skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Ads is the monetisation of all of the other services Google offers. Everything is a funnel of information to Google's Ad Analytics
The mobile design: layout and margins look out of place on Firefox Android. The lists with red crosses look disjointed.

Header: why do the Sign In and Get Started links point to the same URL? Do you need a Home link for what's essentially a single page site?

The Steps section: could probably be better presented by a video above fold in the future to take far less space.

The Newsletter section: the white background and wide margins makes the section seem like it belongs to the previous section (Step 3).

I think you could use a WP performance/caching plugin to easily improve site performance. My favorite combo right now is Breeze and Cloudflare.
btw:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map

(last 3 weeks),

What are the 'India, Brazil, South Africa and UK variants?:
( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55659820 )

->
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12742/production... (just the picture).
I like this analysis, but I'm having a hard time seeing the advantage over port-knocking, which could also be randomized using OTP and would never reveal the SSH server to a port scan.

Zero window seems better than a 30 second window.

Excellent points otherwise.
Not if a significant fraction refuses to get vaccinated.
That literally is not what the author wrote though. He said that “if you’re the best at something and you’re connected with someone that needs that skill” then you’ll get some wealth potentially. That’s not the same as learning a trade that is easily accessible and attainable by anyone interested.

What the author basically says in the article is “be part of the owner class generating wealth or you are a parasite”. Talk about playing the very same status games he claims to eschew.
Beautiful image, truly amazing work.
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After a bit more digging, it seems Bellard also has a version using GPT-2: https://bellard.org/libnc/gpt2tc.html
Looks much cleaner and faster than my little winter break project, cool to see this implemented properly!
Brilliant work. And it makes me think - we produce tools, that are part of two phase spaces - the idea and the knowledge of how to create it. Firstly I simply would not have thought of it, "like button inflation" is a pretty off the wall concept. On top of which I don't know where to get an HN data feed or how to make a chrome extension etc.
Yesterday I was on a call with a collegue and the conversation turned to a useful feature we did not have (internal use) - and 30 minutes after the idea we had coded it up - because we had the knowledge but only lacked the idea till that moment.

Without that knowledge even the best idea moves the process from "yeah let's do it" to "I should schedule some time and make a project plan and ..."

The difference is important somehow. And most of our working lives would be better if we stopped with the project plans and just built useful stuff.

Edit: To try and clarify - exploring a new and uncharted phase space is exploration - it cannot be planned in advance, or driven in a particular direction. Sun-Tzu teaches that Climate, Landscape and doctrine all affect our success as much or more than mission and leadership - so we should stop trying to control and actually find the flow.

I think we search for product-market fit, we do not decide product market fit.

One tool I realise i have been trying to build on and off is a post-hoc reporting tool that makes it look like my exploratory development style was actually planned (it's always something like, I am going to explore this inferring hill over there, and just make sure the roadmap, docs and timesheets are up to date.) This way I don't get people bothering me so much. It works better than grumpy.
I would second the recommendation, and also add one of the main arguments, which is that most people get satisfaction from being excellent at something, and what that is specifically might not matter as much as we think. So as long as you find a job that involves a valuable task with a long course of progressively improved proficiency, that can often become a source of passion as strong as our initial guess.
I’m not sure I fully understand your comment (databases that are special-purpose and evolve out of a sweet spot, or special-purpose systems using databases in worst-case ways?).

I certainly wouldn’t say ES is the former. We use it for some conplex things that (AFAIK) no other (publicly available; I don’t what eg Twitter or Google has going on) system could provide at the scale we need. Everything we’re doing is well within the realm of what ES is built for, and it’s the only system built for it. It’s not perfect, but most of our performance issues could be solved by scaling out, where query or index optimization isn’t tractable.
I do think the downvote button contributes considerably to shutting down things like pun threads and low effort comedic jabs. It's always sad to see someone who is making a good faith effort to have an interesting conversation get drowned in downvotes, but on the net I think the downvote does more good than harm.
I use awk a lot myself. It's gotten to the point where I enjoy using it, might be a disease of some sort.
But it's still been highly productive for parsing text streams or do stuff like add proper visual feedback to plaintext tools, pretty progress bars for wget/curl download jobs, monitoring scripts and generally anything related to extracting bits of data or pretty-printing.

I particularly enjoy using gawk (mostly for the more usable match() and sed-like in-file editing), but will do fine with a busybox awk or so as well. Something about the language just clicks with my way of doing things. It's like the perfect middle-ground between a shell script and starting a full python (or equivalent) script.
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I did not say language adoption is irrelevant. The examples you cite are exactly the kind I spelled out as being possibly relevant. So, you are agreeing me while saying you don't.

Similarly: you then agree that "BigCo uses XYZ" is, in fact, not compelling. A big company betting its future on XYZ would count, but no big company does that. Betting a substantial new business unit on XYZ could count, but that is not cited as "BigCo uses XYZ", that is "BigCo relies on XYZ for UnitX to succeed", a possibly stronger statement, according as how important UnitX is to BigCo.

Calling a claim ridiculous needs reasons why it is ridiculous, which I supplied, and you did not.
At the other end of the scale is a data model designed for extreme extensibility.

If you ever hear anyone bragging that their data model is entirely metadata driven, and can be used to model anything - without changing the database - that's a huge red flag, as is looking in and seeing tables called "element", "business object" and the like.

Unfortunately, for most serious Enterprise systems, a degree of flexibility is essential. It's being able to pick the right balance between hard coding first class domain objects into the database and allowing for extensibility that IMO marks the truly expert system designer.
This. If I’m not helping junior devs get their work done, I am failing as a PE.
I think the difference is familiarity.

It shouldn't matter so much, but when you don't use one language as much as you do other languages, it becomes that much harder to remember unfamiliar syntaxes and grammars, and easier to confuse similar looking operations with each other.
Compared to just deploying totp normally as a PAM module this is a horrible idea. Much harder to ratelimit, much cheaper for the attacker to bruteforce codes.

It’s neat for sure, but not a good defense.
All 1 point show as 2 points. Shouldn't those be 1 point regardless of date since it's the base and it means some specific post had no upvotes?
For me the windows sweet spot is somewhere between 2000 and XP. 2000 was great except some rough edges in e.g. directX, while XP started the decline with things like the fisher price theme and DRM.

Win95 was a big step up in terms of front end compared to windows 3.11 and deserves its praise. But don't you dare look under the win95 hood at the almost but not really separate address spaces and the 16/32 bit Frankenstein. Someone described it as putting a Mercedes hood on a trabant undercarriage.
1. that's how the tax would be collected for most peope. ie. you'll pay $x/gal more at the gas pump, rather than declaring how much tons of carbon you emitted on your tax return.

2. whether they pay or not is irrelevant. what actually matters is whether they end up paying more or less in net. for a scheme that taxes people according to their consumption but gives everyone the same amount of tax credits in return, poor people would be expected to come out ahead because they consume less on average.
If money was no object, would you live your life exactly the same way?

But to your point, if you live your life in a way you hate just to accumulate money, you're also doing it wrong (in my opinion).

Try to accumulate money through work you enjoy, but if you can build up wealth to give you additional choices and control over how you use your time.
Very nice realization of the idea. The extension is a sweet perk.

I was thinking about something like this some time ago. I also wonder how it compares with comment count per post and score/comments ratio in time.
Those two metrics will converge as the size of the text being compressed goes to infinity. It's necessary to include model size for things like the Hutter prize that involve compressing a fixed text (to avoid hard-coding) but isn't usually a useful metric for compression, especially because it will cause the compression ratio to depend on the size of the data being compressed.

Edit: I thought the model in the above paper was pre-trained, but apparently it's only trained on the data as it arrives! That's indeed a very interesting approach, I wouldn't have expected that neural network models would converge quickly enough for it to be useful.
The main crypto to goods and services market is drugs.

Everything else is a consequence of the value that family of transactions have added.
It's anonymous because you see wallets, but you don't know who has them. That's what anonymous means.
Yeah, but "optional" in the _worst possible way_ since, due to the getopt library difference, the GNU version wants any empty suffix value abutted, and the BSD version wants it separated away from the "-i", burning thousands of hours of humanity over the years :-(

Woe unto those who write scripts as "sed -i -e /whatever/" since for half(?) of their users they'll end up with "somefile-e"
KDE has a standard keyboard shortcut editing dialog, it's perhaps not the most beautifully designed dialog, but it certainly works quite nicely.
Knowledge graphs for text (the focus of the article) seem narrowly-scoped since they require "objective" facts and relations to be practical. Capturing the subjective and transient perspective of observations made by multiple observers (which is what we actually have access to) is more complicated.

For example, asking the same person the same question may yield different answers based on their mood or other environmental or situational factors. Who's asking the question can also matter, as does the specific phrasing of the question.
No, the TOTP is[0] a shared-secret bitstream (like a stream cypher), which provides new randomness per use (obscurity means it relies on the attacker not knowing how it works in the first place). This is very weak security, similar to a combination lock or PIN, and should not be used in place of proper SSH crypto, but it is actual security. (The point, IIUC, is to quickly exclude drive-by attackers, so that serious/targeted attacks are higher above the noise floor.)

0: assuming I'm not being overly charitable
"Ptychography works by scanning overlapping scattering patterns from a material sample and looking for changes in the overlapping region"

Interesting, we use multi-patterning to produce silicon already to get the light down to scale for process nodes - this is kinda the reverse and do wonder if some of this research may have applications in silicon production.
"Alphabet generated almost $183 billion in revenue. Of that, 147B — over 80% — came from Google’s ads business"

So, the other 20% non-ad revenue (GCP? Google Workspace? Google Play subscriptions?) represents 36.6B

The article however argues that the 6 billion dollar startups would generate 28.5B in value -- so, less than the (supposedly) 95% of non-ad engineers generate right now..?

And this would also mean that there would be nobody left to run and maintain Search, Android, YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Chrome, Drive, GCP, Google's entire infrasructure, ...?
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I'm British and only learnt this after studying Japanese which encodes vowel length in its writing system, eg, uncle: おじさん, grandfather: おじいさん. I refused to believe that English had vowel length, and was shocked to learn that my ears are actually very capable of hearing it. The other classic example in English is "merry" versus "Mary", but I couldn't find a whole sentence that is distinguished merely by a vowel length, so I made one (at least for my non-rhotic British accent):

Look how many clothes he shared!
Look how many clothes he shed!
Believe it or not but people were also excited about the Windows Vista release. People were literally lining up at stores and stores had special nightly openings.
This still mostly sounds like a useReducer. With TypeScript you can guarantee the built code only respects a finite state shape. Depending on the dispatched action, you can just default to returning the previous state - refusing to move unless certain conditions are met.
> People made vastly more money just sitting around in their houses

To be fair, that's not exactly making money. Value on paper, based on comparative sales nearby, has gone up in many places. But that's not money one can use to pay bills or buy food.

It can also evaporate same way it showed up, just like the gains from early 2000s evaporated in 2008. Unless one gets lucky timing the market and buys low and cashes out at the peak, it's not real money.
This looks like it advocates hooking the output of one network up to the input of another, which seems like a very roundabout way of copying the weights from one network to another.
this is a wonderful topic that i have always kinda wondered about informally. a slightly adjacent question ive had is how much does the rank of a post feeback into votes. my assumption is that the higher the ranking, the higher the absolute number of votes the ranking itself (independent from the actual article) generates. coupling some kind of way of compensating for that with your historical inflation adjustment would give you a fairly uniform metric for gauging public reception to submissions i think.
Cockroachdb or Yugabyte work well for some cases you might use postgres for.
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But if you have written it I'd have to note end-to-end encryption (as in truly end-to-end) is rarely applied in the real world.

It doesn't make even pragmatic sense, for ex. how can Apple index and process your photos, if it just sees them as bunch of binary noise? It can't. So it doesn't.
Yeah, to list a bit:

- scaling is non-trivial (you can't just add a node and have PostgreSQL automagically Do The Right Thing™)

- you can only have so many connections open to the database, causing issues with things such as AWS Lambda

- I don't remember if this was changed, but I got the impression a while ago that having dynamic DB users was a bit cumbersome to set up (plug PostgreSQL to AD/LDAP)
I've bought 6 VC-funded startups with my own money
You believe right but forgot 1 thing: these DNA collection swabs were supposed to be DNA-free (or at least sold as that) but some problem while manufacturing put DNA on them. It‘s known as „Heilbronner Phantom“ (phantom of heilbronn).

Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilbronner_Phantom
You can get the qnx do floppy from archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/qnx303
> Greta Thunberg moves mountains.

I can only regard this as a joke, and not a very successful one, I am afraid.
Really? Oracle actually makes a lot of sense to me for a database name (in the 'source of truth' sense, not in the prophet sense).

Mongo, on the other hand, has definitely always had the racist/ablist slur as the first connotation for me.
Used cars are in high demand now because of covid-related shortages.
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From looking at the code, seems like it would be a pretty simple change to make the server accept several addresses, derived from the current time plus or minus a small number of 30-second intervals. That allows you to tolerate a small amount of clock skew, and if your clock is off by more than a minute or two, you should probably fix it anyway.
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At that level it's not what you know but who you know. Your ability to interface with the rest of the org and get things done is where you deliver value. If you see senior people as such obstacles then it suggests you've not worked for a larger org or perhaps the obstacle isn't those other people.
Do you think engineering is somehow less empirical and more abstract than science?
Exactly so. At least in the US, most of the mandatory budget goes to "the neighborhood" in the form of rent or mortgage, and people know this.

Especially when we're talking about small numbers percent-wise, the intuition that it's better to be earning slightly more than your neighbors, rather than slightly less, is accurate. It translates to more discretionary income, more savings, more optionality.
Make sure your time servers are configured correctly. My department had several Silicon Graphics workstations. Running IRIX, they machines determine amongst themselves which has the most accurate time and they vote that one as the Timemaster. Any new machines added would take their time from the Timemaster.

The oldest machine was Timemaster and 8.5 minutes off. Took me week to figure out why my brand workstation had bad time. Fun times
I hear ya. Both would probably cost the same, rebuild probably more, today, but it’s still cheaper in the long run. Unless the business goes back to what it was, it will keep diverging from the current terminology. No manager wants to hear it, but taking a 3-6 month breather to address tech debt like this is worth its weight in gold.
This makes me wonder if you could take this further and make the connection protocol dance across a variety of ports as part of the initial handshake.
That's your prerogative, and there's nothing wrong with that. Others may prefer the freedom and stability afforded by a large amount of wealth-generating assets.
Unfortunate name for a product, I can't find anything called Dynamic on DDG, only dynamic things with a lowercase d. Do you have a link to the project?
NT4. It was the first sufficiently stable Windows version to use productively.

Win2k was more like USB stack, PnP and graphical dressing on top of NT4. Of course 2k was a good release as well.
A lot of it boils down to the fact that conservative thinking is needed after we have exhausted the maximum potential of the economy.

Right now the economy needs to be run as hot as possible so that everyone has enough money and once it is hot we need to immediately rearrange it to become productive again. That means republicans have to shut up for a while until the economy follows the textbooks again. It has to be done in this order.

The longer it takes to reach the limits of the economy the more time exists for it to become unproductive and the needed correction will have to be bigger than absolutely required. If the entire economy consisted of money losing zombies (think Uber) then a small raise in interest rates will cause the entire economy to disappear at once, if there is competition for labor and pressure to innovate and be productive then zombies will stop growing and by the time we have to raise interest rates sharply there won't be many zombies left to take the economy down.
Zig's approach to safety is quite different to Rust's. As someone who has done a fair amount of security work, I actually prefer Zig's design decisions. I believe they make for safer, simpler, more readable programs. Attackers love complex systems, and the majority of low hanging fruit out there is not for lack of memory safety.

Also, the more familiar one is with a subject, the less one tends to conflate it with "plenty" of others. Zig is a completely different language to C (while also targeting the same systems space where you would need "unsafe" Rust to get anything done). In fact, it's hard to find too many languages that come close to Zig's comptime, plus the entire array of safety features offered by Zig. Your argument is a weak strawman at best.
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Anything that's controversial in the current USA political environment attracts a lot of disingenuous arguments.
I bet you see a lot more comments on average on popular articles as well.
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I don't know that I even really buy into the idea of a "principal engineer". Even in a really large company where you have a shit ton of people working on one bit of software, principal engineer doesn't seem like a well defined role that you need, because once you scale past the point where one person (a "lead engineer" or whatever) can manage the technical side for everything, the next "level" up in whatever structure you're working with by definition has to defer to their subordinates for technical expertise. That makes it a management role, not an engineering role.

I think once you're in "principal engineer" territory, it's your job to divvy up the work and hire people to make their own decisions and take responsibility.

If I was hiring specifically for that role I'd probably go with engineering manager or technical product manager or something.

Having said that I think you could make the case that principal engineer works if you're doing that stuff as well as taking responsibility for a subset of the app and continuing to do engineering work. Because I think there's a fairly large range of team sizes where you probably don't have 40 hours of managing to do per week (probably a range like 10-30? Maybe higher? Probably depends a lot on the app too). It's a nice hack to deal with the fact that you can't give someone two job titles.

Btw I think that strategy is underutilised. I've worked with far too many people that are doing 15 hours of really useful stuff and 25 hours of making everyone else's life more difficult because they're a bit constrained by their narrow job description. I really think more devs and designers should have side gigs as little mini PMs, POs and BAs instead of the usual strat of scaling up as quick as possible and running face first into the consequences of Parkinson's law.
> It all depends on the person.

Agreed. I'm speaking in generalities to make the point that, on average, greed is a superior motivating force. At least from personal experience, I've found far more people foregoing personal health and relationships for the sake of wealth accumulation than societal contribution. Even among those that eventually satiate their desire for wealth, it's mostly because their values have shifted (not because their ultimate value remains wealth accumulation and now they have enough).
Thanks for the link. Seems his scripts need more work because lots of HTML tags are being incorrectly escaped.

e.g.:
<pre> $ <b>tr -cd ' -~' < /dev/urandom |</b> <i><b>fold -w 20 | head -n 1</b></i> a(k#$(K ?I?d!^NM^(5x $ </pre>
> acquired by Google a year later and did OK out of that

What does it mean to "do OK" in an acquisition by FAANG a year after you joined? I would assume if you didn't think a liquidity event was coming soon, this would be seen as a windfall (assuming you were retained).