skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree here. The beauty of FamilySearch is that they've done an amazing job archiving and cataloging the primary documents they have. Ancestry does have some good stuff too, but FamilySearch can feel more like an online research library.

I know they do auto-generate some tree information which can be incorrect, but that can largely be ignored or used as hints, etc.

I get the sense that not many people realize just exactly how much stuff they have actually accumulated. It's truly amazing for the areas that I've been looking at which are primarily US, Canada, Britain and Ireland.

I tend to think of it as one of the pillars of online data collections along with things like, archive.org and, say, Google Books. It's incredible the amount of material that is at our fingertips now.

The one biggest missing pieces for me is the staggering number of microfilmed historical newspapers that have yet to be digitized. I know the library of Congress has put a lot on line but there are still 10s of thousands of rolls of microfilm that haven't been processed and I'm not sure if there is any push to do it.
I'd say that in general, we need to get rid of locales in computing. They're an unending source of bugs and annoyances.

It's not "techies know best" whining. We've been increasingly computerizing the economy for the past 50+ years; it's past time for societies to adapt to that reality, instead of wasting time and money on dealing with dozens of date formats, number separators, currency notations, etc.
At the risk of being overly glib, the pathways for this may seem a little bit obvious: we are actually very empathetic people in general. When we see someone being treated poorly, we react both emotionally (sympathy, empathy) but also intellectually (moral condemnation).

Especially for those who have been real victims in the past, these issues can be very poignant issues and cause us to 'trigger'.

In such circumstances, I think a lot of our 'reason' goes out the window and we react purely emotionally.

This creates the perfect vector for manipulation by self-obsessed people with total lack of self awareness.

In any large group of people, there will be a handful that will say and do anything to get ahead, and if it's just 'really easy to reach out and touch that victimhood button' - they will.

Things are very confounded because A) there is usually a degree of truth in the generalisation (i.e. racism, sexism etc. are very real and common things) and B) there may be elements of truth to a specific ordeal (i.e. someone may have been treated in a poor manner, but not in an egregious way).

For some people, because 'A' (such bad behaviour in general) absolutely exists, then 'B' (the individual situation) 'must be an example of A' and then some ham-fisted, lop-sided action ensues, especially in the realm of the press.

Go ahead and watch the founders of the now infamous 'We Charity' as they were grilled in a Parliamentary setting: with no understanding of what happened, they seem like victims. But if you have an inkling as to what was actually going on, it's clear they were exhibiting some of these Machiavellian tendencies with, constant virtue/victim signalling.

Most of us are hard wired to be emotionally empathetic, that's a 'good thing' - it's just easy for a lot of people (and corporations) to take advantage of.

This phenom also metastasises in social settings: one of the worst possible things we can be perceived as, is 'unsympathetic'. How 'terrible' is the person who doesn't care about that 'poor person who was a victim' of something! The issue with skepticism, and especially how it's perceived by others, is that is interpreted as a 'lack of sympathy' - when in reality - it's usually more or less a 'lack of belief in the factuality of the situation' in which, it's possible the victim may not be deserving of sympathy - which are different things.

Since there's way too much risk in being perceive as unsympathetic, the popular response will usually be lopsided on any 'grey, ambiguous issue'.
Love how you explained this! And I thought I was the only one using exclamation marks for everything
That depends on what you mean by "how much it would cost to make." As far as materials go, if you wanted a period correct replica, while you probably can't get actual Bakelite (I'd go with brass, if making it look exactly like the model isn't a big requirement), the rest of the materials are probably easy and cheap to get. As a one off, your main cost would be time, and the necessity of being able to access a decent shop. Using more modern and durable materials would probably cost more than using basic materials from 100 years ago, I would guess.

Probably the main constraint is the ability to make precise markings on the cylinder. I bet you could do that with a fairly simple CNC setup, but it would probably require some custom programming. All in all, it seems like a well-equipped personal shop or maker space should have all the tools necessary to do it. For a single piece, it seems like it's just a matter of time and ingenuity in developing the manufacturing process. Scaling up production is an entirely different matter, and who knows what the costs would be at any significant scale?
The problem with external shocks is that during the "readjustment", people still have to eat. The people who worked in the shops, the people who own the buildings etc.

In the end, just keeping companies afloat through rare shocks might be the cheapest option.

Market economies create efficiency, not resiliency.
"lets you" Thanks Microsoft. That's exactly the way they see it, too.
Medical care.

You want medicine, you need to pay someone who's part of the Physician cartel, a pharmacy, a pharmacist, and whoever has the patent.

With computers and science you often need 0 of these except the manufacturer of the drug.
Can she prove it is oppressive, or is it just her opinion? Because if she can prove she's being oppressed, there are a large number of legal prescriptions (in the US) rather than ruining her professional career by being cunning and duplicitous. Nobody likes working with lying cheaters, regardless of their stated goals.
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Right. Because trickle-down economics have always proven so great for the working class.
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Are you familiar with Porters five forces? and the sixth, which is regulatory environment?

If you're not, it's worth it's weight in gold when evaluating markets and looking at how do build your business model.
Which is also the point of financing and securities.

I invest money into the market. Sometimes the market does poorly and goes down. My job as an investor is to accept risk when others do not. It is my money that disappears in these circumstances.

The general idea is for the riskier among us to lose money. The investing class reaps benefits when the economy is good, but they lose money when the economy suffers.

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When downturns happen, investors become frightened. Which is fine: it means more opportunities for me to buy back into the market. But accepting this year's losses is part of the plan.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted either.

AFAICT the answer is that Nvidia and Apple are not the best of friends, and Apple decided that they would not sign any newer drivers.

This may have been at least partly because it restricts the numbers of people who try making hackintoshes out of existing machines.

I think this is probably a factor in the lack of support for intel Wifi too - it keeps a lot of laptops from neing able to 'just work' as hackintoshes too
I've always been surprised at how bad Excel is at importing CSV files. The solution feels like it was hacked together by an intern over the weekend even though this is an incredibly common use case.

I had to build a very basic CSV->XLS tool once because the built-in CSV import kept screwing up. Admittedly the CSV files were slightly mis-formatted in places, but that wasn't the only headache with the import.
The shared stupid passwords like this that I've seen/had to use in my career would utterly shock you. Like hunter2 levels of shock.
That's too Web 2.0 for HN XD
I'm amazed by this. I started using an EeePC 901 a few months ago, and it barely runs Firefox. I don't know if that says more about the computer than it does about Firefox, but I had no idea such a thing was even possible.
I agree, I think showing tips prior to an order is absolutely stupid. I did Skip the Dishes delivery on the side and you could see the tip before you delivered to the customer. It always seemed silly to me to be able to know what was tipped. What if I had a big order and no tip? Honestly even as a customer I don't like this because you feel pressured to tip otherwise be afraid they will do something to your food. It would be like going to a restaurant and having to choose your tip before they did anything and have them know what you chose to gave them. It just is stupid.
At a previous workplace we had a few places in the code which used the word backdoor. It was not an actual backdoor though, but merely a debugging server that could be enabled and allowed you to inspect internal state during runtime. At some point I removed the word backdoor, fearing it would get to a customer or during an audit someone would misunderstand. :|
Ask HN: Is there a faster way to get access to OpenAI's Beta API/GPT-3?
I've been in a constant state of amazement since GPT-3's beta launch and have become pretty desperate to get invited.

Does anyone know how to expedite the application process or otherwise get access?

Thanks so much in advance, I'd be really grateful for any help on this. There are so many things I'm excited to try!
Afaik Norway also uses the sane format: DD.MM.YYYY

See parent source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
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One of the things I love most about YC is hearing about previous YC companies and what they did to succeed (eg, Airbnb). It would be cool to have a filter or tag by company - but this is really cool!
>But the moves threaten to upend huge swaths of the real estate market and the half-trillion dollar market for commercial mortgage-backed securities.

I wouldn't worry about that. I fully expect the federal reserve to "fix" this by buying the toxic assets with printed money.
i've sent founders to all those firms (list of 50+ debt providers and their cost here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17M_zgfNG20Z-cqQ6SqxQ...

SaaS Capital: Won't touch you unless you have $3m in ARR. Yes they can get down to 12% but they also take warrants. We'll start at $250k in ARR, and take no warrants.

SVB: Banks will only lend to software companies if they have VC backing. (yes they lend at cheaper rates)

OnDeck and Kabbage/others are at 25%+ interest rates. Read the terms.
I understand that aspect of it, and am all in favor. Sometimes the greatest benefit of our system is that it helps us avoid great folly and disaster, rather than enabling great sudden advances.

What I can't stand is the principled, yet then flip-flop-on-principles, stands people take per issue, only to have it switch with the next issue. It's paralyzing us on important, urgent things that aren't decade-long debates that should be had.
And the infinitely handy "push -o ci.variable=ALPHA=BETA" or its friend "push -o ci.skip" to influence the CI job that's created, if any, due to the push

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/push_options.html#pu...
yeah. In my situation (a) the file was 10x RAM (b) when this library parses a JSON it creates an in-memory tree representing the file which is approx 16x the size of the JSON file.

Consequently it swapped so hard I was never going to finish processing.
So I used a streaming parser, and it finished in minutes.
You can achieve a very homogeneous lawn without herbicides. Plenty of water, some aeration, some fertilizer, iron against moss, weekly lawn mowing and occasionally use a daisy grubber. Eventually the lawn will displace most weeds.
This was also submitted earlier, it just didn't gain much traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24073178

Are there any major implications that could come from leaking internal tools, firmware code, etc? I ask this as someone with no experience in this field and my only knowledge of security is related to OWASP and random, interesting articles I've read here on HN and r/netsec
Exactly, I actually had to hunt to buy homes I wife would like that do not have a HOA.

I guess it is the 'community' aspect.

Most homes that do not have HOAs are on busy streets, which are less desirable.
I’m completely ignorant about this but is it possible that they’re referring to a “debugging backdoor”?
Repeating stuff from Twitter does seem to be how an awful lot of journalists are doing their jobs these days, particularly for local news. Many local news stories I see in my area are just little more than a three-paragraph wrapper around a series of Twitter screenshots.

I expect the reduction of local media to a retweeting engine is probably a function of cratering local news budgets. It's far cheaper to outsource news-gathering to the wisdom of crowds than to pay journalists to do the work directly.

Above the local market, if you follow the right circles on Twitter you stand a very good chance of getting advance notice of what the media will be reporting several hours (or even several days) before the stories are broadcast/published.
Me too. This article, plus the link to a different antique slide rule that's available for sale in the comments, make me want to own one of these with a steampunk aesthetic.
No, I'm not suggesting that you should give up your job.

But can you give up half an hour an evening, to work with your kids on... well, on anything that would help fill in the gaps? That costs time and energy, and it's hard after working all day. But it can make a difference.

Maybe a starting point is to identify what the gaps are. Whatever your kids' district is doing, what isn't working? What specifically isn't working for your kids? Is there anything you can do to help that for your kids?

It's not all or nothing. But each bit costs time, thought, maybe some money, and energy. Still, despite the costs, I'd encourage you to try to do what you can.
Email Greg Brockman directly with your use case, or hound a PHD student that has access are two methods I've seen work for people.
I can understand why it may seem non-optimal, but I don't have much of a dog in the fight, and I refactored a hobby project to react hooks a little while ago and found it both much less code and much less complicated. But to each their own.
It is possible, but you have to hack the Node require() loader to do it, teach it a lot about ESM loading, and then hope the downstream CJS don't have timing bugs around "very long" synchronous require() loads.

https://github.com/standard-things/esm
Pictures are pictures, even as video frames :)
In what ways can an end user of intel processor expect to benefit from this? I'm guessing none, since ever consumer interface is already a standard ... Can anybody chime in?
https://rewardsforjustice.net/english/election_interference....

Direct link
Not the person you replied to, but to add to the subject, just uBlock Origin on Chrome and the page loads in a second or two, with 11 elements blocked. If I also disable Javascript(1), it loads even faster, but the difference between the two is on the order of half a second, so minimal in practice.

((1) I use the Quick Javascript Switcher extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s... )
Auto-formatting seems like more of a noob feature than a power user feature. Lacking control over when it happens is definitely not a power user feature.
That was the strength of WordPerfect in legal areas for many years. Formatting was special codes within a document and Wordperfect could generate Black lines in the margins to indicate changed lines.
Won't somebody please think of the landlords and banks
To be honest, I've never taken the time to figure out how MacOS works. It's like an OS written for cultists. From the strange way the pointing device works, to the icons that don't mean anything to me, to the names that don't make sense (it's called Finder but I can't figure out how to give it find(1) arguments; isn't this supposed to be a Unix?), it seems designed to isolate the initiated and alienate the outsider.

On the other hand, what I dislike about using Windows is the familiar list of complaints: invasive and hostile telemetry, heavily mouse-driven user interface, I-know-better-than-you automatic reboots at awkward times, incredibly poor performance on older hardware, advertisements and unwanted widgets baked into the start menu, garbage applications I didn't want that are installed because Microsoft wants them there, inconsistent application installation behavior, deeply incapable budget SKUs for cheaper hardware, path length limits, people running everything with administrator privileges, weird file locking behavior (ever tried to write to a file that's opened the wrong way for reading?), fragile support for terrible hardware that works just long enough to make a buck, ... I could go on all day. Basically, my problem with Windows is that when you use it, you've paid to have an experience that's worse than what you can get for free in every way that matters to me but one. The only thing Windows has going for it is that it runs Excel like a champ.
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Someone have a mirror? Seems the actual files are here:

https://t.me/exconfidential/590

Edit: files are here

https://mega.nz/folder/CV91XLBZ#CPSDW-8EWetV7hGhgGd8GQ

or

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:38f947ceadf06e6d3ffc2b37b807d7ef80b57f21
I mean, a lot of landlords might have to declare bankruptcy as well. The entire economy is run on such high leverage and debt that bankruptcies at the bottom can have a chain reaction and destabilize the entire chain, all the way up to the banks that hold the mortgages.

The fundamental problem is that the models investors use to manage risk become useless in novel market environments that break historical correlations between investments. This is a long-tail risk that is difficult to manage.

When suddenly all of your investments are losing value at the same time, even if the models say the correlation between the assets is low, you end up in a very dangerous place.

This is essentially the same thing had happened during the mortgage crisis.
Genealogist was constantly getting upset because someone would see a John Johnson in the same town in roughly the same age bracket and say that's him, make the link and move on without a second thought.

Problem is, our fascination with unique names is very recent. Our forebears were highly unoriginal with names, language barriers (including illiteracy + accents) would sometimes unintentionally see a person get a slightly different name in a new town. She had a guy with three names, and a suspicion that when he disappeared that he didn't die in a ditch, but instead finally changed his name on purpose.

Looking through my mother's research, I found what I thought were first cousins marrying, so I backed away slowly. Genealogist saw this a lot. Just mark it done and don't think about it any more.

After some more time with genealogist I finally looked at it more closely. This guy found himself a wife who was six days younger than his paternal cousin of the same name, from an unrelated family. Apparently nobody in this fucked up little town could figure out how to name their kids. Everyone named a kid after grandma, or married someone with grandma's name, and half of them had a sister named after her. Nine. There were nine women, by birth or marriage, in 3 generations, with the same first name, in the same town. I can't imagine family gatherings.

Ever wonder how you get 'Peggy' from Margaret? I don't anymore. Somewhere there was Grandma Margaret who just wanted to nap in peace and so she nicknamed her granddaughter Peggy so people would stop yelling her name.
I'm in the group of businesses that got handouts that the business didn't need to survive, but the handouts did mean folks were kept on staff even without work. This paid off big time for us (especially if covid had resolved by September) because we have seen demand pick back up pretty quickly in our space and the staff were ready to go.

So if the downward trends had continued we'd have been in good shape and it would have been good timing. Of course, our covid control in the US has been a total disaster relatively to other much poorer countries even - we're still trying to figure out if masks are worth wearing (20 cents to maybe save a life).

Instead of handouts the layoffs would have been a fine option, folks would have received unemployment. But the overhead and disruption of firing folks, canceling their benefits, and then re-hiring them (maybe) etc is not insignificant. The handouts meant we are ready to go once everything resolves which was supposed to be a lot sooner than it is looking like it will be.
I hope it ends up causing residential real estate prices to fall as a consequence. Maybe then millennials will be able to afford homes.

I understand some people treat their home as savings but that's bad in every way for society and for the homeowner. I have a home and the only return I expect on it is to be able to continue living there. I'm certainly not going to depend on it for my retirement, as that would be really unwise.
rowhammer?
It's not that Excel can't support that long of a number in general. When you open up a csv in Excel, it is not being worked on in "Excel format" where it is displaying the number in scientific notation but it is still retaining the full number. If you click on the cell in the text window in the top it shows you the full number.

The asinine thing happens when you save it back as a csv. Excel doesn't think to itself "hey, I should write these full values I have stored in each cell to the csv file". It just writes whatever is currently displayed to the csv file instead.
a mid grade 2010 PC with an SSD upgrade will still be extremely usable. Go 5 years to something like a Broadwell i7, and many people might not be able to tell its 5 years old. I would expect that CPU to function fine for 5 more years. (albeit it no longer has support or security patches.)

The biggest improvement, from a most people perspective, in the last 5 years is power usage. They run cooler, and batteries last longer.
Another issue is that such comments produce negative externalities. What if everyone thought that way and automatically upvoted every gwern post? I'm not sure gwern themselves are confident that their post quality would remain the same. Personally, I'm sure it would decline, and they would put out ever more self-serving content, because why not? Everyone loves it anyway.
This sounds like some sort of hate speech to me, ban this guy!
Could be labor organizing. I've had a job for years and never even been solicited about it.

The incumbent players are ignoring massive swaths of the addressable market at a time when, judging by my social media feed, there is renewed interest in labor issues.

A big reason for this is their reliance on a high-touch, manual onboarding process and slow, high overhead contract negotiation techniques. Prime for marketing automation, SaaS tools, chatbots, etc.

Additionally, for purely historical reasons, they have segmented the market by trade. There's no particular reason for you to follow this path, may as well help everyone get a better deal from their employer (and a cut for yourself!).
The bad news just doesn’t end for this company,does it?
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