skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The speed and amount are tightly coupled - it's not possible to process large amounts of data at a slow speed.

That's true (and much the same thought occurred to me), but there is still a difference between bandwidth and latency, and we use "speed" to talk about both.

Latency in its many forms has (on average) decreased enormously as well, whether we're talking about personal correspondence, fashion trends, research and development, stock trading, political speechifying, or practically anything else.

It's probably easier to distinguish between the two aspects of "speed" through their side effects.

The increased volume of information drives narrowing specialization, for example, while decreased latency increases collaboration.

Economically, you can also think of increasing bandwidth as falling distribution costs, and decreasing latency as falling distribution time[0].

So, yes, increased volume of information means that you have to absorb more of it faster even if nothing else changes, but decreased latency makes you, the human in the loop and the frequency with which you poll your information sources, the only remaining bottleneck. It also makes the dopamine hit of immediate feedback apply to ever broader contexts (thus, gamification).

So we get inane phenomena like "First post!", or two dozen voicemails left before lunch because some horrible event in your city made the national news while you had your phone turned off, or flame wars spiraling out of control over the course of a few hours, and so on.

So, yeah. Information coming at you faster isn't just about the amount of information produced or consumed in a given amount of time, it's also about how quickly you then see others' subsequent reaction/response, and how quickly others can see yours[1].

[0] This is complicated by the fact that even here we're talking about both reduced time-to-publication from automation and dematerialization, as well as the falling cost of speed-of-light distribution, getting it into the hands of people everywhere and anywhere, and into (or replacing) every link in the chain.

[1] "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." definitely applies here, but as elsewhere, isn't necessarily all that helpful.
This. With very few exceptions (content subscriptions (e.g. Netflix) and services that have a server-side component core to its functionality (e.g. Dropbox)), I avoid subscriptions like the plague.

With applications, I don't choose between more or less expensive subscription, but I'll chose your competitor who sells upfront.
I was going to answer planks too! Whenever anyone complains to me about time going to fast, I suggest planks :)
My company and team have

* a post-standup, periodic “coffee time” meeting my team has

* multiple random channels my team and also company has, with such topics as ‘allow developers to yell, all messages here must be in all-caps-rage’ as well as a literal regular random channel that has lots of memes

* an open, inclusive and encouraging culture where people promoting ideas at a team or department and possibly even company level is commonplace and encouraged.

We haven’t had much of a lack of culture and idea generation. I’m sorry you’re suggesting you’re not experiencing this.
No, I really can't see why. And like many other women in this world, I've actually experienced being called that word in a threatening way. Sound alone does not make a word scary. Context and intent matter.

As far as saying "motherfucker" - I'd expect chuckles from any students paying attention. Then class would continue. It's not like students haven't heard all of these words before.
> Could it be because it's more psychologically satisfying to some people to be able to blame their unhappiness with work etc on someone else, rather than accepting a fundamental reality of the human condition?

It's only a fundamental reality of the human condition if you're not born into wealth. So, not really fundamental at all. A fundamental component of slavery is there being a master. You're sort of ignoring that wage-slaves are in fact, creating wealth for someone else.
Not surprising since a related red seaweed or kelp Griffithsia has broad spectrum antiviral properties in very low conc. against many types of viruses incl. coronavirus.

The active compound griffithsin is a high-mannose oligosaccharide binding lectin.

Found off the coast of Japan and also Northern Pacific US, it is often thrown back into the sea when the Japanese are harvesting certain kelps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffithsin
I don't see any problem whatsoever with a journalistic organisation approaching potential sources, no. How else do you imagine this works?
Develop with KDE
But do you remember what happened to the replacement the night before Clinton was inaugurated?
Your confusion is because that you represent a niche use case, while Netflix optimizes for the masses who use Netflix so they can think less, not more.
> The employee empowerment comes naturally as they are going to lose that great job if they don't push back on anything what impacts delivery.

That's not employee empowerment, that's an employee incentive. To the extent that the person doing the tasking remains a the company and the IC doesn't when this happens, that's not empowerment.

Empowerment is an ICs ability to effect change, not whether they're sufficiently motivated to.
Fusion researchers will read that and feel like chopped liver.
The intent is probably “as many RTX as new as possible if you’re a full time researcher; otherwise most of recent GTX does fine”, but it’s not explicitly stated in the text.
Off-topic meta discussion about that second link you posted. It is an example of a fourth-level municipal domain[0], which are a relic of the past internet. Sooke is a municipality on Vancouver Island.

Sadly, new domains of this sort were discontinued in 2010. A cool relic of the internet past and massive geek cred. I remember these URLs from my childhood and they make me very nostalgic.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ca#Third-level_(provincial)_a...
>Which isn't actually easy, because you kind of gotta schedule it so that people don't take turns being alone in the office.

This is going to be one of the problems. Some people who desperately want to come back to the office do so and discover that most of their co-workers haven't. And some of those co-workers have, with management blessing, moved outside the easy "drop in for one day a week" radius.

I expect office/remote workstyles are going to be popular questions in interviews over at least the next few years.
Maybe, but it’s also possible that if you charge too little, people subscribe but don’t benefit, because they don’t use the service much.

Subscribing doesn’t necessarily imply benefitting, but the higher the price, the more correlated these are likely to be.
https://youtu.be/_yCnQuILmsM?t=71

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RluoQW0t2yQ
I believe USB host support is coming for ESP32, just not done yet.
How to Manage Your Team's Bugs
How does tit-for-tat work? Is it still enabled? I don't think I've seen it much lately.
At Microsoft there is a guy named Peter Spiro who I really looked up to, in SQL Server. His official title is Technical Fellow but he called himself Village Elder, because he worked on it since 1.0. In his own words, his job is to float around and be available to everyone in the group.
World Record Lego Great Ball Contraption Brickworld Chicago 2019 [video]
Great Ball Contraption (GBC) is a standard for building modular Rube Goldberg machines that continuously move LEGO soccer balls or basketballs from one GBC in-basket to the next using LEGO motors and programmable controllers: https://www.greatballcontraption.com/wiki/standard. This video from Brickworld Chicago last year has almost 400 GBCs with some impressively creative approaches.
The kevlar fibers don't really work in practice. Turns out you can just use a pair of shears or a boltcutter.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ah3RA0Alo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On0DGcDlc
Remember that for cryptographers, "practical" or "broken" doesn't really mean "everyone can do it", and AFAIK there has only been one publicly released collision pair for SHA1, which also took an enormous amount of time and money to find.

Even MD5, for which you can generate colliding blocks in seconds on an average PC, is still quite resistant to preimage attacks.

In other words, even after spending the resources to find a colliding block, you'd also need to create both files with the same hash, and can't simply collide existing torrents' files and replace them with malicious ones.
I‘be been using AI Dungeon in GPT-3 mode all day. It’s insanely addictive. I’ve run into trouble a few times, but it’s usually due to badly constructed scenarios.

My biggest success so far is making the original prompt a Wikipedia article intro and letting GPT-2 consume that. I have subsequently been leading my “character” through random made-up books, and the game tells me what is in the books.

I showed my wife and she started cracking up. I asked her what she wanted to learn about. She asked me for a pasta recipe. I prompted, “You feel hungry. You open a book titled ‘How to Cook Pasta’ and turn to the chapter with the heading, ‘The best pasta recipe in the world’. It started giving me a real, doable recipe! Our minds were blown. I then immediately proceeded to ‘read’ a book about Albert Camus, which caused it to get stuck in a loop for a bit lol
> Selective reading of texts

The source is given. Anyone can read the full text. The book is available on Amazon and Google Books.

> modern Hindus that do not believe in any of these

There is reason to believe that caste based discrimination is still followed.
Recent example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083
I thought Netflix was the company that, in another thread, it was mentioned that 2 years later, anyone below “above average performance” was let go.

How many long vacations can a small subset of the company continue to take while still delivering ‘above average performance’ relative to other employees they experience the regular fears of taking vacation that come with unlimited vacation?
I think it is different than CSS here. With CSS I could never really understand how it worked and each new browser released introduced new concepts that added more and more corner cases to the mix. On the other hand, with shell scripting after a while I got a decent mental model of how things worked. It is just that there are some bad design choices that make it very easy to shoot yourself on the foot.

For example, word splitting "feature" of POSIX shell is the source of many of the pitfalls in the list and the solution in those cases is always the same -- always quote your variables.

By the way, check out Shellcheck if you haven't already. It can detect many of these common pitfalls and the error messages have a link to the explanation so it also works as a learning tool.
Just going to guess that whichever location the team has the most people and wherever manager works from become the places where big decisions are made and promotions come from.

I've worked remote when the rest of the team is in an office, and it's definitely not for all positions/teams.
The (feigned or insular) offense seems to be an American phenomenon, but ears perking up doesn't imply offense. Rather it implies attention, attention which should be followed by learning.
my take on wfh trend is that it turns the workers office into a gig economy and by 2021 having a job with an actual office in the same metro will be a perk. Then the start of a new cycle will begin.
Ada arguably is a system programming language and it supports named parameters.
Fuck Western Digital!
IYI.
Subscriptions for purely software updates seem like a steep price hike over buy once and get updates for a long time. I really don’t like how devs are under the guise of we need to make a living and start charging subscription for such. I won’t buy that unless is totally indispensable
Yes, they do, since as the commenter I replied to points out, otherwise you're either pricing yourself out of, or leaving money on the table in, some markets.

The cost of mobile data in the USA is 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than in India, for example. You can't charge the same for some mobile app subscription in both markets and not lose out vs. discriminating.
Well, bear in mind that as a DECie, I was being fed information by DEC. The story on EasyNet (a social media system for 200,000 workers in DEC's famed "matrix management") was that Reorganization allowed them to finish SPARC and that led to a highly successful IPO but by 1989 they were floundering due to the difficult customer transition process (from 680x0 to SPARC). But also worth noting, in October 1987, the stock market had its first significant "correction" since 1929 which really hurt DEC stock that, at that time, held the same position in portfolios that AAPL does today and it never recovered. The primary beneficiaries of DEC's collapse were the PC manufacturers building Windows NT "servers". SUN survived with DEC's old Engineering/Science/Academia/FinTech customers and eventually found its way back when the Internet took off (only to later be beaten by PC manufacturers allowing LINUX installs).
No it can't. There have been many attempts and they don't work. The Born rule is independent of unitary evolution. The closest one can get is to declare that the quantum state is fundamentally a statistical object (i.e. the only information in it is observation probabilities) and then with certain assumptions about the size of the state space you can show that the Born rule is the only possible rule for connecting the state to statistics consistent with the unitary dynamics.

So under the assumption that the state encodes probabilities, state space assumptions and consistency with unitary evolution you get the Born rule. However this is not the same as the Born rule arising dynamically from unitary evolution alone.
Because then people will get REALLY grouchy about ads.

In addition, it gives people a solid measure over which to sue you. If you aren't delivering, you're headed to court.

The ISPs like all the vagueness.
Do you work satellites?

I'm just getting started in this world.

A QSO finishes and everyone keys at once to get in.

Aaah, interesting. I've never been around one of those situations and it never occurred to me that enough people would be doing something this niche at one time for that kind of jam-up to occur.

Thanks for the heads-up. I guess maybe I'll look at investing in a real full-duplex radio at some point. Probably a mobile though, not an HT. Getting a decent mobile rig for my truck is next on my ham wish-list anyway.
I really appreciate this approach. I thought about charging a low rate of $1/month, but with Stripe
processing fees of $0.30 + 2.9% and Memberful fees of 4.9%, I was going to be charged something like $0.38, leaving me $0.62 per $1.00 transaction.

Have you found a way around this or just accepted the essentially 38% tax on those $1 monthly transactions?
BitTorrent uses TCP properly instead of implementing a poor version of TCP using UDP which is why it is much faster than eDonkey.
Nnerthercote own the best blog on performance profiling that I've ever seen, congrats to your huge skill set, Firefox, chromium, and programming languages need more people like you.
Do the people in charge of this in the US government have any clue? Quite possibly they don't. They may not understand the market reality that MIPS is a shadow of its former self. And they may think that CPU architectures are some kind of black magic that China is incapable of inventing on their own.

Even if the lower level staff have a good understanding of reality, that could easily be lost in the transmission by the time it filters up to the senior level
My discovery of Clojure followed by my discovery of Ruby's Lisp roots.
I have a similar solution for insomnia. "You haven't run enough miles".
I realise that, I meant that as the usual response that clearly doesn't apply to your case.

What I'm not clear on is why you don't work out the correct region & pricing on the customer's behalf; why you leave it to honesty?
You would need to create a colliding pair (because the single existing one is so well known), itself not a simple thing, and create the two executables specifically with additional code discriminating between the two pairs to do two different things. You can't replace existing files with this attack, which means you'd have to create your own Linux distro with this extra "feature" and can't attack existing ones.
This was when d3 was v3.5. I did a lot of experimentation but also simultaneously read multiple blog posts for the smallest things.

On top of my head I can remember these:

1. https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki

2. Jerome Cukier blog posts

3. dashing d3 js

4. https://alignedleft.com/work/d3-book
I actually replied to that comment and pointed out that it was completely wrong. There are no performance reviews like that.

And most people take the long vacations because everyone else is.
I am not a physicist but isn't it an instance of "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics"?

The measurement problem, which deals with collapse is still unsolved. It is also the reason why there are so many weird interpretations of quantum mechanics and that even top physicists can't agree on one. In fact the same physicists tend to sweep the problem under the rug and instead focus on the equations that, to be fair, did a lot more to science and technology than trying to solve the measurement problem.
Netflix, Adobe etc. would never be able to go with what's essentially a "pay what you like" or "pay what you claim you earn" subscription if that's what you're getting at. Isn't there something more practical than this?
You've focused on the employee and not the employer.

Of course, the employer's wishes for the (hard to measure) productivity of the employees lead to->Employers profitability->Employee salaries+opportunities.

I think in your list of types of roles, the only one who may be helped by WFH is the developer who works on concrete tickets. The lack of cohesion, creativity, etc by these all remote teams is palpable to me.
Leftists are trying to change the Spanish language because all nouns are gendered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_Spanish
The Affinity line of apps are also pretty great, and have (I think) full feature parity across desktop and iPad.
To echo one of responses to the blog post: What a niggardly (and just plain ludicrous) response to what could only have been an entirely innocuous coincidence.

Not too long from now, USC will look back on this episode with a profound sense of regret and embarassment.
No you're not.
How to modernize your captive network
>Other choices here are OpenVPN, WireGuard and, possibly, IPsec

or, get a better ISP? not all technical problems need a technical solution.
DMT, the businessman's high.

48 years ago in high school I smoked some weed laced with DMT and it was one of the best experiences I recall, just too short, like 15 min.
Of course! You can choose to charge anything you want, not only for your product but for your salary too! There is no law, man-made or otherwise preventing you to do so. Actually there is a law preventing you to charge too little for your own work but it is what it is.
I already have a symmetric line. I can upload at full line speed to other things. It's only torrents that seem to have a problem.
I think the TLDR is that Western Digital are selling faster drives marketed as being slower than they actually are, presumably due to lack of supply for the demand of the slower drives part of the market or something like that.

You'd think nobody would mind until you remember some people want lower power and noise.

Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for them, if that's what they really wanted, but I don’t know if that’s on the data sheets.
This is silly. Are you actually saying that bittorrent was hyped so much that constituting half the internet was a letdown? And that Perl didn't live up to its hype because it's only common today, and not as universal as it once was?
I don't get the use case. We already have Base32. We already have human-readable Base32 (Crockford's flavor). And Crockford makes the better tradeoff by addressing I/1/l ambiguity instead of U/V. We don't need a new hex format either. I don't get why this exists.
There's also Real Time Java

https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/javase/J...
I would expect them to use their brains and understand that this is a word in a foreign language that has a completely different meaning than the offensive word in their own. Is that too much to ask for?
Ask HN: Confusing UI for Firefox on Android
Is anyone else completely confused by the new Firefox Android update. The url bar at the bottom made me not want to use it anymore, but that was only 2-3 clicks to fix.

The tab handling is worse and I cannot get it to be any better.
If you hold a meeting, suggest using a memo? Or just ask your manager if they'd consider it? There are many ways to affect change within an organization.
An approach to captures and variable resolution in F#
GPT-3 Objectively does not reason about anything, thats the point, it emits patterns.
As the article points out it was a comparison that existed before he even entered into the presidential race in 2016. I was always reminded of a Hitchens interview in the early 90s, and the close connection between a sort of "putting the country back on it's track and run it like a business" rhetoric and fascism[1]

A somewhat more obscure version of this archetype is Armstrong in the Metal Gear series, Kojima really was oddly prophetic with some of his games.

[1]https://youtu.be/j1MynYJDyE0
> well humans can certainly deal with a lot of halting problems

Could you give an example of a halting problem that humans can solve?

> it appears fairly likely that intelligence isn't just computational, or at least not simply computational in the way turing machines are.

Do you have supporting evidence?
I agree somewhat, but sadly I think it's stuff of decades maybe hundreds of years for culture & language to go and take more root, here in Brazil there was already a phenomenon of very close information control, semi-monopolies in communication, so, you know, the instrumentation of ignorance & misinformation here found veeeery fertile soil, people lost their shit.. I'm kinda into stoicism too so it's like "yeah you can't force ppl and getting stuff is complex so it's slow", and yes I'm into "persuading", I'd call it "communication" instead though, add to that you'll probably have less 'communication power' than the opposing forces for long periods if not always.. so, it's an spectacular challenge
The point about prompting also applies to the GPT-2 counterexamples Marcus published earlier this year, and conspicuously fails to discuss in this one, BTW.
I'm still using uTorrent 1.8.4 inside WinXP VM. It's what I use for past 10 or so years because it works and still works.
Thanks for the post, it was very good!

It would be great if you could add something about the hardware requirements of the reinforcement learning and video prediction.
Maybe I should apply to WD and fill my resume with things like “25-years-class experience as distinguished-class engineer-class for HGST-class employer”.
> The first thing you’ll notice is that people are much more willing to make a one-time purchase.

This X 100

I would rather pay you $50 with a major update every year that costs $50 than $50/yr subscription. Because if the resubscription comes up and things are a little tight I lose access to the app. Or if I don’t use the app I don’t have to worry about accidentally autoresubscribing
I wish Amazon had forums instead of their awful review system. They'd have a Facebook level moderation problem but customers would be served better. Good companies with good products would also benefit.