essential point that it's about Freedom, not the "open" part of it.
Why would the processing time differ? Would you have multiple lambdas running different subsets of the unoptimized query?
Because you are paying that person money and have the ability to fire them. In the US you're also probably providing their health care.

I get what you're saying, but no one moves jobs every week. The sunk costs of switching employment are significant for the employee, less so for the company.
I was in HS in the early 2000s and graphing calculator programs were advanced enough to show you the work on the way to the answer. You'd just copy the steps onto paper. Especially useful for blitzing homework.
> I don't want a nanny state that bans what it thinks is bad for me and prevents me from accessing things that I want because some people can't handle it.

Show me a one-armed guy who bought a stick of dynamite thinking, “No way can I handle this.”
Of course it was removed. 4chan was having way too much fun with image classification recently :D
It is incorrect that inanimate objects are handled in a bias-free way. For instance, yellow bananas are (by human labelers, and consequently by AIs) labeled 'bananas', while green bananas are labeled 'green bananas' (similar to how a male doctor may be labeled 'doctor' while a female doctor may be labeled 'female doctor'). Even aside from labeling, the choice of data itself may be prone to bias, for example most pictures in an image set may be taken from a camera at human height pointed horizontally, etc. The biases that are racist are simply a subset of the manifold human biases that pervade data and consequently pervade AIs. There is no unbiased algorithm, all are hopelessly contaminated by humans.
Microsoft has always been very sweet and very competent when it was the underdog. It then seeks to establish dominant and becomes one of the worst players.

In the cloud, it is dwarfed by other companies so it needs to play the OSS game well to win over devs. But I have no reason to think that their main ethos has changed.