skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish there was some kind of Open Protocol Alliance or something. I would love to actually work on this stuff.

Unfortunately, of the dozens trying, ALL are contaminated with performance hindering Web3 features. Nobody just wants to make an open social protocol. They want it to have a coin built right into it, mandatory anonymity routing, immutable scuttlebutt logs, DHT-clogging random access to individuals 256kb blocks of any file, etc.

And mobile apps don't even get.discussed till the project is half dead already.

I think Tox has the most potential of anything out there now and could possibly be usable if they can get the mobile bandwidth down. Matrix also has potential.

Yggdrasil is a great component but not useful without applications to run on it.
I think you would need a pipe reading from (using splice) a file you're not supposed to write to, which also accepts your input, which you're very unlikely to find, and you would only be able to modify the file being read.
Just a guy pushing a political agenda
If you don't give a raise that matches inflation, you are cutting pay. Even if inflation drops to 2% next year, the value of the money you're paying to your employee doesn't go up.

If inflation is 7% this year and I raise your $100,000 salary to $107,000, an inflation rate of 2% next year doesn't mean I'm overpaying you by $5,000. It means that I once again need to give you a 2% raise for you to get the exact same amount of value for your labor. The inflation rate would need to rubber band to a negative rate for anyone to shed tears for the employers.
It's true...

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Hello dear masterworker of systems. I reply humbly here- as a neophyte to a master- when I suggest, maybe possibly, perhaps, it could be really really hard to specify & guarantee exactly how to ensure that usb2 capability would be entirely, 100%, assuredly unaffected by a usb translation layers. I also think it eases certain design systems constraints.

I'm not an expert. The evidence that USB2 was able to translate & carry usb1 is a good counter example to my premise, that the work was done & it worked out fine, and usb1 carries fine over usb2. For a while, I do not believe the USB transaction translator[1] was not totally commonplace: I remember articles specifically highlighting which usb2 hubs had this feature. I dont remember this feature ever causing compatibility problems, but USB1 had such a small feature profile, such limited concerns that it feels like this task was more managable. Once we start adding isosynchronous profiles & perhaps various other usb2 gimmicks, I imagine the transaction translation problem becoming much more thorny; I imagine trying to insure in fact that usb1, usb2, usb3 devices would all translate successfully would be much harder. I'm sympathetic in extreme to the notion that there should be a spec, that we should have tried to define something (and perhaps the specification without mandate would have been great, as usb2 did). But I also still feel like it would/could have been a risk, could have become thorny. That doubt doesn't convince me, but I want to acknowledge that doubt.

I also think there is some modest technical advantages. Making a hub that passes through usb4, but which also exposes a variety of simple peripherals is much easier without mandating the transaction translator. It's super convenient to make a hub that passes through usb3/4 but which offers a variety of audio, keyboard, mouse, et-cetera connecitivyt options, at a reduced speed: one can just drop down some cheap-as-dirt usb2 hubs in their solution & glue in those worlds of peripehrals. Demanding all connectivity happen over usb4 & usb4 alone would have mandates much much more expensive solutions. That said, I'm not convinced the savings are worth the cost. If we simply had mandated we do good, build better, I suspect over time we would have found the cost of doing better to be negligible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hub#Transaction_translator
Until the alternative given is not dump capitalism then reformism is the only option I'll be backing, as the least worst of a sorry bunch.
The core problem this entire argument runs into from a validity perspective is that you cannot prove that discrimination in favor off good test takers is causing EVERY positive outcome. Promotions, employee reviews, even legitimate measures of job performance could be an outcome of discrimination in favor of test takers. You would need to setup a parallel society where those who were good at tests in school were lambasted by their parents, held back from higher education, had performance reviews and interview panels done by bad test takers, etc. etc. It’s hard to actually disprove that this argument is justifying discrimination on the grounds of the effects of the same kind of discrimination.

The more I’ve dwelled on this point the more I’ve felt the modern notion of discriminating on the grounds of identity group membership can’t be proven to be any more arbitrary than discriminating based on test performance. It's a subjective preference probably driven by direct or indirect self-interest.
Most real life integrals and differential equations are not analytically solvable anyway, so you run into tables like you do with most real life applications of logarithms.

What happens is you learn numerical approximation methods and then recreate the tables with human 'computers', like we used to do before electrical computers came into play. Or create mechanical analog computers like they did in the 1800s or greek times.
Why should we be worried about people who don't read the instructions?
What matters most to me as a hiring manager is your ability to think critically. There's so much to know, and so many different permutations with how those things can present themselves that I'm not hiring you to know the answer every time. I'm hiring you to figure it out.
Am I so wrong to stop reading after a grammatical error on the very first word in the article?

https://www.google.com/search?q=everyday+two+words+or+one
Can you purchase Monero off of RU bitcoin exchanges with an internal RU credit card? That would be one way to liberate assets from the ruble if you're trying to get out.
I had chat with Hannes, the DuckDB co-founder, a few weeks ago. They are building awesome stuff to become the "SQLite of OLAP". The team comes with a strong academic background and is tuned into the data engineering world.

At Tenzir, we looked at DuckDB as embeddable backend engine to do the heavy lifting of query execution of our engine [1]. Our idea is throwing over a set of Parquet files, along with a query; initially SQL but perhaps soon Substrait [2] if it picks up.

We also experiment with a cloud deployment [3] where a different set of I/O path may warrant a different backend engine. Right now, we're working on a serverless approach leveraging Datafusion (and depending on maturity, Ballista at some point).

My hunch is that we will see more pluggability in this space moving forward. It's not only meaningful from an open-core business model perspective, but also pays dividends to the UX. The company that's solving a domain problem (for us: security operations center infrastructre) can leverage a high-bandwidth drop-in engine and only needs to wire it properly. This requires much less data engineers than building a poorman's version of the same inhouse.

We also have the R use case, e.g., to write reports in Rmarkdown that crunch some customer security telemetry, highlighting outliers or other noteworthy events. We're not there yet, but with the right query backend, I would expect to get this almost for free. We're close to being ready to use Arrow Flight for interop, but it's not zero-copy. DuckDB has demonstrated the zero-copy approach recently [4], going through the C API. (The story is also relevant when doing s/R/Python/, FWIW.)

[1] https://github.com/tenzir/vast
[2] https://github.com/substrait-io/substrait
[3] https://github.com/tenzir/vast/tree/master/cloud/aws
[4] https://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.html
Barcelona has a few pilot superblocks, five or six, but not nearly enough to make it 'boring'. You are perhaps thinking of the square grid, in place since the 19th century.
Monio: The most powerful IO monad implementation in JavaScript
Advice on JSX Conditionals
The whole point about provoking Russia with expanding NATO is missed. If I recall correctly, none of these countries was forced to join NATO - that was people who feared russian imperialism. And, guess what, they were all right, as former Soviet Union attacked Chechnya in 1994, Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. There is no need to provoke Putin. The only thing he needs is assurance that nobody would care.
I'd still argue it's a bad sign if the candidate is stuck with nothing even compiling after 45 minutes. That's not a sign of the problem being complicated, that's a sign of the developer either (a) struggling to figure out dev environment basics, or (b) having a tendency to go way down one solution path without pausing for any simple gut checks / sanity tests of their work in progress.

In the latter case, is it possible for a developer to operate that way and still produce a great solution given more time? I suppose so - but in my experience, the people who are not in the habit of incrementally checking their work are virtually never strong developers.

There's also a time management question here. If a person knows they only have 45 minutes, that should create extra pressure to start testing earlier. Someone who still waits until time's almost up before checking anything is probably a fairly extreme case of this antipattern.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Newton’s Opticks
> older distros don't have much of a hope in hell of getting all reported CVE fixes back-ported

Older distros have always had a ton of privilege escalation bugs and I don’t think that’s ever gonna change. If you can’t keep everything updated, your machines have to be single-tenant.
If that’s a concern, it’s probably pretty easy to filter by wrapping it in some UV blocking filter.
Your comment is completely irrelevant to my point. I already know which nations are NATO and which aren't.
Damn. RIP, lots of laughs a long time ago.
People over cars is opressive? I don’t understand this mentality
A man on a mission to bring back the light gun
Have you taken a bunch of these and still gotten the same ghosting, empty promises, non communication and put in multiple hours of your time for free? I certainly have. The best interviews for me are where I can talk in depth about a topic and to a lesser extent, about a hypothetical problem and how I might handle it.
This is an interesting perspective on how Russia views it. https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4
>> You still get the markup, Tesla just does it directly.

> That’s a good thing. Buyers are able to know the exact price without having to waste hours driving to a dealership and haggling.

Your comment doesn't address the point about markup at all. Knowing an "exact" with a higher markup doesn't seem live much of a good thing to me.
Definitely not quicker and easier, but artificial sunlight (like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw) has impressed me and wondering if there are ready made solution for that
If you enjoy skeumorphic calculators with their data interfaces, and haven't already, look into the RPN[1] notation used in (most, I believe) scientific/programmable calculators. Once you go there, you stay there. Just Google[2] or DDG[3] for it to play around.

1: Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

2: Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=rpn%20calculator%20online

3: DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rpn+calculator+online
It's just that it is very much a "mathematics for engineers" style course. I think very few of the subjects outlined there give you a flavor for what "real" mathematics is really all about at all (except for algebra, which you do mention).

Apart from the applied stuff you mention, the real core of a mathematics education involves, I think, 4 main areas with significant overlap

Group A:
number theory, graph theory, combinatorics

which shares concepts with

Group B:
Algebra, Topology, complex analysis, differential geometry, metric spaces...etc

which shares concepts with

Group C:
Functional analysis, measure theory

which shares concepts with

Group D:
probability and statistics.

As for the applied math that you mention, you should really need to add vector calculus and I'd highly encourage anyone to take a course on fluid mechanics (from a mathematics department instead of an engineering department) to get a real feel for vector calculus in action.
"Russia responded to this regime change by helping Crimea secede"
...is how the annexation of Crimea is described.
In my personal experience, the demographics of America are about 50% employed in a startup, the median education level is PhD, and the most common religion is Judaism.

Personal experience is hogwash. Everyone is convinced their personal experience is an accurate view of how things
really are, and everyone is wrong. I have no idea if the "world's best coconuts pickers first hand experience" is as laughably wrong as my first person experience of American demographics, and I have absolutely no way to find out. Wikipedia standards exist for a reason.
I don't think SSAO is really ever selected over more realistic methods for artistic preference. High budget animated films tend to go for ray traced methods even when they have a non-photorealistic style.

SSAO is just cheap.
> btw, Australia and New Zealand are considered western in this paradigm

Australia and New Zealand are definitely part of 'the West' by any reasonable definition.
Graham's great work deserves generous donations to his favorite charity (which helps refugees, very important these days)!

His approach is much less destructive and annoying than what the commercial version of Unix SimCity did before it was GPL, if you hadn't bought a license, which I called the "Akira Effect".

The free demo version (which could be unlocked by buying a license) would let you play for about 5 minutes, then it would abruptly and without warning melt your city with one of two different cellular automata effects, animating the cells using the SimCity tiles, while the editing tools would still work, and sprites like the monster and tornado would still run around the melting city!

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/simcity/simcity-anno...

>Multi Player SimCity is available directly from DUX Software, and via anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9), in the directory "vendor/dux/SimCity". You may freely copy it, and play the fully functional game in "demo mode" on one display without a license, but the city melts every 5 minutes. If you enjoy SimCity, you can buy a license over the phone by credit card, without leaving your seat! A single player license lets you save and restore your cities, and play for as long as you like on one display; a multi player license lets you play SimCity with your friends over the net!

(You couldn't use credit cards over the internet in 1993 so we had to sell license codes over the phone.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8KJ--drZO8

> Cellular SimCity: Cellular Automata in SimCityNet on Unix.

In retrospect, melting your city seems like a pretty mean and hostile way of intimidating prospective customers into forking over their money. I'm glad Graham's figured out a better approach, which helps a deserving charity, and also reminds you not to ruin you life by playing too much!
> The inflation rate would need to rubber band to a negative rate for anyone to shed tears for the employers.

Deflation would probably cause lots of layoffs, tears would be shed for many.
If it was a good enough method to deliver Hulkbuster to Tony Stark then surely it can work for us.
Nothing is going to beat a photography habit and trying to imitate your favorite photographs. I would also recommend shooting film but I understand why you wouldn’t wanna do that.

The reality is there are no principals with lighting; only opportunities to get different results.
Use an iPad, or any tablet, rather than smartphones.

I also read PDFs full-screen on my high-res, high-dpi laptop.

Try these two.

I have read tens of thousands of pages in PDF. (Yes, I checked)
This is why I always say you should think twice when choosing a ccTLD if you don’t have a presence there. Not every registry has the same uptime as Verisign.
I know, I was wondering, if they did suffer negative effects for it then it was the obvious no free lunch.

Reconsidering things on the macro level I think while there may be no free lunches there are obviously lunches that coincidentally may be so cheap that they are next to free.

For example: aid received from France by Americans during Revolutionary War, treaties signed said supposed to be paid off by Americans siding with France in case of war between France and England, but since French Government changed since time of treaty signing when war came America said oops sorry, we're staying out. That was a really cheap lunch.
How are expired code signing certificates worth anything? Windows won’t run anything newly signed, right? Isn’t that the whole point of time stamp counter signing?
An annual deficit of say $200 billion and an annual deficit of $2-$3 trillion are very different things. We saw the latter in the past few years.
This is a bullshit article full of wrong or ridiculous claims. NATO expansion did tip the balance of power even further in it's favour, but that's because all of the former Warsaw pact countries wanted to go to the better side, and were afraid of Russia ( with good reason).

Furthermore, there are already plenty of possibilities for NATO missiles on or very close to Russia's borders. Ukraine wouldn't make the slightest difference. The Cuban Missile crisis was just peak American hypocrisy ( their missiles in Turkey were ok, but Soviet ones in Cuba weren't) and isn't really related to the current Russian war of agression which is entirely their own choice and of their own making

PS: how is this in top with 4 upvotes?? I flagged it and it still isn't dead
But it's hard to get investors to give you hundreds of millions of dollars to buy tennis shoes, easier to get it for a Gulfstream
Why the Web Sucks (You Just Don't Know It) by Sean Barrett
You don't seem to be getting it. Nearly every Python program is composed of about 99% C these days, especially because Python slants heavily towards data science now.

pandas? numpy? tensorflow? pytorch? All native extensions. All the fast encoders/decoders for various file formats etc are all native extensions. Talk to message queue or anything else that requires fast I/O? Probably also C. Python itself is so slow that it's only really used as glue for these very fast libraries.

So it's not about control it's about actually being able to understand the tools you are using. If you are using this stack but don't know C then you don't really understand the software you are using.

Again, contrast to Java where as long as you know Java you can probably most libraries in common use with a few exceptions. The main exceptions are crypto, compression libs and stuff like Netty.
And yet to my knowledge this has never happened before.
In many ways the big disruption is that EVs require orders of magnitude less service than ICE vehicles.

In the case of Tesla, their gains in reliability are directly transformed into a lesser demand for servicing. Once they get into a inflection point with their fit and finish quality they will likely become less dependent on having a traditional service infrastructure. Instead they can double down on more unorthodox models like mobile service.

Traditional manufacturers, in particular Japanese manufacturers, already achieved peak reliability in ICE vehicles. But even with that, they still need to have a service and maintenance footprint because their cars still break.

The average-reliability EV breaks way less than the top-reliability ICE, so you really need way less service infrastructure if you only sell EVs.
You usually pay up in order to receive increased productivity. It's not the result of some human evolutionary advancement. It's capex spending and modern managerial techniques, both of which cost money.
And an economy. Russian has the economy of Spain, with three times the population. And that economy is 50 percent oil and gas.
>>I'd love to read others that diverge from this

So your argument is you assume Russia wanted to take Ukraine in 100 milliseconds, and if people can't prove you wrong you win?
> If you have a tree of files in an IDE on a sidebar, and you're navigating the tree with arrow keys, and you press Enter. Should it prompt to rename the file or display the source code file you selected?

In VSCode for Macintosh, the Enter key in the file panel is for renaming the selected file. This behavior is coherent with the Finder.
Government spending on deficit doesn't have to cause inflation immediately. it just is likely to cause inflation eventually.

For example Debt to GDP was low and interest rates were high throughout most of the last 40 years so it mostly didn't cause inflation, it caused us to move towards higher debt to GDP and lower rates. But that game eventually plays out and the system requires the stimulus to avoid a deleveraging event but you don't have rates to dig into or GDP to borrow against.

But just saying we did it a bunch and it didn't have that effect last time I think really misinterprets the situation
Didn't .io ( which is a crime against humanity to boot) go down for a few hours a few years ago?
They are called heliostats. They actually built a massive one into a building near my office in order compensate for the loss of natural light in the village square. https://youtu.be/6nYkQR-kPyM
Hello dog – random dog images by breed
Hello Dog!
Random dog images by breed name.
A small project was developed as part of learning CSS, javascript and HTML.

DEMO:

https://rameskum.github.io/hello-dog/

CODE:
https://github.com/rameskum/hello-dog
These are average people right? They worked in like HR or accounting, maybe something more blue collar? Well no wonder they regretted working. I wonder what you would get asking people who worked for a higher purpose? Dying certainly sucks, as does aging.
For what it's worth, the existing game console hardware at the time was the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, so SSAO really would have been ROI back then.
Fijivillage.com reports: "All websites and apps hosted in Fiji with the dotcom.fj suffix are currently down and this has also affected Vodafone’s M-PAiSA services.

This is due to an outage in the University of the South Pacific hosted dotcom.fj domain." [1][2]

[1] https://www.fijivillage.com/news/All-websites--apps-in-Fiji-...

[2] https://twitter.com/fijivillage/status/1501070675691278339
I wanted to like Khan Academy, but the pacing of the exercises is so frustrating. They become too easy too fast and then it's an extremely repetitive slog of useless computations.

I wish for a service just like them but with many more difficulty levels and less (non-spaced) repetition.