skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper is dense with ideas and 70 pages long, had I found it the minute it was posted, I still would not have been done reading through it and understanding its contents by the time you posted your comment. And I just don't have that kind of time to spend when I'm browsing hacker news.

Considering this is also a "news" site, I would guess a lot of people (I know I do) simply browse it quickly to keep an eye on the technical landscape as well as for ideas for future technical exploration.

I think if you want engagement on "non-scannable" pieces like this one, you would be better served by a sort of "book club" system, where people can submit long-form content and vote on it to pick one for discussion a week later. This seems like a cool idea actually. Might have to play with it.
This reminds me of the Fontus bike water bottle (that didn't end well)
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fontus-the-self-filling-w...

Whilst it doesn't seem very cost effective - I imagine it's quite a good marketing gimmick for 'eco' bottled water?
It's nice that AWS services tend to do one thing.

But it does sometimes mean that there's always just one more AWS service you need. One more service with a different web console UI, varied support in the different infrastructure tools... and now we have another one of those.

All I seem to do these days is AWS infrastructure, sometimes as code. I'm not sure one more new tool is going to improve that.
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I recently had an A-ha moment when I realized that the problem I was trying to solve admitted a simple solution with dynamic programming, something I had never used outside programming competitions.

The problem was to divide a text into a number of tweets to make it a thread, with the obvious constraint that no tweet should have more than 280 characters, but you still wanted to minimize some cost based on how far your tweets were from 280 chars and where you divided them (e.g., dividing after a full stop is better than after a comma, which is better than between two works, which is way better than midword).

With a reasonable cost function, this really seems a textbook dynamic programming example (possibly much more credible than the entering-a-treasure-cave-with-a-rucksack story).
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I moved to the bay from Australia and I thought everyone was being sarcastic for a long time. The use of "quite" to mean "very good" not "passive aggressive barely enough", and how people talk up their accomplishments also came up.

Made me really appreciate how hard it must be to come here from a culture that is actually very different (inc language), and not just a few small idiosyncrasies.
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> How much brownfield work have you done?

4-11 years depending on exactly what you'd define as "brownfield"

> People can hide the fact that they have a big ball of mud fir a very long time, and they only want to talk about improvement after hunts have gotten miserable.

True but beside the point. The same point stands: you can always find a way to make a worthwhile improvement in two weeks - something that's useful on its own, even if it's also the first step of a much bigger improvement plan.
Thanks! :) I will take a look.
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AI recommendations is something for bored people in my opinion. Sure, you may stumble upon content you would not have considered, but the examples people tend to bring up aren't too convincing.

Some might think that showing depressed people some cute dog pics would lighten them up, but that isn't how it works. On the contrary, the expectations towards themselves to be happy can be counterproductive.

I believe this is the crux of the matter, since social media tends to load people with expectations, depression or not and advertisers try to use this handle to promoted their products.

If a site would try to "transfer positive emotions" I would be seriously concerned. Humans don't even know what content would be best for an individual. How would you train an AI? From resonance of other users? No, that leaves out a lot of context.

But I still don't think AI curators should be regulated, because the quality of regulation would certainly be horrible.
Which Chinese military operations are you referring to?
It's not a threat to national security. Unfortunately Congress has given the President the power to do pretty much whatever he wants for whatever reason with regard to immigration enforcement.

The Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president authority to do whatever he wants:

> "Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants..."
> A shrinking, aging population would fix this problem. The demand for labor will go up, the supply will go down. Bad for the investor class looking for profits, good for reducing economic inequality. People will be able to profit from labor again.

An economy exists to fulfill human needs of various kinds-- making stuff, providing services, etc. Old people intensively consume (medical services, etc) and don't produce anymore. Getting too high of a ratio of old people therefore has some impacts beyond equilibrium labor prices.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/tgANJ
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This is true. A lot of folks are disgustingly bad at parenting and then expect eternal love. It does not work like that.
> But, crucially, Google claiming the request was invalid does not make it invalid; that's for the DPA to decide.

Except apparently the DPA requires google to decide. And hits them with a hefty fine if they pick the wrong answer. I believe this is the point being made in the thread. Google suffers all the risk.
Astute observation, but given the fact that we also seem to be seeing an increase in fatherless/split families (indicating poor choice in parenting partners and decisions) it's not likely to simply see-saw back in necessarily healthy ways.
There is, lots of lawsuits under false claims act and related (unfair competition under Lanham act is a big one as well)
It's because people who were forced out of work by COVID-19 need to support themselves right now, not go back to school. It's not because "orange man bad."
I never understood why all that stuff wasn't also committed to the same repository. History is history, whether it's source code or talk about source code.

Of course it could also be in a database thingy for querying and stuff.

Some people say it is because Github wants to lock you in. I don't really believe that, but I am equally sure they don't mind if you lock yourself in.
Typical hack is the use of silicate (sand lime) bricks then just covering it with a thin veneer of standard brick for the look. Works well.

These are bonded with poured concrete not mortar if they have the vertical holes, and much less than baked clay brick. Rather good material.

The K-brick here seems redundant. Might be a slight improvement, perhaps, though lime is useful for its CO2 and NO capture.
Serious thought/question: I think everyone can agree that reproduction is how you advance your gene pool to the next stage of the human species. Does this mean people who don't want kids are effectively weeding themselves out? And is this somehow a function of survival of the fittest (or natural selection) in action?
Since the whole article is about containers, I assumed they were using VM as shorthand for a container.
Literally, none of the above in my case. I don't use iCloud, no purchased music or videos, and 'brew' is my app-store. I could switch to Linux in a heartbeat, and probably will, with my next hardware upgrade. But in the meantime, Apple keep me on their platform by providing superlative replacement service.
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I have another data point. A dear friend died last month, after about two weeks in hospice. She had no children, but she did live in a large cohousing community. We did our best to manage visitors, but sometimes there were 5-10 people waiting to spend time with her. Which stressed the staff, and annoyed other residents.

So anyway, children aren't the only path.
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There's been some - see e.g. FTC v Adam Bowser

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Have you even explored Earth? You will never run out of places to explore in your lifetime. Your post reads like someone who doesn't go outside and thinks they've exhausted the Earth because they've been to a couple of theme parks in North America.

Have you ever been to a densely populated area? You seem to think it will be more interesting. I speak to fewer people in cities than I do in the countryside. Nobody in a city cares about you. And if they do it's probably wishing you weren't there.

We can't even live as we are now without constantly being at war. What makes you think a higher population will make that better? You suggest colonising other planets. Do you understand exponential growth? Going to another planet is not a solution even if it was possible.
So change the economic system? The balls to the wall neoliberal, winner takes all, no safety net model that the Anglo American world has been moving towards for the past thirty years is not the only one. The Anglo American post war consensus model which was more redistributory correlated with higher growth rates (not saying it caused them, kinda hard to tell) while the Northern European corporatist, Scandinavian mixed model and Japanese corporatist models have all been successful in both creating economic growth and distributing that wealth more evenly amongst the population. It has always entertained me that the one thing that the average Marxist and neo liberal share is a belief that there is only one type of capitalism.
I can only agree with that. It is kinda just being honest. I don't know from where come this idea to showcase our work better than it actually is. Is it our own ego, showcasing unfinished/buggy work making us question our competency? Is it the fear of getting negative feedback because it is buggy and unfinished? Is it deeper issue, society making us believe, that what counts is superficial (apparence) way more than it should?
Is there nothing carbon nanotubes can't improve?
It also assumes a good relationship with your children which may not always be the case. Or that your children live (relatively) close to you.
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I have two recommendations:

Make 20% draft for big PRs. The issue with big PRs is that the overall design is already committed. It's hard to tell the person to redo everything according to a different design. So instead, have the author create a mock PR that outlines the desired changes, and have that being reviewed. This allows to have deeper conversations than if the code is aligned properly.

The second thing is; do synchronous reviews for big PRs. Actually take the time to have a 1:1 video call and walk through the code changes. You will be surprised how effective that is, and it helps bond the team together.
I'm not sure how react fits in here. I have found it to be very simple to understand enough to be productive and upgrading to new versions has required next to no changes to our large codebase. Perhaps you mean SPA react apps which I agree are a bit more work than needed for a solo dev.

Docker seems to be optimal for medium size teams. Configuring a server the old way is easier than docker for 1 server but less so for when you have 10 or CI/review apps.
That's...a great point, actually. The most humane (and incidentally, agile) workplaces I've met didn't mention agile much: "yeah, we do this and that, we just want to have a sane environment."

The places that went "we do all the agile incantations in the book, because that's the only way," well, those actually had a scrum-o-fall culture.
To be honest, SpaceX got a ton of VC money on top of a ton of NASA money on top of a ton of government launch money.

Not saying SpaceX isn't impressive, but without published results it is impossible to tell how economic their tech is, how expensive development and so on.
The pushback is because the message is asinine. It implies that people lost their jobs because of a skills deficit, not because there's a mismanaged pandemic ravaging large swaths of the country.

After nearly four years of nepotism, greed, and incompetence, it's reasonable to assume that what the current administration is doing is bad. Not to say everything they will ever do is bad, just that assuming a mixture of malice and incompetence is a reasonable heuristic.
US citizens only get up to 90 days at a time (out of a sliding 180 day window) in the Schengen zone (of which Estonia is a part) on the tourist allowance. If you are there for 90 days, you have to leave the whole Schengen zone for another 90 days before you can come back on another tourist allowance.

This offers a 1 year residence visa in Estonia, and makes it legal to work remotely while you are there.

Presumably they would also expect some income taxes while you are resident there (and working) during that year.
We haven't even seen this scenario play out yet. I'm from the region and I don't think it will turn into some Fallout-type scenario, but I think it will definitely impact the well-being of all citizens in these countries, some 20-30 years from now. It's hard to say yet if/how these countries will recover.
Full agreement with you on those technologies.

GraphQL is unfortunately still part of a low grade hype cycle where more and more companies are using it because "it's the next REST". But if you don't have a real need for the advantages it offers (for example a mobile app whose client side requests you can't easily change in sync with your API, or a data model that really is graph-like), it can be more cost than benefit.

React on the other hand: I've lost count of the number of small prototypes I've started in vanilla JS, thinking "this time I can just roll it myself", then ended up pulling in React. Even the simplest things are easier and simpler with it, and hugely complex applications are also easier and simpler with it. It has a fantastic API surface.
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You get downvoted because you provide no arguments for why it is too hard of a problem for eliminate.

You also didn't provide any arguments as to why this specific approach won't work.

It's similar to people closing their eyes when there's fire and screaming "we'll all die". It's your choice to believe that, but don't stand in the doors trying to prevent people from searching for a survival route.
This was more a function of how the systems were wired than anything to do with BASIC per se. Hardware-specific features were mapped to physical memory addresses, and the PEEK and POKE commands could be used to interact with those addresses. Many BASIC implementations also had commands to branch to machine-language subroutines or to perform machine-dependent IO.
If we are able to keep people alive for much, much longer but don't find a way to make their brains young and elastic again, we're going to be in for a very, very special kind of dystopia.
Would you rather be interviewed on algorithm questions or Ravens progressive matrices? They both test the same thing, but at least one you can study for, is somewhat relevant to the job (and is legal).
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As the article states, women are choosing to have fewer children. There are multiple ways to read this, and you can take the materialist theory of them just being caught up in their careers, but I tend to fall into a more cynical interpretation: humans are social creatures, and we are acutely tuned in to threats around us. I think humans are becoming increasingly aware, consciously or unconsciously, that we are killing ourselves through destroying the planet and that there is no way we can sustain further population growth. Whether “focusing on your career” is the chicken or the egg in this situation is up for interpretation.
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Yes, but e.g. Japan faces a big problem where the labor pool will be a small part of the population, with a big noticeable slice involved in elder care. If current plans to automate large amounts of this work (and I worry that automating it could be horribly dystopian) do not succeed it will be a large problem. (Not to mention other types of resources that those not in the labor force consume besides direct care).
Sorry? I am pointing the fact that I thought it was at minima "outdated", if not racist to reffer to native american as indians, the downvotes comes from people thinking it is ok to call them indians and I am being too sensitive to raise this issue.

Anyway I think HN is a good source of information, and I enjoy it, but there is something that is probably inherit to all vote based online platform that turns social online interactions in the same way, interesting fact. I will stay a passive user when my karma reaches 0. Peace.

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Great point with the visual appearance: show what you currently have, just include ugly.css. People are wired to understand Comic Sans and hot pink on green intuitively.
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Previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611863 and blog post about why https://element.io/blog/the-world-is-changing/ and the blog post about the new name https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/
I think the problem here is mandate. That's seen as a venture into the private markets, which no EU governing body has, unless it's some form of PPP or something similar.

EU's mandate is creating a harmonized, balanced marketplace within it's collective borders, through regulation and incentives.
Note - I'm not making this up. This is a real thing in Asia for example.
This kinda swings both ways though.

We've all worked with the perfect is the enemy of good guy who deeply considers all aspects, takes 10 times as long to deliver and then eventually, after much blood sweat and tears, delivers equally as bad software as the rest of us.

Personally, I've gotten over myself and try to just ship it.

That said, this is a bit different from the gnarly bug type scenario of the OP; though I'd probably ask how they wrote tests in 2 lines of code? :)
Blog post: https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/

I couldn't find it when I initially posted this.

While I understand the change, it was definitely awkward timing given that I was championing a transition to Matrix. I've been encouraging my coworkers to download the client, and next thing I know the website has completely changed and they've removed the link to download the desktop client.
You do know that Starlink is completely different because their satellites are not on geostationary orbits (but instead much closer to the earth), right?
I once coded a function to calculate edit distance. It was the algorithmic highlight of my career :)

But the general understanding of algorithms and complexity did help even in CRUD apps. It gives the bricks to form mental model of the underlying system. I don't need to code a b-tree but I may need to tweak its params.
Do people who spend more time together have more sex? I would have assumed the opposite.
> no tweet should have more than 280 characters, but you still wanted to minimize some cost based on how far your tweets were from 280 chars

That immediately brings Tex box badness to my mind. And the related line wrapping algorithm: http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb21-3/tb68fine.pdf
Lets build a world people want to have kids in then.
I saw an article about nano particle injections that could allow the eye to see in infrared. I would hope colorblindness would be trivial if they could allow infrared vision but I am unsure of the challenges.
[1]https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/a-nanoparticle-injection-i...
I gather that from their later replies. I imagine you can see why I interpreted the statement that way in the first place though.
Application of Cybernetic and Control Theory for a New Paradigm in Cybersecurity
This Website Is Killing the Planet
This is old news, bit glad it's getting mentioned I guess. Confused that the BBC seem to be running it as if it's new.

And it's astounding that they somehow put an overall negative spin on it. The problems of an ageing population seem miniscule compared to the problems of resource scarcity and climate change.
Guy is either a really weird troll or a proper schizo. He mentioned "sympathetic ears in the government" at least three times.
It's not the same satellite. Do you know that starlink are not the same kind of satellite and don't have the same latency as the old providers? Starlink is much closer to the earth and has much lower latency.
Another happy Bitwarden user here. I reviewed several different solutions for use within our company, and Bitwarden wins. We didn't go with Passbolt because its Chrome extension didn't work for us - there was no way to set the Passbolt URL so I never got the chance to check its autofill functionality. Bitwarden provides mobile apps, desktop apps for all operating systems and working browser extensions. Pricing is reasonable and not over the top and installation for self-hosted version is trivial. I'm glad competition exists, but they're falling short.
There is some good background starting from the Kahan algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm

This paper from 1993 analyzes five algorithms:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Accuracy-of-Floati...

Sorry I don't a reference for the "optimal" algorithm--I had it explained to me in person by someone working in the field and they didn't give me a specific place to go track it down. The gist of it is that you need to "bin" the numbers by their approximate order of magnitude and then even in each bin you need to keep a separate running estimate of the error within each bin. It's a kind of divide-and-conquer approach. AFAIR it is "optimal" with respect to minimum error, but not optimally efficient.

It's apparently a hard problem!
It seems to me the problem is all of our software is built by and for megacorps. In the context of what they need it for its the best tool for the job but it was never made for smaller orgs where 90% of the bells and whistles are not needed and end up as needless complexity.
What about real Indian people? I understand it is a complicated topic and I have no problem discussing it, but as long as a comment does not contains insults, I think a comment should not be downvoted just because you disagree.
Can you not study Ravens progressive matrices?
Spot on! I like the “conplete”. I hope it was intentional.
It wouldn't be directly but it wouldn't be surprising either - storing credentials in a spreadsheet can be indicative of the company's attitude towards security.