skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank god, eh. Because otherwise he might have been stuck working at reed college, picking up all the freshers, reading Rumi, couchsurfing and making (yet more, then maybe denying) babies...instead of going further into computing at Atari. Maybe Woz would be doing retrocomputing in some obscure niche now and have his own website/blog with a small but devoted legion of fans, after retiring early from Microsoft as Head of Surface Technology.

But on the "Maps not Chaps" theory of historical inevitability (Morris), someone else would have played Jobs' role, and our society would have "got the technology, companies, and ideas" that we needed at the time, even if Steve hadn't been in it. Oh well, I agree that's a viable theory for some things, but I don't think it would work in this case. At least I don't like to think it would have worked

For all its faults, real or perceived, I'm glad the world has Apple. I don't want to imagine a world without it :'(
A better fitting analogy would be you ask FedEx to pick up a package at your house for delivery, and they have a new rule that they won't pick up packages unless they can look inside to make sure that they are packed correctly and do not contain anything that FedEx does not allow.

When they open and look into the package while in your house for the pickup, they are using your light to see and your heating/cooling is keeping the driver comfortable while they inspect the package.
The shipping industry has been exempt from taxes for a long time now. Online businesses for long time were escaping the system. Now it seems things are going to move to more indirect taxation becaus taxing things in an interconnected world based on location is going to become increasingly impossible
And that reason would be?

HbA1C is effectively a measure of the average amount of sugar that has been in your blood over the last couple of months.

A spot sugar level is the amount of sugar in your blood right now, and can vary a huge amount, depending on when you last ate, what you ate, and what exercise you have just done. It's less useful. You can do a fasting blood glucose, and a glucose challenge, but these tests are much more inconvenient for the patient.

Outside the US, most testing has switched to HbA1C for these reasons.
Indeed, there can be islands of stability in the phase space of chaotical systems.
This 2019 article is a bit out of date; what it calls racket2 is now Rhombus, and (as predicted in the article) does not seem to have really taken off.

See https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/thoughts-on-rhombus.htm...

https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming
Amateur radio still has 44.0.0.0/9 and 44.128.0.0/10. Not exactly a shortage.

Also, they are giving back to the community. The largest grant so far was $1,620,000 to save a radio telescope for the MIT Amateur Radio club.

https://www.ampr.org/grants/
How does the sorting work on Youtube? It's not by upvotes, it's not by date, it's not any obvious combination of the two (as newer comments with more upvotes can still be sorted after older comments with fewer upvotes). Them using a hidden total-like-count might be an explanation.
btw this stoicism is on point.

best start? the book meditations by marcus aurelius (gregory hays translation)

the most personal ruminations and frustrations we all have? emperors get it too.
Personally, I think it is a matter of when, not if.
I'd guess that's more the result of us being a bit larger than your average land animal (most small land animals deal with exactly your scenario all the time) as well as our destruction of so much natural habitat. I'm sure if we killed everything around our ocean homes, we'd do okay as well.
I do interviews at a decent sized company, but our office is really only 15-20 people. Our process is a bit lacking as we generally do 2 rounds of discussions (1 hour or less each) which has a focus on technical and soft-skill questions.

Its an ok process, but I personally would like to change one of the sessions to be an interactive dev... give a codebase ahead of time, nothing crazy and then get them to drive a solution, be the partner and then also work through a bug. Nothing complicated, I want to see their thought process and how they work as a team. Obviously google etc should be available.

In terms of being able to compete with larger companies, thats not always the case. Maybe not in salary, but thats only part of a job. Culture, perks, and the project itself can all be draws to bring in great devs.

I'd add that my worst ever interview was a coding one, similar to what I described, but the difference was that there were 3 people sat opposite me just watching me, no talking, no chat or fun, nothing. Dont be those people!
well if we're going that route...marry then poison? or marry then have kids then divorce then fabricate lies to earn custody and support payments? blackmail? talk to tabloids?
I’m remembering Think Pascal, where most of the toolbox was pre-included. It also initialized a drawing window and a text console, so you only had to learn QuickDraw if you wanted to use it.
It is though, if you don’t have a closed form solution you need to use an iterative process to calculate the positions, meaning errors will accrue over time. For a closed form solution that wouldn’t be the case.

Thanks for mentioning the existence of an analytical solution at all though, I wasn't aware of that.
> Why didn't people listen?!

People did? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-ka...
Comparison of two highly-effective mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 vs. Alpha/Delta
Why online product research is broken
choose to feel inspired not jealous. choose to think: "I like what he's got. How can I get some of that, too?" Then choose to go after it!! :)
the campus runs its own sewer since 1867. Feeds into East Bay MUD.
I agree that it's frustrating how CA is used as an argument to end all arguments.

But we have to acknowledge that Facebook and other platforms are under threat of exploitation from malicious actors, that they often do want to legitimately prevent abuse and that they have to do something.

My biggest gripe is of course the laughable shallowness of the debate. I've once had a Facebook representative tell me that they can't share political ad data because the data is so large "it doesn't fit on a usb stick". Come on. That's lawyers speaking bullshit, and it's tiring.
I'm in the process of adding "lipstick to the pig," so to speak, on the app I've been developing for quite some time, now.

It's not done, but we are at the point where we can start trotting it out to people from whom we are begging money, so I want it as polished and refined as possible.

This means lots of "little" things, like smooth transitional animations, fast operations, threaded behavior, etc.

Native is good for that. It's lookin' pretty good. No compromises.
I am waiting for Apple to release Mx version of 15”+ screen MacBook Pro to replace my 2012 rMBP. I am too old, my eyes are no longer good enough to use small screens, and no longer have patience to deal with little annoyances. While waiting, I have tried to use smaller screen MacBook and Windows laptops, none still have the combination of features, cleanliness, aesthetic, and ease of use and maintenance, a MBP offers.
I think the underlying, subconscious question is: if they are not sharing any of that wealth, would you still consider them a friend?
> A core claim is that engineers make abstractions based on an implicit aristotelian/cartesian philosophy, assuming that what they abstract actually exists in the world and is merely "extracted" or "found".

Interesting. Would you share some example contexts he used in his analyses? What are the abstractions he defines, and where are they used? Is he talking about e.g. our financial system?

Agre covered many topics, so if someone is already clued up on his core arguments here (as well as sources for further exploration), I'd very much welcome (and deeply appreciate) them sharing it here.
if you really want to compare: does your blood sweat and tears match his? i mean, compare the input as well, not just a small part of the visible output.
My issues are with line of apple’s official concerns. If we standardisé on usb-c now, how long will it take to switch if something substantially better comes out.
That’s crazy, so basically find alternatives for those worst 5% and for example in Germany reduce CO2 from the power sector by 90%.
Making the masks in photoshop is a really neat trick. Reminds me of Bob Moore of Forth fame who said something like "once you have enough code to draw a square you are half way to a chip design package".
Your version wins :-) Thanks for the chuckle!
Not true.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rdr3-statutory-re...
Yes, it's the end of the road with me for Apple products. Might go for Pixel 6 + GrapheneOS, and Dell XPS instead of MBP.

I am happy with their timing because I would have otherwise bought an iPhone 13 and be really annoyed if they announced their spyware right after.
The worst 5% of power plants produce 75% of CO2
How to compare two PDF documents
Money isn't everything. It is true that at this point in your life you seem to be using money as the sole yardstick by which to compare the relative worthiness of others against yourself. Having spent significant time with very wealthy individuals in the past, I can tell you that most of them are unhappy. The conspicuous consumption for which they're infamous is one way for them to paper over the inner void which sucks joy out of their lives.

You'll need to learn to see beyond the superficial. Money and status are fleeting in the grand scheme of things. What else do you have going on?
Hint: the answer should be yes
This chart shows where all the energy produced and used in the US in 2020 comes from and goes to.

LLNL have a descriptive page detailing what the diagrams show here: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/

There's a video explainer here: https://yewtu.be/watch?time_continue=53&v=OBuAzxp3EE0

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has produced these charts annually since the mid-1970s. The past ten years or so are archived at https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy and there's a deeper archive of earlier charts to 1976 here: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/archive.html

The chart is called a "Sankey Diagram", also know as a flow or flows chart. It can measure energy, materials, finances, data, or other numerable quantities. It's useful for visualising where things come from and where they go. Values are based on reports, measurements, and esstimates. The "rejected energy" value mostly refers to inevitable efficiency losses.

Units given are "quads", or "one quadrillion British thermal units" (BTU). One BTU is the energy required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree farenheit (1055 joule, 1.055 kJ, 0.3 Watt-hour (Wh)).

Energy Equivalents: For comparison, 92.9 quad is equivalent to:

- 98 quintillion joule (98 billion billion joule)

- 22.7 thousand TWh electricity

- 16 billion barrels of oil

- 2.34 billion tons of oil

- 3.3 billion tons of coal

Total Energy Use: The most interesting fact is that total energy usage fell, pretty considerably, from 100.2 quads in 2019 to 92.9. I think that's the biggest decrease on record (the 2008-9 recession and 1979 oil embargo would be my first options for remotely comparable declines), and is both huge (never before seen) and small (for all the economic disruption last year, the US saw less than an 8% decrease in total energy usage).

"Rejected Energy": Many people focus on this value and assume it can be easily reduced or lowered. Truth is it's been largely constant through the entire history of the energy flow charts (it's actually increased with time, from 53% in 1976 to 67% in 2020), though again, this may be an artefact of modeling.

For any thermal energy system (most electrical generation, internal combustion motors/transport), there's a maximum possible efficiency, given by Carnot's theorem, and which is entirely dependent on the difference in temperatures between the cold (intake) and hot (exhaust) sides of the engine.

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

For transportation there are also transmission, parasitic, and drag losses. Again given by formula.

1973 forecast and backcast plots: In 1973 a set of retrospective and predictive charts was made going back to 1950 and forward to 1990. Projections at the time were that the US would be using vastly more energy by 1990 than was actually true at the time, 148 quad, quantities it's still not reached 30 years later.
> visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation

What a repugnant philosophy.
Is Most Published Research Wrong? (2016)
>Nowhere have I claimed that the NCMEC databases are entirely devoid of miscategorised data

If NCMEC's databases have a false positive rate of 1 in 1,000, do you realise that means a false positive rate is substantially more likely than a hash collision?

>I am merely pushing back at your evidence-free claim that "it's full of false positives."

1 in 1,000 is "full of false positives" by my own standards, to which I've posted evidence from an employee whose company works directly with NCMEC.

>you continue to assume that the MD5 collision cited was from a NCMEC corpus and not "other law enforcement sources".

NCMEC and law enforcement are one and the same. FBI employees work directly at NCMEC. [1] Law enforcement have direct access to the database, including for categorisation purposes. To suggest law enforcement's dataset is tainted yet NCMEC's is not doesn't make any sense to me.

>You are clearly very confused

Address the 1 in 1,000 claim. Thorn is an NCMEC partner and a Thorn employee has claimed a false positive rate of 1 in 1,000. In press releases, Thorn is even less sure at 1% failure rates. Thorn uses perceptual hashing.

I can't see how you can simultaneously claim the database isn't "full of false positives" while acknowledging a failure rate as abysmal as 1 in 1,000.

I also didn't conflate anything, both a hash collision and a perceptual hash collision are less likely than a false positive, by an extraordinary margin. Apple claims their algorithm has a collision 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 times. Compare that to 1 in 1,000.

The database is full of false positives, and now presumably you'll deny both industry claims and NCMEC partner claims.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/cac
U.S. citizens living abroad still have to pay Federal taxes to the U.S. government. That applies regardless of where the money is earned.

You’d have to renounce citizenship to get out of that little gem.
Having had a range of early programming experiences, including BASIC and assembler on a ZX Spectrum,Pascal on an ICL mini and PL/1 on an IBM Mainframe,nothing I had seen or worked with up until that point came close to Visual Basic for hitting that sweet spot between power and ease of use.

I never got a chance to use Delphi in any serious way,so that might have been an alternative contender,but certainly VB was orders of magnitude easier than building Windows apps in C++ and Microsoft Foundation Classes, which was the other main alternative offering at the time VB3 appeared.

Non-programmers could use it to put together something that looked reasonably good and would work reasonably well without having to fill up their heads with a hideous morass of technological complications,and if you did have past development experience then it took away immense amounts of the pain and frustration which had previously been an inherent part of programming for Windows.

Having worked for two separate companies which managed to create serious long-lived applications and make quite satisfactory amounts of money using VB5 and 6, I'd also reject the idea that the language was inherently incapable of giving you the kind of control needed to do serious real-world work.

The default solutions which the UI toolkit pointed you towards often ended up as dead ends (the data control bound to an ADO or RDO database was a particularly terrible way of managing business processes and yet it was the one which Microsoft seemed obsessed with pushing people towards) but the language offered plenty of ways to do things which weren't terrible if you took the time to work out how to do so.

Yes, if you pushed things far enough the limitations of the environment's abstractions, the fundamental sloppiness of its language design,and the choices which it decided to make for you would start to really hurt in terms of performance or ongoing maintenance. And version control was a joke, and testing and release integration were worse,and DLL hell was something which bit you on an all-too-regular basis.But you could get a pretty long way before that hurt became acute,and in the meantime you could do much that was useful and productive
with much less up-front effort than you'd need to do the same thing in any current .net language,or even in something as supposedly friendly and accessible as Python.
Say congratulations and just go back to normal.

Multimillion dollar payouts are so rare that if you make that the goal then you will most likely fail. Chances are that your current job is a reasonable definition of success.
The photo of Professor Hagai Perets (Left) and Ph.D. student Yonadav Barry Ginat seems to have them in their native environment: the university's Science and Math library. If you zoom you'll see the Math and Science topics listed on the card for the book shelves behind them.
> Focus more on libraries, frameworks, and applications

I think this is the most important thing. Say I'm writing a web app -- I want a language that can run on both the server and browser and that has a web framework.

Or say I have a database -- I want a language that can talk to it.

Or say I have to interface with some data format, such as .png -- I want a language that has libraries that can read and write it.
IPv6 adoption is just sad. Sharing an anectode: Back in 2002, I was using a 56k modem on a linux box 24/7 from home with a dialup flatrate. Being an avid IRCnet user, I setup an IPv6 tunnel with a tunnel broker (I think it was Hurricane Electric - it was before Aiccu was a thing) and connected to the IPv6 IRCnet servers. There was once a channel #uptime which was a contest: On start of contest, everybody in channel got voice - and the person to last hold voice would win (you lose voice when your TCP connection disconnects). Even so I had a forced disconnect every 24h, amongst over 100 users (mostly Servers, Bouncers, Universities etc.) I ranked 6th place in the end (after couple of weeks), because my ipv4 dialup was reconnecting fast enough to receive the buffered ipv6 tunnel pakets from the broker. Today I have no more IPv6 since SIXXS shut its doors a couple of years back, and my provider (o2/Telefonica) hasn't roled it out to me yet.

Looking back those 19 years, the availability and state of IPv6 has worsened for me - even though IPv4 shortage was known back then.
Qixi Festival
The fact that you find private property "disconcerting" is enough to know this conversation is not going to go anywhere.
No. It’s not even hearsay. That’s the point.
in dance sport calling your partner a sport device ;)
I was an early employee (#20-something) of a startup that was acquired. The founder received 1 billion, the 2 other founders received 100 million each.

I got about 80 grand that took 4 years to vest.

You have to be grateful for the opportunities and experiences you’ve acquired and be honest with yourself—-I didn’t take the risks they did and since I was pretty junior at the time, wasn’t as influential as others.
The thousands of gay children under the age of 13, whose parents have opted into this program, who are sending or receiving pornographic images via iMessage and have chosen when prompted to notify their parents of that?

I can’t imagine that’s a big issue…
There's an MFM podcast with founder of Hubspot. He says something pretty sensible along the lines of the first $1m makes a huge difference to your life, the first $10m even bigger, after that it's irrelevant. The basic point being you can only sleep in one bed a night, eat 3 meals a day and so really you only need to get to $10m and your life is transformed.
The destruction of Bagdhad by the Mongols was one of the most destructive events in human history. It's hard to believe it today but Bagdhad was the cultural and learning centre of the world at the time. There's no telling what priceless works were lost, plus how many thousands of scholars were killed. Knowledge in medicine, astronomy, the classics (which were preserved by Muslim scholars), and god knows what else.
"Taxpayers liable to PIT:

Individuals of Spanish nationality who accredit their new fiscal residence in a country or territory labelled as a tax haven will not lose their status as taxpayers for Individual Income Tax. This rule is of application during the tax period in which the change of residence occurs and for the next four tax periods."

https://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/crs-implementati...
Started writing the blog post already
You are feeling envious. Learn to use it productively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk
Work on yourself until you are genuinely happy for him.
No real need to.

However they should be storing hashed passwords instead of plaintext. If they are not, I dread to think what the underlying account codebase is like.

2FA is nice for extra account protection but this site doesn’t jump out to me as something that _needs_ it.

Not a fan of recovery questions personally. Recovery questions are just an extra step to password recovery. The thing is, they are generally either answers that are publicly a available if you know who the account belongs to or they are filled with red-hearings which often just gets forgotten by your “average jo/e” because they are rarely used.

However I wouldn’t say this website is very friend to data security. It’s well know that your average joe will reuse passwords. It only takes one DB dump to now have email/passwords which can be spammed into other more sensitive sites.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28179241
I had the same problem. I felt so much better after i expressed how i felt to my friend. It is ok to feel that way, its compeletly normal. Don't try to overcome it, just ack that its normal and move on.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176255
Or if you have no problem with slightly archaic English, here is a free ebook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680
Spot-on presentation and reflects my experience
For the vast majority of people, what I wrote is entirely true. Yes, it’s complicated and some people will have exceptional circumstances. But most of the more complex tests on the page you list are for people who want to prove they are UK tax resident, not that they’re not!
Interesting introduction via a spot of Romanian 20th century history.
You’re spot on. Without complexity, the loopholes would be easier to see, and easier to use. Then less revenue. And with less revenue, what would Biden be able to spend? Social programs, military, and surveillance would suffer. We can t have that, now can we?
I have a feeling it's on hiatus due to the switch to Chez Scheme, which probably took more time and effort than anticipated.

The major reason given for that was easier maintenance in the future so now that's completed, I wonder whether the effort will now will be re-directed back to Rhombus.
It is maybe unfair to Racket, since it seems to have a lot of batteries included: it can produce stand-alone executables out of the box, has a working cross-platform UI toolkit, a packet manager, good documentation and an IDE... All this while being, strictly speaking, an academic research language.