skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, the Starbucks app on Android is 92MB. My bank's app is 180MB. They might have assets, but modern app size has become ridiculous.
For those interested in a deep dive into QAnon and its origins I highly recommend this podcast by Robbie Martin. He goes into possible links to Roger Stone and Erik Prince (and therefore ultimately Trump).

https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/the-origins-of-qanon-foll...
Utah released one pretty early on (maybe April or May IIRC)? I think I heard recently they might be shuttering it because of lack of downloads.
What is your allocation?

Do you want more risk or less risk now?

I'm worried about inflation and considering starting a business. So I'm looking at inflation hedges that are still pretty liquid.

If you don't need liquidity fast you might want to buy real estate to ward off inflation.
Marketable version numbers are quite useful. If somebody says they are running 10.12.3, the first thing I do is check which version I am running to see how that compares. On the other hand, if somebody says they are running iOS 12.1.2, I immediately know that is a patch of the preceding year's major version.

The reason is that Apple actually applies marketing to their iOS version numbers, but doesn't do the same for macOS, because incrementing the minor version isn't marketable. Their crack marketing team does come up with funny names for macOS releases, but few people remember the mapping between those and the actual version numbers.
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Hey, thanks for the link. Sincerely. Clearly, there is more to the story than I first assumed and understood.

I do think there is still some debate about the timelines involved, though. A 1984 article in the Harvard Crimson indicates that the Fort Sumter flag was raised prior to the California 100 flag: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1984/5/9/a-viable-alterna...

But the Snopes article indicates that Bradley brought down the California 100 flag in favor of the Fort Sumter flag.

I didn’t intend to “revise history” by my post. Hopefully no one takes it that way.
For sure! I've been wanting to add that as well. I'll try to add it in the next day and update here.
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For those looking for a viable, already-blooming alternative, with resistance to such problems, look into the Fediverse.

https://torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07-19-guide-to-the-fediv...
Yes? When it comes to delivering first-class mail for cheap, I assume there’s a minimum population density that allows for such a thing to be done cheaply (similar to now) and profitably. The US has nearly an order of magnitude lower population density than Germany, I’d bet there’s a threshold somewhere in that range where it wouldn’t be possible to deliver a mail anywhere in the US by a private company for similar rates that everyone currently enjoys now.

My whole argument is that the utility of keeping the USPS as it sits now with equitable pricing outweighs any potential efficiency or profit gained by private actors. If you disagree, that’s fine. I’ll disagree with your position that we should privatize the USPS, it will fuck over rural people to the benefit of ... who now? Are you heavily weighed down by purchasing .55 cent stamps? Because market rate first class mail would fuck over poor rural people pretty hard for almost no gain. The utility outweighs any efficiency or profit gains offered by private companies.

Not every damn thing needs to be privatized, some things are better left as government entities because the benefit to the public is greater than any profit motive. Letter delivery is one of those things.
Not the OP, but the best 'tax tips' come from a tax professional in your region.

I'm in the US, and use a payroll service to pay myself a regular salary. The payroll service deducts and pays appropriate taxes and paperwork. I then also make estimated quarterly tax payments as well, to deal with any estimated overage I may earn/owe. I then pay a tax professional to reconcile everything at the start of the tax season.

Meet with a tax professional. Meet with 2 or 3. Find someone you're comfortable with who has clients like you. Or... find people like you and get referrals as to who they use.
This is true for most organizations. Note though that the practice the author describes at Amazon is that everyone gets the document to read at the beginning of the meeting. The structure of the meeting means that (1) someone is forced to produce the narrative ahead of time and (2) everyone has to read it alone together.

That's an odd setup, but it's probably what makes this system work -- an organizational admission that this meeting setup is actually better than walking people through slides. One advantage the author doesn't mention is that this "alone together" mode gives each participant more time to think before having to fit their thoughts into a group discussion, which likely promotes divergent thinking and gives people room to ask important, difficult questions.
The Bay Area used to be dotted with military bases.

Alameda NAS
Concord Naval Weapons Station
Fleet Industrial Supply Center Oakland
Hamilton AFB
Hunters Point
Mare Island
Moffett Field
Oakland Army Base
Oakland Naval Hospital
Presidio
Treasure Island

In fact Silicon Valley used to be defense industry before it was silicon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Losing Travis would cost jobs but CA would eventually recover. Vallejo is finally recovering from Mare Island closing and losing that tax base. However, we pay for those jobs which get shipped elsewhere with CA taxes. Also, military jobs are less impacted by economic cycles and provide more stability to the local economy. Solano should fight hard to keep Travis but the article doesn't provide good news on that front.
The funny thing about SC2 is that the player's MMR (matchmaking rating) is decoupled from rank, due to design decisions such as demotions not occurring midseason. So a gold league player with a low enough MMR may get matched against bronze league players, despite ostensibly being ranked higher. Actually for the longest time after release, player MMR was not visible. It took 6 years and 2 expansions before it was finally displayed in-game.
> Math, as taught to kids, is full of single-letter variable names (or worse, as you point out, using non-Roman letters and other symbols) that are devoid of any hints to the uninitiated of what their meaning might be.

Any time a new symbol is used in a text, it will typically be introduced. The phrase "Let A be the subgraph composed of G" for example defines A in relation to G. Typically, the author will also define their notation at the start of a paper with: "A graph G is defined as the set of edges E and vertices V such that...". To be frank, I always see math papers and communications written in this style.

More often than not, I think folks just say "SINGLE VARIABLE NAMES BAD. MATH HAVE SINGLE VARIABLE NAMES". It's really dense. In any given math paper, the author typically defines any such variables. And if those definitions don't make sense, it's because the underlying mathematical objects are beyond you, and you need further background.
Looks like this one is in the Arch official repositories as well, I'll have to try it.

Two of my favorites are in the list, Hydrogen and ZynSubAddFx.
Can’t you use build number for Windows?
I did a zine almost 15 years ago w/ Scribus and even back then it was an excellent piece of software.
I don't think the scale argument holds water, because back in the days of AOL, AOL had, by percentage, about as much control over what mainstream user saw as Twitter and Facebook.
> They never cared about backwards compatibility before

This is not true. While they may not have the slavish devotion to backwards compatibility that Microsoft has, even Apple implements app-specific hacks to keep non-compliant software compatible with newer versions of macOS https://worthdoingbadly.com/appkitcompat/
Did Steve Jobs ever say the iPhone is "100% homegrown technology and solution"?
Generally speaking, your attitude towards anything depends on your assessment of what will happen in the future if it is unchecked.

If you see a crack in a dam, and a rivulet of water coming through, you base your actions on whether you think it's going to become larger.

If a person is pretty certain that the dam is about to collapse, then talking about the water coming through right now seems palpably absurd, but reverse the assumptions and taking drastic action seems equally absurd.

There's no neutral way based on facts and independent of opinions to decide what's absurd, extreme, or hysterical. But at the same time, different views are different, and some are going to be severely wrong about anything controversial and important.

I don't know how you make a generic framework that tells you the right thing to do when people are talking about invading Iraq, and also tells you the right thing to do when people are talking about shutdowns for covid.
Some games do this already, and players are very unpleased by the results.
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Much of our research has been with founders at YC & 500 (cohorts who represent the Beyond Meats of the world). The majority we spoke to, including the breakout unicorns, stated they would have have participated in equity pooling with their batchmates during the batch. We also learned the darlings of their batch were often not the breakout successes, and later upstaged by others in the batch.
Agreed, for starters, nobody's using shortwave jammers. The rest of the internet is right on the other side of the wall.

Hell, people used to criticize these walled gardens. when did the argument change to the gardener shouldn't have control of the garden instead of free thinking people shouldn't let themselves be trapped behind a wall?
A more recent study seems to indicate otherwise. I have no idea which study is better designed.

https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/trapol/v44y2015icp58-64.html
This is from May
Note this article is from May, and the country is now facing another uptick in covid cases that has the country on alert.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/07/3d4d1f81e7bc-brea...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tokyo-olympics-organizers-seek-...
I always figured LinkedIn makes their money selling candidate data to recruiters.
You don't have to formally quit the game to stop playing. I played one ranked chess tournament in high school, quit for ten years, and then picked it back up. What would you do with my points?

If you choose to delete them, that means that everyone will have constantly eroding ratings unless they keep playing.
Anecdotal, but after almost ten years living in Tokyo I've probably seen less than a tenth of men wash their hands after using the bathroom. Half just walk out. Other half puts a finger under the faucet for half a second, no soap, and done.
This article is from May and the number of cases has steadily increased again. Tokyo now gets more cases per day than during the state of emergency. It just seems that it's a different section of the population (more young people, fewer older people), which appears to be the reason there is no new emergency declaration yet.
In many university mathematics curriculums, discrete math is the course used to transition students from the computation-oriented mindset (instilled in them by high school and early undergraduate courses up through calculus) to the more abstract and proof-oriented mindset. Thus, teaching you to use that "really really advanced level math notation" is often one of the primary goals of the course, even if it seems like unnecessary overkill at the time. If you refuse to learn it, you're setting yourself up for failure in any future math course that uses that notation as the starting point for building new concepts and abstractions.
I’m several MacBooks deep at this point but my last non-Mac was a Thinkpad T61. I had a T60 before that. I’m not sure what was better, my T60 or my 2014 RMBP. Not sure what I will buy next.

I hear good things about the X1 Carbon. They seem to be plentiful.
> Until relatively recently, the cloud didn't exist.

Depends:

> IBM and other mainframe providers conducted this kind of business in the following two decades [after 1961], often referred to as time-sharing, offering computing power and database storage to banks and other large organizations from their worldwide data centers. To facilitate this business model, mainframe operating systems evolved to include process control facilities, security, and user metering.

[…]

> In 1998, HP set up the Utility Computing Division in Mountain View, CA, assigning former Bell Labs computer scientists to begin work on a computing power plant, incorporating multiple utilities to form a software stack. Services such as "IP billing-on-tap" were marketed. HP introduced the Utility Data Center in 2001. Sun announced the Sun Cloud service to consumers in 2000.

[…]

> In spring 2006 3tera announced its AppLogic service and later that summer Amazon launched Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_computing
I just inherited a React project that was full of these mistakes. The code was littered with "onClick" and "history.push". They used MobX because they wanted a store, even though they didn't need it. Components would often receive this store as a prop, instead of just the values it needed to render.

So yes, these mistakes are very common. There's just quite a few ways to do things, and if you don't do any research, they all have the same outcome.
Not sure what book I read it in, but here’s a cite to a study that concluded this was the case: https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/trapol/v44y2015icp58-64.html
It's not because there are alternatives.

People keep forgetting that 1984 assumes a singular authoritarian control, not multiple authorities and the freedom to choose one, several, or none of them.
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Then people can type in domain names directly. This isn't a hard problem to solve.
USPS is required to serve every one every where. FedEx/UPS punt their shit to the USPS when it comes to rural america.
Even when you look at the disparity in cases across the United States, it’s a little bit of a head scratcher to me, but it has to ultimately be behavioral.

Here in the Northeast, I’d say the majority of people (but certainly not all) are well intentioned and OK at following mask and social distancing guidance. From what I’ve seen and heard of family down in Florida for instance, there’s little to no fear or change to their day to day. Is it possible that Japan is just that much better at wearing masks, pinching the metal nose piece down, and adhering to distancing guidance that it’s actually bearing out in the data?
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I don't recall seeing AOL chatrooms quoted in mainstream news on a regular basis. They may have had a sizeable percentage of the online audience, but it's the "online audience" that's greatly inflated in scale.
NIMBYism is just Conservatism bereft of any kind of principles or values.
The problem with this is most tech people and mere mortals alike can’t keep the sequence straight. I gave up on trying to even map names to versions and just go to “about” every week or three and provide whichever detail is most useful.
What I am trying to convey is writing software is better than writing maths, just like medieval music notation vs modern notation. Programming is better than proving because most proofs are mere tautologies or artificial constraints. This is why theorem provers in code rely on term rewriting.

A triangle has a sum of 180 ? Well how about if you push the triangle inside out. In code you can easily run a more complex simulation which gives you all possible values of the sum ... which is why ascertaining useful facts like 180 ad-nausea is boring at best. In fact most mathematics if it can't be simulated can't exist.
I don't know if it would be in the spirit of Go.

(I'm not for/against the philosophy of the decision making, just pointing it out).
I didn't mean to imply that you were trying to revise history; I was referring to the article you cited, and in turn the Bayview article cited by that article.

For sure one wonders exactly what was going through Feinstein's mind during those 3 days. She's a deft, successful politician so I have little doubt there was some self-serving motivations at play. But her defiance and obtuse expression of authority in the face of a lawless action (however just) is textbook Feinstein. And it taking only 3 days for her to order its removal is fast even by today's standards, and even in San Francisco.
Yes.

Japan already had a culture of 1) mask wearing when you are ill and 2) not putting upon others.

So, it was an easy sell.

They also don’t have a culture of questioning science and rampant entitlement but 1 and 2 made it easy.
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I would argue that in fact most of mathematical notation happens to be intelligible to non-mathematicians (engineers, scientists, etc.)
> one that would ideally produce graduates imbued with a sense of government duty.

I wonder how they plan to do that.
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> How? The startup still need VCs for funding.

For precisely the reason you set out in your second paragraph.

Assuming your startup is in the VC bucket to begin with, you have two choices when you start floundering. Either ask for more money, or shut it down.

The latter practically guarantees you leave with nothing, so naturally, you prefer the former. This means VCs are almost always in a position of leverage to extract a larger share/more onerous terms/etc.

With a stake in a founder pool, "walking away" becomes a much more attractive option. You already have some baseline value that makes you far less reliant on whatever opportunistic VC you're in bed with.
Isn’t it pretty common for food manufacturers to white label their product for generic brands? IIRC this is hardly specific to Costco/Kirkland.
How do you prototype? What do you look for while prototyping lets say, nginx or haproxy? You certainly can't simulate real world traffic on a toy application. So how do you decide which one to pick? I am beginner in this field.
It’s correct AND you’re currently correct. Both are true.
Thanks - have bookmarked.
> If a test fails when modifying the codebase or adding a feature or updating dependencies, it still serves a purpose in my opinion even if fixing it takes some time.

> Having the test no matter how trivial also helps boost confidence that a new change didn’t break anything no matter how trivial.

If it catches an error in your change, that's a benefit. If it delays a correct change with false positives, that's a cost. (And if a passing test "boosts confidence" but the change is actually broken, that's another, more subtle cost). Often the cost is larger than the benefit.

> But tests should be refactored once in a while, and if a thing is complicated to setup for testing, either the thing to test should be refactored before shipping and/or the developer working on that thing should also ship a factory and helper functions for testing that thing.

That's all valid assuming the tests are providing some value. But just like with any code, the first question should be whether it's serving a useful purpose at all - if not, then deleting is cheaper and more effective than any amount of careful refactoring.
Isn't a qualitative system possible?
It would be really complex to create for a game such as dota2 or cs:go, but maybe not for a simpler game.
I will give cs:go as an example only because I know it very well..
It would be possible, I believe, in theory, to measure player knowledge towards specific ingame-skills. New cs players for instance wouldn't know how to control recoil effectively. And 100% of global elite/pro players would be above a certain threshold regarding recoil control. On the other hand, you could say with a lot of confindence that a player that tries to achieve a high ground pressing only +jump multiple times with no success, when he would need a crouch jump instead because of height, is a noob. Elo or something similar could then be used to measure ranks within specific clusters only. And some form of mood/form on top of this, to allow for better experience (even though I have played cs for 20y now, it could happen that I abandon the game for a few months, or that I have a really bad focus because of external events).

I'm not sure if this makes sense, but what I know for sure is that as an experienced player, I can watch a player play a single game (sometimes a few rounds), and access his average rank/skill level with high confidence, with no need of information from his prior games whatsoever, or detailed statistics of his gameplay.

There's something else to remember for high skill-cieling games: winrate is not what really matters. A lot of times I will play a very good, balanced and fun game and lose. Sometimes it will even happen with very uneven scores like 16-5 or soomething...
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Hmm, I think the few [1] that we do have, have arisen in specific circumstances where there was a lack of private enterprise to address critical social need, or in support of failing private enterprise, to avert social crisis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_the...
Hey, just want to say I read your blog posts and was searching for a call to action, how do I sign up for Prompt?! I kept asking myself while reading the blog posts. Then I tried googling Prompt / Prompt writing, that name is -not- favorable to SEO. When I hit the landing page, I found out that Prompt is meant for students, not people already in the workplace. I don't even know how it would work, but I was hoping there was some way a working professional could improve their writing. That said, when you do hit the Prompt landing page, the I am a student is highlighted and there is no other call to action or thing to do, I guess you are supposed to sign up in the top right? Anyways, wish you well!
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"No lockdown" is misleading. The government asked people to stay at home and the vast majority of people did. Many non-essential businesses closed. I walked through the usually bustling downtown area of my city on a Friday night and it was absolutely dead. It was like an apocalypse film.

That said, life has broadly gone back to normal, and if you look at the graphs [1] you can see that coronavirus has gone back to work just like many service industry workers.

[1] https://covid19japan.com/
The comparison to hate groups is a little off the mark. QAnon doesn't organize in secret, and so far you're not likely to get fired if someone shows a picture of you wearing a Q shirt to your employer. That said I agree with the broader point that this may not do that much to inhibit QAnon, especially because it exhibits a lot of cultlike belief that might just be reinforced by this ban.
Terry Tao mentions that notation can help with error detection. Anyone here aware of some good examples?

One that I like is that in Einstein notation you can't have 3 of the same index, e.g., u_i u_i u_i is invalid.
Developing and architecture are absolutely related. Many ideas seem great on paper till you go and implement them and find out the pain points. All the great architects have often been in the weeds of their systems.
Exploit devs love a good challenge. Each mitigation is another lessons learned :)
This is incorrect [edit: it isn't] - see the standard "three polarizing filter" experiment [0] which is impossible to explain with classical mechanics [edit: it can actually be explained, see coolgod's comment below]. Polarizing filters don't just zero out the perpendicular component of an electric wave, they measure each individual photon that passes through and either blocks it or permits it to pass with some probability proportional to the angle between the photon's polarization and the filter's polarization.

[0] https://youtu.be/zcqZHYo7ONs