skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the totalitarian government in China

Yes, except that it started to work out when China stopped to try to be a fully planned economy (that killed millions) and started to work towards a more free market economy where people had more choices on where, and how to work.

It's to be seen how the young Chinese, more educated and more ambitious than the previous generation is going to work with the still totalitarian part of their government.
We were spending around $800k/yr just for a single group of car dealerships through AdWords. We registered Google accounts for each dealership, we added them to each dealerships' AdWords account so they could see where and how their money was being spent.

One account from the middle of the batch, while I was the _only_ one with access and definitely had not done anything unusual with it (and certainly nothing we hadn't done with the other half dozen accounts) was banned before we could provide it to the client.

I opened a ticket with the accounts team and didn't get a reply. I escalated through our AdWords contact since account support was, as expected, useless. Figured given overall our company spent millions a year maybe they could at least get this looked at. They were apologetic, but realistic in telling us that there was basically nothing that could be done and it was unlikely anyone would ever respond to the ticket so we should probably just register another Google account and cross our fingers that one didn't get banned.

Found the old email the other day. Just passed 6 years with no response from the accounts team.
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But you are aware that the vast majority of users would be on mobile, right?

I mean I recognize that Translate on images in the browser - especially if combined with Youtube and Image Search - would be incredibly powerful, but it just wouldn't be as much a thing on desktop.

I'm pretty sure (don't quote me on this) that there's a bit of processing done on the device (character recognition / isolation) before sending it off to Translate as well; not sure how well that would port to a browser. Should work just fine with wasm though.
Omg that's like jumping a hundred ants on a motorbike. Writing an RD for that shouldn't take that much space.
Would they, if you put on in the middle of the interstate?
> Currently, there are no specific legislations in order to govern application stores in India. It is pertinent to understand that application stores provide customers with virtual services such as communication, food delivery, banking, medical, etc., thereby falling under the purview of Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (CPA) and Consumer (E-commerce) Rules, 2020 (E-commerce rules).
> That being said, the greatest improvement in the greatest number of people at the fastest rate is almost certainly a title held by the totalitarian government in China.

If you're talking about the recent two decades, then specifically it's a totalitarian government adopting market reforms (i.e. freedoms) which imitate successful liberal democracies on their borders.

I'd also note that prior to the "Chinese miracle" was the "South Korean miracle" and before that the "Japanese miracle". China was the slowest and last, just the biggest population.
This thing will be interesting for metal given how so much of it doesn't have a discernable melody or comprehensible lyrics, :D
Ive been thinking about this over coffee.

If my friend said to me in a bar "tell me why computers are good" , I would have a deep conversation with him that would cover different domains from philosophy to the sciences.

If an interviewer for a job, requiring a specialist in 4 frameworks, 2 languages, a nosql db, cognito authentication, a complex portfolio which matches the job spec and real world examples of viable commercial products, sat me down in a room, and asked me to answer the same question, as an opener, and it was timed to a minute - I would flounder.

The experienced dev vs the fresh graduate
Sure I could have done some research into the several domains, written down a good short concise answer, which covered a general aspect of each domain and recited it. However I did not.
I would have no reason to prep for such a question due to the amount of time Ive spent in the commercial sector developing solutions rather than rehearsing interviews like a fresh graduate who has never programmed before would do.
Can I solve the problem? Ofcourse, but not as quickly as someone who has revised for it, even if I take a couple of minutes longer, it would be taken badly - regardless of whether it was rote or freshly devised.

You arent selecting for a good developer - you are selecting for someone who has had the time to prepare for interview questions ( a massive red flag in my book )

The answer? Atleast for me.

Is he experienced? Does the conversation flow naturally? Do you feel he is a loyal, dependable person who can clearly communicate? Well I would say that covers 90% of the issue. Hire the guy, see how he performs.
> anyone looking for angry nuts to turn loose on their enemies

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786278

(although he puts his cutoff point at 25% of the angriest part of the population, with no value judgements on nuts. In the age of social media, it ought to be easy enough to generate memes along the lines of his survey questions to see who forwards them.)
Maybe not the answer you are looking for, but for small and not that critical workloads, I've so far been happy with docker swarm workloads on cheap cloud/VPS.
We could basically live a normal life with massive testing and tracing in place. Korea and Taiwan have strong testing and tracing measures and life there is basically back to pre-pandemic behaviors except you need to scan a code on your phone (to enable tracing if a later detected infection is traced to that location) before you enter a bar/restaurant/night club, etc. China had an outbreak in Qingdao (6 total cases), so they tested all 9 million people in 5 days. That's isn't even that hard to do.
I was challenged with similar problems when doing performance testing trying to determine our new wireless router limits only to find out they are far too low.

> you can’t fix TCP problems without understanding TCP

True, but many problems are not TCP problems and it is not always easy to determine where does your delay is coming from
Because someone conflated exponential and quadratic?
It's because money cannot manufacture good writing. There are reliable processes by which a holder of capital can turn $10 million into good production and $100 million into great production, and you can parallelize this as much as you want. There are enough serviceable directors, editors, camera operators, etc. to scale up your production volumes to dozens of shows and billions of dollars.

There is no such repeatable mechanism for original writing. You can find great writing for nothing and pay through your nose for terrible writing. You can find a great writer who delivers a great concept but then she has nothing else in the tank. Or she does, but you can't find another one of her.

You see billionaires buy their way into being big-time movie producers but you never see them buy their way into being big-time screenwriters.
This is where lawyers think the universe operates not on physics laws but on lawyers laws.
Here is the video source [0].

Its description says

"3D graphics and post-production: Tomáš Mustlek

Professional cooperation: Ing. Arch. Ondřej Šefců
Graphic cooperation: Mgr. Zdeněk Mazač

More information about Charles Bridge can be found at http://praha-archeologicka.cz/p/212

The digital model "Charles Bridge - construction of a pillar and vault field in the 14th century" was created for the project of the virtual exhibition Prague of the Time of Charles IV. The project is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic as part of the National Celebrations of the 700th Anniversary of the Birth of Emperor Charles IV and is included in the AV21 Strategy programme."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJgD6gyi0Wk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge
This is credible, doctors also use an exercise where you move your head rapidly in a specific way to treat vertigo.
I wonder if there's a 'shit rolls downhill' dynamic to the popularity of mockery content on Reddit.

Reddit's demographics skew very young, which means it's mostly used by people who have very little socioeconomic standing. People at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder are subject to significant arbitrary humiliation at the hands of others (all entry-level jobs suck; so does being a student) and have no tools with which to fight back. People who are in this situation are likely to find catharsis in finding ways to see themselves--no matter how bad their personal situation is--as at least one step above someone else (hence the popularity of subs like /r/insanepeoplefacebook) and seeing abusive people being given their just rewards in ways the average Reddit reader cannot get away with (hence, the popularity of subs like /r/instantkarma).

I also wonder if there's a correlation between preferences for mockery content and the rigidity of social hierarchies in different countries. Japan, for instance, has a very rigid social hierarchy (meaning most people are subject to arbitrary abuse) and they had an entire genre of mainstream humiliation TV[0]. I'd be surprised if this kind of content is as popular in countries with flatter social hierarchies where sociopathic behavior directed at subordinates is less acceptable.

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/japanese-game-shows_n_45...

(As an aside, I haven't looked at Reddit's default subs for many years and it's shocking that they've crawled that far down into the clickbait gutter.)
Not topic related, but John’s transfer from networking to Autodesk got me interested. I don’t immediately see the good connection between the two, when they where a startup.

Would love to see a blog post from John Nagel on this, now that we know the outcome of Autodesk.

(I see he is active on HN almost every day)
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Also, they're seedless grapes. Planting them would be kind of pointless.
$200k is still chump change to these companies. Probably Github has paid a multitude to that to the team of employed electron devs already, and that's just for the work of wrapping CEF with a js layer. Sciter on the other hand is an entire HTML engine. As the new evolutionary step beyond electron, I think it deserves that money. Even a million dollars would be still a deal.
As an aside, you've got some great content on your blog btw. :)
I recognise this behaviour. It's common when people go through extreme hardship, they naturally understand that their world is not secure[0] so they try to buffer against it. Money and food typically.

[0] something who've had it easy don't learn, so they assume that everything will be alright, always. It won't.
But they are refuting it, just more weakly. In any case, not to refute it would be gross political malpractice and I'm sure Biden has better advisors than that.
This is really shallow.

You are trying to cater to a privacy-minded audience yet you provide literally no information on how the whole thing works. I don't think you fully understand how crucial a very detailed technical spec is for the adoption of a tool like this.

The first question with any P2P project is if I have any control over other people's traffic that passes through my system. No mention of this anywhere, leave alone a detailed discussion. I saw your replies here on this subject and they are ultimately... inane if you pardon the bluntness. I realize that you mean well, but you are exceptionally naive in terms of how quickly a system like this will be abused to a very severe degree.
Oh, do tell me what it would be like to live my life from inside a system with no control over it.
> Fabrice Bellard is a genius

Yeah, I read about a cool tech and half the time he's behind it. When I learned about the rocketman flying near an airport a few weeks ago I was surprised it wasn't him testing his new rocket engine 3d printed in his basement! ;)
>>"By the way, I have noticed multiple occasions when alcoholic intoxication temporarily made generally liberal people far-right. I have even experienced that myself a couple of times when I was younger. "

That's interesting. I have to think about that, never realized before, but makes kind of sense to me. I read that one big effect of alcohol is due to deactivating inhibitions.

I'm quite lefty, and one main difference with people in the right of the political spectrum (I hope I'm not offending anyone with this) is that they want things to be clear. It's like they deeply dislike feelings of incertitude.

For instance: do I feel a nice feelings inside by displays of patriotism? Sure. But do I trust those feelings? Not at all. I will inhibit them because I don't see them as an accurate description of reality. Maybe with a few more beers I would be more patriotic.
Why not just use tcpdump or wireshark when troubleshooting network latencies? Usually only takes a minute or two to pinpoint the issue. Then you would need to spend time understanding why the pinpointed behavior is what it is and sometimes it is in the application, sometimes not.. I've solved so many issues over the years with tcpdump that it has become one of the most valuable tools I know.
Related: an old blog post of mine: http://forwardscattering.org/post/3 'Sockets should have a flushHint() API call.'
I, too, enjoy mastication with my denticles, fellow human! How is your [star] light cycle going? Can I interest you in some perambulation in a sparsely populated area later on?
Note that the construction took 45 years.
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Every time I see these, I get reminded to buy some hard drives and get all the data out of Google but keep forgetting it. Time to follow through.
This cool, I always wanted something like this.

I'm wondering how did they construct the dataset to train ML models on it. Did they just recruit "labelers" who hummed for evey song? Or maybe do they have an automated way to detect humming in youtube videos, and later label those with the corresponding song?
I've seen people successfully get interview formats changed - even in companies with a thousand developers.

So if you're thinking of advocating for changes, a single enthusiastic person can often get it done!

Of course, you can only ever change interview processes you've already passed and you'll never have to pass again - so many people focus their attentions elsewhere.
This is quite impressive!

I don't know any other programming language that implement grammars in such a clean way.
We were spending a couple million a year (admittedly, this was probably 5 years ago now I was dealing with this -- so could have been the dollar amount, could have been the timeframe) and never really had a hard time getting a hold of a human. And the ones we got a hold of were generally pretty attentive and actually understood what we were talking about, and could even help most of the time.

However the reps were pretty up front that as soon as a support issue crossed the line onto any other team at Google... you best just figure out a workaround, because even once we'd already crossed the threshold and had someone inside Google working on our behalf, there was just nothing that could be done.

And yeah, this has led me to be extremely resistant to moving _any_ infrastructure we care about to GCP. I have zero faith my account won't just be suddenly banned one day with no effective recourse. And I'd also never recommend any "paid support" option they offered like some people are suggesting they provide, because I'd have no faith in their support team being able to actually solve the sorts of issues that are hard for people to solve on their own.
Even in the old third Reich there were plenty of examples of "real-politik". And Trump will support anyone at a whim. He has no allegiance and policy.

Any non-dumb actual white supremacists are surely capable of playing the long game and deal with son-in-laws when they get there.
What electronjs brings is cross platform deployment. This is not a small feature.
I know! It was particularly painful because I used spotify daily for about 5 years up until that point and was technically aware of the product.

However I realise it was just a bad person in a big company so I did not let it reflect badly on my use of the product.
c-smile (author of Sciter) maintains a MSVC compatible fork
https://github.com/c-smile/quickjspp/
Can't both things be true simultaneously?

a. there is objective truth

b. it's not a good thing for billionaires to determine what is censored

To me, there isn't an inherent conflict.

I think we (the collective) keep dancing around the issue. Essentially, perhaps it is time for advertising agencies and corporate users of social media to be regulated like news publishers. At least there, there's some expectation that they don't misrepresent facts. One could argue news regulation is also on the decline.

The next step is asking ourselves whether social media made everyone a "journalist" of sorts, and how that should be regulated. After all, taking on corporate entities alone wouldn't have stopped QAnon.
First look at OKD 4 and the new OpenShift Installer
You are not hiring me so that I would explain every design decision to you; you are hiring me so that I would deliver solutions about the details of which you do not have the capacity/do not want to think.
I work in an academic field and took a strong and useful interest in another field. I really don't think I overestimate my abilities, I say things like I a jack of all trades and 'x think I'm great at y and y think I'm great at x'. But still people think especially talented. I even see quiet disagreement from experts in x or y who are maybe not so keen to criticise me publicly. I feel the issue is that others over estimate my abilities. Maybe a case of conflating value (which is real) with ability?
This article seems to define a polymath as someone who is an expert in one domain and has opinions in other domains - those opinions being given greater value because of their other expertise. However - I'd argue that a polymath is someone with expertise in multiple domains. And the real value of the generalist is the ability to join the dots between specialties. We can argue if polymaths exist - or who might be one - but I think the definition stands. My background is medicine and I've seen first and the different contributions that generalists make vs specialists.
I'd taken LSD a few times in my 20's. Fun, but nothing amazing (though it did spoil all other social drugs for me - what's the point of getting high if it's not at that level?)

Then 10 years ago (so in my 40's) I took it again at a bush rave. At the time I was in a deep clinical depression, regularly feeling suicidal, fighting alcoholism, it was a tough time. During the trip, I saw a vivid vision of a version of myself as I could be if I got my shit sorted out and sobered up. I really liked that vision/version of myself, and it stuck with me afterwards (unlike most of the stuff on acid trips).

That vision became my beacon. It took me another 5 years or so to work through the depression with therapy. I still struggle with the booze (but it's much, much more manageable now, and no psychotic episodes any more, yay!). But knowing that there was a "healed" version of me, and what that looked like, and that I could be that person. That was powerful. Literally the light at the end of the tunnel.

So yeah, that's my "hallucinogens helped my mental health" story :)
Has the First Sale Doctrine been whittled away to nothing?
Because it's not about being able to say what they want on a particular platform, it's about saying what they want where everyone else will hear it.

A lot of people look at this issue and see two groups fighting over it. There are (at least) three groups though: for, against, and undecided. This is really a fight about how to convince the undecided, so solutions like "go make your own platform" aren't desirable; undecideds aren't going to know about the new platform, and won't automatically appear en masse on it, so it actually makes reaching them more difficult.
>>"To me it has connotations of mind control where your fundamental beliefs are altered through the use of biochem."

Of course, it has the terrifying possibility of mind control, but, from a philosophical point of view, it expose that our beliefs are biochem.

Maybe that insight would make us to take them less seriously. That could be a good thing, I think. Taking some edge of the political discussion.
Fizz buzz is great in a nihilistic way. The interviewer is basically saying “It’s impossible to judge coding skill in a short interview. So I’ll just make sure you’re not a total fraud”
Might be worth resubmitting when there's more than one asset in the gallery. It looks pretty bare and prototype-ish right now.
"make [the trailing edge of the blade] razor sharp and it will just melt away"

Why would this happen on the trailing edge?
Everyone polices their 'platform'... Heck even mods for /r/TheDonald would ban anything anti-Trump, so are they not just as guilty as Twitter?
To be fair, this can be fixed with well designed libraries that don't rely on TCP doing job for them merging buffers and preventing small writes.

The issue is vast majority of libraries treat the problem as if it did not exist and prefer to not get their hands dirty and just conveniently write a stream of data to the socket leaving to the user to correctly configure options on the socket.

But yes, in general, performance is at least in significant part about remembering a huge amount of trivia.
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This has always been my intuition: more time for the enzymes in saliva to work, and finer particles and more surface area for stomach acids to attack means faster digestion. Which in turn means a steeper rise in blood sugar.
In my experience your average Joe carries most of their important stuff on their phone anyway (photos, contacts, payment options, email, instant message history) and very little of importance on their laptop.
Feross makes really great libraries. WebTorrent, which is basically an extension of simple-peer is fantastic. See https://webtorrent.io.
You can use this fork for msvc support: https://github.com/c-smile/quickjspp
The draft text isn't published yet, but from what has been said publicly it'll likely be that employers can't just categorically say "no, we won't consider it", but have to give reasons for denying it (which then can be legally tested if questionable, but it's expected that for many occupations "this needs to happen where the machine is/the customers are/..." will be an obvious reason). The entire thing also is something the government is split about, so I'd not be surprised if it dies quietly.
I want to agree, but a big counterpoint right now is North-Korea, which has been under a totalitarian government for over 50 years now; the majority of the population is completely isolated and (if it's the right term) brainwashed. Sure, there's an underground where technology and media are passed around, but as far as I'm aware, there's no signs of collapse.

I mean I don't believe it's particularly stable, in that if the great leader is deposed there will be a power vacuum. I was kinda expecting that when Kim Jong-il died though.
First, seedless grapes do occasionally have seeds.

Second, if they didn't, that would be entirely pointless.
Let's put it this way. The Proud Boys have more white supremacists among them than the general population have.