skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I plan to solve them by prepping for tasks more (doing some of my own PM/BA work ahead of time, so I'm more aware of the roadmap), then being sure to pad the estimates more but also back it up because I will have thought the stories through more.

One thing that seems really strange to me, and I think will seem really strange to future generations... is the paternal tone of just about everyone regarding tech these days. The cherry-picking and bad faith arguments are almost insane sometimes.
It's not unthinkable that it could be the result of a hoax, and I admit that there aren't a lot of examples of documents even remotely like the VM, but I still think that an Occam's Razor approach would rule out a hoax.

How likely is it that someone (or even some group) trying to perpetrate a hoax would come up with a method which was not only undetectable by analytical tools available at the time but also by tools that wouldn't be invented even centuries later? I suppose we should compare it to the invention of the Vigenère cipher, in the 16th century, which was only broken in the 19th century.

Conversely, we have examples of texts written in forgotten languages which were later translated / remain untranslated, and we don't / didn't assume them to be hoaxes (assuming they obey Zipf's Law). We also have examples of people inventing new written languages for spoken languages that didn't have a (known) written form, so I think Occam's Razor would support the hypothesis that this is what happened with the VM.
I mean what do you expect when you're buying the generic store brand option that is exclusively sold from China.
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In another window I have a thesaurus open looking for a word that conveys only the subset of meanings of respect that don't intersect with approval, something that captures the fascination, the horror of the carnival barker personality and the way we are seduced and bamboozled by their spectacle of bullshit.
I think we have to admit that we actually enjoy aspects of this seduction. We love listening to a raconteur, stories of a con man, but the rock star we love from a hundred feet back in the throng of the crowd, smells like their own urine up close. I think if we're going to find a way to build a society wide immune response against bullshit we need to be honest that we enjoy a performance, and a sure fire way to improve a performance is to unshackle it from the constraints of reality and integrity.
Honestly I've never lived in a house or apartment that gave enough hot or cold air to the right rooms. Even with baffles open or closed, there are always super hot rooms and super cold rooms. This is exacerbated by having a high power PC (or, before 2020, a party with a lot of people).
Worked Directly for a fortune 100 CEO.

His attitude on advertising was it was better take all the money, put it in a pile and burn it.

Had positive things about superbowel ads, but dissed everything else
“If you can piss while you walk, why not shit while you run?” —Aesop
Phenomenally off-topic...

For mine, which I've variously ranted about before, it's the lost opportunities:

Yes, South Australia has (had?) the biggest lithium-ion battery in the world, but the Federal Government pooh-pooh'd it as useless (comparing it to the Big Banana, a third-rate "tourist attraction" in Coffs Harbour).

Yes, one Australian Government proposed a National Optical Fiber network, but the Government that got voted in at the next election walked back the commitment to ninety-something percent optic fiber population coverage to "no new fiber (to the home)", "some new copper, some existing", and "existing coax". As such, Australia's "internet speed" rankings continue to decline on the world stage - this will only contribute to the country's "brain drain" given what the near-future economy will be based on, and where the money will be made.

Australia is a vast country full of unusable land that receives an abundance of sunshine, and the Federal Government has been actively avoiding and down-playing renewable energy in favour of coal and gas. (Yes, coal and gas must still form part of the mix, but there's not a lot of forward thinking going on about what comes next).

There's also the potential that the Australian Government is breaching the Public Service Act as regards employment conditions[2].

Australia's healthcare system is wonderful, yes, testament to the leadership of the kind of politician that no longer exists.

Australia's COVID "success" is thanks to, in no small part, the remote-ness of the country. Our borders with other countries is thousands of kilometres of ocean, so the airports and sea-ports are the only areas that need external security (and "they" - Federal and State Government - still managed to fumble that pretty hard, see Ruby Princess Cruise Ship[0]).

Australia's decades of prosperity is a result of pure geographic luck. Australia is mineral rich. You could have set certain rules on auto-pilot over the last three decades and the end result would have looked wildly successful. If you're interested in how Australia's mineral wealth has been squandered, see [1].

[0]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-23/coronavirus-across-au...
[1]https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/federal-budget-hangover-peter...
[2]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-10/contractors-and-the-p...
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You can still protect your artillery, although it's more complicated. You may need to position melee units tactically so that they and their zones of control [0] prevent enemy units from easily (and quickly, during a single turn) reaching your artillery units. Using terrain tactically not just to get a defensive edge in combat strength but also to make your ranged units less easily reachable to enemy melee units may also become even more important.

What I find most difficult about protecting your artillery in Civ 5 is attempting to siege cities with units that have a range of 2, because they'll be vulnerable to bombardment from the city no matter what.

But yeah, the artillery is more vulnerable in Civ 5. You can counteract some of that.

[0] https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Zone_of_control_(Civ5)
And proud of it, apparently...
What settings are you playing on? A game of 4 on normal speed usually takes me 3 or 4 hours, and that's usually for space race, domination wins would be quicker.

I don't micromanage everything unless I'm trying to hit a record early date, usually I'm paying to attention to one aspect of the game at a time, trying out different strategies.

And you can always just play the openings, usually everything is pretty much decided in the first 50 turns and after that it is just a matter of how much sleep you want to lose playing out the inevitable.
NaNs and infinities are not the hard cases.

The hard cases are big exponents and large numbers of decimal digits. In general, it requires arbitrarily large integers (OK, OK, up to the maximum size of a double ~2^1023) and long division on said large integers. Denormalized is a pain for sure.

Did this recently. https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/master/aeneas/src/vst/...
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Given the greatly improved TLB hit rate, I sort of wonder if the test isn't abusing the code enough. Does this change the inflection point where throughput falls from trying to run too many tasks in parallel or sequentially? 2% response time won't do much, but 10% higher peak load would change quite a few priorities on a lot of backlogs.
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Festina lente.

Or Latin for "make haste slowly."

Augustus deplored rashness in a military commander and one of his favorite phrases was such that "that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente
Because they don't have the same zero point. 16 deg Celsius on the thermometer is 60.8 deg Fahrenheit, but if you're measuring difference, you have to do 16 - 0 C = 60.8 - 32 F = 28.8 F. Or to make it clear, 16 going to 32 C is 60.8 F going to 89.6 F, also a difference of 28.8 F.

Or just do 16/5*9 without adding 32, so you'd get 28.8 F.
Placing Neuralink and Boring on the list of successful companies is a bit premature.
There's a significant difference between adhering to content guidelines and paying a company $1,000,000
> Tesla's PE is ~200 IIRC

TSLAs PE is 896 as of market close today (371.74/.4140) and had a PE of ~1213 at its ATH price of 502.49/share
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Believe it or not, it’s possible to have something that’s simple to use at first, but as you go deeper, you learn and configure. That idea is what some on this thread refer to as “sane defaults,” but it seems that every Emacs user refuse to change; Some even look down on people who don’t want to put in the effort. IMHO it reeks of smugness and elitism.

I’ll concede that one can be extremely productive using Emacs or Vim, but the steadfastness to refuse to adapt to changes in how most developers work isn’t going to help win any arguments.
This is also a good intuition for why Brownian motion (frequently used to model stock prices) does not have a derivative! If you imagine zooming in on a stock price, with each successive zoom closer it remains self similar, looking perpetually like a noisy stock chart. One of the basic assumptions of derivatives is that as we zoom in on a smooth curve the more that curve resembles a straight line. This doesn't hold true for fractal structures like the coast of Britain and stock prices.
Bill Gates was like Michael Jordan while running Microsoft
How funny. I have always hated the "orders" mechanic in war games and other board games. How does it make sense as a mechanic? Ok, I can't move this infantry unit because two other infantry units already moved this turn. It's such a strange restriction. There's plenty of constraints in battle, but this limit is so strange.
Yup! I had the same problem too. It was 'fixed' in jq 1.6, such that it now assumes `.` is the filter if no program arguments are provided [0].

It happens all the time with anything systemd or networkmanager too

[0]: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.6
The Boring company was also a fraud the way it was originally presented. Musk sold it as this unique new technology they were making, when in reality they had bought some 3rd party machines and flown them in from China.
I think there are free PIC assemblers but no free C compilers. All the tools needed to actually load code onto the chip are either proprietary or don't work with the modern programmers.

No great loss in my opinion. PICs are old and slow, and the C programming experience is much worse than an STM32.
> I'm personally sick of yet-another-config-formats. Why did designing metaformats become cool?

I can't seem to find a date for it, but I think TOML is pretty old, so probably predates a lot of these YACFs.

I think that the problem is that it's such an easy workflow:

1. No existing config format is perfect. Look at this should-be easy thing I want to do that isn't easy!

2. Create a new format that makes the desired should-be easy thing actually easy.

If you have one or two pain points, then it's really easy to address them, and your life gets so much better for a little while. If you're lucky and you're a good YACF designer, then your life gets so much better for quite a while—and, by the time you realise why the design isn't perfect, you're already invested in it.
> I've seen conversion rates as high as 30% and it's typically pretty affordable.

Just 30%? Pfft. Just wait until they become a customer, and then advertise to them. Bingo, 100% conversion success. Best way to do it? Advert on the conversion page. Customer pays money, you show them an advert, 100% relationship between the advert and conversions, sterling job, and you cut out the middleman because it doesn't need a third party agency to do the placement, so it's affordable even after your fees.
Completely random junk 100%.

Need creation is not a benefit.
I don't see how this is supposed to work? Let's take "grep" for example -- you want both of these to work, and print color to terminal:

grep box file.txt
grep box file.txt | grep -v orange-box

Having --color=always is nice sometimes, but there is a reason grep has "--color=auto" and it is the default. If we write invisible characters to file, this breaks all sorts of tools, so it is much safer and more predictable to not include them.
I registered a domain name that’s basically just a UUID, and pointed it’s MX records to my self-hosted email server (you could also point it to Google Apps or Fastmail).

Everything before the UUID domain is just the name of the service, so something like hackernews@e913ff00...xyz. If someone sells out my email address, I can instantly burn it by just adding a sieve rule since they’re all unique. I even know who sold it based on what name I picked before the @ symbol. This has been working out pretty well for me so far.
Geez, on a website which URL has the word "science" in it, by a senior writer. Quite pathetic.
Things get murky in this area (or perhaps not, the lawyers will figure it out in time).

If Facebook is only using something like a hash of an email address in order to target ads at specific Facebook users at the request of one of their advertisers, they are probably only acting as a data processor for a very specific purpose that might be acceptable for both Facebook themselves and the advertiser under the GDPR rules.

If Facebook does anything else at all with that data, their role probably changes from a GDPR perspective. The hash is personal data, since by definition it's being used to identify a specific person. If Facebook is using the data they have associated with that hash -- for example, anything they know about the business that provided it -- to build up more of a profile on their users, they are probably now a data controller, possibly as well as a data processor in connection with the original targeted ad process. Then you get into questions about whether Facebook's users have given their suitably informed consent to Facebook or there is some other lawful basis for whatever processing is happening.

Obviously if businesses were providing actual email addresses to Facebook or if Facebook were using that data to do things like building shadow profiles on non-Facebook users, that would be another level entirely. And AFAIK, the custom audience tools on marketing platforms like Facebook typically do accept directly uploads of literal email addresses, phone numbers or other identifying details for the audience to be targeted, so maybe the discussion about hashing above is all moot anyway.
Waze laying off 5% of workforce; Will close some sales offices
That's great but the vast majority of people can't access your site. Btw if you are recommending your own service it's considered a courtesy to state your connection.
> The guy certainly seems to have a problem with telling the truth.

I actually disagree with this take but it gets close to the problem with Trevor Milton. Trevor is very unpolished. I'm skeptical of how detailed he gets with all the in's and out's with the technologies he's trying to innovate and make more efficient. What's going for him is a few things, he's partnering with many companies which means he's mitigating the company's risk. Now that Musk created the market, others want to join in and try whatever route that sticks.

Musk on the other hand, speaks in more precise words when describing a topic. Musk does sell vaporware but...eventually (behind 'schedule') Musk delivers. This lazy focus on manifesting a specific vision what what Musk is doing. He'll let the entire engineering department go, if they aren't willing to work hard at making the future a reality.

Going full circle, the energy density of hydrogen fuel cell is the future. I don't see how it's not. All you need now is for Toyota to join forces with them and you'll have an unstoppable force that will help reduce emission drastically and at a large scale. The technology is very close (1, maybe 2 iterations away) and I doubt they are far away from a breakthrough. I don't believe Milton could've focused on Hydrogen semi's prior to the success of Tesla, he doesn't have that skill but...he's making due with what he's after. He's also being wise at selling electric trucks too because the market is primed for it (read: Musk primed it).

In conclusion, there are a lot of investors deep into Nikola. If Milton gets in the way of bringing this realistic engineering challenge to market, the investors will change it up. I'm not certain of how much voting say that Milton has but...it's a good sign that he stepped back from CEO role. He's way too sloppy with his words but...he brings the hype and investors are still wanting his hype. It's messy but nothing worth doing is ever blameless.

P.S. I don't own either stock. Nor any energy/battery/car/electric stocks. I'm just interested in advancing our technology.
People have been wailing about chess being dry and full of draws and memorized openings for a century now. Capablanca wanted to swap bisbops and knights to reset opening theory, and Fischer wanted to just randomize the starting positions. I'm probably missing some other people.

All of these attempts failed, because of several reasons:

1) The aforementioned problem of memorizing openings and accumulating draws only occurs at a very, very high level. Even if you're a GM you won't prepare at the level Carlsen et al. do, memorizing entire 30-move games they had against each other twelve years ago.

2) Opening theory moves on and playstyles evolve. AlphaZero shifted the mood from conservative, materialistic, 'computer-like' play to a highly dynamic style that puts an emphasis on piece activity. Just like when we think we got most things figured out, new breakthroughs show we've only barely scratched the surface of what the game has to offer.

3) Most chess players don't see the abundance of draws as a problem. I think it is specifically an American sentiment - in a country where you're either a winner or a loser, the game's failure to rank its top players can be frustrating.

4) Most players see preparation against their opponent as part of competitive play. Think of it as a kind of metagaming. Changing the rules would completely reset that.

5) There's a good chance that any change of rules would aggravate White's marginal first-move advantage. It doesn't matter what the computer says, what matters is how humans play it and how it reflects in the winrates among humans.

That doesn't mean the variants are bad or useless though. Bughouse and suicide chess are crazy fun
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This does not at first glance seem exceptionally better than what Tesla can presumably do with their vehicle telemetry.
I know it's not actually relevant. But what a horrible website to read. The grey text is soooo lacking contrast on the white.
The most charitable thing I've seen is some of the videos that came from when Trevor invited several popular Tesla oriented YouTube and Twitter personalities to Nikola HQ for a day long tour and Q&A. Sean Mitchell in particular has a pretty even handed take.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6R5PuEl028

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9arSTJLsa_8
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"The supreme court is of the opinion that general welfare "has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the Government of the United States or on any of its Departments.""

Well, that's ironic, as it goes against a plain reading of the Constitution.

Strict constructionists must be rolling in their graves.
Not OP, but I periodically swap my mouse hand, and that seems to be enough change to ward off my long-standing wrist issues. That and a proper mechanical keyboard with decent travel in the key stroke are necessary for me to do this long term.
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2080 Super / 2080 Ti. Really seems like you need to be pushing the cutting edge to justify a top-end consumer CPU. If you're spending the money on a 2080 Ti class of card, then you should also be spending money on the best CPU to drive it, though when you're at the top-end the money/performance ratio starts getting significantly more biased towards the money side.
Interesting article, thanks for sharing.

> Development on the word processor called Microsoft Word for DOS was started by Richard Brodie and others in 1982

Wasn't it rather Charles Simonyi and others?
Yes. Thank you. You are of course correct, and I appreciate you pointing that out to me. Make them holy and sacred.
> Doesn't the job of a CEO basically come down to:

> 1. Don't (permanently) run out of money

> 2. Get a bunch of capable people together and organized

> By those measures, he's killed it repeatedly.

The problem with fraud and lies is not that they don't work. They work great. That's the entire reason people do them.

The problem is that they stop working after a while.

The dream scenario for fraudulent fundraising is that you make so much money with your pitch that you can make your lies a reality before too many people catch on.

As anyone who is familiar with kickstarter knows, it rarely works out that way.
IP is a configuration option for most server software, it’s just that it usually needs to be set to 0.0.0.0 and that is the default anyway so most admins just leave it out.
couple more small copy suggestions:

- In large top image of dashboard, tab says "Reccuring" ("Recurring")

- "security right out-of-the-box" (not typically hyphenated)

- "Custom to-do's lists" ("to-do lists")

- "Integrated per-transaction pricing we don’t charge different rates for different credit cards." Should there be a period after "pricing"?

- you don't have consistent usage of the serial comma (or lack thereof)

- "...designing OpenUnit from the ground-up" (not hyphenated)
That's what ShowHN is for. You should try submitting it as a ShowHN instead, I guess.
> It's not the same language, so why should he expect the semantics to be the same?

It's a bit like discovering that inline C in your favourite non-C language isn't actually semantically correct C. If you're a mathematician, then you know, intimately and fluently, how math is spoken and written, so seeing something that looks exactly like "inline math", but isn't, is jarring.

(I don't get angry over it, but it is exactly counter to the extremely delicate and precise way mathematicians train ourselves to think about '='.)
Take any important battle in history and try to represent it in a tiled world and you will get a death stack.
Yikes, I haven’t kept up with it much clearly.

But yeah, there’s a valid non-malicious reason to believe Tesla is overvalued.
The level of marketing fluff in TFA is just unbearable.
They were hiring on a "Who's Hiring" thread recently as well
At the time handwriting was being taught in school, elbow problems (complications from hemophilia) made handwriting quite painful, so I was using a (silent, electronic) typewriter for in-class assignments.

Needless to say, typing handwriting assignments does nothing to improve handwriting!

Nearly forty years later, I still haven't learned to write in cursive, and my lower-case printing is either illegible or painstakingly slow. So, with the exception of single-character mathematical variable names, upper-and-small-caps it is.