skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it was a bit of a disappointment for me as well in that regard. I've been hoping they'll add a "sandbox mode" or something in one of their regular updates l.
I'm a dev not an admin. Change your password query from something like (pseudo code)

SELECT username, ... FROM applications WHERE username = ? AND password = MD5(?)

to

SELECT username + ' ' + applicationName FROM ... (as above)

Then log the user name for each session, or return an extra field that is the app name when doing a password check (assumes your MX can do this). This is the general idea, and it's more pointing out why the advice is wrong, than talking about how to fix it and make it possible.
Very cool!

Did you look at tools like OpenSCAD before choosing Blender?
There is a difference between some nice immigrant restaurant availability in sad looking strip malls because the immigrant population there can support it, and a well designed 'nice' neighborhood with well maintained roads, interesting architecture, nice houses, overall liveliness and cultural interestingness. More flavors on the menu only goes so far.

Seriously, you put mountain view or cupertino in an average town in north america and people would think your in a lower-middle working class neighborhood that that has budget problems that is emptying out, with a large abandoned mall that just sat there empty for years until very recently and broken pot holed roads everywhere. It's bizzare. Even nearby Stockton, being famous for going bankrupt, has better road conditions than Cupertino on average. And cupertino has a company that is in the top 3 in global market cap headquartered there.
There are 850 scihub torrents, each containing 100,000 scientific articles, to a total of 85M articles (77TB)
http://libgen.rs/scimag/repository_torrent/

index for all the papers in these torrents (SQL db): https://libgen.rs/dbdumps/scimag.sql.gz

also see https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...
No I didn't. What I said was seek help or GTFO. If you would rather GTFO of life than seek help that is your choice not my choice. At least GTFO of hackernews because clearly being here is not helping you. In the final analysis nobody is going to save you by keyboard. If you want to be saved that is your responsibility not some anonymous stranger's who does not even know if you are trolling or seeking attention or whatever.
Also you have some days where you feel super productive and get loads done and some where things are difficult or you are tired and not a lot gets done. If you leave early on the productive days, would you stay back longer on the days you aren't doing so well?

And how do you know if you were actually very productive one day and not that the task was overestimated and actually very easy? Would you want to be on the hook for underestimated tasks? For me its easier to just say "I tried my best for x hours" and leave at the same time every day except in times of urgency.
Thanks for the followup.

I actually do agree that my suicide will clean up the gene pool. The cold hard reality is that you're right on many counts: that, and that I'm sensitive.

Sadly I have zero intention on "seeking help" and it has nothing to do with you or your comments.

Considering what I've experienced particularly with cesspools like reddit formed with the substantial help of ycombinator, it's appropriate. You may disagree and clearly you doubt my claims but you don't know who I am or what I was connected to that may have led to being targeted over time. At least consider that.
Take a minute to think, on this Sunday night, about how much personal time you've had this week. You've most likely spent 5 of the last 7 days making someone else richer, at the expense of an incredible toll on your body and mind: an artificially early wake-up to an alarm, a late-night frozen pizza dinner because there's no time to cook and clean up for yourself, and you're finally sitting down getting ready to relax when you remember you get to start the whole week over again tomorrow morning.

2 days is not enough time to recover from the hell that is the modern salaried work week. Let's use some of the amazing surplus we've generated to make life easier for ourselves for once. The 4 day workweek is just the beginning.

https://reddit.com/r/antiwork for more inspiration.
If you’re can’t tell the difference between 20Mbps and 200Mbps you need glasses. This isn’t even some audiophile-tier argument about an extra 60kbps in MP3 or whatever; there are obvious compression artifacts in 20Mbps real-time-encoded CBR video, especially on any kind of remotely high-entropy scene.

> high-quality rips of 1080p movies tend to be 5 Mbps

This is nonsense. A decent 20-30GB BRRip will be at least 25-30Mbps. Also, it’s not a fair comparison because it’s not real time encoding. If you can afford to encode in 5% real-time speed you can get much better compression ratios.
Apple Escapes Disruption
Your premise is a fantasy. Yes, many people for long time have boycotted Elsevier.

I am really confused, why are you assuming people that are vocal about this continue reviewing for Elsevier (or assuming this about me in particular)? This is simply not happening. Is it really that surprising to you that only part of a community is working on the social problems in the community, while the rest is focusing on their main work: science.

This is a general attitude among every naysayer against progress: "you can not demand that society changes for the better if you are active part of society". Do you not see how ridiculous that is?

And you were already given examples of prestigious journals that have transitioned to the open access model. And universities that boycott elsevier. And grant agencies that demand work to be published open access. What more do you want? For this to have happened last decade? Well, things take time.
I dont want to be saved

I want to raise awareness about the extent of malice that is going on with silicon valley properties and how that's crossed over into real life.

Reddit only exists due to ycombinator.
I suppose it’s pedantic to be annoyed that he’s calling this an “Ian knot” when it’s the standard shoelace knot, a slipped square knot, and not anything new.

The change it in how you tie it, not in the resulting knot.
Was reading this article recently -> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentag... and as always with The New Yorker, it is very interesting and informative.
> Something ad hoc could easily be both optimal and mathematically simpler to analyze and test.

Could you give an example ? I don't think PIDs are chosen for their optimality properties.
They raise a good point. I would expect a huge boost in productivity during a trial period as workers are hyped about the change and want to prove it works. But that they may eventually wear out and return to normal but with less hours now.

I don't think OP is suggesting that the findings are outright wrong, but that long term studies are required to know exactly how things play out. We have so many short term trial results but none that I have seen which show the effects after multiple years.
Is there a non-paywalled link for this?
Many mid range video cameras support “long GOP” which means P-frames. They still spit out however many hundreds of Mbps you ask for.
hm, paywall and archive.is shows the wall too

tl;dr, what's the backchannel and will this become an area of concern?
Here in the Netherlands symmetrical speeds are not common at all. I pay €30 per month for 100/30. I could get faster download but not significantly faster upload
I don't understand how the header follows from the article?

She seems to be fine. She decided to fight the case in India, on her own, because she thinks she can win it.
Has Vite Made Vue CLI Obsolete? – Vue.js Developers
Maybe don't blindly trust a corporate entity that doesnt have your interests at heart snd had been oroven before to be cooperating with the NSA and foreign state entities
A mile or two is nothing if you are healthy. It may even keep you so.
In addition to the absolutely "well known" market share and revenue numbers listed in the sister comment, because many of my users care deeply about both security and privacy--which this absolutely is: Monero and Zcash are both called "privacy coins" and not "anonymity coins" for a reason... being able to avoid any third-party (including Apple or banks or governments) from knowing who you transacted with is different from building systems where the person you are transacting with doesn't know who you are (even if they are related)--I would expect more than the usual share of users for such a product to be using iOS, a decision that even I tell people is a smart decision... due to the better permissions and capabilities/entitlement systems and due to the longer support and seemingly better care towards security in general, and not at all due to the App Store's centralized BS.

FWIW, though: 1) even if you expected the vast majority of people to be using one system instead of the other, you can't build a communications platform or payment system or ecosystem generally at all that simply cuts them out as it causes problems for the people and companies trying to adopt it... if you build a platform for decentralized apps that doesn't support iOS or a chat system that doesn't support iOS or a payment system that doesn't support iOS, well, you now have to convince everyone else in the world not to support iOS: your hands are frankly tied here.
> there is no limit where one can say, "My work is done"

I'm a couple years into my first software job, at Google. We don't do performance evaluations relative to whether you're doing as much work as you're capable of in 40 hours. You're evaluated against a fixed rubric corresponding to the job level. In other words, if you're capable of doing a Software Engineer N's worth of work in 40 hours and your title is Software Engineer N-1, you can either put in the 40 hours and get promoted to Software Engineer N eventually, or you can work less and still be perfectly productive relative to your current role's expectations. Plenty of people make that latter choice and work well under 40 hours.
Minor thought, but one of the things I love about high level AI chess, like Stockfish vs AlphaZero, is seeing how their ratings of positions change over the course of the game.

I had realized a while ago that, as a human, the computer will give your position a score, and then you make a move, and your score can pretty much only stay the same (if you make a "perfect" move) or go down. Much of the time, it goes down.

Two humans playing each other, it's just a question: who's score goes down less each time they make a move? It became a little sad. It seemed like either you can make the right move, or you make a sub-optimal move, and the winner is simply the one who makes the fewer sub-optimal moves.

But when AlphaZero plays, and you watch Stockfish's score, the reason it wins is that it makes moves Stockfish thinks is poor, so it rates AlphaZero's moves poorly, and then all of a sudden it has an oh shit! moment when it realises that AlphaZero is actually ahead, and its score jumps. It's really a look inside the computer's head while it's being beaten by a better player.
She doesn't, but many people really really want to change this. See this discussion from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662701

The topic of borders and the Internet is a really weird one in general. Somehow the very same people who would like Alexandra to flout any laws will jump up and down and yell "Google should be forced to do what my country tells it". Personally I find this baffling.
Someone's GPL'd code will "strongly inspire" someone elses proprietary (or otherwise "controlled") code down the line, and there won't be much recourse.

Remember, the GPL isn't fundamentally about "enforcing licenses," it's a tool that reverses the usual power of copyright for a higher goal of "software freedom."
Could someone with knowledge of the matter explain why scientists still publish to these journals, and still sign up for access?

It seems like as long as every university in the world can just switch to a blog a do away with publications, they'd save a lot of money, improve science, and reduce complexity overnight.

Why are paid journals still a thing?
It was running on specialized hardware in the cloud. But Stockfish and Lc0 have long since surpassed Alpha Zero.
Nitpick, certainly not thousands. When you're first starting out even if your elo is like 400, you'll be lucky to break 1000 after a year unless you study very diligently. The gap from 1000-2000 then takes multiple years (probably like 4-5 of diligent study)

Climbing chess elo is very hard and slow!
Did they alter your app in any way? Did you check the hashes?
I’m curious why you think revealing all employee salaries and benefits publicly makes a company a better place to work at.
Yes, see this post on IPFS by /u/shrine (who started the SciHub rescue mission on Reddit) http://freeread.org/ipfs/
Non-paywall link, seems to be the exact same article (see references to "STAT has learned ..." in the MSN-hosted article):

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/inside-e2-80-98project-ony...

At the end: "This is an abridged version of a STAT special report." (It doesn't seem very abridged! To do more they would have to give dates of the meetings or something.)
> I'm curious if there exists something intelligent enough to be able to rely on it for a large-scale deployment without human oversight?

I think without a context that's a no. Some systems will want good throughput, some want low latency and require pre-scaling on some cues (time of day, day of week), some want minimal cost but do want to allow bigger bursts for a max of N minutes, etc.

Any intelligent scaling without human oversight has a good chance of either burning your money or not optimising for what you care about.
If you are tired of making someone else rich, you could start your own business. But that’s a lot of work, and as someone who is anti-work, I don’t think that’s possible for you and your comrades. But the option is there!
Can anyone recommend a “Control theory for the layman” type textbook? Specifically I’m interested in finding something that gives good overviews and examples, and while I’m not afraid of math, I’m not looking for something overly academic or advanced.
Mud volcano causes large explosion in the Caspian Sea
I hate leaving such a useless comment but this autocorrect-assisted typo is so horribly confusing: "a scam VPNs" -> "as VPNs". (I guess I will just take this forced opportunity to then point out that this is all viscerally concrete for me, as the developer of both Cydia and now Orchid: I recently sued Apple over these issues.)
How to get past paywall on FT?
MSN published "an abridged version" with the same title: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/inside-e2-80-98project-ony...

Excerpts:

> Central to their mission was an inside ally: Billy Dunn, the agency’s top regulator of Alzheimer’s drugs. For the plan to succeed, Biogen needed Dunn to become a supportive partner, more than an independent and potentially adversarial regulator. It worked. The FDA played an extraordinarily proactive role, even drafting a road map on how the company could win approval. Several experts said that relationship was not typical and raised serious concerns.

> It was previously known that Biogen and the FDA worked together on Aduhelm. But STAT has learned that the relationship began earlier than previously disclosed, in the spring of 2019, when a top Biogen executive quietly met with Dunn — seemingly in violation of FDA protocols — to enlist his support for a long-shot effort to get Aduhelm approved despite the apparent failure of two clinical trials. And a month later, FDA officials proposed using a regulatory shortcut to get the drug approved — though the agency has claimed it raised that option only this past March. To some inside Biogen, the FDA’s tone made approval seem inevitable.

> By June 2019, only a month after the crucial meeting with Dunn, agency officials in his Office of Neuroscience were so willing to advance Aduhelm that they proposed as one option a regulatory shortcut called “accelerated approval,” according to meeting minutes read to STAT. The move stunned even Biogen’s top executives, who had considered that out of the question for a host of reasons, including the fact that the FDA had never used the pathway for an Alzheimer’s treatment.
Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
Like all movements, there's more to it than just the name - don't take it too literally: working for myself is the ultimate goal! And if I ever do find success enough to require employees, I could never imagine asking them to spend 71% of their week thinking about me and my problems. Maybe it's easy to daydream egalitarian - but I think we as a society can do better for each other.
Hammock Driven Development
It is slowly happening, but the inertia is a significant impediment. Every scientists agrees that open access is the way to go. But it takes a decade or two to create the "social proof" that your new community journal is indeed one of high standards. If you already know that the editors of your goto journal have high professional standards, you do not want to potentially waste time and risk your reputation on supporting a community journal. It is a social problem, not a technical one. Usually solved by getting all the luminaries of the field to be editors for your new community journal (which is a tall order).
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Isn’t it automatically O(n log n) if you don’t have accurate gravity and you use some sort of special tree to find neighbors?
It's all about the dose!

Sublingual can be just as dissociative - perhaps even more - than smoking. Sublingual can give a much longer experience, and so there's a lot more time spent in that space (30-45+ minutes compared to 5-10).

What makes you say that most people find dissociatives uncomfortable?

Consider ketamine - a powerful dissociative that has widespread recreational use.

When used in a therapeutic, safe setting, the dissociative properties of medicines like salvia, ketamine, iboga, and 5-MeO-DMT are used to facilitate profound personal healing and transformation. These experiences are not necessarily pleasant, and that's also not the point. I'm most familiar with usage in this context, where the aspect of "enjoyment" is essentially orthogonal to the reason for consumption.

In fact, consciously exploring any discomfort that arises is what can facilitate efficacy.
I have a gigabit home connection. No I don’t need it, but having to wait less to move data around is nice.

A week ago I downloaded a 4.5 gigabyte photo from the ESA to print and put on my wall, yes all of those pixels mattered. It took closer to 30 seconds than the ten minutes it would have otherwise on a more reasonable “fast” home internet connection. So there’s several minutes of my life I probably would have just sat around waiting for otherwise.

It’s not about big constant needs but making the delay shorter on many smaller things. (i.e. latency over throughput, but latency not in ms for computer networking but seconds and minutes for tasks on a human level)
Unbiasedreviews.mom
Probably because they have to in order to get a job or even graduate.
> They say that the dataset is hundreds of Gigs worths of games, so the net must still be really pretty big.

This isn't true. The size of the training data doesn't imply anything about the size of the neural network.

In the case of Stockfish, the NN is quite shallow, and implemented using a custom framework designed to to run fast on CPUs.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746160 for previous commentary on this.

> Though definitely not directly comparable, dataset of GPT2-xl is 8 million web-pages.

This is irrelevant. You can train GPT3 on a smaller dataset, or a smaller model on the same dataset as GPT3.

> What I mean to say is that this is clearly deep learning.

It's been clear that neural network models are superior since Alpha Go. There's not "Deep Learning vs <something else>" anymore because the <something else> isn't competitive and no one is really working on it.
Underground Bicycle Parking Systems in Japan, 4min15secs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcZSU40RBrg

I'd wish for them every few 100 meters at least ;-)
Have you practiced control theory in an actual process plant? PID is not simple to tune it at all, well PI, nobody uses the derivative part. Countless studies published in the industry show that up to 30% of the PID control loops in operation are set to MANUAL by the operators and from the rest more than half have wrong parameters.Even then +90% of the controllers are PID, because despite all their problems they work better than the more sophisticated alternatives, they are more reliable, maintainable and cheaper to license.

> PID will basically have you experience either large overshoots (which you will experience as overcorrecting to changes in demand) or slow adaptation to changes.

Such a blanket statement is meaningless without a description of the system you are controlling, those kind of overshoot can be attributed to wrong parameters, to badly sized elements of control or even to bad measuring devices, the PID algorithm has zero to do with those cases.

> I have implemented a controller for espresso machine boiler water temperature. Replacing PID with moving horizon estimator allowed me to cut time from startup until stable temperature by at least half and eliminate any measurable over or undershoots.

Did you try a "bang-bang" controller,I would no be surprised if you'd get the same results with 1% of the complexity.
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You can recognise some laws are good for everyone and some as unethical - it's not an invalid position. For example (on an extreme end), I believe murder being illegal is right, but pot possession being illegal is not. In the less extreme middle, (and more contentious) I believe antitrust laws used against google are sometimes good and restrictions on access to / use of publicly funded research is not.
A perusal of that subreddit is full of a lot of anti-capitalist propaganda and some obvious logical fallacies. I don’t think consuming that subreddit is very healthy or productive.
Saturation of CPU resources

Making sure the in-memory cache doesn't get too big

Recovery when something goes wrong (computer loses power)

Recovery of data when there is a partial HDD failure

Compaction creating performance problems

Handling of duplicate requests/out of order request

etc.. etc...

Basically performance and readability and data consistency are hard, especially for a database that has a lot of concurrent users...

My toy one was super fast (I don't remember the stats on top of my head), and was good enough for good weather conditions, but I realized, in order to make it actually production ready, there was so much more to do and it was not worth for me to spend more on it, since there are so many good options out there, and SQL-Lite was becoming a de-facto standard on mobile (both iOS and Android adopted it then).
> This makes it a fairly self-sustaining system. It also makes it hard to break into. It’s no coincidence that the “best” publications also tend to be the oldest.

I think that this is also means that it will be slow moving and very fragile to a new system that could incentivize people to undertake all the listed actions above that don't go thru/reliant upon the traditional process.

Not saying that we are there yet, nor do I think willingly choosing to submit to any particular jurisdiction in hopes of a favorable outcome will have much effect in the long run (I think systems really change when old systems that served similar functions in some capacity are made obsolete), but as long as tech becomes cheaper, more people become knowledge able about the system as a whole and the incentives involved, more ways of pursuing research will emerge that will be more resilient than hoping for nation state judiciary approval.
ISPs make the same claim.