skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banning push-based advertising isn't without its merits. I'd be surprised if the majority of sales made via push-based advertising which wouldn't have been made in a pull-based system are actually beneficial to the end user (loosely measured by some combination of regret and opportunity cost), and a system that exists purely to extract value from the populace is not worth keeping around in my opinion, especially as a roundabout and inefficient method of payment.

I think most of the downsides would be in second-order effects (like the paywall bit you pointed out) and in effective enforcement (advertising dollars might just shift to realistic-looking review sites for example). I'm hopeful that free content would still be produced, especially given that for my own personal use I've noticed that ads correlate negatively with quality, and with a few exceptions like academic publishing all the best content is free and without ads even in today's world where it's easy to ad ads to a site.
My sauna is my absolute favorite place to think through anything complex or difficult. Careful not to burn yourself if you take a whiteboard in there!
Terrible news. I saw him in Rochester, NY back the 1900's.
> IMO the main problem is the existence of an institution that is (arguably) more powerful than any government in the world.

Which is why the US government has been collecting all the data they can from google. It's a perfect means to perform mass surveillance on everyone and google has no power to refuse to hand that data over or even to tell anyone about it.
Housing in Switzerland is more expensive than the US if you exclude LA, SF and NY.
another stupid question, but can't help it: golang seems like a popular choice among network developers. Any reason that made fly.io choose Rust over golang for the proxy?
Interesting idea about socks5 - my guess is it's less useful here because it only relays destination address, whereas proxy protocol has both, source and destination.
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How are you going to privatize infrastructure? There can be no competition in big infrastructure projects. What's a competitor to do, lay a new railroad next to the existing one? This is also why fiber lines should be owned by cities and leased to ISPs.
Facebook working on potential upgrade to hand tracking for easier typing
We literally read basically all of the Linux scheduler/syscall code in my computer engineering classes in the first couple weeks, the rest of the course was to reimplement a subset of it for a custom (RT)OS on some Cortex-M3 microcontroller dev boards.

The first week or so of the process was learning how to go from a new Debian machine (with the expectation we'd only used Windows or Macs before) through "git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git" (not on Github at the time) to finding the function called by "man 2 fork" and navigating the source tree/unmasking preprocessor stuff to show the actual implementation. Yes, you can easily make a wrong turn if you're trying to do that on your own. But the actual linux/kernel directory, which has most of the parts you'd want, isn't that much larger, and a lot of the difference is modern requirements like power saving and security.
They may have put all their eggs in the search basket, but it wasn't for lack of trying other baskets.
>pull fuel for free out of the pipeline to run the turbine.

yep. The situation here and globally would be completely different if to the price of fuel, however low one can get it, the price of the emitted carbon were added. That would in particular have leap frogged our civilization efficiency.
You can host it all behind Wireguard. That way, an attacker doesn't have access to your Nginx proxy. After all, why would the whole internet need access to your Bitwarden server (or a reverse proxy serving it)?
Airbnb Taps Jony Ive for Design Help
This doesn't seem like it "allows" a backdoor; it seems like it requires one. (IANAL, etc etc.)

So much for the EU's vaunted privacy rights...
Have you considered validating your YAML against a schema? JSON Schema[0] can do the trick, and has decent editor support[1].

It's not a panacea, but it can help avoid those long debugging sessions.

[0]: https://json-schema-everywhere.github.io/yaml

[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.v...
Four guys $1MM ARR need help
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Stress in America 2020 Survey Signals a Growing National Mental Health Crisis
There's a police station in Harlem where the police regularly angle park across the bike lane, where the street pattern: [ traffic lane | bike lane | parallel parking lane]). I have seen police officers there ticketing riders for not riding in the bicycle lane WHILE THAT LANE WAS BLOCKED BY POLICE CARS.
...good credit, that's how lending works.
Heh. Way before Musk thought of it . . . .
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I didn't know that Whitman had supported Prop 8, probably a cynical political calculation during her run for governor. To her credit, she reversed course and quite publicly supported its repeal.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-xpm-2013-feb-26-la-me-pc...

I don't think EBay was destined by the gods for greatness. There was zero barrier to entry and they weren't the first. They weren't even the first coming from General Magic where Omidyar had worked. I'm inclined to give her credit for EBay but evidently nothing else.
Some of my most complicated problems were solved while I was at the gym or hanging out with my dog in the park. It's nice to just have peace to think.
What I've observed with novelists is that there are two kinds. There are those who write with frequency but stop at "good enough", the satificers who are usually quite good at keeping their word count within genre bounds, understand market trends, and if they're working full time can put out two or three books per year.

Then there are the ones who spend years studying rhetoric and linguistics, have worlds and characters they've been building for years, and want to write "Big" novels that often hit 200,000 words or more and can't really be compressed. They're as hard working as the prolific crowd, but from the outside it looks like they're dilly-dallying. When they finally publish, they're putting forward the best 200K words out of 2M... which makes a distinction that a few people care about although, to be honest, most readers don't. It's not an economical way to write. You do it because you're chasing some kind of deified Relevance that you'll never fully know if you've achieved because the real test is whether you're remembered 100 years after you die.

I'm immensely curious to see if He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named gets his book out, just to watch the YCs squirm. Rumor through mutual acquaintances is late 2021, but having never met this person, what do I know.
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When someone says a consideration is orthogonal to another one, they are not literally embedded in an Euclidean space. In this context, first order is used loosely to mean that the deviations come from effects which are only secondary in magnitude and relevance, not to indicate that we're looking at the asymptotic behavior of a formula when a parameter is taken to be infinitesimal.
Out of curiosity, how bad do your speakers need to be for a 1/64 input signal difference to be more similar than 1/64 in the output tone?
XDP UDP mapping to firecracker vms via WireGuard is really interesting! I have a question a bit before UDP is landed on the NIC, assuming the NICs on the edge servers is connected to multiple transit providers for incoming and outgoing traffic. This mean from the VM perspective, you can have incoming/outgoing tap/tun inside the VMs able to receive packets from difference transits or outbound, did you do anything with this aspect? and if so do you also deal with ECMP inbound in such that you can have the same virtual IP receiving UDP on multiple edge servers?
Microsoft has less important data than Google. Most people use Gmail/Google for personal life, maybe MS email/calendars for work life which is not particularly sensitive data.

> Microsoft may be seen as less privacy-invading than Google or, alternatively, scolded for all the ads, Cortana being creepy, them pushing everyone towards Bing, and requiring internet connectivity for playing simple games that used to come with Windows for free.

Showing ads in Windows doesn't mean they're personalized to you or based on any data. Cortana being creepy?? MS wants to push their own search engine, really??

Bigger picture, Microsoft's business model has historically never been reliant on ads. I don't see why they would move into collecting data when they have no need to and there is so much cultural backlash against it.
11:59 PST is when interview invites are scheduled to be sent out.
I feel like this is likely due to some kind of quantization. I'm doing my best to figure it out with my armchair sound theory but i'm very far from an expert in that or PCM... correction invited:

A semitone at 440 = +-26.16 Hz

1/64 = 26.16/32 = +-0.8175 Hz

So i guess the question is: Are 0.8175 Hz differences close to limitations of PCM at a normal 48 KHz sample rate for reasonable tone lengths?

48000/440 = 109.0909090909091
48000/440.8175 = 108.88859902340538

So for 440 Hz there are either 109 or 110 points per sinusoid, averaging 109.09. For 440.8175 Hz there are either 108 or 109 points per sinusoid averaging 108.88

Although the true sinusoid doesn't start and end at exactly on those points, this is how many points "land" on each period. There are also subtle differences in the amplitude of each point on different periods with the same number of points - i'm not sure how to rate that in terms of perception but my suspicion is that we are affected more by the average period, by using the highest/lowest points (half a period).

If true, the duration becomes very important, 108 periods fit into 1 second, which gives us a max precision of 1/108 = about 0.93% i.e +-1.013 Hz error... which is larger than the difference we are trying to detect.

I'm not confident in these calculations, but It does at least seem very close to the precision limit of 48KHz... So I'm guessing the starting position of the modulation has quite an influence on which way that error swings, and this could account for the differences we are hearing between +1/64 and -1/64

</ hand waving>
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>Where is .. AI

it's always 5 years away because mainstream AI researches are stuck with yak shaving their gradient descents.

I mean you can't just throw things at the wall and hope they stick, but it's literally the state of the art, if you follow ML conferences and their world-beating toy benchmarks results, with a lot of pseudo-rigorous handwaving for theory.

The reason physics has been so successful is that their theory closely followed empirical data and constraints imposed by nature.

I think the only hope to achieve common sense in AI is to align it with hard constraints living organisms have, using those constraints as a guide.

A few terms I mentioned are coming from that POV, if you dig a bit deeper they all have direct physical manifestation in natural learning systems.
Because of JavaScript. Really!

We settled on Rust back when we were building a JS runtime into our proxy. It's a great language for hosting v8. When we realized our customers just wanted to run any ol' code, and not be stuck in a v8 isolate, we extracted the proxy bits and kept them around.

I think you could build our proxy just fine in Go. One really nice thing about Rust, though, is the Hyper HTTP library. It's _much_ more flexible than Go's built in HTTP package, which turns out to be really useful for our particular product.
Really ? Would you expect less from the #1 organization in the world for pedophilia ?
This rings true to my experiences with High School Choir. Tone matching was a skill that everyone was able to improve in, with just two notable exceptions.

There was one girl who was truly tone-deaf, and as a result could not tell that she was only ever singing one monotone note.

And then there was the teacher's son, who would run sound during our productions and claimed to have perfect pitch. He certainly could pick up on things much quicker than anyone else running the boards.
Airbnb Hires Former Apple Design Chief Jony Ive and New Firm
Interesting, is there an optimal number of competitors from an economist pov?
I don't know, pretty sure the teenagers racing their cars on the road near my house at 3 in the morning aren't late to work.
You say formerly catapult- is catapult no longer being developed?
Enabling 2fa sounds like a good enough security for most.

If you mean they may have a vulnerability, they've gone through a few security audits.

If you mean you can't adequately keep your own server secure, then pass it.
Barrel – Part 1 (2005)
afaik they have their own search clusters, and sometimes use other search engines when you specifically ask them to.
I can't help but wonder if this actually holds up under scrutiny. I liked Quibi a lot, the problem for me was always the extreme lack of content. If anything long format media feels tedious to me these days and I lean towards TikTok and YouTube for that reason. The problem that ultimately drove me away from Quibi was the absolute shortage of content. With even a little more content it might have worked for someone with a 30 minute commute but for someone locked inside due to Coronavirus there's just no way that their tiny library was worth the price.
The flippant answer is "it doesn't really matter, safety usually wins over performance".

But also, we run Firecrackers on our own physical servers and performance is quite good (even network + disk performance).
"The comic shows a young boy floating in a barrel in an ocean that doesn't have a visible end. It comments on the unlikely optimism and perhaps naïveté people sometimes display. The boy is completely lost and seems hopelessly alone, without any plan or control of the situation. Yet, rather than afraid or worried, he is instead quietly curious: "I wonder where I'll float next?" Although not necessarily the situation in this comic, this is a behavior people often exhibit when there is nothing they can do about a problematic situation for a long time; they may have given up hope or developed a cavalier attitude as a coping mechanism."

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1:_Barrel_-_Part_...
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Big Tech’s Professional Opponents Strike at Google
Tesla to wide-release Full Self-Driving 'by the end of this year'
Releasing carbon is an externality that isn't taken into account because it doesn't immediately hurt you (in your wallet or otherwise). Taxing it is simply taking that externality and putting a price on it.

Once you tax it markets will immediately respond by finding efficient, low carbon footprint alternatives to everything. That is, if people can get into their heads that capitalism is a system (to be tweaked for the benefit of everyone), not a religion.

By the way rich people will be the least affected global warming.
Meditation breaks work well for the "Thinking" part of this too. Works by the same principle as why you have aha moments in the shower or while washing dishes, i.e. no distractions and the focused activity diminishes random thoughts.
I think it will require at least a few more centuries to build AGI.
Note that this is not about backdoor requirements or abilities, but about QuellenTKÜ (english: source telecommunications surveillance), which involves getting a trojan onto end devices, either through hacking, like using a bought 0-day, or by breaking into houses of suspects. It already exists as a part of law enforcement in various German states. The proposed regulation is to allow this for a bunch of additional federal agencies as well.

A backdoor requirement like Australia has it would be the service vendor having to write their apps in a way that the apps can decrypt content on remote command. That goes much farther than expensively and riskily hacking the devices of suspects.

Link to the passed draft (German): https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/downloads/DE/gesetzestext...
I use Virtuoso every day and it is an abomination. The amount of time I spend having to deal with their shenanigans is mind blowing.
Hey, thanks for your comment. It is definitely helpful. Perhaps this would be the best option, especially if I stay in the public sector. I'd be interested to hear your approach to self-learning too, if you're open/have time to share.
Those are some steep numbers, where did you get them? My 400km flight cost me only £2 to offset, prices dont need to go up 100x!

Besides, much more energy is wasted heating old, leaky homes that are an eauivalent of a wet dump. Landlords have no incentive to fix them because the tenants are the ones that pay for heating. If we fixed crappy housing im UK, allegendly worst in europe if yoy consider price, we would save a lot more CO2 and a lot more people would be happy.
According to the recent Thinking Elixir podcast [0] the performance is comparable. They specifically cite the performance of dialyzer, which typically runs through HiPE, as being just as fast with the new JIT.

From what I recall HiPE isn't widely used and will be (may be?) removed.

[0]: https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/017-jit-compiler...
I'm curious: how do people who are tone deaf learn and use tonal languages? Are such languages redundant enough that they can get by, or do they find other ways of adapting, or do they struggle to speak fluently even if the tonal language is their first language?
Diabolical ironclad beetles inspire tougher joints for engineering applications
That an AGI must be capable of performing optimally on a task with Archimedean measure.

If that's correct, this may be just one of those many problems where the optimal solution is far harder than a near-optimal solution. Examples include linear programming and the traveling salesman problem, where a true optimum is NP-hard to find, but you can get very close with far less work.
Keeping the hands on the keyboard would really increase productivity and reduce repetitive motion injuries. I know that editors like vim and emacs let you keep your hands on the keyboard, but interacting with anything else requires the mouse/touchpad.

At least 10 years ago, I imagined that the mouse could be replaced with something like a brainwave reader. You can train your brain to emit simple patterns that can be picked up either with a headband or remotely. It would take individual training, but with a few basic patterns, one should be able to do mouse movement and clicks. The eye tracking seems like the next best thing, especially since it is already implemented.
Only for the presidential race. Everything else (local offices, local ballot props, state office/props) counts quite a bit!
There are so many ways they could have allowed sharing of clips/photos without giving copies of all their content to other services (which I imagine was the motivation for making it effectively impossible to share anything on other networks).

Seems like such an obvious miss.
I like the idea of pneumatic food & drink delivery, though it would result in rather fizzy cans of beer.
> they provided the iPhone with all of their best features from day one

iPhone is the competing platform that wasn't flattened. Do they also provide all their best features on Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS, PureOS etc.? Were they on Windows Phone before it was abandoned?
James had a huge impact on my thinking as a young man as I'm sure he did to many others. A life well lived.
> after two years...

I wonder why they didn’t just try to monetize what they have, while they have it, on YouTube. That would at least tell you if the content was better than the platform.

But, it sounds like they gave creators extraordinary control.
I found the design to be very intuitive even though I'd never encountered that type of information flow before. The curly braces didn't seem to serve any purpose as far as I could tell, but the negative space was great. I knew exactly where the content was going to pop up before I clicked the "link". No jarring resize, just plain ole empty space not taking your attention away from the main content until you want see content in there.
I am a developer that contributes to open source both by releasing projects and helping fixing bugs and improving stuff whenever I can.

I always release my own open source projects under permissive licences like MIT. I even did some WTFPL in the past.

I like free software and open source because of freedom. Restrictive licenses are the opposite of that.

It is perfectly fine to me if a company decides to not release a change. They probably have good reasons to do that. And if they don't, then it is just a dumb decision that will end up costing them more anyway.
> The professional translators I work with say that to them, it looks like Google translates its web sites with Google Translate, rather than with a native-speaking human being.

Or worse yet, outsource to a low cost firm whose translators add their own semi-illiterate or colloquial flourishes to Google Translator output.
The "rs" project is too good to be true.

The official one uses MS SQL server and takes quite a bit of memory (which I call it a hidden monthly cost as I need to be using a bigger cloud instance) but this one only takes so little, you can host it on any cheap VPS and it has been working just fine against official clients for years.
Perhaps this classic book would be of interest:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Memoirs_of_Extraordinar...
In addition to the charger in my garage, there are free chargers at my office.
I have the same problem (which supposedly does not happen to all users of that extension). I fix it by running this script once a month (it deletes the temporary containers from the containers.json file):

import json

with open('containers.json.bac') as f:
s = f.read()
j = json.loads(s)
ids = [i for i in j['identities'] if not i['name'].startswith('tmp')]
print(len(j['identities']), len(ids))
j['identities'] = ids
with open('containers.json', 'w') as wf:
wf.write(json.dumps(j))