skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are nice tricks for getting differentiable discrete sampling; Gumbel Soft Max most famously.

https://casmls.github.io/general/2017/02/01/GumbelSoftmax.ht...
I started journaling the last couple of years and found it helped to take a moment to check in, notice various patterns of behavior, and set intentions for the next day. This resulted in some tangible changes and didn't require a lot of time or large narratives to get the benefit. I scratched an itch and created an app to allow of quick digital journaling, if you want to give it a go you're welcome to at https://mindmix.me/
After the exact same debacle played out with Diablo 3 and the RMAH, and the reception this game got at the unveiling, they had to know this was coming. I wonder what the breakeven point is, and if they've already gotten there.
Bronze Age city reemerges in Iraq reservoir
Right now, I get bombarded with headhunter requests, if you are going to ask me to leet code, my inbox is full of alternatives.

Leet Code is only cargo culted because many candidates let it happen.
As per Wikipedia -

In October 2020, following security disclosures by the Google Security Team, Privacy Badger changed its default behavior. While it would previously learn to block new trackers heuristically after installed, it now defaults to blocking only trackers it already knows from automated testing before release. While it can still be configured to learn heuristically, it is no longer the default option because it can be exploited by third-parties to fingerprint the user based on trackers it blocks.

So it seems that it no longer actually "learns to block", not by default.
Yes, oddly simply knowing something about someone doesn't actually give you the right to discriminate against them.
Had a similar thought a few years ago and added a total posts chart to go along with the technology trends, https://www.hntrends.com/2022/may.html

Looks like you have June 2021 as the all time high as well. Doesn't look like June 2022 is going to get even close, which makes sense based on current freezes/layoffs.
To be clear, I have no special insight into underlying S3 costs. Only the perspective of a customer.

My opinion is that Backblaze has done an awesome job of driving their storage costs down, scaling that up, and then reflecting that thriftiness in their pricing. Their technical communication (e.g. hard drive reliability reports, software engineering blogs) makes me believe in their competence. So when Backblaze sets a price, I expect that's pretty close to the minimum sustainable price, because they've spent a lot of effort on that.

B2 currently charges $5/TB/mo with lots of options for bandwidth that's too cheap to meter. This strikes me as pretty fair overall.
I am sorry, but your comment is very uninformed.

* Cows produce methane, cars produce CO2. Talking about "pollution" just muddies the waters. According to https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector lifestock produces 6% of greenhouse gases, road transport 12%. Also looking at Germany (I don't have data for all of Europe), drinking milk production fell by 7% in one year (replaced by plant based milk) https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2022/05/PE22_N034_51.html . Beef production fell by 2.4% (https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2022/02/PE22_050_413.html ) So changes are happening in agriculture as well.

* Supertanker emit a lot of soot, not so much CO2. Again: Talking about pollution in generic terms does not help. Also supertankers won't be needed anymore, if no oil is consumed. So electric cars will help with this as well. Replacing all fossil fuels would remove need for 40% of all tonnage shipped worldwide.

* Sweden and Norway already have basically completely renewable electric grids. Germany is exiting coal by 2038 (this will hopefully be accelerated to 2030). Every year some of the existing coal plants are being shut down: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Elektrizitaet...

* No new gas heatings will to allowed to be installed in most EU countries by 2025. Heat pumps are already the default in Scandinavia and will be in other countries soon.

* Hydrogen production is being ramped up: https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/germany-s-fir... or https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight... to replace gas usage where electricity does not work.

So a lot is happening in all sectors. And you can see results: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t... This is not just virtue signalling.
i've been using ublock origin for as long as i can remember, religiously on every browser i use and that means, i refuse to use browsers that support it fully.

that said, i recently saw "localcdn" addon for firefox which i've started to use. don't know if it has made any improvement but why the hell not
Xbox 360 Architecture
> Keep an eye out for Web Push on iOS and iPadOS in 2023.

Finally!
> sex, race and ethnicity, urban-rural location

What about income/economic class?
Indeed, this is often the next step. The new architect must have lots of AWS certifications. With the new architeture, the long term cost savings will be exponential, compared to the current projected cost curve!

This can optionally combine with the Kubernetes scenario.
> left-justification of text and right-justification of controls improves UI consistency

True, but it also makes it harder to see which text corresponds to which switch, by separating them all with different distances. Before, there was no ambiguity about what each box did. Now, you have to scan the left column to find the item you want; and then either scan right to see the switch (which is error prone because there are no lines to follow) or scan the right column from the top and hope you counted correctly. It is more pleasing aesthetically, but less useable.

I guess the way to have both controls and labels to line up without separating them would be to put the labels after the controls. But it is not great to have the explanation of what a button does after the button. And there would still be issues with drop downs with different widths.
Yea maybe for related problems (but not all optimization problems in general).

It looks like this solution works for a specific group of problems. So it won't be applicable to all problems that use greedy (or other) heuristics.
Yeah, those organs are not going to donation by themselves you know ;)

There aren't many ways of making motorbikes safer. But cars/SUVs are more dangerous to everything around them than the bikes.
>Distributed systems are essentially state machines. If every state transition is performed correctly, we will have a distributed system that works as expected.

I imagine huge distributed systems as Markov chains, where transitions are probabilistic rather than deterministic.
Oooh I hadn't realised there was a Python SDK under development - will take a look.
It is strange that bandwidth/traffic/egress seems to be an afterthought in this post and I think the numbers in the linked blog post are wrong anyway.

Bandwidth out of AWS is at best 9 cents per gigabyte, which is HUGE and for many applications the primary cost.

Indeed when I saw the title of the post I thought "there's only one number you need to know with AWS, it's 9 cents per gigabyte".

Please correct me if I am wrong. I went looking to find the correct number but as always it is hard to find the exact prices.
Definitely going to work.

It has been so successful in England that nobody pirates anything now.

This post is sarcasm. Piracy is still rife. IP blocks are ineffective.

Lobby groups gonna lobby, nonetheless. Buying laws is their business.
The hand print wall sounds like a hokey HR idea. Seems a bit harsh to judge an entire company on it.
There are multiple strategies for caching in the server, without them IIRC the php code will be interpreted on each request, files parsed, and obviously hit the database for each request.

There's fastcgi caching in nginx, php opcode in php-fpm, and WP specific cave plugins like Super Cache. At least this was the case ~10 years ago.
> All your streaming services -- Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc -- are using DRM and no one even fights this any more.

I do not pay for these services. I restrict myself to YouTube and Odysee.
When coding JS + SQL, nothing beats WebStorm’s DB plug-in with SQL auto-completion, validation, etc.

I really wish the VS Code SQL/Postgres plugins would get there, but it’s a lot of work so I get that it probably will never happen unless Microsoft puts in the effort.
YouTube deleted lectures on Chinese philosophy due to copyright mistake
I've been getting by for a while using circuitjs[1] to simulate sections of circuits I'm building. I hope to one day bite the bullet and climb the steep learning curve of LTSpice

[1] https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html
There are _much_ fewer people incarcerated right now for fentanyl than cocaine.

> the trafficking business also adds considerable marginal violence

Because of it's black market situation and the war that the DEA wages. Other countries have shown pathways to regulation where the dust settles.
> You can't just make people up! Every vote is tied to a specific registration.

If that's the case then one could simply use deceased persons to vote. It's not like they'll come back from the dead as a voter fraud zombie
His team pretty much all moved on to Xerox where they've released Xerox Alto just five years later, which then influenced Apple's engineers, who took the inspiration from Alto and channeled it into Lisa and the OG Macintosh, all of which were still prohibitively expensive for home usage.

So it's not like people forgot about it for a couple of decades, there's a clear line from that demo to where we are now.
>Do you guarantee referential integrity in TAO?

Since I observed data inconsistencies on Facebook multiple times, I believe they aren't as concerned about data integrity as a company doing financial transactions would be.
The costs of putting down catalonian rebellions were one of the major fiscal issues of the 17th century Spanish Empire and a substantial portion of the gold on this ship would have gone towards the war of Spanish Succession, which itself resulted in the Nueva Planta Decrees that contributed to modern Catalan nationalism. It's certainly not irrelevant here, plus you know... centuries of conflict with Spain.
And about 4 million servers, give or take a million.
Yes, in Arabic it is so to distinguish family trees and bloodlines, for example if a nursing mother is ill, her baby might breastfeeding from another women, but the offsprings of both become all brothers and sister due to that, they are, as such, not allowed to marry.
>morally inadequate end

Should books only be morality tales, where Good always vanquishes Evil in the end?
Discord should have never escaped the gaming realm.
I think he is referring to the fact that this is a pretty low-key topic about a website to learn new languages, but your reply involves a very divisive political topic that you seem heavily invested in. It's almost as if you went up to the counter at an Arby's and started talking about intense political subjects to the person taking your order: it's very out of place.
This is the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go-aac/id308368164
So they are basically feeding high frequency data into the e ink which low pass filters it?

That's still progress, some of the high frequency information gets through, it's just blurred.
I work on buses, trains and airplanes, in cafés, Biergarten, parks and hotels with bad wi-fi. There's no fast internet there. Even things loaded from a CDN brought my development speed to a crawl.

If it can't run offline on my machine, I don't use it.

Another aspect is portability. If the only requirement is "some sort of linux box", it's easier to deploy code anywhere, and to share it with anyone.

It also encouraged me to develop websites that work well on bad connections. Small websites that load the important bits early, and that communicate async request states properly.
A minor annoyance that happens often is actually a huge problem. I think we as engineers understate how important these little, often UX related issues really are because we understate how important UX is overall.
This sounds like the ultimate anti-user profiling and targeted advertising solution. I hope google and other advertising giants can’t stop this. Thoughts?
The nines are just a way to say 1e-5 without having to use notation.
Haiku Activity and Contract May 2022
Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
Nice! Now this would be expected algo from candidates in google/meta interviews, especially for senior IC roles.

Update your leetcode answers folks.
>Because neither Safari nor Chrome are open source and what else has any market share whatsoever?

The important parts of them - the rendering engines - are indeed open source, so this isn't as bad as it seems. One can still build their own browsers on top of those engines (e.g, Ungoogled Chromium).

The "war" that's lost here isn't source availability, but two mega-entities (Apple & Google, primarily) getting to steer so much of the web.
It happened all the time when Steve Jobs was alive. See the brushed metal thing, for example, or the selective application of skeuomorphism in iOS 1 to 6.
I have no idea how you arrived at $2.6, when i do the same calculation i end up with $6,48

45W for a month is 32.85 KWh (452430.4/1000), so i rounded up to 33 KWh.

Electricity where i live is currently averaging about €0.54/KWh, though this winter has seen prices as high as €1.14/KWh. Normal price is around €0.3.

33 * 0.54 = 17,8 ~= €18
So you measure with Polaris and have found you have a data consistency of up to 10 nines in a period of 5 minutes. But aren't inconsistencies building over timer?

What if you measure for 1 hour instead of 5 minutes? Still 10 nines?
And the bosses keep lavishing these workers with praise - are they in on it too? Possibly handlers of some sort ...
What was the point of your comment?

This is specifically about the US. Arguing some random position inconsistent with US voting systems is not helpful discourse
The ugly economics behind Apple’s new Pay Later system
By stuffing not one, but two briefcases with the latest technology, but of course!

The article is super shallow.
Another DF inspired game I really enjoyed is Odd Realm. Still in Early Access, but already pretty enjoyable.
The article is talking about restricted access to internet. Families who can't afford wired broadband rely on their mobile data allowance. They have phones at least.
Then you need a faster web framework or CMS. Nexus is made with Nim and is designed to be fast (https://github.com/jfilby/nexus).

But most problems like that can be solved with caching no matter which tech you're using.
Does macOS use OSS?
Not true: https://community.qbix.com/t/generating-output/
If you’re building your own infrastructure in a data center then sure you absolutely want to test your redundancy.

But with AWS it’s a checkbox. It’s transparent to you and your applications. The infrastructure to host in multiple AZs is already in place. The only real issue with MultiAZ is the failover in RDS depending on the database you use could be seconds or 10s of seconds.
I just checked, France has 70000 polling stations and 280000 volunteers for each election, so it’s rather 0.4% of the population.

We just had presidential elections and are electing representatives for parlement next week, we had local elections in 2020, nation-wide elections are not that rare.
Consider how your feelings about this may be shaped by the language you speak.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31589839
Downloading something from a server is a single point of failure. Power outage, cease and desist, any amount of infrastructure failure or human error, etc. What doesn't go away are a whole bunch of people around the world. Want something wacky from 2 decades ago? Your options are usually either hoping it's on archive.org, or some random guy still seeding the torrent from Uzbekistan that you now have a silent bond with.
If my wireguard VPN goes down then I lose connectivity.
What garbage VPN tech would silently disable on failure?
> All your streaming services -- Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc -- are using DRM and no one even fights this any more.

Well, yeah. Streaming services wouldn't exist without DRM. The existence of infinite accessible libraries of content for flat-fee monthly-subscription prices, is built upon IP licenses which were granted conditional to the consumer's inability to leverage that access into piracy. If we deleted DRM, streaming services would cease to exist overnight — all their license grants being revoked, leaving them with nothing to serve — and we'd go back to just relying upon the iTunes Music Store / Netflix DVD rental model. (Which, to be clear, has still also existed alongside streaming this whole time.)

> But, guess what? increasingly all of that is in a cloud data center where your control is ... limited.

But with almost every stack deployed to those data centers just using one or another portable open standard (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) for deployment, commodifying the IaaS provider, such that the moment the IaaS provider attempts to assert any constraints developers aren't uncomfortable with, the developer can just move away in an instant.

(IaaS providers try their best to offer technologies with actual lock-in, but either no significant fraction of users takes them up on them; or a new open-standard abstraction layer is created that re-commodifies the offering by making it something portable to other IaaS providers + open implementations. The "S3-compatible" object-storage API is one good example of such re-commodification.)
In the interest of determining the correct level of sus, here's her response: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByPcspwQv4StD-VW-E6HDRj6...
There are ton of junk posts like that every day. The more interesting question is what makes some of these occasionally gain traction and upvotes seemingly at random.
> people started using the overly-clean fake piano sound to artistic effect, so I eventually came around to liking it in context.

Funny how that works - something that fails in its original purpose turns out to be great for something else.

DX7 synth piano and M1 sampled piano are classics and the "dance piano" lives to this day.

FM piano/rhodes sounds (and DX7 presets) also fueled 80s ballads.

Roland TR-808, 909 and TB-303 were picked up from bargain bins, fueled entire new genres of music, and turned into classics for the ages.
New car models take time to develop. Factories and supply chains take time to build. 10 years is basically telling car companies to stop developing ICE cars right now and go search for more supply of battery materials.

And government has the power to change things. Europe has a 12% BEV share in new cars because of subsidies and regulations: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/29/stellantis-wins-1-2-in-...

Norway has a 85% share of BEVs in new cars because of even more government intervention.
Adding a tracking device and/or camera is also much more expensive than just sending some students out to look at some dogs however...
I've always journaled though only electronically, in markdown, saved into a private git repo. Many journaling proponents insist that this only works if it's hand written but I disagree. I get the same carthasis effect at the end of my writing, and the benefit is that it's actually legible compared to whatever squiggly lines my poor excuse of handwriting is.

And most importantly, because it's electronic, I can go back and easily find how many times I've written on the same subject with a simple grep command. That tells me that this topic is important and I need to take action on it. Hard to do that with a paper journal.
They were grateful the thing got so much attention, and deferred to other hosts to supplement serving that attention. Not looking for uptime solutions.
I feel that is unneccessary, because if I want type annotations, then I can just use TypeScript. Although adding them in Python didn't hurt and was a net win I would say. But I'm not sure how feasible it is, because you want backwards compatibility with JS, and if you have to preprocess anyway to remove the annotations, why not use TS proper.

But I like it for another reason. The single most frustrating thing for me in JS is the lack of operator overloading. Matrix operations become so ugly if you can't use infix operators. If you do complex graphical calculations it is really important that the calculations remain readable.

Custom operators and operator overloading require type-dependent dispatch. The types could be known at compile time in TS. But the developers will not add any such feature, unless JS has it. One of a few prerequisites seems to be that JS gets type annotations!

But honestly it seems I would have to wait until JS becomes TS, before we can overload operators. Maybe it is more realistic to add this via babel or so.
"We" also stopped caring. People used to prefer GPL over MIT-style licenses for ideological reasons. That thought you are having now, namely that "ideology" is a dirty word, is a symptom of the same change.

OSS development moving to internet and hardware companies is the most direct cause, as for them MIT-licensing makes sense (in the sense that others need to use it to be an option for them).

But, increasingly, the people writing the software, at those companies and elsewhere, not just prefer MIT over GPL; they actively don't have an opinion and, in many cases, not even an understanding of the issue, or, worst case, the basics of copyright.[0]

Some of this is simply due to most of the salient issues being decisively won or, at least, being replaced by a solid truce: Linux is everywhere but Microsoft still flourishes. Other software companies have either also found out that co-existence is possible. Or they no longer exist/no longer have the power (Netscape, SCO, Oracle), or never had the chance to get started in this environment (that httpd you are not paying for). Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and Google were never threatened. Thus, nobody is fighting Open Source, and the need to defend it has seized to be a motivating factor to get acquainted with the old ways of lawfare.

But growing up without such challenges leads to a generation trying to find meaning. Having lost ideals of freedom to an assumption of such, they've found much the same ideas as other bored generations: getting rich and, along the way, maybe finding some group or other to occasionally hate-stomp into the curb for shits and giggles.

So they're now running GPUs as space- and world-heaters, while whatever capability for political thought they have is busy balancing their love of Ayn Rand and Jordan Peterson with their hatred of women and the New York Times.

0: Note how there was never a thought expended to any moral or legal issues with the use of vast datasets of text, photos, or music to create text-, photo-, or music-generating AI models. But when someone started doing the same to source code, the possibility that their creative use of fopen to open a file provoked outrage usually reserved for female reddit-CEOs or game journalists. Free Software, for someone writing software, was about giving others such freedoms. This was altruism in its purest form (it's in the dictionary close to alt-right, if someone wants to look it up).
The article you link doesn't support your second, more interesting assertion.
I'm guessing you're running Intel versions of apps, and the emulation us slowing things down.
I think the problem is that if you had different words, it would stop being symmetric. You currently call your wife's brother the same term that he calls you. If there were different terms, you would refer to each other differently. You would no longer be able to say "we're brothers in law".