skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every car built in the last 20 years can detect when a bulb blows. Doesn't seem like it accomplishes much given how many people just straight up ignore warning lights on their dashes.
> You may find yourself delighted in finding that many of your team can see and solve problems that you may have missed.

This is something a lot of founders seem to overlook.

Also, along with spotting problems - people who are engaged in a transparent org can more easily spot unexploited opportunities and bring them to the table.
Trust me. You aren't alone. And there is nothing to feel bad about it. I have it to some degree (although a bit unidimensional - I just want to finish all my purchased math & engineering books). That brought me to the conversation with others in the first place. Keep the curiosity alive. Its a powerful, motivating force. Just don't get too anxious.

One way I think about it, is that someone will pick up the torch - someone who follows my work, blog, maybe my children. I did that for my father's dreams. If not, you are long dead already & it won't matter. That gives a sense of closure
>[article author] also came across a wonderfully overwritten PhD thesis by the Stanford anthropologist Seth Benedict Graham: A Cultural Analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot (anekdot is the Russian word for a political joke).

https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/9560/1/grahamsethb_etd2003.pd...
The “how to feed an army on the move” guy went into detail on this - the amount of food you need to overwinter per person is tremendous.

It is possible it’s all down to the potato.
What's old is new again. The restrictor device described here is more or less the same as the "miner's inch" that defines water rights in parts of California. At least in Nevada County, some tracts of land include rights to "miner's inches" of water. A miner's inch was customarily the amount of water that'd flow through a inch diameter hole in a wooden board that was used as a sort of valve at the irrigation ditch. It's defined here nowas 11.22 gallons per minute (the amount varies by jurisdiction). It doesn't sound like a lot but sure adds up quick if you're filling a reservoir or storage tank.

Historically the water was used by miners to wash gold out of ore (or later, to hydraulically blast apart hillsides).
> Because it’s used to obfuscate the singular most important factor: wealth. Divide and conquer.

Did you know you can identify as disabled while still feeling solidarity with other groups who are discriminated against? It doesn't feel like divide and conquer to me. Does the recent student loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 jive with your claim that we are dealing with someone who is trying to use divide and conquer to avoid dealing with wealth inequities?

And making sure a valuable resource is now free that used to cost money is directly addressing one aspect of the wealth factor, isn't it? Equal access to a valuable resource for everyone in the world divides people in what way?

Also note that wealth does not eliminate a physical disability. Nor does it erase the real discrimination that still happens. Are we allowed to talk about that discrimination and ask for more equity if it's our life experience? Or is that divide and conquer?
Holy shit, how is this good enough for Walmart?
I'd like that. But I know Amazon commingles inventory with third-party sellers. I'd like to be able to shop just Amazon-sold items, and Amazon-only inventory. Without that, I find the whole experience devalued significantly.
This kind of suggests that if only there had been readily available coal in location X (a statement copied over in a majority of history websites) then the industrial revolution might have started in X. [ there was such availability in many locations other than Britain ] Innovation and imagination were likely prime drivers necessarily allied with the geographic features conducive to its advance.

https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/131/635/1135/5955447
For example, University of Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang defines the 9 main schools of modern economics as

1. Classical

2. Neoclassical

3. Marxist

4. Developmentalist

5. Austrian

6. Schumpeterian

7. Keynesian

8. Institutionalist

9. Behavioralist

With behavioralism obviously being one of the newest. Anyways if you'd like to read more about contemporary impact of Marxian economics:

https://mronline.org/2020/09/15/contemporary-relevance-of-ma...
The first thing you should focus on working on is longevity / life extension research.
I sympathize with your situation but it doesn’t look that simple.

How could Twitter verify that claim? Who should they trust? If someone was indeed hired by another foreign agency, they might as well deny it for that persons own safety.

The same information war could be playing out on WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook or other networks, TV, radio, newspapers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_jokes has lots of examples.
re: Videos, that's the first item on the roadmap on the linked page
I've seen everything shared really well.

Typically cash flow at a high level is shared, the KPIs are shared (revenue per employee, annual run rate, deals being worked on, etc).

As it scales then I've seen things being held closer to the chest... companies tend to learn that the people they've hired between the 500-1,500 headcount range are less family, more likely to leak things publicly... so then cards get held closer to the chest, more consideration is put into what is shared.

What I've never seen shared: cap table, who has what options, salaries. The latter two things are usually solved by whisper networks between staff, the former is the big one... without aspects of it one cannot really know whether their options are worth anything at all and how much they're getting, and for early employees (within the first couple of hundred) that's typically how they get screwed on negotiations or simply through inexperience/greed by founders.
Someone should build a peer-to-peer rating and review server for the research outputs. Sci-hub was great in its time but there's a need for something better now.

Also, will the act cover historical gov funded research?
"And the important thing to understand is that I am merely a user of this thing. I didn’t make it. I just read the instruction manual. In fact, I’m especially coveted in the job market because I read the instruction manual particularly carefully. Because I’m assiduous and patient with instruction manuals in general. But that’s all there is to it."
That precludes use of package managers, which makes life way harder (have fun building all dependencies from source!) It also makes it way harder to link against shared libraries, since you’ll have to update include/shared object paths for every piece of software you build.

There is absolutely zero risk or downside of granting root access to single user machines. Zero, zilch, nada.
Will JavaScript Win? – John Carmack and Lex Fridman
Ideally this is something that could run locally but it looks great thank you!

I wish these kind of projects would show up when searching "Online JSON visualization". Current SEO logic means that website like this have pretty much no chance of making it. Would love to be proven wrong though!
I disagree. Startup employees care about making a good product, too. That's the rule when you join a startup: you won't have the highest salary, and maybe your startup bankrupts in 6 months, but you get to have more impact.

If you don't want the risk and don't want to care, go in an established company.

But that all means that you should be transparent with startup employees, because many decisions depend on that at all level. If you hire employees who believe that they have infinite time and money to get the product to work, then you probably did not hire well, IMO.
I can appreciate that it might be like that for some, but absolutely not for me.

Deeper mathematics is meaningful to me for its beauty and the way it feels like arriving at some fundamental truth, for whatever value that can exist. Similar for deeper physics, it's very appealing to me to try to understand the world on some fundamental level, as much as we're capable. And I find it very satisfying solving a good math problem just on the cusp of my limits.

Then higher up the chain is chemistry, electronics, robotics, software. I love seeing how we can put these things together for practical or just fun purposes, and I love when I put something together and get to see the end result working and doing something fun or useful. Doing the little lab experiments in my physics classes in college, it was really cool seeing the math on paper describe what was going on right in front of me, that I made predictions for. Something more practical to put my skills to use a while ago was the light setup I made with turn signals and some other safety features with an Arduino for my ebike. Admittedly I also enjoy when someone sees what I did and appreciates it but I also do it for myself. Then there's AI which brings up all kinds of philosophical questions.

And on another plane I'm getting into the things that go along with homesteading like plant science and animal husbandry. Home grown food tastes better and it's another thing I just think is cool/fun.

This all comes from some combination of appreciation, awe, fun, practicality, or just finding things cool - not seeking validation or running away from something. But I can still heavily sympathize with wishing I had a hundred lives to live, or got to live a thousand years in some kind of university, so I could fully appreciate all of these things. Right now I'm getting out of a long depressive slump and feeling like I've wasted too much time letting myself go intellectually, and wishing I'd dived even deeper on some of them in the past, but I'm feeling good about the future now.
>There are plenty of mega-wealthy people in California who would pay the premium to maintain their image of wealth, no matter how large.

Good. The money they're paying for water can now fund projects to get more water for everyone else (eg. desalination plants, water diversion, or buying water rights from current farmers).
Cheap Complexity and Cybersecurity
The arrays are not presented correctly. Each element in the array points to the parent, rather than being grouped together. Ditto for Objects (key/value pairs).

Since JSON is just a simple tree structure without cycles, the JSON "visualization" doesn't buy you much that indented text formatting can't already give you.
Most California utility districts do have tiered prices, but the first tier is usually pretty large, the marginal prices are really low, and the national press has a tendency to characterize even this mild scheme as "rationing" so people hate it.

As an example, LADWP charges a maximum marginal rate of 17¢/gallon. You can use as much as 650 gallons per day without hitting this rate. The basic rate is 3¢/gallon.
As a Thunderbird user too,I would love to know the answer as well.
I think you’ve simplified things.

Here’s the president, himself, explaining what’s going on: https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-resurfaced-clip-russia-ba...
DeepFake Detection
Code for paper: https://github.com/chinmaynehate/DFSpot-Deepfake-Recognition

Demo available in the repository
Having a name system improves the UX of a bunch of products. Products want to provide the best UX so they would be willing to pay for it as without it their product will be worse.
I blame the English aristocrats. Why eat cow like a peasant when you could have some beef like a fancy person?
Go, despite using GC, is still a compiled language. From what I've seen (including various test results), Go is usually faster than Java.

There is also the issue of, what is fast enough? A lot of times, people don't really have the speed requirements they say or think they do. To include the code they have written, could be better optimized. It's often better to be more specific about what the requirements are, before making blanket statements about a language not being fast enough. Clearly, many people are fine with how fast Go is.
It looks more like the papers in question are taking a large public dataset and performing some statistical analysis on it, often along the lines of showing a correlation between metrics which represents pollution (like CO2 emissions) and metrics which represent economic growth. The source data is real, and the analysis is probably real too; neither is likely to trip Benford's law. The problem is that there's nothing novel being uncovered by these articles -- it will surprise no one, for example, to hear that China's CO2 emissions have risen in conjunction with their energy usage and economic growth (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-12217-6). Substituting China for Pakistan, or energy usage for foreign remittances, doesn't make for novel research; it's simply plugging in another set of numbers and turning the crank.
Casinos shuffle cards after every 1-5 draws,
online casinos shuffle cards after every draw,
so
COUNTING CARD IS DEAD.
AND WAS VERY LONG TIME AGO

99.99% of youtube channels dealing with counting cards are SCAM.
All changes are approved by chromium devs.
Increased prices result in water being allocated to the most optimal needs.

Marginal water prices mean the price for amount of water needed for a family to bathe and cook and clean costs much less than the amount of water for landscaping around an opulent home.

If people are still too poor, then giving them cash (by taking from richer people) is the solution, not pricing water so low that it gets wasted

Lack of sufficient water and excessive income/wealth gap are two separate problems with separate solutions.
Yes, but how is this relevant to the question whether (HTML + CSS) is a "programming language"?

There is no restriction on the "device" executing a program.¹

Steam devices like in the case of power looms are for example just fine. As the human brain is in case of say abstractly but formally expressed algorithms (think Ada Lovelace).

Also programmable machines that were in fact run by spinning a crank by a human are considered some kind of archaic "computers" (think for example antique mechanical music devices which could "load" a peace form a kind of card or tape).

(HTML + CSS) can be used to formulate executable algorithms to compute anything computable. You can't be more of a programming language than that! Only that the executing device is a little bit awkward as you need in fact "spin a crank" manually.

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¹ For example there was this nice Lego Turing machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSAiF9AHN4

If I would replace the electrical motors by a hand crank would anything fundamentally change?

No, of course not! The machine would be still a universal computer. Only one that needs to be operated "semi-manually"—exactly like a "computer" build in (HTML + CSS).
I have a Chrome extension that disables JS for a specific site. It's for getting around (some) paywalls. If you want to be pedantic, let me save you the trouble: no, it doesn't work for all of them.

So I picture a "Densify" browser extension as well. How exactly that would work is left as an exercise for the reader.
You should ask other founders about this. I wouldn’t leave important decisions up to HN’s crowdsourced truth-seeking.
Richard Turley on the originality myth and the perks of phoning it in
The web3 part didn't crumble. It's the web2 bridge that is crumbling.
Same here. No more DDG.
If you have cash and you're transparent, your employees are likely to ask for it if you have a personal relationship with them.

I would say this is frequently even the case for big picture employees.

I'm saying this also as the lowest compensated person at my company for ~5 years.

To me it's more of an ideal world vs real world. Ideally you can share everything, in reality the outcome is likely to have a negative impact on both employee satisfaction and profit. Ie most likely giving employees a raise and them still thinking they aren't getting enough due to them seeing the big $ in the bank.

My preferred approach is budget level (we can spend x on y, I am open to your ideas) and number light executive summary (we have x months runway, not we have y in the bank). You can also give someone a smaller piece of transparency and see how they react if you think the employee could be someone with the skill set to manage a budget in the future.
I’ve had excellent experience with support from Cloudflare, Stripe, and I don’t recall ever having issues with SendGrid over the 3+ years I used them.
Trump was inciting civil unrest often, but I believe they set a terrible precedent by banning his account for the “I’m not attending the inauguration” tweet, based on a ton of very subtle inferences.

One cannot reasonably expect them to act as a fact checker & censor for the entire world, nor would that be desirable from a private corporation. What we need is better, regulated moderation systems, and a justice system that can keep up with the pace of social media.
I argue all just about all intonation is some sort of approximation, unless you're playing an electronic instrument that doesn't allow pitch adjustments! And it does surprise me how little my ears seem to notice despite having zero tolerance for people singing even slightly off-key.
Love it.

I just wanna say if anyone is looking for a designer whose tastes diverge from the other in this thread and who is dying for a chance to design an attractive, effective, and dense app (Ableton Live, anyone?), please let me know.
If you want to master many things, you must first master one. Pick a personal or professional interest and start learning. Do it now and don't waste time choosing, for the choice will ultimately not matter.
> Yeah it's cheesy but if you want to appear professional it just doesn't kut it, at least not to me

You misread your parent commenter. They meant "cheesy" as a negative thing.

> I wish there was some committee or some board of members trying to actually design the whole user experience

There is: the Visual Design Group [1].

> But this is many times the problem with open source desktop environments

Oh, and Gnome too: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design
So that's two of the two major open source DE that actually have teams "trying to actually design the whole user experience".

Feel free to join them.

About Gimp, this is a word that does not mean anything in most parts of the world.
But actually, I think most people don't care that much. Names is not the among the problems people mention when they struggle with the open source world.
The most important aspect of a system programming language, besides performance, is the readability of the code.

It will always be more difficult to read (and understand) a program than to write it, so, unless this is some throw away code, ease of reading should be the priority.

Unfortunately, the speed/ease of writing is often used instead.

Ease of reading means linear, boring, plain English with minimal use of arcane symbols or regex-like expressions.

In this regard, meta-programming is very often counter-productive, as it can introduce new idioms and constructs in the language that have to be understood before reading the program itself.

Overuse of C macros or C++ templates comes to mind, but I think that lack of readability was also a huge problem for LISP and Forth.
This goes against all available evidence. The rich are the only group who are still on balance migrating into California.
I just want to make a note and an aside to the whole conversation happening around water right now.

Aside from the 9000lb gorilla of ag/industrial versus urban/ suburban water use, I think that its clear that tiered rate based structures are a clear failure. We knew this half a decade ago, but its become impeccably clear with articles like these.

Its very very easy to see blame the millionaire/ elite class in this situation, but its important to acknowledge that the fact that these homes use 20-40% of a water districts total use has been well known for years. Likewise, water districts are not incentivised to decrease this class of water users overall use because that 20-40% of water use might represent 60%+ of a water districts total income. This is due to tiered rates. The reality is that famous person XYZ never ever sees the water bill and they just don't care. This is something one of their assistants or manager deals with, and relative to their income, even if their water bill is 50k a month, it just doesn't matter.

So to be clear, districts, through tiered rates, have been incentivised to not act on who they already know are their most wasteful customers. Those most wasteful customers do not care how they spend on water a month.
So many monitors run on similar controllers internally - it would be absolutely wonderful if one or more of those had open source firmware so these bugs could be fixed
When it comes to buying commodity type electronics, cable matters and anker are just about the only two brands I'll trust/buy unless it's something extremely generic like RCA cables or a 3.5mm headphone adapter
> why wouldn’t one of seven employees at the company want to know about how the business is doing?

If the early-stage employees have significant equity in the company, then they'll be very interested in how the company is doing. If their upside is paycheck, bonus and equity proportional to their salary (as you'd find in an established company), then one employer is as good as another.

I think the question of how much information to share is heavily dependent on how loyal the employees are to the company, and loyalty is almost entirely a matter of how much equity they hold (and more specifically how much equity they hold relative to the founders.)
> If shopping on Amazon, the trick is to view only products sold by Amazon, not 3rd party sellers.

My understanding is that "ships from and sold by Amazon.com" is not safe, since those items are often commingled into the general FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) stock.
so even if everything in that paper is VALID mathematically,
in reality it will not work because blackjack in casinos is DIFFERENT game then one that is played in this paper.
My first open-source contribution was a two-line patch for a bug I found in Eclipse while at work.

Eclipse is known as a Java IDE, but it also provides a widget toolkit and other libraries for developing desktop GUI apps. At the time I was working on a team that had a huge desktop app built on top of Eclipse.

The bug I found was pretty trivial; it was something related to incorrect sizing of one of the widgets in some corner case.

The process was a bit of a pain relative to the size of the change. I had to write a test case, sign a CLA (per Eclipse project rules), and of course one of my four different bosses had to review the change and sign off on it.

At the time I was a junior engineer still eager to prove myself, and I figured all of this effort would be worthwhile just so I could say I got a patch into a major open source project. Nowadays I wouldn't bother with so much process, and certainly wouldn't sign a CLA. Would rather work on my own projects. At most I might send a patch out to a mailing list.
I'm not sure! Maybe someone can encourage the authors to submit to Fuzzbench.

My intuition for the results so far is that (a) converting generator functions to bitstrings is very computationally expensive (since the comparison is coverage found per unit of time), and (b) perhaps most memory safety vulnerabilities may be occuring in technically invalid or grammatically inconsistent inputs that the grammar will never find.
Just don't use your phone in such a way that having it stolen would mean your whole digital life is gone. Use it as a radio to call people or emergency services, and use things like the alarm clock or calendar and nothing else.
He started Block because he started Twitter
I'm also in the full transparency boat with two exceptions:

1) if the partnership requires NDA or another type of secret/security then keep that limited.

2) many deals fall through, so I choose to delay worthless detail on those till the deals are more mature.