skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who wants to read the original article linked there, which seems to be offline, here's the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20200601173323/https://www.highe...
chicken or the egg?

Why would a content creator, org, institution, and media use a new app with no users? All of the above publish to twitter because Twitter's "bizarre techniques to keep you addicted" and "doesn't show an actual historical feed from people you follow"
Oh come on now, the MRNA vaccines (which are not the only ones in the west, as the west also uses more traditional vaccines like the J&J) are not that new and have been in production for decades.

And yes it's a completely new approach -- that is out of your body in weeks and sparks the same immune response that other approaches do.

The idea that there is long term consequences to this is a claim that needs evidence to back it. There's no reason to suggest there would be any new long term effects.

I'd say it feels straight insane to doom teachers, parents and grandparents to infection by school age children, while our hospitals are at capacity and rationing care, and I would call such a policy an intentional murder by policymakers. We know children bring covid-19 home, we know it tears through older populations, we know teachers are at risk, we know our hospitals are triaging care and declining patients, and you'd let that vector go unvaccinated.

All because you're afraid of long term consequences of a 2 decade old technology that causes the same physiological effects as the older technology.
That's a good point. I thought pivot meant "switching from a unprofitable or failed business idea to a profitable one".

In that sense, IIRC Netflix's founder had the early vision to offer streaming services (one day in the future), so it wasn't a pivot. It was part of the plan.

I mean he named his company "Netflix". Does that sound like DVD delivery? No, it sounds like inter(net) + flicks.
Enron, Lehman Brothers and similar companies would have easily thrived in the 2020s.

Up until 2015, there was really a true cost of capital. Investors wanted to see real products, real cashflow, else you head straight to bankruptcy.

2015+ changed a lot of things. You can fraud / lie / deceive your way to success if you form a cult around it. Trump, Nikola, NFTs, Crypto, Hertz, Gamestop, AMC, Blackberry, Tilray, Sundial have all shown you can astroturf, gaslight, propagandize a subset of population to fund your fantasies in a world awash with capital and very few assets to invest.
> Sorry milord, continue working earnestly a little bit more before we have to bow and kiss your golden moonshaped shoes.

You see, this is the issue I have. This is just twattish behaviour.

> What do you guys work on all day long?

Pretty interesting problems. In the last year or two I've worked with some of the founding designers of Haskell on compiler profiling. I've heard from Leslie Lamport on using TLA+ to formally prove consensus algorithms. I profiled worst-case-performance of cloud infrastructure across the world. Stephen Wolfram and Vint Cerf gave internal talks to us at monthly learning sessions. I've written systems code in Rust, Haskell, Golang, F#, and multiple other 'cool' languages. I got to ask the guy who introduced monads to functional programming wtf is a monad? I spoke to SPJ about programming. Been taught property-based testing by the creator of QuickCheck. Etc... It's a really cool space if you like tech with some great minds in it.
I think I'm missing something - the story above is about how the neighbor's contractor didn't control their fires so the author's family had to rake leaves in the middle of the night to avoid their house burning down, yes?

At this point it seems like there's no "real" damage done so the person who's responsible for the fire couldn't be sued for anything.

My understanding is that the neighbors et al expressed support because they all understand how close to disaster this was, not because there was a disaster.

(Having said all that - the neighbor & the contractor are both a-holes for not being responsible and then not apologizing afterwards.)
I don’t use Pinboard because I’m a fan. It is very good at saving my links and helping me find them again. It’s simple and wonderful.
Why isn’t the answer just “Don’t unicode normalise the file name”?

I thought the generally recommended way to deal with file names is to treat as a block of bytes (to the extent that e.g. rust has an entirely separate string type for OS provided strings), or just to allow direct encoding/decoding but not normalisation or alteration.
If Bitcoin can be spent, its owners can be coerced to spend it, so it can be stolen. Regarding excess energy, I'd rather have energy storage firms be that buyer.

Cryptocurrencies may have a part to play in the future of humanity, but Bitcoin will not be it. It's a proof of concept that's overstayed its welcome.
I went through a long clojure/lisp phase and although I’m not using anymore, I became a much better programmer because I can more easily see abstractions and how data flows through more complex systems using OOP or whatever.
Your logic: no one died today, ergo it must be safe.
Joined a high-growth startup, got promoted quickly, then FAANG came knocking. Interviews were surprisingly easy because I had so much experience interviewing other people at the startup, and plenty of stories to share

Here's a list of high-growth startups for those looking: https://topstartups.io/
>but that couldn't more clearly be a leaf connected to a branch

Yes, the leaf itself is "clear" but what threw people off was the blurry and dark halo surrounding that leaf which looks like manipulation artifacts.

When you use Photoshop tools like healing brush, clone/stamp tool, or A.I. Content Aware Fill, you often get strange visual artifacts like that. Here's a quick example of erasing a person that leaves behind blurry artifacts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4TsTRTHiY&t=1m42s
Is that possible to have some kind of "global" twitter like feed or search by tags to find some people to follow?
Show HN: Polka Jot v1.0 (just a scratch pad)
Basically what I was thinking. In the near term it doesn't even have to be that precise to have a benefit (Rust builds on escape analysis that helped with distributed garbage collection, even when it wasn't that exhaustive). Even ranking threads by suspected degree of interaction is a lot of data.

These definitely don't talk. Offload. These definitely talk. Colocate. These probably talk. Bin pack.
This is literally anti-vax propaganda, and a shameful one at that. The Pfizer vaccine has saved millions of lives. This community has gone downhill. Ironic that I am called out for calling someone "anti-vax", too.
> You seem to think masks matter

Do they not?
Big oops by me! Sorry, I misread the original comment as “lost our home” and missed “almost lost our home”.
> "is avoiding cancellations worth flight attendants risking their health or safety?"

It seems you are disproportionately concerned with Covid as opposed to other occupational hazards. There's a lot of jobs that are dangerous, and being a flight attendant isn't one of them.
Testers say Tesla FSD Beta 10.8 is much better (testing videos, release notes)
Video has been done, and been around for a while, but IIRC the main barrier to long-term success has been the tendency of scar tissue to form around implanted electrodes (this is not my wheelhouse at all though, someone else can probably offer much more detail).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis
Timeframe is probably a factor too.

One of my friends who works at Netflix got a ~$270k offer many many years ago. That is probably unspeakably and impossibly low for Netflix if you were to get an offer there today, but probably high for that time?
Facebook tells the opposite of the story you're trying to sell, of people flocking to a highly centralized space to get a single feed of news.
you know, there are a lot of interesting parallels with the early adoption of the internet.

I remember back in the 90s there was a time when no one had their own web site, but you couldn't listen to 15 minutes of news without someone telling you their AOL "keyword".

Things are very similar today, in a way.
80%+ of nuclear power comes from gen 2 reactors. There are still 8 RBMK reactors in operation, all capable of failing the same way Chernobyl failed, with the same widespread contamination.

IF new generation reactors can prove to be safe and not create waste and decommissioning problems, and if they can be built economically, then they are worthy of consideration.

But power is fungible. If the cheapest next watt-hour is solar or wind, then why spend on anything else?
It wasn't the AI that did the Auto-filling this past day, it a large mass of humanity that auto-filled an incident report into a plausible outline of a story. I think this will happen more and more once AI reaches a point of higher cognition.
I think they mean that if you already have the setup as a provisioning script all you would need to do is to modify it a little, run it and get cash in return.
> it is hard for us tech oriented people to build a great social life. Because our minds constantly revolve around tech and science.

I disagree. There are thousands of reasons for loneliness, and there are thousands of different types of nerds. Might nerds have a higher number of being lonely statistically speaking? Possible. But it's a gross overstatement that a mind revolving around tech and science necessarily causes loneliness. The correlation is not particularly strong, and the causation is certainly unproven.

From I observe in myself and my colleagues, many "nerds" socialize just fine. They are nerds at some time, and social butterflies at others.

If you feel lonely, you have to first identify "why". Is it something about yourself (reluctance to speak to people, reluctance to connect)? Is it something about the circumstance (moving to a different city, so losing old contacts)? Is it something about the current environment that is unfriendly to you? Are you in a place where nobody shares your hobby?

I personally find my own loneliness more related to the fact that I'm in a different country. I was reading Orwell's essay on Henry Miller, and one sentence struck me very dearly:

"Exile is probably more damaging to a novelist than to a painter or even a poet, because its effect is to take him out of contact with working life and narrow down his range to the street, the café, the church, the brothel and the studio."

Although not a novelist (and not a patron of brothel), I do find myself limited to certain streets, houses, and supermarkets. I've visited more hotels than homes, more restaurants than kitchens, and I know very little about what American life entails apart from what I observe from a distance. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get into US culture.

I combat this kind of loneliness by focusing on what I can get into: connect with people who share similar hobbies: violin playing, cooking, literature. It feels much more free to talk with people about what I fully understand, rather than small talks in which I can barely grasp the meaning of idioms. And the more I talk, the more I can start to connect with people on an emotional level, which feels very comforting.
Saying that I am "whining" when I tried to ask for an alternative take on a seemingly suspicious situation clearly shows who is "whining" here and who came for a discussion. Saying "it doesn't matter what your former employers' reasons were" is also making me doubt you are even interested in discussing at all or just came here to throw your opinions at me. We no longer live in slavery, you know?

I do most of the things that you said I should. I understood that I got through a bad period, realized that parts of what I do would only perpetuate it since I became negative and it started showing in interviews (and that means that some of them got cut short because of it -- and yes that absolutely was my fault). But then I changed things around and now I am in a better place. Literally and figuratively.

It would help you in your life and work to judge less or, failing that, judge in not such a quick manner as you did here.
This stuff comes up because losing a house is like dealing with the affairs of someone who does without a plan.

Think about everything you need ID for, including renting an apartment or hotel. If that’s lost, you’re screwed for a month, minimum assuming you have the proofs required to get a new drivers license or passport.

Little things that you take for granted are very difficult too. Sweaters sound frivolous, except the world doesn’t stop on your account, so the kids need to go to school and you still need to go to work.

The other thing is you need the presence of mind to know what a public adjuster is and hire one asap, so you don’t get lowballed by the insurance company. That may also mean that you need the cash or credit to survive in hostile conditions for 90-120 days, depending on your state.
> UK has one of the best vaccination strategies in the world

Yet one of the worst outcomes fighting the virus. "UK had one of Europe’s highest excess death rates in under 65s" in 2020.[a] In practice, what did the EU really get wrong with the vaccines, other than generating some unjustifiably smug headlines from the UK right-wing press? The UK can't even say it got a good deal on the vaccines, having paid 50% more per dose than than EU.[b]

[a] https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n799

[b] https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n281
> but if a side effect of your life is to chew up the biosphere

The biosphere will be chewed up with or without human activities.
> So if the government decides to make education and health freely available then you should be happy with that right? It follows your rules perfectly

The government doesn't produce any of those. It has to take from someone else. You can't make any of those things free. You can only make them socialized.

> Nukes are only good for war, hence you probably shouldn't have them.

If they are planning to kill people then that are planning to violate negative rights of others. You lose your rights in that case.
I don't know if it's 'dangerous' but it is certainly extremely unhealthy.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/flight-at...
It’s still a nonzero risk of catching it and it being fatal. And there is the lost opportunity in being positive, having to isolate, and not having income above your base pay.
One thing I don't see mentioned here is that the Google Cloud version of Translate is actually different than the user-facing one at translate.google.com. At least when I tried it a year ago, the Google cloud version was vastly inferior. I suspect it has to do with licensing agreements around certain datasets. Very curious if anyone knows more on this...
Seems like an acceptable position to take until you find yourself outside of the boundaries of acceptable behavior.

Personally, I don't mind having to manually filter/ignore non-conformant behavior in order to prevent that possibility for myself and any other minority group online.
Betty White has died
Like the vaccine?
Plenty of banks went bankrupt or were acquired, so it's not quite true that the government will just bail out failed actors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_acquired_or_bank...

And of course the financial system as a whole is "too big to fail", but that would be true regardless of the implementation. Are you saying that if we switch to crypto then suddenly the financial system failing is OK?
So does Amazon, Apple, IBM and hundreds of other companies
First, F that guy and his contractor too. They're both a-holes for being so irresponsible with the fires.

That said - I do wonder if the future neighbor is even aware that something happened. If it's an empty lot (i.e., the future neighbor isn't living there now) and the neighbor doesn't visit regularly it might be possible that the person just doesn't know.

This is definitely an inauspicious start to your relationship with the future neighbor but hopefully the person will turn out better once they actually live there.
How so? The password database is still encrypted with a master password which is completely independent of the file sync mechanism. So the master password is not involved in anything network-facing.
You're mixing up so many random issues?

First off, I'm not a liberal. Cut a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

Second off, hot take but it's fine to have different policies for different parts of the country.

Third, literally these are not problems anywhere else in the world. The "working class culture", which I suspect is your heavily American-bastardized version of it works fine in plenty of the rest of the world without cars the sizes of a building.

Now, maybe focus on these issues one at a time and lead a proper discussion.

Finally, as a believer in anarchism, I don't care about consensus. Don't fuck with my life and I won't fuck with yours. Ask me for help, and I will do literally anything I can to help. But don't try to legislate or regulate your way through controlling the behavior of others. This is something the "American both sides" do.
United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
I am not sure Shopify belongs to the list. It didn’t exactly pivot, Tobi Lutke made a website with Rails to sell snowboards, and realized there is an untapped market for SaaS e-commerce product, so he generalized the framework powering the website.
My understanding is Facebook & Netflix > Google > Amazon & Apple when it comes to compensation?

If you add the MULA companies, I believe ULA are on the higher side while M is on the lower.
For config, CUE
Doctors work very long hours for not as much pay and are not in general well treated. That does not spell "power". Again, they're workers, they don't make the business decisions. Clinical Doctors don't have the same tools to protest because physical protesting would only lead to the public believing the "evil doctors" are trying to get more and avoiding treating patients. The clinic can replace them, and often times do, with imported degrees.

Start blaming the source of the problem - the business executives whom made these decisions.
> As for Stream 9 which was release recently, it is indeed the stabilisation socle based on fedora 34 that will eventually become RedHat 9. Once RedHat 9 released, Stream 9 branch will be stabilized and once again be "just ahead" of the impending RedHat 9 rpms.

Stream 9 is currently tracking RHEL 9.0, it shifted from the 9.0 Beta back around August. As we approach the ~May release for RHEL 9.0 GA, Stream 9 will start tracking RHEL 9.1 changes.

A key difference between Stream 8 and Stream 9 is the way the distribution is built. Stream 8 is a technically another rebuild project by the CentOS team, but one that rebuilds newer branch packages from RHEL engineering. In Stream 9, RHEL engineers are doing the builds themselves and are directly involved in the entire process.

There's a possibility that Stream 8 may adopt the Stream 9 workflow, but I'm not certain. With an EOL of 2024, it might not be considered a priority.
I think we have all seen what happens when a platform has no moderation whatsoever. And a good many of us feel like it goes too far on the platforms that do. Where’s the middle ground? Is there one? Maybe social media is just a bad idea—who does it really benefit anyway?
I've spent some time looking into this and found very little. The closest I could get is that if you are a Google Cloud customer, it forbids you from reverse engineering other Google APIs that are not documented as supported, which would probably include this use case. No idea if they're a Google Cloud customer though.
I was promised -- and signed a contract with that language -- that my job will be strictly technical and I will not be made responsible for project planning, prioritization or coaching.

I have zero problems doing these but I was going through a rough patch and needed a job that was more merciful to my mental health. I was realistic about my situation and communicated the right expectations early. I specifically asked for that, was promised that, signed a contract that said that, and they still turned back on their word (and signature) no later than my 3rd week with them.

In retrospect there were red flags from both sides (from the employer and from myself) but they weren't as obvious to me back then. Oh well, we live and learn.
Monopoly is essentially a stationary Markov process. Decisions are so simple and clear that they essentially don’t matter to this characterization. I doubt the Buddha would find much of the nature of suffering in what is essentially a deterministic mathematical process. Any suffering created by playing Monopoly is really coming from within the players themselves. But, we can say that about most suffering, so there is no reason to play Monopoly to begin with, if all you desire is to know the nature of suffering....
UK government’s Covid advisers enduring ‘tidal waves of abuse’
I am glad that the Buddha said nothing against Sniper Elite 4.
Number 2 on the list would seem to contradict that.
> the folks with piholes and boobie trapped routers

That and the safari crowd with closed-source paid adblockers
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/31/entertainment/betty-white...
> think to yourself whether you are confident you could convince a tech-illiterate prosecutor (who is looking to "hold fake news accountable") to see things your way.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

— Upton Sinclair
Well put. SAP is the big survivor from that mindset. And perhaps the best example of why we won't see another. :-)
In USA? Judiciary are political appointees aren't they.

Apologies if that was a joke.
I'm just here to say this article was such a pleasure to read. I've always relied on intuition to pick good-enough values based on experience. So this rigorous analytical approach to viewing the objective space and picking a reasonable value is refreshing. It's ironic and rightfully hilarious that you still had to take a gander and pick a "close-enough" value.

I look forward to part 2 where you incorporate the resistor choices that you had. Perhaps also include the statistics of the tolerance into the mix to find the optimal values that we should all be picking for our future 555 timer hijinks.

Your academic research work is also very interesting. Suffice to say I'll be following you on GitHub :)

Cheers and happy (almost) new year!
They don't feel like dealing with GDPR, probably.
Coherency will be maintained (since the protocols support that case). But yes, a separate process would evict that memory. From the processors point of view, they're just addresses tagged with data. Caching behavior doesnt depend on virtual memory addresses because I believe that info is stripped away at that point.

So if someone is thrashing cache on the same core you're on, you will notice it if the processes aren't being shared effectively.

The contents of the cache aren't stored as part of a paused process or context switch. But I'd appreciate a correction here if I'm wrong.

For an example, consider two processes A and B running on a set of cores. If A makes many more memory accesses than B, A can effectively starve B of "cached" memory accesses because A accesses memory more frequently.

If B were run alone, then it's working set would fit in cache. Effectively making the algorithm operate from cache instead of RAM.

BUT. You really have to be hitting the caches hard. Doesn't happen too often in casual applications. I only encountered this on GPUs (where each core has sperate L1 but a shared L2). Even then it's only aa problem if every core is hitting different cache lines.
If the course is not a mathematical course that requires this knowledge then adding obscure identities is focusing on the wrong thing entirely. Some people will simply not see these identities because they might never have used them. Irrelevant for the course but relevant for the grade, that's not a good combo imo.