skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It falls a little flat because of that, but it should still be a quantity which feels suspicious:

- One person could have enough to give every American $1M without first taking $1M from every American. Did you and everyone you know buy $1,000,000 of Washington Post or Wallstreet Journal subscriptions, for example?

- One person could spend $1M-per-American without anything very interesting or noteworthy happening to the people taking that money in payment.

- One person could spend enough for $1M/American on a Presidential run and lose; did Hillary and Trump and the other candidates also spend that much (WOW!) or did they spend nothing by comparison and still beat Bloomberg? (also wow!).

- One Presidential run could cost so much; $1M/American is a lot more than Americans earn every year and therefore pay in tax every year, and handwaving debt away it's therefore many times more than government annual spending on everything; infrastructure, military, social services, schooling, etc. Suspiciously high.

- A million per American is in the region of 340 Trillion, several times the world's GDP.

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." - Richard Feynman
They still have the ability to see user content, but it would require them to make a change to their codebase. If they did such a change silently...
It's a very good paper, yeah. I will link it from the gist.
Allowing the assumption of malice to overwhelm all other concerns is rarely a wise process. There are other equally easy ways to trigger alternative behaviour. This is why review teams invest in static analysis tooling.
3-4 hours is probably about the limit of how much time I can handle a given museum. Much past that, I'm "OK. It's a Rembrandt but it's not one of his really good ones." If it's the Hermitage, I'll make an exception but I'll really start zoning out after a while.
> [integrating] Cruise's technology into consumer GM cars [is] not how Cruise/Waymo/Zoox-style robotaxis work, and any such integration would necessarily involve rewriting a huge portion of the stack.

That sounds like a [citation needed] to me. Surely there are UI problems to be solved in a car with a human being in the driver's seat, but the sensors and automation decisionmaking is going to be identical, and that's where the hard parts are.

Or alternatively: a less charitable way of making the point work would be to say that Cruise's stack was a bunch of special-case hacks for specific regions and vehicles and wasn't scalable to arbitrary environments nor regular passenger cars.
Even in 1989, it should have been clear that 16 bits were not enough to encode all of the Chinese characters, let alone encoding all the human scripts. Unicode today encodes 92,865 Chinese characters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs).

The only reason anybody would think of UCS-2 was a good idea was that they did not consult a single Chinese or Japanese scholar on Chinese characters.
So if a restaurant is very expensive, it must be immune from reviews?

Not in my world, no. In fact the expectations should be higher so it better deliver much higher quality of food.
I know couple of chefs at high end restaurants and they are good friends. They are also normal people and I don't think they would work at places that treat less fortunate people (say can only do something like this once a year, if ever) without respect. As long as you treat the waitstaff well and aren't loud and overbearing they love to have you in and enjoy the fine cooking. Just don't bring three screaming toddlers and leave $5 tip and you'll be fine if anyone is curious but hasn't gone on a food adventure. Myself I came from a poor upbringing and was pretty nervous about my first few high end restaurants as a 20 something with "new money".
We now apparently live in a bizzaro fantasy world where legislation is required to spare people the discomfort of negotiating a salary or asking for a raise. If a company offered to pay you X and you agreed, whose fault is this?

We used to call dealing with these kinds of situations "being an adult."
I don't know how this is relevant. I am very much against this war, but there is very little I can do to stop it as a regular citizen. I'm currently doing everything I can to flee the country, as I don't think my family is not safe here. I don't understand how this is supposed to harm Putin's regime or any of his supporters.
Oh I forgot to mention that Picos are quite available :D It's the Pi4s that are rare. I actually found some in local but they are in kits. I prefer just boards.
> Distributed power generation is the ideal. Why bother with transporting energy when you can just generate it where you need it?

You need to be able to throttle the power output up and down. That is harder to design and harder to make efficient. Or you need lots of batteries, which is expensive. And it all has to be sized for peak demand rather than being able to benefit from flows across the grid.
If I had to guess, I'd imagine this is the result of perverse incentives combined with the Peter principle. Consider a manager or corporate recruiter receiving a bonus for keeping down costs.
> At the three star joints your dates purse gets its own stool. I'm not even joking.

We encountered the purse stool at a one star restaurant, Eipic, in Belfast. Genuinely wondered if the little stools were made solely for holding handbags, or if they had dual purposes.
Furthermore, reality itself is the "simulation". It takes the entire universe at one time t1 as input, transforms it according to the functions known as the fundamental forces, to produce the entire universe at time t2 as output, where t1 and t2 are one discrete time step apart. Restricting the "simulation" on a subset of the input is bound to introduce errors.
You have humans do the actual work, where computers are just there for faster organization of human effort:

an app with two queues:

- those who input questions by copy and pasting them into an app or transcribing them, or speech to text -- apple offers all of these to iOS users in plain ol textboxes as far as I'm aware.
- those who solve by reading from the app and submitting answers.

Have N inputters getting all of the questions
Have M solvers solving

This builds your answer bank.

Have someone submit from the answer bank with a text based search.
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Sure, I'm not denying that at all. It looks like real fusion happening, but might not be no more useful than fusors. They mentioned their current methods are too lossy, but they did have some interesting arguments for it being a practical energy source someday.
Being 2.08m tall (6’10) I _have_ to always pay extra because I don’t fit in a regular seat.
Many years ago at check in I would automatically be put on the exit row but nowadays that doesn’t happen anymore.
So now I need to book very early because otherwise the exit row seats are all gone.
Ive read that creating enough food for a family of 4 from a home garden requires something like 8 square meters of land, chickens, and loads of labour. It’s non trivial, and if you make a mistake you go hungry.

Assuming some putative ideal future Mr Fusion, plugging it into the wall would be a completely different proposition, require relatively little space, and zero household labour.

Considering the massive infrastructure and street furniture required to distribute electrons, the unit economics of home fusion would need to be terrible in order for centralisation to remain competitive against the significant benefits for reliability and decentralisation.
Russians in every major city and region call for nowar
I’m still trying to sort out macOS keybindings on Linux. I put Arch (EndeavorOS) on a 2015-ish Retina MBP and everything “just works” much to my surprise. If I can sort out keybindings I could probably switch 100% but the inconsistency of clipboard actions from app to app is extremely frustrating.
You're right, Accelerando was so much this, and I thought it was glorious. (My wife, by contrast, couldn't make it through the first page.) It's a shame what Stross turned into later.

I'm curious what you think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504506, though I also don't think stavros was insulting them.
In spite of GitHub's claims that nothing wrong, something is wrong and fixable.

GitHub should be showing the identity pulled from the e-mail address, and not replacing it with the name of an associated GitHub account. Just like it does when there is no associated GH account.

A reasonable compromise would be to show that name, but turn it into a link to the account if there is one. Then only someone curious clicking on "Linus Torvalds" would see: hey, how come this leads to some VanTudor account?
> Hierarchies seem like a natural fit for the human mind

I'd argue they only seem that way because we've been raised and taught to use them but haven't been taught sufficiently to think about other ways to organize knowledge.

> They're not a natural fit for real world data

In "A City is not a Tree"[1], Christopher Alexander discusses the semilattice in relation to city planning and human societies. Clay Shirky has previously noted[2] that categories and ontologies are too brittle to serve human thinking.

As an example of an ongoing attempt to create a hierarchical ontology that isn't helpful, look at any list of music genres. Also note that social networks are not organized hierarchically – humans have the ability to handle interconnected structures just fine.

This also relates to why many people don't understand or can't quite relate to true distributed peer-to-peer computing or systems where there is no central controller or fail to grasp emergent behavior. But nature is fine with completely decentralized systems: see, for example, foraging ants. See, for example, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

1. https://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/i103su12/files/2011/07/19...
2. https://oc.ac.ge/file.php/16/_1_Shirky_2005_Ontology_is_Over...
Pretty soon every job will be a tech job.
I'm working on something a bit orthogonal, but similar in spirit: a “network requests” tool, similar to the Network tab in Devtools, but batteries included and working _both_ as a browser extension and a reverse proxy standalone app – so you just pick whatever suites your workflow better today. It's still super early stage though.
Even in that context, having a basic mental math model improves the quality of your results when you're trying to understand the world.

For instance, a job offer. One job offers you $28/hr, the other offers you $55,000 a year with 2 weeks paid vacation time

Simple math shows that $28/hr, with 2 weeks unpaid vacation time, is $56,000/year. ($28*2000), and can be ~$2.3k more if you don't take vacation.

Understanding of the world and yourself may make you realize that earning $1k-~$3.3k less a year would be worth it to have a set income that doesn't change even when you take vacations, but it's nice to be able to quickly compare the stark math so that you don't immediately think "big number better".

That's not the best allegory to explain the utility of math, but the basic concept has rung true in many situations anecdotally in my life.
Yeah, I get why this happens. And to be clear, I didn't dig in to the all the PRs and compare them vs the maintainer's commits, so I have no idea of the difference in code quality between the two.

I'm sure it's frustrating when maintaining a fairly popular OSS tool to receive a PR that's 95% of the way there. Having to go back and forth to coach someone on getting that last 5% (or the contributor just dropping the PR then ghosting) vs just doing it yourself, I totally get it.

However from the contributor's point of view, when GH has support for co-authored commits, it comes of as a bit of jerky move when you take the time to submit a PR to not at least get credit via a co-author commit message.
I think much of the confusion around nulls stems from the fact that in mainstream languages pointers are overloaded for two purposes: for passing values by reference, and for optionality.

Nearly every pointer bug is caused by the programmer wanting one of these two properties, and not considering the consequences of the other.

Non-nullable references and pass-by-value optionals can replace many usages of pointers.
Clojure somewhat limits that by not having reader macros
Ansible Playbook(s) to manage a pg_auto_failover PostgreSQL cluster
I didn't write it for HN. It wasn't a paper to publish in some Computer Science journal. It was just a github gist. If you don't get the subject, it's not for you. I might well write a paper now based on it, and then it might be a good read for you, but I still won't be writing it for you, but for people who are interested in the topic. The intended audience is small, expert on the matter, and probably even more opinionated than I am.
What are your thoughts on using Drifting in Space as a code executor/dev environment in the browser?
> If a company offered to pay you X and you agreed, whose fault is this?

If you were forced to trade stocks for a living but had only second-hand access to price information ("My cousin bought some TSLA at $200/share last year") while all the brokerages share order flows in real time, would you say you're getting hosed? Or that it's a fair market?
All of this past week's events show that John Mearsheimer was wrong - way wrong. In 2015 John Mearsheimer claimed that Putin did not want to invade the Ukraine nor did Putin want to re-establish the old Soviet empire. His reasoning was Putin was too smart for that - Putin had seen how the invasion of Afghanistan didn't go well for the Soviets, or for the Americans for that matter.

Granted, I say John Mearsheimer was wrong in 2015 with the hindsight of 20/20 vision. I haven't seen where he has made any public statements since the invasion started. Now we know that Putin fully intended to invade the Ukraine and institute regime change, not just "free" Donbas and Luhansk. Putin has also indicated he wants to re-establish the old Soviet Union as much as possible.

I'm not attacking John Mearsheimer. I too thought Putin was way smarter than this. Frankly I'm shocked by what's happening, but most of all I'm shocked and surprised by Putin's short-sightedness and stupidity. I'm sure John Mearsheimer did his analysis believing he was dealing with a rational actor. Now we know otherwise.
I should have specifically named Web of Trust as the not-so-useful part of PGP. I'm not a fan and it never worked out in practice.

In essence: you're correct about that part.
> On that basis, if I go to an expensive restaurant and do not get food that is qualitatively better and not just different and in its own category, then I am being taken for a fool.

Why?

Does novelty have no value for you?

The Michelin Star restaurant isn't just "different", it's a difference that is hard to find.

Michelin Star ratings:

1 Star: Worth a stop when you are driving.

2 Star: Worth a detour when you are driving.

3 Star: Worth a dedicated trip.

Price is, as with everything, supply vs demand.
That's from now or from the beginning of that construction?
Deterministic Regular Expressions with Backreferences
Clojure has explicitly walked back some of that flexibility of "changing the language" by deciding against reader macros in return for better interoperability of packages.
What you are doing is prototyping. Which is a good thing. However, writing stuff down is also another form of prototyping, which different tradeoffs.

With coding, you are confined to formal syntax and semantics, but if the code (even partially) works, you can be more confident in your design.

With paper, you can plan as high-level as you want, with the danger of being too highlevel and overlooking things.
McArthur thought the Chinese wouldn't dare to cross into Korea.
Sometimes your enemy doesn't follow the script...
Accounts alone won't do it. Accounts and invites might? But then someone who doesn't know anyone on the site needs to figure out how to contact someone who's a member.

It's not good for growth, but some websites are fine with that.
Also, if you can't do 3% of 200, you can do 200% of 3 and get the right answer. (6). As far as I know this seems to hold true for all (percentage of integer) combinations.
Far more likely they use something like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_Number
> The problem wasn’t with the temperature range, it was with the not working and not being fusion.

And them being chemists not physicists.

And the University of Utah issuing a press release before the anything was peer reviewed.

The whole episode is is an example of what can go wrong with science. This article shows what clearly could have been a useful and productive field of investigation became poisoned to the extent that no significant research could go on for a quarter century and still the authors have to go to great pains to distance themselves from Fleischman and Pons.
Having written server software that had to work in both places, I always loved the simplicity of fork(2) / vfork(2) relative to Windows CreateProcess. Threading models in Win32 were always a pain. Which only got worse with COM (remember apartment threading? rental threading? ugh)

Back in the 90's, processes had smaller memory footprint, and every UNIX my software supported had COW optimizations. So the difference between fork(2) and vfork(2) were not very large in practice. Often, the TCP handshake behind the accept(2) call was of more concern than how long it would take fork(2) to complete. Of course, bandwidth has increased by a factor of 1000 since then, so considerations have changed.
Haven't used them personally, but at least Plus codes are open source and have a permissive license.

what3words had huge marketing campaigns (TV) in my country, but when we (logistics software devs) looked into using it ourselves a few years ago, it was rather complicated (licensing) and expensive.
In the end we decided against any "human geo-encoding" system and provide other solutions that make transmitting geo locations between humans obsolete.
My own read on it is that China doesn't really have a stake in Ukraine vs. Russia but they have always been really uneasy about what Russia is doing in Ukraine because of what someone else already pointed out: China hates breakaway states. Coercing parts of another country to break away really runs counter to what China has been pushing for. On the ground level, there has been more than a few posts on Chinese social media in support of Ukraine. It's easy to draw the parallels between Ukraine being cut up by a more powerful neighbor with China's own "century of humiliation". Those posts didn't stay up for long though.
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See, I like good raises (10%+ per year). The main reason to start looking for new jobs is that 2% annual raises are quickly outpaced by the 10-20% increase in market wages.

Plus, I feel like jobs that give double-digit raises also have better processes in place for performance reviews. Places giving out 3% a year almost always just go through the motions on performance reviews, since each manager can only give out one or two "good" raises. Even if you did a great job, they are kind of forced to hand over their one 5 star review to the person who always gets them.
Yeah that "Choose..." statement is certainly a stretch. I am sure there are many people with javascript applications where saving 2 MB on a grid control is the least of the performance and reliability problems they have.

For that matter I have a high opinion of many software firms in Poland (CD Projekt, some outsourcers.)

If the OP kept to things that were factual they'd be better off.
Are there any official sources for this? I did a quick google search and couldn't find any announcements.
Nothing about fusors are room temperature.
why not require companies to post salary ranges of already employed workers in same or similar roles? seems like it could circumvent the absurd range issue
Do You Need a Domain Name? Probably Not
F-droid gets many things right (e.g. verifiable builds), but it's just not usable in practice.

Installing applications is a rare event, updating them is frequent, and needs to disrupt the user as little as possible. Android used to not allow alternative app stores to update apps without user interaction, but now supports this through UPDATE_PACKAGES_WITHOUT_USER_ACTION, which doesn't seem to be supported by F-droid. So it's manual clicking for each update.

F-droid also somehow gets the regular update flow wrong and often (always?) shows an error when you try to install the update from the notification. That has remained unfixed for years. So you have to manually open it, initiate the update, then click through the dialogs.

Additionally, the official repos update so slowly that they're useless for fast-moving stuff like NewPipe.

Together with Android bugs like https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/204233247 (resetting all "open with" URIs on update), this makes using packages installed through F-Droid a nightmare.
What about if somebody clones a repo, then adds a .mailmap pointing all the addresses in the history to their own?
Hmm, that feels a bit like the difference between verifiability and falsifiability to me. It doesn't seem like adaptations need to be goal-driven, but if they were flat-out bad/destructive/unhelpful to the species, I would tend to expect them to fade over time? Pointing to any specific trait and saying it's useless, though, opens you up to arguments that you just haven't found the use yet.
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It will not. It completes out of the current directory when trying to TAB-complete following a slash.
> Pay transparency is great for business owners and other large employers.

If this is true, why aren't large employers already publishing salary data? i.e. why do they have to be forced to do it by law?
No one is talking about the reality of removing a million sources from the internet. We’re talking about the legal consequences and 1st amendment rights of individuals.

You do not have a 1st amendment right to post, for example, classified documents or protected intellectual property. If you post those things, even if 2,000 people posted them before you, the law can still come down on you.
> Interviewees are almost universally expected to give a single number (not a range), sometimes in the application process, even before the interview.

I think a better description of the situation is "prompted" or "demanded", not "expected". As many interviewing advice sites will happily point out, providing any salary information prior to an offer is not usually a hard requirement (though employers like to make it seem like it is).
In practice, about 10% of total incident energy is likely, based on spacing factor, orientation, shading, etc. 20--35% is optimal, but unlikely to be consistently achieved.

PV charging cover does seem like an option.

A deployable array, of whatever size is suitable, would be a more flexible and IMO better option.

The notion of a computing device which could function on ambient energy is an interesting / terrifying one, so I follow you there. Low-end chips (apparently Zilog -- the Z-80 from Sinclair fame -- is one of these and popular in low-energy applications) might offer this.

With sufficiently rudimentary text formatting at least a general information device might be possible.

The original Unix ... seems like a reasonably decent candidate for this.
That's not what I said. Yours is too a quite narrow-minded position.

Also, screw companies doing this. The job market is completely asymmetric, and it shouldn't be. It's tiring and disappointing to have to blindly negotiate with recruiters, and akin to the car buying experience.