skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your comment, because that shows me that I need to better explain this concept.

The idea is that you have configuration files where you - the user - write down all the domains, companies, etc, that you want to get search results from. So if you never put that spammer's domain into your local config file, you will never see their results.

But since managing all those config files by yourself might be a lot of work, and because less technical people probably can't do it, you can alternatively subscribe to someone else's configuration file so that whatever they add to their config is added to your config automatically, too.
I find that most people on this site use it to engage in discussion, to learn and to teach if they think they have something of value to say. For the most part, you're right about Reddit these days. When I used that site I'd check votes every time I was done scrolling. This site I check threads to see if anyone responded to me with anything I'd like to reply to.
So i bought his book (10 pounds down the drain, I will never get back) I’m barelly in the first chapter and already feel cheated.

The title “case against education”, and the subtitle “why the education system is a waste of time and money” makes it feel like it will be about the whole concept of education and it will show, well “why the education system is a waste of time and money”. Turns out he is already backpedaling from that conclusion in the first chapter. He says he doesn’t talk about the kind of education which teaches usefull skills. Surprise surprise, if you remove the good stuff from an endevour what remains won’t be worth much. To quote from the book:

> Lest I be misinterpreted, I emphatically affirm that some education teaches usefull skills, or, as economists put it, “builds human capital.”

“Lest I be misinterpreted” oh no! Maybe you shouldn’t put your “clickbaity” nonsense statement which goes against your stance on the front cover of your book then? Jeez.

And if the author is reading this: please kindly give me back my money and time.
You presumably don't reboot your laptop by connecting a USB-PD gadget that issues a hard reset. A normal OS reboot is fine, that will flush the cache.

The most common situation where this would affect laptops, in my experience so far, would be a broken driver causing a kernel lockup (not a panic) which triggers a watchdog reboot. That situation wouldn't allow for an NVMe flush.
Easy, by diplomacy not by force. Talk to truckers at first. Listen what they want. Get rid of useless vaccine mandates and the truckers will leave on their own accord.
It sounds like you're talking about something more specific (yet left unspecified) than me.
Laptops are fine unless your battery has issues and you get occasional power losses, which seems to be not too uncommon for third-party batteries (which themselves are not too uncommon since Apple will charge you an arm and a leg to replace half your laptop if you have a defective battery).
I think most SSD have dram cache on board. Could they design issue here be Apple doesn't have that and instead using system RAM as SSD dram cache?
Shouldn't Mac OS issue flush on restart, as it does on sleep?
> A writing culture can penalize and demoralize non-native speakers

Couldn't you say this about basically any skill?

> I've worked with brilliant individuals who felt like they're perceived as "stupid" because their language skills weren't as polished

The problem there isn't that the company has a writing culture.
Production was distributed threw the cities in Japan, that's a simple fact. And they did target military target when they had good target.

After attacks on city on we can literally see production output going down.

There is an argument that in Germany some of the attacks on cities were counter-productive and a more intense focus on certain industrial areas would have been more beneficial. But those were also better guarded.

Even so, economic historian Adam Tooze book shows pretty well that air attacks did have large economic attacks.
You may be trolling, but that "exercise for the reader" does not have a known solution. Anyone who found one may wish to keep it secret to get rich on Bitcoin mining...
I love the book, but it is like the apogee of McCarthy idiosyncrasy. Obsessive about guns and death and has a complete absence of women. But it is beautiful for what it is.
This might seem silly but what is a "GC'd language" ?
I'm already not signed in to Reddit so this already applies. It turns out most forums default to public as that drives organic growth that sustains them over time. There are enough public fora to not have to seek out private ones to answer things.
That's a great idea! I'm gonna take a look at that.
Your extreme minority disabilities seem like a pretty poor excuse to attack everyone else you are interacting with to the extreme degree you are doing.

Yes, sure, people should make reasonable accommodations to help deal with your extreme minority situation.

But it is a sure for you to demand that everyone else change their entire lives, and perfectly reasonable preferences, to satisfy only you.
that's just false. I often want to advertise in subreddits but either the mods don't allow anyone to advertise or the reddit ads are really crappy and juvenile. If i could have a spot on the sidebar of reddit search results i d happily pay more than i do for their cpc ads
Haha never thought about that but it’s a fun connection
> I would print and scan physically

This degrades quality and wastes paper and toner. There are software tools to convert PDF to raster graphics.
My big test with these is dialog with punctuation. Can it do ellipses, exclamations, dashes, etc convincingly?

That answer is basically a universal "nope" imho. The vocal inflections are contextual and subtle. The problem is hard. That's why it's the test
FWIW GCP asks me to relogin like every 2-3 days, does not ask me for 2fa tho
As someone whose mind was blown away 30 years ago by the robotic TTS software that a Spectrum computer was able to produce, I find the fact that this level of quality is provided with an MIT licensed product a very encouraging sign of not only dark cyberpunk-style events are happening in the technology landscape.
Not really sure of the capabilities of nation states. They buy the tools private companies come up with.

But I think this is exaggerated security anyway. You want to keep stuff accessible. Binding anything to specific hardware is a terrible idea. My bank does that and it really sucks as a security mechanism.
> You said it yourself

No I did not, unless you choose to interpret my words in the most uncharitable way possible.
thanks! yes, unfortunately the algo is still influenced because ytcast "tells" the YouTube on TV app to play the videos.
I'm kind of approaching this from the other side: For my use case, the "corporatized" search results tend to be awful, because they include whoever wants to be included. But most people who SEO optimize heavily and spend a lot on AdWords are precisely the kind of people I do not want to see.
I'd argue the opposite. All Microsoft did was understand what the world needed. Were they successful because of their great marketing or their flawless coding? No. Was Windows spread like a wildfire because it solved real world problems? Yes. Is it one of the most, if not the most, influencial software ever made? Yes, no matter how dull and incompetent people might say it is. For the accountants out there, school teachers and doctors, it was magic.
> Surely enough to know if your user logged in from the same country/state/ISP as usual.

Same ISP, maybe. Every single customer of my ISP shows up (using "IP geolocation") as being in a small office building in a non-descript town. Is that where they are? No, it isn't even where the ISP's main hardware is, that's just an office, the geo-location maps every address assigned to them to their registered place of business, and nothing more.

And to be sure it isn't "required for authentication" and yet, just as with the password rotation nonsense and a dozen other requirements, somewhere there will be a business that is absolutely certain they require this feature, so Microsoft checked the box. That's all Microsoft are interested in, you want to give us $1B but we must check a box? Box checked.

You want Linux support? Box checked. You want package management? Box checked. None of these things are done well but box checking exercises aren't about doing it well they're about checking the box. I assume if you're into actually doing a good job you either soon leave Microsoft or you find some niche team where they'll let you do that in peace.
They don't have to. They just have to be a better option to look for acceptable "answers" (and can be acquired even via google anyway, at least for now).

The real underlying point is the degradation of Google's default results; manipulation of boolean syntax to filter for certain characteristics and Google becomes a tool to find answers elsewhere rather than from Google's own results directly.
France would be fascinating
“meeting customers where they were”

I’m a total AWS fanboy, but even I cringe when I read that superficial, customer-centric sound bite. You know who meets people where they are? FOSS maintainers.

“Also as far as I know one of the lead committers to Redis is from AWS”

Conveniently cryptic, what does from AWS mean? Do they still work there? Did they specialize in log replication?
Bad batteries generally allow for last-gasp handling, and I've definitely seen the SMC throw a fit on some properties a few seconds before shutdown due to the battery being really dead. Not sure if macOS handles this properly, but I'd hope it does, and if it doesn't they could certainly add the feature. It would be quite an extreme case to have a battery failure be so sudden the voltage doesn't drop slowly enough to invoke this.
I mean the example given is something about a car review. If it wasn't for reddit, it's likely the search query would be suffixed with a community name (like traditional forums), or a (to the searcher) known car review site. That said, the difference is that reddit has forums for everything, so you can expect to find a community about cars on there; if you're a noob at cars, you probably don't know which communities there are, what they're called, or if they're reliable.
This is a problem with much of mainstream economics. Start by defining everything worth measuring as the things you can measure, then build elaborate models around those measurements, then declare success when your models yield an output. Finally, influence policy to try get more of one measurable and less of another.
Depends what exactly is a hard reboot. I don't reboot my laptop by issueing USB-PD command. But I do by holding the power button.
macOS, 1Password 7, try this: Hit Cmd+Alt+\ and try to tab to the Generate Password button in the top right of that window that pops up. This was possible in earlier 1Password, isn't now. Tabbing moves you between the left pane list of suggestions etc. and the right pane. If there's something in the right pane, you can arrow through them, there's no way to get to the Generate Password button without taking your hands off the keyboard.

Additionally, now when I do generate a password, it saves that password in my shared vault for all the world to see instead of defaulting to a private vault where only I can see it. It doesn't appear to be possible to tell it where to save that password until it becomes a login, but by that point 1Password has already leaked the password I just generated. That seems like a really terrible default, and the only way I've found around this so far is to try to remember to open the main app, go into my shared vault and delete the password that I never wanted saved in there in the first place.
>instantly healed of a muscle injury from weightlifting by transferring that exact injury to another person

Could you elaborate on that? It sounds... useful

I've had exactly one experience that involved an unexplainable phenomenon but it was extremely mundane and uninteresting, and since memories fade I sometimes have to mentally slap myself into recognizing that it really did happen. But 99% of "paranormal" info is fake garbage so I don't really dig into the topic
I mean, you do you but when I search flight I for one am looking to purchase a flight. If I want NASA links or the Museum of Flight I would specify that.
> the furniture isnt that big, its suited to smaller homes

To be fair, pretty much anything built after 1960 is small, and all UK housing is small by American standards.

I also don't think most people in the UK consider OakFurnitureLand a cheap, or even an affordable place to buy furniture. Despite being made of cheap internationally sourced oak, and somewhat mediocre, it's definitely a premium brand. If you were to buy all your furniture there many people would consider you well off.

Spot on with the reality of their finance business though
101 AWS Lambda Tutorial for Go Developers – API Gateway (Part 2)
They do use system RAM as cache, but that has no effect on performance. If anything it should be way faster than the puny RAM cache chips on typical SSDs. It doesn't explain the slow flush perf.
I guess you're right.. And indeed, browsers fight back: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...
I spent quite a lot of time in https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/ returns outlet picking through stuff. I furnished most of a house from there. The furniture is made in places like Thailand, and woods like mango are used as well as 'oak'. They must make reasonable margins even with the normal prices they charge. I'm sure they also benefit at least on their lower tier of credit plus upsells on insurance etc. I didn't encounter any of that as the outlet was strictly cash.

Even the carcasses use solid wood. Some of the returned furniture had cracks in interior wooden boards where a composite like ply/chip/MDF would not have cracked. I guess solid wood is lighter, part of their brand and they have less diversity of material sourcing. It must pay off, even with slightly higher returns.
Yes that's correct. From a practical standpoint that simply means lower overall production, that communist party logical for you. Gaining control over the means of production is what mattered to them. Anything cost was acceptable to achieve that outcome.
The book is not peer reviewed, yes, but it meticulously cites (peer reviewed) social science research for most of its claims. I did spot checks and citations are good. (Through checks would be full time work. 1/7 of the book is dedicated to references.)
This feels pretty weird on macOS in a way I never realized, because I thought you were wrong but you're actually right -- you can slam the cursor right against the right edge of the screen and the scroll handle lights up and you can click and drag it if you start an up/down mouse motion -- but the cursor changes to the left-right resize one and if you start by moving left/right it resizes the window instead and the scrolling motion is cancelled.

I guess thinking about it this is a very reasonable compromise, but it feels weird to start scrolling up and down with a cursor that shows a left-right arrow and that is technically pointing outside of the scroll bar.
There is a Chinese counterpart/copycat of Reddit --- Tieba. It is owned by Baidu (counterpart/copycat of Google). More introduction can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba.

Tieba was once popular just like Reddit. Then, the management (of Baidu) figured out how to make money with Tieba and its search engine to promote brand and erase negative comments. Not much people use it anymore.

The point in the article is pretty convincing to me.
each and every plot of land

Fallacy. The "housing market" people whine about is generally limited to urban/suburban areas of the westernmost sliver of the state. California is a big place.
From seeing the difficulties containerizing java application servers at my own workplace I would say the hard part is making the application server stateless without sacrificing performance. Much of the older java (EE) ecosystem seems to assume a stateful application server that scales up, instead of a stateless one that scales out.

Not that I think stateless is inherently superior, just that containerizing and scaling out sort of assumes moving state out of the application server and into redis, postgres, mongo, elastic, kafka, rabbitmq, …
I haven't looked at the spreadsheets either, or read the book.

But this sentence stood out when I scanned the web page:

> How unpleasant school is compared to work.

That was very much not my experience and my working life was pretty good too. Am I an outlier? Or just lucky that I didn't grow up in the US?
Weirdly one of the reasons I moved from development to a test engineering role is you have way more technical freedom. I can basically use whatever tool I want because there’s way less oversight as long as the job is done. Want to test a CLI? Use Go/Rust. Want to load test a website? Use Scala. Data parsing? Write a lexer in Haskell. I think I’ve used almost every language in the top 30 in production thanks to this. And it’s not even just language - need reporting? Try a new web framework. Need to store data between tests? Try a new database.

I’ve written far more fun code in a testing role than I ever could in a dev role :)
I don’t know what you mean by “considered a mass” unless you mean “centre of mass”, which is a point. If there are times where there are a lot of correct arrow designations, how is that not more confusing?

In my opinion, using a different measure for the distance and direction would have been even more confusing. It’s also a lot harder to program for a silly web game.
> I tend to "print" a new PDF in hopes that it flattens the document.

I wouldn't count on that. A well-implemented print-to-PDF feature will try to avoid rasterising whenever possible.

If you want to turn your document (whether in PDF format or something else) into a raster image, there are proper tools for that.
A garbage collected language.
Flying cars were delivered and one flew until 1977:

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

The FAA rejected the dream of normal drivers instead of trained pilots having flying cars, and IMO rightly so.
I would say a16z is realistic about it. From the article, "Heterogeneity is here to stay".
So your argument is that nuclear energy can not innovate and be cheaper? Why?

What exactly is inherently expensive.

From first principle, total resources invested, advanced nuclear wins by a huge amount. The same goes for land use.

A single building with a modern nuclear reactor in it could replace a gigantic wind-farm.
See, that's a forced shutdown, a last resort measure; it's using a sledgehammer to tap in a nail. You shouldn't do that as a habit, even if this particular optimization issue wasn't a thing.

I mean I grew up diligently turning off my PC by parking the disk and using the various operating system level shutdown procedures. Nowadays I smack the off button, but that still just triggers the OS shutdown procedure. I don't turn my Mac off as a rule, its sleep mode actually works. ish.
I initially started with this project to learn more about svelte and try sveltekit. So I never made a design or a prototype. I just had a rough idea of how I wanted it to look and then just iterated on it while building it.
> Almost none of it, however, was quantitative.

Of course not, almost none of the significant disagreement in the broad public debate on policy is about details of quantitative analysis, it's about value propositions that frame (among other questions) what quantitative analysis is even relevant.

If you publish an academic paper with quantitative analysis, academics will tear into the details of analysis (maybe, if the fact question it addresses is considered important to other people in the field.) If you publish a work aimed at a popular audience and intended as policy advocacy, and it's full of heavy quantitative analysis, you haven't understood the domain you are operating in.

Long-form heavily analytical work does have a role in informing policy debates, but that role is in wonkish intrafactional debates among policy types within the group that already agrees with you on values.
Thanks for the validation :) Crazy that lack of frustration can be a differentiator.
For products like the Mac Mini, which don’t have a battery, does this mean that a loss of mains power will cause data loss? Because brownouts do happen occasionally…
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Stackoverflow can and has run on a single MS SQL server instance. Modern RDBMS’s on recent hardware can handle pretty ridiculous loads.
Thank you! Let me know if there is anything that you're missing or that can be improved.
My mum was a textile artist, which means she spent a lot of her time looping bits of string through other bits of string. She listened to audio books because her hands could do all the looping by themselves with minimal required attention.
Given it's a static dataset of countries, the distance of all country pairs could all be precomputed and loaded in memory, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Encoding and Decoding Images in Rust
putting a floor on house prices is a bit of the point, to prevent "the wrong kind of people" from "destroying the neighborhood character"
Clojurists.
This happens with Lovelace too.

As far as I'm aware she has no influence on modern computing, which has always slightly confused me because she is often raised in campaigns as a "girls can program too!"-type figure when there are lots of other women who's work is used everyday e.g. Frances Allen was one of the first to really lay down the fundamentals of optimizing compilers
Too bad when you're trending on HN and the link to the paid version at the end of the article returns 404...
The only area I could find where this 'clean and maintainable code' approach is appreciated is in open source. In open source, it's not about money (it's rarely the primary motivator); it's about meeting goals so developers try to be extremely economical with their limited free time.

I don't think it's possible for the commercial software industry to optimize for good code so long as engineers are paid hourly and the industry has monopolistic dynamics which externalize fanaticism and internalize complacency.

To make it work in a commercial context, developer remuneration would have to be based on results (over a medium to long term of at least 6 months) and there would need to be a genuinely competitive environment where everyone has equal opportunity to prove themselves to the market (not prove themselves to management). It has to be tied to user feedback somehow. This is pretty much what happens in open source but would be hard to implement in a commercial setting.
Docs [1] suggests that even F_FULLFSYNC might not be enough. Quote:

> Note that F_FULLFSYNC represents a best-effort guarantee that iOS writes data to the disk, but data can still be lost in the case of sudden power loss.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/reducing-dis...
Is it possible to know about a certain color if it's dark or light? My goal is to automatically determine whether to put a white or black text on top of a background colored box based on the answer. Is it has something to do with the temperature? I'd expect to get some value below or above 0.5.
Firstly, there is a huge difference between getting laid and getting a girlfriend. Doesn’t make sense to mix these lines of discussion.

Secondly, interaction with opposite sex is by default a vital part of our nature. At list our biological nature. And this part has tremendous influence on our decisions and on our life, it’s a part of our identity wether we like it or not.

Although it’s not the only part, therefore for some people it’s okay to never have a girlfriend/boyfriend and still have a happy meaningful life.

But i guess on forums you see what majority of population has to say.
By any chance, are you aware of any good surveys comparing the open models to the cloud providers for other NLP tasks like speech recognition or POS tagging?