skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the old days, we wrote blogs, and got replies days, weeks, months, even years later. The feedback cycle consisted of your readers, who you also read, writing replies... a modern version of letter writing, but in public. It worked well, in fact it still works well, but it's not twitchy enough for modern tastes.

The downside of the modern system is that the attention economics encourage hot takes, and the advertising economics encourage pushing only content likely to promote engagement, at the cost of reverse chronological order, and a full feed of everything you thought you signed up to read.

Because people are encouraged to act rashly, history in those types of environment is a mine for seeking out poorly thought out statements. It's built into the system.

The technical fix offered here is to erase history, which makes everyone effectively anonymous, as they can say what the want, causing real world effects, and the evidence disappears after X amount of time. Do we really want to make twitter and facebook even more like Lord of the Flies?

There are other ways to deal with this... limiting the audience of one's words to only the friends you have at the current time, and making that stick for all time, is the way to go, in my opinion. If someone isn't in your audience at the time you express a thought, they never will be. It's fairly easy to implement this with the addition of starting and ending times for access.... if I add Bob on November 17, 2020... the default might be to give access starting a Month earlier... and never ending... until it is revoked.

Here at HN, wiser people than me set up a system that seems remarkable resistant to "first post" pressure, and more rewarding of reflective contemplation that will stand the test of time.

Twitter is going to see this new "feature" heavily used to game a lot of things, once people catch on.
The issue is not actually hosting, all the icons are lazy loaded. I'm pulling the data about the icons from Firestore which include a URL for the png and the .icns file. Right now I'm looking at alternatives, I'm aware this is not the most efficient thing, but I just haven't had time to change it since it blew up last Friday. For reference, last week we had a little less than 1000 icons, and today there's almost 2000.
I am familiar with the design. At the time, the only computers that were less timing dependent were the S-100 and CP/M boxes where you could swap out a CPU for a faster one if memory speed permitted.

I don't consider it a mistake - nobody at the time was realizing that we all would, eventually, move our software to faster computers every couple years. Woz is brilliant, but he couldn't have foreseen it and, as you point out, almost nobody did.
relibc supports Linux too, not just Redox.
I suspect that anyone who claims that Duckduckgo "Just works" only do english search. I usually do "english" / "mother tongue" searchs all day. Everytime, I need to remember to toggle the regional button otherwise I get attrocious results. Whereas google simply understand that if I'm searching using the english language it should prioritize english results while if I'm searching in another language it should prioritize it instead.

It gets tiring quickly and I find easier to append !g instead of clicking the regional toggle button.
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But I feel like I can keep asking ‘why’. Why does the state have its nose in political party business? Why are they running party primaries? Seems like something that should be firewalled off from the state?

In other countries parties run their own candidate selections as private business and the state can’t meddle in it, so the state doesn’t have to ask what what your affiliation is.
Why Tecton Is Backing the Feast Open Source Feature Store
Ask it to send a representative to the meeting and then publically demonstrate how inspect element works. Then ask the it rep to confirm this is not hacking. Do not attempt to justify the use of inspect or the console as that will just open up a rabbit hole. Ask the IT rep to confirm this is normal browser functionality. I might even open up slack and show how to get the console window in the electron app.
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I thought the desktop version allowed "save as .md?"
This discussion of heat pumps makes me want to add that we may also ignore cogeneration too much. We just don't think about heat flows and temperature enough.

There is, of course, the communal thing, done in Sweden and Russia and college campuses, with a power plant and steam pipes going to apartments.

But what about an appliance for suburban America? Like, combine a gas turbine generator with an HVAC system and hot water tank (pretty sure you can buy things like this in Germany). No unsolved technical problems here. You generate electricity for your home, heat it with waste heat, and absorb temporary excesses in capacity by usefully heating water. You could imagine integrating other things too: If you need more heat than you use electricity, then you might as well use the electricity to do something high-value (cryptocurrency is a crime against the environment, but you might as well compute some hashes in your resistive heater). All this becomes an elaborate way to burn natural gas to make heat, but you get a bunch of other things out besides. The "smart controller" aspect then becomes interesting -- but even that is "just simple automation", not super-difficult AI.

Maybe logistically, the "everything is electric; electricity comes from renewables/nuclear; and heat comes from heat pumps" solution is easier in the long run?

But this more "decentralized heat engines" solution has the "advantage"(?) that it could run on biomass, which is easy to store (however, I am aware of the problems of wood pellets and deforestation).
lack of trust of polling. also there are risks of outing oneself as a Trump supporter in blue areas outweigh the risks of outing oneself as a Biden supporter in red areas.
Vega rocket fails for the second time during launch in the last two years
Why would it be different in other branch?

Lack of choice; the government has captured the "market", and "consumers" can't choose to go anywhere else. Compare to the service (and especially customer service) offered by your cable/internet provider where you have not choice. The cable companies vie for literally worst customer service of all businesses year in and year out.

And we know that the government is doing an awful job in regulation of healthcare. I've got kind of a front-row seat to this and see things that most might not, since my wife's whole career has been in healthcare finance, and in particular around how Medicare reimburses hospitals for services.

She's currently working with one client hospital for whom their Medicare cost report still hasn't been resolved for some years back even before 2010. How can a business operate efficiently when they don't know what their expenses are going to be - not just in the future, but even historically, more than 10 years into the past?

Worse, the way the government forces hospitals to report this stuff is extremely specific, and optimized for how Medicare wants to run things - which is why Medicare can claim to spend less on administration: they just force hospitals to do all the administration for them. And hospitals can't say "no", with Medicare (together with Medicaid, which generally rides on Medicare's regulatory coattails) comprising a plurality of the market, if not an outright majority. The result of this is that hospitals have a choice of either running two separate accounting systems (one for what Medicare demands, and another to do rational cost accounting), or more likely, to just do the one for Medicare and muddle along as best they can. And that's a major reason why hospitals can't operate more efficiently.

And my wife's currently involved in a battle with them over some detailed rules they posted early in the summer. She's been working all summer for her client hospitals based on what the government posted on their website. Last week they changed the rules posted (you can even see the "last changed" date). But the change was in a way that contradicts their previous statements, and invalidates much of what she did all summer - and worse, they're lying about it, not admitting to what the previous version of the page said. Unfortunately the wayback machine didn't track that site, and while she's got her own records quoting the page, the gov't won't acknowledge it.

So there's a clear explanation for why it can get bad, and tons of evidence that it really is bad.
Optical imaging tech detects nanoparticles as small as 25 nanometers
Financial systems are an absolute nightmare, so it doesn't surprise me that some oddball detail in a small country eludes tests. Pretty much every processor, network, and country has a million of those oddball details, and they change regularly.

At work, the platform I have to deal with has dozens of fields on every request and response that are specific to Brazil!
`T` or `no-terminal=True` in the querystring will disable ANSI color codes in the response.
- The polls missed by just about the historic average (this year as well as four years ago)

- Someone running (and selling) a poll has far greater incentives to be better than everybody else than whatever use they would personally get out of some minor increase in one party's chances

- I have no idea why you believe erring in the Democrat's favour would benefit them at the polls. The one theme I remember is Dems trying to lower expectations, because they were afraid people would be so certain, they wouldn't show up
> If a butterfly had flapped its wings in China I'd have picked AirBnB.

Some theories think that sequence of events and experiences that led to your decision, along with all states of all butterflies in the wold at the moment, that sequence was predetermined at the moment of the big bang (and likely before it too), just like position of billiard balls after the strike is predetermined before the strike if all forces and angles of the strike are known.
There are plenty of free programs in Austin. Also if you have insurance, you have access to free testing de facto.

https://www.austintexas.gov/covid-testinfo
Is there a news story here that I'm not seeing as I scroll through the comments?

(Have been using / recommending Hemingway App for a few years. Great product.)
Linux is written in C , as is macos and I suspect portions of windows.
It occurs to me that we can run the iOS version of Chrome on the macbook too. And iOS version of Chrome is a wrapper around webkit IIRC.
Not sure why you are attacking and trolling all the claimants to the SCS by ad hominem most of the governments involved except China?

Go and critically read history books/articles/etc my friend, not only by the colonial regimes namely Spain, British, Dutch and France that have plundered the countries that you have just mentioned, and what names these areas are collectively called (yes they have their names) few centuries back before the dark colonial era started.

After that you probably know to whom the oil and fish belongs since these people have been fishing there for centuries. Truth and facts really matter but not your random opinions.
Didn't know about it. Thanks for sharing.
> They pay for expensive ($$$$$$) cloud anti-bot/anti-scraping, captcha you after a few requests if you run adblock, they pay for extensive browser/device (attempting to reidentify a user across multiple devices/multiple browsers) fingerprinting services and Fastly.

This sounds like a great anti-account takeover program. I imagine with all of the various compliance programs they have to deal with and the legal risk, these are prudent measures.
I believe almost none of the frontends listed in that Wikipedia section are included in the main llvm-project tree. To the best of my knowledge, is only stable in-tree frontend is Clang, with Flang (for Fortran) in-tree but considered WIP.

Clang, in turn, only supports C, C++, Obj-C, and Obj-C++, so that's 4 frontend languages.

Edit: But yes, as 'Gaelan notes, I think they meant compiler backends.
You’re welcome.

I don’t have personal experience, but for these types of low-level things, I start my research with `brew`. In this case it looks like https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tiger-vnc is a contender.
No I was a wage slave. It is why I'm saying you can't succeed as an employee without compromising your principles. Even CEOs of Fortune 500s don't have the ability as they have a board to report to. Well except Zuck.
Do you have an example of this format:

[timestamp] [filename:line_number] message k1=v1 k2=v2 ...
Cranelift is designed to do very little optimziation, in exchange for being very simple and fast compared to LLVM. Its use cases include debug builds of Rust code, JIT-ing WebAssembly (which is pre-optimized), etc.

So I would expect it to have very little overlap with deep learning. No high-level optimizations to do with matrices or dataflow or scheduling; currently no GPU backends; no integration with MLIR (though that one seems completely doable if someone put in the effort).
That and opening Zoom seem to push my 15" over thermal reboot.
This is the idea behind sitemaps which have existed forever.
I think my terminal's font is breaking the v2 graphs because the unfilled braille dots aren't blank rather unfilled circles. The v3 version doesn't work as my terminal doesn't support images.

On my Windows box it actually does work surprisingly well with the official curl binary and the graph looks great but the weather emoji mess up alignment towards the end.

I think these kinds of inconsistencies are the reason something like the way brow.sh does it makes more sense, if it's not plain text the only reliable way to represent it is via colored fixed width block characters as terminal UIs have been relying on those for ages so they are more widely supported.
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Thank you for the helpful reply. I was missing this option -e
I added

alias nnn='nnn -e'

export VISUAL="gvim -v"

to my .bashrc and it really is much cleaner/nicer than using

vim .

so I think I will swtich to nnn
Oxytocin has this wonderful effect of increasing pro-social behavior and reward response towards people that one identify as in-group. The drawback however is that a similar effect occur to our behavior towards members of the out-group, but with the effects of fear, lower pro-social behavior and lower rewards.

It could have some problematic effects if given as an antidepressant.
I've taken a look at the API for Lab2D and it's very abstract. What you have to work with are functions for strings, integers and floating point numbers glued together with callback functions and a bare-bones engine for running all of it through the equivelent of a game loop. In effect you have to define the meaning behind all those numbers and callback functions to create your own simulation. There are no pre-defined humans, robots, vehicles, generators, conveyer belts, minerals, etc for you to interact with.

It's all very hardcore and suitable for numerical academic research, but IMHO not very accessible to a what I think is a fairly large audience which wants a ready made world in which to play with some AI agents. At least I assume that such an audience exists based on the many posts here mentioning personal AI projects.

What I think is needed the equivelent of a game engine with an API allowing you to plug in AI models in place of the entities within it. Something similar to world games like Factorio, Rimworld, Hearts of Iron, Anno 1800, but with an API allowing you to create and control in-world assets. Something similar to the StarCraft API used by AlphaStar.

I think we really need a standardized world sim as a server, equipped with some gRPC API to control its entities and get out information. You run your world sim on some machine or Kube cluster and interact with it via a well known API. Plug in whatever AI you need into the API spawn a couple million agents on a couple million tile world and off you go. I suspect you could do a very fast sim with modern multi-core desktop CPUs.

Hmm, I am looking for an interesting project...
Not to mention that 538 gave Biden a ~90% chance to win right before the election, whereas betting markets gave Biden a ~60-65% chance to win.

So if you go by the most important metric of what was trying to be predicted, 538 was far more accurate for the one giant data point.
When a die shrink is correlated with higher performance, generally that means higher clock speed for a given heat profile. The clock speed of the 4800U is already 50% higher than the M1 when running a single-thread task. And despite that, it is 25-50% slower. And it's significantly less energy efficient.

So put that to 5nm. Either you've partly closed the large efficiency gap, or you've closed the significant performance gap, but in neither case will you come close to closing it entirely. So you're either a little less slower, but still a lot less efficient, or a lot slower, but a little less efficient.

Yeah, maybe they'll do some amazing things on the core that'll overcome all of this. But right now the Firestorm core has a massive advantage. AMD can go to Zen4 and 5nm and maybe they'll close the gap, but Apple won't be sitting still.

Apple entered the desktop space and brought the most efficient core (by _far_), hilariously offering the best per core performance without going to magnitudes higher thermal profiles. It's pretty amazing. So now we're into comparing it to hypothetic, mythical alternatives from competitors in the future.

Sidenote: Apple has had blazing cores for a few years now, and every denier will claim it's just some big cache or some other absurd simplification. If that were the case, everyone would just copy them.
I'd expect carbon fiber reinforcement to add stiffness soon on some of these larger, ultra-slim devices. That's what we use for sports equipment, and CF+Al bonding is a well solved problem in manufacture.
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Apple and Google do the same thing, except they aren't open source or user modifiable. (Well, Apple isn't.)

It's interesting that the second most visible comment on a thread about an open platform product holds them to a much higher standard. (I'm not calling out your comment, but rather the general perception.)

I wish more people would take your perspective for our phones and devices.
> I dont know why there are many comments in this thread doing it.

(Points at AnandTech) But he started it! :)
Didn't test (yet), but if they do, then what's the point of throttling background tabs?
This is a list of good qualities regarding engineering practices, teamwork and emotional intelligence.

10x engineers, who are supposed to be 10x more impactful than 1x engineers, are expected to have many of attributes of that list to a higher degree even than 1x engineers.

This is a nice list, but smells a bit of resentment.
Yeah that would be the same IT guy that came in to the meeting and had to quickly hop off. I assume he would know about Inspect Element. What if he doesn't though? The company is based in a state thats the opposite of tech savvy...
Tons of Netflix content available in the US but not outside, for example.
Your suspicions are correct.
I've found Eclipse much worse in this regard.
In aggregate the polls were off by an entirely normal amount. What you can't do is predict how they will fair in a future election, because the pollsters themselves change strategy every time. It's as likely to be off in the other direction come 2024.
that's a different project organization style though. it's like saying that bsd has so much more functionality than linux just because more stuff is bundled. maybe the bsd way makes better software, maybe not, but it would be insane to say that openbsd has "more web server functionality" than debian because openbsd comes with httpd but on debian you have to install one.
Jetbrains products are my preferred choice for full-featured IDEs, but this is not exactly an industry renowned for producing snappy and pleasing interfaces. And since LSP has narrowed the gap, most of the time I don't require the features that would make up for the bad UX so the majority of my coding happens outside an IDE.
So, I signed up, but there doesn't seem to be any way to check pricing without actually transferring a perscription?
I think your comments are coming from ignorance, though.

Without trying to be snarky - All your comments directly ignore that what you're proposing values one stakeholder more highly than another.

People keep pointing out that there are two users involved in this exchange, and they both weigh equally, and you dismiss them and talk about running mail servers 25 years ago (who cares?).

You keep saying "I should be able to unsend my email". Let me rephrase your question - Why should you be allowed to delete my email?
I don't have Facebook and searching that name (and that name + Facebook) just brings up his Wikipedia entry and news articles.

It also appears there are several search results from Facebook with that name.

What is supposedly happening if you publish the name on Facebook?
C# is not hard to do after knowing Java, here is an option in DotNet: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp
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This sub is pretty open to self-promote your own project:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/

But to you answer question:

I'd avoid self-promoting to a niche sub. You'd be in danger of getting banned immediately without any explanation. Just update your user profile with your project info and comment on each posts in the sub. Be helpful, provide value, and be fun. People will click on your profile for sure and DM you. But this method takes a long time to work and can be pretty draining.
I’m interested in the liquidity constraints theory - Betfair has ~$1bn matched for the most recent election. At present there is ~$700k bid and offered at the market for both candidates (the market is still open). Could you expand on your thinking?
Get fired and get a lawyer. You're in for a big paycheck here I think. And you won't be shooting yourself in the foot either. Other tech companies will understand if you spin this in a funny, can-you-believe-these-morons kind of way. You don't want to come off as bitter or angry.

Your relationship with this company is soured even if you are vindicated. I know I personally would not be able to let go of animosity towards the coworkers for being so quick to judge me that way. Who in the favabeans does the IT guy think he is also? He shouldn't be commenting on your actions prematurely, but of course the game of telephone probably distorted his original intent anyways.

Regardless, everyone's going to play CYA and the IT guy will be loathe to take any blame upon himself. He is very likely to find a way, any way, to discredit you and make you look bad.

Don't be rude. Explain yourself and defend yourself. Admit to nothing. You may feel pressured to admit to partial responsibility. Do not admit to anything improper under any circumstances. Do not take fault for any little thing whatsoever under any circumstances. You are legally
& morally right here. You will be vindicated. Just stand your ground firmly and respectfully.
Just read this.

https://www.ecorax.net/as-above-so-below-1/
Far too short/high level to be called ‘everything’ you need to know