skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Queensrÿche did it better in 1988:

> Fighting fire with empty words

> While the banks get fat and the poor stay poor

> And the rich get rich and the cops get paid

> To look away as the one percent rules America

Progressives and leftists have nothing to offer, they seem congenitally incapable of getting their shit together, they demand of individuals that they take personal responsibility for systemic issues they had no part in creating, and they think they can persuade people to buy into their program by bullying them.

Then they wonder why fascists win elections.
Are there still, like, 3 commands to look/inspect/view contents or did those finally get condensed?
Can you explain why this gives headache to scale? I ask because it is designed to scale well.
> I don't get emotionally involved with my code any more than I did with the toilets I used to clean when I worked as a supermarket janitor to help pay for college.

I am genuinely in awe of this. I've made so much of my personality caring about my work that it's hard to even conceive of not caring about what I do. Every job or success has been built upon previous jobs... the idea of a ladder moving up.

I've never once thought about it like a horizontal plane with multiple doors all at the same level.

I'm jealous of your thinking and I wish I could care less about what I spend my time on. I hope to find a healthier balance closer to your viewpoint.
software needs work and devs have bills. its unfortunate but we don't have a government currently giving grants to open source devs yet.
I agree in principle. However in many situations "buy the best tools you can" is meaningless because one just cannot. Other comments have argued about this better than I'd ever could.

On the other hand, have you consider that maybe it's not the hardware is slow; it's just that the software you are using is just plain bad? Before I had my current desktop which I assembled ~2 years ago, my desktop was a 4790K with 16GB DDR3, which was cutting edge at its time. However it booted up Windows really slowly. After I uninstall the Adobe suite, the boot up time improved by 5 minutes. I haven't been using any Adobe software ever since.

In a similar fashion, when I had my 2011 MBP 15 inch, I once tried PyCharm on it. Guess what, after I fired it up (and waited for the UI to be stable), it needed 30 seconds to react to my first key press.

Of course now most 1st world people have SSDs, but bad software is still a waste of energy (ahem nodejs).
Kids Are Not Doomed
There's no way Carplay gets all the screens. They'll throw drivers a bone and let them use carplay in a rectangular middle screen, without access to the instruments or controls. Car companies want to monetize these things!
Wordle is a great name - it's short, only two syllables and relates directly to the product.

A better example of a bad name might be Ycombinator. It's not immediately obvious what it means, and if you say it aloud it sounds like a question. Doesn't seem to matter much if you're successful enough though.
Microsoft has never understood open source. This is why they bought GitHub and npm, and paid Docker to make it work on Windows, and why GitHub and the most important parts of VS Code are proprietary software.

They use open source as a marketing buzzword, not as a philosophy, and it shows.

I think perhaps TypeScript is the only counterexample.
With the risk of stating the obvious - the hard part of cache invalidation is to know when to invalidate the cache.
In Minnesota anyways, the schools in lower-income areas get more money per pupil than the "good area" schools. In some cases dramatically more. For example, the high school in north Minneapolis (a not-good part of town) get's $20k per student. Whereas the southwest Minneapolis high school (nice area) gets 13k. This is common across all grades.

So the disadvantaged area schools get 35%+ more money per pupil, and the outcomes keep getting worse. And the politicians keep doubling down on the same policies and wonder why things aren't changing. Money isn't everything, or apparently even most things. What a mess.
How does that work when you upload via the browser from a Windows or Linux PC? Do they get stored in iCloud without being processed?
We should just expect financial institutions to stop using primary keys as secret keys. SSNs were never supposed to be secrets, they're supposed to be fixed identifiers.
Yeah, they didn't even put the fan next to the heatsink on their later Intel laptops. I've seen some speculation that it might have been an attempt to make M1 look better by comparison, since the Intel chips weren't able to hit anywhere near the performance levels the same chip got on better-cooled laptops.

Then again, Apple has a long history of sacrificing cooling performance for form factor.
This page has more details on the what and why: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/functions-chall...

But the idea is to get folks to try DigitalOcean Functions, a new product we launched last month.
> It's so funny to me that people treat businesses and government so differently.

As we should. Businesses are rewarded for efficiency. Government is judged on effectiveness. It is a huge mistake to conflate the two and judge them on the same metrics.
And, perhaps most unfortunately, it's schools in poor and disproportionately minority communities that are axing algebra and gifted programs in the name of equity, while schools serving children from more privileged backgrounds continue to offer them.
Not disagreeing but you can't just give up and coast along either. Don't get me wrong, I've been doing it for a couple of years and getting ready to quit my job because of it. It gets frustrating and a tool that's not used frequently loses its edge.

I'd say do a couple of things -

a) Provide constructive recommendations on the specific friction points. Sometimes, especially coming from a small company background, you fail to realize the need for a process or review. It doesn't mean it can't be improved but resist the immediate urge to hate it.

b) Plan ahead. Once you get familiar with how the processes work, set aside time to raise request before you actually need the resource. I was terrible at this and it came to bite me many times. Anticipate and plan ahead.
Don't you have to pad the output ciphertext size to match the largest article you could possibly request from the set of articles? Or is a fixed-size output an inherent property of homomorphic encryption schemes? Otherwise it seems to reveal something to the server just by the size of the ciphertext (since WP articles vary in size).
I'm not sure at the end of the day there's such a thing as 'intelligence', in terms of how we talk about it, like some sort of RPG stat. In my experience, kids aren't really 'smarter' than other kids, they have learning styles and brain patterns that match up with how the courses are run.

Anecdotes, I know, but I was terrible at math compared to the kids in high school who could all just memorize and regurgitate (I have ADHD & very poor working memory, and no random-access). These kids also regularly looked up answers to future quizzes they found online and bsed their way through. But, in college, which involves a more abstract and rigorous (and dare I say meaningful) understanding of the material, I excelled while many of my former colleagues fell behind as these were 'new problems' they couldn't just look up because they didn't have answers.

My point is intelligence is not a scalar axis in which some people are 'gifted' and some people are not, it's a multidimensional series of mental configurations that must be adapted to in the classroom and outside. Hire better teachers and pay them more is the only concrete thing I can think of. Gifted programs aren't the way as they're entirely arbitrary to a specific environment. The wrong teacher for the right student will ultimately make the student worse for it, and these programs don't account for how truly uninspired some teachers can be. Not to mention parents, or availability of learning materials, quality of libraries, etc etc.
I agree. It's a miracle anything gets written for iOS at all. Poking around in Apple's documentation is just miserable.
I ended up having to buy a cheap Windows laptop anyway because while I could get the x86 app on this page to run under ARM Windows, I wasn't clever enough to get the Silabs driver to work:

https://hdfury.com/product/integral-2/
> Companies should think about the ecosystems they live in, not only about their sole immediate profit.

I contend that companies ARE thinking about the ecosystems they live in when they pick the boring things everyone else is doing. That's what drives picking boring technology is the ecosystem surrounding that tech (Libraries, articles, experts, education, etc). Ecosystem is more than just the diversity of choices.

Software doesn't live in a bubble and we are long past the days when an interesting language feature can trump modern infrastructure.

A company that decides to write their app in Erlang because it's neat and interesting will be at a disadvantage to a competitor who decides to do the same project in java. Even though erlang has a lot of neat features, java has a giant ecosystem and support structure.
you could theoretically have questions that rely on cultural background info to understand it. i imagine there are questions that a chinese student would understand and an american would not, but IQ tests and most other standardized test are rigorously tested to avoid this stuff.

they look for this and throw out offending questions on the SAT all the time
I understand that you do some kind of dot product (with two steps, Regev and GSW). However, it looks to me that those steps involve fixed dimension vectors.

- How do you handle variable length data? Do you need to pad it?

- What is the memory overhead of the storage of encrypted data?

I think that at least for video data, the streaming scheme "leaks" the size of the encrypted data with the number of streaming packets.
Tabulator could have printed a receipt from scantron sheet feed.
Yeah this is a fact. I moved from SF to a suburb of Sacramento. Our SF school was absolutely horrible (and the main reason we moved). Our suburban school has a much smaller per-student budget but the student body is mainly from families where the parents are skilled tradesmen, white collar workers (mainly Asian or Indian), and state government workers. These families instill very different values in their kids than we saw in San Francisco. Although the suburb is highly diverse, 35% White, 30% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 15% Black, the student body is excellent. The high school here regularly sends a couple dozen seniors to Ivy League schools, and another 30-40 students to the UC System.

And though they have few resources and a bad football team, the students have a chess club, robotics club, various study groups and college prep groups.

There is also a big difference in what the kids here are focused on. In SF there was so much chatter about politics, protests, gender identity, and sexuality. Out here kids just seem to be focused on studying and after school activities.

I much prefer this environment
Vivaldi cant afford it. Microsoft could easily maintain V2 indefinitely, but dont want to. Brave no idea. Opera is all a big scam nowadays.
>If you were a manufacturer, you had no real way to deal with this unpredictability. Do you add capacity to cater to the post-lockdown 200 demand? If you do, you might end up with too much inventory as demand goes back to the usual 100.

Retailers, too. Both Target and Walmart have reported having far too much inventory. It's one thing when one store has a fire sale on a product it bought too much of, but multiple stores finding that they did so across the board? That's very unusual.
Makes you wonder what the point was if it was so lacking in impact.
My pet theory that 2-parent homes make a world of difference. Maybe if there was reliable male birth control there wouldn’t be so many single moms working 3 jobs because dad left and the children don’t have a second parental role model, or even a first because they never see mom.
The configuration of your health insurance is negotiated between insurance and employer. It seems pretty obvious that they are setting things up in a way that’s good for them.
I don't know how SF's chain of command is structured, but it would be unusual for the DA to be in there between the city council and SFPD leadership.
kitty is python+c++ fyi! (and as blazing as the other lightning rust software)
> Why is it so easy?

Because nobody was watching when they meddled with voting machines. If there was someone oberving or at least a camera, this would be easy to discover.
Agreed but that does not contradict anything I wrote.

There is a confusion on terminology though. You are arguing about ease of use which is a different measure from complexity. That might have caused a misunderstanding.

Complexity is an objective measure while ease of use is subjective and based on your previous experience. For example the language Brainfuck is very simple (conceptually) but very difficult to use for most humans.

TS is objectively complex but also easier to use for Ruby/JS devs as you wrote.
I agree and it seems we are learning the cost and complexity of the state trying to fill the vacuum of parent/family responsibilities.
USS Liberty Incident
German regulation on wind turbines does not and will not in the future ignore birds.

Absolutist statements aren’t very helpful in that context. Obviously wind turbines do kill birds. The correct consequence of that fact is not to never build wind turbines. It’s to find the right trade off between protecting birds, while still preserving the ability to have a shot at the needed energy transformation.

Bird killings just aren’t bad enough or frequent enough to justify that.

What specific issue do you take with the way this change proposes to deal with birds?
I’m not in the medical industry, and I’m a Brit and don’t know what the estimated stats are here. But the way I think about this is that medicine must be at least as complex and side effects are at a minimum as hard to anticipate as software development.

Bugs are a fact of life in development, nobody thinks software having any bugs at all is normal or that bugs are an irrefutable indicator of incompetence. That’s because anyone with any knowledge of Tyne subject has developed software and spent a huge part of that time fixing their own bugs.

The way you deal with that is through testing, defensive coding, making software maintainable, etc. You minimise the impact bugs have and try to ensure mistakes are recoverable. You also avoid counterproductive measures like punishing bug reporting, because that will just lead to cover ups and sweeping the problems under the rug.

The last thing we want to do is punish the reporting of medical errors. So yes I absolutely agree, and the way to do that is to build an honest and healthy culture around reporting of medical mistakes.
Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?
Also:

> Also maybe bit width, and number of channels, and sampling rate

No, those are part of the setup for the PCM (I/O) API. An application sets those when using the device.

The controls I am referring to are independent of audio streaming by an application.
Call me a radical, but to me "our race laws don't have the best categories" is the wrong level to deal with this.

The US has never been without race laws, so I see how it's hard to imagine not having them, but that is what I think is needed.
The auto industry has learned from the mistakes of the app industry. They absolutely will not let Apple dominate, because that's a Trojan Horse they can see coming.

Additionally, half of this country uses Android, which does not work with CarPlay, and doesn't work with the newly announced CarPlay OS. Automakers aren't going to shut themselves off from half of their potential buyers for Apple's benefit.
Radio waves from two antennas to protect PC, card readers, from hardware attacks
I'm not serving my boss. My boss has a whole set of metrics and expectations that are quite distinct from delivering working software to customers; I use my considerable autonomy as a white-collar worker to half-ass those behind her back and spend my energies on what is actually satisfying to me, which is to craft good systems and make things work well. And as the sibling comment mentions, this is a lot more interesting when there are real customers and stakes.
> unless equality of outcome is your goal those differences shouldn't bother you.

I’m sorry, but this simply doesn’t follow.

The premise: that there are a multitude of things that lead to to disparities (even just random chance). If disparities are random then yes, that’s not a problem I’m going to get tussled up about.

But it’s not a matter of “it could be anything”. We have strong evidence that it is oppression, and when that is the case, that I do have reason to care about, and it’s about opportunity not outcome.
> If you've pre-seeded the server with an encrypted 30% of Wikipedia, how can I trust you haven't retained information that would enable you to derive what I requested?

With homomorphic encryption, the client sends a series of encrypted numbers. Nobody can decrypt them except the client. The server can do arithmetic with them, making new secret numbers that nobody can decrypt except the client.

There is no usable information to retain.

So the question becomes: what can you calculate using arithmetic on secret numbers?

Well, for this demo, treat every article as a number. Then multiply all the articles you don't want by 0, and the article you want by 1, and add them all together.

The server just sees that it's multiplying every article by a secret number. It can't tell what the number is. It can't tell if the output is "encrypted article" or "encrypted 000000..."

Then the server adds them all up. If the client asked for no articles, the result will be "encrypted 000000..." If the client asked for one article, the result will be that article, encrypted. If the client asked for multiple, the result will be a garbled mush of overlapping articles, encrypted. The server can't tell the difference. It just knows it has an encrypted number.
Is math ability centered above Algebra I among 13 year olds, though? I would wager Algebra I is well above the center of the curve in that age group.
So much evidence, which was so well reported, that you can't be bothered to provide any falsifiable details whatsoever.
a lot of rowdy kids simply do not have the underlying personality to succeed in a classroom setting and thats perfectly fine. we need to do a better job of sorting kids earlier like they do in Germany for example.
Many people in Afghanistan have a long, specific religious and cultural history supporting, among other things, patriarchal organization. We shouldn't think of the current situation in Afghanistan as the natural outcome of any random large group of people existing outside a modern nation-state.
And we have the boy sprouts. But it's hardly hip and rebellious.

A proper youth culture emerges naturally, and mocks the establishment. It is not a contrived appendage of it.
Has Oracle ever "reinvigorated" something since the early 90's? Feels like no to me. Oracle seems like a place things go to die.
So sick. Are you familiar with Dr. Michael Sugrue? I believe he's also Catholic.
I'm just asking for advice in general from someone who has experience going through the same thing at another SaaS startup.
That doctor on the care team is usually missing. Actually I would guess that most people don’t have a “care team”. They are referred to a surgeon or other specialist that then does their pet procedure.
Vulnerability Management in 4 Stages
"We've the same issue here that helped to spawn the DevOps movement: Just as development and operations teams previously didn't work well together, InfoSec teams often continue to lack empathy and don’t collaborate well with other teams. We are sometimes the "no" team and in relation to identified vulnerabilities, we often recommend "patching" as our one size fits all treatment plan. Lots of the talk and work in and around DevSecOps has been about tooling and integration, but it lacks the collaborative and empathetic successes of the DevOps movement."
Chronology. VSCode ate Atom's lunch before MS purchased GH.
>I have no idea how it would work in practice

What you describe is basically Switzerland and Israel.
Looking through the site and documentation, this might be exactly what I’m looking for in a self-hosted solution I could open up to my network of friends.

I’m already imagining how to set up a game server to support our different TTRPG sessions, and developing against this platform with that in mind seems like a nice side project to work on.

Appreciate the link, @memorable !
False dichotomy.

It's like countering homelessness by enforcing that a portion of housing is accessible, affordable low-income housing. People sitting in high-income housing then make frivolous statements about all the houses being burnt down, or how we should also remove public basketball courts because of the NBA.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the title seems a little clickbaity. "Cache invalidation might no longer be hard" --> "We built a tracing library and manually fixed the bugs it uncovered"
Not to be harsh but you've no skills and nothing to show on your resume, no-one wants that.

Reach out to your old clients see if they have work available, don't low-ball yourself.

And probably the best advice is forget everything you think you know and learn properly from scratch, start over try https://www.theodinproject.com/
methinks someone is projecting
Heh, dunno, never got into it, but was curious. Been following progress, and plan to tinker once the steam version with a full GUI have been released.

The blog updates have been amusing, things like dying cats from soaking up too much beer in the pubs. Various bugs and non-bugs that result in crazy events. Many amusing stories, etc.

I love the idea, but didn't want to invest that much time in learning the UI.
There is very little fraud protection, and it is difficult for an account holder to dispute an incorrect or fraudulent transfer.

I see a cause and effect here. Make it easier (by law) for the account holder to dispute a transfer, and I'm sure the banks will suddenly spend more effort on fraud prevention.
Keep Modernity, Exit the Metaverse
There's a big can of worms here. The thumbnail sketch is "Americans have some (as viewed from outside the US) odd and severe hangups about being tracked by the government that is, ostensibly, theirs."

Reasons range from the practical / legal ones listed by the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards) to a small-but-vocal subset of voters who actually believe (because so much of the US is descended from Christian zealots fleeing persecution in their home countries for heterodoxy) that a card issued by your government that is required to participate in society is a literal "mark of the beast" as per the biblical Book of Revelations and therefore something to be resisted as part of a struggle against anti-Christendom.