skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love these papers. In my undergrad (2008?) we read one by Robert Bixby (and others?) on integer programming, where IIRC the authors measured a 10000x speedup over some number of decades because of algorithmic improvements.

You can roll your eyes at constant-factor speedups for NP-complete problems, but in the real world these can (and, IME do) turn some problems from intractable to tractable, or from "go and get a coffee" to "interactive HTTP call".

That said, I suppose if you compared the resource requirements for playing Go to a certain level, the advancements in ML rather beat out the old-school optimisation algorithm progress. Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but that's not super important if you're willing to settle for suboptimal solutions.
I like the accessibility and non-intrusive nature of extensions sometimes and was happy to discover Rumin.

I've been going berserk since last week with a custom hack on top of Rumin (https://github.com/jhlyeung/rumin-web-clipper) that was recently posted on HN.

Rumin discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461070
The PDP-1
Maybe provide some options:

- Default to an automatic resubscription for (say) 50-75% of the current list price

- Consent to OAuth2<->Google ("one-time blahblahblah"), and retrieve perpetual payment info that way

- Accept Store receipts (capturing all email headers and keeping all PDFs for cross-comparison... meh)

I wonder if you should send 2 warning emails or 3. ("action required" "your account will automatically be subscribed unless...")

This is maybe a gray-ish pattern, but would convert some percentage of users to a higher ongoing subscription level. This sounds like a line-of-business type extension, so that percentage may be marginally appreciable.

Perhaps combat the boringness aspect of the store-receipt process by sending solicitation emails ASAP to get that rolling.

And, hrm, anticipate refunds. :(
On the other hand, she seems to have been studying consumer goods for the past decade https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/211366... Not that that means she's right, but presumably she's done some research.
That project sent me down a rabbit hole learning about CRDTs. I'd love to learn more about the history of the Notes implementation. Who did it? What background did they have? Their "topotext" construct is similar to RGA, but different from any paper that I can find. I think it was invented by the developers.

The drawing thing I did because it was interesting - the kind of data that would be fun to have to play around with character / shape recognition. I export it as SVG for my "notes2html". But since my output doesn't take into account the pen angle, pressure, and velocity, it isn't going to be as good as Apple's PNG.

The actual raw data for the stroke is a series of PKCompressedStrokePoint structures that contain timestamp, position, radius, aspectRatio, edgeWidth, force, azimuth (scaled radians), altitude, and opacity.

I had to look at disassembled libraries to figure that part out. Peeking at PencilKit again with Hopper makes me think that the structure layout may have changed since I wrote that code.
It's not like <insert business i don't like> shouldn't be subject to tyranny from government imposition
Not all coconut trees are the same. And also harvesting coconuts are dangerous job. The established coconut farms (and backyard trees) are very tall, combining with too many heavy fruits, it's an incident waiting to happen both for harvester and people on the ground. So the safer way to harvest coconut is to climb to the top, tie a rope, saw the fruit branch and rappel. I can't say for Thai's method, though you can't just use a long stick and cut the fruits.
And stardew valley
That’s not correct. For a long time, Boeing and Airbus had wildly different philosophies about how aircraft should be flown. I’m not going to pick a side as there are trade offs to both approaches, but there were a LOT of teething problems with the Airbus approach. I think we’ve settled down now and have a better handle on how to train for either approach. Of course, Boeing has also picked up (or been forced to adopt) pieces of the strategy used by Airbus.
Shit I live in the #3 housing cost city in the USA and after 8pm I can get precisely zero decent restaurants to deliver in any amount of time. Domino's will deliver at 9, but the same is true in the boonies.
"Insomnia" can even be a sign of healthiness. It is often to see people experiencing a smaller need sleep while on ketosis/low-carb diet. I've been sleeping 5-6 hours every day for the past 2 years and although it bothers me (because I liked to sleep a lot and still enjoy it), I don't feel tired all day. Usually I also take a 30minutes nap around 1pm.
I'm off to bed for the evening. If I haven't addressed your comment specifically, I'd like you to know that I did read it. Thank you everybody for your kind words. I hope I addressed nearly everything people asked about even if I didn't reply directly to every comment; there were a lot of good questions!

I have not read all the way down the over 800 comments, and if you shared kind words or asked a question outside this thread, I apologize if I missed it.

I'm honestly astonished at how much this seems to have resonated with a lot of people. If it's not blindingly apparent by my comment, this was the last thing I expected to see at the top of HN on a Monday morning!

If you're trying to learn woodworking or are interested in learning it, I'd encourage you to do so. We all started somewhere, and for me that was struggling mightily to get a board flat with a hand plane in an evening class. My first dovetails were as rough as anybody's. Whatever you want to build, go ahead and build it. There's room for all kinds of woodworking in the world, fancy and plain alike.

The instagram woodworking community has been a mostly positive space for folks in the field both as hobbyists and professionals. If I can take a moment to veer briefly into politics, it hasn't been universally welcoming to women and people of color. Laura Mays talked about losing followers every time she promoted a show of female woodworkers. This is, frankly, shameful. There is room in this field for anybody who wants to explore it, at whatever level they choose to. Shutting people out because they don't fit our preconceived notions of what a woodworker looks like makes us all poorer.

Lastly, there are really too many people out there sharing excellent woodworking content to hope to name without some omissions. In addition to everybody I've linked or mentioned in other comments, I'd like to add in no particular order William Ng, Richard Macquire, Paul Sellers, woodgears.ca, seejanedrill on youtube, and artofplants on instagram.

I've doubtless omitted any number of other highly worthy people I've stumbled across over the years. I'd encourage everybody to go down the rabbit hole as far as they'd like and discover those people and more.
Yeah so I didn't know about Arrow and I'm glad I looked it up (while trying to figure out what exactly was going on), it's a really cool technology. A lot of server time is spent encoding/decoding JSON -- but wonder if it could help that use-case? I know how to compare thrift/protobuf/cbor/etc but I don't really know if Apache can work for the general use case -- it seems like it deals in tables and sets.

Most of the time I don't necessarily want disparate languages in one system but it seems inevitable and knowing that Arrow exists seems like it will help me one day.
The Disqus WordPress plugin has been hacked.
Reminds me of a similar machine I saw for pruning tree branches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UZ_2OAHNI
I just chimed in to say I hope it vanishes from the earth. Thank you.
Isn't the first known translated Sumerian clay tablet about some guy complaining about shoddy something that he bought? Or getting ripped off.
Almost 90 percent of NYC bars and restaurants couldn’t pay August rent
Have you watched the Netflix Dirty Money episode about this? You might find it interesting. One of the things it claimed about what HSBC was doing was that they were simply failing to even acknowledge the flagged transactions and had a huge backlog of reports that were not only for very suspicious amounts but also transfers to/from entities that were on federal sanctions lists, and the blacklist was stupidly implemented so it could be bypassed by replacing e.g. XYZCO with XYZ-CO or XYZ.CO. Some AGs told them they had to get off their asses and start processing these reports, and they responded by hiring a sweatshop of inexperienced accountants and told them to just go through the backlog and close the reports without investigation.

The show is called Dirty Money, and the episode is "Cartel Bank" from season 1.
I disagree with your entire premise and do not believe we can fruitfully come to any common ground. So, I guess we can agree to disagree.
I don't want to sound like I'm defending HSBC here, but it's important to acknowledge that the reason it's so hard to enforce these rules is that nobody else would go to prison at all. The obligation for banks to check whether their customers are running scams is quite unique; Microsoft for example isn't on the hook if a scammer makes their presentations in Powerpoint.
Have you tried to setup a mail server these days? There's plenty of nearly turn key solutions. Even from scratch on Debian, Fedora, or Ubuntu is pretty easy these days, a few apt-gets and a few additional tweaks and away you go.

Using spam-assassin, clamav, and a few recommended tweaks (greylisting, HELO rules, blocking .ads, .party, and friends) and I'm down near zero spam.
I move that the name be changed to CobWeb immediately.
That’s a feature, not a bug. I really don’t need background tabs shitting audio out of my phone speakers and running down my battery.
at this point, i just want a tool that watch a folder of markdown files and generate accordingly. that's it.
DRAM, 3D NAND Face New Challenges
Fair points, but do you have a source? I'm skeptical that previous versions of the game were discarded.

In terms of audience demographics, I've experienced nostalgia, but frankly I think the president had a point when he made his infamous comment. But I haven't seen any data to support any claims, beyond the existence of private servers.
However gambling did ruin many areas of entertainment. E.g. Live music suffered immensely in my home country as pubs preferred to fill the stages with pokies as they made more money from gambling addicts then they did from having a live band around.

Same deal with games, many previously good IPs are now stuffed with gambling mechanics as the producers controlling it push for it.
Ahh, this reminds me of my own attempt in Brainfuck!

http://nexuist.github.io/brainsynth/

Been a year or two since I touched it, so I have no idea if it still works. Last I remember it was extremely slow; I think eventually I wanted to rewrite it in Vue or Svelte or even WebAssembly.

I think it's a fun concept, just need to work on the execution to make it painless to play with.
If you want to name a country that has rule of law, in your opinion, it works make your point stronger. The US isn't a particularly good example of the rule of law right now, true, but I think you would be hard pressed to come up with an example that passes your apparently stringent purity test.

If you can't point to such examples, your point comes off as trivially weak.
I think stuff like the OP make this unclear to the layman. The reports that have been leaked are documents that banks are passing to law enforcement. They are evidence of banks attempting to stop crimes, not facilitating them.

The issue is that banks often have no idea themselves because they aren't actually law enforcement. I saw one SAR that actually referenced a random blogpost. And, as you say, it is a slippery slope. The only way to ensure that this never happens ever is to essentially bring the system to a standstill, and ask both law enforcement and regulators to approve every transaction (and even then, they probably won't get it right from the POV of the public all the time).

The example that I read was of a Ponzi scheme where HSBC moved money through accounts, they filed SARs...and yes, if you are a journalist it is easy to go back in time and say: "Oh, look...this ponzi scheme was so obvious, they must have known". Well no, they didn't know, they filed SARs, and waited until someone had actually been found guilty of a crime before acting as judge and jury themselves (which btw, was likely an investigation in which HSBC assisted).

The only foolproof way to launder money these days is to completely conceal your identity (not something a bank can do anything about) or corrupt someone at a financial institution (almost never happens, most large financial institutions have teams of people that track the movements and communications of people working in AML, both personal and business). The effectiveness of this system, given the amount of transactions, is astonishing.
Fitness+: Apple Bulks Up
Gigabyte представила GeForce RTX 3090 с турбиной, превратит ПК в тепловентилятор
I suppose if you were cutting white cotton it may? But synthetics generally just.... vanish. It's like cutting with a hot knife but there's no blade.
Definitely reading this for branding my next startup. Great content. Just requested the PDF copy.
> Well, every ad-driven revenue model is at odds with privacy.

The correct statement is "every business model is at odds with privacy".
Do you think your ISP isn't spying on you just because you pay them? Similarly you can sell ads without spying on your users, TV does that. And tracking user data is useful for businesses even if they don't sell ads etc.
Does This Photo Show Computer Storage in 1956?
Why not just get a cherry picker truck? Those already exist, can be purchased used and drive around from one tree to the next.
If you stay fit after 40, ageism is not going to be a problem for you, as you will always be seen as a senior/reference for the younger.
Oh wow, der Mouse! That's a name I haven't heard in decades. I remember giving him a bunch of old Sun hardware I'd "collected" (hoarded), when I left Montreal in the early 2000s. It was cool to see what he's been up to, thanks!
> When was the last time you had to speak to an agent or underwriter on the phone to make changes to your insurance policy?

today, and every time. Would like to switch to geico / someone else with web interface but the rates aren't as good and the customer service isn't as guaranteed
I thought it was because X is Chi, short for Christ?

Wikipedia only mentions the Greek origin, do you have any references?
‘Copyright Troll’ Loses Legal Battle and Must Pay $172k
ah I see, so basically the uBlock list that blocks from displaying these is all I need.
It was me, and it seemed like a fascinating person and startup story to inquire about. I didn't expect any response at all. His epic response here makes him more so. A few others responded with some bitterness, and that's okay too. I hope that they can experience enough good things in their life to see the good in others too. And yes, I believe I have seen this a few times now. Some of the most active members here are remarkably brilliant and productive in the real world too. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the causal link of the former to the latter seems to be negative for my longitudinal N=1 study. Good luck in your explorations.
People may not be employed in that industry but many seek employment in it. Even when it pays much less than what would be considered reasonable, it’s more than what other professions pay. But yes it’s a dubious claim that IT is actually absorbing all that labor, more likely that IT industry has created an economic boom that has created non IT jobs in cities and not many younger Indians find the idea of being a coconut picker an attractive career.

This applies to other professions as well: education naturally makes families aware that they don’t need to continue in menial professions in villages so they send their kids to towns or cities.
At many lucrative companies, writing the configs for third party software is the core product

Maybe in that case you could call the core product "domain expertise" but it's not how they position themselves
This whole “reduce energy efficiency to reduce demand” business sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox in reverse.
Why should a web app that you've manually installed (added to your home screen) be more restricted than when it's accessed via Safari?

The feature/bug argument doesn't really apply here - your preference is not the same as everyone else's, and your worst case scenario shouldn't prevent valid uses of the same technology. Especially when it's already something the user has chosen to install.
Erm ... she did a post mortem on that bra manufacturer.

Something like "cutting the fabric" didn't even rank on why the business failed.
My favorite part of protobufs is how Google, their inventor, hasn't bothered to create a generator for Google's own language: Kotlin.

Apparently Google doesn't think Android developers want to use protobufs. Oh well.
I think we've gotta stop population growth. Imagine if the world was populated half as much as today.
I think for a while, Google sort of hoped to turn Chrome extensions into something like actual apps. They seemed to support stuff like making desktop icons for them, opening them in windows that seemed to be independent from Chrome, making them the only way to make something that seemed like a real app on Chromebooks, etc. With all of that in place, it seems to make sense to let people pay charge/pay for them. Then I guess they just kind of got tired of it, as Google tends to do, and started dropping various parts of that system.

Probably the only reason they bothered to post a notice and write a really lame migration plan is that a decent number of developers were making money from it and would pitch a fit if it just disappeared.
It's there on page 6: something they thought might be a hash was handed over. Assange represented they had resources to throw at it, and did so. It doesn't need to actually have been a hash, Assange doesn't need to actually have succeeded. He provided assistance, however ineffective, to help break into and exfiltrate classified systems and data. At that point he stopped being a passive recipient of leaked data and stepped over into helping steal it.
If you go through the changelog, v13 as a release is mostly about improving existing features but I don't think pg is at that point yet where it could "stop" adding features. It almost stopped 8-10 years back and that is when mysql had overtaken it completely. I believe it still is the best open source SQL engine but features like native partitioning, JSON support etc that have been added in the last few years were absolutely needed in this century to be competitive. And now that they're there, they need to be improved and made stable.
He says he's completely ignorant about the technology.

That's not how I've always interpreted it. Seems more like he's admitting he's not an expert in it, in deference to the audience member who's clearly pretty invested in the technology.

Despite the tech potentially being better and him not
knowing, he sidesteps his ignorance and damns the
messenger with faint praise "I'm sure you could make
some cool-looking demo"

Wasn't Jobs right? What was OpenDoc good for other than tech demos? Was there ever a killer app?

Document-based computing was intriguing, and in some ways it was of course a GUI extension of the Unix philosophy of chaining together multiple tools.

But how well did it ever work? How do you sell that?

Considering how badly companies struggle with GUIs to begin with, wouldn't we have compounded that by passing around these Frankenstein OpenDocs that were mashed together chunks of data that you had to use multiple bits of commercial software to manipulate? What if your fancy OpenDoc has 28 types of documents and the recipient only has 27 of the required viewers/editors installed? What about software version hell? What about document version hell? Maybe open and well-defined interchangeable data formats were the answer, but when has that ever worked out and why would software vendors even want to buy into that?

Ultimately, in some ways it would have been cool to email a Lotus 1-2-3 doc embedded in a Word doc mashed together with an AutoCAD file but what was this solving? It's at best slightly more elegant than just three separate files, and at worse a complete and utter nightmare.

Consensus seems to be that it was truly a solution without a problem, and at any rate not the kind of thing that would turn around a consumer-facing tech company.

before moving on to platitudes about "people over tech".

Again, not how I interpreted it. Seemed to me he pretty blunt - he didn't see how OpenDoc could be productized. It wasn't solving anybody's problems, and even the biggest OpenDoc fan (do they exist?) would probably have to admit it seems like more of a backend or groupware foundation. Not a way to sell Macs.

has completely forgotten the second question existed.

I'd say it was within his right to ignore a personal question. Especially since a lot of what he'd done during the years in question was quite public - NeXT, Pixar, etc. I support the first part of the guy's query, I guess, but it was rather graceful for Jobs to merely sidestep the question rather than address it more bluntly.
On sherdog.com, you get a giant cookie dialogue that covers half screen on mobile.

If you don't accept, but click on "cookie settings" instead, a page will tell you that you can't choose to block 3rd party cookies unless you accept their 3rd party cookie, because they need to save your setting of not accepting 3rd party cookies in a 3rd party cookie. It's not a Monty Python episode, it's real: https://ibb.co/6YFpGWK

alternatively, if you click on the next link, you will be taken to a page that explains how to disable cookies in all latest-gen browsers such as Netscape 3 or IE 4.0:

http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

Needless to say, I now exclusively use Sherdog's competitor, Tapology.com
Boeing paid $11.7 Billion dollars in stock buybacks in the two years preceding this fiasco

I didn't know that. What kind of development budget did the Max have? If they'd taken 10% of that to do $1B more safety related engineering during the project, might that have helped?
It's been interesting to see how many places protocol buffers are now used by. I'm guessing a large fraction of companies use them internally without being too public about it, which is unfortunate because I've often shied away from using them as a Google-only thing.

It's remarkable that nothing better has replaced them, since they're a little old and crufty, but I guess most of the web startup community was happy enough with JSON. Plus, it's still hard to tell if proto2 or proto3 is the right version to build on long term.
Looking at you, Microsoft documentation
Don't they keep doing this ? I remember they paid a big fine just a few years back. And I'm sure there are smaller fines in other countries they keep paying for "local" frauds. At what point is it enough for the regulators to swoop down on them ?
Sounds like one of these word documents. Fantasy_v3_4\ shared\ final\ alpha\ no-really-this-time\ beta5.docx
Less WYSIWYG is the only con I can think of.