skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IME it's a sign of one developer doing their best to get a system up and running well enough for business to get by (basically a MVP) and business not providing the staff necessary to improve upon it until it is too late. Maybe it needed 19 engineers all along. At least, that has been my experience in the past.
Is this actually an official request from the FCC? The letter[1] makes it sound like personal grandstanding on the part of the Trump-appointed commissioner rather than an official action by a regulatory agency. If it's the former, the headline is misleading.

[1] https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/154182358595770777...
I do. It would make things strictly worse, as CO2 continued on up, poisoning the oceans until its food chain collapses.

That has happened before, immediately before massive global extinction events. It would be a mistake not to avoid that.
>Solar/renewable could foster entirely energy independent countries with a ton of storage or my preferred option, a global grid having sun 24/7 and robust to seasons due to production on both hemispheres.

That's pretty cool but I'd rather we achieved energy independence this millennia.
Indeed. I am familiar with the leaded gas hypothesis. Inferring causality from observations without randomizing the intervention is hard to neigh impossible.

In Levitt's defense, he uses natural experiments, where natural variation does the work of random assignment of a subject to 'treatment group' and 'control group' and does the causal analysis. This is over and above accounting for the known hypotheses that purport to explain the phenomenon. Short of RCT it doesnt get much better than that.
Many bodies remain on or on the way to mountain summits like K2 and Everest. Retrieving them is prohibitively expensive. The conditions ensure that they will remain there in decomposed for centuries. Should we stop going into the mountains?

It’s not an embarrassment to try to achieve an amazing task and fail. The embarrassment is giving up because you’re scared you’ll be embarrassed.
He's probably out in the desert somewhere, tripping on psychedelics.
could someone explain how the Arm product pipeline works?

This is my (probably totally wrong) understanding:

Arm makes chip specification and defines assembly language --> companies (Samsung, Apple) license both of these and design their own chips following those specs --> these designs are sent to fabs and produced.

But what I don't get is, what "wiggle room" do companies like Apple and Samsung have to make their chips special? Obviously the M1 is a different beast from a Samsung chip, but they are both "Arm". So what is Apple able to do that makes the M1 the M1, while still also being "Armv8", the same "Armv8" as a Samsung chip? Does "Armv8" only mean "it must accept this instruction set, the rest is up to you"? Or is there requirements at the silicon level as well? Is this new Corex-A715 simply a "reference" chip for the next gen of the Arm instruction set?
It is a mistake for people in the EU and US to think of Chinese-based data collection companies as the same as EU- and US-based companies.

TikTok in the US is not the same as Google in France, and even they were recently fined for signifcant privacy concerns.

It is important to protect citizens. People often don't have enough information about sharing their data to make the best privacy decisions without legislation to protect them.
Curious, I couldn't find any information on how to make bubbles in space. I assume it will need compressed gas from Earth? Did they determine how much gas? The actual MIT website is fancy, but lacks specifics.
Almost all pet ferrets are sprayed and neutered. Female ferrets die if they go in heat and don't mate. https://www.westdavisvets.com/veterinary-topics/ferret-healt...

Maybe CA would have a position if they banned ferret breeding farms, but banning pet ferrets is simply dumb.
It’s not uncommon to hear of rack servers with several years of continuous uptime. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could keep a website online for a decade without touching anything by using an LTS distro, enabling unattended upgrades, and running something like nginx.
Full Text Search UDR for Firebird 3 and 4 Based on Lucene++
"Perhaps more critically, the new core offers exclusive support for only AArch64 – dropping 32-bit support altogether."

I don't understand why ARM wants to throw away AArch32/Thumb/Jazelle et al.

This really shouldn't be in a phone - a lot of Android apps bundle 32-bit binaries for various purposes, and they won't run on this CPU.

I can see why Fujitsu mandated AArch64, but my phone isn't going to be on the Top 500, and there were benefits to these old instruction sets.
Kids copy what they see, obviously. I have a great story regarding Mr. Hankey from South Park.

Morality is not the primary concern here in my mind. Submitting to sophisticated corporate manipulation and surveillance is not a path to success for the vast majority.
The dangers are well documented (see sibling comments), utility outweighed. Something from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31920756
if you'd like, you can google toxoplasma gondii
PCs weren't made "open" by the government regulations. Any company if it wishes so could start selling a locked down Windows machine with no ability to replace the browser. Nobody will call this company "a monopoly" for that fact alone.
And I thought outlook (live.com)'s spam filtering was bad. It just doesn't seem like it should be that hard of a problem to solve - there's almost no case as a human I can't instantly tell that an email is spam or not-spam and give a concrete reason why. E.g. almost any email that uses my real name in the greeting isn't spam, and certainly one that's a reply to an email I've sent, yet I've seen examples of both end up in junk folders. It's distinguishing important emails specifically written to me providing key info or requiring my response vs mass-email or automatically generated email that I would think is a harder problem, but live.com seems to do it moderately well. If Thunderbird does auto categorization well that'd be reason enough to try it out (but where does the categorization execute, if you're using it from multiple devices?)
Great elaboration. If the government kept small like the founding fathers envisioned, I am 99% sure an American would be able to live comfortably on one day of work per week today. They were able to raise a family with one salary way back, and with how much productivity has increased (and would have further increased if not for the government) today would be very different.
Thanks for sharing this wiki article, I found it fascinating to skim.
> They will not return to you when you call them so (unlike cats and dogs),

Ferrets can be recall trained using literally the exact same methods as one uses for cats and dogs. They learn the same way.

> if you let your pet play in the garden alone for one minute, you will lose it.

Yeah, this kind of thing likely surprises a lot of new ferret owners. People I've seen who are serious about caring for their ferrets never leave them unsupervised outdoors, ever. Leashes, backpacks, and fully enclosed structures (like 'catios') are popular tools. Even supervised outdoor play requires a lot of preparation and vigilance.
I was expecting you to link someone like Chris Boehm that might actually be considered an expert. Jordan Peterson isn't one. All you have to do is listen to that for it to be immediately clear how little he engages with the existing literature and data on this subject.
Of course its dysfunctional, that’s what I’m saying, but a dysfunctional company like this would go bankrupt in Europe while it is almost (besides the examples mentioned by you) the norm in the US. And then, consider how many of your awesome HFT ventures actually produce anything of value instead of being parasitic and you’ll come to some good conclusions on why even some third world countries have a dramatically higher living and work standard.

Who cares about Tesla in the bigger picture? Guess where most of the good cars come from - it’s also not the US. Tesla has first movers advantage, but I would strongly disagree that their software is in any way exceptionally better than other software - unless we’re not talking about the same software that powers autopilot killing people left and right. If you’re referring to the general concept of advanced autopilot and so on, sure, they toot their horn a lot, but I’d argue that having stable and reliable software (that inherently takes longer to develop and test) is still the best long term strategy. But it makes sense in the perspective of short term profit over anything…

Give it a few years and Tesla will be overtaken by a mile by even Ford and then another mile by VW and Hyundai.
As a USA resident, which is more likely to adversely affect you: CCP collecting data on you, or US government collecting data on you?
However, one could argue that geopolitical matters are a lot less interesting for you, private citizen. If you're not a world leader or someone involved in said geopolitical events, you will live the consequences of "the enemies of the West" from a mostly economic perspective.

On the other hand, the same cannot be said about your own government. They collect data on you and your fellow citizens and they use it. And they can mess up your life much more than what China will ever do. One recent example: the worry over period tracking apps and the recent decisions of the US Supreme Court. Those apps are a weapon against citizens who, until yesterday, were not doing anything illegal.

All tracking is bad, and the FCC should do something about it all.
> This seemed odd to me, surely using a cached response would always be faster than making the whole request again! Well it turns out that in some cases, the network is faster than the cache.

Did I miss a follow up on this, or did it remain unanswered as to what the benefit of racing against the network is?

The post basically says that sometimes the cache is slower because of throttling or bugs, but mostly bugs.

Why is Firefox sending an extra request instead of figuring out what is slowing down the cache? It seems like an overly expensive mitigation…
Yeah, that's the tragic thing about git. It's so easy to get the wrong idea or fumble on the easily forgettable garbage CLI semantics and make mistakes. Even experienced people make mistakes if they try do something that's different from their daily grind.

To make it worse, correcting mistakes ALSO is something that's not done regularly-- so that becomes an obstacle as well.
Why are you measuring latency in mega Siemens?
I think OP is saying that TSMC is saying “Okay auto manufacturers, we don’t want to manufacture chips that meet all of your requirements when we have so much order volume, so you’ll have to drop the requirements or find a different fab.” So the auto industry making their own fabs is exactly what TSMC wants them to do.
I'm not sure grammar-based compressors are a meaningful part of the history of lossless data compression. They're a topic in coding theory research, but, as far as I'm aware, they haven't had a significant impact in practical algorithms used in the field.
Maybe the root problem isn’t the definition, but that git calls this concept a branch?
Is Dalle significantly different from Adobe Photoshop in the eyes of the law? In both cases you will use a software agent to create art. In fact CGI art has existed for decades. Surely this is a settled question
I don't see anywhere in the article what they would do about micrometeoroids?

At what rate would they expect bubbles to get punctured? Would those punctures result in movements as the trapped gas escapes?

The JSTW at L2 has already been hit by 4 as of June 11th [0]. Are we expecting fewer at L1?

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/06/11/th...
Boom CEO Blake Scholl YC Talk – June 29
I find it odd to call it a bait and switch when the first thing in the article is an outline.

> It is about "network" vs "the (usually antiquated) file-backed database your browser calls a cache."

It's actually nothing to do with the design of the cache itself as far as I can tell. If you finish reading the article you'll see that it's about a throttling behavior that interacts poorly with the common optimization advice for HTTP 1.1+, exposed by caching.

> The latter is kind of self-evident: the browser cache is there to save bandwidth, not to be faster.

I don't think that's something you can just state definitively. I suspect most people do in fact view the cache as an optimization for latency. Especially since right at the start of the article, the first sentence, the "race the cache" optimization is introduced - an optimization that is clearly for latency and not bandwidth purposes.
Are there a lot of managers prioritizing internal dev tools and infra over flashy product release announcement bullet point features?
One piece of advice: make damn sure you get credit for supporting the rewrite.
At this point we need to really focus on taking action an approaching this from many facets.

Right now, we're effectively lying about how much action we're taking in just one facet. Adding "many facets" just allows those who fail to make hard choices to hide their bullshit in more places. Only once there are strong controls on carbon emissions could doing other things make sense - not just because carbon emissions are the source of the problem but also if we allow geoenigeering to be done to the standard of "carbon credits" and other worthless hokum, it too will be hokum. We need something - a popular political movement, strong institutions, a coalition leaders, something - that force this stuff 'cause the failure is now and visible.
That's simply not true.

A glance at any opinion poll shows there is nowhere near a majority for leaving the EU in any member country.

Politicians who used to talk about it as a goal, such as Le Penn in France, no longer mention it at all, having seen how chaotic it was for the UK.
no one gets paid on proportion to their productivity. artists do not, actors do not, managers do not, politicians certainly do not. you get paid according to your perceived market value unless you contract per well defined project(not per hr)
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
> Concatenating / bundling your assets is probably still a good practice, even on H/2 connections. Obviously this comes on balance with cache eviction costs and splitting pre- and post-load bundles.

I guess this latter part refers to the trade-off between compiling all your assets into a single file, and then requiring clients to re-download the entire bundle if you change a single CSS color. The other extreme is to not bundle anything (which, I gather from the article, is the standard practice since all major browsers support HTTP/2) but this leads to the described issue.

What about aggressively bundling, but also keeping track at compile time of diffs between historical bundles and the new bundle? Re-connecting clients could grab a manifest that names the newest mega-bundle as well as a map from historical versions to the patches needed to bring them up to date. A lot more work on the server side but maybe it could be a good compromise?

Of course that's the easy version, but it has a huge flaw which is all first-time clients have to download the entire huge mega bundle before the browser can render anything, so to make it workable it would have to compile things into a few bootstrap stages instead of a single mega-bundle.

I am clearly not a frontend dev. If you're going to throw tomatoes please also tell me why ;)

* edit: found the repo that made me think of this idea, https://github.com/msolo/msolo/blob/master/vfl/vfl.py but it's from antiquity and probably predates node and babel/webpack, but the idea is you name individual asset versions with a SHA or tag and let them be cached forever, and to update the web app you just change a reference in the root to make clients download a different resource dependency tree root (and they re-use unchanged ones) *
Not really. If one of the clients interpreted a part of the spec in a different way, event if they are right, they would have change it to follow an officially approved code because that's the consensus.

There are examples like https://github.com/openethereum/parity-ethereum/blob/55c90d4...
I always thought effects such as environmental chemical pollution (estrogen analogs), overreliance on nighttime lighting / artificial temperature regulation and dietary issues leading to obesity (both previous items reducing fertility), and increasing cost of raising children (leading to higher investment in fewer children) are some of the main factors leading to decreases in birth rate in developed nations.
It's amazing how often I talk to people with polar opposite views about managers. Some people insist that most managers are terrible. Other people recount bad managers as outliers throughout their career.

I have a suspicion that people who end up reporting to bad managers are more likely to get stuck in companies or career paths that put them under a sequence of bad managers. Perhaps bad management gets normalized in the formative early years of their career and they don't understand that they're in a bad situation or that they should (or even can) move to companies with better management practices.

Obviously, there are a lot of bad employees out there of all job types. Managers are no exception. But the idea that managers are "mostly morons" is a ridiculous, hyperbolic claim.

Whenever I mentor someone who has these ideas, I work hard to try to let them know that bad management is neither normal nor acceptable. Otherwise they just assume their bad situation is normal and that changing jobs wouldn't help, which is not the case with bad management.
The messages include an incrementing counter ID, which has to be accounted for when calculating the checksum. The purpose of this is specifically to prevent "replay attacks". If the counter doesn't increment on subsequent messages, it raises an error. If you increment the counter but do not recalculate the checksum, it raises an error.
>>> combat as a dynamic balance of mutual dread

enough said ...
I think we should prohibit the state owned social media app which is mass collecting biometric markers for a state which is actively rounding up Muslims and putting them in camps.

I think if you want to petition for good things in other areas, that's great, but please don't stop the people currently doing good now with whataboutism.
I've used TikTok for the past year, it's really not as smart or brilliant as all the hypemasters would have you think.

The data it gathers (outside of location, facial recognition, and speech capture) has been really off target for being matched to content. The algorithms across most of these sites are really not useful in building a valid service from what I can gather... Most of the people that use social apps wear out quickly once they realize the level of free work they are doing, and how it goes unrewarded.

I personally can do without it, because youtube and other things still exist to host the same exact type of video content, but the entire social app landscape is frought with platforms that are too big to really reward creators with any real growth, and it's overrun with deceptive advertising. I know I sound like I'm jaded, but I've learned some valuable skills in film and editing, so I'm really not.

Apps that will win from this point forward will realize that they need to be more niche based, while also integrating into a larger eco system that allows for content to be shared across the Internet, the way the Internet was meant to work... The common tactics of limiting content reach and squeezing creators for ad money are short lived, most of these apps have a huge amount of inactive and outright abandoned user accounts...

TikTok is in essence just another video "doom scroller" app, that allows pretty much useless likes follows and shares, it's really put a bunch of suggestive psychology on top of that, but in essence it's the same thing other platforms have been doing just with vertical video and a different UI. It's not replaceable, especially when it takes it's user base for granted and works hard to gather data on users and to manipulate the majority into doing lots of work for them for free (with a really weak creator fund). We can live without it.

If there are a hand full of people on the platform that have millions of followers on the same platforms where most of the user base has only hundreds of followers, it's pretty telling that it's a free work exploitation scheme, and it's really the first indication that it's really not going to survive the long haul.

As far as the data gathering debacle goes, there is also nothing different happening with many other major social app platforms we all use, instead though, our data is being collected and used against us by private companies across the world instead of by foreign governments. Removing one app won't solve the problem of personal privacy violation. We each need to be a lot more careful about the level of information we share online, and we need to stop being so eager to work online for these greedy and abusive operations for free or it's our own damn fault.
Do we know any case where Apple or Google defended the privacy of a non US person ignoring the laws that force them to give access? I want to see this case and understand what happened. The reality is that if you are not an US citizens you don't have rights, and corporation would defend you only if there is profit in it otherwise they will defend you rights only on PR articles( like company X supports LGBT then same day CEO shakes hand with politicians that just stoned some person to death because there is money to be made)
Fun with Pen and Paper: Race Cars (2021)
No, the Mail is all trash. But they're also notorious plagiarists (in the modern way, where you quickly rewrite somebody else's story.) So if you have a scoop that panders to a reactionary audience, the Mail will steal it, not link back to you, and become the outlet who becomes the main social media share for it. They will do no checking or verification on the story beforehand, but if it eventually turns out to be a made-up story, they'll just delete it. They've already got the juice, so now that it turns out you're wrong they're happy to refer people to you for the credit.

I even remember noticing they stole one of their uplifting weight-loss stories from another tabloid.

edit: they have lots of photos, though, which is the best thing about tabloids.
It takes a charitable reading to make it even a decent headline. It's not ideal wording for what the ban covers. The wording (not the real ban) covers the "Belgian" Grand Prix in August, CITI Open aka Washington Open tennis tournament in late July, to name two "events".
A shield at Langrangian L1 can't be very selective, it would basically shade the whole planet.
Now I'm imagining a rack of raspis acting as one giant ram swap drive over nbd. This could work for a given value of "work". cost of pi vs stick of ram. A kv storage as well perhaps.

Then again, whats a TB worth on just one xeon server? Probably cheaper... or not?
Exactly: a distraction, so strictly worse than not hearing it.
Or if you're not in CA, see if you can find a ferret rescue willing to let you meet some in person.
The big difference now is that there is a standing army. I don't particularly want troops led by some guy who gets to be in charge just because he's rich.

Note, by the way, that the British notion of service for their elites does still exist, at least for the royals. Both Prince Charles and Prince Andrew served in the military. Charles didn't serve in wartime, but his sons both served in Afghanistan. These were not ceremonial; they trained and fought. They certainly got a leg up, being easily admitted to officer training rather than enlisting, but they weren't simply dubbed "officers" the way Earl Grantham would have been.