skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You kid. But truer things are said in jest.

> ...Tomorrow, someone’s going to reduce the boot times of macOS by 90% by the same principle.

My 2019 MacBook often pauses when I connect the charging cable. Sometimes it just seizes, requiring a hard bounce.

Clearly there's a contended lock buried deep. Something non-obvious.

I'm certain everything these days has dozens of hidden quadratics and contended locks.

Which is one of the reasons I'm excited for stuff like structured concurrency (Java's Project Loom) and retoolings like systemd becoming the norm.

Ages ago I worked on kitchen sink app that had a very finicky startup. Any breeze would break it. Much consternation by mgmt. Apparently if we only clapped louder, Tinkerbell would fly. I couldn't take it any more. LARPing as a bulldozer, I replumbed the innards, changing from something like initd to be more like systemd with some lazy loading for good measure. Voila!

Back to GTA. The failure here is the product owner didn't specify a max load time, and then hold the team to it. Devs will mostly do the work that's expected of them. If load time wasn't measured (and managed), no one is going to bother with expunging sscanfs.
What's the downside? I don't have a clue about these things.
Speaking as someone from the financial world who was shocked to learn about
daily standups, no, agile is complete * invented and promoted by non-technical
armchair lieutenants.

Mba-speak, translated:

Value prop = You don’t really need this

Data Science = Not a Real Science

I have it more or less working = It’s not working

I got it working = Please don’t ask me about this anymore

Does this make sense? = Are you even listening?

Let’s stop talking about talking about the issue = We’re halfway through this meeting

Please enter a jira estimate = I am or want to be your boss

Quick stand-up = I’m interrupting your flow

Daily stand-up = I’m interrupting your flow every day

PM = Tom Smykowski

Product = Paid Intern

Feature complete = See “I have it more or less working”

Deep dive = I have no intention of pursuing this

In-flight = I enjoy dramatizing the trivial (See “How Can We Land the Plane”)

This is not intended to offend anyone = This probably offends everyone
How many people are fat from having a calorie-rich but nutrient-poor diet?

We may produce enough calories in sugar, but stuffing the world with cheap junk food is not a solution. Total amount isn't a good metrics; total quality and availability would probably be better.
I would much rather pay than be tracked. Unfortunately many sites don't give me that choice.
If you really want to get those files, you could try using a VM on a fast network (not sure which cloud offering would be best for this in terms of bandwidth cost).

This is not ideal at all, just suggesting a trick I've used in the past as a workaround for big downloads on an unreliable network. Obviously Google should just improve their service.
It also reminds me of the choice-supportive bias.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias
What is that piece of space debris floating off?
Well that is closer to what I meant. Notice that I said "a problem" and not "all problems". Other replies pointed out, yeah, some problems graduate from Philosophy to Science (or something--that's their view). But in my view, some problems graduate from confusing and fuzzy terminology and muddled thinking of philosophy into organization, empiricism, and usually, progress.

Are all philosophical questions resolvable by Science? I think no. But there are so many questions that I feel are poorly informed by a cloistered set of Philosophical priests who speak another language they made up. Frankly, I don't feel bad when they are "galled" that a scientist takes a new look at a problem they've made no progress on.
Everything in your comment can be true and the advice can still be useless. People need specific, small, actionable steps that they can realistically take. Generic stuff like "you need purpose" is either completely meaningless or inspirational in the short-term but with no real consequences.
If it's terrible, look at the other suggested solutions. Some are ultra terrible and will slow down the web
> Cable carriers have found in the past that getting people to turn these in to swap out for newer models is excessively expensive in customer goodwill, and less so cost, so there's a major technical disincentive to such a change.

I wish carriers would have a different brand for "enthusiasts". The type of customer who won't mind going to his back-panel and swapping equipment if the rest of the network supports it.
I used DocSend throughout our $1.5M pre-seed raise
Thank you for illustrating exactly what I mean when I say you will never understand. You're not in the ballpark here, you're not even in the same universe.

It has nothing to do with the skill of the chef

It has everything to do with the ingredient.

But you don't understand and you never will. You will think I am exaggerating or being dramatic because you've never experienced it.
This is both a great post and an effective ad - I've been looking for a lighter-weight Postman alternative (and HTTPie, while nice, is no substitute for a graphical UI for such a thing). Will check HTTP Toolkit out!
Whats the success rate of frozen eggs?
Word of caution - if you use Google Drive it will happily quickly dump as much as 200 GiB in your drive. if you don't have enough space, you get an incomplete download and five other Google services complaining you've run out of space.
How would that work exactly? Do you mean that you’d ship the monitoring code to all users in production, and it would monitor losing times, system attributes, etc. and phone home to your servers, where you’d use that to train a NN and ship that model back to all users?
Home prices keep reaching new heights in some areas due to:

1) Migration. Immigration from outside the country, but also internal immigration within the country from less economically vibrant parts to more economically vibrant regions.

2) Falling interest rates keeping the monthly mortgage payment the same or lower despite higher principals

3) Expectations that the price trend for homes will continue to look like the past. This expectation can lead to people buying more housing than they would normally consume.

4) Shrinking household sizes. You have gone from an average household size of 3.33 in the 1960s to an average household size of 2.53 today. That may not seem like much but you would need ~25% more housing today to accommodate the same population.

5) Larger house sizes. From a median of about 1000 sq ft in 1950 to 2300 sq ft today.

The above can combine to keep pushing up house prices in some areas (as we see in the US) even as the population growth of a country stagnates.
Leaving billions aside, they were granted local monopolies in many places due to their investment.
One might argue they have not been good stewards of that responsibility.
Unrelated, but this reminds me of a recent incident. A friend came over to me asking for help transferring his WhatsApp chats from his old iPhone to his new Android phone. Turns out there is no official/practical way to do that, and he lost all hos chat and media records made across years (WhatsApp is the main mode of communication here, it's like opening up your official mail inbox one day and finding it completely empty).

He said he had lost them earlier as well, when he had migrated to an iPhone from an Android.
Executed a DELETE command on the users table without a WHERE clause. This caused a major outage at a very large US telecom.

Luckily, our DBAs were quick to restore it. This was in 2001 and doing postmortems wasn't common back then.
I use Ziply Fiber in Oregon/Washington and get 1Gbps up/down for $60/month (including taxes/fees).

Pretty happy about that to be honest. I consider myself relatively lucky.
> I don't want to be tracked. I never have wanted to be tracked.

Maybe just use Tor.

> Stop spying on us, please.

It was probably a mistake to equivocate the kind of data gathering that ad-tech companies do with the kind that oppressive governments do.
Very high if they’re frozen when the woman is <35.
I just figured it was one of those words spelt differently in American English, which most RFCs etc are written in. (British English native here.)
Aviary: A new Twitter client for iOS/macOS
This.

If it doesn't operate like Dropbox under the hood, don't make it look like Dropbox in your interface.

If an action creates a copy of objects, call it "Copy Objects" or whatever.

I think that presenting an S3 bucket as a set of files that you can select and perform operations on sets up false expectations here. And not showing incomplete multipart uploads in the file listing or having any way to see they are there isn't great.
> Strong yes but it's also thick and plasticky with wide borders

A lot of people are pretty happy with that. For those that aren't, there's been a lot of progress in engineering in the past two decades since the 3310 came out.

It's not impossible to make something strong, while enjoying newer features. If we had a conscious choice in the shop between a slimmer phone that'll break apart in 6 months, and a thicker phone we could keep for 10 years, most people i know would choose the latter. There's just no such information for customers.

> The battery is tiny.

That was a technical limitation of the time and does not apply to today's batteries.
Never touched Rust but having skimmed through this, looks like a fantastic tutorial.
The actual transfer page also says "Choose where you’d like to transfer your photos:" and has a dropdown titled "Select destination"

There's nothing but Google Photos to choose from now, but the intent is definitely to support other services.
More-or-less working, emphasis on "less"
Yes, only a billion people in the wealthiest countries in the world who are most likely to own an Apple device.
I'm not aware of any resources for that specific question. The closest resource I can think of would be "Designing Data Intensive Applications" which is great for designing systems with data integrity that will lend themselves to ML later on. My next recommendation would actually be to work on a Kaggle project (esp the toy starter project https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic). Looking at Kaggle notebooks, sklearn documentation, etc is really valuable for understanding how to pose problems in a way solvable with ML.
> I hope that Apple will eventually allow bulk downloads of iCloud photos to the desktop. Right now you can only do 1,000 at a time

When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage").
> Can you actually be faster than C? Like, in the sense that you can transpile any bit of Python or Lisp or Haskell or Rust or JS into C but the opposite isn’t necessarily true because not all those language support all the features exposed in C (such as goto, no bounds checking, pointer arithmetic, etc.),

I'm not sure why you think that, especially with Rust one of the reasons it can be theoretically faster is because it allows for even more undefined behavior and has a variety of datatypes that simply exist to inform the compiler of potential optimizations.
Using Ed25519 Keys for Encryption
Perhaps this rather suggests that whatever the self-assessment of neuroscientists, the quality of philosophical education is rather poor.
Why Baseball Is Obsessed with the Book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'
Another one is that it's technically valid to have a request target of '*' for the HTTP OPTIONS request type. It's supposed to return general information about the whole server. You can try it out with e.g. `curl -XOPTIONS http://google.com --request-target '*'`

Nginx gives you a 400 Bad Request response, Apache does nothing, and other servers vary in whether they return a non-error code.

https://curl.se/mail/lib-2016-08/0167.html

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
It’s “coup d'état” by the way.
So..BLM is a militant group causing revolt and terror then?
But what about the privacy, the PRIVACY! /s

I'm 100% sure that's the excuse they will give, but I don't think this is a huge problem as long as there is a big scary box about what allowing an app to use Takeout means (a scarier box than just normal permissions, probably lots of red and exclamation points).
The UK's ICO knows that the adtech industry is breaking the law.

They've purposely done nothing about it. They've even bragged on their blog and in their annual statement that they've done nothing about it :(
As the other comment suggested, reach out to them. I spoke to them before and after buying my gear and they provide great support/service.

A lot of their gear comes with a really good warranty too, so it's worth checking if you have one for your messenger.
Stack depth is finite. If consciousness is cognitive recursion, we only can get so far down before the results are garbage. My working theory is that "max cognitive stack depth" is a measure of consciousness.

The scarier concern is that consciousness is a useful intelligent behavior bootstrapping tool, but once we encode everything it has helped generate into cultural DNA or literal DNA it becomes an evolutionary redundant appendix-like organ that will atrophy in the coming generations (See Blindsight by peter watts)
The best one is the Googler article linked in a sibling: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...

That alone is more than enough to substantiate what I'm saying, but if you need more examples than just search or read HN a bit, due diligence, etc. I was personally lucky in that I got burned in the planning stages and didn't have to get burned in production, but I still wasted all that planning time and ended up having to use AWS instead.
It's the first part of the Data Transfer Project - an initiative between major online service providers to provide an easy way to transfer data between their services.
There was an article I read in the Econonmist[0] (paywall, sorry) a couple months ago, that talks about a paper [1] (read the abstract) how raising the age that children are required to stay in car seats, 8 yo in the US, causes birth rates to decline. The reasoning is that cars have room for two, but not three, children in car seats. Thus the cost of the third child includes upgrading to a larger sized car or van. Very interesting unintended consequence of a safety measure. Also this doesn't deal with the pandemic results, but when I read about it I thought it was interesting and that if this is a thread about birth rates, others might want to read about it too.

[0] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/26/...

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046
Are you really shocked? I feel like many people regularly come up with elaborate theories about things they don't really understand.

I'm sure I do it. Though it's something I'd like to minimize. It's definitely not always clear to me which of my opinions are really based on as complete a set of facts as I'd like them to be.
Why would I transfer my photos into Google Photos, a service that Google will probably shut down in a year, once it has outlived its purpose of training their machine learning models? The only reason Gmail is still around is because of how valuable that data is for advertisers. Google can't run ads on your family photos so as soon as they have enough photos for their machine learning algorithms, they'll shut down the service. I can't imagine the thought process of someone who thinks it would be a good idea to migrate all of your personal photos to a service run by an advertising company.
Some philosophical rumination on what we might call "neurobabble" [0].

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/01/against-neurobabble...
Nobody will pay for every small blog, recipe/repair tutorial/gardening tips website/YouTube channel. How much value do they bring to you ? How much would you pay for them? How would you know they're worth it without using them first, and why would they allow you to use them for free, when most users would be one-shot?

Please support Web Monetization.
It doesn’t matter how shitty the deal is because exclusivity arrangements are illegal. But that doesn’t mean anyone actually wants to serve an area.

Baltimore has a non-exclusive arrangement with Comcast. But, as of 2016 when they were trying to get Google Fiber, literally no company had ever asked to come in and compete. It’s not worth it. Baltimore requires wiring up the whole city. A third of the city lives at or under the poverty line—it simply makes no business sense to build a fiber network that covers all of Baltimore.

That’s the basic constraint. Municipal politics makes it impossible to build a network just in the neighborhoods where people would sign up. There is a reason Google Fiber took its “fiber hoods” approach to cities in red states like Missouri and Kansas. At the same time, it makes no business sense for providers to foot the bill to wire up those poor areas, and the municipality doesn’t want to spend the money to do it.
Dorsey giving money to friends.
Yes?

Unless these things are being used as status symbols, or the person in question is actively attempting to destroy the environment, there must be some other benefit. Indeed, I certainly don't consider environmental cost to be a "benefit".

My "big petrol car" (which isn't really so big; more of a mid-sized coupe, but I digress) gives me the following benefits:

- "Warm fuzzy feeling" (the rumble, the hum, the traditional construction, etc).

- Plenty of power when I want it

- A traditional, relatively simple design that I understand; when something breaks or needs maintenance I can generally fix it. Some electronics, but not riddled with it throughout every system as today's vehicles are.

> Is it better to travel far away to enjoy nature and a magnificent view, or to have the patience to look at things living in your own backyard for example?

Well, not everybody has much of a backyard to speak of; however...

I would say that both are good. I don't get to travel much. Once every couple of years if I'm lucky. I wish I could more often. I probably won't even see most of my own country in my lifetime, let alone the wider world, and that... seems something of a shame. To imply that this feeling is somehow connected to the environmental cost of travel, well... seems a bit off.
http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html
(Almost) nobody hires engineering managers without management experience.

Typical path I see is IC at company A, team lead at company B, manager at company C. Some people do this in entire path in less than 5 years.
No they weren’t GTAV had terrible loading times at launch.
Perhaps it would be better for your other genes (shared by living relatives) for you to not have kids and thus not potentially spread the genes that are causing hesitancy around having kids. :)
Fanatical is now part of Fandom
Our society doesn't force or even encourage people to be startup founders -- they choose it for themselves. There are plenty of examples of classes of people who have to work harder than they should in an ideal society, but I'm not sure what point you're making with this particular one.
...Which is hypocritical when us based tech companies extend the same privileges to us govt, no questions asked.

If you are a growing company vying to capture one of the biggest internet markets in the world, do you think the govt in that market is just going to sit by and let things happen without some of the afore mentioned privileges coming their way? Thats not going to happen. At all.

I think over the next few years every govt is going to have some laws along same the lines.
The daily stand-up is about communication and fostering quick information sharing and quick problem resolution.

That's also the reason they advocate that ideally the team should sit all together. In that ideal work the daily stand-up lasts only 5-10 minutes, it's not meant to be a dreaded status meeting where you talk for 5 minutes then try not to fall sleep for an hour...
The only logical answer here is youth. The younger you are the more fertile you are. This is true for both men and women, but more true for women. If you want children at some point in life then prioritize children first and early.

I know, this puts your ambitious career on hold for a while and start ups require huge ambition. Still, start up opportunities will not be hyper critically different in the future than they are now. In the future you may not be able to have children.

This is so completely clear based upon my commute to work. Closer to the downtown where I live there are all kinds of clinics for young mothers in mostly poorer areas. Where I work is the wealthiest county, per capita, in Texas and there are fertility clinics lining the street. That difference is striking. People who put their careers first tend to have more trouble having children and are willing to pay massive sums of money to fix biology.
Your comment should be in some sort of psychology textbook or something. I'm just astonished by almost every word of it. It truly is a work of art...
I just recently had my first at an age closer to 40 than 30. I think freezing your eggs and having kids later is not such a great idea. Sure, you can have the kid well outside your prime or even use a surrogate. But that is just the beginning. Your child is not going to get the experience of being raised by a more youthful and energetic version of yourself . I think there is a lot to be said for that. I wish I had started 5 years sooner.
Indeed, because for many of them the only option is ads, because almost nobody uses any alternatives ( the only one i know of is Web Monetization). Until it's massively used, few site owners will make the effort.
Progres bars have several goals, but making yours users happy secure that they know how long they'll spend and not feeling like they waited too long is certainly one of them.

Why do you classify that as a dark pattern? It's not harming people in any way, but the opposite.
Mine is 350+. I dumped it on a HDD and forgot about it, came back the next day and it wasn't done. For some reason I was being throttled, I restarted the download and it was fast again. They sure do have a lot of data on me :(
CP Schnorr is emeritus professor from Frankfurt university. He is respected for his work in cryptography. He has, pun intended, nothing to prove but still works and furthers research.

Yes, claiming that "this breaks RSA" is bold, but this implementation shows that there is some advance in doing so in the paper.

Therefore signaling that this is a "scandal" via the postfix "gate" seems just inappropriate.

Apart from that kudos for the implementation to Ducas!

Calling it the "Schnorr attack" would imply that the outcome of it is still uncertain. And it also would sound way cooler ;)
The one good thing here is that Australia doesn't have any COVID outside of quarantine facilities. Europe is in far more need than Australia so it's probably for the best. I say this as an Australian citizen.

It would be nice if the EU got their house in order though so that they didn't have to steal vaccines to keep people alive.
There’s a big difference between never existing, and existing but then dying.
Facebook and Apple will pay to freeze your eggs as an employee benefit, is that right?
FaceID uses infrared, lighting conditions do not matter.

This is straight up not true. It works fine in the dark, but unlocking an iPhone in direct sunlight can often take a couple of tries.
Fed Chairman says economic reopening could cause inflation to rise temporarily
I was the lead contractor for Wonder. I haven't talked with the founder since last year since I had other projects. I probably will reach out to him this month to see how things are going. Feel free to email me (my email is current) your resume and I'll shoot you an email if and when the founder wants to do more development.