skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning: Buddhism redox and incomplete ahead. The purpose of what I write is to whet your appetite and maybe spark an interest for a personal journey. I strongly advise and even recommend a proper introduction. I suggest D T Suzuki and Alan Watts for their introduction to Zen. Amazing vulgarisers of these concepts. Watts' lectures are available on YouTube.

In the Buddhist philosophy the notion that you can control anything other than yourself is considered absurd. Even conceding that you have control over yourself is being generous. A need for control then becomes a major source of frustration, or as it's often referred to in this context, dissatisfaction or suffering. By studying the philosophy, you gradually untangle the absurdity and you progressively start to see the theory be manifested in reality. You then learn to accept it and see the absurdity of your own desire for control.

I can say that to you and it might make sense. But that's still at the theoretical level. For it to be true to you, you need to make the journey yourself.
ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
Or better yet: "You'll read this if we say 'Nobel scientist' instead of just 'Academic', right?"

Anyway, as an admitted pedant, even I didn't make a big deal of the title.
Giving minors more control over their digital footprint

Soooo.... Why not give everyone the same control over their digital footprint? Yes, minors are a protects class not being if legal age, but it seems reasonable to allow anyone to opt out things like this.
Most of my work has involved shlepping bits from A to B, so I've become fond of the term Data Plumber.
can't reply to the latest message. Rite now it's theft. Tax's aren't used for american society. They're used to steal money from the poorest of our country to give to the richest of others (all the "foreign aid" is stolen through the inefficiency of bureaucracy). I'd be happy to pay taxes for services that I actually use, like roads and a police force and a fire station. But it doesn't make any sense to throw money into subsidizing somebody else's company or some other countries problems
> If Asians werent being specifcxally targeted but Blacks increased because their test scores increased, no one would complain.

Sort of. The problem is that many people do not believe that the test scores are an accurate representation of merit or an effective way of distributing the limited enrollment slots. People take it as a given that there must be an enrollment test but that itself is a policy devised by humans rather than something handed down from heaven.

> But stacking the deck against Asians and letting in people via lottery strictly to change the skin color statistics is abhorrent.

How does a lottery stack the deck against Asian students?

> No one cares if Asians are discriminated against, even though they deserve their place at TJ through hard work.

If you want to fight to ensure that people who "deserve" TJ have access, then the solution is to largely destroy the magnet school model and replace it with co-education with GMU next door. But for many people, the limited access is the point, because it allows people to read in magazines that TJ is the best public school in the country.

It isn't like prior to this change that there weren't huge numbers of qualified students turned away from TJ.
I'm 30, I have a wife, a toddler and another child on the way as well. I'm not sure I would classify my solo bootstrapped business as a "startup", but bootstrapping a business with a family is definitely doable. I ran my business on the side for years before reaching the point where I could do it full-time. I work 7am–6pm most days, and never work on weekends unless things "break." I try my best to prioritize my family above my work, even if that doesn't always happen.

You don't have to "grind" at the expense of your family (i.e. what you're working for!) like the influencers continually tout.

Was it hard? Absolutely. Is it still hard? Absolutely. But I absolutely think it's doable. You're not late.
I've donated hours of my life to resolving excel corrupted csv files. They haven't been satisfying hours.
In this case Hitachi didn't have a buffered supply. The warehouses were located literally across the street. The products were palletized at Seagate's factory in quantities matching Hitachi's product lines then delivered to the warehouse in a cadence closely matching Hitachi's consumption rate. So when Hitachi placed an order, a pallet was pulled and the ownership of the serial numbers on that pallet were transferred to Hitachi as it was delivered.

The logistics firm was the buffer allowing Seagate's product rate and Hitachi's consumption to be asymmetric in nature.
Modern research doesn't consist of magical researchers discovering new things in isolation.

This is not some marvel movie.

If someone has won the Nobel prize they've been changing and contributing in a huge way to their field of interest for many years.
AMD sold a ton of 386 and 486 processors and held much more market share than Cyrix. They were also very successful with their K6 and K6-2 Pentium competitor processors.
An issue I have with this essay is that it assumes that it's the absence of central planning which gives rise to unlivable and automobile dominated cities.

But if you look at old photos of European or American cities before the rise of the internal combustion engine, you typically see a completely unplanned street usage: bicycles, pedestrians, horse drawn vehicles, kids running amok, etc. all sharing the space in seeming anarchy.

It required massive central planning to replace this shared space with segregated streets with 90% of the space dedicated solely to motorised traffic. Entire neighbourhoods were razed to allow central planners to run huge new traffic arteries through the centers of cities. Land was "opened up" for suburban development through central planning and massive centrally planned road and motorway building.

I guess my point is that associating "central planning" with liveable patterns of development does not seem reasonable to me. Central planning can and has been used for good and for bad - it was used to destroy urban environments in favour of motorised vehicles in some places, just as it's been used to promote much more liveable development patterns in places like the Netherlands.
"Docker containers" are Linux processes with maybe a filesystem, cpu/memory limits, and a special network; applied through cgroups. You can do all of those things without Docker, and there is really not much overhead.

systemd has "slice units" that are implemented very similarly to Docker containers, and it's basically the default on every Linux system from the last few years. It's underdocumented but you can read a little about it here:
https://opensource.com/article/20/10/cgroups
Okay, 15 years too late
It would remiss of me not to repair dead links: https://web.archive.org/web/20210816111051/https://twitter.c...

Must be time for my annual donation.
> We're committed to building products that are secure by default, private by design, and that put people in control.

How can anyone believe this from any of the big tech companies at this point? The only way Google "put[s] people in control" is to let the public do their customer support for them, the only thing private is the details of their CIA connections, and the only thing secure is their market position.
Yep. I am currently needing to try and set up code coverage reporting in GitHub (can't use Codecov as the company does not want to pay for anything) and it would be so much more trivial if we could just write regular code rather than futzing around with Bash and yaml.
I agree, leverage up now on debt, just an insult to people that are financially conservative and don't want to have assets.
https://outline.com/Y3pRNd
With the water shortages around the world, can residential rain barrels provide a sufficient alternative? Is there a study for the number of barrels per person per climate?
That NSFW picture is, in honor of Sean Lock,
a challenging wank
I thought Instagram and Facebook were tied/unified under a single account now
The entire point of a floating price is that it increases until possible consumers drop off and some products are no longer viable.

It kicks low value products out of the market and prioritizes the high value products.
You still need to be able to see them in the first place. That is prove your age to Google.
You are missing the point of the article. This woman WAS prominent AND doing notable work AND was still deleted. The Nobel Prize, for the most part, recognizes notable work by prominent scientists.
Yes, but from what I understand, it won't be the most advanced plant making the smallest feature sizes, so it's not like Apple is going to be utilizing that plant (maybe for ancillary chips, but not main processor). Understandably, TSMC keeps a tight reign on their top-tier production methods, which is their reason for being #1.

It's also 3 years away from opening in AZ (2024). Then they have to fine tune the equipment and processes over x runs. New plants tend to have low yields until those processes are smoothed out and perfected. You don't just set up a plant and start churning out chips with 98% success rate at 5nm once the factory is built. It probably takes 5-6 years from construction start to churning out quality chips in numbers that are actually profitable.
adding to what you said, in the US the requirements of a professional engineering license varies by state;

but there has also been recent litigation and a court has ruled that having a degree from an engineering school in an engineering discipline entitles one to use the term
https://reason.com/2019/01/02/judge-confirms-that-oregon-eng...

the reason for the requirement and confusion is essentially building codes and other government regulations: if you want to build or repair a building, you need to hire people to certify the work as meeting building codes; those people need licenses. But at the same time, a company can hire a bunch of fresh engineering graduates to work a such a project and not every one of them needs a license. Unfortunately, we just have the one word engineer that applies to both. "Licensed engineer" would be a clearer distinction than "Professional engineer"
Agree but there are whole industries that's work this way. Looking at you banking and finance.
Yes, it is my subjective opinion that "typical online social content" is benign garbage and I think this report from Facebook is "damning" evidence supporting that opinion. I'm not naive enough to believe that giant social networks will produce anything else, but I don't think that's an excuse that keeps us from being critical of the networks or the content on them.
> This study seems to say that these drugs don't change how you think (i.e., somehow improving the effectiveness of the thought process) but what to think about; what's most important, or not.

FWIW, this is a fairly accurate description of my experience with ADHD. It’s not that I have trouble focusing; quite the opposite, I can focus for hours on the smallest detail. The problem is that without medication I don’t get to choose what that detail _is_. I could end up (and _have_ ended up) spending countless hours on inconsequential stuff because I can’t get it off my mind otherwise while I watch my life fall apart around me, unable to do a thing about it.
The ProPublica article examined effective income tax rates. It just mentioned wealth briefly. You left out the next sentence. "But even if you use the most conventional yardstick — income — the wealthiest still pay low rates."[1]

Long term capital gains are taxed less than all but the lowest income brackets. Social Security tax is capped. And the article used the IRS definition of total income tax. So it ignored taxes on goods and services.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-highe...
It appears to be commonly believed that a company has a greater duty to maximise the income of its investors than to be a good 'citizen'. As far as I can tell most people do not believe this and it is not required by law.
Yes. So, modern C++ says you want a unique_ptr to any owned resource you're not sharing, and otherwise a shared_ptr (or some equivalent smart pointer). Your 1981 API doesn't do that because those don't exist in 1981.

Maybe it gives you a raw pointer to new resources. In 2021 those are just loose references which don't signify ownership, you need the wrapper to avoid this confusion leaking into your program.

Maybe it gives you an integer handle which needs to be passed to some other API call to "release" the handle when you're done with it. Again you'll want a wrapper to handle this properly in your code or you may leak resources. You'll also want a wrapper because one integer is the same as another, but you probably shouldn't finished_with_cow(dog_number) or clean_up_dog(cow_number) even though those compile.

Being forty years old it invariably won't be thread safe, so you'd also want to wrap it for that reason unless (as is often the case in C++) your code isn't thread safe anyway.

"at least it's possible" isn't a differentiator. As I said you could also access this 40 year old API from Rust, but you'd want to build a wrapper for it because it the behaviour is so violently different from what's expected in the modern ecosystem.
Not just news, you can create bot armies that push narratives and influence online discussions.
Yes correct. The immutability and provenance of data are key characteristics that make blockchain useful here.
You have a much more optimistic perception of the quality of industrial deployments than I've heard from people who work on or with them.
Has any president in American history caused the American public to lose as much trust in the media as Trump?

Didn't like the guy much at all but loved how he exposed main stream media companies for what they really are nowadays.
Purposefully, no. In the same way that Leetcode style interviews are not purposefully biased in favor of young people.

But there shouldn't be an axiom that standardized testing is the best way to gauge merit and (more controversially) I believe that there shouldn't be an axiom that merit is the most effective way to choose what students have access to accelerated schooling.
> by all power structures

Including one of the largest power structures, "users who enjoyed the convenience of finding people."
> Merricks alleges Mastercard charged excessive “interchange” fees – the fees retailers pay credit card companies when consumers use a card to shop - between May 1992 and June 2008 and that those fees were passed on to consumers as retailers raised prices

Before I clicked I thought this was their monopoly under scrutiny and not about fees, since the only CC companies I know of is Amex/Visa/Mastercard who have a stranglehold on the market, much like Google & Facebook.

Cryptocurrency will hopefully change this, as I believe that's one of cryptocurrency's promises. Already I sound dated since crypto is now a mature thing you can actually use, albeit with some teething problems still present that haven't been ironed out.
The current page was created in 2014. [edit: Although it looks like everything before 2018 got deleted in 2018? I don't understand all the notation on the history page. [0]] This is after she served in various roles (including president) at The Optical Society, and of course after developing chirped pulse amplification, for which she won the Nobel, during the 1980s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donna_Strickland&...
If you are going to compare what you can purchase today vs then, you should be comparing what you got for $600 vs what you can get for about $1000 today.
A grain of salt is warranted. I also had Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and the interviewee said some pretty whacky things, maybe owing from the fact that he still has the disorder. He hasn't actually figured it out.

NPD is a tool to protect yourself from mind-shattering degrees of shame. You latch onto something that makes you feel special, and you hold onto it for dear life. All of your decisions will stem from a desire to validate or protect that sense of being special. You'll seek admiration to validate it, and you'll seek to destroy critics to protect it. You might be capable of empathy, even great compassion, but you'll remain utterly cruel and self-absorbed, because you're a drowning man. You're desperate, and you'll see people as objects you can push underwater to get a gasp of air, and you'll treat someone who snubs you as someone actively stepping on your head to drown you: your anger will know no bounds.

That's what fragile narcissists actually are. They're not wired differently; they're drowning men.

If a narcissist is strongly motivated, and if they have a decade to devote to schema therapy for their underlying intense shame, then they can slowly morph into a normal prosocial human.

However, that doesn't happen often, for a variety of reasons.
Did anybody experiment with cuelang as source for GitHub actions yaml?
> It shouldn't because this was always possible if someone really cared to just run their own public server with a /dig endpoint.

A lot of web features had always been possible by simply running them on your own server: Cross-origin requests, generating images on-demand, rendering vector graphics, etc. Nevertheless, when those features became available in the browser - without any additional effort needed from the developer - it had massive effects on the web ecosystem.

I can't say I have answers, but my suspicion is that it makes a significant difference in friction whether a feature requires you to setup and run your own infrastructure or whether you just need to type in some javascript to use it.

> If web security depends on websites not having access to public data that could always be proxied to it then we're already screwed.

To some extent it does - that's why you cannot access the body cross-origin GET requests or the contents of cross-origin iframes without those sites opting in - even if no cookies or other credentials are sent with the reqest.
Perhaps its strength is a lack of glaring weaknesses, which isn't as easy or common as it would sound.
Two I enjoyed recently-ish

* Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War: can a bio-engineered, cybernetically enhanced animal soldier still be a Good Dog when he's working for/owned by a PMC with questionable ethics?

* Kate Mascarenhas's The Psychology of Time Travel: deals with the philosophical and psychological implications of being a time traveller when your future is (a) utterly immutable and (b) known to you in intimate detail, not least from regularly hanging out with future versions of yourself.
Will this do?
https://www.eetimes.com/biden-ups-ante-to-50-billion-for-chi...
I'm really bad at closing old browser tabs, but Firefox was getting sluggish, so it was time. I started bookmarking interesting article, then realized something: I had significantly more things to read than things to do. What's the point of all this reading if I'm not going to put it to use?
To some degree that's true, though collisions will likely create cones of debris that extend significantly above and below the initial orbits, and those shards could smash satellites in those higher or lower orbits, thus continuing the chain reaction.

For example: two satellites collide head-on at an altitude of 300km, creating two debris clouds that extend from 250km to 350km. Each of those catches another satellite, one at 260km and another at 320km, which fragment into debris clouds reaching from 200km to 370km (all numbers made up).

Higher orbits, like geosynchronous, have a lot more space to work with and much slower relative velocities than low Earth orbits.
It costs the about same as the Intel Realsense L515 though.
Yes, targeted. Asians were the only demographic that dropped precipitously. Even White enrollment went up. So it was specifically targeted against Asians because it was “too high”.
I think they're simply acknowledging the fact that there are many permutations of formats out there and what they propose is a way to communicate what your particular format is without abandoning CSV completely.

I'm assuming it's in response to the post yesterday that outlined all the things that are wrong with CSV and how other formats like Parquet are better.
Thanks for the handy list.

No thanks to whomever thought it would be a great idea to truncate URLs in posts, thus making this list non-copy/pasteable. This forum software is really and truly perplexing sometimes.
My original take on Google when it another search engines were starting is that it should be illegal for them to scrape businesses without 1) explicit permission and licensing, and that 2) doing so across borders should be governed by treaty.

1 would be easily taken care of because businesses want their stuff indexed, but 2 would be quite something i.e. the ascent of privacy laws.

I'd also like to see this 'tool' made available to anyone. I'm not sure if random photos of people are 'in the public interest', or beyond that if we really get some kind of transcendent value out of all that 'data'. My bet is that most of the power we get from 'sharing' has to do with explicit knowledge i.e. news, research, data APIs etc.
I don't think that's a normal abbreviation. If you Google "DLLS" all the results are about DLLs (and that's obviously not because dollars are an obscure technical term). Maybe you were thinking of USD?
i think it's better to have multiple versions of wikipedia articles, maintained via something like github repo

the distribution would be via something like a search portal with ranking similar to Pagerank, or create an explicit mechanism of social voting on articles similar to Reddit.

yes, it might also be biased but at least there will be no single source of "truth" and people can make their own mind which version to believe, and be able to do something like "sort by controversial" as they do on Reddit so see different opinions
Some notion of control data should be added to this spec. Total lines to parse and so on could be included. Perhaps a hash...
> folks that couldn't hack STEM

Your first point was good but spoiled by this ad hominem attack. Being interested in STEM fields doesn't make one any smarter, or otherwise superior, to anyone else.
Taken from the top comment in another thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233819
If you join a virtual meeting with intervention like seating with a bunch of bobbleheads surrounding you with the angry inward sloping eye brows, you know you're in trouble. I wonder if you are able to make hand gestures in the meetings to flip off the other bobbleheads...
And the 487 FPU chip for them was actually a 486DX that just disabled the 486SX.
they are not. you can do cross-messaging between FB and IG if both parties have accounts linked, but otherwise you can have an IG account that is not linked to FB.
The author immediately contrasts the US, which itself is planned. Pretty silly if you ask me. I don't think there's a nation in the world that actually applies the liberal capitalist mode as Hayek wishes it to be applied. I would say because of the perception that America is the laissez-faire model, the culture of the US allows it to be further perverted while still maintaining the sheen of its laurels as a liberal state.
Thanks for the support!

My favourite take on the attitude the community has towards Git was posted by rossdavidh [1] in the "Git is too hard" thread:

> "Git is the bad boyfriend of the developer community. If anything bad happens it was your fault. If you ask it to do something and it does something else, it was your fault, and also you are stupid."

There must be a better way to do things, and we've made it our mission to find it.

We're not open-source yet. If you're interested in self hosting, reach out to me at gustav@getsturdy.com and we'll make it happen!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25124213
or in the way that oxygen is not water...