skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2 articles you cite are interesting. I'd argue that the NK article was fine as it -- it was about the soldiers long story coming to a close. Was it by virtue of the actions of T? Sure, I'll give him that. Did he need to be specifically praised for that in the context? No, it wasn't about him, it was about the soldiers.

The second article is a "culture" piece and the inclusion of T in that is a head scratcher. I was not impressed by it (regardless of the random T tidbit).

That's a sample size of 2, and while both could be arguable evidence for your position, it's not of much to work with.

You say you're not a T. follower, but you imply that "the media" is not fair to him. Were you aware of any of his conduct in these past 4 years? Nothing out of the ordinary?

Are you aware that he's actively trying to overthrow the election that he lost? Does that seem ok to you? Are you aware of Bush v. Gore?

I could go on and on if you wished. But the more important thing is: if I am correct and I'm unable to persuade you then where does that leave us? How can we fix a problem that "doesn't exist"?
Pandora has good algorithms, but as a product is objectively terrible.

It is literally impossible for you to just sort the list of stations you have created. If you have 120 stations, you have to s l o w l y scroll through them in random order until you find the one you want. And even though there are thumbnails next to them (presumably to make them easier to identify), the thumbnails change. There's a hundred different usability problems, and as far as I can tell, all of them minor features that could have been implemented years ago.

If you don't pay for the premium version, it's a nightmare of pop-ups to prompt you to pay, to the point that you develop reflexes to pass the prompts. Then there's the actual ads, which sometimes seem to disappear for a while, only to barrage you intermittently for a half hour.

The whole thing annoyed me so much, and I complained on their support channels so often, that I dropped them and just started buying music. And of course I then had to pirate the same music I purchased because there's no way to just buy some MP3s so you can move the music around.
off topic: anybody knows what's the color theme for the code snippets?
you sound like a proper cunt
Office, a little bit of Lync, video conferencing research, and then competitive intelligence stuff. It did feel like the interesting times had long passed when I arrived (just when Bill Gates left), and often thought about what it must have been like.
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They're only closer to management in the sense that they make more money and have better conditions. Their livelihood is just as precarious and just as dependent on their bosses for income, and they can be fired just as easily -- and they have their own grievances about scope and purpose of work.
To teach well, become a mind-reading time-traveler
Spotify is too, just not as drastically. I opened an account in Prague and found when I got to the US that it wouldn't play anything. Curious how they knew I wasn't in CZ anymore, yet instead of just letting me play the US version, it wouldn't let me play anything.
Eh, does the RAM usage of a single browser window even matter on modern systems?

Anecdata, but I open Pandora in it's own window, then minimize it. This makes it pretty easy to find if you have a hundred+ tabs open at once like I often find myself with.

I currently have 44 tabs open, including Pandora in it's own window, and Chrome is only using ~2GB of RAM - perfectly acceptable to me.
Read "Your money or your life". There is an interesting exercise there where you work out what your time is worth to you and what your employer is paying you for it (after expenses). That helped me answer this question for myself and I started investing and took time off work. The answer for you will be different. But that's how I got past the "I have cash and that new gadget is shiny, wait why am I not content?" stage of life.
Definite arrogance out there. This arrogance also occurs with citizens who don't like it when science is questioned. Real scientists don't shy away from questioning. Questioning is a key part of science and advancements.

And you have science used as a tool when it supports ones agenda. But immediately thrown away when it doesn't align with their emotions and agenda. So we have a pandemic, people trust in the science and the policies to respond, but are all too quick to throw that all away so people can protest, go to church, or let companies film movies. So you believe in science but you are ok with making exceptions for certain things? How consistent.

If we allow the agendas of mobs to disrupt science, it becomes a lot less useful.

Many leading scientists and groups don't have the courage to stick behind the science either, lest they ruffle the feathers of those who donate.

There are plenty of scientists that are bought and paid for just like politicians. We have a long track record of this with cigarettes, pharma, the sugar industry, war on fat, etc.
I live in house with similar situation, but I still prefer wired over wireless. It's rock solid and pretty stable.
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Hobbies. For me recently that’s been a lot of laser tag.
Grafana is much more focused on time series data - Datasette can handle that but it's not nearly as good a fit, since it doesn't do any rollups for you - you'd have to write your own SQL queries to summarize the data.

I imagine you could do that using SQLite window functions but you'd end up putting a lot of work in to get even a basic alternative to Grafana working.

The visualization features in Datasette are all provided by plugins - I'd love to people experiment with time-series visualization plugins which use SQLite (via the Datasette JSON API) on the backend.
If a hiring manager or recruiter gets back to me with a vague answer like this, I wouldn't be pursuing the position.

Plenty of recruiters in the past were happy to give me specifics... I'm unsure why you haven't had much luck.
At the current speed at which the Web Standards are "progressing", I'm predicting we'll have full HTML, CSS and JavaScript inside the favicon area any moment now.
Please don't use it. Just boycott it. If an app is not available outside the app store, email them and ask them to make it available. Remind them that they are being fools to add value to the app store as it reduces their options and makes them more dependent on Apple. This will allow Apple to gauge even more money from them in the future.

App stores also kill otherwise free open-source projects as it adds an unnecessary financial burden on them.

Remind them we have been doing fine without it on the desktop for decades now. Ask them why PAYING Apple for the privilege of adding VALUE to the macOS platform - by developing and distributing their wares on that platform - doesn't make them feel like a jackass!? Apple should be the one paying them for creating value for the macOS platform!
A nutrition journalist tried the keto diet, 'it was like a switch being flipped
> Also, ruling out Pais doesn't rule out the entire rest of the American military industrial complex, which is quite capable of developing cutting edge technology on its own. If we assume for the sake of argument that UAPs are explained by advanced classified technology, Pais and his patent still aren't necessary for humans to be responsible.

Technically that would be possible for the sake of argument.
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The Chinese don't like Mao because of the Great leap Forward, they like him because he led a peasant revolution and kicked the foreigners out of China, after decades of national humiliation.

We supported Chaing Kai-shek. He lost, retreating to Taiwan.

It seems that many Americans are not aware of the propaganda they are being exposed to. The world is not black and white. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
That is funny.
Stick to residing in states with no state income tax for wages (Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Alaska, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming).
I could get behind this. I'd contribute to a crowdfund to support that as well (as a .org domain holder)
If you just want to build something, perhaps it doesn't matter much.

But when you are developing, typing "make" will rebuild the file you just edited plus anything that depends on the contents of that file (assuming a well written Makefile, which is not that hard to write for most cases). Trying to make that work in a bash script would involve lots of manually written tests, which would be easy to get wrong / get out of sync.
You can find it's not possible to see 10GBASE-T Hub's massive heat spreader or fan.
>Google/DDG/Bing it and read some forum threads

and that doesn't have the reddit shill issue?

> Sure you can't get people to spoon feed you answers that way but do you really want to be spoon fed by people who don't actually know anything?

Or you know, people want to spend 10 minutes looking for the best product, rather than spending a few days going down a rabbit hole of their own personal research.
For what it's worth: Creative Nomad with 64MB was just the first one. The one with 6GB of storage came out about a year before the iPad. Hence the iconic "No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame." by CmdrTaco. iPod hadn't won on the storage alone.
Ah yeah, as someone whose first langauge is javascript where all IO and even things like timers are async, I forget that not everyone groks it. It's really not that complicated (at work we have junior devs with 6 months experience writing async code no problem), but I think there is a certain amount of unlearning that needs to be done if you're used to working with threaded code.
I totally don't understand what you mean. Full disk encryption isn't new in the iOS or Android world. iOS for examples supported it since iOS 4. But full disk encryption doesn't protect against buggy OS. No one really expected to take apart a phone, extract its flash, and be able to read its contents that way.
Ha. I actually hadn’t. Nice.
I personally write, and have seen many others use as well, the "two-storey" a and g, so I suspect there's regional variation.
Agreed. I recently helped a Windows 10 user who didn’t know how to change her wallpaper even though she’s had her PC for years.

Not everyone wants to or should be a system administrator in order to browse the web or use a spreadsheet.

The vast majority of computer users shouldn’t even attempt some of the things we used to do back in the day…
You just fed one
It is very challenging for complex models to know what's the coverage (and also could be extremely computationally intensive).
That's a brilliant answer.

As someone who has worked supporting a commercial compiler, it never ceases to amaze me how companies will pay 6 figures per seat for development tools, and then install them on a 5 year old machine that wasn't fit for the title "workstation" when it was brand new.
When taking advice from people, I weigh it by how much I want aspects of their lives

The Lesswrong community live in a narrow rationalist bubble.
The shaders these days get relatively complete.

https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt_royale/
That's not actually true. If you're a skilled worker, you're livelihood (and security) comes from your skills. This is the core issue with unions for skilled people. If you work hard and move around, you can make great money and be secure without a union. So why unionise? That's why there is no union of doctors or investment bankers...

Imagine you're a dev at amazon, and you get 100k basic and share options worth another 100k. If you throw in with the union, you risk your job. And if you win, they get 2usd an hour more. And your 100k of share options is worthless. How does that sound like a good deal?
When I was young, I was in that state. Some light black-hat SEOing and ad fraud and you can pay for the domain. Some other stuff that works is to generate content for a bunch of pointless sites that are trying to make it look like they're high traffic. Also, that's why I'm a huge fan of not enforcing minimum age on work globally for digital work. I did all this as a teenager and it helped me become an engineer.

I think it's even better now, though KYC stuff probably makes it much harder to get paid. So you have better avenues (Fiverr, Upwork, etc.) but maybe difficulty getting the dollars into your local currency.
Raspberry Pi already has its own hardware RNG as well, I suppose the one mentioned in the article may be better?
Because the sooner you get to the top of your budgeted salary the more years you spend collecting it. Collecting a higher salary for longer makes you more money.
The days can be reasonably counted since the release of a fix: 0-day would be an exploit for which there is no defense, and a n-day would be an (old) exploit patched since n-days.

The most valuable time of an exploit is not the time of discovery, but the time of resolution.
where do you get .org for $2?
Right yeah. NPR great. NPR science reporting. Terrible. It's a shame. Sadly it's a strong pattern not a one off, hence the NPR search link on that site so you can satisfy yourself that "as heard on NPR" is anything but a strong signal of quality research.

And if we keep repeating that they'll likely fix it. It's absolutely fixable. NPR are not a total write off.
Ask HN: What is theoretically lowest latency you can have for video chat?
I think video chat sucks massively because of lag.

It goes like this...

A: How is it going?

... 3 second lag?

A: I am aski
B: OH I'm doing ..

both pause....

A: go ahead

3 more seconds

B: oh im doing great.

C: ok great

Landlines phone worked better
Except it didn't even average one an hour in the worst year
> Oh you sweet summer child

Should have clarified. On the embedded systems I work on, generally Cortex-M4, you set an MPU region on address 0x0 and it turns into a hardfault, so it's pretty easy to catch.
"LW"?
What is a good alternative? Download.com?
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Do you see the irony in your reply or would you like me to explain it?
I was under the impression that it's based on Smol, but maybe I'm wrong.
> Typing slash ( / ), for any reason apparently, and in any context, pops up the Basic Blocks selection window. If you type, for example, "10 / 2 = 5", or perhaps "a/b testing", or any other very common valid use of the slash symbol, you are left with that stupid popup on the screen. You have to hit ESC to close it. Pity the fool who has a touchbar Mac. And if for some reason you wanted to end your line with a slash, and you hit return after typing that /, the popup eats the slash and puts you in a new block below.

You can just keep typing and the menu will close. The vast majority of the time, it doesn't actually interrupt the flow of typing in content. This happens even if what you are typing matches with a menu item. As you said, you have to press enter to actually invoke one of the actions in the menu.

Using a single key to invoke a menu and then having successive keystrokes search through that menu as well as enter the text in the editor at the same time is a UI choice I actually vastly prefer over having say dedicated keyboard shortcuts for each of those menu items, or having to click a button to open the menu. It's similar to having leader-key-driven menu selection in Vim or Spacemacs (but of course different in that the editor is modal). It is a menu discoverability and ease-of-use tradeoff they have to make.
You can install uBlock in Safari from the AppStore. Works great for me.
When was this magical time when science and politics not been intertwined?
Yes, you can just `pip install katrain` followed by `python -m katrain` to get started. Personally I would recommend at least reading abut the rules first (unlike MuZero).

I think the strength or lack thereof of your opponent is actually much less important than the strength of the AI you use to review your games. After each game you should study the AI's advice and learn the moves it recommends.
They did? Signal seems to claim otherwise. From the linked Signal post:

> Not only can Cellebrite not break Signal encryption, but Cellebrite never even claimed to be able to.
> “Where is the good knife?” If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out.

Keeping around a couple beater knives is how I have a good knife. I think there's value to the general point, but a lot of the cases where I have variable quality items, it's not for sloppiness.
I would trust EFF to administer all TLDs :) Epic win EFF, good job!
I never tire of seeing Datasette on HN. It saved me last week when business folks sent me four huge excel sheets of data that I'd need to answer questions about during a meeting. I exported to CSV, then into SQLite, and immediately had a shareable web page I could query and filter in realtime. Vastly more useful to me (as an engineer) than Excel, and having the full power of SQL is a delight.

Wish list: I wish it were a single executable I could carry around, like fossil, jq, rclone, rg/ag, sqlite3, gitea, micro, etc.
I think the point with Zeno's paradox is less "motion can't happen" and "obviously this is wrong, so where is my mistake?"

Turns out the answer is math ;) more specifically stuff which didn't exist back then.
> 100ms latency??!?!?!? In my world 100ms are centuries

Yup that's crappy. The ease of it happening, the Work At A Startup page used to have this issue (may still, haven't looked lately) shows that it isn't hard to make accidentally happen.

As I said, it is a weakness of the system.

> sx is a retarded idea because it adds an abstraction over something brutally simple(html)

Have you seen how minimal of an abstraction jsx is? It is a simple rewrite to a JS function that spits out HTML, but JSX is super nice to write and more grep-able than the majority of other templating systems.

I have a predisposition to not liking templating systems, but JSX is the best part of React.

Notably it doesn't invent it's own control flow language, unlike most competitors in this space.

> My immediate thought was "this is retarded".

Well the most famous SPA is gmail and it's rather popular, you may have heard of it. It is bloated now, but when it first debuted it was really good. Webmail sucked, then suddenly it didn't.

Google maps. Outlook web client. Pandora. Online chat rooms, In browser video chat, (now with cool positional sound!)

SPA just means you are just fetching the minimum needed data from the server to fulfill the user's request, instead of refetching the entire DOM.

They are inherently an optimization.

Non-SPAs can be slow bloated messes as well, e.g. the Expedia site.
> Are people still using Apache web server in 2020?

Yes.

In fact, about one-fourth of the "top million busiest sites", 24.6%, are "still using Apache in [December] 2020" [0] -- more than any other web server.

More "active sites" also use Apache (25.6%) than any other web server.

When it comes to "all sites", however, nginx (33.48%) is the most widely used, followed by Apache (27.07%) and Microsoft (7.94%).

--

[0]: https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2020/12/22/december-2020-...
Isn't allowing complexity to grow to such an extent that you cannot fix critical bugs in a reasonable amount of time a form of incompetence?
You can imagine that Jepsen could run against filesystems itself. Basic JVM IO would be fairly easy to get going, and the POSIX APIs could be tested by having Jepsen call (maybe via IPC?) a small C/whatever binary. I don't know what fault injection would look like though: presumably you'd want to do something down in the kernel/device drivers/hw, and that land is largely a mystery to me.

Tangentially, I would love to have a FUSE filesystem with a.) minimal build dependencies, b.) some sort of CLI interface, and c.) the ability to, say, forget to flush un-fsynced data to "disk", allowing us to simulate a power failure. There have been a bunch of research projects on this front, and they find bugs spectacularly. I bet this approach would also find errors in distributed systems, but I've yet to find one that really has the right shape for use with Jepsen.
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I got that perspective from hiring an artist (and being hired as an artist). What's the secret? Have what the client wants.

I was looking to get a dog tattoo. So, I looked for a tattoo artist with dogs in the style I wanted in their portfolio.

As a visual effects artist I happened to make some dust in my early features. Since then, after looking at my demo reel, I've gotten hired to make more dust in movies.
To take a different tack, I wouldn't go to 'famous' dates and places.

What I'd do is to spend some time with my parents when they were younger.
Maybe that's true. I don't know how complex these things are, or if they will be affected by future changes in the language, but it feels weird to say that a critical piece of software is complete. I wonder if many new libraries will use Smol.
> Did they change libaio to work without O_DIRECT at some point?

No, and I don't really forsee that happening at this point.

> Or are you talking about io_uring for async file io?

Yep. io_uring can do async buffered file IO.

Initially, for buffered file IO, everything not in the page cache (e.g. a cache miss read, or a write without a page cache page already existing) was done via kernel threads inside the kernel, but that's being incrementally improved. Now most buffered reads don't need a kernel thread anymore (instead they are submitted during the io_uring_enter, and completed in task context, avoiding a lot of the overhead of "synchronous" execution in a kernel thread).
I don't there is a specific issue here, and yeah I like the EFF too.

But imagine if were, I duno, someone from the Red Cross, Greenpeace, or something writing this.
This is something I think Amazon does well: their behavioral questions have a known format and prompt, and their recruiters tell you that and that you should practice.

At Amazon, the behavioral questions should be a STAR format response to prompts about Amazon leadership principles.

If you write down two STAR format stories to each principle, you’ll always have something to say for the behavioral questions. (Most stories hit several LPs, depending on what you emphasize. So it’s only a handful, total.)

I made flash cards for each story, so I could practice hitting the key points.
Professional organizations take their place for regulated professions - so the AMA for doctors and the NIBA for Investment Bankers.

But programming isn't a regulated profession. It doesn't have a professional organization. Your "cred" is reputational and based on work history, not on actual credentials or licensure. It's closer in this sense to a trade, like electrical work or plumbing, where members frequently are unionized.

Why unionize? Because your facial recognition tech is being used to round up Uigurs, or bomb Yemeni weddings, or bake cakes for gay people. To have actual say over the products you work on, and how they're used.
It's one line of HTML (/favicon.ico is the zero-code default) for a user-interface cue which is widely used. "a lot of detail work” is only true if your internal processes for adding a static resource are phenomenally inefficient.

If you are adding PWA support to your site and don't like the way your default icon displays on some devices, you have to add one more line of HTML and one small JSON file. That is more work but it's a fraction of a percent of the work which you will need to do to make a PWA for all but the most trivial sites.