skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That would require an uncomfortable, and possibly dangerous, amount of thinking.

About, what? Slaughtering everyone not part of the master race? Yeah, tons of thought there, all of it stuck in the stone age.

You are viewing "American consumerism" through a very narrow lens, and an incorrect one at that. The people that buy nazi stuff here generally drink the koolaid. I don't know what you're reading but naziism is still taboo here.
Is it possible to do full-text search with JavaScript?
Is there mature lib for full-text search on Javascript platform? Something equivalent to Lucene?
I used lunr.js in my project, it's fine, but seems can not handle big-size data set.
Is looking into another one: flexsearch , but I haven't confidence in this: is this a good timing to do full-text search with JS? Is there any limitation now for JS to do stuff like this? Any bottleneck?
Look up Chaossearch. They do this.
The homebrew scene for dreamcast is impressive and still surprisingly active.

Good list of emulators available for the DC too, though in various states of functionality: https://dcemulation.org/index.php?title=Emulators
One missing part is whether the devices will talk on the public internet anyway. Some of them will, but at least with HomeKit you can firewall their traffic, I guess. Most home routers wouldn’t be able to do that though.

Moreover, does any Apple server going down mean you can’t use your lights? Like what happened a few weeks ago with Google, someone I know had their entire house behaving like a poltergeist.
Not sure about Tesla, but for the tech industry in general a lot of companies/startups have been propped up by other startups having near-infinite VC cash to spend on them so the profit made by these companies wasn't actually correlated with the value they provide. The market will have a big wake-up call when the VC money dries up and these companies will be in serious trouble.

I think advertising and marketing is a good example of this. The amount of advertising a typical person is exposed to has increased by orders of magnitude but the amount of disposable money people have hasn’t followed. Given the primary objective of advertising is to drive a purchase (either directly or indirectly through brand awareness), an adjustment is bound to happen. Currently a lot of advertising & marketing is propped up by VC-funded companies who burn unreasonable amounts of money on customer acquisition in an attempt to monopolise their market, but these attempts are petering out which in turn means the advertising companies’ revenue would diminish and get closer to the true value of their services. We’re already seeing this on major platforms where they cram more and more ads in, in an attempt to maintain their revenue despite the declining value of their ad slots.
Civic hacking and Audrey Tang's role in Taiwan's Covid-19 response
its not cheaper than coal, in fact it cant function without fossil fuel. You need to account for the backup energy needed to if you want to talk about the price
Proof of aliens need not be actual living specimens.

Left over artifacts from their civilizations are just as exciting a find.

Personally, I feel the thought that we are alone in this universe is a wee bit arrogant.

The universe is so big and existed for so long, we have to assume that sentient life existed in the past, perhaps exists now and will definitely exist in the future.

Hopefully, we find at least artifacts that prove alien life, just because the minds of humans expand a bit more, because imagine how shocking it is to religions around the world if existence of aliens is confirmed.
This is only true for profitable enterprises. The rest is same as ponzi scheme.
> measures success by community outcomes and entrepreneurs inspired

This is a long way of saying “is completely useless”
I was also raised in this manner, but in the 80s and it seems in a time before the state of Israel itself seemed to be considered a 'friend' of the evangelical movement. I understand this shifted significantly later, or maybe it just took longer to come to Canada. It was far more ambiguous, and tinged with a lot of anti-Semitism; like Jews now were something apart from and different from the Hebrews in the old testament -- and that Jews themselves were tainted with the rejection of Christ.

But yes, we got a lot of middle eastern history; big fascinating archaeological sections in the appendix of my Bible. But of course it all ended in around 100 AD, with no mention of anything after, really. And it of course put a lot of emphasis on the land of Israel, which in the real world of the ancient near east was really a minor player surrounded by Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria, etc.
Puzzles Made by Laser Cutting Are Far Beyond Our Imagination
I was going to buy puzzles at Magic Puzzles Company. But later I came acrooss this article and now I decide to customize puzzles for my own.And I am thinking if I can start a business by customizing puzzles with a laser cutter.
Expressing thanks when things are good is all too rare.
As a tangent, Typescript's type system has become really powerful, expressive and quite pleasant to work with.
Very negative. It allows for zombie companies to survive for far longer than they ideally should have. So many companies in Japan that should have gone bankrupt years ago but are still surviving. Also makes everyone complacent and uncompetitive at global scale, which has been the theme for Japan for past few decades.
I'm so confused by the choice to use a SVG stroke for the Logo and Twitter icon.

Like I understand that it's a slick way to do icons, but as a FOSS template - I'm not going to use your logo on my page so it's just another thing to rewrite.
The reason is because object storage is slow and not meant for high performance, which is usually important for large databases.

For your S3 example and ignoring IOPS, you are comparing 13ms of latency on local spinning disk versus 10s-100s of ms latency from S3. SSD is faster with only 1ms of latency or less on average.

Adding IOPS to the equation, you’re likely going to slam your object store if you have a high volume of traffic, where your block storage likely wouldn’t even break a sweat.
I've owned multiple Tesla and LEAFs. I've test driven a Bolt. A Bolt to a Tesla like Salieri to Mozart.

Where to even begin? Thin seats. Smaller car. No charging network. No self-driving. No remote software updates... It's a long list.

Does GM even know how to make a car these days? TSLA has massive growth problems. I've had my own issues with my Tesla cars. But how could we even talk about Bolt and Tesla in the same paragraph?

We should be talking about BMW. My past BMW service experiences were far better than Tesla. That's comparable to my Teslas. Who cares about GM?

If, one day, the Mach-E ships, and anyone buys it, and it has anything near AutoPilot then maybe we can talk about it. But right now the Mach-E is about as useful as a NKLA truck. With no charging network. Or AutoPilot. So it's basically a bigger LEAF.
> For example, I bought and sold Virgin Galactic 3 times over the past 13 or 14 months, which tripled my initial capital

You would have more than tripled your capital if you'd bought 14 months ago and held until today.
"They also estimated we would have flying cars 20 years ago."
My number comes from a collection of AI researchers from the future of life institute so I can't imagine a better "they" to defer to. That said, we are bad at predicting the future so who knows?

I never said we should forget about the average people or normal people as Yang calls them in his book "The War on Normal People."

Even if we don't have AGI we will have narrow AI such as self driving/factory stuff/textiles which will displace millions. I'm all for UBI or some sort of equivalent social safety net (I'm not an economist so I don't want to be prescriptive here as I have heard some drawbacks to UBI).

The technocrats have already created platforms that are tearing our social fabric apart by promulgating conspiracies and radicalizing our youth while reducing long-form literacy an increasing anxiety and depression.

What we need is some sort of social revolution that in my opinion could only be obtained by an authoritarian government that protects people from themselves and the exploitive tech corporations. Ban facebook to reduce conspiracy promulgation. Ban tiktok and ever increasingly addictive video games to prevent our youth from becoming dopamine junkees. Ban drugs so the listless and ever-growing welfare class remain mostly docile.

None of these changes are feasible in a country whose identity revolves around personal freedom/choice.
_Perceived_ impact, if I might add?
Definitely reminiscent at first glance. I don’t know if/how Joe licenses any of his work or if any of this is infringing in any way so I’ll avoid that topic.

I will say that I am seriously impressed with folks that are able to combine so many disciplines, especially when each domain seems to have its own set of unique hard challenges.
Vendor on the far right... definitely a hot dog vendor.
It's a first world problem because:

1. Getting a visa to be in the US is so difficult for citizens of third world countries that very few would find themselves in such a situation.

2. Only first world citizens would perceive an additional US citizenship as a mere nuisance, best to be avoided. For the vast majority of third world citizens, the benefits of an additional citizenship from the US far outweighs the difficulties of abiding by its rules.
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Well there's also the income tax and possibly VAT.
I read this but didn’t find what I was looking for: a construction of the curve.

Firstly, the article talks about G2 continuity. I didn’t find a definition but I didn’t try very hard. I think it is: A curve g : [a,b] -> R^n, parameterised by arclength is G_k-continuous if the kth derivative of g is continuous. So G2 continuity means that 0. The curve is connected; 1. There are no cusps—abrupt changes of angle; and 2. The rate of change of curvature is continuous—if you drove along the curve at constant speed, you could turn the steering wheel smoothly without jerking it.

For a bézier spline I don’t think there’s a good way to get G2 continuity. G1 continuity comes from the editor forcing the control points on either side of curve points to be colinear with the curve point.

I think the best place for the definition of these splines is [1], in particular [2]. It gives the following expression for the curve between two on-curve points:

k(s) = k0 * f(bias0, 1 - s) + k1 * f(bias1, s)

I think s, is a normalised arclength which ranges over the unit interval, k0 and k1 are the (also normalised) curvatures at the endpoints, and f is a seemingly bizarre function defined in [2]. k(s) is an expression for the curvature a distance s along the curve. So to find the points on the curve, one must solve a system of differential equations,

x’^2 + y’^2 = 1
x’’^2 + y’’^2 = k(s)^2,

subject to some suitable initial conditions. The above equation is slightly wrong as it should be using signed curvature, but these are simpler to write down. I think the initial conditions would be initial x and y values and an initial tangent, which doesn’t feel like sufficiently many degrees of freedom to me (you could presumably come up with some initial conditions for the first curve point and control point but I don’t understand how to go from the solution to the equation to the final curve: you can’t seem to move the point at s=1 into the right place as scaling changes the curvature and rotating or skewing changes the initial tangent). Looking more at the code, it seems that the relative angles come from solving the equation and then parameters are chosen such that the solution to the equation gives the desired angles.

I’ll have to look more and try to understand it later but if there’s a better reference I’d be interested to know.

[1] https://github.com/linebender/spline

[2] https://github.com/linebender/spline/blob/main/src/hyperbezi...
>not for defining what you mean by “optimal”

This is my point. The path to formalization is finding the exact formal definition of the notion of what we intuitively understand as "good software design patterns." For algorithm speed, we use Big Oh, for other aspects of design, I'm saying rather then create more software design metaphors a more productive use of our time is to formalize and converge on an optimum.

>The real world is big and incomprehensible, and we all have to choose optimization goals based on what limited understanding we have of the big picture - also known as the “system.” There is no math formula you’ll ever be able to find that can do that for you.

Yes except the computer system is an idealization of the the real world. It places the real world into a logical world of formalisms where we can eschew science and use pure logic to draw conclusions.

>Figuring out what goal to optimize for is messy and uncomfortable

Sure. But clearly that task is separate from design patterns. 1. The business "designs" an objective and a goal. 2. The software engineer meets that goal. I am talking about 2. not 1.

>When I was in grade school, math was my favourite subject, because the answers were always right or wrong and you never had to worry if the teacher would disagree with you. It was comforting. It still is. But to grow up and have a bigger impact, we have to move on and learn about uncomfortable things too.

I fail to see how discomfort or growing up have anything to do with the topic at hand. The goal is to converge on the most correct and definitive answer possible.

>I can tell this bothers you a lot. It used to bother me a lot too. The reason I write articles like this is to explain the things I used to not understand, using words that I hope would have helped past-me understand sooner. Maybe it will help you too. If not, no harm done.

It doesn't bother me at all. It sounds like some sort of anxiety disorder if the fuzziness of certain answers bothered you. Human brains are neural nets more similar to the probabilistic (aka fuzzy) outputs produced by our machine learning models hence most people should be more comfortable with fuzzy answers rather then pure logic. Either way, I am simply arguing a point. Your empathy is appreciated but unaccepted, this is not the goal. Again, the goal is to debate a point and find a correct answer.
An open source project used by people capable of analyzing the network and disk I/O of binaries they run doesn't sound like a good target -- if something was found it would have massive consequences.
> every application now needs to solve the same problem

Some applications do. Other applications, for which the problem is irrelevant, can now ignore it rather than having the complexity of a solution baked into their foundations.
This was already written by many western researches. Copy and past, chinese immigrants style.
How the Ashes of Star Trek's Original Scotty Got Smuggled Aboard the ISS
It's ~200LOC to implement a Lucene block cache over S3, and because Lucene uses log-structured storage, that block cache will be quite effective.
Maybe creatures from planets with higher gravity think faster to deal with the accelerated thrown-object calculations.
My iPhone 8 battery doesn't even have tens of hours of STANDBY time anymore. I can definitely see an older phone battery having trouble with a long call.
I'd be fine with the world if it were merely cruel. It's the lack of connection between effort and reward that drives people to madness
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Transportation justice and how bad transportation contributes to inequality
The fact that he's a language designer means we should be even more skeptical than usual when he says things like c macros are bad. Macros are a big stick that lets devs redesign languages on the fly, and language designers want to be the ones in control of design.
That's a really clever name. It's a reference to the black hole Cyg X1 [1], which was among the first astronomical X-ray sources discovered. X-rays are (fortunately) blocked by our atmosphere, so X-ray astronomy began using sounding rockets and observations of just a few minutes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1
> You are already paying probably in the $10-20k / month range for per-employee salary.

If you're in the west coast US. This company appears to be italian, so the reality is more like €3k/month, and as they're a startup it might be even less. The other option is looking at it that they're spending 10% of their recurring revenue on SAAS products, which as a 3 person team seems crazy.
I think it's more accurate to say that some forms of classicism, and 19th century German Romanticism, were broadly part of an anti-modernist sentiment which was definitely part of a fertile ground in which fascism was able to take hold. That isn't to say that all 19th century and early 20th century romanticists or fellow travelers were authoritarian or fascist, but that material was often used by people who were.

And it doesn't help that at that time universities and the study of classics was basically the preserve of the upper classes, who naturally had elitist ideological biases.

There was definitely a sense among many that modernity, democracy, multiculturalism, liberalism were tied up with and responsible for the chaos in Europe at the time. And fingers were pointed at communists, socialists, Jews, liberals, secularists, etc, and in that period nationalists and ultimately fascists or other ultranationalist authoritarians were able to take root. And they often did so by appealing to their imagination of the past.
(1) I'm not sure what you mean by 'desirable value for the lifetime of any house'. 25 years may be below the desirable lifetime for structural components of a house. But for appliances (which I'd consider solar panels closer too), 25-30 years is relatively long [0]. Even for the closely related structural-ish component of roofing material, 25-30 years is in the range [0]. Asphalt shingles (which are most common around me) are 15-30 years. There are longer lasting roofs, but they're on the same order of magnitude. Most of the residential solar payoff calculations I've seen (in the US) are in the 7-20 year range, which is less than 25-30 years.

[0]: https://www.mrappliance.com/expert-tips/appliance-life-guide...

[1]: https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-long-does-a-roof-last/
Oh yeah, I forgot about them. Thanks for the pointer! Still looking for something OSS though :/
That's not two things, it's one, and I just don't see Tesla self driving panning out anytime soon. They've made wild claims about it for years now, but the actual product has progressed slowly. There have been far more failures than successes in that field over the past decade, and it's perpetually been given a "just a couple more years" timeline.
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If I were to pick flagship schools for Canada for computer science and engineering, it wouldn't be those two... it'd be U Waterloo and U Alberta. Well, ok, U of Toronto, yes, but UBC doesn't come to mind.

But in Canada generally we don't have the same level of status game around school reputations that Americans seem to have. Certainly grads from U Waterloo do very well, but they may have as much to do with their excellent intern program than anything else.
Universe no, our galaxy, probably. A species that doesn't colonize beyond their homeworld will sooner or later be wiped out by natural phenomena if not their own mistakes. A species that colonizes will fill the galaxy in a few million years unless it just decides to stop.

If anything like us existed in the milky way it's almost certainly dead now. If there's something alive it will be almost incomprehensibly different than us.
Good job @plehoux and team! I'm really please to see your Québec city based SaaS on this list.
Indeed, and it's worth noting that a solid state or mechanical relay can fail in either the On or Off position, so you have to consider both possibilities.
Please what should I do , hacker getting access, whenever I send messages to people from my email which he created a new email to enter my email with postmaster , because Whenever I send messages, all the messages diverted to his email or phone which I later discovered that someone is using or getting all the emails I sent to people. Please what should I do and how can I handle it because is not about changing password but about my emails address maybe changing it which I don’t know how or what to do ..
Nissan and Honda's implementations are also pretty good.
"Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew"

No, that's not the argument being made though.

The argument is 'why is a team of 3 paying 3x$10 to 'schedule meetings'. There's only 3 people, i.e. a reasonable questioning of the value being made.

Honestly, $10 is not that much, but why on earth would it be needed is a fair question.
Some people close to me are anxiously on EI right now waiting and hoping their theatres will will survive the next year or two. Money is always tight at most theatres and they depend pretty heavily on donations to balance their books. People don’t have as much to spare in this situation. Even when closed, theatres still have rent to pay and at minimum some office staff to pay
Really incredible that the first author appears to be a high school student
That's the simple, signal-processing oriented way to noise cancellation.

But what if the software/ai is advanced enough to reproduce a sound, but erase a certain aspect of it? Like how photo editing can edit out an object or background? Then the headphones can use a seal to completely block out all noise, and play only the sounds the user selects!
Was a part of an in-person hackathon group. (pre covid) Meet once a week to code together. Mini hackathon every week, Present during intro, hack, then demo at the end of the day. Simple and effective to get a single thing done, in public. But not too public.
My desire to do same has barely gotten its shoes laced, but it’s attractive to me because it combines so many interesting technologies and concepts.

I think I’ve made the emotional pivot to UAVs instead because swarming and autonomous guidance & control is one of the more interesting parts to me and even if it weren’t likely to draw ’attention’, the development process for rocket is stymied by the characteristics of rocket propulsion.
Totally fair, but I think the Venn diagram of folks that use Docker and folks that have 4GB of RAM is pretty slim. If the resources are that limited, Docker might not be the best choice for running anything.

Related: Chrome on 4GB of RAM sounds painful. Thoughts and prayers to those folks.
The government is not good at creating and sustaining businesses despite their nearly unlimited resources and centuries of attempts. When the government owns large stakes in businesses then the business operations become political, as the government is elected and the government owns the business, so the business is now answerable to voters. The business will be encouraged to make malinvestments in politically important projects and regions, allow unproductive employees to remain, and lead to general stagnation.

Some socialists have openly stated that the end goal of democratically run companies can be attained by funneling government money directly into buying equity stakes in businesses, growing over time. This would be an extremely terrible outcome for anyone that likes productivity and efficiency.