skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an ISP anything that is a shared access, contended media like a copper coax segment (DOCSIS3) is a nightmare waiting to happen. The amount of problems that are caused by one person with a leaky/bad connector and line, or things that have gone screwed up at the RF modulation level of the cable plant between the cablemodems and the CMTS.

Imagine hundreds, or thousands of houses out there all with 25+ year old coax jacks in walls, 4-way splitters jammed into ceilings, leaky outdoor connectors that have been chewed on by squirrels, etc.

It's a miracle that DOCSIS3 works at all.

I'm vaguely familiar with the issue that the axe-grindy guy in the original webpage referenced here is complaining about, specific to some series of chipsets used by a popular cheap cablemodem for a few years of manufacturing run... But what he's found is actually a tip of an iceberg of terrible about why maintaining last-mile copper last wireline infrastructure (POTS wiring/DSL or coax for cablemodems) is a losing bet in the long run.
I see multiple platform clients. Is there sync across platforms?
Except it works when you supply the Edge user agent on Firefox, unlike Google services which are much harder to work around.
Honest question here: The companies impacted by this, are they not taking backups of their Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket instances? Or is this outage impacting the ability to import those backups?

There are some Python scripts that will back up Jira and Confluence. I whipped up a quick script that gets a list of all our bitbucket repos and then it clones those daily as well.
The impact on google is non-zero, but much less significant. A google search ad “self targets” based on keywords.

Facebook relies a lot more on device identification and audience targeting. The return on ad spend on facebook campaigns has tanked (anecdata from companies I know that are pulling back on FB spend and ramping elsewhere - someone correct me if there is actual data that says otherwise)
Um, there was an entire CBS series on it? Starring Simon Baker?

It teased a little supernaturalism, but the vast majority was him explaining the cons, tricks, and psychological tricks.

The article is an excellent example. It trades in generalities that sound like specifics.

The envelope with "all the picks made by the audience"... did it get shown? Did the answers actually get stated in a way they solved both options? Was there an opportunity to switch the envelopes?
Hi Dominic, thanks for open sourcing the library. I have quite a few questions though:

1. Marijn has built an awesome open source richtext library (https://prosemirror.net/) which has a huge plugin ecosystem and bindings with a bunch of front-end frameworks (including React). Is there any specific motivation behind building one from scratch?

2. How is this different from Facebook's own DraftJS lib?

3. What's the story of realtime collaboration support with OT/CRDT? Prosemirror had this in mind when designing its state model and delta model, so it comes with out of the box support for realtime collaborations. Can we expect the same with Lexical?

4. What's the cross platform strategy for Lexical? If I store the editor's state as JSON on the server, how will I render it on devices and native desktop apps?

We've built our own library on top of Prosemirror to power the comments and feedback sections of Zoho Writer - https://writer.zoho.com

I'm always looking out for better approaches/alternatives in this space and I'm curious how different Lexical is. Thanks!
Keep in mind that a computer science degree does not necessary mean that you'll be ready to get a job as a programmer. Computer science will teach you the underlying knowledge that makes info tech work. You'll likely need to take additional classes that will teach you how to be a programmer.

Computers are here to stay and there will be a need to write new code and maintain code for many years to come.

If I were you I would pick up a book on learning Python and learn to write a few programs to see how you like it. Programing is just one of the many areas you can specialize in with a computer science degree. Look into what else is available. Also you'll need lots of higher level math so keep that in mind. Many computer science majors end up with a minor in math since they have to take so many math classes that it only takes a few more to get the minor.

What's funny is that you can't get a CS degree with out the math but as a programmer you are very unlikely to ever have to use much more than algebra. There are some programming areas where you do need the higher math but you mostly won't.
I'd love to give this a try next time I'm working on a Ruby codebase. In the meantime, I'm curious to learn more about programming by example. I found [this Microsoft paper on the subject](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...) and have started reading it, but I'm curious if there are any reading materials you would recommend.

Specifically, I've been working on a activity tracking app that can take plain text and create structured data from it. For example

> I played tennis with Kevin and won 6-2

would turn into

```

type: tennis

opponent: Kevin

my_score: 6

their_score: 2

outcome: win

```

As you can imagine, when it comes to natural language there are many variations of I won (outcome: win), he/she/they won (outcome: loss), I was beat, etc which means that my inputs are not nearly as structured as the examples used in the paper I'm reading. Given that I'm not trying to cover every use case in the English language, which I assume would require some form of NLP, but rather just a subset that a single user would input, do you think think it would be possible to solve this with PBE techniques?
Nowadays, Google search results full of tons of AI/auto generated sites like KKnews.cc , which rakes in millions of IP per month with their bad quality/copied contents, also, don't forget those sites often got millions/billions pages, which jammed Google database centers.

I have no idea why Google won't do anything to these spam sites.
High temperature, though I'm confused myself about how a 40% efficient conversion done twice can match a battery. Probably will need to read the actual paper, I thought batteries were on the order of 95%. Maybe it is more energy dense or something.
I love Derren Brown but this is not anything close to his best work. The video starts with a staring competition. Outdoors. On a sunny day. Where Derren is facing away from the sun and the opponent is facing into it.

Some of his other shows are more entertaining - for example he has one where he plays 14 chess grandmasters simultaneously and beats five, draws with four and loses to five. After the masters are duly impressed, he makes it clear that all he did was play the first master’s move against the second, the second against the third, and so on. It’s an ibvious trick but he does it so well, no one seems to notice at the time.

Or he has another where he goes horse racing and convinces the cashier at a bookies to give him money for a losing ticket. The person involved is so clearly confused and shocked that they gave money away (and is clearly not an actor) that the whole piece is pretty compelling - I just don’t believe anyone is both good enough to act like that on cue and at the same time has never appeared in any other work I’ve seen before or since.
well summarized!
Actually it works pretty good on the kind of person who might believe in NLP themselves.

It's hard to take it seriously if you consider it vs a rationalist of course. But what footing does someone who has no idea and doesn't care what any of this 'veracity' stuff is and gets amazed by crap like the shamwow guy selling them garbage on TV or horrible war crime denialist government propaganda? A big part of NLP is just boosting your own confidence that you've got this person on the hook and taking it from there, after that none of this veracity stuff matters because now we're just in the realm of manipulation of belief space, something which is demonstrably way easier than convincing people to take up enough stuff like understanding of math and probability to know otherwise.

This kind of person is the rule rather than the exception and that's why this shit works. It's a large part of the reason why everything is horrible these days. Talking down on people captivated by this stuff for years has only entrenched their beliefs harder. Us rationalists should maybe realize that we're doing it wrong if there's to be any hope for a rational future.

This guy is definitely hand waving like mad though you're right about that for sure
I particularly liked:

> Every time you use Numbers, you should ask yourself: can I run out of numbers?
> Who is paying $3,200

"Audiophiles"
Live versions of fictional sites mentioned on The IT Crowd
To be clear, wouldn't, say, the atmosphere of Titan provide ample cooling opportunity? Heat distribution is, itself, a feature of RTGs, where planet-side things are usually very, very cold.
The Mac Studio is huge compared to the Mac mini. I don't think they cared too much about slimming it down.
Trusted to do what?

I feel like “unlimited” anything, isn’t. “Always and forever” means “while it’s convenient”. It’s marketing speak.
> code review workflows

I see nothing about review workflows in Eden’s README. Any pointers to example tooling — Presentations, code, screenshots — in the wild?
It’s amazing how much stupid shit we do to keep the legal guys happy while their bosses are busy engaging in <checks news headlines%> tax evasion, graft, bribery, fraud, embezzlement, illegal dumping, sexual harassment, sexual assault, statutory rape, solicitation to commit murder, and my personal favorite and I’m sure yours too: human trafficking.

But sure, we can break all of our users to avoid the possibility of you having to write some legal briefs and us paying a small fine for keeping data 7 days instead of three.
> I never found a way to reconcile this.

I guess one sane way is to hire someone to tidy up the house on a daily basis and share the cost.
search engines, not browsers...
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you just haven't looked at the CPU market in the last 5 years, but AMD kicked Intels ass, and Intel is also finally being forced to compete now. There's even a 16c/32t CPU on AMDs standard consumer socket: https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-5950x
In short, oodles of noodles is a better chew than fewer, stranger noodles in your alphabet soup.
A friend was following that book’s suggestions all the day. He sounded so fake. Horrible read IMO.
What a dumb move. They only people printing those are fans of Honda. Is Honda going to make and sell their own toy models? Weird choice to hurt their own fans.
Weeds are just plants but there are reasons to control them, too - for one we value certain plants over others and certain plants are much more beneficial to ecosystems than others. Too many parasites due to poor design is just a parasite farm which is awfully macabre. I have no sympathy for blood sucking parasites: someone else did all the work and they just come along for the ride. To the flames.

On the other hand, I'll tolerate most spiders (yes, not insects, I know) since they actually put the work into making a web and so on.
TikTok created an alternate universe just for Russia
I am champing at the bit for more information about follow ups. Are verification trials planned? Who is doing them? When can we expect answers?

Anyone in the know that can help me on this one?
"Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment."

— Alan Parsons
Why doesn't he instead get s job at a consumer watchdog agency to run these sorts of thing.
I don't know what the audiophiles are talking about, silver is a better conductor than gold, but I know the reason for gold plating on audio connectors has nothing to do with audiophilia, it is because gold does not corrode. What this has to do with sound is skew to the reason it is used, as technically, over a long period of time, the gold plated connectors will definitely sound a lot better than the corroded whatevermetal ones.
If your device is hacked at the firmware level, it can be turned into a microwave weapon and used against you. (My hypothesis of the cause of Havana Syndrome: hacked cell transmitters beaming microwave at targets.)

Tech Ingredients (YouTube creator) made an instructional video about how microwaves work and how to defend against them: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg_aUOSLuRo".
The reason the labor on your book sale is small is because the labor of many others was amplified and aggregated. It is passive to you, but the margin taken from your sale is paying other people.

Technology is an amazing thing, isn't it?

Your hard year of labor to make your book will see more readers, at a lower cost per acquiring readers than was possible before!

I do not follow your capital investment argument. Go ahead, put it out there. What are you thinking?

Let's talk it through.

This is a fairly high value conversation. It always is every time I have it.

Ideally, we build to a point where very little labor is required. We will have created great wealth!

Which brings me back to how we value people, labor, etc...

Some of us will still be doing the basics. Should those people not see some greater measure of that in their lives? Clearly, we will be able afford it.

In any case, using some Latin does not change the hard facts though. I am stating a fact to you. It is not opinion.
This is cool, but I really don't understand what the point of macro photography is on a smartphone.
I really like it. In principle it could be like a window kept open "into the world" while working.

Given the need to interact with your site to change scenes, and that I was trying to work in another window, the constant pausing today (when another window had focus but the POV tab was still visible in its window) was a bit bothersome (clicking again to restart would change the video as well IIRC). I don't know if a setting option would help or distract.

For idle viewing, I wish there were a slide-show option to periodically change videos automatically, and also a "just subtitle country" option especially for relatives who have never been overseas from US, and could learn without extra mental overhead being forced to guess.
Thank for the feedback - we're definitely still working on the docs.

> These are weird and conflated set of buzzwords. Why should something that isn't concerned with UI components be concerned with accessibility best practices?

Are they? Support for speech-to-text technologies and IME/composition input, for example, are independent of UI components.

> but Slate.js is 10kB and much more mature.

Is it?

https://bundlephobia.com/package/slate@0.77.0
Microfossils may be evidence life began 300m years after Earth formed
Password rotation discourages password automation (password managers). Certificate rotation encourages (requires, really) certificate automation.
We don't need straws?
And it's all free, which is simply beautiful!
Sure... my most recent one is an app for the sport of Boxing. It's what I tinker on when I'm tired of coding on business software stuff.

It's getting to be a pretty cool too. It has a "Scorecard" and database for boxers, and I've taken my first (shallow) dive into "Sports Analytics" to predict a winner of an upcoming bout, and it's working pretty good too.
>One claimed they could tell the difference in sound by the source of the electricity

How confident are they of this? Would they be willing to do the experiment?
“Bitcoin will end all war”

Now that’s a quote for the ages…
Context-Less Go – Writing HTTP Services Easily
I cannot fathom why the kitchen sink is so important, to so many women. This topic and its potential bad outcome; divorce comes up in a lot of places, not just this post. It is like this is a megatrend or at least a pattern.
The super rick get loans against their stock holdings and spend the loans like tax free income.
> Why is selling software so weird?

Because it is not, but it should be, sold by the pound.
I have pretty garbage short-term memory in addition to (or because of) ADHD. I made a macOS app to let me take screenshots of parts of a screen and keep them around while I work, essentially extending my own short term memory. I call it ScreenHint (it's essentially a reimplementation of a similar app called Snappy that no longer seems to work) and I use it pretty much every day, any time I'm at my computer.
But the blacklist would be personal, so applying only to me.
Really great work! Especially the time travel functionality feels very innovative. Thank you for it.
It's possible that the scrolling is giving the remote server time to use your CPU/GPU to mine some space cash, but it's also possible that attaching listeners to events that happen many times per second (such as scrolling, mouse movement) is common, especially if 3rd party ads are allowed to interact with the page, making it nearly impossible to know what those ads' scripts are doing.
Thank you so much for all your wisdom and knowledge Alfonso! So nice to learn about your work! I'll be treasuring deeply all that you've shared with me. Perhaps one day I'll have my essays published and I can show you if you're open :)

All the best,
Sam
It wasn't always so easy. Doing maps in the mid 90s relied on very limited tools and ones imagination. Build actually helped push things forward a lot. Glad to see modern Doom tooling has risen to the occasion.
Based on the twitter thread this bottleneck only seems to apply to the M1 Ultra that is currently only in the $2k+ Mac Studio and no other Macs or phones so 0.1% doesn't sound too far off.
Everything that needs manual entry can utilize text editor features greatly! Search and replace, multiple cursors, duplication, formatting etc. However, there will require some fancy ways to put result back in input sources.
Thanks for that info, I've already looked up the timetable and current fares and the prices are more reasonable than I thought they'd be. From a somewhat vague memory of Mozart's fares, I reckon these current prices are even cheaper than they were back then (which seems strange—perhaps my memory is wrong). Or it may be that SNCF uses a different more competitive pricing structure than did the former. It's also possible that I've screwed up the conversion from Austrian shillings to Euros (I'll give it some more thought).

Moreover, I thought the couchette prices to be very competitive to what I've experience in the past. (Again, my memory may not be correct but I base that comparison on my recollection on what I thought I paid for my last couchette which was from Paris to Bordeaux.)

Also, the option to go via Zürich is certainly most welcome, one of which I'd gladly take advantage.

This all reminds me that I must return to Vienna again soon (I lived there long enough to consider it my second home). :(
I am a consulting mentalist (i have book published for that public and designed a stage show amongst other things) and... This article is very empty. It mostly quotes small points from thinkers in that domain to a public who does not care about those small points as they don't know what mentalism is.

Mentalism is an ensemble of techniques (including mnemotechnic, hypnosis, magic tricks, a knowledge of statistically likely phenomenons and, indeed, a trained intuition) used to produce incredible phenomenons (usually psychic phenomenons or an impressive mastery of the human mind) in an entertainment setting.

One point that is worth stressing is that it is neither all real (magic tricks are great to make things look better / add some punch and anyone telling you they don't use them is either lying or very ignorant) nor all fake (anyone telling you otherwise is, similarly, likely ignorant or a magician who did some telepathy-themed tricks and think that it is all there is to it, the human mind is an amazing toy).

If you want to be entertained by a world class mentalist, I highly recommend watching some Derren Brown shorts on YouTube (as someone else suggested).
> I'm building my own text editor and I thought VSCode was impressive enough. See this well written article about their text buffer reimplementation: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r.... Then I realized Ace.js has some even crazy magic implementation that can handle millions of LoC files without lag. Can Lexical handle 100k+ LoC?

Also, to clear up any confusion, Lexical isn't a code editor - it could be used to build one, for sure, but some sort of virtualization would probably be required in order to support millions of lines of code.
To all the sarcastic posters: you do realize Au has a lower resistance, and much better wear characteristics, both of which are important not only for Analog signals but also for digital ones (atleast in terms of service life), right ?
> Support for speech-to-text technologies

So Lexical doesn't care about how the DOM is rendered? Or is speech-to-text derived independent of the DOM?

> but Slate.js is 10kB and much more mature.

The maturity bit, yes.

For the bundle size, Slate.js is still better. It's the same bundle size for something that's batteries included.
Also, bad and low quality doom levels can be extremely fun to play. There is a fun element to this as well.
I think you may not appreciate how intertwined your verbal cognitive skills are with your ability to think / type / communicate.
An analogy as to I feel about this article is turning on a random cable channel and then concluding that everything on TV is boring. But occasionally you get games that are pretty outstanding.

Let's also not forget that boring TV programs and boring games serve a purpose; sometimes you want to do something mindless and boring. Both these roles have broad mainstream appeal, but note of course that there is (or seems to me to be) an overrepresented enthusiast audience that wants tough gameplay that require investment and perseverance to complete.
I wanted to have a digital journal that:

1) backed up simply by storing in Google Drive (no special servers or DBs)

2) was principally for Markdown, but capable of storing entries of any type

3) dispensed with any form of folders in favor of tagging and a powerful search, using only the filename to store the tags

I couldn't find anything I really liked, so built https://github.com/mieubrisse/cli-journal . Haven't needed to modify the code in 2 years and it's still working great.

I'm currently (lazily) working on Montu, a terminal app that will read in a Markdown checklist and allow you to check things off with Vim-like bindings while editing the underlying checklist: https://github.com/mieubrisse/montu . It started with my desire to automatically check off the parent checkbox when you check off the children, and grew from there.
Makeup is only the left half of the photo. The right half is just the lotion aisle, which is also locked up. I've never seen this anywhere else before.
I’d suspect likely the same result as the gold plated sata cables:

> someone had set up an experiment with an open invitation, only for no one to turn up
Pretty much all modern GPUs, discrete or integrated, use MMUs/TLBs to access out of core memory. I can confirm that the PowerVR has had an MMU since at least the SGX days (the page table management can been seen in the (barely) Linux kernel portion of their driver that they open sourced eons ago). Most of the other integrated GPUs got on board a few years later. Discrete GPUs have had MMUs over a decade since that gets them better perf, as there's less validation of the command buffers needed if worse case you can only crash your own user context. that_was_always_allowed.jpeg Leaning into those ubiquitous MMUs is half the point of Mantle/Vulkan/DX12/Metal, since you can rely on hardware protection and get to remove the older standards' required validation checks if you can only crash your own process's code (ideally, baring bugs that for sure exist).