skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early 2000s. Every myspace looks different. AIM profiles with colors, poems, quotes, and links. WinAmp skins, but also skins in desktops (WindowBlinds), wallpapers (DeviantArt), icons, ringtones, etc. To be cool, you'd make it yours. It all had a sort of gaudy messiness that never appealed to the artists and proto-hipsters, but they were the odd ones. And you could clearly tell what was business vs personal. Business was square and beige. Personal was colorful and round. It's all mixed together now. The moment when this flipped for me was the iPhone, because unlike Blackberry or Sidekick, this was a device that was meant for both work and play, and it pushed the design boundaries equally together. Facebook, Bootstrap, the death of RSS, the rise of streaming music services, etc. all happened around the same time. It felt fresh and modern! I remember. And it wasn't just surface-level design - the real change was in our personalities. Bring your whole self to work. Craft your personal brand. 10 more life hacks. Delete those facebook photos and that old blog. In 2020, hey now I even see your kitchen and your kids! There became no place to retreat to. Epitomized in any modern Apple ad. It elevated us, so we accepted it, but now deviate too far and mobs will attack you. Our age is an age of conformity. I'm reminded of a documentary called Helvetica from 2007. Has the world become less personalized? Even the word personalized doesn't quite capture what I wonder that was lost, because personalized would not be a word I'd have used then. What could cause this trend to reverse?
She posted the email.
The amount of ads and crappy scroll jacking is very annoying. I read and quit halfway. Couldn’t tell what was ad and what was content.
>Yet, you can't go about breaking every norm and rule if you are famous and from an under-represented group.

Unless you still work at Google, how do you know she actually broke any rules? As far as I know, her e-mail to the Brain list is not public?
> Why don’t you buy from Purism instead?

Because I don't want to spend twice the price of an iphone for something less useful than a flip phone. Freedom preserving devices will always struggle to reach the level of usability of the first iphone.
The idea was to eliminate the latency caused by round trips on initial payload. With quic+server push it was theoretically possible to get the server to send you everything necessary to display the requested page with a single request packet (sans subsequent application-transparent flow control packets).
I wish they wouldn’t give this sort of media exposure to a 12 year old. I cannot see the upside to it. It’s not even a “role model” narrative, more of a “freak of nature” story. Not what a kid entering puberty needs. I knew a few folks like this in formal programs, and it was a crap shoot whether the attention was good or bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_of_Mathematically_Precoc...

I seem to remember they did a study of the JHU kids after 20 years or so, and the strongest conclusion they could come up with was the program didn’t obviously do any lasting damage. Having an acronym of SMPY, which led them to be called simpies, didn’t help.

I wish him the best, and I hope he has the sort of rootedness or grounding, maybe from family or faith, to complement his talents so he has a chance at happiness in life.
If you want to continue doing this, you will need to keep building audience and selling different products to the same audience.
The hardest part of point sales is trust. Even if you sell something at 1$, there is a trust deficit when you buy from stranger.

So focus on spreading your ideas, why these small problems matter, keep at them. One day isn't enough to know if problem is relevant sometimes it takes a few years.
Focus on finding audience that closely matches your lifestyle and you will likely have many problems that are common with this audience. Then build your tiny solutions.

Finding new users is extremely time consuming. Most companies survive through expansion (solve other problems for same customer)
He's not suggesting a strategy, he's highlighting a controversial pick to get them to question their assumptions.
Making a cheeseburger in CSS using one div
You still need a host on the other side.
I would prefer a format that can be copied as text. Images of code are frustrating...
Don’t forget to keep your eyes on the architectural concept of Command Query Record Separation (CQRS).

When combined with event sourcing [1], there is a new unified architecture possible that solves the problem that microservices create by fragmenting data [2], and performant querying on data updating in real time.

This architecture represents more complexity but increased flexibility.

I recently saw this article about federated GraphQL [3], and while a cool idea and probably the ultimate solution (API composition), I expect that with network and physical boundaries between services still adding latency, we need materialized views as part of the architecture to compensate for the overhead of bringing together aggregate root objects from multiple systems.

[1] https://www.confluent.io/blog/event-sourcing-cqrs-stream-pro...

[2] https://microservices.io/patterns/data/cqrs.html

[3] https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-...
They draw 6 balls out of 50. There are C(50,6) = 15,890,700 possible draws (C(n,k) = binomial coefficient)

45 of the draws are made of 6 consecutive numbers (1-2-3-4-5-6, then 2-3-4-5-6-7, etc, until 45-46-47-48-49-50)

A single draw has a 45 out of 15,890,700 chances of being 6 consecutive numbers

A single draw has a probability of 1-(45/15,890,700) of NOT being 6 consecutive numbers

Assuming 1000 draws (lotteries) per day, in a year we expect probability (1-(45/15,890,700))^(1000*365) = 36% that none of the lotteries draw 6 consecutive numbers

So there is a 64% probability that at least one lottery will draw 6 consecutive numbers in a year. If there are 1000 draws per week (instead of per day) the probability is still 17% that this will happen in a year.

So this South African draw is kinda expected.
Don't forget that if you do such a thing you forfeit the ability to use the google play services which make up about 50% of what people consider an android phone to be.

Google does not allow you to have an alternative store preinstalled.
This scam is not comparable to Turkish one. Same numbers drawn twice in row.

https://www.turkishminute.com/2020/11/27/turkish-mp-hints-at...
Saudi needs to do one of two things before the oil runs out:

1) Diversify their economy

2) Build up enough sovereign wealth to maintain their citizens standard of living after the oil has run out.

The first is very hard, because huge percentages of their population are completely disengaged from the economy. It's estimated that 30-40% of working age adults neither have a job, nor are looking for one. An unusually high percentage of those who have jobs work for the government, and somewhere close to 90% of non-oil jobs are held by foreigners. There is immense social and economic pressure against citizens of KSA getting private sector jobs. The biggest "employer" in the country is the yearly hajj pilgrimage, which isn't a lot.

The latter is incredibly hard because of the former. That 30-40% of the population that don't have jobs need to be fed, or they'll eventually revolt. And all of those government jobs cost a huge amount of money. And the fact that the citizens of KSA neither want jobs (apparently) and aren't properly trained for a lot of those jobs makes reducing the social services bill very, very hard.

If they can outrun the de-carbonization of the world, KSA will do okay. Maybe not as good as it was during the peak (if you were one of the few getting the benefits), but not terrible. If they don't outrun de-carbonization .... well, then I would recommend not being there when whatever happens, happens.
Redshift vs. BigQuery vs. Snowflake: A comparison of the most popular DWs
I don't agree at all. This happens all the time. For example, electrical engineering has f, ω, and s, all only differing by basic factors of 2π or i.

As far as I can tell, the main reason this gets done is to give commonly recurring quantities single symbols, to reduce errors in lengthy calculations. When those recurring quantities are meaningfully different, in ways that help prime one's intuition, that's all the more reason to do it.
According to her, Yann LeCun is a racist just because he said that a specific ML model was biased due to a bias in the data and not because ML learning as a research field was racist.

Such an inspiration!
I don't understand why this is wrong but labor unions are encouraged. If the sellers of labor can cartelize to maximize income, why shouldn't the buyers of labor be able to cartelize to minimize expenses? There is no logically consistent excuse.

Better yet, why isn't all cartelization prohibited?
This reminds me of the great Sci-fi book series "Old Man's War", where the soldiers get a thought-controlled computer called "Brain Pal™" installed in their head. After installation they first have to choose a name and almost everyone uses a swear word for that. The main protagonist then keeps activating it with the phrase "Hey Asshole".
I'm pretty sure that this book came out way before Google Assistant.
It's completely absurd to suggest that Apple should be moderating what users post to facebook.
That was only an example to show that environmental influences start very early. Your environment continues to influence you until you die, even if that influence in your final years is of a supportive nature. Many elderly people can live quite well in their homes they lived in since decades but once they come to a nursing home, they often become disoriented.

And yes, medieval people were as intelligent as modern people. Many of the smartest minds of humanity haven't lived today but hundreds or thousands of years ago. I'd put all behaviorally modern humans are into the same category.
Ok I’ve added it to my list of possible book ideas. But it’s already a list that’s grown far beyond a lifetime’s output.

(“From Higgs Boson to Hello World” as working title.)
What type of product?
That sounds like the movie I am Mother.
A good chunk of country specific TLDs are no longer specific to countries, similar to how .org/.net moved on from their original uses.
There is a very early quote from zuck with him bragging about the personal data he collected from the first users and how they were stupid to trust him.

Facebook has been rotten since the beginning.
Well, it was by some book in 1400AD [according to https://www.haggardhawks.com/post/neverthriving], but I've been juggling for 30+ years, including at festivals throughout the US and Europe, and never heard the word before.
How are they planning to shut down BTC if it doesn’t give up all their American customers? :-)
Great tool guys. I've been dreaming of such a flexible but convenient tool. The existing tools like Airtable, Coda or Notion are good up to certain point, but allowing Python functions really open up a higher level.
I always used argep.hu for pricing computer bits. Dunno who's better
It seems to me that the fundamental issue here is that Americans as a whole don't value education. The upper and middle classes might, but the lower classes and the younger segments of the population
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I think Thom would approve.
Not to mention the reverse consecutive numbers, the same numbers, the +=2 numbers, the -=2 numbers, the prime numbers, and all the other sequences that people would find "suspicious" because "omgfwow that could never happen"
I've never heard of a 300% pay gap between people doing the same job, how does that even happen? Were you paid significantly under par or did that other person somehow hit jackpot? And at what level are we talking about?
Middle eastern countries are a bad example. They have a very small population and were mostly supported by immigrant workers. A lot of the elites might've squandered the wealth but sovereign funds seem to have locked a fair bit of it in futuristic investments.
This actually seems fair. If they were held liable for anything less than gross negligence, we'd have the vaccine in 2025.
"What the fuck? Are we just going to let them soak up the entire economy?"

Looks that way. No leadership to stop it.
I wonder if it would result in something like what you said where every user hosts their own social media hub which only hosts their own content.

But would the responsibility fall down to the one who owns the machine running the software? Is digital ocean responsible for the post I host on a vps in their datacenter?
I wonder how many site swaps make interesting braids. You have some discretion in where the plaits go [inside vs. outside throws, crossing vs. non-crossing simultaneous throws if unspecified], which would help.
That is exactly what is a culture war, as you assert a set of beliefs and perspectives ought to be warred against. The term culture war does not necessarily suggest equivalence, though of course both sides in your country use grandiose and reduced language. Here’s a quick summary of the term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war
Government regulators were also fine with having lead in gas for decades, they didn't do much better. In fact government regulators allowing themselves to be swayed by auto-manufacturer paid safety studies probably gave the public a false sense of security.

I often wonder if we would have gotten rid of things like lead and asbestos faster if consumers had to decide for themselves rather than depending upon regulators to determine what is safe.
Hardly relevant considering Facebook is being sued for antitrust, not for being as unsafe as lead additives or asbestos.

Consumers really didn't like having lead in their gas or asbestos in their walls, the problem was that the dangerous effects of leaded gas and asbestos weren't well-known at the time.

Maybe you should elaborate on what you believe isn't well-known about Facebook that warrants an antitrust lawsuit.
Re: "independent," how are you funded (so you can pay for infrastructure)?

Are you independent of VCs? of governments?
How is their choice being taken away? They would only be gaining more freedom and control over their devices, not losing anything.
you live by the sword, you die by the sword. she wants to work for an elite American corporation but thinks she doesn’t have to abide by the rules. well this is not how corporations work and as anyone NOT privileged enough to have only had cushy research jobs can tell you you get fired for insubordination. she can try to re-imagine the system from the outside but who are we kidding? these sanctimonious woke capitalists are no revolutionaries, they just want a piece of the pie without having to incur the concomitant moral costs. ironic that she can expect to marshal support just by ranting on twitter - if that’s not privilege, then what is?
I love the fact that I can call out any X11 color name.

For working during the day, my office lamp is "banana mania". For dinner time, the dining room lights are "topaz".

You can also set a light to a color manually, then ask Siri what color it is. (This is how I discovered "banana mania" which is Siri's name for the color Hue calls "concentrate".
They need to hide the community store and do SEO on the consumer store so noobs won't even be able to find the wrong store.
> Everyday flights are as boring as possible on purpose

But the frequency of flights increases the probability of an unusual or unforeseen event occurring, or tested events occurring but in combination. Just like beta testing.

It's also how the Soviet regulators certified their aircraft, they required them to operate for a year or more on cargo and mail flights so that they were exposed to a wide range of environmental and operational scenarios.

> Everyday flights are as boring as possible on purpose

So were the commercial 737 Max flights, yet here we are.
Fulldome AI: Generating 360 Environments
Actually it's 13% now, adjusted from 16% which is previously 17%. And it's the basic rate which means it's the highest level rate and there're several levels smaller than 13%. Seems that you have leaved China for at least 10 years.
The question is whether that Twitter exchange was an isolated outburst (of the kind that reminds us all to stay away from social media, at least using our real name) or an example of typical behavior that led to this firing.
These Minecraft enthusiasts are getting out of control
There is still a civil way to accept a resignation, with proper timelines and transfer of responsibilities. She offered to resign in some time due to some demands, and the immediate termination seems to be related to an email unrelated to those demands. This sounds a lot like a sleazy move by Google to couch an immediate firing as a resignation.
Yeah except after the first repair man meets an untimely end you will too.

This whole "my math can save me from a tyrannical government" thing is so tired. If they don't play by the rules, and want to stop you, they will. They'll take your knee caps, your finger nails, your life, or the entire nation's internet service down. No amount of math will change that.

Here's a worked example. North Korea. Their leadership has amassed a few billion dollars of cryptocurrency they've used to finance their nuclear program. How much has crypto helped the average North Korean? Zero because it's super illegal, they'll get sent to the gulags, and their internal internet likely has it disabled seven ways to hell.

Think of this like blowing smoke in the face of a cop. Is it illegal? Probably? Hard to say. Will you immediately be arrested for something else you happen to be doing at that very moment that just so happens to be illegal? Oh yeah. Technically correct is not the best kind of correct in this situation.
> So, why can't kubelet directly interact with containerd APIs without dockershim?

Each kubelet does its thing through the Container Runtime Interface (CRI), so in a sense it doesn't know what it's running on. If it used containerd's interfaces directly, it wouldn't be possible to substitute in a different option.

For example, there are emerging VM-based approaches like Firecracker and VMware "Project Pacific" (disclosure: I work at VMware).
The fundamental aim isn't to thrust low performing kids into high performing classes and schools. It's to keep the high performing kids from self-sorting and segregating themselves from the other kids on the theory that 1) high performing kids will model better habits for lower performing kids and 2) minimize concentration of at-risk kids.

#1 is fundamentally misguided, for reasons I explain elsethread.

There's alot of truth to #2, but these movements are occurring in school districts where social policy has done about all it can to prevent concentration of at-risk kids, and short of marching high performing kids (poor and rich) at gun point into underperforming schools, there's not much more that can realistically be done. Families can and will send their kids to private school, even poor families. Parochial schools in these cities are brimming with students, including students from poor families.
> the same company can't make both third party app stores and operating systems, or both video search/recommendations and video hosting

I like the idea of spinning off the search/recommendation/filtering from hosting (for video) and crawling (for search). We should have more diversity, filtering is not to be trusted to a monopoly.
It's an interesting thought experiment although with the unintentional consequence that you would probably end up with some of the poorest people (in every iteration of the word) taking up the offer.

You could also see some actors taking up the offer multiple times, putting up the children for adoption immediately after birthing.
Thank you guys, we are now managing an app dev project now in a software called zentao (www.zentao.pm). It's very light and the bug trakcing module is really practical based on user stories. Our testers start to write cases to run later for testing once when have got the product backlog, it's quite a brilliant implementation.
> EIA projections are garbage and have been for years, go look at their own old projections if you want to verify this.

Okay.

> World coal consumption peaked in 2013, not sure why you believe it is coming back in 2050?!

Because more than half the world's population has yet to industrialize.

> Most of the new global energy production brought online is renewables, and has been for the last 4 years..

Okay.

> Not sure why you believe fossil fuel use will increase for the next 3 decades?!

Firstly, because they are increasing. Secondly, more than half the world's population has yet to industrialize. Thirdly, tons of investment in natural gas.

Fossil fuel use is increasing in the US. Do you really think it'll slow in poor developing countries in south asia, south east asia and africa? I believe fossil fuel use will increase for the same reason EIA and every other major energy agency believes it will increase. Reality.
Since most mutations are bad for you, wouldn't you want to screen for fewer mutations and end up with less change?

I doubt we'll figure out how to do genetic reprogramming on people. It seems like patching a few SNPs isn't going to do much.
Having my Phillips head screwdriver properly fit the Phillips head screw is great. The apple non standard screw is a horrible product for everyone except apple. The whole point is that they can force you to pay for substandard other stuff like their licensed hardware repairs.

They're breaking standards so that they can abuse IP laws to force you to pay more for an equivalent or worse product than the standard
It was 100% correct up until September 2019: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571548

Firefox still ignores the local Intermediate CA store, the revoked store, etc...

> because the goal is not to reimplement CAPI and it’s 200+ undocumented (except by support contract) flags and features.

The reality is that there are orgs out there with Enterprise CA Roots that have issued many intermediate CAs and tens of thousands leaf certificates.

Because of the arrogant behaviour of Mozilla and Google, it is now incredibly dangerous to run an Enterprise CA because it is no longer feasible to revoke an Intermediate CA!

Neither Firefox, nor Chrome check Intermediate CA CRLs or OCSP by default. Chrome up until recently would honour revocations via Group Policy, but Firefox would not.

Google uses CRLSets in Chrome for CA revocation, but good luck getting them to accept your Intermediate CA key that was compromised!

Now Google is going down the same selfish path: Because Google doesn't need Enteprise PKI -- because none of their products are used extensively for private networking -- they're more than happy to break hundreds of millions of deployed Windows private networks. Who cares, right? That's the competition!

"Do not be evil" was removed, remember?
yeah really makes you wonder why these tech companies pretend to be the good guys and hire ethics teams, when they don't intend to follow through when conflicts of interests arise.
Lack of insight into structural and systemic bias is indeed the plague of modern ML research, and at this point is so well-understood that carelessness is no longer excusable, and passes into true negligence (or worse).
Thanks! This is a godsend for someone like me who needs to search through many PDFs/docx documents to find information for work!