skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By all means, if that’s how you feel, you should explore that possibility.

Fairness, values, work on smaller scales. When you get to city/state/country scale, like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, China, US do - it’s not a good strategy because your opponents/peers have no alternative but to deal with you, and unless you are going on an all out war, it’s mostly slap and tickle regardless of what you actually do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
The higher level organization required for an effort like this isn’t comprehensible to me. Like you say, hiring a single person is hard enough... how do you get it right ten thousand times over? This is mission critical stuff, too.

Honest question - do companies tend to over hire in scenarios like this, then design with loads to distribute well so if say... 25% of hires don’t work well, the job can still be done? Is that absurd?
Pay them enough to put 4 kids through private school?
You are talking about cryptocurrency, which is only one use of the blockchain concept. So far there does not seem to be any other use of blockchain except for cryptocurrency, despite so many organizations trying to figure out something else to use it for.
> I believe the best chance we have of doing that, is by gluing together the binary interfaces that've already achieved a decades-long consensus, and ignoring the APIs.

Yeah, this isn't going to fly for OpenBSD, which doesn't have ABI stability, programs are expected to use libc. Program for the API, not the ABI. The author is clever, but misguided.
Exactly! That's why it took me (the guy in the article) so many phone calls and emails with Uber before somebody admitted the bug - and I got it on tape (with their consent). Must have spent five hours dealing with support before they admitted it.

I would love if Uber trained and trusted their support staff to identify real bugs, and to escalate appropriately...I was so tempted to just go on LinkedIn, find some engineers, and message them directly.
I flew for the first time today in a Cessna 172. I had a hard time determining if I was climbing or descending by looking over the cowling and found myself frequently checking the altimeter and rate of climb steam gauges. To be fair it was mountainous terrain so there was no obvious horizon.
100% disagree.
People good at this “know it when they see it” on the “finding a product that people are willing to pay for”. They don’t find this part hard.

What is hard is keeping mistakes/ignorance marginally less fatal than the ground you gain in your successes... forever.
Technically,

You're using this word wrong.
Hi Cliff. What did you use BLISS for? Low level system stuff, or codes for astronomy?
Progressive images - see demo images a bit down the page here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/progressive-image-rendering/

It's pretty cool on the rare occasion when you stumble across a huge image on the web (think astronomy); first a low res version pops up and then you can see the top-to-bottom loading as it gets gradually replaced by higher resolution versions.
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Title implied something more Hyperionesque. Like the River Tethys.
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I recently had a need for this and didn't find a solution that worked[1] for me. This is a very simple proxy service that translates JSON data into responses that can be used in Google Sheets using ImportXML or ImportData functions. I've tried to make it as simple as possible to spin up your own on Heroku for free, or to try some examples in the example Sheet.

[1]: The main alternative I found was using Google App Scripts to add custom functions, but the problem was the recently updated, complicated, strict, and under-documented process to allow permissions for external requests from those scripts. So I preferred to have the logic outside, and use only basic Sheets functions.
Government never cuts projects because they're too expensive. They live well outside of their means.
Cost is never a consideration.
> Steam is very liberal on giving refunds even if you go over the refund gameplay hours of Flight Simulator.

That's not been my experience. I had a game which wouldn't even run on my system, and they refused to refund it. Even when the problem was documented and it obviously didn't work.

There's no effective way to dispute it either. If I did a chargeback of the game, then Steam would revoke my entire account.

Needless to say, I've not bought anything from Steam from that point, though I still use my account to play already purchased games.
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I think this is good advice only if you know someone who would be perfect as cofounder who you have a long working relationship with.

Otherwise "get a cofounder to get a cofounder" can definitely ruin a project. Am someone who went through 3 in one year, made it harder to change things, strategize, and there was always some misalignment between product, sales, and content. Find that I'm making significantly more progress as solo founder now.
This sounds like a possible analog to someone who is intelligent but doesn't really understand math or science. This person might be able to BS their way through certain fields, but could never pass a calculus exam.
I thought the link to the new York times was enough to indicate it's a crap article :D
Not loud at all. Just a background hum. However, I'm sure it's a function of the box fan motor. I have a cheap one and it's perfectly fine to sleep in the same room.
Imagine looking at this blue-transparent bag with a red light, it will appear more opaque.
It has nothing to do with benefit, if you look at my comment history you'll find I believed the same thing when the fact checking was introduced, years before working there. I've discussed this with probably dozens of people who feel the same, none of whom work at FB.

Just because you believe something is "transparently immoral" doesn't mean everyone agrees with you.
Less than 5% of the Chinese population is non-Han. I think the Manchu are the single largest minority and their language is for all practical purposes dead, along with any living distinct culture.
Nope. Because of the rep cap, you can max out your reputation gain every day without ever answering another question. All you need is a significant enough collection of old useful answers that get upvotes every day. Jon Skeet will keep his rank at #1 even if he doesn't answer another question, because he gets 200 points every day from his old answers. The only way anyone can gain on him is by getting accepted answers or bounties, because those are not subject to the cap.
My understanding is that they used to be, now they're all Cortex derivatives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryo#Kryo_5xx_Series
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Converted to heat. What's going on here is a discussion about transmission and transmittance. [1]

[1] https://www.swiftglass.com/blog/key-differences-transmission...
There is also https://github.com/igor-petruk/scriptisto which would allow you to wrap any compiled language.
That wasn’t obvious to me, as someone who had never built a Linux RAID from scratch at the time, reading the documentation on “Synology Hybrid RAID.” https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutoria...
What does this have to do with Zuck?

My issue with this story (if it's indeed true) is that the motive for"stoking fears" was entirely self serving and has nothing to do with selflessly advising the government on some blind spot.

If you recall just a few years ago he was speaking at Chinese universities, getting photo ops in front of Tiananmen Square, and even asked Xi to name his unborn baby! He was all in on fawning over China when he thought there was a chance Facebook could "get in" and then took everything back as soon as he realized it was impossible.
Cool idea. I've been trying to hack an internal dashboard for my team, is not a fancy project but is crucial for accountability. The pain is to rely on out DB or tools such as Retool to hack a simple project. I think this solves that problem. It seems to me than having a basic KV store as a service is a great thing to ease the development of simple yet important projects.

I was wondering, I hate Firebase, but why was it a pain for you?
I've been using RSSHub and it's GREAT.

It surprises me that people here fount it out so late. The project has been quite popular for years.
How on earth has that article met the "notability" threshold?
>Younger teenagers in the South West of England felt less anxious and more connected to school when they were away from it during the COVID-19 global pandemic public lockdown,

Would like to see a study like this on teenagers in the USA.
Or you can buy an older used router for ~$10 that supports FreshTomato or DDWRT, I know those support simultaneous AP and client mode. I spent a year using one for such needs and worked well on an E2500. Or buy a dedicated like OP said as it's probably less trouble and more reliable, depending on model.
I think you misunderstand the workings of true karma.
Possibly IPv6 support on both ISP and web service solves this issue.
No, it's still perfectly possible to build a fortification impervious to most or all firepower. What changed in WWII is it became possible for the entire enemy army to simply drive and fly past your fortresses; the Maginot Line is an infamous example. Against an enemy without armor or aircraft, a bastion like the one from the article is an appropriate defense.
I 100% agree with you. What can a voter do until the EFF fields a candidate? There are copyright and surveillance maximalists running both parties apparently. The DMCA, the Patriot Act, and the all the other BS seems to the type of stuff that everyone in power agrees on and no candidate that I’m aware of is trying to do anything about it.
Interesting point about the x86-64 patents expiring and the possibility of third parties making chips for that instruction set. Is it just so big and clunky that the energy is with ARM / RISC-V?
Well, when you’ve covered all the walls and the ceiling and the floor, and maxed out the frame rate and the resolution, you can start stacking displays on top of each other to get volumetric display on all said surfaces.

https://www.hackster.io/news/creating-a-3d-volumetric-displa...

Depending on how you do things, it might not require that much more data reads, memory, etc. Which is a shame, if the goal was to make the requirements much much higher :p
Useful product on the go when you are backpacking or traveling across the world or you live in a place where there's no internet.
industrial and state espionage?

Surely if you're traveling with illegally obtained classified information, that's seen as contraband.
Frankly I was just trying to get a pre-trained ELMO model deployed via Cortex. As best I could tell the problem boiled down to a failure related to installing tensorflow with gpu disabled. I am a NN noob but still, it just shouldn’t be this hard.
Let’s put things in proportion. Facebook took the place of television. Can it be effective in changing people’s minds? Yes, within a the scope of variability that they already have.

Can it turn religious people secular, Democrats into Republicans? Citation needed.
When it’s boiled to dryness, crown ether can produce peroxides that are unstable enough to explode on their own with shock or additional heat - no oxygen needed.

It’s a not-uncommon mistake to make in a synthetic lab.
Not true. If no one has capital to invest then less people will buy stocks even if expectations are high. The price of stocks also reflect the current spending power of actors in the economy.
Maybe. Unfortunately, the author didn't describe (or even think?) past the most superficial aspects so we don't know.
Based on this related article: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/17/apple-wistron-hiring-10...

The plant is going to specialize in PCB assembly. Think less about highly skilled engineers going over designs in a silicon valley campus and more like this Foxconn assembly line: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/05/iphone-assembly-line-at-f...

10,000 people that can follow basic instructions and show up to work in a warehouse isn't that hard to find in a highly populated country like India.
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I think it got me an interview once, but nothing ever came of it. In retrospect one of the questions I was grilled on in the interview was based on a SO answer I had given; it was so long ago that I didn't remember the specific point the interviewer was looking for. I didn't discover the connection until something made me revisit the answer years later.
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I remember this person, she was on Gavin McInnes podcast quite a while ago. Here is the interview:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ke4nq
Measuring Social Value (2010)
Back when all you had was minicom dialing a BBS, there was a chicken and egg problem where you needed uudecode to decode any executable you downloaded. If you did not have uudecode you were stuck. If you are unfamiliar, unencoding a file allows you to send binary data through text transmission.

Then a clever version of a DOS .COM file was posted which implemented uudecode, but it only used x86 instructions that were also ASCII characters. You could copy/paste between the --cut here-- lines into a file, save it as uudecode.com, and then get your other binaries like pkzip.
You are far from throwing in the towel, as you are here asking for direction. Its very hard to do the solo act - near impossible task you've given yourself and it seems you really beat yourself up about it.

Realize this - most successful ventures/side gigs/startups are not solo efforts and involve quite a bit of luck.

Others have made great pointers for you here. I can only add that maybe you should stop the boom/bust cycle and network to find a co-founder.
I love the use of human-readable URL's. The ability to cut the song title out and go to the Artist page (for example) is really neat. Nice work Wilson - I'll be using it!
Infinite drive space you say? Eat your heart out Stacker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics
Glad to see Gemini mentioned, I think it provides a good answer to his Document Web 2.0 idea.

Gemtext might not be as full featured as some might like, but you can always serve markdown instead.
I would bet it’s tied to the neglect of work in both real wages and respect for workers.

We no longer take pride in work. We pay people less and make them compete for the mere privilege of holding a job. Then, we tell them what to do, disrespecting their intelligence and autonomy and ability to make something they can be proud of. For the brilliance of this strategy, we pay leaders ten times more than we did before, and even more when they fail and need to be replaced—surely installing a new CEO is the answer.

It is no surprise at all.

Deming tried to lay it out for us, but no one really listened.
> What are the non-cultural factors which contribute to this phenomenon

It's simply impossible to detach Japan from their culture.

The main thing that stands out to me is their selflessness.

One anectdata: Tokyo feels pretty much the opposite of NYC. In NYC it feels like people are obstacles to avoid on the way to where you are going. Nobody waits for anybody. At first it seems rude, then you realize "it's not personal" and just assume the same stance. It's ok to quickly walk in front of someone who's not paying attention, it's ok to not say hi and just quickly ask what they want. You end up thinking a city that big and with so many people can only be that way. Then you go to Japan and are completely blown away. Everybody is aware of everyone else on the street, even if it's packed people will give you the right of way, they'll wait for you if you are distracted, they'll stop and try to help you if you seem lost, and seemingly everywhere people will be super polite. To me the difference is that in NY (and maybe the US in general), I'm always first and most important, whereas in Tokyo (and probably Japan in general), everyone is more important than just myself.

Two small stories about Japan: 1) a friend was trying to find a place to exchange some USD and got a bit lost, he asked a random person about it, this person walked my friend for 3 blocks to the currency exchange shop. 2) when going through a bus station in Tokyo, one of the escalators was closed for cleaning, when I walked by, the janitor was laying down flat on the floor, holding a special brush, meticulously cleaning the yellow metal mat at the entrance of the escalator, completely absorbed in what he was doing. I've never seen anyone, anywhere else in the world, put so much care into cleaning a public space.
Well, lost or stolen hopefully wouldn't happen if it's embedded in my hand—that's the point of embedding it in my hand!

To protect against damage—which is a very real possibility, of course—I'd put identical chips in each hand, and if one fails or gets damaged, then you'd have to rotate keys by replacing both chips.

And you could have a third identical chip/key (or a different private key on another device in a safe somewhere) as a further backup, as my sibling comment recommends.
Would be good if it showed the price for each store.
> Zuckerberg is deathly afraid of competition and he is very aggressive about protecting Facebook's stranglehold on the social media advertising market.

It is incredibly common behavior for large businesses to raise the barrier of entry for new competitors. Almost every established business does this. It's why patents exist. Mark Zuckerberg doesn't participate in this activity to an abnormal amount.
So because people get food, an essential resource to stay alive, a car isn't a class issue?
He did! On the tow and upcoming repairs. :p
Finally, you can produce a single cross-platform executable in C.

> we've basically reconfigured the stock compiler on Linux so it outputs binaries that'll run on MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD too. They also boot on bare metal
> It’s a piece of public information that can’t be stolen or used by anyone other than yourself.

The point here is that this is completely wrong. Biometrics can be stolen and they're unreplaceable. There's no device in the world that can be sure it's reading a fingerprint from a living human. Drop a quick query into Google, you'll find dozens of methods that fool Apple's TouchID and that's probably one of the more robust implementations as it makes it rather difficult to do something like replace the sensor and feed in fake data directly to the system. There's only so much you can do to tell human flesh from inanimate objects when all you have is a tiny fingerprint sensor.

> Biometrics is not transmitting a picture of a fingerprint, it’s presenting your hand.

Biometrics is read with sensors, sensors produce data, data can be copied. If you were to publish scans you would have effectively allowed anyone the information needed to fake your fingerprint and authenticate as you. That's the definition of compromise.
Appreciation of systems.

Continuous improvement, and respect for people.

They are closer to this reality than most societies. It shows.

Yet, they are not without problems, which are inextricably linked to the same culture. There are still tradeoffs.
No, this is perverse in the worst way possible.

It's incompatible with modern debuggers.

It's incompatible with shared libraries.

It's limited to a feature-poor "unified" API (that might as well be seen as a crippled VM).

It's complex in both interface and implementation. The bad aspects of Unix made even worse.

The justifications make no sense whatsoever. It wants to do future-proofing but invents an adhoc "VM" with hardcoded OS interfaces that are meant to be treated as private. For macOS, I doubt binaries will work in the next release or two, nevermind 10 years.

It's a fun toy or troll, but if you're looking at this for serious work I suggest you steer well clear.
there are more recent patents involving extensions on x86_64 which are essential for more modern processors, I believe.
So I’ve been wondering about this. In the states at least the trend in home design recently seems to have been toward big open floor plans with a couple of large spaces, a kitchen, and bedrooms.

We have no such concept as “breakout” rooms at home for studying or work, or other things that might demand privacy or focus. I certainly don’t want to go back to the “old” 70’s style home with a bunch of similarly sized partitioned rooms, but I’d like to have some small “focus” spaces or something more cleverly named, similar in concept to the breakout rooms that run along the edge off most shared professional office spaces.

Some homes have a library or home office, but I’ve yet to see a place that has two offices of equal size. Some people have converted a spare bedroom into an office - but - what if you actually need the bedroom, or in our case, what if you need two offices?

I’m sort of waiting for that to become a thing. It’d be pretty sweet.
But it doesn't work on Linux?
In the specific case of the new Flight Simulator, Valve has stated they'll be liberal with refunds[1].

[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-08-20-valve-assu...
Well, just look at this post right here: you've intentionally used an anonymous account and omitted any links to your excellent content. I bet your "lower quality competitors" would take the opportunity to link to their crap-ass content. ABC!
I thought there wasn't a reputation requirement for writing an answer?

A lot of people seem to get their start by suggesting edits that later get accepted.
On practically any linux (or mac) you can do $ python -m http.server 8080 to instantly start up a server in that directory. You can do this in multiple terminals to have multiple servers on different ports serving multiple directories. Nginx, Apache require significant configuration and reboot to apply changes. They're not at all comparable.
Sorry, maybe it is a wrong analogy. What I want to emphasize is that there is no calculating time in nature. At least, we could not feel "lag" in our "Nature Server".

For the part of chips, did you mean that it runs the "for loop" as parallel in each micro-chip (or gate or whatever tiny structure it is)?
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Haha yeah, I have the same question... normally Google Buckets are hosted under storage.googleapis.com/[your bucket] not under a subdomain...
“wilderness” is defined as places generally untouched by people at all, not land that is unused. The vast majority of the unmarked areas of that map are still unused.
> What Facebook sells is the ability to control the course of society.

You were more on target when you praised the efficacy of FB's advertising products, bleepblorp. Unfortunately, FB doesn't offer any way to control the course of society except to hasten its decline by overwhelming users with crap.

Neil Postman anticipated this in 1985, when he explained that America had not succumbed to Orwell's dystopian 1984 vision, but rather, had become something more akin to Huxley's Brave New World:

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.

Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with indulgences, trifles, and vanities."