skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ages ago, AND was the default. That was true of many search engines, too. I can't pin down when exactly we shifted to OR as the default, but it's been that way for years, probably over a decade easily.
I'm convinced that fixed wing drones will dominate the drone delivery market. The payload capacity difference for size and cost is just too large. Barring some truly revolutionary step change in power storage density, any battery improvements that benefit the multirotors will benefit fixed wings even more.
Still more than double what it was 2 years ago, and even throughout the last decade (2010-2020) gas prices never broke $4/gallon
Third I think. First is the inflation rate itself (some positive number around 8%), second is how that rate is changing (some positive number meaning we expect the inflation rate itself to increase next interval) third is how that change itself is trending (negative I think? meaning that we'd expect the still overall positive increase to the base inflation rate to be somewhat less than it was in the previous interval).

Take that with a grain of salt, I'd welcome any corrections if some one sees fit.
My http://heliumhq.com is open source and gives you a very simple Python API:

from helium import *
start_chrome('github.com/login')
write('user', into='Username')
write('password', into='Password')
click('Sign in')

To get started:

pip install helium

Also, you need to download the latest ChromeDriver and put it in your PATH.

Have fun :-)
Amidst all the discussion of fpga vs asic vs flowspec, it's probably worth distinguishing two types of attacks: big, dumb volumetric ddos (flow specifications are great and cheap here, if you can match), and more sophisticated layer 5/6/7 attacks where FPGA/packet inspectors are likely necessary (unless you get lucky and the supposedly smart attack has an obvious signature such as a particular packet length combined with other components)
Reminds me a bit of GRIP. Unfortunately there seems to be no screenshots, but the flow/modular interface is similar.

https://wpiroboticsprojects.github.io/GRIP/#/
> outside of the ability of the US government to nuke from orbit, like the Bitcoin blockchain

At least the threshold is shifting. This was once said about DeFi.

Bitcoin is nukable. Banning would go far on its own. Yes, some people would still use it. But if a computer search or errand text resulted in criminal charges, the network effect would reverse. Total annihilation would involve committing to mounting attacks on the chain, buying up or even building massive mining rigs to sow chaos on the chain.
Any planned changes for Clojure? Our entire company is Clojure(Script).
And everyone likes biglaw attorneys and thinks that they’re well adjusted people too
It's a lie if OP knows it isn't true. And OP knows it isn't true because they explicitly describe a lot more than one person being involved on both sides.
*chronic diarrhoea
Have you not heard of the wonders of NFTs?
I mean, I like text templating. Was just pointing out a way to do what the commenter was saying easier.
> Also that apparently Facebook stores the conversations in plain (or easily decryptable) text.

This. Even with E2EE enabled, that only protects your conversations as they travel between you and facebook's servers. It does not mean that the messages are protected from facebook being able to see them. People should have zero expectation of privacy on facebook's platform(s).
Of course it does -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_(TV_series)
Has a road or water line ever paid for itself?
India's Fintech Success: UPI
Do you cheat on your taxes?

I don't, so the net result of better enforcement for me is either a) I pay the same, and the government has more money or b) I pay less--and the treasury has the same amount.

Reasonable people can disagree about whether `a` or `b` is better, but I don't see how "we need this inefficient, broken system to create ad hoc tax breaks for people willing to press their luck" is anywhere close to either of them.
That image by itself could be used as a displacement map, bump map, normal map, diffuse texture map, specular reflection map, etc.

It's Perlin noise; they picked an example to show, but with varying colors and other parameters it mimics naturally occurring noise functions. You could use that one image and it would be helpful to model an entire universe.

Generally it's for achieving natural looks and other effects. Landscapes, nebluae in space, shadows, worn textures on things like wood, variance in grass coverage, etc.

But then that's just looks. You could also use it to drive time-based effects, location-based effects, and other patterns that change the dynamics of a scene. It has a prominent distinction to it, but also a subtlety that is very useful. The same combination is not as readily found in other functions.
It doesn't necessarily have to have a direct future-looking application; just comprehending why things are the way they are today, has value in itself - particularly in the political sphere.
That's, what, people evading regimes? Is there literally anyone else truly affected who isn't a bad actor?
Sure, but we're talking about shopvacs. Wood dust extractors are their own very different thing and usually come with a whole network of ducting around the shop. What's more, good wood and metal shop practice includes a real air purifier like from Grizzly or Jet (for cheap options) to cycle air through layers of filters. My metal shop has one, it cost $250. Wet/dry vacs are for cleaning up and maybe preventing a bit of spread at the source.
If I had a 3D printer, yes. But like most people, I don't have a 3d printer. $200-$1200 + a few days of learning trial and error is starting to get into the price range of just buying a new fridge.
That was my experience in Brookhaven. Google wired up new buildings but didn’t build out to other homes. AT&T did attach fiber to the pole by my house and I managed to convince them to install fiber. Moved to Roswell and my neighborhood is wired up with AT&T fiber except my street. Had to get Xfinity and my upload speed is crap.
Read the article. It isn't a new claim.
Armchairing here, but what exactly about Einstein's theory doesn't correspond with this so called "current cosmological model"? This article doesn't really state what, exactly, needs to be "revised". Because, as someone said farther up in the comments, as far as I know, Einstein's theory has been confirmed against every experiement ever done.
That is dark man
Comcast has 189,000 employees who make US salaries. It costs a lot less to dig a trench in Romania than in Seattle.

You can look at the profit margins. 11.3% for Comcast as of June 2022. That tells me they aren't simply collecting the difference between US and Romanian internet prices in profit.

Of course, far be it from me to defend Comcast, but this is basically just the concept of purchasing power parity (PPP)
Even better because the article link is on a .tv domain :)
> but people are to use to just eat

* but people are too used to just eat

Sorry, I typed this quicker than I should ...
Have you looked into what legal tech startups such as Ironclad offer in this regard? There are a number of contract-related tech products.

We are a legal tech startup building a SaaS that is primarily geared towards litigators at the moment, but we do want to expand our functionality to transactional attorneys in the future, and this sort of thing will very much be in our wheelhouse.
>the arguments for it

We don't understand why our numbers don't add up so we made up a number to explain it is "compelling" to you?

Dark matter has always reeked of "ether" to me. I looked into some of the alt science on this a long time ago. There is a compelling case that our model of gravity is wrong. Fortunately gravity is such a weak force that at small ie solar system scales it doesn't matter. Which is why we can launch satellites around the system. However the failure shows at large scale like galaxies.
I use Anki in a "straightforward" way. In the sense that I write the card using Anki's interface without using excel or markdown files.

For example, if I want to memorize a word I found while reading, I highlight it in blue in Apple's books, it goes to readwise, then I take it from readwise by copying and pasting from Apple's dictionary the translation or definition.

I am for the simplest things possible, the point is to learn/memorize and not to find the best pipeline. You may think that the optimal pipeline leads to optimal learning, but (1) what kind of difference are we talking about compared to the simplest method of building cards?, (2) if setting up the pipeline means having the pipeline as the goal (as in ML the platform and not the predictions become the goal) or abandoning the study because the whole process becomes too cumbersome, is that something we should aspire to?

One of my favorite novelists, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, when asked what software he uses to write his novels, replied: "I only use Word, but it's true that I don't know any other [software]".
A company I work for runs MySQL on an IoT base station product (Beaglebone-like hardware). Tables seems to corrupt every so often, which typically are repairable with a "mysqlcheck --auto-repair" which they have as part of the boot sequence, but not always. These corruptions seem to be due to bad batteries or the field team holding down the power button too long.

Would sqlite be less prone to table corruption?
In my corner of Michigan, there seems to be a very clear dichotomy on this:

- Private developer builds a sprawling subdivision with plenty of nice wide roads and lots. (So a very large area of pavement per tax-paying property.) And turns the whole thing over to the city/village/township, to be their public road budget black hole forever more.

- Private developer builds a very compact little development, with houses (or condo's) packed in like sardines along a rather narrow and minimalist Private Road.
So why isn't hasn't it been accepted long ago?
In my experience with regular Postgres databases shared across many teams, inconsistent/broken references is seen as a much less risky thing to do than, say, cascading a delete. Usually a broken reference is of no consequence. And you don’t use FKs, people tend to bake that into how they code things without much trouble.
MongoDB supports a variety of sorts of ACID transactions in the current day and age

https://www.mongodb.com/basics/acid-transactions
Exactly this issue quickly becomes a motte and bailey tactic for those who hate free speech.
I suspect most houses don't have the capability to switch between different modes of heating: if you have a gas furnace, you're not going to be burning heating oil in it instead.

I believe the plan in case of shortage is to reduce the amount of natural gas flowing to power plants, and to make do with whatever alternatives for electricity are readily available (which is probably coal, although maybe nuclear decommissioning will be staved off).
I do not know what would work for you, but the following worked for me.

Toastmasters - helped me speak clearer, and with constructive, honest feedback.

I write down the points I want to make so I do not wonder aimlessly in my stories.

I repeat my (succinct) point(s) I want to convey before I go down the details, then repeat it again at the end.

When asked, I write the questions down so I do not wonder aimlessly in my stories.

I repeat questions asked before I go down the details, then repeat it again at the end, asking if I answered it.

I ask a lot of questions as it provides me reference points I can verbalize to the listeners.

if I have not had time to prepare for a conversation, it is not unusual for me to close my eyes and speak with eyes closed. This helps me to reduce distraction, and turn inward. I do this only with known people so they are not surprised. They know that I am ruminating to on the words, stringing them together. Works well in phone/conference calls with no video.
Agreed. I had to view in Firefox reader mode.
I apologise for shaking that hornet's nest. It's just that there's a right way of saying that something raises a question; it doesn't involve the use of the word "beg".

If you want to really say that something "begs the question", then you could say what the question is supposed to be. For "begging the question", the question is one or other of the propositions in an argument, and "begging" it means assuming it's truth or falsehood.

I find it pretentious to use terms like "beg the question" incorrectly. Instead of using these erudite-sounding formulations, one could just say what one means. Apart from anything else, I think simple, straight talk is more convincing. Especially if your audience might include people for whom English is a second language.
I've been quite excited for this

I had a fair bit of fun with DALL-E, but it's very expensive and I found the product too much like a toy - a pair of plastic scissors made for children. Many times have I got my prompts blocked for apparent "scunthorpe" style filtering.

Also the creativity is a bit muted, and I'm convinced anything an American would describe as un-christian has been purged from its training data leaving an air of vapidity - I found myself wasting many prompts trying to get it to generate vomit for example.

And of course, the ironically named "OpenAI" being beaten to the punch for actually releasing something that isn't just an API.
The thing is that torrents haven't clearly been linked to losses, whilst crypto has been responsible for crime, huge market distortions and waste.
Dark matter doesn't contradict general relativity, so it's entirely plausible that a) every experiment confirms Einstein, and yet b) we still need dark matter to explain some observations.
DynamoDB doesn't let you store JSON natively. You have to translate that json into dynamodb keys and attributes.
Cant eat a live bison..
Google et al. cargo culted SGI culture -maybe it works for a class of geeks. Anyway they often coddled employees and treated them "like family" as they like to say and tell them they are special and the lucky few. You can bring your pet to work (if no one has allergies to it), you can waltz in late, go get a snack, log in, chat with your friends, play with new gizmos, then go to a meeting, get lunch, then work out, then have another snack and then the last meeting of the day before you cut out early to get in the (Co.)-bus home before traffic gets bad.

Where the hell did they think productivity would go?
Bicameral Mentality
It says right there: "Always look at the source code"

fannkuch-redux, n-body, spectral-norm, reverse-complement: the fastest C wins by a large margin because it's an unreadable mess of vector intrinsics. If you really wanted to, you can do that in Julia too (and it might read better). Julia looks pretty even with C in the ones that were faithfully translated.
It does seem like that, and so there have been many attempts to revise the math to make it fit all known observations. But nobody has been successful, and so dark matter remains, at the very least, by far the best explanation we have. It fits the data.
I don't want to say "similar", because chattel slavery was uniquely bad, but even in areas that wouldn't enforce the Fugitive Slave Act forced prison labor was pretty common at the time. There was also the question of what should happen to people who conspire to violate the Fugitive Slave Act, although my understanding is that in practice it was impossible to get northern juries to convict them.
This article is not very good. It conflates disproving specific models that use dark matter with disproving dark matter itself.
Does that job involve constant creativity, or is it more about applying existing knowledge? I have no idea, but the amount of knowledge that law students need to cram in a few years makes me think it's a lot of the latter.
The best theory (by which I mean darkly thought provoking) is one I saw from HN that Satoshi is actually an extragalactic intelligence wiping out humanity with the least possible effort.
Ask HN: RAID-1 Memory System
I was thinking these days... IBM has a RAID-5-like memory system on their mainframes, mostly for the reliability (copious amounts of L4$ deal with performance). Having memory sticks arranged in a RAID-1 pattern would allow for twice the random-read bandwidth on L3$ misses at twice the random-write cost on L3$ evictions, but since read/write ratios are usually much larger than 1, it could make sense.

Has anyone ever tried to build this?
> So I guess this won't affect me any

Unless something mandatory or highly desirable comes to depend on it. This is what needs to not happen. A bit like banks on smartphones.
> There aren't really any satisfactory alternatives to dark matter (given current models)

Dark Matter is a fudge factor used to account for quite good, but still incomplete physical modeling.
Wow... I ride Metra almost every day, and I also stand in the vestibule. I feel like this a TODO list for what I should be doing. Thank you!
Yeah this might be a good idea. Haven't looked into it yet but I might end up doing something like this. A sibling comment mentions a trailer and I like that idea as well
Not that bad. A lot of utility-type businesses expect to have much longer return on investment times, the electric business is usually wanting to get 50 years of life out of a new baseload generating unit, and it might be 30 or 40 to get your investment back.
Your car is much less likely to be stolen while you're shopping?
It would be the 3rd derivative. Inflation is the first (rate of change of prices). The increase of Inflation is the second (rate of change of inflation).
Therefore the decrease of the increase of inflation is the third
I agree with you, but let me offer an opposing viewpoint.

If HN's moderation and censorship becomes unbearable in some manner, I might indeed set out to find myself a different community to engage with.

But if it's the governmental censorship that makes my online interactions unbearable (say, by requiring that I provide every online platform with my RL identity in the name of keeping children safe), what am I gonna do?
The Contingency of Listening: The MoFi Kerfuffle
it takes only a second of thought to realize the pessimistic intent behind that sentence
Once of my speaking tricks, which your evaluation of Gary touched upon, is "maximize variability." Vary your emotions (excited, worried), your tempo (fast, slow), your pauses (no pauses, long pauses), your eye contact, your gestures, etc. Of course it is not exact but I've found it to be a good heuristic. We are captivated by variability (things which change).
So taxpayer dollars are necessary to make this business viable, and the product of that business is something that, realistically, everyone absolutely needs access to - certainly seems like this should not be a private business at all but a public utility. Have we ever asked this kind of question for interstate highways?
> there literally anyone else truly affected who isn't a bad actor?

Those curious, paranoid or with unique threat models. The same ones who distrust banks and use only cash. (They, like anyone using a mixer, should maintain records in case they fall under suspicion.)
Looks like 4 $10 voltage regulators and 1 $70 ADC. The board seems simple and cheap enough.

Hope they stocked up, because the chip shortage is hitting their chosen parts hard.
Fitting that Nixon would reference the jerk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)
"Dark matter" is a synonym for "some unknown stuff that causes experiment to disagree with theory based on what we currently observe." It's not dark matter per se that contradicts GR, it is the experimental observations that require dark matter to be postulated in the first place that contradict GR.
Nothing in Spring-boot force Hibernate upon you. I stated that I used to use mybatis, a resultset mapper... it's a lot closer to JDBC and if you really need raw JDBC, have a datasource injected where it's needed.
Heh, yeah, I see now where MFs might read as MFers!
How so? Any expression is valid within JSX- ternaries, function calls, binary and unary operators are all valid. If you know JavaScript, you already know all of the control mechanisms that are valid.
It seems like the article has cause-and-effect reversed. Dark matter is a result of noticing some problems with the mathematics according to observations, and trying to introduce extra terms that make the equations balance. Nobody just inserted a lot of extra complexity into the model, then hoped they could twist the experiments to justify it. People have known that this isn't entirely satisfying as a solution.

Otherwise, the article actually seems a surprisingly reasonable complaint about being hard to get funding for trying to develop better alternative models which explain observations better.
I believe firmly that comedy improv or acting classes can help you build all of these skills.

Here's a blog I wrote about this awhile back:

https://jondouglas.dev/improv-your-life/
I see it as a pendulum. In the old times, we used to write web applications in CGI, where there was no fixed structure whatsoever; the application programmer was responsible for creating the entire web stack with their own bare hands. Then the pendulum started swinging towards more structured frameworks and reached a peak with J2EE, where the application programmer only had to write a tiny piece of code (servlet) that went into a massive framework (servlet container), in a language that had a huge standard library (Java), following clear industry standards (e.g. JavaBeans, design patterns). By the time Rails appeared, the pendulum had started swinging back towards less structure and less formalism. Rails was still a framework, with a strong set of conventions, but it was quite simplified compared to J2EE. The pendulum then continued and people switched to Node.js, which was much more barebones and flexible than Rails. Right now, the pendulum seems to be reaching the opposite extreme with Go, where not only there isn't a framework, but there also isn't a virtual machine (everything is compiled to native code), the language itself is almost as simple as C, and there is barely any standard library.
Finding performance problems: profiling or logging?
> What kind of speedup is available for big Rails applications?

When working with both ActiveRecord and Mongoid, I noticed that the vast majority of time spent outside of the database is in runtime type-checking and type conversion. That is, when an object is passed in from the DB, it takes the model a bit of time to get all of the data set up correctly. This doesn't become a huge problem unless you have a lot of embedded data in the record, which tends to happen more frequently in MongoDB.
The actual price they are offering seems to be $55 or $79/month + ~$200 installation fee. Also missing in your calculation, is a $30/month subsidy from FCCs "Affordable Connectivity Program".

I didn't make the calculation myself, but a sub-10 year horizon for a project someone seems to do from the goodness of their heart, doesn't seem so bad.
> don't prematurely optimize

Premature optimization is the root of all evil
What if most of the dark matter surrounding an object is moving in more or less the same direction at the same velocity, being in the same neighborhood?

The Chandrasekhar-friction-based objection to dark matter seems to assume that dark matter must be a kind of soup that is standing still, while only the galaxies (or whatever objects) wade through it.
https://www.segra.com/

These guys have dark fiber right in front of my neighborhood. They service cell sites for Dish Network near me as well. It's interesting to look through their services. For example, you can get fiber service with layer 2, where you're responsible for adding your IP stack over top of it. Or you can buy at layer 3, where Segra is already running a stack, and establish mesh connectivity. So if a fiber is cut, you'll get another working path. Build your network over the top.

Pretty interesting to understand what's available.