skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I could reason that there is a continent in the unexplored bit, and obviously no way to know which card will come up in a shuffle.

You can reason the continent exists, but you can't know. You're using knowledge you already have. Similarly, knowledge accumulates as you run through a deck, which can be used to reason that a specific card will come up next. I'm not sure I see a difference.
Propaganda does wonders
*The majority of developers are “shitty”*

The colossal pain of “you must use IE” was caused by:

* Sites designed in IE, and thus having unusually munched layout in anything else. E.g. the “standard” is whatever their browser is.

* Sites that just gated access on a useragent check (which the above sites were doing, and mercifully was bypassable)

Using activex stuff was a problem, and for some super important platforms of the era it was the reason for IE only.

The web didn’t become “you must use IE” because of a few bad developers, it became IE only because the majority of developers designed only for the majority of their users.

The result was the web filled with sites that didn’t work in other browsers.

So, developers already think it’s acceptable to only develop for chrome and preface their site with a “this site is designed for IE” dialog.

The developers doing this are not small time firms.

Chromes dominance of the browser market shows that google can make people change their default browser. Because google controls a large number of the biggest, and for many, critical, web properties.

If that site doesn’t give you features unless you use chrome, or it just flat rejects non-chrome browsers, people will change their defaults. We have the existence proof in two forms: Chromes total dominance of the browser market, and the insane speed of IE6 dying when they stopped supporting it on YouTube and GMail.
I think they are more afraid of him than anything else.

If Putin goes to push the button, they'll be too scared to try to stop him.
It would be most equitable and inclusive for everyone to be equally destitute. Let's drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator...
That's the dirty pragmatic side of engineering. Technically it is fixed.
The root cause is REALLY surprising. If it's really an unrelated change to the NAT/STUN relay server, it means that there was a pretty broad lack of change management framework.
tbh my biggest problem with all these tools is that I really don't want to have to learn one for each of the json-y formats I have to use every day. If jq supported toml and yaml natively I'd be much much much happier to learn its kind of obtuse syntax.
I'd have a hard time doing better than Jaynes:

> Suppose you have a penny and you are allowed to examine it carefully, convince yourself that it's an honest coin; i.e. accurately round, with head and tail, and a center of gravity where it ought to be. Then, you're asked to assign a probability that this coin will come up heads on the first toss. I'm sure you'll say 1/2.

> Now, suppose you are asked to assign a probability to the proposition that there was once life on Mars. Well, I don't know what your opinion is there but on the basis of all the things that I have read on the subject, I would again say about 1/2 for the probability. But, even though I have assigned the same "external" probabilities to them, I have a very different "internal" state of knowledge about those propositions.

> To see this, imagine the effect of getting new information. Suppose we tossed the coin 5 times and it comes up tails every time. You ask me what's my probability for heads on the next throw; I'll still say 1/2. But if you tell me one more fact about Mars, I'm ready to change my probability assignment completely. There is something which makes my state of belief very stable in the case of the penny, but very unstable in the case of Mars.

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=tTN4HuUNXjgC&pg=PA553&lpg=...

Ultimately it's a question of how much each bit of evidence would cause you to update (that is, difference of degree, rather than kind).
Ask HN: Website with fictional case reports of alien and paranormal encounters
There's this website that is in the form of a bunch of (fictional) alien and paranormal encounters. Each case is allocated a case number, and there's a background story/report for each encounter. It's a semi-hauntological affair.

The site has been around for years but somehow its URL never stuck in my brain, and so it seems didn't stick in Chrome's bookmark brain either.

Somehow Google has wrecked my bookmarks in a sync'ing f-up, and Google's search is so polluted with spam UFO encounter nonsense I can't seem to narrow down my search.

Can anyone help me find this site again?
What's different between your link and the poster's link? This article doesn't seem to have a paywall w/ both links (just a small banner at the bottom of the screen)
This is only part of the reason. The other reason is that Apple doesn't actually do fractional UI scaling, they only ever render into a framebuffer at whole integer multiples of an internal "native" resolution and then scale down this framebuffer to the actual monitor resolution afaik (they still render natively to this multiplied resolution - no doubled pixels or anything like that).

This results in less crisp output than you would get if you actually rendered vector based UI at the exact monitor resolution or if you natively rendered bitmap art 1:1 with the monitor resolution.

This approach makes sense when you're only using Apples monitors because they can optimize their internal "native" resolutions for the handful of actual native resolutions they offer, but it falls apart when you start plugging in external third party lower dpi monitors.

(I believe this is also the same approach that Gnome 3 uses to do (experimental, with a toggle) non integer multiple UI scaling.)
That's the whole point. Every feature they build absolutely has to take failure into account so they do. Whereas if you only failed in emergencies, you would find stuff that didn't handle the failure well.
Couldn't get the camel started

Sandals were in the shop

Stone obelisks blocked traffic
Twitter ToS says they ban accounts for quite a few reasons. These include promoting violence, harassement, wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm, promoting terrorism or violent extremism, etc https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules

Maybe Twitter has started enforcing these rules universally, banned some accounts, which affected these numbers?
I certainly agree racism gets overemphasized as the sole cause of disparities compared to other factors like culture, economic status, and selective immigration (I don’t see how racism explains, for example, why the children of Nigerian immigrants outperform those of Mexican immigrants, or why Asians outperform whites).

But even conceding that racism is the dominant factor in performance differences, the framework proposed here is plain ridiculous. In essence, what they’re advocating is that because disadvantaged groups underperform in advanced math, advanced math should be scrapped altogether in public schools. The effect of this will be to handicap disadvantaged groups even further, as they’re less likely to attend private school or have access to private tutoring, and thus will be locked out of advanced math entirely while advantages groups continue to receive advanced math instruction in private schools.
This is only available to the creators, isn't it? I don't recall ever seeing this as a viewer on YouTube. I have seen it on some...less savory video sites.
Starting a repo with an empty commit is a cool idea. My first commit has been "Add empty README" since forever, but I like your way better and I'm going to start doing that.
Hello friend. I think that I've been there as well. I worked in a dead retail job for quite some time until recently when I decided to go back to school online. At the same time I became engaged, traveled abroad for the first time in 2020 in late February and almost got stuck in lockdown, worked overtime prior to and following coming back to the states, and started my first internship. About the same time, I started to sleepwalk, to develop an eye twitch, and to develop lockjaw.
I had to consciously relax my jaw and eye while at work or when thinking about work.
I'm going to say something cliche: have you tried therapy? I know quite a few people recommend it online, but finding a good therapist can be hit or miss. It may not be covered under health insurance or might be stigmatized. However, I'm not trying to dissuade you from therapy.

I cut back on my hours at my retail job, stopped picking up extra hours for money, saved up, finished my internship, put in my notice, got married, and took an unemployment sabbatical I guess you could say. I found a new job and completed my degree with a less stressful work environment, and I am much happier. When times got really tough I had my wife and best friend to talk to. My friend, when he was struggling in life, took up weight lifting, and he seems in a much better place now, mentally speaking. I might suggest based on this anecdote taking up some form exercise if you don't already.

If I were you I would try to identify the source of stress in my life and reduce exposure to that thing or find someone who'll just listen while you complain for a bit. After getting off work it helped me to have a ritual of some kind to change headspaces or to engage codeswitching. As it's been explained to me, symptoms such as lockjaw or CSCR manifest as your body's way of telling you that should current conditions continue your body will receive more trouble, especially as we age. Maybe all you need is a break?

As to the right amount of stress or finding a balance, I haven't figured that out yet. Best of luck, and I wish you well.
You can look into the SBIR program from the federal government (www.sbir.gov/). Every federal agency with significant research dollars is supposed to participate in this program to help provide seed money to small businesses.

Each agency is slightly different but the gist is...

- Every year (or quarter or whatever) the agency will put out requests for grants. Some may be specific, some more vague. Examples might be the Navy wants to fund research in new glass material for underwater windows, or the department of energy wants new ways to monitor wind turbine health, etc

- grants are broken up in phases, so phase 1 may be $150k/6 months, phase 2 is $1M/12-24 months

- you write a proposal and submit it! It is evaluated by the strength of the statement of work and team.

- the idea is that ultimately you can commercialize the product! You should already have one customer :)
> When someone's speech is actively dangerous, it makes sense to block it

I can see a thousand ways that could be misused in the aid of authoritarianism. Try speaking it in a German accent, perhaps with "vhere iz your mister Churchill?", and I'm sure you'll see the problem.

> akin to shouting fire in a crowded theater

That was the example given by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr for the clear and present danger test[1] in Schenk vs United States[2]:

> The ruling established that Congress has more latitude in limiting speech in times of war than in peacetime and set out the clear and present danger test, in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. indicated that the most stringent interpretations of the First Amendment would not protect a person who causes public panic by shouting “Fire!” in a theater when no fire exists.

I don't see how that test would apply to Trump, even in wartime.

[1] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/898/clear-and-prese...

[2] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/193/schenck-v-unite...
This use of dt, etc, is pretty cool, and I understand the point of this this blog entry was an exploration of those tools.

But in the wider world of SSD performance, you're going to want more. fio (written by Jens Axboe, who's responsible for a lot of the I/O subsystem in Linux) is the standard tool used to do benchmarking, has tons of options to control I/O mix and parallelism, captures both thruput and latency numbers, with lots of switches to control exactly what data is collected. https://github.com/axboe/fio

"Something weird going on with the 1K bucket landing at the bottom." The SSD's Flash Translation Layer will occasionally do both caching and garbage collection, leading to the weird extreme long latency outlier. The long spike at 1K is weird, but note that optimal internal write size of the SSD is probably something like 64K or 128K these days. Different SSDs will have different FTL algorithms, different overprovisioning, different internal parallelism, etc, so it can be very tricky predict actual real-life performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory_controller
Anyone else recall writing too much text in a sticky note and not having enough memory to close it?

This reminds me of a period of longing for Windows so I could play RCT & The Sims.

Perhaps due to the inconsistent and unmetaphorical interfaces of today, this one seems near futuristic.
It can be, but it's not the norm. I've personally never lived somewhere that has programmable central heating/cooling.
I love this, though I'm hoping your demo on the main page scrolling opposite my mouse settings is a bug of the in page demo and not an actual feature of your UI. I'll definitely be checking this one out.
The typical tool for measuring throughput and latency is fio. If you look at datasheets for NVMe drives, you can normally find the parameters fed to fio to arrive at the numbers on the spec sheet.
It’s honestly a fucking nightmare to live here, especially with kids. I’m a crazy “leftist” where I grew up but SF/CA is bonkers (e.g. re: [1] — are you fucking kidding me? Have you not met a single real fucking living human being? My family has a “curse” we ascribe to all the clumsy folks of our blood and I assure you there are more than can be reasonably blamed on chance).
There are reports and tweets of many people being unbanned today.
The only appimage I use regularly, KeepassXC, checks for new versions if you set the setting.
I like the idea and execution, I also think the branding could be better.
I would put my money on big liberal PACs and PR firms
deleting botnets and cutting ties with botfarms that exist solely to boost engagement on their candidates posts.
This can be equally well explained by both software changes and the usual patterns of the public attention.

When any kind of high-impact news breaks out, it immediately sparks peak interest lasting a few days, and then exponentially dropping back to near zero, as the attention becomes split between other topics. It doesn't matter if the original event is still ongoing, it's just how the public attention works. You can see it quite well on Google Trends for any kind of large-impact event (e.g. [0]).

The attention to Twitter buyout will follow exactly the same curve. Most people who would ever react to it (by joining or leaving) will do so in the first few days, and then the change numbers will start dropping exponentially.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Ukraine%20war
Google Docs Assisted Text Feature Fails in Its Inclusive Language Suggestions
I suppose the question this raises, is are these numbers ordinary daily fluctuation numbers or do they reflect a trend or is it "an adjustment period" after which we'll revert to ordinary daily fluctuations?
Oh yeah? Then why am I stuck paying a higher property tax rate than my white neighbors who inherited their house from their parents that purchased during an era of segregation?
They're all examples of words, not violence.
I don't believe that Twitter offers much political power. If that's what Musk wants, there are much more efficient ways to use $45B to get it.
There is! netatalk on linux is the package you need for that, and it's still built in to BSD, I believe. now weather that package still speaks the older versions of the protocol, who can say. Interestingly, a challenge you would have with this because this emulator is web based, your networking options would be fairly limited, even if you could emulate netatalk, the browser's security features would preclude you accessing hosts than the server it's on, it's the same reason Fabrice Bellard didn't add networking to his jslinux project.
Washing chicken
SUSE Parody Music Videos (2021)
How Twitter and FAANG develop and launch recommendation systems
> Surely they are getting more than 40c/hour of advertising revenue

Per person? No way.
There is no real evidence that the NSA kills its enemies or even that the CIA does when those enemies are American citizens.
Superforecaster
Thailand has 3 seasons. Hot, cold and rainy season. The emerald buddha has three different sets of clothing to match the seasons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha
The money just isn't there.

It's just like any CCG "pro" scene. The time investment isn't worth the rewards. My friends and I would play Magic: the Gathering competitively, hitting the qualifiers and feeder tournaments. We did ok. Cashed some tournaments between us. Won some state championships between us. None of us ever qualified for the Pro Tour however.
Because, I was a working software developer. I wasn't going to drop that job to make less for more overall effort. Another of us is an engineer. Same thing. His job paid more unless he could guarantee winning major tournaments consistently.

It's a young man's game, because it's a poor man's game.

And while NFL players have an average career around 3 or 4 years, they're clearing a few hundred thousand each of those years.

There's a lot of churn at the bottom end of NFL rosters. A lot of guys don't make it through their rookie contract. If you make it 3 years, you're likely play for about 6 or 7. If I remember correctly, I ran the numbers on this at one point. Essentially "average career" is a lot like "life expectancy", it's greatly affected by the sports equivalent of infant mortality. So, in sports, you have a lot of guys with decent careers to pull the average up. In eSports, the number of people with careers longer than a couple of years is rare.

Because the money isn't there.
19% of zero is still zero.
I was just on a website - can't remember which - that said something along the lines of "to learn more, visit the documentation." I wasted a few minutes trying to find the documentation before realizing that the words "the documentation" were in fact a clickable link in the same color and font as the rest of the text, which you could only discover by hovering over those particular words.
I can't verify yet but you can see some posts here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Unbanned%20&src=typed_qu...
The problem is that The author of this piece is so “open-minded that [his] brain fell out”.

The subject of the article, who wrote under the pseudonym “Montana Skeptic”, repeatedly accused Musk and Tesla of committing accounting fraud. He variously claimed that Tesla hid unsold cars in the desert, that Tesla falsely over reported the number of cars built, and that Tesla was falsifying their profit margin. Oh, and he initially falsely denied the fact that he was shorting Tesla while making these wild accusations.

Musk is kind of an asshole, and problematic in a lot of ways, but this goes waaaay beyond “criticizing Musk” and starts to look like libel and securities fraud (you know, the stuff that Musk is known for)… which isn’t a good look for someone whose day job is a portfolio manager…

Frankly, that is why Musk calling his boss was a credible threat, and why he stopped posting until he found other employment. Employing someone who commits light securities fraud on the weekend is not something that FINRA takes kindly to.
Not an expert but: married women covered their hair to make them less attractive to men. (Religious Jewish women now often wear wigs that look better than their natural hair, but that's OK. The Jewish God sometimes allows loopholes and workarounds.)

Not wearing mixed fibers was never a practical rule, but part of a common theme in Judaism of separating things, like separating milk and meat. Most importantly, the sacred is separated from the mundane, and the Sabbath is separated from work days.

There are quite a few rules in Leviticus that are impressively practical for an ancient people with a primitive understanding of biology: there are restrictions on a touching corpses or people with skin diseases, and frequent handwashing is mandated, including before eating, after urinating or defecating, and after visiting a graveyard.
Dope design.
cool, thanks for responding and congrats on your accomplishment! i love innovative tools like this.
I used to think this about rice.

When I first started cooking rice, I washed it because I'd seen my parents and grandparents do so. But one day I thought about it and came to the conclusion that it was silly, and probably a habit passed down from decades ago before modern food mills and factories.

I decided that it there's no way that rice bought in a supermarket today could be dirty. We don't wash flour, sugar or salt, and we don't get sick. So I stopped washing rice.

I did that for a couple of years until someone saw me doing it and pointed out that the reason to wash rice was to rid it of its starchy coating.

I went back to washing my rice.
> There are things that can be done to improve the outcome for students, and we should continue to work to try to improve the success of all students.

How would you suggest we do this?

Without a dramatic reinvention of our education system, you have to fill a room with N students and 1 teacher. If you want that teacher to be maximally effective at "improving outcomes" - how do we do that?

The proposal here is to group the kids strictly by age. Every kid in grade X gets the same math class. This will inevitably lead to the math class being irrelevant to some portion of the class. Some kids will be so far behind the teacher may as well be speaking a foreign language, and some kids will be bored out of their mind because the material is moving too slow.

By being a little more intelligent in choosing our groups of N student, we can maximize the relevance of what the teacher is teaching and therefore better improve the success of all students.
This exactly. I think JQ's problem in this regard is further compounded because its query language just doesn't feel like anything else most people have used, I've certainly never come across anything quite like it, anyway.
That would be a small dose of terror
Maybe I'm naive, but the implication that this is Musk favoring conservative accounts just seems stupid to me. I'm not saying Musk wouldn't do that, but I just think it's all too fast.

I have no insight into the inner workings of Twitter, but I'm almost certain they don't have a big bias dial that they can turn from "liberal" to "conservative" as they see fit. Based on the decade I've spent working in tech, I'd be shocked if just the development part of a change like that that could be done in a day or two. When you factor in existing priorities, coordinating with stakeholder, design document reviews, code review, QA testing, deployment time, and all the other non coding things it takes to get code from idea to production, it feels like this type of thing would take weeks or even months.

Beyond that though, let's say you could just ignore all that and we could get the code from idea to production in a single day. It's not like Elon is just going to whip out his laptop and start making commits on his own. There would probably be multiple levels of management as well as one or more product teams in the loop on this. Word would travel fast inside the company and I'm sure at least some people at the company would disagree with the decision. We would almost certainly have a "anonymous source from inside the company" leak details.