skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>how does one/how do we end up feeling like this?

For me personally, this feeling arises when I become overly focused on an end-state. My mitigation is focusing more on the process and trusting that, over time, the end-goal becomes a natural outcome of an effective process.
9 times out of 10 people will choose convenience over privacy. Google Photos is just too good to care about the supposed "privacy issues."
> I think it would be massively helpful if the devs would upload a DEB/Flatpak

Providing AppImage[0] would be enough for mostly all Linux users.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage

[1] https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-project...
For $65 US I could buy a couple of dozen real ones.
If companies have to outcompete criminals and intelligence agencies in the open market there will be no bug bounties, we'll just go back to the old way of doing things.

The reality is that if an organization is using a managed database and doesn't have service-provider vulnerabilities as part of their threat model, they are naive and arguably negligent.
As someone else who works on systems like these, I agree training data is the whole problem. However you can use some techniques like homomorphic encryption and gradient pooling to collect training data from client code while remaining end-to-end encryption. It's hard, but it's not impossible.
Are the cones mainly for keeping the train centered, or for allowing the outer wheel on a turn to be effectively larger? Not sure if the differential effect is an added benefit that isn't really necessary, or if it is the main goal of the design.
HTTPS should protect you from malicious networks.

Yes, but on the kind of network we're talking about, you probably won't be able to make an outbound HTTPS connection at all if you're not going via the required security infrastructure with an appropriate corporate-issued cert.
Is there a way to self host? Backend included?
Is there a way to self host the backend?
As an example of this in distributed systems:

There's a classic metastability issue in probably most implementations of state machine replication protocols such as Raft, where a lagging follower, if it sees an op that's newer than what it's expecting, must first repair and catch up its state (FIFO repair) before it can ACK back to the leader.

Apart from introducing latency in the critical path, this can lead to really bad queueing behavior where the lagging follower queues the latest request from the leader while it first catches up, but because this catch up can take seconds or minutes, in that time the pending request queue has also overflowed, and now we're back to state transfer catch up all over again, a vicious cycle.

However, there is a new approach (LIFO repair) that we developed for TigerBeetle [1] to eliminate this bimodality, maintain (and even reinforce) safety and achieve constant ACK latencies from all followers, no matter their state. If you're curious as to how this works, we'll be talking about this LIFO repair as part of Viewstamped Replication Made Famous [2], a $20,000 consensus challenge launching in September.

[1] https://www.tigerbeetle.com

[2] https://github.com/coilhq/viewstamped-replication-made-famou...
Iridium receivers are already quite manageable in size. An ultra-low-bandwidth version with smaller, cheaper receivers as part of their new constellation doesn't seem that far fetched. You only need 4kbit/s or so (after all the iPhone has plenty of power to run a good voice codec).
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I think this may be the primary reason why narrow-gauge railways are better at tighter curves: the shorter axle means the same wheel radius difference (caused by lateral displacement) causes a smaller turn radius versus a standard-gauge axle.
California: Mother fights mountain lion with bare hands to save 5-year-old son
There are lots of models, but the only study I’m aware of showed that blue surgical masks had ≈10% efficacy when worn correctly, with cloth masks and gaiters less effective.

Additional ventilation seemed to have better efficacy.
Ah I see now what you mean. I guess I agree. With this movie specifically I had some moments that were close to the "uncanny valley", as the actor playing Wallace was so closely imitating media versions of Wallace (from TV interviews) that it sometimes got almost to this person, but never exactly, which feels weirdly off. I also had the feeling that he was not portraying the real person, but rather the anxious persona he showed in those interviews.
Looks very promising. Can I add new jobs (tasks in Airflow's jargon) reusing my custom steps (operators in Airflow's jargon) during runtime? Also, is there something similar in Java, Go, etc.?
In my experience if I'm in flow for 14 hours and time flies it's because I'm doing a high-value refactor at roughly the right time (not premature)

If I'm doing a more open ended problem like modelling something from scratch (I have boxes and arrows on a piece of paper but the edge cases are still a mystery) then it's something I'll exhaust myself on much sooner
I don't really understand what is going on with Google.

They are paying Apple more than what they are spending on Android.
>The reasonable evidence is still that vaccines work and are effective and safe and the best way to end the pandemic, and that delta is still largely transmitting and killing people through the unvaccinated population.

the publicly available numbers that i mentioned (from MA, Israel, Singapore, UK) show that the chances of vaccinated to get infected is 25% of that of unvaccinated (400 out of 1400 with 65% vaccination rate, and that is without paying attention to an obvious fact that breakthrough infections are heavily undercounted due to vaccine softening the disease symptoms). The 25% chances is absolutely too big to speak about any meaningful effect on slowing the spread. Such conclusion clearly comes from basic statistical arithmetic, as well as from seasonal flu vaccine experience where the efficacy is in the same ballpark.
This is basically a fluff piece about a piece of non-news. Some alumni who actually know what’s going on wrote a newsletter explaining what the real deal is here: https://harvardchristianalumni.org/activities/
What kind of loads are we talking about here? How many requests per seconds? Or is each request response large?

Have you noticed whether it is worse for lots of small requests vs large data transfers?

I use a very similar setup, but haven't seen tinc CPU usage matter yet, though for very low traffic.
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alas, evidence to that efficacy of masks is severely lacking

tell me, why is that 16 months into this pandemic there are no definitive studies to measure the actual effect of masks, you know one with a control and masked people? Yet it is the easiest thing to measure ever.

We can test an actual life saving vaccine (that also carries huge risks while under development) with 40K volunteers but the mask seems to elude the scrutiny.

The CDC should just do the fracking study and put this issue to rest already. Strangely they are not.
The problem here is the distance to the satellite, which is an order of magnitude bigger than what 4G technology is capable of.
It actually means the fed decides how much profit they should make and then we give a blank check and they steal as much as they want. CNNs wealthy owners benefit from the rigged system.
To narrowly answer the question "why": Anything that made tracking meaningfully worse would reduce the aggregate value of Google searches on Safari, which would reduce the expected amount Google would be willing to pay them to be the default search engine.

It's essentially the same question as "why couldn't they just make DDG the default search on Safari": because it would hurt their pocketbook
I mean its possible, but without some serious engineering I can't see it happening.

First, leo needs a wedge of RF power. like 10-25watts. (less if you have satellites with a huge power budget)

You have that near your head, that means some _serious_ active antenna design.

Failing that some other engineering is going to be needed on the satellite end.

I can't see the regulators allowing that much RF power near your head.
They keep the train centered by the differential effect. The angle of the cone is very slight, nowhere near enough for gravity to overcome friction to cause the train to slip laterally into the center. And then keeping the train centered as the track turns results in the train turning with the track.
The average people will call one of their family/friend that knows about computers/phones most as a tech assistance. Because they obviously have no clue about how to use it them self. And it's lucky that it is not you in this case.
Couldn't have done it without Semlar, the current maintainer (fun fact, i never played Warframe, this was a job for a client/friend). Glad it's of use to you!
my understanding is the later: https://youtu.be/agd8B-31bjE?t=106
The title and narrative of this article is an egregious misreporting of the CDC report, and was obviously crafted to be divisive click bait.

Pinning this exclusively on the unvaccinated teacher is unfair and not supported by any hard facts from the CDC's investigation and findings [1].

1) Causation was not established. The delta variant was likely circulating throughout the entire school. For example, kids across multiple grade levels tested positive (these kids are not in the same classrooms). Also parents and siblings tested positive. It's extremely plausible that the teacher was not the 'index' case, even considering symptom onset dates (many infections are asymptomatic especially in children). Most importantly, since the students were only tested after the teacher tested positive, the test results cannot determine who was the true index case.

2) All 3 vaccinated adults were symptomatic, which speaks to the fact that although the vaccines are still effective at preventing severe outcomes, the delta variant has undermined vaccine efficacy at preventing infection (decreasing from 91% to 66%) [2].

> Among the five infected adults, one parent and the teacher were unvaccinated; the others were fully vaccinated. The vaccinated adults and one unvaccinated adult were symptomatic

3) This teacher should not have been at work if she had symptoms, which is partly a reflection of school policies and the lacking benefits of many elementary school teachers in general (eg limited paid time off).

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e4.htm
I believe Windows 11 will be 64bit only, so I guess that means no more NTVDM and no more win16 support. In that case, there won't be any windows 3.1 16-bit code left over. On the other hand, win32 was designed to be mostly source-code-compatible with win16, and I'm sure you'll find elements that have been given a minimal win32 porting effort, while a "git blame" equivalent would probably trace back to windows 3.1 still.

On the other hand, 32bit Windows 10 is still going strong and there are probably plenty of windows 3.1 (and windows 3.0) applications that would still run there.
> I have trouble understanding why anyone would think it's written in bad faith.

Well, for one, it's hard to start a good-faith discussion about a tool by calling it totalitarian in the introduction paragraph.
PRC assumed all of ROC holdings when UN recognition switched. Though really none of it matters, PRC / ROC is in an ongoing civil war over territories that both parties currently occupy. Historical narratives used to rationalize legitimacy and legality is just the veneer over domestic and geopolitics. While PRC having legal claims over TW helps, ultimately PRC will conduct even an illegal war over TW as police actions if it has to, just like how the US conducts illegal war around the world. The Chinese civil war never ended.

At the end of the day, it's really that simple. If ROC/TW wants to hold on to what it conquered from natives of Formosa, they will have to defend it with blood. Ditto with Americans who think they can deter PRC on core sovereignty issues, when they couldn't even deter PRC from fighting over Korea while the US was a nuclear power. The west can craft whatever ahistorical story they want to cope, but until they commit to exchanging SanFrancisco/Sydney/Tokyo for Shanghai over Taipei, their opinions simply don't matter for PRC calculations over TW.
I would have to ask you to explain a bit more why is it that - you took from my comment?

I am not writing about one or the other being better, so I would like to see more context from your point of view.

I enumerated problems as I understand those and tried to match proper tools - while thinking that as a lot of businesses pay for CRUD work, they think it is valuable as in monetary value not in some absolute terms of what we can achieve with software development. I don't think solving hard problems that are "0.5%" of development work done in some esoteric language is greatest achievement or best in absolute terms.
I rather like the Interlisp-D approach where while you edit in a live environment it then syncs the modified versions back out to lisp source files on disk as its standard/natural workflow.

I suspect the way you're working with slimv is at least somewhat comparable in terms of making getting that part right the path of least resistance, which is itself a form of developer experience ergonomics.
> The article doesn't say much, but it may have to do with the design of the system

I'm thinking the same. Obviously I don't know nothing factual. Was looking at this video of how the shuttles look from the inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9DNV0zGC8

I observed these things:

- it looks like at least on this video the shuttles appear to be in manual operation.

- the A pillar is crazy thick. One could hide a whole circus with elephants behind it from the driver.

- maybe because of the above, the driver has video screens in front of them.

- there appears to be two on-board attendants (a hostess and a driver it seems)
Religious flamewar will get you banned here. No more of this, please, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No chance getting that on travel visa, but you're right
You don't always need to code a backend for your website forms
Haha, myself personally?

No, I think any drugs that have been measured and studied to be less harmful than alcohol should be completely legal. And so that is, checks notes all of big ones. [1]

I see decriminalization as a minimum. I do also think a legalization or decriminalization strategy should take into account the harms associated with these substances and offer programs to mitigate social and individual harms.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/25/what-is-...
Backblaze: “Why does the private key still need to be sent to your datacenter?”
The feeling never really goes away. For me at least.

I just accidentally raised $1,931 yesterday for Tensorfork Labs, a non-profit I started ... also yesterday. https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1431462744906141696

I was blown away that everyone suddenly offered so much support. We have people filling out notion docs (http://wiki.tensorfork.com/) and an active Google Chat chatroom with 12 interesting people in it. And to top it all off, Nat Friedman (Github CEO) DM'ed me last night and I'll be talking to him in approximately three hours.

You'd think I'd feel thrilled and like I'm extremely effective. I am thrilled, but all I feel is that I haven't done as much as I could. Talking and walking are two different things, and now that we've talked, it's time to walk the walk. But the truth is, I felt guilty sleeping most of today while everyone else has been talking excitedly. I felt that if I pushed myself a little harder, I could've been more effective, or more diligent, or lived up to my responsibilities more.

But that path leads to burnout. Good work is a marathon, and things take time. (Unfortunately it sometimes seems ~impossible to internalize that, and the temptation to sprint is always there.)

If you're looking for a mental hack to make the feeling go away, the only thing that helps me is to remind myself that even small deltas have value. My personal goal is to make imagenet2012 accessible to every programmer. It's a small, obscure itch that I am scratching for myself. But it's mine, and I can fix it, which is good enough.

So just do what you can, where you can, and be authentic. No one can know how things will play out. Doing your best is all you can ask of yourself.
Power is not an issue for a very low-bandwidth system like Iridium, which only provides 2400bps. Starlink's bandwidth is 10,000x higher, and in a nutshell that's why they need a lot more power. Starlink also uses an active phased-array antenna, while Iridium uses a passive ("dumb") omnidirectional antenna. This also contributes to a greater power budget for Starlink.
Wow, this sounds very ambitious!

Perhaps you could somehow attach the piezoelectric component or bars to a micrometer [1] which is designed for accurate and repeatable measurement?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometer
Given the size of my Garmin 64st, I bet that most of that thickness is down case design. Apple sacrifices a lot of durability in the name of making the “thinnest iPhone ever”, while Garmin often goes in the exact opposite direction for fairly obvious reasons.
We had started off with AES, and the performance was abysmal on low-end mobie devices and certain web browsers. XChaCha20 in comparison added negligible latency and seemed less prone to human errors.

These weren't the sole reason however. There's a lot of literature on the security aspects of XChaCha20, some of which I'll link below:

- https://soatok.blog/2020/07/12/comparison-of-symmetric-encry... (in our case your masterKey is used to sign all your fileKeys)

- https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/34458

- https://nordpass.com/features/xchacha20-encryption/#why%20No...

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/do-the-chacha-better-mobile-perf...
Fowler and "Uncle Bob" are in different solar systems. Fowler may get things wrong, but he's not a total hack like Bob. "The Clean Coder" is one of the most disgusting things I've ever read.

Flagged for accuracy.
You do realize at the very least that different academic fields have developed different lingo, and that words therefore mean different things in different settings?
Unvaccinated elementary school teacher; half class positive for delta
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full title == [An unvaccinated elementary school teacher took off her mask for a read-aloud. Within days, half her class was positive for delta.
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As the other comment implied, infinity and exactitude are two sides of the same coin. Exactitude is infinite precision. No finite amount of empirical evidence can afford infinite precision, so you’re back in math-land.
I never had your problem, so this might not work well for you, but maybe it will:

Write everything you spend money on down in a single place before you buy it. If you buy a book and pen to do this they can be your first entry.

Creating an awareness of what you spend money on gives you a chance to ask if you will value the thing as much as your impulses are telling you.

This goes generally, lots of self help people suggest keeping a diary, and reviewing it.
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I too am missing my 1990s forums experience. This feeling, and a particularly frustrating few minutes spent on LinkedIn prompted me to write something about it.

I discuss some intellectual problems and solutions.

https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/
Feynman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAwDvbIfkos
True but then please try to back up your hard claims with some references. Fowler himself made the restrictions of the microservice pattern very clear in several posts…

So don’t blame him for stupid architectural design decisions!
That's a very welcome blast from the past! :)

Feel free to send an email if you want to catch up.
Fed will keep rates low under the Democrats because Democrat tax/regulatory policy is too significant a threat to the economy.
Personally, I don't understand why there is so much surprise. If you really think about it, your avatar is something you will look at a lot. So you naturally choose something you like. And people have tendency to chose live objects rather than say, a gigantic 3D number, particle system, or white light. There is not really much choice; humans (humanoid characters, like elfs), animals (& imaginary creatures & hybrids, four-legged animals are typically weird to control in 3D environment) and maybe robots.

I feel seriously old since I've been using furry fox avatar in SecondLife back in the 2006, and even then, this was fairly common.
> But maybe this result that seems somewhat… odd, is an indication that those axioms have an odd corner somewhere.

The only way you're going to avoid getting results like this is with axioms like "there is no such thing as an infinite number". At that point, the real line doesn't exist (too many points) and it becomes impossible to duplicate spheres by dividing them at a level of fineness that also doesn't exist.

But that's not a productive approach to anything.
Why all the hate?
Seems like it would be a lot easier and a lot more powerful to use SVG instead of a giant string of URL parameters.

Your service could provide pre-made templates and an editor, and expose textfields, images, fonts, etc options via URL parameters. Then your service just has to render the SVG and return it as an image with the requested dimensions/format.

Example:

`https://img.bruzu.com?s=<TEMPLATE ID>&title=Hello&font=arial&width=800&height=480&fmt=png`

You could also pass the raw SVG source as a parameter as well, maybe with base 64 encoding or something like that.
> There's few companies that are in the market for 3 star Michelin style software.

I’ve been in the industry for almost 20 years, and been part of startups and worked at FAANGs, but I’ve never experienced a company have that mindset.

My experience has been that individual engineers are the ones that have that mindset and if two or more coincidentally get to work on the same project, the strive for excellence flourishes across the team and sometimes beyond. But it’s a very fragile ecosystem that can be disrupted by an eager management.
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And it’s not exactly out of the realm of possibility that some analyst somewhere just really dislikes pornography. It’s not like there isn’t a robust anti-porn movement purposefully using “think of the children” as cover.
If the question is a matter of absolute numbers, which for body count it is, then yes I can.
ITT: people insist that a term of art is objectively wrong because it doesn't match their subjective lay sensibilities.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/term_of_art
I'd say if our universe makes such computations possible, then that would be very interesting.
Sure. It just made me curious what you could do.

Also, there are a fair number of duplicates in Barclay's original list, so it's even more lazy an effort than that :)
I sympathize with this, how do you think remote work could be made better?
I get in, uh "discussions" with pro-navy people a lot about ICBMs. Admittedly I get most of my anti-surface navy bias from War Nerd and the Millenium Exercise...and Argentina sinking UK ships in the Falklands... but still.

Is it true that the basic cruise supersonic missle that hugs the surface and then plops up and drops from above is basically undefendable by surface ships? It's guidance that is 1970s tech at best.

Other Navy guys said their ships would start going into evasive maneuvers and no missle at hypersonic speeds could hit them. With JDAM tech that seems pretty specious.
In other news it is 12X easier to catch Delta after you are vaccinated.

Enjoy your shots libtards.
No, I know it doesn't provide any basis for FTL travel. It was more a link for the commentors stating that nothing can travel faster than light. I should have labeled it better =/