skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No specific tactic works forever. There is no "1 weird trick." You need to set up your advertising and sales funnels to track as prospects become customers, and continually experiment on the message and the channels. This is where most startups start and a lot of them get it wrong. If you have boatloads of VC money, you can run a lot of bad experiments until you hopefully hit paydirt. Paydirt is +ROI ad campaigns on a large targeted demographic. Then you treat this audience like a goldmine. At first it's easy to mine and pick up gold nuggets in river beds. As the easy pickings disappear, you'll find yourself investing in increasingly more expensive machinery and infrastructure to continue mining operations. As you've extracted most the gold, look for byproduct like copper, silver, etc (in startup terms, introduce ancillary products and services). As you hit one gold mine, keep prospecting other areas (distribution channels like display ads, native ads, social media, etc).

If you end up a multi billion dollar unicorn with tens of millions in ad budget, targeted direct ads no longer move the needle like they did when you were a startup. Now for the Director of Marketing to justify increasingly larger compensation, he needs to increase his ad spend and starts whispering about spending money on ads that have no direct correlation to the bottom line. This is called brand advertising. Hint: If an early stage startup spends more budget on brand advertising than direct marketing, run.

Effective advertising is matching the product/service with some problem, on a specific channel of eyeballs, with a specific message. There are tons of new channels popping up every few years (think google, facebook, instagram, youtube, twitch, pinterest, wechat, stackexchange, hn, reddit, etc). There are millions of permutations but you have a finite ad budget. The magic is deciding how to show what to who.
I simply use org-rifle for searching. It's great: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-rifle
I think self-hosting, or using a regular account with BitWarden is the way to go. I just don't think E2E encryption is strong, unless implemented carefully?
This is really interesting but I would almost use the word "pseudoscience".

I mean a lot of it seems to be on the right track to me in a broad way, but its problematic because it is a mashup of real scientific ideas but the process seems to be more like a philosophical essay. You can't get scientific or engineering progress from philosophy.

There are good reasons that most of academia moved on from philosophy.
ioctl is inherently non-portable. Even though most Unix-like OS implement it, it is not part of the POSIX / SUS standard and so code which relies on it is a portability problem. The problem is the ioctl command codes and their parameters are not standardised and vary from OS to OS.

(The POSIX standard does standardise ioctl, but only for use with STREAMS, which is an optional feature which more often than not isn't implemented.)
Can you sue Ethos Capital for scam .org now?
I am so sorry you have to go through this. I hope you hang in there, one moment, one breath at a time. I will hold you in my thoughts tonight.
> How would you feel if an algorithm decided whether or not you should be charged with a crime? Whether an algorithm decided whether or not you had cancer? I think for many of these cases, it’s well known that the algorithms do much better than people. I was just reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Talking to Strangers. He tells the story of a judge in Chicago who decided whether to keep detainees or release them on bail. He liked to look into the eyes of the detainee to decide whether he would skip bail. It turned out that information wasn’t nearly as valuable as other information that you can derive from machine learning, algorithms and so forth. Accuracy increased greatly with the algorithm.

I feel like this glosses over a lot of evidence that shows that using algorithms to determine guilt and innocence in the criminal justice system is incredibly fraught.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/19/algorithm...
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> Anyone including Jasper_ is welcome to post a similar demo of their 100x+ performance improvements on this, but I doubt they will.

Are you kidding? Look at any modern 3D video game on any platform, INCLUDING WebGL.
Maybe they're going to blackmail everyone. $10 a month or all your past Google searches get published.
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I like to put it as being becalmed in a lake with the sail up. When the wind comes, you pick it up and ride ahead with it. With the sale stowed, you miss the opportunity.
Maybe I phrased it wrong, but I think the intent was to help them circumvent the sanctions, despite that he may have asked the government for permission to visit NK.
I took it as a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
I basically agree. Collier is a harmonic genius, but mostly his music doesn't do much emotionally. I don't think it's necessarily that he needs to write more dance-able music to improve -- just, something with more meaning and emotion (which might just come naturally by growing up).

That said his cover of Danny Boy shows that he does have it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXIApugIuqk
The vehicle already weights 6k. And it wouldn’t add thousands. Polycarbonate would weigh a lot less. Bullet proof glass is designed for bullets and weighs a lot. Just replacing TV the glass with polycarbonate would make them virtually unbreakable and weigh a lot less.

Elon musk tweeted a joke that Tesla semi glass will withstand a nuclear blast or you get a full refund. It was a joke dude. You are really dumb.

What he actually claimed is that the glass won’t crack if a small rock hits it. The cost of the tougher glass is less than the average cost of downtime caused by cracked windshields. Truckers aren’t allowed to drive with cracks. So in reality there is some really straightforward logic behind the glass.
And I’m sure it would be openALPR on the backend, which would gladly parse a dynamically generated “picture” of a license.
From https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-... :

"March 2019:

ICANN receives 3,300 comments uniformly opposed to the change and 6 in favor of removing price caps, and sides with the 0.2% minority.

May 2019:

PIR responded to the comments with an open letter that said, “We are a mission-based non-profit, and would never betray the trust that you have put into .ORG and us.”

On 7 May, Chehadé registered the domain for EthosCapital.com.

On 13 May, ICANN decided to lift the price caps anyway.

On 14 May, Ethos Capital was incorporated as a new investment firm founded by Brooks. Ethos Capital has two staff: Brooks and Nora Abusitta-Ouri, a former ICANN SVP who later worked for Chehadé and was also a classmate of Chehadé."
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The fad is usually due to the whole idea of "nanobots" and "nanites" that will totally infect everything and kill cancer along the way. We can barely engineer a basic cell right now without having to severely use Mother Nature as a crutch (base DNA template, snip off as many bases as possible and see what's the least is needed to form a viable cell). A gray goo type of scenario is about as likely as AGI emerging from Minecraft and hijacking unsecured 3D printers to replicate themselves.
My guess is that they're getting "other Google affiliates".

What happens is a "publisher" combines CSE with Adsense then drives (often robotic) traffic to the ads that come back in the feed. They then identify high-paying keywords and make money.

Sophisticated attackers will observe that Google cares if the IP address matches the CSE request, but they don't care if the cookie and IP make sense (or if that cookie is being used elsewhere in the world). This means a sneaky extension can lift the (advertising) cookies of Google users elsewhere in the world and deliver them to places (e.g. Turkey) where it is convenient to run the click farm.
I think you missed what the conversation was about.

> You should easily be able to update tens, if not hundreds of thousands of DOM nodes

We're talking about updating multiple DOM nodes dude, not a 3D rendering engine or a single canvas element. People don't make React websites where everything is drawn in canvas.
Why do you read "insecurity" in this situation? I don't read that at all. If anything it's the newcomers that are insecure - that's why they're putting down the people who wrote the code in the first place. In all likelihood they don't fully understand it (just because code is harder to read than it is to write), so the inclination is to excuse their own lack of progress by shitting on people who aren't there anymore and chalking it up to "bad codebase".
The problem with your line of reasoning, is that you are thinking in technological progress only through individual achievement.

This is what technological iterations, through generations of human beings, give us all. Humans achieve super-human level of technological achievements because we iterate over what others have left for us.

Knowledge is like a stair, made from the hard work of many great human beings, and even for hard problems, with enough ammount of iterations, and with consecutive progress (without social deterioration) we can achieve anything.

Somebody will fill that "last" step in the stair that will make a paradigm shift to all of us..
We also have IIHS testing which, while unofficial, has always been at the forefront of crash testing, and is oft cited and very influential in the US.
isatty on which standard file, though, takes some consideration. Zero, any, some, or all of stdin, stdout, and stderr may be redirected independently. Some programs might usefully print differently redirected into a file vs rendered on a tty. And what is one to do about pipes?
> If math knowledge is limited to “when I see this sort of problem, I do that” it’s inflexible; if problems are phrased just a little differently, the student is often stumped. And once students hit algebra, math increasingly demands thinking through a sequence of steps and picking the right mathematical tool for each. That’s hard if you don’t understand what the tools actually do.

That's easy to say, but hard to do. I find in my math experiences that I often don't truly master a concept until I am a level or two beyond it. I learned fractions when I was in grade 5 or 6 and could demonstrate adding, multiplying, reducing, etc. I think if you asked me 'why can you multiply across when multiplying fractions' I may have said I knew, but I don't think I actually mastered that until high school--when I had the skills to derive the fraction operation rules. Ditto with things like FOIL, completing the square, etc which I don't think I mastered until I was out of high school.

And of course, everything seems easy and obvious in hindsight.

I suppose what I mean is: I don't think there is anything new about what the author lauds as a goal. It's what everyone has been trying to do for 50 years. It just isn't easy, and so far no one has found a magic bullet aside for lots of hardwork and practice.
A small point of interest:

The author takes issue with a line in the song/poem "I vow to thee my country". The line is "the love that asks no questions".

Firstly, I confess to this being one of my favourite - if not my favourite - poems. And in that I must confess to have a different take on it; what the lyrics mean to me if you will.

I take a non-religious, but not strictly incompatible, reading. One where "another country" is an ideal to strive for.

I read the "the love that asks no questions" to be the unconditional love of a person for their country, and not an unconditional acceptance of their governement or a surrendering of will. Whether this is the original intention I do not know or really care.

It is in that line that these lyrics give me great strength. In a career where I can easily emigrate, having few living ties, I could very easily blame the country for all that I see as wrong and leave it.

But that of course doesn't help anyone but me - and likely only myself in the short term. My love for my country shouldn't be strictly conditional on the state those I disagree with have put it in. I have to recognise I am of my country. I have to recognise that it is my responsibility.
I'm surprised they didn't include lobotomies in this list. That was a huge blunder. Otherwise, the Nobel committee has a pretty good track record.

This is of course because they wait for the dust to settle on these discoveries and for the scientific community to validate and build on those conclusions.

This is why there is such a large lag time between the discovery and the granting of the prize.
The browser reads as close to raw game data as it can get (I have written my own data extractors in some cases if the data is too big, or doesn't have a natural filesystem so that people can't download raw ROMs).

In the case of the Galaxy levels, it's reading the raw files as shipped on the Wii disc. I have my own renderer and emulation tech [0]. It's the only way to ensure accuracy to a degree I'm happy with. For textures specifically, they're stored in the Wii's texture formats, so I have my own texture decoder [1].

I did not get permission from the original game developers, but I think I'm doing everything here in good faith, out of love for the source material, and that I'm not replacing the experience of playing the game for yourself. The developers of Fez specifically retweeted a post about it on the official Twitter.

[0] https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/src/gx...
[1] https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/src/as...
Perhaps it was true when this was written, but it's certainly not true now that "mechanical objects on microscales do not exist". The whole field of MEMS is about them, which includes such prosaic things as smartphone gyros/accelerometers.
Wow, it has been that long. I met Drexler when he was first saying that stuff. My big question was "how do you power this stuff". Even if you had nanomachines, building something big with a chemically powered system might take as long as growing a tree. Maybe you could hook in external electrical power somehow. But the "clouds of nanomachines floating around" concept seemed to have a serious power problem.

"Nanotechnology" today is mostly surface chemistry. Surface chemistry is important, but boring. IC technology, modern battery technology, and membranes for separating things like salt and water are all based on clever tricks in surface chemistry. It's called "nanotechnology" to make it sound cool.

Amusingly, the IC fab people, who really do put atoms almost exactly where they want them, don't use the term.
> his music doesn't do much emotionally.

Guh...thank you for articulating this so perfectly! I've been struggling to understand why I could tell some of Collier's music sounds good from a technical perspective, but couldn't understand why those pieces didn't leave me 'feeling' (e.g. moved, touched, in awe, etc). I agree that I hope he is able to incorporate more emotion into his work as he matures.
Well, the big problem with bash on macOS is it is stuck on bash 3.x. FSF changed license of bash, starting with 4.0, from GPLv2 to GPLv3, and Apple's corporate policy says no GPLv3 allowed, so macOS stuck on bash 3.x. You write a script on Linux using bash 4.x features, take it to run on macOS with bash 3.x and it doesn't work. (You can still install bash 4.x on macOS, but if you have to install bash 4.x that gets rid of the argument "bash is everywhere and we don't have to install it so that's why we use it instead of something else".)

Apple is trying to move macOS users to zsh because they like the license (it is MIT-like) and hence will be keeping up to date with new versions of it, instead of being stuck in the past like they are with bash.
Sidenote: Catalonia top level domains (.cat) require the web to be served in Catalonian as well. That's probably why you see the link in the top-right to see it in català (or maybe it's done from a person/group from Catalonia).

The TLD has an interesting history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat

Edit: the name of the main contributor is a typical catalonian name, so maybe the requirement is not the main reason for the dual language.
Yes, that's what the article is about.
labor that are still uneducated and do physical work like mining are plenty. so there is not shortage of labor and that keeps wages low. When something is produced on a mass scale, the costs gets lower and that explains why panels are cheap.
> The downside is that the post what community is so much smaller.

People were saying the same thing in 2007 when OiNK shut down and What was starting up. The community is not smaller; it's more fragmented, and that's a good thing. Centralization is no better in our societal constructs than it is in our technological ones. I'll trade some immediacy and convenience for longevity any day.
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You cannot generate 2000 updates a second if your computer cannot handle them.

Javascript runs a "main loop" that just executes "tasks". Tasks are chunks of synchronous code, and are not preemtible.

Let's say you have a "generator" task that generates 2_000 "update" tasks. The way this works is:

1. "generator" schedules 2_000 "update" tasks to run as soon as possible, and schedules another "generator" task for 1s from now.

2. The browser starts running "update" tasks one after the other as fast as it can.

3a. If the "update" tasks are all done 1s after the previous "generator" task, then the browser will run "generator" again.

3b. If they are not done, the browser will continue running "update" tasks and only invoke "generator" again _after_ it has finished with all the "update" tasks, be it 1 or 100 seconds after the previous "generator" task.
> This is an honest summary of Drexler’s Ph.D. thesis/book

It is not. I'm disappointed to see such lazy dishonest rhetoric on the front page of a site for the intellectually curious. The thesis in question: https://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/Drexler_MIT_dissertation.pdf

I think the bright spot in all this is that people learned from what happened to Drexler's program for responsibly developing advanced nanotech and so far have kept the AI safety program from the same fate. Drexler wrote a recent book on that subject, btw: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/reframing/
I prefer to think of subtraction as the inverse of addition, and division as the inverse of multiplication. You only need addition and multiplication if you're dealing with rationals.
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> Interesting for sure, but the market for people that buy a CPU chip as a standalone item probably doesn't relate much to the overall market.

The question then becomes how much the 'overall market' relates to profits. These manufacturers have consistently marketed to the enthusiast/home builder end of the market for decades now; they've never seriously neglected it. I suspect these sales are highly lucrative despite the relatively small volume. It astonishes me that one can mail order a 4096 pin device (sTRX4) and install it by hand in the kitchen, yet here we are, and it's been that way for a rather long time now. If it wasn't profitable the manufacturers would have stop feeding this market long ago.
From my preliminary profile, it's spending an abnormal amount of time recalculating the style, which is bizarre as nothing major has changed. Admittedly, my own experiences have been for large data tables where you tend to reuse cell nodes as data gets repurposed, so styles aren't updated as often. I also used scoped styles to ensure that nodes wouldn't search the whole tree to find their styles (something that has since been removed from Chrome). Supposedly this is replaced now by Display Locking [0], but I wasn't able to get it to work for this example in my limited testing. Going back to my old project, it also seems to have regressed in performance. Grr.

I will admit that DOM is some serious black magic, the browser is an unfortunate moving target, and when I say "should be able to update 10k", I am lying as much blame at the feet of the browser developers as I am at the frameworks.

I would go back and edit my old post now, since you're clearly right in this case, but it seems the time limit on it has run out.

[0] https://github.com/WICG/display-locking/blob/master/README.m...
This is the same sort of claim as everything is water, the four elements, matter, mind, math, or according to this article, information. The difficulty as always is showing how everything is actually X. It started with Thales or Parmenides, and the allure of reducing everything to one substance remains with us to this day.
The door is not a crumple zone. Crumple zones should be outside of the passenger compartment. Regardless, the sledgehammer demonstration is demonstrating the result of an impact at least several orders of magnitude smaller than a vehicle accident where crumple zones are effective.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629525
Exactly, this is not an improvement, but makes it worse.
OK until, of course, you meet me.

And I go around piping things into 'less -RS'

I wouldn't get the warning.

Though of course getting it to some is probably better than none so I'm more than likely with you.

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Unfortunately many apps do behave differently towards ttys in one key way - colour.

It is somewhat frustrating to be piping into less something like 'apt list --upgradable' and being unable go essuly scan because its a mess without colour.
> Blackmail / extortion / compromise trap right there. Don't email em, don't talk to em.

> If you're an American and you go there, they have dirt on you and can threaten to reveal it if you don't play ball with them.

Perhaps, but they'd lose the ability to promise other people that their relationship with North Korea was safely secret. I wouldn't worry about this; I suspect North Korea really does want to maintain its ability to have skilled foreigners come and help if they're so inclined.

I understand some people maintain two passports, one for Israel and the other for the rest of the Middle East. This is a similar thing. I wouldn't expect Iran to insist on disclosing an American's visit to the US government either.
Even then it was not true, however nanoscale manufacturing as envisioned by Drexler definitely does not exist.

MEMS objects are made by lithography not pushing atoms around, and are extremely simple, usually just single chemical compound. (Sometimes a doped semiconductor.) Said simple structures are often very dissimilar to complexity envisioned by Drexler.

By the way, first M in MEMS is micro. It's not NEMS. NEMS also exists, but again, it's made with lithography and chemistry, not any level of direct molecular manipulation.

Heck, pharmacy chemists make nanostructures. (Liposomes and other vesicles specifically, for mechanical purposes. Peptides. Even protein assemblies.)
The cost function is the gaining of skills to make you good. Whilst upskilling, you're not out catching your lucky chance, you're busy reading/studying/practising.
I'm automating my house because I nearly ended up being quadriplegic[1] and I want to be prepared next time if I loose my mobility.

I'm largely doing it with 433Mhz hardware, Raspberry Pi and python scripts. I didn't use Home Assistant because I presumed large project might be overhead and inhibit my choice of hardware; your comment has made me to rethink my strategy.

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/i-was-told-i-would-become-quadrip...
There's slightly under 10MM .org domains registered, according to statdns.com. So each name is worth $135 to them.