skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did look into it, but its focus on animations gave me the perhaps unfair impression that the more mundane text UI elements (i.e. forms, etc.) would be a second-class citizen.

Looked like a really great library to build a text adventure game with though!
Being negatively affected by lack of sync (days off, different time zones) isn’t the same as needing 100% hands on deck.

Collaboration is often limited by the pace of a human interaction: a design review, a question about some code etc. The only way to not have this speed limit is to remove all such interactions which is very difficult (and probably not desirable either).
If I worked on off dates and my colleagues on even dates, the shortest time for me to get a code review would be 24h! Most communication can (and often should) be async, but there is a difference between a 10 minute turnaround and a day. Also, if something is very urgent one should be able to get hold of someone e.g give them a call. Developers hate being interrupted, for good reason, but that doesn’t mean developers should never expect to be interrupted.

I think a shorter and flexible workweek is a good idea but having time zone overlap or “required work days” to maximize overlapping work time is probably required in most cases.
Facebook scientists say they can tell where deepfakes come from
I guess I just don't see how that changes anything. Semantically, if you do it yourself, it's committing suicide. I would say "committed suicide due to bullying/depression/etc". The matter has no impact on my life, just found it a curious change that I've only noticed recently.
This is what happened when the cure for scurvy was discovered, it was eventually lost because it was not understood that ascorbic acid was the reason behind the curative powers of certain foods.

https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
There is no denying that governments with nearly unlimited resources can provide services in areas that the private market doesn't exist. Individuals are not willing to pay the price that is required to provide service to rural areas. The municipal governments either take on debt or subsidize the cost with increased taxation.

ISPs indeed fight like hell to avoid competition. They take advantage of government mandated monopolies as well. There is no denying that corporations take advantage of government rules and regulation to gain a competitive edge. Any strict neoliberal should denounce this.
We talked about adding that to Linux in the 90s too. A simple, small scheduler-hook system call that would allow userspace to cover different asynchronous I/O scheduling cases efficiently.

The sort of thing Go and Rust runtimes try to approximate in a hackish way nowadays. They would both by improved by an appropriate scheduler-activation hook.

Back then the idea didn't gain support. It needed a champion, and nobody cared enough. It seemed unnecessary, complicated. What was done instead seemed to be driven by interests that focused on one kind of task or another, e.g. networking or databases.

It doesn't help that the understandings many people have of performance around asynchronous I/O, stackless and stackful coroutines, userspace-kernel interactions, CPU-hardware interactions and so on are not particularly deep. For example I've met a few people who argued that "async-await" is the modern and faster alternative to threads in every scenario, except for needing N threads to use N CPU cores. But that is far from correct. Stackful coroutines doing blocking I/O with complex logic (such as filesystems) are lighter than async-await coroutines doing the same thing, and "heavy" fair scheduling can improve throughput and latency statistics over naive queueing.

It's exciting to see efficient userspace-kernel I/O scheduling getting attention, and getting better over the years. Kudos to the implementors.

But it's also kind of depressing that things that were on the table 20-25 years ago take this long to be evaluated. It's almost as if economics and personal situations governs progress much more than knowledge and ideas...
Yes but no at the same time.

We still have plenty of helium. It's a byproduct of oil extraction and is still often vented because it would not be profitable of capturing it.
> A bundled interpreter in the OS gives a stable platform to develop.

But it wouldn't be stable. Or it would be, but it would be hopelessly out of date.

Apple can either keep the bundled interpreters on the same version forever, or they can update it with the OS. Do the former, and it becomes hopelessly out of date. Do the latter, and software updates randomly break stuff.

Either the language developers need to actually keep their languages stable, or everyone else just needs to get used to keeping multiple versions around.
An amazing scientific achievement can be bleak in terms of actually applying the technology to real world problems.
What the parent is saying is that you don't need to "combine" these in the conventional sense. You can eat the beans one day and the rice a few days later, and your body will absorb the complementary set of amino acids.
I remember during my PhD, a casual discussion on that figuring out the end of a sentence on it's own is surprisingly more complex then you'd think:

"I work at the F.B.I. I like it there."
"I work at the F.B.I., I like it there."
"I work at the F.B.I. I like it there!"

It's not as simple as counting periods.

So that counting words can have corner cases is definitely understandable. Is "&" a word? It is literally just 'e' + 't' superimposed and "et" is definitely a word.
In my experience, getting engineers to not merely tolerate but like a collaborative tool is absolutely invaluable.
>Britain has a temparate climate with high precipitation, which does make lawn cultivation easier than Mediterranean climates

While true, most of the professional lawn is imported from the Netherlands and Denmark. Considering the amount of money in football, the state of the pitches in England has more to do with the care and the method put into it than the weather. After all there are some pitches just as good in Spain. Barcelona probably pioneered the obsession with perfectly tailored grass.
Carbon is capable of fusion, in a sufficiently compressed stellar mass. Everything up to Iron-56 can theoretically sustain fusion.
It's like a wax stamp by the king.
I've really only ever seen people just waiting to retire able to operate that way. The latest brain studies show that it is use it or lose it and losing it can literally kill you. So unless some deep thought goes into it most of what you describe will not be maintainable for long.
"I think you're talking about something completely different now."

I meant the same theme:

That thinking about the universe beyound materialistic advantages can indeed have other advantages - by helping create us societies, closer to our true nature. And not let some dogmatic priest declare that for us.

No confrontation ;)

And sure, there is no single timeline. I think some ancient philosophic concepts might be closer to the truth, than some mathematic approximations we use today. But mathematic based science is a very powerful tool, for getting verification. So it is indeed fascinating, to see where we are heading.
You do realize that the GOP is a party that caters exclusively to the rich. They only reach down to win votes and then blame the other side when their pro business policies disenfranchise their own base.
“Multi One Password” Is Indeed a Real and the Most Secure Password Manager
In 2020, the founder of the almost defunct @TerahashCorp (Twitter), @jmgosney (Twitter), claimed he would crack 10 chars long hashed password generated with "Multi One Password" tool in under 3 minutes, so we decided to give him 1 char long hashed password in order to allow him to crack it in under 1 minute! (1 year has passed and he still didn't crack none of them! This is FANTASTIC and AWESOME!!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Straight_Tips/comments/o1lf9y/multi_one_password_is_indeed_a_real_and_the_most/
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@L0phtCrackLLC (Twitter)
#Infosec #netsec #cybersec #cybersecurity
#hashcat #CrackQ #bcrypt #defcon
#passwordmanager #PasswordManagement #100DaysOfCode
Wow! That was cool.

Now I want a Docker children's book please.
I think they are just saying they wished this payment device worked with JS instead of just iOS/Android SDKs.
Reminds me of Kevin O'Leary. Buddy toppled a software industry at the height of the first internet boom. That's either a special kind of incompetence or something worse.

They almost always seem to get bingo; the companies and the people that rely on them take the hit.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/02/18/news/did-kevin-o...
Gravity would compress it. Depending on the exact composition fusion could start, ie it would become a star. According to Wikipedia carbon fusion requires a mass of 8 suns to start but there's a bunch of hydrogen in compost so maybe that would fuse.
I assume making the name of the function they want to eventually get rid of more annoying to type is part of the reason to do this rather than just tracking ones needing replacement.
I don't know if I agree with this. Not that you're wrong but I don't think it's the full picture.

15 years ago games were still largely physical. That $60 included the physical games, cases, manuals, distribution, warehousing, etc. These days everything being digital companies don't have to pay that anymore. Sure there's a commission you have to pay on Steam/EGS but I highly doubt it's close to what having a physical distribution method cost.

So the way the $60 pie is split up today is totally different, and I imagine a much, much larger portion of that goes to the developers.
Which came first? Although this technique must stretch back into antiquity. It's kind of a trope in movies and books with scientists / inventors. Watson sometimes was Sherlock's rubber duck / cutout dog.
Why should they? Suddenly they're over-collateralized by 262 millions, they might just as well spend that money.
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I don't participate in the Evernote forums, but I have been a heavy user of Evernote since 2014, and I've seen other simple apps that I liked and depended on go into an obnoxious feature spiral as they desperately tried to unlock a higher level of market share, leading to degradation of usability and reliability. I'm happy for Evernote to let the product "stagnate" in a form that is useful and reliable for me, so I can understand why some people are vocal about Evernote not expanding their scope.

However, if they take away my ability to set the default font size, or create multiple notebooks, I will probably leave as well. Taking away multiple notebooks would break a lot of my use cases. Maybe I am already using the legacy version?
I think anyone interested in religion (whether following one, debating them, or studying them) will find William James’s lecture The Will To Believe worthwhile. Here’s an excerpt from a synopsis[0], the full text is also freely available[1].

> James argues that we may be justified in adopting a belief even if we don't have enough prior evidence in support of it, and in some cases, 1) we may only have access to supporting evidence only after we have adopted the belief, or 2) our adoption of the belief may make the belief true. For James, religious beliefs are paradigm examples of such beliefs.

This essay is responsible for the term “leap of faith,” where one’s ability to follow through with something depends upon their belief that they are able to. This is applicable to part of the scientific process as well: following an insight is what gives rise to hypotheses.

[0] https://godandgoodlife.nd.edu/digital-essays/the-will-to-bel...

[1] https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090714151749/http://falcon.jmu....
Totally!

In fact, developer share is increasing from 70% to 90% (with 10% being paid in AWS credits).
When I was in Japan in the early 2000s I felt safe biking around. I already felt confident on a bicycle, and was grateful for the deference from drivers, both in and between cities. Some mountain tunnels were harrowing, with no railing and a longish drop to the road. Sometimes I used the road (I had lights and reflective vest, and the ignorant bravado of youth).
In cities it seemed most cyclists used the sidewalk. I wanted to go fast, so I joined the cars. What a rush! I’m sorry now for the stress I likely caused people in their cars, and grateful I didn’t get injured. In the US I’m somewhat scared of getting shot or “nudged” off the road (had stuff thrown at me and people drive too close), so that and the caution of age make me a more defensive, careful, respectful cyclist.

With plenty of bright, reflective things on my bike I’m willing to take our kid on the road, and am working on promoting better bikeways around here, for locals and tourists.
> This is why I kind of hate the mantra of “if it’s used 2-3 times or more, wrap it in a function or class.”

I think that’s a fine signal to use to identify that something needs to be refactored, but that doesn’t absolve an engineer of having to think about how to actually do so.

It’s why I’ve always cringed at IDEs with “refactor selected code into its own function” actions. This is so rarely what you should ever be doing.

Refactoring is like butchering. You need to figure out how the muscles lie and separate them on their natural boundaries, not just start hacking things into parts because they seem too big. Once you’ve separated pieces across good functional boundaries you can start trimming and breaking things up to fit specific needs, but it has to start with stepping back and getting a wider view.
Ahhh the company store.
Yes, and now things are going full circle and windows is adopting the ring model too.

https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operati...
The old + wealthy people who vote in those elections don't worry about perfection, they just vote the old + wealthy slate and look for the odd dog whistle.

If you skim the positions and get an 80% hit rate on policies which actually match yours (which means you screw it up and guess wrong 20% of the time) that is still way better than not participating at all.
Very relevant, thank you!
FWIW, I had understood it first try, but I do agree that it is a bit strange as the normal way of phrasing this would be "Amazon reducing their cut of developer revenue from...".
I'm not sure it does make any practical difference, but I could be wrong. But as someone who has been a little bit involved in the process since 2010 it's an enjoyable personal milestone. And I'm really happy for all of the wonderful people I've met along the way who contributed way more than I did.
and in this case it's neither
A local co-op is a fully private entity that has no power over non-members, while a municipality is a governmental structure with powers of local ordinances and taxation.

On a more practical level, a local co-op ISP is a single-goal entity, whose participants are persons interested in that goal (getting good Internet connectivity). A municipality has many tasks, and municipal broadband would be just a small part of it.
> For instance you can have computable and continuous initial conditions to the wave equation that produces a solution that is non-computable.

Thanks, that's a really nice example which I hadn't come across before (or at least not spent too much time studying). I may have to refine the language I use in future; although a cursory look seems to be compatible with my own understanding (my mental model is roughly: "if we found a halting oracle, we would have no way to tell for sure")

> I think it's important to emphasize that Turing stated his arguments in regards to "effective procedure" (which I see you mention in a different post). I don't think the substitution of "effective procedure" with "physical system" is justified.

Yes, Turing did not say as much (at least in his 1936 paper). He was essentially abstracting over 'whatever it is that a person might be doing', in an incredibly general way. Others have since taken this idea and applied it more broadly.

Another useful caveat is that Turing machines are framed as (partial) functions over the Natural numbers. It's quite a leap from there to a "physical system". An obvious example is that no matter how cleverly we program a Turing machine, it cannot wash the dishes; although can simulate the washing of dishes to arbitrary precision, and it could wash dishes by controlling actuators if we decided to attach some (but even that would run into problems of time constraints; e.g. if calculating the first instruction took so long that the water had evaporated).
Most of the energy that is produced is in the neutrons, so it will be transferred as heat in whatever shield captures the neutrons and which will become radioactive.

So most of the heat will have to be extracted from a radioactive material, with similar precautions like in fission reactors, where the heat is extracted from the radioactive nuclear fuel.

I am very skeptical that fusion of deuterium with tritium or of deuterium with deuterium will ever produce "clean energy", even if they are the easiest fusion reactions, due to the relatively low temperatures required for them.

It still remains to be proven whether the radioactive waste for a fusion reactor of the kinds attempted now will be less than for a fission reactor.
It's also encouraging them to use AWS instead of Google Cloud/Microsoft Azure/etc.
I thought this was going to be a game reliving my experience as the System Administrator at our local dialup internet service back in the 1990s. I wasn't there at the start, but I ran the thing for 2 years, serving about 200 customers. I wrote the "Internet Installation" floppy disks that people used to install networking on Windows 3.1, and configured dialup icons on their desktop. I was the ONLY technical support they had.

I learned that people don't use the same words we technical folks do, so if you get a support call and ask "Have you installed anything?" the answer they give is no, but, if you ask "do you have any new programs or stuff", the answer will be yes.

Why? - My theory is that they either didn't know what "installing" was (nobody opened up the computer to put something in), or they themselves didn't do it.

You have to have a very strong ability to route around the person on the other end of the phones preconceptions of the world and get the right answers anyway.

If you're going to be an ISP, you're going to be on call 24/7/365, and you're going to see weird shit. More than once we had to deal with people wanting to post adult content for money.... and this was back in the days of dialup. Who knows what the heck the folks are doing today.
That means the state which normally would've been a solid block of red now turns purple. Surely that is a compromise of power for those who hold it?

What is the rational incentive to do so?
I have it, generally i don't use it. I think it's primary purpose is their own devices but they didn't device lock their own app.
It's pretty tightly integrated so I give it a pass. I like the design a lot.
Model S Plaid 1.98s launch is made on prepped surface with super-sticky resin
There are plenty of relatively inexpensive chips that support LTE and are legal if you're actually interested in this.
But then others won't feel dirty when they use the method. The goal is to make people feel bad when they add more usages of it and make it harder to remove. This is the case when it's easier and faster than the proper way. When there is crunch time it's hard to push your lead to reject the PR so it's soft pressure and it's apparent at the call site whereas a TODO in the method definition is not.
That's actually a pretty interesting idea!

The commercially available panels with the highest specific power are about 700 W/kg (with an estimated upper bound of 1.2 W/kg) [1], in comparison to gasoline which is 12.5kWh/kg. Solar exposure can be about 5-6 hours of full sun equivalent per day. So the breakeven point would be about two to three days of charging!

[1] https://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1485564)
I think it's foolish to assume that the price for any particular cryptocurrency is arrived at rationally.
If the Amazon Bux are transferrable, it is less of a problem.

If they aren't, well, yeah, they're crack coupons.
Blender and the Rabbids
We had similar problem where a running ETL job caused a production outage due to binlog pressure.

One thing that surprised us that our TAM says that on a 1 AZ write-heavy workload normal MySQL would have higher performance as Aurora synchronously write to storage servers in other AZs. On immediate read-after-write workload that would mean it would take longer time to acquire lock.
This is certainly an issue. As you say, it’s a problem on yelp and glassdoor. It’s why most nightclubs have low yelp ratings (people they exclude give them low scores). There are a few things I think we think we can do:

1) Look at relative data, not raw ratings. Written reviews or raw numerical scores are what show the nightclub effect the most. What we care about is a ranking of companies (showing the better companies first in search results). This may not be as impacted by the problem. If sour grapes from people who failed interviews overwhelm other signals, we can only look at the scores from people who pass (or normalize the two groups separately).

2) Ask very specific questions (and maybe provide dummy options to attract sour grapes). I suspect that questions like "did this company say they could meet at $250 salary and then offer you less?" will get more accurate answers than "does this company have a toxic culture?". (We do actually want to get culture data, but I want to be really specific about the culture questions we are asking).

3) Use objective facts, not subject opinions. For example, we can tell when a company ghosts a candidate (because they reply through a proxy email that we control). So we're listing the 'ghost rate' for each company.
I really wish you could access audio data from across an origin. Preventing that access seems to me like it's mostly just nice for YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud et al to not have others do things with their audio/video data. Why should my browser care to help them like that?

For example, I have built a few music visualizers and have had to run a local youtube-dl server that disables cors, just to be able to visualize music for a youtube video. I just want to draw patterns on my screen while some music plays, I'd even be fine with the ads! But I have to engage in some form of piracy to do this.

The music is already playing through my speakers, so I should be able to access that data!

(edit: I want to clarify: I know that one can set cors options on audio elements to enable cross-origins references, but it requires the server to allow you to -- which is what I'm doing with the youtube-dl server. That is the real problem: CORS is being used by youtube for copyright protection, not for user-safety. I know that accessing a youtube video across origins from a page I wrote myself is safe, but CORS enables youtube to stop me from accessing that data, in the name of safety.)
> such as in the rural US where there are large swathes of the country where there is no competition, poor service and high prices

If rural individuals were willing to pay the cost for broadband access they would have it. They are not. So there is no market for competition at this time. The neoliberal argument does not assume that everyone should have equal access to the best services, but that a free market will provide what the market is willing to pay at a better efficiency than government.
Written and illustrated by Mitch Seymour (on the cover)
Mac's iWeb was one of the best. It created slow but beautiful website's using SVG objects. Apple killed iWeb in 2011.
This is amazingly cute. And the analogies feel like they’ve been very carefully chosen. Bravo!
> article should be featuring Dr. Michel Laberge

Low chance it would have made the Hacker News front page if it did. Unfortunate as it is, the newsworthy component is Bezos's endorsement. Otherwise, it's another fusion start-up.