skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can sell to the world that the US won’t. Such as Iran, and other non western countries like India.
So, social distance & vaccinate by exposing yourself to balanced information and knowledge so that you have a defense against crazy fringe thoughts?

If it works in meatspace then it should be somewhat effective in the mental realm, right?
Yes, usenet, good old deeply technical discussions like

"Have you ever kissed a girl?" https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sun.hardware/c/wCd7fHnz...

by Sun employee Bryan Cantrill (dtrace) :)
Right, biggest pain point we're trying to solve for is engineers getting pulled away from their work to build, maintain, conduct, and evaluate interviews. I recently spoke to Stripe engineers that spend 2 hours a day, every day, on this. A Brex EM also every engineer on the team conducts 1 - 2 onsite interviews every week. Eng time is the biggest expense in the recruiting funnel, and it's particularly difficult to solve for that problem. We're hoping that if Litebulb can take care of some of the more tedious code analysis work, then we can help teams reduce their eng spend, or use the newly available time to build deeper connections with candidates as humans.

When it comes to changing engineering culture, I completely agree that a single tool like this isn't going to cut it, but we're seeing a big shift in new startups focusing a lot more on real work relevant take homes and/or work trials. For example, Gumroad (disclaimer: a client), does a Litebulb interview as the entrypoint, then it's straight to a 4-8 week paid trial on flexible hours with a choice of which project to work on. We're hoping that we can be a part of, and accelerate, this culture shift.
> My strong opinion as someone who majored in math is that, at least within the US, the standard calculus requirement should be replaced with statistics. So much more useful and so much more important as an adult.

Strong agree, but engineers probably need both. I'm currently watching a course on causal inference, and the tools are very much calculating gradients. And even if you just use someone else's MCMC, even in the models a differential equation or integral can randomly appear usefully.

In retrospect I should have taken a stats class in high school when I had that 1 hour gap for 1 semester, just to build a better intuition around the basic concepts.
The Russian Embassy described the incident as a "criminal act of insanity" - I feel the same way ... Mr. Putin, tear down that war!
Or Mitsubishi.
Regrets of the Dying (2010)
> JS, expecially from an external website, is something that should not be required to view a video

You expect everyone to self-host videos?
> I just think that objective, material reality is less objective and less material than I thought all along

When people say "objective, material reality" they normally mean ... well, things like the gravity and chemistry and stubbing your toe being painful. What story you want to use to describe the aggregate behaviour of 100 million human voters has very little to do with that, surely
Flash existed for Android. Ignoring the fact that it was slow, buggy, and power-hungry—the same arguments against it everywhere else—why didn't it thrive? Why couldn't it compete with the Google Play store, if it would have been such a keen competitor to the Apple App Store?

You're way too hung up on this idea that everyone loved Flash until Steve Jobs commanded them not to. My understanding was that it was pretty easy to create animations and rudimentary games in it, so, sure, maybe creators were pretty fond of it? Maybe even too easy, which is why we saw "look what I can do!" Flash websites in places where it was entirely unnecessary and unhelpful (restaurants were notorious for this). But end users never liked it. Or Java applets, for the record.
> The other side of the coin: back in the 90's, US + EU + Russia "agreed" no more expansion to the East.

Stop repeating this nonsense or show the treaty.
To summarize:

Back in the 90's the grass was greener, people did not film themselves breaking the law, the apps were simple, had less ads, used less bandwidth, and there was a lot of structured content. And nowdays its all the opposite -- the algorithmic feed and social networks cause people to abuse animals and eat random medications that talk show hosts recommend.

To fix this, you should ask users which features to implement, have less ads and less algorithms, think with compassion, and separate humor/memes from serious content.
Surreal: Art’s weirdest worldview bounces back a century after its birth
It was a webcomic that was popular when slashdot and kuro5hin were more popular. You can read more about it on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly
> ...btrfs just has very few advantages compared to ZFS. Really the only thing going for it was being available in mainline kernel builds.

ZFS doesn't have defrag, and BtrFS does.

There was a paper recently on purposefully introducing fragmentation, and the approach could drastically reduce performance on any filesystem that was tested.

This can be fixed in BtrFS. I don't see how to recover from this on ZFS, apart from a massive resilver.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_sum...
Coinbase blocks 25k Russian crypto accounts
I agree with all of this, however...

Parties to the U.N. Charter need to do better. There is no way back to the stable world, such as it was. And not least of which is, we were wrong about it having been stable.

This is too big a violation of the U.N. Charter to just set it aside and go back as if nothing happened. And that it happened, when the U.N. Charter system is designed expressly to prevent this from having happened, also shows there's a problem. Is it institutional? Or was it just wishful thinking that turned out to not be true? And now what?

Because we need the U.N. Charter's institutions now more than ever. If it is really under threat, it means we're at even bigger risk of yet another world war, the very thing the U.N Charter system is intended to prevent.

We now confront the very real possibility of the stability-instability paradox is true. As a result of Putin using nuclear weapons as a shield to permit him to commit atrocities with conventional weapons, which increases the risk of escalation to and including a nuclear exchange. That means there is a gap opening between conventional war and mutually assured destruction, a kind of limited nuclear exchange. The similar idea of having to crap so badly you think, "well maybe I'll just let a little bit out".

Which is worse? The idea of a little bit of nuclear weapons exchange? Or giving up on principles and getting a nuclear war anyway? I prefer to stick to the principles, and be damned to hell for them than to just give up these principles to the likes of Putin.

Kenya's Ambassador to the U.N. talking about Ukraine and the U.N. Charter system falling, just before the invasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZlaiuicYM
Could you set the tests up so that candidates have a choice of framework? (and the hiring company can choose which ones). We use React at work, but I'd probably be quite happy to accept solutions in Vue and Svelte (and maybe Angular 2+). Similarly for backend work we use Node.js + Postgres, but I might be willing to accept solutions in Python, Ruby, Java, C# and MySql, Sql Server for example.
If you already need an app on your phone to use the system... why not vibrate the phone? The user is likely holding in their hands to read something (or listening to music with it). I'm not looking at the display for an emoji...
> You think that HN is the home of black-and-white thinking and mindless, uncritical acceptance of main-stream media?

Not really. It wasn't so much a reflection on HN in general as "HN when a ruthless dictatorship invades a democratic country in a flagrant breach of international law". I'm happy that my apprehension was proven wrong, the post survived and at least some intelligent discussion ensued.

Edit: It got flagged after all.
In 2016, definitely. In 2020, after several troubling compromises, I'm not so sure?
TIL that Apple didn't event this
Feat of engineering, sure. But the look is "mid oughties white plastic" which is about as dated and vintage as the off-white 80s plastic enclosure of the Apple IIe was at that time

And oh god were the laptops ugly. They looked like a seat cushion!
Yeah every paragraph is a new invitation to refute unreasonable assertions, I concluded that there is no value in this post and I'm exiting this discussion.
Ship. Get feedback. Then do it again. Now some more times.

Perfectionism occurs due to a lack of information. You don’t know what “good enough” is so you err on the safe side. The more you put something in front of people and then talk to them about what they think the better calibrated you’ll be.
Announced the day of the Ukraine invasion...
As a math PhD I have to say the only way you're going to learn mathematics is if you actually have a pressing need to do so. i.e. You have a project at work that needs some math, you have a hobby that needs some math. In this case you just learn what you need. Just learning math for its own sake outside of a University STEM track is just too hard (I wouldn't be able to do it and I've tried).
Sure it may not be the best but they’re still pretty good.

I would also want to be careful about differentiating between Russian military performance and the effectiveness of its MIC. Russian Military failures seem to be largely tactical; their weapon systems seem to be working as expected.
Got announced 2 weeks ago https://web.archive.org/web/20220225082910/http://ars.userfr...
Completely agree! This is indeed a big problem, and we have so many CTOs, VPs and founders willing to jump into 6 figure contracts if it works. The biggest risk here is execution, not market size.
What’s the point of a false flag if nobody knows about it?

See GP… the point of a false flag is to drive a narrative. Otherwise you are just damaging yourself for no reason.
Thank you for your clarification (and for the article).

Could you elaborate a bit more? I see the point of sociable tests, but I don't see how nullable infrastructure does not break the pattern itself. Or, actually, I only see one way in which it does not break sociable tests: if the null implementation is tested against the _real_ implementation, guaranteeing that it does not drift away. At this point, using the null version of a wrapper in another test is guaranteed to test the correct interaction with the infrastructure.

Is this it, or is there something else that I am missing?
I have to go Blue G3 (I even have one), the fact for the G4 they went grey and got rid of the huge lettering underneath the side plastic was a real disappointment. I guess it was too fun for a "professional" system...
Thanks! I've had a few people point this out which is very helpful.
it's now on our todo list.
You are just nervous. And it's not necessarily a bad thing - most normal people get nervous, and smart people typically start understanding just how much they don't know which causes even more nervousness.

I was much the same, until I realized just how many people make broad claims like they are objectively right, especially on HN. It's not an insult, but more of presenting opinions as fact ("microservices are bad", "java sucks", "the best way to do x is y").

So, it made me feel better to just speak to what I know as if it's the truth, just like other folks do. I don't wonder if I'm giving a good answer, I speak as if I'm giving the only answer. Not to be a knowitall, but it helps with confidence when speaking if I can maintain that mindset.
It was a series of comics aimed at people who work in IT. You might have come across some of their sketches without realising it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly
Buy a textbook on the subject and read it over a period of time (not in one sitting).
> Fortran and Cobol used to be "FORTRAN" and "COBOL", too, but once systems with support for upper- and lowercase-letters became widespread, they went mixed-case

COBOL is still “COBOL” (at least per the IBM page on the language and the ISO/IEC 1989:2014 standard for the language.
I meant to say all big sales steam has. You know, the ones that brought in like 80% of the users since they were getting such a good deal.

“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,” - GabeN

Seems like a pricing issue as well as a service issue.
But it's not centralized. Yes, the gay porn store might have a VHS security cam, and the phone can locate you to the shopping center where the gay porn store is, and also walmart and home depot, but none of this is centralized, and none of those things can be easily done en masse.

Look at tracking for example... even in ancient history, someone could follow you around whereever you went, but that meant a dedicated person following you, and only you. For someone else, another dedicated person. And a wage, someone to replace them after their workday is done, etc. Now, with mobile phones, you can track 95% of the population just by doing a simple database query. There is a huge difference between those two levels of tracking.
The paper had a comparison table gainst the prev. version CVC4 and Z3. cvc5 found more solutions than the other 2. Their python API is the same, it's a drop-in replacement against Z3, its C++ Api is better, its solver is better.

I just miss the comparison against lingeling and others. will have to wait for next competition. most cvc4 users, like Isabelle and Ada Spark will upgrade soon.
Prusa uses 3D printed parts and I'm a bit surprised just how good the prints are.
So does firefox if you're using this browser https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Responsive_De...
Please don't attempt to equate internet traffic to door locking. It's a tired old argument that fails the moment critical thought is applied.

> Unauthorized access can occur whether the bucket is public or not. The law does not require that sufficient measures (or any measures, really) be taken to protect the assets in question. We can disagree as to whether it should, but that's not how it's written today.

Citation needed. Probably more than one. Web scraping is most certainly legal. Everything involved in the ridiculous "breaking and entering an unlocked residential door" is done a billion times a day by web scrapers as a matter of course. The act if doing GET / wraps up finding a home, evaluating its entrances, knocking, opening the door, and taking photos of the entryway. In 50ms.

I do agree with your last line. Definitely think about whether a judge would laugh at you or not...
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I read a Murakami novel in high school, 1Q84. The protagonist is a math teacher who talked about math in a way that I had never seen before. I'd been told I was "good at math" beforehand(for whatever that means, I'm not a fields medalist or anything), but for ~6 months after reading that book, I was _really good_. Like, suddenly I did not have to do any homework in my sr. year calculus class. I loved sitting in class and watching my teacher work through problems, and it seemingly imprinted directly into my brain, because while doing no homework I could still ace the exams while writing with a pen (no erasing and re-do'ing with a pencil). All because of the way this fictional teacher from 1Q84 talked about math.

Has anyone else had an experience like that? (With math or other things?)
I kind of wonder if Putin's rationale for starting a fire at that Ukraine plant was "let's show them nuclear power can be risky... if some bad guy starts firing at it".
Do you have an example of a false flag without a media circus around it?
The unstated is that the core problem here (lack of USB2 on a USB3 connector) is _NOT_ standard. This is generally only a problem on the plethera of shit arm/etc SoCs using garbage IP where the vendor is only interested in checking a box, than actually providing a working/compliant implementation of the specification.

Part two of this problem are the USB2 implementations that don't provide USB1 Transaction Translators (TT), so keyboards/etc won't work.

And as a 3rd note, the Pi4 actually has good USB3 because its implemented by a 3rd party XHCI controller like one might find on a random PCIe card. Combined with a usb3 hub with multiple TT's it should be possible to attach a number of SDR's etc at reasonable rates. Good luck figuring this out from the usb3 hub details unless it lists the chip its using.
Anyone know of an open equivalent to Caesar II? I feel like this is just before these SIM games became enjoyable for me.
More common is probably better, for me I have those in my background and it seemed to workout!
I got fed up with all these complicated calculators and re-implemented the original Mac calculator desk accessory at https://CalculatorDA.com.
It does the simple things I need while giving me a nice nostalgia buzz.
Looks to be Mac only, any good cross platform alternatives?
I must have re-read this site multiple times over... still go back every now and again... looks like it is archived though. First post: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225094808/http://ars.userfr...
I think you misread the title as “how to remake (almost) anything”
I find it a very interesting question to ponder. It may not play well with the crowd here, but ask what sort of society allows an individual to accumulate tens of billions of dollars while others have none? Now, I'm not (yet) advocating that we eat the rich, but isn't something fundamentally wrong when so much money (and power) can be held by an individual? What does that mean for a well-functioning economy? Or politics? Can you truly have a democracy with such wealth discrepancy?
I just want a place I can go to weekly for 15min to practice math. It keeps track of what I know and gives me exercises of stuff so I can retain the skills.

I've forgotten 90% of the math stuff I learned
It’s mostly a joke but it did result in jobs and money being dispersed among poor farmers in rural Australia with zero casualties (human) and minimal emu casualties.

Plus Emus won so, for the Emus, this is perfect because it means they’ve never lost a war and there hasn’t been another one waged against them since! Plus, as Emus are notable for never once using a gun in war, it’s probably good as a case study for pacifist strategists.
Robin Hanson expressed some doubts about this list back in 2010: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/deathbed-regret-is-fa...
This is what we saw too when we were hiring for our own engineers 2 months ago. A surprisingly good filter is "can you even get started?". Like, the fact that our interviews required users to navigate Github, setup a dev env (even if it's just the make command), understand the existing code and prompt alone filtered out a non-negligible percentage of the candidate pool.
A fun story regarding Milo.

https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Author here. I agree that a lot of things make the rich richer, including our current financial system. However, I decided to mention this point since often times crypto's promise is to build a more equitable financial system, help developing countries and so on.
> GP said one reason Russia and US might not be allies is because of democracy, when clearly that hasn't stopped US from being allies before.

No, that's not what GP said. They said "because of democracy, and ...". So what are you arguing?

> GP brought up the topic of invasion, I didn't.

But you brought up a statement, that implied, that somebody justified invasions based on lack of democracy.
I think the author is mixing up College (i.e. a trade school) and University (i.e. an institution of higher education). For some reason both of them are synonimous (as well as school?) in US english.
This thread has been a fascinating exercise in reading comprehension. I was replying to the statement "Google isn't really rent seeking with Youtube."

Rent seeking is a form of making profit. So of course they are making a profit. The question is whether they are making a profit in order to fund their operations as was suggested by the person I was replying to, or if they are "rent seeking".

According to wikipedia "Rent-seeking is the effort to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth."

That is why I said they "at some point they decided to turn the screws and really ramp up advertising". The claim I am making is a direct reply to the person who said they are not rent seeking, they are merely seeking profit to fund their operations. I am making the claim that they have moved beyond that to seeking profit without creating additional value in their service.

Now one can argue whether or not I am correct, but what was never under question was whether or not they are making a profit. The only thing being questioned was the purpose and result of that profit seeking.
The Federal Government has no desire to run a proof of work system. A digital ledger is all they need for this.
I agree that this does not on its surface seem possible, but I can think of a few explanations.

1. I recently spent a week on one section of one chapter of a math book. I was able to follow it within an hour on the level of "these are the rules and this is the sequence of their application," but I have stuck with it since then because I wanted to understand it well enough that the proof they chose to use would seem obvious to me. If you saw "understanding math" like the peak of a mountain, you'd get there a lot more quickly, but if you want to try out every permutation of every device and condition anything can take forever.

2. Algebra seems simple in retrospect, and my teenage self was kind of dumb. Maybe with my complete adult brain I'd be able to finish highschool starting from scratch in a few months. Evidence to that point is the pacing of college remedial math classes. Maybe, to a certain extent, people have an innate math setpoint that they will snap to very quickly when given the chance.

3. Intelligence is equally distributed between genders, but most professional physicists are men, which means that for every professor there is almost exactly one corresponding woman who has equal potential but isn't in the system. If you heard that the department chair at a university sat down and read a book about topology without a lot of trouble you wouldn't be surprised at all. In other words, it's not surprising that someone can do this, it's surprising that someone who can do this is not in the social bucket for people that do it, but if you think about the other things you've heard about that, you realize you already knew.

I am inclined towards #3 out of all these explanations but all may be true at once.