skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It creates the illusion of action without the effect of one. Thus it actually dissipates the social energy required for taking actions that do matter. If I can be colorful but accurate, it's basically like masturbation is to procreation.

Another example of the same phenomena is the "spreading awareness" trend. Everyone is aware, everyone is also aware that everyone else is aware, but they're stuck on "spreading awareness" because that's the minimum they can do to feel like they're doing something.

So in effect "spreading awareness" after some point becomes "spreading complacency". Imagine there's a fire in the house. The fire extinguisher is sitting nearby. We deeply care about not dying in the fire, but we're stuck doing absolutely nothing about it, because our only approach to escalation is to spread awareness of the fire's existence more and more angrily among each other, and never reaching for the fire extinguisher.

It's the active version of something called the "bystander effect". If you know what's a deadlock in a database, false action is equivalent to livelock. Locks are not held indefinitely as they are with deadlocks, the database is actively busy taking and releasing locks non-stop. Yet, nothing is happening.

Livelock is the system stuck on a loop of fruitless actions that parade as real ones, hence we don't detect our own inaction.

Was that comprehensive enough?
Correct, the target should be instead better than Xth percentile humans across the majority of cases, with the failure modes categorized.

I don't get this perfection requirement that gets put on so many systems here. No system is perfect, the question is what failure rate you accept.
The author chooses to use this medium as a way to share his findings without losing them to his ADHD - if he tried to write a long form blog post it would never be complete.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20081056

> so given this is a choice between two options, I can either: 1. make rambly tweet-threads that some people hate and wish were blogs 2. make no blog posts

> I am sorry that I am picking #1, but it's really best for everyone.
This. I loved the first Microsoft surface, it was exactly what I wanted. A wicked small portable that ran a full OS that could, among other things, run PERL scripts for me.

I still don’t think I can do that with iOS, and the 12” MacBook is gone. Sign me up for an 11.7” running full MacOS
> CodePerfect 95 is written in C++
If we can have cheap scanners or other instruments to go with the AI, I think it could easily appear as a screening tool that less qualified medical professionals (midwives, nurses, GPs) or even the patients themselves can use. Those people already do various rough screening tests and refer the patient up the chain of expertise according to the outcome.
Where I live it's not uncommon for doctors to consult the images with their colleagues whenever they come across something unusual, even if they are "pretty sure" of their diagnosis, because the consequences of an error can be severe - we're talking literally about life and death here. So the ML system would have to be as precise as 2-3 humans together in order to be considered "good enough".
Nvidia asks Chinese regulators to approve $40B Arm deal
I used to like Amjad. Now its 50-50.
It would be nice if someday opensource would get some official recognition. Because right now, hoping that something will work is the only thing we can do, even for government websites and apps.
So by that logic you should use Google (wrong, but let's play along). And by Notepad's logic you should use Google (because it's Bing and Google, that's it). Good job?
I had a cryptography professor recommend for one assignment that, instead of trying to recognize the correct plaintext by its similarity to English (an approach that yielded results that could be manually adjusted into the correct plaintext, but wasn't able to find the plaintext by itself...), I should try to disqualify incorrect plaintexts by recognizing them as non-English.

The approach there was just to ingest a long book from Project Gutenberg, record all of the trigrams (including across word boundaries), and disqualify a candidate plaintext if it had more than some low number (3, but it was a short text) of unrecognized trigrams. This worked beautifully.

For reasons I don't recall, I wrote the assignment in C. I didn't want to do the parsing of the book into a trigram table in C. So I did that separately, and emitted C code to assign to a three-dimensional character array for every trigram I found. Then my assignment was the concatenation of some code initializing the array to zeros, the emitted code adding ones to it, and, thousands of lines later, the actual decryption code.
Good. Plenty of time for other developers to move to Apple Silicon before Apple starts to push them. Probably they will give a product refresh to their current line up with an M2 chip later.

Would rather wait a year for the Apple Silicon ecosystem to mature than to jump all in now and wait for the software bugs to be fixed for a year so I can do my work.
If I was a US intelligence agency I would specifically establish colocation presences with ISPs in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, china, etc, on commercial ISP terms, and admin the servers remotely to set them up as a commercial vpn service. There's plenty of datacenter operators in Russia that will take your money.
Yeah whatever it was, it wasn't a lie. At most a simplification for marketing purposes. It's not like customers care if it's 100% OSX or 75%, the point is that iOS built on the security and experience of OSX.
3 tiers are older than computers. As for JS, most things that becomes popular have been around for decades, but without being popular. Society is slow as f**.
> how hiring a PR firm interacts with sincerity

And importantly (arguably, more importantly), how it interacts with perception of sincerity. I don't know about other people, but to me, if PR is involved, I treat every word as manipulation, unless there's a strong reason to believe otherwise. Maybe there are PR firms that enforce 100% honesty in communication, but if they are, it doesn't seem to be a common occurrence.

And doubly so given the context. Amjad may be a CEO, and the apology is public on HN, but this is still mostly a personal conflict - it would be weird to involve a PR company in a personal dispute.
Same experience. I think at the beginning you need the opposite, i.e. either you/your team/your friends to kick off a lot of content or it'll hardly take off.

It also depends on your site. For example if you display content in chronological order like Twitter, then you incentivize people to spam as their content is immediately visible. I.e. my first post will likely be "test" - if I see it in the homepage then I delete it and post a link to any of my projects (if not worse).

Finally, moderation shouldn't be massively complex at the beginning. Just implement a super downvote (that maybe only you/your friends can see) that kills content you don't want to see with 1 click.

Good luck, looking forward to a show hn!
On the contrary, the Web, being a hypertext system, was definitely always about discovering content. If you found an interesting website, it would typically link to other interesting sites. There used to be ways to systematize these ad-hoc linkings, such as Web rings. And the first attempts to catalogue and categorize the contents of the (then tiny) Web were in the form of human-curated directories à la Yahoo. It’s just that in just a few years it became apparent that this approach could not scale, and search engines based on automatic crawlers became the norm – but again, critically, these too are of course fundamentally dependent on the Web’s discoverability by following hyperlinks!
They push upgrades really hard without actually forcing them, and they disallow almost all downgrades (except when a new version comes out, there is usually a few day window to downgrade to the previous version). It's entirely possible for a non-techie person to wake up to their phone upgraded, possibly to slightly worse performance (depending on the specific upgrade), and thus the UI may change out from under them.
Agreed, I heard that before.

What about trust-based systems. You choose who you trust and get information that they found not to be SEO-garbage, like trust-rings. When the system can't do it alone, user-centric feedback may work. That could give interesting inputs besides the ones Google already gets using its standard metrics.
There's no need for a specific scenario. The military only needs to know how they're going to fight a war, not why. The why is left to politicians who decide whether to deploy the military or not, and set the budget in anticipation of potentially needing to deploy it in the future.

I don't know why the media you consume focus on the effect before the cause has been determined. Maybe you should stop paying attention to them.
It literally says "Users with non-Apple devices can join using the latest version of Chrome or Edge": does it mean users of Apple devices could join using Firefox?
If moxie marlinespike is a deep cover agent he's been cultivating a whole character and persona for a very long time. I'd lean towards the "not a NSA plant" view myself.
Perhaps you are not the centre of the universe.
You can't pinpoint which one because it's not a logical fallacy. Which makes it extra funny you're reaching for one, just because you find what I have to say uncomfortable. I'm afraid you'd have to satisfy yourself with emotional downvoting and no explanation why you feel this way.

Notepad++ was a Windows app before Bing existed, and Bing was a search engine in Notepad++ before they filtered Tank Man.

The question is are you doing symbolic knee-jerk gestures, but stopping right before it matters, or are you that clueless not to realize everything you do is Microsoft related, before you try and pretend you're going against Microsoft.

You see, everyone wears FUCK THE SYSTEM t-shirt, but then they play along with the system. Communicating one thing and doing another is quite pathetic IMHO, and counter-productive. It shows the cognitive dissonance behind our "pop-morals" if I can call them so, the things we get "outraged" on social media, and the lives we actually have.

I think an intelligent, thinking individual works on those discrepancies in their mind until they arrive at a cohesive (albeit not as simple) worldview where their actions and words match.

But for the rest, there's always the FUCK THE SYSTEM t-shirts, and the SAVE THE NATURE stickers for your gas SUV bumper.

That's what Notepad++ is. Pretending to go against Microsoft by deleting Microsoft's search engine on Microsoft's GIT hosting of their app written for a Microsoft OS.

My worldview is that we have two search engines worth a damn in this world, Google and Bing, and everything else uses their results more or less (yes, including Duck Duck Go). And Google has done a lot more shit than Microsoft to merit a ban if any one should be banned. Yet no one is comfortable banning Google because they dominate. Bing is easier to ban, because they don't matter much. so everyone is directing their cheap outrage in their direction.

Although the Tank Man decision is likely the actions of one person in a tens of thousands of people department, and rejecting their work wholesale due to one transgression like this is ridiculous. Also everyone knows about Tank Man. Even the dogs in China do. So what is this, if not the armchair symbolic issue of the day, where you get to feel you're making a difference by hopping on the right symbolic bandwagon? It's the online version of a bumper sticker.
Totally agree with all the comments here, seo broke google, and they don't care. Probably sells more adwords in the end.

I found uBlacklist from this thread, and the subscription functionality enables some collaborative effort.

So I've started making a list, but unfortunately there aren't many uBlacklist subscription lists out there yet.

Be interested to see how far this could go: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist/
Yeah, true. But you would only change it between songs, I guess, and only to the values you always use for that song, right? - This is what I would capture and use as a preset, preset change triggered by MIDI from the MultiFX unit.

I know some who change their settings during playing, but I wouldn't consider this as standard. Also, you can still add a real Pedal to a MultiFX Board if you really want to change its settings live.
On the contrary, automatically changing the settings controlled by your DAW and triggered via MIDI into your MultiFX unit is also pretty common. You don't have to hassle with your Effects at all and can concentrate on playing, what you should, as you need to be absolutely on point.
i mean you're right, he doesn't have to. but i'm pointing out that he's not being personally persecuted for no reason. doing literally anything else than open sourcing his employer's tech stack makes the whole concern about needing protection pretty unnecessary.

ianal but absent some nda seems like it's probably legal for him to do it.

it just seems like kind of a dick move. i could mentor new engineers, wait until someone told me about a really cool idea, then steal it from them and build it myself. there's no law against it, it's just is kind of a dick move and seems kind of wrong.

as noted above, ceo is acting like a dick as well. but i think the way this dude is trying to play the victim through clickbaiting HN is a bit much. just my opinion.
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I don't know what you're trying to do here as you appear to believe Wikipedia (and its citations) is trustworthy enough to source for your own arguments but not for mine.

Global Times is an organ under the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the CCP. There is no controversy of its origins or whose authority it acts. Given that no newspaper can be wholly privately-owned in China, conflicts of interest are unavoidable.
Not everyone can get the vaccine though, a small number of people are allergic to the ingredients as one example.
This attitude will lead to the "AI Winter" again don't do it.
Why? Even just for the GDPR reasons I salute his commitment to actually care enough about the sourcehut users.
If one looks at the Wh/kg of the very best li ion batteries right now (about 250Wh/kg) and then compares it to the Wh/kg in avgas or jet a or diesel, it's nuts. Even if you lose 40-60% to waste heat. The amount of energy contained in those fuels is ridiculously dense by comparison.
Looks dead. No release for +3 years
I was thinking the same thing until someone pointed out that lard stores a ton of energy but you can't really make it explode. I hope.
I found the source code! For your retrocomputing pleasure:

https://github.com/geary/OX.SYS

And as usual, Raymond Chen has some insights on why these special filenames "worked" regardless of file extension or directory location:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031022-00/?p=42...
Doesn't work for people who don't have Netflix accounts or aren't logged in. It's also streaming elsewhere. https://www.blackholefilm.com/ is a better link.
As much unnecessary such statement was, I could understand it if it was a) true, and b) stood alone in the correspondence. But apparently, he said it just after offering the guy a job (in a way that I read as implying he'd offer him a role of a senior engineer or a manager).
Which is good and fair. I think the example was Tony Soprano though and the (imaginary) lawyer in question knew full well the kind of shennanigans he was up to, these lawyers know they're defending murderers and people that ruin lives.
Western naivety. Unbound / fake data SIM cards are sold in boxes by carrier’s employees.
Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file
I can't speak for other companies, but as a person involved in hiring, open source is very valuable to me.

It's not valuable in terms of potential to market/usefulness/popularity, rather, because I can see very clearly how a person designs/writes code, and how they solve problems, when they have plenty of time; I can also see other non-technical aspects, like how they structure their git history (which, to me, has lot of signals).

People (rightfully) dislikes to show their capacity under pressure; open source is the way to show it without pressure :)
I second DBeaver, fantastic tool. AFAIR it can't do joins though (on CSVs), whereas Q in the OP can.
Stop treating people like robots, and start treating them like individuals.
Thank you, it looks very interesting.
Not sure what specific technology they use/license (they might have an in-house design), but it's all vaguely equivalent from a high level point of view. Qualcomm calls theirs QFPROM.

In the end, all of these companies end up licensing whatever fuse block is compatible with their process, e.g. I'm sure TSMC has something in-house for theirs. Intel of course own their own fabs, so they probably have their own. DesignWare also have their own (generic-ish?) thing, etc.

Basically every modern SoC or really IC of any complexity uses fuses for something (e.g. calibration data, switching in spare/redundant blocks when manufacturing defects happen, binning/product segmentation, crypto key storage, etc).
I wouldn't say Solidworks is mid range. I have used Solidworks and NX extensively and they're very very similar. I haven't used Altium but the companies I've heard using it aren't "mid range" companies and everyone describes Altium and Mentor as basically the two "pro" options.
Indeed, that is the very definition of backward compatibility.
I can't speak for kstenerud, but looking at the compact-time github page they appear to have written a solution that meets their own needs, and kindly made it available to the world for free.

They don't appear to be attempting to cover all use cases (in particular, it isn't trying to be human-readable), and crucially they don't appear to be proposing it as a standard.
If we fix everything except for aircraft, we will have done enough. At that point aircraft can keep using fossil fuels for a while longer.

Cars, trucks, buses, trains, HVAC, factories are what needs to be electrified ASAP.
Could you cite some of these studies? I would be honestly curious to read them.

Note that entanglement, while non-local as a process in most interpretations of QM, is mathematically proven to be unable to transmit information any faster than the speed of light.
WTF is a html cleaner and why would you use one.
There is absolutely no slightest hint of "throw it over the wall" in ISO C++ development. The compiler implementers and heaviest users work deeply and collaboratively together to bring each Standard to readiness. Each new C++ Standard is a markedly better language than any before. A mature language, C++ necessarily evolves more slowly than Rust does, but Rust will soon become more stable, too, ISO or no.

What does it mean when you feel a need to lie about your perceived competition?

In fact, there is no such competition: literally hundreds pick up coding C++ professionally for each individual who so much as tries out Rust. The fast rise of Rust has no detectable effect on the growth of C++ usage, even 40 years on. Rust's and C++'s coexistence will last for as long as Rust is used at all.

You are welcome not to like C++, but lying about it says more about you than about it.

The fate of Gcc-Rs will be determined by future events unknown to you or to anyone else. It could become critically important to Rust's own future, someday.
That's wild! I'm lucky enough to never having needed glasses, but the country of limited regulation being so captured by the eyewear industry of all things is crazy.

My wife orders hers by dropshipping from possibly China and just enters her measurements from her latest prescription. Is that illegal? Contraband glasses.
Engineering a Chess Match
> But what you won't capture is that these two goods are both providing lighting, and that the switch from one to another provides a sharp drop in the price of light that is not captured by the change in prices of either in isolation.

I wonder if there was any way to compute light emitted per source. Then you could calculate a price per unit of light and whale-oil lamps would be obliterated by incandescent light builds which would in turn be obliterated by LED light bulbs.
That's Postcardware!¹ :)

I remember using one, but I not exactly which one; it's not in the Wikipedia list.

¹=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcardware#Postcardware
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Very cool. Closest that I've been is in a capsule hotel, but still this is way cooler..
That study computes that you're 7x more likely to get murdered in prison than in the "comparable non-prison community", but "comparable" here seems to be only for age/gender.

I imagine the homicide rate is a wee bit higher than average for drug kingpins, particularly those seen to have ratted out 100+ people, even unintentionally.
He would be going to Golbourn Gaol, very very high security.
Especially when you say you are sorry but do not mean it. There's no BUT in an apology but there's a BUT in his apology, sooo...
On the positive side I suppose, at least it was just regular HTML, could've been injected JS.
What makes you think they would sell when it is more profitable to milk their patents?
dude literally emailed the ceo and was like yeah i used this component, but what else could i have used, and yeah i used this other thing i learned about from working there but its popular! and i used yet another thing but you guys werent using it when i worked there.

im not saying any of this is illegal. just weird to copy your previous employer's tech stack, open source it, and try to play the victim and clickbait HN.
Mentioned recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272844

I wonder why the blame is put on IBM; what problem did they have with this?
"Iron Sky: The Coming Race" was released only 2 years ago. Have things changed that much since then?

https://www.cinecity.nl/sites/default/files/images/movies/35...
What makes you think this is just putting common keys on the most accessible places? Troublesome bigrams are for instance very minimal with this layout and the rolls that exist are also comfortable, and this also extends to the symbol layer.
IMHO the worst mistake in ISO-8601 was flipping the sign on the time-zone offset.

I'll never understand why someone decided 02:00+01:00 should equal 01:00Z not 03:00Z.
Only great things to say about FoundationDB. We've been using it for about a year now. Got a tiny, live cluster of 35+ commodity machines (started with 3 a year ago), about 5TB capacity and growing. Been removing and adding servers (on live cluster) without a glitch. We've got another 100TB cluster in testing now. Of all the things, we're actually using it as a distributed file system.

We've tried Ceph, GlusterFS, HDFS, MinIO and some others, and eventually decided on a custom FDB solution. It's a breeze to setup, and seems to eclipse others in performance [0] and reliability - Kyle (aphyr) the author of Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness, said: "haven't tested foundation in part because their testing appears to be waaaay more rigorous than mine." [1]

The way we use FDB, if anyone is interested, is we simply split files into small chunks (per FDB data design recommendations), and store all file's & folder's meta data in FDB such as byte count, create/access/write times, permissions, and a lot more. Folders are handled by the builtin Directory layer [2].

[0] https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/performance.html

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150312112552/http://blog.found...

[2] https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/whats-the-purpose-of-the-d...
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