skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logseq or Obsidian.

Can self host & sync, bidirectional links, note transclusion (incredibly powerful), built on markdown files, nice interactive graph views and in the case of obsidian there is a good plugin community.
Most people argue or fight because they enjoy the process and emotions. This is why they "win" arguments. They aren't trying to discover the truth.
At around one million requests per second, imperative programming becomes affordable; and more importantly, necessary.
Kind of annoying how Google commandeered generic-looking domains like web.dev and html5rocks.com.
> Apple seems to fly in the face of this however

I don't think I agree.

Apple is not really a great software company.

Especially if you consider how closed their ecosystem generally is: a large part of their stack is basically completely opaque, closed-source and worst of all, prone to change at the whim of the company.

I've always had a hard time understanding why anyone in the business of building technical infrastructure (other than user-facing retail stuff) would ever consider using their products.
There is a video (in russian) [1] with an idea "if someone claims something works faster than clickhouse - it means I haven't optimised this specific query yet"
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJJfWoWJq0o
Big tech should be making just that: big tech. They should not be touching our data. Let them produce hardware and software independently, like in the old days of the internet. That way, they empower companies by providing the modules they need rather than the monolithic products that work against the interest of both consumers and smaller companies.
Hi Nalta! Thank you for your advice. We noticed that indeed most spreadsheet users do not do well with ML logic - as they are used to Excel functions, which have an input -> output structure (not validation cycles, hyperparam optimization etc.). We are building an AutoML engine, exactly for this reason - to indeed take everything "ML" away for spreadsheet users. Our ultimate goal is to turn ML literally into an Excel function. Super challenging problem, but really exciting at the same time :).
Software companies designed very intrusive update systems that pestered users. Then they made many updates that break software. This created a culture of hostility to updating. This caused some issues.

Then the software companies and developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the best approach was to force updates on the users. Because when people are already upset with your awful updating mechanisms then forcing them to do so is surely going to improve things. And now we have people crippling update functionality as a result.
I agree generally with the diagnosis here. Although I disagree with the notion that a more equitable society is a silver bullet for reducing human misery.

Firstly, in terms of social media I doubt that misery would ever stop commanding people's attention. I've heard that in psychology studies people tend to latch more readily onto negative ideas than positive ones in a group setting. For what it's worth, my anecdotal experiences have cohered with this too.

Secondly, I think the politics of pushing equity over mere equality of opportunity is more complicated than proponents would suggest. Humans have an instinctive normative sense of fairness that would need to be subsumed somehow by a more intellectual altruism. I doubt it would be an easy sell to suggest sharing the fruits of everyone's labour regardless of the amount of work each person has put into producing those fruits.
Why so many ML-based projects don't release a binary or package?
Some routers (and other electronics) are very sensitive to short spikes or drips in mains power. Having some heavy duty stuff such as heating cables or water heater or tumble dryer on the same circuit is enough. Get equipment to monitor it.
> Measuring energy use per transactions makes no sense

I am well aware of the difference between average and marginal energy use. This would be particularly relevant if the blocks were not full, but mined anyway, so that any additional transaction could've been included "for free". However, more often than not, that's not the case, but the mempool is non-empty, and the constraint (of max transactions per block) is binding. [1]

Thus, one can not trivially argue that the marginal cost of a transaction is zero.

Next, yes, my figures (165 TWh/a = 19 GW) from Digiconomist [2]) are at the upper end of the estimates, but other figures (eg Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index) estimate 100 TWh/a, with reasonable bounds of 36 to 376 TWh/a, so 12 to 28 GW, so are largely in alignment, modulo a factor of 2. (Note that your source is also within a factor of 3 of those estimates, pegging BTC at 0.2% of global electricity consumption.)

At any rate, the average cost is just preposterous, even if off by a factor of 3.

[1] see for example https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,1w,count

[2] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

[3] https://cbeci.org
It's worth bearing in mind that the mainstream media are far from unbiased when taking about the benefits and harms of their gatekept information vs sources like Facebook which they don't control. For example, I remember the BBC pushing an article about Facebook anti-vaxers putting the UK in danger of a serious measles outbreak that was a sterling example of deceiving with true facts. The percentage of eligible kids receiving their vaccinations had dropped, but it was a mere fraction of a percent below the UK's all-time record high a year earlier. The UK was indeed failing to meet the UN goal of 95% of kids double-jabbed, but it had never acheived that in the first place. And after digging up some NHS publications, it turned out that the UK was in danger of a measles outbreak, but the big problem was all the people who didn't get vaccinated in the 90s due to anti-vaccination misinformation spread by the BBC and other mainstream media before most people even had internet access. Basically, the BBC was spreading misinformation to blame Facebook for a problem that they themselves were actually responsible for.
The red sensitivity curve for eyes (properly the cones are called Long, Medium and Short rather than Red, Green and Blue) also doesn't have a left hump. This is a misunderstanding originating from the fact that the X in CIE XYZ does have a left hump. But the XYZ functions are not intended to correspond to cone sensitivities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
the recent research conducted by Facebook reported on by the WSJ that brought to light that even Facebook's own researchers attribute significant negative effects to the usage of the company's products on misinformation and the mental health of teenagers, for example.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/18/facebo...
> it doesn't matter if you have a blog article recommending structured emails over video calls

Exactly! Funny thing is that if you send these people an article explaining the benefits of written docs (design docs, RFCs, proposals, any text document documenting a decision), they will just simply not read it.

I'm on a team where I believe we started gigantic refactoring and redesigning projects without being clear on the goals, non-goals, and tradeoffs we take. I proposed that before we start working on something huge, we should write a short document where we explain what, how and why we want to do.

I recommended them some articles, for example "Design Docs at Google" [1], and "Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down" by Gergely Orosz [2], but I couldn't even convince them to read those articles...

I didn't even send them my favorite posts about the Amazon 6-page memo, because I knew they'd dismiss the whole idea in a second (no matter if I told them that we could do "OurCompany 1-page memo").

This lead me to the sad realization, that our team will never start "writing things down". In my opinion, it would force us to think things through, but it seems like they disagree, or they just don't care.

My coworkers will not even read a 3-paragraph ticket, but they'd love to talk about the same ticket for an hour in a video call. Then in 3 weeks, nobody remembers anything anyway, and they discuss it again.

[1] https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-googl...

[2] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/scaling-engineering-teams...
I always say it’s easier to teach an engineer business than it is to teach an MBA engineering. Not shit-talking MBAs since I am one, but the degree doesn’t confer knowledge; only that you passed a selection filter and probably have an extensive network of other people who passed the filter.

Don’t shy away from learning the business. The hardest part of my MBA was accounting — and you can take an accounting class at community college.
But the GPL is much better if you want to avoid having your work stolen.
Stable coins do not solve the money printing problem at all. Their existence is mostly for avoiding tax events when speculators sell tops and buy dips. Also they are as centralized as it gets.
Hi there, thanks for the kind words and advice! Our next step is building an AutoML engine that indeed takes algorithm selection and hyperparameter choice out of the hands of inexperienced users.
I'm pretty sure America was named after Amerigo Vespucci.
Space and time saving measure. Instead of hundreds of programs you have one "box", which can do it all. Program names are the same but they all point to this box. The box reads the original command line and acts accordingly. If the line starts with "cat" it acts like a cat. If it starts with "cut" it acts like a cut.
Let's not confuse the issue.

Evidence is a method of confirmation. Motives, incentives and suspicious evasions can help us form hypotheses to evaluate. Dismissing a hypothesis as something unworthy of examination may fall under the 'suspicious evasion' subheading.
This seems about right.

Personally I dislike getting on calls for stuff. I think the clarity of text is much better, and the fact that it’s asynchronous means I can look things up while responding, meaning my responses are more high quality.

It’s super frustrating being like this and then interacting with people who don’t want to write things out clearly or don’t want to read my responses, and then ask me to “hop on a call”.
I bet this is exactly why some people prefer direct communication that doesn't leave a trace ;)
He proudly proclaims his research in this video, he is not hiding anything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYDL_RK--w
Maybe You could poke around MYOKIT and come up with something? There is a git for it.
No, COVID relief isn't like UBI because most of it, the unemployment benefits, are conditional on not working.

The reason UBI is better than other welfare is it doesn't discourage working as much.
I bet REST API + HTTP caching is going to outperform the GraphQL APIs. And maybe most importantly, it’s going to be cheaper.
Please note what the author did say: "thousands (tens of? hundreds of?) of people will have read it during the past two decades, and NONE OF THEM CAN SEE IT!". I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't it sufficiently qualifies as "anyone didn't see"?
There are literally people applying for SWE jobs who couldn’t write FizzBuzz or a function to sum a non-overflowing array of ints in a language of their choosing. That’s tablestakecode, not leetcode, IMO.
Seems to me Elixir + Absinthe would’ve been a better tech stack.
> But the pronunciation (/ˈsʌbtaɪtəls/ vs. /sub'titulos/) is very different (Levenshtein distance = 5).

Levenshtein distance between conventionalized IPA orthographic representation is not a useful metric for the perceptual difference between two spoken sound sequences.

> Written language is reasonably standard. While there can be some regional variation (color/colour, lift/elevator and so on); you get rid of all the diversity of accents which can be a huge deal for a non-native speaker.

This problem actually comes up in writing too; I knew some Chinese students who were really offended by English typos. They had a point - lacking the pre-existing knowledge of English that lets me know what a typo was meant to say, they just had no way of finding out what a misspelled word was supposed to mean. You can't look up words that don't exist.
> the "dark ages," which are basically an Italian Renaissance construct

they really were to their eyes.

We know more about ancient history today than people from the VII century about a 100 years before them

The invasions of the former roman empire in today's Italian territory destroyed most of the historical knowledge and gave birth to dark folk legends that are still well alive today, even though historians have debunked the myth of the middle-ages as dark times.
If you are a human you have judgement and can determine which tests are the most critical and most relevant, so you don't have to always execute all of them. "It's just one line of css change to fix the styling, ok deploy". Second, a team of QA can very well make hundreds of tests in a day. And more importantly, they can really easily make decisions and draw conclusions such as "it's a bit slow sometimes, but overall acceptable", or "the animation is displayed correctly" or "there was a glitch in the rendering, but it's fine now", or "it works but the stying has moved slightly off center" etc etc, which take test expert programmers forever to try, and fail, to create deterministic automated tests for.
Bought your book awhile ago from someone that mentioned it on my Twitter feed.

I’m really enjoying it! You did a great job on it.

I especially liked the chapter on networking since it was always something I was weak in.
You proved you are smart enough and socially able to live a fulfilling life already, so well done and congrats (it is much bumpier for many of your peers). It seems you need to know better your inner voice now (who you really are and what you do want from life), instead of using external metrics such as a degree or a job to define you. Again, smart enough to acknowledge and undergo this process before leaving your comfort zone. The easiest path away to meet new opportunities may be some intellectual nudge, such as coding competitions in the field/language you like the most? Take care and good luck.
This guy gets it! Hyperbole is the first ingredient in the recipie, you must stoke fear. I would argue that the CSAM scanning is not 'scanning everything on your phone' and far more limited in scope and capability that the open on device ML photo scanning that has been present and uncontested for many years now. Add in all the indexing that takes place to create the handy search function, now that is scanning your entire device.

Faces, places, selfies, beaches, sport, babies, aeroplanes, swimming, documents etc. all categorised neatly, added to the metadata and synced with the server for you.

The idea that this has 'opened the door' is as laughable as my example, the garage door got stuck wide open years ago. First the search indexing, then the smart indexing identifying people and places and pets. Funnily enough there were no banners flying, slippery slopes or people smashing their 'iSpy' devices when search became a feature.
I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm not qualified enough to counter that, you may know better. But didn't the thing that is was a question not a statement change something in the reasoning?
The stridency with which people attempt to shut down discussion of a lab origin points in the direction of a coverup.

An example of this happening is on Wikipedia where one editor in particular seems to have declared it to be a “conspiracy theory” and scrubs every mention of it. The editor in question scrubs talk pages and their own talk page, thus effectively preventing any kind of consensus forming, which is out of the ordinary for Wikipedia. They have remarkable stamina, and thus can our out-wait other editors.

Wikipedia seems to be one example of a much bigger effort to suppress discussion of a potential lab leak.
Subscription will be enabled in all goods because all of them have a software layer today. Like the OS on the phone is updated and adds features to existing hardware the same is possible with all consumer goods. The same is happening with cars and I suppose will happen with your TV and other devices as well. It is a fiscal imperative.
It makes sense. If that happened, who would lose in the short term?
Writing the Roadmap from Engineer to Manager
Half of the time I read the comments here I wonder why people even use Windows. Kudos on you, your computer randomly waking you up because you have no control about anything is none of your issues anymore :)
Things you own, end up owning you. I can see how the diminishing concept of "ownership" might work out for the good.
It doesn’t look like any of the previous submissions garnered significant attention, so a small number of resubmits (including this one) should be okay per site guidelines.
I would place a bet along with you on that one.
The question the graphql folk need to think about is who's paying for the value add of large one hit requests. cycles add up! There's a price to pay for having your api also have to parse and understand a request beyond just fetching the result.
Context:

> The day after Oculus started shipping the Quest 2 VR headset, Robert Long, a developer at Mozilla who's not a fan of Facebook's policies, put up a $5,000 bounty for a proven jailbreak for the headset. Palmer Luckey, the ousted founder of Oculus, matched that offer, bringing the prize to $10,000 for a verified root access jailbreak.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76208/the-bounty-for-quest-2-...
Same here - I did this for a couple of months on Usenet and it was more a fun challenge than genuinely difficult. Doing it over that amount of text is quite impressive, admittedly.
Edit out the expletive and replace the caps with ~ before and after and I'll agree with everything else in the comment.
It might be lightweight compared to the Teslas of the world, Evija is only a smidge over 1600kg .. heavy compared to the Elises but light compared to the other ev-players .. who knows, I'm going to buy one anyhow :). Want to order the Emira but Sweden is quickly going down the path of taxing the hell out of all new ICE cars.
Conversely, the "Great Awokening" is a direct result of the legitimate "democratization" that the article discusses.

It seems to me that the knee-jerk opposition to "wokeness" always comes from people who would rather sweep problems that don't affect them under the rug than acknowledge that they need to be fixed. They are the aloof, socially normative people in this article, utterly confused by and thus dismissive of the struggles of those outside of society's standard ingroup.

"We weren't like this 10 years ago" because, as the article describes, those concerns were previously ignored by the mainstream because they didn't fit the experiences or interests of those who had influence over the mainstream. Now that those institutions have lost that filtering power, we're hearing from more real people with more real problems. Healthcare access, structural racism, mental health resources, poverty, etc. They are taking their little hammers to our Twitter feeds. The solution isn't to shame and ignore the people complaining about them - it is to fix those societal issues that cause the pain to begin with.
>the visual pathway does some math to reinterpret RGB as a closed circle of hues we see in our visual field<

sort of, computation of 'contrast' so to speak, or, in broad terms, differences in wavelengths

most likely done, foremost and in essence, in area V4, cortically. if damaged, cerebral achromatopsia [colour blindness results]. patients won't even see/perceive induced 'coloured' visual phenomena, such as phosphenes [Farady made a few quid by electro-shocking ppl, for instance in Jardin des Tuileries, Paris : electro-magnetc impulses applied transcranially to the occipital part of the brain can elicit, in some subjects, brief bright colourfull light sensations]
"The Indies" referred to the known archipelago in the Indian Ocean (now Indonesia and the Philippines). The Caribbean is also an archipelago, so if Columbus believed himself to be in the Indian Ocean, it's not that odd for him to assume he'd reached the western end of the same archipelago.

India is not a collection of islands, it's unlikely that Columbus mistook an archipelago for a known vast land mass.
Hm? Give the message a type. Service A or B would fail to compile, depending on whether the static type of X is a string or an integer.
> The other group prioritizes written text's dense information content and searchability.

I would add that the other group also likely prioritises focus, flow, blocks of uninterrupted time for deep work and minimising context switching. For me personally the text-based content and searchability is way down the list compared to keeping the focus on my core tasks.

I think there is quite a lot more the author could touch on regarding the huge overhead and performance hit of context switching and the absolute importance of protecting your time against non-urgent interruptions if you're doing any kind of deep work. Makers vs managers schedule stuff. And yes, even managers should be doing deep work occasionally (I would argue often).
I wish these "high-testosterone" sports car owners good luck finding a gas station in the new world of EVs ;)
Thanks for the insight! We expect to keep the Google Sheets add-on free for the near future. For our business model, we are instead focusing on building fully end-to-end pipelines that use the same ML engine as for the Google Sheets add-on:

Data integration -> ML Predictions -> taking actions.

As an example, for an ecommerce store we plug into their Shopify, predict people likely to churn and send them a Mailchimp discount code.

We are running pilot projects now for these pipelines, so if you are interested do not hesitate to reach out to me on jan [at] magicsheets [dot] io
Cute idea but the implementation is completely useless.

It does draw attention to the fatal weakness in the surveillance society - everything is geared towards massive intake and thwarting you from controlling or removing your data. There is nothing preventing you from feeding the beast! Give it what it wants. Fill out marketing surveys with addresses in every city of every state. Sign up for that free car drawing with same. Apply for a hundred credit cards every day - you won’t be approved but how many can your credit report keep track of before it breaks. My goal has long been to request my free copy and have it arrive on a pallet.

There are always people that pop in about now and say “you can’t do that”, it’s “fraudulent”, “it’s illegal”, baa-baa-baa, good little sheep. I’m sure your loyalty to the system is neither noticed nor appreciated, but keep on fear mongering if it makes you feel secure.
I used better for my first refinance, super easy to work with! I did have to use a different lender for a second refi since there seems to be a 6-month cooldown period (rates kept going down...)

My only recommendation for buyers is to do some cross-shopping, since it is pretty easy to compare different loan options. Lenderfi is good alternative. I have heard most lenders can generally match each other. Your credit will only take 1 hit when shopping for different mortgage lenders, at least for a certain time window.

You can shop around for various services (helpfully listed on the loan estimate as You can shop for..), but the most you can save is a few hundred $ there.

Lastly, you can ask to have no escrow for insurance and property tax! As long as you have discipline to pay the tax bill and home insurance once a year this makes it a lot easier, especially when you sell or refinance, since you don't have to wait weeks for the escrow to pay you back.
not quite ur 'Salinger Year' then ..
sorry for u.