skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deming became a business school professor in 1946 and was brought to Japan in 1947, where he taught statistical process control. That was extremely important but Deming functioned more as a conduit for work Walter Shewhart and others had done than anything else. A man with degrees in electrical engineering and mathematical physics with less than two years of experience in a business school before transforming Japanese manufacturing by teaching them about techniques developed for the American war effort by statisticians does not seem a great example.

> Deming edited a series of lectures delivered by Shewhart at USDA, Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control, into a book published in 1939. One reason he learned so much from Shewhart, Deming remarked in a videotaped interview, was that, while brilliant, Shewhart had an "uncanny ability to make things difficult." Deming thus spent a great deal of time both copying Shewhart's ideas and devising ways to present them with his own twist.[16]

> Deming developed the sampling techniques that were used for the first time during the 1940 U.S. Census, formulating the Deming-Stephan algorithm for iterative proportional fitting in the process.[17] During World War II, Deming was a member of the five-man Emergency Technical Committee. He worked with H.F. Dodge, A.G. Ashcroft, Leslie E. Simon, R.E. Wareham, and John Gaillard in the compilation of the American War Standards (American Standards Association Z1.1–3 published in 1942)[18] and taught SPC techniques to workers engaged in wartime production. Statistical methods were widely applied during World War II, but faded into disuse a few years later in the face of huge overseas demand for American mass-produced products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
> You can move anywhere in the country you work in and your compensation won’t change

I beleive this means that if you move to another country - your compensation will change, right?
It should be noted that AccuWeather is a very problematic source when it comes to any topic related to climate change. They were spreading outright climate denial in the past and have spread misinformation downplaying climate change since:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/09/accuweathe...

This text is problematic as well. It mentions climate change twice, but frames it as the personal opinion of some people that there's a relation between heat waves and climate change.
I feel an existential dread when I finish them.
Thats a good example. It would be better for 'global' warming if Britain just bought carbon credits from Morocco and skipped the transmission line.

Morocco gets cheap, clean energy independence and industrial investment, the world gets less fossil co2 and even if they get taken over by Martians in the future that don't respect human laws, the climate benefit is already delivered and can’t be "cut off".

However, the same groups that have poisoned the well on carbon "taxes", seem to have really done a number on the whole concept of offsets and emissions trading.

Free market economics? Not acceptable if it hurts fossil fuels and helps the poor, only vice versa it seems.
It's sub-ironic, though. Microsoft has been delivering tech fails for decades.
!! substitutes the last command:

sudo !!

and

cd -

takes you to the previous directory.
Technological progress didn't really stop when 'ancient' civilizations collapsed. First of all it was hardly happening in the first place, most people were subsistence farmers and their lives hardly changed when the Library of Alexandria burnt down or Christian emperors stopped funding the Academy in Athens.

Also the 'dark ages' weren't really as dark as some might think. Arguably most of the decline was a result of climate change and the plague, which lead to a collapse of urban populations, which were the centers of literacy and education. However technological progress didn't really stop, there were significant improvements in metallurgy and agriculture and by the high middle ages Europeans were much more 'advanced' in almost every area compared to ~400 AD.

The one thing ancient empires were exceptionally good was concentrating resources, e.g. no state was able to field a standing army in the hundreds of thousands and no city even came close to the population Rome had until the 19th century but that was due to political reasons (shipping tons of grain half across the (known) world to fed a massive unproductive urban population just to shore up some political support simply wasn't viable anymore).
Ask HN: What's on your learning list?
What is in your backlog of things to learn? This could be lectures, books, projects/tutorials or anything else that's a bigger project and not just a blog post or article.
Leave space missions to billionaires and robots, says astronomer royal
Thats a big stretch and a huge thought experiment, and way out of scope of what we're talking about (but no I don't). Any sort of systemic change on that scale would make me reevaluate where I live though - if for example I lived on a country that flip flopped between right wing and centrist every four years I would be pretty uncomfortable with that.

> Suppose it was easy for all of those high performers

A bit of a nitpick, but an important one. High performers and high earners are not the same thing.
The commenter isn't pondering what the heatwave means for air quality, they're parroting a 4chan meme
Natural Language Processing with Prolog in the IBM Watson System (2011)
How does that compare to Kotlin suspend functions?
Figure out how to alter the platform's URL sheme

Set up custom redirectors not dependent on the platform using the Web server
Colorblind person here. This is unplayable. I'm actually pretty amused at how hard I failed at this one.

5% to 7% of the male population (and about 1% of the female population) has some form of color perception issue. If you are doing commercial games (or even UI in general), you need to know this or you're going to have a significant number of unhappy customers. It's usually not that hard to design around, and many modern games have pretty decent colorblind settings.

I'm not mad, just taking the opportunity to educate.

This public service message has been brought to you by the color Plaid.
I have almost the exact opposite experience: tried asking dumb questions on IRC a lot, until I realized going to the source (books!) is the way to learn.
Ehh. I kinda like being able to update the browser binary while it’s in use and and in memory and then only get the new version when I restart the browser.
Some Nest and Google WiFi routers going offline at random
Is nature going to put a stop to our rape of this planet by directly killing millions (maybe billions) through heat, fire, flooding, famine, drought, etc.? Is that what it will take? Am I wrong to be despondent about our capability as a species to prevent this coming catastrophe any other way?
It would be kinda funny if it turns out our brains are all running LISP underneath. duck
Most potential enjoyment, perhaps. I think that's more than fine for personal projects (or work projects that don't matter in the company's grand scheme of things).

However, for professional endeavors, I always go back to one of Neil Gaiman's pieces of advice to aspiring authors: "You learn by finishing things."
The Gold Standard organisation funds projects that reduce carbon emissions and helps the poor:

https://www.goldstandard.org/our-story/gold-standard-feature...
Standard UNIX utility to measure round trip delay, using standard method - send ICMP packet and receive response and measure delay.

https://linux.die.net/man/8/ping

Sure, it is not 100% reliable and in some cases it could show values not corresponding to real delay.
Well, there are many summer drinks, depending on which region you are in. Some of them are:

Aam Panna,
Bel ka Sharbat,
JalJeera,
Shikanji,
Neera,
Ragi ambli,
Jigar Thanda,
Nannari,
Kokam Sharbat,
Coconut water,
Chaach/ButterMilk,
Thandai,
Roohafza,

and many more...
OCaml is not slow in my experience, but we should probably look at what big teams using OCaml in a performance sensitive setting have to say. https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/safe-at-any-speed/
I don't see this being discussed or something any public figure has said as being considered.

Various states in India are deprioritizing power supply to industries in favour of consumer household use. So domestic news is playing those "govt reduces power supply to industries by 50%" headlines. [1]

Use of ACs and air coolers has skyrocketed the demand for power (38 year high), thereby increasing demand for Coal. Internal politics is now totally fixated on Coal stocks and supply for each state. National govt even blamed some states for "not taking ample steps to end power shortage, not buying enough coal". [2]

National govt cancelled 650 passenger trains to ensure timely delivery of coal supplies by train rakes to states.

[1] https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18Live/status/1520308462533550080

[2] https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18Live/status/1519929083588902912
Guitar and stringed instruments are easy to transpose because there are no "blessed" notes (other than the open strings, but even those can be turned nonstandard).
Compress word embeddings up to 40x with Bloom embeddings
No, France didn't threaten to force high earners to leave, they tried to enforce a higher tax on the absolute absolute highest earners in the country. Even making 3-400k you would have been unlikely to have been affected by this. Funnily enough, you'll also notice the bluster was about people leaving to other EU states and not to the US.

Also, to call the French government socialist I'd completely laughable. Maybe in comparison to somewhere like Hungary, sure.
Gold Standard: featured carbon emission reduction projects
You are right, people don't complain about the subway.

But they love to complain about long repairs of tram tracks and streets on the surface, and they have a point. Repairs are usually tendered by cost only [0] and they tend to stretch for months, with very low energy effort made (e.g. you won't see any workers on the spot for days, because the tendered construction company has other jobs to do and no incentive to speed things up).

[0] A nasty aftereffect of the "Great Anti-Corruption Revolution" of the early 2010s. Everyone in the public sphere is afraid to buy but the cheapest things and services. Investigations dragging for years are a punishment themselves, even if you are acquitted at the end.
In some editors (SQL server management studio, visual studio code, but badly), ctrl-shift-arrow keys lets you edit many rows of text simultaneously. Simplest example is multi-row comment, but if you align your code well, some repetitive tasks become surprisingly efficient.
Fair enough. We really should be able to test this at some scale that we could know the order of magnitude required for efficacy. We are dangerously ignorant about the solution space.
India is already doing it. Not at a rapid enough pace to meet all of the national demand, but at least my state (KA) has the lowest coal consumption and is still selling electricity to other states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_sta... sort by year and by capacity for highlights.
Reflecting on one strange year at Uber – Susan Fowler
It is so annoying that standard guitar tuning isn't all perfect fourths and we've decided to throw in a major third between the G-B strings. Bar chords be damned, I want to be able to visualize it symmetrically and have chord shapes that work the same across the fretboard.
Learn all the basic paradigms of programming languages. Next on the list: Prolog, Haskell, Smalltalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Programming_paradigms.svg

Learning quantum computing algorithms is on my list as well.
It's not that bad. Less than 1% of the population has emigrated out of India. Surely the top 5% of Indians who are still in India must be somewhat capable
I was lucky enough to tour this aircraft and meet the crew years ago. Somewhere there's a photo of a much younger me sitting in the captain's seat and grinning stupidly.

The 747SP is a special piece of aviation history, this one especially. There are still a few flying (one with Las Vegas Sands and two engine testbeds, according to Wikipedia), but their days must be numbered.
Ask HN: What entrepreneurship movies you recommend on Netflix?
Pretty sure you can bump that up in the kernel to hold more active connections per server that 64k...
How do you figure?

Clients can connect to the server on the same server port, so connection limit is more like 64k*2 for every Client IP-Server IP pair.
Article says this isn’t a record high so what do you mean?

This may surprise people, but places near the equator are really god damn hot most of the time and when they have a heat wave it’s even hotter.
Azure has definitely had a bunch (too many, IMO), but AWS had a similar disclosure around CloudFormation and Glue back in January. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/orca-security-aws-and-the...

That blog post also highlights that AWS may have a tendency to sweep security issues under the rug if there is no customer impact.
This is a well known story (in the HN world at least) but re-reading it I came across this realisation

>>> . It was an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos.
>>> I was lucky enough during all of this to work with some of the most amazing engineers in the Bay Area. We kept our heads down and did good (sometimes great) work despite the chaos.

So, given the on/off threads of recent days, what was the point of management in those orgs? or at least official budget holding management?

fifty years ago could a factory in utter chaos produce anything?

My take is still coders are the new managers
If people don´t know what to write about,people should ask themself why they don´t read? Find a problem, fix it.
And here in the western world, people still don't like using public transport and their bikes (when they can).

It's difficult to be optimistic, but it seems there is nothing that will truly limit fossil fuel consumption.

Maybe some oil producing countries could get in some sort of alliance, and artificially limit the amount of oil they extract, in return for subsidies? Those countries could also put a tariff on oil.

The fact that cars manufacturers don't even try to increase MPG, by reducing the engine size and car weight, is also quite hilarious.
Isn't this limit per client ip, server ip, and server port? (https://stackoverflow.com/a/2332756/303637)
I mean it’s true. NYC in the summer smells like god awful hell before the trash is picked up.

And NYC is pretty clean.
Why everything which doesn't work as someone expected is called "damned"? These features have been there for decades and we know what to do, what not to do, and how to exploit these features.

I personally like how POSIX works, and how well documented its operation and failure modes. I love systems which don't prevent foot guns, and go bang spectacularly when I foot gun myself.

It's also ironic how we don't get to like systems which do limits us in severe ways, and then get angry to a system which doesn't limit us the same way. Fun times.
If you ever use the middle mouse button to open links in a new tab, you should disable this "feature" because it is a security vulnerability which allows for grabbing the clipboard content.

Demo: https://randomforest.net/captureClipboard.html
These are two examples of how measures specifically meant to fight the disease caused a lot of deaths. Care homes also had deaths from loneliness and despair due to banning family visits, another pandemic measure that is still going on today.

https://appgpandemic.org/news/hospital-and-care-home-visitin...

“There are still obstacles in place when trying to visit a loved one in a care home and the impact has been and continues to be devastating. The safeguarding issues I am seeing and hearing about are atrocious. Residents left for hours in dirty, wet incontinence pads leading to dangerous pressure ulcers. Malnutrition. Dehydration. End of life medication given to patients without their or their family’s consent. Psychological trauma, post traumatic stress and suicides have resulted because of this. Multiple systems are failing, including Local Authorities and the CQC. It is a complex situation that needs a bold approach by both empowering families and galvanising government action to hold public bodies to account and stop private equity firms placing profit over people.”

The single largest group of people, between 40% and 60% depending on country, to die from coronavirus were from care homes [1],[2] so it stands to reason that measures applying to care homes had an outsized effect on corona virus mortality.

And indeed, Sweden, after admitting it did wrong by the care home residence in Spring 2020 and taking steps to rectify the situation, got their deaths under control which allowed them to end 2020 at (minus) -2.3% age-adjusted relative mortality.

> There are studies for this such as https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35099995/

This study uses unadjusted mortality which does not account for an aging population. In particular it doesn't account for Sweden's 2019 negative excess mortality. I look at this report by the UKs Office of National Statistics:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Table "Table 2: Relative cumulative excess mortality ..." is the most interesting. It shows that more than half of these European countries had absolutely nothing exceptional going on mortality wise between 2020 and June 2021. I'm not sure how the Corona narrative (100000k death / month without lockdowns!!) can account for this data. If it's really only the virus we should've seen mass mortality everywhere especially the places with a more "hands off" approach like Sweden. That's just not what happened.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/half-of-corona...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/05/26/nursin...
In progress:

- The Rust Programming Language (book)

- Programming Rust (book)

(I'm going over them in parallel)

To do:

- The Elements of Computing Systems (book & course)

- High Performance Browser Networking (book)

- REST API Design Rulebook (book)

- Network Programming with Go (book)

- MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (course)

- a bunch of docs and youtube tutorials on things I want some exposure to without going too deep (React, Django, FastAPI, Kubernetes)

- The System Design Interview (book)

- Grokking the System Design Interview (book)

- more Leetcode

For context I'm a data scientist who wants to switch to SWE at some point.
>I love building websites the old-fashioned way: with Jekyll.

I suddenly feel very, very old.
> some oil producing countries could get in some sort of alliance, and artificially limit the amount of oil they extract, in return for subsidies

This is a difficult equation to balance when India and China burn cheap fuels while petrostates trade their reserves for bombs.
"Backup or restore while a transaction is active"

Is it possible to turn off transactions alltogether in SQLite? So they function like a MyIsam table in MySql or a Aria table in MariaDB?

I have crunched many billions of queries over the last years in MySql and then MariaDB. I like MariaDB because it offers tables that are way faster due to no transaction overhead.

I know this goes against the popular opinion to use transactional tables for everything. But depending on the task at hand, the performance gain can be very well worth turning transactions off.

I consider trying SQLite. But if you cannot switch off transactions, performance will probably not be up to par.
My two favourite languages made a baby!

Would love to see this implemented as a macro too, like macro_lisp!
I read it and I thought it was pretty dumb. Much much too optimistic for my understanding of the situation.

My main gripe with it was that it leaves the reader thinking that climate change can be combatted with sensibility and reason. The idea that our global elites will come to their senses if we shove a few incidents in front of their faces goes against the fundamental narcissistic arc western civilization is currently enamored with.

The world he presents is predominantly western and China barely gets a mention. While he does start off in India most of it takes place in Switzerland, a country that doesn't really matter all that much for the climate. He's American, so he probably thinks China is inherently a bad place where stupid things happen. But I don't know why one wouldn't center a fictitious future of climate change there, and worse leave it out entirely. It's civilization is ascending while western white European culture is obviously descending.

I don't want my criticism of the book to lie entirely on Robinson's euro-centrism, but it is my primary complaint. Not because this makes the book racist, and I'm not accusing Robinson of that, but because it shows how Robinson's limited view of the world shapes his fiction. He gives us a white saviour story primarily taking place in Switzerland and yet claims to be speaking to the world. It's just dumb.
Not sure where you mean by "western world" but public transport and cycling are very popular and normal options where I live.
Yep, most certainly. This is the first thing that came to my mind along with Watermelons and Wax apples [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygium_samarangense
Have you ever heard of advantage players?
I vaguely remember Maemo on Nokia N900 used Prolog to manage the sound system (notifications, priorities etc).
> Is that what it will take?

Probably. That said, the brunt will be born by the poor. America may face a deep recession. India, starvation and a political reboot.
It can be misused by the government to spy on you - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-root-certificate/ ... But it's also a valid use case for a government to issue certificates to access their own sites securely.
How many of those 140 countries belong to the following :

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/9/infographic-which-co...

When half of your military weapons depend on another country you don't really risk angering them over some inconsequential vote.
For 11 years public hasn’t had 1 single Pegasus spyware sample from citizenlab
Grapefruit juice can also increase the amount of a drug absorbed into the bloodstream. It blocks an enzyme in the small intestine that breaks down many types of drugs.
“You need 77 ips” to do what? May be a fact or not, depending on what you’re doing.

If you suppose just one open server port, you’ll probably need 77 client ips to do this test to get unique socket pairs.

But it’s a client problem, not a server one.
Huh, that was half a joke. But check this out: https://twitter.com/jspeiser/status/1519816372179673088
It’s a neurological issue stemming from the protective instinct of parents.

Kinda sad actually, when you consider that Aaron Swartz was a member of the RSS working group at 14, after already winning a prize for an online encyclopedia at 12.
Actually every client IP+port / server IP+port pair. Linux uses 60999 − 32768 for ephemeral ports so can support 28e3^2 = 784 million connections per IP pair.
The thing about this sort of advice is that to a person in a subclinically depressed mindset it's not using the same language that they understand. It's preaching to the choir.

If you feel good about yourself and you are otherwise healthy then going to the gym, eating well, studying etc are not things that feel bad. They are intrinsically motivating because they make you a better you.

But if you feel bad or you are unwell then you don't give a toss, it's just dopamine fix after dopamine fix to get through today.

But then even if you feel good, not everyone cares about self actualization along the same axes. And then we have limited time, money, energy, ...

Life is complicated, innit.
Ahh okay, thanks! Could I have the username "Stavros" then please? I am currently https://radiopaper.com/user/U2goL6aTrtYs38S1l0kMkJuMwMm1

Also, having a section in the profile where I could change my login email address would help with the UX.