skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and the claim that inflation has been at 10-12% per year for the past 5 years is so ridiculous that it can be discarded without any analysis.

If they claimed that inflation is, say, 3.5% instead of ~2% then we could look at their arguments. But to claim that it's at ~10-12% is a little like claiming that all our thermometers are faulty and it's actually 40 degrees Celsius outside. Complete detachment from reality.
Or folks who have only phone as their connection for voice and data. Not everyone has a car or home to leave it in and has to keep the phone on for their next gig.
I wouldn't consider Accenture a large software company. They do a lot of software "consultancy" (ie bodyshopping), but the nature of the consulting game plus their decentralized architecture (I've worked with Accenture, and the relationship between their different offices seems to be closer to co-franchisees than colleagues) means I wouldn't consider it a "big software company" (as in lots of people working on the same system/architecture
I did a hard cut to a vaporizer a few years back (long enough that I can't remember). I smoked for at least 20 years. I cut the nicotine out very rapidly but kept using the vaporizer. Being able to nerd out about coils and mods and whatnot helped keep me interested because it allowed me to tinker too. The first year or two was difficult, when I'd go out for drinks. After that, the vaporizer did the trick and the two times I tried a cigarette, they were gross. These days, I just stare at the thing. It's there if I need or want it but I never do. The oral fixation was harder than the nicotine. Gums don't do a good job and you can't taper off. Try a vaporizer. Switching changed my life.
Sesame Street! Yes! My friends and I called it "Fisher Price".
Many people don't have a computer. Their smart phone is also their computer.

There's myriad services in modern western life which require a computer of some sort to access. Increasingly government services, banks, transport, event ticketing etc are operating in an online-first way. How do you access those services without a computer?
Trump’s Circumvention of the Justice Department Clemency Process
> The ISP was kind enough to reach out to me and I received an email detailing the data use of my internet connection.

Is it just me, or does this level of data collection seem pretty concerning for an ISP? I'm aware that there are legal requirements for this type of data collection for law enforcement use, but sharing it with customers seems strange.

Besides that, these groupings seem strange. Why are applications/services, application and encryption protocols mixed here? With that level of granularity, "Pinterest" might easily be misclassified traffic of any other service sharing Pinterest's CDN.
>But those are by far the minority of apps, and it seems crazy to make a pretty massive security tradeoff for something that 99% of apps don't need to do.

It also completely eliminates general purpose computing.

>One solution might be a special permission to be allowed to do that, but it seems unlikely a user could really make an informed decision.

I think the way "Developer Mode" on Android is implemented is pretty good.
Hmmm, that's really weird. It's probably an edge case that would be complicated to change in that case (never underestimate the power of inertia, especially in ML systems).
I do post from time to time, in the form of a link to our internal machine learning platform and, more generally, in the form of an Ask HN trying to see what problems people who are active in the field are facing.

We're therefore building for ourselves first, but keep an open mind when people who actually do machine learning professionally have problems.

We don't "have an audience" and are not backed by an accelerator, and it's not our 'startup idea' to decide to make this. We've been doing ML profitably for many organizations for many years as a company, and this is our tooling to solve problems we faced on real projects with actual stakes. It has shaved three months on a crurrent project of work we won't have to do, and I optimize for that.

It is in early access mode to have meaningful conversations with people whose problems we're solving.
I work with sanctions. I think both can be easily blamed. Similarly to DMCA notices, most companies opt to for the path of least resistance ( it is cheaper to blanket ban than to investigate ). Yes, politicians are to blame for creating the environment, but companies deserve flak for taking the path that is bad for the customer ( unless they are sufficiently well-heeled ).

My thoughts are my own. I do not represent anyone other than myself.
Ish but not really. Once you realize your DB is all about resource constraints and connections aren't free then the optimization becomes pretty simple. Use as few connections as possible to get whatever work you need done done.

Once you view connections as a net cost to the system the math becomes simple. The network isn't infinite, DB hardware isn't infinite. At the end of the day, more connections == more load on the system as a whole due to management.

This will also lead you towards good DB management. If you want to be able to scale and respond to things, then the right thing to do is keep you Datasets as small as possible and stop multiple apps from using the same DB hardware. Use a fleet of dbs rather than one big db and you'll have a lot better time of scaling.

I say this as someone that currently works at a company where we have everything on a small set of big DB hardware. We are currently running into all the problems of hardware and network constraints that are causing us major issues.
I definitely did. I was almost embarrassed by how alert I felt during the day after I quit, because I felt like I'd wasted so many years feeling drowsy and brain foggy.

If it had mostly been down to the caffeine I bet I'd wasted literally years of scratching my head and staring blankly at the screen.
RV32IM, 2.04 DMIPS/MHz, 95.3 MHz, 15K LUTs, 8K LUT FFs, 6 BRAMs on Zynq 7020.

I'm curious if this will work on Lattice ECP5- I'm not really sure if Synplify supports system verilog to the same degree as the Xilinx tools. ECP5 is interesting because it's a $10 FPGA..
I think it is a term used in India. Basically you might have an "unlimited" data plan but after you cross the threshold your data rate gets slowed down. Most US Mobile carriers work this way.
Wikipedia seems to disagree (and includes a photo):
"Denen die Got lieben müssen, alle dinge zum besten dienen."

Which it suggests translating as "For those who love God, all things must work together for the best".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemann
What about improvements linked to mandatory regulations (safety, emissions, efficiency, etc)?
It's more essential the poorer you are. Because what's truly essential is Web access - for communicating with your friends and family, for access to government services and banking, and bunch of other little things you may need to do to secure a job, etc. Most of these things you can do even better on a computer - if you own one. A smartphone is the cheapest personal device with full-featured Web access these days, which is how it becomes essential for people who can't afford a computer (and a place to keep it, i.e. a home).
Do you count Python too while you're at it...
But doesn't being able to see all streams mean that I can see edited/erased content from prior states of the document?
Honestly boggles my mind that software like Google Meet hides the mute button if you stop moving your mouse and PTT isn't considered a base feature.
As a government, yes. As a commercial company, operating on a market outside of US jurisdiction, please explain me the legal basis for that (if you can).
Contrarian insights for service business operators fed up with the status quo
> did you find that you were as or even more mentally productive after you had transitioned off of it?

Being perfectly honest, this is _very_ hard to judge. I would say it's about the same, but it somehow feels a bit more... honest, shall I say? The feedback loop for being extremely tired and course correcting is much shorter. As opposed to just varying your caffeine dose for a week or so, and then realising you're super tired, now you will find out about it within a day or so. One big upside for me has been that if I now have a cup of coffee, it actually works like it was meant to, and I'm far more energetic for a short while. This can be used strategically for rare, but important events. In the past, this would have required large amounts of caffeine over an already high baseline.
Yeah I mean, I completely agree.
they finally removed the Windows 3.0 add font dialog in Windows 10
This, plus the App Store version does not come with apk package manager so in theory all executable code is there.

Also they are on a kind of thin ice and already almost have been kicked out: https://ish.app/blog/app-store-removal
Modern Settings is TERRIBLE and missing a crap ton of options that were better in Control Panel...

It is trying to do to must "automatically" for you instead of just letting you control the system.
>Cars last longer

Are there any studies showing the longevity of cars over time? I don't think this is necessarily true.
Why do non-US companies care about US foreign policy goals? EU companies can benefit from doing business with Iran, on the other hand using US based SaaS only makes them hostages of the US government and provides zero additional benefit. It would seem that using US based SaaS is simply bad risk management on the buyer's part.
I also enjoy supporting my local shops, but detest browsing 5 websites in an attempt to see if they have what I’m looking for. Usually their website site is awful and I have to call. That’s usually when I give up and buy on Amazon.

I like the idea of doing it as a browser extension, definitely useful to nudge people out of their naughty Amazon habit ;).

Thanks for the input!
The majority doesn't decide what is done by the minority.
You guys can keep making this point, and I guess you probably will. But that ship has sailed folks.

Doing it this way works, whether we like it or not.
Why do you assume I would buy more houses if my current house polluted less. I only have one me.

And even if I did, why do you assume I wouldn't eat 10x more veggies if I stopped eating meat?
thanks for the feedback! The possibility to create shorter blocks makes sense, we will consider implementing that. Also, we are working on an integration to the king.
Scientist and Killer: A Split Life
If you read this literally, you could get away with leaking state secrets as long as you're visiting a relative while doing it.

Github cannot be expected to reliably differentiate between the coworker who just checked the status of a PR on a webapp versus the employee who opened a crucial piece of encryption code to leak it to the Iranian military or whatever.
Thank you! (clearly I didn't spend a lot of time doing this, as I have an Emacs addiction ;) )
FBI found Ghislaine Maxwell using mobile phone data
Just curious: which shells do you mean?
> You must be one of those "new" Americans who grew up watching "interrogations" on cable tv shows.

Instead of discussing the issue, you are just dismissing the person based on a completely made up attribute about them.

> I'm one of the "old" Americans who stopped watching TV as soon as torture was promoted on American airwaves.

Calling yourself morally superior and acting as if your tv watching habits when discussing detention centers gives you any sort of credibility.
All developed countries "emit" a lot of CO2 by importing goods manufactured overseas in countries that are heavily reliant on fossil fuels including coal. There's just no going around the fact that this is a global problem.
> Or, instead of that, I could sabotage any efforts to create unions, thereby making it so I cannot be forced to join a union. That sounds way more productive.

Well, at least that's honest.

> Other examples of bad unions would be things like the pilots union. It might be fine for the piloting industry, but the problem with the pilot's union model is that it is literally entirely based on senority. If you leave Fedex, for example, and join Delta, then you start at the bottom, and lose all of your pay raises and benefits that are strictly determined by the union.

> (And please don't even try to argue with me about this, regarding piloting unions. Both my parents work for fedex, and are in the pilot's union. I know how they work.)

While I'm sure you disagree, that's some pretty fallacious reasoning. It's like arguing against the concept of for-profit corporations because you don't like some practice of, say, Accenture, because you falsely assume that practice must be replicated without any any reform to all other companies.

Most instances of things have flaws, often serious flaws, but a lot of people seem to hold unions to a weird standard where they should be rejected unless all instances are flawless.

Personally, I'd also have a problem with a union that "is literally entirely based on senority," but I think it makes more sense to reform the institution than reject it (and throw the baby out with the bathwater).

>> they currently consist of about 100% of software engineering workplaces in the US.

> Yep! Anti union efforts are winning. And as long as union advocates are attempting to creation union shops, which use labor laws in this way, I hope that anti-union efforts continue to win.

And anti-democracy efforts are also winning in China. I mean, CCTV has pretty clearly shown that they're so unstable, with weak incompetent leadership. Don't you hope those anti-democratic efforts continue? I know I prefer to live under a strong, competent leader like Xi.

Anti-union efforts are winning, but mainly because business has long been in a more powerful position than labor and has been more effective at propagandizing its position. IIRC, that propaganda mainly consists of creating a distorted picture based on selectively chosen truths.
for reference: I regularly took 200mg or more a day through diet coke. Quit a little over a year ago with 20mg caffeine pills for about a week or two. Had headaches the entire two weeks. I had a total tolerance to caffeine at this point. I could drink an entire can right before bed and sleep absolutely fine.

I think my productivity increased, but really it was just removing the "brain fog" of feeling like I had to ingest more caffeine that boosted my productivity.

Things that changed for me:

* no more "I forgot to drink caffeine/didn't have access, now I have withdrawl".

* my hangovers after drinking alcohol are more tolerable or gone.

* no more compulsive soda drinking when bored

Things that didn't change for me:

* sleep

* energy

* overall mood

* weight

* caffeine still has no (or imperceptible) impact on me when I drink small amounts from tea. Most months I go with 0mg.

I think many people ascribe quitting coffee, soda, or caffeine to many of the things that didn't impact me, but those same people also note other life changes they did at the same time and I suspect that had a greater impact for them.

That said, I replaced my caffine habit with seltzer/sparkling water (which helps trick me into thinking it is a soda). I now drink large amounts of seltzer instead.

Every time I see a diet coke? Anxiety spikes, I have to strongly resist the urge to drink it. Caffeine addiction was pretty terrible for me.
RFC 3987 never really caught on.

See also https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/IRIStatus
Or maybe they are just following the "don't use your own supply" rule.
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
Ironically today I tried to pair a Bluetooth device on my wife's Surface Pro 4 and I told her to hit the Windows key and start typing Bluetooth and then select the result for managing bluetooth devices. She opened it up and we were unable to add the Bluetooth device no matter what we did. It was the most frustrating experience I had in months (I am a macOS and Linux user). Later I discovered that there is an entire different Bluetooth managing app on Windows. One had the old school look, the other had some modern oversized bullshit look. Turns out one of those two worked, the other didn't. Windows search returned the non working one first. In the taskbar was a Bluetooth icon to the other one. WTAF?

Honestly, fuck Windows for being such an utter pile of shit.

They don't need a UI re-design. They need a fucking working operating system.
> desktop search that works

...interesting... my experience with Win10 search is the complete opposite, it's so broken that I'm really not sure why there is a search feature in Windows10 in the first place. The only way to "fix it" is to install an alternative start menu (like OpenShell) which has a search box which actually works (somewhat, but better than the default search).
Maybe stupid question, what is OTP?
The Advanced Protection program is opt-in for people with a high security posture

It also means you _have_ to have 2 security keys set up to login to your Google account with no other 2 factors allowed as backup
> Is this the definition of hypocrisy?

No, hypocrisy is to celebrate "record" sales of a government-subsidized product or service.

What's next, an article on record sales of bicycles in North Korea?
> platforms are oceans, no, galaxies, of lies, misinformation and manipulation.
well said! depressing. i was so hopeful in 2006.
> ciaLAB is not state of the art though in perceptually uniform colorspaces.

Which are state of the art ?

> 1. It brings in perceptually uniform colorspaces to the discussion, while it's completely unnecessary. Perceptually uniform colorspaces are mostly unsuitable for arithmetic on colors like any other non-linear colorspace.

I don't get what you mean, linearity (dL'star') being defined wrt perceptual uniformity, isn't CIELAB 76 linear by definition (to an approximation) ?? And color arithmetic pretty much by definition implies dealing with distances and angles in a perceptually uniform color space, doesn't it ??

(I would really like to know, since it actually is the very topic of 'practical work' that we have to do for mid-January. We were told to do the transformations to CIELAB 76 and, after the modifications, back to sRGB, using the D65 illuminant.)

Otherwise, I didn't mention the finer details about CRT transfer functions because it didn't seem to be relevant enough.

> This is the most widespread bug in computer color and you don't need the history of CRTs to do that, and in fact this has nothing to do with perceptually uniform colorspaces.

Yeah, I know, and while just doing this kind of transformation might be just good enough for the most common color arithmetic, is it really good enough for all use cases ?
To take an example from our practical work, seeing this kind of effect :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression,_Sunrise#Luminance

You know what, I think I'm going to try and do this practical work in two versions, one using just linear sRGB (and back). I'll see if I get noticeable differences. But that will have to wait a week or so, I'm too busy searching for internships right now (and have already spent too much time in this discussion...)
I just indicated that I have spent much of my life thinking about these things. You don't have to believe that this gives me any insight, but like I said it might help you understand that I'm not just parroting some theory I've read, I'm working on it directly.

I understand your concerns about public health research. Have you thought about it could be done better? Curious what you think.

Computer science papers have their own quality problems. A shocking percentage of them don't include source code even when they describe experimental results. Here you have a field that could realize an ancient dream of perfectly describing their work, and yet they fail to do it. This is an obvious way that it could improve. What's the equivalent for epi?
> the popular servers for Python, PHP and other languages that use a global lock or assume single-threaded single-process execution

This is not true for python. The article you linked mentions Gunicorn, uWSGI and CherryPy, they are threaded and can handle multiple requests per process.

Even if Python does have this GIL thing, it does not lock network operations for a tcp/udp based database protocol (some C based modules do tend to lock the GIL)
I think this is where I think having a scan of a passport and requiring a letter certified by a public notary would be a better approach.
That's also not possible anymore. The new rules explicitly forbid loading any Java code that wasn't previously verified, signed, and published through the Play Store.

Those apps are affected by the same rules as Termux.
> † Not health! My alcohol and nicotine affinities will attest to how little health has to do with any of this! I literally just mean life is more pleasant without the caffeine.

That's intriguing, could you expand on that? What about life is different, nevermind more pleasant, with or without caffeine?
Supposedly the total M2 in the US was around $15T last year.

The Federal Reserve dumped $4T more (or 26%) into the economy, bringing us up to $19T.

How does this not impact inflation? If you have more dollars representing the same real value, doesn’t that make each dollar worth less of it?
I'm pretty sure you can't transmit a single bit over any commercially available internet access technology that is metered by data.

It's really just convention.
I've been self-hosting gitlab for few years now in my company and never had a problem.
> But those are by far the minority of apps, and it seems crazy to make a pretty massive security tradeoff for something that 99% of apps don't need to do.

Yet oddly, I as the user who paid $550 for my device would like to do that. I understand wanting to put a warning on it, but otherwise my device can kindly screw off and do what I've told it to do, or it will be taking a one way ride out the nearest window.

The device serves me, not the other way around.
This reads like a Hollywood disaster movie. Could it happen, okay? How likely is it given that enough go down the path of X and become large enough to be hitting these limits? I want to read those stories not this.
The only thing easier than quitting is relapse.
I don’t think the app would do fulfillment in a traditional sense. Consumers would go to the brick and mortar and pay for / collect their item. Maybe there’s a DoorDash type deal where drivers can collect the item from the store and deliver to the consumer. Doordash for consumer goods?

Interesting point on rural areas- I’m also in the same boat. Amazon only delivers USPS, and any package that won’t fit in my mailbox has to be collected at the post office 10+ miles away. It always adds a day of transit and a drive. There are times where I would pay for same day delivery. There are times where I wouldn’t mind driving to shop X in town and picking it up myself.

Thanks for the input!