skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of any that made it past the concept stage. My understanding is that takeoff and landing is the tricky part, since passengers need to be in an upright position -- but do they really?
This is good! The usual pushback of saying that we should hire the best person for the job and that enforcing quotas like this hinders a company from performing optimally, is too simplistic. There are going to be plenty of people who are qualified for each position.

I remember hearing about a competitive university back when I was a kid where if you didn't have a 4.0, you were not able to get in and, in fact, even if you did have a 4.0, you had to participate in a lottery (this was Karolinska in Stockholm Sweden, and I guess the admissions process was pretty straightforward back then). Just like that scenario, there are going to be more than one qualified person for each position -- even executive ones.
While I disagree with the general sentiment of “rust needs a standard to be successful generally,” you are absolutely right in this comment. There’s a number of things at play here, but there are folks trying to do exactly this. We’ll get there, in time.
All truth is censored on HN as usual. Communists crushing small businesses, and sheep obeying and begging for more.
From the summary I don't understand why front end servers need to talk to each other ("continuous processing of messages from other Kinesis front-end servers"). It sounds like this is part of building the shard map or the cache. Well in the end an unfortunate design decision. #hugops for the team handling this. Cascading failures are the worst.
Speaking of abstracts, did you read the abstract from the paper you're commenting about? I don't think you did, because it outlines how this approach is different, and maybe if there was something better than the abstract, you would have read it and not assume it's the same as what we're using abstracts for today.

In short, here's the major differences:

> SciTLDR contains both author-written and expert-derived TLDRs

> CATTS improves upon strong baselines under both automated metrics and human evaluations
As a caveat, while this intuition works for classical mechanics, it does not work for quantum mechanics. All observations are consistent with wave function collapse being fundamentally random. Any hidden variables would need to be transmitted many times faster than the speed of light (~10000x, last time I checked the experiments), and are therefore inconsistent with our understanding of special relativity.
The principle of indifference? I know that it is a commonplace assumption, but feels to me as though one is assuming one has more information than is justified. Coming back to the article's "economist's wager", is it rational to bet with even odds on something you know nothing about? If the assumption is interpreted as a testable hypothesis about outcomes, why would complete ignorance imply any particular result? On the other hand, if it is interpreted strictly as a statement about one's knowledge, why present it exactly as if one had sufficient knowledge of the situation to know that the probability is 0.5? Maybe the author will have an answer in part 2.
Such clarity and beauty in writing! I pray that in my lifetime I may be granted just one percent of that.
Things are bad not in absolutes, which you are suggesting, but in degree.

Contrary to your flat statement I do not agree that taking heroin is bad, it only becomes bad when it affects other people negatively.
A very nice sentiment!

I think one of the most useful parts of this list of suggestions is to write or improve tests. You did allude to this, but I think it’s the most useful part (if test coverage starts out poor) because by doing so, especially before doing any other changes, you’re making it easier to do some of the other suggestions with confidence.

Good read!
But far less carbon-efficient than just not buying so much unnecessary crap in the first place.
It depends on your goal. If your goal is to optimize spending, go with Amazon. If your goal is to support mom and pops over multinational corporations, go with the mom and pop.

I think NDizzle's point is that most peoples' rationale goes economically as you did, and that maybe we should reconsider that.
It definitely helps improve your security complexity over things like, say, GraphQL, where row-level security is necessary to prevent people from firing off random queries from the browser console.

There are a couple of places in the code where eval()/Function code are fire off which require some security-thinking:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-trigger/

hx-trigger evaluate expressions for the event filter. This typically isn't an issue since you would be unlikely to use user input in this context.

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-vars/

hx-vars evaluate expressions to include in the request. This is a bit more dangerous, because you might try to pass values through with this mechanism. If this includes user input then you should use hx-vals instead:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-vals/
Someone has never had to configure IRQs individually for each device and board they plugged in.
JPEG2000 applications: digital cinema and broadcasting
I’m not sure how much of the hiring is seasonal, but I think software engineers hired are probably going to be for long term investments
I like the balls in container better - the mechanics of determinism is more obvious - and the contrast between perfect and partial knowledge.

And there's another interesting point - you could view "there's five white and five black balls" as your model. If in reality, there's one white ball and nine black - then your math is still right, but your model is wrong.

If you do experiments with the wrong model (assuming 50/50, getting samples from 1/10) - your best conclusion would be the model is wrong.

But for many settings, you'd end up declaring your container or the hand used to pull out balls has magical powers. (and to borrow from Douglas Adams go on to prove that black is white, and get killed in the next zebra crossing).
I'm currently writing my own backup tool because of one feature I want that nothing else seems to have. In my opinion, it's not enough to distrust the server where the backups are stored. The client should also not need to keep around a key that can be used to decrypt the backups for the purpose of encrypting new backups.

This is quite easy to accomplish with public key cryptography - just use a new, random AES key for each backup job, then encrypt that with a public key you keep around. The private key can be stored offline in cold storage.
If I'm seeing this right Air NZs skycouch is a much better design and not sure why others wouldn't apply that. Skycouch seem to have an extender that fils the empty space where you normally put your legs wheres this seems like a regular seat.
I use to have the same problem. I met my wife who preferred diet and eventually transitioned to diet pretty much entirely without getting that sugar issue.

I do have a problem with aspartame. Diet Pepsi is okay, but diet Coke is not.
Refactoring is a form of rewriting code.
I'd imagine the vast majority of that was in the US, since while Amazon operates in many countries, in most it's only a pale shadow of the US juggernaut. For example, in Singapore it's nearly useless for anything except books, and even there local inventory is pretty sad.
something being popular and eliminating other options is not inherently bad. there is nothing wrong with one company acquiring a monopoly through superior service. you can attack amazon's behavior as anticompetitive, but that's not what you're doing here.
Integer linear programming solvers, too.
Isn’t that not kind of scam? It said you can use it for free and then charge 2$ for each photo when you want to download them all while using your photos as free data to train and enhance the network itself.
A minimal Android system for RISC-V
It would be much better to have a list of the 10 most common words and the 10 most common words including stop words.

Also, a nice tweak is to count all the repetition in the same song as one, and compare it with the order counting all repetitions.

(And another possibility is to add some weight for the songs, like the number of views in YouTube or some official ranking.)
The Great Reset (official website)
> Others here refer to the author as Dr. Hossenfelder. But to you she is Sabine. Would you refer to Brian Greene as Brian or Sean Carroll as Sean? It seems you are not even aware of your biases.

I doubt anyone is aware of all of their biases. I'm assuming you're making reference to gender bias - totally possible that I am susceptible to that, although I think:

a. Sabine is a more unique name than Brian.

b. In almost all discussions I see of her, she is referred to as Sabine - I was just following along with that precedence.

She also goes by "Bee" and dislikes her last name [0] [1]

[0]: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/physicist-s...

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/09/name-game.html
Had the same experience here. Same day shipping has very limited availability here in Germany with a fairly limited inventory, most items are next day shipping. I ordered a product at 3AM with a huge text claiming "same day delivery when ordering within the next 5h". The order arrived at 8PM the next day, which was relatively annoying considering the same day arrival heavily influenced my purchasing decision.
Cyberostracism: Effects of Being Ignored over the Internet
The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism
Somehow many on hacker news willfully forgot about the concept of externalities and simply saw government policies enforcing social distancing as a violation of one's rights.

The consequence of the virus on leaving your house is similar to you walking around with a Russian roulette pistol that randomly fires at others who are sufficiently close to you (with the probability determined by a myriad of factors including if you have covid).

In that case, you are a clear harm to others and a bring that can deprive them of their rights.

It is why we will likely need to force people to get vaccinated, despite their objections, as their choices don't simply affect themselves.

"Your body, your choice" is valid for things where there isn't some massive externality on others from your choices. Abortion has no impact on other beings with rights (as we do not assigned rights to a fetus). If you decided to irradiate yourself like the firefighters in Chernobyl and then in the few days you had remaining to live try to be around people you disliked, it would be totally reasonable to force you to be confined to a medical space where you couldn't kill others. However, a communicable disease is even worse. I would be fine with people who understood the risks of radiation making the choice to be around you because they would be basically only choosing to take that radiation/cancer risk on themselves (their body, their choice). But with a communicable disease, they can catch the disease and spread it to others who don't consent. That is where the "my body, my choice" is no longer valid.
Note that pilot wave theory, an (out of vogue) interpretation of quantum mechanics, also recasts the apparent randomness in quantum mechanics as due to our ignorance of the exact state of the pilot wave.

Even Einstein struggled with quantum mechanics, famously saying "[God] does not play dice with the universe".
It’s a balancing act between a short-term gain and a long-term loss.

For a while, you may notice Amazon has slightly better prices on things. One day you may need some advice on a project, so you go to the local hardware store. Except the store was eventually run out of business by not being able to leverage the same economies of scale as an e-giant.

I think of it less as investing in your local hardware, and more of investing in your community
I'm not taking sides here but, original post

> Other adults decided that they're going to take care of this guy

Taking care of people is a good thing. What you're suggesting, of other adults banding together and ruining someone's life (assuming for no good reason but their personal gain), is clearly a bad thing.

I mean there are no absolute good and bad but you're
I’m sad to see Firefox lose its edge in Technology. I’m not so sure why I would use Firefox (over say Safari). Servo, Rust, WASM - They’ve been pioneers of many great performance and safety oriented technologies.

It’s great that AWS wants to have the rust team onboard, but in my experience at-least AWS has been good at leeching Open Source, rather than fostering it. Open source isn’t part of their culture.
CNCF KEDA 2.0 Scales Up Event-Driven Programming on Kubernetes
Everyone is so afraid of one government world order. What about one corporation world order?
Does anyone have problem with airline headrest. I have trouble sitting up for one but if I can it works best if I can let my head kinda fall back (however had that might be for my neck) at least a little. Now all the airline seat bulges forward and I can almost never sleep.
The hand rolled gossip protocol (DFDD) is not used for consensus, it's just used for cluster membership and health information. It's used by pretty much every foundational AWS service. There's a separate internal service for consensus that uses paxos.

The thread per frontend member definitely sounds like a problematic early design choice. It wouldn't be the first time I heard of an AWS issue due to "too many threads". Unlike gRPC, the internal RPC framework defaults to a thread per request rather than an async model. The async way was pretty painful and error prone.
>> The core of their business on Amazon was to continuously hustle and identify new products that would fill that niche, as that made up for the biggest chunk of their profit.

That sounds like a very risky business. How do they manage/lower that risk ?
Is there a risk in one manufacturer seemingly getting so far ahead in terms of being able to deliver high-performance processors?
Seems short on details, so I was curious. These articles [1,2,3] may be referring to the fire in question. And this [4] seems to be the property.

[1] https://www.theday.com/article/20201118/NWS04/201119437

[2] https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/new-london-house-fi...

[3] https://www.wfsb.com/news/crews-rescue-person-from-burning-n...

[4] https://www.compass.com/listing/500-pequot-avenue-new-london...
If nothing else, this article gives me ideas about how much money should be left for beneficiaries.
Needs [PDF] but also it is really good
In order to discriminate between the output of an RNG and the digits of PI, you are right that they have the same Kolmogorov Complexity to within additive constants.

However, you can ask for resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity. Suppose you ask for the shortest length of the description of a PTIME machine which output the N bits of an RNG versus that which outputs the first N bits of PI. Complexity theorists believe that the first will be longer. Proving that conclusively might possibly have a bearing on P=BPP.

When you go all the way down to finite-state machines, KC becomes something equivalent to finite-state information-lossless compression, like Lempel-Ziv compressibility.

Long story short: by restricting the resources available for the computation, it is possible to discriminate among some such examples as you point out.
pandemic-fueled hiring binge that is offering a job to people who have suffered from pandemic-fueled firing binge and in need of a job while the government is not capable of supporting them.

Hopefully once the pandemic is over, they can get their original job back. Or maybe not. But meanwhile those people are probably very happy to get that job.
rdedup (mentioned in a few other comments) uses asymmetric cryptography[1].

[1]: https://github.com/dpc/rdedup/
MIT 6.004 L14: Implementing RISC-V Processor in Hardware
China definitely refers to themselves as China when speaking English just like the United States refers to itself as 美利坚合众国 or just 美国 when speaking Chinese.
I can't be the only one who read this as mating
The PHD is always updated first, long before the global status page is updated. Every single one of my clients that use AWS got updates on the PHD literally hours before the status page was even showing any issues, which is typical. It’s the entire point of the PHD.

Through reading Reddit and HN during this event I learned that most people apparently aren’t even aware of the existence of the PHD and rely solely on the global status page, despite the fact that there is a giant “View my PHD” button at the very top of the global status page, and additionally there is a notification icon on the header of every AWS console page that lights up and links you directly to the PHD whenever there is an issue.

The PHD is always where you should look first. It is, by design, updated long before the global status page is.
Amongst other things, they use their marketplace to collect data on which 3rd party resellers are making money, then they implement the product themselves and put the 3rd party out of business, resulting in an anti-competitive trend towards monopoly.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/analysis-read-antitrust-case-a...
I’ve honestly found online shopping to become increasingly anti-consumer. The absolute worst trend is what I would consider to be aggressive dynamic pricing, especially on Amazon.
There's "objecting" and then "changing habits because of objections". Worlds apart.
Cool, may I ask in which country you live? Unfortunately it's not (yet) available here in Germany.
Ask HN: Buying Rights to Discontinued Software
If anyone here has any experience buying the rights to a software product and/or the surrounding company, I was wondering: where can I find more info about this practice, and how do you go about contacting the rights holder and getting them to take you seriously? Thanks in advance!
> the assumption you'd always use a car.

which seems like a reasonable assumption for anyone

- living in a rural area
- living only close to a city but not within
- city parts with poor public transport connections

Also, the kind of product also heavily influences that. For more specialized products, people tend to be willing to drive longer distances, therefore making the carbon emissions worse. If the store doesn't carry the item but has to order it first, it also means you double the round trips. Overall, Amazon certainly has a massive environmental impact, including GHG emissions, but in terms of emissions, everyone going to the store by themselves wouldn't really be a better option I imagine.
My pleasure, hope they serve you well.
I have a hard time even imagining a plausible scenario in which the government stops tracking phone activities (with the exception of maybe societal collapse). Does anyone actually think this is going to happen?
Read the post. There are two questions neither of which you have answered.

1. What hope do we have if creators and maintainers (of apps) are prone to the same proclivities as the users?

2. What can HN do to make not only it’s commenting section better but also improve the quality of commenting on the interwebs? Why?
I wish all this technology were more accesible. but they gotta protect their trade secrets (I guess...).

I've heard about something called 'dycryl process' (in chip photolitography) but it is not the kind of info that it's easily found, nor easily understood even if I could google for it.
How does backblaze compare on the features chart: https://github.com/josephernest/nfreezer#comparison
There is a free plan actually. At the bottom of the page: https://histre.com/pricing/

I'll make that more prominent.
This is crazy. The reason it's pointless to go past 40h/week is because programming isn't a walk in a park. It's extremely mentally draining activity. The notion that that people need to work silly hours to be seen as valuable and productive belongs to the Victorian times. My takeaway from the article is that the guy patting himself on the shoulder because he asks how many hours people did in their jobs. One of my first jobs was in construction,where the director was outright maniac. I remember he gathered us all around himself, he stepped on a a few bricks and started pointing fingers to all of us saying we are thieves. Why? Because he saw a couple of guys having 35min lunch, instead of 30min..He accused us stealing his time.. The guy in the article is a modern version of my ex director,only in software industry.
> But it does talk about the coin - a weighted coin would have a different probability.

Nobody would a priori assume it is a weighted coin, in this example. A coin is chosen because it's been a standard weight and measure-backed object for centuries. It is about the observer's knowledge, which includes assumptions from every day experience.

You have to base a prior on assumptions. If you assume nothing and flip it 1000x, and calculate the probability, than you base that on assumptions of your own flipping ability, and hand wave it away with count divided by trials.
Do other countries track this metric as well? I'd be curious to study worldwide trends in the quality of work and study the efficacy of policy in trying to reverse this trend.

I'm of the opinion that the future of work is focused on knowledge and creativity, but my worry is that that will leave out a big swath of people. Is Truck Driving an occupation that people want to do, or would freeing up people to do other things be a greater goal? Truck driving is a hazardous occupation, but it also provides opportunity for people that otherwise may have limited opportunity. There will surely be a transition period, but how can we create a large number of opportunities to ensure people are prepared for an economy with more robotics and automation? Maybe space ship building will employ a vast number of people, maybe indoor farming will provide new opportunities in an urban setting and maybe there will be new opportunities with implementing new forms of energy and transportation. I certainly think if you take a long term view the world it has trended towards solving many problems over the course of centuries, but we do need to factor the human element in or there will be another Luddite movement.
They didn't say that it has "nothing to do with the object it describes" though. It has to do with your knowledge, which itself has to do with the object your knowledge describes
> but everyone else’s right to life

which is why - pre-covid of course - you rarely left the house, and if you did you wore a mask and kept your distance from others, right? To preserve the right to life of those that died of other communicable diseases?
But most of my reading is on an iPhone or iPad.
Don't underestimate Europe, we have a population of about 500 Million people and Amazon is big here too.
Yes, we had some messages coming through in our PHD.
No, a corporation doesn't have armed secret services without accountability.