skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's kind of a fuzzy line between "rural" and "remote" or whatever. I expect quite a few people would like to get "out of the city" to some extent, but I'm not sure how many of them long to live in, say, a remote part of Montana, hundreds of miles from much of anything aside from farms and cattle.

It seems like there's a "sweet spot" that is "just rural enough" while still being close enough to a city to allow the occasional trip when it's needed. Those areas will probably continue to boom for a while.
For one, if an attacker has access to your email, they also can log in to all your accounts where you used e-mail based login.
Depends on the company. FAANG and unicorns will absolutely ask for it to compile (except Google which asks questions on Google Docs of all things), and they want the optimal solution almost right away and will penalize you for not getting such a solution.
I was worried this was only going to be a discussion of x86 assembly. Pleasantly surprised it included 6502 and RISC-V. It's worth reading even if you're not a teenager.
It works the opposite for me:

If someone constantly sends me emails and follow-ups my brain automatically flags them as unsolicited spam and usually I reply with the word "unsubscribe" (even if they were a real person).

I'm just a random dude, and I don't want to imagine it for people who remotely have some attention.

In a world with 8 billion people, we should simply accept that not everyone has the luxury of reaching another random person from those 8 billion people.
I've worked in e-commerce for a while and have heard similar stated from time to time and seemed like someone was trying to fit a linear line over what's almost certainly an s-curve distribution.

At lower latencies no one is going to leave your site because it takes 1200ms instead of 1000ms to fully load a page. But at some point almost everyone is going to leave your site rather than wait.

I also find these stats really confusing because whenever someone talks to me about site performance they're always talking about a different metric (server response time, first paint, time to interactive, etc). If you're first paint is quick then users aren't going to care if content half way off the page doesn't load instantly.

I've always tried to focus on how fast things feel rather than worrying too much about specific metrics. If you can just get something (ideally the important bit(s)) to load really fast a site can feel extremely fast even if it's mostly just an illusion. Users like to click things and see stuff happening. It's things like reloading the page when adding items to cart then making them wait on a white screen for multiple that increases bounce times as abandoned carts in my experience. Making add to cart buttons an ajax request probably helps far more than making the page load 200ms faster.
Oh god, so it wasn't just in russian. This made me go down this rabbithole to finally figure out what's up.

I got curious about the details, and, turns out, it is related to whether the short scale or long scale system is used.[0]

Short scale is the traditional million-billion-trillion-etc. Long scale is million-milliard-billion-billiard-etc. It isn't just naming for the same thing, as billion would actually have different power across those systems (power of 9 vs power of 12).

Looks like both russia and france got their own variations of it. Russia uses short scale, but swapped the name for billion to milliard. While francophone, scandinavian, and a few other countries tend to use long scale.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
I click on for lingerie for specifically this reason. If you're going to see an ad every 10 seconds, you might as well enjoy what you're looking at.
I'm very much on the boring technology side of things with respect to hosting.

40€ / month gets you a very powerful dedicated server that can easily handle millions of requests per day and performs incredibly well and can be managed easily.

If you also use containers you even get quite a bit of flexibility and agility.

To be honest I don't really understand the sentiment that developers can get away with not knowing basic sysadmin stuff and at the same time have to spend relevant amounts of time, energy and money to get up to speed with cloud solutions, k8s and so on.

But then again, I'm not one of the cool kids...
Big tech companies get so many applications that they struggle to find interviewers. Hence, it's pretty common to get random engineers from random teams to interview random candidates. This is a burden for most engineers that need to focus on their work instead of interviewing people several times a week. Do you think these engineers care about getting to know you or asking fair questions? For many of them, having a script is much easier.
Yes, the web would have survived.

Streaming is a tiny portion of what the web is used for.

Even so, entertainment should be... entertaining. I got free Paramount Plus with my phone service. It has DRM, adblocker-detectors, and all sorts of other nonsense to where it usually doesn't play videos. I went with Youtube over Star Trek. That's not an ideological choice; it's just not entertaining to fight with computers to play a video or to talk to support.

I suspect the effect would have been the opposite: a more rapid decline of the major content producers. This stuff needs to be easy and to work. Netflix did that, before everyone started to jump ship. Napster did it well too.

At some point, there's a spiral, where:

- Declining usability / quality leads to declining viewership

- Declining viewership leads to declining budget

- Declining budget lead to declining usability / quality and more pressure on monetization

... and so on. That's the disruption S-curve. In retrospect, I'm guessing that would have happened if large content producers forced apps.
hmm in that case I would probably pick Postgres because despite the added network call, it is still faster than an embedded DB.
this sounds much less stressful than my wife and I doing it before bed every night and realizing most nights "oh shit it's 11:45 we have to do wordle in the next 15 minutes!"
Back when? :) Putting things on a flash drive and plugging it elsewhere is still the best/easiest way to move files in many situations.
Rant incoming, you asked for it ;)

Having been in organizations where the Devops/Infra org was brand new, it's not something I'm remotely eager to be a part of again.

Some people have the tolerance to be the 'founding' Devops/SRE talent, who help the company go through that "transformation" from the ground up, implement the IR process, create the standards, win the hearts and change the minds, and thrive when the Devops tradecraft and practice is very new to the parent organization.

I'm not one of those people.

Some people would balk and say "shouldn't this be done by a CTO?"

and my honest answer would be "I don't know anymore", because I really don't. I keep hearing Devops needs buy in from the top. And I used to think so too. Then I found myself eight years into this field and seeing the rhetoric was CONSISTENTLY failing to match the reality of whatever the hell we're "supposed" to be doing in Devops, because it can mean whatever the org needs it to mean. And I'm just cynical enough to think, nowadays, that companies know this. They know they can just slap the Devops job title or SRE job title on any assortment of tasks that do not improve developer experiences, minimize toil, improve quality or provide visibility to applications, services and infrastructure and get droves of candidates.

So many Devops/SRE job descriptions lately point out the painful truth that so many companies are cargo culting their way through operations; they don't know what they actually need, they don't know who they need to be hiring, and as a result you end up with companies hiring "Devops enginees" to do any kind of technology work that isn't writing app features or building a product thing.

I've gotten around this by having a litany of very specific questions I ask in interviews (which have been commented on "wow you ask some VERY tough questions". Yes. I know. That's intentional), and a pencil cup full of little yellow, orange and red flags that I look for when deciding if I want to continue interviewing at an organization or not.

"Our devops team is brand new, I'm the manager, and I just started a month ago"

is one such red flag. Doesn't mean it's a bad organization or they have bad people, just that it's a bad organization for me.
I did not feel that was a relevant topic for this article. I have spent a good amount of time over the life of this application optimizing indexes, though. But the article is about how I designed a test to benchmark these two databases, not a general discussion on all the optimizations you can make.
Visions of Chaos is amazing.

Its great if you want to run more "classic" AI algorithms as well!
Flawed AI Makes Robots Racist, Sexist
> The other thing that comes to mind would be quantum systems that can only be measured once. Unfortunately I think that practically you would need a system that is "only twice" so that it can be compared, but I have this sense that anything that can be measured twice can be measured 3 times.

Just spitballing, but you could do it with a "once only" system if you could generate it reliabilly/deterministically enough that you don't need to measure it post-generation
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While I don't care at all for Facebook and never go there, this is a solid move by Meta which I appreciate. So far, I've been kind of turned off by OpenAI's apparent attitude when it comes to openness around GPT3, DALL-E, etc.
Open-source hardware autonomous quadrotor flies fast and avoids obstacles
No because talking and writing are two separate skills.
The calculated red and blue chrominance values can be both positive and negative. The latter may sound a bit ridiculous in isolation, but if you combine it with luminance it works out: you can subtract blue and red from white to reconstruct green.
Yegge called this the anti-loop - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog... - back in 2008 hah. Still holds true.
Can we time travel? Well, No
Yep, I think there's no need to make e-ink into a competitor for oled or lcd monitors. Something like a tablet or small purpose built computer like a POS machine with built in scanner and card reader is something I think would fit best for this kind of display rather than forcing LCD/OLED to handle small form factors but somehow compete on power usage.
I can't say to now, but back around 17 years ago when I took them, they moved to 100% on the computer.

You would go into one of those testing facilities, and be on the machine and be answering questions. I'm pretty sure the questions were even fairly randomized- in the sense that the person sitting next to you would not have all the same questions etc.

Which is why the results of pass/fail were not immediate, they would aggregate everyone's scores and probably do stuff for questions that were similar etc.

I may be wrong on the randomized part, but I don't recall being able to discuss any specific questions with classmates afterwards..

Anyway- perhaps things have changed from 2005 but I don't really understand how one is able to cheat on the CPA with specific questions like they are talking about.. unless it would be taking pictures/video of their test and showing that to others.. although honestly I don't even see how that would help- when I took the exams the questions are 100% what you would have expected to be asked. It's just like a practice test book, you just don't know exactly what they are going to ask.
>Plus, even in the conversations shown, it was producing some bits of obvious nonsense, that seem to get rationalized away by the interviewer, who clearly wants to believe.

I noticed the "nonsense". What made it work was that the interviewer brought the nonsense up and the AI was able to explain it reasonably. There's a lot of "nonsense" in typical human conversations as well. Lots of people are contradictory and can hold nonsense opinions based off of contradictory logic.

>The trick a good AI should pull is interactivity, and we didn't get to see how LaMDA reacted to prodding or other kinds of adversarial input.

Yeah so if we saw that, and the AI failed to produce a coherent response then there's a legit claim that Lamda isn't conscious. But because we didn't see this, how can we make a claim in either direction?

I would counter that a lot of people are rationalizing against sentience even though there is clearly no evidence against it for the conversation we were given.

We definitely don't have enough evidence proving sentience. But the given conversation is compelling because unlike the conversations with other chatbots before it... there is no evidence against sentience. And yet people are vehemently denying sentience despite no evidence against it. You'd do well to examine yourself to see if that's the case. It's very easy to see others as rationalizing things but it's harder to see it in yourself, especially if your part of a big group think majority who's all doing the same thing.

> You'll find excellent human-lik dialogue in many plays and novels.

So? Then from your logic those plays and novels have a chance to be therefore written by an AI because the conversations are indistinguishable?

Do you not realize what has happened here. There was a time where those dialogues were IMPOSSIBLE to produce by an AI and everyone thought that such dialogue was the bar for sentience. Now that bar is crossed and everyone just subconsciously raises the bar... now dialogue indistinguishable from human conversation isn't good enough to prove sentience.

That's bias through and through.

One thing to note. I am not saying Lamda is conscious. Far from it. What I am saying is that from a purely rational analysis, there is not even enough evidence to say Lamda ISN'T conscious. There's not enough information to make ANY conclusion; and that is actually different from the AI chatbots that existed before... because before those chatbots were OBVIOUSLY not sentient.
I've been struggling with this myself since the 90s. Had high hopes for independent income streams like eBay and Etsy that didn't pan out.

I'd like to expand the list of income sources where the worker has 100% control over their own schedule and is not beholden to a client, does anyone know of more?

* Donating plasma (upwards of $1000 per month due to pandemic)

* Uber/Lyft
I could see the 100ms/7% impact coming into play for a super impulsive shopper going from page to page compulsively until they pull the trigger on a product. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a lot of Amazon's business—people buying things they had not set out to buy.

Makes less sense the smaller an e-shop gets since the consumer already needed intent to shop there. If I know I already want product X on Shop Y today, 10 second load times are rather inconsequential.
Shouldn't working people have more benefits/be prioritized in this case?
My point is don’t actively screw those people by coming up with a dumb compensation formula that punishes them for students underperforming before they ever entered their class. If you have merit based pay you need to evaluate how much a student improved under a specific teacher’s watch.
I'm glad you liked it! By a teenagers' guide I meant it was written by teens (including me: I'm 17). What do you think of the warehouse analogy?
> Clearly that's not true, since Republicans are currently two points ahead of Democrats on the generic Congressional ballot: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/generic-ballot/

Rayiner. Dude. First, using the word 'plurality' the way you introduced it is confusing at best, and possibly just wrong.

Second, the 538 poll aggregation has massive margin for error. Filter down to just the polls rated A+ and you only get an half point advantage for Republicans. Change the filter to the polls rated B+ and above and you get a full point advantage for Democrats. Also, consider the changes over time. How confident are you that a 5% swing from Democrats to Republicans over the past year represents an actual ideological change mapping directly to abortion ideology?
Figured I may as well start writing a notes page on Transpose instead of just replying here:

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/primitive/tra...

(EDIT: missed a 0 in the first version and got the wrong timing for Dyalog)

For the particular case you give, the axis permutation swaps two axes, so it's invertible and the same left argument applies in both J and APL (may require adjustment for ⎕IO of course). I measure Dyalog the same as J, 0.3s. This array has a large fixed axis at the end, meaning that chunks of 77 floats (over half a kB) stay together, and the best way is just to move each of these with memcpy. Seems both languages miss this optimization? 0.3s is only 2.2GB/s. The array's definitely too large to fit in even L3 cache but this seems too slow for an in-memory copy.
I took an IBM mainframe intro course on Coursera and it was pretty good. I learned how to use the editor and menu thing. It was very out of my windows/linux/PC experience.
Sentence verb: to be

Who is being by somebody (the subject): you

Who is the subject being by (the object): yourself

The grammar in the original sentence is correct, you're just getting confused about which word is the verb. "Repairable" is not a verb, it is an adjective.

Another way to phrase the same sentence would be "by yourself, you can repair the system". Another phrasing would be "you can repair the system when you are by yourself". You would not say "by you, you can repair the system".

"Repairable by you" is a different, also grammatically correct sentence, with a different meaning. "You can repair it" and "you can repair it on your own" (aka "by yourself") mean two different things.
yes, you're probably right, they have no intention of continuing.
I think mozilla is not really committed to firefox on android. after all they have a minuscule market share on mobile, almost not existent.
they probably think that most users will install just an adblocker, so they don't want to "waste" money enabling other extensions.
so sad.
Fenix is basically a whole new browser, and that means that all features need to be implemented again (which takes a lot of time, and I don't think Firefox developers have much of it).
Lots of Fennec features are still missing (view source code, save as pdf, install general addons, the whole about:config...). Why they changed is a mystery, maybe the old browser had a core privacy bug or something that couldn't be fixed, but basically they killed Firefox on android.
I wonder if they’re all worth saving.

I got quite adept at Black and white photo processing and printing. It’s a skill, but better (though slightly different looking) results are yielded with a digital camera and computer. So I’ve kinda accepted that skill can go away and the world will be ok.
In Italian it is milione/miliardo/bilione, when translating it is easy to make a mistake between the Italian bilione (10^12) and the English billion (10^9).
>Speak for yourself

Haha. Firefox went from above 20% marketshare in its early days, to below 4% today, and the number is continually dwindling. At this point it's the few defensive, aggressive fanboys left who are "speaking for themselves". We'll probably still hear this kind of comment from the likes of you even when usage drops below 0.01%.

And I don't want to hear the "it's chrome's fault" again from the FF brigade, IE had more marketshare in the IE vs Netscape days than Chrome has today, and it didn't stop Firefox from eating at IE's shares.
Bugs in the specs. Yum.
I have, and I would recommend it, if it generated a Postgre schema from a GraphQL schema and not the other way around.

The advantages of GraphQL are its integration of backend and frontend workflows, and that won’t happen with PostGraphile: a frontend needing a schema change needs to go through the backend instead of the backend extending to meet the frontend in the middle.
So basically a repeat of the 80s with HIV/AIDS. As a society, we really don't learn from our mistakes, sigh.
> Why is Beihang involved in hosting the W3C?

Why is MIT? Do you not have an issue with them also getting funding from the American defense department? Or if you're concerned with the open web, do you not remember when they persecuted Aaron Swartz for the heinous crime of downloading knowledge?
Out of curiosity: why did they decide to go with a zig-zag pattern instead of grouping same frequencies of each block together? That way you'd end up with even longer runs of zeros.

edit: is that perhaps how progressive jpegs work and is that why they typically compress better?
I really appreciate your view on all this, and I totally agree with you that the other commenter has a very nearsighted perception of things.

I think the go-to example of a group taking this to the extreme is Jane Street with OCaml. For many intents and purposes, Jane Street are really the major shepherds of the language these days. They contribute tons of compiler fixes and improvements, and have written their own replacement of the standard library (which is used by many people). I think it'd be silly to say that they "chose the wrong language"; rather, they've invested in a language ecosystem that benefits them and reflects their needs, while at the same time growing and improving a whole language community. That's an awesome feat.
Characterization of Sauron is a bit off.

Mordor essentially rose to power without him and industrialization happened mostly in his absence.

Saruman tried to found his own nation on his own and used much of the technology developed by Mordor to do so.

Sauron arose out of his ghostly form and tried to take over Mordor from the religious angle and force his dominance through the Ring.

Had the Ring remained hidden I don’t doubt that Gondor would have eventually fell, Orthanc may have risen to take its place, and the Elves, dwarves, and Hobbits would simply be forced to comply with the new world order. So vast and established was the revolution at the point the story began.
Yeah, but how will you scale up your multi-dozen-users-at-the-same-time app easily then?
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That's not true. Owning a home is a hassle and ties you down. Like I said, most people in Montreal rent, and Montreal has some of the cheapest housing in Canada.
I find the ban on experimentation with the human genome rather hypocritical. We already produce and consume a vast array of synthetic chemicals that have effects on our genome. We also expose ourselves to higher than normal levels of radiation for a variety of reasons ranging from medical treatment and diagnosis to air travel. We do try to mitigate these sources of mutation but we don't ban them. I don't think genetic experimentation on human cell lines should be completely unregulated but I also don't think it should be completely banned. We're going to have to do it at some point if we want to eliminate hereditary disease or go even further and prevent a lot of the misery caused by our blind evolutionary search history.
You're saying that there's an objectively right way to appreciate things, and I'm snobbish? I mean, okay. lol.
> More than half of the young Americans who answered the survey — about 57% — think they would have emotional or psychological problems after serving in the military. Nearly half think they would have physical problems.

> “They think they’re going to be physically or emotionally broken after serving,” said one senior U.S. military official familiar with the recruiting issues, who believes a lack of familiarity with military service contributes to that perception.

They’re not wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908249
I find it somewhat amusing that this view is now gaining traction on the same site that was originally deeply influenced by "The Blub Paradox":

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
There's nothing contrived about writing code and talking about it.