skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha. Actually, now that I think about it, I guess the TOS doesn't apply if you don't use the service!
As long as that discussion begins by defining "acceptable ads" as "ads that I accept", not "ads which the advertiser doesn't think are quite that bad."

And by "ads that I accept" I mean "ads that I can turn off".
This was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing the template repository too. The part about “Writing one sentence per line” made a lot of sense for the source text and for diffs being easier to handle.

Overall, the process of writing text and turning it into a book format like ePub and PDF seemed a lot easier with this post (of course, this post is not for books with mathematical equations and other more stringent typography and layout requirements).
> Holy crap why is your comment getting turned grey?!?

Not sure. I'm new to writing comments on Hacker News, perhaps I broke some unspoken etiquette rule.

> is the 20 minute duration for a full compile from scratch, or for an incremental recompile?

I believe it was the compilation time for a X -> X+1 version upgrade. I've been using precompiled firefox-bin for quite a while, so X could be ~70. I think it would be interesting to test and see those numbers on a modern version of Firefox.
> But the social sciences are this virus that crept into academia and have taken over.

OK, naval – what are you actually talking about?
Or, Lordy, the old retirees in 32’ RVs, who got their license 60-odd years ago and have never even had a drivers test, much less driver training.
They also grew exponentially and started serving everyone, not just technophiles. Support at such a large scale is an interesting problem. The apple store in my city always has lines out the door and the store is huge. They probably have to handle everything from broken devices to general troubleshooting, and for everyone from tech empathetic individuals to ludites, old people to young, and reasonable to agressive and entitled. All face to face in their stores.
Being morally righteous isn't going to teach you to make penicillin either though.
Beautiful Lies: The Art of the Deep Fake
The ones we made as a kid resembled 'the buzz', but they do it differently and IMO incorrectly. It's the same up until about step 4, the folds should come in at an angle, then your just bend the tip of the initial triangle fold up. Seals in the wings and gives you a nice little handle.
Flutter WebRTC SDK with ready to use Widgets
Back of the envelope calculations: $30k, say they charge $150/h. That $30k is 200 hours. That is 25 man days x 8 hours. You have a designer, copywriter, probably a product manager, customer rep and a coder involved in this.

Sounds about right. Maybe you need a cheaper agency?
"If you get permission to bypass this, you can bypass it" is implicitly part of all agreements. So explicitly including that doesn't change it. It's the same as an outright prohibition.
Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges
You might be interested in [1]. Supposedly it has the diagram that became known as the "waterfall" diagram. I don't think the author is advocating for what we normally associate with waterfall, though, as there are some additional steps they advocate for. They start with a simplified model, criticize it, and then add some more complexity to the model.

Also to note, the paper is titled "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems."

The author outlines 5 steps they believe need to be used to improve the success of a project. One step is called "do it twice" in which the author advocates the development of a prototype well in advance of delivering the final product. I think this is iteration. It's not indefinite iteration, but it's definitely not showing the big bang single release waterfall approach either.

It also advocates to involve the customer throughout the process instead of only at the end.

The summary says to refer to Figure 10 as the process that incorporates the author's steps. This final diagram is pretty far from the simplified and flawed waterfall picture that has been pulled from the front of the document.

[1] http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970...
Code Smell 109 – Automatic Properties
He could have just sent an email. I would rather that than a zoom call. Or have your immediate manger let you know. I watched the video, it seemed more like he was looking for sympathy at how hard his job firing people was. No one cares, they care that they just lost their job.
guess why it resonates with so many people
That should generally be the default assumption, because companies can pay for the improvements that most benefit their niche.

Suppose your company makes the mid-range device. You have competitors above and below you. The one above you uses a fast expensive processor, the one below you uses a slow cheap processor. You need a medium processor for a medium price. If you design your own, it gets cheaper than the existing middle one but still not as cheap as the cheap one.

So if you design one, it's too big, costs too much to fab, for the low end. It's too slow for the high end. You're the only one who can use it. You and companies outside your market who don't compete with you at all, because you make network switches and they make cars.

You also make a good point about the GPL above, but there isn't any reason why processors couldn't use a GPL-style license, is there?
Has there been a case of an encryption key successfully being censored?

They tried to censor the blu-ray key, but that survived 3 years before bitcoin was invented
https://github.com/hrbrmstr/ipv4-heatmap for example
I recently found out there's a setting you can "opt out" of new design. So it reverts UI for reddit.com to old.reddit.com, and all your links/redirects work w/o having to append `old`.
Inspired? It's a literal copy of the linked card.
Bitcoin can be shorted.

Bitcoin prints money ( eg
tether)

Bitcoin just doesn't work. It's centralized now to fix it's issues.

Best of all, none is regulated and the whales hold the power. Even more in the future with proof of stake.

There is more dilution and misunderstanding with crypto in general then I've ever seen.
> responsibility has to fall on the pedestrian

Drivers should drive at speeds/times/lighting conditions so they don't hit people, or at least minimize the chances.

Pedestrians should care about their own safety too. There's a reason we tell children not to play in the road.

I've a very pro-pedestrian and anti-car urban dweller who walks everywhere and curses at cars flying by, but i wouldn't blindly step into the road without paying attention to cars around me, especially at night. This behavior isn't because i think drivers should get a pass, its because it'd f*king suck if i died.
Zillow did some really stupid stuff that caused them to need to trim the waist a bit.
Cloudflare seems to encourage benchmarks of Workers Sites:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-sites/
Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers blueprint for building more with less
You seem to have this idea that people know what they want in their lives before it exists, know what problems they want to solve and unbiasedly navigate the world looking for solutions. But how it often works is people don't know they have a problem needing to be solved until they see the solution in marketing material.

People by and large use what they see in advertisements and justify the decision after the fact. What is preferred is not always what is superior.

Bandcamp is as easy to use as Spotify. Yet people don't use it as much. Why not? Marketing is why.

Mobile UX is full of deliberate friction points put in to support profitable business models at the expense of utility. The mobile experience is designed to funnel users towards making certain choices. This is beginning to happen in windows as well now. And people just go with it.

Is it condescending? Maybe. But if I was wrong you wouldn't have advertisements on TV, marketing people know what works and businesses aren't in the business of throwing money away for no return. People wouldn't bitch about Facebook and continue to use it, they'd go somewhere else.
Alpha AXP get rid of branch delay slot from the very start, precisely because they planned it to be architecture that is viable for next 20-25 years.

And I think that RISC-V is right on repeating that design decision. ;)

It also looks like Alpha was introduced a bit earlier than SuperH and that makes me wonder why they still wanted branch delay slot. It is nothing but trouble across the board (tools, hardware design, etc) for couple of percents of execution speed. Which can easily be achieved just by using register bypass and that bypass logic will cost less and bring more, effectively reducing pipeline length by one stage.
Redecentralize Digest – November 2021
That's not a hypothetical, many Pygmies are currently enslaved

https://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/51-4/2
given that running Tor relay (god forbid - node) is risky for a regular citizen, i suspect that majority of Tor is run these days by the ones immune to such risks, ie. the law enforcement (and the ones made to collaborate). In such a situation the correlation should be pretty easy.
It reminds me of being on Slashdot 15 years ago. We've even got one of the engineers posting in the comment thread, starting their own little flamewar. The names of the characters have changed, but there's still a bit of the same old Internet here.
What the heck is this? Sounds like someone's late night drunken musings...
/talesfromtechsupport just isn't the same without airz
Not to nitpick, but the last paragraph is demonstrably false

> An individual doesn’t want to go to zero—doesn’t want to die—so they will not take risks of ruin and they will not take risks of bankruptcy; whereas a group should be willing to take a risk of bankruptcy because that’s spread out among so many different people.
I meant getting a decent salary post-PhD doing research actually.
Hardly new.

> But your father doesn't want to invest, say, ten thousand dollars in it, though I can almost guarantee that he'll get five times that sum back.

Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon
1913

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1361/1361-h/1361-h.htm
If it doesn't do anything, why not use paper?
This is borderline nonsensical. If being social is toxic for truth, why do we care so much about peer review or experimental replication in science?

Experiments are arguments, designed to cause other scientists to agree about something. Do this enough that most scientists agree, and you've got the truth--or as reasonable an approximation thereof as your level of skepticism will permit.

If you prevent science from being social, you take away whatever might make it true.
I was (and am) receiving a good salary as a software engineer.

I meant to say that I’m hoping to eventually get a research job with a decent salary
I really like seeing streets that have seating where parking spots used to be. Some popular areas have whole blocks converted. They really make it hard to jaywalk, and offer lots of barrier between sidewalk and cars. That said, it probably sucks for bicyclists.
I got bored a few paragraphs in and nothing in that made me even suspect that it may be satire. The prose is the "poor imitation of the New Yorker" style that is very common in long boring and entirely serious articles.
> They make use of the biggest Tor hosters (OVH and Hetzner) to blend in with the rest

Uhh, that sounds like another problematic thing. Forcing their cooperation surely wouldn't be too hard.
Everything about that feels like a russian disinfo campaign.
TFA listed two killer apps: buying drugs over the internet, and extortion (ransomware). I'll throw in a third: funding terrorism.
Couldn’t that potentially be explained by the lag between infection and symptoms with many people being asymptomatic early on while still shedding virus at significant levels? If that’s theory is true, we should see many more tests and identifications of omicron in the coming week.
But Delta has been the only game in town for a while now (>99% of cases since late August), so this recent rise in the wastewater viral levels shouldn’t be attributable to a change in the proportion of variants (TBD on Omicron?).

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...
They've been preparing for a takeover of Taiwan for 30 years. They're almost ready, and the West has paid for it.
ham is not an acronym
> Compromising one of these would be as "simple" as getting a PR merged that wasn't reviewed carefully.

I think it's less scary than this. A hypothetical PR would have to contain all the keylogger rules. The person who approves the PR would have to be in cahoots. I hope the filter-list repository owners have 2FA turned on...
We do this in The Netherlands: https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/rioolwater
Have you used almost any ODE solver? Almost every single one uses embedded methods to adapt time steps. ode23, ode45, ode23t, ode23tb, ode15s, LSODE, LSODA, radau, rodas, VODE, CVODE, ... even for DAEs you have DASSL, IDA, ... I can keep going but it's just listing every ODE solver code out there. Once you do that then the computation is dependent on values and thus the full compute is not determined by the input sizes, which is something known to be blocking the full usage in Jax because of XLA limitations (for example the implementation of dense output).
Guidance to whom? The CCP is going to do its own thing. There's no reason for it to listen to the IOC.
The technology is really there, the problem with crypto is that it ends up sucking all of its energy into pyramid schemes because people take part on it as if it were a new gold rush. I would be more interested if there was zero money to be made from web3.

Aside from that, the problem of distributed social media is that it ends up looking like a spam folder or like a cesspool of the worst kind of perversities, but I think this should solvable with chains of trust, like you "whitelist" / "blacklist" your friends or people you trust, and maybe anybody who has been vetoed by your friends (could go 1 or 2 levels further)
How do we know his stories on Macedonia and elsewhere are also not fake?
That is really bad, what were they thinking?
Paper Review: Paxos vs. Raft
> has it ? I've seen this claim made over and over, w/out documentation.

Very early report on Delta, describing higher loads in oropharyngeal swabs: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.07.21260122v...

> I've seen documentation of higher nasal swab loads, but not higher systemic circulating virus.

You'll have almost no reports of "systemic circulating virus" load, because there's not really an accepted definition for how this measurement would be taken. Plasma concentrations don't appear to be particularly meaningful except in late stages of critical disease.

> higher waste water levels.

My understanding of the evidence is that fecal loads of Delta are higher than other variants, but not as elevated in comparison to how much throat and nose swabs are elevated. I.e. both statements appear true (higher loading overall, and even higher loading in upper respiratory tissue).
The feds ruined Aaron Swartz's life for violating "Terms of Service", so people are right to be fearful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#A...
> For such a small program (write the current time to a socket), it's trivial for TurboFan

On the contrary, for short programs the JavaScript engine may not choose to do anything at all beyond run it through the baseline interpreter.
Unless much more energy-efficient methods are developed, it seems in the long term crypto mining is going to be banned almost everywhere. The alternative would be cooking the planet.

Perhaps this problem can be solved somehow, but the alternatives have their problems.
Wait, what's the implication with this comment? I feel like you haven't thought through this satire completely.

The "joke" (deserved or not) with Brandon's comment about Dropbox is that it's widely perceived by a lot of people to have turned out to be wrong. So why are you formatting your argument to look like it's the same comment? You want to overlay the other person's argument into Brandon's comment if you're trying to mock them or make them seem out of touch; you accidentally executed this all backwards.

Doing it where you're pushing back against the offers to apply instead makes it seem like you're making a joke criticizing yourself for being out of touch with job searches.
Ok, but let’s ideally not have the comments from that war wash up here.
This is what happens when you try to judge large demographics based on the cultural preferences of you and milieu. "Dewey Wins" and all that.
As someone who grew up with snow, this is wishful thinking.

> yesterday, a nice cool -5C (23F) with about 30-40 cm of snow

Not sure if you're in US but if you are, and clearly live somewhere with snow, you must know that the snow-treatment budget is always an easy target for cuts.
Would be nice to see that overlaid with the test positive data.

I wonder if this could be an effective way of determining COVID prevalence in areas where they are not doing enough testing?
Lasik will not correct presbyopia unless you intentionally make yourself near-sighted. In that case you would need glasses for distance
Every prohibited thing is not prohibited if you get an exception. Nothing is prohibited huzzah!
There are news coming from russian Twitter bloggers that Tor is blocked in Russia.
> For skeptics, Bremmer poses this question: Who will do more to influence the outcome of next year’s US midterm congressional elections: The President of the United States or the CEO of Meta? According to Bremmer, since the vote will be influenced by both real-world rules changes and the online flow of information, the answer isn’t obvious.

The question is flawed. Better would be:

- From the perspective of the status quo power (i.e., US government) what is the bigger threat to that power persisting or not, China or Big Tech? (Hint: It's not China).

- Put a slightly different way, on a day to day basis who is better positioned to influence the thoughts and decisions of individuals, some elected official or Big Tech?

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While she doesn't get heavily into gov v tech per se, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" does a thorough job of framing the massive depth and breadth of tech's power, especially when it comes to tracking and influence.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
Above comment is being charitable. I think real people have the exchange above and should be proud.

The 1000+ upvote ones are long, overly personal explanations of why they can’t come in that make the boss look extra evil, but also sound fake as hell.

If someone just quits good on them, but that text exchange is not going to draw enough eyeballs.
Doesn't look like there's anything like this for where I live, so I submitted a FOIA request to my local water agency to get that data. If anyone's curious about submitting one for their own city, here's the kinda sloppy language I used for Chicago (IANAL):

Pursuant to IL FOIA, please provide me with records sufficient to show all non-exempt fields of information from the COVID-19 water sampling that's described at: https://mwrd.org/sites/default/files/documents/Sewage%20Surveillance_FS_210119.pdf. The document mentions that MWRD already shares this surveillance information with academic partners, so I believe it should be relatively easy to collect these records.

As the statute allows a requester to specify a file format, please provide me the records in excel format.

Please reach out to me if you have any questions about this request.
??? Who is elected has literally nothing to do with what happens on a decentralized or centralized network (short of indirect influence).
AirPods make more money than Tesla yet Tesla makes various sized cars.

If it makes them 10B more per year sounds like a good business IMO.

Pro’s are exception, classic ones are the ones people complain about.
You already figured out the solution. The optometrist isn't going to do much else for you unless you need a distance prescription.
Maybe a different marketing spam. I almost posted a video to Reddit last week that popped up on YouTube. It was an older video, by someone I’ve watched before, might have been one I’ve already seen, but there it was. I got distracted and didn’t. Three hours later, someone else posted it.

It could be pure coincidence, but more likely The Algorithm was trying to shake things up and sent fifty, a hundred, a thousand of us the same old url.
The author writes really well. I would highly recommend his other writings as well.

The reason I like his writing is that he does some real world complex setups instead of demo hello world kind of examples.
I joined a trade union, we're always doing lots of really valuable work, helping people who need help. I'm the union's IT officer now, daily work is just managing email lists and arguing with MS 365, ongoing projects are updating our website and dues payment system. Doing this work helps our activists, organisers, and retained lawyers do their extremely valuable work. I'm not paid, I do it in spare time around an unrelated full-time job. I feel good about it. If you've got any useful skills, or just some free time, you can support anyone you see out in the world doing good.
This means the fall in Ubiquiti’s share price was entirely deserved.

Management abdicated its responsibility.
The other point to be made here is that the average revenue per user for even the most successful advertising companies (e.g. Google) is less than $1/day. That's not a huge amount of money even for someone with a low income. (From a first-world perspective. Incomes are lower in other parts of the world, but so are advertising revenues from users there.)

So the amount you would have to pay to deliver the same revenues to creators as advertising does is not very much. Especially if we could cut out the middle man so that all of what you pay goes to the content creator.

That's the biggest problem we have right now. You have someone write a news article, a million people read it, it cost you maybe a thousand dollars to write (assuming it's well-researched and not garbage clickbait), so to recover your costs you need one tenth of one cent per user.

We need a payment system which makes transactions that small efficient. And it needs to be anonymous for the buyer, because the whole point is to get rid of the tracking, right?

Fix that and you can sustainably pay <$300 and not have to see any ads all year.
Picasso paintings have possible positive cash flows via tax loopholes. So they don’t call it a Ponzi scheme because they do call it (legal) tax evasion. For example: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do-rich-buy-art-divyanshu...
yeah, trello always seemed best for organizing an ongoing new development effort and less great for understanding history (and preventing it from repeating) as well as finding old context and bug tracking.
I've copied the same model at https://volt.fm and it's been amazingly effective.

I let users generate nice images from their top artists and songs for sharing on social media. And every time some big account on Twitter uses that to share their stats, it goes viral and brings in a lot of new users. In one occasion I had 24k new users in just two days.
Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
Airbnb laid off 25% of the workforce, that has widely been regarded as a model for layoffs
1. Every employee had a zoom 1:1
2. Employees were given several months of pay, benefits, and allowed to keep their laptops
3. Employees were allowed to vest their stocks for the next window
4. Airbnb created an alumni, portal, slack channel, and a resume book to help them find next jobs
5. Founders hosted several zoom calls for impacted and non impacted employees. The last one was a 10 min standing ovation to departed employees
6. Airbnb also created a policy with a right to first job to former employees

This was the right way to do layoffs