skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question.

As a disclaimer - I don't have a lot of experience manufacturing in China, but I can tell you what I learned from my experience! And from what I can tell it is extremely common, yes.

Our factory works with other factories they know to provide that kind of thing. For our first order they gave us a choice of plain cardboard boxes or white glossy ones. These boxes were clearly custom shaped because they fit the product perfectly. After selling the first 600 units, I then asked them if we could customize the packaging with a design, and they sent us what's called a "dieline" (google it). Our designer did up a nice design on top of the dieline and that's what we're still using.

From memory, I think it was something like 45 cents more per box for the colour printing.

Another example is a little info page that we include. At the beginning I was printing them at a print shop, then opening each box, putting it in, sealing it back up, etc. I eventually asked the factory if they could do that as well, and they did (for a small additional fee)
He understood the assignment!
Interesting idea. What about moving to South East Asia?

Low cost of living and plenty of English speakers settle here for retirement.
Sărbători fericite!
The replies to this are very good. I'd just add that - like anything - it takes practice. You have to train your mind to work this way, and you need to continue to do so. So, don't judge yourself too harshly when it doesn't come easy. Recognize it and continue to practice.
Thanks for this! I have fond memories of watching the first one as a kid.
Did you ever have any users? Or did the technical challenges stop you short of shipping the product?
FWIW, someone is still reading your email. The owner of the infrastructure of your message recipients. If you've gone through the trouble of hosting your own email to avoid Google harvesting your messages, but you're exchanging emails with someone whose email is hosted by Google, then your emails are still being harvested and/or are harvestable.
It's interesting because they're both bad but in different ways. Facebook's addictive nature is in interacting with other people: FB wants you to start flame wars in the comments, share things around with people, etc. FB tries to connect you with other people to hate them. Facebook distorts a person's idea of OTHER PEOPLE. Facebook is like meeting the Duggers and assuming they're representative of all Americans. Facebook makes people angry and aggressive.

TT's addictive nature is more insidious because it's more internal: Humans are pattern-matching machines and TikTok will show you a LOT of very niche content to the point where your brain thinks it's important and true (think TV/movie product placement; they wouldn't do it if it didn't work). Because of TT's form, it's harder for the average person (non-creator) to be drawn into a social group, but it's easier for them to be firehosed into accepting false narratives through sheer repetition. TT distorts a person's idea of HOW PEOPLE LIVE; imagine if your main idea of how Americans live was USSR propaganda. TT makes people apathetic and prone to hug-boxes.

They're both taking advantage of the fight-or-flight mechanism, FB just wants you to fight and TT wants you to 'flee' (into its loving escapist arms, of course).

There are healthy use cases for both FB and TT (and even Twitter), but they're directly at odds with the incentives of the platforms themselves + we have a society full of unhealthy and traumatized people, so instead you get these evil clone versions.

I'd also say that both the US and China are authoritarian countries. China more so, but the mental health/addictive problems with TT are inherent to its design and medium decisions, not which nationality made it.
I'm guessing it's a case where all the various extreme requirements simply do not allow for redundancy in the places the engineers would prefer to have it. The options are likely (1) okay performance with a lower chance of failure or (2) extreme performance with a higher chance of failure.
I don’t want to learn one specialized IDE for every application. I use Vim and Emacs for coding in general. There are of course plugins, but they didn’t notably change the experience for me.

The speed problem is mentioned in the Beamer’s paragraph. It’s true to some extent for latex too, but becomes problematic with beamer (lots of figures with Tikz and pgfplots etc). And I have to use beamer, because the source documents are in latex.

When you consider collaborative writing, Overleaf is slow even with base latex.

If you use it heavily, you will see its issues. Part of the problem is that it’s not consistent. In Python, when I type print(“LaTeX”) the answer is always the same. In latex if I type, \hspace*{5mm} it depends on many things. This becomes specially problematic when the effect you are trying to produce is not covered by a common template; the language is not fully rule-based either so that you systematically produce it yourself. You have to try various things.
> This implies, to me, that the author perhaps doesn't have a particularly strong moral compass of their own

Yeah, that was my takeaway too. I have never watched looters on TV and wished I were there with them looting.

Serial rapist, murderer never caught? Does not make me think, hmmm, why not me?

The whole article is kind of creepy.
This is a nice resource!
Another Linx distro catches up to the user experience of Windows for Workgroups
I pay for YouTube music for this very reason. Comes with ad free YouTube. I actually respect Google isn't a charity,but I value my time enough to not waste it on ads.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang
Riskbrew – discover and prepare for the brewing financial storm
I learned long ago that I don't want to waste my life doing something I don't care about. I publish things as open source that I wrote because I needed them, and nothing existed like it.

One of those things, other people actually use! I don't so much, but I enjoy keeping it going every so often because it gives me purpose.

Another of those things, literally nobody seems to know about, even though it's a very useful thing which there is no oss alternative for. I'm a little sad nobody uses it, but it's fine because I still use it.

When I stop using these completely, I'll shutter them. Somebody can fork them if they want.
Probably because the user base is by definition pretty small. I never used a graphing calculator and neither see any use for it but those who do use it and know what it is have probably found it already. Seems to me marketing for such a niche product has very fast diminishing returns.
I am not all that knowledgeable about rust but I think that if you really want to decrease the numbers of system calls when interacting with files, writev and readv should be considered. I wonder if BuffWriter/Reader could be made to use it, as it would have the same "atomic" behaviour and would forgo the need to concat strings. Still, the char*s could become invalidated once the system call is made.
Tex support by conference and journals is declining though (engineering).
For people in North America 12:20 GMT is...

4:20 am PST
7:20 am EST

Get up before the children ;)
For more context, that this website can rank papers based on their Twitter mentions is only one of the features. It also let's you bookmark papers, and it has a pretty good similarity engine that recommends similar papers.

It is also Andrej Karpathy's (head of AI at Tesla) open source side project.
On mobile (iOS) I use an app. Just not their app.

Apollo is the best thing since reddit bought Alien Blue and shut it down.
Their dedicated servers will be more expensive than s3. their storage boxes are much cheaper.

You’d also want to compare google drive, Dropbox, box, Amazon drive (Amazon photos), iCloud storage, and backblaze

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
honestly it needs both, but if you only put it in 1 place put it in code.

During the development you are mostly likely looking at commits, or PRs, so that makes sense.

But if its long living piece of code, people will get you your code via following function/method chains or just browsing the source not commits. While you can use git blame, and then figure out the commit, and then read last few commit messages, putting comment on code is easier on everybody.
Yes, it is about the deadlines. That's what keeps me getting a paycheck, which is the reason I'm working. What you describe as teamwork is just every day development activity. There is no discipline to attending a meeting when the meeting is mandatory.

I can always spot someone who 'runs teams' by the way they prioritize the company and piss on the workers in the name of the customer and 'teamwork.'

This is why you can't trust a manager. You can't seperate their nose from the company's ass.
Fair enough. But in this case his opinions are incorrect and arbitrary.

The reason I and many others maintain our own email servers is not to be “cute” (a word used in the article) but because we want superior usability, features, and performance over what the major providers can offer. Otherwise, why would I bother? The only issue is that some people claim to experience delivery problems. Others, such as myself, say that delivery is at least as good as from major providers.

And receipt is far better than when using a big provider. Unlike the unfortunate users of hotmail, I actually get all my email.

EDIT: And not only does (for example) Gmail run a poorly performing email service, but their web client for interacting with email is broken: https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/
Dupe of original https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673989
Have to recommend the podcast from No Agenda. No Agenda, a show where former VJ Adam Curry and columnist John C. Dvorak, two experts from the media industry, have a conversation about politics. Twice a week they deconstruct the news cycle and give insights into the narrative of the mainstream media, political campaigns and the government.

https://www.noagendashow.net/
I don't think FIRE and having a fulfilling life (everything you list) is mutually exclusive. You don't have to work 60 hours per week to make $300k/yr nor do you need to spend your entire paycheck.
Unfamiliar Words from Orwell's Burmese Days
I came across Orwell's Burmese Days while listening to the Econtalk podcast episode Hitchens on Orwell. I finally got around to reading it in 2015.

Of the 210 words I hadn't encountered before, a small number (~10) were either familiar words used in novel ways (e.g. consent - Flory and the girl stopped with one consent, to look at the flowers; bladder - Nasty old bladder of lard!), or unfamiliar derivatives of otherwise familiar words (e.g. sinuous, seditious).

All remaining (~200) words were ones I hadn't previously encountered.

Excluded were proper nouns, since they were mostly fictional.

When placed into Google's N-Gram viewer, some of the first 10 words show declining use since the date of publication (1934): https://tinyurl.com/2p8ujk7e

Of possible interest:
Hitchens on Orwell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Dg9T14c4k
Transcript: https://www.econtalk.org/hitchens-on-orwell/
Do you have any reading about this or terms I could search to learn more?
If she uses a PC you might be able to install uBlock for her. I never see ads on YouTube except for the mentions of sponsors that are part of the video.
DoorDash will require all employees to deliver goods
They acted upon a complaint from dating apps and as such is scoped to those only.
On Doubt
But if you want to learn how to fix something on your lawnmower or car or around the house, youtube is absolutely the best place. If you want advanced math topics, usually wikipedia is on point. For programming questions, stack overflow. Different communities on different platforms...
Ariane 5 is a European effort, not a US effort, it will launch from French Guyana, not from the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5
I absolutely adore the Baroque Cycle. Question: Since I read it I’ve wanted to read more about the development of money and financial institutions, but I’ve had difficulty finding good books on the topic. Does anyone have any good recommendations?
Hmmm.... maybe. Or maybe 30-50 years ago gentlemen didn't get caught. What you see as "slipping" in society over the past decades has actually been increased public exposure of what has always happened?

Just an alternative theory.
The importance of Correctness in concurrent algorithms
I've been listening to "Views on Vue" and "JS Party". I will check out Darknet Diaries, sounds cool.
I’m a Garmin enthusiast myself.
It amazes me that on the one hand, people keep getting banned from Facebook for odd inscrutable reasons, while on the other hand, none of the spammers or scammers I've reported ever get banned, no matter how obvious.

Literally yesterday, I was looking through my ignored friend requests and found some random profile that had thousands of 'friends', and all the posts in his timeline were ads for dodgy weight loss and/or boner pills, with hundreds of people tagged in the photos. Dozens of posts a day, every post title full of punctuation-as-text to avoid triggering spam filters. Reported it as a spam account, got a response a few hours later that they had checked the profile, determined it didn't violate their community standards and that it would not be removed.

I guess it's just fascinating that with all that money and power, they've managed to build a moderation system with such a high rate of both false-positives and false-negatives. You'd think they could at least constrain it to being terrible in one direction.
There are also cases where we can widely observe people being punished or having other problems from some behavior but not the behavior itself. Bribery or drug use are two well studied examples. When you have a public awareness campaign that emphasizes how large the problem is people think "Gosh, I hardly ever see any one getting arrested for bribes or going to the hospital for using drugs, it must actually be safe if everyone is doing it" and the public awareness campaign backfires.
Love this Fabien guy. Every piece in in depth research on curious topics. Very entertaining.
>You seem to be using it in the terminal. Why?!

Not OP, but having similar problems as OP. One of the reasons I use(d) it in the terminal is because I use make which also generates figures for me. I also don't like having to learn X different GUIs for Y different programming languages and prefer using vim and make if possible.
Amazon’s internal stack was very similar to other tech companies. Google did everything custom and different than the pack. E.g. google web toolkit over JavaScript. Containers vs VMs. Bigtable/spanner vs Mongo/Cassandra.

At the time, Amazon might not have had enterprise sales teams. But they had deep expertise in running the familiar suite of enterprise software at scale.
I think leaders is the wrong word. They are the political ATM of the wealthy, and they can go anywhere. For all of human history the elite become complacent, and believe they are special. They lack an imagination for chaos.

There earth has been in a long period of temperate climate. It has had many longer periods of inhospitable climate. The earth will be just fine. But it will result in mass migration, domestic and regional, and with that always comes social upheaval.

The Grapes of Wrath is a small scale version of what's coming. I do not think we have invented the social or cultural tools to adequately manage it without resorting to violence.

The problem isn't even climate change anymore, that is inevitable. It's already happening. It's been happening. We need to build the capacity to manage the coming consequences.
Last time I tried to go into more depth about this one and related policy failings of the FSF and their associated projects here, it predictably descended into a long flamewar with FSF supporters, so I'll pass on it this time. But here's a link:

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1377402589386432512?s=20
The new 12900HK from Intel beats M1 Pro in both single core performance and multicore performance:

https://news.in-24.com/technology/414335.html

TDP: 35 - 45 watt

but of course, it's better to compare with 3 years old CPU, so the results will be much more impressive.
Author here.

You're right that I should have addressed that point.

I used "free" in quotes because it's not free in the sense of "no cost".
> If it were left-wingers being banned

It is left wingers being banned. Essentially what happens is that conservatives will get banned for violence and bigotry, then companies will ban random rule abiding left wing groups just to appease angry conservatives.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/facebook-antifa...
It's a fascinating interview. Haven't heard about him before but his academic background looks legit, albeit more on cardiology not infectious disease.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LzqEaOkAAAAJ&hl=en

He made many extraordinary claims in this video. Here are some searches I have done on his claims.

# Claim: You cannot be reinfected by covid-19

This Qatar study confirmed reinfection:

[Efficacy of Natural Immunity against SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection with the Beta Variant | NEJM](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2110300)

They even studied the reinfection rate difference between alpha and delta variants.

# Claim: There's no FDA approved vaccine

Pfizer vaccine is fully approved for use in 16-year and older on Aug 23, 2021. Below is the press release from FDA

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

# Claim: Effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine is dismissed

Hydroxychloroquine is actually the most studied drug against covid-19.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/06/data-show-panic-and-diso...

We can always argue that the dosage, setting, timing, etc are not right in these studies. To me the fact that we don't find it particularly effective in this many studies is a good reason to give other drugs a try.

# Claim: Medical community does not focus enough on treatment. If properly treated, majority of deaths can be prevented.

This is a fascinating point. I don't know how patients are being treated. But there must be some improvement in treating them as the death rate is way down even in unvacinated.

He criticized hospitals applying arbitrary criteria for monoclonal antibody treatment. I see there's a shortage in the drug so it makes sense to only use on high-risk patients, e.g. old, unvaccinated.

But I do like his point that we should focus more on treating patients.

# Claim: Myocarditis induced by vaccines is a lot more common and severe than claimed

This is a more troubling one if true.

There's quite a few studies on the rate in multiple countries. All appear to be in line with the CDC number, e.g.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110737

The million dollar question is what's the rate of severe Myocarditis vs severe covid in children and young people? This should be the basis of cost-benefit analysis of mass vaccination.

# Final thoughts

His prior academic credential appears legit. He talks in a way that's fact based. He must have taken enormous personal risk in speaking out against the establishment. I want to believe him but so far many of his claims do not check out based on my own research. He quoted many studies in the interview. Would be helpful if there's a reading list to better understand his argument. The interview is more like his monolog as Joe has no expertise to critique him. It would be interesting to have someone equally knowledgable but hold an opposite view so we can hear the arguments from both side.
I’m struggling with html Gmail on iOS Chrome. It keeps jumping as I click on an email or category and clicks the wrong thing.

Maybe for the past 3 months?

I’ve got the same it’s intentionally shittier feeling too.
> In general, the only time anyone should use unbuffered output is when there’s a real person consuming it

I think this might be a little -too- general, as it's pretty workload dependent. I mean, if you just want to write a blob of bytes once, just write the blob IMO.

I don't think using a buffer in those cases ever really hurts, but sometimes makes what should be simple a bit more complicated than necessary.
Fair enough, in that sense we already are experiencing the "metaverse" for many online activities... Except no one refers to it like that.
What else are they moving to then?
Gelukkig Kerstfeest :)
I wonder if it's to measure things like critical thinking skills and compare them with the videos people watch.

The average American reads at 7th-8th grade level and might not know what "false dichotomy" means, so it could be useful data. It's also a logical fallacy, so it might give an indication about whether a person has been exposed to the ideas of logical fallacies.

"People who aren't familiar with logical fallacies tend to become radicalized by YouTube in X months."
I've thought similar things: why am I paying rent / mortgage / student loans if it's all going to be forgiven? What kind of sucker am I? I do it because I know it's the right thing to do, but together with a sort of "rebel worshipping" that I see in the startup community (e.g. ycombinator at least used to have questions trying to figure out which rules you've broken in some clever way), I do often come away feeling a little too much like a goody-two-shoes.

There's often good intentions behind these things, but the argument made here is, I think, an important one to think about.
Replying to myself...

Another reason could be that I live in a country with very strict anti-spam and privacy laws (Canada). I have always assumed that spammers wouldn't care but who knows...
Yes, but communications, meetings, and being available to answer questions are also part of the job description.

The more someone becomes unavailable for communications, knowledge sharing, and meetings, the more work they create for their teammates and managers who have to compensate by tracking everything down, re-hashing missed meetings, re-communicating things that should have been covered the first time and so on.

It’s not enough to just write four hours of code every day and then disconnect, even if the average coder is also only writing four hours of code.
Oh, stitches, me. Thank you.
When one of the entries is "DC Metro paid Lyft to subsidize riders $28,005" I question how unbiased the report by Mr. Paul is.
I'm using Nitter redirect[1] for Firefox, so that any Twitter link automatically links me to the nitter.net frontend for that reason.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
The leader who's standing up to China
It's disheartening to see how people like the author don't seem to give half a fuck about the wellbeing of others, and at the same time insist on ridiculing those who do.
The color is seasonal also. Michigan is green in the summer, loses that in the fall, gets whiter in the winter.
> I hear this all the time, but I question how true it is. I've been running my own mail servers for decades, and I've never had any problems with sending or receiving mail. I suspect anyone who properly configures their server will be fine.

At work I ran email servers professionally and with good deliverability for years. My own email server was arguably longer lived than those at work, just much lower volumes. IP block was clean, DKIM, SPF, rDNS, etc. all setup correctly.

I thought I had no deliverability issues. I interacted with mailing lists regularly, the odd email to friends and family and I was firmly in your camp until I had to deal with a death in the family.

I think this was shortly after Microsoft BPOS became Office365. It became very very clear very very rapidly that to certain orgs I just wasn't hitting the inbox. And there was jack shit I could do about it. That was the end of my mail server, and it's certainly got worse over time.