skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. I haven't used Facebook since 2010, Twitter since 2016, and I recently closed out my Instagram after using it since 2012ish. Tiktok has almost zero of my info besides my email address, a few videos I've uploaded, and my watching preferences. I'm actually fine with data collection on the location/watching habits/likes--it gives me more relevant content.
Similarly, I prefer writing markdown in my editor of choice, then copy-pasting it into whatever documentation thingy my employer used, (at that time, Esa [0]). Notion treated the entire piece of markdown as a single 'block' or whatever their terminology was, meaning I had to reformat the whole thing again. That was really annoying and is the sole reason I stopped using Notion.

[0]: https://esa.io
Interactions, Q&A, and inspiration for hobbies doesn't take "knowing" the creator.
I work in a FAANG, and performance reviews are all about component ownership and getting other people to work for you (leadership!) but never ever about helping somebody else. What collaboration can we talk about when it is so explicitly discouraged by management?
a good collaboration aims at making parties very independent at some points. because you all shared the same outlook and plan and can now go on your own way until the next mental rendez-vous.
Afghanistan is quite infamous for being the most difficult region to take over; the Brits and the Soviets tried before long the US did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_Afghanistan
Mechanical computers were ‘superb and solid’? What are you talking about?
Arizona takes a very practical approach to water management which is part of why I chose to live here. We take a true positive sum approach that I believe in, humans can do this. We find water where it exists and transport it into a desert. We’ve built a human settlement in a space where very little life has chosen to live - distancing ourselves from the biosphere seems like a solid play.

Our approach to water is part of why we are able to give up so much from our pull on Lake Mead during this drought. Nevada is giving up 21k acre-feet, Mexico 80k af, and AZ is giving up a whopping 512k af. Nothing as far as I know for cutbacks from CA's draw.

If it doesn’t work out, I dont understand a worst case scenario less than “move closer to water”
Sunday funday? If we’re compressing any arbitrary permutation into a finite set of registers, why go wild with a kilobyte? A single on/off switch already has infinite permutations.
These days, the United States has proven they mainly follow the rules when it benefits them. So much for rules based international order. It's all unraveling as we return to a multi-polar world. History will probably look back and see the United States' global regime as starting off well. But it quickly engaged in the same brutalilty, lawlessness and arrogance as every other failed empire.
and i’ve used uber in austin and had some of the worst experiences i’ve ever had. personal anecdotes dont really matter— uber is a shitty company and so are taxis, two wrongs dont make a right.
> Multi-dimensional RS codes are an easy way to get to an absurdly huge size for real (granted they stop being MDS)

Yeah, that's the traditional way of doing things. CD-ROMs used multi-dimensional RS (the RS(28,24) was just one bit of the inner-code IIRC, which would fit inside another multidimensional RS code).

But since its no longer MDS, the "search space" of non-MDS codes is quite large. So you have the question of "which code has a higher-probability of successfully correcting errors/erasures" ??

LDPC and Turbo codes apparently have better probabilities of fixing errors/erasures, at far lower computational costs. To the point where a fair number of applications seem to prefer Turbo / LDPC codes today over multidimensional codes (built out of RS)
Absolutely! Twice in my career, in huge failures, the backups turned out to be garbage! You don't want this!
With 98% accuracy, a Hyperloglog can count ~4Bn distinct 64-bit integers in ~1.5Kb.

Without a data structure, this would take GigaBytes (1M times the space).

That's pretty incredible to me.

Do the combinatorics of every possible combination of 4B distinct 64-bit integers that that 1.5kb can represent.

Mind blowing.
> I worked for hardware manufacturers, for most of my career, and software was always just a "sidekick" to The Main Show.

Which is an enormous, catastrophic, fantastic mistake that should be leaving everyone breathless with shock.

Realising that the software matters is why Tesla is worth more than most of the other car manufacturers combined.

This is why Apple is the #1 biggest company in the world.

This is why every time some "hardware" has to be deployed, every enterprise admin rolls their eyes and groans.

This is why IoT, medical, and factory automation security is a trash fire.

Smart televisions aren't, and you can waste $5000 on one just to have a substantially better experience by plugging in a $150 box from Apple.

And on, and on, and on...

I literally told the local Toyota rep that I wouldn't buy a 2019 model-year vehicle specifically because it didn't have Apple CarPlay. The built-in system is simply garbage. Maps that are 4+ years out of date!

Apple has nearly monthly updates for iOS, which means if I plug my phone into my car, effectively my car gets monthly updates. With Toyota? Maybe once in a decade they'll release an update, and then never again, slowly but surely deprecating its software capabilities down to "worthless".

Similarly, Nikon releases updates for their existing cameras once in a blue moon. Recently they announced "Firmware 2.0" for their flagship Z9, and I was shocked. This is likely a one-time aberration, probably caused by their software division not being ready in time for the initial shipments. I guarantee that there will never be a Firmware 3.0. Never! Where I live, this camera with one lens and typical accessories will set you back $10K and is deprecating at an exponential rate because Nikon does not give a s%*t about software. Meanwhile my iPhone and its camera will keep getting updates.

So yes, CI/CD is a web-centric notion.

It ought not to be.
And you'd need magnitudes more to explain the state, which is where we are.

How long would the document be to explain that many state flags, even if we did it in ascii and gzipped it?
This is wild. GP is correct. That poll is from 2013. In the 10 years since, which country has been "The Greatest Threat to World Peace?" It's Russia. Let's see how many got that right...

Only Poland.

History has actually shown how little popular opinion is accurate on this. Meanwhile, there's a swarm of sibling comments in opposition to GP? Do better HN.
That was a good laugh. Thanks.
This is what worked for me:

Allocate a certain amount of time per day eg. 4 hours in my case. Regardless of what happens, do your absolute best to hit that amount of time daily. Whether that's researching problems, applying fixes, or just writing code, do as much as you can. I used a time tracking app, and this helped me push forward and get some of my side projects done and launched.

Good luck!
I mean, herein lies the philosophical argument of opportunity cost to society in general. Every thing we spend money that is, perhaps, any amount over-engineered or nice-for-nice sake, or made of slightly higher grade materials, or, well, anything other than strictly utilitarian and minimalist as possible is technically consuming opportunity cost that could benefit society.

If I order wings with my pizza tonight, as I have done, and I decide to consume both of those things, instead of donating the money on the wings to someone else, I've directed excess to myself instead of to the betterment of society. And obviously that's the reductive, logical conclusion of the argument. What I'm getting at is that it's an interesting mental and philosophical exercise to figure out where that line lies. Does it lie with $400M super-yachts? Sure, probably we don't need that wealth going directly to propping up the yacht industry, which, itself, doesn't need to exist from a utilitarian perspective. But I'm not sure how to define where that line lies. Is it the old "know it when you see it" line? If I buy a 26' sailboat, is that still falling into the ostentatious conspicuous-consumption-that-could've-been-spent-on-others? Of course it is. What about a jet ski? What about a $400 kayak?

I'm not sure the answer here. I agree with your core sentiment that "I wish people would flex their donations to effective charities" in that it sounds lovely. I struggle with the idea that charities have to exist to patchwork fix parts of society and government that are inherently broken. Creating a construct that inherently hyper benefits a small coterie of people and necessarily introduces some inequities, and then hoping that that same small coterie of people will feel just guilty enough to donate to others to try to whitewash some of those problems... is inherently flawed. Obviously.

But I also recognize that the downstream and upstream of the middle of the bell curve of capitalism is basically what powers almost all of our jobs. We work because we produce something that someone, somewhere wants. Or needs, sometimes. But a LOT of it is "wants." And if it was _just_ needs, the economy would be an even bleaker place. We've seen what that looks like too.

That being said, I personally feel like, you know, a clever tax policy helps with a lot of this, if it's underpinned with effective enforcement and effective oversight and efficient use of those funds. But boy are those tricky.
Obligatory mention of the Borges short story "The Library of Babel", in which the narrator inhabits a universe of books containing every combination of letters that can fit within some specific number of pages at a specific font size, thus containing every thing that could possibly be written by anyone.
> The NSA only cares about you if you are talking to a small number of known hostile foreign people who are already a party to a FISA warrant.

Why are you so confident about who the NSA cares about?

COINTELPRO anyone?
What you're asking for is similar to what goes by the term "tokenization"[1], a technique often used by payment processors to avoid leaking credit card numbers and similar sensitive data. Using the proper transformer might provide the behavior you need.

1 https://www.tokenex.com/resource-center/what-is-tokenization
Defense Firm Said U.S. Spies Backed Its Bid for Pegasus Spyware Maker
> Hearing these pleas, the Internet Archive proposed temporarily lifting the technical
controls enforcing its one-to-one ratio. Since all of the libraries were closed, the Internet
Archive reasoned, there were surely more non-circulating copies locked up in shuttered libraries
than would be borrowed via the Internet Archive even without those technical controls in place.

https://www.eff.org/files/2022/07/07/hachette_v._internet_ar...

I don't think this is the most solid argument, but I really hope that line of thinking is deemed sufficient for not loosing in this legal case.
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That's not how it works. At long enough distances, "before" and "after" are only relatively defined. That's the whole point of relativity.

Two events A and B can occur "A first, then B" in one reference frame, but "B first, then A" in another reference frame.
as drew says - i am asking for binaries that i can run on a VM, just like minecraft or csgo

i dont need a source code, i need a binary and a config file, some decent error logging and some basic documentation with how to get it running/common issues/requirements

that's it
The problem is that even the "easy stuff" become major projects at large organizations. Every problem is a problem at scale.
Taxi bad. Uber not as bad. Uber is ok? I don't see the mental gymnastics to give one a pass because another is bad.
In Singapore you almost never saw kids even young as 2 years old not wearing a mask right. My daughter started wearing from 1y7m and it took about 1 week of adjusting it correctly when she would touch her face or mask to her just leaving it alone.

While you see most westerners wearing their mask below their nose, the kids follow suit.

In Taiwan since September last year, enrolled my daughter in school, every kid in her class wears a mask, they get temp check before being allowed into school, teachers help the kids with the masks. So far her class has had 1 kid who got covid, stopped coming to school, got better, that's it. No outbreak.

So good mask wearing starts with the parents. In asia we take covid seriously, other than westerners you rarely ever see locals not wearing masks correctly.
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Would many people really be totally fine with getting disintegrated and a copy made immediately, if they knew that's what was happening? Even if it's instant I think that if you told someone they would be killed and an exact clone of them could get a free trip to Paris there'd be a very low chance they'd agree to it.
I think Stonehenge serves the same purpose as the Eiffel Tower here. It gives a reference that the reader may already be familiar with even though it makes little sense as a marker.

Looking back at the history of the British Isles is like looking across the Channel at northern Europe. A lot of those towns and cities date to Roman times or earlier, to the Gauls and have been renamed. I often wondered how the French language evolved to ignore so many consonants and wonder if they preserved the traditional spellings but chose to change pronunciation over time so it was simpler.

Pretty funny for a Texan who kinda-sorta speaks English, but with a noticeable accent.
I am a bit unnerved each time I read an american using this self referential logic that the US are good because the US are good.

We dont all want to live in a theocratic bi-party corporatist paradise, crushed by personal loans to cure grandma s broken leg, to exgaerate a bit. I live in China and while I dislike the communists just as much as the next guy, I'm quite unsure what's so good about the US.

It's just as much a giant country blabbering all day long about how we should be their protectorate (I'm French), a lot like China...

But yeah let s not be afraid to say China, Xi in particular, are in an endless dictator trap, covering the crimes of the past with the crimes of the present. I just wouldnt put all my bets on the US evolving better just because God wrote their constitution or whatever else they think make them so virtuous.
How about the playground equipment at schools has all been wussified due to lawsuits?

Or kids' chemistry sets that went in the 1960s from an advanced chemistry course to little more than kitchen recipes?

All the result of lawsuits.

Then there was a painter who fell off his own ladder while painting Steve Ballmer's mansion, who successfully sued Ballmer for zillions. And people in general who carry millions of dollars in liability insurance.

As for "not making it to trial", people often settle out of fear of what would happen in court, not because the lawsuits wouldn't get traction in court.
More watches are used as visible status symbols (conspicuous consumption) than for any nefarious purpose.

Most explanations for widespread behaviors are mundane, not malicious.
This only makes sense when logging is a substantial portion of the wall-clock time of a transaction. The moment you do any other I/O, even if that is just to hit a database this difference becomes completely irrelevant.

The tests he created effectively made logging dominate the request active time so it's rather deceptive in that manner.

His non-logging case was probably entirely optimized away by Hotspot unless he is running these benchmarks under JMH and properly disabled optimizations for that loop.
For the teachers, that seems like a win. Lower salary but lack of crippling debt.

When I was in college, the folks bound for teaching k-12 math were in the lower half of the math classes I took. Ditto history. From talking with people, I assume that was generally the case with a few exceptions like the arts or coaching.

Does a k-12 curriculum require a college degree anyway?
Hugh Hendry talks about this a lot, its not just tech companies but nearly all industries are like that. We allowed China into the WTO and to trade with the world because we expected them to allow us to sell stuff there. They continue to play the game on their rules, and keeping their currency low by flooding the world with its surplus savings, further enriching itself and causing this huge asset boom in the West. Its not fair, he says we should start by putting extra taxes on the investments owned by Chinese government.
That sounds like a cool project. Always a bummer to see that kind of thing fade into the periphery for sure.

This may be a good opportunity to zoom out a little bit, and work on a personal system for finishing side projects, or other projects that are taking a long time.

There are lots of possible ingredients, metaphors, and so on, but what's most important is to keep changing and reorganizing your approach in order to find those ingredients that work best for you and keep you engaged with the project over time. Even or especially when distractions or huge problems come up.

A really simple tracking ingredient that works well for me, for example, is to measure something I call executive distance: How much time has elapsed since I've done anything on the project. This distance can affect motivation, working memory, technology approach & technical debt, and so on, so it's important to track it as a way of helping you determine whether your overall plan is really working. If the xd keeps going up over time, your plan needs to change.

You may also want to look into using automation and systematization (more the latter at this stage, I'd guess) as topics to research. They require a more grosso-modo approach to some details, but in exchange you are able to design and manage a system, and this is the metaphor most people want when they need a lever (so to speak) to use on a daunting project.

Good luck to you, hope you find a way back to that project.
People do not wear masks with a tight seal. Of the last 20 people I saw there were 19 cloth masks, one that is maybe capable of keeping a seal. Lots of chinstraps too. Shanghai.
> Yes. China and Russia are the biggest geopolitical threats to the world.

> I don’t know why anyone would be afraid to say this.

Probably because it's not that they are afraid, they simply don't agree. For many people around the world, the US and Europe have inflicted far greater problems over the past 0-100 years.
minutephysics has a nice video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdanPfQdCA
Which makes them super comfortable
> everyone wanted to play like a Karpov or a Kasparov.

I wonder if there's a modern analog to this with how super GM styles have mostly converged. Trying to play like Magnus is as silly as trying to play like an engine. Even the most aggressive players (Nepo, Shak?, Rapport) aren't so wildly different in style.

Maybe the 2010-2020s version of this is bandwagoning onto popular theory, like all the Najdorf lines I know I'll never understand.
Room of monkeys + typewriter + time = Shakespeare.

Fuck, we forgot food.
In order to find an interesting book, the integer that points to its location would have the same amount of bytes of information as the book itself, so finding a good book is just as much work as writing it!
Did you read the article? You like Uber a lot, congrats, what does that have to do with this?
Jesus f with the "slave" overdramatization, that is just ridiculous. Most of the people driving for Uber would not have been driving cabs and living wonderful lives otherwise, they'd be slinging burgers at McDonald's or just unemployed. They wouldn't be making the choice to drive if it didn't make sense for them, which makes it "work", not "slavery".

I'm sorry that the world doesn't offer magical fairyland jobs that are super easy, require zero skill, and pay super well, I really am - as a society we should be aiming for an abundance economy fueled by automation, where everyone shares in the spoils. But running a business that gives people work that they are generally happy to have the option to take is not infringement on anyone's independence or freedom. Just don't drive for them, and you'd be in the exact same position you were in without them existing (unless you were profiting from the heavily cartel-ized taxi system which abused all the customers, in which case I can't give a bigger shrug).
> To that end, sometimes you may come across a video in your feed that doesn't appear to be relevant to your expressed interests or have amassed a huge number of likes.

> By offering different videos from time to time, the system is also able to get a better sense of what's popular among a wider range of audiences to help provide other TikTok users a great experience, too. Our goal is to find balance between suggesting content that's relevant to you while also helping you find content and creators that encourage you to explore experiences you might not otherwise see.

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/how-tiktok-recommends-vide...
Errr, the linked study directly contradicts your point:

> In both respirators, large decreases in the dipole charge density were observed after several heat treatments. However, there was no significant drop in filtration efficiency because multiple parameters (i.e., mechanical filtration) were involved in the filtration performance.
Ask HN: Tips on Trying to Be Serious?
I know this sounds ridiculous but in conversations on zoom or in-person with my colleagues or friends I'm constantly joking all the time. Even in serious moments, I don't know why but if I'm in a group I need to make a joke and make people laugh at something in the situation that's ridiculous. For example we had an incident and I couldn't help myself - I don't know if this is good or bad, but I find it really hard to be serious. There's something in the situation that I find to be out of place and I bring it up. I do my job and take my responsibilities in stride and complete what's necessary. But... It is really hard for me to be in situations that are serious and I just can't help myself when its so dry and boring.
Oh also if you make something cool with it please share with me on Twitter, I'd love to see! https://twitter.com/TheOisinMoran/status/1546257077194063872
Exactly - the twitter thread would be really improved if everyone read an introduction to information theory. There are 1024 bits of information in a kilobit, and that's enough information for 2^1024 unique messages. The interpreter of the messages judges what the message information means, but the Kolmogorov complexity of a message is inescapable - you would need to modify the interpreter to squeeze out more messages (which is nothing more than pre-transferring information to the receiver)
I understand how words and meanings can change over generations and how some words fall out of favor. Here in Texas we have not had good luck with groups described as cults over the last few decades and if you grew up here in a fundamentalist Christian family watching TV preachers every Sunday and a large part of the week then you would not have a favorable opinion of them and would be likely to describe them as cults.
This was going to be my suggestion as well. Put a proper input on the page but move it off screen or hide it with css.
It seems that we're missing that this trend is likely due to the students contracting the disease outside of school. Most accidents happen within 30 miles of home doesn't mean you can take your seatbelts off when you are 31 miles away. This whole study exists to allow people to say masks don't help when they don't want to wear one. I get that there was a unique opportunity to compare and contrast here but what was being measured was only partly affected by the mandate. Regardless of the quality of the science here, the results are surprising, but I wonder what the comparison with a blue state district where the same mandates were in place would be...
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