skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The same thing happens on Stack Overflow. On both sites I've use Ublock Origin to block all scores. All of them. [...] But, I honestly believe the world would be a much better place without this gamification and I believe that HN and Stack Overflow and Reddit and all the rest are acting irresponsibly by having these features.

Not sure if you're talking more more about "user profile scores" vs "comment scores" but I'll speak about the usefulness of upvotes/downvotes: it helps readers save time by seeing the most likely interesting reply first. E.g. Stackoverflow would be much less useful if I couldn't rely on "wisdom of the crowd" to rank the various answers on my behalf. Usually, the best answers are at the top and the worst buggy answers are at the bottom.

I lived through the old computer discussion forums without scores such as USENET, Compuserve, etc, and the lack of ranking wasted more of my reading time than Reddit/HN.

In the marketplace of ideas, discussion forums with scoring/ranking work better when contributors are anonymous because you can't rely on non-text signals such as reputation/integrity/competency.

You don't need scoring when every participant's identity is known such as Slack channel of business colleagues. Hopefully, the previous bar for getting hired in the first place at the company means one is typing worthwhile things for coworkers to read.
TBH you had those in your pocket too if you were a rich low-middle tier CEO: Pocket PC's, minus BT and the GPS; altough some hybrid models existed.
Thats the point. They want equity, not equality.
four million parts, and one whistleblower.

Let's not forget https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/a380-whist...
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Terraform is a bit of a straw man here.

OP was talking about code reviews and testing. He did mention infra as code but not TF specifically.
He didn’t say it was a startup with 5 months runway (aka a soon to be dead company?)

TF is like Typescript: if you already know it why not use it? If you have to learn it on the job at a high pressure startup then maybe not. Not clear he is working at a startup or just a regular old company
That's not what I meant. I'm saying the absence of any political statement at all makes one the enemy to the writer of this javascript mailing list.
I visited the Saint-Nazaire factory two years ago. It's absolutely amazing how you go by dozens of A320, and just at the end of the tour we went by the massive A380. The difference in size at ground level is stunning.
Zurich resident also here. I don't believe behaviour changed much. I see a small minority of people wearing masks. In the entire course of the epidemic one person looked at me annoyed for daring to be outside, nobody has ever crossed the street or taken steps to avoid me or my partner as we walked outside.

The mask wearers look rather foolish because the data is by now very clear that this is no worse than any other year's flu. It's just not a dangerous disease. The hype is illusory, the models were wrong. The barriers in restaurants and perspex in supermarkets is as far as it goes and even that looks over the top.

as luck would have it, outside infections seem to play almost no epidemiological role

But is it luck? Or is it that the Swiss people reached the correct conclusions much faster than the supposed experts advising the world? As you say, the behaviour was correct, and the moment the similarities in behaviour to other common viruses became apparent, that wasn't irrational.

I wish masks were mandatory on public transport, though.

Please no. Virtually nobody has been doing this and cases have now hit zero anyway so why would it have ever mattered? When will we learn that practically every piece of supposedly expert advice during this pandemic has been wrong? The wisdom of the crowds is far better here than the wisdom of the academics.
HN has the built in "noprocrast" setting which I use and appreciate. They admit it's addicting and give me the tools to limit myself.
It happens me every day: I just start to type while still in command mode, and then have to press "u" a couple of times.

(But ok, thats maybe just me - thought this is a common experience, and I just wouldn't like to sit behind a pilot doing the same...)
Also fertilizer.

Methane is a primary input for nitrogen fertilizers.

(arguably the input, as the nitrogen comes from air, which (obviously) is readily and abundantly available.)
> I was exploring emoji reactions yesterday while my Android contact admitted the feature was not yet available for his device.

That's weird? Do you mean this feature: https://signal.org/blog/reactions/?

I'm on Android, and it's been available to me for ages...
The saddest thing, personally, is I agree, made resolution to consume less media, was going to commit to some fairly radical life changes (that I wanted to try, knowing full well there is a reasonably high chance of failure) - but then the pandemic hit. Possibilities have gone, jobs are harder to change, staying inside glued to screens has become even easier to justify. Alas.
Money laundering is often used as an explanation for seemingly bad business, but often it doesn't make any sense. Why would you send a pizza to a person who didn't order it and who will not pay? You can make fake orders without actually delivering any pizza. Actually producing and delivering the pizza is only expense and will increase the risk of attracting attention for specious orders (as in this article). If you really need to deliver an actual pizza for some reason, why not to a friend or relative rather than a random person?
Given that you're able to use the Desktop app without your phone even being on, I'm not sure how they'd even be able to do that.

I can use e.g. KDE Connect when my phone is on to send SMS messages from my desktop, but then they won't appear in Signal, unfortunately.
Don't need to be suspicious. He's definitely inspired by nick land et al. the current reigning intellectual fascist and king accelerationist.

https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1187046976950587398

And if you need any further proof of where this guy's at politically: https://i.imgur.com/LvaK31Z.png . 1 is essentially an antisemitic dogwhistle meme and 2 is sort of self explanatory.
That reminds me of a quote from Kurt Tucholsky: “Sociology was invented so people could write without experience”. A crisp way to summarize your point. Although I don't think that sociology can't be better than that.
Your link is also excellent!

I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs.

In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-like things.
In the algorithm implemented the search key is matched against all rows in the database. There is no short circuit evaluation and there cannot be... you cannot compare an encrypted value to a plaintext value and know they are equivalent without decrypting it first (which the server-side cannot do). This is true even for writing the code to do the search since you cannot do and if style comparison on encrypted values to break out of a loop. In the example, each value stored in the database is compared to the encrypted search term producing a partial result that is itself encrypted and meaningless to the server side. Once ALL value rows have been searched, the partial results (all those encrypted meaningless things) of all those comparisons are combined to yield a single encrypted result which is returned to the user that initiated the search. That result is then decrypted. There is no leakage because ALL code paths and all data must be evaluated for the program every time. However, from what I gather, the database can be shattered across multiple backend servers and each subset could be searched in parallel for a speedup for a practical deployment.
It's a good place to work. As with any large enterprise, there's quite some politics going on between org units and teams, but my direct managers are committed to shielding the team from most of it so that we can stay productive.

As for whether SAP software is "impossibly hard to manage and develop for", I cannot comment on it much since I'm working in cloud infrastructure, so I'm mostly dealing with Docker, Kubernetes, Openstack, etc.

I've seen a bit of SAP software, and IMO a good way to think about it is that an SAP system is kind of like a separate operating system. It's a completely different world. And just like I (a Unix guy) would be completely lost if you asked me to manage a Windows Server system or develop for it, same with the SAP system.

Most people only ever learn to use it in the same way most people who come in contract are only users with no deep admin/dev knowledge. So the question is if you can find someone who has deep-enough knowledge of the system to implement or configure what you need.

That's hard especially for the kernel. If you're running Linux, it's not that hard to hire someone with kernel development experience. For the SAP kernel, it's next to impossible. All these guys work for SAP.
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It also works without templates:

auto add(int a, int b){
return a + b;
}

But yes there's usually less reason to do it for a normal function.
This caters to a very specific audience though. This particular concept while labelled suckless sounds like hell to me.

To change a config I need to recompile stuff? Jikes

To each their own though. I can see how this could work well if one invested a mountain of time into learning & fine-tuning it all
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I think ironically I’d be more shy to use this than a physical ping pong room. Not sure why though, but I think it’s the lack of a real life space and lack of an agenda combined. Maybe I’d get use to it.
And then some server vendors insist on on doing some out of bound interrupts from their management engines, which introduce odd latency spikes that are hard to debug.
Totally agree with you.

Given the title I expected to find an interesting article on what can go wrong if we overly rely on quantitative methods in the humanities. But this article doesn't distinguish between badly-applied quantitative methods and where the limits of those methods are even if they are executed well.

For example:

> We look at instances where the effect exists and posit a cause—and forget all the times the exact same cause led to no visible effect, or to an effect that was altogether different

This just sounds to me like bad quantitative modelling.

There is a huge argument to be made for qualitative research, and there is much-needed criticism of the idea that "hard" methods are more valuable than "soft" methods. I think this article manages neither.
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First class passengers get 30 minutes, including 5 minutes of running water. You can see videos of it on YouTube.
agreed. I recently removed Signal and started using xmpp (again). It'll always be there (Signal probably won't) and getting a friend to install conversations.im and register a name on a public server is not much harder than getting someone to install Signal. To me it somehow feels like it's a good time for xmpp
>Or maybe just use them responsibly?

This isn't a personal responsibility thing. Personal responsibility goes out the window when companies are spending hundreds of millions on research and design to keep you "engaged" (see addicted).
Humanities may not be a science, but being human sure is empirical.

Experience is all we have.

At the bottom of all of these bouts is then “demarcation problem”. What is a science, what isn’t a science?

I prefer Paul Fayerabend’s view: if it is useful To somebody somewhere - it is a science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchism
I get that people enjoy very minimalist computer experiences, but startup time is hardly that different between these programs and other slightly more ergonomic programs which offer conveniences like a config file.

If you look at my startup time for my system it goes something like this:

10s - waiting for monitor to wake up to pick OS at dual boot menu

15s - typing disk encryption password

15s - system uses disk encryption password to retrieve LUKS key

5s - Literally the entirety of my OS and window manager and autostart programs beginning.

I use i3 for my window manager, which manages to launch instantly, and alt-enter launches alacritty for my terminal, which also launches instantly. But even heavier terminals like xfce4-terminal launch very quickly. These programs are lightweight sure, but they don't need to be recompiled for configuration and have some ergonomics. I don't see the marginal benefit of maybe 4s at boot time being worth that hassle.
Seems like having to use a bunch of popular patches is counter to the author's other praises about how simple and minimal the software is. Why doesn't upstream integrate them and let everyone use them without having to patch?
Yes, great point. A space engineer can feel super inadequate when it comes to systems thinking (since she/he is surrounded by geniuses) but a smart barista can feel like a 5 on the 1 to 5 scale. (Of course the barista might be better than the space engineer, but you get my point).

I've been called in to an extra meeting with my future employers because my answers on one of those. I mean, I'm pretty analytical (I'm doing my PhD in engineering this fall) however I didn't give myself top score on that (and a lot other metrics) as I know people who are a lot more analytical etc than me. After working in that company for a few years (and quit) I realize I should have maxed out on many of those metrics, but all in all its so much bias involved in those questionnaires - and I don't think the people working them are realizing that. At least most of them don't.

And that is without going into the skewing of these questions. Yes I can be motivated to do a good job without answering like this job is the most important task in my life behind breathing and in front of eating.
Regulators have said this is going to be challenging to do in court because laws currently are focused on the consumer in a very dollars and cents kind of way.

As many have mentioned below, this will increase cost to consumers because there is an inherent connection between price and economies of scale. This is why so many startups (and their backers) are willing to lose money on every sale for the first decade to build dominance.

Now, if politicians are going to fight to raise prices for their constituents, they need a strong argument that will convince Joe Sixpack it needs to be done.

I challenge anyone here to describe the benefit for the average American in a politically feasible way (many of whom are struggling to pay bills, struggling to affordhealth care for their children, or dealing with drug addiction and racism, etc.)
The photons from the screen are real.

Everything else is conjecture. If I look back at photos I've taken, I can conjecture that they appear to be an accurate record of what I was seeing when I took them, and that no one has surreptitiously hacked my phone and altered them. If I look at a photo of a grandson posted by my daughter, I can reasonably conjecture that it is also a faithful facsimile of his appearance at that time and place. If I look at a video of a third person posted by my niece, there is zero assurance that it represents reality.

So the default position has to be that the colored dots are for entertainment only, and not to be taken seriously, unless there is some valid reason to believe otherwise.
Well for creating bindings, Rust's bindgen falls short. The fact that you need to play around and switch on flags to properly recognise variables, macros and functions over a .h only for generating the FFI layer, it is just harder to maintain, even when updating the library.

Swift's ClangImporter does this automatically in the language via clang modules, unlike Rust's bindgen.
Yeah I picked up that the author was alt right when he started talking about "walks in the countryside" like you cant take a nice calm walk in any other setting. This comes to us from the Internet Research Agency's official handbook and style guide. I'm honestly surprised he didn't say to marry a blonde 18 year old and walk in a wheat field with her.
Probably this one? https://roadmap.sh/ I have seen it few times last year, so could be. Although I would say it lacks the part of 'practising algorithms'.
How encrypted and private is the encrypted data in such systems?

When I looked at encrypted databases, the real ones, not the encrypted at rest databases, I read comments saying that the crypto was relatively too weak to have any use outside research. That it is a neat research topic, it will be great eventually, but it's not ready for production.

So I went with the classic and simple solution : encrypt with aes256gcm, and decrypt and reencrypt if I manipulate the data.

Does a system like cingulata offers encryption as strong or better than aes256gcm?
Yep, nominate Thomas Sowell to the Reddit board and see what happens!
Modern western society - and maybe others, I really only know the west - has built what must be one of the most powerful abstracting bubbles ever for separating people from the real world. For a wealthy westerner - if you don't want to know how your food is grown - you don't have to know. If you don't want to know how your shirt is made - you don't need to know. Don't want to know about the political systems that are keeping the world ticking over? Don't need to know.

Anyone who is in a position earning more than ~$60k/annum can be totally isolated from the real if they want to be and all their problems start becoming social ones, except disease and the grim spectre of eventual death. Even then we're starting to abstract away disease as well - look at how the wheels fell off politically when disease popped through the walls of the bubble on a mass scale. Been a long time since that sort of threat has been meaningful (maybe AIDS in the 80s?).

Good luck, in both sarcasm but also all sincerity, convincing people in that robust of a bubble that there are real problems that need to be fixed. People have no north star to fix a direction. They won't be able to organise anything in reality; they'll get caught up on social problems.
Why don’t our tools do the hard work for us?

This is the main appeal of Rust to me.

I get error messages that contain the word "perhaps" with a gentle suggestion on what I might have wanted here instead. Quite often it's correct.
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like dropping ICMP replies on firewalls. idiotic because it gives a very false sense of security. it's been a useless "security" practice since the 90s.
I feel mazes are a nice hello world project for learning a new programming language. I made one in JavaScript last month when I was setting up a personal web site. I added a maze to the 404 page to show how truly lost you are when you end up there. It is the most interesting page on my web site so far.

https://www.schaap.io/404.html
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Love Vermont. Makes me want to head up to Sunset Ridge for a hike ;)

By coincidence, I happened to be researching algorithms for generating 3D meshes from height maps for procedural terrain generation. While it looks like the classical Delaunay trianglization remains the best strategy. I wonder if the high fidelity of next gen sensor data will uncover new techniques. Most PCG techniques employ pretty noisy maps and never quite look "real".

Fast Polygonal Approximation of Terrains And Height Fields (1995)

http://mgarland.org/files/papers/scape.pdf
I agree and disagree. I think the voting system as a tool to weigh the quality of the questions and responses is a good implementation. That does not (as far as I can tell) require publishing people's scores, ranks etc. I think that's where the toxicity happens.

I faced the same issue for myself on HN...I started obsessing over my very underwhelming score. Here's how I dealt with it:

1. I intentionally forgot my old account password so I wouldn't be able to log into it (there was no way to delete the account on HN at the time...still??)
2. whenever I had the urge to respond (which is maybe 1/100 of what it was when I had an active account), I sign up with a throwaway and make sure I enter a password that I won't remember in 5 minutes.
3. I log out and go back to my life.
You can see it happening already with Trump's recent flagged tweet having its likes, replies and retweets Disabled.

That's how society has evolved when a Norm is violated specifically in the public square you get thrown in the Drunk Tank for a night to sober up.
thanks just saw it now
The latter is more like it. It is a case where you want something computed, like the sum of your paychecks over the last year, Or some credit card risk evaluation thing, or if you have markers for cancer in your genome data based on your personal information. Instead of sending these values to the server (perhaps encrypting in flight) where they are processed in plaintext (open to malicious intent on the server-side, or honest-but-curious folks who mine your sensitive personal information) the values, you upload remain encrypted so only you know what they mean. However the cloud side can sum them, perform threshold evaluations, search for things, determine fitness for a loan etc, without knowing anything, they go through the motions of the computation for you, but without being able to decipher anything about the computation result at any step along the way. Then when the server-side is done, it has computed whatever you asked it to do, but knows nothing. The server side reliably and deterministically manipulated symbols in a language it cant read. As it turns out, you can, so when the encrypted server-side results are sent back, you decrypt them and understand if you have been approved or have genetic markers for cancer or something.
Patent on displaying SQL data in HTML, granted to IBM in 1998
> suckless tools having their configuration baked into the executable at compile time, they start up instantly

I wonder how many milliseconds slower the startup of a C application will be, when it reads a config file from SSD first.
Replacing the chromium apt with an empty package installing a random self-updating snap. In other words, pinning a specific chromium version, for example for selenium automation, is now broken.
The Battle for Public Space Plays Out in Trump’s Backyard
A very complex story from 15 years ago. There haven’t been many depressurisation incidents on the A380 and like they say in the article, why would they cover this up? Maybe the whistleblower really is just a disgruntled employee.
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