skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think of the nix ecosystem as an Olympic-size pool. These pools caused me a great deal of stress when I was a child, not because I feared drowning, but because I felt like I could not fully understand their enormity. I learned to swim despite this fear, and what finally helped me get over the fear, more than my swimming ability, was focusing on my purpose or activity within the pool.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the scope of everything within nix. So much of it is great. Many things aren't great at all. I do much better with it when I stop trying to take in the depth of it all and focus on the one small thing I want to do with it at any time. If there's something small and focused that you want to do with nix that elicits joy within you, I think it is good to dive in and learn enough to do that thing. I really like development environments as a focus, but that aligns with my personal and professional interest, and perhaps you want orthogonal systems or containers or application builds instead.

There is something to the understanding that comes through experience, but it's not because it helps me realize the thing I can see in my head, but rather because it will sometimes reach out through the machine and slap me very hard in the face. I have been dealing with this issue[1] since it began. It is pervasive, and it is painful. But it helps me realize how fragile this ecosystem we work with is, and it gives me satisfaction knowing that I belong to a group that might happen to surface issues present in safety-critical systems through nothing more than ceaseless rigor.

I hope you will join us at some point. I am confident that you will find it enriching.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/175875
This was hardware QA many many moons ago.
Obviously you and Grossman disagree.

For those still reading, the controversial aspects that grandmczeb speaks of (and which Grossman has addressed) is discussed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall#Controversies
There is a documentary on it somewhere that I watched many years ago. The main sticking point was the use of nuclear blasts to carve out water channels. For a brief time after WW2 this seemed like a good idea, but upon further reflection fell out of favor.
Oh yes, I don't think the roads are in the condition in which I'd like them to be, I also wonder why the roads in Michigan seem so bad and maybe it really is just the lack of construction. Just read an article by Crain's Detroit from earlier this year[0] talking about how it may mostly just be underfunding of road repair, as:

> Michigan's current system at the state level relies solely on fuel consumption and the value of vehicles to generate revenue for roads.

I wonder how Minnesota fares in terms of budget for roads.

Also just read this on r/civilengineering[1]:

> Civil Engineer/Construction PM in Michigan. It’s a combination of three things.

> 1. Money, for both construction and routine maintenance. Our government is trying to fix this but it’s all political

> 2. Climate. Roads in southern states will naturally be nicer because less freeze/thaw & de-icing chemicals on the roads

> 3. Weight limits. Because of the auto industry, Michigan has one of the heaviest loads allowed on our freeways. People will say it’s spread across more axles to counter this but I personally have my doubts.

And finally, one more list[2].

[0]: https://www.crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/why-are-michigans...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/civilengineering/comments/vtjnxz/co...

[2]: https://www.moneybeagle.com/michigan-roads-bad-10-things-kno...
What if your website had business hours?
About once every two to three days if I resize a teams window that has ongoing video call, it'll crash so hard that I have undock and redock my laptop to get my monitors to unfreeze.
Is it trained on unlicensed work gathered at random at the web?

(I really don't know, and I didn't find anything about it on their site.)
yea, I think that is mostly because good advice is never black and white. It is always grey. And so, you can have good arguments on either side.
I guess I forgot the human element when thinking about it, that banks will readily pounce on loans with guaranteed repayment and that people will sign up for them.
The Guys Tracking the Absurdly Short Private Flights of the Rich and Famous
Globally, 60% is directionally accurate.
Creative Commons recommends against licensing software with their licenses: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

They recommend a software-specific license instead, as those licenses handle code distribution requirements much more clearly.
Applying IQ to IQ (2020)
NP-hard problems are solved in practice all the time. The average instance of most NP-hard problems in pretty tractable.

However, you are right that if you can get a bit of slack, you can get much more robustness and simplicity.

But that observation about slack giving you robustness against perturbations applies even in scheduling (or flow) problems that we can solve in P.

(To be fair to your position: the situation in continuous problems is not quite as bad as in discrete problems. I think the stiffness of some underlying matrix might give you an idea of how bad it is in the continuous problem (for some formulations where that makes sense).)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffness_matrix
New Lisp-Stat Release
Third major refactoring. Plotting significantly upgraded.
Uh no. How many phones are running F-droid? Please stop spreading useless fear. And my inlaws or parents have yet to install any malware on their androids. I check regularly.
My understanding is that they are introducing a free tier with ads. Shouldn't affect you unless you switch to the free tier.
True, but surviving that first year. Also - vacation and tenure in industry is often disconnected. I have and know others that have negotiated time off as a benefit when at small companies.

I think with Amazon, there is the added element of taking time and team expectations. I have not worked there, just from friend's experience.
Can you give me a small summary about what is being said in that book? And what you learned reading that book?
Thats hasnt happened on android.
Wow. In Australia the legislated minimum is 20. plus 11 or so public holidays.
Good lord! Sometimes I think the only thing that has prevented the techno-singularity happening already is the tendency of humanity to strenuously ignore prior art.

Cheers!
That hasnt happened on android
Canadian here. There is no law against unlimited PTO. There are laws about statutory minimums however.
Yes. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-deaths-firearms is the correct data. The US is worse than most other developed countries, but not that much worse.
JANOG50 Special Session in English
JANOG is the Japan NOG (Network Operators Group). NOGs exist worldwide as informal groups for Internet operators to discuss and collaborate on issues like best practices, operational security, DNS root zone operations, industry-wide changes like IPv6, etc.

JANOG sessions are normally in Japanese, but on July 15 they held a special session in English to give non-Japanese speakers an opportunity to learn about Internet issues in Japan and how JANOG operates.

There's a recording of the session at the bottom of the page.
> If it's more expensive for them to get it right, then maybe not getting involved in the adjudication makes sense.

Cynical hat firmly in place, you could go a step further and just say that if it's more expensive for them to do it fairly then this is actually "right" from their point of view...
Most of what I read is not in English, which is just my second language.

In English, one author I highly recommend reading is James Salter. He had a parsimonious and precise style that, much to my chagrin, went out of fashion when styles of writing either more exuberant or more depressed became the norm.

His "A Sport and a Pastime" is a masterpiece. And his collection of essays "Don't Save Anything" has much to teach those opportunists of limited experience and little reading who sell online writing courses and the like.
Surely these rolling code devices should be started by some kind of seed, otherwise how does one replace a remote ?

I'm not convinced that there is a 'non destructive' method to find that out though.
I think what many people in this thread are trying to stumble over is that the way a computer prunes moves and the way humans prune moves is qualitatively different.

A computer prunes its moves from either an explicit or implicit (implicit when it's say a trained neural net) database of known positions, with some quantitative sense of strength (usually a probability to win or something like that).

A human needs to assign a narrative to particular branching pathways. These are qualitative instead of quantitative assessments.

A human isn't saying, if I make a certain move there is an 85% chance of winning, and so that makes it my best bet. They're assigning arbitrary structures and narratives to positions, hence why many positions, tactics, and strategies in chess and other games are given colourful names.

The two approaches are very different and have different strengths and weaknesses. Which is why the best play outcome is to combine the computer generated moves with the human generated moves.

The human approach is very good at generalising new information very quickly. Assigning unusual or unfamiliar information in a broader qualitative framework about what good play looks like, think about players who are trying to create certain structures, shapes and patterns on the board.

The computer is very good at applying knowledge about individual moves at great depths. But cannot combine it with any external information. All information about the success rates of moves are determined from the database of all past moves. The computer can't condition those probabilities on things like, does my opponent need to win, or only draw. Do they have a tendency to be aggressive or defensive. Probabilities of success only make sense when taking a population view of the computers input data (a literally impossible task if your talking about the kinds of neural nets used in chess).

So a hybrid approach lets good players condition computer generated moves based on external information. Maybe the computer generates a line of play with 80% confidence of winning, but the human can see that because of certain qualitative structures on the board, the opposing player is more likely to see the solution than the computers population, and so can recondition the lines of play on this new information, even if the human has no idea why the line of play should work 80% of the time. Lines of play that would otherwise have very similar success rates (differing by only a few percentage points say) can be re-ordered based on human judgement.

Both the computer and the human can tell obviously bad from obviously good moves. But their approach is very different when nuance is required.
I honestly don't get it. I live in the US and I'm still happy with Netflix.
> For a preview of the future of oil, we just need to look at what happened to coal.

So people turning nuclear power off and burning lots of coal and gas to compensate?
i get an email notification when an author on that list is mentioned in HN comments. and whew, i'd have to strongly disagree with that first statement.

reading fiction makes me feel better and less alone, it helps me feel connected to other people who are like me. it has saved my life. it can open your mind to how other people think. it can teach you different worldviews and helps you become more empathetic. i'm only speaking for myself, but OP you're missing out. you just gotta find the right fiction that you like reading and relate to.

it's hard to say where to start, just start with a classic that seems curious and if you get bored then put it down and read something else. hemingway might be a good place to start — shorter, tight writing, not boring.
FWIW, people confidently disclaiming that this is always and necessarily how unlimited PTO works are wrong (which should be obvious....). I worked at a company that was extremely intense and deadline-driven and unlimited PTO was pretty great. In the almost 4 years I was there, I took an avg of 5 wks/yr, not counting the scattered 3-4 day weekends I took throughout the year. Hell, I think there was even a policy where managers would ping employees who took less than X days/yr (this happened to me during one of the lockdown years).
It's not perfectly analogous, I'll grant you... but at flight speed, even ground-effect flight speed, I think the consequences of hitting a larger than expected wave, or dipping a wing in the water after a gust of wind, are worse than just becoming a boat. (Maybe becoming what a boat would become if you dropped it from 2-3m at 100+mph...)
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As a counterpoint, most cults of modern day have found digital guidance and strength where before they would not have.

Take this site, even. Ok, it's less cult-y as more people learn of it, but in the past there wouldn't have been anything close to the sort of community you can run into here. Maybe I've run into one, two people in real life as "in the know" as what you typically find here...

> The reason you notice it now is because these meme cones are rubbing up against each other in public forums

Yeah, it is true the amplification effect makes crazy stuff like the church of Scientology public knowledge, but there's also just that there's too much noise to keep track of all the special little brands of cult-ish "crazy". It's really hard to gauge the effect here, unless you have a study perhaps you could link? That would be quite on topic here.
https://archive.ph/Qli2D
> On paper yes, but in practice there will be a de facto tax on improvement due to higher demand caused by what an physical improvement of one's own property signals.

...which is already subtracted out along with the rest of the improvements' contribution to land values. You could argue that it ain't a perfectly accurate subtraction - and that'd be a valid and reasonable argument - but that margin of error cuts both ways (i.e. overestimating improvement value instead of underestimating it).

> Lower cost is not necessarily lower value.

Land cost is land rental value times some amount of time (usually based on the expected cap rate).

> There are, for instance, empty parcels of land in Idaho that now go for more than whole apartment buildings in Detroit

Are the two parcels the same size? Are they representative of surrounding parcels and not outliers? Are they the same distance (in transit time/cost) as the nearest town/city center?
Last I checked they only hired in the US
> Archive.org would have served a million copies of that book according to the emergency policy.

Does it matter what they might have done under different circumstances?

Even if they weren't checking the limits, if they got lucky and never exceeded the number of copies they had licenses to share, then how did they infringe anyone's copyright?
Yup, this is my experience too. The maximalist complaints about unlimited PTO being a scam seem to be a mix of:

a) sour grapes

b) people being unwilling to admit that they prefer paternalism instead of being capable of making their own decisions about how to balance work and life

(FWIW for me, making my own decision looks like "4-5 wks per year, not including a handful of ad-hoc 3-day weekends throughout the yr")
Even more proof that salesforce buys up and then ruins companies. Want to know my work performance during these days after Christmas and before New Years? Near zero just like most people. Who is this benefiting?
Tsmc 7nm doesn't use EUV and is fantastic
Pay remote.com $500/mo per employee in a country you don't have a presence in and you're done.
I assume 1 is pulling only from github.com public projects. Many companies A: don't make their code public, B: probably use github enterprise/other hosted solutions (esp including not git based)

2: Also skews towards a certain demographic
I’m in OT and have been begging IT to set up public folders and calendars for each of the factories that aren’t tied to any one person so we can maintain continuity even as folks come and go. I looked at using teams with tasks by planner but outlook/exchange is so much better and i know it won’t disappear or change on me.
base64 simply has nothing to do with security; it's not meaningful to ask whether it's "that insecure". It isn't used for security purposes; it's used to encode bytes that may lie outside a certain range into a known range to allow them to be reliably transported over a medium like an HTTP header.

The security of your system is the same whether this value is base64-encoded or not, in the same way that the security of a login form would be the same if you changed the colour of the text input to red, or if you wrote "Password" in Portuguese instead of English.
Ewww I regret making this comment. Apologies to the community.

Please delete
These need to be Kaggle'd already, fuck

Colab is dogshit if you don't pay
It will happen the day after Kamala Harris (or another democrat) wins the presidential election despite loosing the popular vote.

Most GOP states will then instantly forget their principled support for the electoral college and join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to kill it.

We know this because in 2000 the George W. Bush team thought it was (contrary to what happened) likely to win the popular vote but loose in the electoral college, and had prepared a legal fight against this scenario.
Impressive release. I love the pragmatic approach of targeting Vega-Lite to get powerful plotting out of the gates.
> The bear isn’t going to be interested in it until you open it.

So you open the door, you see a bear, it sees/smells you and starts running, and you close the door just in time to avoid being immediately eaten. Now what?

> Also, bears don’t have can openers.

Bears are the can openers.
Ground pressure is not the only way a road wears.
IIRC the original English-language author who coined the term (C. S. Pearce) did use the verb form "adduce" as analogous to "deduce", so perhaps the original offending term, "abduction", is a poor back-formation.
This thread made me curious, so I looked up engine sizes between trains and boats.

A transport ship[1] can carry 9500 TEU with 53,000hp. That’s 190,000 feet of containers, or 36 miles.

A train can be 1.5 miles with 4000hp per engine. (According to Google “facts”.) That’s 24 trains to move the same containers, with at least 96,000hp between them. (And that’s ignoring a 1.5mi train will have more than a single engine.)

That trains use more horsepower to move the same freight suggests that they’re less efficient.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSCO_Guangzhou
Compare https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215216/high-thr...

> *By far the best score so far is by @ais523 - generating FizzBuzz at a throughput that seems to average somewhere around 54-56GiB/s.

The best 'yes' in the linked article gets about 3GiB/s. To be fair: the optimized fizzbuzz is insane.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_nurse

A nurse with a Bachelor's degree, more or less
I agree, Postgresql has been my gold standard for more than a decade. The documentation is an excellent user manual and reference guide. This is a rare combination. Most databases I've worked with provide deeply technical references that are only good for someone already experienced with the product. With most software vendors you are lucky to get some always out of date tutorial blogs to accompany their api docs.

The Postgresql documentation is good enough to teach someone SQL from scratch.
In Dennett "the minds eye" along with other like essays
https://archive.ph/X9GPp
How long ago was that?

Yes it's still a replacement for Disqus etc, probably will always be (I'm using it a bit myself for blog comments :- ))

Development wise, most focus is on forum software / Q&A use cases.
See if your editor supports a split view; in Vim, for example, you have :split or :vsplit.
This is a repeat of the same claim regarding labor.

And even then there are holes in this position. Efficiency often won't lead to a wealth effect. In many industries (Buffett highlights textiles frequently, but it's also true of agriculture, many consumer electronics, cars) the competitive dynamic is such that increasing efficiency just lets the company stand still. Cars and TVs for example have become significantly better over 40 years(not all due to efficiency, but a good amount) and the prices haven't much changed, due to competition. The companies in question are still earning low returns on capital despite their efforts. I don't feel richer because my $600 TV is 60 inches v 30 inches, and I don't go spend more money because of it.

GDP has holes like this. It's literally just measuring end user transactions.
I would say on average the % is higher among companies that would be operationally capable to run across multiple clouds. We made the conscious decision to buy mostly commodity services from clouds in order to be able to easily use multiple clouds, and ~70% of our cloud budget is VMs. If we were buying higher-level managed services the % would be lower and we'd be less able to utilise something that bid across multiple clouds.
I'm no medical professional or brilliant human and I figured out pretty quickly that the vaccine wasn't a magic cape of immunity from covid. I watch all the same news sources quoted and I was still able to tell the apple from the orange.

I also find it hard to believe that people could jump to the conclusion that the vaccine was some magic cape, especially with such a distrust of vaccines, popular media and general mass hysteria around media coverage of covid.

I'm sorry, but you are pointing the blame at everyone but the people who should really be blamed... the people who actually believed it is a magic cape. They have nobody to fault except themselves.
PCIe 2.0 x8 can handle video cards enough for 2010's Pentium.

I'm hungry about mainstream mobo's PCIe lane, but it seems that the majority isn't. Many mobo only have one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot directory from CPU for a video card, and rest slots come from PCH. Some mobo only have one x16 from CPU and two x1 from PCH despite it's ATX. That is basically overkill and not flexible, but I see few criticism.
You might be interested in reading Tribe by Sebastian Junger. The thesis is that a lot of this is caused by the destruction of community and shared purpose in modern western society, but I think he'd push back strongly on the rigid structure being important or even beneficial.

A primary example in the early parts of the book are anglo settlers who joined native american tribes either voluntarily or by force. They almost universally preferred their new lifestyle and if brought back into white society would frequently try to escape. The reverse pretty much never happened.
Typically, not really. If a software is badly built, it isn't as simple as following a set of well-described instructions. Random stuff breaks all the time due to hidden dependencies to other servicea, and debugging it is definitely not a job to be entrusted to an intern. If it was easy to restart, you could write a cron job for it.
> A hospital is dead without nurses.

So are the patients :p
I work at a large public tech company with a bland product and sure you could lay off 90% of engineering and coast with no feature development for a good while (probably). The problem is when you want to staff back up, getting that 90% back won’t happen overnight and it’ll take years to get that efficiency back up. We paused hiring for just a couple months in my org once, we had something like 5% attrition during that time and it took 3x as long to get the hiring pipeline back up and it’ll take at least a year to get those people to be useful. Always Be Hiring.