skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Americans don't have a culture of taking care of each other. They rely on the government to do it,

Surely it is the other way about. Americans give to charity much more than Europeans as far as I can tell and volunteering and doing things like this engineer's mobile laundry seem much more common in the US. On the other hand governments in Europe (at least northern Europe which is the part i know most about) seem to put rather more effort into housing the homeless and making the lot of those without a job more bearable.
I don't like where the world is going...
Noction launches IRP 3.11, featuring the Remote-triggered Blackholing capability
I work with him a lot, he's a friend, and he prefers to stay anonymous. :) why I didn't reference the site with the name
I really don’t get this opinion. The internet isn’t secure — the public internet is by definition an untrusted network assumed to be malicious and openly hostile. There is no safe way to use unencrypted connections on the public internet. None. Doesn’t matter if you are a good admin on your local network, doesn’t matter if you have a good ISP, you have zero guarantee the network path your packets will take and who has the opportunity to observe and modify them.

Look I get it. It’s no fun when the whole class is punished because because bad actors exist. And it’s no fun when someone pressures you into doing something for the benefit of others but not yourself. But the internet is really really different from 20 years ago.
Ian Fleming, too. He'd check himself in to the most unpleasant hotel he could find and not allow himself to leave until he'd finish the draft.
There is a reason these are two different words: they describe somewhat overlapping, but distinct concepts.

I'm not sure why you bring the American COVID response into this: its ineptitude was never even close to a secret, and the role of 45th administration in it is hardly disputed. If this is a kind of a "no u" response, well am not an American anyway.
I always thought the idea was the hydrogens are fusing with the metal lattice, or impurities in the metal (more likely to be exothermic, I guess), in which case you won't get helium after all.
CPU cost is not dominated by the cache size is the problem, I think.
Probably some crazy macros that the kernel code uses. You can end up having an almost dialect of C with extensive use.
Honestly I wish the GitLab CEO would stop this running around the bush thing here. We know exactly what happened. This is not just an innocent accident by an employee. I mean the title says it all... -> "We are building a better Heroku"

People at GitLab, probably including sytse, have decided that it's worthwhile to build a new Heroku competitor into GitLab.

Then someone was tasked to write a PR blog post about it.

Then sytse did what he always does with GitLab PR, they post it on HN and tell GitLab employees to upvote it to make HN front page...

... and now when it has backfired because people point out how ridiculous this sounds sytse tries to play it down by saying it was a poorly written accident and deflects the blame from his own wrongdoing and pushes it on that employee. What a poor form of a CEO.

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EDIT:

Proving my point:

- Blog posts tracked on Corporate Marketing:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/corporate_marketing/...

- Issue which mentions an internal Slack conversation where this was discussed:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/11063

- PR which stated the release date of the post and was reviewed and approved by several people. It even had sytses (GitLab CEO) as an initial approver listed:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...

- 5 minute production app epic tracking issues, milestones, marketing, etc.:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app

This was not a poor accident by a single employee. It's noble that the author tries to take all the blame on himself, but honestly, I feel like that is a moment where a leader has to step in and accept their mistake and not let a small trooper eat all the bullets.
What about this:

Every shop you walk into has a secret camera that tracks everything you do. The cameras are all owned by a private advertising company that uses them to build a very detailed profile on you. On the plus side, the goods in the shop are often free.
I agree with every word. It is not the most funny part of the process, and it requires some perspective, to realize that the first version of anything is something that can be more perfect. But it pays so much. However there is to make sure to avoid the reverse, iterating forever. There are folks I know with books that are in the "I'm almost there" stage for 5/6 years.
Work climate is much different here in the manic U.S. I'd gladly take the 20% pay cut and be passed over for promotions. I actively decline promotion to team lead/management anyway. Whatever extra benefits there are in pay/title is not worth the stress.
>developed by Trolltech

I don't think I could ever take software seriously from a company name like that. Are these issues really bugs, or are we being trolled?
I'm not sure if you are trolling, but the article wasn't "dead naming a trans woman". It was an article in a mainstream uk magazine about a uk political party where her preferred name was mentioned
If you can color match, probably.

Rumor has it that Cardinal Richelieu's men had ways to read wax sealed documents.

How many of these documents have multiple layers of meaning embedded in them? Steganography, euphemisms, inside jokes, shibboleths, what have you. I wonder how many things these letters say that we simply cannot read.
Beyond matrices and vectors, it would be nice to have generalized (typed) tensors. What you can do with matrices alone is really somewhat limited.
PCRE is hardly used "everywhere". Vim switched from backtracking engine to dfa one. Emacs has it's own non-backtracking engine. As does GNU grep. Ripgrep notoriously is built around rust-regex. VSCode uses ripgrep for searches. Google obviously uses its own re2 in its products. Hyperscan has some case studies of its use:

https://www.hyperscan.io/2016/01/21/rspamd-1-1-released-hype...

https://www.hyperscan.io/2020/09/28/optimize-azure-cloud-sec...

https://www.hyperscan.io/2018/10/19/hyperscan-adopted-by-git...

Even PCRE itself has a dfa mode. Because people want and use that. It's not just some academic navelgazing.

I'm not saying that non-regular engines, pcre in the forefront, are not popular. They are. But at the same time they are not be-all end-all for regex, regular engines still see lot of use especially in performance sensitive applications.
yes we should unquestionably accept everything told to us by the holographic spokespeople of corporations on the tv, after all they always have our best interests in mind
Too shortsighted.
Both parties are right.

ESA improved their rocket design for the 2nd stage. Almost a Raptor. But of course not a real Raptor, more like a VW compared to a Mercedes.
Rocket reuse is also a revolutionary new idea, which didn't work out when NASA and the Russians pushed for it, but it now it works. Who would have thought. But by far not as complicated as a Raptor, which does not need multiple stages.

So now they are pushing for reuse, which is not that hard to introduce medium term.
CBN yet to intervene at I&E forex window since Jan, says Emefiele
The irony is that I almost certainly would have zero idea who this person was or the existence of this controversy were it not for this crackdown.

On one hand I can empathize with people seeing someone they know have negative press about them shared on a site they run and wanting to do something. But I thought the point of professionalism was refraining from this kind of behavior and applying rules consistently even when there is a personal connection. This kind of special-case behavior in favor of people with ties to the site is likely counter productive.
"Please do not name this individual"
But we won't tell you who the individual that shall not be name is.
Is it really hard to understand why some people are more productive working in physical proximity to the rest of the team? Why adding some commute friction is ok with them as it reduces communication friction later in the day?
YouTube experiment: Testing automated list of products detected in videos
Some media should be suppressed and some media shouldn't be. The "gender critical" subreddit for example was full of hatred for trans people like myself.

I don't believe that exercising your power to suppress something you don't like is inherently good or bad. It obviously depends on the contents of what is being suppressed.
I'm not sure that damage to various organs around the body beyond respiratory system is that a unique of a property - see myocarditis and the like related to influenza infection, which is a significant cause of mortality.
Anna Karenina on Development Methodologies
It would not use those no.
I felt the same about that picture, the original source is less pretty but much easier to read: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MatrixMultComplexity...
To provide more context, Alcatel-Lucent was a merger of the French Alcatel and Lucent. And Lucent was formed when AT&T divested technology business units including Western Electric and Bell Labs.
This is only an issue if everyone wants or needs kids. Glasses are similarly not a big deal. I feel like you could have used better examples to argue in favor of eugenics but at the end of the day it's still eugenics? People should have access to any and all medical advancements, better to address the problem than ignore it with selective breeding
Yeah, I don't live in the US but our child service is pretty bad as well. My point was more that whoever handles this should not have connections to law enforcement as it could ultimately widen the divide between the police and the communities.
I don’t think it’s enough to actually drop your redirect on the server side yet since there’s lots of non-browser clients.
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How (and how much) did these improvements manifest? For example, did you measure consistently faster response times when running ZGC rather than G1GC? If so, by how much? I’m always looking for a way to improve ES response times for our users.
I appreciate that both for helping me keep it non-politics on HN and also for being willing to reach out.

I've updated my email in my bio, hope to hear from you soon.
Sharing read only data is not an issue at all. Sharing data written by only one thread also scales very well: The single writer principle is well understood and critical for designing efficient multi-threaded applications.
Thanks for the kind words!

We do support Bitrise! And CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins. We're adding more integrations regularly, and we prioritize as we hear from teams with specific needs.
> The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Edit: added quote.
Is it better for a free world to have the traffic be unencrypted?

Feels like one head of the hydra is control of the cert-trust network, but another head is traffic-sniffing and monitoring one's online activity, yeah?
The vast majority of people not only don't care about the https / www part of the URL, they don't understand it. You're right, the default value does matter... just not in the way that you think.
quanta magazine has been the best find for me this year!
How do you propose open source projects get the revenue to offer a royalty program?

Also, in what countries is volunteering for free illegal?
Heaps "slightly below 32GB" are usually because of the -XX:+UseCompressedOops option, which allows Java to address up to 32GB of memory with a smaller pointer. Between 32-35GB of heap, you're just paying off the savings you would have gotten with compressed object pointers, but if you keep cranking your heap further after that, you'll start getting benefits again.
This sounds wrong. If a large corporation wants to record me but can't because they need my consent that seems like an advantage to me.
This is not doxing in any way is it? The person is using their own name, is a public figure, posted about their activities on twitter and can be easily Googled.

Would reddit ban anything about this if the person in question was not an employee?

I understand the concern about harassment, but should anyone be able to get off reddit if they want to? Let's say Roger Stone wants no mention of himself on reddit, should he be able to say please ban anyone that mentions me?
A $100M Bet That Online Coaching Can Make a Better Manager (2019)
A computer scientist and his team bring genome data search to the next level
I just packaged it in my overlay so Nix users can try it out without installing it (works on macOS and Linux)

nix run github:siraben/siraben-overlay#tz

or, when it gets upstreamed into Nixpkgs

nix run nixpkgs#tz

Seems like a useful thing to have so you can visually see when multiple time zones have overlapping daylight! Neat!
Reddit is crazy when it comes to anything trans related. Any comment mildly oppositional to the dominant trans agenda and belief system results in a ban. This is what happens when you hire ideological extremists with victim complexes to try to prove you're inclusive.
Husband of Suits Actress takes job at mental health startup
I think the point is that comparing Scala the language to Java the language is apples-to-oranges. In general you are using Java along with a bunch of libraries (or Scala plus a bunch of libraries) so the question is whether Java plus all the libraries you are using is less complex than Scala plus all the libraries you are using. And the answer is not nearly as obvious as many people tend to assume.

For example, the most common thing people point to when talking about Scala's complexity is implicits. And that's fair because implicits can be hard to understand and can be used in wildly inappropriate ways. But I have found that what implicits are mostly doing (at least when used correctly) is taking stuff that would be implemented in Java with some crazy runtime reflection scheme and making it a compile-time construct. So then the question is not "are implicits complex?" but "are they MORE complex than the equivalent implementation using reflection?" And on that question I would say absolutely not! Runtime reflection is (to me at least) much more opaque, error prone and difficult to debug.
sounds like once again, YC is choosing to dilute the quality of their offering in order to capture more of the VC pie. I suppose this inevitable for any entity in a competitive space, but it's still disappointing to see.

nevertheless, everytime YC does this, it makes every other accelerator program out there more valuable comparatively.
But once you introduce a piece of software into the middle to make this usable, what's the actual difference between this and just using VNC?

At that point it doesn't really matter if the screen is a file or not -- you need a compressor that can easily provide the output on a network socket, and a client that can perform the decoding.
I have a bunch of old telecom / networking / engineering equipment from mostly the 80s-90s and it’s always fun to figure out who owns or owned some IP or product.
Plenty were mourning Soleimani, and Twitter just couldn't shut up for a while about how the world is on the way to WW3 over this. It however turned out to be perhaps the most useful FP action of that administration.
If I write an article today about someone who transitions next year, am I (and all articles) supposed to spend time updating it? Wikipedia is a different story
What exactly about NFTs are helpful in this usecase? What constitutes a memory? Is it just data? Why would you need a blockchain type solution? Socratic questions, not inflammatory.
HN users are flagging it, checkout the previous threads for more comments on why.
Computability isn't really relevant here. I was talking about, for problems that are computable within NP, how big a problem can be solved by physically realizable machines.

Turing machines are polynomially worse than von Neumann machines. It'd be hard to factor 16-bit numbers on a physically realizable Turing machine, while we can do hundreds of bits on our laptops.
Linus is very proud of Linux running on anything, from toasters to HPC, so I think it's safe to assume less common architectures aren't going away.
let's encrypt with *.lan.mydomain.com via DNS validation, installed all over where needed, and annoying to update every 90 days because it's in weird/internal/non-standard places :)
I think he's lived in his bubble so long he's naively honest.

Take a look at this exchange from the Oprah interview:

Harry: Yes, but it’s . . . there is this invisible . . . what’s termed or referred to as the ‘invisible contract’ behind closed doors between the institution and the tabloids, the UK tabloids.

Oprah: How so?

Harry: Well, it is . . . to simplify it, it’s a case of if you . . . if you as a family member are willing to wine, dine and give
full access to these reporters, then you will get better press.

Oprah: What do you care about better press if you’re royal?

Harry: I think everyone needs to have some compassion for . . . for them in that situation, right? There is a level of control by fear that has existed for generations. I mean, generations.

Oh gee, I just wish the monarchy would just manipulate the media and suppress bad press of me like they do all the time!

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/why-is-the-english-monar...
It sound more like a prolog program. It takes a set of rules and facts and can infer other facts from there and show you all the steps of the process. Although it is a branch of AI it is not what one thinks of nowdays hearing the term AI. One thinks of some fancy powerful self learning black box, which can do miracles but can't explain how it does it.
>there's no other option for accessing resources

That seems like it would create difficulties in porting software there. Please correct me if I'm wrong but the original plan9 appears to also have no support for shared memory or for poll/select.

>Backfilling IO on page fault is really all mmap does, conceptually.

For read-only resources yes, for handling writes to the mmapped region, that seems quite broken.
Huh, it's almost as if the vaccine is to innoculate me against a specific lethal pathogen that I don't want to risk training my immune system on

If you want a better overall immune system eat better and excercise, there is zero reason to avoid a vaccine unless you're immunocompromised or allergic
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On hardware, but not on a cloud setup? We run several hundred big ES nodes on AWS, and I believe we stick to the heap sizing guidelines (though I’ve long wondered if fewer instances with giant heaps might actually work ok, too)
I think there's a lot of room for improvement for both law enforcement and CPS, but I agree with the comment you responded to. This seems more like it should be a social services intervention rather than a quasi-criminal investigation.
Real hacky ? Get a server with LAMP/LEMP installed and then Plain old PHP file that may be writes to a sql database and boom, you are up and running on a web host by uploading index.php to the server root.

I would advise using something like Symfony to add a bit more structure like routing etc.

Need more magic ? Go with a tested framework like Laravel etc. If PHP is not your thing, you can use Python/Node whatever you are comfortable with but some of those languages have different server setup that is sometimes not as easy as LEMP/LAMP. And no, we don't want to introduce things like docker etc.
Strassen is reasonably numerically stable (although not as good as the naive algorithm), and everything beyond Strassen is extremely unstable. This is due to a trick that many of these algorithms employ: you technically only need to do multiplication of 0-1 matrices to fully solve the matrix multiplication problem in theory, and so having an algorithm which computes the entries of the matrix with additive error 0.1 is sufficient to exactly solve the problem (just round entries to the nearest integer). As you can imagine, this means your algorithm can only give O(1) bits of precision unless you employ this reduction to the 0-1 case first.

To understand why this even happens, let's say we want to compute the expression A*B + B*A for matrices A and B. One way we can do this is to compute the products A*B and B*A naively: two multiplications are needed. A trickier way to do this is to introduce a parameter x: we will instead compute A*A and (x*A + B/x)*(x*A + B/x) = x^2 A*A + (A*B + B*A) + x^-2 B*B. Thus (x*A + B/x)*(x*A + B/x) - x^2 A*A = (A*B + B*A) + x^-2 B*B: if x is large enough the second term vanishes and we can employ the rounding trick from before. Now this still needed two multiplications, but here one of our multiplications was A*A. If later we needed to compute A*C + C*A in the algorithm, we could then do that in only 1 additional matrix multiplication by repeating the trick. A more sophisticated version of this algorithm underlies all known approaches for matrix multiplication beyond w << 2.8.
HN appears to do some shady stuff too... sometimes it is users flagging post (like a mega-downvote) and sometimes it is the admins controlling the speech.

I'm not sure why HN needs flagging and down-votes... because flagging is being abused all the time (and I think that some users get super-heavy-flagging-powers, a bit like low level admins).
The US is more of a federal system which somewhat protects us. I doubt there will be a national law saying that local police should look for illegal chickens. So you just vote the local people out or move.

Maybe I am too optimistic?
I'm looking into doing something like this. Seems calming.
You are making a very bad choice, that is unfortunate.
> The article diplomatically doesn't show any examples of the terrible typography

It even shows a picture of the all-so (all too?) common Rolex Submariner which bears, after decades of refinements, one of the finest typography out there IMO.
The model indicates 1000:1, but it may not capture all aspects (i.e. correlations) in the system. So what seems like excessive sigmas is also margin for those unknown-unknowns.
When I was in HS, according to the risk factors on this page, I would have been labelled a future criminal. I was completely bored out of my mind in HS. I skipped. I slept in class. I was constantly in the office. My GPA sucked so I failed a year. Skip ahead and I have a BSCpE and am a pretty successful engineer.
That sounds about right. In another comment, I cited a story about how we closed public pools en masse when they were becoming integrated[1]. People would rather have no public goods at all than share them with people they look down on.

1. https://www.marketplace.org/2021/02/15/public-pools-used-to-...