skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang

This sounds awful to me. Not sure why it would ever need to come to that: forcing people into a room every day and telling them to connect with each other. It just seems forced and phony.

You already work together full time, and I assume you interact with each other as a normal part of your work? If not, maybe you aren't really on the same team, in which case why not invite accounting and HR into your social time?
Today, it's debatable, but if we're talking about programming languages for the future then the future is what's relevant. I don't think it will be long before 50+ thread CPUs are common. Multithreading won't be a nice-to-have feature, it will be a necessity.
This is rampant on Twitter too
This submission should include 2019 in the title. It was also discussed previously on this site here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21001676.
Why does the scanner need to stop working then? It is independent and requires no use of ink. There is no confusion why this is the way it is to anyone here thinking critically for 2 seconds.
I’m not a fan of this explanation. Entropy generation is only a side effect of life. It’s easy to imagine life arising in a universe without our version of entropy.
Lawyer- "Would you nullifiy this verdict due to personal beliefs?"

Juror with strong opinions "ohh no, never"
Let’s see, I get the first $300 returned as a travel credit so now the net fee is $250, a chase point has about a $0.015 value, and you probably earn 2 points per dollar (but varies based on your spend mix), which equates to about 3% cash back on your spend or $8,333 dollars break even spend to make the $550 worth it (not including all the extra benefits that I’ve ascribed zero value to). If your spend mix skews more to travel and eating out, and you optimize for high value reward spend, you can get the equivalent of 4-10% cash back, so paying a net $250 to earn $400-$1,000 for every $10,000 I spend seems like a good deal
See also "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox" https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
Maybe something to do with the new Gmail redesign that seems to have rolled out today? Or at least I just got it today, despite the fact that it was ostensibly released a month ago.
This person describes an experience similar to the one which inspired my mindset.

One other thing to note is that the order you might learn math, even the 'bundles' of math confined to the standard classes, is somewhat arbitrary. If you take on the freedom, you are responsible for the direction. That being said the linear path from arithmetic to Calculus or Linear Algebra, or Vector Calculus (to combine the two) will give you very strong fundamentals and chops that will apply broadly. It feels like once you get some understanding of Vector Calculus you can branch off wherever you want, though many advanced topics past that don't strictly require it, learning to derive concepts in that subject is excellent preparation.

All that said, there are plenty of interesting topics not involving Calculus or Linear Algebra. I really recommend what As_You_Wish has said as being honest with your own understanding and developing deep rigor, even across just one chapter or one sentence, will be your guide. Once you get deeply acquainted with one area, even if just a tiny area like "I finally understand trig functions," you understand better where you can jump off to next.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=As_You_Wish
I suspect it's due to the chemical properties of caffeine and not the smell of coffee. There are plenty of reports like mine for all kinds of stimulants.
Seems pretty reasonable result as he wasn’t targeting a specific case.

I do think fans of jury nullification overestimate how much juries would be interested in such things.
I'm in Asia right now and it's been bad since last night (~07:00 California time). Gmail too.
That's the cool thing about publishing the Dockerfile and an image, one is an example that may or may not break, and the other is a functional snapshot of a working config at that point in time.
Sandboxing techniques can also be used for dealing with malicious programs, but most of those things listed are for programs to use to protect themselves, not to stop them from intentionally doing bad things.
I am certain that you are thoughtful about the meta-ethics involved, thoughtful about your own unwillingness to go all-in with EA, and that this is an elegantly abbreviated report.
Seeing c, seeing the assembly and memory layout, debugging is pretty easy. More than once I’ve ran into C compiler bugs. I can imagine running into the same issue with C++ being pretty troublesome?
> I also wonder how many HN readers would be allowed on a jury?

I served on a jury. Can’t imagine why any given HN user wouldn’t be allowed…
It's a limited trump card, in that a jury can nullify law but not make it, or even adjust the charge. And their decision holds no legal precident beyond the immediate case.

I think of an informed jury as the tire between the wheel and the road, to fill the gap between the abstract judgement of the legislature and the concrete particulars. Tires do fail, sometimes fatally, but they save a lot of wear on the whole system.
Getting 500 in Bangalore. Refresh like mad and it work half the time.
Citi has done a terrible thing to their offering. Years ago, you could set the total value and its expiration date for a virtual card number. Nowadays you can set only the _daily_ maximum. Which makes them useless.
Try Duckduckgo? Indeed, I don't remember when Google search was down last time either.
Not when competitors are achieving better results with less. The first to full vehicle autonomy will reap the majority of the rewards and market share.

Also, we'll never really know the exact numbers and how much of it went to actual R&D and miles-driven testing.
Sooo GATTACA?
Reports of explosion at Google data center in Iowa
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/google-electrical-incide...

Three people in critical condition after Google data center 'electrical incident' in the Council Bluffs, Iowa datacenter (us-central region, I believe)
It doesn’t have to be the entire jury, one juror can hang everything.
Literally how?

maybe also triggered by this? /s

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-generals/
The NYT is taking a swing at longtermism, the New Yorker is taking a swing at effective altruism, and this begs for a little numerical reasoning on the topic. If we must consider every life (even distant lives), and most lives haven't been lived yet, and most lives not yet lived will enjoy a higher quality of life than we do (rational optimism), doesn't protecting THOSE lives trump everything else?

https://ae.studio/blog/most-lives-havent-been-lived-yet#pg
Would also like to know. I'm playing around with 32 bit x86 stuff again.
pascal's mugging
For a time, the movement recommended that inspirited young people should, rather than work for charities, get jobs in finance and donate their income.

The problem is in the assumption that paid corporate work has zero social value. This is untrue. It has negative social value. If a rich person or a corporation that operates on rich peoples' behalf is paying you to do something, the odds are high that its total social value is negative, especially because we live within a moribund economic system that turns to extreme violence--fascism is capitalism in decay--whenever it hits the skids and people start to question it.
I know many people’s immediate reaction is that 500GB seems small, but remember, they’re not storing the whole internet — just an index of it.

The whole internet would need a much larger RAID, with literally dozens of hard disks.
But i have to say: Personally, i don't run k8s and it's ecosystem and am just entering the whole "declarative world" with NixOS.. but nonetheless, these occasions are very rare, Google/YT Operations is just so impressive and has to be up there, if not a the very top.
How could life, or any complex matter at all exist without entropy?
> an architect who was fairly new out of uni and did not know how to code, or have any real tech skills.

This sounds more like a sales-adjacent role that pitches a company’s tech product lineup to the likes of product managers and other non-technical people at potential clients companies. For these roles, having someone who isn’t too deep into the details of the technology can actually help connect with other non-technical customers. You quickly remove this person from leading meetings and insert someone with tech skills if the other side shows up with actual engineers, though.

No actual engineering team is going to have an “architect” fresh out of college who doesn’t code or otherwise understand the tech. Having someone architect a system without understanding it doesn’t make any sense.
Three people in critical condition from Google data center 'electrical incident'
I can only hope that this doesn’t happen after it has become impossible for young artists to make enough money with almost-pro work to be able to get in enough practice to become pros worth paying for. Finding your particular creative voice is a long process; the Internet opened up a lot of opportunities for people to do that.

I also hope this oversaturation doesn’t happen while I’m still alive, or that it happens as quickly as people became obsessed with Mandelbrot sets. You saw them everywhere and then suddenly they weren’t cool any more, and it always feels faintly embarrassing to see one used when you go back to look at something from that era.

I’m fifty years old and I doubt the people making these AI art tools are gonna send a single penny towards supporting and/or retraining the artists they displace, even the ones whose names constantly show up in the lists of things to type into the text box to get a better image.
What other version of entropy is there?
Completely agree. You don't even have to go much further than reading the title with some more intent; How is having a "Clear and Simple Design" not a way of architecting a project?
> The shift from [conventional human welfare issues to whackjob sci-fi apocalyptimancy] is interesting and complex.

It's... actually kind of not, which is why this is so upsetting. EA seemed to have a handle on a way to get libertarian-leaning, economically privileged, inward-focused men (and, yes, that's the demographic almost to a person) to think about ways to help people they'd never otherwise have given a passing thought to.

Then roll the clock forward a few years and they're all back to sci-fi fandom arguments. This nonsense is exactly what you would have expected from these people. The notable part is that for one shining moment they pretended otherwise.
When I glanced at that cover photo I thought they had interviewed him in a cafe! What a menu!

On a more germain topic, this is a more attractive theory to me, though I don’t buy the criticism of the “just happened on the surface” argument: the fact that we see the result of some random selection doesn’t make it more or less likely — the same would apply to the formation of our planet!
> he was in violation of a New York law barring people from standing within 200 feet of a courthouse "calling for or demanding any specified action or determination by such court or jury"

Simiarly: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-abortion-zones/...
Write a note to your spouse every day
There's stereotype that neither prosecuters nor defense attorneys(ies?) want critical thinkers on the jury. Limits their powers of influence.
Hi guise this is my first push to prod, hope you guys like it
Yes and no.

The hardware obviously supports it, but the android SDK doesn't provide a way for userspace software to implement new devices, so you are stuck with the devices already there. And you really want this to work on any phone that the survivors find, without any pre-apocalypse prep work, so assume rooting is out.

Testing on my two Samsung phones, while you can connect them, and charge one from the other, I couldn't manage to transfer files from one to the other. Even though they have this and use this functionality in a built-in to migrate from one phone to anther during upgrades. Maybe there is a way to get usb networking working?

TBH, I think you are better off just relying on adhoc wifi networks created by the phone sharing. Slower, but it doesn't require a usb-c cable (and these phones might get all sorts of hardware hacks applied to charge them, some of which might interfere with usb-c)

> We need solar powered wifi with suites of bootstrapping APKs.

Once again, that's pre-apocalypse prep work of hardware, which we want to avoid. And can be solved easy enough post-apocalypse. Just find a phone. Hook it up to a solar charger, and make it host an ad-hoc wifi network and run the syncing APK.

My hope is that a few people are paranoid enough to stash the APKs and some useful databases on either flash drives or their phones. (alternatively, make at least some of the databases useful enough that some percentage of the population is incentivized to naturally carry them around on their phones. They might not ever use the phone-to-phone syncing, except in weird situations when multiple people are out of range of the internet). And then once the apocalypse happens, hopefully enough devices capable of charging phones will stick around until the dataset spreads, and people use the infomation for making/maintaining power sources.

Then we are reliant on the massive install base of android phones, scavenging and the long-tail of the bell-curve keeping enough of those phones functional enough, with the data hopping from phone-to-phone until society reaches the level of technology where they can build new storage devices.
> Last updated 30 APRIL 2021.

Perhaps that's why ?
If you need the fasted language why are you using Go?
Here's a vast catalog of Dall-E images and the prompts used to generate them.
https://www.krea.ai/

Oh, and if you generate an image with Dall-E and there's a face that is distorted, you can use this tool to restore the facial features.
https://arc.tencent.com/en/ai-demos/faceRestoration
Bing works pretty well most of the time. I switched my personal primary search engine to bing around the beginning of this year after noticing a marked degradation of Google search quality.

In fact, anecdotally, Bing is markedly better at narrow search results (quoted phrases, excluding or including specific words, etc).

Google on the other hand is significantly better at what I’d call fuzzy searches, where you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for but have some vague idea (some esoteric spelling, or that type of apple that has unique properties but you can’t remember the name of, etc.)
You can work without being tracked and profiled here: https://duckduckgo.com/
That's just not true, though. I say that without taking a position on the merits of jury nullification.

Juries are generally charged with determining matters of fact; the judge matters of law. Even without jury nullification, a jury still determines whether the person performed a proscribed act, or did so with the requisite intent, etc.

When people talk about jury nullification, they generally mean the act of a jury actually believing that the person committed the act, but let them off because they don't think they should be punished for some other reason.
At Cronitor we use google.com as one of our live tests of our uptime monitoring functionality and we saw intermittent downtime from 6:35-7:03
This is specifically a reference to Robert Moses who built the bridges that accessed Long Island beaches low enough that busses from the city wouldn't be able to get to the beach.

It is pretty widely accepted that he did this to keep "certain people" away from the public beaches.
There is no better place in the world than SF / Bay Area to build a tech network. Not only because of the concentration / network effect, but also because of the open-minded and inclusive 'geek' culture.
Ah, I lost sense of smell last week due to Covid. And it only bothered me yesterday while frying onion and garlic and not being able to smell. Though food turned out alright and tasted fine. It's still weird on not being able to smell and knowing how it should have smelled.
I assume the CAN-SPAM Act is a law in whatever country you're in. But as a member of the "email industry" in a different country, no, that's not how we define spam.
That isn't the same thing. Nullification is when the ENTIRE jury votes not guilty, producing an acquittal and double jeopardy protection for the accused.
I sunk ~20 hours and $100 playing with DALL-E since last week and I've had a very different experience. Sure--my first dozen attempts with the engine gave bad results, but once I learned to "speak its language" it got easier to generate highly-polished images. The most realistic results come by appending things like "realistic photograph, 4k, in the style of a fashion magazine" to prompts. I suppose any style would work, as long as the body of source material in that style is (mostly) high-quality.

Here's a couple examples I produced with just a little trial and error. FWIW I have an engineering background and zero design experience.

"Frida Kahlo crossed with Julia Child, 4k realistic, expressive photo, hdr" https://labs.openai.com/s/hvFClrAMCXN6zwqJUJwsmYSB

"John Lennon crossed with Paul McCartney, 4k photograph" https://labs.openai.com/s/lb7qw07tdvRPZ9nmkrCmU0RA

Maybe they're not perfect, but I'm impressed as hell. Exploring what's possible by wording prompts differently feels very much like using a search engine for the first time. Give it a year. This technology is going places.
I think you're looking at revenue. Year end 2021 was $257,637M, divide by 4 = $64.4B per quarter. Net income was $76B or about $19B per quarter.

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings...
DDG is mostly (but not all) Bing (context, yegg is the founder of DDG):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492631
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490994
Pretty much the definition of uncanny valley.
When I was in software engineering school, we had a tongue in cheek word for this: patternitis.

Many undergrads who took the software architecture class ended up catching this strange disease that compelled them to write abstract singleton factory builders and other silly things. The cure is basically to write enough software to figure out where these patterns make things more understandable and where they detect from what's being written.

Maybe the GOF book needs a content warning for that. :-)
Or sneed instead
I'd love to see Kagi's traffic stats right about now
World Wide Words: Aliment (2012)
Yeah, Bergamot is the fork of the original project (notice the browsermt in the second URL).
looks like you need to learn how to negotiate
https://github.com/gregoryc/EmeraldC
It's back up for me
So I was curious about why there was so much padding in the first packet.

According to https://blog.apnic.net/2019/03/04/a-quick-look-at-quic/ it's to test if the PMTU is acceptable to QUIC. (But according to that source, it should be 1,350 B, not 1,200 B.)

…and that if the PMTU is less than that, that the connection gets aborted! (And this could happen mid-connection, if that initial packet succeeds but a later large packet fails.) And that anything using QUIC needs a TCP fallback? That seems … extremely surprising. I was rather hoping QUIC could suffice for a more feature-complete TCP…

Edit: oh, I somehow missed the orange Annotations button; I guess I didn't expect it on padding. The annotation has essentially the same explanation, but doesn't get at the apparent discrepancy. Although…

> To prevent a scenario where a connection is established successfully with smaller packets but then starts timing out once larger packets are sent, the initial packets are padded to a length of 1200 bytes to prove that the end-to-end path will allow packets of that size.

No? It proves that the path that packet took does. It's a good indicator that subsequent packets of similar size are likely to succeed. "to prove" is a bit of a stretch though. (And the APNIC blog is more conservative, for this reason.)
They kind of do store the internet though, don't they? They store a cached version of most pages.
My direct manager definitely gives preference to my well being. I'm in talks with various parties to try work out where the disconnect is. I have identified one definite disconnect that is at least partially responsible for the current situation, which I intend to address in my 1:1 this week. I haven't had a skip level 1:1 yet, but as a team we had an AMA with our skip level and skip-skip level managers and were told by the skip-skip level manager "we don't have people for you".

I feel like this is such a common theme I see inside tech companies that I wonder why engineers tend to accept the status quo and don't push back on it as much as they ought to. I think since getting burned by it the first time I have developed a lot of skills/expertise to detect the conditions under which it happens and since becoming almost hypervigilant about it my calibration differs so drastically from my peers that I think people just think I'm nuts.
Good. We need actual working alternatives and right now Brave seems to be working today as the tech bros here are crying and getting upset about Google going down.

> It's possible to use a non-datamining search engine while being completely bearish on crypto too.

Indeed it is. Brave leads this example. Mozilla on the other hand is in Google’s payroll, paid to shill their privacy violating search engine.
It's been like that for years.
I guess it would have to become a widespread problem, for lawyers to start asking this (and to some extent it hints to the existence of jury nullification).

You are under oath during jury selection, right? So I guess that could hypothetically get you into some trouble. Although I'm sure it is pretty much unheard of for them to go after somebody who lied during jury selection questions...
But in the end, they only get a fixed number of preemptory challenges. (Over their unlimited number of “excused for cause” because even the judge agrees. ) I served on a jury once because the prosecutor rolled the dice on his last preemptory, knowing he would be stuck with whatever clown was next in line. I was that clown.
Wow. Guess someone faked their leetcode test
Instead they simply acquitted the defendants in almost all cases, though few were brought.
cost of the sony controller $1000

cost of the diy project taking into account hours spent $50,000
He meant assault rifle not machine gun right?
yeah am blaffed how good wikipedia is covering current events
Juror then gets a mistrial called and goes to jail for perjury.
I searched

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+google.com+down

And I got answer No.

I have no idea what it would quote to give this snippet answer...
What exactly has gone awry? I mean, he had some serious troubles when his wife came extremely close to death very suddenly from a terrible illness but who could stay fine watching their high school sweetheart and only love ever rapidly wither right as their lives started to take off together.

Or are you talking about the political aspect? If so I really see nothing going 'awry', he's making choices, certainly not begging for money. Someone may not like what he says or who he talks with but that does not constitute a life 'going awry' inasmuch as his supposed teachings would help avoid
A glitch in the matrix as skynet came online and became self aware. Nuclear launch in 10, 9, 8…