skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes, that's all true. The approach of alternating reads of blocks is slow only if you need to do it. If there's a diff in the first block (or so) then there's not much to read.

But it's a good example why there can't be one optimal strategy for finding duplicates. Depending on the data set composition, various implementations turn out the fastest. It depends heavily on where most the files differ (or not).
> I'm really glad someone is investing in this

A lot of companies have been investing in this for a while now. Primephonic (which Apple just bought) is only one example. I use Idagio, and I'm very impressed with the quality of the metadata and the search function.
I used to be a GS-15, Step 5 for a short stint in government while living in SF. I was within $5k of the pay cap due to the location adjustment. Cap was somewhere around $165k at the time. Still, this was significantly worse than my job before and after.

For some people on the team their government salary was a good step up, others didn't necessarily need the money and were there for the mission only. I was there for the mission, but certainly also needed the money.
Ask HN: Best way to spend $1000 on health
I am 30 y.o. and I want to make a present for myself. I have one thousand dollars to spend for my health, btw in my country medicine is way cheaper than in rest of the world. I do not have any illnesses but who knows maybe I do not know something about my health. Maybe to buy some sport equipment or to get some medical service. I am almost sure there is something that I need but I do not know I need it.
You're... not sure this was sarcastic?? Your advice is sound but tune up those sarcasm antennae
Yep. Chicago burned down in 1871, and in 1893 it put on the greatest exhibition of science, technology, and art the world has ever seen. San Francisco was largely leveled in 1906 and was restored with a quickness.

Contrast that to now, where it took over a decade to rebuild... well, not even rebuild, but sort of replace TWO BUILDINGS destroyed in 2001. It's pretty pathetic. All you heard after 9/11 was harkenings back to an era when "Americans rebuild, 'cuz that's what we do!" Yeah, right. That's bullshit. What we do is bicker and carp over who's offended or how we're not wallowing in enough remembrance or misery for this or that group.

The USA is done, people. Sad but true.
If you want to improve things, join and make the change you want to see. Working in the government would be challenging and that’s exactly why you should do it.

I do agree that incentives to get the best talent aren’t quite there in Gov jobs but there are plenty of brilliant non-FAANG engineers out there. There would be so much low hanging fruit, it would be fun to work in a Gov job.

One of things I am lacking in my life is meaning to work. Endless Jira tickets to solve issues for a private enterprise. If I’m on a death bed, I want to be able to look back and reflect that I did something hard that others shy away from. Public service is noble and I am willing to sacrifice a lot for it.
Just a rough translation of "Když chcete být slavní, musíte něco dělat tak blbě, že tak blbě to nikdo ve světě neudělá". "...you have to do something in such a silly manner, that nobody in the world did it so silly" or such.
Written by judgemental asshole.

Since this article is about labeling other people as assholes, I hope it's OK that I did the same.
The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
Recent study posted on hackernews from Israel says immunity from Covid itself is 13 times stronger than from Pfizer vaccines. There is absolutely no reason to vaccinate if you already had Covid, yet that’s not normalized. Policies are built around vaccination, and natural immunity is an afterthought.
> people who lived during those time periods

This is what the article claims in the first paragraph. How such a claim is secondary is beyond me.
I had post pending regarding the mobile sync with Working Copy. You gave me a reason to finish it up: https://janikvonrotz.ch/2021/08/31/sync-obsidian-mobile-app-...
> I used to have an add on to do it but it’s no longer compatible.

Pretty much the problem with anything Mozilla.
Nice one. I use tailwind everyday. Might come handy.
It seems this is doing round trips to the server to do the calculations?

I often think that with the current state of Javascript in the browser, we could build an awesome, super fast, Jupyter style notebook software that runs completely in the browser. With the modules implemented as native Javascript modules which are dynamically loaded.

Is anybody working on this?

I have built a rough version of this idea for myself and been using it for my own statistic needs for a few months now. It is far from being polished/flexible enough to be useful as a general purpose notebook though.
What you say is somewhat true but I also know plenty of people who love what they do. I suspect famous examples are say Brad Bird or Steven Spielberg. I have a feeling they loved directing.

I know Sid Meier, when he was still at Microprose, he made a deal with his partner, Bill Stealey, to give up he direct business interest in the company so he could focus on game dev. They'd pay him $$$$$$$$ for each game and he no longer had to deal with the business decisions.

The point is you can find a way to delegate the parts you don't like.

I have plenty of friends that run their own game dev companies. They love it. One has 150 employees, one has 10, another 20, one has 3, another has 10. They're are still doing dev, not just managing, even the one with 150 people and they love it.
Okay, thanks for the heads up and explanation, I'll try to keep it in mind!
Probably they'll be selected according to the boxes they can tick on one of the growing "oppressed groups" forms. I think they have around 40 boxes as of 2021.

Age isn't on them, because that wasn't an issue at the time the Frankfurt School developed its theories. Gotta stay theoretical and dogmatic, otherwise the whole house of cards might collapse.
Should we ban this?
I think anyone, even millennials and gen z, that gets serious about photography will quickly start to find the deficiencies of their phone camera. Sure, there is a lot you can do with a phone. Even some stuff you can't do well with a dedicated camera. But everyone who really gets into the craft starts to see that they can't quite get the shot they want I'm the lighting they want with a single, one size fits all device.
... caveat to Google's track record of rapid launch and subsequent deprecation of platforms...
What would you recommend to someone who is looking for a good way to discover classical music?
“It was designed” - that’s the key. We all know how hard it is to make things simple. That doesn’t come naturally. Hardest stuff I’ve ever done is to go through complexity to reach what is simple. (Definitely paraphrasing someone else there.)

Right now I have a project of potentially infinite complexity and we need to build really fast. A lot of my focus has been finding the very few pieces of bedrock and fixing on those, allowing the rest to vary as our appetite for complexity grows. Start today with an achievable goal, test hypotheses, don’t paint ourselves into a corner. All team comments are how simple it is. That’s by...design.
Strength is only one aspect of healthy. Another is longevity, and yet another is avoiding illness. I.e. do powerlifters live longer? Are they less likely to develop cancers?

Furthermore, being healthy in your 20s is like not having engine problems in a brand new car.
The Internals of the Mono C# Compiler
Aren't renewables heavily subsidised?
yeah : "I use words, language". Would I dare to say : "if you want to talk to me then learn my language" ? Come on...
"Efficient", meaning delivering maximum goods/services for minimum cost, may be a good thing in a business context.

However, there are a number of essential services which we want a government to deliver which we do not want to be "efficient" under this definition.

"efficiency" by definition means no reserves (because a reserve is unused capacity, which is inefficient). But this also means brittleness and failure under unexpected load. Is this how you want your healthcare delivered?

"efficiency" can also mean not providing services to unprofitable market segments. I'll leave it to you to imagine how this goes horribly wrong for many government services.

"efficiency" can also mean no long-term investments (i.e. highway systems, the internet, ...), and certainly means you can only invest in projects where you can capture a substantial percentage of the gain. And on those line, "efficiency" often means ignoring maintenance needs.

Simply put, business is great for what business is great for. But for lots of critical social infrastructure, this isn't the case.
No idea who this Monic Smit person is or if they're good, or bad, a criminal, misinformed, or a smart person doing good, but I do love how the discourse has become so homogenous, orthodox and unipolar that any dissent from a full embrace of vaccine and government policy not only earns the title "anti-vax", but contains in that nouveau term-of-abuse the implicit notions both that: 1) dissent is bad, and 2) all dissidents are the same.

It's like the Othering, abusive, zero-nuance, with-us-or-against-us wartime propaganda employed by every country in WWII.

This is an effective tactic to sideline, silence and discredit anything that does not agree with the theory that vaccines, lockdowns and other transient emergences of government policy and corporate interest are the only solutions. The dogma that ivermectin and ICQ have "no quality scientific evidence" supporting their efficacy, is belied by the mountain of research demonstrating massive improvement[0][1].

Sad and a total scandal not covered by the mainstream media that: 1) effective generic, out-of-patent, well-tolerated treatments are being suppressed in favor of profitable proprietary experimental vaccines delivered with cartel-like shenanigans (including access being contingent upon a country NOT recommending HCQ/ivermectin and others); and, 2) researchers regularly use words like "ineffective", "no significant improvement" in their conclusion sections even when their results show improvement.

Again, the same wartime propagandists' tactic is used. Support for HCQ or ivermectin is labelled as "crazy" and "stupid", and only stories that associate such ideas with people who display other crazy or stupid behaviors are promoted. Sadly, even people in biology and medicine display the same herd behavior, which lets me think, "These people do not know what they are saying is propaganda and wrong, they actually believe it!"

In other words, they do not know that they are working as propagandists for whoever benefits, but they do so anyway, and willingly, likely corralled in no small degree, by the collective glee and individual dopamine rush of feeling, "We are so right, and smart! And that group there, man are they so wrong, and dumb!"

I can't work out who benefits the most: vaccine making pharma companies, governments or someone else?

[0]: https://c19hcq.com/

[1]: https://c19ivermectin.com/

edit: I guess I didn't read the audience of this article here that well, because I expected that these well-written and impassioned pleas for a bit of open-ness in the discourse, as well as criticism and questioning of the homogeneity would be well received here. I feel pretty sad they weren't because if people here don't think critically enough, or have courage enough, to think outside the blinders that are so obviously on our society at this time, then who will? You know: the smart, savvy, mostly financially independent tech workers...if they can't afford a bit of dissent, or critical inquiry, then who can, seriously?
Related, I would recommend the book "1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die" [0]. The works are neatly arranged by chronological order, so you can easily discover new works from a period you like. And it gave me plenty of ideas just browsing it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1214513.1001_Classical_R...
May be I cannot express my thoughts clearly.
Sorry, my English is not fluent and I don't always have enough time to polish my expose.

For me "Technographers" are not people who are on the technical side of photography.
Real technical side is important from craftsmanship perspective, but only as a tool with photography goal.

"Tecnographers" are people who care only for cameras and photographic gear in general.
They follow marketing gurus and camera reviews and participate in brand defined groups.
They are obsessed with "latest tech" and "showing off" in "Photography competitions" or "Group Meetings".
They are the most effective customers for manufacturers and in general are miles away from photography as an artistic expression or even craftsmanship.
This needs to be discussed more. I have Indian friends who were recruited for sales by Byju's and their offshoots like Whitehat Jr, and their tactics are downright malicious.

They try to prey on the insecurities of families who are not remotely financially well-off, often the child being the first generation to actually have access to schooling, and push the parents to purchase ridiculous packages lest the children should "end up like them".

The materials themselves are also entirely useless, so it's basically snake oil. The execs line their pockets while subjecting employees to toxic abuse-riddled work environments. It's a mess, but most people who do speak up about it get harassed by their huge legal team (see Pradeep Poonia).
Note:

- this is an study into a mechanism that might be related learning to discriminate sounds;

- it's 10 subjects, and two, yes two, syllables;

- during a very short period of time.

This is not about learning a new language. And the title "blame it on your stable brain" falls in the wave of neuro-feel-good writing: you don't have to blame yourself, it's your bloody brain! Well, who are you, if not your brain?

And "stable brain" is interpreted in the article as non-plastic, which is thinly veiled language for "bad at learning". So, if you're struggling to learn a new language, it's because you're a bad learner.
Ah I didn’t recal ranged types in pascal. Granted my pascal experience was back in high school.

I’m not too familiar with controlled or limited types, but it seems the primary goal is control of resources. Nim’s compiler includes copy, sink, and destroy procedures for types [1]. The new ARC GC is deterministic, so you can ensure that once an object leaves the current scope it’s destructor will be invoked. It’s handy to cleanup C structs that are manually allocated by wrapping them in a Nim type. Makes C apis so much safer to use with minimal extra overhead.

1: https://nim-lang.org/docs/destructors.html
The reason for the program in a nutshell.
Imo if you do not have any illness at the moment there is no need to spend money to prevent something. The simplest way is to start running or walking in daily routine, buy some simple equipment if you are not into fancy mood and spend rest of the money to make more complex tests which require additional payments, to be sure that you are healthy and there is no specific issue to focus on.
My favorite designs are the ones that can't even solve current problems, much less anything that might need to change later, because they spent so much time optimizing for non-existent future scenarios that the present ones suffer.

"Sure, our web application might take a minimum of two seconds to handle trivial get requests, and logging in doesn't work half the time, but say the word and I can instantly migrate from Postgres to MySQL."
Except that Android apps tend to ask for just about all entitlements available. Translation: effectively back to square 1.
What a sad outlook on life.
Is there a way yet for systemd to send emails on timer failures or their output?
Yes. My point is, Emacs convention and CUA are basically equivalent. In which case there is little excuse to go with the less popular one if you want to attract young blood without creating an obstacle course they must pass first. If you don't have young blood coming in occasionally, your editor will remain stagnant after a while.
>For example, cs.opinion is no-holds barred and often both agressive and personal.

Doesn't this just seem like a silly failure to live up to the principle? Be reasonable - except over here where everyone acts like arseholes...
Step -1: Forbid Linux Kernel Modules for security reasons

Step 1: Require OEM's userspace drivers to use stable ABI (Android 8.0-9.0) exposed over a bus

Step 2: Require OEMs to use your way of doing secure boot chain (Android 10)

Step 3: Require OEM's kernel-space drivers to use stable ABI, and force the usage of Linux Kernel Modules (Android 11 -- we already lost the GPL here)

Step 3b: Start implementing VM support. Find a nifty marketing reason to have VMs ("Privacy Core")

Step 4: Require OEMs to use your own signed kernel (Android 12)

Step 5: Have said micro-kernel load/exec original kernel's executables

Step 5: Say that for security's-sake, it will be better of the nifty VM if its OS is a micro-kernel

Step 6: Require OEMs that your own signed kernel also runs as hypervisor

Step 7: Expose bus defined at step 1 across the VM. Use it to move various components from original kernel to the new micro-kernel, "for security reasons"

Step 8: Have said micro-kernel load/exec original kernel's kernel-space drivers (stable thanks to step 3)

Step 9: OTA kernel defined at step 4 to new micro-kernel

Step 10: Extinguished.
“ Another common thing Architecture Astronauts like to do is invent some new architecture and claim it solves something. Java, XML, Soap, XmlRpc, Hailstorm, .NET, Jini, oh lord I can’t keep up. And that’s just in the last 12 months!”

Wow, this hasn’t aged well. I always found Joel’s articles to be interesting but pretty limited in actual wisdom. He writes as if to be making profound observations, but in reality they are actually pretty narrow minded and really only apply to a very narrow nitch of computing as a whole and really only apply well to a certain startup type — not technically complex communications, productivity or organizational type software.

His advice is invalid for the development of anything more complex, for example you shouldn’t take his advice if you’re building a biotech company or starting a new kind of tech company that isn’t your run of the mill CRUD app.

I think it’s rather disingenuous and quite arrogant to make generalizations about the types of people who work at big companies (without even knowing what they do or having ever met them). I’m sure the same traits that make one have disdain for corporations are the same drivers that cause one to become an entrepreneur, and then blog loudly about it to the world.
This is why they call these “hills to die on”.

Ideologues have a useful role in society for identifying problems but most of them go down with their ships, while most of society just merges and adapts. Some people can’t (or won’t) tolerate the slow moving mediocrity that comes with the latter.
Prepay a full year/X months/whatever you can cover with 1000€ for a personal trainer to visit your home twice per week, for ensuring commitment to intense exercise.
It's the same in Germany as well (but I think the law has changed recently), but it highly depends in which field you work. I've never ever heard of such a thing in IT, whereas my wife is a social worker and it was pretty common to only get a 1 year contract at first up until recently. And if every employer in your field does it, there's not much else you can do.
She's being accused of inciting others to pursue conduct that would involve the commission of an offence. That's against the law in Victoria.
> of course, now you have to manually make sure the struct size are in sync.

Can't you just use a static assert in the implementation file?
I don't think blackbear_ is a average user of emacs, remember we're on the same hacker news where a user famously asked "why even build Dropbox when ssh/scp does the trick?" so it's very biased towards "I can hack this together myself so why couldn't others".
Sure, you could jump through all the hoops to run and maintain your own unikernel running Wireguard.

Or you could just use OpenBSD, which comes with Wireguard[1]

The security profile of OpenBSD will likely suit the needs of the majority of people.

[1]https://man.openbsd.org/wg
We have no way of knowing what went down in that location. The fact that unauthorized people were present with video surveillance turned off and the machines were running for a software upgrade is enough to assume at least one could have been compromised in a matter of seconds - if only by a sleight-of-hand hidden insertion of an USB stick.

Voting integrity is fundamental to a democracy.
I really like Jupyter notebooks to build a simple concept and then move to .py files. But what I observe, especially at the entry level or junior level jobs in data science is that people spend huge amount of its work on jupyter, which did not focus on how to plan flow properly. What I meant is that there is very short path from usefullness to overkill.
There actually have been efficient governments. I'll leave aside the terrible efficiencies of some government atrocities, and instead look at when public works were seen as noble.

Post offices were amazing when we funded and respected them.
- Pneumatic posts, https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/06/08/us-post-off...

-"In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville celebrated the American postal system as a marvel of its day"

Or even back to Cyrus the Great's "pony express" message delivery system, circa 6th century BC
> It is be impossible to expect a person above you in a hirarchy to be reasonable.

Why's that?
Only you know your data volumes but for the scenarios in which I've reached for Jupyter they've often involved very large amounts of data and calculating on the server is what I wanted and needed.

Agreed that for some things, it would be great to be able to explicitly offload to the browser.
Checkout https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite, WASM'd Jupyter in the browser with Pyodide
Why blame Reddit? This is society 101 at its lowest.
This is cool, looks very similar to Streamlit.

https://streamlit.io/
Remote Work Report – Gitlab [pdf]
Medusa: Commerce framework for bespoke ecommerce, built in Node.js
Last I saw, median annual income is $41,000 and median annual income required afford to rent a 1-bedroom apartment is only $40,000. Thus, the median single worker is getting by with $20/week left over to finance education, romance, charities, other unnecessary spending, blunders, swindles, alimony, retirement and other accidents. YMMV.
Oh boy, here we go with someone ignoring the flipping of party ideologies...