skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have none of these people considered that maybe the "people in the know" are "hostile" about these "data collection" actions for good reason perhaps?

Have none of these people considered that maybe other "people in the know" AREN'T "hostile" about these "data collection" actions for good reason perhaps?

Most people are aware that everything has a cost. Some people want us all to live under rocks because they don't like big companies. Other people think it's worth the cost. The vast majority of people just like "free" stuff.
This has nothing to do with what was, or should be, the formula for determining the number of representatives. But I'm curious if this would work: the state with the smallest population gets 1 representative, and each doubling of population adds +1 more representative.

I'm using wikipedia for this, which should be close enough for a thought experiment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

Wyoming has a population of roughly 576,851. It gets 1 representative. It's not until you get to Maine that it doubles, so they get 2. It doubles again at Kansas, so they get 3. The next doubling is Louisiana, so they get 4. New Jersey just barely makes it to 5. Finally New York tops out at 6. The grand total is 167 representatives.
This is exactly how I feel. I was heads down getting my work done, when suddenly the CEO plunges the entire company headlong into the culture war. It is counterproductive and bad leadership.
An Actually-Good Argument Against Naive AI Scaling
I’m currently building a FaaS runtime using v8 isolates, which I hope to open-source soon. That’s actually not that hard since isolates are, isolated from each other.

Performance-wise, it’s also very promising. For a simple hello world, the « cold start » (which is mostly compile time) is around 10ms, and on subsequent requests it runs in 1ms.
Follow the link to the website and you'll see several that, at least, I hadn't seen before.
This is super tangential, but does anyone else find it sad that operating systems receive keys from USB keyboards using polling rather than interrupts? Wouldn't comprehensive use of interrupts rather than polling allow the processor to move to a lower-power state? No wonder our closed smartphones are more battery-efficient than our open PCs.
> As long as you don't commoditize piracy too much, it's fine.

Still, I wouldn't call that piracy at all.

As a non subscriber they open their door to you, offer you a counter and tell you you can lurk anything until the counter say you have to leave or pay. But that counter only really work if you accept to put batteries inside and turn it on and nobody is really bothering to check.

Also they chose to use drug dealers methods knowing very well that network effects will make you knock at their door on a regular basis.

Choosing to ignore that counter would be unethical/rude the same way taking photo in a museum that prohibit them is. But none of this is piracy.
> In quite a lot of cultural traditions, the point of marriage is supposed to be that it is significantly different and you won't break up due to poor fit.

Which is not to say that you can't end up with a poor fit anyway. You're just compelled by social expectations (if not legal requirements) to stay together despite the poor fit, often to the detriment of everyone involved.

Sometimes people do give up too easily, and could make the marriage work if they just had a bit more incentive to try. That's where systems which grant marriage more permanence shine. But on other occasions the problems run deeper, and separation may well be the correct answer.

In any case, since people have learned that they can get most of what they want out of a relationship without actually getting married, stronger / less reversible marriages just tend to discourage people from getting married in the first place.
Like how everyone just clicks on "I AGREE" to the EU cookie popup without reading anything?

Most people don't even read their mortgage contract carefully.

People aren't ever going to read a EULA to read a recipe for chicken soup.
You really think that every manufacturer on the planet is conspiring to make people think there is a chip shortage?
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/f-wxlr/#2c40a673
TCO is kinda binary. If you use a recursive function on small data it doesn't matter. If you use it on big data it fails with stack overflow so they will fix it.
Regardless of if everything they're claiming is true or not, the numbers just don't work out. Nobody will go for this. You have a better chance of getting a new amendment passed than getting TPTB (the powers that be) to sign up for this. Best of luck!
I'd argue that GH won over Bitbucket because of two key factors:

1. It wasn't developed by Atlassian, who at the time had a reputation for building more unwieldy tools (Jira, anyone?) and had a weird, awkward feel. The fact that Git had gained near instantaneous traction and Bitbucket needed you to learn Mercurial made it a near non-starter.

2. GitHub's model ("Social Coding") and zero-effort force amplification made it just the right wedge. Git had terrible tooling on the frontend and GitHub providing "Just enough" tooling around the server side while also providing the right kinds of tooling (webhooks, enterprise-ish features, click-to-fork, a very good PR path, etc) made it easy to use Git.

Mercurial might be the "superior" tool from certain standpoints but Git had a few tricks up its sleeve that made people like it:

* Written in C. No extra runtimes.

* Modular construction: `git-slap` is immediately available as `git slap` like a native tool.

* Performance of Mercurial was bad on massive codebases and slower machines. I mean terrible. once you hit 500KLOC or into the 2MLOC, a simple merge could take minutes if not tens of minutes in the old days if you weren't on a fairly modern (2005-7ish) machine. If you'd kept your slightly older P2 laptop around, you were absolutely roasting under the weight of what took Git mere seconds.
> Plus, while the concept behind Snaps is interesting, in practice they seem to be nearly universally reviled.

It might be worth mentioning that a more open, community driven and decentralized option offering mostly the same concepts exists in the way of Flatpak and Flathub.
Do it as business to business - IBM hires Proglonox to do whatever, and Proglonox verifies the required documents and reports income as necessary for the employee.

The employee happens to be the sole owner of Proglonox, but IBM never needs to know the details about that.

In general if the government gets their cut, they don't care about shell games. It's only when using them to hide from them that they get interested.
A bash script to fetch, download, and open scientific papers from Sci-Hub
the more posts are banned and shadowbanned the more like reddit this website becomes, aka a boring place for boring people to say boring things. interesting people don’t like censorship
I completely disagree. You can't go preemptively flattening every country you don't like (I mean, we did for a little while and all it seems to have done is made a bigger mess.)
Because when a tank fires its APFSDS gun, the muzzle velocity is 1500 meters-per-second.

In contrast, a drone flies at 25 to 50 meters-per-second.

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To put it in concrete terms, a tank 3000 meters away will hit its target in 2 seconds. A drone 3000 meters away will take 1.5 minutes.

In contrast, the Javelin you launch will take 12 seconds before it hits the tank at that range. That's more than enough time for the tank commander to see the Javelin and return fire, killing you before the Javelin even strikes the tank. (This is why "fire and forget" is so important on a missile like the Javelin). So we can see that even a missile like a Javelin has a significant speed disadvantage on these long-range plains that exist on the Donbas region. Its a different fight than the typical heavy-urban environment that Ukraine was doing well in a few months ago.

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Its one thing to fight a tank in urban combat, where they can only see 200 meters out (too many buildings blocking your vision and the tank's vision).

Its a totally different thing to fight a tank on open plains, where 3000m worth of vision is common.
In my experience, memory leaks in GC languages are very easy to track down, since the timing for analyzing the heap is excellent. While discovering that you do have a memory leak is not very easy, once you know about it you can easily compare heap snapshots, find the increasing objects, and track down their GC roots, all from the same tool. With Java especially, you can even do this on a running service in production, with minimal downtime.

In contrast, it's much harder to track down memory leaks in C, since the runtime has little information about the contents of the heap. You typically end up using valgrind to instrument your code, assuming it can still run fast enough to reproduce the problem.

The only exception is Go, which has awful tooling for analyzing memory. For some bizarre reason, it can't even show you the gc roots of an object in memory, even though the GC obviously needs this information to work properly.
If I'd bought Bitcoin at $1 and it went to $5, I would have sold. If I'd bought at $10 and it went to $20, I would have sold. If I'd bought at $100 and it went to $150, I would have sold. The amount of discipline it would have taken to hold through all the rises and make an obscene amount of money is well beyond my risk profile.

But I get what you're saying.
Investment and improvement in nukes are falling, not rising. For reasons.

There is no reasonable expectation for substantially better costs for nukes. Anywhere they have to compete with $0 opex renewables, they will run at well under 50% capacity, thus more than doubling their per-kWh cost, making them even less competitive.
> There was a time in 1998-99 when Internet Explorer 4 / 5 was actually the best browser by far

Only as a preview for web 3. Netscape, even when crashing, was faster and more user friendly. Error messages in IE were surrealistic. Unfortunately those are today standard in todays browsers.
I don't think that's the same thing at all, and I disagree. Physicians are directly useful to society.
It doesn’t worry you that the v8 team specifically tells you not to do this?

eta link: https://v8.dev/docs/untrusted-code-mitigations#sandbox-untru...
> Which raw material are you talking about? Be specific.

Uh Lithium?
Ask HN: Any privacy friendly user journey alternatives to Heap, Amplitude?
What did your treatment end up being? Did you take long term antibiotics?
The complete bullish thesis is still in tact. In fact, the thesis is as strong as it ever has been. Nothing has changed but the price.
You may pretend all you like, but I will always correct you.
Pinboard is dead. Move on to something else.
Curiously enough, IE is also the only one that allows properly selecting and copying CSS-generated content (i.e. both quotation marks added via "quotes:" as well as general free-form text added via "content:").

Firefox does some semi-functional hack for handling quotation marks, but gives up on "content:", while Chrome and all other Blink-based browsers don't handle that kind of text at all and just skip it entirely. (No idea about Safari, but given its shared rendering engine history with Chrome it presumably doesn't handle it, either.)
When in University, Intel gave a presentation. They stated the same facts that the Semi industry will be low waged, hard work, and require MULTIPLE PHDs. That presentation gave me enough information to recognize that I really didn't want to be in the semi-industry.
It's easier to make a weapon that takes out a tank, than it is to make a tank that can defend itself to it.

Javelin missiles are just one thing, but cheap drones with simple rockets on them should be able to take out a moving force of numerous tanks.

Imagine having an arsenal of 20 tanks storming your city.

Now imagine having about 100 drones ordered from Amazon, outfitted with RKG-3 anti-tank grenades. One each. You can fly low, you can fly through the woods, and you can fly each individually operated drone right up to the top part of a tank, and boom.

No clever software automation. Just a drone that can lift something like 1 kg worth of anti-tank grenade.

You have 20 drone operators. You'll have 5 drones per tank. One after the other. Skip the already defeated tanks. Attack the tanks that will create a barrier when destroyed first, take natural barriers into account.

Your tanks can have all the power and shock and awe you might think they have, but any 12-year old will be able to take you out as if they were playing a video game.
Show HN: I made a GPT-3 thing to help me make better hackathon projects
It's highly debatable and jurisdiction dependant.

Plenty of contractors are basically employees paying less taxes and not having holidays.

(not that I'm complaining, I'm glad there is a legal way to minimise how much the government steals from me)

States are a bit trickier because healthcare is so ridiculously overpriced and therefore people value health insurance provided by an employer.
I never even bothered to sign up for the private health insurance I had in the UK and just either user the crappy public one or paid out of pocket, finding the best doctor for the job (instead of what my insurance would have offered).
Yes I want to hire a team.
Lego to build $1B factory in Chesterfield, VA
> But since companies with existing leases will not be affected, the near-term impact on exploration and production as well as royalties to states will be limited.

> A more permanent leasing ban would have a significant impact, although visible offshore production declines may not materialize for up to 10 years, given the typical timeframe for planning, exploration, appraisal, and development.

My source pointing that the current admin's actions haven't significantly changed things today is your own article.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/biden-makes-sweeping-changes-o...
I like API docs. Docs where each module,
definition, function, etc. is documented. Then I can see the docs in my IDE.

If the API docs have a good search function, then I can actually search directly from the docs instead of Google. They should also have lots of links because often I’m just clicking through references.

I also really like examples. Especially
when they’re examples of something i might actually do (e.g. how to use a file library to read a file), to the point where sometimes I just copy/paste them.

High-level theoretical documentation is good too, but make sure you have the API documentation and examples first. Also try to use graphics and diagrams where appropriate. People have garbage attention spans and most people won’t read a wall of text.

The best documentation I know so far is the Rust standard library in docs.rs. Lots of Cargo packages also have great documentation. The Rust / Cargo books are a great example of higher-level documentation. If you write docs like well-documented packages on docs.rs you should be good.
Yes And? bot was built to help come up with better hackathon ideas. I've found it to be legitimately helpful, and I think it's great for people who struggle to consider the many variables around their idea.

We built it by using GPT-3 on autocomplete, and feeding it this prompt:

In a meeting room, two people are talking about an idea they have for a new startup. The first person needs someone to validate their idea. The second person is very creative and experienced employee, so they are trying to help the first person by pointing out things that might make their idea fail. The second person guides the first person through a thought process towards a successful idea.”

Then we added examples of dialog of these two personas:

First person: “Hey, I was thinking on creating an app for the company so we could get points every month and we send those points for people we like their job.”

Second person: “How do people earn points? And what do they do with them?”

First person: “They get 25 points every month, and they could redeem rewards like caps, t-shirts and custom iPhone cases; things like that so people can feel how much they are appreciated by their team.”

Second person: “Wouldn’t that be a big cost for the company?”

With this the AI(Second person) has context and the format to ask questions the same way during the real conversations.
I think wages only can go up with abundant energy.

This time around interest is lagging inflation by atleast 1 year.

In the 70s the rate and salaries increased BEFORE the inflation occured = inflation was rate/salary driven and because debt level was lower.

Today salaries are not increasing 10% per year for most people.

So I actually think the interest rate hike increases the scarcity inflation eventually since energy production need low interest loans to build new sources.

The only sure thing about the hike is that ZERO new companies will be created, for good and for bad.
Google Analytics is not spyware, it just counts users, OSes, browsers, page views. It doesn't identify users personally ( you could if you knew the only person with a Chromebook in a city, but that's about as granular as it could get).

As can be seen by any statistic - be it the download/rate/comment ratios on any of the mobile app stores, or the Chrome extension stores, the vast majority of users will stay silent. Wanting to know a tiny bit about them is understandable.
Not really a surprise after the SecurityManager was not very successful in managing security. It turned out to be a huge undertaking and a constant burden.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/411 (deprecation in JDK 17)
QR code menus are the death of civilization
My understanding is that Lyme disease treatment is basically not covered by anything, beyond initial treatment. The suggestion of the possibility for Lyme to have long-term effects that need a much longer course of treatment is not scientifically accepted, but lots of people have reported symptoms of Lyme disease long after an initial infection.
Also decent chunk of difference comes from how freelancers are responsible for their own employer taxes. So the costs that are essentially invisible to someone receiving a wage.
People live in flats with no garden, or don't live near a forest or anything beautiful really, or finish their shift when it's already dark. Or maybe it's just raining or 105 F outside.
Thanks to serfdom, we have IPhones and Gadgets.

Which consumer products do you own come from Norway?
>If one writes Go or Rust, there are much better ways to run them than targeting WASM

>Containers are still the defacto standard

But that really depends on just how compute heavy the service in question is. For a lot of lightweight "frontend" (yes we're still talking server side, but you get the point) code for some API endpoint there's some lightweight glue logic between it and whatever backend services are involved. Targeting WASM in V8 might not have much of a performance hit at all compared to a native binary and if it allows your tiny service to only use 3MB of RAM instead of e.g. 100MB then that's still a pretty big win, even discounting the resource cost, because now you're avoiding context switches and running off of a shared runtime that's already going to have a bunch of hot paths fitting into cache.

The argument for V8 Isolates vs containers has a ton of overlap with the argument for containers vs. VMs. Yes there are security concerns, yes you're giving up some level of functionality but if you don't need a full container then the lighter abstraction might be the more efficient choice just as containers are often a better fit than a full VM. If the service in question is a good fit for Node then it might also be a good fit even using WASM from a Rust codebase to run on V8.
Someone who could just manage to feed their family on a paycheck-to-paycheck salary before now cannot. That hurts in a way that is .. difficult to compare to when your belly is always full.
What we’ve seen in Ukraine is far from modern tanks fighting with modern tank doctrine.

Yes, technically some of those tanks are ‘modern’, but many of them appear to have fake reactive armor, are poorly built, and they are being deployed without infantry, air, or logistical support. It’s the perfect recipe to lose all of your tanks.
Lester Thurow in his 1980 book

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Sum-Society-Distribution-Possibi...

talks about numerous problems we experience today, such as windfall profits in the petroleum industry, but the most interesting bit in my mind was the fall of the steel industry in the US which based on the Open Hearth Furnace and the Bessmer process. Japan and Germany had there obsolete factories blown up so they switched to the newly developed Basic Oxygen process which was faster, cheaper and produced superior steel. US Steel lobbied to get protectionism, but this had a negative effect on other parts of US industry. For instance US automakers were making expensive and inferior cars out of expensive and inferior steel.

The problem wasn't that the US Steel industry had to invest in new steelmaking capacity, but rather it had to disinvest in the old technology because so long as it could make profits without investing it wouldn't invest. This character played a role in it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife

and he later got famous for bankrolling a campaign to harry Bill Clinton when he was in office. Oddly Bill Clinton became friends with RMS later because RMS let him "triangulate", so long as he could keep his head above water he could do nothing for leftists and have them blame the Republicans and not Clinton.

If the phone lines just disappeared it would be perfectly profitable to roll out a fiber network, but so long as the copper wires exist phone companies have every reason to postpone copper retirement indefinitely.
I'm fine with idea paying for news, but I'm not fine when 99% of links I click are paywalled.
I'm pretty sure that if you somehow gave people an accurate filter for "loving partner who is looking for a long-term monogamous relationship underpinned by mutual care and affection," it'd instantly become the most popular one. But that's impossible to verify without weeks or months of dating. And there really isn't a good proxy for it, and if there were, it'd be quickly gamed.

I do suspect you could mitigate the market-for-lemons/selection effect by allowing filters on number of likes/matches and duration of time spent on the app: if someone has been on an OLD app for years consistently getting dozens of likes per day, they probably aren't a likely candidate for a long term relationship. But that'd be much less popular, because few people are willing to focus on potential partners not many other people want.
The gasoline prices in US have little to do with price of oil. In 2008 oil was 140 USD while gasoline was much cheaper. The real problem is underutilization of refineries . Some of them reduced output during Covid and was not able to restore production. Some where closed due to environmental regulations.
I'm very interested about your research area. Can you divulge anything publicly here, or maybe shoot me an email (just put in my profile).

Thanks.
Good on Tyler for pressing on the advantages of Web 3.0 for artists. I didn't really find MA's answers satisfactory.
As far as Russia/Ukraine, the real agenda the US government seems to be pushing there is using that conflict to rapidly increase LNG exports to Europe from the US West/South coast, even though energy prices are spiking due to inflation (and plausibly due to exports of crude oil from the USA, allowed under that 2015 bill lifting that restriction)"

How are they pushing this and you claim it's "the real agenda", what are they claiming instead?
Are you claiming the US got involved with the Ukrainian conflict in order to sell LPG to other countries?