skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For military test it works the other way too: If you score high you're more likely to end up in officer training or some specialist troops so you have to serve longer. Shorter service is a strong incentive to get a lower score on purpose. (source: I live in Finland and have done the military service)
Try pinging your router every .1 seconds.
The entirety of modern money seems to me like a scam. Questionable abstractions left and right, legal fictions left and right like there's no tomorrow. I started reading The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson so that I can understand more, the first chapter explains Fractional Reserve Banking and... Holy Shit, that's a scam, no 2 ways about it.

It's terrifying what Modern Money is and how it works. It scares and enrages me. It enrages me how the 'Store of Value', the things we exchange for our precious finite labor, is now whatever legal fan fiction that an influential someone at wall street or an equivalent finds a funny idea and convinces enough of his or her ilk to accept.
You may not have been happy with pricing but it really wasn't our reason for failing. We made plenty of money, see our former CEO's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31373300

I bet if we had 10x the revenue we still might've had the same outcome. When you're a relatively small part of a big corporation standard capitalism rules don't really apply.
Sort of. It depends on both density and mass. The more mass there is, the less density is required to make a black hole.

A solar mass black hole is stupid dense. But a supermassive black hole is less dense than the earth, and can be less dense than water. That's still an insane amount of mass, but it's not really all that dense.

A human scale black hole would be even denser than a solar mass black hole. It would require over 200 earth masses, though that's still a tiny fraction of a solar mass.
It reads like making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Yes, diplomatic immunity is a big thing, but things like this happen. In particular breaking diplomatic immunity is usually OK if you find something incriminating, which also happens occasionally. There is then some handwaving, “ah it was a mistake BUT look what we found!”.

I agree it is inconceivable that the decision to detain EU diplomats was a low-down decision of the local force, but what exactly is behind it is hard to say.
Commento++ is a free, open-source, fast and lightweight comments box
"Hey, offending people sells and we're in it for the money...". If this bothers you, chant "we're in it for the money" until it doesn't. If it still bothers you, get outta here.
What you are thinking is manufacturing versus services, what I'm thinking about is the distinctly B2B supply chain that includes both. Then there is B2C, which depends on the supply chain.

The financial markets are used to facilitate the operation of this economy and my argument was that it should not be seen as the economy itself.

The current inflation is because of China, Russia, the pandemic, lack of investment into the supply chain (during deflation, resilience being seen as inefficiency, preference for stock buybacks), bad investment (during the pandemic), lack of innovation and increasingly climate change. Something weird is going on with the fuel prices too.
I need to mention TikTok, it's evident that TikTok is the game-changer, but the most important is that TikTok got so many users from Meta(Facebook & Instagram) and YouTube. TikTok is the unique reason why Facebook has lost users for the first time in its history. Here you can find more info(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/faceboo...). Maybe in a couple of years, TikTok (ByteDance) will be the next big tech out there.
Salesforce is the rich guy at the table eating off of other people's plates and making people uneasy. Bloated, bald, disgusting, but just enough money to keep being relevant.
Shhh. Relax, pumpkin. You’re winding yourself up over the mildest of criticism.
Doesn’t TOR also publish works by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Douglas Adams, Philip K. Dick, and others? I wouldn’t agree with characterizing those authors as “exclusively trashy sci-fi..” I am not sure if your comment means “of the sci fi they publish, it is all trashy” (implying they publish some non-sci fi that is not necessarily trashy) or “the only works they publish are sci fi and all of said sci fi is trashy”. Either way, I would bet most readers wouldn’t consider these authors to be trashy.

I think the original point that one can obtain enjoyable reads in DRM-free form from TOR still stands, even if not all books they publish are exemplary.
To be fair, you should probably have multiple versions of your resume, each customized for a specific type of job. If this was a C++ job, relevant experience should have been the first item, not SysAdmin. Are there inexperienced (or experienced, but still dumb) HR people? Of course. But knowing that, you didn't present yourself in the best light to overcome a predictable obstacle.
> So far no-one has been able to point me at a single thing that public public blockchains do that either is worth doing and is only possible using blockchain tech, or is better (more power efficient, faster) than using pre-existing technology.

Facilitating certain types of illegal transactions. Ex, Sanctions evasions for the average Moe, online illicit substance transactions between complete strangers. So I would guess the crux of your statement is actually the “worth doing” part.

I respect your position but I respectfully disagree.
Right out of the gate the author says "0-two years old" "leafy greens".

Yeah, no.

I wish we could downvote posts.
I've been using the excellent Things¹ across devices, but now that Apple's Reminders app has list sharing² I'm wondering if I even need that.

For stuff that absolutely, positively needs to get done, I'll sometimes report to the aggressively-persistent Due³.

¹https://culturedcode.com/things/ ²https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212758 https://www.dueapp.com/
I'd call it marketing.
Borland made a bad business decision by trusting Microsoft to "play fair". For their flagship C++ IDE, they instrumented a version of the Windows headers to generate classes for their OO GUI framework. Microsoft then started to frequently change the Windows headers in ways that broken Borlands product. With no advance notice, every month or two MS would release an updated Windows SDK that broke Borlands tools.
You might not realize it, but you are giving credibility to decentralized currencies with this comment.
Making babies listen to heavy metal, on the other hand...
I keep it very simple. A big text file (with markdown syntax highlighting these days) in something that is almost an append-only format, mimicking a paper journal but taking advantage of editing/insertion capabilities. Each Sunday I add the upcoming days of the week at the bottom, fleshing out a basic plan of what's happening. Each day I note down what got done and move things around, planning for upcoming days. The 'anchor' reminder is keeping track of my sleep, which has been a terrific help for sleeping properly. Around monthly I'll build a "todo list", an awful lot of which will never get done, and between weekly chunks I have bigger blocks of writing on just about anything.

I've never had success with the systems and apps that require maintenance, there's just too much cognitive burden in reviewing and cleaning them. It's much easier for me to just rewrite from scratch, maybe copying a few items, and then accept I can ctrl+f a previous month if necessary.
I'd feel bad if advertising law wasn't a joke, and ads weren't basically an aggressive waste of time/money as a result.

Like man, I always hear "so many people make their living on this" but uh, maybe if false advertising law is practically unenforced and most ads are practically usually lies pushed by the already established winners in their industry...

Which it certainly seems to be, then. I find it hard to feel too bad, especially when people in the advertising business are probably not going to end up street beggars if things suddenly changed.

edit: although that "makes a living" argument may go wayside a little with the inevitable AI-generated, focus-group tested future we'll be living in. Hmm.
I suggest another point of view: why companies like Reddit, but also Twitter, do exists? Does ads ONLY justify the invested amount of money?

I bet anyone will answer: "surely not!" and than the point: why we do not came back to Usenet quickly instead of keeping up such services who happen to be unbalanced in usefulness terms?
What other ways can it be interpreted?
There was no match between strains in the lab, dead infant #1, & dead infant #2

So, they shut down the lab for nothing, rather than merely taking corrective action.

This is beyond crazy and it is not good science.
There are non-public ledgers such as Monero.
Yes. But you probably need some time to validate the passport as well
You can vote without Blockchain, somehow everyone forgot about that. In fact Blockchain and other "trustless" mechanisms are completely useless in a community where people know each other, since Sybil attacks require anonymity.
ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency
Bingo. The single reason I switched to IE about the time of version 3 is that it just didn't crash very often. Again, Microsoft being better at writing software that works, see my longer essay in this topic. Like Boeing buying MacDonald Douglas, this part of Netscape was captured by the executives of a failing company who were better at politics and didn't care about minor details like the quality of the product. Here the existing product, as I recall they focused on the great rewrite from scratch which eventually became Firefox.

Also see how Friendster failed after the VC types ousted the founder and focused on doing deals with other companies, were not interested in reports from those below them that it was taking tens of minutes to even log onto the site.
Yeah, but it’s still Android… Yuck.
Buy some adsense revenue and never cash it out. You would have to be an extra bad person before they consider banning you. If they do it's still dubious to terminate a business relationship while you owe the other person money.

They would kinda not want to go in front of a judge even if he states they are allowed to seize peoples funds without any explanation.
A perfect example of how "democracy dies in darkness". They will keep pushing anti-consumer laws through the backdoor of "free trade" agreements, until we stop it by requiring that:

Before any international agreement may be ratified, [our country] must pass all the laws needed to comply with that agreement ahead of time, through regular democratic processes.
I might try this again — there's definitely value in having to re-write the tasks every day. For me, a key contributor to success is keeping the "today" list short (like, 5 tasks or less), so how do you track your "backlog"?
Array notation is great, but only for single array operations and for dense array operations.

The moment you need to run complex group bys and store non-contiguous data efficiently, it gets awkward pretty quick.

On the other hand, operations on dense data is pretty cumbersome in SQL. You can only do so much with limited support of proper scan algorithms, merge joins or bolted on window functions.

Please somebody combine APL with SQL and you win the programming language wars.
Maybe we'll finally achieve equity, where everyone has the same (low) IQ. Wouldn't that be the most ideal situation?
I keep unread messages in my inbox. 10 in there right now.
Please select from one or more of the following:
1) doesn't scale
2) too expensive
3) requires exotics of which there is a finite supply
You can buy queries tho.
There was no outbreak.

There was a strain detected in the lab, and there are 2 dead infants. There was no match of strain type between ANY of them.

No outbreak.

If it was an outbreak you'd see the same strain in the lab, in the infants, and getting cultured from more sick babies. It isn't happening. Non-event.
When it comes to EVs, I think the Pilots and TAs are right candidates for most metros in US along with Grocery stores and Malls.

There is little or no hope for 7-11 style EV charging stations.
Of course, people in apartment complexes may get some kind of interesting set-up similar to their shared laundry for electric vehicles.
Validate diplomatic passports by taking the phones away?
The Internet Archive has the original press kit preserved - as a virtual floppy disk, including an (easy) password guessing to access some content. See here: https://archive.org/details/Sneakers_Film_Promotional_Floppy
Value exists only in the eyes of the buyer. Trying to lock value in whateverthing outside of the context of its use is exercise in creating false idols. And in that line of thought, central currencies have value just because the government says that they have value. As far as the common agreement is that governments are worth it, then central currencies will be the default stuff. This is the non-technological chain of trust that crypto bros are trying to fight. If they were not scammers, they would've noticed that this is the wrong place to attack it.

Find something that can do government's job better than the government itself and its mechanism of value exchange will dominate the world. In the meantime, do not invest in scams.
I cancelled my Netflix account after the whole Cuties debacle. While visiting my friends I have noticed that Netflix content quality has been dropping sharply the last few years. Let's hope this exodus of customers and content creators will create a new, more interesting industry for the future.
you are suggesting singularity munitions, as others have before.
the process is not known but the desired product is- arbitrarily create an unstable singularity that converts surroundings out to a radius into energetic content leading to explosive "jetting" and gravity wave propagation until spacetime re-normalizes.
If a vehicle on a container ship catches fire, the goal is not to put out the fire; that car is a write-off. The goal is to keep it from spreading to another car.

That means sprinkler systems and well-crewed ships that can quickly respond to a fire in one of the decks.

Unfortunately, the shipping industry is effectively unregulated because workers don't dare complain about anything.

Ships have the bare minimum in equipment, likely in poor condition, operated by people who are paid peanuts, poorly trained, etc.
So you can't transfer money across borders using MPesa and WorldRemit even though they have been there for 15 years?
Org mode in Emacs.
Only differences from mine are that I use TODO.org instead of .md, and I send emails to myself for more urgent tasks
No, because that approximation only works when you're outside the object. Once you're inside the object, any shell of mass outside your distance from the center cancels itself out (produces zero net force).

So the escape velocity from earth at its surface is well below the speed of light. And below the surface, gravity is even less. Only a black hole packs enough mass into a small enough place to get the escape velocity above the speed of light.
I think I am feeling jaundiced - I just smell another "elite" class brewing. Turns out the thing distinguishing the elite from the masses throughout history has been money. Often money in order to for example train in warfare (ie knights or samurai) but money just the same
> Is it common sense? Or just what we were indoctrinated to believe is common sense?

Even Dale Gribble would know this is common sense. There is no shadowy 'they' here.
For a game scripting language, Wren posts a pretty bad result here. Think it has isn't explicitly game focused though. The version tested is quite old however, having released in 2016.
Cybersecurity has a desperate skills crisis. Rural America could have the answer
cffi is probably the canonical way to do this on Python, I wonder what the performance is there.

edit: 30% improvement, still 100x slower than e.g. Rust.
“Science is a better explanation than the supernatural” presumes that science and the supernatural are incompatible —- but this only makes sense if you assume naturalism to begin, which would be to beg the question.

There are all sorts of areas in which scientific reasoning leads to a conclusion of intelligent design — from examining arrow heads to cryptography to forensic science.
RoamResearch

It's a note taking app but it has three very useful features

1) you can make anything into a checkbox

2) you can #tag anything

3) you can create "views" that display tagged content e.g. #admin AND #priority NOT #waiting

This combination effectively lets me evolve my own todo system and note system at the same time. So over time you build up a knowledge base of how you completed previous tasks that's relatively easy to find again.
I use my remarkable to note everything
Google Tasks for basic day-to-day stuff, typically up to a week out from the current day.

For overflow beyond that, I have a Google Sheet that just keeps growing. I categorize activities into their basic category, and then tag them with one of the following: “urgent and important,” “urgent and not important,” “not urgent and important,” or “not urgent and not important.”

What “urgent” means is obvious, but “important” is intentionally vague. Specifically, it’s “important to me and not necessarily anyone else.” It’s a value judgement encapsulating a lot of things. Do I enjoy it? Do I care? Will it help me achieve something? Do I feel happy for having spent time on it? Etc. It’s best used as a quick gut check.

I then order from top to bottom in terms of urgency, and then importance. This way, discipline is pretty much out of the question: I simply pick the top item and get to it, as logic has already dictated that it’s the most urgent item, which by definition has to come first. Beyond abject urgency, items sort themselves by their importance to me, therefore also removing discipline (I don’t need to be disciplined in order to work on things that are important to me).

This way, it’s kind of a self solving system, as problems identify themselves quickly and naturally. If I’m always stuck in one of the “urgent” quadrants, I need to reduce my workload so that I can do more of what’s important to me. And if I’m spending a lot of my time in one of the “not important” quadrants — why? Clearly something needs to change.

The sweet spot is “not urgent and important.” That’s where I want to spend as much time as possible.

I also have fields for things like “next action,” “sub-steps,” “what’s blocking it,” etc. Plus fields for tracking progress of each sub-step (not yet started, in progress, wait, finished, etc).

I use this system for everything — basic to-do’s, app ideas, whatever. It requires a decent amount of sitting down and organizing things, but that organization process is an important time for self-reflection.

It’s low tech, but like how my best financial system is putting time aside each Sunday to manually log every cent I spent that week, it’s effective in that nothing escapes my brain and I’m consistently forced to self-reflect. No other system for me has stuck.
This times a hundred. It's not that the complexity is the reason, it's simply the audience changing, whether it's the people creating the work or the people consuming it. Look at any online content platform like Medium or Quora or Clubhouse. Quality starts off high, but plummets as more people start finding/using the platform and more businesses see it as a way to make money. Or any entertainment medium. It's not unique to the web, film, television and video games all went a through a similar evolution.

People miss the old days, without realising that those days only happened because no one saw the monetary potential in a medium, and the few people with a deep interest in the field (and enough resources to work for free) created stuff as a hobby.
Google Cloud/kubernetes vs Docker Inc.

Docker had a lot of problems, but it didn't help that they had made bets in orchestration and then the industry largely converged on kubernetes instead of their products.
But how do you know you wouldn't have escaped the factories and warehouses without a degree? In 10 years people can make huge pay jumps.
In obtaining Dave Cutler, Microsoft acquired a phenomenally good kernel engineer. The small team that accompanied him to Microsoft was a lethal threat to the PC software industry.

Cutler had already delivered an enterprise kernel that carved a market out of IBM. Windows NT was likewise going to rip market share away from anyone in conflict with Microsoft.

I don't know the exact timing when Microsoft dumped Xenix, but I know that it was close.
I use a A4 size paper notebook. Every day, I use a new "double page", put the date on it and reserve the left upper quarter for a Todo-List (max 5 items) and its specific notes AND all appointments with time for this day.

The list is only for this single day. The rest 3/4 of the two pages is for notes from meetings or ideas. If there is not enough room, I just turn over and use the next two pages completely for notes. If I don't need the second page, I don't use it or paint something nice (this is important, because I don't wanna turn pages for a single day)

If I remind a todo, that is not for today, I put it on the LAST 2 pages of the notebook. One is for SOON (last page) and the other is for ANYTIME (before SOON).

My daily routine is:

- Check yesterday, put all unfinished todos on the top of the new page

- Check my calendar and also put all important appointments on the list

- Check the notes from yesterday, if there is something important

- Check the last two pages, if there is something, I might wanna do today

- Use my smartphone to "screenshot" yesterday and mail it as backup

- Having the paper notebook ALWAYS with me

Works pretty good so far, but it requires discipline and it's a lot of management work. But it is also a good "worklog"...
Google calls for urgent switch to quantum-safe encryption as US delays
Sort of related: thinking in relational algebra, or SQL. It appears to be "natural" to think about computing one atomic value at a time, in loops, or slightly less intuitively, recursive functions. (That latter choice may follow from whether your first language was pure Lisp.)

I was fortunate to have a teacher whose database course drilled relational algebra into us. This was in the 70s, shortly after Codd's paper, and well before SQL was invented, much less established. Now I think about much computation algebraically (and often functionally). But I do see that this is "unnatural" for many, including students, having taught databases for several years.

SQL reflects this. I often see students writing nested subqueries, because that is more procedural, where joins would be a cleaner choice. A colleague of mine wrote a paper many years ago, pointing out that thinking procedurally is more "natural" for many: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319628.319656. But thinking set-at-a-time instead of one-at-a-time is a valuable skill, not that far off from thinking functionally.
Yeah that's a platform thing. I've never seen an external link survive on YouTube.
Whether the FDA has contributed to a net saving or net loss of life is a very debatable question.
ICE vehicles contain enough gas to be driven around at the plant lots, in/out of autocars (rail cars that carry cars), around at port lots, on and off ships, and so on.

"Simple mechanical damage" to the battery in an EV is a lot harder than you think. The packs are designed to remain intact in crashes...
.NET core is .NET nowadays. The old Windows only .NET framework isn't being developed anymore (other than fixes).
Oh, hey! I used Dokku back in the ... I want to say 2012-2013 ? and missed multi-node stuff a bit (nothing that couldn't be scripted around) so this looks cool.

I do see that it shouts 'EXPERIMENTAL!', so I guess it's 'experimental, but official'.
Your counter to "ecocsystem" is literally "because ecosystem"