skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>random small talk between smart people that can lead to great ideas.

Outside of maybe a very innovative R&D department I don't really see these "brilliant ideas that only smalltalk could achieve" in your typical run of the mill company.
Going to second this review. I loved the feature set and approach to customization, but the calendar in specific just didn’t ‘click’ for me.

They do a lot of regular releases and are great about listening to users, so maybe someday I’ll go back.
If anyone needs to be able to not fall for the sunk cost fallacy, it’s management. That’s rather concerning.
i have no trouble to resolve www.archive.is via 1.1.1.1 at all...

however, i noticed archive.is has a CNAME record pointing to www.archive.is while CNAME RR on apex domains are usually not allowed in DNS... what make this even more interesting, i only see the CNAME RR when querying via 1.1.1.1 and not when querying authoritative servers for archive.is (EDIT: while repeating the query via 1.1.1.1 i also saw both A and CNAME record for archive.is in the response :S)

maybe the initial issue is just gone already? considering this is apparently happening in 2019 that does not seem too unlikely...
At the very least, text is more searchable.
> Acquiring trustworthy labeled data is "THE" problem in ML, and figuring out which predicates to string together is "THE" problem in logic programming, seems like a perfect match.

Can't this be generalized into using the ML to prune a search tree, and using the logic to generate the search tree? And didn't we already successfully try this, see e.g. AlphaGo?
Ignoring templates and generics, any Turing-complete language can be compiled down to bytecode or machine code.

So when developers talk about a “compiled language” they really mean if the standard tooling supports a compiler; and if programs are generally distributed already-compiled.

There are implications (good and bad) to programs that are already compiled, versus a just-in-time compilation via a runtime engine; which is largely transparent to developers and end-users.
The value of these addresses is peanuts to the DOD... although it would be a fortune if it made its way into someone's pocket.
The fact that some other part of the software stack does something silly does not mean the database has to cater for that. If it's a misconfiguration, fix the misconfiguration.
There is a similar policy being debated by the city council in Auckland, New Zealand. Parking spaces for new builds either need to have electric car chargers or have power run to the parking space so that it can be upgraded with a easily. The minimum number of car parking spaces which were previously mandated are also being removed.
How much of this is native support instead of windows compatibility layers? Don't get me wrong, it's great either way, but it's very telling of the motivations of the developers and how much they prioritize Linux.
Thanks for your reply, rlgullis.

The extremes of my example were only to show that there could be real and serious consequences from misinformation rather than silence. If we dial it back from "killing my neighbour" to "lost my job" or even "missed my bus", I believe my point still stands. In many scenarios that we experience every day, we would be better served by accepting censure over misinformation.

You claim "we should always operate on the premise that our information is incomplete, inaccurate or distorted by those controlling the information channels" and I agree with you in theory. But in practice this is impossible. The human brain is physically unable to work everything through from first principles. This makes sense conceptually and has been verified in research.

And this to me is the fundamental issue of our time:

In theory, social media and unrestrained free speech are a boon for all society.

In practice they have turned people against each other with very real and serious consequences.
I have the same dream. But making it barely sustainable (let alone profitable) would be neigh impossible. Maybe more of an open source community organization that would salvage, use and reuse components from the existing partially broken appliances of "proper" manufacturers in new enclosures and form factors designed from the get-go mainly (exclusively?) for easy servicing/upgrade by the average user, and open/flexible enough for advanced/maker types.
The assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud#Assassinati...
Math generally suffers from a great deal less precision than Haskell. It’s always a treat for me as a Haskell user to find a math or physics text that’s truly notationally precise. Only authors who really understand what they’re doing at a deep level can pull it off.
Not really. I see that pattern across the entire software landscape, from big companies down to startups. It's true that there are occasionally people who stay put for 17 years at Microsoft, but those seem to be the exception rather than the norm.
BQN has an online repl

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
Your comment explicitly ignores the larger part within parentheses and continues with a false statement and a baseless assumption.
doesn't have to be ground breaking research, could just be ideas for product iteration or for an employees own side project. Benefits individuals more than the company really
Maybe? The experience would be:

- Normal model with JS on (modulo ad blocker/flash blocker)

- Oh, hey, a site that plays shenanigans with text!

- Rightclick, open in reader view
A severe enough bill can cause an organization to be instantly bankrupt. No opportunity to try to do something like caps.

Regardless, turning on spending caps isn't a final solution to this particular attack. With caps the site/resources will hit the cap and go offline. Accomplishing what a DDoS generally tries to accomplish anyway.

The only real solution is that you have to have a cheap way to filter out the attacking requests.
Proof: https://medium.com/@SunnyB/proof-of-medium-stats-700c2b0b638...
It's been near or above 100F s lot this summer and we're making it nearly impossible to br homeless here. Makes sense to though. When low earners are losing jobs in retail and service industries and people from CA are driving up housing prices, forcing poor people to live in tents, making this place even less hospitable is the only neighborly thing to do.
What I’ve found is that I will work with people I didn’t previously know if there’s some forcing function but the people I randomly reach out to for working on things re mostly people I knew previously. Reaching g out to strangers for help/collaboration with something mostly isn’t very effective in my experience.
Related to this, there is an intimacy of small community which makes you feel valued and a proper contributor, that social networks really seem to oppose: they want to make the network bigger, you are part of the biggest world context, everybody on TikTok is eating a habanero while watching Bob Ross, so only if I do the same nonsense do I have a chance of 100 people noticing and liking the video and maybe opting to see more of my content.

When I put it that way it feels banal, but like, you know the “fast-growing subreddits” list on Reddit? There were meetings! Someone worked on that! People literally sat in a room and said effectively, “Hey Fatimeh, what is the status of the ‘make subreddits suck faster’ feature? Management is very interested in delivering that in Q3.” Right? Like this connection from global to personal is just automatically assumed, nobody spends a waking moment thinking it could be anything but that way.
Yes, that's the excuse. It's equivalent to "because we don't want to pay for it."
It's hard to prove that these mutations are adaptations to the global warming specifically, but events like mass die-offs of Australian flying foxes are pretty conclusively caused by extreme heat waves - and since there is a 100+ years of historical records we know for sure they're happening now at much higher frequency than before.
I don't 100% agree on how there's no chance of convincing people to give up cheeseburgers and BBQs. Sure, they're a cultural staple, but smoking was a cultural staple in France and yet the French have basically given up on smoking, because deep down inside they're sensible people (despite being pig-headed Gauls, at the same time).

What I find hard to understand is this: if you want to eat meat, why would you choose to eat a meat substitute? If you don't want to eat meat, why would you choose to eat a meat substitute?

How many people are there that really want to eat fake meat? Or fake anything, for that matter?
Global warming and obesity are both caused by inflationary monetary system.
> There's lots of reasons

Boy howdy. Of course, every NIH project that turns into a huge wasted time sink has a rationalization chock-a-block with reasons.

It depends. YMMV. etc.
I don't think retaining and publishing complete copies of copyrighted works falls under even the most generous interpretation of fair use.
> Saudi Arabia is not a regime.

Yes, it has a regime.

> It’s the most powerful tribal family in a country of family/tribes all of whom have the same perspective.

Yes, the House of Saud is that, except not all the family/tribes have the same perspective (heck, even the House of Saud isn't internally super cohesive, though MBS’ recent internal purges and the implicit threat of more have reduced the degree of active viewpoint diversity within the House of Saud and Saudi elites more generally.)

> Never mind the fact that it’s a very rich country in country with obnoxious human rights abuses when it comes to migrant workers but still has no poverty. Even amongst the migrants.

Saudi Arabia has a low reported poverty rate (but not zero; 12.7%) but it's reporting is irregular and unreliable, and is generally held to underestimate poverty significantly in general. Poverty estimates among the migrants make up the bar majority of the labor force (and the vast majority of the low-skill labor force) are very high.
Video GATTACA?

Makes sense.
Tesla Model S Plaid sets record for fastest production electric car
https://medium.com/@SunnyB

I didn't want people to think I was just writing this to get attention which is why I didn't originally post it.

Here's proof to the claims I made: https://medium.com/@SunnyB/proof-of-medium-stats-700c2b0b638...
Central banks have been buying up treasury bonds, thereby lowering the yield. They are basically saying

"Hey rich people with cash, if you want to get a return on your money, you have to stop investing in risk-free government bonds, and start investing in businesses in the real economy"

The Fed has basically 'pushed' investors out of bonds, and into equities and real estate. This partly explains the absurdly higgh gains we saw recently in those asset classes. But now that inflation is getting out of hand, the Fed might reverse someday it to slow down the economy and keep inflation low.
This has been my recent thinking on this as well. I wish we didn't have ubiquitous surveillance and I wish there was a way to stop it from expanding even more but that's not the world we live in. Privacy advocates who think they can stop this at the technology level are fooling themselves. The ship has already sailed.

What's left is to create a culture where the abuse of surveillance is heavily stigmatized. There are a lot of laws that could be passed to minimize the time that data is stored and how it is shared. The government is the only entity with the power to make rules to stop this, and the government is the entity that controls the spy agencies (who are the most frightening abusers of surveillance power) and could reign them in. But privacy advocates are almost always maximally skeptical of government power so they reject out of hand to work "in the system" as it were, to make changes.
Yes, I have a route 53 domain name for approx $14/yr
During World War 2 Operation Fortitude was responsible for enabling the D Day landings to move inland while Hitler awaited the `real' invasion... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude
Similarly agent `Garbo' created (with allied support) a vast network of non-existent subagents all feeding information to the enemy. He received military decorations from both sides!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa
The Airport Delay Fallacy
To get a sense of how our nation felt in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the mail column Jerry Pournelle (R.I.P.) had at the time gives a very good perspective: https://jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail170.h...

“yes, we are at war. This is our generation's Pearl Harbor.”
Gotcha, thanks for the info. That does seem like a real problem, and I do see the complexity of the issue. Are there any current proposals for tackling it without adding centralization? Or do we just acknowledge/accept that that's a tradeoff?
This explains why the crappiest of efforts are so viral, and why things that try harder fail. When I think of the meme templates I've seen, they're all grade 2 mental level, and they don't engage your critcal faculties, but this is their point. They just pass right by. There is a kind of bias where we must think, "this is so crappy, it has to be real!" which is the complement bias to, "this looks too polished to be real." I wonder what examples of things other than memes would be the effect of that bias.
But it is kinda cool to run software that originally was built for the 8088 on an AMD Threadripper. But yes, I do agree the x86 architecture is fast losing its lustre.
I’m not a physicist but even I can tell this dude isn’t either. My quack alarms were ringing within seconds of watching this video, but I watched the whole thing anyway to see if I was judging too harshly and he actually had discovered something notable. This guy spent more time attacking scientists, peer-review, and just generally the process of science itself than actually just showing some damn proof. You would think one would be showing video demonstrations of this unbelievable effect. He tempers his claims by saying that it scales with a larger area and it produces less power than a solar panel of equivalent size and I thought… ok, let’s say I’m completely wrong and this guy just invented a “solar panel” type of device that can be used without visible light yet produces less energy… I suppose that could still be fairly useful depending on the application. Bravo, well done if that’s the case. Go ahead and make one or 10 panels or whatever and set it up in an empty warehouse with a 24/7 video feed and show it continuously charging an electric car, or powering a tv, or hell even powering a light bulb. I’ll retweet. I’ll be a customer even if it’s just for fun checking out this new dangled tech. No, he suddenly starts talking about how he could potentially create coin cell sized battery of infinite power among other far fetched sounding claims. Say what??? Maybe my quick math is off by several orders of magnitude but this threw off so many quack alarms that it’s just way beyond belief. I hope and pray that I’m wrong and the rather modest initial claim is somehow correct even if it’s for reasons he doesn’t understand. Yes, it is ok to not understand why something works, as long as it gets you results. Who cares what anyone thinks? Start a tiny energy company out of pocket with however many panels you can make. Sell electricity and profit from it. Go nuts. Get rich. Eventually people will realize whether they like it or not that you have something worth looking at. Look, I totally get that most scientific discoveries start off with a statement of: “huh, that’s weird”… but that doesn’t mean you get to declare that the whole world is against you. “They” are not just jealous. “They” are not just afraid of violating current understandings of science. Scientists incorporate new understandings fairly regularly. Sure a couple people might be jealous they didn’t figure something out first, but that doesn’t mean every scientist on earth is out to get you. Holy hell this turned into a rambling rant. I apologize. It was just a stream of thought that I don’t care to edit at this point. I’m sorry this came across so rude. Make me a customer sir. I’ll joyfully put a sock in it if you succeed.
That's disingenous. I quoted the entire part within parenthesis, and pointed out what part of the stated argument from the article was being ignored.

The issue is not that email or browsers can be configured to accept plain-text. What you incorrectly equate is two different protocol mechanisms, but you are focusing on the types of traffic.
In this context, the terms “best” or “worst” have to be measured on a number of different axes.

What is best on one axis might fare poorly on a different axis.

So, there is unlikely to be one single best platform for anything, although there may be many horrible platforms in many different ways.
Actually, the fact that is not the same as desktop browser.
Good NFTs do store a hash on-chain although few NFTs are that competent. Also, people don't care about the contents.
It’s a popular theory, but has been debunked many times, for instance: https://newatlas.com/computers/facebook-not-secretly-listeni... or https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/28/18158968/facebook-m...
Depends on the context. If one gets seriously injured, can't work, and survives off of disability, that may not feel like a privilege. At least some of the women we're talking about, they're doing all the cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc. They have no financial independence and often few options if they're being mistreated. I don't think it's comparable to passive income at all.
Maybe I'm just optimistic, but I believe that good and honest companies will generally prosper over those actively employing dark patterns in the long run.

Any exclusive niche employing dark patterns makes an opportunity for an honest broker to come in and clean house.
It looks similar to me to https://github.com/google/oatts. Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
This all day. I don't get why you'd take time out of your day to write "Stop Using Encrypted Email" instead of "Can Encrypted Email Be Done Right?" unless the answer is provable and obvious no.
Two issues jump out at me:

1 ) It’s unclear to me why Microsoft, a leading software firm with distributed offices, should be considered representative of “information workers”.

Contrary to this study of a digitally inter-connected firm, finding their preferred connection patterns and rhythms took a hit before adapting (see #2 below), most enterprises had no established digital connection patterns or rhythms and despite the challenges of going online, had been so bad before they saw a boost.

Many “big enterprise” firms’ collaboration and productivity shot way up from April through September, as necessity drove adoption of any collab at all.

2 ) Aside from this, “the first six months” is not how adapting to change works. MBA types like it call it “Storming, Norming, Performing”, but I prefer this:

- Virginia Satir Change Curve image: https://www.plays-in-business.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11...

- Virginia Satir Change Curve discussion: https://dhemery.com/articles/managing_yourself_through_chang...

Bottom line: I’d argue they studied a top decile performing firm far ahead of typical US enterprises, and found that Satir was right, a foreign element can induce a performance hit.
It was a jingoistic call, and it worked. The media was equally complicit in playing the war drums. And as such a good crisis wasn’t left to waste: mass surveillance, drone program, senseless wars... what is sad is that nothing was learned.
Why reference GPT-3? Was there no other suitable or practical source available (e.g. dictionary, encyclopedia, textbook, WebMD, etc)? Was the output accurate (first try, no edits)? I’m just curious, as I doubt the citation as a source lends credibility to content itself, or the context in which it was provided (no offense intended—- perhaps I’m in the minority here).
Do you think Sharia Law had anything to do with having all that oil revenue?

Since we’re on the subject of gender equality, I wonder what proportion of that income is controlled by women.
You people. You'll never understand how arrogant you are.
One thing about slack- and zoom-based remote working I've noticed is that there's less room to be your "informal self".

Meetings require more coordination since only one person can speak at a time and there are fewer non-verbal cues to communicate which topics are resonating with you. You also can't continue smaller conversations with people after a meeting. Everything is more formalized.

Likewise, conversations outside of meetings go on in Slack, generally. You could set up a zoom meeting with someone informally, but it feels too "heavy" an operation compared to a in-person hallway chat.

In person, I feel like people are more likely to be critical of their work, workplace, bosses, and coworkers. Now I don't think people should go overboard and whine all the time, but I think it's valuable to get stuff off your chest once in a while, and doing that in person, to me, feels natural, and it's not "recorded" anywhere (Slack messages aren't deleted and a lot of our meetings are recorded for others to view later).

Anyway, what I'm getting at is the channels for communication are more "formalized" and it has a sort of chilling effect on our expressiveness in conversations about our work's office culture.
Sure, that is true. However, the person I responded to said that EDNS would give the authoritative server your IP address, which isn't true.
I don't understand what that has to do with Firefox specifically, if you do a search you can find various amounts of negative feedback about any product in existence. It's impossible to make a product that will please everyone, so you'll have to be more specific about which changes and which users you mean if we want to discuss this meaningfully.
There's likely multiple reasons for this. One of my gripes with Medium is it's lack of transparency for how writers earn money.

If your views are coming from mainly external sources, Medium won't pay you for that.

Also, Medium pays more for more recent stories. Probably as an incentive to keep posting more articles. 1 hour of readership for a brand new story could get you $2-5. For an older story, it'll probably only earn you less than a dollar.
Fatality rates for COVID increase by an order of magnitude when hospitals can't treat COVID patients who would otherwise survive with proper care.
The business is going to a subscription model, because blogging for ads simply doesn't pay enough anymore, it has long stopped doing so.
All the big newspapers, Bloomberg, now even Reuters go subscription, because ads simply doesn't pay enough anymore.
And we dream about big advertising money for our fledgling blog?
Forget it.
If you want to make money, sell your body, not your brain, go Onlyfans.
Even in cases when there are just 500 or 1k LOC with about 4-6 functions, code folding is immensely helpful in focusing on where you want and removing other distractions. Navigating between functions also becomes easier.

I guess it's pointless to talk about this because the utility of code folding is subjective for some people and in my anecdotal experience so far, any feature that doesn't work in their favorite $EDITOR is branded as useless.
The limit for your startup's success is more likely to be your ability to acquire and keep users. After that, it might be your engineer's velocity - their ability to keep up with the pace of change as you learn what your users _actually_ need.

The performance of your backend can be very low on your priority list.

My experience there comes from working at Twitch. The entire video platform's backend was in Python for a long, long time - at least 5 years before some components moved to Go, piece-by-piece. The Python stuck around for over a decade in some fashion.

There are exceptions depending on what your startup does - if your fundamental _product_ depends upon serving millions of concurrent requests quickly on a really frugal budget, you probably already know that.