skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In India you invest in land not home if you are looking for a storehouse of value.
I don't usually go off on the deep end with conspiracies, and I don't believe COVID-19 was intentionally spread, but I do think the needed response to fully control the spread of a virus creates perverse incentives for governments. Especially governments that would like to disrupt other countries which have cultures that don't like to be told what to do by their own government.

COVID-19 didn't cause such trouble, but I imagine a more deadly virus could, and it could be very hard to trace the source. At the same time, I doubt this would be possible to fully control for the government that spread it, so it seems improbable too.
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Somewhat interestingly it can be applied to distributions as well.

This anecdote in the article, was also pretty interesting:
> The form L = λW was first published by Philip M. Morse where he challenged readers to find a situation where the relationship did not hold.
Fair question. My thinking was the system is already not designed to be failproof, just mitigitive (it turns off entirely if no internet), and that malware would be pretty limited in what it could do in just a few hundred ms.

Waiting to open an app based on a network request is basically just guaranteed to give you a terrible experience some % of the time.

Maybe fancier solutions like a local blacklist are needed. (Which weirdly it looks like Apple had and then moved away from?)
Systemd logs get rotated. :)
AWS Outage, thinking about load shedding, does anybody else do this?
Same for the CEO of my company. Each additional app is a potential security risk they want to minimize. Web browsers they don’t seem to understand the risks as well. They think of webpages as being a potential attacker on the street that they can just avoid where as an app is a potential burglar of their home with their prized possessions
And yet many of us prefer safari because of its incredible battery life and low overhead. The safari is the new ie meme is seriously overblown and only affects app developers trying to use the absolutely newest features and is more tied to safaris year long release cadence than actual malice. Not that there arent a few notable exceptions to apis that should have been implemented long ago.
>To expect anything but a probabilistic string of word responses is to seek meaning from noise.

'Quantum explanations' often have the same problem.
Also consider: sleep, vitamin D, drug use, carbon monoxide, concussions, early onset Alzheimer's
A lot of people had outages today, most of them unavoidable, but for us, many of our services were slow to come back. It got me thinking about load shedding and how to avoid the thundering herd when things are coming back online. Does any body else employ this strategy? Is there a better way to think about this?
Did you read the link you posted?

> Records trace the history of soccer back more than 2,000 years ago to ancient China. Greece, Rome, and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was England that transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football,” into the game we know today.

In short: everyone lays claim to kicking around a ball, but England invented the modern game
> - The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Good (even great) book, but has some flaws and focuses mostly on enterprise costumers. The revised version The Startup Owner's Manual is more polished and covers a wider range of business models.

> - The Lean Startup

An excellent recommendation. The other books in the series (especially IMO Running Lean and Lean Analytics) are also worth a look:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/7509FE4F-9888-4384-ACBC-D...
Why is it hard to tell? If you only knew one path was available to fulfill your ambitions wouldn’t you take it?
The browser is perfectly capable of stuff like project management workflow apps when you’re not shipping 22MB of useless abstraction layers in a runtime language.
"Humans didn’t appear out of a void of randomness"

They did though, at least according to the materialist position which we now mostly accept as being 'science'.

We basically define the universe 'as having a bunch of rules, which can be modelled' - in which case ... there literally is no life or rather a 'bag of random particles' (you) in a random environment, interacting according to some rules ... which is just net randomness.

A researcher once said that evolution is no more interesting than a rock rolling down a hill - and he's right, from a materialist perspective. Nothing is 'evolving' any more than the ball of wax in a lava lamp lumping together and apart - it's just 'stuff happening randomly'.

The problem with this materialist view when taken to it's full extent, is that it completely denies the most important reality to us - that we are 'life'. What we care about is the expression of life, we don't write laws to protect 'random bags of talking jelly' - our entire cultural foundation surrounds this notion of our being alive. And FYI - most common definitions of life exhibit this 'consciousness' problem, in that they may use biological terms, reproduction, all of that, but it's ultimately mechanical and materialist.

So scientific materialism essentially denies the existence life as we commonly understand it preemptively, causing some deep existential problems.

'The Problem With Physics' I think is not 'Dark Matter' - it's the fact that it really hasn't brought us any closer to understanding what we actually are, which is the big question.

There is a movement called 'emergence' which starts to move the needle on this, starting from a fairly material perspective but is ultimately metaphysical, at least it's a start.
Interesting. Are you more artistic? How do you choose between crafting and buying stuff?
I gave up trying to teach C after 2 years teaching it at university. You’ve been at it, what? 25+ years? Mad props. Thanks for great C/++ compilers, and double-thanks for D!
Khara, creators of the popular Japanese EVANGELION series, officially started moving from 3ds Max to Blender last year:

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k...
> unlikely to be turned into corporate goop

What are reasons it's unlikely?

(I like Zulip btw)
Everyone's going to have to wear really nice sunglasses into the battlefield.
mRNA: A once-dismissed idea became a leading tech in the Covid vaccine race
No, I'm thinking of Bitcoin. The BCH fork is interesting, but not as universally accepted or tradable as BTC is. There are already alt coins with higher transaction rates than BTC and BCH so the fork wasn't really necessary.
The idea of a "big government" is a spook. In my country, "big government" is a bad word meaning taxes on corporations, any sort of industry regulation and breaking up monopolies.

When I think of "big government", I imagine a militarized police force, lack of access to medical care, pervasive surveillance, unchecked imperialism, billionaires writing their own rules and to tie a bow on the top: a propaganda wing to manufacture the consent of the governed.

If you think what I wrote about above can only happen in "authoritarian" or, gasp, "communist" countries, you are certainly mistaken.
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Hi france back off.
I see there's several "captcha solving services" (Google the term, I don't want to link any) that charge in the $1's per 1000 solves. This makes me wonder how effective captchas really are. Do they just raise the bar high enough so only spammers actually making money attack the more lucrative sites?

Can anyone talk about their experience running a (large) service with a spam problem where adding a captcha helped? How about still battling bots/spam/abuse despite having a captcha?

Supposedly these services have humans solving these. I remember hearing about a bypass in use where the attacker would pass-through captchas and present them to users on their own pirate/torrent/porn/etc sites, and then when the user solved it, they'd get at the content and the spammer would do whatever they were doing on the original site. I wonder if that technique is still in use, or if there are people specifically sitting there solving captchas all day being paid fractional pennies per solve?
Even $45k sounds ridiculously low if you have a few years of experience. Is there any reason you haven't tried getting a remote job? I can't imagine anywhere even offering less than $60k for someone with a few years and is remote (and is US based).
> but I do think the needed response to fully control the spread of a virus creates perverse incentives for governments. Especially governments that would like to disrupt other countries which have cultures that don't like to be told what to do by their own government.

China, Russia and every other country has been given a wonderful blueprint for absolutely disrupting the US and really entire western order. The fact nobody seems to be talking about the national security implications of this virus and what our rivals or enemies have learned is frightening.

Can you imagine how fucked things would get if another virus struck the US right after we deal with Covid?
The positional accuracy of the motors aiming the lasers (relative to the satellite orientation) probably comes from optical encoders. I'd expect servos in an active loop as you mentioned, rather than steppers - which tend to settle at 1.8* increments.

Either way I have no idea how they work out the firing solution for the comm lasers with sufficient accuracy. Hypothesizing: maybe they shoot multiple lasers, the main comm laser and a alignment pattern with auxiliary lasers which could be used for targeting feedback?
PyPy is actually very fast, ~10x faster than standard python.
You want something like https://jrnl.sh

I’ve used this for a few years now and it’s pretty solid.
Lasers still expand over time, and can expand more with lenses, so it isn't like hitting a laser pointer sized target.
Lasercoms has been around for decades.
You should look at the reviews of the M1 MacBook Pros. The 16GB RAM limit doesn't seem to be limiting their performance.
> it seems impossible they could have covered up something like that without someone leaking/talking.

You haven't ever (!?) heard of 'leaking/talking'?

That's a huge rock you've been under, and a well-greased cannonball you've swallowed, my friend.
How would SF have gone about accidentally destroying LinkedIn?
Who cares? There’s a billion youtube videos with misinformation on them? Spoiler alert some textbooks are wrong too... If you can’t see this is a means to silence opposition rather than engage in open debate then you’re crazy naive or willfully ignorant. If you can control the topics of conversation, you can control just about everything. No one has that right. No one know’s better than others. It’s pure arrogance whenever you start to think about doing things because other’s might not be as smart as you
There's an excellent book on this topic by the founder of TalentBin: https://www.holloway.com/b/founding-sales

He also writes it from the perspective of a founder learning to do sales for the first time.
> It is well documented that this is not at all what people desire from technology. What people buy directly contradicts this.

Of course, people can only buy what the market provides — and the market will exclusively (or at least disproportionately) provide the most profitable things. So market behavior isn't necessarily the best proxy for people's preferences in aggregate.
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I partly agree, as an author it is your software and your choice. Demanding anything (unless one has an existing relationship as a customer that warrants it) is probably a sign of feeling entitled.

Also these days I expect software to need security fixes for the lifetime of the software which is why I am somewhat less hostile to subscriptions than I would otherwise be.

But I also partly understand very well what the users upthread writes, so let me try to explain:

> I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model. I’ve created something and am offering it to anyone who will pay what I’m asking.

Fine, go right ahead. Consider the posts upthread as an explanation for why they wont use your software and will recommend against it.

If people still buys it: Power to you. And, I should say, it looks like something that certain people will pay for

> Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the value it creates for you?

Maybe they shouldn't care to write it, but at least now you know their reasoning.
Oh man, 2020 has been a long year... I totally forgot this had been posted before and I managed to repeat myself in the comments...
I loved that

> Disclaimer: This is the good old C language, not C++ or Rust, so nothing can be enforced on the language level, and certain discipline is required to make sure there is no corrupt or leaked memory resulting from using this library.
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I'm still not sure. I do wish you well in expanding the field. It's a difficult problem.

Have you thought about personalizing the model with input from what a user has liked/upvoted on various forums? Even with that, it encourages bubbles and echo chambers though.

I'm from a group that thrives on busting of um.. chops. If someone isn't jabbing you, that's when you should be concerned. Don't tell the governor, but a group was hanging out tonight and hairstyles, music choices, fatness, and politics were all fair game. The same goes for online groups, family, and work.

Facebook and Twitter have tried this with the result being a total failure. Again, it's a very difficult problem and if your team is able to pull it off, the product is going to be worth more than a browser plugin. Best wishes and much respect for taking on a difficult task.
It doesnt count as winning the argument if you paid them to agree with you
If anyone notices a problem you'll likely need to write a COE, there's no way to get around that. Not updating the status page absolutely doesn't get you out of that task.

COE also doesn't lead to negative marks on anyone at AWS that I know of. It's a learning experience to know why it happened and action items so it doesn't happen again.
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Just in time for deer season!
> Top down regulation will just make startups less likely to enter new disruptive tech

Im ok with this
Diagrams.net is using electron for the desktop app, it works really well (and is fast despite what people often beieve of electron)
Thanks I read all of it
Transparent? How's that?

I was being hyperbolic, yes. That was the point. I think the entire argument over the morality of it is an appeal to absurdity. There are gross assumptions made on every side of the argument and I don't see any clear path to one side of the discussion about whether or not eating animals is immoral being possible.

I'm not anti-vegan. How could one even be anti-vegan? Seems more like a personal conviction to me, and that's, quite frankly, none of my business.
Can you open up the editor, edit the file, save it, then exit or bg the editor (or go to another window) and type 'make' in 10 seconds or less?
And shiny armor
How is Zulip as a company different from Slack?
Smart governments would be using this pandemic as a natural experiment on their biowarfare preparations.
I grabbed the data again, and this time used the changes in cumulative cases and deaths over the last 60 days, per capita, in each state for doing the EV reallocation.

Using cases, it comes out 344 Trump, 194 Biden. Using deaths, it comes out 354 Trump, 184 Biden.

The big difference this time is largely rural states that are getting hit much harder than the rest of the states. North Dakota in this allocation gets 35 cases EV and 46 deaths EV, and South Dakota gets 30 and 36. Montana get 21 and 23.

For comparison to some high population states, California is 4 and 4, New York 4 and 3, Texas 8 and 10, Florida 6 and 10.

Now I'd be curious to see something that looks at various sliding windows on the data and sees how to allocations change, but that would be a bit more elaborate than I want to do.
It's important to note that these are still regular expressions. They still conform to the same mathematical definition as the regular expressions we all love or hate, and in fact, the library uses regular expressions under the hood. It's basically just using new language constructs for the exact same capabilities.

Now, whether you like that new syntax or not, is a matter of opinion. It is of course more type-safe and probably more approachable. That said, I find the verbosity a bit off-putting, although I chalk some of this up to Java being Java - other language implementations could be a bit nicer there. I also question the API design somewhat: regexes are inductively defined, there are a couple of primitives and a couple of operators that combine these primitives and the API doesn't make this very explicit by using the builder pattern.

But ultimately, I'm more used to the way regular expressions are usually written, and for many tasks, that syntax is also more portable (e.g. regular expressions can be configuration which can be hugely useful for e.g. NLP tasks). For quick one-off text replacement tasks with very simple regexes I also think that this syntax would be way too cumbersome.

Lastly, there are some people in the comments suggesting the use of parser combinators, BNF and similar formalisms / tools. Those might be an option for your use case, but they don't give you regular languages (although, sadly: regular expressions in most languages nowadays are not regular anymore). Having a regular language might be an actual requirement for whatever reason (e.g. constant memory usage).
Yes - while we have to be careful of making sure not to support the anti-mask/'covid is fake' hysteria because it really is a time to act in unison ... there is a 100% chance governments around the world are going to use this time to do things they might not otherwise do and we have to be careful.

And I mean good and bad governments, with good and bad ideas.

It's hard being in government, you never get to do the things you want, it's a long, compromising grind. There's no money for anything so either you raise taxes (scary), take on more debt (also scary) or print money (scary).

The conservative government in the UK and liberal government in Canada have made major green announcements, a lot of this is opportunistic politiking.

The 'Modern Monetary Theorists' ('debts don't matter' people) are definitely pushing hard at this time.

Because every central bank and government is going into full on Keynsian spending, they're likely going to want to keep on doing that, and not reverting to the 'regular economy'. Power is hard to reliquish.

In Canada, pre-covid, we saw the average house price increase in value more than the average wage in the country. That is point blank crazy. That is a weird financialisation of the economy that we don't yet understand - inflation in a fixed asset that doesn't increase productivity.

Even the US Fed said just a few days ago 'It's a New World Orders'.

People should be spooked because with all the flux and the rules being re-written there will be power grabs, and just because people think they are benevolent, doesn't mean they are. Surely, a common denominator in humanity is the propensity for people to make power grabs when they can.
I made less than that starting in a small city (just under a million in the MSA) in a poor state working for the state government (one of the employers constantly hiring and willing to take a chance on an uneducated kid with a couple of years of freelance experience) and this was after mass applying to positions all over the country.

There were a ton of issues on my part and things I still don’t understand and can only ascribe to chronic poor luck, though I won’t go into it all in this particular comment. I make better money now, more than most people my age probably make on average, but probably significantly less than most developers with similar experience. I probably won’t be able to recover the rough start which is likely annoying seeming as for the amount of money I’m likely to cap out at I probably could have done something much more interesting.
I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track
That's right.

By the time the laser reaches the target receiver it could be covering an area of tens of meters, or grater, and still be usefully detected.

Think about the tiny amount of energy emitted by a mobile phone transmitter and still able to he usefully detected by an antenna on a tower kilometres away.
What I find a lot scarier is that macOS seems to store your local user's password as a hash with Apple.

A few months ago I was signing in on my MacBook, and it asked me (assuming because I did not have a mobile number attached) for my Hackintosh local user's password to 2FA.

May be buried in the depths of the EULA, but I most definitely never agreed for my LOCAL account password to be uploaded to Apple.

At least signature checks can be blocked (for now) on a DNS level. What about my passwords?
> Your argument is that government grants are bad because they cause some moderate bureaucratic hassle?

There's nothing moderate about it. Think about the amount of paperwork required so that someone is spending 35h/week working on it. And we're talking about a 5 people org. All that to claim tax credits the company will maybe get next quarter. As opposed to a US startup that pays way less tax and can just hire the engineer they need as their 5th employee. Which one is getting a head start?

And on the other hand, all these programs are administered by an army of bureaucrats, all paid with a cushy pension fund.

It's a great job program for bureaucrats, not so much for startups!
Oh one more thing, they said in the Apple Silicon event that they had eliminated a lot of the need for copying RAM around so … could be some actual footprint reduction there?
Isn't that a contradiction in terms, "It's easy if you work at it."?
My group of acquaintance agree not to exchange gifts, we take turns buying beers when we get together.

After my being embarrassed in the first year of my marriage by an expensive gift from a poor member of the extended family, I suggested to my wife that she and her sister in-law pull names out of a hat, where one family member buys one thing for one other member. It's common knowledge I really like business socks and a casual shirt. I often get the black sheep of the family, who looks forward to his bottle of bourbon, I'm told he makes it last several months.

For close family, we decide on a more expensive 'family present' which might be a new TV or a holiday, usually a road trip. One year it was to replace the broken air-conditioner.

I encourage my kids to buy experiences, not 'stuff'. I still get nice hand drawn gift cards with socks or joke T-shirts.

My wife is the fussiest person in town so I ask her what she would like, and she knows my favourite gift is the smile on her face when I give it to her.
Imagine if they got the funding level of the Mozilla Corp.
I didn't propose anything, Mike—let alone killing all humans. But maybe I made too many assumptions and should have anticipated some might take my comment literally.

I'm an optimist, but I also don't anoint humankind with some divine moral authority—I put us on the level with every other animal on the planet.
Not sure whether you were specifically interested in the history of cloud computing or unconvinced by the justification of CERNs existence. But FWIW, another spinoff of CERN was the web.