skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems wrong. The build environment for eBPF programs is simpler (you don't even need a working kernel tree), and, much more importantly, eBPF programs are constrained and can't crash the kernel, which is easy to do accidentally when writing an freestyle C LKM. You can learn enough to get stuff done with eBPF inside of a couple days; the same is absolutely not true of kernel modules.
I'm just amazed by how many people do this. I always do this too since it seems hard to find quality content just by searching on Google. I try to search HN too sometimes like this but the crowd and topics here a lot more narrow.
I’ve been depressed for 6 or 7 years. I’m 23 now. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to end.

I’ve been in a challenging episode for the past few weeks. I have been fortunate to be able to take a week and a half off work. I thought it would be relaxing, but all I’ve done is lay in bed.

My girlfriend lives with me, and I feel so guilty and embarrassed. I wouldn’t want to be with me.

I don’t think my problems are ever going away. It’s been years, and every aspect of my life is way better than when this all started. Except my mental health. I still feel just as shitty as I did 6 years ago.

I’ve started to look at life like a party that I reluctantly agreed to attend. I’m at the party, and I’m having a bad time. I just want to go home.

My vacation is over and I’ll be signing on to work in about 14 hours. I don’t think I’ll get much done. I’ve been thinking about checking myself into a hospital, but I’ve been there and didn’t find it very effective.

Loving someone with depression is depressing. I’m sorry to all of you loving people like me.

(posted on a throwaway because it’s too embarrassing to associate with my main, and I’ve actually had online comments like this used against me in the past)
This is actually one place I think blockchain could make sense...

Use people's servers as a sort of botnet to process search results, the more you process the more you earn, you'd need maybe storage nodes for indexes, processing nodes for ai/ml categorization of results, and then maybe people can also earn coinage for ranking results they do get, and that way the shitty sites could be more likely filtered out.

To advertise, costs coins which allows advertisers to basically buy ads not from the SE itself but from users via a marketplace.
Can you describe some of those bugs? What helpers were you using? I've been doing bonkers stuff with eBPF for the last year and, while I've definitely had bugs, none of them took my kernel down.
There are people who say engineers are not human. But they are just more careful.
Forgive my ignorance as I'm not a kernel dev.

It seems like a change this massive would have the possibility of introducing a bunch of security holes, would it not?
The alternative is loving a human being and playing the cards you’re dealt
I know I'm five-gajillion comments in, so this is like spitting in the ocean: call a local repair place (unaffiliated) and ask them what to get. The local fridge/appliance repair (group) -- any of the five of them -- will happily chat for an hour about any major appliance in your house. They'll also gossip like fishmongers about who's good at what services, etc.

In general, for very large appliances (large fridges; double-stoves; double ovens) you can just ask them to keep an eye out at the local restaurant auctions. My house came with a 48" prosumer fridge. When my fridge died I got a 10-year-old exact replica from a warehouse for 3500$, rather than 18000$. It's worked flawlessly for 8 years, now.
Depression can also manifest in different ways. One way is anger, frustration, and anxiety. My wife’s depression was like this. She would come home from work, find one thing wrong with our apartment - there were dirty dishes in the sink, the clothes hadn’t been folded - and get angry with me for not having taken care of it.

The fact that I had cooked dinner and mopped the floors didn’t count.

She was angry with me probably 33-50% of the time. For about a year I tried to get out ahead of all the chores. But that’s impossible. Finally I realized that this wasn’t my fault. I wasn’t a bad partner. This was something in her head.

I could actually watch in real time as her own brain gaslit her. I’d pay her a compliment — “that dress looks nice” — and see a perceptible lag as her brain figured out how to turn it into an insult — “your other dresses aren’t nice.”

Eventually she recognized something was wrong and got help, but it took a couple of years. She is a completely different person now.

If you are the partner of a depressed person, your primary responsibility is to yourself. You have to stay sane. THEN, if you can, you can support and help your partner. But if you lose your own mental health you’re pretty much done.
Not so much (eBPF VM bugs are pretty rare, as you'd expect, since the VM is very simple) --- you're much more likely to run into bugs in the C-code helpers the kernel exports. If you're malicious, you can also hit verifier bugs that'll give your eBPF code raw pointers, but I don't think you're likely to stumble on them accidentally.
Manually reconfiguring is what happens today. What I'm suggesting is to reset to a known good state.

Some settings should clearly start as blank and be required. Other settings could start as as a default value (defined by the airline) and the pilots would merely have to confirm that it is correct, or deviate from it.

The point is, we can do a lot better UI-wise than just reusing the settings from the previous flight, and with a little thought put into it the configuration process could be both safer and faster.
I’m not so sure. The problem of BSOs… bike-shaped objects, a.k.a. low-quality bicycles, has been a problem for a long time. I rode a BSO for a long time before I knew better.

Sometimes you don’t understand what those things are until later. Sometimes the shape is weird and you don’t know how poorly you’re treating your body until you switch to a reasonable bike (and oh, random pains go away). Often the parts are substandard or nonstandard… some part wears down and then you can’t easily repair the bicycle.

It’s hard to trust comments from random consumers because I see so many bicyclists out there which very obviously lack the knowledge, skill, or will to set up or ride their bicycle reasonably. I see people on the road with horribly maladjusted seats, or people who ride a geared bicycle but have no clue which gear they should be in.

With a low-quality bicycle, a bad setup, or poor technique, you end up putting more strain on your body. It’s not necessary to go to more expensive options but you should take some care in choosing & setting up your bicycle.
>>>People love to respond that that's too expensive or unworkable or unrealistic or whatever, ignoring that it's actually the status quo that is too expensive, unworkable and unrealisitc

I'd want to see some numbers to support that. What does it cost to provide round-the-clock availability of secure, climate-controlled public transport to every possible location, urban or rural? Bullet trains on standby at 0100hrs to take 1 guy from Osaka to Kanagawa would cost a fortune. In comparison, while PARKING and roads definitely have costs associated with them, the hardware/infrastructure is largely concrete, and inexpensive to maintain when operating below capacity. So 1-2 people can hop in a car and take a road trip at a far lower net/civilization-wide resource expenditure.

Japan has great public transport. Japan also has great cars and a very healthy car community. What part of Japan's transportation approach classifies it as "unworkable and unrealistic" to such an extent that completely banning cars is the optimal solution?
I'm aware construction workers don't get PhDs.

Some people are exposed to certain things from early childhood and others aren't. Some people have a rich ecosystem of pertinent experiences and are surrounded by knowledgeable people and others don't have those assets.

People who have no friends or relatives who know anything about X real world physical skill and are googling up info online are often poorly positioned to judge the quality of the info in question.

To me, it seems to be a simple and obvious point. I don't know why it seems to be failing to click with you.

Ironically, that's perhaps an example of the kind of disconnect I am trying to describe, though that fact seems unlikely to help me make my case.
I hung a pihole with everything blocked (https://pi-hole.net/) directly off my router, and I (probably somewhat redundantly) also use a hosts blocker (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) on my non-phone machines. It's annoying for the first day or two, but you get used to it really quickly.
Oh right Scylla! I have to say, it's remarkable that there are two independent companies dividing the already small C* space (they and Datastax)
> ...and you should never give any insurance or auto quote company a real phone number or non-spam email.

That is the point. Given the reputation CR tries to uphold and their relationship and integration with True Car there is not much warning (if any) using that feature in CR will result in dumping your contact information to many dealerships and is a dark pattern one wouldn't expect from CR given the end user is paying for the service. For most non-technical folks I can't imagine this experience is positive after they've handed over their actual phone # and email.
As a hiring manager, I can tell you that there’s a very obvious difference between candidates who are trying to have authentic conversations and those who are trying hard to do or say whatever they think I want to hear.

In engineering interviews especially I don’t penalize people for being nervous, anxious, not having perfect social skills and so on. However, it does get old to see candidates who are trying to flatter their way through interviews or who think they can simply game their way past the questions.
I think step 1 is “be Ingo or someone comparably legendary” :)
> Given that the “foundation” didn’t exist pre-ban, I’m not sure why that would have anything to do with this.

Yet, you wrote "And I bet the “free press foundation” they speak of, isn’t a real foundation." suggesting that foundation status or lack thereof meant that the ban was a good thing.

> Do you think that it is a bad thing for twitter to ban people who use bots to artificially add more followers and retweets to their accounts?

Your other posts suggest that you don't know why the account was banned, so why is that question relevant?
I think OP was asking whether they were confusing CR for the Better Business Bureau because moving services does not seem to be something CR would review
Then the rich countries cannot dump their chronic surpluses on the international markets and kill the local markets of developing countries for small-scale farmers.
Imagine a short, so Cat6 is now at 120V. Then imagine someone repairing a Cat6 wall jack. Or a kid with a paper clip.

Household current levels don't need to be flowing for it to be dangerous.
> if you get a positive for a horrid cancer with a 90 percent false positives you should be afraid.

No you should not panic, anymore than you should celebrate and buy a yatch if you think you have 10% chance of winning a lottery.

The doctor should phrase it as "the test indicates you have a 10% possibility of cancer. The majority of people who test positive do not have cancer. Further testing is required to confirm or rule it out."

Going with the expected value of 10% of a horrid thing is still bad, or 10% of $100m is still $10m, is not applicable to a single non repeated event.
> Banks <snip> tend toward corruption.

Can you give examples of this in modern first world economies? I am sure there are plenty of examples of banking issues and corruption in third world countries. I am interested in understanding your conclusion that banks tend towards corruption. In other words, it seems you are saying that all banking asymptotically (and inevitably?) end up on the corrupt side of the equation. Not sure I know how to identify that or point out examples myself. Can you help with this?
this isn't about joe rogan, its about someone stealing public medical data
I believe you're thinking of The Strategist, which is through New York Magazine. That's basically their thing, to summarize Amazon reviews for you and filter through a product category based on that. I also don't really see much of the value in it, but I suppose I can see how someone might.
Ok so let’s use the word “encoded” instead of encrypted, but the distinction between the two to a layperson might not be as nuanced as a reader on Hacker News might understand. Even the word “decoded” as opposed to decrypted would raise eyebrows to a layperson juror.

If the law is overly broad about unauthorized access of the information and if by default the information being accessed is not plainly readable without conversion requiring special knowledge or software, I think a conviction might be likely and justified.
That is untrue. There are almost a dozen within 30 minutes of where I live.
We need a new Yahoo Directory.
Because thats a service not a product. I go to CR for reviews on what the best mattress is, moving companies is not something I would go to them for so that doesn't concern me. Its like saying AAA isn't worth the money because you didn't like the hotel they gave you a discount on.
> "Produce a dictionary of the number of times each letter occurs in each word." is heading the wrong direction. You want an encoding that does not care about the number of times each letter occurs in each word.

How so? "aab" is an anagram of "baa", but they are not anagrams of "ab".
Well, I really hope you succeed on your experiments, but right now it seems to me that ML introduces an error factor we still cannot precisely account for.

It looks like you are proposing some kind of mixed approach, not a simple “less data, faster scan, ML to the rescue”. I understand how MRI works but you are surely and obviously much more knowledgeable than me, so I simply wish you luck!

My problem with the article comes from reading that someone telling about using generative models on health data, I don’t think is time for this yet.
My personal favorite article from Derek Lowe about a chemical that isn't actually all that dangerous... but you still likely don't want it around.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Yes, accelerating MRI acquisition increases noise in the images as well as introducing aliasing artifacts. I think the issue is that some modern reconstruction methods (e.g. compressed sensing that was mentioned in the article) produce predictable biases, e.g. adding a risk of smoothing out details, but for ML we don't always know in what way it will bias the reconstructed image (add details, remove important information...), and I think that is what people often worry about.
There’s also two additional programming techniques you should be aware of:
* Dynamic Programming
</snip>

How often do folks here use dynamic programming techniques in their professional lives? My own niche is systems programming. Dynamic programming is an important technique, sure, but given how rarely I see it used in practice compared to, say, statistical estimation it feels very overrepresented in interviews. But, maybe that's my own niche being unusual.
Came here to say that. Upvoted.
The interviewers are ideally trying to get a sense of how you think through problems, not just that you can spit out an answer you know. At least that's what they say.
Comet Hitchhiker [pdf]
It wasn’t included in my formal education, for sure.
Yeah but it's a "how much do you want this job?" test. Which is not necessarily crazy, if you want to retain people in the firm it makes some sense to have them feel they worked hard for it, plus that they might not get through the eyes of the needle next time.
Following a link in the comments gets you to the PDF of Streng's 1962 paper, with some good notes. Having a Pyrex cylinder of this stuff sitting in anything other than a cryostat 20 miles from civilization sounds like a very bad idea.

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jklein2/O2F2.pdf

If I wanted to synthesize this stuff, I think my preferred method would be SCP-294

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-294
Well, there was just a recall of 500000 Tesla vehicles, including Model 3s, for safety issues:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-recall-model-3-s-fr...
I think of it like this:

Unlike a false negative where there isnt enough to trigger the test, false positive implies that something triggered a positive.

You have something, just not what the test thinks you have. For example, men with testicular cancer, apparently, show up as pregnant in pregnancy tests. Clearly thats a false positive for pregnancy.
Nope, that is incorrect. They are allowed to provide services that aren't specifically outlawed. Duplicate care is allowed. For example, from your link:

> For example, obtaining an MRI scan in a hospital could require a waiting period of months, whereas it could be obtained much faster in a private clinic.
I’m slightly biased (as a googler) but why is this person’s tweet newsworthy? It doesn’t really contain any revelations or specific examples
once upon a time there was a discussions filter/tab on Google and it was invaluable for researching products, places and things. Google got rid of the feature a long time ago and it's all optimized for SEO spam or Ads.

Discussions and forums have also been declining, as their discoverability has decreased dramatically due to SEO spam optimizations
> Are we hiding behind linguistic semantics?

Bank reserves are not circulating money because they cannot be spent. [1]

> The interbank mechanics are unimportant...

They are literally the only important thing. That's all we've been talking about.

The bank having these reserves frees up room for the bank to lower their interest rates and in turn create more loans. See, it's this lending process that creates new circulating money. The Fed issuing 100T of reserves and giving it to BoA would not change the circulating supply one iota in and of itself.

> ... the point is the value is created at will ...

Again, no, no value is created by this operation. It's entirely neutral. What happens is these lower-interest rate loans (coupled with the obligation to repay same) increase the viability of business models, fund productive activities in the economy and back the newly created money. This is where new value is generated. Not in creating reserves.

> ... creating inflation ...

Again, no. Inflation is a measured effect. It has nothing to do with supply per se in the federal reserve model. Just ask Japan. They went absolutely ham on QE since the 1980s and they haven't seen inflation since 1995. [2] So much so it's actually been very problematic for them.

> ... is a decision of a few powerful individuals.

Yeah like every Supreme Court decision ever. These individuals are accountable to congress. This is called representative democracy.

Scottie, and I'm going to assume your name is Scottie - I mean this without disrespect. Please audit an economics class. And maybe a civics class. Thus far everything you have suggested is trivially wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_reserves

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIALLMINMEI
Just go through the steps out loud, start with a really naive solution, say what's wrong with it, go on to the next. You can usually go through at least 3 levels of that. Also spend some time verifying the specification of the problem, ask about any potential edge cases. If you really know the problem well, go into maybe some extensions of it or harder versions.
> Money is not durable in real terms. It's a market distorting fallacy.

The first thought that came to mind was the Weimar Republic's hyperinflation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
This seems quite cool and I really admire your efforts! For those who are already familiar with global warming / green house gases but would like to learn more about direct carbon capture, I found this chapter linked from the Open Air website to be quite useful: https://cdrprimer.org/read/chapter-2

Unfortunately I don't have much of a chemistry background. But as an alternative approach, it might be interesting to consider growing blue-green algae on a massive scale in deserts like the Sahara (or on solar-powered desalinization rafts in the ocean if there are land-rights-use issues) and using these to convert sunlight + carbon dioxide into oil [1].

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200305132125.h...
I love and I use exclusively Linux but sometimes I despair:

> How do I install Zotero?

Mac
Open the .dmg you downloaded and drag Zotero to the Applications folder. You can then run Zotero from Spotlight, Launchpad, or the Applications folder and add it to your Dock like any other program.

After installing Zotero, you can eject and delete the .dmg file.

Windows
Run the setup program you downloaded.

Linux
Download the tarball, extract the contents and run zotero from that directory to start Zotero.

For Ubuntu, the tarball includes a .desktop file that can be used to add Zotero to the launcher. Move the extracted directory to a location of your choice (e.g., /opt/zotero), run the set_launcher_icon script from a terminal to update the .desktop file for that location, and symlink zotero.desktop into ~/.local/share/applications/ (e.g., ln -s /opt/zotero/zotero.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/zotero.desktop). Zotero should then appear either in your launcher or in the applications list when click the grid icon (“Show Applications”), from which you can drag it to the launcher.

Ehhh, I am not doing all of that.

Wait, there is hope, it also says:

> Debian/Ubuntu-based Distros
> A longtime community member maintains zotero-deb, a lightweight wrapper for
> the official tarball.

Let's go there!

"PSA

I'm in the process of transferring the hosting of these packages to the Zoero organisation. Until that is done, the following options are available:

download from this repo
(re)install using curl -sL https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb/releases/download/a... | sudo bash
caveat: github has made recent changes to how they're hosting release files, which triggered a long-standing bug in apt. If you hit this problem, see this thread for a workaround.
download from sourceforge
(re) install using curl -sL https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zotero-deb/install... | sudo bash
caveat: sourceforge uses a mirror system that updates haphazardly and which may redirect you to a mirror that is down. If you get errors, try again in a few hours."
> hence the proposed solution has a worst case complexity of O(N)?

Worst case yes, but the question is concerned with the average case.
Vitalik's Predictions in the Last Decade
At least 3 times in the last week I've noticed that trying to search for information that is not the government narrative about covid vaccine leads to the crappiest piece of garbage having an attempt at discrediting whatever I'm searching on.

Google / YouTube suggestion engine is now evil and corrupt to the bone.
It's a great way for second-raters to grind their stats instead of actually building something.
That was my rebuttal to the response that central banks can't create infinite money.

You agree they can service an unlimited amount of debt (with consequences), but you refuted that they can create unlimited money. But they're the same operation.
Thanks!
I agree taht generative models on their own are definitely more risky than methods that combine ML for regularization along with data consistency terms that force the reconstructions to be consistent with the acquired data.