skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way is tech difficult?
I thought all content termed as "public service broadcasting" was given specific funding. A quick google suggests it is a term/requirement of having the channel at all, rather than actually funded?

I can twist my logic to argue charging for the channel with requirement for Public Service Content costs money etc, but would be dishonest xD
It always did feel like a weird hack to me to avoid parts of the CPU to be idle. I mean the performance benefits are there, but it's at the cost of power usage in the end.

Can branch prediction be turned off on a compiler or application level? If you're optimizing for energy use that is. Disclaimer: I don't actually know if disabling branch prediction is more energy efficient.
Actually Firefox doesn't do any content blocking by default on their equivalent iOS/Android apps, i.e., see bottom 'tracker content blocking' section of https://privacytests.org/ios.html & https://privacytests.org/android.html (which is a third-party audit site).

This site also indicates Firefox Focus has content blocking holes for Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yandex.

And on desktop Firefox doesn't do any content protection by default, but even their cookie protection has these same holes (see 'tracking cookie protection' section of https://privacytests.org/).

Similarly, Safari blocks cookies but doesn't do any content blocking, even in private mode.
There are a lot of cc-0 low poly models that would work well for this on itch io and other sites.
Someone please sell me this.
You're right about how companies managed to scale their internet server farms. But that was late (1990s) and still has not seeped into the rest of the industry.

> What you're describing (the brake system) is just simply incompetence.

I regularly discuss this with people who are convinced they can make such a system secure.

For another example, I frequently advocate on HN for embedded systems to have physical write-enable switches for reprogramming the system memory. This makes it a physical impossibility for malware to infect that memory. Nobody agrees with me. They all think they can write bulletproof code.

I can't buy disk drives with physical write-enable switches, either, not since the 1990s. This is necessary so if you try to restore from a backup drive, you can't make a mistake and overwrite the backup, and the ransomware on your system cannot write to it. This is a regression in the industry.

And yet nobody on HN thinks this is a good idea, because it's inconvenient. Or they'll suggest a software switch, which of course is inherently corruptible.

BTW, the aviation industry gets this right. The stabilizer trim has a physical cutoff switch on all their airplanes, including the 737MAX. Unfortunately, in the 3 incidents of MCAS runaway, only one use the switch properly (and you never hear about that incident). The second never used the switch at all, and the third crew decided to disable the trim system when the airplane was in a non-recoverable dive without using trim. (The electric trim switches also are physical and override the software.)
I just use pCloud mounted as a network drive and throw everything I am not currently working on on it. With 10Gbps I have at home, it works wonders.

Plus, the storage is unlimited. Plus, it is more resistant to failures and disaster than anything home made. Plus, I don't have to store and take care of another noisy box in my home.
> Even comparing your life to your parents, you have access to better medical drugs, more information, better technology, and depending on where you live, also bigger and better apartments and cheaper transport.

I would need to make at least 50% more income than my dad at each stage of his life for this to be true.
I'm aware. As for the urbanization, that's about on par with the US (82% for Canada, 83% for the US according to this metric [1]).

More to the point, most of those areas outside of Toronto and Montreal have middling-to-no usable public transport. For example, I was recently passing by Kingston, ON, which has buses in some parts of the city but they reach a fraction of the population in the Kingston metro area. The same goes for much of the Windsor-London corridor. The qualification I stated was "urban areas that don't require cars," not any urban area.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?locat...
AV Linux probably has the best out-of-box audio production experience: http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/

The maintainer, Glen MacArthur, is very active on the Linux Musicians forum and always willing to answer questions:
https://linuxmusicians.com

Side note / self promotion, I'm the primary maintainer of Dragonfly Reverb, which is popular among folks that make music on Linux: https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb/
Thank you for your comment.

I did not knew about the existence of MAL.

I will check it out.

Moreover, in line of the original question asked, I would just suggest The Little Schemer. Here you not only learn the language and how to think recursively, but you also learn how to implement a lot of the in-built and library functions that comes with languages.

The Little Schemer was a life changing book for me.
Not to mention Joseph Kennedy was one greasy mo-fo.
> But the vast majority of physicists today think the collapse of the wave-function isn’t a physical process. Because if it was, then it would have to happen instantaneously everywhere.

I'm a physicist and this does not pass the sniff-test. Part of the problem is we don't know what a "physical process" is. And the second sentence just does not follow from the first (if we even knew what the first sentence meant).
Article text if you don't have a WSJ subscription. https://archive.ph/www.wsj.com/articles/terrausd-crash-led-t...
> The study acknowledged that there is currently little to no data about long-term exposure of ultra-short chain PFAS like TFA.

That's a bit worrying.

Although I don't know how expensive and difficult it would to make sure this would be safe to drink, and what toxicologists need to do to properly test those chemicals.

Sometimes I wonder, how do researchers in toxicology try to explore chemicals that have not been tested yet. Most of the time, the company who makes those chemicals have the money to test them, but when they find a problem, they make sure to not tell anyone, and just "advise" to use chemical A or B this way, but not this way.

And that's how the roundup problem came to happen, because users were not told to use a moderate amount, because the companies failed to properly warn the public.

It guess those small chemicals can't be filtered by carafe/brita filters?
Has someone yet created open source patches for LVM + Btrfs like what Synology does to pierce the layers and use the btrfs checksums as a tie-breaker to tell lvm what disk to trust to repair errors?
Not relative to cost of living.
Pretty sure Discord uses WebRTC.
Pinterest is still popular. When it adopted mandatory sign-in to browse the site many years ago, it undoubtedly turned some users away.

I've been using Pinterest for a long time and more recently it feels that adverts are more prevalent and more prominent than in earlier years.

Despite those changes, Pinterest is still useful for finding visual inspiration. It's a richer source of finding images compared to Google images.

Some popular image categories:

- Recipes (searching for recipes by photo results can be more effective than text-only search)

- Travel

- Architecture

- Interior design

- Anything relating to visual design (illustration, typography, web design, comics, etc.)

One final point: many 'pins' link to blogs and sites that would never turn up in a Google search (or are buried in Google results). Sometimes that makes Pinterest a more serendipitous browsing experience compared to Google search.
WebTransport implementation based on QUIC-go
How many Rony Fadel / Tony Fadell jokes have you had to put up with?
But do they actually work? For years I've been of the opinion that most anti-virus solutions don't actually stop virusses, instead they give you a false sense of security and their messaging is intentionally alarmist to make individuals and organizations pay their subscription fees.

In my limited and sheltered experience, the only viruses I've gotten in the past decade or so was from dodgy pirated stuff or big "download" button ads on download sites.
My university had a strict anti-cheating policy in the CS program. It was written very broadly. As a disadvantaged student, first in my family to attend college, I needed to graduate more than anything else in the world. The policy forbade discussing assignments or solutions with other students. The end result is I was terrified of socializing with any other CS students. I wonder how much I missed out on due to sheer terror and high stakes.
Thank you for sharing. I've had "Deschooling Society" in the backlog for some time now and this was a good foreword to some of Illich's ideas. This, however, is the first time I see someone mention a link between degrowth and Illich's vision. The connection makes sense at a glance, having also read some of the most outspoken degrowth proponents.
I, for one, forgive you.
I mean LBJ was super corrupt. But he was effective.
Agreed, the UX for the mobile web app is very hostile.

I use it anyways in Brave to limit how much tracking Reddit can do on me, but I feel like that's probably a fools errand at this point.
What makes track maintenance expensive?
You're right, I missed that. I assumed they weren't because they were contradictory.
All that's available form "official" sources is propaganda; might as well look at both sides. There's not likely to be any truth there, but one may have more hope of discerning truth by looking at things, than by refusing to do so.
1) We've more than doubled our population in the past 70 years which has allowed us to fund our current developments. This trend has slowed considerably and is likely to slow even more.

2) Massive federal government investment in specifically this type of development.

3) state bailouts of failing municipal infrastructure.

4) we are already seeing it happen in the form of chronic under-maintenance:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/united-states-broken-infrastru...

> In Wisconsin, farmers are struggling to safely use modern equipment on roads that were built over 50 years ago. In Arizona, a century-old bridge partially collapsed last summer after a train derailed. In Florida, old pipes are leaking millions of gallons of sewage.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure

> Civil engineers raise safety concerns as well, warning that many bridges are structurally deficient and that antiquated drinking water and wastewater systems pose risks to public health

https://css.umich.edu/factsheets/us-wastewater-treatment-fac...

> Although the lifetime of a sewer system (50 years) is longer than that of treatment equipment (15 to 20 years), renovation needs of a sewer system can be more costly. An EPA analysis estimated that if 600,000 miles of existing sewer systems were not renovated, the amount of deteriorated pipe would increase to 44% of the total network by 2020.
Honestly, I almost never need Statistics.

More than basic notations and explanatory parts of research papers, I never need even iota of Statistics.

When you need to learn something specific, like, say, KL divergence, if your math is solid, then you can pick it up in 10 minutes.
[Alternative link]

https://web.archive.org/web/20220528074047/https://conscious...
The cephfs per-machine redundancy mode is usually the preferred configuration.
i.e. usually avoids cramming everything into a single point of failure, buying specialty SAS cards, and poking at live raid arrays to do maintenance.

Seen too many people's TrueNAS/FreeNAS installs glitch up over the years to trust the zfs community edition as a sane production choice. ZFS certainly has improved, but Oracle is not generally known for their goodwill toward the opensource community. ;-)
This, probation time + take home assignment + discussion = I can filter out almost all the false negatives of the take at home. Give the people a choice between take home assignment and more classic code interview so you can dodge problems like shitty home-offices, strange contracts clauses but the real deal remains the probation time.
This is a great lead-gen tool. It illustrates a problem and how with a little work you can overcome it in a very visual way. Then it immediately follows up with a call to action to join the email list where he'll send you actionable design tips. Then eventually after you've derived plenty of value from his emails, you'll get info about his paid courses.

I'm sure many on here despise marketing (and seemingly design too), but I think Erik is a prime example of how to do effective marketing ethically.
Where did you find the unlimited storage offering? I couldn't find it on their website.
Corn is synonymous with "grain" and in this context means whatever food crop is grown locally. In many parts of America this is maize, formerly known as "Indian corn".
15-Minute City
I'm not sure what happened with Itanium.

I do think a big part of the problem is that people want to distribute binaries that will run on a lot of CPUs that are physically really different inside. But nowadays there's JIT compilation even for JavaScript, so you could distribute something like LLVM, or even (ecch) JavaScript itself, and have the "compiler scheduling" happen at installation time or even at program start.
This is what ZFS scrubbing is for. If a drive develops unreadable sectors, ZFS will alert you.
Yes, I meant her
It’s an attractive option, because it might be cheaper than a TrueNAS mini from iXSystems (which is also difficult to ship outside US) or a DIY NAS.

You get an affordable TrueNAS server.
I think this may be the key point, at least for what was befuddling me. Looking at the right side of the castle, the old image has a clear sense of depth while the upscaled version doesn’t
Oh no I used 1 out of 2 free articles, I really need to think about subscribing.
>If you give your job candidates a discrete math problem orders more difficult than the usual ticket, you minimize the risk of hiring someone who can’t do the job.

You're also maximizing the odds they will get bored and feel baited. With all due respect, you could have picked a better example to illustrate your point.

This is exactly why you can't make such bold claims. You're looking at this from one perspective without considering all the variables which go into the workplace equation. So far, the best correlator to job performance is giving people work corresponding to what they will be doing at the work place. For various reasons, this isn't really happening in software development, making people all to eager to grasp at proxies which they swear will do the same thing. Maybe whiteboarding is in line with the day-to-day at FAANGs, but tons of companies ask questions which are not in line with the day-to-day at all. Both vertically and horizontally. It creates dissatisfaction, burnout, bad cultures, sometimes even animosity, as if hiring managers are playing pranks on candidates.

If you're only looking at this from the perspective of "get someone who can do the job", you're going to miss the forest for the trees. As others say, the company is also being interviewed.
Only one that promised to eat her shoes, and failed to do it once she broke her promise
Yeah there are exception, but in general it's very difficult to get a train pass through a federal state without stopping, at least if a new track is needed. The high-speed connection from Berlin to Munich needed to go through the "Thüringer Wald" due to political intervention, which added tremendous cost and delay to the whole project.
Very interesting! I'm not terribly well versed in ARM vs x86 so its helpful to see these kinds of benchmarks and reports.

One bit of feedback for the author: the sliding scale is helpful, but the y axes are different between the visualizations so you cannot see the apples to apples comparison needed. Suggest regenerating those.
See another comment of mine:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31548507

See also case studies on the net revenue and 'municipal ROI' of low- versus high-density development:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31549334
That sounds really cool. I’d say the only reason that something like that doesn’t exist is that nobody has created it yet.
I think that software is a form of literacy.

So my axiom takes me to "we can test if you can read or write, but beyond that, there are an infinite ways to write about star crossed lovers, so just greping for Romeo and Juliet is
it going to work"

Then again there must be incentive to cheat at bar exams.
You prove GP's point. If the EU regulatory experts are so smart they can tell everyone else what to do perhaps they should have mandated a safe chemical.

You can't take responsibility for something, enforce changes, and then say you're not responsible for the outcome. They do this all the time, see cookie banners.

Governance like this creates problems instead of solving them.
Virtually 100% of cloud operating expenses are electricity, so you can pretty much assume that if it costs less it has a lower carbon footprint.
It's surprising our species made it the first 8 million years without the FDA...
It’s quite easy if all you do is repackage chrome. Firefox manages to maintain and develop the only completely separate, open and free browser implementation which is nigh impossible a task.
Why do we need to measure it in the first place?
I agree, if we had all started with it, it is nice. But it completely breaks backwards compatibility with the whole existing node.js ecosystem, costing countless developer hours. It seems very likely to me a solution could have been found that would allow node to support the combination of esm and cjs.
SteamOS 3.2 Introduces Flexible Refresh Rates for the Steam Deck
I meant Lööf, I did not know Kindberg-Batra had broken a similar promise.
Aaannd for a company that is marketed to be a privacy focused alternative to Google, DDG is doing virtually nothing to engineer their own search engine, instead choosing to rely on a corporation that's not exactly known for their privacy efforts.
Silicon Valley Investors Give Startups Survival Advice
But there's also clearly an upper limit. And it's not clear what is this limit.
Why not practice "Just in Time Mathematics"? Start studying Machine Learning and only study the minimum mathematics necessary to understand particular problems. In other words learn by doing. Do we memorize the entire C library before starting to code in C?
Yes, most hvac and refrigeration units are a generation behind, so perhaps the issue will only grow with time. More info: https://appliance.report/gwp/
As a Norwegian who lived in Finland for a year, it struck me that the parents I met actually CARED what the kids learn in school, instead of just treating school as daycare for older kids.

This, combined with the possiblity for good teachers to gain respect in their communities, is what makes Finnish schools more effective learning environment than Norwegian schools, I think. Not salaries, some specific methodology, etc.
In English 'corn' is just a general term for any cereal grain or similar (e.g. barleycorn, peppercorn, even 'corned' beef in reference to the appearance of salt). In the US it got associated particularly with maize for whatever reason.
> Using this as a method to reduce cheating disturbs me. The goal shouldn't be that students have to make their homework a full time job, imagine is someone was taking 7 courses all with assignments like that.

To be fair it's the largest assignment of the semester for that course (compilation theory). The assignment structure per course is more or less fixed, so people know what awaits them in the semester and try not to take courses with large overlapping assignments. Then again, I think almost nobody does it from scratch (and it still takes people tons of time), but rather use "references".

And you know, studying is kinda your fulltime job when you're a student.
Kind of an interesting post and makes me think of an Outdoor Magazine article I read years ago on different diets. The author tried a handful of different diet trends for maybe 4-6 weeks and tracked qualitative metrics (energy level, appetite etc) along with some quantitative (weight). This seemed to be sufficient for having article content but isn’t too scientific (low sample size etc).
As other folks suggested just make sure you track data.
This seems like a good personal application of OKRs (objective key result) in my opinion. But ultimately it’s just living life because we all do this albeit not always with the scientific method
I agree, if we had all started with it, it is nice. But it completely breaks backwards compatibility with the whole existing node.js ecosystem, costing countless developer hours. Backwards compatibility is a serious concern.

It seems very likely to me a solution could have been found that would allow node to support the combination of esm and cjs.
Itanium was a really badly designed architecture, which a lot of people skip over when they try to draw analogies to it. It was a worst of three worlds, in that it was big and hot like an out-of-order, it had the serial dependency issues of an in-order, and it had all the complexity of fancy static scheduling without that fancy scheduling actually working.

There have been a small number of attempts since Itanium, like NVIDIA's Denver, which make for much better baselines. I don't think those are anywhere close to optimal designs, or really that they tried hard enough to solve in-order issues at all, but they at least seem sane.
Wasn't the intent of Griggs v. Duke that the testing needed to apropos to the job? Meaning that "critical thinking" tests could be part of the job filter as long as they related to the job at hand?
Wiccan: (deep) learning directly from the future (2019)
> especially with food: it takes a lot of time to source, prepare, serve and clean up

Absolutely! You can't just buy a slab of chicken breast, it needs to be trimmed and put away until ready to be used. Hardest of all: planning, what to do with it, what else goes with it. Pointless to buy broccoli and kale if you don't know what makes it tastes good, and when the inspiration strikes you, there's an ugly head of broccoli you need to cut up, and a bunch of unwashed kale you need to trim. 80% of cooking is peeling, cutting, dicing, shredding, skimming, straining, pounding, deboning, deveining, and waiting. All unglamorous, time-consuming, boring, manual labor. You need to speed this up to gain efficiency. Technical and planning skills gets you probably 50% efficiency. Cooking food is labor intensive and it appears to me all attempts to commercially scale is failing.
If anyone actually believed this they wouldn’t complain about it on HackerNews. If it were true that Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc don’t know how to hire programmers effectively, this would be an incredibly powerful observation which you would want to keep top secret while silently beating the hiring market and building the most successful tech company of all time. We’re all waiting.

The reason people are upset by this issue is that it highlights a misalignment in the incentives of employers and job seekers. And with this I fully empathize: job hunting is hell in any industry, ours included.

But we can’t begin to have a conversation about improving the situation until we have a rudimentary understanding of what is happening today. And all these ”Google doesn’t know how to hire smart people” takes are brutally handicapping the discourse.
I hate that feature. It breaks double tap to zoom for me at the most frustrating times. I am yet to need to copy text from an image. Funnily enough I think this should be less discoverable.
It's hard to stop growing because you will be outcompeted by those who continue growing: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TxcRbCYHaeL59aY7E/meditation...