skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube personality/gamer star is this generation’s Hollywood. People used to move to LA and work jobs whilst trying to get a break into the industry — and of course very very few ever succeeded.
Oh man, if one can only be considered accomplished when inventing completely new things I will never amount to anything :(
I've always wondered if that salmon sushi in Sushi Express is actually salmon or rainbow trout
Yes. The current information coming from Twatter is is perfectly accurate.
except it is not full end to end ECC, only inside the chips so they can get away with higher internal bit error rates (much like SSDs).

"Enterprise" systems will continue to need additional ECC handling with motherboards and chipsets that support error correction over the transport of the data between memory and CPU.

Detecting bit flips (due to cosmic rays etc) inside the RAM is still a great thing and its great it will be available to everyone, but in the end, as densities continue to increase, the consumer may be still be presented with a similar bit error rate to before.
Looks like the difference could be structured in a stock swap.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-holding-compan...
Being wise is great, but sometimes living in ignorance and bliss is just as fulfilling. It's not always necessary to know everything.
So basically all commercial banks are free to issue unlimited loans (and create unlimited new dollars)?
Mutation means the same thing now as it did back then. What has changed is that we now understand how it works. The concept of punctuated equilibrium was introduced in 1972. It is the leading theory based on present understanding. I'm not sure what you mean by "less defensible."
If I'm not mistaken, you've completely misunderstood my comment. And as far as I can tell, your comment is making the opposite point that you think it does.

I didn't "acquire the knowledge" from a third-party; as I describe in detail in my comment, I figured it out through two minutes of experimentation with software I didn't mind risking (what you call "inference and logical deduction").

In fact, you're committing exactly the error you're being so dismissive of! Theoretical knowledge that installed software may retain hidden connections to their installers did not comport with my initial experiment. And indeed, I have never once encountered an issue deleting installer files.

There are very possibly edge cases that my experimentation didn't cover. But the path of experimentation and deduction put me in a position far superior to my incurious friend's, without any observed costs in the years since. This is part of the power of empiricism: I may be concerned with a subset of the situation (eg a certain type of installer) that isn't well-formulated in the theoretical question, but that is the relevant domain for my decision.
As a UW grad myself, I find myself wishing u/version_five would have posted a top-level comment providing the context of why they feel this is an interesting thing to share to HN. I suspect that might have helped set the tone for a more useful discussion.

Three people elsewhere in this thread have commented:

(1) wondering if "there is a website that tracks these things"

(2) asking whether or not this contravenes the Candian Human Rights Act

(3) wondering why Waterloo is being singled out

I don't know much about these topics. Handily, though, the job posting itself seems to address the spirit of these questions by:

(1) citing multiple studies over a period of several years showing that women are under-represented in full-time faculty positions generally and Canada Research Chairs specifically

(2) citing the Ontario Human Rights Commission which permits government programs (for example, the Canada Research Chair program), to be discriminatory if they attempt to ameliorate or remediate discrimination elsewhere

(3) citing UW's 2020-2025 strategic plan that identifies UW in particular as under-representing women on faculty.

For additional context, UW's IAP [1] system shows that as of 2019, Waterloo ranked at the very bottom of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities for percentage of full-time, regular, faculty members who identify as female. I don't know how the Faculty of Environment compares to the broader university.

I can understand people not liking affirmative action. But... the questions that were posed thus far in the comments _were_ actually addressed in the job posting, at least, in spirit.

[1]: https://uwaterloo.ca/institutional-analysis-planning/univers...
If the 2nd seat had also ejected that Rafaele could have come down pretty much anywhere, it could have easily led to lives lost on the ground.
He's never been a showman. It's a ridiculous internet myth that thinks that he is. Anyone who says he's a showman really has no understanding of the guy and hasn't looked at what he's said outside of the stuff he's put on twitter. Listen to his speeches, and not the one where it's some bland interviewer that constantly interrupts him.
Hahaha this hurt
Maybe I was unclear. That sha1 collisions can be manufactured is a problem.

That collisions theoretically exist is not a problem, only being able to compute them reasonably. (Reasonably being the sum of a human lifetime)
You can do the same with 1 config item using Karabiner-Elements also. Same exact thing just offering another option!
I suspect he just wanted to pull himself back 'down' against the seat. I guess if the seat comes up to meet you that's roughly the same effect.
I noticed that you didn't mention which of these arguments were good or bad.
I once had a business owner put forth a similar contract after they had purchased the company where I was employed for a few years. I refused to sign (I was only one out of 60 or so employees that did so). The "accountant" told me I would never work in California again as all companies were moving in this direction. I'm still employed in CA, however, that company no longer exists. :).
I can see the headline now: “The one lone user who deleted his Twitter account after Elon Musk’s acquisition”
Fair, is it still theoretically possible that primordial black holes of mediocre sizes are floating around?

Also of course experimental black hole creation is in the realm of science fiction but so was going to the moon 150 years back. Question is if there’s a fundamental theoretical block , similar to FTL , in achieving it?
I don't see how this relates to the question the parent comment was asking. But yes, the US does have a history with resentment of Asian immigrants, one of the first laws regarding immigration was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and you may be able to surmise from the title what that law did. I think you'll find that conservatives make very capricious allies once they believe you are "stealing their jobs".
It's still not as easy as MD5, which can be done in a few seconds on a 10-year-old CPU.
I got out of the Navy in 2018 and I have experience a rather different tale. I found many enterprising people in the military, but all somewhat naive. The amount of pyramid schemes and get rich quick schemes I've seen people do or try to push on me was amazing. One that stands out is the Vemma/Verve one. About half the ship was hell bent on they were all gonna get rich on Verve.
I’m curious if there is anything that, if shown to be true, you would acknowledge as evidence of his accomplishment?
Since you are an HN user yourself, I suppose you support having hiring quotas for HN users?
We use Google drive at my corporate, and half the devs are on Linux. I wonder if this space was more competitive if Google would feel more urgency. A part of the issue is we use Google for calendar and email as well.
Try F#: Strongly typed but 100% inference of types => best of both worlds.
I actually attempted some of 2021's Advent of Code in Koka.

It was fun for the first couple of questions, but then got really painful for a couple of reasons. None of this is a complaint on the project, as it is still a research language and has not had a lot of effort invested into getting others to use it.

What I really liked was how easy it was to write parsers due to the effect system. i.e. you'd write a parser that looked like a direct imperative translation of the BNF grammar or the problem statement, and then the effect system would propagate the actual input through the call graph and each parser would only have to deal with its small part.

However several things made me get frustrated and stop which wouldn't have happened with better documentation and more source code to look at.

As someone who has no theory background in effect systems, the syntax was very oblique. i.e. when do I need to mark that my function needs to have a `| e` effect or a `, e` effect. I'm not a fan of the Haskell style of introducing single-letter free variables without any syntactic convention. For example, in Rust, the tick is used to clearly mark that something is a lifetime annotation. The rules about how lifetimes propagate, and so when you need to introduce 2 or more lifetimes are explained clearly (if not in the Rust docs, then somewhere else on the internet). That wasn't the case for Koka's effect syntax. In addition, I would sometimes stumble onto effect annotations that should've worked according to my limited understanding, but didn't. The compiler errors in such cases were really meaningless to me. Other times, I feel like the errors almost indicated that what I was doing was semantically correct, but was not yet implemented in the compiler. Also apparently the `_` has special meaning at the beginning of an effect annotation, but I only found this out from trial and error. Eventually I would just give up on annotating any functions until the compiler complained, but this made it difficult for me to understand my own code (it was like writing Python without type annotations).

The API docs are mostly just type signatures, which means unless it is some simple function, or it is used in the koka implementation sources, you are left scratching your head about how to use the standard library. Things like `ref()` types could also use much more elaboration.

Also, at the end of the day, Advent of Code solutions are generally pretty small scripts, where there isn't a need for effect systems. It was often easier to just use Python and its solid standard library.

Overall, it is an interesting language and I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

My very limited code if anybody is interested: https://github.com/nikhilm/AdventOfCode2021
“Americans love the German grocery chains Aldi and Lidl”

This headline does not need to be worded as clickbait.

BTW a great use of AI would be to detect clickbait headlines and automatically rewrite them as the page loads based on an analyzed summary of the pre-fetched link content.
Spoken like a coastal elite. I’ve lived on the east coast, Midwest, and Cali. The Midwest is no more insular than anywhere else I’ve lived.
Burned CD.

When I got married (20+ years ago) I burned a CD full of music for the DJ. Songs that were not likely in his/her collection.

I found the CD in a box about a year ago, and it is currently in my car stereo. All the songs are in tact.

Oh.. My xbox also reads and plays the music.
He's one of the most "accomplished" people on this planet that is alive today.
Sxhkd and espanso together are closer to AutoHotKey, but still not comparable, unfortunately. Adding uinput to the mix gets closer (and in some ways further), but requires custom coding.
Dropbox works on zfs, xfs and btrfs just fine.

Source: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/syste...
> This was fun, but my gut reaction to the title was “it doesn’t have to be easy, just possible” and that holds.

It really depends why you’re hashing and what the consequences of a collision are. Using a hashing algorithm to protect sensitive data (should I hash passwords with SHA-1?) should weight the value of this answer significantly differently than using it as a convenient lookup optimization (should I use SHA-1 to identify git references?). And there’s a spectrum between those, where that convenience might be an attack surface (can I impersonate someone’s git commit?) or might be worth the risk (does it matter if I can easily find a collision?).

Unless I’ve missed some new proof, it should be assumed the answer to “is it possible?” will likely always be yes. The question then becomes “has the known wisdom on the following questions changed since I last asked?”, followed in no specific order by, “how plausible is the collision? how much do I care if it happens? how motivated are people to find it? are there other plausible mitigations in place? is the known wisdom on these questions likely to change in a way meaningful to me? how soon?”
SMB3 is secure over the internet. But you really have to make sure it is an encrypted connection. In Samba you do this by adding:

server min protocol = SMB3
smb encrypt = required

to the [global] section of your smb.conf.
"There’s no retail willingness to pay, but a lot of willingness to inquire and waste someone’s time."

I was willing to pay good money for GPU repair, sent out a few emails and heard back only crickets - maybe I wasn't looking in the right place, dunno. But yeah, repairing minor stuff might not be cost effective
F# is a great example of a strongly typed language where you almost never have to write type’s explicitly. The best of both worlds IMHO.
I don't think describing them as "rural peasant societies" is a great perspective to assume.
The latter would work better in terms of energy losses, but would require major overcapacity in the interconnectors between Spain and France (from Spain's and France's point of view). They'd drag their feet.

We are where we are. Politics is a thing.

If it pushes along the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, I don't care if it's "inefficient". Show me a major company that hasn't wasted money or done something in a way that is technically less than optimal.
Microsoft glass storage is probably close to the best but not commercially available: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

35 mm film is also interesting but probably costs a fortune: https://www.piql.com/services/long-term-data-storage/
Fun fact: Maryland was a slave state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Maryland
You're missing the games Elon plays to manipulate the market and pretend to be interested.
Another thing to note is just because someone puts a piece of paper in front of you doesn't mean you need to sign it. It also doesn't mean you need to object. You can just ignore it.

For example, if you are already employed, your employer may want you to sign another document. I've successfully pocketed such documents and not returned them. I was never called on it.

If they don't force the issue, there's no point in making it an issue.
Security isn't measured in time, it's measured in money.

If my secret is worth $10 and it costs $500 to crack, nobody will bother.

If my secret is worth $1 million and it costs $900,000 to crack.... I have a serious problem.
Proving cryptographic security by financial incentive seems to be the most useful aspect of blockchains.
Exactly. The racism and class prejudice is so blatant in this discussion it’s pretty wild.

Bunch of representative bias anecdotes, mostly be people who don’t live there, or haven’t in 20 years.

And yet, if the same environment were to be encountered in another country, it would be “culture”.
Agreed, my motivation is bad joints, and performance and convenience are a bonus if they happen.
Library Cat
Why should one be expected to 'get ahead' if they didn't have skills and prepare for having an income to allow this, but had 4 kids? The rational answer there is to to have less kids, and spend more time working on a career!
I’m not certain my experience is relevant in this context, but I’ve been fighting contract language for over 30 years. I’m a pro photographer and producer in the biz for many years. I produce unique content that is quite challenging to recreate.

So many contracts contain what I call “rights grabs”. They are attempting to transfer my IP to them for maximum profit. I’ve fought this trend with success for decades.

I simply cross out the offending language in the contract and make the license contingent on the agreement proceeding as I describe. I’m happy to abandon a contract if it does not go my way (a luxury not everyone has).

My largest checks in the past two years have been from lawsuits brought against copyright infringement. In every case my contract revisions have withstood legal challenge and the defenders/offenders have folded when they proceeded as if the original contract language (before I altered, after they signed) stood.

There are lawyers who have pursued this niche to great success and I have lawyer team ready to pursue infringement on a contingency basis. It is quite amazing.

More than once now, my lawyers have fought for years when the infringers had deep pockets and a terror of precedent. They paid so many thousands to their legal team but lost. I have prevailed in every case.

I recognize this is bragging. But so many of my colleagues have just signed for a short term check while losing in the long run. I might be an obstinate fool, but so far it’s paid off.

We in the photo biz have had to survive a huge paradigm shift in the biz model in the last 18 years. But so many people fold for Pennie’s. “I need this $250 right now to make rent”. But my settlement checks are in the $25,000 range typically (25% after my lawyers and agent get their cut).

Last I looked, the average income for a photographer in the U.S, was around $7500 a year. Yes, $7500 (no missing zeros). I make six figures consistently and I’m damn proud of this fact.

Most of the conversations on this forum are above my skill set, but you folks are generally paid for deep knowledge and rare skills. Don’t let anyone steal this from you.
No they did not.

> EVs are over a century old.

But not an economic success and there was (and still is to be frank) no successful EV industry besides Tesla. A lot of fanfare with little results.

> SpaceX was recreating NASA research.

NASA and competitors dismissed any idea of landing rockets or even reusability in the first place. It was deemed a failed idea. This is why the SLS has been created by NASA as reusability was deemed a failure.

On the other items besides PayPal, they aren't successes yet so I'll reserve judgement.

On the whole "jettisoned" stuff there's a lot of conflicting reports on that and he wasn't fired.
When we lived in San Diego, we loved the Aldis they built. We moved after I got out of the Navy back to where my wife is from that doesn't have an Aldi and it is something we miss. My personal experience was the selection was good and cheap. I also liked how items rotated out so every time you go in, there is new stuff to look at and try.
Wow, I had actually never considered "figuring something else". Thanks for this amazing insight. It's almost as useful as telling someone with depression to "just be happy".

Rent in my town is one of the cheapest among bigger cities and I already live very frugally (public transit, only shop for groceries on sale and healthy food, don't go out to parties, don't drink, no addictions, no online subscriptions, only free hobbies + gym). GenXers and Boomers left a shitty world for Gen Z and, for some, life is just not the fairy tale you are used to - sorry mate.
Well, I was just modifying OP's line and replacing culture with economy. 'Human beings' would be fine as well.
Basically, yes. There are “capital” requirements, but as far as I can tell that’s basically just laundering their loan business by trading equity with peer banks, which are of course largely based on loan performance.
thank you for the advice and particularly for the book recommendation. I definitely want to get an excellent therapist who's compassionate with my condition and whom I feel safe with. I have no idea how to find one, but perhaps the therapists open-minded and curious enough to explore psychedelic therapy will be interested in taking on a new challenge like BID. heck, they could write me up as a case study.
Unfortunately you picked a word that is highly politically charged at the moment. Not that I can think of a better one. Perhaps its popularity as a pejorative will fade.
I mean it was bought by Theo Albrecht on 1979. Pretty must everything about the company's DNA is influenced by its Aldi parent company.
I might have been a bit too eager with the 0's and 9's, might be able to cut half of them.
The downvotes in response to my question seems to imply a lot of people think a Musk acquisition would be a good thing. Maybe list some of the reasons why?
I've just skimmed, but the paper is quite unkind about its internal details (which is very typical for mathies, hahaha).

I think the algorithm is non-exact. Say, Theorem 1.1 explicitly mentions probability:

> There is an algorithm that, on a graph G = (V, E) with m edges, vertex demands,
edge costs, and upper/lower edge capacities, all integral and bounded by U in absolute value, computes an exact min-cost flow in m1+o(1) log2 U time with high probability.

(See how their "theorem" is much easier to understand than the abstract...)

This is a kind of advanced algorithm with a sprinkle of optimization, so normal dudes won't be able to get a grasp on this easily. Also, this is too much for my caffeinated Monday morning.
That renewable energy is still a net negative for society because it’s not being used to decarbonize the actual grid we do productive things with - while generating mountains of ewaste.

You know 97% of all bitcoin mining hardware will be thrown out without ever mining a single block in its entire useful life? Just heating up the ol planet.

It’s an embarrassment that we even try to justify any aspect of it as a profession. Society needs us to step up and call this emperor nude.

You know every time the price goes up, the waste budget does too, and the perverse incentive is miners are rewarded for wasting more.
That's physically impossible. Silent corruption can always happen between the point in time when the data is generated and when the filesystem checksums it.

Modern hardware tries to detect these sorts of things and halt before the corruption is propagated. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it does not.

The best checksums can reliably do is point at the software/hardware component that is at fault.
It’s the largest preventer of death lol. Citation needed there. People will always die. Government minimizes this to the best of our abilities. How many do not die each year because of government?

As in software testing we don’t often measure the impact of our work in terms of things that don’t happen because our system exists. It is far easier to count instead the failures. But this misses the whole point. Count the deaths that don’t happen.

Meanwhile bitcoins thirst for coal kills thousands per year and achieves literally nothing.

Blockchains can only represent true state of things wholly representable on chain, which is why only currencies actually work. As soon as you try and ledger things off chain reality gets in the way and reality supersedes the chain.
> I also toy around with Quordle where you have 9 guesses to find 4 words. That one's harder and the strategy is a little different. There I've pretty much settled on finding a set of 3 words that covers all vowels (and Y) and 9 of the most common consonants.

Yes, in Quordle you're compelled to use a standard opening. Regardless of what you learn from early guesses, no followup can be more informative than just querying more letters.

It's kind of disappointing to me how much luck is involved in Quordle. I've just established that the only common letters in a word are S, A, and Y, with A second and Y fifth. All three other words are already guessed. Do I guess SASSY or SAVVY? The game gives the appearance of being much more skill-based than it actually is.
Well I can only say that this observation on how the mainstream media likes to suppress news like this only tells you that you need to be skeptical on what is shown by them and look at other sources beyond the mainstream media.