skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, there's something about translated jokes. Not just in the sense of language, but also in the sense of culture. If somebody right now tried to translate a modern English joke to Thai, but only knew about the language through reading the works of Shakespeare, a King James bible and the US legal code, it doesn't seem that the result would be very funny to somebody from Thailand.
Cash? Paypal? Bitcoin? There may be no other equally-convenient form of card payment, but Visa doesn't have a stranglehold on financial transactions.
I don't know how serious these things are, but if the San Andreas fault can tens of thousands of people (I doubt it, but I haven't looked into it), then indeed this becomes the priority. Economic policy should indeed focus on trying to prevent this outcome. And if solar flares can cause a megadeath (and again, I don't know), then this becomes a priority too. Your attempt at proof by contradiction might be a list of things to prepare for.

> All models are wrong, some are useful.

A forecast that causes you to act overconfidently is worse than no forecast. All models are wrong, but some are worse than nothing.
What Could Go Wrong with a Kafka JDBC Connector?
define understand
I am quite interested in exploring new ways of doing 3D interpolated animation. Especially when it comes to visualizing and controlling the motion by the animator.

I have not yet seen a system or UI that I am happy with.

Having a flexible enough GUI toolset to allow this sort of development is definitely on my mind.
> far more likely to win out over current battery-based EV technologies

As a BEV owner, I'll tell you right now that until the H2 can be filled at my house, I'm not willingly giving back the portion of my life I used to spend at a fuel station.

At the rate batteries and charging are improving year-over-year, compared with the practically non-existent hydrogen infrastructure (how many states have -any- hydrogen fueling stations? Two?), I can't see hydrogen ever taking over. We have a grid already which delivers electricity far more extensively than any liquid fuel infrastructure ever will.
Discovering Ruby on Rails: is it dead or alive?
Nobody is forced to use alloca, which is not less safe, only equally disastrous. Just use malloc, already.
> If I post anything odd, like a post about anticheat in a videogame, it gets removed and taken down by reddit mods.

There's your problem-- you used the wrong pronoun. Reddit posts identify as "they," not "it."

If you have valuable insight into anything, don't post it on Reddit-- the bullies have taken over the playground (same with StackOverflow, sadly). Your only audience there will consist of children and underachieving adults with moderator privileges who invariably know your domain better than you.
When my father first told me that joke when I was a kid (with "two elephants in a bathtub" rather than one being hippo), I just assumed that the elephant who wanted the soap was named Radio.
assuming some beastly server with terabytes of ram, hundreds of fast cores, and an exotic io subsystem capable of ridiculous amounts of low latency iops, I'd guess the perf issue with that example is not sql server struggling with load but rather lock contention from the users table being heavily updated. unless that beast of a server is sitting pegged with a hardware bottleneck it can probably be debottlenecked by vertically partitioning the users table. ie: split the table into two (or more) to isolate the columns that change frequently from the ones that don't, replace the table with a view that joins it back together w/instead-of triggers conditionally updating the appropriate tables, etc. etc. then when this happens:

SELECT b.*, u.username FROM Bar b JOIN users u ON b.userId = u.id

sql server sees that you're only selecting username from the users view and eliminates the joins for the more contentious tables and breathes easy peasy

> And why is this query doing that? To get a human readable username that isn't needed but at one point years ago made it nicer to debug the application.

imo users should be able to do this and whatever else they want and it's not even unreasonable to want usernames for debugging purposes forever. I'd expect the db team to support the requirements of the apps teams and wouldn't want to have to get data from different sources
Where I live, trucks are governed to 105km/h (approx 65 mph) and frequently companies cap them lower than that, so it's not like they are driving around at 75mph. No company could afford the fuel bill.

I'm not saying aerodynamics isn't important, but only that significant changes need to be made that smooth the transition between road and rail so that single truck/trailer combinations aren't being used for stupid trips across the continent that could easily be accomodated by rail and are only used for local deliveries.

However, making rail responsive enough to tie into the just-in-time manufacturing sector is more difficult than it should be.
GM Firebird II Gas Turbine Car Travelogue (1956)
Even for personal relationships, it's one-sided and egocentric. It's all about the other person getting to know you? What about you getting to know them? A relationship is a two-way street, not a test that the other person needs to pass.
Yeah, though a lot of Fivetran customers are likely the type that would go all in on paying for a conventional data warehouse where people using open source stacks may be the ones that are using open ingestion alternatives.

We see a pretty even mix from the Trino/Starburst lens. Bigger companies like to mix and match.
First time I heard: that's what she said as a punchline for double-entendres...

was around mid-to-late 90s on King of the Hill and I was a teenager. It was an episode where Ben Stiller guest starred as a new employee who worked with Hank Hill at Strickland Propane and the premise was that this new employee (I forget his name) would create a toxic work environment where he'd make crude jokes about everything and everyone and nobody had the balls to stand up to him except for Hank.

Now, given that writer/producer Greg Daniels, worked in both King of the Hill and The Office I figured that maybe he made the joke prominent in the latter show.

But I'm probably wrong.
> I use an RSS browser plugin for Firefox so that a feed icon shows up on any page advertising a feed.

Can you imagine Firefox having such a button without the need for a plugin. That would be crazy, wouldn't it?
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Someone surely got a promo out of this
"But there’s one software product born in 1985, before many of us were even a twinkle in our parents’ eye" ~ I feel personally attacked. /s
How to use an iPad as a secure calling and messaging device
Can't you read?! There's just one!

...and it's kept in the basement of the BIPM, right next to the International Prototype of the Pop-Tart®.
normally I'm just one of a series of interviews and I can't just hand them off to the next person

I think that's a sign right there that you need a phone screening stage before you bring a candidate in and tie up a whole day of your team's time.

It can be an informal 15-30 minute conversation but it should be someone technical performing the screen, not an HR type. Take 5 minutes to explain the role. Then confirm the matching capabilities on their resume and previous jobs and begin to ask some precise questions about how they used them. You can even ask some simple questions. What's a join? What does vacuum do?

You're not asking brain teasers but you're putting a very heavy bullshit filter on their responses. It shouldn't be hard to figure out who is really capable and those that have never written a lick of code. You'll also catch people that can't communicate technical ideas to a stranger, which is typically a red flag for me as well.
Yes, DALL-E is very impressive to see and can have a number of actual practical uses.

But fear of AGI is huge currently. The more impressive non-AGI things we see, the more worried people naturally become that we're reaching the "dawn" of AGI with all the disturbing implications that this might have. (A lot of people are afraid an AGI might escape the control of its creator and destroy humanity. I think that's less likely but I think AGI under control of it's creator could destroy or devastate humanity so I'd agree AGI is a worry).

That DALL-E doesn't understand object-relationships should be obvious to people who know this technology but a lot of people seem to need it spelled-out. And they probably need it spelled why this implies it's not AGI. But that would be several more paragraphs for me.
The author of HTCPCP-TEA on HTTP's history
> as if they are competitors on an episode of Takeshi's Castle.

"It looks as if the two teams are merging, like two black holes: if both suck, surely they'll suck even more together."

"Right you are, Ken!"
No demo. I was wondering what kinds of things I could be doing here that I couldn't do before (with websockets, webrtc, etc) but demo.connect.build just redirects to connect.build. I'd only known of "Protocol Buffers" as something that was internal to Google, but never knew exactly to what end.
I’d like it more if people were welcome to enjoy cigarettes in the same way that they’re welcome to enjoy pornography: not in public places.

Alas, smoking in public places is still permitted, despite the fact that it has negative impact on others in those public places.
My dad, a retired accountant, still refuses to switch from Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel.
It's all of this but mostly the flexibility. Rail is a centralized service with unpredictable schedules. Once a truck is full it can be shipped, but rail poses an additional bottleneck. Plus then you also need a driver on the other end anyway to pick up and deliver the trailer.

Rail should absolutely be used more frequently. It just isn't well integrated with trucking right now.
You are confusing cells with batteries. A battery is a collection of cells. This difference is rarely important and so few people ever make it. In this context is matters as a EV has many small cells in the battery. You can put those cells anywhere they fit. You can't split an engine up like that. Thus while the battery itself needs more volume and weight than an engine (or at least that is the claim, depending on range desired this might or might not be true), you can put them in empty space where an engine cannot fit.
Detection of Compiler- and Linker-Introduced Leakage
An average (~worthless) book is something like a pulp romance novel, political book by a sitting politician, self-help guide, .... These are printed in the millions and used copies can typically be found for $1–$5 + shipping costs. That’s not the same kind of books primarily shown/described here.

Any scholarly person who loves old hardback books and spends a few decades collecting ones they personally want or need is going to end up with some worthless books, a large number that sell for $10–50 each, and a few that are worth hundreds each. It’s just inevitable, unless they go out of their way to only collect junk.

If I had to guess I’d put the price of the old man’s collection in the $10k–$30k range. But it’s plausible it could be more, if he collected anything rare.
AWS is just managed open source as a service
Fox News is no more or less "entertainment" than CNN or MSNBC. The actual straight up news content is almost always factually accurate. It's the opinion and analysis shows that are highly biased on all US based channels. Just turn them all off, they're all trash.
I always wondered about this, but I never dug into MGR enough to find out if they defended against it. Maybe the multiplexers rmgr and mtx were perfectly secure, and restricted the programs they ran to only manipulating their own window (which X11 doesn't succeed at, or even attempt), but it seems like some kinds of compositions of programs might not play well with this.

Also there were plenty of terminals that had escape-sequence vulnerabilities of the flavor "sending escape sequence X to the terminal will cause it to (immediately or later) send character sequence Y back to the host [which the host will interpret as a command]", like cross-site scripting. As I understand it, this kind of send-escape-sequence-X-to-bind-an-event-to-character-sequence-Y is exactly how MGR worked, and I wonder if it also had this vulnerability.

This is usually, but not always, a matter of running one program after another; for example, write(1) (and I think wall(8) if enabled) would allow you to send arbitrary escape sequences to anybody's terminal at any time.

Trusted path issues also seem like they could be a problem, though it's kind of a problem with Unix shells in terminals in general: when you hit ^Z to suspend a process and it drops you back to your shell, how do you know that it really suspended and that what you're typing to is really your shell? This could matter if you use "sudo". (It doesn't matter that much because by virtue of running the program in the first place you are giving all your authority to that program, unlike in capability-based systems.)

You might want to remove your complaints about downvotes and boasts of rationality so people don't downvote you for them.
Cleaning up the code organization and making a release is number one on my list of development tasks.

It will also serve as a starting point for design discussions.
> Don’t tell me about your personal tolerance for risk. Tell me why your risk-taking is beneficial, or at least not potentially harmful, to others.

People are not angels. They do not have an infinite capacity for patience, they do not care much about complete strangers and they do not care about indirectly harmful effects of their actions on strangers that which they can't even verify. This is the real world, not a philosophical platonic utopia
They've come close to this situation in other areas as well. Google has a "Google Pay" app and a "GPay" app. https://9to5google.com/2022/03/11/the-difference-between-gpa...
Delivery is the crux of a lot of comedians. If they have good delivery they can get away with saying a lot of unfunny, even mean repulsive things, and have the audience laugh along with them
Same name as the sign???

Many of the Chinese places around here have different names in Chinese and English. Sometimes slightly different, sometimes seriously different. I don't find it at all surprising, the Chinese names make sense to Chinese people but are hard for Americans to pronounce. It's the same thing as most Chinese people taking an Americanized version of their name (usually just informally) because their proper names get too badly mangled. (My wife is Chinese, more than once we've had the experience of being called from a waiting room and neither of us recognized what they had done to her name. At least with my last name the butchering is pretty consistent so I don't have a problem.)
It also creates an impossible environment for sellers - you have to compete with people with terrible products and heavy marketing budgets.
What are we trying to accomplish with AI? What is "real" intelligence? What are we hoping that an AI does? What test does it need to pass?
Nuclear is expensive first and foremost because of the unreasonable yield demands of capital and the advent of neoliberalism causing states to cave to said demands (source: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hinkley-Po...)
The blurb ar the bottom about the Workspace GM focusing on communication apps in response to the pandemic, explains why the Workspace Addon ecosystem has been quietly abandoned by Google.
I’ve had this debate with people numerous times and I think the “you don’t need strong consistency” crowd has really gotten it backwards. These same people will also agree with you that premature optimization is bad, but then argue that application developers should be forced to grapple with looser isolation models for vague reasons like “latency” and “costs”. Most applications don’t push their databases that hard, and the ones that do usually have their most expensive queries as large “read only” queries where strict serializability of other transactions adds little additional overhead.

It’s already hard enough to write correct software, we should be pushing hard problems like transaction isolation deep into the database so they can be solved correctly once, instead of 1000s of times incorrectly.

Most applications that depend on strong consistency in their database could be rewritten to require less strict guarantees, but why?

Strict serializability should be the default. Engineers working in performance sensitive settings and who really know what they’re doing can always loosen this constraint in the narrow part of the application where it matters.

It’s crazy to me that anyone would ask a developer to justify why they need strict serializability. It should be the opposite, you should be forced to justify why you’re using a looser isolation level for performance reasons just like we force developers to justify why they’re introducing more performant, but less readable code!
For those of you in the Apple ecosystem, Siri was loaded up with a new batch of dad jokes on August first.

Every night before I go to bed, I end the day with, "Hey, Siri, tell me a joke."

Why is Cinderella so bad at soccer?

She keeps running away from the ball.

Loading up Siri with new jokes every month would be my dream Apple job.
im doing alright :)
scientific journals or bust
As far as I know, the human brain is just a "social game reasoning" optimizer, that we try (and fail) to use to do actual logical reasoning. The zillion cognitive biases we have are the clue: we don't do logic, we have biases and sometimes stumble upon logic.
Unrealistic - insufficient cursing.
That makes sense - thank you for helping me understand. If we drilled down low enough would convection in the mantel increase the availability of heat? I assume the issue is that that would be way too deep to dig, even with new tech like this?
can we come up with a 'reasonable' definition of understands that isn't couched in human exceptionalism and could still apply to any computer model?

i think dall-e understands, within the sensory domain it's trained from.
I just learned that tapping a comment's time let's you see the option for adding it to favorites. So thanks for that, and your future bibliography reference :)
The article said, "there were some very old, and often valuable, books in this boxes," which is somewhat difficult to interpret but seems to be saying that many of the books were valuable in the sense of fetching a high price, unlike those sold on the rather offensive page you link.
I know ppl who are into technical writing that speak highly of this book: https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/
Thanks! I took your explanation as intended, from what I see. But I just had to express my surprise :)
You may also enjoy hearing that Thomas Pynchon spent a spell as a technical writer at Boeing. I've only been able to dig up one of his articles [1]. I assure you that it's worth the read.

[1] http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/together.html
PDF Generator API – HTML to PDF Platform [video]
I disagree, and think it would nearly never be hit. Servers use false movement to disguise the serve.
Antisemites International strikes again - after the ridiculous „Apartheit“ report where the Israeli state is heavily criticized but no mention of „military's tactics [that] ‚violate international humanitarian law and endanger civilians‘ by operating weapons out of bases established in residential areas“ in the so-called Palestinian Areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor

You might enjoy the work of Andy Kaufman.
How does one define “understand their relationships”?

To me it is a matter of degrees and has multiple axes.

When my 6yo son draws a chair, it’s not the same as when Van Gogh draws one, which is different to when an expert furniture designer draws one. They all “understand” in different ways.
A machine can also “understand”. It might do it in different degrees and across different axes that the ones humans usually have, that’s all. How we transform that understanding into action is what is important I think.
Good question and one I’m curious to know as well. Parent said about “~halve” their consumption?

This is only partially related but this NASA article says with their aerodynamic technology a truck can save almost 7000 gal of diesel a year.

If we assume (just to get ballpark numbers) a semi gets about 5mpg and drives about 100k miles a year that’s about 20k gal of fuel.

Don’t truckers (at least in the US) often own their truck? I would assume that being more of a constraint than the aerodynamic tech itself

https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/40-years-of-nasa-spinoff/tr...
Best Data Visualisation Packages for Python in 2022
That link appears to go to an empty directory.
That's funny, your mom told me the same thing!
It's interesting to look at the early issues of the official TeX publication Tugboat[1]. The first version of TeX, TeX78, written in the SAIL language was just out and there was a concerted effort to produce a more portable version in Pascal, TeX82 (IIRC already known under that name during production).

The first issues of Tugboat then contained several reports about early TeX being ported to various architectures. That often meant rewriting the whole program, as basically no other system besides Knuth's "native" time-sharing OS had SAIL. So there was a port to a (Z80-based) Unix, someone rewriting parts in Fortran, etc. If they were tied to a specific backend/printer, there wasn't even a need to port Metafont.

TeX was relatively small. That often gets lost in contemporary huge LaTeX distributions.

[1]: https://www.tug.org/tugboat/
...it doesn't consume any resources of the spammer!

It consumes the most valuable resource in the world --- time.
So should they be allowed to buy food? Should hospitals treat them? If a police officer stops them from being attacked, is that police officer helping them too? Is it a crime to invite an illegal immigrant over for dinner? As I said, we have abandoned outlawry. The crime is the illegal crossing of the boarder and/or the failure to leave when obligated. Everything else, one's day-to-day existence, are not separate crimes. Those days ended centuries ago.
IANAL but I believe the board can be held criminally liable in this situation, meaning they could serve jail time. I've, admittedly, only skimmed some articles, but I believe the issue is that PornHub (mindgeek) knowingly hosted child porn and even after Visa was made aware, continued to do business with them. I could be wrong though.
What's crazy to me is that the idea of linearizability is essentially the same as the idea of fixed-points or dimensionality reduction.

I have been collecting some links on this topic

https://github.com/adamnemecek/adjoint
The energy requirements can’t change. That’s the laws of physics part.

All we can do is figure out economically viable ways of producing and using that energy.

Enormous ships use enormous amounts of energy. Our ability to harness sufficient energy is what makes those ships possible.
> I will forget what a project is.

I sometimes completely forget what a project is, but I nearly _always_ forget how to build / run / test / deploy it… Now I make sure that simple copy-pastable one-liners for those four steps are included pretty much right after I’ve written my top-level “what is this for” sentence.
Why would it be sad? Women are attracted to security and success. Men are attracted to good genetics expressed physically.
Yep, the PL discord is perfect for that.