skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro
Looks normal, in the US, at least.
A blockchain provides a guarantee of (statisical eventual) write availability, since anyone can mine new blocks (eventually). A verifiable log only accepts new entries from a limited, generally closed set of writers (usually just one), and you can only add new entries by going through one of those writers. (Blockchains also tend to have better read availability due to being more widely distributed, but there's no reason why you couldn't destribute a verifiable log that widely, it just tends not to happen in practice.)

This makes a verifiable log unsuitable for financial purposes since a adversary with lead pipe capabilities (or corrupt judge capabilities as the case may be) can block undesirable transactions at a single (or few) point of failure, whereas against a blockchain they'd have to target anyone with significant compute capacity.

On the other hand, verifiable logs don't need proof of work/stake/etc to limit hostile forking, so if the log is describing things rather than acting a ground source of truth (so you can just ignore it if it starts refusing writes), it's much more efficient than a blockchain.
Somebody's reaction to the color blue is probably socially constructed, like the author suggests. There's several generations of popular culture in the US that reinforce the idea that 'blue equals sad.'

But someone's reaction to a smile is on a more instinctual level. I'm pretty sure that smiles carry a universal meaning for people going as young as infancy. So, it doesn't seem misguided to look for these effects that happen outside of a particular cultural context.
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If you search "Jinnai Tomonori Tetris", there are versions of the video with English subtitles.
There was a lot less coompetition and optimization back then
Years and years of 4chan have fried my brains to the point that it makes perfect sense what this all means, but I think it’s just meme-psychosis inspired magical thinking.
I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every student who told me "I understand the concepts but I can't do the problems" in math or physics and then in debugging their problem solving it became clear that they don't understand the concepts at all.

There is nothing like doing the problem sets when it comes to learning something like math or computer science. If you did the problem sets successfully but didn't read anything else or go to lectures you pass the class.

Lately I decided I was going to completely understand Java Generics (like how exactly the solver works) and found that there weren't any good books or web pages on the subject, instead I was going to have to read Chapter 18 the Java Language Specification as many times as it takes and come up with my own problem set. (I just wish I had a way of making a unit test that "passes" if the function doesn't compile!)
Yup I agree. But this is often what happens imo. That level of cross collaboration seems naturally unlikely.
I wish more of the people posting about how they've had blogs for decades would link the blogs
Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll
The implied joke was that this would have been another advantage that they squandered with Brexit because they did get special treatment before leaving.
I would never pay someone to not be a privacy invader.

The reasoning is very simple --- it's impossible to verify that something is not being done.

Privacy invasion is ethically suspect. Most of the major companies who engage it are guilty of exceeding the boundaries they established themselves and have been legally penalized for their practices in many cases. They exceed the boundaries in search of more profit.

It's hard to play both sides of the fence. You're either trustworthy or you're not. I wouldn't place blind trust in those I judge to be ethically suspect.
The first one is my preferred method. I leave the phone at home and go to a coffee shop with a notebook and a book. I read, ponder and write as I feel like.

I find that not having anything to distract me allows me to absorb more the reading, and when just pondering, the wandering thoughts get to go to interesting places instead of being censored by the urge to check Twitter.

I am still too slow reading books, though, because I don't do this often enough and because I end up interleaving note taking and reading.
I think it's more important to fflush after logging data, so userspace buffers don't get lost if the app crashes. f[data]sync is only necessary to protect against system crashes.
Thanks for the advice.

Yeah, the plugin situation is something I'm trying to get on top of. One of the reasons I feel the site was shoddily built is that it came with two dozen (active and inactive) plugins, half of which are seemingly configured incorrectly. I've got rid of the inactive plugins, but I still need to look into the active plugins and get rid of the unnecessary ones.

Caching is something I've been wanting to look into too. Don't know if I'll go the CDN route right away, but I'll keep it in mind.

Looked at WP Engine pricing and they seem pretty expensive (the company wants to replace a few more of their outdated sites with WP, so I think that would put us in the €110/mo tier). It's a small company and their websites aren't heavily patronized, so performance isn't really critical. The main consideration is not getting pwned.
How does allowing Dutch companies to dredge US ports remove longshoremen in the US?

If anything this should help them by opening up more ports to deeper draught shipping vessels that currently cannot dock because of the backlog/expense of dredging projects, thus adding more work on the docks.
1. No.

2. Yes, given the assumption that it's something I'd use. One caveat to that is I would hard pass on a subscription model.

3. It's possible that I would not want to use it but that would depend on the problem it's intended to solve. (This is getting close to, "I would not find it useful," as forbidden by the assumption.)

4. I would consider paying if I had good reason to believe they wouldn't share my data. Their products are genuinely useful because of how they process the data they gather, even if that processing happens on their machines. Privacy concerns only really come into play when 1) they share large swaths of that data with business partners and 2) they have a large-scale data breach.

5. Given the way Meta explicitly tries to track people who have never even had an account for one of their services, this question reads like extortion. (I expect you're more well-intentioned but still, that's a hell of a consideration.) In short: hell no.

6. Same as 5.
I was about to say something about how pictures of text are not that bad, and then decided to click through first and .. wow. Talk about fine print. Yeah, that's far too silly!
GDScript uses significant whitespace but I'd hesitate to use it and Python in the same sentence. The similarities are only superficial.

And the problem with using any language not directly supported by Godot (anything but C# and GDScript) is depending on a third party to provide language support, and keep it updated with the engine. Rust bindings look like they have effort put behind them, but who knows? The only thing you can depend on is GDScript - even C# support seems like an afterthought (although I think access to Nuget and libraries make it a better choice for application development.)
agreed. i've worked extensively with graphile, and from working with people who were really strong in postgres i learned all the things we needed could be modeled in postgres. many of the less obvious solutions would involve functions, triggers, or stored procedures. but i liked that there was less ambiguity about where that kind of logic was implemented.
Aborted(Assertion failed: draw_list->_VtxCurrentIdx < (1 << 16) && "Too many vertices in ImDrawList using 16-bit indices. Read comment above", at: ../extern/include/imgui/imgui.cpp,4269,AddDrawListToDrawData)
One of the best programmers I ever worked with had a BA in Music.
Seasonal calibration of the end‑cretaceous Chicxulub impact event (2021)
>This allowed the team to identify micro-residues of collagen and associated bone, muscle, and bundle tendon fibers, suggesting that the daggers had come into contact with multiple animal tissues and were used to process various types of animal carcasses.

Humans also have bone, muscle, and bundle tendon fibers. Do we know these residues are non-human? Another explanation could be that they were extensively in warfare.
Yes, I never got the logic behind red-tape argument. EU literally enabled bureaucracy free trade and travel and UK got out and red tape and bureaucracy was introduced. I think they might have eased something about environment and US chicken but I don't recall the details.

After Brexit, you need paperwork to prove that your stuff that you would like to import or export meets the trade agreement criteria(for example, to prevent people from buying from, let's say China, then import it tarif free into EU, you need to have proper documentation proving that most of the value of your product comes from UK). You can no longer hire whoever you think is the best for your business, you need to go through the government bureaucracy first.

It's weird, it's like Texas leaving the USA to get rid of the federal government then doing everything according to the federal government requirements to be able to sell stuff to the USA and hot having a say on it. Why would you do that?

Honestly, I think UK leaving the EU was a loss for EU(the institution) mostly due to the loss of UK input in the governance.

The rest is a tragedy for the young, losing the ability to live and work in EU or UK and chase their dreams. Can you imagine people from different states in the US not being able to move wherever they want?
I'm not sure if this comment was meant tongue-in-cheek, but wouldn't this assume the administrative overhead scales on a linear 1:1 ratio with the CEO's value? If a engineer's value is 2x another's, it doesn't necessarily mean the former uses, say, 2x the electricity/copier machine/office space. But maybe that was your point and I'm being dense.
yeah, the article is full of de rigueur dogma & talking points, so much so that it verges on word salad
What a childish rant that blog post is though...
Anyone can get a copy of VMS, just not this closed beta.

VSI plans to add the x86 version to the free community license program [1] at a later date.

In the mean time, the Alpha version runs very well under emulation, and is available both under the CLP (free, registration required[1]; also includes Itanium, though AFAIK no emulators capable of running it exist), and as a freely downloadable (no registration required), preinstalled student kit bundled with a preconfigured Windows emulator[2].

Note that the "student" license is unrestricted for non-commercial use; you don't have to be an actual student to use it.

[1] https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/
(note "x86 (planned)")

[2] https://training.vmssoftware.com/student-license/
Because spammers aren't interested in SEO best practice, if they were, they wouldn't be spam posting links in comment sections. The fact the links are nofollowed likely doesn't really matter to them or like you said, they probably don't even know what it means. The people buying these kinds of spam links are probably lied to about their worth etc

Most likely it's bots doing this kind of posting anyway, looking for common comment plugins in Wordpress or whatever and mass commenting this rubbish.
> If the roles are both equally necessary, why does the CEO make so much more than the secretary?

Most jobs don't set salary based on the necessity of having someone in that role, it's usually based on how difficult it is to find a capable person in that role.

If there are 100k people capable of doing the job of the secretary, and 5k people capable of doing the job of the CEO, then the CEO will be able to negotiate a higher pay rate.
This article does a great job going over what I'm talking about https://dev.to/iq9/external-monitor-for-macos-avoiding-the-b...
> With the Industrial Revolution, according to Galor, the value of human capital reached the point that parents chose to have fewer children and invest more in their upbringing. Longer life spans made human capital even more important. As women’s wages began to approach those earned by men, it became more costly for them to leave the workforce to have children, further reducing birthrates. This demographic transition allowed technological progress to vastly outstrip population growth, producing our present world of material plenty.

I wonder if some of this is the demographic equivalent of having a fantastic time feasting on your seed corn. IIRC, pretty much all these populations are at sub-replacement level, and some by quite a significant amount.
Internet at the Speed of Light
yeah, it could be said that much of science has been tainted and even crippled by mandatory adherence to certain dogma/narrative talking points
> Can somebody explain how raising rates can do anything to what really seems like a supply side problem

When supply is too low, inventories are restored by producing more goods than we consume. That also happens to be the definition of saving. Higher interest rates incentivize saving. Therefore, higher rates create the correct incentives to resolve a supply-side problem.
Spring Batch covers the cases where you have to get the right answer!

That is you are "full scanning" and making a report or doing something like a reconciliation process in a financial institution, it is not like some image boards where there is a link to the 1781th page of images but it spends forever loading it if you click on it.
Yeah, that makes sense. If they'd have offered me a round number anywhere near my asking price I'd have just said yes, for much the same convenience reason you cited. But in this particular instance they had Venmo so just paid me the exact amount.
> Rather than order a pizza ever again, learn how to make a really good hand stretched pizza dough from scratch

This is good for different reasons, such as less additives in your food which might be healthier in the long term, taste, and the pleasure in the activity itself, but is unlikely to help with weight loss. There is little difference in calorie content between two similar pizzas, home made and from a restaurant (assuming you’re not eating Domino’s cheese-stuffed crust style pizzas).
A prime example of this is the response Slack gave when Microsoft launched Teams. It was a direct copy-cat and they didn't throw a temper tantrum. They welcomed Microsoft into the space and saw it as validation of their product.
》If you could pay ______ not to collect your data, would you?

90% of users aren't aware or don't care. In my case I'd be careful what data I share with them and how it affects me, and look for a "free" service.

The worst data I can give you is my credit card, then you will know I can pay for stuff, and even if you protect my data, you can still spam offers.
I want an API to my account data but I don't want any of these 3rd parties having access. The banking free market has failed, we need regulators to require apis.
That's not true, there's also reposts of TikTok videos.
'Free Movement' can mean many things.

It's an ideological to pro-EU political types ... but from a populist sense, European citizens themselves have something a bit closer to the UK view.

'Ideological Free Movement' means basically what they have in the US.

Popularly, if it were put to a vote, European citizens would chose something more along the lines of 'unlimited, no visa travel and work' - which is not quite the same thing.

Finally - be careful with concerns about 'It's what UK hated the most' - it's not quite true.

The UK is the most open and tolerant country in the EU, it's also the one with considerably more migrants than most [1]

UK attitudes towards migration are a function of the large scale of migrants that chose, the UK, much like almost all of the nations on the periphery of Europe i.e. Greece/Italy etc have 'very negative' views of migrants, at least partly due to the fact that for whatever reason they're just not able to integrate them. (Which is obviously a complicated thing).

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/03/14/around-the-wor...
> William Blake's God was the human imagination...

Did he actually say this?

I know little about Blake, but from the few bits I've read, this both strikes me as a plausible interpretation and as something he'd not have been likely to put (or perhaps even to believe) so plainly.
Not who you are replying to, one little heard "worsening EU" factor I have read is the rise of far right political parties in most EU states. The implication is that the EU might be controlled by the very problematic far right, and so the UK outside of it would be insulated from any issues.

I don't think we've seen any EU wide political effects because of the rise of the far right in Europe. But I find the idea an interesting one that's being aired by some in the UK. Yes, Europe is seeing the hard right and populism growing but no it's not a problem yet at the continent level as far as I know.
4000. Still too few.
I don't buy this explanation. You'd think a team doing something groundbreaking and experimental, under public glare, would atleast not miss an obvious thing like considering whether an organ is healthy - especially when it is from a different species. I mean, germ theory is the foundation of modern medicine. If this had happened with a normal transplant procedure (human to human) wouldn't the doctors / hospitals been sued? (I know there are cases where tainted blood transfusions have resulted in such suits).
I’ve been wondering about this too and always used full sha’s until now. But recently I’ve made an action myself: You actually need to publish the action to the marketplace with each tag manually. It feels like there might be more going on.

Is GitHub storing those published tags and avoiding tampering by only letting you use those tags once? Are they warning or blocking runs if you tamper? …

I’m really curious because it seems like SUCH a giant risk otherwise.
I got really into watching Twitch for a while in 2020 (especially IRL content such as a mechanical watch repair guy (relevant to yesterday's top post about watches), musicians, and other small streamers I could get to know and they'd recognize my name) and that scene often came to mind.
Well, I can say, as a person who's been running a blog since 2003 or so, if you're planning a long-running online presence, building a site based on technology that makes it relatively easy to move to different technology platforms is really important. a) it future-proofs your site so you can move as the technology moves, but also, b) the odds are you'll end up with content that's easier to back up, manipulate, etc.

The first iteration of my blog was based on an old wiki engine, and the beauty of that engine was that, while the markup format was unique, the data was stored in flat text files that I could easily manipulate.

Some number of years back, now, I moved to a static site generator that uses Markdown as the source format, and since I was dealing with flat files, I actually had a fighting chance of making the switch fairly easily.

And now that everything is just Markdown, I can version control it with git, back it up easily, etc. And again, if I decide to switch technologies in the future, I can do that because the content is stored in a format that's very easy to manipulate.

And thinking very long-term, this kind of approach ensures that archiving your digital legacy will be a lot easier, since the content isn't tightly bound to a specific technology.
Some Asians, right? Asia is a pretty big bucket and the experiences of the Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indians, Pakistani, etc are all going to be wildly different and have vast cultural differences. However, I do agree culture can overcome oppression and there are shining examples of this in recent immigrants from Asia but I think a good argument could be made for applying this to earlier populations of immigrants as well for example Jewish immigrants. So I question, is it the culture of where they came from or the culture of immigrants in general? I haven't done it but I can imagine picking up and leaving everything you know must be terrifying and the process of coming to that decision and then executing it changes you forever. It changes you to your core and is part of that making sure you do everything to set your children up for success so they never have to go through what you did. Are immigrants more focused on education because they had to crawl through shit and fire to get where they are?

Class perpetuates a cycle of poor education because school funding is tied to local taxes. Poorer neighborhoods, poorer schools, worse education and the cycle perpetuates. A cycle that at least in parts of the US is 100% intentionally designed to subjugate minorities and immigrants. It started almost immediately after the enslaved population was set free. Redlining, gerrymandering and far worse... These same controls have been leveraged on populations throughout history to keep them in a perpetual state of wage slavery. After enough generations pass through the cycle, culture may not be enough and class divides become deeper. Culture supplementing education also only works if you have parents/relatives to help. A single mother immigrant working two jobs will have a significantly harder time supplementing a poor education in the classroom.

Over-represented is just a polite way of being a racist. It's cleaned up white supremacy packaged for the masses. They might as well restrict the number of blondes... i fucking hate it. There was a time not long ago when white American culture glorified science and education, now it seems to glorify ignorance and greed and quite frankly it terrifies me for the future.
His stuff is great :) Its entertaining and informative. He certainly has a brand.
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> Would You Pay for Privacy?

The answer is simply: I shouldn't have to. It's well past time for legislation and regulatory bodies to rein in consumer data collection.
Just hold space (on desktop anyway)
Because they kill so many products a few years after launch. They could launch the best whatever app in the world and most people would never touch it because they don’t trust it will be around in a year.
A lot more anecdata: Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264 (672 comments; 20211130)

> Stripe, and especially the founders, have a quite a poor reputation for screwing over people in and around their orbit.

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Follow-up discussion of the initial announcement: Stripe releases Plaid-like project, Plaid CEO objects to process

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31263288 (15 comments; 2 days ago)

> Unless I'm mistaken, Stripe has a history of behaving this way.

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Initial announcement discussion -- Plaid CEO's comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31262361#31263005

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31262361#31263017