skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if this is, in fact, a good thing? This AI-obsession allows employees to game the system, play around the rules and optimize for the metrics that can be easily discovered. That is terrible, but is it any worse than the current state of corporate politics, where privileged people form their own clubs and prevent anyone else from joining?

The AI, at least, doesn't see color, gender, sexual orientation, what hobbies you like or you don't like. The machine, as long as you play by its rules, is fair. And I seem to prefer the machine rules, than the rules at the boys club.
When it was announced fleets were going away... had to look up because had no idea what a twitter fleet
This really has nothing to do with those protocols as scanning happens on-device when files are just lying around.
This was the first thing that came to mind. Rock & Roll may have died in this decade but the innovation of the 90's made it worth it. I fear for 2031 once the tik tok-ification of music has run its course.
I'm still bitter that they removed variable speed and variable pitch playback. It was invaluable, and there was no reason to remove it.
I've come to the same conclusion for the main product which always moves forward and currently has limited and tightly coupled relations. If the product gets lots of external consumers, then making it more versioned might make sense.

But for common libraries SemVer feels good solution for not breaking the main products and helps making developers to think about breaking changes etc.
Who were you, Denvercoder9? What did you see?
Twitch is the biggest customer I know of, if you subscribe to a Twitch channel, the only option for payments is Xsolla.

Maybe a bit of motivation for them to move to their parent company's payment system.
Things are not normal in Sweden.

https://www.thelocal.se/20210812/in-numbers-covid-19-cases-c...
Instruct the AI to move the project to a versioning system that supports full calendar year.
It seems like several Mac OS utilities get no or negative attention. QuickTime, Image Capture, Disk Utility, and the Finder itself are broken or are missing features. I doubt Apple will repair them.
You are absolutely correct. Moreover, reifications can be useful or harmful - purely based on how they are being used. That's why maps are actually useful, except for several individuals that died in Australia and other places by trusting their navigators more than their own eyes and actual surroundings. I've been in situations where GPS malfunctioned and when I quickly realized it I understood that I should not follow the map.
Many of these articles could be generated automatically with a script using GPT-3. Simply supply a collection of tweets as a parameter.
> Education... we have more and arguably better, but more expensive.

There are many thousands of people on this forum that have gotten a free education and in turn, one of the best careers in history from that free education that would never have been possible until recently.

I'm seeing more and more people (that aren't designers and engineers) are forgoing classical education and making a great living for themselves just by utilizing the freely available information on the internet.
Urban Crude: Oil Extraction Facilities Hidden in Plain Sight
Apple Research Suggests AirPods Could Be Used to Estimate Respiratory Rate
Sounds like Cal Newport's Time Blocking method taken to an extreme (because it suggests to block time for everything): https://www.timeblockplanner.com/
Isn't that the other way around? I thought clang was trying to support all gcc extensions to be able to build Linux kernel.

I would rather see both of these compilers to stay competitive to push themselves higher.
Consumer USB thumb drives, like consumer-grade micro SD cards, are designed for minimum cost per bit and not for reliable data retention over long periods of time. If you're not familiar with the terms SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC, you probably want to look them up and understand the implications.

Were I in your place, I'd start by looking for industrial SLC USB flash drive manufacturers (e.g. https://www.transcend-info.com/Embedded/Products/No-711
or https://www.delkin.com/products/industrial-usb-flash-drive/ but no endorsement of either is implied) and consult with their sales staff to find out what their data retention estimates are. If microSD cards are an option, industrial SLC versions are available as well, e.g. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/SanDisk/SDSDQED-008G-XI... , which specifically advertises a 10 year data retention if only written once. Needless to say, they won't be cheap.
It is and should be a right for a lot of things.

I imagine few people doubt the practicality of trust in a transaction or application as you mention.

But we should be able to sit in a cafe and discuss our plans for cultural subversion and last night's sports event without the *till* shopping us out to the thought police.
My two favorite that I own are sw8.link and snack.dev
Houston area resident here. Largely agree with your analysis. Whether or not the great exodus from California is true or not, Im seeing lots of CA license plates around lately(along with more out of state plates in general). Maybe they drove here to visit friends and family, maybe they moved here.

In 2018/2019 there were rolling blackouts during the peak of summer, which to my knowledge we have not had on my section of ERCOT this year.

My beef with the grid is with the aging infrastructure. I live 40 miles from downtown Houston in what used to be a rural area, and now is becoming a suburban area. The local grid has not had any upgrades and has a lot more stress on it with the increase in demand. We lose power to a blown transformer or fuse on average of 4 times per month.
It seems to have broken hinting on some platforms. Not all users are seeing the same rendering. Here’s what the broken rendering looks like for some: https://twitter.com/_Soilleir_/status/1425542928970170376

Differently broken hinting on some versions of Android: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1425545266757779463
GameStop’s Power Player: How Outsider Ryan Cohen Wrested Control
Related from a few months back:

ANSI Escape Artist – webapp for generating terminal escape codes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26609452
There’s nothing that says you can’t have patches in calver, as e.g. `YY.MM.patch`. So you can definitely have an LTS calver release, or even back port new features. You just have to do it in the patch version, or adopt some other variation of the scheme, e.g.`YYYY.minor.patch` or `YY.MM.minor.patch`
> Apple has unlimited access now

Always been. You don't own your iOS based device which is very closed source and mostly unusable for any other operating systems.
You'd at least want to keep it at ±1 once it reaches that value instead of oscillating.
>> I'm all for Intel helping improve LLVM, but the technical arguments for maintaining a separate commercial version don't convince me at all.

This is exactly why GCC is GPL and why RMS didn't want to make it more modular. Taken to the extreme we could end up with proprietary hardware that requires a proprietary (closed) compiler even though it's built on open source. Going back to "trusting trust" things might not be so good, and we know Intel is happy to build untrustworthy chips.
Oh, interesting!

I guess the reason why I've assumed somethings off is because both Google Drive, Youtube etc. seems to take 10x longer do encode MOV files vs. raw MP4.

So you are saying there shouldn't be a difference then?
Mosh's tolerance for high packet loss helps a guy escape from an elevator
This advice is not great! From the top:

Flat promise chains aren't fully general (you'll need a lot of trivial helper functions to do anything other than sequence of single operations). This is fine because you shouldn't be using nontrivial .then()s outside of utility code.

Alternate advice: always use async/await for asynchronous control flow.

Request limits, toobusy, and several other pieces of advice assume you're throwing a single node process on the internet directly. Do not do this, you probably want at least an nginx or other battle-ready front end proxy, and probably want a CDN and/or load-balancer too. Configure these correctly to not send overlarge, weird, slowloris, etc., requests through to the node processes.

The thing about express letting API attackers create exotic objects is genuinely scary, and if true makes me want to not use express anymore or at least install a middleware to drop requests that try it.

Describing anti-XSS measures as 'escaping' is a little questionable, you should be using proper tools for generating machine-readable information, not string concatenation or (shudder) interpolation. Build a DOM, convert it to text, send it out unmodified.

IP level rate limiting simply doesn't work, at least not in the trivial "just use bouncer" way described.

It's unexplained what you could possibly use object property descriptors for to obtain security benefits. They are not, in general, a security perimeter. If attacker is running code in your context, attacker has won.

uncaughtException is difficult to use correctly, error prone, and has little to offer in general. The default behavior does the right thing. uncaughtExceptionMonitor lets you do a little extra logging before crashing if you like and is less of a footgun.

Much of the rest of the advice is generic web application security recommendations.
Computational Type Theory [1/5] – Robert Harper – Oplss 2018
It took a while there to tell what they're hoping to accomplish. It's not like legislators are going to care when you show them evidence the maps are not fairly drawn. They already know that and are doing it on purpose.

But apparently at least a few states outlaw gerrymandering and the practice can be challenged in court if you can prove they were drawn unfairly for the explicit purpose of giving one party an advantage. It's notoriously hard to prove that and these people are hoping they've created tools that be convincing to a judge.

Of course, not all partisan advantages are the result of gerrymandering. State boundaries aren't gerrymandered, but equal representation in the Senate still results in extremely disproportionate influence of rural people.
If you prefer to listen rather than read, there are free librivox recordings of this story: https://archive.org/search.php?query=the+machine+stops&and[]... and there is also an audiobook version you can find on Audible etc.
Dominion machines use paper ballots or generate paper trails that can be hand counted to verify that the electronic count was correct.
Do you mean “adversaries from the inside” could be more detailed to create reasonable limitations on access and resources as imposed by external systems (eg cameras, guards, searches) securing the machines?
The key is the last sentence, its like someone who scheduled a liposuction every year or two to deal with the problem of eating 12 pizzas every day.
The Manta has thicker materials compared to other masks, so when I turn my head on my pillow, the mask is often pushed off my face slightly. You can tighten it of course, but then its a comfort tradeoff. I wouldn’t recommend manta for this reason.
This is actually a great little advertisement for CalVer and SemVer baked into a send up of some pretty important projects with goofy ZeroVer history.

I use ZeroVer on documents that are in a draft state to signal that they're draft, and the version drops once the doc is final.

SemVer is great for protocols, as it signals compatibility promises, and the ZeroVer alias of a protocol version means it's in development (there be dragons).

CalVer is great for software releases, operating systems, etc, as it makes debugging/triaging easier.

Whichever you use, version your protocols and releases please. It's an incredibly common problem with software, that people don't think about the value of versioning and the impact it has on parallelism in engineering/development.

Versioning. Do it.
>The lessons from history are often that things can and do get worse, sometimes for generations, before improving again later.

The example I like to think about for this is imagine being born in the eastern European bloodlands - Eastern Germany, the Baltics, Poland, Byelorussia or Ukraine around 1895-1900. Things are pretty good up until the Great War starts, which back then you would be old enough to be considered an adult for, and then it is wars, famines, repressions and totalitarianism for the rest of your life as you likely die just short of the Iron Curtain falling. That's a pretty bleak life. Yet many people lived it, and found love and purpose and had families under it and those civilizations as a whole eventually recovered.
I can't stand this "twitter hates x" trend where articles use a handful of embedded tweets to make their case, but then you look at the engagement on those tweets and they have like 2 likes. Good job, you found a couple of random people on twitter talking to themselves. You can do that for any opinion under the sun.

Maybe people really do hate the font, but use some real numbers to make your case, not this anecdotal vox pop fluff.
Hm, does the switch to SWC impact babel config support?
Nvidia Releases CUDA Python
No, because they are void where I live.

(More specifically, in the EU any terms/conditions imposed after sale of goods are non-enforcable).
The reason for this global effort was because SARS-CoV2 was overrunning healthcare systems.

The CDC also said:

> Among the 469 cases in Massachusetts residents, 346 (74%) occurred in persons who were fully vaccinated

> Among five COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated

In other words, 80% of infections that require hospitalization are from vaccinated patients.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm
Environment: air quality in most places has continued to improve (and considering the growing evidence on the harms of air pollution, this may well be the single most important item on this whole page), forest area has increased , and more rivers are safe to fish in

Because almost all the industrial production that pollutes water and air moved to third-world countries, where people suffer from pollution. Same for thrash that is taken to China, India, Indonesia for "recycling", but is actually burned in fires or thrown into the ocean. I wouldn't consider it an improvement due to advances in technology.
Don't reply to spam mail, it lets them know 1, it's a valid address and 2, you'll engage with them

If that fails look up their hosting provider ( https://www.whois.com ) and report it directly to them, you can also complain to your equivalent of the ICO ( https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/nuisance-calls-and-messa... ) although they're mostly toothless.
Annuities are the only option if you want to end with zero. But you can instead obtain an amount of money that will almost certainly not go below zero when invested in equities and then donate the remainder upon your death. This amount of money is lower than the amount required for an annuity.

Thus, the distinction between "I want to die with precisely zero dollars" and "I don't want generational wealth transfer".
I had emperor.io for years, used it for misc projects, email, etc... got contacted to sell it recently and ended up letting it go.

originally bought it to host a error reporting platform back in 2014 or something, but never finished the project, as is tradition.
Apple failed to deploy E2EE iCloud because the FBI asked nicely (with a wrench in hand probably).

The leading narrative on /r/apple is now that "oh this invasive spyware has to exist so that apple can do E2EE iCloud", which is nonsense.

If they had done their job and deployed E2EE iCloud we wouldn't "need" this system in the first place.

It's a classic government pattern:

1. Create the problem (blocking E2EE such that providers have unencrypted copies of your content)

2. Screech and complain about this

3. Demand they do the thing you really wanted in the first place to solve the problem you created
> Yes, it's considered legal.

No, it's not. At least not here in Germany. By law, even police officers are not allowed to look at child porn. The only institution explicitely allowed to do so is the BSI.

The rest of the population implicitely incriminates themselves when they look at (not own) child porn, including Apple's legal entity or employees.

See [1] for 184b Strafgesetzbuch

I'm trying to point out that with this action Apple bluntly decided to ignore a whole lot of countries and their federal laws, which is not something I would embrace - even when they had good intentions.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__184b.html
I agree and my first statement was this is bad. My point was why has no one been complaining about it already being very bad and reacting with "I'm selling all iDevices" when it gets worse?
I'm pretty sure there should be a Chuck Norris joke in there. OTOH, you got mail from Chuck Norris.
Urbanization in the US has consistently increased throughout the entire time the car has been in existence.

> If cars were somehow to be made undesirable then we’d want to live in more compact spaces.

Poor people, mostly. Wealthy people could continue to live where they want. Forcibly making car ownership more undesirable seems like an extremely regressive choice.

I would rather see the trend towards mega-cities reverse. Not to rural, but to small & medium sized cities that are more livable, which are then connected by good transportation.
It happened outside of the SV bubble.
a NASA video which uses feet as measurement unit
To me, the article seems panglossian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide).

Some of the "upsides" (e.g. improvements in patent regime) just aren't there. Some aren't as wonderful as they are described.

I'm in my mid-sixties; I'm very much a candidate for the "things were better in the old days" brigade.

But I do think many (most?) things have improved. Housing is better; healthcare is immeasurably better (unless you can't afford it); and mobile telephony has improved the lives of at least a billion people worldwide.

Because I'm not miserable old git, I'm not going to list downsides.

[Edit] OK, I'll list one: permanent war.
Let those who want 2m stone pay for it, and let all others suffer in ignorance
There are plenty of national chains in various industries though, they just maintain ownership of multiple "hubs" and potentially get some economies of scale on national marketing.

There is no reason "a national taxi service" couldn't operate in the top 50 US metros, even if each metro managed local hub operations.
Early 90s Eastern Europe would be a tough environment for a 18 year old. There was a lot of friction moving away from from the old system (not that Belarus living in 2021 is that much easier)
Cycle Time Breakdown: Reducing PR Review Time
These are somewhat dangerous as the additional airspace allows CO2 to build up. I haven't seen good studies either way, but there's lots of anecdata out there of people reporting symptoms.
Seems like a company that makes mobile games. The culture around those companies seems built around hiring a lot when a game takes off, then slashing headcount when growth tails off and ad dollars fall.
If you grant that is possible to "feel happy" (for whatever definition of "happy" you choose), then happiness can be defined the state (or the "emotion") of feeling happy. Sure, happiness is not a concrete entity (though it does have concrete/physical underpinnings in people's brains), so in this sense it doesn't "exist literally", but I don't know where you're going with that. You can still measure it and devise strategies to have people experience more of it.
Thanks everyone, very interesting and probably worth further reading!
1. Lose weight and get fit, everything else depends on this.

2. Start doing social things that require fitness. Hiking is a good one, join a club. If you don't have a partner, this will help you with finding one.

3. If that's your thing, start some small project/business. If not, volunteer at something of deep value to society or yourself. Spend a nice chunk of your time on this one.

4. Travel
The point where they say that you can build it trivially and then proceed to list a bunch of obviously not trivial steps always gets me. It really captures that senior engineer vibe.
> So this is some sort of compromise to increase speed?

Partially. The main purpose is to increase time domain accuracy on low frequency. If you want to do experiment on window length (in time domain), use ffmpeg showcqt filter (https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#showcqt). showcqt-js window length is hardcoded to tc=0.33 attack=0.033 and tlength='st(0,0.17); 384tc / (384 / ld(0) + tcf /(1-ld(0))) + 384tc / (tcf / ld(0) + 384 /(1-ld(0)))' (https://github.com/mfcc64/mpv-scripts/blob/a0cd87eeb974a4602...).

> Have you thought about implementing in WASM?

It is implemented in WASM.

> Agreed, but for a visualisation, it could just be a parameter just for the user to mess with.

If you want to do experiment on it, showcqt.js exposes intermediate color data cqt.color[]. It can be modified arbitrarily, including autocorrelation. If some day I do experiment on it and find that the result is satisfying, maybe I'll include it in YouTube Musical Spectrum.
The moment you cross 10M items or 100 QPS then scaling such a system becomes non-trivial. That's not a high threshold for any enterprise software company handling customer data or any consumer tech company with >10M users. Once you add other requirements to the mix, such as index freshness and metadata filtering, the managed options where this is already built-in start to become compelling even at lower volumes.

Also, Pinecone (disclosure: I work there) has usage-based billing that starts at $72/month, so "paying for the technology" is not that scary.
For obvious reasons US does have more of a 'uh we bootstrapped from from first principles' approach to political theory, the UK explicitly does not. I would argue that there are good and robust ways to do things in the former sort of a system, possibly ways that are even better than the latter, but I think the US polity has basically been a 250 year struggle to figure that out. I dunno, the US is not doing terribly, there have been some horrible mistakes, but that's to be expected, there are no sinless governments and societies as far as I can tell.
I don't know where you live, but at least in North America the requirements for a loan are laughably low. I once was interested in getting a vehicle loan on a new vehicle purchase. I gave the financial guy all my information and he showed me the terms. I agreed to them and bought the vehicle.

I have no idea how, but he issued me a loan on that vehicle using incorrect information for basically everything except my address. Name, birthday, etc. did not match. Somehow the system had a completely different set of records. When I called the lender about it, they didn't even seem surprised. Just took a phone call to get everything corrected and a new set of paperwork mailed out to me.
I mean GCC kinda picked their path back when they made it hard to be modular. The market has spoken and looks like LLVM made the right call.