skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I truly don't understand how people don't know this.

And yet it's true. It would take me a lot of thinking to answer how many days are in an arbitrary month. And I'd probably only be 80% confident. I truly don't understand how I don't know this either. But I've never made an effort to learn it, nor has it been a problem.
I wonder if he still would be with the current state of arms and options for mass destruction.
Having a cross-platform file watcher built into a ubiquitous tool like git is pretty awesome. I could see build tools integrating with this and making more aspects of development faster without having to run a bunch of file watcher services. They all seem to have issues.

I have tried Watchman, but setting it up is a pain. There are so many ways to use it. I also welcome running less Facebook code on my systems.
I tried to report CSAM on Twitter but the account I created to report it was immediately banned and they requested government documentation to unlock it. Not happening.
>Neighboring counties did not have mask mandates at the time, meaning that anyone traveling between counties and not wearing their mask would have spread COVID-19 to Alameda County just as well as if no mask mandate existed

So masking is not effective unless we also ban travel from non-mask mandated areas? This very point seems to confirm that masking mandates can't work unless implemented in conjunction with a strict travel ban (which is impractical).
The Twitter deal is going through, since nobody on the Twitter board of directors uses the service.
What’s the difference between a security and a commodity? And what does this distinction change for the SEC?
I agree with most of that. Charles Stross has a great essay on why space travel is horrible, and that robots are far, far better choices for almost any kind of mission. Hauling people around the universe is expensive, they're so fragile and needy. I mean, just look at the infrastructure it takes to keep them breathing.

The SF novel I was thinking of was Niven and Pournelle's Footfall, where industrious aliens have solved all the hard problems of living for long periods in space, including keeping the lights on, getting rid of waste heat, and maintaining a stable ecosystem. They incorporate their dead into a ceremonial garden where they grow flowers or something. It is all very, very sketchy in practice, of course. Kim Stanley Robinson has a more realistic take in his book Aurora (and it's depressing, one of the few books of his I have no intention of re-reading).

But I still don't think dead people in space are embarrassing. Or if they are, that it's a big deal. It's more of a problem with litter, like the tourists currently cluttering up the slopes of Mt Everest.
You can use Rider though.
I am hoping for an eBook. I don't have a lot of space for books, but my computer or phone is always nearby.
> 14% to sound more impactful

What makes you say that? I don't understand why the percentage figure
would carry more weight. I look at 13/90 my brain says "roughly twenty
percent", which is too much. Perhaps some people, equally innumerate
as I, misjudge the other way. Either way, the facts remain the same.

Do you think numbers expressed as percentages have a different
psychological effect? Maybe they sound more authoritative or clever?
> and will be left behind because of it.

EU vs US GDP growth over the past 15 years, and in fact vs most countries, would strongly suggest Europe is being left behind due to overregulation during an aging crisis.

But hey, why argue in the internet. Let’s let things play out and see where the cards fall
Amateur magician here. On more than one occasion I've felt that P&T have thrown the game and pretended to be fooled when the method was obvious to me, and therefore almost certainly obvious to them.

This is one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufpoQmsvJEg
Or wankwagons.
We have a selfhosted Forum based on WoltLab for our Community.
It's a (one time) Paid Forum-Software (110$), which is based on PHP and easy extendable.
Right now we're having 141k Members and 120k Posts in 5 Years, so i would say our Forum is quite active.
There is no App, but the Design is really good, fully responsible and can be used on a Phone without a problem.
Is the theoretical limit to compression basically what Kolmolgorov complexity is, or is there another shannon/information theory theorem that defines the maximum possible lossless compression in terms of symbols over a channel, where the channel represents the algorithm? ("compression theorem" refers to something else more abstract I think.)

Intuitively it seems like there would have to be one for lossless compression, and a proof that a theorem for the limits of lossy compression was either impossible or an open loop/Hard problem.
Thank you! I wanted to tell you that I really needed to hear this today.

I’m not even sure you are right about evertything, and you are probably oversimplyfing a bit.

But lately I’ve been stuck on this projects with 2 developers (1 is me) and 5(!) managers/project managers assigned to it, plus 3 more on the client side.

The amount of emails exchanged where nothing is said is very funny.

And you know the drill, when it goes right the merit is of the managers (everyone wants the piece of the cake), while when something goes wrong, the fault is the developer’s.

It’s honesly been a shitshow, so it’s been really good for me to read this!
It has already been replicated. Ghost is one example I know of that is very explicitly competing with them: https://ghost.org/vs/substack/

One newsletter I'm subscribed to recently switched from Substack to Ghost, and as a reader it was completely seamless and I might not have noticed if they hadn't mentioned it. They were able to transfer all their paid subscribers and article archive, so it doesn't seem like these services have any real moat.
The Meta Feature in TiDB 6.0: Placement Rules in SQL
Bytedance/TikTok are ignoring US law, as we saw in the news last week.
Yes! The top answer is basically "use the Jacobi formula", and the Jacobi formula can be derived incredibly elegantly using the chain rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi's_formula#Via_Chain_Rul...
I wonder if creating more pseudo-devices for in-host networking would help. Doesn't Docker do that already, for other purposes?
In case you're wondering: https://www.infracost.io/docs/faq/#whats-the-difference-betw...
I never gave the Visual Studio WSDL code-generator the respect it deserved at the time. With hindsight, it was amazingly easy to use and generally "just worked".

> (if the API was written properly)

A very important caveat! I remember we hired some consultants from a world-renowned tech company - let's call them Big Red for now - and their big integration deliverable was a SOAP API with... one method. It accepted a string, and returned a string. And what was that one string? ...A SOAP request! The best code-generator in the world wouldn't have helped.

To this day I wonder if we actually ended up paying for that. I sure hope we didn't.
Awesome! it's always fun hearing how users use Infracost in their workflow
I helped deploy a Verisign affiliate in Australia that had planned to do just that. I believe the post office was going to be the registration authority to vet users identity, and then there was going be some mechanism to issue a subscriber certificate from there, maybe on a smart card. This was 20 years ago, no idea how far it got.

The physical security they built into the facility housing the root CA was pretty intense.
I have no cellphone. Not since ~2003 when I finally cancelled my cellphone subscription altogether. That was GSM/flip-phone. Never got a smartphone. I have a fancy business landline phone on my desk with an address book, different ringtones (VIP/client, friends etc.) and an answering machine.

I am a freelance consultant for 20 years. I never lost a client or a job over not being reachable by cellphone 24/7. I return emails and calls asap when I get home. When I make appointments to meet someone, I always arrange a plan-b. No phone-call-micro-managing needed, like "where are you standing..?". I arrange beforehand a main meeting spot and an alternate spot. I am patient and can wait 15 minutes, no problem. I print out bus & train time tables, maps of the area with routes marked and have an offline map viewer (Cruiser) on my laptop if needed. That, and a sense of direction is all I need to get around.

The main reason for dropping cellphones is that they give me headaches and other neurological symptoms. Yes, its the RF and I don't care what people think of that. Its the RF.

The other reason for never getting a smartphone is that I had a PalmPilot once (a non-wireless handheld computer), and I would load websites onto it for offline browsing while commuting. Soon I realized that the constant context-switching had fragmented my attention so by the time I reached the office, I could hardly concentrate. Now I carry books and a notepad in my backpack. Much better for my brain.
We don't really know because Dr Calhoun didn't keep research notes or samples, published few scientific papers on his research, never captured or shared significant statistical data, had few controls and little regard for cofounds, and almost entirely failed to tell anyone anything about his other "universes".

It also doesn't help that the two peer-reviewed studies that tried to replicate his results failed to do so. In many of those experiments the populations reached stable sizes, some without first experiencing a crash and others only after doing so. Some of the loosely-described "aberrant" behavior Calhoun claimed was never observed... not that we can be sure of that because Calhoun never gave us scientifically relevant observations of that behavior, only colloquial descriptions.

It seems clear now Calhoun set out to achieve a specific result and worked hard to achieve it. Then people with an ideological axe to grind on all sides fill in the blanks to claim it proves their position.

Calhoun for his part went to his grave claiming that mice/rat over-population experiments performed with inbred lab mice strains were in actual fact great models of human behavior and bemoaned that people didn't take his ideas seriously enough by rearchitect society to fit his conclusions.
No, it’s absolutely caused by the EU. What you’re seeing, as many have seen in the past, is idealistic laws meeting reality
That's interesting! I hadn't heard about that one.

There have been cases in which people book their air tickets to the wrong airport, and end up in San Salvador, El Salvador instead of Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.

Obligatory Daily Mail link:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658716/Soccer-lovi...
The cache, for me, is 100:1 winning the races compared to the network. Are there greatly different results for others in about:networking#rcwn?
In your “should I..”s, you mention implementing multiple insecure approaches. If you’re implementing sessions tied to localstorage, your application has a medium severity vulnerability. If you’re improperly invalidating, that’s yet another medium severity vulnerability.

The problem is, you’ll slip up here and there. The experts recommend not rolling your own for a reason; little mistakes and gotchas like the details in your post can lead to significant compromise.
Why do they despise substack? Did Substack do something to piss them off ?
I've thought the same about both Substack and legacy media.

I recently cancelled my NYT subscription, but I would happily pay a one-time fee for a nicely packaged, printed copy of their journalistic scoops. I think their last big one was about the impact of drone bombings in civilian areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That's an important piece of research that deserves a permanent home.

No such option exists. And unfortunately, I'm not going to pay $20/mo CAD for what appears to be 50% opinion columnists, often writing columns about the same thing week after week.
I can tilt my head a certain way and see that… but would you trust their judgment more than that of their peers? Like, maybe a paleontologist inviting me to a park full of dinosaurs is the world’s foremost expert on dinosaurs… but I’m not getting on that chopper.
> That said, what was he actually trying to learn?

> So, we know from both logic and evidence

Just wondering where evidence comes from, if not experiments? I, for one, find the results of the experiment surprising and useful instead of the "logic" and vague notions that we might come up with by theorizing.

> how do we get from insights about mice to insights about people?

Science is a whole lot of looking at, studying, and cataloging things, and the "insights about people" aren't necessarily the goal. Rather, that part seems so often biased to support a worldview, philosophy, or political agenda that I hope we leave it out more often!
Love this article. It contains a very deep and important insight, that the program and programmer are inseparable. Can’t replace one without replacing the other.

People often pretend you can. In big companies a new team will “take ownership” of an existing system. But they won’t really understand it until they rewrite it. Wanting to rewrite is not a character flaw, it’s just an inherent part of the process.

That said, if one person wrote the first version, then one person can write the second version. Teams don’t have to get bigger.
I am trying to care, but despite thinking Substack sounded like a
great idea when first launched I have sadly not been able to read
their articles since they reject my browser and choice of privacy
technologies for read-only access.
We really should bring back asshead.

It’s even Shakespearean: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...

Relation to the more modern asshat:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/some-notes-on-...
Getting real means displacing CO2 production.

Anything that fails to displace CO2 production is, at best, wankage. Anything that steals capital from displacing CO2 production is much worse.
Got any proof you're willing to share?
There are curated magazine-like things on Substack, but they are organized by writers' collectives, not Substack itself. One example: https://www.discourseblog.com/about
> IP stolen

The notion that imaginary property can be "stolen" is so ridiculous and dystopian to me. Information isn't ownable, and the assertion that it can be was dreamt up by and for lawyers. We finally invent something - The Internet - that lets information be free and available to everyone, and computers that let people share copies of thing at effectively no cost, and rent seeking lawyers go and invent some bullshit to fuck it all up by bribing congress to make it law that benefits them immensely to everyone else's net detriment.

China doesn't recognize dystopian American copyright laws. Why should they? They're not China's laws, and they're detrimental to China.

Asserting "fairness in the marketplace" and copyright infringement (and calling it theft) in the same paragraph is absurd. In a fair marketplace, copyright infringement isn't a thing, and neither is "Imaginary Property" law. And don't get me started on software patents.

That said, I also feel no pity for TikTok and I'll never install it. I don't have the facebook app either.
The Howey Test
One of the industries is
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software 112.17% 17.81

And that doesn't take into account that Substack is doubling every 6 months
So Substack is 2 doublings or 12 months away of growth from bringing it's multiple to the industry standard, that might be an aggressive evaluation but it doesn't seem insane.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1243565/substack-paid-su...

* Not to mention most VC deals are sweeter than a pure purchase (in terms of being protected from a down round etc.. *
NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears
Adding to the confusion, there are places named El Salvador which are not El Salvador. The largest one is Villa El Salvador in Perú.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador_(disambiguation)
The narrative is the elite are angry that it now actually costs something to borrow money.
Supernumerary virtual robotic arms can feel like part of our body
> An all-American clone of an app like TikTok is little better than the Chinese version imo

Tiktok is the all-American clone of Chinese version Douyin.
Banned in china:
Google
Gmail
Google Play
Google Maps
Google Drive
Google News
Facebook
Facebook Messenger
Instagram
Twitter
Reddit
Tumblr
Pinterest
WhatsApp
Snapchat
Slack
Viber
Line
Discord
Telegram
Signal
Wikipedia
Dropbox
OneDrive
Blogger
WordPress
Medium
Quora
BBC
The New York Times
The Guardian
The Washington Post
Daily Mail
CBC (Canada)
ABC (Australia)
Spotify
SoundCloud
Amazon Music
Pandora
Tinder
Pornhub
XVideos
Chaturbate
Twitch
PlayStation
Coinbase
Binance
Careful with using these terms on reddit as reddit is increasingly moving to machine learning based distribution of bans and post removals, use of any obscure words (particularly pejoratives) is more likely to get a ban from our humorless machine overlords.

(meanwhile, hacked nudes and posts of judges home addresses with 'violence isn't the answer. it's the question and the answer is yes' "doesn’t violate Reddit’s Content Policy")
Sigstore: An Update on General Availability
I suppose the closest analogue would be the LIV tour in golf. Substack came calling and tried to pull away a number of big names from DC, Marvel, and Image with promises of pre-payments for creator-owned projects and full editorial control. I think some of them are starting to realize that self-publishing is far more expensive independently (given that you are responsible for paying the artists, letterers, etc) than finding a publisher for your work.
That's tech in a nutshell. Being a race to finding some kind of moat (intellectual property law, network effects, etc.) to prevent an efficient market from being established.
Septimated.
The potential "capturable" net income from operations is what matters in the end.

Retail tends to have large revenues and tiny margins. I can say Amazon retail should be worth more based on their revenue, but when their margins are 0 or negative, that would be dumb
My guess is that inotify is so slow with large directories that it wasn't worth it. Plus inotify has cumbersome user limits.

inotify has a number of other relevant limitations, like not being able to create recursive notifications or handle "move" operations. Implementation effort is going to be way higher for an inotify-based system, and of course that's made far worse by the numerous file systems in linux - I imagine any implementation would probably start first with ext4.

I suspect an ideal solution would be via ebpf, but I'm not sure.
There's no hysteria here, and surprise, most nation's act out of self-preservation or with interests of their citizens, or what you call nationalism.

> If data harvesting was a genuine concern ...

It is, and that is what is going on here, with TikTok the beginning. EU is also helping here, so kudos to them. Hopefully Discord next.
For one thing, it starts midway through the story, taking for granted the existence of light-sensitive cells, lenses and irises, without explaining where they came from in the first place.

Couldn't read too far, because it started sounding like quasi-religious intelligent design conspiracy schlock. This statement is completely untrue, and is the #1 line parroted by intelligent design proponents. The eye is incredibly simplistic. It's one of the most simple of all the organs. The brain's visual cortex is complex, but the eye itself is so simple as to not even warrant any doubt. Its evolution is well-studied from the most basic light-sensing organs all the way up to the best modern eyes.
It's the instruction at $98ED which is being substituted, because Game Genie codes use 15-bit addresses with the 16th bit implicitly set.
Treating a symptom rather than the disease always works so well.
Substack is an existential threat to the NYTimes business model and ultimate existence.
an American clone would presumably not be built by a Chinese company
You can say the same thing for many saas companies. Anyone can clone Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. But there are network effects. I like substack because they have a free tier and easy monetization. If I were to monetize I'd probably go with them due to ease of monetization, their interface, transferability, etc. The differences between fees in competitors is probably negligible.

It's differentiated to something like Medium because I know I won't get ads, pop-ups, arbitrary paywalls, cheesy SEO content, etc.
There are a number of things that should open at least some versions of OpenDocument files. If they have an issue, the can still get LibreOffice for free. Much better than the reverse situation, especially if they don't send ooxml
Looking at the excerpt on Amazon, the Acknowledgments part of the preface lists numerous people and concludes with: "This book would be as good as it is without your help." The author might want to fix that.
Moving to a continuous, asynchronous strategy versus a point-in-time synchronous strategy, seems like a perfectly reasonable way to improve performance.
You can walk across the Dumbarton bridge. It's... not to everyone's taste.
My grandfather grew up in Battersea - just off Park Road - in the 1920s, and he told me that his first 'proper' job after leaving school was as a 'telegram boy' and that one of his first deliveries was to the base of the 'rear left' tower (as you look at it from the river) while it was still only about half way finished, to one of the stone masons. I have photos of him in his uniform and cap and its lovely to imagine him climbing up the scaffold to deliver the telegram.
Growth is irrelevant if your gross margins are negative.
But I'm 100% Substack has fantastic gross margins.
Also a big assumption (which we could verify by looking at the relevant implementations, but I'm not going to)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nyt+editorial+substack
Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars – RIKEN
It would carry more weight to someone who has never heard of Substack or doesn't know how big a company it is. They'd assume it was a large company because of who was reporting about it.
Wankbasket is pretty solid. It has internal vowel harmony.
The linked article doesn't mention call stacks explicitly, but describes the R1000 arch was object+offset addressed in HW. So unless they restricted the call stack to fit into one object and use only offsets, then yes, they must have chained objects together for the stack.

When you have a page-based memory model, you've created the importance of address locality. If you have object-based memory model, and the working set is of objects, not pages, then address locality between objects doesn't matter.

Of course, page-based based memory models are by FAR the most common in practice.

(Note: pages ARE objects, but the objects are significant to the VM system and not to your program. So strictly, page-based models are a corner case of object-based models, where the objects are obscure.)
Simple answer: it's not.

Same way that WeWork was 'valued' at $50bn, before they revealed their full financials to the public. Then the IPO collapsed; the company was worth $10bn tops, and most of that is in assets they purchased during Softbank's dalliance with Adam Neumann.

The same Adam Neumann that Substack investors A16Z have given $70m to to develop a carbon credits trading blockchain. I shit you not.
Ether's confusing though because the SEC has explicitly said in the past that "offers and sales of Ether are not securities transactions." https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-hinman-061418

Gensler's comments today suggest the opposite will be true?
The valuation isn't presuming a "mature" business at a 72x ratio, but rather there is a trend where the trajectory is something more reasonable. Is there a path to $90 million in revenue in the next 24 months? I'm sure there is a slide that shows something like that, which would be a 7.2 multiple.