skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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He already lost half his wealth to his ex-wife, what more are you waiting for?
I love me some branchless coding tricks. It's fun. My favorite is how you can multiply a bool by integers and use masking to conditionally set variables without branching. Just make sure that's defined behavior in your language. Casting bools to ints and bit shifting them can also be used to conditionally bit pack without branching. Lots of fun.

(Might not be worth it if your architecture has conditional move instructions and your compiler is smart enough to use them.)
If your weekly tennis partner started canceling on you at the last minute, you'd get annoyed too.

The difference is sex is often intrinsic to the relationship. When someone wants it a lot less or more or different than before then the terms of the relationship unexpectedly become worse for at least one person. That can feel like bad faith even if it wasn't.
"I still can't imagine how sick a person can be to do this. If he wanted to kill himself he should just have jumped off a bridge."

It seems difficult for emotionally healthy people to understand how unhealthy people are thinking and acting. I suspect he had some latent genetic triggers and whatever happened in life slowly chipped away at the human part that guards against going code red. If you think about it, I, being a person without covid (hopefully) don't have any clue what it's like to be on my deathbed with covid. If I did, I'd probably act differently.

What scares me about it some is that this kind of inability to understand is what leads to conspiracy theories. Stephen Paddock couldn't have just been a narcissistic vengeful loner that did what he did because he was that depraved. No, there must be a bigger more complex, more ridiculous explanation. Paddock was actually making an arms deal with the Saudis, Of course, being ex-FBI (or whatever) himself, when that deal went wrong to "cover" his tracks he shot up a concert. I mean it is absurd on its face but when you get this dynamic of not understanding how other people behave, you get these almost supernatural explanations.

Of course, you're not doing any of that, just throwing out my 2 cents.
I'm the worst kind of person to reply, because my brain was already damaged by Borgmon before Prometheus was a thing. But I've run both at relative scale, and I'll take prometheus anyday. Datadogs query language is lacking and they've never added decent support for ratio-of-rate metrics, which are most of the metric queries you should be alerting on. Datadog is expensive, and because it's expensive you'll hold back on some of your most important and expressive metrics. Prometheus scales very far vertically - Far enough that I've yet to use it's sharding features, despite abusing tags badly.

Prometheus's query language is a sharp tool, and you can mess it up. It takes getting used to, and Grafana is a must for making charts navigable to executives (which is one of the top selling points of Datadog: Execs can see and build dashboards for the metrics they want). I would not be likely switch to another system - Even Monarch, Google's next generation monitoring system, has significant downsides compared to what you can do with Prometheus.
I only recently started learning about vector embeddings, and the thing I can't wrap my head around is why cosine similarity should be so effective when (to my understanding) it should only capture linear similarity.

Shouldn't that "linear" constraint have more of a blunting effect on embeddings effectiveness? Why not use a different metric like mutual information that can account for non-linearities. Whenever correlation comes up in context of statistical comparison, there's always this warning that correlation is limited as a way of comparing data due to it's linearity so I'm confused why it seems so effective in the context of embeddings.
+1 Same boat.

I don't know how to work with AWS. I don't want to pay $$$ for a "course" for something that I can explore with a "free" tier.

I logged onto AWS. Looked around, figured I had no idea what I would be charged and what the "free" tier meant I could do exactly.

So I logged out and haven't been back.
What can be done about this though? I don't think it's a good idea to make life harder for those who are privileged in some way, because it will just lead to a world where everyone is equally miserable. And it would be wrong to put all the women in this category, because not all of them have the privilege that you talk about.
No, it's not.

Where do you think this ideology and hypersensitivity originated?
I can give some context on that. Go back to 2011, visual HTTP clients weren't that popular. Postman, Insomnia, etc. weren't around yet. Working at Twilio, we regularly needed to show people how the API worked. Hurl.it was perfect for it. It was notoriously unreliable though so I pestered Chris Wanstrath and Leah Culver until they sold it to me for $1,000 (I expensed it, asked for forgiveness and jokingly call it Twilio's first acquisition). We kept it running for awhile. I left.

Then I started Runscope and we made a much better version of Hurl.it and RequestBin, but those two sites were by then linked in tons of API docs and we couldn't get those links switched to Runscope, so we acquired the links. Twilio was happy to get rid of it since they had actual infosec policies in place by that point and Hurl.it was regularly abused as an open proxy. Those two sites were the meat and bones of our marketing for most of pre-acquisition life of Runscope. We had direct links to Runscope for people who needed more features, and would tag visitors and retarget them later. Those audiences being shown an ad for a free, brilliantly-designed 'Everything is going to be 200 OK' t-shirt drove A LOT of sign ups[0].

Then we sold the company and I lost control of the domains to our acquirer.

Edit: Since Tod linked to hurlit.com instead of hurl.it, I assumed they had just cloned it but they also have the original domain hurl.it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjhGa-wt9A
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On the other hand, it probably also enabled them to get up & running with a MVP fairly fast and low-cost. No one knew it was going to be the big success from the get-go, and most new companies fail.

In hindsight, it was probably a bad choice. At the time however, it was probably a good one.

Besides, things like AirBnB are the exceptions. Most sites don't get anywhere near the traffic they get, and Rails is often a good choice. Is it imperfect and are there trade-offs involved? Of course, but there are with anything.
> Ryan Singer, had been suspended and placed under investigation after he questioned the existence of white supremacy at the company

>“I objected to an employee’s statement that we live in a white supremacist culture. White supremacism exists, and America’s history of racism still presents terrible problems, but I don’t agree that we should label our entire culture with this ideology.

From Ryan Singer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185

It’s happened before unfortunately :(
What sr. staff member believes white supremacy doesn't exist?
He's moved from chief executive to executive chairman. In no sense has he 'left'
Ya that'd be interesting. How do you imagine the representation and evaluation semantics working? Something like:

{call: function,
arg1: value1,
argN: valueN}

Instead of (function value1 valueN)

So maybe you'd have:

{
do1:
{
call: defn,
name: hello,
args: {first: String, last:
String},
ret: IO,
impl:
{
call: print,
msg:
{
call: concat,
strings: ["Hello ", first, " ", last]
}
}
},
do2:
{
call: hello,
first: "John",
second: "Doe"
}
}

Where the number after "do" is the order in which things should execute, or maybe we can simplify it by using insertion order preserving maps...

Looking at it, if people thought nested parens made for an eyesore, I'm not sure this would be any better received haha.
Religion doesn’t go away, it just evolves.

Now the priest hand down by divine inspiration. Don’t question the orthodoxy.
Thanks for knowledgeable response. It does shed some light on the issue.

It's interesting that decoding speed is the major bottleneck here.

However it is still surprising that this issue wasn't foreseen and that the burden of responsibility seems to fall on the berkshire and not the system architects.
I think it's good to teach the kids that these devices are not theirs in any way. They should expect no privacy whatsoever while using them. Later they will handle similarly any devices provided by employer.

Tell the kids not to use such devices for anything that can raise an eyebrow, let alone raise a concern.

Doing leetcode problems? Fine. Browsing Wikipedia? Fair enough. Watching educational videos on YouTube? Proceed with caution. Playing games? A bad idea, stop. Opening your private email / social network account / instant messenger? Please never don't do it again, and change your password just in case.

This of course, is hard for kids. For many of them, it's the only real computer they have a chance to put their hands on. Which is, of course, bad. But fixing that is not very expansive: a reasonable used laptop can be had for $200, an RPi + a reasonable monitor, for less than $100. I hope most US families with kids who are genuinely interested in technology can afford it. (Getting the parents interested is a different problem.)
They simply have to be in separate AWS accounts for this to work. To that end, you can provide them with a CloudFormation template that deploys a stack with the necessary configuration.
There's nothing strange about it and you're referencing things that aren't exactly relevant to the issue. The SEC has rules about lit market quotes which exist to give integrity to the price-time priority. No exchange is allowed to publicly quote fractional pennies so as to give someone a way of "jumping" the queue so to speak, but there are plenty of ways to transact at fractional pennies so long as one isn't quoting it on the lit market.

For example one can submit a mid-point peg order which can be filled at a fractional penny:

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/productsservices/tradin...

There are also auctions that take place on a daily basis, such as the opening auction and closing auction, where trades may execute at a fractional price.

Furthermore NASDAQ also operates as a reporting facility, and as such reports trades made through ADFs such as FINRA, dark pools, off-exchange block trades, and inside quotes which are quite often executed as fractional pennies.

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/home/help/tsiqtxtkey.pd...

Anyways, all this to say that the situation is a lot more detailed that you make it seem from your two references. It's not just a simple matter of SEC says orders have to be to the penny, so NASDAQ must be doing something really bizarre here.
William Langewiesche's well researched 2019 article in The Atlantic [1] presented a compelling set of facts and inferences for understanding what happened with MH370.

He says evidence from the pilot's flight simulator reveals the obfuscating journey had been planned in advance.

53 year old Zaharie Ahmad Shah's life was unravelling. The reason we haven't heard the full story is that Malaysia's Air Force doesn't want their role in failing to manage the event to be scrutinised.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-m...
any time I find someone like you complaining about “getting cancelled” or “cancel culture”, I just replace “cancel” with “consequences”, since that’s what it really is.

They wanted to protect employees from the consequences of their words and actions.
You can bypass phone verification with fake phone numbers from https://fakenum.io
I work at a Fortune 500 company that has gone woke, complete with critical race theory training. I'm literally the only white person in my department. I'm the racial minority. Do you think any of the training even considered that a possibility? Before this change in the company I had never even noticed my race in relation to my coworkers and I absolutely hate them for bringing it to my attention and forcing me against my will to focus on the fact that I'm a racial minority. I've had employers destroy my retirement plan value (pension) and others try to avoid paying me. This feels much more depraved and personal because they are attacking me psychologically. I'm on my way out.
There is plenty of "work" to be done regarding lens design:

from what I've heard, there is a delicate tradeoff between designing a lens that has pleasing bokeh (smooth MTF when out of focus) and designing a lens that is sharp when focused--I've heard that to do the former, you basically /need/ spherical aberration, but to do the latter, you need to remove as much spherical aberration as possible. I believe this is what people are referring to when people say modern lenses are too sterile and that the old lenses (which because aspherical elements basically didn't exist, had lots of spherical aberration)

Also, a decent zoom lens design is still very difficult. It basically needs to be designed trial-and-error style, and there's a LOT of knobs to tweak, as the zooming affects all kinds of figures of merit. Nowadays it's basically fully automated with optical solvers (they use raytracing, but in one axes, but they solve for things like spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, etc etc)

Just because you have asphericals doesn't mean you automatically solve all your problems. The onion-ring bokeh effect is still unfortunately an issue with asphericals.

Also one thing I really wish would happen is open source lens correction get better. It's currently absolutely shit.
How do you do parental controls in 2021?
I’m a dev so my networking is a bit rusty, but I’m curious if anyone has found the solution to effective parental controls?

We’re having trouble with our son sneaking the internet and we’ve become concerned about what he’s doing. We’re not looking for a snooping tool as we will be having regular communication with him as to what we’re doing and what our expectations are, but he’s definitely having trouble controlling his urges and we want a little physical help to go along with the counselling and communication.

Up until now we’ve used iOS screen time but it’s become too easy for him to get around so I’m thinking about something at the router level. Is there a decent solution here? Googling and online reviews haven’t given me much hope.
There are many contractual commitments to privacy on all of the big platforms. Like any tool, the wielder can make bad implementation choices. (And I can assure you, on-prem Edu IT is a shitshow)

> E.g. for protected government data, you have to run in amazon's govcloud.

Not really. Many .gov workloads are fine in commercial cloud. It depends on your compliance requirements. Sometimes there are downsides too - some services aren’t available. At one point, Azure Gov required separate credentials.
He's probably glad he's no longer married to his ex and he's still a mega billionaire. Not much punishment.
Dude, it's not developing country misuse of antibiotics that's the problem. It's pouring it into animal feed in factory farms. It's doctors in wealthy countries giving their patients an antibiotic prescription for a viral infection because their patients expect them to "do something." You're not getting downvoted for using "third world" you're getting downvoted for speaking from a position of ignorance.
Hy: A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
You can execute a vastly cheaper intervention now, or you can speculate on something that helps in the future at some indeterminate time, probably decades away, that will always cost more.
This is a common and disingenuous misconstrual of the argument. It isn't about feeling entitled to sex, it's about making access to sex more evenly distributed across society, for both genders. Not because of entitlement, but because of better overall happiness for both genders.

You are talking about a movement which on its face is about social equality, but refuses to acknowledge that is explicitly engineering norms which are already creating oppressive social inequality. You clearly have disdain for them but whether you want to admit it or not, "incels" are a low status social class, and if they are the way they are because of the efforts of others then by modern progressive logic they are oppressed - by feminists. The refusal to even acknowledge the possibility that this could be happening is a form of disenfranchisement, and is inevitable when your entire worldview is based on a false oppressor/oppressed binary, which is the essence of modern feminism (progressivism really).
Who cares how it's built if it solves a problem for people?
> Also "defund the police" is a shorthand that typically means "reduce direct law enforcement funding and instead fund other community engagement programs".

"Reform the police" is much more universalist term that people across multiple political spectrums would have gotten behind (and it's still memorable).

I'm not sure why it wasn't used instead.
Yeah this is a huge problem. I suspect this is significant for people to choose inferior non-hosted alternatives just for peace of mind. Hard limits would probably create a large influx of users.

Even for something as simple as S3, I'm hesitant to use the real service during development because it's so easy to stack up charges. For one of my accounts, the usual bill is <$10 but last month it was $27 because there was some network flakiness that resulted in excessive transfer.
Maybe I should go place a limit order at $1/share in case by chance the price wraps around to $0 and the order gets filled :)
Its actually a lot weirder for you to start questioning their ethnicity.

The parent didn’t say inclusion is bad, but the execution of DEI policies is bad.
>The flight path seems well planned and avoids commercial flight routes. The pilot appears not so concerned about fuel usage and much more concerned about leaving false trails.

What would the motive be here?

Leaving any trail would seem to leave enough behind to assume to the pilot was in control....

And yet efforts seem to also be to avoid being detected.

I've seen other theories that indicate they think the plane was flown to avoid being noticed....and yet those also describe a very severe manure too.

I feel like every theory has some contradictions.

Has there been any reliable psychological data on who might have been at the controls?
People take offense at being told that there’s a machine labeling them, and would demand the right to revise or remove the machine-assigned labels. Facebook prevents that outcome by preventing disclosure of targeting characteristics.

See also this Show HN from /new for purging your complete set of labels, and ask why Facebook doesn’t build this into the site UI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27045374

(The link is broken, but apparently there's a page you can single-remove specific interests from, if you can find it.)
Likely just user-agent scanning, those libs would be used by other service.
And the mysterious gradle/build errors that you keep looking at for hours trying to understand why in the name of mother nature the tool will not tell you what exactly went wrong in 2021 and then finally cluelessly trying different suggestions from clueless people on SO and you’re lucky if one of them works. Then you go home hoping everything works and swearing you’ll fix the gradle dependency nightmare your app has and then letting a helpless sigh that no it’s not your app’s fault.
> It simply means that the ideology won’t stop until it has transformed all of culture. The progress thus far has been academia -> journalism -> tech companies. It’s coming for the rest of society. There is no area of life or society that this ideology does not claim to address.

So let me get this straight: You're railing against an ideology that you claim has progressed through a large section of society, and you think it is bad, and you think, presumably, that society ought to not be like that, at least in these many areas. And your criticism of that ideology is that it claims to address many areas of society?

> You missed “sanctified” - the ideology resists criticism. Do you not see that this is the way religion used to be?

You missed the bit where I used the word "sanctimonious".
They do this to me too every month, as the card on my AWS has expired, and they complain and complain and complain before finally charging the card on my Audible account. Definitely need to get around to separating those.
"They definitely need a senior executive to stand up and say, "The Customer wants us to be transparent in billing, fix that now.""

Health care shows there is big money to be made with billing non-transparency. I bet AWS senior executives don't want transparency because it would lose them money.
> I agree for the most part there. Less so the founders,

How anyone can look at this debacle and think of the employees as anything but victims, and the founders as anything but reactionary blowhards, is absolutely incoherent to me.

The founders are obviously the ones in the wrong here, and obviously come out with shattered reputations.
How old is Warren Buffett? 90? Would it make sense to bet that the value of BRK.A would drop after his passing?
WKUK might run with this one.
I wonder as well. I've really enjoyed reading about all of the findings that have come out of Pompeii and Herculaneum in recent years: the graffiti[0], the fast food joint that looks like it could be a Chipotle or a Subway[1], and articles like this. It all feels pretty _recent_, even though it was 2000 years ago.

I think that people 2000 years from now will have a lot more information about our time to go on, though. We disseminate and preserve information at a scale that did not exist back then. The sole surviving written record of the Mt. Vesuvius eruption -- and perhaps the earliest written record of any volcanic eruption -- comes from two letters written by Pliny the Younger.[2] Today, news of the event would be spread near-instantaneously (and presumably preserved in multiple locations), like news of the 2020 Beirut explosion. Back then, there was just the dissemination of paper(-like) copies.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrie...

[1] https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2020/12/29/22205141/ancien...

[2] https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/plin...
It either works great or barely depending on the service you're using - some AWS teams have dedicated dashboard teams, eg 'ec2 dashboard team' which solely focus on the dashboard experience, while others touch it as an afterthought.

I'm pretty sure something along the lines of this^ was posted on HN by a former AWS employee but I can't find it now.
Similar, I've wondered what pieces of popular fiction, if they were the only portion of modern material dug up by a future civilization, would be assumed to be religious texts.
And you followed with a baseless rebuttal. Don't waste your breath.