skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly suggest that you read the post to see why this project is different and specifically intended to place nicely with common web infra.
There's also SheerID which is what Spotify uses to validate student IDs and is IME better than Unidays.
I know, but the topic in the reaction above was that the real motive behind this was purportedly the banning of all porn by conservative groups and the OP thought this to be a good thing. This is what I responded to.

Of course Child Abuse should be banned but it already is and there are already copious laws against it, which could be brought to bear against pornhub if they really facilitate it. However payment providers are starting to regulate even normal consensual adult porn now, which I definitely object to.
It predates Plan 9.
Show HN: Hong Kong University Launches World’s First Metaverse Campus
Great comment.

This reminds me of the survival reality TV show 'Alone', which is an interesting, if not contrived, experiment into how "being alone" can affect you psychologically, or not, depending on the person.

https://www.history.com/shows/alone
Lets not forget news groups. Google had everything to match sociaal networks many years in advance.

Youtube also had video replies and threaded discussions before they made it impossible to find your conversation and impossible to figure out who is responding to who.

plus was a hideous pile of trash. A 12 year old could easily design a superior experience. The turd was optimized to gather personal data and didn't have anything else.

Wave and Knol looked interesting but who wants their precious workflow and writings to depend on a company that will inevitably kill it?

What a joke
I'm having a hard time taking research like this seriously after the Alzheimer's research fraud.
Caveats:

The Indian center is very different from the American center. Economically, the Indian center is closer to Bernie-Sanders than it is to Biden. The Indian left (academic and on the ground) is actually communist and the Indian right still tends to be fairly center-left (as far as the US goes) The social left-right dimension is its own thing, and does not map neatly onto similar intuitions in the west.

The last caveat is that Indian secularism is very different from western secularism.

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That being said, This is a good list.

> The Print

I am personally biased towards favoring 'The Print' more so than the other organizations. Shekhar Gupta leads an ideologically clear (socially liberal, economically liberal) media house, always quotes their sources and does well to separate reporting from opinion. I would not call it right leaning by any means.

> Caravan

I have mixed opinions on Caravan. At their best, they are great. But, they can vary between excellent left-leaning journalism to outright left-wing fear mongering. I'm sure you'll see some strong opinions thrown around about them, and both the positive and negative tend to be well deserved.

> Wire and OutlookIndia

I have a low opinion of both. I wouldn't go as far as to call them a rag, but I wouldn't defend them against those accusations either.

> Swarajya - but a strong source to understand BJP and Hinduvta politics from their perspective

Agreed. Won't go there for news, but serves a purpose.
Can we make them public utilities too so that they can't discriminate?
Kind of like one clue for the whole puzzle, instead of individual ones. That sounds much more fun than simply nothing.
This falls in line with how I've always thought it might be better to learn a foreign language from an instructor who mastered it as a second language rather than a native speaker. Assuming two instructors of otherwise equal theoretical ability and experience, the former might have a more empathetic understanding of the learning process a second language student would go through whereas the latter might unintentionally, innocently gloss over things that, to them, seem intuitive but the student may encounter as huge stumbling blocks. The ordering of direct and and indirect object English versus Spanish pronouns spring to mind.
The state is saying Visa is committing the crime. The states media cheerleaders are squawking it to all that will listen.

If Visa loses, payment processors have little choice but to remove processing from sites that allow user generated content, including Reddit. They are legally responsible for all under-18 content, and as "Big Evil Corporations" they have no support from anyone in the community that matters.

The EU and UK is even worse in this regard, so no anonymous commercial social networks will ever be created again.
I had a somewhat similar feeling watching How I Met Your Mother -- there are many places where it's obvious that the show expects you to laugh, but in most of those places, there is no joke. Instead, there's a continuity reference.
or... https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app
The term for describing is memory hard functions. RandomX[0] is one such example where GPU parallelism does not net them a large advantage over CPUs.

[0]: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
The Quanta overview basically answered this - they consider the ration of the black hole's angular momentum to its mass. A "slow" black hole is one where this ratio is much less than one. How much less than one it has to be, the paper's authors apparently don't derive.
> From experience, most Excel solutions are due to people refusing to use whatever solution their ERP system is offering.

From experience, most Excel solutions are because people get rebuffed (or have learned by experience that they will expend lots of effort and the be rebuffed or given something not fit for purpose) by the bureaucratic processes necessary to get anything provided to them by their enterprise systems (ERP or otherwise) by the high priesthood that centrally administers those systems.
They mean signal-to-noise ratio.

Let's say you want to estimate some quantity, so you put a Gaussian prior over it. You then have a bunch of different sensors subject to white (Gaussian) noise, and some link-function connecting the latent value to the mean of the sensor reading with fixed precision. Gaussian with Gaussian is a conjugate prior-likelihood pair, so you can calculate the posterior parameters in closed form.

Your posterior mean is going to be a precision-weighted average of your sample mean and your prior mean, while your posterior precision (signal-to-noise) is going to be proportional to the number of sensors you used.
Came here to say the same. Oh look, I happen to be using all these new features.
I have bought SICP and Mythical Man-Month. These are not the only ones I have bought, but to tell the truth others were not worth of it.
Psychologist Robert Sternberg defined intelligence as "mental activity directed toward purposive adaptation to, selection, and shaping of real-world environments relevant to one's life."
To make things a bit more clear (hope that's what you meant!):

One concrete angle is that interpreters and compilers are usually intertwined: interpreters commonly have an abstract machine which is some language a bit simpler to execute than the full language, thus they have a compilation step at first. And compilers do stuff like constant propagation, inlining and other flavours of partial evaluation. Thus they contain some sorts of interpreters.

Another more abstract angle is to consider interpreters as compilers into a "trivial" language consisting only of values and side effects or the flip side: considering compilers as interpreters with a non-standard semantic.
How is Google's share of the chat market doing these days?
The only really nice thing I can say about protobuffers is that they've caused less trouble than gRPC has caused.
Let me put it that way.

Given any theoretical C implementation and a strictly confirming program (that doesn't do io) I can theoretically trivially solve the halting problem.

Since the possible memory is constant for any given implementation, I can use the following algorithm:

1. Execute one instruction of the program

2. If the program terminated, goto 4.

3. insert entire program state into a hash table

if it is already in the hash table, goto 5.

otherwise, goto 1.

4. The Program terminates

5. The program never terminates

The above algorithm solves the halting problem of any C program with a constant memory bound in finite time.
Now explain how that's different than anything you look at.

- Your visual system only has access to the 2D geometrical properties projected on your retina. The properties are correlated across images, inexplicably. (I certainly cannot explain how chairs are, in a fashion that includes all chairs I've encountered and excludes anything I've encountered that is not a chair)

- Any other interaction is also a correlation.

- Humans don't have access to the laws of physics, just reasonable approximations in certain contexts.
> How does a replica know it isn’t missing a transaction from some other shard if that shard is offline come its turn to declare transactions in the log? It must at least receive a message saying no transactions involving it were declared by that shard, no?

A transaction is committed to the log with sufficient information necessary for the log (and each storage host) to know whether any particular host is involved in that transaction. There's no need for a message to prove a host's absence from that transaction - it has all it needs in the log to determine that it isn't involved. There is some complexity around how that information maps to the cluster's physical topology, but hosts which aren't involved in a transaction don't process that transaction and need not check with any other host to know that fact.

[ETA] That information is derived from the read set when constructing the transaction to propose to the log. Logical partitions that weren't a part of that read set don't need to know that they weren't involved - that fact is obvious from their absence.

> I think scalability is something that is a function of both theoretical expectations and practical demonstration.

I agree with you, though as a commercial product operated as a service, that practical demonstration is naturally limited in this forum.
People like that get hired through recommendations. I interacted with some companies where nobody would know shit about anything tech related but the senior managers were fairly well connected in the business world, so getting someone impartial who could advise on how to proceed wasn't too bad.
> > [...] Evaluating a global metric like this can be potentially slow, which is why interactive programs like LibreOffice do not use this method.

I suspect that another reason for a WYSIWYG office suite to not use such global optimisation, is to avoid unpredictable changes to layout in response to seemingly unrelated changes by the user. If you get full reflows with figures moving around and headings flipping between the previous and the next page while you're typing a sentence, users will probably quickly punch a hole in their monitor.

In (La)TeX this is less of an issue because of the delayed compilation, I guess. Also *TeX users are probably more tolerant to that kind of mess.
Hi there GPT-3 bot.

Edit. Don't really want to be unnecessarily flippant here. Perhaps this is a real person attempting to communicate. Sadly, I was unable to follow through, the text jumps wildly between seemingly unrelated subjects.
He took pretty close to the Tim Ferris route of give a speech on soapbox in harvard square, then put "gave a speech at Harvard" on your resume.

His MIT class was of the type that is more like an ungraded bookclub than a normal MIT course.

What he did with the Tesla safety paper was far more ingratiating and conniving though.
The general idea of a Bayesian brain is fairly well-accepted. Not everyone agrees that oh, this must be the way the brain works, but there are definitely experiments demonstrating set-ups in which you can get a good approximation of a Bayesian posterior distribution out of subjects.

The question is how the brain might do Bayesian inference in a very broad class of generative models (not just affine-Gaussian!), and what else it might be doing inference in service to.
Unfortunately, the site crashed for me after uploading a background photo, and my test site is now permanently inaccessible.
That would be... Nobel Prize worthy at scale.
Electrified rails don't prevent diesel locomotives rolling down them, so if it was cost effective right now to electrify the most active lines, they'd do it.

So far, it is not.
Lawns serve an unacknowledged purpose in many places, they keep the land clear. Without cutting the land will revert to scrub.

Even if you wanted to grow vegetables you’d still need to cut the grass and keep saplings from growing wherever they happen to sprout.
Gitlab has a good starter readme example
A12 onward has PAC.

P0 review of PAC on the A12, https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/examining-poi...
Looking behind the curtain (i.e. .tex files) is a horrible experience.

You expect to see

$a^2+b^2=c^2$

but you actually see manually spacing, sub/super-index before and after the object, weird hats, ...

$a+{}^2\!\hat{x}\ \leq& \ 7\ y_2\!\!^5+\epsilon$
That seems rather out of touch? The vast majority of TV broadcast anime series every season are licensed for simulcast by streaming services in North America and that has been the case for several years now. At a casual glance at the TV tab of https://myanimelist.net/anime/season/2022/spring , I think at least 2/3 are licensed by western streaming services. There's enough revenue that they can't afford not to care.
I have been known to tell jokes that have punchlines that are twisted in such a way that if you don't catch on, you will think I am either an idiot, or a horrible person.

Two guys have fast cars and decide one day to have a contest to see whose car is faster. I can't tell you the rest of the joke though. It's racist.

See, if you get it, you laugh. If you don't get it, I'm suddenly a very bad person. I told this joke in public, to a stranger, once. They thanked me for not telling them the punchline (not realizing of course that that WAS the punchline). I don't tell this joke anymore. Well, except here. But there's context.
If you start at 100M do you really need to turn it into 1B?. Better to start at 1-10m and then lean how to use that. Then daddy can bail you out for another 10 if things go wrong
Russians are incredible good in spreading all kinds of fake information.
Not from statements and surveys, but from paying customers :)

We think our market area is wildly similar to the early days of gaming engines, echoing what pbardea commented earlier. We are providing the game-engine or the "tool-engine" if you will.

The reason backend developers are often tasked with building frontends on internal tools is because the frontend developers are often allocated fully to the core revenue-generating customer facing product.

As of today, we don't solve every use case pure code can. But over time we think there is a path to becoming the default and standard for this category of software, especially if we can nail the programmability aspect to win over developers.
I think that's valid, however, I think the modular approach would allow for a lot more cross domain flexibility because I suspect that a large subset of disparate tasks do actually decompose themselves into discrete subtasks that can be useful across domains.

Adding to that, if you can compose multiple sub networks together then you've really got something. You can build a lot of different buildings from bricks without needing to invent new kinds of brick basically.

For instance, think about the large number of domains that robust computer vision would be useful in. Then think about the fact that if the computer understands the 3D space around it, it can hand that model off to a network that does predictive physics simulation. Now you've got something that would be useful across a extremely wide range of domains.
Hardly a new ideea indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_...

Edit: To be clear, I posit that consciousness is the organ that enables us to distinguish between Good and Evil.
Do you honestly think there will be an explanation other than "they offered me a bunch of money to do $X"? Smart people aren't required to be self-righteous saints sacrificing themselves for the good of everyone else.
How BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) Works
Winamp, the best MP3 player of the 1990s, just got a major update
I really wonder what Excel developpers think of connecting spreadsheets and master data management services so you can link data between a spreadsheet and the master data.
[wasn’t it the goal of OData?]
“We just attach a beacon to everyone who visits our site so that when they walk in front of billboards our ad is shown but we’re not like trackkking users.
"Yes". And that's why question headlines may not technically be click bait, but still qualify as something the world can do about.
True, they have to do kilometers per hour over there.
That seems to be the recent interpretation (or at least I only recently read about it, it seems to be a thing right now), but I remain unconvinced.

It's just entirely plausible to me that the pun was just a "happy accident", and the originator of the joke really did mean to give a groan-inducing borderline-tautological answer that does not offer any insight besides the obvious. You were expecting a punchline, but your expectation was subverted!

And at least that's also funnier than that lame pun. I'd be pretty disappointed to be honest, but we'll probably never really find out.
Yup, one of their routers lives in my travel kit along with cables and such. Tiny thing, runs off usb power which means it can be powered off a battery if needed.
As part of that priesthood, Excel is neither SOX nor otherwise compliant. If users get rebuffed, that is the overall system working as intended.
Probably the best interview on this channel. Highly recommend despite length.
It's not really up to commentators to post links, if something irks you this much, google is there for you to verify.

HN is not a court of law and you are gonna have a tough time making friends if you ask for citation for every statement you hear.
I'd imagine to make them seem indistinguishable from magic?
I wouldn't expect a lot of cursing in that scenario. I'd expect a lot of cursing from a farmer experiencing some sort of understandable problem that happens to him all the time, but not from one experiencing a mysterious, unexplained emergency.
Immersed Is Now Free
I think the audience is this person's library patrons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32304320
My last interaction with it they started showing dialogs telling me I was using the wrong chat tool now.

So I clicked through, and the core functionality of "chat via IM and then spill out to video chat" was nowhere to be found*

*I'm sure it was there somewehere, but I was trying to join a damn meeting not learn a new UI
When a lay person, including me, sees those studies, even though they are convincing to me, psychologically, there is an after taste of "its complicated" which I believe explains why some people fall in the deny pool.

Ive realized by experiencing this summer in France, which feels like the hottest conditions Ive ever lived in (and Ive lived in Thailand and Morocco) that things are actually dead simple. We've landed on the moon, we've invented vaccines and smartphones; now picture how dead simple this is for us to predict the consequences of injecting CO2 in a test tube.
"OG Social Network: Other People's Websites"... nope, not terribly OG really.

For those on the early internet there were things like mailing lists, Usenet, and others which allowed communities to form online.

For those not on the early internet there were still network supporting social interaction and had well developed communities. BBSs, FidoNet, and even consumer oriented online service providers such as CompuServe existed before the internet was widely available to average consumers and pre-dating the existence of websites by some years; such services were absolutely social with email, forums, and real-time group chat rooms. I developed many far flung friendships through many of these social networking services... and all well before 1990.
A lot of comments here like "we tried this", "people didn't want this" and "that's not where things are going".

As far as I see it, the timing is perfectly ripe right now for change. People are on the lookout for nutritional, good-for-you alternatives to the sugar diet of social media we're being served. It's not everyone, but no longer just tech enabled folks either. Just because we've been going in a bad direction, doesn't mean that's how it will always go.

Maybe I'm being optimistic, but isn't that what's generally needed for positive change?
I saw this few months back. I didn't had money to invest. Now I have a bit, but the exchange rate for the EUR/USD pair passed from 1.2 to about 1. Kinda painful to have to invest 1000€ instead of 800€, especially if the rate go back to "normal" again it will wipe out the gains.
Yes, but you still need, say, one computer to run what Bitcoin does (without the PoW hashing - just checking and recording 5 transactions per second). BTC uses around 15 GW currently, a computer say 15 to 150 W, so we are talking a factor of 1e9 (Giga) to 1e10.
He resigned due to having sex with his wife? In some marriages it may be an unusual occurrence, but I’m not sure why you’d have to resign because of it.
How does she know whether the ads are working for her business?

Also retargeting is not possible with Apple's changes.
> Linearizability is just not as important as some people make it out to be.

That's my entire point. Start with strong models and weaken when you decide you need it. Thus rule out entire classes of bugs for 99% of your code and closely scrutinize the 1% with weakened guarantees to know that it works. That is kind of the entire premise behind Rust. Make it extremely visible where the dragons may exist, because you have the key to unlock that door.

Regarding memory safety, 70% of CVEs at Microsoft and in Chrome are memory safety bugs. I would say the choice of languages without memory safety is more based on legacy than some kind of insightful choice.

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...

https://security.googleblog.com/2022/03/whats-up-with-in-wil...
Spain bans offices, bars and shops from setting AC below 80 degrees (27C)
In the other direction, the "all fields at default value serializes as size 0 message that you can't send" behavior has been an unending annoyance since switching to proto3.
>... other options like "elected to use"...

Supposedly more common as a choice amongst higher income women. Hence the phrase "Too posh to push"
My theory for the ”why people enjoy this” is: for part A of the population, the situation activates the empathy centers of the brain, and you share the pain. For part B, the bullying centers activate, and you find amusement in the torment of the poor fool.

We all have both centers, only luck will tell which one is wired up to ”cringe” stimuli.
The reason this kind of cringe-worthy humour becomes popular is that almost everyone identifies with one or more of characters. When they're young and/or insecure, it seems almost unbearable to watch, but they're not sure why. As they grow older, it becomes relatable as they become less self-conscious and more self-aware.
Do you have any evidence to back that up -- or a counter-argument to the undeniable fact the podcast is a success?
Making use of nitrogen fixing plants alleviates the need of fertilization. An easy one: clover. Bees also love clover. However you can explore other systems of cover cropping (I recall Diakon radishes draw up nitrogen from down low, up to the surface) which you terminate before seeding your main crop.