skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right: for the German public foreign intelligence gather is out or bounds and not normal.

Context matters.
Yup. To be fair, that's a point he's been making for ~10 years about the world of atoms and world of bits dichotomy.

I think it's also, in part, subtly caused by our narrow understanding of the word "technology" to be "software made in Silicon Valley" as opposed to a broader "tool that serves a human purpose."

If we broadened that understanding, we could see engineers applying their skills to problems that would be just as lucrative, but could be more legitimately called "innovative" than working on the umpteenth marginal "tech" app.
This is a rather unique situation that only benefits a small fraction of people in the US. The article is mostly focusing on trends in the American midwest, and the effects of people being priced out of superstar cities and forced to stay where they are where the CoL is still reasonable because they did not get in on the bubbly pyramid scheme soon enough.
I remember thinking the same back in 2005, which was the first time I'd driven in the US. Cracks and potholes all over the place. At the time I'd assumed it was because California was basically bankrupt (maybe it still is), but slightly shocking that it's still the case.

I suddenly felt like I understood why American cars have such soft suspension. The roads were notably worse than in the UK, and by a wide margin: no way I'd want to drive a car with a sportier setup there.

What's depressing is that since 2010 there's been a progressive degradation in the state of our roads. In Cambridgeshire the roads are now in a terrible state: cracks, fissures, potholes, road markings barely visible.

You can blame public spending cuts for this, and no doubt there's truth in that statement, but there are plenty of road infrastructure projects happening. For example: the (admittedly decades overdue) A14 upgrade, recently completed Ely southern bypass, various smart motorway projects (M1 and M4 spring immediately to mind, as well as recently completed work on M3).

This is all well and good, but I would far rather see some of this money diverted to the basics of a safe road network: i.e., ensuring the roads we already have are in good condition. I would particularly like to see funds being used for smart motorways, for which serious safety concerns have emerged, diverted in this way.
What's the relation of entropy in physics and entropy in information theory?
> Not having access to built-in and user-defined (Applescript/Automator) Services is not trivial

It's under the Firefox menu. I use it frequently to trigger an Automator service for TTS, which pipes the text through a sed script to fix common mispronunciations. I use this stuff too.

Should it be in the right click menu? Yes. Is firefox crippled by it's absence? No, because that functionality still exists, just in a different location (and if you have your services bound to keyboard shortcuts it becomes a complete non-issue.)

I stand by what I said. I'm not being unreasonably dismissive. Many mac users on this forum in particular have a habit of blowing the slightest defect completely out of proportion. Maybe they're trying to emulate Steve Jobs' infamously toxic approach to critique. Calling firefox "garbage" because of defects these minor is a prime example.
> In this work we present the MuZero algorithm which, by combining a tree-based search with a learned model, achieves superhuman performance in a range of challenging and visually complex domains, without any knowledge of their underlying dynamics.

<rant>
DeepMind "superhuman" hype machine strikes again.

I mean, it's cool that computers are getting even better at chess and all (and other perfectly constrained game environments), but come on. "Superhuman" chess performance hasn't been particularly interesting since Deep Blue vs Kasparov in 1997.

The fact that the new algorithms have "no knowledge of underlying dynamics" makes it sound like an entirely new approach, and on one level it is. ML vs non-statistical methods. But on a deeper level, it's the same shit.

Unless I'm grossly mistaken, (someone please correct me if this is inaccurate), the superhuman performance is only made possible by massive compute. In other words, brute force.

But it uses less training cycles, you say! AlphaZero et all mastered the game in only 3 days! etc etc. This conveniently ignores the fact that this was 3 days of training on an array of GPUs that is way more powerful than the supercomputers of old.

Don't get me wrong. These ML algorithms have value and can solve real problems. I just really wish DeepMind's marketing department would stop beating us over the head with all of this "superhuman" marketing.

For those just tuning in, this is the same company that got the term "digital prodigy" on the cover of Science [0]. Which is again a form of cheating, because the whole prodigy aspect conveniently ignores the compute power required to achieve AlphaZero. For the record, if you took A0 and ran it on hardware from a few years ago, you would have a computer that achieves superhuman performance after a very long time, which wouldn't be making headlines.

</rant>

0. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419
Spying on foreign people in foreign countries is pretty much every intelligence agency's raison d'etre
How did 10X get equated with "antisocial and damaging behaviors?"

Junior developers can show the same behaviors. A more productive person can act as a good mentor and team player. Jerks exist at all levels of skill and experience.
Possibly because you're european, most companies are US based and would need a to apply for a visa right?

This is the actual virtual internship I did, which doesn't actually seem accessible from the workatastartup website:
https://www.insidesherpa.com/virtual-internships/prototype/o...

There's are frontend, backend and analytics modules.
> in rockets, safety factor is typically smaller than 2 or the design would be too heavy

Safety factors feel like p-values. Why .05? Because. What if it's not good enough? We'll move the goal post.
1998 simpsons mini-episode called "Hell Toupee".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_IX
There's a lot of local corruption. Before, keeping it hush-hush meant capturing the local paper(s). Now? Increasingly you don't even need to do that. As long as the state AG or whoever doesn't take an interest (and some of them seem to intentionally avoid doing so) you're fine.

Talking counties, schools, and towns outside even mid-sized cities, here.

I am worried this, and other developments, will mean the gradual end of the US as a relatively low-corruption state.
If you reintroduce Markdown mode now using CommonMark, programmers will just be happy that they can use Slack effectively again and as a bonus, you’ll match GitHub and everywhere else programmers hang out.

Please please do, Slack. I filed a support request already asking how to turn off the new editor.

While we're at it, let's have syntax highlighting of inline non-snippet code blocks.
> why don't they allow ad blockers on safari?

They do. I am running Crystal right now on mobile Safari. I also have ad blockers on desktop Safari as well.
Also, so do the laws of physics and the Geneva Convention.
Oops, I didn't mean to imply a particular interface widget. Should have said "setting" (not necessarily binary, either).
If Honey is inserting themselves between the blogger and the seller and then pocketing the commission, how is this not “stealing/hijacking” the commission?
The first Bush said that, so did the second. I have yet to see the benefit. The longer it goes the more the inequality increases. There is nothing in history I can point to but I am not a good historian. If someone could educate me, honestly asking because I would sleep better.
This is an example of whataboutery, a fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Eh. Consistently applied, that logic lets some people (maybe not even the most emotional ones involved) overrule the thoughts and feelings of others with their emotions. One person has thoughtful opinions, another has emotional needs.

Who should be considered? Well, both.

At least over time. I'm not saying finding the balance in a relationship is appropriate at the moment when people are emotional, but it is possible to emotionally neglect or bully someone who is fairly even-keeled.

And, of course, I've seen less emotive women bullied by emotionally unstable men. I wouldn't say it's necessarily one gender getting the short end of this dysfunctional communication pattern.
Will it scrape the edges of the carpet with a butter knife to get the cat hair out?
It could really be so much better. There are a lot of other cities which are developing faster (mainly outside the US).
Sure. Thiel is proposing a model. All models are wrong, some are useful, and so on. His models happen to be interesting to people who like to think in more contrarian ways. That doesn't make them right, and we can debate their merit, of course. But it hardly makes them impossible to understand.

That China hasn't solved the economic calculation problem yet is plain to see, and I don't think that's quite what Thiel is saying. He's talking about the principles and the mindset behind the support for AI, as well as its ramifications in terms of the type of society it can produce asymptotically.

No one said Harvard's signalling was arbitrary. It's a very clear signal. Thiel's point is that that signal has nothing to do with "higher education".
heres the thing I seriously want to know more about. The white noise generator was circumvented with "a technical solution provided by the Americans themselves."

What technical solution could circumvent white noise??
The second example worked correctly seamlessly for me as well. I can easily edit text inside a code block in the WYSIWYG editor. Maybe they just patched that too?
Not to even mention the annoying one-click-to-edit fields that lose your scroll position in the ticket and you cannot escape away. I'm furious every time this happens.
Scalable graph machine learning: a mountain we can climb?
I think that's overgeneralized.

"If you cut across on Maple, you can skip that slow light on Main Street."

"Nice. I'll try that next time."
I long for the day I can just write reformatted code in Markdown, GitHub style -- with three backticks and a language declaration --- and Slack syntax highlights the colours correctly within chats.

This is such an obvious improvement for developers who share code constantly via Slack.

In fact, such an improvement, I would seriously switch chat apps to get it.
Hardly surprising for such a massive cross platform project. Catering to the particularities of each platform wastes a lot of effort. I personally really appreciate that Firefox works (mostly) the same on all the platforms I use.
How does that compare to commercial airplanes?
Nice job on sticking to vanilla JS!

Would be cool if you wrapped this in a Chrome extension as a new-tab page.
That tweet was posted Nov 6, this blog post was posted today.

FWIW I'm unable to reproduce both examples in the blog post - they work correctly for me in my Slack web interface.
The healthy free market can choose Android if they want.
Are the details really helpful for performance work? MOSI, MOESI, MERSI, MESIF etc are 99% irrelevant to having the right metal model. "Dirtying cache lines across different cores/threads is slow" is most of what you need to know. Within the same core the coherency protocols between levels of cache is not really visible at all to software even as varying performance artifacts.

Of course you might end up analyzing assembly level perf traces in a hot path for some game console with a less known CPU architecture and making a cross cpu cache miss slightly less slow could just maybe be helped by the detailed understanding of the machine model, but by that time you're already far in the not-giant-turd territory (at least if you're optimizing the right thing).

Of course computer architecture is fascinating and fun to learn about.
I still maintain that JIRA has the worst WYSIWYG and syntax highlighting support, of any major code platform. It amazes me they are so dominant among developers.
Show HN: WhiteElephant.com
At least for some of us with strong spatial orientation, search is not a substitute for spatial navigation and muscle memory.
The problem is that in general for most companies, especially related to discretionary spending, the proportion of customers who are from China is increasing. Over time they end up kowtowing because the Chinese users threaten to boycott them unless they "respect China", which usually means doing whatever they are told to do.
They do mention "MuZero only masks legal actions at the root of the search tree... does not perform any masking within the search tree". So it's not an instant-loss rule.
Always wondered why more markdown editors don't use the https://stackedit.io/ approach to WYSIWYG + formatting symbols. Seems like the best of both worlds to me
Most of the hand wringing about advice here is overblown.

Definitely pay attention to the audience. If they're bored or off-put by advice, stop it. Maybe slip an apology in.

But part of being yourself, (generally what people advise!) is being OK with some people not enjoying your approach. Other people will enjoy a nice troubleshooting session and they'll stick around.
"Dealing with it" basically means re-building a browser rendering engine inside the browser renderer.
I think young 10X engineers often have negative behaviors, team dynamics, etc. so the group as a whole gets a bad reputation. I personally find that older 10X engineers tend to be the more valuable ones since they've figured out there's more to being successful than lone wolfing a bunch of code.
> If there's a flaw in some alternative browser that iOS app developers now have a dependency on, Apple would be unable to do anything about it other than wait for that other browser vendor to ship an update.

they could fix the bug iOS that allowed an app to escape it's sandbox. Exactly the same as every other OS including MacOS

one interpretation is they are claiming the are incompetent at securing iOS but somehow competent at securing Safari. Those seem like opposing statements. Either they are competent at both and so 3rd party browsers are fine or they are competent at neither and we need access to more competent browser teams.

I would like to believe they are competent and that their excuses are untrue. Otherwise we should go back to the world of no Firefox or Chrome because that same argument would apply to MacOS and Windows
If you run a mail server for a decade, as I believe you said you have, then you've gotten a reputation. This site lists some places you can check the reputation: https://sendgrid.com/blog/5-ways-check-sending-reputation/
They are, somewhat. You can theoretically make a safety factor 1.0 if you're really absolutely certain of the input criteria.

Safety factor is really just a (somewhat blunt) method of managing risk. It's just admitting that we don't know the true load spectra that a design is exposed to, so we take what we believe is the max load and then slap a multiplier on it to manage how much uncertainty we expect, be it from estimates of that load, or dynamic factors, etc. etc.

We then also consider the consequence (since risk = likelihood x consequence). If the consequence of a failure is that our balsa-wood model bridge falls over, we shrug and keep it low. If it's that our pressure vessel undergoese a BLEVE [1] in the middle of a population centre then you jack it right the hell up.

There's nothing that specifically requires a safety factor. We could spend millions of dollars and thousands of hours understanding exactly the load spectra a design experiences, but that may be prohibitively expensive in the case of designing a bridge, so we instead accommodate more risk by overdesigning the item. In a space application where every kg of launch mass represents big $$$, then spending that extra time and money to understand the load specifics in more detail makes sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEVE
Yeah, the very first time I used Confluence I was in shock of how developer's at one time could have thought this was a good or useful product for discussing/planning code changes.

For ticketing software, I find Clubhouse to be much better than JIRA. Normal markdown that doesn't drive you insane. Much slicker all around.
Macau is all in on a single industry which works when the economy is going well, but not so well when it tanks. Furthermore, the concentration of wealth in Macau is even more skewed towards the top. The average Macanese is poorer than the average Hong Konger which is why so many now live in HK.
> If you step back and think about it, if this protest were to happen in the US, with subways burned, shops destroyed, road blocked, for 6 months. What is going to happen? Compare this hypothetical scenario with what happened in Hong Kong.

It's not hypocritical because the US has democratic avenues and Hong Kong (and China) doesn't, disruption is their only option.

When Hong Kong has universal free and fare elections I'll think about joining your condemnation.
this seems cool, but... why?
I'd say one problem is that toggles make your code more complicated and harder to test. And the more toggles there are the more combinations for potential issues to pop up.

As a user I'd prefer to see more toggles, but if I had to maintain a product I'd probably try to make good decisions instead of leaving things open.
I guess it shows Ecuador’s counterintelligence skills aren’t up to the level of a superpower, but I’m pretty sure anyone could have guessed that one already.
This article is spot on in many ways. It is also very pessimistic. It does a good job of pointing out how we seem to be making very little meaningful technological progress compared to the past, and that the main reason seems to be that society is increasingly structured to be stable instead of everything happening on the bleeding edge.

I essentially agree that is happening, but I think there are many of us who care little about the established red tape and regimes and are willing to do whatever is necessary to push society and technology forward.

I do admit I am concerned about my own unwillingness to take large risk despite saying I will. I think that is the most damning part of this article to current first world culture: We have become comfortable with the level of technology we currently have despite its flaws. Without major societal instability only few people step out to make drastic changes.
Depends a bit on what you mean by right-wing. The Economist is a fairly level-headed representative of center-right free-market economics, but they aren't cultural conservatives and quite secular. That makes their political positioning in the US a bit ambiguous, though they're more solidly right-of-center in the UK context where they originate. (For example: the only Labour candidate they've endorsed in 50 years is Tony Blair, and even that came with a caveat that they were endorsing him because they preferred "the ambiguous right-winger rather than the feeble one".)

On the U.S. side, intellectually oriented conservative media has really had trouble with the Trump era. The more highbrow outlets were never on board with Trump, but maintaining an anti-Trump or Trump-skeptical line on the U.S. right basically dooms you to irrelevance in the current climate, since only a smallish band of "never-Trumper" conservatives are still tuning in to that political position. There are a few of those, like The American Interest, which keep going on a small circulation.
100% agree that Clubhouse > JIRA. If I hear a company uses JIRA, I will actually question whether I want to work there.
At some point I decided there's generosity in knowing how to gracefully accept a gift. From then on I didn't get caught in these kinds of paradoxes. When the offering party's sincerity is established, I shift into thankfulness and everyone wins.

Rock, paper, scissors might work too. Haven't tried that.
If someone can help me here, whenever I talk to any females, my eyes inadvertently goes on to the women's breast which makes them uncomfortable which I notice and move my eyes away from their face and start looking somewhere else. Once that female becomes a good friend my eyes no longer goes into that direction and then I can look into the eyes and have the conversations.
>but let them grow at 7-10% / day.

not seeing that math
It's more like a re-usability factor in mechanical design. Higher safety factor tends to equal fewer cracked welds down the road in anything exposed to vibration and shock. I've only ever heard of one lifting fixture weldment that used a safety factor of 1.0. Every single welded joint was taped instead of painted, and peeled off and fully mag particle tested between each use.

Keep in mind that weld strength is not one single number, it is a wide range. You can inspect a weld with X-ray, UT, MT, and PT methods to narrow the range, but there are still variable heat input, soluble hydrogen content, pre-heat and post-weld heat treatment factors that ALL affect the final hardness/brittleness and ultimate strength of a welded fabrication.
Wait - he helped elect a cryptofascist that plunders the public coffers for personal gain, and then he's got the chutzpah to complain about the state of public infrastructure?

At the Manhattan Institute? The place that loudly complains that tax payer financed efforts are really just exploitation?
Something I've ended up repeating more than I ever thought I would is that journaling is about 70% as effective as therapy. Therapy would be better, both ideal, but when you're in a pinch and need to start making changes, this was what did the most for me.

Another thing that's an attitude that's been a bit of a carryover from my old religion, is that when your struggling, help someone else. Often in the process of helping someone you will figure out how to help yourself. You still care about the world but not yourself, perfect, find a cause worthy of your time and do something about it.

I dealt with depression almost my whole life, and although it's mostly better now and has been for a couple of years, it still tries to crop up from time to time. For me it was resolving a lot of identity crisis things, the parts that were inconsistent, I ended up losing my religion, moving across the country and pursuing new goals, a new career, a new life. Having a plan helped(especially feeling like there was some forward motion toward my goal), figuring out what I wanted helped, introspection helped, therapy helped(to kickstart it).

Good luck, rooting for you.
I have no special knowledge about Honey, but I think the distinction being made is that Honey redirects them to a _new_ seller that offers a cheaper price, essentially poaching the customer. The blog's affiliate never makes a sale in the first place so of course it never pays out.

For the blog, the outcome is the same as if you took the time to price shop manually and ended up picking a different retailer. Honey's just automating that process.
I'm working on the test-infra team at Shopify. We got the CI down in the last couple of weeks to around 22m 50th percentile and 33m 95th percentile. At the moment we get most of our speed up by parallizing our builds steps a lot. But we hit a ceiling with that and are working on a project on selectively running tests.
A place for Concerned Citizens to alert the neighborhood about petty HOA violations and kids playing outdoors. Although I hear they're about to introduce a feature in which the local police department will be able to deliver their PR releases directly to your news feed. Also a good place to report stray cats as lost pets.

It's local, it's unfiltered, but… I wonder about the long term effect it will have on my estimation of my neighbors. Checking any more than once or twice a month is probably not doing anyone any favors.