skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pay for SourceHut, not because i get a lot of value from the service, but as a way of funding Drew DeVault's crazy ranting.
The problem of not disabling JavaScript and not seeing ads. I.e. granting users control over the code their browser runs that's finer-grained than "nuke it from orbit".
It was not for the oil it was to make sure that the oil would continue to be traded in US dollars if you ask me.
Trade happening in dollars is something the US can control. Maybe 10~15 years ago I would say the Euro was a possible alternative to the dollar but in 2021 and the spinelessness of brussels its pretty much the dollar with a different stamp on it.
I've been porting Python to Cosmopolitan Libc so it can be an Actually Portable Executable and I managed to trim the entire UNICODE 13 and UNICODE 3.2.0 (b/c encodings.idna) databases down to 934kb.

~/cosmo$ bloat o//third_party/python/python.com.dbg | grep PyUnicode | grep -v '\b[bB]\b' | head
000000000002e183 T _PyUnicode_Phrasebook
0000000000028000 T _PyUnicode_CodeHash
000000000001dc86 T _PyUnicode_Lexicon
0000000000018780 T _PyUnicode_PhrasebookOffset2
00000000000100a8 T _PyUnicode_LexiconOffset
0000000000007d80 T _PyUnicode_Decomp
0000000000006800 T _PyUnicode_DecompIndex2
0000000000004dfc t _PyUnicode_RecordsIndex2_rodata
0000000000004c68 t _PyUnicode_TypeRecordsIndex2_rodata
0000000000004582 T _PyUnicode_ToNumeric
000000000002e183 T _PyUnicode_Phrasebook
~/cosmo$ bloat o//third_party/python/python.com.dbg | grep PyUnicode | grep -v '\b[bB]\b' | awk1 | summy -x
934,686

STB does a pretty good job at font rendering and it's less than 100kb. Fonts are pretty tiny too. Noto is under a meg if you just want western and emoji. Bloat is mainly an issue if you want to support China, Japan, and Korea who take up the lion's share of the UNICODE space, having at least 80,000 characters assigned to them. They also don't agree on how those characters should be rendered. So we need a separate copy of the font database for Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan. So you're actually looking at more than 40 megs. With Noto it's at least 66mb.
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But it is not easy to see the context:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1... Virgil has hurted them big time:" WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly overwhelmed with searches.

The program allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the popular Internet encyclopedia where anyone can submit and edit entries.

WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this!
Yes, if you crush your computer into a cube you won't see ads again either. But people want to keep their computers and block content they don't like, so there's "problems to solve" there.
I don't see any clear case of such punishment. There are consequences for not being in the trade union. You can't leave the trade union and expect the same conditions as the members...
Because they all feel a need to deny that people willingly participating have both agency and practical intelligence. Agency you make decisions and act on them. Practical intelligence means being able to weigh risks and your own knowledge to make appropriately hedged bets.

And another thing people engaging in prosocial mitigations have seen that they actually work and thus feel a sense of control over the situation. That in particular rankles political and public health leaders, and especially rankles covid denialists.
Nixon made sure US companies invested hundreds of billions in China, not in India, for some stupid Nixon's reason.
I suppose so, but in a remote world it might be your cubicle? Probably just another bifurcation between the "cattle" (provocative term that I disagree with but still) and the 5x-ers (HN readers...).

One man's prison is another man's minimalist office?
Yes, but rarely. Usually in "high security" businesses worried about exfiltration of client data or other company secrets & data assets, when it is done. Basically they give you a work network extension at home that piggy-backs on your connection but keeps itself segregated from the rest of your home network (so hopefully not monitoring that, but you never know!) via VPN and managed switch/router. Like a normal VPN-from-home scenario but with more careful control/monitoring as if your location were a fuller satellite office. Potentially useful for support too, though that is a beneficial side effect rather than a reason to go to the extra effort.
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Unless you see the big picture, they want his blood, he humiliated them:" (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.Griffith said he developed WikiScanner “to create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike (and) to see what ‘interesting organizations’ (which I am neutral towards) are up to.”
Why are you still using google search anyway?
"Mass hysteria" is exactly what this is, and probably one of the greatest ones in history. I recently read "The Delusions of Crowds", written by E. Bernstein and published in 2021. Bernstein frequently notes that the author of the very well known "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", published in 1841 by Mackay and during the height of the British Railway Bubble, almost completely ignores that now well-known popular delusion.

Ironically, Bernstein had nothing to say about our response to Covid, and only occasionally parroted the accepted platitudes about the pandemic.
Quattro was a rally car model. They used the name to describe their 4WD drivetrain. They constantly advertise it using the shots of that rally car racing in that (now illegal) rally race.

But sure, FSD is the irresponsible one.
Would you like to have random companies tracking your grandma wherever she goes, because of the GPS that's now in every family car?

Would you like supermarkets real-time adjust (=increase by 2ct) the prices on products your grandma usually buys, based on when your grandma's family car is taking the "I'm going shopping" route?
ok I'll bait, not really evidence, but something I learned from the Internet.

They arrive in military aircraft, salute to military officers, is this normal for Canadian tourists?

https://twitter.com/DadingLi/status/1442344903032262665

welcomed by Canadian intelligence, does this happen a lot to Canadian tourists?

https://twitter.com/csiscanada/status/1441571942721593345

One Michael met Kim Jong-un, is this a common thing among Canadian tourists?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46552644
haha fine, say they weren't spies then. I don't know 100%.
My main point is that Meng was detained for BS reasons. So sure, I'm fine with the story that China detained two Canadians without cause, because that does not detract at all - why can Canada/the US do this but China cannot?

what I see is the US not getting away with the strong-arm tactics its accustomed to, and I applaud it.
I just disconnected my computer from the internet. I don't get any ads at all, now!
That's incredibly useful, thanks.
At an old job we used NewRelic right up until they tried to 3x our annual bill :/
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It says "the data might be removed". Typically, you get multiple warnings before your data gets deleted, because people forget, and the warning is alarming. All these emails were unread - we all get a lot of spam and lots of informative emails and many of us just read the subject. If the subject is not suggesting that action should be taken otherwise there will be dire consequences, people might just read the subject and not open it.
As far as I recall, QCD gives you a nice simple formula - a path integral over quantum operators - for any quantity you want. Lattice QCD works out the answer with great big Monte-Carlo integration.
The tricky bit is defining a field theory on a finite discrete space-time lattice that is provably equivalent to the continuum theory after controlled extrapolations to the continuum. And you have to show that you can define the correct operators in the lattice theory that really do give the quantities you want. Then you need to implement this in code that runs blazingly fast over huge data sets.
These considerations, and the fact that there are all sorts of solutions to these problems which might supported by a code base, tend to make code implementations complicated.
Sadly not too surprising and there are probably many that are reminded of their academic careers. Well, hopefully it isn't medicine.
My biggest issue with Immersed currently is it eats a tremendous amount of CPU on my Mac, which is admittedly aging (2016 era). Perhaps its unfair to expect it to run well on something of that vintage but it's definitely a problem.

Then the next obvious one is screen resolution is just not high enough yet. It probably needs to double and I don't think even the top end of headsets are quite there yet.

It's exciting because all the problems I can identify are essentially things that have high confidence of being solved over time. So I can see there is an inevitability this will be a major way of working at some point and for those of us willing to stretch to it, you can get to the future ahead of everyone else.

At the same time, every time I do the experiment it is objectively less productive than just using a basic 3-screen setup outside of VR. The bar, unfortunately, is quite high.
The upgraded TGV almost halved the time in the Paris-Bordeaux line from 4-4.5 to 2:15. This was a huge difference and combined with the convenience of the train station being close to the center as opposed to the airport, meant that people can easily go on a daily trip to Paris by train.

However, the city has been developing heavily before that and Parisians who wanted a nicer place to spend their quarantine have plenty of other places to go to, either in the west part of the country or the south.

In my opinion what needs to be done to further decentralize the country away from paris is to improve the connection between the other cities, eg Bordeaux Marseille is 6h by train!
One idea that I subscribe to is that creativity is basically cross-wiring of ideas from different domains. The people that I know as creative have one thing is common, that they have enormous appetite for reading.
I think that being an authoritarian country, where you don't expect surprises in every election was a strong incentive for american companies to invest in China instead of India.
Of course, the idea that a country that doesn't give a damn about human rights would also not be completely invested in the protection of IP never was a an idea too advanced for the simple minds of the Jack Welchs eager to exploit cheap chinese manpower.
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Edge is just a Microsoft Cage. It is far and away the worst browser from a privacy standpoint: https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/
>I’ve been in those meetings, we’ve all been with different responsibility levels, we know that people are slacking at least 80% of the time

meetings are so much fun that of course people go to them all day long in an effort to slack off.
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Unfortunately, I think people who think the same are in a minority.

And some distros are also attempting to shy away from the responsibility (first few Ubuntu LTSes had a huge catalogue of python libraries in "main", which meant that they had 5 years of security fixes while keeping backwards compat guaranteed).

I seriously believe there is a business opportunity for people to manage security of others' dependencies (backport patches and push backward compatible fixes). Higher levels could even get security audits as part of their package.
Tons of amazing one-off blog posts told with images as the focus has been posted through Imgur.

Things like “how I renovated my house” or “how the circuitry of this gadget works” told through pictures with supporting texts lives solely on Imgur.
Although the TGV was purportedly for everybody, one of the things which long hampered it is the historical and technocratic notion of Paris being the sole hub of the country: while the first TGV section opened in 1981, the first section which was not subordinate to Paris (either going to it or directly extending a line coming from Paris) was the LGV Rhin-Rhone in 2011.

To this day, if you want to travel between south-east and south-west france, you can go straight through using intercity trains (which takes 6h between Marseilles and Bordeaux) or through Paris on the TGV (which… also takes 6h).

The distance between Marseilles and Bordeaux is about 650km, about the same as Paris - Bordeaux and significantly shorter than Paris - Marseilles (800km), both of which are about 3h TGV from Paris (resp. 2:30 for Bordeaux and 3:30 for Marseilles).
Think the fax machine is dead? Not in Japan
If they were indeed spies, why were they only arrested right after Meng was?
I can't speak for HN but I don't hate Oracle. The engineering is top notch. It's the "screw the customer" attitude of the sales dept that no doubt emanates from the guy at the top that annoys me no end.
I use Google search only for one thing: shopping.

Is this the intention behind everything at Google - advertising/shopping/consumption? If so, congrats to Google I guess.
Has Canada, a territory of extremely low population density, been under strict stay-at-home orders - prohibiting not "to see other people", but just to leave the house? I remember the months-old anecdote of a policeman accusing a driver, while fining him, to have put the community at risk, because in case of car accident he would have forced human interaction. I am not sure - I have little information.

So, right: if that is factual (it is unfortunately possible), to arrive to such degree of irrationality and abuse against clean, linear thinking and good sense, social media can only have a relative weight.
Presumably use on bad devices with no CLI available. Also sharing URLs with people to show them a thing quickly.
I kind of agree.

In my last role I ended up in a fantastic place where the teams under me could operate fairly autonomously and were happy. My only recurring meetings were:

- 1-1s fortnightly and only with senior members

- My 1-1 with my boss, again fortnightly

- Senior leadership team, once a week

I kept 1-1s to 30mins unless someone had an important issue, in which case I was completely flexible.

Most of my time went on planning/strategy, customer research, and acting as an ad-hoc coach for the teams beneath me.

The key things I found were:

- many meetings can be replaced by an update email

- decisions often work better through docs + feedback than big meetings

- you don't need frequent contact with the team if the goals and constraints are communicated very clearly

I realise none of this is groundbreaking. But it seems quite rare, and also hard to achieve in practice.
Nortel is a Canadian company.

Does this mean it belongs to America's 5G portfolio?
Haven't used Firefox in years, would need to check what's new.

But I've been enjoying Brave. Built in blockers for ads and trackers, built in tor, and a very interesting rewards system to help content creators and honestly, so far I recommend it.
I really feel for you. What kind of pandemic has turned huge numbers of formerly healthy people into overweight, demoralized, and socially isolated individuals? A pandemic of the mind, perhaps.
I would rather do my homework and search for ways to get my own place
I would rather do my homework and search for ways to get my own place, than pay a crazy rent price to a stranger.
I think that's an astute observation. For families, even one hour of commute can be too much (depending on the job and details of childcare facilities) and people that have to show up every day (usually lower-wage positions) cannot make this work at all. This means that the two-hour commute will have some filtering effect. towards professionals that can work from home or maybe earn enough to support a family from a single income. That effect will be even more aggravated if the two hours do not include the way from and to the train stations.

So it's easy to see that the effect on the receiving city can be quite pronounced.
> we're all going to get along, because space-faring races don't have grudges/ulterior motives/conflicting goals

Star Trek never said that.

It said that Earth and some other planets within the Federation reached a level of evolution that didn't leave much room for grudges/ulterior motives/conflicting goals.

Outside of the Federation, it was chaos as usual.
So my understanding is that both chrome and firefox will eventually switch to manifest v3 and for the most part, this is probably a good thing.

I understand that chrome also wants to remove the API that is used for ad blocking, which is bad.

But apart from that, what is the migration path? Will there be a window when both browsers support both versions?
yeah, people really trust those sites that offer to install something to improve your browser performance and keep you from being tracked.
Or zero money, even!
The same argument could be said for most web-based playgrounds. I'd argue for small prototyping, playgrounds/pens offer an easier interface and enable sharing of artifacts
You're right, for the "common" people the things you can do with a phone camera nowadays are amazing.

Also you never carry around a DSLR, you carry a huge bag with multiple lenses, tripods, among other add-ons. So I guess it's even worse haha
I believe the complaints here are a case of 'not using it correctly'.

The 'Reverse index' (Lucene's inverted index) is a fundamental data structure used to enable very fast search. Other data structures, like KD trees, are used for non-text data types. If you're not doing full text search, don't use `text` fields. If you're not querying the data, why store it in the first place?

Full text search for logs is incredibly useful for log files when combined with alerting. If you get log entries indicating that a disk is full, a service has stopped, or a user account is blocked, Elasticsearch can (with the right license) send emails or post on Slack.

Static mappings can be a pain but if you're constantly increasing the maximum field count for an index, use different indices for different log sources. Come up with an index pattern or alias that allows querying all those indices at the same time.

The main task here is reconciling the different logs so the index mappings are easily searchable, effectively as a union. Elastic Common Schema helps a lot with this. Elasticsearch mappings are easier to build when you first consider the queries you're going to be running on the data. You can then design the mapping with the right structure, field types, and settings.
Google makes it's money from advertising.
Connect the dots.
The whole of western policy toward Asia is rooted in white supremacy.
Just like AUKUS how the Anglo nations think they should dictate too Asia what needs to be done.
Hell two of the three parties are half a world away not even part of the region.

Only a coalition based in western white supremacy can thinks of a idea like AUKUS as a good idea.
They didn't even collaborate with their QUAD allies or with ASEAN allies.

So Indonesia and Malaysia we will park some nuclear subs in your sea lanes of communication, don't care what you brown people think about it.
Claire Wolf is fucking brilliant!

P.S. formal verification is like crack when you get your first try, be wary...
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Similar, companies house in the UK, I looked him up to see what directorships he held then I looked those companies up, one was registered from his home address and done.
I think allowing a whitelisted set of constructors (so it's extensible, but with some standard ones) as types in a future JSON-like could be good. e.g.

{
birthdayParty: Date(1632817436514),
sounds: Map([["cow", "moo"], ["fox", "?"]]),
possibilities: Set(["she loves me", "she loves me not"]),
aSymbol: Symbol("tag"),
aBuffer: UInt8Array(ArrayBuffer([104, 101, 108, 108, 111])),
}

So you'd do something like

const serialised = NuJSON.stringify(data)
const result = NuJSON.parse(serialised, allowedConstructors, fallbackConstructor)

And if allowedConstructors wasn't present, it'd default to including all the standard JS ones (Map,Set,Date,Symbol,ArrayBuffer etc). The fallback constructor would be used if there were data types in the data that didn't have matching allowed constructors. By default it would through an error.

Of course, my ideal NuJSON would also include bigints, multiline strings, comments, bare keys (i.e. without having to wrap them in quotes).

Stretch nuJSON would also include the ability to serialise circular graph structures, perhaps through the use of a Reference([up, up, "aSymbol"]) data type.
It's the opposite, only power users can use Windows, everyone else don't know hygiene and quickly get stuffed with viruses.
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I'm still looking for my jaw after his painting with math girl
Is AMP really that bad? It seems to circumvent a lot of paywalls for me and seems to just be a subset of HTML, roughly.
Your company sounds really interesting! Do your remote devs do hardware work, if so how do you do that remotely?

I've used Arduinos, esp32s and openFrameworks(c++ framework) and would love to learn more about your company. And are you still hiring? I want to work at a startup where I save the planet and make an impact.
FWIW, the ES team implemented a change that I requested via GitHub, and I’m just some guy who’s not even a paying customer. The change involved the behavior of force merge, and probably didn’t affect too many people. It’ll allow my employer (and hopefully some other companies) to make more efficient use of our disk space.

I’m really appreciative of the way they considered and then implemented my request.
Huge if true. Link?