skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> deep-rooted turkophobia in India.

Yeah, no. Turkey is too distant to take up any mindspace in India. The two countries don't really have an intersecting or conflicting interests.

Remember, most of what we read on the internet is written by insane people.[1] That's doubly true for Twitter. Any conclusions you draw from them will be hopelessly inaccurate.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
> Can you tell whether you work in a product design company, or an engineering company?

Both! There aren't many of those out there, so I probably just outed myself. Oh well. Keep it quiet please?

> A good enhancement mode NMOS FET can be as good as a physical switch at low voltages.

Yes, it can work very well. You are correct that it need not be a physical switch. But it still does nothing if it is never brought out to the device's interface. And physical switches are still preferable if the software is broken, as it often happens to be during development.

> you can consider turning to beefy depletion mode devices

Depletion mode devices are not cost effective. If you think they are, point me to one cheaper than the LND150. (And, yes, I do know how to use them. Many designers do not.)
Polling suggests you might be living in an echo chamber.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americans-vi...

Even among the most extremist group, white evangelicals, a larger percentage favor legal abortion in the case of rape than a blanket ban.

But as someone who was myself raised in these extremist groups, I fully echo your perception that most vocal pro-lifers wouldn't be willing to carve out a rape exception. But this does seem to be a case of the screaming minority drowning out the silent majority.
The regular "iPad" is more similar. Low priced model that lags behind the design and power of the flagship models. Starts at $329 vs $500 if you don't mind the big bezels, lightning port, and A13 processor with 3GB RAM.

Mini has the small bezels, USB-C port, supports the magnetically charged stylus, and has an A15 with 4 GB RAM, so it's priced more in line with the iPad Air even though it's the small one.

I used to have an iPad Mini, I think 3? Whichever model was before it got Touch ID. Back then it was a smaller and cheaper version of the normal iPad, more recently it's moved to the middle of the line (but below the "Pro" versions).
Space Engine – Universe Simulator
That seems far more expensive than an iPod.
Enabling discovery of gravitationally lensed explosive transients
> This will definitely mean more difficult development for newbie developers, but it's an important step forward.

Documentation is key here. Default closed policies aren't a problem if customising them is in the getting started guide.
There’s no best really, but in my experience I prefer Hasura. I think their security model makes more sense than row level security and I prefer GraphQl.

You should try both and see
>This is kind of a rebrand of the 12900K so it didn't cost much to develop

More correct would be binning instead of rebranding, and no, better binned chips do cost more to weed out from the rest of the silicon, regardless of being identical in design to the rest of the (cheaper) chips, since they can clock higher within the same power envelope due to winning the silicon fab lottery.
I apologize; I missed the first part of the claim (was admittedly skimming as I was on mobile) and only saw the bit about the playlists. My apologies!
For analysis you can't go wrong with Rudin, especially if you already will have experience from Understanding Analysis. For graph theory I quite liked Diestel, but that may not be the best introductory text.
Vague memory is that the ACLU ran off into the organization disfunction weeds quite a few years ago, with the CEO and Board suing each other, and other fun.

But at least from a quick skim of their Wikipedia page, there's no sign of that being true.

Anyone else have a similar memory? Or "true story, but it actually was {name of some other organization here}"?
If you give out your professional email publicly like on business cards, expect spam arriving within 2-3 days since people will have you in their contact list and if they're hacked or caught up in chain-mail then you will be BCC'd into that chain mail or otherwise have your email in the hands of spammers.

For personal accounts, I've heard great things about SimpleLogin[0], AnonAddy[1], and Firefox Relay[2] to tackle spam. It's also worth having both a ProtonMail account & a Tutanota account if email privacy is a concern. Many services scan your email to target you with ADs, like Yahoo & Gmail, so avoid those if you can.

[0] https://simplelogin.io/

[1] https://anonaddy.com/

[2] https://relay.firefox.com/
If I'm following this conversation right, that's what u/sudosysgen seems to be saying...
Do you believe that all successful people were simply lucky?
There's more to a compression standard than benchmarks and ratios. Xz does not seem to score well in other, perhaps more important areas: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
American Entrepreneurship Is Vanishing. Here's Why
Google didn't acquire Snowflake - unless you know something the rest of the world doesn't ;-) But if they did, how would it be "an answer to MongoDB"? i.e. MongoDB Atlas. AFAIK, MongoDB is focused mostly on the operational database market, not the offline analytics market. Would love to understand that part - thanks!
The ACLU lost its way a long time ago and that's not really news because it's in the "good" company of most non-profits.

We all "know" they are rotten but we are still "shocked" when we learn exactly what they do - aka "How the sausage is made".

It reminds me that time ( possibly now ) when Politico's "journalists" went around the World asking money from Governments and other public institutions in order for them to write good things about them ( visibility!! ) but also "asking" money to not write bad things about them..

Sometimes the drunk bums around the corner are 100% right: this shit stinks!!!
> The scifi convention scene used to feature Marian Zimmer Bradley cruising for teenage boys, as a procurer for her husband Walter Breen, a convicted pedophile and member of NAMBLA. I'm not sure we want to pine for the return of those days.

This is on the face of it a bit silly. It's confusing a bad thing with the entire scene, which is not appropriate. Hundreds of years ago we thought "don't tar everyone with the same brush" would be a nice clear way to correct silly thinking like this; I bet we never thought it would still be happening today.
>NOTHING you can dream up at home will be as safe and secure as a cloud offering from one of the major cloud providers

Not really. Cloud providers make mistakes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23915484
I'm actually on the same boat. My plan is to take a few courses up to a rigorous understanding of general relativity.

Multi variable Analysis + Linear Algera(review)-> Advanced Linear Algebra (graduate level)-> Vector Analysis for Tensor;

Also a course for introductory Differential Geometry.

For physics it's Classic Mechanics-> Electromagnetic -> Relativity (special and general)

So about 6-8 courses. Some are graduate level but most are of undergraduate level I think.
Agree - ideally it would be better if everyone just did their own thing and was valued by society for their contribution.

The comment is much more as a counterpoint to the existing dogma of valuing an individual's contribution to society primarily based on ability to amass capital (i.e. splashy magazine covers based on net worth - which often translates to percentage ownership of a company valued on the price paid by the last marginal buyer).
that's exactly the crux of the problem: a misallocation of resources due to the increasing distortions caused by increased wealth concentration. it's directly observable in investment markets like software startups or crypto, but it's effects are felt all over the economy.

like most systems, balance is critical to optimality. greed in moderation drives the economy, while greed in excess grinds it to a halt (as does a dearth of greed, à la communistic economies).

at least 50 years of poor financial policy fostered by laissez-faire economic dogma led us to these distortions, so it's no better time than now to start realizing this and digging ourselves out of it, rather than being distracted by outrage du jour.
Sadly, there is no "told you so". The kind of people who are
impervious to reason before they create a catastrophe are equally
impervious in its wake. They're either dead, along with all the other
people they got killed, or intransigent to the last.

Carlo Cipolla developed the "Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" as a
quadrant model, positing Intelligence, Helplessness, Predation and
Stupidity as four individual types [1]. Of all dark human qualities,
including malicious psychopathy Cipolla thought that "the stupid
person is the most dangerous person that exists".

[1] This paper offers an insightful analysis: https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=...
I have certainly seen the very same people express concern about gentrification but then will also go out of their way to book airbnb or airbnb-style accommodations for travel because it feels more authentic than a hotel.
> have you written anything about your journey?

Well, he can't yet, since it's still a going concern!
> The Trump era really broke something in people's brains.

The mainstream media did a great job of outraging liberals because whenever trump said anything even remotely controversial, it was covered nonstop until he said the next thing. I think a lot of people ended up being outraged for 5 straight years, and came to the conclusion that the idea of free speech is "a danger to our democracy".
Everything isn’t a Ponzi scheme though. The current well known profitable tech companies were all profitable before they IPOd except for Amazon and Netflix(?). Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Intel, Nvidia, etc.

Have there been any successful sustainably profitable tech companies to go public since Facebook?
I've often had to wait until Friday afternoon when everyone's mentally checked out to get work done.

There's a magical period between Friday at 3pm to late night Sunday where no distractions means I can actually coherently focus for hours at a time. Also it's typically enough time to get to a MVP if I need to prove a point. Just sucks that this magical productivity time also happens to be "the weekend" =(
You could tax the products on import though too
Only learning about this now. Thanks for pointing it out. I remember seeing this in the source of some blogs, great to know the exact snippet of code I should be using.
No, all else being equal. AV1 is more complex to encode and decode than HEVC/H.265, which is the tradeoff for higher efficiency.

Yes, in the sense that some AV1 codec implementations will be faster than some HEVC/H.265 implementations.
Far too many:
Retro (6)
- PCjr (128k RAM)
- IBM PC (640k + 8MB EMS)
- SparcStation 20 (64M RAM, 4GB SCSI Drive)
- NextStation Turbo (128 MB RAM, SCSI2SD Hard Drive)
- XServe G4 (4 GB RAM, 500GB Drive)
- PowerMac G5 (1 TB SATA Drive)
- Xserve 2009 (32 GB RAM, 1.5 TB Hard Drives)

Laptops (4)
- 1st gen Intel MacBook (4 GB RAM, 80 GB Drive)
- Thinkpad T420 (16 GB RAM, 1TB SSD)
- Surface Pro 3 (4GB RAM, 128 GB SSD)
- 2019 i7 Macbook Pro (Work Provided, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD)

Desktops (3)
- Ryzen 3rd gen build (48 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 4TB HDD)
- Threadripper (Work Provided, 64 GB RAM, 1TB SSD)
- Intel 3770k build (32 GB RAM, 1 TB Boot Drive, 64TB ZFS Cluster)

Misc:
- Intel NUC hooked up to a CRT for MAME / SD TV Streaming (5th gen i3, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD)
- Surface RT Tablet (collecting dust)
- About 10 raspberry pi's with various use cases.
Three and a half years, vested most of it, and then a bigger opportunity came knocking.
All I can think when I hear SPAC is Chamath and well, he should at this point be below everyones line.
Thats interesting but was referring to https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-retrieval-transformer...
I don't like things that pollute our natural language namespace. Couldn't you have named it something unique?
While isolation is important for managing state, the other side effect of isolation is allowing separate scaling of resources.

If you can scale up your number of workers for a particular emergency then things get easier to handle.
We agree that that’s a huge amount, right?
Termdbms: A TUI for viewing and editing SQLite and CSV
That's not a prerequisite to journalism, though I guess that can be your standard for it. Musk is notoriously media-hostile, which means it's often very difficult to get direct quotes or responses from him on a story that doesn't try to flatter him. By your standard, that'd mean Musk has unilateral ability to discredit journalism by just not participating.
Important to correct that for when the money was spent though, that makes quite a big difference. Hubble dollars weren't the same dollars as the ones that funded Webb and a good chunk of the Webb cost were born by other countries than the US I believe.

And even Hubble had its teething problems, and those ate up quite a bit of money. I'm going to be patient what the JWST turns up, I agree that it may end up being a bit boring but science doesn't necessarily generate just pretty pictures the important details are sometimes just numbers or confirmation of theories. Of course we all want the pretty pictures (see my comment above).

A moon based observatory would be a fantastic reason to establish a permanent presence on the moon. That's one that I would love to see in my lifetime.
The pictures got small--and so did the theaters. Cut up into multiplexes, smaller screens, while the screens in our living rooms got bigger, wider, and more high-def. With better sound, even without a full 'home theater' setup. So the experiential difference got smaller.
It never left. The iPhone is the new iPod, it just has more features that make it more than just a music player and more importantly has the option for a SIM (although it isn't necessary).

I get what you mean though. I think the iPhone SE has taken its place in terms of affordability.
If EU really wants to curb risk to children:

-significantly raise the penalty for sexual child abuse

-provide clinics and medications for people with this mental disease

However, that’s not really the goal here is it…
Thin Backend (https://thin.dev/) is the newest of all of those. Compared to Hasura it offers a nicer schema designer. Compared to Supabase it offers better end-to-end typesafety and a more higher level API that offers optimistic updates. Prisma is more like an ORM, so it's designed to be used by a handwritten backend.
Cropper.js – JavaScript Image Cropper
> I'm now wondering if there is something about the role that lends itself to such behavior. One day they are super pleasant, helpful and friendly. The next they are chewing people out for seemingly minor and random transgressions and saying things like "ruining my fucking database”.

There’s something to your observation. Ok, I’ve held enterprise and application DBA roles, literally decades of experience. Sometimes the cruelty and dominance is necessary because of the responsibility focused on the position. I’ve often proposed being over-accommodating is important for non-architect application DBA roles, whereas the implications of SRE and resource planning might require an enterprise DBA to immediately and summarily cut off stupid/ignorant ideas before they acquire momentum and screw things up for the business. A DBA might not have time to be patient when resource constrained. Also, all too often people ‘suppose’ what the data specialist is doing and gum things up trying to be “helpful” when they should be asking for help, costing much frustration.

I’ve had developers try to take on DBA responsibility and find enlightenment when they learn enough to grok the rationale behind my seemingly arbitrary demands...I try to spend time as a developer periodically so I can refresh my developer perspective and not just expect engineers to automatically conform to my narrow perspective.
Humans don't get 100% right either, is that also convincing noise?
Pretty much every other country has better and less toxic sunscreen than the US, but unfortunately we categorize sunscreens as drugs and there’s not enough money in sunscreen do the kind of trial FDA requires for new drugs.
I agree. Margin Call and The Big Short (the book is sooo good even if you've seen the movie!) are the best two movies that came out of that entire debacle. That scene was enjoyable. They really nailed the casting and conversations.
Sure you can, and then you have a team that introduced a bug in common library that caused 100% CPU consumption on all cores, and tests did not caught it so somehow got into production.

In the monorepo world, your whole system is broken, it is all hands on board to try to fix this, everyone is stressed out.

In the microservice world, you have only one microservice which went down, so most teams don't have to worry.. in the worst case, they'll say: "Sorry, but we depend on service X and they are down.. blame them, nothing we can do". Sure, that team which introduced the bug is stressed, but the average company stress is much lower.

Having a successful monorepo requires organized, cohesive team with good communications -- or at least a team with a highly experienced people with veto power (this is the Linux kernel model). Unfortunately, a lot of real-life businesses do not have it.
OpenSLO Spec Hits v1.0
So I just spat Apple in the eye and bought an old iPod classic with iFlash + 1TB SSD retrofitted in it (I do have another one, but I have no sufficient opening-fu to pry it open without damaging).
The article's phrasing is a mischaracterization: Depp and Musk made donations on behalf of Heard, the ACLU didn't go after them to "collect".
Ah, apologies. I will keep that in mind in the future
It was recently publicized that a lot of sunscreens (even popular ones like Neutrogena) have benzene. Choose one without it:

https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/cancer-causing-compounds...
Agreed, let me restate - most non-techies really suck at passwords. The rest of us are probably overconfident in our own op-sec.

Regardless I stand firm that passwords are a poor authentication standard, and the time is nigh for us to move on.
The hardest thing for me when traveling for work is going without my bidet. It's a true game changer.
There's a really disturbing movement against freedom of speech in the US that I never thought I would see.
You might be thinking of the Southern Poverty Law Center -

"In 2019, founder Morris Dees was fired, which was followed by President Richard Cohen's resignation. An outside consultant, Tina Tchen, was brought in to review workplace practices, particularly relating to accusations of racial and sexual harassment. Margaret Huang, who was formerly the Chief Executive at Amnesty International USA, was named as president and CEO of the SPLC in early February 2020."
Pretty shocking to see someone in a position like that openly threaten a Western tech leader.
In the case of Medicaid funding, I thought the outcome of that case was that the Federal government couldn't threaten existing Medicare funding but it was allowable that any future Medicaid expansion be denied to states if they didn't comply with the ACA. The makeup of the court has changed since then though and in general the conservative portion of the court did generally vote to say that coercive use of federal funding was unconstitutional, so hopefully that remains the same when the ideological nature of the case is reversed.

In any case, I hope you are right friend!
Any books that Linear Algebra that teach in this manner?
The day before the first iPod was to launch a co-worker (in marketing, at Apple) loaned me an iPod to take home over night. To this day I am blown away as to how that happened. No way that could have happened with the first iPhone. (In case he was not supposed to do so I'll withhold his name.)

We (the family) were at a car dealership that evening and to entertain my 3 year old I put the ear buds in her ears and gave her the iPod to rock out to.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one batted and eye or seemed to take notice of a little girl sporting the white earbuds that would become so iconic later.

Related memory after the iPhone had come out: I remember being on a train in Tokyo where, counting the two other Apple employees with me, we all three had our iPhones out.

Looking around the train though at all the Tokyo-ites with their flip phones and lanyards I began to doubt whether the iPhone was ever going to be able to conquer Japan. If for no other reason, where do you attach a lanyard?

(Or maybe there's a better term for that bit of "personalization" that dangled like a tassel from all the cool, urban Japanese flip-phones.)
Governments are not our friends. Ostensibly they're supposed to be tools to check powerful interests. In reality, the larger the governing body the more they work for the powerful.

The EU passes a bunch of token privacy regulations, but then tries to force mass surveillance.

It's all a control scheme. Never believe the government are the 'good guys.'
Being uncharged is actually pretty tough on the battery, for safety and longevity they're best stores somewhere between 40%-60% charged (that's why they come that way from the factory).

https://www.uschemicalstorage.com/how-to-store-lithium-batte...
>No one has the right to continue living by parasitically sucking off another person without their consent.

This clearly does not hold up for children after birth. I can't deposit my infant in the desert and withdraw my consent to provide for it. This would be murder.
> Is zstd actually an homage to zip?

I think so. Or more generally, DEFLATE family of algorithms used by zlib and ZIP.

> I'm not saying that it definitely isn't, but the only connection I know of myself is that they both begin with the letter Z, and the letter Z has a long association with data compression that goes back before the zip format / pkzip program.

> The LZ77, LZ78[1], and LZW[2] algorithms all predate the zip format.

I'm well aware of the Ziv, Lempel & Welch's work, since I've developed a compression algorithm [*] and did extensive research on the family before, however the usage of extension is a rather new information for me.

On the other side, official repository of zstd [0] lists zlib and other libraries which use DEFLATE in one way other, pointing back to Ziv's ZIP at the same time.

At the end of the day, it might be tipping its hat directly to "ZIP" per se, but to general direction of DEFLATE which is used by ZIP format too.

[*]: The algorithm I developed was working on syllables rather than bytes. It had a deterministic and fast hyphenation engine for the language, and used embedded dictionary to minimize bit-flip damage during transit. I have paper published from it, and still planning to re-implement and open it, since the PoC was beyond bad from a code quality perspective.
For my older child, 10, she has a Gabb watch, with very limited cellular capabilities and low monthly cost. My other kid, 7, is unlikely to be in a situation where he's without adult supervision, so not really worth it. Besides, I don't really want my kids to have unfettered internet access, especially when unsupervised.
Regulator here, previously in the industry. I'm utterly appalled at how much 'useless'(1) info banks require to provide a service as simple as opening an account. neither the Rgulator/Supervisor nor AML bodies require them to collect so much before providing so little. Most of the time, regulation = proportionality.

(1) unless they do data mining, but that's another story.
when i tried signing up for their hosted offering they subscribed me to a marketing mail list without my consent

i deleted my account immediately after receiving a spam e-mail

this practice is illegal in EU