skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you understand the context though right? The perception?

Trump was/is a pompous, bombastic, blow-hard, ignorant fool but he's not falling off of bicycles and slurring his speech like a stroke victim.

Well he probably was...but he managed to be lively enough that when he did that wasn't the lasting impression he left.

Maybe Biden's milquetoast persona is what the country needs...but it's not as newsworthy (which again is the context here).
Is competitor monitoring worth it?
Hi there ! In your experience/opinion, is it worth monitoring your competitors in the context of a start-up ? i.e. Is it worth tracking their roadmap or new product features, capterra reviews, domain traffic , backlinks etc. Thanks !
No, they said it is down "on average." That is true, and immediately clarified in the following sentence.
How does this storage hold up over time?

I'm guessing that could be one of the limiting hardware elements. There must be some redundancy in that right?
There's some pretty spicy news coming out about him and his family right now, significantly more saucy than anything that came out about Trump, but you won't see it on the news. And there's proof of it all too, interestingly enough.
First dialup connections were 1200bps. Earlier adhoc connections were lower.
Yeah true, if ZFS could span multiple servers it would be perfect
I suspect taxi regulation is strong on every developed country and different.
This isn’t the “average person traveling through Heathrow” forum. This is a forum run by a big VC fund for startup billionaires and temporarily embarrassed startup billionaires.
To be completely fair, the context in which it's still called "The Czech Republic" is the same context that you would say "The Federal Republic of Germany"
Yes, that is correct. I was misremembering what I read. It was

“across the three major cable news networks”

Which I paraphrased as

“Across all the channels”

Which the person replying to me changed to

“Across the board”.
> Easy to pronounce

That's very anglocentric
Short stories don't make a lot of money. $100 is a huge accomplishment. The goal is usually to have them spike sales for a novel, but even there (a) it's iffy, and (b) most novels only sell a couple thousand copies.

Writing, unfortunately, remains something you have to get financially comfortable to be able to do... not a way to become financially comfortable. It's surprising that even in 2022 we haven't fixed that.
Thread-local compacting GCs already handle this. Requests tend to be served by a single thread and the GC dishes out memory from a thread-local pool to avoid contention. Server-side GCs can also be concurrent and avoid suspending threads as much as possible. If you aren't generating garbage that escapes the nursery generation they may basically never suspend threads or block at all.

Arenas are a similar concept that work well in non-GC environments if you don't let objects allocated during a request escape to live beyond the request.

Thread-local pools to satisfy allocations are also a well-known technique used in various allocators so your system's malloc might be doing this for you. It might also be able to efficiently collapse free lists which more or less behaves like an arena allocator when your request pipeline doesn't let allocations escape.

In practical terms: most approaches generalize well enough that if you follow the rules you'd need to follow anyway you get the benefits without the drawbacks. In most of the remaining edge cases you get even better benefits by adopting other strategies. For example Unity uses C# which has a GC... but games shouldn't allocate on the game loop _anyway_ so GC vs ref counts vs malloc isn't very important compared to avoiding allocations altogether.
Or if you already obey the rules you'd need for an arena allocator in your server then letting the GC or allocator deal with it might mean you can coalesce cleanup across multiple requests which may actually be better for performance anyway. And without manual arena management you don't risk problems if some esoteric edge case in the code needs to allocate something that will outlive that specific request.
I quit because I didn’t like programming anymore. It’s too detail oriented, is constant work when I prefer bursts of work and doesn’t let you work directly with people on people issues enough. Moved to management around 5 years ago and things have never been better.
You are right, that is what across the board means. I was mixing up what the person who replied to me wrote with what I wrote. Oops!
I feel that exfiltrating memory at a few hundred bytes/sec makes it extremely impractical. You'll be looking for a needle in a haystack. There are easier, faster attacks available. I won't lose sleep over it.
long exposure images aren't actually 1 continuous exposure. you take a ton of individual images and composite them using known reference points.
This is the simplified version of how we do process migration. Of course the devil's in the details, but yes, the way the BEAM process model works makes it super amenable.

We have some bits to negotiate the state handoff between different versions of the code, and it's not as straightforward as copying over state. Certain data structures need to be rebuilt (for example, data structures owned by our Rust NIFs), and additionally, monitors and references across the system need to be updated and re-established.
But at the same time, the feedback loop on programming is incredible. If you're wrong, you'll know right away.

What I have found more frustrating is learning something with longer feedback loops. That's kept me from doing hardware.

But I agree, this doesn't compare against things where there isn't a definite right answer.
The key being the identity still has the problem of not being changeable, no matter how you spin it.

Self-hosting is possible with ActivityPub as well, but without sacrificing the user-friendliness. I can already see someone saying "what do you mean I have to start a new account after my private key leaked".
What would UK elections look like using a different electoral system?
This makes sense to me. Not the kind of AB testing I had in mind, but fair point. I was thinking more about decision making processes, not operations troubleshooting.
Helium, for sure. Coolant, propellant, battery charge cycles, flash write cycles are all consumables. Maybe even solar panels -- they wear out. The radio? I doubt it.
Imagine a scenario where one the local officials you voted for is caught misusing city funds. I'd imagine you want to know this come election time. How else does democracy work, if voters don't know what happened?

I'm not saying that what currently passes for news is a good solution, but I feel like a lot of people sort of throw the baby with the bathwater and justify completely detaching themselves from what's happening because news are heavily flawed. They are, and I don't blame anyone person from taking a break, but it doesn't scale. If a large percentage of the population does it it causes problems.
Check out Vaadin Flow framework. Modern single page web app in 100% in Java. Everything just works. And looks beautiful by default.
CNN and MSNBC quote viewership. Fox quotes ratings. Not the same
thing.
It seems like they are just using Debian testing with periodic version freezes. It's very likely not all that different from just running testing.
Okay, but how would you compete with "free hosting" on YouTube?
Jokes on the writer because Buddhism originated in India and evolved from Hinduism and spread as far as Southern Russia and Central Asia in addition to East Asia and Southeast Asia where it become popular. Ignorant people everywhere these days get to write articles who don't have basic history lessons. We learned this in high school also about Ashoka and how the Indian emperor spread Buddhism literally everywhere in the world. But whatever racists aren't known for their learning, understanding or intelligence.
I feel the main problem with medium is that i breaks the web. Putting a paywall at the other end of a link makes that a broken link.

Somewhere I feel that when an author link to an article, that link is an invitation to consume the linked text. It just feels uncivilised to put out links and then not deliver on it.

That said, I was at one time a subscriber of LWN. The model there was that articles were subscriber only the first week, and then public after that. _Unless_ a subscriber decided to provide a link, then the article was also available for anyone following that link.

Perhaps thats a model that could work for Medium? If I ever get an rss-reader up, and start following sources again I could perhaps see my self pay a subscription for “early access” feeds (to support some pore journalist doing actual reporting if nothing else)
I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
most recent Matt Levine column outlined a scenario where Elon Musk sells back his 9 percent stake in Twitter back to Twitter at a discount, and everyone agrees to back off.
OpenBSD disables hyperthreading by default.

There's that, I guess...
All our developers have previous remote work experience in reputable Brazilian corporations.

The reason why these developers charge rates way lower than international standards is the extremely low cost of living in Brazil - $3000 is enough to live in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country.
You don't do it for the money. You do it for exposure. If you sell a short story that goes viral, you'll probably get a six-figure advance (which is not as much as it sounds like) on your next novel. That said, the odds aren't great; writing is about the worst way to make money imaginable, in part because either there's no barrier to entry (self-publishing) or there are barriers to entry but they're dysfunctional and political (traditional publishing) and no one knows what's seriously good until it's been around for ~20 years.
> the bad news from thousands of miles away is 99% irrelevant to my life or survival

You reminded me of something. Before the latest US elections me, an Italian, found myself in few discussions about Trump, Biden at dinners with friends and family.

I then realized I've never found myself in a discussion about elections of our city's mayor or province governor which were infinitely more relevant to my daily life. Some of my friends didn't even knew who the candidates were or the ideas they had.

Quite telling.
I think this is a little harsh, but I actually generally agree. I'm a total laymen here and my PRIMARY TAKEAWAY has been the IR component and how much more and further away you can see because of it.
MSNBC fundamentally believes capitalism is good and right. They are absolutely left of the Republican party, but they are hardly left.

This is unfortunately a consequence of the two party system in the States. We equate Democrats with Left and Republicans with Right. Anything supportive of Democrats gets labeled "left" even if the policies are really centrist, pro capital ones. Because we don't really have the language here to differentiate the Left and Democrats in mainstream American parlance.
That's why Microsoft moved Office to the cloud.

Edit: Didn't know that Adobe didn't move its portfolio to the cloud yet. I thought Adobe Creative Cloud is all about that plus subscription model. My bad.
That complaint was even more satisfying that I could have imagined. They didn't skip a beat. Wait until Musk tries to argue that it is the fault of a mental illness and that he shouldn't be held accountable.
+1 - Medium is a damaged brand, my immediate response is a negative association. Basically the opposite of Substack.
Do you have anything constructive to say or are you just going to be a jerk?
Oh, so hearsay. It's much less efficient to have to ask multiple people for their summaries of the news every day instead of reading a newspaper.
Yeah. The actual cost of an employer group health plan is $7000 per year. If the employee has a family that's $20000 per year. Usually the employer pays for 80% of this and the remaining 20% of the premium is paid by the employee. That's another $2-9/hr.
Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects
I'd say yes but don't get hung up on it. It's good to be aware of what's happening in the landscape but it's easy to get sidetracked or diverted by what others are doing and that's rarely a good thing early on. Stick to testing and iterating.
Space-privacy tradeoff, sounds fair.
My wife is heading down that path right now. There are people she collabs with that made $200k in their first year of writing romance novels (but they wrote like, six books in a year. You need to churn them out quick to make that much money, usually in series of books, not one-offs).

My wife is in marketing for her day job and has been using that knowledge to help target and generate interest in her books, and it seems to be paying off, as her preorders are eclipsing quite a few established authors in the groups she's in, and this is her first book.

When she had half the preorders she does now, a friend was saying she could probably expect around $2k in sales in her first month, judging by the preorder numbers, so by the time it releases she might be seeing 2-3x or even more than that.
I have YouTube Premium and Apple Music.

I only use YT for STEM and live music.

I wonder if media talking about recession and now seeing questions like this is intentional; get people to cut their spending, save, actually causing a recession, because people listened to the media and Fed.

Asset prices come down given less activity in the market. Average person can’t save much as it, and the rich buy up cheaper assets.

In no way do I see the media and Fed talking about these things as indicative of their ability to see the future. It’s people using their podium and claim of power to trigger behavioral modification.

They really do not want to raise wages: https://www.marketplace.org/2022/01/26/the-statistic-fed-cha...
How much do you earn if your short story ends up in a movie?
Yep, ring laser gyro :)

They are pretty awesome. Once got some data that seemed to be bad out of one and realized that the entire error was exactly accounted for by the Coriolis effect from the rotation of the earth.
> By contrast, your extremist proposal of allowing patentholders to block software implementations of international standards unless they are paid, that is clearly absurd, as it imposes a completely unreasonable burden on the open-source maintainers who are the backbone of modern software.

My extremist proposal, where I say in the first line that opensource maintainers should be free of any patent requirement?
Did you actually see the people kneeling with the police chief actively rioting?
The checks are extensive - almost every relevant database the government has on you [1]. They can also oder medical exams to check if you've been using drugs if they find any indication of any usage in the past in the data. It's absurd, utterly absurd.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/luftsig/__7.html
It isn't so much forcing him to buy it, just complete the purchase he was already making and agreed to complete.
Like you and others in this thread I've been cutting back in subscription services. Difference is I plan on keeping my off-site backups (backblaze) and email (fast mail) . Those are important and vital enough for me to pay for and keep them. Other services like streaming music/movies or Amazon Prime, I have already cut back on. Non essentials.
They did leave a message, but I also have all new-message notifications silenced (since all my missed calls are spam anyway)
It? That? The? What are you talking about? It seems hypocritical to imply that meanings ought to be understood divorced from context while your own post doesn't meet the standard.
I wanted my story in print by somebody legit. Writing was not then and is not now my full time career, it's a hobby, but few things have compared to the excitement I felt when I heard I'd be published.

Many writers will advise you that it's ok to let your work go for free, if it'll get you exposure. I made a deal with myself that I'd charge something for it.
I feel like "r/saved your lick" is more likely to be run by deer who have opinions on where to find the best salt licks...
Nope. A startup with growth potential is serving less than 5% of the total addressable market for their product – often more like 0.1%. Its challenge is reaching product-market fit and then cost-effective distribution/awareness.

When prospective customers provide competitive feedback, consider it. Beyond that, don't sweat competition.

(If you get over, say, 5%, that changes: it needs to either grow the TAM or take market share from other vendors. That's not what most people would call a startup, though.)
I suspect it's precisely because most of those 'better' items aren't 'name brand' items. "fair trade chocolate bars" - regardless of quality - may not sell to a population raised (for generations) on hershey bars.
Are we at the point where it's irresponsible to run on shared tenant infrastructure?

There seems to be no end to these attacks. Just brief periods of remission.
This is a major factor. Also, day jobs were a lot more chill. Writers still complained about having to go to an office job, but you could use the copious downtime on some of the work. You wouldn't want to do hardcore creative first-draft writing at your office job, but you could edit for typos and do background reading.

These days, so many fascistic surveillance technologies have been deployed to squeeze the downtime out of existence for most jobs. You could have a 1950s day job (well, if you were middle class) and be a writer, but you can't really have a 2020s day job and be a writer, because jobs are so much more stressful.
Don't worry. They'll be charging extra for the A/C in those countries instead.
Hmm, I just noticed that. Can you elucidate the difference?
Iran to send hundreds of drones to Russia for use in Ukraine
JavaScript is already a GC'd language effective at UI, so it doesn't seem to me like there's a strong need for wasm to fill the same role. Rather, it seems to me like wasm is better suited to accelerating processing-heavy tasks those rich web apps depend on, like custom [de]compression, ML models, data processing, image processing or simulation of some kind.
The point of a paragraph is to thread together sentences into meaning beyond that contained in them individually.
Neal Stephenson is a very poor storyteller. Most of his books are excuses for writing encyclopedic entries on certain topics, and packaging it as a story to make money.
In my opinion decentralization is a non-feature. I.e., I don't believe in people waking up in the morning and thinking "gee, that app would be 10x better if decentralized". What people care about is (1) getting better connections with friends and colleagues. Here lunchclub is doing an amazing job. (2) getting better news then have a look at finclout.io.
If you are a regular posted for whatever motivation, I don't think that the current state of social media works well.
Decentralized Social as an implementation of a Decentralized Social Network is really terrible because it doesn't add anything to the user experience besides a pay-layer which in reality brings out the worst in people "Please buy my coin'
> "If it bleeds it leads".

Post-2016, the updated version is "If it bleeds and doesn't make Democrats look bad, it leads".

See for example, the near-absolute muteness about the recent Hunter Biden iCloud leak[1]. This is the son of a sitting POTUS - who was just last week at the White House - demonstrably putting himself in positions that are ripe for blackmailing and corruption.

The same son sitting on Boards of private companies with huge international exposure, and directly benefiting from the terrible decisions being made at the White House.

It would be scandalous even in the most Banana of Republics - but not in the US when its about the Democrats.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_iCloud_leak
Ah yes. Forcing large companies to pay their externalities is identical to those same large companies charging us to breathe.
They didn't have a 70m sized parabolic dish, though.
Finland is an extreme example of a housing market that provides a place for everyone to live. Obviously it's not a free market, but does it not prove you wrong?
Eh. The name "Bulgaria" derives from Bulgars, who were a nomadic Turkic tribe from areas around the Caspian Sea that came to conquer the country.

For another example, the name "Russia" is derived from "Rus", which itself appears to be a derivative of the Norse "Ruslaw" - again, because it was the Norse who came, conquered, and became the ruling elite.

Basically, it happened all the time.
Not the original commenter, but I presume they meant that if the location of the city isn't important to the story, then filmmakers can use buildings, streetscapes, etc to convey "city" without conveying "New York" or "Chicago". It didn't come off as disparaging American cities in general.
Unless they've made significant improvements, this thing is borderline useless.

About all it does is act as a nice PR/gimmick. Magic thinking.

When last I checked about 5 years ago, they were including client-based stats in the analysis (time per move, focus, and timing between clicks to pick a piece up and drop a piece).

The issue with doing that is the client is fungible, you can set any state you want locally; and so by manipulating these stats you could skew the input going into these models.

To give people a layman's short overview of the model:

It uses a several CNN Pooling Layers for feature detection and LSTM (attention embeddings) in a siamese network architecture.

CNN models notoriously fail to detect features that that are larger than its kernel size.

The LSTM embeddings can only be as useful as the features that it is trying to detect.

There were a number of problems with the model at the time, a high false positive rate, overfitting, and too much weight was being given to client-controllable input.

When the client-controllable input was held stable (constant). Certain book openings would be skewed with additional weight towards a false positive, and earlier book moves activated more often than lesser seen positions.

I brought the issues up to ornicar years ago in an issue, but they closed the issue without comment. The posts are mostly gone now.

There were a number of disagreements (mostly about certain people with admin privileges abusing their authority, not sure if it was ornicar or one of their flunkies; either way not important just completely unprofessional).

I guess it was good enough for them despite the high false positive rate (driving account churn).
Ads don't apply to Medium. It's a subscription model. In theory it's a refreshing take as they rightfully recognize the many (ethical) issues with running ads, surveillance tech, and so on.

If for a moment we would assume a very large group of qualitative "citizen journalists" regularly writing, together they'd produce a vast sea of high quality content. Medium at one point also onboarded actual pro publications, so you'd get a really great set of content that in volume would be the equivalent of several thousands of newspaper and in terms of quality be close, whilst being more diverse.

5$ per month for that pile of quality is a steal.

But for that to work, the quality has to be discoverable. You need to able to look at the homepage, and see top notch writing in the categories you're interested in. It would be a single place to do most of one's deeper reading, with seemingly no end. For very low costs.

None of that has worked out, for the reasons I mentioned.