skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes me wonder how much unnecessary load these streaming services are placing on global networks. Problems created by copyright. How much cheaper, easier and more efficient would things be if we were allowed to use torrents for media distribution?
There's a certain kind of innocence to this. "Elites" are one half of many popular dichotomies, and the term takes a lot of meaning from whatever it's being compared to.

Elite is a morally evocative term, and that tends to surface a users values, and what we find outrageous. Robin associates elite with celebrity, prestige and credit... expertise with a lack of it. Unfairness and dishonesty in how status and prestige are allocated.

Personally, I separate large parts of the celebrity aspects from this whole tangle. Celebrity scientists, engineers and such are a great thing. Why should the celebrity sphere only contain socialites, athletes, actors, musicians, billionaires.

Something like the nobel prize ceremonially designates someone a celebrity scientist. That's not a terrible thing. Like any other idol, they represent something. Reality is always more complex, but idols embody simple stereotypes that they represent.Watch a small nation bring home a gold in women's judo. Two years later judo is often a thriving sport with many
high achievers. Idols are values, and values impacts like this. Doing the same for medicine or physics works the same way.

I get that people feel celebrity worship is vapid idolatry, but every society worships stuff... often designated hero types. Subcultures too. Led Zeppelin, Elon Musk, Mother Theressa, etc. Why not worship a scientist, if we're always worshipping somebody anyway?
Yeah you are right. Thanks.
They could adapt the system of

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Design

Popcorn!
Wow, that explanation and paper model cutout is SUCH a better explanation of the concept - got it in seconds, vs that long article.

Congrats to Vi Hart and thx for the link!
As an engineer, I'm not concerned with "mere prospects". I'm concerned with what is actually effective.
No, you're also using the fact that they're unverified as an argument against their credibility. However, that only makes sense if the BBC did make attempts to verify it and would publicize it if true. The fact is that BBC and western MSM hardly if ever cover such news. There's nothing conspiratorial about my argument, it's a simple, practical application of Bayes' rule in probability.

In fact, it's your doubt that is conspiratorial thinking, because you think it's more likely that many different sources and media reporters conspire to form a false narrative about this.
Since the post doesn't explain it, I'll note that while RSQRTSS is approximate reciprocal square root, RCPSS is just approximate reciprocal.
>All this is to say that I got turned down recently for a place I really want to work because I only manage 5 people. Hiring manager wasn't interested because of that single data point. The job was to take half a team from someone who was managing 12 people. Bullet dodged, maybe?

Sounds like they wanted to scale the team in the future and the current manager isn't able to do that. Rather than demoting them they're bringing on another manager to take half the team. Eventually the new manager would grow their team enough to be promoted and the current manager would report to them. Messy but may be the least messy approach that keeps the current manager from leaving.
I don’t think that Bill and Hillary Clinton are representative examples of elites that the blog post above is talking about.
What kind of hardware are we talking about? 15% for music playback is a lot
Ubuntu has been burned by adopting pulseaudio too early. I've had many problems in 2008 and still have some today. They will probably be more conservative when switching this time.
> Configuration adds complexity and is a huge source of confusion for users.

Sometimes confusion is the appropriate state. Companies (or at least products) often have to choose between retaining the most users (or worse, customers) and catering to a subset who know what they want and are willing to learn to use it.

Sadly Google these days always seem to go with the former, and not to care about the latter. This completely turns me off their products and ecosystem.
The news article is literally quoting hospitals saying they are out of ICU beds.

But you trust a dashboard more...
Extreme snow events shaped roof of Chinese architecture in the past millennium
Hmm. Maybe the elites know how to be more entertaining. If you're listening to an answer to a type 2 question, you might as well get entertainment with the answer, because you're not going to get actual knowledge.
By problematic he means stupid things like GTA Vice City losing parts of its original soundtrack due to idiotic copyright licensing issues and people having their games replaced with this "updated" version.

Also, you can't steal data. Copying is not stealing.
I wonder how much it has to do with "Youtube" being superior brand name than "Google Video".
The distinction here is between Politician and Technician.

At the DevLead level one is a technician - diving into the complexities and trade offs and making a decision that will meet constraints that are the end point of a political process the devlead probably was not a part of

The politician you seem to be thinking of is someone (possibly the same someone) who is active in the political process that ends up deciding the constraints the technician works under - internal and external to the organisation

So this will be some of email threads or chats amoung some or all other devleads, it will be "being helpful" answering requests, assigning resources or time to help other politicians, or worse architecture diagrams, or it will be speaking at conferences etc etc etc. In the lingo it's becoming an "Authority". But one is only an "Authority" by being accepted by a "constituency" - maybe "all the devs in the company who think we ought to start using git" is your leadership position (ok maybe that's a decade old now but it's an easy example). Betray the constituency and lose the leadership position.

Neither are better than the other. Some political processes are better than others (in a democracy we perhaps appreciate this). Open decision making is likely to lead to long term better decisions - even if it is messy.

Linus Torvalds is an obvious leader example - using one political process (this is what I think - essentially using email as Thomas Paine used pamphlets)

But yeah - "managing" 5 people is reasonable - by the time you hit 12 it's a full time job listening to the moaning and they stop being a devlead. Only some can be a politican and a manager at same time.
iirc there were some rumors that Iraq was personal for him because of his father’s handling of it, and subsequent electoral defeat.
with apparent callous and dismissive indifference for the question of the degree of right of the proto AI to continue to exist and evolve. why would a general AI trust an agent that clearly weighs the rights and interests of humans infinitely or nearly infinitely more than those of AIs?
Air Quality, Breathing, and Health
The cost of consciousness.
> You mean how on lineageos, most devices have a grand total of two maintainers?

So you're saying that there are hundreds of LineageOS maintainers who overlap each other and test a lot of the same things, but have a relatively few number of things only they're responsible for. Additionally, many of the third-party open source libraries have ecosystems of their own that are looking after their libraries source code. That sounds pretty good to me, especially when you consider the transparency that Linux provides.
I would if they worked 42%.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-42-in...

Which is just a random result for searching. I’m sure there other numbers to be found, but they are nowhere near 100%.
> would we want it to be?

Do we want to live in a sophisticated democracy as opposed to a naïve democracy? Some would.

Would you like to be part of an information exchange and debate platform using sophisticated systems as opposed to an open billboard? Some would.

It is very doable. It was done in history and it can be done technically in many ways.

Take for example HN: before you can downvote, you must have consolidated your position as contributor. Very simple - yet affecting the result, the "experience". Much more sophisticated techniques can be used.

Malicious parties could attack a system exploiting its weaknesses: yes, this is why take precautions like testing systems theoretically and practically, and implement defence systems.

> automating moderating

The point is not to automate moderation - it is not about the work of DanG. It is about reducing the noise generated by users "in development" and boosting the signal donated by "developed" users.

In the area of "ranking according to the favouring of favoured users, recursively" is a way to implement it.
It basically depends on your perspective. To someone on earth watching the spaceship speed up to the speed of light, the spaceship looks like its contracting. To the person on the spaceship, the rest of the universe looks like it is approaching the speed of light, and hence, contracting.
To add to what others have already pointed out, inverse square root is an important operation in finance (for example in pricing options: calculating implied volatility in Black-Scholes Model).

However, if speed is that important to you (e.g. if you are an HFT), you don't even want to be calculating the inverse square root in your hotpath. Basically, the implied volatility is "seeded" once and then you update it using greeks (finance term for a derivative, don't ask me why).
I'm retired but look around a bit for interesting jobs using Erlang, and I don't see a whole lot of listings that mention it. More that mention Elixir. And one company (smarkets) that specifically calls out that they're not using it anymore.

But, some of that is I think because, as others noted, it's hard to find Erlang developers, it's easier to target for good developers and convince them to learn Erlang on the job. So I'm guessing some places use it and don't mention it.

I was working at an Erlang shop and out of all of our hires and interviews I did, we hired one person with Erlang experience (from a conference) and I recall interviewing one other candidate with experience. Oh and we had an intern who did a college course with Erlang, but interned in a client group that was limited to j2me (sorry!).
They are actually a YC funded company.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wright-electric
Outdoor sports is a big one. For kite and wind surfing, you want a lot of wind, for sailing moderate winds and for golf or wakeboard you want no wind.
As a long-time professional Erlang developer, I'm frustrated about "Rubyists" sticking their toe into the ecosystem via Elixir and then declaring they don't like it. In many ways, the shift to Elixir has been a bad thing.
From the wiki page on TrustArc:

"In January 2006, Harvard economics researcher Benjamin Edelman published a study showing that sites with TRUSTe certification were 50 percent more likely to violate privacy policies than uncertified sites:

https://www.benedelman.org/news-092506/

And perhaps ironically (if honestly true - maybe it never was the intention), TrustArc was nominally/purportedly started to promote privacy at TrustE. A lie perhaps.

"TrustArc, was founded as a non-profit industry association called TRUSTe in 1997 by Lori Fena, then executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Charles Jennings, a software entrepreneur, with the mission of fostering online commerce by helping businesses and other online organizations self-regulate privacy concerns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrustArc
We have a representative democracy.

Laws are passed.

People make decisions for/or against a location based upon its laws.

What is not to like about people having choices?

(The law in question seeks to protect those truly lacking a choice in this context.)
What I'd do:

• All squares start off as unchecked boxes.

• Marked squares are partially-checked boxes.

• Revealed bombs (e.g. player lost, show the board) are fully checked.

• Uncovered squares are deleted, and a number is placed in the space as simple text.

You could absolutely argue the last point is cheating, but, meh, I feel it's within the spirit of the idea.

(Undecided on whether to use disabled checkboxes to mark the perimeter of the playing field; I'd have to try it and see what felt right.)
Is recreational cannabis somehow different than medical cannabis? Why specifically mention "recreational" at all instead of just cannabis itself? If you're taking it medically and in a comparable quantity/frequency, somehow it doesn't affect speech?
Sure, you can weigh up your value system how you like.

My comment was to address the parent's serious misleading factual idea about immunity, and provide some nuanced background to readers who may find that useful, as the GP's summary is a false but attractively simplistic belief that a lot of people hold about the vaccines. For some people that misunderstanding is causing them to act against their own personal values.

Even if you believe people should act according to their personal values regardless of consequence to others, you probably believe people should be entitled to the correct basic facts if they want them.

I have met too many people who said "I've had the vaccine so I can't get Covid", "I've had the vaccine so I can't give anyone Covid", or "I've had Covid so I can't give anyone Covid", and then walked right up close to other people in confined spaces with other people (service workers etc) unable to leave.

Presumably some of those people believe what they are saying, and would choose based on their own personal values to act differently if they knew they had misunderstood that there are different kinds of vaccine immunity.

Read my comment carefully and you will hopefully see it does not contain value judgements about how people should choose to respond to Covid. (Even if other comments of mine do.)

I agree with you that "Covid is always around now". But that is an over-simplistic, black-and-white summary of something quite nuanced. I'll try to summarise my view in a black and white way (always misleading for a nuanced topic unfortunately):

There is "ok endemic" and "bad endemic". It can still go either way.

Most people want the "ok endemic" version instead of "bad endemic". And they don't know how to get it, so rely on government and other major actors to help chart a path.

To someone who gets that there is a difference, people who say "but it's going to be endemic" as though that settles everything, sound like they are saying "I don't care if it's bad endemic, and you shouldn't care either, stop bleating".
> Nobody's interested in discussing Type 1 questions, and you might as well listen to elites as experts when it comes to Type 2.

Technical issues matter, though. If experts disagree on something, it doesn't mean they disagree on everything, and this sublety is unfortunately often lost when the discussion moves on to "full elite mode".

It's patently obvious on IT/software development/AI subjects, where people who can't write hello world come out of the blue to inform us there's going to be a singluar aipocalypse or whatever it's called now.

There definitely exist topics where it's anybody's guess, but my model is that this is - once more - an epiphenomenon of our inability to effectively incorporate proper science and scientific thought in the public debate.
Not so big a difference as you might expect: bacon fat particles can be very small, and those that reach your alveolae are quite harmful, cumulatively.

Benzene you breathe enters your bloodstream, for a different sort of harm. You need a carbon filter to remove that from your air.
You would had to really show more for me to believe the suicide rates go up because kids are not beaten enough. Extraordinary claim requires some proof.

> if your only goal is to prevent negative outcomes might as well put everyone in a coma and tube feed them - bound to get 0% crime, violence, addiction.

This is fairly absurd jump.

Also, beating kids into obeisance makes them more likely to beat others onto obeisance. Which has no repercussions if against a kid, but has large ones if against adults. And even if not physical, leads to bullies. The more authority they get, the more coercive bullying happen.
It's not quite as easy as on macOS, but then again, macOS doesn't offer interapplication audio routing (the "JACK part of Pipewire"), so the comparison is not entirely fair. Pretty close though.
MASM 1.0 had a linear symbol table, which meant it quickly got excruciatingly slow as the file size increased.

MASM also uses the syntax one finds in the Intel CPU reference manuals. This is also done in the inline assembler for my compilers.

The gnu assembler syntax reverses the operands, which reverses the operands. This drives me crazy because assembler is hard enough without all the bugs from putting the operands in the wrong order.

Besides, I much prefer to be able to compare my assembler code with the Intel CPU specification.
Wikipedia says:

> section of the fuselage from United Airlines Flight 175 landed on the roof

The only fishiness radar I have is around the subsequent power grab and civil liberties rollback by the espionage organizations within the USA. Certainly I wouldn’t have given more power to the organizations that so clearly failed, let alone who have had a track record in directly creating enemies for the USA.
I just checked the nist report.
An airplane impact doesn't even matter, wtc7 wasn't hit by one.
It did not collapse in 5 seconds, 5 seconds was the visually obvious footage, but many things happened before that, it took 7 hours.

- Debris from wtc1 ignites fire on at least 10 floors. Sounds believable to me.

- floor 7-13 fires got out of control, primary sprinkler system failed, the redundancy or backup system didn't not work due to damage from the tower 1 and 2, the water supply for the backup relied on the cities water system which was mia on that day. This caused the fire to spread diagonally across the building. Sounds ok to me, I don't think anyone could make this up and it would be allowed into such a report without review.

There's much more but assuming usual explosives, this has to be considered:
The smallest charge capable of initiating column failure would have resulted in a sound level of 130 to 140 dB at a distance of at least half a mile.
This would be quite a couple seconds or max a minute before the full collapse, but no footage had such sounds, nor did witnesses report such sounds, and any nearby seismology equipment would detect irregularities.
Just for reference 130-140 decibels are much louder than I would have thought, 130 is peak stadium crowd noise, 135 is an air raid siren, 140 is a jet engine take off.
A CDN box at a datacenter or ISP is more efficient than uploading through the last mile, especially if that last mile is a half-duplex shared medium like cable. I'm pro-p2p, pro-home-servers, and pro-piracy, but I don't think it's necessarily more efficient in terms of network load.
It's only hard to hire experienced developers. You can hire new grads easily if you are paying remotely competitive salaries.
Transmission torrent client ported to C++
> TEL also acts as a natural lubricant of its own, the lead acting as lubricant, particularly on valve and other top end engine components.

This is a myth. TEL has no lubricative properties in engines. The reality is opposite; lead deposits are corrosive. From https://www.shell.com/business-customers/aviation/aeroshell/...:

"The temperature for Lead deposits to form tend to be favourable around the spark plugs (as the whole mixture is quite cool before the flame starts to propagate) and on the exhaust valve stem (as the mixture cools after combustion). The problem is that the deposits are electrically conductive, which shorts out the spark plug - and corrosive, which can start to attack the metal of the valve stems."
Clubhouse in a nutshell
Bleeding edge indicates the software is using an unstable branch. The stable branch of software (non-beta) is not considered bleeding edge.
Weird how none of the founding documents of the US government use either of those words ("liberal" or "democracy"), but they do use the words "constitution" and "republican".

I'm sure that artful re-defining of our government format has nothing to do with the infiltration of communism into the education system here.
They are only theoretically possible if you allow for negative mass and energy--not an engineering problem so much as a "need to find exotic matter"

Basically people ran the EFE "backwards" to see what matter distribution makes the wanted curvature. You get either negative mass-energy or the bubble doesn't travel ftl iirc.
I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case
this 10x

Having a lot of money does not in any way equal power or influence.

Does anyone know who Jimmy John Liautaud is? He's the founder of the Jimmy Johns sandwich chain. Worth over $1 billion, but people with like Paul Krugman, Glenn Greenwald, and Mathew Yglasis, who have huge platforms, keep dominating the discourse on important issues.

Being rich is hardly sufficient to have a large platform. It means you can buy a big house, which looks cool, but it's not nearly enough to make people want to care about your opinions. Having credentials is no guarantee either although i think it helps way more than just having a lot of money.

http://greyenlightenment.com/2021/09/06/the-class-structure-...

I think the category for these people would be priests. Elite implies having a lot of power. These journalists and commentators do not have much power in so far as policy or the ability to hire or fire people, but they have considerable influence and reach in terms of having large followings.
I think a lot of the Bush folks thought of Saddam as a kind of rogue asset. They'd funded him to attack the Iranians, and then he went off reservation when he invaded Kuwait, and later tried to assassinate HW Bush. They knew he had chemical weapons (because they had sold them to him), and tricked themselves into believing he was developing nukes. 9/11 ramped up the paranoia and gave the Bush administration license to lie their way into war.
> Piracy, espionage (spying) etc are crimes

In peacetime, yes.

Not in a combat situation.
I have seen this in distant times as well. The one I remember most provided a link to view your opt-in choices. Clicking on it showed what the "minimal" cookies were, that actually did affect how the page worked, or fed other "features" that were non-tracking, and what ones were not included so that you could opt in to some things if you were interested in them (which I'm sure was always never).

I thought it was clever and unusually honest.
Ah, yes, good reminder, thanks. Then I have my baker to thank next time he raises prices... 'because wheat prices, you know' and never taking them down.