skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which will never happen. That takes customer impetus, it's not there. People don't understand the cost of the free products they use, they are unlikely to switch.

So what ways would influence your outcome to actually happen? Because I think it would be the right way to run software platforms as well, I just don't see a pathway there that isn't heavy handed.

I would be for regulating the advertising industry, since I feel it is the root of all this. None of the unethical software magnates would exist if not for the advertising dollars pouring through the door thanks to the ad-tech apparatuses they have built, and the poor incentives that creates. But that regulation is challenging and unlikely too.
His business acumen, product intelligence, marketing savvy and organizational skills can be considered to be critical for Apples success by some parties. I guess this sounds a fair assesment.
good point - you are basically arguing against extravagant alternatives that would break the flow of conversation as people are so cute sed to seeing and taking business cards - what I fear is that the automatic reaction continues after a meeting by dumping them all ...
Number 19 is a clinker. Banach-Tarski applies only to objects in real-number space, but there are no such objects. For that to work, objects have to be infinitely divisible, but all of our objects are made out of atoms.

Real-numbered space is a good enough approximation to our experience that we hardly ever encounter a model failure like this one.
> As long as there is still swap AND physical memory available, there is no problem. If we run out of physical memory and there is swap, performance will crater due to paging, but we won’t crash.

That's a disheartening stance to hear. The browser should be actively evicting work before I start swapping if it's using more than some small percentage of overall RSS. If my IDE decides it needs more RAM for code completion, the browser should play nice rather than slowing my machine to a crawl.
A K8S cluster is already designed to be highly available and self healing. Stretching across clusters is usually a special case of scaling across datacenters/regions and brings a lot more overhead and complexity.
Amazon CEO, Citing ‘Rougher’ Patch with Seattle, Looks to ‘Burbs
This is similar to an approach in a clinic run in Toronto by Jason Fung that puts patients on a Keto diet for a few days before they begin fasting for five days.

If I recall correctly, the purpose is to acclimate the body to running on ketones. Most of the patients are poor and live in “food deserts”, so they are encouraged to eat as much eggs and bacon as they want (with avocado, if it can be found.) The process is described by Megan Ramos in a 2018 podcast [0].

The science on fasting is sparse (but improving) and anecdotal evidence is common in health discussions. Fasting is divisive because it works great for some and is a non-starter for others. I’m sure that the Keto-before-fasting approach could be great for some and difficult for others, but we just don’t have the research to give us the hard numbers.

[0] https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9kaWV0ZG9jdG9ycG...
I have noticed I enjoy instead of throwing errors, use a generic Event type to determine if that action was ok or not. Like in Elixir (but in TypeScript). Makes for easy logging too as you have to write an error message for each potential error the app might throw versus letting things crash and then figuring out what happened.

I guess though you can write explicit thrown error messages too. It's just throwing and catching seems more annoying and indirectional compared to the events.
With Device memory you can't do unaligned accesses, so userspace apps that map GPU memory and expect that to work (as it does on x86 and on ARM if you can do a Normal mapping) will break.
So we shouldn't try because the scale?
Is it really? Building the hash can be made in linear time but iterating the values in order, especially when there might be gaps in the interval? Could be messy
String theory – a simple way to understand the universe
Planes can run off of biodiesel made from oil extracted from algae or waste vegetable oil. The remaining carbohydrates in the algae can be turned into ethyl alcohol by yeast, or Acetone/Butanol/Ethanol by the ABE fermentation cycle and the protein can be used for animal consumption, or anaerobic respiration into methane. All of these are suitable fuel sources.
Not everything can be unit tested. Figuring out what ide is doing and writing a plugin for what you actually want to do.. How to maintain plugin across ide updates...it's the start of rabbit hole and may not be worth it sometimes..
How does making these DEBUG logs into INFO logs make the volume manageable?

Or, to flip that around, if you take a program that produces a manageable amount of INFO logs, and change some of those INFOs to DEBUGs, how does that suddenly become unmanageable?
> Making the world a “better” place is overrated.

It's not a binary. If Facebook is a 7/10 on the evil scale, why not go work for a company that's a 0 or a 1?

> Give society what they want. They want to live in a bubble of misinformation, good for them. They want to be angry and incited into violence, good for them.

What if it's not what they want? What if what they want is to keep up with friends and family?

But then you insert content in between the stuff that they actually want, and that content is enraging? And it makes them feel like they need to do something about it or the world will fall apart for their children?

It's not that people turn on a screen to find something to be angry about. They generally hate that. The addictive component is that they feel that they can't look away or they're derelict in their duty to their society.

That goes for both ends of the political spectrum, by the way: conservatives think they need to defend society from the enraging "woke" narratives they see, and progressives think they need to defend society from the conservatives.

Back when Facebook had no news feed and you could never see posts from a total stranger on the other side of the world, no one was begging Facebook for more rage.
I have a friend who started work there in the last three years.

It’s so big and so organized, they can come up with an idea for a new service or policy they want to implement and it takes roughly two weeks to get all the channels to approve and move forward on the idea. Implementation is different, this is just getting all the approvals from legal, finance, marketing, etc..

They are definitely in a position to make changes quickly should they need to.
On the other hand, if one wasn't depressed by most of modern society because some other part of modern society had intervened, could we really say that modern society was bad?
I love Rocky and with the support of AWS, Azure and GoogleCloud I am pretty sure its going to be the winner. Moved my Cent8 instances all over to rocky with the migration script with only minor issues relating to package conflicts.

Wont look back, RedHat/IBM had killed CentOS and honestly even openshift license fees have gone through the roof- moving from per socket to per core overnight basically killed at least two client projects of mine. imho IBM murder-death-killed CentOS and now walks around in its skin trying to keep all the market share with typical empty IBM promises.
Because kubernetes is a fantastic platform that provides a lot of node and app management functionality out of the box. Stateful services like databases are not really a challenge anymore given recent developments in both K8S and database containerization.
Hack-E
Wips of mind, writing a little words but informative
NBER's study [0] found (West) Germany had the biggest decline in political polarisation over the 1980-2020 period of all the countries they included in their study (12 OECD countries).

Doesn't entirely contradict your position, given that it was specifically measuring polarisation in terms of attitudes towards political parties, and so may not be good at measuring forms of polarisation that do not map straightforwardly to political parties; and looking at long-term trends over 40 years doesn't tell us much about how people have reacted to something which has only happened in the last 18-24 months.

The study failed to find any statistically significant correlation between political polarisation and proxies of social media use (Internet penetration and online news consumption; the study authors did not have data on social media use itself)

[0] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26669/w266...
Taiwan Drift – Han Song
Are you Scottish by any chance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
I worked at FB and struggle with exactly this.
Reminds me a bit of one of my favorite books to chuckle over: systemantics
Immigrant bad. Homogenous population good blah blah.
A real do-er is going to do something worthwhile even when there isn't a specific goal.

>projects were you don't care about the end result, are really brutal

Yup, better to have no goal than a misguided objective, if you can still have decent accomplishments occurring at a non-stop pace.

>it is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

Regardless, I'm going to continue to push to the max in both categories.

So what if it takes twice as much action.
The current limit is $10,000 (but practically less in an attempt to nail those who engage in "structuring" transactions to avoid the $10k limit). That's a car or any other number of things in reach of normal not-considered-wealthy people. [0] is interesting reading, but honestly just searching for "structuring" leads to several cases like [1] where the government seized $107,000 from a convenience store owner due to the deposits from that business being under the reporting threshold.

I don't know how you get under a $600 threshold, but exposing orders of magnitude more people to this policy is likely to do far more damage than to result in any good. This is already not just about wealthy people.

[0] https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/04/structuring-who-can-get...

[1] https://reason.com/2015/05/01/irs-steals-107000-from-conveni...
Is this something like TMS? I know people that do this, apparently the results are very good.
In what concerns ISO C++ compliance, yes.

In what concerns throwing out C++/CX out of the window and tell us to go back to the days of ATL 3.0, and wait for the day Herb's metaclasses arrive into the standard, not so much.
Above link didn't appear to work without a login but mirror of the post is here: https://archive.is/h0mYK
There is a typo in the headline: Conterintutive -> Counterintuitive
Yeah, as if everything come out of China is wanting to kill you. From robotic space arms to toy drones. It's kind weird to have that kind of thoughts here, really.

That been said, the actual reason for cities to use these drones is surprisingly simple: China banned firework show few years ago for environmental reasons, so cities use drones as alternative to celebrate October 1 which is China's national day and the longest holidays (the Golden Holidays).

See? Just that simple.

Also, using drones is a smarter choice: Not only it's eco-friendlier, but also cheap, fixable and safer compare to fireworks. You can even put ads in the sky to cover part of the cost after the show is over, it just make more sense.

In this very case, I think the drones are doing fail-safe landing maneuvers, probably due to lost of control signal. Reportedly the drone company has already called the police on the suspicion of sabotage.
Spain Seeks Bids for 200 MW of CSP in 2021 Auction
The Democrats are playing chicken with a stone wall, it is self sabotage of the highest order. If they fail to stop in time, they're merely hastening the demise of the Petrodollar.
Fighting an unwinnable battle is rarely a wise allocation of resources.
> This is a peer reviewed article right?

So is this [0].

[0] https://juniperpublishers.com/ofoaj/OFOAJ.MS.ID.555850.php

"Peer reviewed" does not necessarily mean high-quality or true.
Good people work for oil companies and car companies.
If the wood is converted to syngas and biochar through gasification, the biochar is chemically inactive in the soil for thousands of years. The syngas can be used as an energy source.

Bogs are actually great sinks of carbon, all of the biomass created in the bog will sink below the waters surface and remain inert.
> why are we trying to electrocute our brain into not acting in it's own best interests?

Depression leads to suicide. The indirect suggestion that suicide is in a person's best interest is ridiculous.
Unhelpful and arrogant. We are amateurs in the eyes of the gods.
Sure thing, apologies.
Fun algorithm! But I think translating to C and counting lines of code ends up overestimating the complexity of looping from 1 to n. And using a temporary to swap is definitely overestimating the complexity, though that doesn't affect the comparison.

If we treat looping up to n as one line of code, then both algorithms have the same count. And I think it's pretty fair to do that. Fortran, BASIC, APL, Perl, and so many others have syntax that's basically "for i = x to y". Let alone mathy languages that can loop over an array with a single character. Honestly, C is kind of weird for not having syntax for that.

For cyclomatic complexity, I don't know, setting i to 0 seems like cheating.

You definitely win on variable use.

Separate from the analysis, I have to wonder if there's a clever way to work in a saturating i-=2 instead of i=0. Then you can have N² efficiency without really changing the complexity.
>Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages

Ruh-roh!
Amazon continues to try and buy elections in Seattle, imports tens of thousands of people to this city and region, many of which view themselves as merely transient residents and thus they care very little about investing in the region or addressing the massive negative externalities they inflict on Seattle.

Since Microsoft and Expedia have vacated large parts of Bellevue, Amazon has been leasing their former office space. Frankly happy to see Amazon move more of their people to what is colloquially known as Hellvue. It's a bland joke of a city, but Amazon fits in perfectly there!
India is right now young and poor. If 3 decades it will be old and poor. Cannot escape population explosion consequences.
Aren't permanent residents foreign workers as well? Permanent resident =/= citizen?
Oh the comments on that post are priceless.

While I would agree the truth lies somewhere between pure evil and evil as a side effect[1] the comments Mark makes don't give me any indication that he appreciates that if someone thinks you're evil, they aren't wrong in their thinking, as CEO it is your job to figure out how they got there and see how many other people think that way.

So whether or not Facebook is actually evil, this perception appears to be wide spread enough to result in material harm to the company through overt regulation of their actions and choices.

Mark's job includes "owning the problem." It is not his job to argue persuasively that it isn't really a problem.

While it was perhaps not as effective as Bill Gates would like, the "We have to fix security" memo was a response to Bill owning the problem of the perception of security of Windows. It actually acknowledges the perception, and identifies what is going to be done to change that perception. Mark would do well to study that event in history as this seems like a repeat.

[1] Note that I accept that you can have really good things in the middle of a bunch of evil things, so for me (and I accept that this may be a unique and nonsensical statement to some) there is a balance of evil things and good things and if the evil is 50.1% then your a little bit evil with a lot of non-evil stuff. And if you're 80% evil you're mostly evil with a bit of non-evil stuff.
A box of decent quality business cards doesn’t cost enough to put a lot of thought into, unless you work with people like Patrick Bateman.

Gimmicks don’t fit into business card holders or wallets. You can’t scan a poker chip or USB stick into a contacts app. I wouldn’t put a random USB stick or scan a QR code into my phone or computer. Unless you work with wood or metal for a living stick with paper.
Hybrid logical clocks are distinct from Lamport clocks in that they include a notion of local timestamp while also preserving partial order. They are well-established and used widely outside RxDB - see e.g. https://sergeiturukin.com/2017/06/26/hybrid-logical-clocks.h...
Do you remember hidroxycloroquine? Just count the referred peer reviewed studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534595/
Would you mind sharing your blog(if you have one) I'm a student and have only recently begun to appreciate the art of meta-learning and i would be grateful to learn a thing or two from people wiser than me? thanks!
Isn't Aptera ("without wings") the order of insects that includes silverfish and other household pests?
What gives you the impression that countries besides the US are not becoming more polarized? My experience in Europe and South America make me think it's getting worse everywhere.
Malthusianism lives on. Easy to wax lyrical about the Black Death when you haven't lived through the mass extinction of ~50% of your community.
Pandora Paper Leak
11.6 confidential documents from 14 separate legal and financial services leaked.
I think the interesting thing about this paper is:

1) it is a closed loop approach, using the Neuropace device to stimulate based on local field potential recordings from sensing electrodes listening...somewhere (once I bug my librarian to pull the PDF for me I'll look more closely). The biggest effort for depression so far was the Mayberg/Emory group's constant waveform stim in the subcallosal cingulate (medtronic devices which output a set voltage/pulse duration/frequency, which have to be changed manually). W/ mixed results...

Neuropace has been out for, what, 10+ years out now, so it's not the latest/greatest tech but maybe good enough for what they are trying to do.

2) Busy year for Eddie Chang's group. They published the brain LFP -> synthetic speech paper a few months ago...
Hearing this repeated, and the comments, makes me start to feel a little bit old. Haven't we re-hashed this out, thousands of times, at this point?

There are use-cases for both! There are certainly mis-uses of both, too!

DB admins are a real thing; I haven't met many, but the few I have, they are worth their weight. Truly great programmers, I feel the same.

They are not mutually exclusive -- solve your domain problem, iterate, and improve from there.... It's that "simple".
I worked at FB (not for very long) but you can trace everything back to the awful performance process they have (the infamous PSC). At the end of the day, hard to measure stuff doesn't get you promoted while tangibly moving metrics does. If you incentivize people that way, it doesn't take anyone WILLINGLY doing anything evil to end up with a pretty evil thing on your hand.

If you optimize for profits and only that, you always end up selling crack cause it's the best business in the world, and that's why it's illegal.
> slavery induced depression

Could you elaborate on what you mean by that?
It has changed politics here, for sure. For the better

It has not made politics sensible
> If we reach the point where redhat pulls the cash out from GNU then there's a lot of infrastructure that will be lost. I find it alarming that no one ever seems to mention that.

IIRC Redhat withdrew funding from FSF after they decided to put RMS back on the board. But AFAICS they haven't reduced funding for developing GNU software.

Lets put it this way; RH doesn't contribute to GCC out of the goodness of their hearts, but due to GCC being a critical component of the Linux distro (RHEL) and other similar product support offerings they make their money from. If they drop GCC development, it'll be because something else has replaced GCC and they figure it's better to concentrate their efforts there, or because their business as a whole is going down the drain. For the time being I don't really see either option as particularly likely.
At this point of the climate disaster those are getting very rare especially in oul. Maybe those, if they exist, who are working hardest at stopping most oil production and enacting cap and trade.
I'd also like to see references on which these countries with declining polarization and high FB/IG-usage would be. It's not a trivial or uncontroversial thing to quantify but hey, MZ brought it up.
Assess for technical skill and raw tactical ability. This would have the downside of filtering genuinely good leaders who've been too far removed from technology (and thus are pure people leaders) for too long. People that were once technologists, but no longer are, have a way of speaking that's easily clear to pick out. Also, some people move up but keep their technical chops along the way. An executive that can microscope on parts of the org, as needed, with a technical mindset, can provide material value.
This has existed for two years now (option browser.tabs.unloadOnlyOnLowMemory) but someone had to manually enabled it.
TaleSpire really unfortunately feels like someone had an idea for a 3D VTT and implemented the 3D part first, instead of the VTT part. It's a beautiful 3D map toolkit with assets for a very specific slice of RPG settings, but nothing included to help with the actual game mechanics or organization.

And while I get that it's still early days, I don't see anything here that to be excited about where it'll wind up. Streamers will get great visuals out of it (they already are, TaleSpire's doing a good job using streamers for marketing) but this is just another fiddly prep timesink for everyone else that would be better spent setting up characters, locations, plots, etc.
Can’t wait for the author to invest in this idea!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon#Microwa...
Modern processors have integrated “firmware” TPMs, so you shouldn’t need a discrete module. See https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/heres-what-youll-nee... for some details. I was able to enable mine in my BIOS.

(I work for MS, but in Visual C++, not Windows, and I don’t speak for them.)
A Rebel with Every Cause
The ex-employee wants Facebook to engage in more censorship, spying and control. That's their definition of helping people and democracy.

Like Glenn Greenwald said:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1434854149087182848

>>The entire "anti-disinformation"/"anti-extremism" industry is a gigantic fraud, funded by the same tiny handful of billionaires, governments and NGOs: a scam to control discourse while feigning neutral, non-ideological goals to battle "disinformation"
And what about those who didn't, who were born one to four generations after? Malthus is wrong about overpopulation killing through lack of resources, but anyone who disagrees that setting expanding human populations loose on little-populated lands creates more individual agency and personal benefit than trying to fit that same group into an existing crowded and stacked hierarchy is ignorant of history.
Builds are all derived from the monorepo, but git makes sense for development as they have to constantly merge upstream git commits.
I consistently got top ratings from everyone I worked with as a leader and manager, and the issues I mention have been rare - and generally from those I’ve not wanted to be around because I didn’t agree with their approach or didn’t like their ethics. If that answers your question. Some of
It is from clearly great pain they have been in, in the past, that had nothing to do with me, but was funneled in my direction when I did not fail like they wanted me to.

And I work hard to ensure what is done is the best that can be, and others don’t get hurt. Which, interesting enough, does involve a lot of meditation.