skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately in my case at least the unpleasantness was limited to the odd loony stalking me across the site to carry on arguments that were several days stale. I did get told to kill myself once, but the person making that suggestion sounded so unhinged their rant had very little weight! To be honest it wasn't abuse from other users that were affecting my mental health at all, it was the never-ending doomscroll of depressing content and the people who seemed almost gleeful at bad news because it validated their worldview (and this ironically seems to apply across the political spectrum). /r/ukpolitics prior to perhaps 2015 or so was something really special because people entertained ideas they disagreed with for the purpose of debate, rather than this ideological total war that is the norm on the internet now where any inch of retreat is cowardly and any notion that the "enemy's" arguments might have a point is treason. Of course it wasn't perfect (/pol/ raided it from time to time which would crapflood the whole sub with obvious bait), but the arguments were mostly good-faith debate rather than simply rhetorical cudgels to hit your opponent with.

That's what made me leave Reddit fundamentally, I wanted a debate rather than a conflict. I want people who'll tell me why I'm wrong, not people who'll call me an irredeemable piece of shit for not clicking my fingers and 100% agreeing with some philosophy neither of us really had an in-depth knowledge of. It's like internet debates (especially on Twitter) have adopted the old Calvinist notion of "total depravity" for the modern age. It's not even about being right, it's about other people being wrong and that'll make you an angry, bitter person if you're jumping headlong into that world for hours a day.
People can't walk, have semi or permanent headaches, have to retire early, etc. And you are convinced hundreds of people are making this up?
Whenever I see it I assume it's a typo. If it was truly intentional I would expect a comment pointing out why it's needed.
What do you mean by casual cannabis dismissal?
I don't think SV has been worth it for many years. There are certainly advantages to living in the area, but there are also huge downsides (not only the COL). For me, the cost/benefit ratio is not favorable. Your mileage may vary, of course.
And why should one assume the cost once deployed in the millions will equal the cost while in beta with 60k users? There's another comment here already mentioning their prediction of a $300 cost for the dish in the future, you can only expect the subscription to go down as well.

Plus, the places where Starlink is the most useful - rural areas - already have sky high costs. I just looked up what service looks like in Brazil: ~R$400/month (US$76) for 20mbps, with a 80GB data cap. When you have to buy the dish it costs over R$10k (~US$2000). This is the best you can get.
Username checks out. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
So we should all adopt the Texas approach? Starve them out and abuse them, zero tolerance for petty theft and then what? Put them in prison and spend $30k+ a year in taxpayer money to keep them there until they die?
Short circuiting boolean operators are very useful, and not something I would consider a code smell. They let constructs like this work, which are very common in most codebases:

if (foo && foo->bar) {
// whatever
}

An operator that did not short circuit would have undefined behavior because it might dereference a NULL pointer.
Lol, I knew someone would make that joke
What's wrong with Renovate / Dependabot, if I may ask?

Not that I don't like the Hashicorp touch on things, quite the opposite, but I'm genuinely interested in your thoughts here since I cannot find huge problems in those two tools (:
You're also correct, but I think miss the point as well. The spreadsheet isn't going anywhere. Curse it all we might, blame it for deaths or attribute any aspect of malignment to it, and you'd be right. But the spreadsheet isn't going anywhere.

Spreadsheet mistakes have been directly attributed not only to thousands of deaths but billions of dollars of mistakenly wasted money. Heck, in the UK alone, they have attributed billions of pounds and thousands of deaths specifically to spreadsheet errors and flaws, and that's not even counting the COVID-related issues from the article. Check this scary article: https://theconversation.com/excel-errors-the-uk-government-h...

There have been hordes of purpose-built apps that have aimed to replace the common spreadsheet for any number of tasks from inventory management to financial planning to even tracking nuclear weapons (true story: our nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is tracked in a spreadsheet). And yet, the spreadsheet is still here. The spreadsheet is the cockroach of all apps. At once utterly adaptable and seemingly indefeatable.

The spreadsheet is a horror show with lack of control, schema, and collaborative management. We surely can do better. But we haven't. Google and Microsoft have the best developers in the world who can do anything. And they have produced more spreadsheets. But spreadsheets are the bane of our existence! And yet they are still here.

The spreadsheet has survived from the mainframe era to the cloud-based era in pretty much the same form with enhancements. The spreadsheet is not going away, even with all the complaints in the article. The points are well made and well founded. But unfortunately they miss the point. 20 years from now we'll still be cursing the tyranny of the spreadsheets because of their utility.

I close with a Haiku:

| Rows and cells, alas |

| What makes your simple structure |

| So very useful? |
Anything particular about Usenet that makes it attractive? Modern mailing lists (and even ones that are now dead but accessible) are a treasure trove of information, and I've often privately mulled over my concern that there doesn't seem to be a concerted effort to save them. Having tried to track down old copies of the Linux mailing lists, and having run into indicators of others' quests (and dead ends), I know how fragile the situation is.

As I've recently come to understand, the Internet Archive itself used to have its own mailing lists for handling discussion, which interestingly enough seem to no longer be accessible—perhaps even lost.
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For real. It'd be interesting to see a Reason-like software interface with plug-in cabling for motion graphics. Node-based is cool, but it's also neat to see how the physical hardware worked.
He wasn't old enough in 2016
I don't have the expertise to critique these findings, but they smell very weird (tiny sample size, control group that seems weirdly specific), and "an investigation that seems incredibly motivated by a particular conclusion managed to find the evidence it was looking for" still makes a lot more sense than, "some organization is injuring US diplomats, all over the world, with no clear goals or demands, with a wide constellation of symptoms, that an awful lot like mass hysteria."

If there's really a there there and they solve the "who, what, why", then I'm happy to eat crow. But I don't think they will because I don't think there is.
>They don't get sued, they do a recall and fix it

Are you kidding? Major (car, drug, you name it) companies have hundreds, if not thousands of lawsuits going at any given moment.

Public companies will sometimes list major lawsuits in their annual report, but most of them don't get mentioned because the amount at stake is trivial for them.
Farming feeds people and gives them jobs. It's not a separate entity that has nothing to do with the people living there.
Yes, I can see it now. The world's homeless are already lining up to get their passports or visas and liquidating their stock portfolios to buy a plane ticket to LAX.
>minor brain damage

Any brain damage is much more impactful than you think.

If I could guess it would be grey zone tactics to affect the most amount of people and inhibit their work. If you attack everyone there is less information pertaining to motive than a single target can get you.

I think it is a broad stroke attack that should not occur.
From talks I have watched, China is dumping money into quantum computing because Jian-Wei Pan and his team are genius.

I don't think China has the same problems we do that people are worried about "hype" and all this nonsense.

Jian-Wei Pan said they want to use their photon QC device and boson sampling to solve graph theory problems.

I don't understand boson sampling enough to know if it makes sense for graph theory but obviously they have some ideas in mind. Quantum graph theory, quantum network science ideas I suppose.

The video I watched also has 600 views and the only comment is if you can use a photon quantum device to mine bitcoin.

That is a cultural problem we have, not a problem with science that humans have.
yeah, and also it's 1-dimensional; you can only go up or down, never to the right
This example is interesting enough that it deserves to be written up for convenience. The reason there is a performance hit is that the example involves a lot of mispredicted branches.

The setup is that we have a large number of tiny triangles, we cast a ray in a random direction, and we want to detect whether it intersects any of the triangles. The summarized code looks like this:

for (/* all triangles */) {
auto u = calcU(/*...*/);
if (u < 0 || u > 1) {
continue;
}
auto v = calcV(/*...*/);
if (v < 0 || u + v > 1) {
continue;
}
auto dist = calcD(/*...*/);
if (dist < nearest) {
nearest = dist;
}
}

So what's happening?

We calculate the (x,y) coordinates of the point where our ray intersects the plane in which the triangle lies.

We convert those (x,y) coordinates to (u,v) coordinates, where the vectors u and v are parallel to two sides of the triangle. (And equal in length.)

In our transformed (u,v) space, determining whether a point lies inside the triangle is very easy. With the origin at the corner of the triangle from which the u and v sides emanate, a point is out of bounds if its u-coordinate lies outside the interval [0, 1], or if its v-coordinate lies outside [0, 1-u]. That's what the ifs after calcU and calcV are checking. When we detect that a point is out of bounds, we move on to the next triangle.

The triangles are small and the ray is random, so the intersection of the ray with the plane will strike at a random point. It is almost always the case that the point will lie outside the triangle. This means that the full conditional (u < 0 || u > 1) will almost always be false.

But the two subconditions u < 0 and u > 1 will each be true 50% of the time. They are individually impossible to predict, which causes branch prediction on the first one, u < 0, to fail about 50% of the time. But they are jointly easy to predict. There is a huge performance gain from switching to (u < 0 | u > 1) -- in this case, 50% of the time we will do the work of calculating whether u > 1 even though we didn't have to. But the reward we get for that extra work is that branch prediction drops from a 50% failure rate (actually 45%) to a very low failure rate.

Including the v-coordinate makes the full check, ((u < 0) | (u > 1) | (v < 0) | (u + v > 1)), even more easy to predict. We've decided to guarantee that we will always do the full amount of work, and most of it is unnecessary. But it's easier to do 2x or more the amount of work and test a condition that fails consistently than to do less work and keep having to clear the instruction pipeline.
Reprimanding is one thing and firing another though. I certainly think the manager in charge deserves a reprimand.
This entire comment is dripping with "fake news", like a Trumper hopped up on Pizzagate and Qanon.

I mean this sincerely: you seriously need to reexamine where you get your information, and exercise a bit of critical scrutiny instead of mindlessly regurgitating headlines from Reddit. This is totally, dangerously insane.
Not just Americans, Canadian diplomats have also been affected[1].

Additionally, it's reported by American diplomats in Vienna now as well[2].

[1]: https://globalnews.ca/news/7809823/havana-syndrome-canadian-...
[2]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-unexplained-health-incident...
If you read up about this, there are multiple very reliable sources for different attacks of this nature, in various locations, most not tied to Cuba in any way, going back quite a few years now. I especially recommend Marc Polymeropoulos as a source: 26 years in the intelligence service and was a target.
"Edge" is kind of a relative term. E.g. relative to a public cloud, anything not in that cloud could be considered edge. Or, if a company's systems are in a shared datacenter somewhere, then the systems in their actual offices might be considered "edge".

Just as an example (not saying it's authoritative):

> "Edge computing is often referred to as 'on-premise.'"

-- https://dzone.com/articles/demystifying-the-edge-vs-cloud-computing

But these days, people even refer to systems hosted on a company's own cloud account as "on-premise", so these terms get increasingly fuzzy over time.

Btw since you mention SQLite, the k3s system uses SQLite instead of the default etcd used by Kubernetes, for the reason you mention. These systems really are intended to support true edge scenarios. K3s is distributed as a single 40 MB binary, and you can run it on non-PC edge hardware.

For anyone who runs a system that involves multiple containers on a single machine, it can be worth looking at systems like k3s as an alternative to e.g. Docker Compose. There's not much downside other than some learning curve, and it gives you a wealth of capabilities that you otherwise tend to end up hacking together with scripts or whatever.
No, fact.
Considering that most code get read by more than one person, I think hardcoding the author's preferences in how it should be read is strange and in some cases inaccessible.
"Developed" is not used in the past tense here.

Think "Currently developed by Oracle".
A supercomputer cannot simulate a realistic noise model of 30-40 qubits. It can simulate stochastic Pauli channel noise, but that’s a toy, and it would be ungodly slow anyway.

A density operator representing a mixed state of n qubits grows as 2^(n^2), or a system with leakage into the second and third excited states grows as 4^(n^2).

For just 4 qubits, this would be a 4 billion complex numbers, so 8 billion floating point numbers.

Even this isn’t a time-domain solution, where you might in practice need to solve the Lindblad master equation.

This is all assuming we have a model for the noise, which in practice is highly non-trivial and very dependent on both the implementation of the qubits as well as their geometrical and material construction, and would take a good deal of science and engineering work to do accurately in a way that it reflects both control dynamics and a specific manufactured sample.

Yes there are solvers on the market in Python and Julia, but they don’t give you realistic noise computations for “free”.
Sorry?

What evidence is there that it is not?

Looking out in space is looking back in time. Numerous phenomena support very strong consistency of physical constants to all observable levels. lizknope mentioned on HN recently naturally-occurring fission reactions on Earth about a billion years old or so. Those provide direct physical validation of physical constants as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753154

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...

A phenomenon which can arbitrarily change basic perceptions leaving no trace is definitionally beyond the capabilities of an empirical observation to detect. The notion itself is solipsystic and borders on meaninglessness.
You left out this key part in the conclusion

>The clinical importance of these differences is uncertain and may require further study

Not to mention the lengthy list of limitations the study itself mentions.

Basically they examined two groups and listed the differences between them
Perhaps they should have deleted that variable…
> A federal mandate on pay transparency would put an end to all of the unequal pay issues once and for all.

Were you...being serious?
This is an overgeneralization.

My girlfriend works at a woman-led software company, where most of the people on her team are women, and from her description, that type of shit just doesn't fly there. It is her first time working at a company where this is the case, and she's loads happier.

For whatever it's worth, she landed her current role by attending some local "women in tech" meetups for a few months, and a woman she met from there was hiring.

I think it's important for any women reading this thread to know that software companies do exist where women are treated fairly, and it might be worthwhile to seek out those companies.
It's not heavily suggested by the CIA to have been perpetrated by Cuba; I think that's an incorrect assumption on your part.

Since the incidents, involving up to 130 U.S. personnel, have happened in Cuba, China, Russia, and elsewhere (including at least one possible incident inside the U.S.) it would have to be someone with the resources to carry out such attacks across the world (and the CIA director said as much if you listen to the interview). The most likely culprit being eyed by Pentagon officials is Russia (as previously reported[1]), but the CIA director chose not to name names during this latest interview even when directly asked if it was Russia.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/biden-cia-bra...
Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but I've had a lot of fun playing with https://lumen-app.com/
Here is the original article from Android Police:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/20/a-new-chrome-os-91-...

The reason for the failed "update" was another Chrome 0-day that relies on the Google's Javascript engine:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/16/another-day-another...

Curious whether they release the details of how this 0-day works after it is fixed, so we can see the mistake they made putting users at risk.
Framework Founder here, and happy to answer any questions on the product!
These stupid limitation by Apple makes me really hope that there will be real competition in the tablet space. Android tablets basically failed because most apps are just bit phone apps. Windows tablet aren’t that successful either.

The thing is iPads offer good experience as a tablet but when you want from it a bit more Apple doesn’t allow it because of their Apps Store policies.

Personally I think iPad could be a great device for coding on the go.
But the fact that we can’t install anything outside of apple’s control blocks this option.

RDP or SSH is nice but it relies on internet connection. I’d like to use the native power of the device. With M1 there’s no reason it wouldn’t be able to do so.

Their arguments about security to sounds more like bunch of excuses.
1. How do you deal with late arriving events if a python transformation needs to join data across two different sources?

2. Is hotglue able to handle large backfill jobs or jobs with arbitrary input data sets?
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No offense, but my eyes glazed-over at your post. Yes, my point is it seems like every tv show on netflix etc, incorporates people texting/interacting with their phones which bores me but I guess since it is part of normalized daily life now, it is what it is. Thanks for the suggestions though.
Ah I see your point. Appreciate the correction.
Dunno, I did a ~20min FaceTime call that was essentially flawless. That call ended with me being very impressed by the stability and bandwidth of the connection. Far better than the satellite service at the location previously. Maybe it was just pure luck? Not sure, but the consistent 90-100mbit downstream and 2-digit ping is pretty impressive.
And? Every large company has sexual harassment to some degree. It's all a matter of whether the company actually responds to it. Saying the accusations are a sham looks much worse then saying you'll investigate.
Paywall-free https://archive.is/jDrOC
After getting fired from a job, I have become selfish and strong
Many thanks! :D
That doesn't surprise me... MFA methods tend to be a real pain in the rear, so lots of people avoid them.
> Default LaTeX fonts give me a nasty uncomfortable feeling
> in the stomach by reminding me of Math and CS tests

Me too. The formulas look so dark. Do you know of any typefaces where the mathematics and physics formulas look lighter, and, at least to some of us, less imposing?
Yes, although it's more like "one small puff on a spliff with company" or "minimum viable hit off a cartridge". Sometimes a half of a 5mg gummy, or even a whole one.

Panic attacks are well under a 1 in 20 response now or I just wouldn't bother, since it isn't any fun at all for about 20 (subjectively very long) minutes.
It's also worth adding that among the more problematic aspects of "host it yourself" is the "under absolutely no circumstances lose control over the domain name".

The entire notion of transactable (or rented) domain names is appearing to be increasingly misguided as well. That either requires retirement, or DNS needs to be replaced by something less fungible in that regard.
Because the site had nothing but my age and the fact that it was a chess site to go on. The ads did not show any of the targeting you typically see.
Same here! Hearing that coming out of a pc speaker was mesmerizing.

Our M24 broke down at some point. My dad took it away to get repaired and just left it there, he said "it couldn't be fixed, they said" :(

Another game that made a similar impression was Mean Streets [1], but this was on my 286 with VGA.

Years after I had moved out of the house I was horrified to find out that my Mom had tossed out all my old computer stuff without telling me (I had two Olivetti 286's, a 16 and 25 Mhz).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Streets_(video_game)
I think it's so common now because Apple has become so popular and trendsetting. Apple have always been very opinionated but they've steered the industry along with them. Everyone follows them in some way, like when vista basically copied Aqua and when they moved to flat design everyone followed.

Opinionated software works for simple apps but not for whole OSes IMO. I'm glad there's still systems around that offer more choices but they are becoming more fringey now.

The same if you want an OS without any kind of telemetry. Neither Microsoft nor Apple are saints there.
This quote seems to suggest that they've ruled Cuba out:

> The director says he is seriously considering the "very strong possibility" that the syndrome is the result of intentional actions, adding that there are a limited number of "potential suspects" with the capability to carry out an action so widely across the globe.
Chalmers and several other philosophers have made the argument for why consciousness doesn't fit in a physical, functional or objective framework. That's because sensations aren't abstract/descriptive facts or functions. You don't get red, taste, pain from number, extension or chemical makeup. Consciousness is something additional correlated with the biological substrate.
And aggression against Cuba by the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus has been going on for six decades. Accompanying that has been numerous press releases, op-eds, and articles over the years attempting to sway public opinion towards U.S. intervention in Cuba. This fits right into that pattern. I'm not saying it DEFINITELY is that, hence the "grain of salt" phrase - I just view any CIA statement relating to Cuba with a huge degree of skepticism. That's all.
The "some folks" include the scientists who actually study this.

But good job cherry picking a study. Hope it makes you feel better.
The first licensed flu vaccine became available in the 40s; tamiflu in 1999. And realistically, if we had an antiviral that was as effective against covid as tamiflu is against flu, that… would not be very interesting and we’d still be vaccinating everyone.

Antivirals are difficult and slow to develop, relatively new tech, and often not particularly good.