skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you can't point to any evidence, despite insisting and "knowing" it exists. The fact that the Mueller report states they found no evidence the Just like this invisible Korean wall.
But that bloats your backups like crazy. Much better to use something like Ansible to setup the VMs and then just backup the data.
Wikipedia, OpenStreetMaps, DuckDuckGo would all be great examples of self-financing unstoppable web resources with no central authority distributed across a peer-peer mesh network.

Unclear if the value prop is large enough to overcome the activation energy of such an endeavor.
I may also be part of that highly specific subset because I enjoy these kinds of articles as well. It’s interesting to explore different solutions and to und
west and their pros and cons even if they aren’t motivated by upfront requirements (you’re probably less likely to come up with an interesting configuration in that case anyway).
Interesting fact, Nintendo still makes playing cards, including the standard 52 card decks.

Ran into one once, very high quality plastic cards.
Century old example showing pivoting is as old as business:

“ When 3M began in 1902, the five founders had a simple goal: to mine for corundum, a mineral ideal for making sandpaper and grinding wheels. Turns out, what they thought was corundum was really another low-grade mineral called anorthosite.”

3M pivoted to selling sand paper without the sand, I.e tape, and that helped them survive long enough to try again at sand paper. (Transparent tape, invented by 3M, helped them grow during the Great Depression because people fixed stuff instead of buying anew.)

Funny to see sandpaper still being improved upon after 100 years: https://youtu.be/NZDCRFi8dKY
> if the standard did mandate that pointers to functions could participate in a memcpy and the behavior was as if the instructions of that function were treated as an array of chars, then C++ compilers would be forced to accommodate that implementation

C/C++ compilers would then not be portable to ISAs with Harvard architecture.
> Not to nitpick but BLAKE was the SHA3 finalist, not BLAKE2 which is an improvement.

To add to this: BLAKE2 is derived from BLAKE only, whereas BLAKE3 is derived from Bao AND BLAKE2.

> Why kernel devs didn't go with BLAKE3, I can't say.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29748581
> any data with 33 bits of entropy is technically PII,

Well yes, but actually no.

I can run UUIDgen 33 times and put it on pastebin, via tor. That does not mean I have 128 peoples' worth of PII. In fact I have ~0 bits of PII. If I were to paste one of those numbers in this comment, now they are all linked to kortex, and however much entropy that username has (call it 32, this account is leaky). But you are still short 127 "PIIs". The rest of the entropy means nothing.

Conversely, a US phone number is <24 bits, but 100% PII.

It's not 33 bits of "entropy". It's 33 bits worth of a distribution which can be correlated to an identity. If it's not correlated, it's not PII.
> Segment - Classroom lecture tool - When the product was deployed in the classroom, all the students opened their laptop and went straight to Facebook instead of using the program.

There is an excellent YC podcast featuring Segment's founder that walked through this pivot. Excellent listen: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6B-on-finding-product-ma...
Disabling Windows Defender in your build directories can be a serious boost. NTFS is still slow, though.
It might be interesting to classify the various kinds of pivots. For example, one that gets covered from time-to-time is the one where customers start using the product differently than the founders intended. The examples here are WhatsApp, Yelp, Flickr, Groupon, Play-Doh, Segment. But there are a lot more like that.

If you had a language for talking about pivots and why they happen, it might be possible to avoid (or induce them) more deliberately.
There was a time window of a few months between the invention of UTF-8 and the release of Windows NT with UNICODE support. If the two involved parties would have known of each other (and assuming the Windows devs would have understood what a great deal UTF-8 was), I guess Windows could have used UTF-8 right from the start.
Pixar - ‘How a bad hardware company turned itself into a great movie studio’
Another plausible alternative is that Telegram embeds an open source NLP model in the app so translation can be performed locally (offline).

To be fair we know that mobile hardware resources can be extremely limited, and I’d wager a server side model will always be bigger and therefore better.

But recently there’s been a lot of amazing progress in techniques to shrink large models down while preserving most of the accuracy (eg quantization aware training, etc).

With some additional constraints on scope (maybe only supporting the handful of languages the user needs?), I believe a sharp team of a few experts could deliver this fairly quickly, with reasonable results that would of course improve over time.
Adam Smith's commentary on wages and the considerations in their assignment is interesting.

In Book 1, Chapter X, "Of wages and profit in the different employments of labor and stock", "Inequalities Arising from the Nature of the Employments Themselves":

The five following are the principal circumstances which, so far as I have been able to observe, make up for a small pecuniary gain in some employments, and counter-balance a great one in others: first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.

It's an interesting set of factors, one that many economists and markets-advocates seem wholly unaware.

It does not reflect other arguments, notably marginalist analysis, or power dynamics as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Still, it's worth some consideration, and explicitly references the roles of both risk and training.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...
Twitch started out as Justin.TV, where Justin Kan wore a camera on his head 24/7 and livestreamed the results.

Then they expanded to a small handful of streamers, then anybody could stream, but it never really took off and they were running out of runway.

Then they noticed that the one area growing faster than any other was videogame streaming, and rebuilt the whole company around that.
For the parents out there, there’s a really good book aimed at 5-13 year old kids on this topic. Honestly I think it’s good for adults who haven’t sorted it out either. Specifically, self discipline vs imposed discipline, and how self discipline if properly harnessed is the best way to find freedom in life. I was skeptical at first due to how the book presents itself but it’s really good.

“The way of the warrior kid” by jocko willinck.
> Work is unpleasant, that's why people are paid for it.

If unpleasantness had anything specific to do with with getting paid, janitors would be rich.
Expanding our Waymo One fleet with Geely’s all-electric vehicle – riders first
Thanks- my wife went to Fort Collins and talked about it always being sunny and nice between snows, but I didn't realize the ground cleared completely; I figured it would be too cold for that (another frequent component to her stories :) )
Must it be an act of will?

I can grow my biceps, not through willing them bigger, but by doing dumbbell curls. We absolutely can change our ways of thinking about the world in a similar fashion. Otherwise there would be no point in going to school, of seeing a therapist, of reading a book.
Looking Forward: Some Predictions for 2022
Apologies and noted, won't happen again
would love to see a comparison between RockyOS and AlmaLinux.

Anyone?
I don't agree that hospitals charge based on ability to pay. I believe that they generally charge the max and then, maybe, negotiate the price based on your ability to pay (more likely they put you on a payment plan).

I had an accident in late 2010 where I needed to stay in the NICU for 14 days. In January 2011 I had major neck surgery and spent another week in the hospital. SFGH charged me $100K for the NICU stay and $200K for the surgery (plus a separate bill for $1K from SFFD for my initial ambulance ride).

I had no job or insurance at the time and was in the process of moving out of my apartment.

Luckily, it was a slip and fall type accident and I immediately hired a lawyer when I saw the bills. I was also approved for MediCal after my surgery and they initially covered the bill. But they put a lien on my lawsuit. I learned a lot during all of this, but my biggest takeaway was that MediCal paid $20K for a bill that was charging me $300K! Less than 10% of what I was being charged!
> Unfortunately older machines just don't have the processing power to handle HTTPS

Is anyone aware of the nature and extent of the limitation here? Are we talking minutes or years? Would more RAM help?
Does anyone else think a new blu/dvd shipping company could work well again with same day shipping assuming the continued fragmentation gets worse and worse?
In a previous HN post, there was a discussion about separating career work from passion/hobbies. That hit home to me as I have been learning a new hobby (camera, audio, software) with trying to produce and support my wife's podcast. My goal in 2022 is to be better at production with updated equipment, software, and editing techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/c/RealLaurenLive/videos

Great discussions if you are into the topics of spirituality, health, ET/UFOs, and consciousness.

Happy New Year everyone. May 2022 bring happiness, success, and peace to you and your families.
The Parrots of Silicon Valley: An Ecologist’s Perspective (2017)
> UA rotation is rarely used for legitimate purposes

It’s not uncommon for hundreds of users to share a single public IPv4 IP address through an ISP-provided NAT. The same applies to corporate LANs with a single uplink channel.

These users gonna have random UA corresponding to market share of web browsers and operating systems, all coming to the same web server from a single IP address.
I bought an Apple Watch and Powerbeats Pro headphones just for my morning walks/runs. When it works, it works like a charm and gives me the perfect start to the day. Bluetooth and I are best friends on those days!

But once every two weeks or so, the phones (or at least one of them) decide they aren't having any of it and just refuse to pair, and I have to spend the whole morning trying to figure out what went wrong. Bluetooth and I are blood enemies on those days!
Maybe spreadsheets and email for business use but that's not why I and people I know got them - more to play around on.

The killer app for crypto / web whatever in reality is speculation. From recent US research "43% of men ages 18 to 29 say they have invested in, traded or used a cryptocurrency." Maybe it's not the sort of adoption you approve of but it's still adoption.
The ANSI/ISO C standard library and the POSIX standard are two different things though that just happen to overlap here and there.
These days Google isn't up to much on a technical level ;-)

They cannot even fix the old verbatim feature that they broke a few years ago, so how should should they be able to stop this without breaking something else?

Yep, this is somewhat hyperbolic but I'll write it anyway. I want my old Google back.
Very questionable decision, rather irresponsible one to all parties involved. I hope this won't devolve into a 'rogue-dev' blame, the company has to own it up.

I wonder if an alternative route could be somehow leveraging google's own app. The Translate app is likely already installed on user's platform. So is there a way to send the user's translation requests to the app?

It's almost a unix-approach, a tool for a task. Instead of a megatool for all-you-want.
Thank you! That's more documentation than I knew about before.

TBH, the I personally think the UI is fine, but it's annoying to have so many places to look for settings.

Chromium/Chrome have chrome://flags, which is basically the same UI, but all of the options have a few sentences explaining what they do.

I still miss Opera; they were the only browser developer who didn't take the "Users are stupid and easily confused" approach to browser development.
Two ressources that I found most helpful:

https://stevepavlina.com/?s=relationships

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4553092-real-time-relati...
> ...as circumstances outside your control (think 2020, 2021) can end up in failure which is demotivating...

having been bitten by this in the past, im curious how you manage your ongoing targets. backlog style? i usually have a few different target areas (health, work, learning, etc) that are all on different timelines so unless i am constantly monitoring cumulative progress one ends up falling off and things cascade from there.
I would recommend to use borgbackup - it is very convenient for security (it provides very flexible encryption options with safe defaults) and efficiency (deduplication)
Is this the kind of situation where assigning a core affinity to the various threads would have made a difference (to make sure they all run on the same physical processor), or is the mere presence of another processor enough to trigger the behavior shown in the article?
>> it is hard for us tech oriented people to build a great social life.

This stereotype needs to die. For some reason, tech people have a superiority complex about their intelligence and inferiority complex about their social intelligence (neither of which is true from what I have observed). Tech people are normal people.
I have a CalDigit TS3 as well. I can't really explain why (for the same reasons you can't), but I could never get the right combo of cables to get 4K @ 60hz on 2 27" displays until using the dock-- and I've used a lot of cables, always buying the ones that claim to be the latest displayport/thunderbolt, whatever.
Foursquare comes to mind. They were the "location check-in app" hotness for a while. They abandoned the app and now are a significant player in the surveillance ^H^H^H "location-based experiences" space.
I’ve given this some thought, but I think that this scenario still requires someone to attempt a login with correct credentials. It cannot be the legitimate owner however if the account hasn’t been touched for a year.
MP3.com was initially a search engine.

The nice thing about running a search engine, even if it only ever gets a trickle of traffic and could never compete with the big players, is that you can look at the logs and spot trends early. The founder noticed people were searching for something called “mp3”, saw the domain was available, bought it, and then looked up what it was and eventually rebuilt the company around it.
Immerse yourself in something that has a low cognitive load (or at least a smooth ramp up). Watches, pens, guns, calculators, retro computers, model trains, civil war history . . . you get the idea. Geeking on a single topic is therapeutic.
Thank you for the great report. It indeed seems to have fallen through the cracks, with no one touching it (it's missing the T-compiler tag, which means I didn't triage it) since it was first cathegorized.

I wouldn't call that lack of output representative of the experience of using rustc though, if I'm allowed to let my pride on my work flare up a bit.
Having your headphones crap out before/during a run is certainly rage inducing. Really drives home any problems in the whole stack.
And if you don’t want to do that because there are some downsides, make sure you setup container networking correctly and don’t just expose ports just to expose ports. Learned that one the hard way when someone exposed redis.
Google also provides an official on-device translation SDK that is free-as-in-beer (https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/language/translation).

The models are around 20M for any single language so there is a not insignificant cost on the user in terms of delay for downloading, data usage and disk space.

Disclaimer: I work for Google and worked on the ML Kit Translate SDK, but I don't speak for Google.
"executing on it" is doing a lot of work here, i.e. it requires resources, political connections, etc. But ultimately you're right, and this is what "Web3" believers always miss. A technology alone is not going to bring about the change you want to see. Absent the associated "execution" (which often requires political action), a new tool/tech will be adopted if and only if it serves existing power
Pain and simple: become busy doing something else.
I mean on the play store side, where they scan app submissions for TOS violations before they even hit the store. UA rotation on the client side is rarely used for good.
>"ability to scale"

I write C++ business API servers. On the type of hardware I rent from Hetzner /OVH they're capable of processing thousands of requests per second. This would cover probably 90+ percent of real world businesses.

>"an API for everything"

Not sure what you mean here. API for what in particular? My servers talk to partner systems of real businesses. We consume their APIs and they consume ours. Integration is done by little plugins that translate requests should it be needed. I am not sure how Amazon will help in this department. The only generic API that everyone uses is email but you do not need Amazon for that. As for database - I always deploy one local to my business server.

>"good customer support"

Frankly in many years there was like 2-3 times when I needed something resembling support from Hetzner / OVH. In either case the response was prompt and satisfactory.
I do think there is a space in between.

Yes, connecting with most people is hard because many can be feelers, highly emotional, dramatic, irrational..... we're in different universes. I look at them as though they are as alien as they think I am. I, personally, cannot bond at an emotional level at all - and must bond by problem solving. I don't mesh with most - and frankly don't care.

Saying that, I've found that my best friends have been "intelligent feelers". They like that I can live in the future rather than the "now", think probabilistically, make decisions detached from emotion, and absorb information.

I like that they help me become a bit closer to human. To be more accepting of people, to lighten up, and to entertain wider swaths of humans silliness as normal.

What worked for me - is finding people that pass my "personal filter" and then solving some kind of issue with them. (crisis, family, work, charity, whatever)
> avoids entire classes of security issues that the Unix approach has.

I wonder what these might be. You mean potential race conditions regarding file operations?
Disappearing View Source is stupid in a world in which you can curl or use dev tools to get at the same data. Wouldnt even be shocked if some applications/workflows depended on it.
A great social life doesn't require tons of friends or stereotypical social activities. Any circle of friends and/or family whom you are happy to be around is more than enough, even if it's only one person! So cherish what relationships you might already have. Be loyal to them. For loneliness relief, you might not need much more beyond that.
I wish and am helping for the last one!
I spent a lot of time working on myself, first.

For me, that looked like understanding past trauma, and then doing the work: meditation, journaling, fixing diet and exercise, sleeping better, and enhancing existing relationships with friends and family.

Then, I felt more comfortable knowing myself and being my authentic self. With that foundation in place, I put real energy into expanding my communities. I put myself out there. I asked people to hang out, and I shared my struggles. I was more comfortable being vulnerable.

There are other tactics that have worked. I introduced like-minded people to one another and let those connections grow on their own. I spend time on touching base. When I read an article or see a tweet that a distant friend might enjoy, I send it. And ask how they are doing. I lean into curiosity about others. Ask people probing questions about their lives, hopes, fears.
I got the AirPods a few weeks ago. I'm still amazed that Apple managed to make me hate bluetooth less than I did previously (coming from a Samsung phone + Galaxy Buds). They really managed to make the everyday bluetooth experience seamless. However, whenever I did encounter those rare issues, troubleshooting AirPods was infinitely more cumbersome than with 'regular' bt headphones.
We do offer an official SDK that does that, see https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/language/translation

(I work for Google but do not speak for it)
> This can work with something like nushell, but obviously breaks the entire current universe of coreutils

Good, because these utilities suck. Half of them only exists because the data is unstructured in the first place, the other half are mostly made of parameters that only exist for the same reason, and most of their names have no apparent relation to what they do. It is time to move out of the 1970s.
You've missed the point: that your argument depends on ends - a metric - which you've arbitrarily selected.
Not sure that's true. I would be surprised if computer nerds weren't significantly further along the autism spectrum than average.
The cost is very low (it's everywhere), which drags down the price to zero. People do value oxygen a lot though, it's essential to survival. If someone was to take away all the oxygen,we would see how much people value it: they would go to great lengths to obtain some. This is not usually put to the test, of course.

Edit: this question was raised by Adam Smith, known as the diamond-water paradox, or paradox of value:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value
This was amazing to see during my work with a startup.

The CEO would take any feedback and try to integrate it into the platform while also refusing to actually talk to our users because "big data knows better" (we had a small database...). It was also fun how they ignored any feedback from the in-house people actually using the product day to day because "they're just low level, they don't understand", and I can vouch that their understanding seemed proper.

The COO would just browse the internet for cool articles and find features of other platforms and just cram them up into the backlog. You'd see him go to the toilet, come back in 30 minutes and fill up 5 - 6 backlog items, like 'conferencing system like Twilio'. This was also done while ignoring his day to day tasks.

It was rather hilarious at times, all that needed to happen is for some feedback to come through some channel and the CEO would instantly get everyone focused on new issues, even if the feedback was minor our out of touch with our actual product.

It feels in hindsight that they used features to pile on top of a bad understanding of the market and total lack of vision.