skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're elite units. Everyone in the group is incredibly driven and it takes a certain type of personality to get there. Esprit d' corps contributes to a higher level of cohesion. Also because the units are smaller, leaders have to contribute more rather than simply delegating. They have skin in the game and they need to trust their subordinates with their lives, which puts a limit on self-serving motives when decision making.

Just my take, I don't have any proof/ citations, but I do have military experience.
Not rare at all. A friend recently worked at a company that did $300k in revenue last year and was valued at $750M shortly after! Of course, they laid off like 20% of their staff recently.
Yes. Even promoting the idea brings global catastrophe nearer, as it distracts from what we already know we must do.
> What I understood about emacs is that it doesn't have a concept of a project

Not built-in, but there are packages available for that.
"working" implies that the goal of mask mandates is to reduce covid and not political theatre so some person in charge could say "we managed the situation".

The mandate worked exactly as intended.

Worth pointing out that there is nothing conspiratorial about this. It exactly aligns with the real life decision making process of how things like this get enacted
I've found success using GNNs for point cloud classification, by creating edges between each point using a k nearest neighbor scheme.
It is a shame that forums went away, now that forum software has really matured and development is vibrant: Looking in your direction NodeBB and Discourse!
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Not necessarily strangers, but just in casual conversations with people in public places. Which guns they think are badass, the high price of ammunition, the annoyances of new regulations, etc.
Fair point. There probably should be standard advice along the lines of "if in doubt, make a 'wip' commit before you do anything". That's good advice even beyond using git itself.
Binary compatibility is no longer a huge concern. By now only very old programs will require arm32 support and most current offers on any app store will have been recompiled for the latest and greatest (because software writers also want to look better on newer CPUs). Plus, if the new hardware is that much faster, you may not even need to pack native blobs.
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I do see risk with the algorithm being manipulated in the future, but right now it seems like I have the most personal control over the Tiktok feed than any other social media app.

If I click the not interested button, it stops sending me videos of content similar to that. Youtube, Facebook, Google News, and Twitter all seem to ignore me when I click their equivalent buttons. I have been attempting for years to get Google News to stop showing me Meghan Markle drama, and have blocked half of the news outlets in the UK.
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The proposed location for this space bubble system, Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1, is gravitationally unstable.

Any device located there must actively maintain its location , using calculated thruster firings, generally on the order of months, or it will drift out of position in less than a year.

So we're safe from that scenario. If the satellite loses power, it will just drift out of our line of site of the sun. No intervention required.

Other active spacecraft located at L1: NOAA's DSCOVR climate observatory, and NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer

Edited to add a visualization of the ACE spacecraft L1 orbit:
https://izw1.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/DATA/browse-html/gse_color....
> Is that because of higher government overhead (taxes, regulations) or is it because of some other reason? I doubt it's because of competition, because US companies compete in Europe just fine.

I assume it's simply because we produce value with more efficiency and less initial funding.

By the way, on the matter of personal taxes, US citizens are paying, if you take local, state, sales, etc tax and healthcare premiums into account, the same or in some cases even more taxes than Europeans do. They just get absolutely nil in return.

This also extends to companies to some degree, vice versa. There is no real regulation that says you have to shut your unprofitable business down, but you're not going to be in business for very long if you have to treat your employees fairly, which is by regulation.

> your European paradise also has HFTs - check out job postings in Amsterdam

So.. this is pretty much what I'm on about. And I can guarantee you that they have dramatically less expense, overhead and a dramatically higher standard of work.

> That's from 2021 by the way, very recent. Europeans treat software engineers like factory workers while Silicon Valley treats them like impact makers.

The thing is, our "factory workers" are getting, BY DEFAULT, better benefits than even the most highly advanced Silicon Valley "impact makers". Even the fucking janitor gets by law almost a month of mandatory paid vacation, unlimited sick days, complete and utter unlimited job protection in addition to ±80% of his salary in the case of illness, forever, has to be paid, if not (likely) more, a living wage that is on average twice as high as the US minimum wage, has complete and utter protection if he turns out unemployed at some point and he will be taken care of at old age. He will also not be working more than 40 hours per week and especially not unpaid.

THE JANITOR. Everyone.

Yes, our wages for highly skilled workers are not as high as some insane 300k FAANG jobs, but I'd rather have it this way and the janitor happy as well. When you hear about “factory workers” here it is not what you think it is.

> VW and Hyundai, doubtful.

I cannot share much here due to my field of work, but I think you're going to be very surprised.
It is not immediately obvious why a local filesystem would be slower than network
I lived nearby for a few years many years ago.

While I appreciate the sentiments you express, I can say that the site was all but abandoned for many many years. For a while it seemed likely that the iconic towers would be demolished, as there was no economic case to be made for keeping them. So I'm glad they were saved, somehow.

Even so, I agree that the recent developments south of the river are rather soul-less. Areas such as 9 Elms and along the river towards Wandsworth are particularly lacking in visual or any other interest.
> Which explains so many of the comments here. It's hard to imagine something you've never really experienced.

Or... they just disagree with the assumption that it's even possible for such "egalitarian structures" to exist at scale. In fact, their position might be based on a preponderance of experience.

The "lack of experience" / "you just haven’t seen a good one yet" framing strikes me as a rhetorical strategy to establish the thing you need to show.
I used Feedly every day. I don't actually use it to discover RSS feeds, though; more often I see some site and put it into their Add function, and it finds the feeds in it.

Some stories are still behind paywalls (e.g. The Local in Munich), but you can at least read the headlines.
No. What happened?
I'm not a fan of this mythos around Git's complexity. It is simply a DAG, a bunch of references to nodes in that graph, and a stack of commands that let you make any modification to that system you so desire.

If you just learn the mapping of those concepts to Git's vocabulary, you really don't need to memorize all the commands. In the odd case, you can just look up the docs. Nodes are commits, references are either branches or labels depending on whether they stick to leaf nodes or any other node. Your working tree is the current state of the repo in your filesystem, and staging is how you assemble commits.
Are they currently prioritising revenues and profitability?

You could have real estate in the heart of Manhattan that you make $0 on, but that doesn't make it worthless because of the potential of that real estate.

We know highly trafficked websites (and apps) can make billions selling ads. My guess is that investors saw value in the virtual real estate of Substack so that $650m might not be as unreasonable as it seems on the surface.

Valuations are based on future performance, not current performance. If they're going to do $100m in revenue this year then the valuation is perfectly reasonable.

But I'm just guessing. It might be as unreasonable as you suggest. I'm just saying there can be cases when that kind of valuation would make sense if the potential for higher future revenues / earnings exist.
You forgot the last bit: "...without a central authority."

There is no double-spending problem in traditional banking because it is not decentralized.
Kind of like how Russian hackers are careful to avoid Russian systems.
Keep it as simple as possible. Static HTML that can be dropped on any web server.

HTML/HTTP may some day be obsolete, but will likely be around longer than anything built on complicated javascript frameworks or tightly tied to current web browser technologies.
You could etch your data and website onto copper plates and launch them into the depths of space; this will likely last near until the heat-death of the universe!
State organizations are to the US what national organizations are to the EU.
After my experiences with Android, it'll be really difficult to make me buy an Android phone.

Compared to iOS, everything is slightly clunkier.
JetBrains are from a low income country themselves.
And, removing carbon delays global catastrophe, while space bubbles bring it sooner.
Re-move files in Emacs
I’m not sure if “palpable” is the word you want, but in any case: China’s foreign policy intentions include making independent, sovereign nations part of China against their wishes and asserting military control over a huge part of the oceans far beyond any internationally recognized limits. The former is a done deal with Tibet, because the world grew weary of complaining about it, and Taiwan is next. The South China Sea is also basically a done deal. I can’t think of a Western nation right now that‘s behaving in this way, or anything close to it. This is not even to mention the ongoing genocide of at least one population within China.
It was probably not a Deep Fake that tricked the Mayor of Berlin
But the United States can hardly be called a democracy with gerrymandering, unelected federal judges, unequal representation for populous states in congress, and the electoral college.

The majority does want abortion rights, but those rights aren't coming. That's not democracy in action.
> but why you'd let an adversary control the information flow to a huge portion of the population is beyond me.

Because the US has freedom of expression and free publishing, regardless of nationality of the publisher.

Once you start doing the same "foreigners can't publish here [and the local ones are under our influence]" nonsense that China does, it becomes indistinguishable from the adversary.
> It isn't even clear what you mean by abstraction at all.

I'm using abstraction in the sense of 'blueprint abstraction' from game theory. This is basically compression of the input to your learning algorithm. There exists lossless compression - perfect one to one abstraction. There is also lossy compression - given one compressed form it could be any number of uncompressed forms. Abstraction with error is then compression with error. What I was trying to prove and what I still believe to have proved is that some algorithms when given an input of unbounded size have the property of not terminating. What I then tried to show was that abstraction breaks the proof of non-termination, because it breaks the core assumption of diagnolization - that there is a one to one mapping. So the proof of non-termination doesn't hold.

> I am familiar with virtually all the topics you are discussing, so you can skip the citations.

I literally linked to a paper that used abstractions in the way I meant it. So maybe you should not skip citations? Clearly you don't know the fields as well as you think you do.

> I find no coherence to any of your segues.

It isn't a segue; it is what you asked for. I gave you a proof that unabstracted learning problems can terminate where abstracted problems terminate.

> You are completely out of touch [2][3]

This is such an ironic statement; here we were discussing what abstraction techniques we should teach when teaching computer programming and you're trying to complain that I'm the one who is out of touch when I say computers use abstractions. They definitely do. In fact, they use abstractions with error.
The license of the source code has little to no relevance on data privacy concerns, whether state or private.
Except when it does matter, say for example you become a politican or work in a corporation that has valuable IP.

All of the sudden, private details about you can be weaponized and used as blackmail in order to carry out the will of a state actor.

It really doesn't take much creativity to think about how this information can be weaponized against you.
I found it awful, on a Raspberry pi 4. Scanning through 2TB of movies on a NAS (gbit nic) took days. No visible indication of progress or where it's stuck. When it's done and there's a load of stuff missing, there's no clear way to find out what it ignored and why, so all you can do it manually go through every movie that it didn't find (easier said than done). I fought with it for 2 weeks and dumped it for Kodi and a direct attached 4tb hdd. Kodi finished the scan super quick and just works.
Look at what happens here in Germany. A job portal for students just closed 45million Euros in Feb this year. They have raised 95m in 7 years. Their revenues in 2019 were merely a couple of million Euros. I can only guess their valuation.
There is very little incentive for Microsoft to make Excel work well with ODS
Nice, thanks! As I think about this, it seems like it might be best solved at the browser level, and perhaps a privacy-oriented browser like Brave would enable an external-links-in-incognito setting.
My assumption was that on Linux it's just been using inotify or something for a while and so hasn't needed a bespoke monitor. I have no idea if that's true or makes sense though.
The Game Genie decoder at https://games.technoplaza.net/ggencoder/js/ claims that ANTOSA means, "Overwrite $18ED with 0x70". 0x70 is indeed BVS, but how does that address (or its endian-corrected $ED18) correspond to any INY instructions in the disassembly?
re "reading some wanker's opinions":

I keep waiting for someone at Substack to start an aggregate of a whole bunch of wankers (some of whom are good), with consistent editing, advertising, and publish dates. Sell it at one reasonable price.

They could call it, I don't know... A "magazine" [tm]
There's a strong current in all tech things where "I couldn't figure it out intuitively the first time I sat down and tried it" becomes exactly the same as "this is ungodly complex and impossible to use".

I've seen it leveled against emacs, git, vim, etc. It's kind of sad.

I suspect that "attempts to explain something in an easy (but subtly wrong) way" have fueled it with regards to git.
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Thanks very much and totally appreciate the concern! I think perhaps my words or tone miscommunicated the severity of the issue and that it's more of a future concern given his peaceful personality and my opinion that it will be targeted/challenged by a future bully (unless my kid lucks into some high status level/popularity within the social order of his future peers). I really do think what has happened to date; it's very normal toddler version of "boys being boys" and he's not actually being bullied. If you're around kids, boys especially, you know/see that those with older siblings (esp. brothers) play differently/rougher then those with no siblings. And conflict mitigation tactics are too advanced to teach; even the concept of "sharing" falls apart when the other party does not grasp it.

We certainly talk to teachers/admins when something concerning happens and have requested separation from certain individual kids that are repeatedly problems. It's never been an issue and the teachers are as watchful/caring as can be expected. Our son doesn't quite have the skills to verbalize things so that's part of the problem (is a kid friend/enemy? did you do something to cause it? was it accident/on purpose? Context becomes fuzzy but is important). All in all, he's our only and things like this are exactly why we wanted him to go to a daycare vs nanny/in-home care. The social skills he's acquired far outweigh the difficulties of this topic.

However, all said, I wish I knew how to talk to him about it when he does confide in me about something happening; I feel like I'm floundering in those moments. And again, how/when to have those conversations about self-defense. He's too young now, but I feel like the world has a zero-tolerance on violence and I don't agree with that approach. One day, I will teach my kid to hit back and I'd like to at least read other opinions on how that conversation should go. It seems like a taboo subject. But, I don't care if my kid get's the punishment under a zero-tolerance school for hitting back/self defense. This is probably the crux of my dilemma, I have to teach him something that goes against his school's rules and explain how violence is OK in a very conditional way that nobody else will talk about yet also teach him that following rules is important.
Wow! Absolutely gorgeous.

I wonder what the motivation was for such over-the-top decoration? Lots of money sloshing around and a desire to make things beautiful for beauty's sake? Individual or governmental prestige?
It seems likely the sea rise will be a multi-century, unrelenting, ongoing event of rise upon rise that will not stop at the levels envisaged by anyone planning any mitigations. So, no.

There is a reason scientists are concerned.

On the positive side for the Netherlands, their expertise will be coveted worldwide as hapless nations futilely seek to forestall the inevitable stage by stage.
That would be radically cheaper, but equally disastrous.
Absolutely. Any country that doesn't ban foreign social media is behaving foolishly. This is true whether it's American social media in Europe, Chinese social media in America, or American social media in China (actually, they're ahead of the curve in this regard.)
Thank you for bringing this up. I’m amazed that this is not being discussed more. Search engines just stopped showing forum results. I would argue this is one of the main reasons people feel that forums have disappeared.

I also agree with your theory about censorship being the likely cause. Control over internet content has silently moved to a few companies.
> Depends on if you value latency for the user.

I do. Which is why it's silly to throttle the cache IO.

The read latency for disks is measured in microseconds. Is it possible for the server to be able to respond faster? Sure. However, if you aren't within 20 miles of the server then I can't see how it could be faster (speed of light and everything).

These design considerations will depend greatly on where you are at. It MIGHT be the case that eschewing a client cache in a server to server talk is the right move because your servers are likely physically close together. That'd mean the server can do a better job making multiple client requests faster through caching saving the memory/disk space required for the clients.

There is also the power consideration. It take a lot more power for a cell phone to handle a network request than it does to handle a disk request. Shouting into the ether isn't cheap.
> Unfortunately this is the way of the world. This is a major redevelopment and has cost hundreds of millions of pounds. To do it they take on huge investment, the investors expect a return so obviously they’ve built fancy shops, restaurants etc.

I always wonder what’s the alternative to fancy shops. Is it the usual English high street with store signs made of rotten wood? Cheap minicab companies?

> I understand that there are places where redevelopment has been handled more sensitivity but this area in particular has needed an enormous outlay to convert it such a primate area.

There’s nothing to preserve in that area. It was an industrial wasteland surrounded by council flats and dodgy pubs.

> Hopefully within a few years it will start to gain its own identity and start again.

Hopefully not, hopefully it will develop a new and better identity.
Reading it put me on some Persons of Interest list from the TSA.
It is exceptional work, but the system-on-a-chip design is a form of compromise, especially with regard to the availability and pricing of RAM configurations. The current MacBooks ship with the same amount of RAM as my Android phone.
OSes have done this since before Personal computers. If you write a garbage app that's being scheduled more often than it should be you'll write a garbage app that gets thawed out more often than it should be. All of this Android crap doesn't actually solve any real problems.

On Linux, when your program blocks waiting for an event (from Xorg, its tty etc) it uses zero cpu. That's why you can leave well written apps open on a device like this. I've run out of X11 Window IDs (there's a cap in a #defined constant if you check the source) because of this. My laptop from 10 years ago had excellent suspend and the OS was very stable (I often went half a year without powering it off.) Since I have a habit of accumulating Xterm windows I would eventually open more than the limit. This never noticeably affected battery life because if they're just sitting at any sort of prompt they never get scheduled (except to redraw damaged portions of the window.)
I'd guess the same thing is going on. Definitely FEELS like a code structure problem.
> For Intel, they also missed a lot of targets in terms of both delivery and thermals throughout the x86 Apple era.

True. Up until now, it was always betting the company on someone else's silicon roadmap. Now they control it completely.
If this were the case, then it would be better still to design a totally new instruction set.

Why cling to any remnant?
Feeding snakes?
If you can understand the data structure git uses (Merkel Trees) it becomes easy to understand git (won't help with the CLI though).

I think it can be summarized as Linked List in reverse. New entries are always added on head instead of tail. The pointer used to track the growing list is 'branch' pointer. The pointer that is fixed to a specific node is 'tag'.
Since we are adding on Head, we can have multiple nodes point to one node.
I hadn't thought of this approach - It looks a little weird to me but I might be able to get used to it. I don't think it eliminates scanning the table - it even puts all IDs in a table that will grow large on its own.

I see what you mean about `OR IGNORE`. I do worry that this means I'm failing other checks like NOT NULL, but I could handle that in application code.

I really appreciate you taking the time to write all this out for me. While I enjoy it, I don't get to talk to many people about schema design, and I don't have a lot of experience with it. Could you recommend any reading I should do?
How could they not include the middle-out algorithm?
It wasn't even residential it was an industrial area
> the US government can access at will

Warrants are at will? Nope.
$9M in annual revenue with possible fundraising valuing Substack at $750M-1B? Wow, even when the markets were hot and valued growth, that's a really aggressive valuation. We're talking 100x revenue, which is insane to me. Sounds like they're doing what they should be by trying to run off revenue, plus some cash in the bank. I think the days of hyper-growth startups are over — at least until markets improve and/or the Fed returns to QE policies.