skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True about procrastination! We've been focusing more on the product itself which is after login and missed a few (maybe more) things on the presentation. We're on it, now!
> Gemini is a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space inbetween gopher and the web, striving to address (perceived) limitations of one while avoiding the (undeniable) pitfalls of the other.

I had to look up what gopher is and still don't get the pitch. What are the perceived limitations of gopher? What are the undeniable pitfalls of the web?

If the author ever reads this: Why not write something along the lines of "Gemini is an internet protocol that avoids {{ insert pitfalls of the web here }} while being {{ insert opposite of perceived limitations of gopher here }}."?
> political dialogues

That sounds lovely.

Fake news (the actual kind), name-calling, absurd conspiracy-theorizing, memes that remove all nuance from complex issues, botnets that amplify anti-science/anti-intellectual nonsense ... aren't political dialogue, they're the breakdown of it.
observables come handy in such cases
Optimizing for engagement does not favor any particular viewpoint. The authors of this article are incensed that Facebook doesn't engage in more viewpoint-based adjustment of the conversation. Favoring or disfavoring a post based on the viewpoint it expresses is very different from optimizing an algorithm to give a user more of what he wants, whatever that is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314728
That's within 1 (base 10) order of magnitude of the theoretical max (which seems like it would be very hatd to get close to). Sure there is room for incremental improvements, but we're not going to be making order of magnitude improvements.
> sustainability/climate change or another social good

Ah, yeah, if you get too narrow in your targeting, it probably makes more sense to focus on networking than any sort of recruiter.

That said, I saw quite a range when I went through Triplebyte a bit more than a year ago.

I wound up at a company making 3D printers, which has (temporarily) semi-pivoted to make lots and lots of (clinically validated) NP swabs for COVID testing. So social good can show up in a lot of places :)
>Another thing is that people don't take ergonomics into account. Pretty much any sci-fi movie has people moving their arms about to interact with content. That would never take off in real life.

Why do you believe this to be the case? I've been having a blast with the (fully wireless) Oculus Quest, especially games like Racket NX which involve constant swinging of arms (you're playing tennis, basically).
Does it have RSS?
Some books that helped me:

- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

- Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

- Indistractable by Nir Eyal

- Mastery by Robert Greene
80% of my clients run the same "master" version while 20% have minor customization's specific to their organization.

I don't want to end up maintaining 20 different applications, but being able to do minor modifications to the UI or data model on a per customer basis has been a nice selling point.
"but I am seeing SO MANY PEOPLE ignoring sensible, low-effort preventive guidelines"

That's selection bias, though. You don't see the vast majority of people barely going out.
I think they went through a middle phase of cutesy naming, but this seems to have subsided some (to the good).

Simple Queuing Service, Simple Storage Service, Elastic Compute Cloud, SimpleDB are names that very much make sense. Greengrass, Lightsail, not so much. EKS, Outpost, Ground Station, and Lake Formation are more toward the usefully descriptive side again, I think.
Sheryl Sandberg wants males to "lean in", assume a more cooperative role.

But then she actively supports the most divisive platform in history. A perfect dismount in her mental gymnastic routine.
Both of the setups I'm familiar with run multiple application servers on the same "iron" (EC2 clusters), with shared services (database servers, caches, routing, load balancing, etc).

Monitoring, backup, ELK, New Relic etc are global, or shared among sets of clusters depending on the specifics.

I agree that 12 containerized services per customer seems like a headache. The applications I have experience with run fewer components, and they are mostly shared among clusters.
I can see how the PDP-11 would have been a great machine to ease you into 6502 assembler. We used an actual PDP-11 in my assembly class in college, long outdated even then, because it has a super clean architecture, and the assembly language reflected that.
Thanks for the input! I'm not sure how long you've been away for, but it sounds like quite some time.

If you did it for 3 months, I can see it being difficult, but it seems to me a year or two would be enough to get into a new rhythm in your new place. Just like moving anywhere else.

We already go out of town fairly frequently; seems we're away from home at least 1 weekend a month if not 2 or more. During ski season it's quite common for us to go shopping friday night, procure a weekend's worth of groceries, and then live off of those for the weekend.

I wouldn't plan to work on the weekends, it would just be living life, but in a different place, and with the ability to travel when we want to.

The secondary option of working remotely for a week, then vacationing in that 'remote' place for a week, then going home, would involve no work during the second week, and no 'fun' during the first. Other than seeking out new places in the evenings. I've done enough of that when traveling on business already, to know I'm pretty happy with it.
I am a big fan of 3D and still use my 3D TV. You can also view 3D blu rays in VR. That generation of technology wasn't great for a lot of people, or extended use, unfortunately.
>edit: still an immature tech

If there was a Nobel Prize for understatement, this comment would take it hands down.

New "breakthroughs" in battery energy density are a dime a dozen. They're proving incredibly difficult to bring to commercial viability, and there's no evidence that that's going to change.
Some lesser known features of C++20
I just found the article odd; it starts off by declaring the behaviour of cpp to be objectionable, but then it just lists different aspects of its actions. At no point does the OP complain that cpp is doing the wrong thing - indeed, they point out in several places that it couldn't really be changed to do anything else because either it would break existing code, or would be just as odd if it behaved in another way. So I'm wondering just what it was they were scandalized about? I'm not demanding that they fix cpp themselves!

At least the child told people that the emperor was wearing no clothes; a more apt analogy with this article would be as if the child merely said "that's scandalous!" without telling anyone about the missing clothes...
The new surf game in Microsoft Edge
Supercomputer simulates the impact of the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs
Compiling for Z Machine version 3
a little datapoint that she might not be a bad growth marketer then.
Source code to Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure
These are crypto mining schemes, though. This looks a lot more like run of the mill money making cybercrime than espionage - I don't think any nation state would be interested in outing themselves for a pittance in bitcoin.
I'm trying to imagine the kind of org that uses MongoDB and has someone on the ethical board with enough technical knowledge to understand the difference between sql and nosql and at the same time believe that nosql can't hold structured data, and that data for an analysis that probably won't have more than some megabytes must be put in a specific-purpose database instead of being consumed as CSV, a format this same person appears to be familiar with.

I mean, what a weird combination of tech (un)savviness
“Wanting the Internet to be 4chan forever” is a political label? Watching anime is fine by me, I’ve enjoyed the hell out of a lot of the stuff in my time.

I run a Masto instance and I am just speaking from my experience in what shows up in the tags where us admins share block recommendations; there are bad actors using Masto too! I defederated from a Masto instance just this morning after seeing its admin aggressively escalate a conflict with well-practiced speed. One of those pops up about every six months. Pleromae where the admin encourages escalating conflicts and wears an anime girl icon are a constant feature of the block suggestion tags.
> This shouldn’t matter to the company and shouldn’t have any impact on how they value the employee.

Your mistake is thinking that compensation is solely based on how much they value the employee. Companies only need to pay enough to outbid the competition, and the amount of competition for workers is a lot higher some places than others.

Think of it in basic supply and demand terms - the amount that a company "values" an employee only reflects the demand curve; the other half the equation is the supply curve, i.e. how much a company has to pay to beat out the competition and persuade employees to work for them because all the other options are worse. The supply curves are shifted right in LCOL areas, which drives the equilibrium prices down.
Better optimize then for haircuts. How many haircuts can we trade for one death? Haircuts are so much more important that we should accept some number of deaths so that people can get their haircuts. What's this number to you? Callousness doesn't even begin to address the stupidity of this argument.
The crater may not be as colossal as I imagined, but the ground lifted a lot going out a long way. I’d imagine that anything with spinning disks would be quite sad even when quite far away.
Good to know : You can only paste parts of the token and it will decode it without any problem. I always leave the signature part out of it when I use this tool.
>Word analysis, writing clarity, readability, and sentiment analysis of the text will be available shortly.

What languages will this support? I'm interested in Spanish, I only use English for chatting with people online and commenting on forums.
The profit maximizing (shareholder value) argument is fairly recent.

At many other times, the concentration of wealth, and therefore power, was identified as a problem and actively mitigated. For example, the founding fathers of the USA were quite anti corporate and actions like the Boston Tea Party were explicitly so.
Delores Source Code Released
Sorry to hear that. Please take care.

And that's an important point about regression. For me good habits tend to break after about 2 weeks of non-compliance. Then it often ends up being months or even years before getting back on track. At which point it's like starting over.
I don't think this makes sense. It works off of assumptions that are clearly untrue.
1. Consequences of language on the internet are equal to that in person
2. Networking effects

For 1. If somebody on the street comes up to you and says "hey I'm going to come beat up your family." At a bare minimum, the cops are being called and it is somewhat taken seriously. On the internet though, it is a reality for many people (especially women) that there are no consequences for such horrible language and communication. Also, people make different decisions in real life when it comes to certain types of language. I don't just go around swearing like in real life, but people are way more offensive on the internet. There are physical realities that don't map to the internet, that causes different communication patterns on the internet.

For 2. When it comes to spreading disinformation through idiots sharing links to each other, the effect is much more pronounced than when a conspiracy theorists goes out to a street corner and starts shouting ideas at people or has a million signs. Its clear in the latter case they might have a few screws loose, however in the former, everybody's "opinion" seems equal, but we can't use our other senses to vet them and b/c communication is slow/unclear on the internet, we also can't have a protracted conversation to figure out what their ideas are and where they come from (something you can easily do in person). This then causes really bad ideas to spread because people have lots of connections on facebook and there is no good way of vetting people or ideas.

The idea to not be "paternalistic" only makes sense if you think that communication in person is equivalent in every way to in person communication, which is fundamentally untrue. The only reason they don't do this is b/c they don't know how to solve this problem for N countries generically and don't want to be held liable for a policy that makes sense in country A, but not in B and causes potential legal issues.
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Heroku is my go-to for spinning up a quick stack with minimal effort. Their free-tier is pretty powerful. It's mainly for POC-type work so if you're trying to launch something into production, you will most likely need to switch to a paid plan or a different platform / solution.
http://iconicmath.com

We probably haven't come up with the best visual abstractions yet, eh?
You've never seen a textbook present the series form of e^x?

exp(x) = summation(x^n/n!, n=0, inf)

exp(0) = 1 is perfectly valid but the identity above only holds for x=0 only if we define 0^0 = 1. And we do!

Fair, infinite series are pretty esoteric. How about derivatives. The power rule:

d/dx x^n = n x^(n-1)

This identity doesn't hold for n = 1 and x = 0 unless 0^0 = 1.

Eh maybe not, programmers don't use calculus that often. But surely statistics!

(1 + x)^n = summation((n choose k)x^k, k=0, n)

Take x = 0 and n = 0

(1 + x)^n = (1 + 0)^0 = 1 = 0^0 = x^0 = x^0 + ... + x^n

0^0 is undefined in general but locally we sometimes need to define it.
> you could chat with a Facebook friend from your Google Hangouts account

This was never true. There was an XMPP-speaking endpoint into Facebook's proprietary chat system, but it wasn't a S2S XMPP implementation and never federated with anything. It was useful for using FBChat in Adium or Pidgin, but not for talking to GChat XMPP users.
I think NYT has set a decent example with how to deal with internet comments sections. I like the idea of a US House of Representatives type approach to comments where every person in the house is given an equal amount of time to address the house so you can hear all perspectives.

The way NYT has done this is by introducing "Featured Comments". A team at NYT, presumably ideologically diverse, picks insightful features to highlight out of all comments. You can still view comments sorted by number of recommendations, but they default to the Featured Comments.

The web forum I think needs this more than any else is the r/politics subreddit of Reddit. Someone please let me know their experience, but I don't think the comments on highly upvoted content are insightful at all. A lot seek to exacerbate and misrepresent which IMO adds fuel to the flames of the flame wars.
It's not hard to put a button. And not putting one (and still collecting the resulting data) is against the law in several places around the world.

Trust me, if you have a gigabit fiber connection like mine, you would notice that their results are way, way off the mark. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314368
Yeah, Auth0 is doing a good job hiding it, seems they are not super hyped about the website being open source.
When people here tell you that you're wrong, they tend to do it with style.

One time I made a comment about how dividends affect stock price and someone spent like 2 hours writing a program in R to do some analysis just to prove me wrong.
Of course, it's hard to assign blame without looking at how "extremist groups" are defined and at whether the recommendation tools do good as well as harm.
I call this the "outrage economy". There are several companies (facebook, twitter, reddit, youtube, etc) that grew based on user activity of varying types. The more bickering and polarization, the bigger X Company gets and need to hire more employees and get more funding, and that feeds into more growth. There is also a secondary economy built on or used by these original companies (software tooling, ad software, legal, clickbait, etc). We now have a big chunk of the economy feeding pointless bickering.
I tend to be skeptical that "$x but better" is a viable business in the VC era or maybe on the internet at all. On the internet, where publishing is easy, but distribution is hard, it seems like there's already a natural tendency toward winner-takes-all. Execution matters somewhat, but at some point, I think it comes down to who can throw more capital at the problem.

I'm interested in this problem space, because current social media tools leave me somewhat dissatisfied. But I'm also skeptical about how you'd build it successfully.
The Verge has an unpaywalled story; https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio...
I just wanted to say that's awesome and you're my hero. :-)
Where States’ Rainy Day Funds Stand as We Debate Bailouts
There are a lot of sources to read, including follow-up papers by other teams that evaluate if Facebook had "informed consent" (they did not) to emotionally manipulate their users.

https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+paper+emotionally+m...
I can see how that can be a problem. I run MySQL but other commenters said that Postgres has "schemas" which appear to be more similar to MySQL's "databases".

In the same way I thought you meant the query result cache, not the query plan cache. In my experience query planning hasn't been a significant bottleneck, but that's got to be workload dependent.
I don't believe that exhibit is still in the museum. It wasn't there when I was there in the fall.

Still a fantastic museum to checkout.
I moved from Digital Ocean to Hetzner for my personal VPSes recently.

One of the reasons was that Hetzner assigns ipv6 addresses in /64 blocks.

Rent an ipv6 enabled vps: get a /64.

Rent an additional "floating ip": get a /64.
Artemisinin is an antimalarial drug derived from a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat fevers, including malaria. First discovered and isolated in 1972.

St. John's Wort started out as alternative medicine but is now officially approved and prescribed for treating depression in many European countries -- I believe this got started in the 1990s.

I think this kind of thing is quite rare in medicine, though. Whereas it's not hard to find stuff that was done by AI researchers that somehow no longer counts as AI.
Psychopaths often excuse their behavior by saying that if they don't take advantage of others, someone else will do it instead.
but she choose the title ... are you saying we should tell her what to write or what to call herself or what she should think?
It will have Spanish! We're starting with English, and Spanish is the next one.
Same here. I often joke that I should keep this one posted at my desk. It helps remind me to walk away.
How? My Kindle's quite old (4th gen, I think), it doesn't even support epub files. (I convert epubs to mobi to use on it.)

As far as I know, you can't use the ACSM files Amazon on it. I can't convert them to anything because Adobe hasn't released a version of Digital Editions for my operating system.

Technically, I could set up a Windows vm. But requiring a customer to use a particular OS to read a friggin' book is lunacy.
Making Technological Miracles
So Flink differentiates in stream processing in two major ways:

- Flink guarantees exactly once stream processing through a barrier checkpointing system.

- Flink has very detailed APIs for handling state and doing stateful stream processing.

Additionally, Flink has one of the most active communities in the Apache Software Foundation: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-softwar...

In situations where you want to create a streaming application with persistent state you might choose Flink over spark streaming.
This is a great baseline for the units answer.
Have you seen a PDP-11? It probably weighs closer to a tank than anything produced by SGI. You wouldn't be lifting a PDP-11 without equipment: it would be the size of a refrigerator or 2.
Books are different, therefore you can't offer people an easy, simple, convenient ebook store that doesn't screw you over with excess prices and proprietary windows-only software and DRM? Yeah, with that kind of attitude it's kinda hard to compete with Z-lib or whatever. Just like with games. Torrenting used to be too damn convenient compared to all the legal offering, because the legal offers were just crap.

The problem isn't that illegal channels are too easy, the problem is that the legal channels are (seemingly deliberately) terrible. That's exactly what prompted the blog post we're commenting on, and that's what also keeps me from buying e-books.
If the keyboard was set to Hebrew then the subdomain would also be spelled out in the wrong characters, so the URL would be nonsense or go to a different site. Additionally, as people mentioned, the standard Hebrew layout is incompatible with QUERTY (I am a Hebrew speaker and have never heard of the phonetic Hebrew layout you linked to). Also when you type the URL the characters would be spelled out in the oppose right-to-left direction as .com.
Facts:

1 - one of the two incidences reported (#EGI2020512) targeted academic data centers "for unknown purposes" (https://csirt.egi.eu/academic-data-centers-abused-for-crypto...) and not necessarily crypto currency mining.

2 - IP addresses associated with that second attack were all assigned to a Chinese University (Shanghai Jiaotong University), CSTNET and one Polish host known to be compromised by someone from China.
It doesn't address all of those, but if you visit https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions it looks like it's still just a reverse chronological list of videos from your subscriptions.
A Writer’s Stability: From Tragedy to Opportunity
Maybe that is, but one can think of a number of ways for ISPs to work around that. Quick thought: if the ISP is also your DNS resolver (which is the default for most people), check if there been a query for fast.com and if so, stop the throttling for five minutes. After those minutes, start throttling again.
The unpredictability of a message is a measure of its information content.
Updated: https://archive.md/FyTDB
I love this discussion and want to throw in my two cents. Why not teach beginning students group theory as the foundation to addition and subtraction?

While it wouldn't solve this particular problem since fractions require fields, it would give teachers the tools to explain precisely why addition of two tables is not a group or field operation; they are from different sets and require measurement with units to define a new inclusive set.

My own understanding of arithmetic and algebra was enhanced immensely by a book outlining the derivation from Peano axioms.

Ultimately the concepts are very simple and kids intuitively do the steps without having the names for the mental processes that they're doing. The educational hurdles to me seem to be 1) identifying the memorized names of the sequence of natural numbers with a procedure for generating them; 2) distinguishing between procedures, objects, numerals, and numbers; 3) basics of set theory; 4) natural induction.
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The anti-Mongo hype is as much hype as the Mongo hype IMHO.