skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I smuggle things onto planes all the time. Nothing exciting, just bigger bottles of liquids. The trick? Just hide them in your clothes and walk through the metal detector. Rick Owens pants with a plethora of massive hidden pockets make this all the easier.

Not very high stakes obviously, worst case scenario I might end up losing a bottle of parfume or some hot sauce.
Keynote: Who controls the Internet? And should they?
I recall on the older machines that they had upwards of 60 screws holding the keyboard into the top panel. I’ve not checked out a teardown in a long time, is that still the case or is it riveted in?

I always suspected that 60+ screw solution was very much over engineered but I guess they wanted to eliminate any potential for flex of any sort.
While there are continuous performance improvements, between 15-17 it is probably not visibly so, but thanks for the config!
I don't think it's practical. The lossy compression that GSM uses is incompatible with the protocol used with modems, which assume the analog characteristics of real phone lines.

If you want to reach a BBS on your phone, you could use a telnet app like Termius or Termux over 4G.
Ban away dude, who cares.
Could you elaborate a bit on how you weren't allowed to listen to your body as a child, and what kind of difficult real-time decisions that meant you had to make?

Also, how did you work on improving that as an adult?
> Just happy-go-lucky developers who know how to run things on top of a credit card, on someone else's computer.

Love that punchline, it summed it all.
Yes unfortunately that's the point basically
Any air moving towards the poles must necessarily be balanced by air moving away from the poles. This manifests as "Hadley cells" and other similar wind patterns.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Ea...
Exactly. I can take out a personal loan and use that but those aren't a good interest rate and it would possibly effect my credit. By just paying off my loan in advance of their schedule my credit is being effected very positively.
Here’s to good art and it’s survival through the pearl-clutching neo-Maoists.
It can be achieved easily by manually editing the file. This is not the problem.

People are in violation of the licence not because it's bothersome to produce the notice, but because they are unaware of the clause.
Most important thing when using BBS through telnet: it uses no cryptography!
>"The strongest interpretation is ..."

1) this is your strongest interpretation. Mine is different.

2) I do not consult law book every time I brush my teeth. They'll survive me doing it wrong way
Don’t feel bad when you see what some people are able to build in hardware. It’s their job (now) - the author is working at NeuraLink these days, building wireless charging for brain implants. (This is meant to say: they are really good at it)

More of their stuff with with x-rays on Twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Alucysrausch%20x-r...
Not being able to relicense code provided by other people without their agreement is definitely a feature of any license.

Let’s not kid ourself: the main reason companies don’t like the GPL is because they don’t want to share the code they actually use in their products. Making that impossible is an intended consequence of the license not some unforeseen flaw. If you are fine with companies profiteering from your work then choosing the MIT or BSD license definitely make sense.

The whole discussion really is about commercial interest in the end.
How many people are considered a small town? Honestly I have no idea.
.NET actually was known as COM+ for a time before public release. Environment variables for tweaking internal behaviour still retain that moniker.
Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]
There's also a USA version (the original) - I remember fiddling with the radio and oversleeping in said sketchy motels
Arguably every ship that ever sailed prior to the invention of engines was "emission-free" by most standards.
I agree they are basically saying the same thing but there is a subtle difference. Goodhart is observing a fact about measures, Campbell is offering an explanation of Goodhart’s observation, that is, why the target ceases to be a good measure. Goodhart is making a very general observation which might be true for a number of reasons. One alternative to the Campbell version is that value of a measure ages so, by the time the measure has become a target, the world has moved on and the target isn’t any good.
It's not going to be, sorry. Having batteries small and light enough for practical large container ships, or transatlantic aircraft, would literally mean reducing the battery in a Tesla down to the size of two gallons of milk. And that is way beyond even the most optimistic estimates of battery technology development.

If you look at the cool improvement graphs shown by battery manufacturers, it's always kWh per dollar that is improving. In terms of energy per weight, the best we have commercially is NCA batteries at 220 Wh/kg. The best we have on the prototype stage in laboratories is around 400 Wh/kg, but those last less than a hundred cycles.

The theoretical maximum is that of a lithium-air battery, where people have demonstrated 1600 Wh/kg in the lab, but they are not rechargeable. Even if we could somehow make those rechargable, a standard Panamax container ship would require 50 000 tonnes of batteries. But it has a capacity of 52 000 tonnes.

So with the most extreme revolution in battery technology, we could just barely make a battery powered container ship that carried 96% batteries and 4% actual cargo.
.NET has the ability to handle your memory layout explicitly with structs.

They expanded on that functionality with span and made sure that the common libraries is implemented using this.

If you do textbook OOP development for everything, you will end up with a lot of allocations and what not, which was the case, so they went through the entire base class library and rewrote all often used methods to be faster.

they even posted a bunch of posts with all their improvement tricks:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...
> but no one in a small town looks at NYC or SF and thinks it’s a successful, nice place to live

Cities are like poker tables, whereas countries are like a casino. Sitting at the highest poker table in the casino means nothing, to make it worthwhile you have to actually win and thrive at it, otherwise you'd be miserable, losing each and every hand.

If the US is a casino, then NYC , LA, SF, Chicago are the big tables. But each and every player has a goal to win as much money as they can with the least effort...and in order to do that sitting at the biggest tables might not be the best strategy after all. In fact it could be the worse strategy of all.

> There is absolutely zero reason why millions need to be crammed in a single geographic location when we all work online anyway.

If you think the level of your game is up with the pros and you want to sit at the big tables then you might as well go physically there to take advantage of all the positive effects of playing 24/7/365.

Same reason why people want to go to Vegas , Atlantic City and Macao to play poker instead of simply playing online.
On the one hand, I get it: Joe Jackson's 'Night and Day' is laid out as a work of art, and to play the album out of order would be very strange, they are even mixed to segue into each other except for the change from the day side to the night side.

But as soon as you put only radio edits on your albums and cut them off anyway between tracks that argument gets a lot weaker, and 'power to the user' means that the user gets a say in how their content is consumed. Artists that only release albums are pretty rare.

What the article isn't really clear about is whether this goes for all artists or just for Adele, it would be a lot nicer if both Spotify and Adele would respect the fact that streaming isn't vinyl (or CD, for that matter) and that end users, you know, that pesky customer, have other ideas on how to best consume the music.

There was an architect here in NL that incorporated a clause in the contract for designing a large apartment building that nobody was allowed to hang their washing outside to dry. I personally don't think artists should have any say in the consumption of their art and its eventual use once they release it. You want to dictate how it is used? Keep it to yourself.
I remember someone trying to port minimodem to run under termux. Nevertheless, it still not a HAYES modem, but I don't think it is difficult to build one using minimodem.
Looks like SO's architecture is still pretty simple, yeah. https://stackexchange.com/performance
This is definitely a step in the right direction. Spotify's UI was really lacking in this department too, having to disable shuffling for albums but enable it for some playlists was a chore.
She can talk about her personal experience all she wants, but it was a horrible article that may cause harm to people by increasing stigma in people with depression.

The truth is SHE wanted to be seen as a victim of depression. It made a good story. She was sad, and that sucks, but it was not depression. If she talked about how she over came her sadness I would have not commented about the article.

I would not make a comment about the suffering of someone who was raped as a 12 year old, that whole part was a logical fallacy.
If you're renting golf clubs, knowing you're right handed is useful. I struggle to find the equivalent use for introvert/extrovert label. Maybe you have a good example?
Over the long term tax payers would probably save money if there were no drug addicts on the street. Less taxes to pay for healthcare when they get sick, prison sentences when they get punished for an illness, and you don’t have to pay for the foster system for each child they have.
> I don't understand why should bank apps, online education app, games, etc send data to Facebook or google 24x7

Because collecting data earns them money and most customers are apathetic enough to allow it.
Feel free to email me at podgaj@fastmail.org
>The drop correlates well against middle class wealth, which has plunged steadily, again, since the late 60's.

Very insightful comment. Quick question though: how has the drop of middle class wealth correlated with the share of women and minorities in the workplace since the 60s? Do we draw conclusions against that correlation as well?
> In the example I gave, Linux wouldn't need to make that change, as the revocation only occurred for a single sublicensee.

The other person already responded to your understanding of moral rights. I would also question this assumption. A copyleft license that excludes certain participants who are otherwise complying with this license because of animus on the part of one contributor is not really a copyleft license in spirit. It would be an untenable precedent to set that any contributor can effectively ban anyone they like from using Linux. I strongly doubt the Linux community would keep code like this even if they were technically allowed to.

> Richard Stallman ...

Would never countenance a situation like the one you're contemplating. He cares most about software freedom and what you're describing is basically the opposite.
Onprem doesn’t get a lot of love these days but it’s significantly cheaper.
I am an extrovert which usually makes me stand out in a group of developers. I find being tuned into the needs of how introverts function has helped get along better with my peers.
None of their tech or ideas were ever solid. It is biologically impossible to measure accurate blood levels of all but a few analytes from a fingertip blood drop.
>9/11 was possible then and impossible now

pfft, now you have hardened cockpit doors that’ll keep you safe if you manage to SE your way into the cockpit (which at least on long haul flights departing from europe hasn’t been super hard IME)

A terror group could just have one of their operatives blow a million dollars on first class flights to achieve some VVIP-status like BA executive premier, then it suddenly becomes really easy to ask for things like seeing the cockpit during takeoff.

Or you could just charter a few large private jets, there wouldn’t be any other passengers to fuck you over and you’d be in charge of the fligut route.

I guess they’d shoot you down faster these days, but to mitigate that you’d just need to depart from a city airport and make sure they let you in the cockpit early on.

I’m absolutely sure there could be a new (single-aircraft) 9/11, and it wouldn’t even be particularly difficult to execute by a group of people that isn’t already under heavy government surveillance.
Compounding Habits-Stephen Ajulu
> If you're buying diamonds or bananas or cobalt, and you need a provable supply chain though.. yeah.. it fits.

I've heard about this supposed use for blockchain before and I genuinely don't get it. So what if you have a tamper-proof blockchain containing information about a supply chain? How does this prove anything about the particular diamond you're selling me?

Again, this is a genuine question. Can someone please walk me through this? What information do I need to verify about the supply chain and how does blockchain help? How were people solving this problem before blockchain?
When I started using Spotify (it back then Rdio for a while) it would end an album and start playing another, and it would surface top albums easily.

This result in getting me to listening to full albums as my main style of listening to music, and growing up listening to a lot of radio I find it much better.

Sadly, Rdio closed down and Spotify changed its UI to deemphasize listening to albums. I get why, but still, it’s a shame.
> wonder how he convinced the team to drop the "for free" academic HPC/Slurm

Probably because they are working with publicly available data so they don't need to worry about HIPAA/restricted data compliance. One of the main reasons for using the HPC/Slurm cluster is that IT (or the data compliance office) guarantees compliance with restricted data.
Slower speeds are much more efficient. In displacement vessels the energy required is proportional to the square root of the speed.
Agree.

The biggest issue with plastic recycling is probably that products like packaging are optimized according to marketing criteria (colourful/shiny/coated) and adding a little bit of convenience for consumers (glue to reseal after opening).
This way things end up being made from multiple components which aren't easily separable, thus difficult to (if at all) recycle.

Making simple packaging where the whole thing is made from a single (widely used, standardized) variant of plastic and instead of being coated or multi layered, things like labels ought to be fixed in a way that allows easy separation (easily soluble glue).

But it's not gonna happen soon, since it'd basically come down to throwing away all those neat "innovations" the packaging industry has developed. Also, if there's one thing retailers care about it's products that look shiny and colourful and entice people to buy them. They're hardly going to give that up.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like this was a planned UI change anyway but their PR/social media people seized the opportunity to make it sound like it was some coordination with Adele:

> The streaming service replied "anything for you" and took away the option for listeners to mix up the order music is played from album pages.

> However, the shuffle symbol - two intersecting arrows - still appears on individual album tracks.

> This means it is still possible to start listening to albums on any track and opt for songs to be played in a random order.

If users can still listen to albums in shuffle order then this isn’t really as drastic as the headline sounds.

I’m personally not a fan of being told how I have to listen to content, but if it’s just a UI change to how shuffle is enabled then it’s not a big deal.
Yes it is IMO.
Covid metrics are glaring case to the point.
Show HN: Hoarddit – a website to discover and collect art
I, for one, have not, but I keep hearing this from HN. Perhaps the next project....
Are you suggesting that war with Russia today is preferable to war with Russia in the future?

Please clarify.
The grand "eBay strategy" for Google Ads was to advertise on "long tail" keywords. This in practice meant that eBay would place its adverts on Google searches for extremely specific keywords like "Charizard pokemon card". This ended up maximising metrics like Click-Through Rate and Conversion Rate, and eBay's advertising division was famous in the advertising industry for its success in doing this. It was literally known as the "eBay strategy" and was treated with some respect. It took one insistent individual to convince eBay to turn all their advertising off and see if it decreased profits; it increased profits*. The problem is that right below the advert (which eBay was paying a lot of money for) was a link to the same page which eBay didn't need to pay for. The same page was a legitimate Google search result, and so the Google Search advertising was losing eBay a bunch of money.

[edit]

* - Thanks to the commenter above for the correction.

Note: I've tried to be more careful in not implicating eBay's entire advertising division.
I take it you haven't consulted the references I listed second-hand? They are likely far more insightful than anything I can write here.

Before making my earlier comment, I read the start of the the Hiss and Franks paper is at https://web.archive.org/web/20140310113612/http://www.nacacn... to make sure the citation I gave wasn't misrepresenting the topic (it wasn't). Here's text from the abstract:

It "examines the outcomes of optional standardized testing policies in the Admissions offices at 33 public and private colleges and universities, based on cumulative GPA and graduation rates."

That is, UC isn't the first to do this, and we can look at real-world evidence from previous universities where test scores were optional, to gauge how useful test scores are and what effect they have.

It found: "Few significant differences between submitters and non-submitters of testing were observed in Cumulative GPAs and graduation rates, despite significant differences in SAT/ACT scores."

That is, SAT/ACT scores don't seem to affect metrics like Cumulative GPAs and graduation rates. (As I recall from elsewhere, they do correlate with first year grades, but that's a different and less important metric.)

Further: "Optional testing policies also help build broader access to higher education: non-submitters are more likely to be first-generation-to‐college students, minorities, Pell Grant recipients, women and students with Learning Differences."

That is, using SAT/ACT scores in the selection process appears to have measurable effect on the student population; reducing what is sometimes referred to as "diversity."

As to your correct observation, "it does not follow that predicts(A) > predicts(A ∪ B)", one of the issues is that college success is also correlated with other factors, including parental wealth. And success on the SAT/ACT is also correlated with parental wealth, who can afford special training on how to pass those tests.

We know this by looking at the early history of college boards, which emphasized the topics taught at prep schools (like Latin grammar) than public school, because college admissions preferred rich white male Protestants, who were likely to go to prep school.

To be clear, the SAT has done a lot of work to de-bias their tests, and I don't know enough about to topic to say anything what factors are actually involved.

But I don't need to, since the tests don't seem to be that effective in predicting college success.
Do you want a PhD or just to work in ML?

Sounds like the former and if so just offer your services to a professor as a developer and forget about the degree.

The fact that you ask the question shows you have no concept of what it means to do a PhD in CS let alone ML or any other field. It's nothing like a bachelor degree! So educate yourself a bit and approach some people who have Masters and PhD in History (your field) and see just what is required for higher level study (you'll be surprised it isn't as easy as you seem to think). Then actually speak to some people who have done a PhD in CS.

Frankly, you're only 31 years old. Take the time to do it properly, no short cuts.
Good points. Also worth noting that there are some LPs that are designed to be played in a random/shuffle order. The first one I heard about - although I've never heard the band confirm this - was the Red Hot Chili Pepper's Stadium Arcadium from 2006. A double CD LP designed to be played in any order was/is the rumour.

Very likely some artists have released LPs in the 'streaming era' that are the opposite of Adele's wish; that is, they have no set track listing.
https://archive.md/fiQj4
It’s a sure bet. It’s such a sure bet that I would bet on it.
> You can't solve non-tech problems with technical solutions.

This is useless and unconstructive generalizaton. AFAIK many non-tech problems were solved with technical solutions.
The article does say:

> However, the shuffle symbol - two intersecting arrows - still appears on individual album tracks.

> This means it is still possible to start listening to albums on any track and opt for songs to be played in a random order.

The difference seems to be whether the "album page" has a shuffle button on it (which it used to, but now does not).

I'm not a Spotify user myself, but this doesn't sound substantially different to what they had before anyway? As far as I can tell, all it means is they get to put out a press release about how they appeased Adele, but secretly they're still letting users do what they want.
Pointing out hypocrisy is not whataboutism.

If the US wanted to have the moral high ground on this issue they shouldn't have done it themselves. This goes for a lot of things where the US had a 'first', and which other countries then more or less out of necessity follow.
If you want a shell that's compatible with bash, just use bash. Most of the new shells break compatibility because bash syntax is so idiosyncratic
You may also like this video on attempting to extract those precious metals from the pavement itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GPWJPLcHg
Stack Overflow runs on 9 web servers with (iirc) 48 logical cores (2 x 12-core Xeons) and 64GB RAM. Those servers are shared by a few apps (Talent/Job, Ads, Chat, Stack Exchange/Overflow itself) but the main app uses, on average, ~5% CPU. Those machines handle roughly 5000 requests/sec and were running .NET 5 as of September 2021 (when I moved on). That’s backed by 2 v. large SQL clusters (each consisting of a primary read/write, a secondary read-only in the primary DC and a secondary in the failover DC). Most traffic to a question page directly hits SQL - cache hit ratio tends to be low so caching in Redis for those hits tends to be not useful. As somebody mentioned below, being just a single network hop away yields really low latency (~0.016ms in this case) - that certainly helps being able to scale on little hardware - typically only 10
- 20 concurrent requests would be running in any instance at any one time because the overall request end-to-end would take < 10ms to run.

Back in full framework days we had to do a fair bit of optimisation to get great performance out of .NET, but as of .NET Core 3.1 the framework _just gets out the way_ - most memory dumps and profiling subsequent to that clearly pinpoint problem areas in your own app rather than being muddied by framework shennanigans.

Source: I used to work on the Platform Engineering team at Stack Overflow :)
> the new-idiomatic .netcore and later style

`Int32.TryParse` has existed since .NET Framework 2.0, which was released on February 13, 2002: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.int32.try...