skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. And many may have joined not knowing the real workings of the company; heck, the same situation could also be true for many of us now. But to continue defending the company even after knowing the facts is certainly a thing to marvel at.
if you ctrl+f "AI" in this article, the occurrences appear in a triangle. it is fun to hold enter and watch the finder cycle through them.

the AI revolution has barely begun:
https://misorobotics.com/flippy-2/

neural nets work with any information on any task. just like your brain. except you can train/copy them relatively instantly in comparison to raising/educating a 25 year old.

https://aiqc.io
I just requested a steam refund, to try and send a message. I have no playtime, I bought it on sale for $5, but this is gross. I will stop “buying” steam games entirely if this starts happening on a regular basis.

Update: that was fast, my refund request was rejected because it has been “more than 2 weeks since my purchase”. I opened a new refund request with much more pointed language and told them it’ll be the most expensive $5 they ever stole. I’m fit to sue over this, it’s not even about the money. I have a large steam library and I do not want them to get away with this.
When I interviewed for a job at TikTok (SV office) the interviewer worked at byte dance and was in China.

Absolutely zero separation between Chinese and American business regardless of what they claim.
Both Mapy and Windy.com are from the same devs and I paid for both, and both are exquisite pieces of engineering.
You're ignoring something critical here.

The whole reason these address validation and KYC measures exist is to protect against fraud. They aren't done "just for fun".

Please explain how bitcoin solves for that problem. Hint: it doesn't.
I find that as an individual (never used it within a Team), Notion is a great alternative to something like OneNote or Apple's Notes app. But the way a lot of "productivity experts" suggest using it is counter intuitive for exactly the same reasons that this person is citing. You could easily spend an hour each day fiddling with templates, filling out forms that you've created for yourself, and endlessly grooming your "backlog".

Personally I just use Notion as a dumping ground for ideas, planning stuff (like holidays), and kind of a library for stuff I may want to remember in future. If I was the kind of person that journaled it could be good for that as well I would imagine.
Well, hardware is a different world from software. I’ll bet that Tesla doesn’t do “sight unseen” updates. They probably wouldn’t be allowed to.

They likely have huge batteries of tests that the software needs to pass (CI), but the actual release build and “sign-off” involves a human.

Who will get their ass chewed off, if the update borks.

But everything before that point, is 1000% better and more agile than most hardware companies.

I’ll bet SpaceX has a lot more meatware in their process.

I always liked CI, as a basic infrastructure, for my team. I very much believe in early integration testing[0], but automated testing can be a trap. It should not be the only testing, for firmware.

If you push a bad release to a Web server, you have one point of failure, but also, one point of recovery.

If you push out a bad firmware release, you have a million $10K bricks. You may also have fires, explosions, and crashes.

Although I often had real disagreements with the hardware folks, I am entirely sympathetic to their priorities.

The main issue, was that they considered software developers to be “cowboys,” and judging from the general quality level of even enterprise software, I can understand their bias.

However, I am not a “cowboy.” I am absolutely anal about Quality, and I’m regularly attacked as being “too uptight,” by software developers.

Software is a different animal from hardware, and needs to be done differently. Quality, however, should not suffer.

As a standalone developer, I’ve learned to eliminate “concrete galoshes”[1], and CI tends to be that, but only in my case. What works for me, may not work for others. Just as importantly, what works for others, may not work for me.

I’ve spent the last few years, refining a personal process for my software development. It works great. You can see for yourself. Most of my work is open-source, or source-available[2].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/concrete-galoshes/

[2] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#browse-away
This pandemic has sparked a whole industry of politically motivated “scientists” overhyping and misstating the results of their poorly designed studies. Examining the authors’ affiliations and past work is a good way to avoid wasting time.

There are dozens of other studies about this topic, many of them done carefully by serious researchers.
Learn to be bored. Also, inappropriate humor – facetiousness – can be a sign of insecurity in a person. Try speaking up about your fears and concerns, or at least work with a therapist or career coach to look into these. Remember the class clown? Always cutting up and acting out? Sometimes it's just about wanting to be the center of attention, but also it can be a sign of anxiety and low self-esteem.
This, 100%. I already act like this is the law because it only seems fair.
Tell that to zoom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...
Because there is no hope for an earlier life in the past, as opposed to for a later life in the future. While we mentally live both in the past and in the future (and only little in the present), it’s not symmetric. We usually live for a better future. Depression for example is correlated with hopelessness for the future. You can’t lose hope for the past, because you consider it immutable and (usually) known, whereas the future is in flux and can be influenced, and is yet unknown (to some degree). The prospect of death on the other hand is incompatible with any subjective future one could hope for.
State sponsored assassinations are almost always immediately identifiable which means it's not going to work in their favour. Abe also retired at the end of 2020 and the amount of influence he can still exert is to prop up his own intra-party faction, not direct international policy. Sino-Japanese trade was also consistently growing in latter half of his term.

Real life isn't a fiction or video game. This type of whacky beer talk is neither interesting or amusing. Please familiarize yourself with some basic context of the subject before making grotesque insinuations about it.
As a native born and poor American without any parents I feel the same way going to Costco. Its miraculous.

After being homeless a few times as a native born American I still feel like showers are the ultimate luxury.

I'm always happy to see immigrants with jobs in America and Europe but I can't help but wonder what can we do to make other countries as desirable as America?

Theres billions of people. Why aren't their countries desirable as well?

Why is North America and Europe the main destination for the entire world to wish to immigrate to?

Why doesn't almost any country in Africa South and Central America, Asia, and India continents have immigration problems and what can we all do to make it desirable for people to want to be in their homes?
Strict liability for executives would be a good start. Corporate death penalty is also a good thing.
> I wonder why Mozilla hasn't given their own extension the "Recommended" badge on their add-on site.

Probably because it isn't fully baked. It will definitely be included by default or set as "Recommended" when it supports more languages.
> but people probably prefer having living grandparents

Of course, but it’s not like grandparents didn’t already have a habit of eventually dying. I’m a grandparent, and I full expect to die at some point. Seems like there are 1 to 1 odds of it.
A lot of folks here seem to be confusing breaking the law in the name of justice and social progress (e.g. Rosa Parks) vs the blatant corruption of companies like Uber. At least the Uber VPs knew they were corrupt.
I am just making things up. My point was never to claim that uber eats has a net negative effects on available jobs, just to hint that it might be the case as an argument against GGGP claim that without uber the workers would either be unemployed or possess an equally sucky job.

> I think I read somewhere where someone actually modeled the dynamics

I know I’m being a little dishonest here. The fact is that I merely think I remember someone else talking about someone else doing such a thing. I never actually had the source, and I think I once saw a secondary source. But I didn’t think I actually needed—nor did I feel like wasting my time—to search for it. I figured it would be sufficient to demonstrate that such dynamics can theoretically exist.
Tutankhamun was buried in Egypt, not Arabia. Egyptian archaeology is considered its own, separate specialty with a different history and different rules / norms.

Take this as the opinion of someone who isn't an Arabian archaeologist, but researchers working in the peninsula have long had to deal with the sensitive issue of pre-islamic sites. Getting access is still a bit difficult today (especially Yemen) and most of the leading researchers are careful to be politically well-connected and avoid stepping on too many toes.
If you look at EU standards for asbestos removal [1] this really isn't the case. Ditto for the other examples you cite.

Almost nobody doing industrial work with comparable PPE doesn't spend at least 1-2 hours of a typical workday out of the PPE.

The linked PDF has an example of a typical workday when removing asbestos, note how many times it involves putting on or taking off the PPE.

I'm not making any claim about COVID mask mandates, other than your examples seeming irrelevant to "chronic, day-in-day-out long term use of N95s".

https://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=7478&langId=en
I’m moving all my storage to vellum with papyrus backups.
My great grandfather moved to a different part of Asia and never went back. My grandfather moved elsewhere and never went back. My mother moved to another continent and then later, with my father, to a third, where I partially grew up. And I moved to yet another continent (with another emigrée), speaking a language that, like my mother, I had learned after growing up.

Yet today I spoke English with a stranger, a woman born to Indian immigrants and she spoke with the same hand gestures I do.
Yes there are competing theories, but these disagreements are only of degree not kind.

I said no meaningful disagreements. I lived through this, and there are probably more than a few post-academics around here who know what I'm talking about. We tried and discovered for all their prattling about being anti-status quo and counter-whatever, they are really quite interested in suppressing ideas, and are stuck in the past.

In the humanities you're stuck with some flavor of critical theory. If you're not on board with that at a fundamental level, no tenure, no advisor, no papers; the end.

In the sciences, physics for instance. Don't like string theory? Did you want to be a non theoretical physicist? Sorry, no room for competition around here for the inane bullshit that can't even be wrong. No grant money. No experiments either. Those might prove it all wrong.

There's no room for change or growth in the modern academy because it's been captured by hucksters and charlatans who are at least cunning enough to keep out the competition.
Exactly. Steam is more convenient than manually maintaining a large gaming library and keeping it up to date, and collecting titles on sale. However if it develops a reputation of killing games once a publisher decides to (???), the value-add is greatly reduced. I have a probabilistic expectation that my Steam library will work ten years from now, and stuff like this GREATLY reduces my estimation of the probability.
How would you fair without knowing any french in cities like this?
Uber are worse where I live. They cancel on you, they accept the fare and then just screw around for 20 minutes until you cancel, then if you try to rebook the price has magically gone up. At most times of day they are more expensive than the normal cab firms.

This all seems to come down to the rates of pay available to drivers getting worse, presumably as the VC money runs out. Thankfully the old cab firms have managed to cling on in the face of years of massive market distortion, and are still there to pick up the slack.
Baseball Pitches Illustrated
About ready to leave Hacker News with all the anti-globalist and anti-decentralist sentiment I've been seeing.

Valid arguments are grayed out and the top comment is an unfounded "TikTok is the most successful espionage operation of the 21st century". Looks like HN can't break out of its own bubble.
Dang also listed a few previous submissions on the topic.

None of which gained traction at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32038993
+1 OPNSense. Extremely capable and stable. Been running a complex setup for a year and a half without a single hitch.
As an American, I understand that and even avoid using 'cult' in my own work because of the pejorative connotations. However, it's a term of art for certain disciplines and the intended meaning should be understood.
Most of Amazon’s regional websites offer machine-translation (although the language selection varies by region). Click the Flag next to the search field on the front page.
Agreeing with others—these benchmarks are not quite telling us what we want to know. The problem is that the endpoints aren’t doing any work, so logging dominates.

You might think “that’s ok, it still shows me the overhead of logging.” This is subtly wrong, though, because you can’t necessarily talk about the overhead of logging without saying how much logging, from how many threads, with how much other work.

Take the simplest case, stdout. Writing to stdout requires a lock. If logging is sufficiently rare, most of the time, there’s no wait. As logging increases in frequency, there is more contention. Doubling the number of writes more than doubles the time spent logging, because of that contention.

To benchmark this properly, you’d[0] want to have a test where the total number of requests/second without logging and the number of logs/request as independent variables. That would show you the regions where logging becomes a bottleneck, and regions where it’s not.

[0] At a minimum. I’m not saying this would be an ideal benchmark—if you’re not doing marketing, benchmarks aren’t about “let’s find the biggest number”, but accurately modeling a phenomenon so that you can make predictions. That means you might need to do a lot of experimentation.
It’s very easy in these philosophical discussions to just throw your hands up in the air and say “well we can never know anything because everything is subjective”, but personally I think that’s boring.
France succeeded but the corporate stooges higher up in the EU overturned it on appeal.
In terms of compute requirements, 640x480 is quadruple 320x200.

Double would be 448x280.
It will show in browsers correctly now, except in cases where there's mixed character sets. This is to avoid phishing attacks abusing unicode with look-alike characters.
Kind of surprised that GB/s was even a metric that was used considering how variable CPUs are, even ones manufactured in the same year.
Congratulations to all Firefox folks around here for building a much-desired offline translation plugin that does not spy on people.
Maybe it’s that I don’t grok what the author means by “formal description” but I don’t see how that really touches on it.

As a layman the impression I got from the article is “biologists are doing the wrong things to learn about cells, I think they should be doing this other thing instead” whereas the impression I have from what I’ve read about those learning processes is that the learning is so hard that biologists are literally just doing whatever they can come up with to learn anything at all. They didn’t choose these processes because of what they wanted to learn, they literally invented those processes because it was what they could come up with (pretty ingeniously, too), there are no alternatives until those are invented and they would be ecstatic to use them as well.

I probably have a disconnect from my lack of knowledge. An example would help; if it’s in the radio analogy I’ve lost it by the orders of magnitude difference in merely observing it at all.
Not just that. For example one can perturb cells and try to understand their dynamics: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/810296

Also, from purely observational studies it is possible to infer mechanistic models as I outlined above, e.g. using SAT.
I'm not the author, but I thought these were nice illustrations showcasing the various pitches used in the sport of baseball. If I wanted to understand a bit more intricacies involved in the game, I would find these helpful.
Steams refund policy is the result of a lawsuit.
Within an earlier thread "Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS", there's an excellent comment by loxias about risk diversification across multiple factors. Well worth reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031655

I've increasingly come to view systems operations / SRE as a risk management exercise, where the goal is to reduce the odds of a catastrophic failure. Total system outage is one level, unrecoverable total system outage is even worse.

Having multiple redundant backups / storage systems, in different locations, with different vendor hardware / stacks, all helps reduce risk of a single-factor outage. Though complexity risk is its own issue.
It's an example of something the sub could do, not necessarily something they use it for.
Feels like a kind of 'musical typing'; I find myself tapping my teeth together as a metronome.
> Does the company need capacity planning in the form of making everyone do extra work

Serious question - is it a hard process? Or do you just have to check a box that says "I will be in the office and not WFH tomorrow"? Because it definitely seems like it's a minor inconvenience at worst.
The Library of Babel site uses an invertible PRNG for mapping position and content to allow searching

https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi

https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html
In fields where uncovering methodological flaws or malfeasance is difficult, prior history of the authors is a useful first approximation of how seriously the conclusions should be taken.
This article that you are replying to seems to work to contradict your claim and I've read numerous others that seem to as well.

Would love to see your sources if you have them handy.
Alexandria's got an excellent hosting facility.
How do users know that those followers are human?
Right, who let Jony Ive into the watch factory?
Weird that you would preface a reasonable perspective with “downvote if you will” then it appears you did get downvoted.
The simplistic language if your post reads as blind patriotism or jingoism. To suggest that the US is more law abiding is absurd, considering the countless wars of agression and covert actions. The problem with any debate on this subject is that every evil action by the US is "justified" somehow, and every action by others is the work of madman dictator, and by default wrong. It's impossible to discuss.

Edit: to be clear, I don't condone China's actions. I see both the US and China as very bad actors on the world stage.
For math and technical subjects like CS, nothing beats personal mentoring. It’s what I’d consider given the resources. No matter the quality of the teacher, instruction fundamentally changes at even medium class sizes.
And this is the reason why I buy DRM-free on GOG. I always check GOG for games before Steam.
>Cloth and surgical masks do not work.

this sort of statement really bugs me.

anything that slows the airspeed/spread is helpful. and there for "works".
A cloth mask is definitely better than no mask... its has a much higher chance of catching larger droplets than no mask, it has a much higher chance of rate limiting even smaller droplets than no mask.

if 100% of the population worse cloth masks you would get a significant reduction of spread just because of the rate limiting.

N95 masks are not 100% effective.. so do we claim that they "Dont Work" as well? no we dont.

Nothing is black and white. nothing is works or doesn't work... every little step on the way every little effort all helps and by extension "Works".
If you’re willing to wait, you can always order half, wait a month or two, then order the other half.
There is as much due process for your data in China as there are for Muslim Uighers being thrown into camps: none.
I have fond memories of my Gilbert chemistry set, circa 1964. It allowed me to learn chemistry and get in slightly serious trouble if I didn't pay attention. Totally excellent.

Not long ago, I checked out buying a chem set for my grand-niece. Completely uninspiring. Color changes. Baking soda/vinegar fizzes. I bought her good archery equipment. I'll take care of the chemistry inspiration with my own curriculum.
Call me when people have higher standards.

Everyone likes to complain about the government but when have they actually voted against an incumbent politician?

The failure of state governments and the Federal government to meet basic standards of competence and deliver expected outcomes is not going to change until the voters start punishing politicians for it.

This situation wouldn't fly in a lot of other countries -- if, say, the electrical grid or the public transit or the level of safety in the streets in the UK or France or Germany was as bad as it was in the USA, politicians there would fear for their jobs.

In the USA they still do not fear for their jobs, and everyone seems to assume that incompetent government is the natural and only conceivable order of things. That is what needs to change. Until I see incumbent politicians lose their jobs, I won't believe that change is coming.
I interpreted WalterBright's comment as an ignorant way of saying that people today don't take responsibility for their own actions and instead try to find someone rich enough to pin the blame on, especially as a means of enriching themselves.

The statistics do not support that claim.

If you wish to make a more nuanced claim and discuss it, then by all means feel free to do so directly, without speculating about what WalterBright meant. It would be nice to do it on the basis of some kind of evidence though.
Analog watches let you glance at the time more subtly while in a meeting.
Numberless watches are instantly readable after you own one for a little bit.