skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Seized by some invisible hand': What it feels like to have Havana Syndrome
Half-assing it with everything you've got
Depends on your use case, some game dev tools still export to swf. Like Haxe: https://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/compiler-targets...
https://haxe.org/manual/target-flash-getting-started.html
Did an Asteroid Destroy Sodom?
To Open Source and Beyond
Just so I understand, you’re asking how to censor peoples private conversations?

This seems like a new level of assuming you’re smarter than other people and should be able to tell them what to think.
I always used to just capture the old UTMZ cookie data (or rebuilt it when the actual UTMZ cookie went away) and stored that with the order data. It's not the most sophisticated attribution method but it at least gets around these sorts of double counting issues with orders.
Would you rather he'd sent a block of precisely-weighed concrete into space, like other dummy payloads on other booster tests? I disagree that it's worse to send a publicity stunt instead of something more...respectful?...boring and completely useless.

I do agree that there are better things than publicity stunts to do with dummy payloads. You don't need to launch a multi-million-dollar satellite, but it would be low risk to launch a low-cost payload with corner reflectors for laser identification and distance measurement, chirping radio transmitters, or sensors, clocks, or radios for telemetry.

You can construct a Cubesat for on the order of $10k, but it used to cost 10x that to launch and now costs about that much for a SpaceX rideshare to SSO. Surely you could construct something with at least a little utility to use as a dummy payload.
Why? Most people don't have the space, money and time to ever put up big antennas and kilowatt transmitters.

This is great for them. Especially since there's practically no setup overhead and no long term commitment - so you can use this one evening, then go back to doing SOTA with a portable QRP rig (and getting talked over by the folks with kilowatt output) the next weekend. It really opens up big station operation to entire new demographics - young people or others with not a lot of money, and urban people or others with no great location or not a lot of space. Ham radio has historically not been that diverse, and if this helps with diversity that's great.

I've used a big station before (at my university. Big tower, big antenna stack, big amplifier). Sure I didn't get to build it, but just operating that thing in a busy contest environment is an experience and made me appreciate how much skill there is in the actual operation of it. I wouldn't want to do it all the time, but I actually know people who do, and myself I don't want to miss the experience of having done it.
That sounds like a bad idea. We want to keep our connections and not be unfriended by the machine.

Instead of fighting human psychology the apps should sidestep it. How about unsubscribing, but not unfriending? Shadow-unfollowing, settings like the Youtube bell for your content-stream?

I don't care to see your status-updates, but I want you in my friend list - there should be an option for that.
Can you elaborate on why you think Blue Origin is a "pretty nasty" company?
>surely making the government pay less money for the same services is a good thing?

Is it? Are they actually paying less...or is the cost being dumped on to someone else? This is like saying people who get SNAP benefits are paying less and everyone wins...except someone has to pick up the cost. Many Medicare costs aren't negotiated and the hospitals are told what they will pay for certain procedures (and again hospitals change the price for others to make up the difference).

I think what they are talking about is prescription drug prices...which even Trump said needed to be done.
I'm not concerned what other people think I think in this case, I just want to remind other non-worshipers that they are not alone.
Amazon India reportedly copied sellers’ products and rigged search results
Not a popular opinion:

The Western world economy is ruined and will collapse because you stopped working for money... ????

You have been relying on China to supply your goods for decades. Surely, cheap plastic toys can' t amount for much, right? Then add textiles, tools, electronics. People in the US think a call center job is lame (said in this forum), so it is offshored.
You also have to consider that by ending slavery, which I think is a good thing, you have to equalize the income for the lower class. Before, slaves didn't have an income, nor property. As time goes by, the blacks should be approaching their white counterparts, by sharing the wealth

The US, and Canada, will keep printing paper money, until the world stop taking it, just as China stopped taking in US garbage. That won't happen tomorrow, but you get the picture.
I'm not sure why "simple, understandable system design" would have to be synonimous with 8-bit computing. One of the most appealing things about new open hardware initiatives is how they bring this simplicity and surveyability together in what's otherwise a very modern design and context.
I’ve never thought of using a template engine to generate code like that so thanks.

Been pondering on how to update something like the IMDB csv files once imported into a db and I think a diff -> generated script -> db update might do the trick. Haven’t really looked into it too much (and there’s probably a better way) because I don’t really need the movie db for anything other than playing around with.
You know, I have noticed some of this when going over research papers, but I don't think I'm fully appreciating the significance. I appreciate the response, although it is going to force me to do more research and do a lot more thinking ;)
For staples, maybe. Advertising also gets people to buy things that they would not otherwise buy.
Nuclear was also promoted as save decades before Chernobyl and Fukushima by the lobbies. So is there a guarantee that it is safe this time around?
Real time thread support is very mature in Darwin. Currently there is no audio stack peer on any platform that can compare with Apple's CoreAudio in terms of latency and audio chain generality.
Space, … the final frontier …
...You'd prefer your terminal to terribly front-run potentially huge operations...

.. to get a single sample estimate ..

....because you expect the loading bars to be displayed to last on the order of milliseconds....
Animating View Transitions in Swift
Exactly. Big difference between

"Williams Sonoma Cast Iron Skillet"

and

"Cast Iron Skillet"
should your competitors be able to buy 100% of the screen space on mobile with images where your organic result has none? 50% sure maybe but literally google doesn't even put the organic results above the fold on mobile. Often on google on mobile the organic results are 2 screens down.
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No more than I trust the government to work on passing on reduced costs in the form of lower taxes...
This approach is neat for observability, but it's worth noticing that it essentially quantises all of your samples down to the vertical resolution of your graph. If you somehow introduced a bug that caused an error that was smaller than the step size then these tests wouldn't catch it.

(e.g. if you somehow managed to introduce a constant DC-offset of +0.05, with the shown step size of 0.2, these tests would probably never pick it up, modulo rounding.)

That said, these tests are great for asserting that specific functionality does broadly what it says on the tin, and making it easy to understand why not if they fail. We'll likely start using this technique at Fourier Audio (shameless plug) as a more observable functionality smoke test to augment finer-grained analytic tests that assert properties of the output waveform samples directly.
MosaicML Algorithmic ML Improvements for Model Speedups
I don't see why the search engine would work differently or be any less popular if Google used its algorithms to determine intent (that's Google's whole thing) and then automatically (or via human moderation) prevent companies from showing ads when there is clear intent to find another company's brand. Google would be somewhat less profitable, perhaps, but the search product would still work fine (arguably even better) for the people searching.
In the specific case of the US, it is the scale of the populated geography more than the number of people. This has created problems even in boring and non-controversial policy areas. For example, prior attempts to regulate highway speed limits nationally, which has since been devolved back to local control. At the scale of individual States, it works much more like it does in other countries.

Any national-scale policy will be poorly adapted for some major region of the US because it is simply too diverse geographically, culturally, historically, and economically.
An artist who works primarily with algorithms and plotters
Article buried the lede somewhat:

“This employee in our Zurich office was absolutely not terminated for writing this or any other memo. Discussion and criticism of workplace policies is fine, but in this case there had been more than 11 complaints and 7 warnings over two years around his antagonistic and disruptive behavior in the workplace, including singling out other employees. Like any other workplace, we have rules against that," a Google spokesperson wrote.
Think about it. Windows 10 with indefinite updates is like an iPhone with replaceable battery and ongoing iOS updates.
German here. I can't really compare the viewpoints, but historically, the anti-nuclear movement has been an integral part of the german civil rights movement in the 60s and 70s. [1] I believe there have been two key events which have influenced this:

- Chernobyl. Being in close proximity, the event had a far stronger impact than in the US: There was widespread contamination from fallout drifting over from Ukraine and consequently restrictions in day-to-day life for many germans. As with covid: You tend to value a topic differently if it directly affects your life than when it just seems to happen on TV.

- Gorleben. [2, 3] Since the late 70s there have been efforts by the government to construct a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste in the Gorleben mine - against the explicit wishes of the nearby residents. This led to a decades-long resistance movement which tied into a general progressive movement for civil rights and an embrace of green technologies.

Those events mean that nuclear in Germany is both tied stronger to personal experiences and is much more aligned with political boundaries than it is likely in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Germa...

[2] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomm%C3%BClllager_Gorleben (german only)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic_of_Wendland
Or it could suggest Fox News is looking to make mountains out of a mole hill?
It would make a huge difference in certain areas.

First it would function as a flat tax, not a progressive one, assuming everyone holds dollars. But they don't, disproportionately wealthy people hedge against dollars with other assets and poor people don't, so practically it would function as a regressive tax.

Unless poor people catch on and stop holding dollars. This would lead to a demand crisis with the currency. Remember, the only way a government can effectively dictate the currency of an economy is to create artificial demand for it by requiring taxes be paid in it. Without that, and with a highly inflationary currency, people will dodge "taxes" by simply not holding dollars.

The relationship between government revenue and spending has a broken relationship, yes, but the conclusion is that at this point the government taxes to keep demand for the currency and to massage certain numbers, in particular the inflation rate, deficit and employment numbers, to maintain faith in the economic system. It doesn't actually need the money, but it does need to take the money.
Hmm, that seems like a weird miss from my side.

i.e. We covered this across several articles like this one about tags:
https://sysdig.com/blog/toctou-tag-mutability/

This other one about file integrity monitoring (Disclaimer: A rather commercial one)
https://sysdig.com/blog/file-integrity-monitoring/

And I recall others more explicit on the read-only part, but I’m away from my laptop now.
Edit: Found it (point 1.3 in https://sysdig.com/blog/dockerfile-best-practices/ )

Thanks for pointing it out. Definitely it should be more explicit.
I read that sentence as not meaning that there are no future applications of INS, but that its unlikely that any future application will need to be more accurate then the AIRS.

So its unlikely anyone will put $ into trying to improve on it, even if it continues to be used.
I did a four-level radix tree for the Unicode character class and case conversion support in JOE (Joe's Own Editor, so that you can edit Unicode on non-Unicode systems): index sizes of 7 bits, 5, 5 and 4 plus ASCII has a fast-path table.

The main difference is that it computes the tables at startup from the sorted Unicode intervals. So the construction code has to be fast. The same code is also used for user character classes in regular expressions.

Anyway, it builds them in two passes. First pass it de-duplicates nodes, but only the previously constructed node is a candidate for de-duplication. This keeps the memory usage low during construction. De-duplicated nodes can still be modified during this construction, so they may be re-duplicated (there is a reference counter to determine when this happens).

Second pass (after all data is loaded, no more changes allowed), it globally de-duplicates the leaf nodes using a hash table. Many of the leaf nodes are duplicates (and not just the all zero ones).
“ They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not because, Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk. Risk is our business. That's what the starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?” - Captain James T Kirk
How and Why Egnyte Redesigned Its Core Configuration System
The short-short is: how to manage granular config for over 10k customers, 500k users and still make dev, pe, support and pmo happy. Lots of performance optimizations discussion and some interesting (to me at least) requirement analysis.

AMA.

Also, We're hiring!

Local at SF bay area, US / Mumbai India / Poznan, Poland.
Remote anywhere in the US, Poland, India.

https://www.egnyte.com/careers
No, the man can act and sell a $100,000/hour joy ride.
I like Shellenberger's nuclear advocacy, some of his writing is pungent and balanced.

Regrettably he is unreliable in much of his other climate advocacy. He seems to have been radicalized by climate alarmism and has swung too far the other way, espousing poorly supported lukewarmist positions.
Far fewer Qubits required for “quantum memory” quantum computers
Medical supplies mostly (think beds, chairs etc.)
Show HN: Condorsay, a decision-making assistant with help from GPT-3
> Google search would not exist as it does and the search traffic would not necessarily exist in the same way, no

yes and no. Google search didn't have as intrusive and competitive ads as it did before and the search function was effectively the same. Nowadays, if you search "Williams Sonoma Cast Iron Skillet" you get 5~6 ads and 2-3 scrolls to get to the real organic results. 6~8 years it was like 1 ad and you could see the first result.
Take one product. Make a thousand different businesses who sell them. In one ad, Britney Spears is holding that frying pan. In the other, it's the Undertaker.

Instead of product and customer, think value added. You buy a server for $0.065 an hour. You buy traffic at $0.01 a click. That's your raw commodities. How do you make a profit off of that? Supposedly if you're good enough you can get elected president. I'm sure there's room in there for you to pay your bills.
It is statistically safer than almost anything even if you take Chernobyl and Fukushima into account.
yes, essentially. However you still have to get small business to lessen their over reliance on Facebook.
I learned of a bro through a targeted advertisement and I am looking at it for my next rental. I don’t believe AirBnB’s conclusion can be interpreted as “advertisement is irrelevant.”
I would point out that sixels[0] exist. There is a nice library, libsixel[1] for working with it, which includes bindings into many languages. If the author of sixel-tmux[2][3] is to be believed[4], the relative lack of adoption is a result of unwillingness on the part of maintainers of some popular open source terminal libraries to implement sixel support.

I can't comment on that directly, but I will say, it's pretty damn cool to see GnuPlot generating output right into one's terminal. lsix[5] is also pretty handy as well.

But yeah, I agree, I'm not a fan of all the work that has gone into "terminal graphics" that are based on unicode. It's a dead-end, as was clear to DEC even back in '87 (and that's setting aside that the VT220[6] had it's own drawing capabilities, though they were more limited). Maybe sixel isn't the best possible way of handling this, but it does have the benefit of 34 years of backwards-compatibility, and with the right software, you can already use it _now_.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

1 - https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/

2 - https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux

3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28756701

4 - https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANTS.md

5 - https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix

6 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220
How does the incorrect way of thinking about dopamine help you as a gambling addict?

I can imagine that remembering that your brain chemistry is part of what causes the compulsion is helpful because it takes some pressure off seeing the addiction as a character flaw.

But beyond just being a synonym for ‘brain chemistry’, can you say what the concept of ‘dopamine’ is doing for you?
One could argue that the US is the richest country because of the way things are set up here, not in spite of it.

Also, as another commented noted, it's not all roses in those other "modern economies" you mention: France, for example, with its subsidized healthcare system has a public debt equal to 117.8% of its GDP. The US's deficit amounts to 15.2% of GDP in contrast.
Hi HN.

I'm Dan, CTO at Condorsay. We've built a tool that helps you make decisions, alone or with others.

* Summary

The short version of our tool:

- pick a goal (something to decide)

- pick factors important to the decision (helped by GPT-3)

- pick options (helped by GPT-3)

- use pairwise ranking to learn what you or a group think of the options

- see the results, including text notes (if you made the decision with others) and dissenters (people who disagree with the group)

NOTE: it does require a Google login to get past the "factors" screen. However, you get 5 decisions for free, so you can do everything for free. I read login makes HN cranky, but that is how our tool works. (A decision has to be owned by a user in the DB. Also, we are protecting against someone burning tons of money on GPT-3 calls.) Please don't be cranky.

* Motivation

We believe that decision-making could be improved by a tool that puts structure around it.

Some benefits:

- clarity: structure and record your decisions, alone or in a group

- focus: force hard choices with pairwise comparison

- revealed preferences: you actually don't always know what you think, but you learn through the simplest possible gut-level calls (pairwise choices). By the end, the results make sense, even if they aren't what you thought at first.

Further benefits if you’re making a decision in a group:

- alignment: get a group of people on the same page, by having the most important discussions quickly (i.e., where people disagree)

- independence: express your preferences before you see anyone else’s, to avoid information cascade

- asynchronicity: coordinate people in our increasingly remote-work world, mobile-friendly

Our scoring is straight-up Analytic Hierarchy Process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_hierarchy_process). For AHP in Python, we use the lovely https://github.com/PhilipGriffith/AHPy.

Happy to talk about paired-choice decision-making algorithms, AHP, GPT-3, or other TLAs (three-letter acronyms).

* Background

James, Andrew, and I worked on Barometer, an effort to use Facebook measurement to promote or demote ads to help defeat Trump in 2020. Even in that effort, we picked what to do next in various different ad-hoc ways. James thought, "Why isn't there a good tool for this?" and convinced us we should try to build it.

I look forward to your feedback and questions. Please don't be cranky.
I'd say the main issue is that not a single one of them cares about our problems and never will, even if they have a charity that makes them look like saviors.
What do you think they're intending to achieve by this PR stunt? I'm not able to follow your rationale here..
Agreed, we have our work cut out for us but the team is fantastic and I can't wait to share more of our vision with the world!
> the more safe you try to make them, the slower to build and more expensive they will end up being

That doesn't follow. We have countless examples across multiple industries on technologies that became cheaper and safer at the same time.

If you try to make the old designs safe (created for weapons manufacturing first and energy production second), then sure. However, there are newer designs that are cheaper to build and safer to operate (can't 'meltdown', for one).

"Refactoring" old designs is not aways feasible. You are very limited in what you can do. Maybe you can replace the core with a similarly sized one, but what about everything else? Any significant changes in (say) your cooling system and you are now looking at an entirely new plant.