skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaayu yaan means air travel not aeroplane. Your slight of hand here and overall comment history suggests you're parroting some right wing propaganda. Tell me something, why do people like you always find things that exist now in the past but not things that will exist? If airplanes and testtube babies are mentioned, why aren't there any mentions of things that modern society will invent in a few years, decades or centuries? I'll give you a hint: you don't have them because you can't retrofit those. Once someone invents them, then you can find vaguely related sentences in a large corpus of Indian origin and claim _there was something there_.
ETAOIN SHRDLU was the standard ordering on linotype keyboards from the 1880s, so it seems unlikely the corpus it was based on was analyzed in the 1960s.

Norvig’s article doesn’t actually attribute ETAOIN SHRDLU to Mayzner’s study, which was more interested in developing statistical models for bigrams, n-grams, and letter positions. In fact it seems more likely to me that if Mayzner’s 20000 word corpus managed to match the ETAOIN SHRDLU sequence it might be because they actually used it to calibrate the corpus to ensure it was representative so that they had some faith in the n-gram analysis.
> were mentioned in a matter-of-fact way as if it is not a novelty

You've said this twice now. In persuasive writing, once you state a fact, you must draw a conclusion, clearly. Please, draw for me your conclusion.

Since we're asynchronous, it appears that the conclusion you're drawing is that these texts refer to real things that actually existed: heavier than air flight, spaceflight, test-tube babies, etc. Since we know where (fairly precisely) these things took place, we should have significant archaeological evidence for them. Could you point me to the physical proof of these? Because, I feel like these objects would've come up in my readings, before.

If you're not drawing the conclusion they actually existed, what conclusion are you drawing?
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Most of these were novel and rare mostly given as a boon by the Gods. We also have monkeys, vulture, bear with human like or beyond intelligence. The numbers were off by all practical imaginations. Armies were of order of 10^7 - 10^70.
I doubt there'll be much boycotting; the people who might boycott won't want to use it in the first place. Certainly no regulation will be enacted. I doubt a smear campaign, either; if it's anything like Twitter, a simple screenshot of the homepage will be enough. So the only things are:

• licenses revoked – except with free software, this can only happen if you violate the license

• deplatformed by infrastructure providers – which is part of the reason we need not to have centralisation in the first place.

As much as I dislike this former president, I expect his social media site might actually have better moderation than his Twitter followers had; for PR reasons, if nothing else. I'd rather it wasn't around, but I don't think it's worth taking it down. (Enforcing the AGPL, however? That's worth something.)
You don't have an obligation and in theory (and only in theory) it doesn't matter but a history of doing it anyway sure as shit helps in court.
Isn't it a little strange that these red-staters don't even know their own name?

The lowercase "party" in my mind removes the redundancy as a class description for the collection of all political parties rather than as part of an abbreviated name for the one in question.

Unlike the "P" which stands for Preproccessor, in PHP.

Edit: whoops, they are both capitalized. Too bad I wrote with an ink pen.
Good. For all of its faults, I can’t think of another country that I would like to have military supremacy.
I'm assuming they use that term to say LSM Tree (log-structured merge-tree).
I think this honestly applies for every country though, however it's impossible to recognize unless you grew up in said country, or lived there for many, many years. I would say the UK easily gives the US a run for it's money - but again that's only because I've lived my whole life there and have learnt to recognize the differences. The cultural disparity between Newcastle, Edinburgh, London, Cornwall, Liverpool, Belfast, Leicester, Birmingham, Inverness, Manchester, and all the small towns and villages in between are so vast, despite being so close geographically; the UK is only the size of Michigan, yet travel 40 miles in any direction and the dialect, food, buildings, clothing, and music preference can be completely different. The trip from Chester to Caernarfon is only as far as travelling half way down Long Island, but in one place they speak almost 100% English, and in the other it's more like 20.

Granted we don't have the dramatic shifts in climate (although our microclimates are quite unique), but the population density and long, chequered history as a nation seem to make up for it. Any country, despite how unified they look on the exterior, is not a realistic representation of the country as a whole. I'm sure a person from Moscow has very little similarity to one from Vladivostok, or likewise Sao Paulo to Sao Lius. There's no where in the world you can visit, besides some microstates, that give a realistic representation of the country in one visit.
Nope. Because as I said, they wouldn't work, due to the hardcoded file paths etc.

Expanding on this further - I have a few apps I've written out there in the wild, and for one (which also found it's way onto a magazine cover CD-ROM back in the day) I had immense pressure to open source it, so against my better judgement I did. I then had to endure lots of negative feedback about the quality of my code. The whole experience put me off going open-source ever again[1].

I am a hobbyist coder, and my code quality will never be 'up there' with the professionals, but the moment you release something (even for free) people expect it to be perfect, which is unrealistic.

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[1] Not quite true, I do have a GitHub with a few tiny repos, but nothing important.
"Yaan" mean vehicle in Hindi/Sanskrit.
Man, reading through this thread, I feel like such an odd man out. I'm enjoying Foundation. Sure, it's not amazingly intellectually stimulating, and it's not really based on the books, but I find it fun to watch. As it's own thing, it's entertaining to me.

I also really enjoyed The Flash (up until season 6 or so when it just got too repetitive). It seems like there's a lot of people that can't seem to enjoy things "just for the fun" that I don't get.
I don’t get how including dependencies multiple times is related to “above the fold”, could you clarify?
Companies House used to have this. You could only register a new company 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday (and public holidays were also excluded).
If you're into a "race ecosystem", I'm surprised you haven't picked up on the weight training competitive nature. I constantly have to remind myself I'm not trying to impress anyone. It's also something I try to teach other new lifters, there is a huge tendency to "compete" with the people around you.
The previous election was also accused to be stolen. If you look at tweets, both parties had complete trust in election integrity when it fitted their narrative and it was a complete fraud when it was convenient.
Do you remember the Russian hackers?

Given how crappy USA election practices are (no voter IDs? mail ballot? workers counting ballots without witnesses?) I'm pretty sure there were instances of election fraud in both cases, it's just hard to establish how much it affected the result.
I agree with you. It took me a while to get my head around the approach they were taking (I re-read the whole series prior to it airing) but what struck me most on re-reading was how completely boring it would be to be faithful to it. Even just getting rid of the 1950s stereotype gender roles - which is the obvious place to start - doesn’t change the long arcs of obvious dialogue.

It’s a really grand scope for a universe - but I’m enjoying the series so far and it will be interesting to see where they go with it. Basically I’m just hungry for more space and since it’s visually very appealing and the universe is compelling, I think it deserves a chance.
Starship troopers in particular has a very curious relationship between movie and book. Where the book manages to glorify the military the movie deliberately chooses an ironic treatment of the characters and plot elements to form the book’s antithesis. The movie is best enjoyed by not trying to fit it into the mold of the book, and vice versa.
They might be running a forwarding proxy with substitution rules. I don't think AGPL would have a problem with that, even though SSPL would. (Though, let's face it: they totally modified the source code.)
Yeah, related to timegm(), I made this to fix a performance issue: https://github.com/michaeleisel/JJLISO8601DateFormatter
It depends what you're comparing it to. If you look at every computer language, then perhaps, but C++ is still leagues ahead in complexity.
> interesting enough to watch if you’re bored

is a terribly damning critique when a show costs as much as Foundation does. It's not Netflix faff, it's Apple's flagship.
In terms of "antithetical values", the machine learning project ml5js.org actually did something about this. They bound their open-source license to a Code of Conduct¹, which forbids the use of their ML software for (1) discriminating against marginalized communities, (2) building tools that disingenuously manipulate public opinion, (3) building tools of mass surveillance and prediction to repress the rights of people, and (4) building tools that control weapons, including tools that automate the deployment, operation, and targeting of weapons.

Reported violations of the Code of Conduct are sent to a Steering Committee, made up of members of the community, who determine if the reported project is in violation of the Code of Conduct. If so, the Committee takes steps to remedy the situation (e.g. realigning project with the Code of Conduct, or removing ml5.js from the project) — and if no resolution is found, the project falls out of compliance with the terms of the software license.

It's an interesting experiment.² Software is a tool to help us solve problems and reach desired outcomes. Licenses are also a tool to help us solve problems and reach desired outcomes. When desired outcomes exclude certain things (e.g. discrimination of marginalized communities, manipulation of public opinion, autonomous weapons, values antithetical to that of a community), it seems a Code of Conduct can also be a worthwhile tool to solve problems and support the outcomes that the community is working towards. (Of course, wisdom and governance are crucial and not to be taken for granted. Shout out DKP servers³ for showing some light there.)

¹ ml5.js Code of Conduct: https://github.com/ml5js/Code-of-Conduct/

² Analysis from KE Mitchell on ml5.js licensing: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/12/ml5js-Takes-a-Stan...

³ On Dragon Kill Points and governance systems in World of Warcraft: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=958945
Incentives were aligned better there, though. Disarmament happened only to the extent it didn't threaten the MAD doctrine, and it reduced ongoing maintenance costs for everyone involved.
Diffractive optical networks reconstruct holograms without a digital computer
mimalloc is briefly mentioned in my article, and I was surprised that it worked on the mac for swapping itself in. I found the performance of it to be roughly the same as jemalloc when I measured
It depends perhaps on whether it ends up in anti-SLAPP or something like that. But if, for example, you don't sue a hospital for showing your film to a group of children, but you do sue a school, the fact you didn't sue the hospital probably doesn't matter too much, even though your bias is against caretakers of healthy children as opposed to sick children.

Not a legal opinion, of course.
I've read the AGPL, and it says that it must be able to be distributed to every user of the software. Every person that uses Truth Social must be able to find the source code.
Saying you will shut down a permacomputer is like saying you will shut down the Internet.
> Rotating arcs also add complexity that excuses weakness in character or plot writing...

In other words, it's a gimmick.
It's not that hard to develop a “social network”; it's basically just a web front-end to a database. The hard part is making it good, but if you have enough humans working behind the scenes, that can come later.
I was surprised by the difficulty in getting a company to accept a target of “three nines five” (0.9995) at a time when they were growing rapidly and launching new physical and digital products on a rapid and continuous basis. I prevailed, but what I expected would be a five minute conversation took a couple 45 minute discussions (reducing the work uptime of people in those discussions to 0.9993 for the year... :) )

Slowing your young company down in order to turn 0.9995 to 0.9998 is almost always a terrible trade. Even turning 0.995 to 0.999 is hard to justify in most places. (That improvement saves about 35 hours of downtime per year.)
Agreed. Which country’s ”war machine” would you prefer Silicon Valley powered??
> Bitcoin has utility; it separates money from the State.

This is, and always has been, wishful thinking.

To the extent that it could be true, it is near-guaranteed that, given enough time, the State will ban the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—whether "to maintain their monopoly" or "to protect people from scams", depending on your point of view.

But there was never even a realistic possibility of Bitcoin becoming currency in a real sense. Its two biggest downfalls (that I can recall off the top of my head) are:

- It cannot act as a reliable store of value. Because it is used extensively by speculators, its value is extremely volatile. Because its legal status is still unclear or in flux in many jurisdictions (including major ones), its value could fall to zero or near-zero with very little warning.

- It has high transaction costs. This makes it prohibitive to use for everyday transactions without some kind of central authority to batch the transactions—and then you've just invented a new State, but with extra steps.

There are other problems with it, but these two are more than enough to make it utterly unsuitable as currency.

It's been great at making money for those who got in early, though. What do we call those kinds of schemes again...?

Edit to add: All of this also presupposes that "separating money from the State" is actually a good thing. Most of us are not hardcore libertarians or anarchocapitalists, so we don't actually believe that it is.
“I'd like to emphasize that no contract has been signed yet...”
A process running httpd httpd is pinned to CPU X. And it forks right away 10 worker sub-processes. Are all sub-processes supposed to run on CPU X?
They are trying to get Truth Social to be compliant. That's the whole point.
I have a hard time believing that the entire point was to temporarily bother people. I mean literally every president does this just by virtue of American partisanship.

I think the goal was a transformative presidency that cemented Trump as one of the best presidents. But he just didn't have the aptitude to pull that off.
This is good for Mastodon who will be more recognisable after this event
But but my WhatsApp forward said ancient Indians also had VR and AR so anything is possible. /s
On the other hand, those who have weapons tend to want to keep them out of the hands of whoever their subjugating or oppressing. See the history of domestic arms control in damn near any country for examples.
One problem with this line of logic is that we don't have any written text 1000s of years old, so we don't know if the words were changed in later renditions or if the story itself has been modified for changing times.
>you sound like an employee with a vested interest in the company,...

Oooh, insulting my motivations. Nice move!

There's cartel like behaviour going on, no question, I said as much elsewhere on the thread, and that needs to be stamped on hard. It's part of the harm they are doing I referred to. That's not the same as any one of these companies being a monopoly.
This has occasionally been mentioned elsewhere about some of the sketchier exchanges. I have never seen it mentioned with any of the exchanges I use - is there any non-anecdotal confirmation of this phenomena?
BlackMatter Ransomware
That is so wrong, it doesnt even need response but here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g
>It sounds more like algorithmic factory production with no intention.

You just described modern Hollywood.
You can make a lot of changes without pissing on its main themes. E.g. there are a lot of characters and scenes which were just sketched and the show could have filled them in instead of inventing whole new plots out of cloth. Also Hardin being a Chosen One and the producer insisting on reddit that "it's not really so, you'll see" but he could have just not made it look like it is so. Another thing would have been to compress everything until Bel Riose in the 1st season, since it's only afterwards that Asimov really matures as a writer.

It's not like I don't enjoy anything (the Empire plot is solid even though it's not at all from the books, proof that I'm not a purist or anything), but everything just shows a lack of interest in being faithful to the main ideas of the books.
Around 2012-2013 I was working on an online education platform. We had a whole web application that would serve video content, collect student answers and analyze in real-time(ish) the student progress in order to find out the next action for the student - e.g, if the student starts to get questions wrong that they were getting right before, we'd take it as a sign of fatigue and would recommend them to take a break. Or if the student was showing that has mastered a topic, we would jump ahead in the lesson to something else that needed more work.

So we needed a web server, a database, a queue system to run these heuristics and we needed to host/distribute ~100GB worth of content, most of it video.

We were bootstrapping, so I was trying to (1) save as much as possible on operational costs and (2) punt on all the "scaling issues" that would require more of my devops time that would be better spent developing and adding more features. I deployed the whole system on a single server from Hetzner: Django app, Postgresql, Redis for caching and session management, RabbitMQ for celery. All in one machine with 32GB of RAM and a RAID system with enough capacity to hold the data. I think it was costing us less than 50€/month. That is all we needed to (easily) serve ~800 students and the staff who would author new content.

In the end we delivered everything we promised to our first customer, but we were not able to grow our revenue as much as we expected, so by end of 2013 we just put the whole company on the backburner, got a small maintenance contract with the main customer and went on to find another jobs.

From end-2013 until 2018, I needed only to make sure that our domains and SSL certificates were up-to-date every six months, upgrade django packages in case of security issues and deal with ONE incident (in 2016 IIRC) where a disk failure put the array in degraded mode, which I solved by getting a new server at Hetzner (better specs and cheaper, after all those years), warning the customer that the service would be taken offline for a couple of hours later in the day, rsyncing the content, restoring the database and redeploying the application with the fabric script.

This is one the projects that I am most proud of what was accomplished given all the constraints and made me realize the difference between a Software Developer and an Engineer. Yet, it translates to a very poor entry on an CV. We are too used to ask on interviews what people have done and what technologies they have used, but we rarely ask about the moments where it was best to avoid doing something.
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Nothing is illegal about it, I'm just saying that in games our engines have tonnes of various containers, some of which don't work with a for each loop because they require iterators to be implemented and we don't have them, or containers which are containers but which aren't actually meant to ever be iterated upon.

Again, there's nothing wrong about foreach loops in general. I'm just saying that in my industry and in the engines that we work with even the "basic" features of modern C++ are frowned upon for <reasons>.
I find Mike McQuaid pretty reasonable and forthright whenever I have ever messaged him. Also, he is hardly responsible for every formula out there.

For anyone who remembers the year 2000 and having to compile everything from scratch, Homebrew is brilliant - but there are complexities and quirks. For Python I’d go with pyenv. Postgres - well, watch your step and maybe use Docker instead.
I don't see the point of this. He's not going to have a long career as a researcher so why dedicate resources trying to train him to become one? In my country typically being one year behind already counts strongly against you.
It also helps if you setup regular routines to make comparison easy, for example:
day 1 - bench, curl (barbell), lat pull, tricep extension (dumbell)

This example hits alternating muscle groups so you can minimize rest in between. If I do something like this I can usually get my heart rate up as well.
Touché, and thanks for sharing that perspective.

I chose the entrepreneurial path to societal impact for myself, but you reminded me about that a lot of the basic research we‘re all depending on was done by doctorands and researchers.

And just like entrepreneurs, you‘ve got two kinds of PhDs as well…
The anisotropic p-capacity and the anisotropic Minkowski inequality
If world hunger isn’t just a hoax, why do I have food on my plate?

It’s really quite bizarre to say the US isn’t a war machine when it has the world’s biggest arms industry and readily sells to nearly anyone. That’s before even getting into its history of invading the most bizarre countries that most can’t point out on a map, going back to the Philippines over 100 years ago, to the insane level of competition it reached with Russia in the 20th century, to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.