skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it's a bit hyperbolic. But it seems weird to suggest that developers, who are hired for their intellectual power and subtlety, are great at figuring out the implications of complex decisions except when ethics are involved.

I think it's more likely that their sudden inability in this one aspect is related to Upton Sinclair's observation: " It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Business, but I'm also curious now.
A related podcast from the far end of the ideological spectrum at The American Mind[1]. Blurb: "The US is currently facing unprecedented logistical shortcomings brought on by government restrictions. Meanwhile, inflation has been steadily skyrocketing as the feds continue to print obscene amounts [of] money. In other words, the time is just right for the steady creep of a new social credit system into the limelight. "

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rcE27wcg39GtLw5IovASU?si=D...
> plenty of wildlife does

Yup. And the same can we said for the planet. Mother Nature will adjust and bounce back. Ultimately, she's not at risk. We are.

So if it's about wildlife, CC is not a fatal issue. Again, MN will persist, one way or another. CC and Humans? That's a differnt plot arc.
More than twice the storage space required for what I'm hoping will be a very large amount of images uploaded to my server.
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We had the same issue. Setting the MTU to 1280, the IPv6 minimum MTU (we use IPv6), instead of using the default value, fixed the issue.
I have read many anti-GIL arguments over the years that approach soundness as optional. Is this change going to make a bunch of previously sound code unsound?
+1.

I've done cross cloud connects where the cloud vendors are on the phone with me and eventually say "We really don't have any idea why the tunnels are not connecting". And that's when using Cisco VPN appliances, no less, following everyone's setup instructions to the letter.

Indeed, not a trivially solved problem yet.
Best to avoid sharing data, and never mutating shared data!

Rust has a great rule: Sharing XOR Mutation.

Python is higher level, so message passing and passing "owned" values between threads is all the more feasible and sensible.
> The question is: why are co-ops relatively uncommon?

Because they have access to capital problems, because the people who disproportionately control capital also prefer that capital, not labor, controls the business.
> people who buy products shipped from overseas

Container shipping is pretty efficient. I found this quote:

> A big ship will emit about 0.4 ounces of carbon dioxide to transport 2 tons of cargo 1 mile. That’s roughly half as much as a train, one-fifth as much as a truck and nearly a fiftieth of what an airplane would emit to accomplish the same task.

For CO2 emissions, container shipping from Shenzhen to Long Beach by ship is about the same as Bloomington, IL to Long Beach by truck.
People are more afraid of clearly defined risks (local nuclear plant goes boom) than more abstract risks (slowly developing health issues due to air pollution). (Can’t find citation, this was likely mentioned in book Freakonomics)

This is likely built into us through evolution. Natural selection has rewarded quick choices over analyzing and thinking probabilities.
>they were probably not very complicated

They use linear models and soft cores. Plenty complicated for the kind of arb you could get executing 500ns tick to trade better than the next firm.
The hash is not a literal hash of the content- I think it's like a key that lets anyone looking for it ensure it's legitimate. Then the IPFS p2p search mechanism is what lets you find it.
How to Recover from Failure
>Never have I ever heard someone who knows anything about computers describe his systems to have a "big memory card". If I type memory card into google, it shows the things you smash in a digital camera. In the 90s and 2000s you would put it in your Nintendo or Playstation.

It's probably a translation issue.
Here in my country it's common to refer to RAM as "memory card".
Devuan OS is a great system: you can even firewall PID 1 as any responsible cybersecurity expert would so.
I freelanced! I initially worked on a game server to develop the ultima online server I wanted (I was 14),then around 15 I was developing website in PHP and did one for my mother, which needed something for work (a mini questionnaire kind of thing), then I landed a software for an architect that needed help managing things and then one for some sort of small warehouse.

I was extremely underpaid (I set the prices, and at 16 a thousand bucks looks like a lot of money), but by the time I was 19 I had a good chunk of experience, that was even before university.

There is room!
I'm not sure what massive blackouts you are referring to. There were none where I live that I can remember; or in the years since; or before. Just not a thing in Northern Europe.
I've always been under the impression that -03, -0fast and related "performance" tweaks are not recommended, and shouldn't be used unless the software in question is specifically written with them in mind.
Interactive use of Python: plotting, working with data, also would benefit from better multithreading. It's interactive, so it's (a bit) frustrating to wait for it to compute and see that it uses just one thread (the statistics ops are usually well threaded already, but plotting is not).
Serialization-Based Undo
Sorry to hear this. I've never met him, but know of his work and blog posts on APL & J.
Yeah, I've been pretty disappointed by what they actually shipped. The concept (decentralized, financially incentivized storage) is really neat, and there would be a demand for it, but every time I've tried to use it, it's been incredibly difficult. Ran into similar problems with Sia.

Example: I'd love to use one of these projects as an additional backup layer for my NAS, but the technical complexity necessary to set it all up makes it.. feel very fragile. Definitely not set and forget.

My hope is that in 10 years something cool comes out of one of these projects, but we're definitely not there yet.
Nonsense. Trade can be positive sum in utility to both parties. One party making profits doesn't imply anything about how utility is changing on the other side of the trade. If you buy an iPhone, Apple have gotten richer but you have also gained something (utility).

Your understanding of HFT is wrong as well. It's not all low latency arbitrage. It's also execution finesse, risk management and ML-heavy. HFT firms will still be extremely active under this new market structure.
Content is cached for a certain amount of time (default is 24 hours, I think?) before it gets deleted. If the content is requested again, the timer is reset.

This is opposed to long-term caches like Cloudflare's that'll cache the contents of your website regardless of how many requests come in. Cloudflare will happily just refresh the contents of your website even if nobody has been to your website for weeks, and quickly serve it up when it's needed.
I wonder if there is a political solution to the storage problem. What if GHG externalities are taxed in a way that can be shuttled to those areas, like NV and NM, that can provide part of the nuclear solution? That might make the Yucca Mountains and WIPPs more palatable while also incentivizing more, better storage solutions.
Climate disaster? To who? Humans? Mother Nature, on average isn't concerned. She adjusts. She evolves. History is clear on this. Radiation on the other hand is all but permanent. Climate disaster is a self-inflicted death blow by humans to humans.
You have touched on the property about systems that people don't really internalize well. When you're inside and part of a system and perturb it, the impact of the perturbation may activate parts of the system that you were unaware existed.

But it is also true that if you say, "Climate change is really only a big deal for the currently dominant flora and fauna, the planet as an ecosystem has been in many different states from ice ball to volcanic hell hole." :-) In geologic time it doesn't "matter" at all.

It is a good paper, and I've added it to the list of things that are changing that may influence climate changes (another is what happens with cloud formation when we have more moisture in the air due to rising atmospheric average temperatures, the IPCC model gives one result if we get more stratospheric clouds, and another if we get more clouds in the troposphere.)
It’s a shame that Osize can sometimes produce truly awful code. There are a few optimisations in there that trade a byte for a massive slowdown.
> Where I live you have to register your legal name and have it attached to the SIM card.

This isn’t true everywhere, and phone numbers work internationally. I’ve got a Weibo account with a +1 US phone number and it works (surprisingly). The problem with the phone number system is that quite honestly, it’s only not anonymous in cities/states/countries that make it closely linked to identity.
knowledge - https://wikischool.org/human_life
From that blob about the foundation:

The Foundation claims independence BUT

“One Director always appointed and controlled by Microsoft”.

Thus, to me, they are lying on a basic premise about their NATURE. They become worthless by that (I mean the Foundation, not the individuals, obviously).
what cultural change would help reduce the 75 remaining percents ?

a few ideas I've seen:

- leaner diet => less energy / land used to breed beef etc

- more walking / bike / clean transport

what else ?
> Do developers have to take the overhead of worrying about the numerous dependencies in the toolchain as much as their own business logic?

I know this was meant to be rhetorical...but the answer is YES! ABSOLUTELY!
With IPFS you access content by hash. So if you have a plain IPFS link to "Lagrange multiplier", it will always point to exactly the same version you are looking at right now. No way to change or update that.

If you want to update content, you have to point the user to a new hash. IPFS has the IPNS mechanism for that, this adds a layer of indirection, so instead of pointing to the IPFS hash directly, you point to the IPNS name which in turn points to the current hash. What an IPNS name is pointing to can be updated by the owner of that IPNS name.

Another option is to do in via plain old DNS and have the DNS record point to the current hash of the website.
> "...in the sense of saying 'hey TikTok, I'm feeling frisky, feel free to send me those thirst trap videos now'..."

i once pitched this type of user experience (for the general case, not tiktok, which didn't exist at the time) at a hackathon competition, and it was popular enough then to win us some free stuff. the demo we hacked together was very rudimentary, but had we gotten a little further along with a proof of concept before falling apart, who knows what might have happened...

the biggest challenge was actually licensing costs and rights management, not the recommendation engine (though that was challenging too).
Our definition of running under Android differs.
I've been using MS Word with a heavy reliance on Track Changes for years, and I'm converting my technical writing department to use Markdown as fast as I can. I have moved them to the WYSIWYG-on-Markdown editor Zettlr[1], and my non-technical writers have praised it for being "almost-not-techie at all".

I can't stand one more MS magic trick to auto-formatting on copy-paste (while mangling half of the styles) or figuring out why some objects simply disappeared or why Word rejects applying some format or layout.

When your job is to keep working on expanding the same hundred-pages-long document year after year, you learn every trick to fix the random MS Word bugs and protect your document from being destroyed by the software 20 times a day, and it ain't pretty.

[1] https://zettlr.com/

* I would have preferred to use Asciidoc instead of Markdown, as it comes with the full Docbook feature set; unfortunately, native support on well-maintained editors is much worse with that format.
Numpy/Scipy are great for prototyping, but IMO code the performant / concurrent stuff in C/C++/Rust/Julia once your prototype is done. Use the right tool for the job instead of trying to bend the wrong one.
The ability to seek is the standard so you've got things turned around I'm afraid :)
There is a great explanation of the math - which is MUCH simpler to follow - at stackoverflow [1]

(I have converted that into a JS method for all the golfers here [2])

But there is more to it than just figuring out what pictures go on the card.

What's the math to make each image have a unique size? [In Dobble, there are eight images on a card and no two images are the same size. Each image is presented seven times, and the size differs each time.]

How do you ensure unique image rotation (which varies similarly to the size)? How to do collision detection so that all the images don't overlap?

Also, there are the variations. For example, what is the math to have all images matching EXCEPT one (I have seen this game for sale)?

It's fun stuff, but there is more work to do than just what the article reflect.

BTW, I would love it if someone has algorithms for the questions I raised. I have been meaning to make a SpotIt! with images of the youth in the group I work at - it would be a unifying present to give out on a overnight.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47130477/87520

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67409457/87520
Pinker Parody
I assure you that I'm personally good with the separation, which makes sense.

I made a remark about a remark, and nothing more.

Speaking of personal, I don't mind attacks; do go on. Well, not that I want to encourage it here, where it is not allowed, but you can PM them to me, if you have more.
My issue is that I want to run just one browser on my system. And one that I choose, Chrome/chromium is not the one.

Aside from that I refuse to support writing desktop apps in Javascript, because it is slower than equivalent app written in C/C++.

Compare telegram client to slack client. Which one is more snappy?

Users are boiled like frogs, millisecond wait here and there. And suddenly any action on ui takes 1 or 20 seconds. And you get frustrated.

If obsidian is a webapp I prefer to use it as such, not hide it in electron.
(Again, rich text doesn’t need a binary file format but you ignored that)

Word’s Track Changes literally does this - you can compare/merge/etc. Quark also had extensions in the 90s that allowed it. It’s entirely feasible for any binary format (assuming you understand the format); why wouldn’t it be?

And it makes a lot of sense from a business standpoint, eg for lawyers, which is why they implemented it. Is it as rich as git? No, the use-case is different. Could it be? Yes.

I’m going to leave “power and freedom” where they lie and go marvel at the awesome power of the “Italic” and “Table” buttons from Word 5.1.
Hey, that's true:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=137+%2F+%28%28pi+*+e%2...
Spent the last week's evenings researching this. Make a list of the features you need. For me, using markdown and YAML frontmatter was the best solution.

As for traversing the notes, I picked VSCode (I would have picked Obsidian but it does funny things with front matter that I didn't like, and it lagged a lot on my computer). Primarily because it has extensions that update links automatically when the filepath to a note changes, and for graph view. You can use vim inside VSCode as a text editor. That's all I need really - VSCode to traverse, vim to edit.

What's great about this system is it really does stick strictly to commonmark and YAML usage isn't restricted at all (you don't even have to use the frontmatter if you don't want to), so your notes are completely portable.

Edit: typo
I'm not sure if state/local governments really need to balance their budgets. They can borrow just like the federal government can.

> the states and local municipalities don't have the fed

The federal government too doesn't "have" the fed. The federal reserve is a bank and it's independent of the government.
At my company humans will complain if you move a button because most people operate on their own muscle memory, any time Microsoft, or some other software vendors moves a button, no matter how small, we get ends less complains, automation is not needed.

For automation, this is likely because you company did not provide proper official API do to proper automation. Many companies do not, nexflix does not. So people have to hack around internals to make the things do what they want.

I am still at a loose why companies, and devs are such control freaks they only want people to use their software / hardware in the exact way they want them do, offering no other control options, automation API;s or any other "power" features". It is their way or the highway... and screw you if you do not like it
I quite agree with the dubious government skill levels in general, but considering the task I'd say they made a decent run for a first era so far. 3 big catastrophes (not good not terrible).

Question would be, can we raise the safety levels one order up ?

Also in a way, we will face that soon because the current fleet will have to be replaced by something one way or another.
> inspired by HyperCard (where do you think the "hyperlink" got its name?)

I'm as much of a HyperCard fan as (almost) anyone else, but that is almost certainly not where the term "hyperlink" comes from. Ted Nelson used the word "link" back in the mid 1960s, in the context of another coinage of his, "hypertext". The historical record is already a little unclear about whether or not he was using hyperlink that early, but by the time HyperCard came to be, the term was already differentiated from a "simple link", with some level of implication caused by the "hyper" prefix that it was most likely on another computer/server. The most HyperCard could offer was a link into a different stack.

The "hyper" prefix predated Hypercard, and it's meaning in the context of information processing/retrieval/presentation meant more than the majority of links that HyperCard offered (even though they were also great). Yes, I know that the wikipedia page on the word "hyperlink" claims that HyperCard "may have been the first use", but the cited reference for that claim offers no evidence for it whatsoever.
Interesting startup. Looks cool. Where do you source the data from? Usings APIs for job search engines?
> Describing Anonymous as a "looser collective" seems somewhat unnecessary.

Did you misread that as "loser", as in someone who loses? "Loose" is the opposite of tight. They just meant it's not as organized or formal as lulzsec, I think.
Commandaria, the oldest named wine still in production
Periodic auctions still need tie breakers. CBOE for instance falls back to size then time. This is the same tie breaker that some CME futures contracts have used in a continuous order book. Those contracts always had more gamesmanship than standard price/time contracts when I was trading.

Has that become true in the auction space at well?
The conspiracy theory is that she actually worked for the CIA, I'm very much not claiming that. I don't think it's even remotely conspiratorial to think that she was known to them.
No shared memory. To communicate between processes you usually use sockets, to communicate between threads you mutate variables. This is a huge performance difference.
High turnover rates are part of the definition of high frequency trading. If your holding positions for 30 minutes your not doing HFT. Ultimate buyers and sellers aren’t gaining anything on the timescales we are talking about.
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> The older I get the more I feel that the point of living is experience

On the flip side I think the very modern take on "life = experience" can be badly interpreted. The trend is more about consuming experiences and destinations rather the living experiences, you could describe them as commercialized experiences (Disneyland, holiday resorts in very touristic countries, &c.)
> My other favorite is his use of "Rollercoaster Tycoon" as an example for an excessive violent game (I assume he refers to that game. Its the only game I know that fits the description).

Rollercoaster Tycoon is not the only theme park simulator, nor the only one where people can die from being thrown from rides.
And Apple prevents their users from getting the app elsewhere.

They don't get to build a cage, then plead innocence when others abuse the cage.
>you risk looking like a bad investment.

Only if the potential employer isn't willing to invest in the candidate enough to retain them
Sysinternals apps can now auto-update via the Microsoft Store
Renamed but in library. JDK has nothing to do with them since 9.
Yves Klein used Methylene blue in the drinks at one of his shows to great effect...
https://socks-studio.com/2019/11/23/iris-clert-yves-klein-th...
> I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale.

I think this is a big point. This would be expensive and there will be a temptation for politicians to underfund the operations and give the difference back as tax cuts.
> I’ve been sent a PDF that looks correct

But "looks correct" for PDF presumes a certain form factor of the device used, because of the fixed page size. PDFs are a pain on many e-readers because they are laid out for US letter or A4 at a certain resolution. On a smaller device I often find I have a choice of either a. seeing an entire page at one time, as intended, but needing a magnifier to read anything, or b. zooming in to be able to read the text comfortably but then having to scroll left/right/up/down to read. There's no option in PDF to reflow the text to fit the resolution and size of the device. I'm not much of a fan of epub but at least the text reflow allows for normal reading.

Also, exporting text from a PDF to import to anything else is trying at best.
> I don't know, but it's worth thinking about probably.

No, it's not—at least not for more than a few moments. This is really obviously not a useful red flag to worry about. Violent video games are very widely popular, and have been for many years now. It's still quite rare for their users to turn into criminals.

Highlighting things like playing violent video games is merely shining a spotlight on something we already know won't help anyone identify future criminals. That spotlight should instead be focused on traits and behaviors that aren't very common in the general population.

A lot of the critics of the general category of violent video games are people who wish to censor them, without any real evidence that a social good would result. These parents—or at least the journalist reporting on them—have lumped themselves in with the would-be censors by presuming that the son's video game preferences were a warning sign they should have been paying attention to.
In the end, Markdown is a summarized way to write simple HTML; all styling should be done on a separate CSS. If you intermix lots of <div>s with class names in your text, you're not doing Markdown well.
The first two paragraphs reiterate that the early web was very much a reflection of the hypertext transfer protocol and hypertext markup language in that it literally just handled text pages with links in them. and it did it pretty well. It wasn't designed to handle streaming video or client-side processing/page rendering via Javascript or any of the innumerable other elements added on to it later. It was designed to do one thing well.
It's honestly better in some cases just to lock these types of folks out - you can save yourself a ton of a headaches later.

Look for words like offended, nightmare, deeply upset, outraged - if you see a lot of that - disengage!