skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s also Mikey’s YouTube channel

https://youtube.com/c/MikeyMcBryan

Full of behind the scenes videos about the planes and the logistics of their operation.
Yes, reopening the economy would be the cause of inflation. Not the trillions of dollars of quantitative easing.
My understanding (and I believe studies back this up) is that primary goal of a progress bar is to assure the user, in priority order: 1) the app has not crashed, 2) the app is busy doing something, 3) the app is busy doing something relevant to the user.

As a software developers things like % complete and estimated finish time are general far more useful (for debugging things like "what stage is taking too long", for instance), but those specific details are rather further down the list of priorities for most average users.
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Several months ago (and a few months before that!) nothing would go from my phone to my laptop with separate accounts on different servers. Messages, calls, etc all didn't deliver. I'm definitely gonna try again soon, but those reliability issues put me off from it for a while. Unless it's some sort of internet issue?
The price difference comes from operational overhead on a tiny delivery (of which loading/unloading is a part), not from fuel inefficiency.
Someone should make a JSFiddle that demos these different progress bar mathematical functions so you can visually compare them side-by-side.

Also relevant: Tom Scott's recent video[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZnLZFRylbs
Why use a spinner for downloading? Don't you know how many bytes you need to fetch and how many you have received so far?

wget has a progress bar, and it works perfectly fine.

EDIT: Though, if the server does not have a Content-Length header, you will get an indeterminate progress bar (a kind of spinner, I suppose) in web browsers, if that's the kind of thing you mean?
> Isn’t it generally accepted that increased diversity in a decision group leads to better decisions?

Perhaps evidence to the contrary, it seems widely believed that the governance of most Nordic countries and other nations like Switzerland result in (much?) better outcomes than the US. There seems to be something of a fascination with those nations in terms of their social support systems and the like. Interestingly, those nations are substantially more homogeneous the United States.

> Splitting the state up would draw territory lines where there are only cultural lines currently.

I don't think it's a given that this is a bad thing. The principle behind states and counties is that the populations can govern themselves in a way that fits their values. An extreme case, an Amish population that has gathered in a particular region, would probably not feel great about being forcibly assimilated into another group's social or governmental structures. Their beliefs are so disparate that it's difficult to imagine they would be able to find common ground.

> What else can we do, is there something less radical that can chip away to close this gap?

Acceptance of other people's values without demonization is key. The US has devolved into a state where the opposing political belief is now seen as a flaw of their character or morality. You see that Even on a site like this where the average commenter is better educated than the average citizen. (The comments about Trump supporters all supporting segregation as example).

To fix this, we need to break the echo chambers that perpetuate these beliefs. Unfortunately, because of the current polarization, it's difficult even for an elected official to agree with the opposition about any issue without reprisal from their own party or the voters.
"X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett - a tribute to Terry Pratchett, based on the message protocols within his own books."

I'll enjoy knowing this next time I reread Going Postal :)
Oh I had forgotten about the going backwards ones!
It was like the machine was personally taunting you.
More ways to do this is nice but you could always download and upload. This isn't some amazing new thing that was keeping you from doing that.
This seems to imply that without ad revenue, the internet would not exist. But plenty of sites existed and still exist without the support of ad revenue. The price to host a static site is lower than it's ever been (and for sites that provide free hosting, the cost of providing that service is lower than it's ever been). If something like YouTube couldn't exist without ads, then so be it: let them move to a subscription model. There is nothing that says that we must be forced to tolerate ads in exchange for the internet, let alone ads that intentionally obliterate the human right to privacy.
The USA had this position from the outset, everyone was able to plan around it. I don't think it was the best position, but I think there is value in making its position clear.

This move by the EU just shows Van der Leyen's floundering and the EU showing again the limits of its efficacy as a governing organization.
Psychiatrists are doctors who prescribe substances that have been closely studied - but their effects may be easily and specifically understood, their mechanisms may not be.

Lithium is a great example - very effective treatment for bipolar. No one really knows why. Prescribed for decades as they've tried to figure it out because tests showed it was effective and relatively safe, just no one knew exactly what it was doing in there.

It's sort of how you can be a woodworker without knowing the cellular biology of trees, and without being an electrical or mechanical engineer who can build a table saw from scratch.
Don't know about the comp levels but the title / experience / pay seems totally whacky - a staff-level engineer with a total of 5-7 years of experience? IME this role is for very experienced ICs who don't move into management but are still key leaders.

Has title inflation followed the general trends of post-secondary grade inflation?
Sure.

The fact that you're not conscious when you're not conscious doesn't prove that consciousness doesn't exist. On the contrary: the fact that you sometimes are conscious would seem to prove that consciousness does exist.
Yeah that's why I dismissed it - way overkill, both in terms of resources used and the development (at least from what I can tell). It seems like 2D is an afterthought, with it just locking the camera in a 3D space to a particular axis.
Yet every code implementation exists in some country bound by laws.
The issue is how the data is backed up on Android vs iOS. In theory, if your iCloud or Google account is the same between devices then transfer to a new, same-OS device is trivial. It should "just work" in most cases. But WhatsApp does not provide its own backup service (which is fine with me) nor does it allow you to specify where to back it up to (which is not fine with me). If it did, then users switching between iOS and Android would have no (or little) trouble.
I'll have to try it again, then. On two occasions several months apart, as soon as I tried to use it again it just didn't deliver calls or messages. The only time I tried to use it and it flat out didn't work :/ might see if I can track down the issue through the logs.
Noble savage parenting.
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Connecting to the Stock Market (Choosing a DMA Partner)
This exists. It uses you general google storage quota (shared with gmail, gdrive, etc).
They control the only allowed client binaries and don't let others compile and distribute them.

Those binaries have complete control of your keys.

If they wanted to (or were forced to) release an update that bulk decrypted all messages or those of specific people and sent them to a random server somewhere... They totally could, and likely not get caught until well after every target was exposed, if at all. Huge SPOF.

End to end encryption where only one party controls the software that controls both ends with no accountability is more marketing than security.
No. If they wanted to harvest metadata, they could do it while still making their repo look up to date and totally clean. Wouldn't be hard either.
I'd love to know what reliability metric you're going by, and which platform (Element Web/Desktop, iOS & Android are entirely different codebases). We're currently working hard on Element's UX, but it's always a bit unclear whether complaints like this refer to crashes, or UX papercuts (e.g. the cross-signing UX on login), or performance, or something else.
The real Catch-22.
Streaming companies are not going to like this. If only this happened I could imagine a new, glorious wave of piracy.
I really don't understand the problem here. It looks like FLoC will entirely depend on the browser (which Google controls if it's Chrome). So the browser will analyze your browsing history (and since it's Google, it will probably connect to everything else Google knows about you) to request targeted ads.

But, what about the people who don't use Chrome? I would hope that most people who know what EFF is already don't. Firefox will surely come with a way to disable it, or you'll configure it to always send "my little pony" or something like this.

In the end, this seems to really be about Google (with a browser) competing against Facebook and other ad providers (who don't have a browser).
While I agree it shouldn't be against some law or anything - we'd be kidding ourselves if we didn't assume this was a calculated move to edge people into Office365 vs. GSuite/LibreOffice + DropBox, etc...

1TB is huge, and nobody can compete with that "for free" right now. Although, as a heavy OneDrive user, I'll tell you it's not nearly as good of a product as DropBox or even Google Drive (in my limited experience with both).

The name of the OneDrive folder cannot be changed, it limits how large of a file you can sync into it, routinely gets "stuck" syncing forever (requiring a hard reset of OneDrive), has rate limited downloads, etc. It's clearly an afterthought for Microsoft - probably because they give it away for free.
I would love to have 100/100. Currently dealing with 100/10 and life isn't too bad until I want to do off site backups, that takes forever.
“There is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation…”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/larry-sum...
Nearly 10 years ago a 2.6 TFLOP (FP32) GTX 660ti cost about $300 and had a TDP of 150w.
It's not my theory, but check out the paper.

> Chairs do not carry out compression. They do not source sensory information from multiple locations and process it
in parallel. They do not store memories to enhance future compression. And they do not develop a theory of self by compressing their own actions. Therefore they are not conscious

> Imagine holding a flame to the leg of a chair. The flame leaves a black mark, therefore the chair has certainly been affected by the flame. But intuitively, it does not seem reasonable to claim that the chair has experienced the flame. This difference between effect and experience is directly related to compression: specifically, the chair fails to experience the flame because the information it provides is not compressed in any way. If a chair’s leg is burned it has no effect on any of the other legs. No information is communicated, and consequently there is no inter-leg data compression to bind the experiences of the chair together. Furthermore, the chair stores no memory (other than a black mark). The burning event has no effect on how subsequent events are processed, meaning that the experiences of the chair are not bound together across time. Finally, because the chair does not compress its own response to the flame, it has no awareness of any subjective experience

Similarly, gzip does not develop a theory of self. It just compresses data based on some algorithm. It doesn't learn, have a sense of self or internalize its action

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/297030798.pdf
Totally fair, I don't want this to be the top comment, I hate the middlebrow-dismissal and I've sort of committed that sin with this comment.

Thanks!
There is unquestionably a huge amount of inflation in the things the upper classes spent money on - real estate, investments, etc. This seems to me to be indicative of a lot of upper class people benefitting from the upward redistribution of wealth that has been ongoing for the last 25 years.
Watching that progress bar was physically painful. I'd rather not use software that lies to me.
Imagine not having children because of the fucking Doomsday clock lmfaaaaaaaaao
Weird. we're not aware of a failure mode like that. For what it's worth, most of the VoIP stuff has been rewritten over the last few months and is feeling much better these days.
Mind strikes me as a loaded term, being used to mean locus of computation or computation stream, but carrying the implication of consciousness. If you wish to make the case that computation and consciousness are in some sense intertwined, this needs to be done explicitly. The Chinese Room Argument does not do so. (Incidentally I'm of the opinion that they are indeed intertwined.)

If a person is manually executing an algorithm (the memorised Chinese Room algorithm, or naive matrix multiplication, or whatever), then we could distinguish between the algorithm and the person executing it. In that sense there are two computation streams at work. That doesn't show that a second consciousness has been brought into being, though. I wouldn't conclude that there are two 'minds'.

Your comparison to virtual machines is a good one, it's one that Dennett uses.
The mango blog post was incredibly entertaining. Thanks for sharing.
This "it's either no privacy or you get spam" is another false premise. Google has built their empire on ads based on search keywords and topics of websites you visit. Personalized cross-site tracking is a relatively new and small addition.
Well, I expected fishy as in dubious, not like literal fish.
Several months ago (and a few months before that!) nothing would go from my phone to my laptop with separate accounts on different servers. Messages, calls, etc all didn't deliver. Could this be an internet issue? These were the only times I've tried it as well, which leads me to believe it is a network issue. Never had internet issues previously, so I would appreciate some guidance on how to enable logging to see what the problem is.
I suppose I'm coming at it from a different angle - I'm expecting my game to flop, but want to learn something from it. I'd rather that something learnt to include a "real" language rather than a script designed for one program. Of course, that's not to say I'll learn nothing while developing for Godot, but it is a factor for me.
Not sure about serious, but they are loud for sure, and are memed by other people, maybe even more the latter than the former.
I thought this initially ("why is Alinea on HN?"). Name clashes are common in startups though (Robinhood Markets vs World Wide Robinhood Society and Clubhouse vs. Clubhouse Software), especially when it's a common word in an unrelated industry.
Yeah, reliability is pretty much on par with discord or slack. Neither of them have the same level of reliability as say Whatsapp or iMessage, but it hasn't been a blocker to them, or isn't mentioned every time they're brought up.
Obviously they could unionize, it's just difficult to organize and get started.

I don't know the conditions around the CEO's contract or the amount of say he had in the terms so I won't speculate.
Isn't this because the EU let the US/UK take priority of production? I was under the impression AZ was filling their fulfillments to US/UK just fine. This seems like EU just couldn't keep up in the horse race negotiating.
Cloudflare anti-abuse systems flagged image files on suddenly popular Deno site
How does Apple prevent me from using this to track random people based for instance on their Bluetooth headphones?
Until Google sites start deliberately breaking if you don't send this data (or your browser is known to implement any other feature intended to circumvent it), thereby destroying the market share of any browser that dares to do so.
What I heard is that EU countries would take the initial liability up to some threshold for AZ vaccines. Sort of a deductible before AZ needs to to cover the loss.

The problem with the negotiations on liability is that each day delay in contract may result is bigger loss due to deaths from COVID.
They also promote careerism for men, a notion that doesn't ever seem to come into question. It's true that only women can gestate and breast feed, but after that fatherhood and motherhood are very similar callings. Men could opt out of the capitalist summons to the labor supply just as easily as women, and it shouldn't have to fall entirely on women to choose between "careerism" and "motherhood".

If we shifted the norms to allow that, women would be able to make their decisions freely and fairly, rather than just accepting that the lion's share of of parenting should be up to them. Rhetoric that shifts solely to ending careerism for women, but not for men, does indeed disempower women.
>I interpreted your comment to refer to the size of the backing store, because that is fundamentally what a hash key needs to be able to address.

Under the assumption (upthread) of constant resizing as element are added, the distinction is irrelevant. The more elements you have in the table, the more elements you need to address, and the more possible outputs your hash function needs to have.

And the needed size of the backing store scales with the number elements you want to store anyway.

>I didn't mean to say that, if you were using it that way, you were doing anything wrong, only that there appeared to be a mismatch.

Why bring up something like that if it doesn't translate into something relevant to the discussion e.g. to show my point to be in error?
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Ahah oops, fixed! I wasn't aware of its Swedish origins, I kind of assume everything is American on the internet until proven otherwise (coming from a Brit)
Too bad that almost all of them are Chromium based now.

I wonder if websites are going to block you out if you don't have this enabled. Like they do with adblockers.
For once it's nice to live in old Europe :)

I have ftth from Fastweb in Italy and I get 1 Gbps down/200 mobs up for 24,95 €/month (with unlimited phone service included).

Apparently they're also going to bump download speed to 2.5 Gbps. You still have only 1gpbs ethernet ports on the provided modem/router, but the core idea is to give at least 500mbps to each client.
Yes, I think his recommendation to prefer push_back is wrong for that reason. I can't imagine it's easier for the compiler to reason about std::move and destructors compared to inlining the constructor.
TIDAL isn't getting traction & Jay-Z wants to sell it <=> Square needs a hook into the rap industry because they market really well there. Square has been paying rappers to promote Cashapp since 2018.

Here's an article written 1 year ago about the Cashapp's traction with the hip hop community: https://trapital.co/2020/03/18/how-hip-hop-helped-cash-app-g...

An excerpt:

Here’s Square CEO Jack Dorsey at a 2019 investor conference via Wall Street Journal:

“This is also something we weren’t expecting, but I think Cash App has touched in the culture. We’ve just benefited from people loving it and wanting to sing about it, and putting it in their music videos, and it’s amazing how much that spreads.”
I think women have largely been presented a false promise by progressives: value and purpose is derived from work, go do what men do to be their equal. It’s not necessarily anybody’s fault, we live in a society where money is valued. But I wish we could structure society in a way such that the value of raising children, homemaking, is clearly communicated and understood. Being a mother without a snazzy career is frowned upon by plenty of people these days. I don't think that stigma is healthy. Why do women have to emulate men to be valuable?

Couple that with the fact that depression is most prevalent among childless women in their 40s, it’s like we’re fighting nature to create a perfect 3rd wave utopia. Of course women should follow their heart and we should build a society that allows them to do so on equal terms, but we should not discourage homemaking and stigmatize people who want to raise children.

And then there’s the practical side of things for which I’ve not been able to come to a good solution: In order to have a society of power career couples, someone has to raise their kids. As a couple that means you have to find someone who makes at most the same as you make, but probably less, to be your nanny (otherwise it would make more sense financially to just do it yourself). I don't see how that’s a sustainable narrative unless we are holding out for technology to fill that need.

Me? I would be a stay at home dad in a heartbeat. I love cooking and homemaking and being there for children. But practically in my relationship that doesn't make sense so I’m obligated to work my days away in order to provide for my family. I think there’s this idea that all men love career life because it pays the bills. In reality it’s far from a pipe dream existence.

Point is life is about making sacrifices in order to find happiness. If you sacrifice your youth and fertility for a shot at big riches, ultimately thats your choice. I just wish as a society we were more honest about reality and weren’t so dismissive of people who choose to raise children. That is where I see the path start to turn destructive.
How might this be combined with a training/testing data splitting paradigm, or even using an ML model?
I will certainly be retrying it then, thanks! That was honestly my only holdout because everything else about matrix/element excites me (federation, easy integration, multi device with keys, etc).
Well ideally functions shouldn't be moving behind your back, i.e if you write:

foo(someValue);

someValue will bever be implicitly moved. Either you need an explicit cast (i.e. std move) or someValue is actually an expression returing a temporary or an rvalue.

Of course if foo takes someValue by non const reference it might still modify someValue as it wishes (and moving out of it is just one possible mutation). But this is not a specific issue with moves but with functions taking non const references in general, which should be used only sporadically and hopefully the name makes the mutation clear.
The standard, and what set of options you can use from the standard, reflects physical equipment that was put in the ground and incrementally upgraded over decades.

Sure in a sense the asymmetry is a “deliberate design choice.” But it’s a design choice that was made when cable broadband was first developed starting with cable TV networks that had little and sometimes no uplink capability. Hackers of all people should be able to understand the challenges posed by the old design decisions in big complex systems.