skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I shouldn't have led with that sentiment.

The reason why I did so was because I was recently browsing an AskReddit post asking "What Movie Will you always Recommend". (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ij0ha8/what_movi...)
And as I viewed the top answers I remember thinking to myself that reddit is older than I perceived it to be, although it may just be appreciation for classics as I, too, have many 80-90s movies that i would highly recommend.

That being said, I do believe that the older demographic ruined Facebook.

Since writing the comment, I don't think it's correct to label an age demographic as the culprit but rather the rise in popularity in general, and the overwhelming effect it can have.
I know no one who has it, or had had it. One of the spouses of someone in my organization had it.

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My experience matches this to a tee. Engineers who take initiative and ownership are the ones most likely to know the function of the revenue generator's vital organs and how they interact in a system. Execs, product folks, designers, and people managers may understand at the level a 5th grader understands bodily anatomy, but the engineers necessarily must know it on a surgeon's level. For startups.

I will say though, that the executive layer above our heads is not to be totally dismissed. They do have vision into things that we can lack, namely people and culture stuff that has significant impact on the company's long term trajectory. Or maybe big acquisitions and whatever. But the people stuff is what generates all the perceivably asinine people management stuff because if you get rid of the average nonautonomous employee, you have no one left pretty much. Hiring good engineers is HARDDDDDDDDDDD unless you can just bury the problem with cash.

The best potential solve I can personally see still hinges on having the right people. For any unit of people at any scale doing anything, a leader who can effectively recognize who to empower within what boundaries feels like it's by far the most crucial thing. I'm not sure there's even a way to have a pilotable thing made of individuals without having a conductor. If you just build out the org in a way where it can be conducted and put good conductors in place then they will be able to tell you wtf is going on at the level you need to know about and effectively translate your intentions into implementation.

Feels like this is the why behind the whole "idk y'all figure it out" style of startup engineering nonleadership that's becoming common these days. People just flat out don't know what they're doing, and even when they know it, they obscure it for self-serving reasons. If you have a leader setting this example via doing anything but having technical field vision and directing as a respected and well liked military officer would, then you will have an engineering org that is optimized for bleeding money.
Most of what gets uploaded anywhere or even worse, the stuff that goes viral, has a pretty heavy selection bias. To know whether the stuff that got shared publicly tells the whole story or a misleading story, you have to know more than just what got shared publicly.

Maybe the event that everyone pulled out their phones for had some important context beforehand, but at that point it didn't look noteworthy enough to pull out anyone's phone for. Now you'll have tons of recordings of the same event, but that doesn't mean any more context than one video.

I prefer a story written by someone who was there to a story written by someone who looked through all the thousands of posts to social media, but wasn't there.
> TJ should have understood this. He was a pamphleteer after all. The rights of man is pure fiction, to quote Yuval Noah Harari. If you dissect a person, you will find no rights inside.

What a fatuous remark. If you dissect a person, will you find numbers? Concepts? Why would you ever expect to find rights in a man as if they were organs? Naturally, a materialistic view of the universe will lead you down this path, but it's such a patently incoherent metaphysics that you can only wonder about the sanity of the materialist.
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Can you elaborate on this? Does cockpit include a handful of services/sockets that must be activated in sequence? Or does it rely on other parts of the systemd constellation
Russian Soyuz rocket family still uses hydrogen peroxide for driving pumps on engines of 1st and 2nd stages - RD-107 and RD-108.

The only - notable - exception is Soyuz 2-1v, which has no boosters and the 1st stage engine is famous NK-33. That's a whole different story.
No contest: Trump harasses journalists at every rally – by now, hundreds or thousands of them. And whistle blowers? He fired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman and his brother after Vindman testified. His lackeys in the House exposed the IRS whistleblower by name.
Tangentially related -

For some reason, I love the universal impulse to throw ironic shade at millennials/Gen Z whenever a floppy disk comes up. Like, we’ve all independently decided to embrace our deepest boomer tendencies when it comes to a single innocent topic.

It’s nice.
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Good question! If SoundCloud hosts/shares all the podcasts in the planet, then it will become Audio version of YouTube & people could listen/comment.
Thank You. Will check this out.

I searched LinkedIn but could not get many hits. Any examples?
PBS and NPR are generally okayish, they certainly look good when compared to their commercial equivalents anyway... though that might be damning with faint praise. I'm not sure of these are valid comparisons to Stars and Stripes though.
Age and Minisign also don't have the ability to misconfigure them to use insecure primitives. GPG does.
Sorry, job ads are off-topic here except in the monthly Who Is Hiring? thread. Please see the FAQ:

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I’ve had the exact opposite experience. I loathe class components and convert to hooks whenever I can. Class components seem so bloated and enormous with anything but the most simple use cases.

Sometimes when I read these comments I feel like I am using a completely different library.
> https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-tr....

Yep it looks like yolobro /r/wallstreetbets is their inspiration
> open label, double-masked clinical trial

Aren't "open label" and "double-masked" contradictory?

"An open-label trial, or open trial, is a type of clinical trial in which information is not withheld from trial participants. In particular, both the researchers and participants know which treatment is being administered." (Wikipedia)

"Double-Masked Study. A type of clinical trial in which neither the participants nor the research team know which treatment a specific participant is receiving." (NIH)
there are three 'main' tabs on the app --- News, Home, Popular.. When I'm done reading News,and Home... i say to myself, "time to stupid!" and click "Popular" lol
The volumes on options are not all that large typically. So many people will put a sell to open at a high price to see if somebody really wants the option.. sometimes people will bite and it causes a big jump in the option price.. once that happens it starts other people jumping in as well (and algorithms). But you can sometimes see options that have volumes of less than 10 contracts in a day -- sometimes 0 for non popular stocks. So if softbank was buying big quantities daily that could easily run up the price. And the wild thing is that if you see a big jump in call option interest way out of the money, then people who are wondering about the underlying stock think, hmm, maybe people are aware of some upside on this stock.. I think I'll buy some more shares of tesla or whatever because the call option behavior is so bullish. So basically if you want a stock to move one direction or another you probably could manipulate most easily by buying large quantities of options on one side or the other in such a way that people think you know something that you don't.
If you ever get the notion to try again, I think you can vacuum form thick enough plastic to manage a keyboard case. Or at least with some metal as a skeleton to stiffen it sufficiently. I guess you’d have to weld (glue) mounting brackets to the back of the shell and that could be a serious pain...

Woodworking, I’m told, is a perfectly serviceable way to make a mold.
From a bipartisan group of Senators:

> We understand that DoD plans to cease publication of Stars and Stripes on September 30, 2020 and completely dissolve the organization by January 31, 2021 as a result of the proposed termination of funding in the fiscal year 2021 President’s budget. We urge you to take steps to preserve the funding prerogatives of Congress before allowing any such disruption to take place, for the following reasons.

> First, the House-passed version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2021, contains additional funding not requested by the Administration to continue operating Stars and Stripes. Second, the Senate has not yet released a defense appropriations bill, nor had an opportunity to conference with the House position, leaving it as a real possibility that Congress may not agree with the proposal to eliminate this funding. Third, the standard text of a continuing resolution – that funds are provided “at a rate of operations… for continuing projects and activities” as provided for in the previous year’s Department of Defense Appropriations Act – places a legal obligation on the Department to not act on a termination of a program until a full-year appropriations bill is enacted. We seek your written assurance that the Department will comply with this obligation and avoid steps that would preempt the funding prerogatives of Congress.

https://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/9/boozm...

Additional coverage:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/02/senators-espe...

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/bipartisan-group-of-senators...
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Strongly, why? The us is declining in lifespan, people's happiness, education, govt and this was all before covid. Cv19 failures have revealed the problems more than ever.

Europe has some issues too but they don't have the same systemic failures we have. Also, Europe can be independently successful or failing from the us.
How old were the victims who died?
Both have their places.

For me I'd rather have a good speaker talk and walk through the subject matter than read about. As I can process audio faster than text.

The other side to this is that blog posts are full of people that don't write well or who are optimizing for search engines. An extreme version of this is cooking recipe posts, but I've seen tech articles that are moving this direction.
That correlation might be reversed, though. The author of The Great Leveler makes the argument that in peaceful times, inequality almost always rises to the maximum level that society can bear. It remains that way until a destabilizing event occurs (plagues, state collapse, destructive revolution, mass-mobilization warfare) which decreases inequality (mostly through wealth destruction - the wealthy have the most to lose).

So it's possible that rather than high inequality leading to destabilization, it's the opposite: destabilization leads to decreased inequality.
I think you're looking for a "gotcha" to call critics of the Trump administration hypocrites, but you will find that 1. people are never logically or morally consistent so this is a weak point in the first place and 2. A lot of people who oppose Trump from the left share your anger with the Obama administration and see him as someone who ran on progressive values and governed as a center-right neoliberal with a penchant for military adventurism.
how is the on-disk data repaired once an error is found?

if dm-integrity returns an error to mdraid, will mdraid rewrite the error'd blocks once it determines the correct value from a mirrored copy, or via parity?
Winamp skins make me miss the fun of software circa 2000. The sun was bright and the possibility space wide open. A piece of software would come out, make huge strides in enabling a new use case effectively, leave the door open for people to make it theirs - and boy did they ever!

In the last 20 years how have software music players changed? The files come from a subscription service easier to use and with much better metadata than tracks from Napster ever did. That's awesome! Also the subscription dictates you use their hot turd of software, with dreary spartan UI and zero room for functional customization to be had. Welcome to the future, now learn to like it or get called a luddite.
I'm the same way. Videos either move too fast or too slow and generally both at the same time. That and I hate having to pause a video to view the code.

I've asked this question in other programming forums and always get a mixed response. For some people, videos are the only way to learn. For others, text is the only way to learn. And then there are many in between that choose the form of learning based on the topic.
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I admit I'm not exactly a power user, but I've never noticed US election content on Facebook even though I actually am in the US.
doesn't this tiny rocket have very low range and bad efficiency compared to a traditional helicopter engine?
the energy density of h2o2 is close to the one of a ion lithium battery (2.7MJ/Kg) vs the traditional gasoline+o2 (13.3 MJ/Kg) [1]. It seems like more a cool trick than something which can replace helicopter engines?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Refere...
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>SoftBank is responsible for the spike in gamma across the board, dumping massive amounts of money into OTM calls.

Lots of speculation that they aren't the only ones. The recent run up in TSLA looks suspicious as well; huge volume on way OTM call buying.

Here's a random reddit thread from months ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/hk7y1o/tesla_infini...
I used to remember playing with Winamp skins for hours as a kid and watching the visualisations. Loved it! This brings back memories.
I think Juan Lozano was making peroxide engines for early iterations of John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace (whose website, sadly, is now only available via web archive...)

EDIT: yes, AA is listed as a customer.
I've found the only YouTube videos I watch about programming or hacking are exactly just that. Videos recorded from a conference.
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Hypothesis testing, beyond the dumb exercises
Feminism is a western issue?

Do Russians not believe in things like equal pay, all jobs being open to women, fair divorce settlements, protection from physical abuse, access to family planning? (Honest question).
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What does “gamma” mean in this context?
If you want to be able to run inference in batches, you have to normalize to a given input size. It often means a square input size if you want to minimally distort both vertical and horizontal images.

You can also use variable input shape in production if you need to. It will be harder to optimize, especially for throughput, but it's not impossible.
/* hypothesizing */
If you're using it for NLP, your dataset (token ids) typically weighs much less than intermediate tensors. So, i see two scenarios here:

(1) distribute data chunks as you train using more conventional bittorrent systems (e.g. https://academictorrents.com but internal)
(2) since you most likely use raw unlabeled data (e.g. just text), peers can crawl it straight from the web
It's a trade-off.

The Reddit/HN format makes everything time sensitive. If the post falls off the front-page, nobody will even see your comment, the discussion immediately dies. It's completely unfit for longer form discussion over time.

Sometimes you want a forum for discussion, not just a comments section of highlight reel one-liners.
For anyone who is looking to make deploying ML models easier, I created https://deepserve.ai

You can run `deepserve deploy` on the command line and it will stand up a REST endpoint for your model. I'm also building client side SDKs to make it easier to call on these models in your application code.

It's still in beta but feel free to reach out to me jeff @ deepserve.ai
This reminds of startups founded by folks that were former executives at BigCos. Of course, it varies from person to person, but many of them reek of big business formalism that's kind of off-putting. Certainly there are pros and cons that come with that experience.
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Casting void* to uint64_t* is definitely NOT UB, as I said this would break:

uint64_t *a = malloc(8);

What you're running into in the context of your example, is breaking strict aliasing.

You're starting with uint32_t pointers, which then go through void pointers and end up being accessed through pointers to uint64_t. This breaks strict aliasing since void* can not be used to bypass it.

If you had started with uint64_t, you could go through void* and back to uint64_t without any issues.
>from their bad investments.

Do they have any good investments?

They were heavy into WeWork and WireCard. They have about $10 billion into Uber. Lots of small oddballs like investing in Wag at $300MM valuation. Lost a bunch buying bitcoin at the peak. Now this.
Thank you for this, I will look at many.
My issue with things aimed at beginners is the person teaching often doesn't remember what it was like to be a beginner. They often skip over the most basic things to know.
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I did the same only because it was cheaper to buy the set of 4 movies instead of the first 3 movies separately. I even bought an empty 3-Bluray case to just keep the 1st 3 movies.
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Which, for a variety of reasons, you should never do on a modern system. Use at least compression=zle.
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Wow, some of mine are in here. That's amazing.
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I wish this where true, but protocols aren't products. The normals want polished products. Only weirdos like us on HN care about protocols, or even know they exist for that matter.

For a protocol to matter to a normal person, it has to enable killer features that aren't currently possible.
I don't really have a stake here, and voted for Obama but he and his justice department prosecuted a record number of journalists. To quote the Washington Post "Of the 13 people who have" (ever) "been prosecuted under the Espionage Act for leaking secrets, eight were arrested under Obama's administration"
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Some people believe that if something can be judged subjectively, then it can only be judged subjectively. Modern art is often only critiqued in a subjective way, rather than objectively. But that's not necessarily always right.

For example; a good movie can be subjectively bad (you didn't like it), but objectively good (great filmography, original plot, consistent story mechanics). And vice versa.

I suppose subjective criticism is like your gut-instincts, whereas objective criticism is trying to quantify metrics which explain these instincts.

Yes, I believe you can be objectively good at anything if you practice enough and receive feedback/make an impact.

Can you be a great writer if nobody reads your work? Can you be a great artist if nobody sees your paintings? ...... I'm not sure you can be honestly good at something if there's no audience to witness it......
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I played it using a basic Soundblaster card in the 90s and it’s already amazing. Lately I used DosBox with the MT32 emulation and was blown away by how good it sounds.

Here’s an instruction on DosBox MT32 emulation if you’re curious: https://blog.zyrain.org/2016/11/roland-mt-32-and-emulating-i...

Here’s a clip of the MT32 opening soundtrack if you just want to have a listen https://youtu.be/i3dB0qEcG20
Zero Hedge prints a lot of rumors and gossip. Sometimes rumors and gossip turn out to be true.
The basic mechanism of this, in my understanding is:

1. Buy underlying shares.
2. Buy calls on those shares.
3. Market makers who sell you those calls have to buy shares in the underlying stock to hedge (they run balanced books)
4. Demand for stock rises, stock price and calls increase in value
5. Use proceeds to buy more stock and options. Rinse, repeat.

The "gamma squeeze" (which is how much the option value changes in relation to underlying stock price) refers to the part where options sellers have to hedge by buying stock. Essentially, the very act of buying calls in volume increases their value, allowing you to buy more and drive the price upwards.
I am not sure what to make of "collected clay from trees" - sap? Lichens? Seems like a problem with the translation.
Games for the “Redshift” game console in the Zachtronics game Exapunks work the same way. They copied the idea from PICO-8: https://mobile.twitter.com/zachtronics/status/10277956046744...
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Maybe that could be made to work, but if you're already committed to using a gas turbine of any sort, why not make it a turboshaft engine and build a conventional helicopter? Either way you have to pay for the expensive maintenance of a turbine engine. If a rocket-helicopter could have any real advantages (they're certainly cool, but I'm rather skeptical), it would surely be the simplicity of the mechanism making it cheaper to operate.
> Gyroscopic precession, though... Is that enough tail or do you have to be gentle changing directions in this thing?

The torque created by the tail is parallel (or nearly parallel) to the angular momentum of the rotor, so it shouldn't induce precession.
I'm not happy with it. I was reading reddit on my iPad in safari which worked really well. I could open linked articles in a new tab and go from there. About three weeks ago they made a site upgrade that broke that. Was reading via old.reddit.com but that became way too painful.

Currently using Apollo, it will let me open linked to articles, but I can't grab a link, paste it, scrape all the URL tracking nonsense off and go to the site.
Stock market feels like a big whole gambling machine at the moment, between QE and manipulation of this sort...
Haha sorry for the snark but I really appreciated your follow up! We’re thinking about hiring at our company and your framing was useful to read.
Fair warning, this is probably a ridiculous idea because I'm nothing close to a mechanical/aerospace engineer.

Would it be possible to mount the ramjets to a ring around the blades along with some sort of transmission in the ring? I'm thinking setup this would allow the ramjets to function supersonically at the edge of the structure to ensure the best airflow and limit the speed of the blades. However such a transmission might be overly complex or heavy and it's possible that the ring around the blades would cause some weird aerodynamic effects.

Thanks for obliging my curiosity!
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