skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullet points are fine as a summary, however there is often a reductive quality to them that gets in the way of understanding. In many cases where you both the responsibility, the authority and the trust of management this may be sufficient. However if what you are saying could be controversial—especially in a large-company setting where you won't necessarily have much face time with all the people who might have opinions—there is no substitute for a well-crafted narrative to bring people along.
"sexy" is just another personal feeling for myself coz I'm quite sensitive to fair-sounding voices. It wasn't the intention to tell people that "sexy" is all it's about.

> outright use of "sexy" as clickbait is egregious enough.
I have to agree with you on that.
For reference, the US Government runs thousands of grocery and convenience stores via the US Military exchange (PX) and commissary apparatus. I remember these stores being a fantastic benefit of being a Navy brat.

The structure also hints at problems with government run businesses- the PX system avoids all sorts of sales and property taxes and gets reduced or free rent. The commissaries do that and get direct subsidies as well.

Before any service members (or their spouses) go after me, no, I am NOT arguing for any change to the system, just pointing out how existing examples look and work.
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Do you know about OpenBLAS alternative Mir GLAS?
hi! thanks for the kind words aha, always nice to hear people appreciate what I put out. trying to get a bit better than my current average of one post per year lol
TBH i do not really know much about Go, though i did spend some time reading the compiler's code last year and found it very readable despite not having any real knowledge of the language. It does try to keep things simple, but at the same time i do not think it is a primitive compiler - that would go probably go to something like Tiny C Compiler, though even TCC has some optimization features i think (in general i wouldn't say that any compiler that has an optimizer can really be called "primitive") - as it does a lot of things that strictly speaking aren't really necessary to produce executables. I'm certain that it is possible to create a much simpler and much smaller compiler for Go than the official one.
It's even faster (at least on OSX) if you can invoke it correctly, which at least 2 years ago was almost impossible.

If you manage to supply exactly the packages (transitively), and not a wildcard more, it would avoid recompiling the system libraries on each invocation. One would think a compiler where so much effort was put into making it fast would make it easy to have it run fast? The primitives were sort of there, but they didn't really fit together, and I actually had to write quite a bit of script/code to make it work. Got very fast though, thought I broke it the first time I got it to work. <return> and instant prompt. Toke me a while to convince myself it was actually compiling anything at all.

Cut the recompile time in a VM to less than a tenth. Still slowed down by some pointless file IO (don't remember exactly what) but that was less of an issue.

Vanity package URL's though was what broke this camels back, after GOPATH and some other miscellanea had strained it.
When I ... probably needed to quickly fork+fix an external package, and suddenly had this additional obstacle, I was so ... unhappy. Already too much work, and then you get more work for exactly no discernible reason at all. It's even called a vanity url officially.
Or work for a well-paying company and invest heavily in index funds...
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Thanks for the appreciation! Adding that "sexy" keyword was to test the market. It's a clickbait. Please don't mind if I used that inappropriately.:p
I disagree. I feel like that's up for the patient to decide. If I am going to tell my deepest secrets to someone I'd rather there not even be the faintest idea that details would be written about, even in very general ways.
TIL. Just tested this out with JPG's, PDFs, text files and screenshots..

Given the complexity of setting up WikiMedia properly, I think I'm going to keep using Obsidian.
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This is about setting curriculums at universities and student grants.
It sounds to me that what you are labelling as 'Academic philosophy' (solving abstract problems) is very much the general process of meta-linguistic abstraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalinguistic_abstraction
Compile dillo from mercurial (hg clone hg.dillo.org/dillo dillo, cd dillo, ./configure --enable-ipv6 --enable-ssl, make, sudo make install) and then edit ~/.dillo/dillorc so
it looks like:

DEFAULT DENY
.domain.foo ACCEPT
.domain.foo ACCEPT_SESSION
The environment is composed of more than CO2 levels.
Thanks for reading. The sexy is just a personal feeling. I think the Karen sound I tuned up in the article was sexy enough to me tho.
For those of you looking for an update - I gave up - the steps for installing the Extension were long and confusing on Mac, then found out Obsidian can use different folders for inline items. I wish you could preview it within the page, but that's OK.
> Sooner or later those wanting freedom, against all odds, will win.

North Korea would like words with you.
Can you explain the science behind this ?
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Nyxt actually looks very nice. Very nice, indeed.

I really like the navigational features, because they seem to be both memorable and predictable based on the layout that you're seeing (whereas others like vimb are totally unpredictable in their behaviour).

When it comes to making the web usable again, with less cache busting being enforced on the client's browser, I guess we share similar goals.

I'm currently trying to solve it via peer-to-peer services and the idea of trusted peers - that also function as caches in the local network and e.g. share download streams with each other once a huge file is being downloaded by a trusted peer. [1]

Personally, though I've been using VIM for as long as I can code, I would not agree that we need another browser that's keyboard-navigated.

For me, the understanding of websites and the semantic automation aspect is far more important so my UI/UX ideas are different. I'm trying to automate by recording user interactions rather than automate by keyboard shortcuts. The underlying idea is that any non-programming user can automate their own actions on the web.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/stealth (currently a PWA with a local node.js process that does all the heavy work)
Already launched in 2019.

> July 17, 2019

I commented about this a year ago and I even said it could replace Hire [0] (So far for engineers at least via the Byteboard Talent Directory) [1] But they're mainly still focused on competing with pre-onsite technical interview solutions and integrating with existing ATS software rather than being an actual ATS.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815293

[1] https://byteboard.dev/directory
Rating distributions are often not normal because some subset of players study the game and take it more seriously resulting in a bimodal distribution. See [0] for an example in Chess.

[0] https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/2550/whats-the-ave...
A more generic “cadence system” that IMHO is worth taking a good look at is the One Page Strategic Plan methodology of Verne Harnish. There is plenty of luck involved in a tech company’s success; however, having a coherent strategy expressed in a simple way cannot possibly harm your chances of success. At worst, you’ll do better at executing an unlucky hand.
Marketing has ruined version numbers with their nonsense. Take it away from them.
A 50% budget cut would almost shut the campus down.
I've just tried this using the starter project they provide in the blog post, and it does catch the error:

The error returned is `Type '"1"' is not assignable to type 'number'.`
Except now if you say things that a group doesn’t like you just get ddosed out of existence.
I think this is partially because it's applicable to so many different domains (cryptography, statistics, etc) that each have their own notational quirks. Avoiding collisions between notation in the application domain is more important than preserving some "consistent" probability notation (similar to the examples given with dot products). But the issue isn't even limited to notation: Chebyshev has at least 9 valid ways to spell his name (more if you include non-latin alphabets).

The biggest issue I've encountered is borrowing lecture slides from different universities/lecturers and the notation changes between slides on the same topic (even small things like using square brackets instead of parentheses).
I've mostly blocked medium mentally and via software. I use google feed on a daily basis and medium was banned there for a while now. Mentally occasionally a really interesting article pops up that I want to read. Then medium prevents me from doing so. It can be interesting somewhere else. If you are a content creator you basically damage your brand by using medium

The ux can be described as slimy at best.
> nexus with current ruling party - BJP

It's not like things were too different before. Mukesh Ambani supposedly referred to the INC as Apni Dukaan. Both the Congress and BJP are more than happy to appease Motabhai.

Source: https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/mukesh-said-haan...
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Considering the first section compresses 1600 years of thoughts it would be surprising if it weren't difficult to digest.

Is nothing really qualitatively different from something? Some greeks held that numbering started at 2, because 1 of something is not a "number of things". It took much longer after 1 was generally accepted as a whole number for 0 to be. These days we often look askance at formal systems which don't have an identity.

(going further back, many old languages have a plural that applies to 3 or more, because 2 of something gets the dual, with its own marking)
But unless you own a datacentre, you are always using someone else's platform, whether it is a cloud provider, a colocation or anything in between.
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That web page probably hasn't been updated in decades. I just downloaded and ran the latest version of links and it took 5.3 seconds.
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Another easy solution, both for hosting and ownership, is using a static site generator/editor. I like desktop-based visual WYSIWYG tools so i use Publii[0] (example[1], though i really need to write something more :-P or at least move some older articles i had in now-defunct blogs that were hosted by others). I'm not a big fan of the program though (i dislike how it is based on Electron while not even taking advantage of it being based on Electron - e.g. no full WYSIWYG and not even an in-app site preview - and the UX has all the issues i dislike by modern apps like a design that pretends i'm using an oversized tablet) but it is the only one that does what i want without requiring me to enter cryptic codes (ok, markdown isn't so cryptic but i really prefer using WYSIWYG tools), having inline images/galleries and some (primitive) site management while generating static HTML (though a bit too heavy and i really dislike the themes... but again, not much of a choice and the tech used to make the themes look like a PITA so i avoid touching it for now).

[0] https://getpublii.com/

[1] http://runtimeterror.com/devlog/
Thought leader is a synonym for empty suit.

If someone uses that in a bio you can just move along, you won't miss anything.
Certainly not every Jew would appreciate it if you argue that people need to be shielded from their opinions for their own safety.

> The bar for "this is genuinely dangerous" should be very high, though!

That is very gracious of you.
When I am designing something, I often find myself making bulleted lists when I am unsure of what to do next. I find that my more insightful sessions result in written paragraphs rather than lists. So I agree with Jeff here.
LoL this is me, without the hit. Two decades in and no liquidity. But soooo much scar tissue.
I would say each of them had a different implementations of the eval() function.
If you're interested in hateful content stormfront is the next door down
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Honest question: Then why do you keep using it? It's not like it's the only audio editor out there...
I think soda's popularity is proof of the power of marketing. The "sip test" was thought to be flawed because taking a sip of something is completely different than drinking a glass of something.

New Coke might be a better example since supposedly it was formlated to beat Pepsi in the sip test but failed miserably in the market.
Ok, I misunderstood that you meant there's something special in Squier that would make it more Fender-like than a G+L or any of the almost-clones that don't have any direct relation to the original manufacturers.
It's not faulty reasoning, it's how probabilities work. I am estimating the probability of a lab escape given the above information, and without evaluating the biological evidence. It's a prior. By evaluating the biological evidence we can update this probability, but I didn't do that. I'm saying that because the prior is high, it is worth to go ahead and evaluate all the evidence. And I know that when experts who I respect looked at the biological evidence, they came to the same conclusion, namely that a lab escape is likely.
Of course Lebanese economy was in trouble before Covid, but the pandemic made the situation worse. This might be a foreshadowing of what is in store for other countries, at least in part, if this covid induced shutdown of the economy continues.
If I understand your pipe function correctly - it takes an init value and a series of functions that map a type T to the same type T - then this should do it.

function pipe<T>(init: T, ...ops: ((x: T) => T)[]): T{
let r:T = ops.reduce((acc:T, op) => op(acc), init);
return r;
}

I had 5 years experience fixing type errors in C++; typescript seems like a dream in comparison.

Edit: I just realized your operations probably DON'T return the same type that they are passed; they probably work in a chain like (t:T) => U, then (u:U) => V, etc. Nevermind!
Mistake in my previous message. I wanted to say that Prometheus is not a log system. Metrics could be lost in scraping issues. This is ok in some cases but you have to know that you can loose data.
medium had one killer insight, which was that if they dolled up blog posts to look like prestige news site articles, most people would mentally put them in the same category. at one point there was a wave of public figures using medium basically like they use/d the nyt oped section before and after

but they messed up their site chasing a business model, and nyt/wapo/etc basically turned into tech companies and fill the niche that medium wanted to. meanwhile substack mints prestige by emphatically not looking like a news site. medium doesn't really have a place on either end of that anymore
I've seen this Q garbage in friends' Facebook feeds, where it is being amplified by wellness gurus of all things.

The posts are word salad fever dreams claiming certain celebs are literally satanic and practicing witchcraft and ritually murdering children.

A depressing number of people swallow it. We haven't evolved enough since Salem.
Agreed, but don't host your own wordpress unless you're planning to run a botnet. Everyone I know who's hosted their own wordpress in the past two decades has eventually regretted it.
I agree with you in general, but the timing is what concerns a lot of people. With the whole Covid situation and considering that many economies are in free fall, its hard not to get a bit worried - Can my company also do this? could I be next?
HackerNews, where "configure+make" is "complex installation and maintenance mode"?
How do you make sure you don't get hacked using Wordpress?

I hosted my own blog for a short while and got hacked, so I moved back to Wordpress.com.
Yes, if you like. Consider the stromatolite, or trichoplax. It seems to me that the boundary, if any, between "ecosystem" and "organism" is conceptual rather than physical.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax
People say that they loved medium in the past because of their custom domains. I think that they also had issues back then.

If your company is still running on Medium you're very limited with customizing your blog.

You can't add any CTA button, popup window, widget, or anything that can help you to justify your blog exsistance. If 1000 people get into your blog post, only around 30 will hit your homepage.

Compare it to other blogs where you can design it the way you want, because great UX and some traffic from Medium, I don't see the benefit of it.
Neither would I expect this of mathematicians. If you never use graph theory there is no reason to know all the quirks of the domain-specific notation. This would be like expecting any programmer to be familiar with all programming languages.
Yes there's a massive contrast between their minimalist and slick brand and their actual platform which is one of the heaviest blogging platform.

I'm not sure what it does really but you can achieve a similar design with a few Kb of CSS.
>Yes their design is great

Is it? I had to write a bunch of µBlock and usercss rules to make their articles somewhat readable. The sticky bars waste a lot of screen estate. Firefox reader mode (Ctrl+Alt+R) is a wonderful thing, but it breaks on some pages (I guess due to Medium's incompetence or brain-dead priorities since they're still using gist for code snippets (every single snippet in a separate iframe!) instead of spending half an hour to integrate highlight.js)
If anyone likes checking out other lists of best paper awards, I've been collecting them (with the help of a few individuals and AllenAI) at https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/

There's 29 top CS conferences there with best papers since 1996. And NeurIPS and ICSA will be added soon...
> It should be very obvious whether a person is a police officer or a soldier, especially for those who don't speak good english or come from outside the United States

Perhaps a phamplet explaining the use of clothing to further mission objectives, complete with illustrations of police vs. military garb, can be given out at all border crossings.
The auction irregularity conducted by the alleged Shell company which was bought by JIO and highlighted by CAG was done in 2010. This was the era of UPA2. Stop bashing BJP with over exaggerations. It is pretty well understood that Ambani is close to all political parties in India.
> I get almost as much benefit from the rigorous null checking in TS as I do from the typing. I would use it for that alone. [1]

This.

I suspect there is a certain way those who rave about TS like yourself write and structure their
code (all code, regardless of language) in a way that naturally lends itself to strict typing.
The "rigorous null checking" comment struck me as odd, as someone who has written JS for almost
20 years, I've just never had to think about, or use null values. I probably just use the good
parts of the language and avoid the bad [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23913294

[2] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-good/978...
Nushell 0.17 (a shell written in Rust)
I agree. It'd be concerning if they launched with some obscene $1 billion type financial tag with it.

If or when it makes sense, they can always increase funding for these three centers and or to build additional centers. Which is exactly what I'd expect in the coming years.
> Google might add negative signals for your website, thinking that you copy-pasted an article from Medium on your blog.

Can you get around this by posting the medium version later than the one on your own website? (Obviously, G crawls medium more frequently; so say, maybe, a week later.)
Twitter Removes Thousands of QAnon Accounts
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By the same logic post office could have blacklisted you too.
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Is this considered a feature? I thought it was a limitation to deal with performance. I find it rather disorienting.
I think so. There was a phase where there was clean design + many high-profile users pushing it a bit above other platforms. Nowadays clean design is more commonplace, they ruined their own design, more low-quality content, ... push them far down.
Here's an AWS article explaining how root cause analysis is done at Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/resources/artic...

> The technique consists of asking the question “Why?” iteratively until you get to the root of the problem. Let’s see a quick example:

Problem: The website is showing error 500.

1. Why? Because the web framework’s routing component malfunctioned.

2. Why? Because it requires another component, which itself malfunctioned.

3. Why? Because this component of the web framework requires the intl extension, which isn’t working.

4. Why? Because it was accidentally deactivated after the server software got updated.
> Further, if there WASN'T at one point nothing, where the hell did all of this something come from?

That's easy. "All of this" came from what came before it, and all of that came from what before it, and so on, and so on. Your first question, "If there was at one point nothing, how is there now something?" is far more vexing.
Yes, but the systematic dismantling of the independent agencies did not happen during congress period even though there were always bootlickers around in every govt.

Remember Auditor General of India, CBI(FBI equivalent) discovered and booked Congress-alliance party members for scam while they were ruling? Now, CBI has become a laughing stock is being used as lap dogs for ruling party to get parties into alliance with them.
I dunno. This seems worthy of a lot more funding than a dog walking app that raised $361 million https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wag
Constitutional changes have to be ratified by at least 3/4 of the states so not really under federal government, unless the states buy-in as well.

Of course it is lack of political will to make changes that is always the problem.

In this case there is no intent as well. It is like congress voting its own salary? It took 202 years to pass the 27th Amendment after all and it has the just most basic of safeguards on compensation.

The legislation governing legislators such as election laws, salary, term limits etc should not be controlled by them, this is a major flaw in many democratic systems.
You may be right, I hadn't considered the human element. But to clarify, the point of letting go small groups at a time isn't to eventually fire 900 people. It's that you're taking a Bayesian approach and constantly charting a new course for your business.

The risk with firing 900 people all at once is what if, in a month, everything is good and they need them all back? By only letting go of small groups of people at a time, you both hedge yourself to future risk while also staying open to future up swings.

It's like rebalancing a portfolio: you adjust your allocations gradually as new information comes in. This is better than one day deciding its time to sell everything or buy everything.
Netlify makes it fairly trivial for almost anyone with moderately techy chops to host their own static sites, so that's where I host my sites.

Jekyll amd similar static site generators are more than good enough for 99% of blog sites anyone might want to build.