skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's correct. The broader point is that it's really hard to boil down something as complex as user satisfaction to a number. My time spent with UX professionals has taught me that all of these measures are lossy, and my time with data scientists has taught me that once you start depending too much on lossy measures, you're going to be led astray.

But management-types love little numbers like NPS, so it usually gets done anyways, especially in big orgs. And then it goes downhill, because PMs and leads are incentivized to optimize for the particular number their management chain tells them matters, and they game it because that's how people work. Later on, frustrated engineers and PMs who aren't a part of that game wonder if they're the crazy ones because they see very real customer frustrations brushed aside by an org structure that doesn't seem to care much about what users actually tell them anymore. Or they say they do, but never incentivize the rest of the org to address issues coming in through verbatim feedback.

Maybe, someone with the title of VP eventually wonders why a competitor is doing really well, looks at verbatim feedback themselves (it's usually been given to them already but they forgot about it), and then realizes they've been steering a big ship in the wrong direction, and causes chaos all kinds of chaos in the process. The sycophants in the org all line up to agree with them and declare they were right all along (and get rewarded at the end of the year), line managers and their reports are left confused because of the jolting priority shift, and people who might have felt vindicated by the direction shift are wondering if their leadership are actually fit to be leaders or not.

Is that all the fault of NPS or other numbers? Of course not! But they're an easy and generally accepted way for bad leaders to hide their bad leadership.
I was thinking a solver that found the most efficient, least number of hops to reach target word from seed word. Maybe it is an NP Hard problem? This also reminds me of 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

I could see this going over well for an Online "socially distanced" game night, or possibly a classroom activity to encourage efficient research techniques.
Decentralization and taking power out of the hands of large corporations is no guarantee of success - otherwise Napster would have to dominate the music streaming market today and not Spotify.

> prior to the Bitcoin Paper we literally didn't know how to have permissionless

Simply not true. Torrents allow you to store and retrieve objects from a decentralized object "database" without an individual having control over it.
You're attempting to steer the conversation away from censorship and now towards a scenario where the internet, medical journals, books were no longer available? In that situation, I would have a much harder time getting access to the information to make a decision.

Back to the original point - You're assuming that a doctor, government or corporation will make a decision for me that's in my best interests. In reality they're much more likely to make a decision for me that's in _their_ best interests. Lots of examples in the past few year+ with the pandemic.
Also, no, it’s not necessarily low relative to the vaccine adverse event risk. Here’s research showing it’s multiple times the risk of hospitalization due to COVID itself for young people (males in particular): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...
> Again, just because NFTs do not solve all problems (eg you still need an IP license) does not mean that combining the two is not a real and useful improvement.

Totally agree. I think that's where the divide lies with tech savvy people and why HN tends to be anti-crypto. It is indeed a useful piece of a stack for solving a problem, but honestly it's a pretty minor piece. A majority of the cost and attention that goes into IP is enforcement, not contract tracing. It's definitely a part of the problem, especially for smaller players, but it's not the whole pie that the less tech savvy seem to think it is.
> Software is one of the best careers in the world.

In theory it is. In practice...well, let's ask game developers for example. Or other groups who end up with a real-world job they end up hating.

> Maybe they are getting lost along the way earlier in the pipeline

Quite likely.

> because tech is pseudonomyous with the the kind of people who like to talk about things like DeepCreamPy. Maybe they walk into that freshman CS class and see 30 other dudes that fit this profile and give them creepy unwanted attention and they drop it and switch to biology.

Yeah, that's not happening. First, because for example in my country there's no such thing as "switching to biology", so you can't lose them this way. And yet, there's something like 7% of women in my country's informatics-related university programmes. Furthermore, those 7% are 7% of applicants, so there's no "maybe they [walked] into that freshman CS class" because those 7% haven't even seen that freshman class yet. So while you're quite likely correct in that "they are getting lost along the way earlier in the pipeline", it's definitely WAY earlier than you postulate in at least some quite large populations in the world.
> there seems to be no censorship on Hacker News

https://jcs.org/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news
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I find the question interesting from the general point of view. I don't really know enough details of this specific case to form any opinion.
Can you explain in what case being exactly bug for bug compatible with a given set of RedHat rpms (which are also in flux all the time with regular updates) is actually more important to you than having less bugs in total?

I understand that if your goal was to use CentOS to validate a specific and highly critical workload for eventually running in production on Redhat systems (taking into account the version lock dance to make sure that you indeed have the exact same package versions on both environments, meaning a lot more hassle and delays in bug fixes and security updates that simply following the regulars updates), then Rocky/Alma/AnyRebuild will be better for you.

If your goal was already to run production on CentOS, with frequent updates for security, the theory would be that you will be even better served by CentOS Stream. My take is that it is the most popular case.

What am I missing?
It's length extension attacks, not "key extension attacks". And SHA-512/256 (as you've named it here) is SHA-2.

The author of the comment you're replying to certainly knows what SipHash is.
I feel like handing your privacy to a single source is a big risk in itself. What about when the “privacy co” gets breached?
held back? why on earth would anyone want the camera to do more then just give you a raw image file back? if you don't want to be creative then yea i guess go with a phone and let it make all the choices for you.
This is horrible. I hope everyone is OK. Homes can be rebuilt. Life is what matters.

About three years ago I had to do a bunch of research on fire resistant construction for a project. I came across something that is fantastic. Part of me doesn't understand why this isn't a requirement in fire-prone areas, if not every home and building.

This is the product we used, of course, there are other manufacturers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVWVP3tKlZc

No affiliation at all other than being a customer. Yes, we conducted our own tests before making the decision.

It won't resist flames forever, but it absolutely delays the maximal burn event. In addition to this, it provides a potentially significant delay of the spread from structure to structure, particularly if the gap between structures is reasonable (say, 10 ft or more).

In speaking to LA County permit authorities I learned that one of the problems using advanced technology is that the bureaucracy of the system gets in the way. It's truly sad. The way the engineers put it to me translates to: If we don't have a checkbox, you can't use it. Seriously.

The only way to use it is for YOU to foot the bill and pay to conduct all the tests required to add the product to the approved materials list. This process, again, due to the bureaucracy, could take years. And, BTW, much as is the case with a lot of things in the US, obtaining approval in one county does not automatically allow someone to use it outside that county. Sometimes I think the US is a bunch of independent little kingdoms, much more so than a country.

In our case we could not obtain approval because the material was not on the list. We provided tons of proof, even getting the CEO's of various intumescent coating companies involved. The approvals are very weird, for example, a product might be approved for outdoor use and not approved for indoor applications. No, not because it won't work or is toxic. More often than not it is because the tests were not conducted for that particular application and you are out of luck. You might be approved to paint your walls with this stuff but are not allowed to coat your framing, rafters, etc. with it. Crazy.

We ended-up working around these barriers because this was a DoD project. They simply pulled rank and that was that.
Microsoft is certainly evil and all, but I use MSVC on windows and clang on linux and the Windows tools for my project are much smarter and faster when it comes to compiling. Not counting times when the windows machine decides it has more important priorities to attend to rather than doing what I need.
It's likely because you can make more money by holding more control over the supply. Even users of the Steam Market would scoff a bit at it - they would rather have it be without taxes and exchangeable for real money. I wonder if there is a web3 solution already in place which could achieve that...
I don't really know what happened there, but the underlying topic is fascinating.
Okay, how about I open an embedded WebView of https://translate.google.com/?text=..., with the viewport carefully set to only show the translation results?
I don't think it's very surprising? The flu can also reach the brain and the heart, but it rarely has severe consequences. If there was a big risk of serious consequences for the heart or the brain from covid we would have heard of it by now.
Share it with someone you trust. Trauma is disconnective, connection with others heals.
Nobody is mentioning Zuckerberg but you and it's pretty worrying you'd rather patients have less options just because Facebook seperately works on related tech.
What does statistically likely even mean? The fact that the recall happened means it is a liability worth addressing.
reading the article one worries what if the covid-19 vaccines especially the mrna ones turn out to be similarly harmful years down the line and yet continued to be administered en-masse.
I want to write more - and more frequently.

I have a new writing form that I spec'd out in 2018:

https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html

... but I have not actually used it to write anything except the description what an Iceberg Article is.

So ... I'd need to write more Iceberg Articles. I'm excited about the topic list I have and I'm excited about the format itself.
You can get to an IPO on a pile of garbage, or you can go out of business.

I think the quote that comes to mind for me (as someone who's been with 2 startups now that have grown from less than 20 employees to more than 300) is this:

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

"Good" code written with the constraints of a tiny company won't be "good" code later anyways - the requirements will shift, the company goals will change, focus will change away from some features towards other features, abstraction levels will be different, the quality of your engineers will be different.

Trying to bake in assumptions about what "good" will be 5 years down the line is literally pain for no reason, and I promise you it will be wrong anyways.

Trying to act like the company from 5 years down the line is a guaranteed way to go out of business in the mean time.
The problem is you can’t easily ween product folks and execs away from this lever; they may have pulled it so often that no one can remember a time when any push back on tech debt was possible. When it comes time to pay the debt, the original developers and product folks may have moved on which effectively expands the debt greatly due to loss of prior knowledge. When new product folks replace the ones that pulled the original levers, they can become frustrated they can’t get their features done in any reasonable time, and push for hacks so they can have something to show to grow their career. You need very strong leadership in your engineering org to ensure the lever isn’t stuck in the on position too long.
Yeah, I'd say the same for me except the part about paying but yeah not paying makes it harder to find someone to work with you in my experience.
Tucson was originally a Spanish town, and its name in Spanish (Tucsón) is pronounced probably more similar to how you expect. Not sure why the “c” became silent in English.
For those of us earning middle-class salaries in more social democracies and with sub-7-figure assets, we don’t usually owe anything in taxes to Back Home, but have to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars per year proving it.

And are shut out of retirement savings in both our chosen homes (no bank wants to deal with FACTA for non-rich customers, and PFIC will eat up any gains should you find a bank willing to let you buy ETFs) and Back Home (no US brokerage will sell an EU resident even the most boring of S&P 500 ETFs).

In exchange for paying a lot each year to prove that I don’t owe anything Back Home, and keeping Uncle Sam out of my husband’s business and bank accounts, we have to file separately Here, costing a few thousand more Euros in already impressive taxes.

I love Back Home, and am particularly proud of what my grandfathers did Here in WW2, but Back Home seems to be doing all it can to prevent me from having a normal, middle class life and planning a decent retirement over Here.
Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf
Just as information for some later readers, but this is applicable not just to Epyc but also the consumer version Threadripper. My understanding is that this is an example of a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) which was also used to link multiple cpus in different sockets together for a long time now, but now they've been integrated into a cpu that fits in one socket.

This actually has an importance if you are running a VM on such a system since you'll run into things like the actual RAM (not l3 cache) is often directly linked to a particular NUMA node. For example accessing memory in the first ram stick vs the second will give different latencies as it goes from ccx1 => ccx2 => stick2 versus ccx1 => stick1. This is applicable to I think 2XXX versions and earlier for threadripper. My understanding is that they solved this in later versions using the infinity fabric (IO die) so now all ccx's go through the IO die.

I ran into all of this trying to run an ubuntu machine that ran windows using KVM while passing through my nvidia graphics card.
When I am helping out people new to AWS, this is where 90% of the problems are. It suggests to me that they are lacking sensible defaults, when so many people have trouble and I just recommend connecting Beanstalk to RDS. I think some meta recipes that give you a set up where this is already secure and working make sense.
I got a PhD, went into industry as a data scientist, started managing a small team, and then a recruiter reached out to me. Not surprisingly the management interviews are far easier and less technical.

I didn't take the job. They did a geographical adjustment to the comp, and it was considerably less than I already made, and about half what levels.fyi had led me to expect.
Not just me, then. I played around with scroll, with zoom, doing everything I could to try to see the actual main feature.
this is important when sizing and tuning VMs/ hypervisor
I hope for the advancement of deepfake technology for exactly the opposite reason. All that surveillance footage and vox populi photos? Now they're all suspect as tampered, even when they're genuine.
Years later a guy named Ice Poseidon took advantage of the fact that Pokemon Go required you to walk around outside to play to do irl streaming, and the deluge of streamers trying to get around the videogame requirement caused them to pivot back to allowing non-videogame streams.
Just checked it out, my pub key is f0bed2e11260f0f77f781db928f40a34c18713fda1918d3be996f91d0776e985

it's not obvious to me though how you find people to follow.
I think we're doing a lot of speculating while most data on blockchain technology would suggest growth...

I think this community could actually have a heavy weight on the future of the world, and to do well we need to go beyond black and white arguments/absolutiste (which never actually happens in real life btw). When has anything ever truly replaced anything?

Telegrams have had their most successful year ever, 17 million of them sent last year.

Things tend to coexist, in the same way that you have some that say "bitcoin will replace the dollar!", and those that say "bitcoin is stupid, and will never be used as currency". The future lay in the middle
I'm aware I'm talking very broadly and generally about the "majority" and in many cases "overwhelming majority" of these cases. I know some of my examples are hyperbolic and a little "loose". I've been meaning to research and document actual numbers and examples to either validate or invalidate my take. Now that I'm really thinking about it because of your thoughtful reply I just might!

That said I think banking and payments are further examples. The vast, vast majority of banking and payment activity happens through a relatively tiny number of banks and payment processing networks. The US dollar is used officially and unofficially in many other countries. Europe went to the Euro. As I understand it much of worldwide settlement internationally happens in the US dollar which is also more-or-less the official worldwide reserve currency.

Bitcoin currently does about 500k transactions/day worldwide (as best as I can tell). That's probably roughly the number of daily transactions for a mid-sized US city. At a future point in time where a significant number of people are transacting in cryptocurrency multiple times per day an immutable blockchain ledger with no upper bound on growth will swell to astronomical size when a significant number of people are transacting with it multiple times per day.

Now your $3 Starbucks purchase is recorded for eternity and replicated across hundreds or thousands of nodes?
I will get out more.
Very interesting, thanks for the clear answer!

Love the fact that you make it easier for the customer to get a refund through your process, than through the refund one; I do not work in this space and offering free refunds for my product could be very destructive, but it makes 100% sense here.
> Nfts will be enforced by client software in web3.

when you 'buy' an NFT what you are really buying into is someone else's/a third-party's centralized platform (like opensea or whatever it's called).
> Facebook is a database of people’s profiles, their friend graphs and their status updates. Paypal is a database of people’s account balances. Amazon is a database of SKUs, payment credentials and purchase histories. Google is a database of web pages and query histories.

This is painfully wrong. Almost true for Facebook, but in general these companies most valued assets are their systems and operations, not the data itself.

Also I’m pretty sure the first PCs weren’t cheaper at all.
I would expect that customers who are willing to spend $20,000 and up would want to go to a gallery where they could see the art in person, and where they could get a certificate of authenticity from a reputable gallery. If I were buying expensive art I would be leery of buying on Ebay for fear of getting a fake.
Anybody experience writing a sentence and never use a period so that the sentence just goes on and on for an entire paragraph and its difficult for others to read and understand?
GoLang. It was designed for highly concurrent loads. For an overview of history and technology involved, read e.g.:

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2016/07/05/gos-march-to-low-latenc...
I'm in a similar boat, though I am not in a FAANG, but in a company arguably on a similar tier. I agree 100%.

If I have any advice for current CS college students, it would be to do everything possible to get into a FAANG or FAANG-like tech company.

The monetary compensation speaks for itself, but all of the other non-monetary perks will also contribute to making your future career better, and your daily work more pleasant if not enjoyable.

That's not to say FAANG is perfect - no company is. But no matter the ugly warts FAANG and similar companies have, most other companies (especially non-tech companies where tech is an unrespected cost center) are usually worse.

Which leads me to my second piece of advice for college students - if you don't or can't make it into FAANG or FAANG-like companies, do everything possible to get into a company where tech is a profit center, or at least respected.
In some ways it's preferable to leave the legislation a little open ended and put the details into a more flexible rule-making process. Then the rules can be updated by knowledgeable people as circumstances change, either to adopt new standards, relax them, or address unforeseen gaps.
Yeah that's true, the point you made about collaborators not being on the same page as you.

But what if people contact you (instead of you reaching out to anyone) to work with you because they think your project is cool (or some other reason), would you then prefer working with them (assuming you think they are a good developer)?
I think the complexity can lead to its own set of security risks, as people just keep opening permissions wider until things connect.
I'm also skeptical of the salmon study, and I would love to see replication results, because another alternative explanation is that, even after clinical death, the brain tissue may still weakly react to stimulis: the "fresh" fish would have been kept in ice due to chain-of-cold requirements (and humans can survive for 30 minute in hypoxia, and recover: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/hypothermia-save-boy-trapped-i..., turtles up to 6 month https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/survive-without-oxygen/...) and other tissues have shown similar feats (heart tissue in the same article)

Actually, it'd be sad, because for all we know, dead people could have this limited consciousness without being able to communicate, just like the coma patients!

See also the "experiments" proving severed head remain conscious for 30 seconds (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6044102/beheading-experiments-... and https://unrealfacts.com/a-condemned-man-tried-to-keep-blinki... )
I do not think that he claimed that the reason is performance, but regardless, I gave other reasons besides performance, too, including "blake2 was already in the kernel, so they just reused it". I said: "BLAKE2 is already in the kernel (with tests and everything), while BLAKE3 is not (at all)".
Freenet and Tor have existed for a while and are solutions to these problems for those that need them. You’re not interested in that though are you? No coins so no option for speculation.

Web3 as it currently stands (as I said before it’s a slippery weasel word so no don’t you’ll change it to suite) also needs all that stuff. Most “web3” apps are served via Cloudflare ffs!
You just deacribed Twitter...