skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Coffey's logic book was worse than most of the time. I have not read it, but it's available: https://archive.org/details/thescienceoflogi01coffuoft

I have strong feelings about the usefulness of this sort of logic despite its flaws, and would have been interested to know his thoughts on W.S. Jevons' book.
This is not limited to GitHub. The whole point of putting an email into each commit is to make it easy to contact the author.

So if you make a git repo public, no matter whether you use a managed git service or self-host, anyone who can access it will be able to read all those email adresses in the commits.
Well, still it’s not the rates that are synchronized but the rate rises and falls are.
If Epik doesn't have the basic integrity to shut the hell down and get a security expert to rebuild their systems, then at the very least, I hope PayPal and friends are hurriedly cancelling those API keys (and the accounts that acquired and failed to secure them).
Why can this specific approach be cooled at room temperature, rather than the cryogenically cooled approaches seen elsewhere?

As a complete layman, is this a major breakthrough? The ability to communicate information via photons in a computational setting absolutely blows my mind.
it is the paradox of the information era: society has never had such easy and immediate access to the limits of human knowledge, and at the same time, society can’t agree on whether the earth is spherical, vaccines work, or if demonstrably corrupt politicians are really that bad.
"too closely" hardly qualifies IMO as "indistinguishable".

Maybe I'm a printer nerd, but I could generally tell the printer manufacturer from its output in the time they were popular.

Not to mention that back then, I don't think any consumer-grade dot matrix used single sheet paper like a typewriter would. The tractor punched-hole bars on the side after removal would give it away; even that fancy super-perforated stuff.
Might be easier with transcripts, but with recordings it takes a lot of effort to find the correct recording, and correct place to find the correct information that you have a question about. As well as needing to know that your question might be in one of the recordings. So it just also becomes easier to re-ask the question even if it was already discussed somewhere.
Congratulations on the release!

If you want to learn org-mode systematically and like watching videos, the Udemy course by Rainer König is really nice: https://www.udemy.com/course/getting-yourself-organized-with...

(Yes, Udemy is full of terrible dark patterns...)
This is great for those studying algorithms (DP, DC, FFT, etc.). Very useful.
This is a lazy argument. You can do better.
I disagree -- my experience is that most of them care quite a bit.
Sounds like an alt-history where the Medieval church discovers electricity and computation.
> Of every developer I have seen leave, their primary motivation was a higher pay.

YMMV. Of developers I saw leaving, including my direct reports, almost no one was driven by money. There are actually two primary reasons. 1) their performance was suboptimal and it was easier to change the company than to push themselves uphill 2) relocation. Most of those who chose that patch was taking siglificant lifestyle downgrade, even if net pay was somewhat better.
bah. its easy enough. discussion of downvotes can be tagged and the subtree minimized by default.
FTR Sensei's Library is all about Go (the game).
Dupe.

This story was covered in some detail yesterday:

22 hours ago | 1,357 points | 2,734 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693060
Most modern weapon designs are actually fission-fusion-fission designs with most of the energy actually coming from the final fission step - the latter being driven by neutrons from the fusion step. Things get even more complicated with the fact that primaries are fusion boosted fission and the fusion step contains a fission "sparkplug".
True, but you meet the same difficulties. A preference doesn't really have to be rational. Fund the park or the bath, paint the city hall blue or yellow. Especially in a democracy there often is no pure rational solution.
Qt Quick is not based on JS. JS is merely an option for Qt Quick.
No, the problem with nuclear power stations is they are way too expensive.

Fusion promises to make this main problem worse, not better.

Fusion is a great example of solving the wrong problem.
The three steps to networking:

1. Find conversations with people who are working on problems aligned with your interests. Be present. Listen and pay attention.

2. Ask questions which demonstrate your genuine curiosity about their problems and how they overcame struggles with them. "Clean Language" questions are a neat hack which does authentically work here.

3. Do the boring admin work of sending an email expressing gratitude for their time and following up on opportunities to help out and learn more.

The intro book here is How to Win Friends and Influence People. Also, Half of Models by Mark Manson is also relevant (gender is mostly irrelevant) because the underlying philosophical principles are the same. EDIT: Berne Brown is probably more relevant than Mark Manson.
I agree, and tbh we had automatic transcripts as well (a feature of MS Teams), but its the same issue, you need to be able to record/capture in the first place
My email appears in the hack, but not because I am a customer of Epik. I think they had a database of scraped WHOIS data.
And don't wink when you can make a mark on a curb like a real spy ;)
Which is why politics is always an important part of large companies. In order to get anything done you need to convince a lot of important people that it would benefit them to allow this project. Those people then consider how much they and others could leverage the project to expand their power and influence in the company, if it isn't net positive for them they probably wont agree to it.
Yeah, I will write it down on the website. As I mentioned below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28700703), I do not store the URLs that you go to (though of course you have to trust me on that), and as all the processing is done on the server, that URL doesn't get sent to any external APIs (though if I go through with adding reddit I might need to send it to the reddit API).

I do collect some telemetry statistics (right now the number of times you have seen the sidebar + the number of times you clicked/scrolled/closed it), aggregated hourly.
I haven’t done a microbenchmark to see. It hasn’t been notable in my usage.
Twitter, could you please fix your image servers?
>Luckily Azaan’s not the only technically minded member of his family. His father had already built a global trading platform, and so he was perfectly positioned to help his son with this next challenge.

Ah, there it is.
What does VS Code beat in speed and resource usage? Be fair and compare it to other software with only colourization, Git support and extension support.

JS can get close to C++ in speed but the same program in JS will always need more memory.
It looks nice.

I like to use the mouse anyway. Each post has the number of comments, something like "123 comments ->" Can you make the number of comments and the arrow clickable? Also, the "<- Back" inside each post.

It I'm reading a comment, the author and "open" should be clickable too. I didn't understand what "open" means, perhaps change it to "open in HN".
Great! Does that mean fusion is going to be here in just 10 years in the future as opposed to the 20 years in the future it's been for the last 50 years?
Haha yup. Wait until you check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWONeJKn6kc

ML course by a 15 year old!
I would look more into the limitations of the read tech (how accurately can we measure the stick length and the mark location) rather than inherent limitations of the medium. Very few technologies reach the actual theoretical limitations of the materials they are made of.
Most places won't even send a rejection letter. It's just radio silence in my experience.
Strictly speaking, what the Bible prohibits by "magic" is recourse to powers other than God. Curses are fine: the third- and fourth-last verses of the Bible itself are a warning of plagues and misfortune to anyone who messes with the text of the book of Revelation. But that is an invocation of God's power, so it's fine. Making a deal with some demon is not.
Why should fusion be radically cheaper? It's very complex, has much lower power density than fission, and pushes materials and systems more strongly (power/area through surfaces, for example; neutron flux as well) than fission.

If you claim either fuel cost or waste handling cost, neither of those is a major part of the cost of fission power. Capital cost is, and fusion moves that in the wrong direction.
... or you could just get an Edgerouter X or a Mikrotik router for $40.
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I thought the biggest in terms of tallest ist the Dom in Ulm, Germany and the biggest as regards the m2 size the Cathedral in Seville.
No country in the world that doesn't already have them can "just build nuclear weapons if it wanted", international treaties are extremely prohibitive of that. In particular, if Japan wanted to build a nuclear weapon, it would face tremendous opposition from China, while S Korea would face the same from both China and N Korea.

Also, fission weapons tests are currently banned, which also indirectly bans fusion weapons tests, as fusion weapons require a fission step. ICF experiments perfectly mirror conditions inside a fission-fusion bomb though, so are a way of furthering research into improving the yields or other characteristics of such bombs (which have existed since the early 1950s, this is not some far-fetched concept).
Seems like they are following the Twilio playbook.
I woild say different expectations from each acquisition, less profit and more overhead.
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The article actually jumps right to the three major points that I see, rephrased to: (1) misaligned priorities, (2) policy flux, and (3) attrition.

The most damning trend I have witnessed first hand is that directors have extreme agency and are most of the time not incentivized to help other directors, especially if they’re under a different VP or SVP. The high-level leadership are too detached from the details (as they should be — but this is the thing that is most different in large orgs — it becomes more and more difficult to know everything, eventually becomes impossible, and then even knowing “enough” becomes impossible) to make centralized decisions so you’re left with one organization at a standstill with another, which causes attrition in the lower ranks of people who just want to get stuff done. That attrition results directly in knowledge loss and overall reduced productivity, which hampers most teams from breaking out of their set of problems. And it all just gets worse with time.

Large companies have way more guardrails and standards than smaller companies and they also change at a greater rate. Since these policies so rarely help improve or ship features, it’s just an ever-increasing source of productivity loss from the perspective of someone who wants to get stuff done. When internal politics are complained about, this is typically the root cause.

Hiring and retaining talent becomes harder as all companies grow and previous top talents becomes disenfranchised over time. Average talent hits an inflection point and then begins a descent. This just adds fuel to the fire, but I believe things would still become extremely difficult without this trait as well.

All of this becomes only more difficult to deal with over time as the company increases in size and age.

Nepotism, cronyism, etc.. all factor in as well, but those issues also affect small organizations and their impact there is even higher.
Sure, but the fusion step is still important and somewhat poorly understood, so ICF experiments which mirror the conditions inside the fission-fusion step could be valuable for increasing yields.
Yes indeed. It is difficult to write in engaging way that gives the reader some insight into what you experienced.

But if you were just writing for the sake of it and putting down word afterword without really thinking about what you’re saying or not even caring what the reader is thinking at all just speaking whatever comes to mind in some sort of you know some sort of aSelf centred sort of a style which isn’t really a style it’s really just talking to yourself well you know that’s um yeah that’s not so hard really I’m just sort of do it you know? Yeah and you can and you actually don’t have to write it or you can just talk into your phone!
Inertial Confinement Fusion is useful for H-Bomb research, and other styles of fusion are probably tangentially useful for understanding high energy physics.
Yeah, the first thing that I thought when I opened the blog post and saw "Mailgun by Pathwire" was "wait, I thought this was Mailgun by Rackspace".

Apparently I'm way behind on the Mailgun ownership saga.
"Their heart rates change in unison" seems like a perfectly fine interpretation of "their heart rates are synchronized" that matches the observations. It is in fact what I expected when I read the headline. Maybe the headline could have been even more explicit, but I don't think it's intentionally deceiving.
I think the places where it looks like a sham are places that are too focused on ceremony, metrics, and process. If it's just treated as any other tool, them it works well enough.
> The people running the organization put the wrong incentives in place.

this assume that the organizations are mishandled. you don't need to posit such a requirement, it's even simpler, as the organization grow, the cost of mistakes increase, while the margins decrease. this is what requires controls structure to be put in place, slowing and weighting down operations.

it's not a bad thing either, just the result of doing business at scale. many startup that find themselves at a significant market size quickly and quietly drop the "move fast and break things" culture, for the very same reason
Did the same, no cloud, plotting on top of open street maps, automated logging.

Excerpt from the result (don't want to disclose where exactly I live): https://i.imgur.com/FPyRAkA.png

My setup for it:

- andoid app tasker (checking if I loose wifi, in that case start GPSlogger)
- android app GPSlogger does the logging, set to relatively coarse in hopes to save battery)
- and visualize on my computer with this python script http://sethoscope.net/heatmap/ (with a custom gradient that has no transparency. I want to see where I've been just once too.

You can also render it on android with GPX Viewer but loading takes a long time once you got a bunch of tracks.

It's tough on your phones battery though. I think I pushed my aging one over the edge with it.
The problem is that it is not "alt". It exists in our current shared history, and we can encounter it if we are either willing or unlucky enough.
The thing you are describing is not the opposite of writer's block. It's something orthogonal to it, at least in my experience. I'm also quite capable of stringing together endless seemingly coherent texts about anything when there are no true personal stakes involved.

However, when trying to tell a story or covering a subject that I really care about, that's a whole other ball game.
I think part of the problem is just getting through 3,000 applications.

The other part is public relations -- if they notify you right away, then they are admitting that an algo rejected you.

And they probably usually wait, often if not always, until the position is actually hired -- which can take months. Because if someone doesn't accept the position, they might want to ping you.
You should also credit Persian architecture, from which Islamic tradition drew equally (although, for obvious reasons, less around the Med than in Asia).
>Big mistake in the article to claim that a single engineer could build Amazon, Facebook, or Google.

You misread it. The author is not equating them; he's contrasting them. Simplicity-of-proof-of-concept vs complexity of real-world-AmaFaceGoog.
It's similar to sketching. I get the same sort of fear when I do it.

My solution is to be more forgiving. Paper is cheap. I can try bold concepts and fail miserably. I can stop halfway through a sketch and try something else, or revisit it years later. No one is keeping track. In the end, I learn more from drawing poorly than from not drawing at all.

I am also forgiving when I write. The content I publish gets revised several times over many years, like a family recipe that improves with every attempt. Through each iteration, I find better ways to explain things to my readers. On the internet, I can republish as often as you want, so there's no cost to getting it mostly right.
I am a customer of both Sinch (actually mblox and mobile 365) and mailgun. Let's see how things works in the day to day operations.

More financials details here [1]

Using yesterday’s closing Sinch share price of SEK 165.9, and USD/SEK exchange rate of 8.8, this corresponds to an enterprise value of approximately USD 1.9 billion, or SEK 16.6 billion.

In the twelve months ending December 31, 2021, Pathwire is expected to record revenues of USD 132 million, Gross Profit of USD 104 million, and Adjusted EBITDA of USD 55 million. This corresponds to a gross margin of 79 percent and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 42 percent. The business employs around 290 people and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

If my math is right, they are paying x34 EBITDA, x14 ARR, huge multipliers if you ask me.

Too much cash in the system I guess.

[1] https://investors.sinch.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...
There are "magsafe to usb c" dongles on Amazon and other retailers.

The run a little hot, but seem to work pretty well.
Developers, your manager is likely clueless
Not sure about the bystander effect applied within an organization but hasn't this theory been discredited following recent research?

Cf. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Famp0000469
And, will electrons generated via fusion be easier to track so that the government knows what you r doing with electricity
OK, but the FAQ states the protocol is already considered feature complete "modulo small changes to remove ambiguity and address edge cases" and that no new features will be considered.

Extra syntax to allow for italics and bold, much less any accessibility features, seem like new features.
Thanks! This is similar to the scenario I'm talking about. I'm mostly presenting a remote control to the user and sending commands to the device. But I also need to get status from the device, and polling for the state of every setting is a crappy way to go.
> It’s possible you grew up.

It's not an age thing. It's about graphical updates becoming an advancement with diminishing returns given we only have a limited visual acuity to begin with.

This is why engines have to work on smarter lighting effects, more realistic physics of water, hair, etc to step things up (or pivot to entirely new technology platforms like VR or AR). But the thing with more realistic physics is that they're not always really obvious. That's in part because there's a law of diminishing returns there too where previous generations of game engines would get progressively better at simulating these effects. So unless you're really looking out for the differences, a lot of the improvements will be easily overlooked (though I'm sure they're at least picked up at an unconscious level).

But when you go from monochrome to 4 colours. Or 4 to 16 colours to 256 or several million, that difference is very noticeable because the limitations were very noticeable too. And those were the changes that happened to gaming during the 80s and 90s.

> I literally couldn’t tell you a difference between the last two generations of PlayStation and Xbox

Exactly.

> but both consoles have their fan communities.

Of course they do. You'll find fan bases around most things. That doesn't prove anything other than humans being largely pack animals and habitual.
Friend,

Aged 10, I passed my GCSE Mathematics exam with the highest possible grade, an A Star (Grade 9).

I am one of the youngest boys in the 33+ year history of the exam to have achieved this.

We are all born with different abilities and talent. I suck at sports but excel in Mathematics and Sciences etc

https://educational-life.org/ten-year-old-maths-whizz-gets-h...
> Bill Gates found it useful to answer tech support calls as late as 01989

This is good, but it's easier when you're a very extraordinary human, and your own boss!
I like being optimistic, but there is nothing to be optimistic about when it comes to producing electrical power from laser ICF. It's a weapons program.

Also, I spent a few years as an engineer at a stellarator. This video[0] recently came out and I find it's the best crash course on the nuances of reactor design that I've seen. It really nails the thoughts and feelings of fusion researchers. It was especially refreshing to hear in public that ECRH is the only viable heating method for a reactor.

If you watch this you might think I'm pessimistic about fusion, but I'm not. Fusion has been sold as this secret Ace up our sleeve that will come in and decarbonize our grid in a matter of decades. It isn't that. That's what's been sold because it's difficult to justify the field when the timelines don't decarbonize the grid in 50 years. The important thing to know is that the world doesn't end in 50 years. Energy demands are ever increasing and the supply is ever diminishing. Fusion science is expensive and time consuming. Humans will have to do the work if they want to stay on the current track beyond the next 100 years. It might seem like a subtle point and a doomed one to make considering how shortsighted we as a society have demonstrated to be.

0. https://youtu.be/JurplDfPi3U
The handle the above comment won’t mention is “Weev”. He’s not Voldemort.
Fusion is reaching (or arguably has passed) its sell by date as alternatives crash in cost. So it's raise money now or never.
Until now Nuclear Fusion has produced optimism, careers and portfolio valuations but no energy.

The theory is there, but the implementation is not and worse than that, there is no "it will get cheaper with industrialization" in sigh, because we are not even at that stage and there is no indication there is a realistic path to achieve the efficiency needed to be economically viable ( ever! ).

The best positioned to deliver something tangible seems to be ITER, many of the rest seems to be more of a pump & dump scheme than anything else.
Emacs is not a “Unix editor.” (GNU’s Not Unix, after all.) And it does not follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. But I’ll admit that using it under Windows is not as seamless as it is under Linux and BSD.
That's what I thought, too. Amazon is a bad example, maybe for Twitter, you could make the case. But not for the reasons the article mentions: Sure, there's some overhead due to communication and misaligned incentives, but most of the work goes into the hidden complexity that even the simplest tasks contain when rolled out to millions of people. And I'm not only talking about technical complexity - I'd be interested how many people Twitter employs just for checking reported tweets.
Thanks. My application doesn't require ad-hoc queries; it's all about setting parameters on a device and getting status back.
GitJournal is great but for 100% support on mobile one can run Emacs directly on their phone using Termux on Android and iSH on iOS.
The machine comes with a cloned and partially sedated Alain Ducasse as a backed, fronted is fully automated.