skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it'll be way, way faster. There's a fair amount of overhead in filesystem calls.

(simplification) With any time you are mapping some file to some data structure (dbm, sqlite, mmap), the file descriptor generally stays open while you are working with it, meaning reads/writes/seeks are just about as fast as IO can go.
I do not write much on Twitter, even less about career. But I think I found you on LinkedIn and added you there. Feel free to ask me about anything you are curious
I came from https://hckrnews.com/ and don't understand the fuss.
If you signed up online and are located in California, then they must let you cancel online[1]. Reminding them of this fact (with a link to just about any article about the law) is useful.

[1] https://www.consumerprotectionreview.com/2021/11/california-...
I feel that HN needs some kind of "right to reply" feature on these stories now - something like a pinned comment right at the top of the discussion for an official response from the business in question.

It is obviously of interest to many in the community if services they might use or consider using themselves are having problems or letting their customers down. I personally have no problem with leveraging the publicity that social media affords to get a problem resolved if those services haven't got their act together within a reasonable amount of time.

However there is a serious risk of unfair or just plain incorrect reporting when one side gets to set the agenda and the other side either can't respond for legal/regulatory reasons or has their response buried among the other comments. People can be far too quick to reach for the pitchforks in these discussions before knowing all the facts and on sites with voting mechanics there is a danger of mob mentality distorting the subsequent discussion as well.

In this case it looks like Stripe probably did handle some aspects of this situation poorly (bad and people deserve to know it can happen) but are probably also taking steps to avoid screwing up the same way in future (good and people deserve to know that too). Then everyone can form their own opinions and discuss the issues but at least starting from a relatively balanced and well-informed position.
>This is a pretty strong claim that needs strong evidence to counter. Especially considering there's lots of works demonstrating the usefulness of this information.

My claim: "Data X does not exist". Your reply: "Data X would be very useful!". Note that your reply does not actually refute what I said. As for support, IMHO, I think the burden should be on score supporters to prove the data exists. All my experience talking to people is that almost nobody has a real score. They have candidates they'll never support, a few they may waver between, and eventually they settle on some ordinal preference.

>If the voter truly has no preference of Romney over Biden, then yeah, that makes sense.

Err.. I think you meant the voter has Romney > Biden, right? Or you have misread me here.

>Cardinal systems you can do any of the following: 1) Trump > Romney >> Biden, 2) Trump >> Romney > Biden, 3) Trump >> Romney = Biden, 4) Trump > Romney = Biden. There's a whole slew of permutations that are available at no additional cost...

Most of these preference either don't matter (Why should a >> vote matter more than >), or create more problems then they solve (= preferences create actual draws. I don't mind making voters choose an ordering).

>In fact, ordering candidates in a cardinal system is perfectly valid and will become equivalent to an ordered system.

I got that, my point is that it creates a lot of other effects, like giving Biden a reason to run Sibyls.

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Your general assumption is that elections are a large public survey and we need to get max data and then average it out. I strongly disagree with that model. Most people have vague preferences. Scores don't really exist and we end up with GIGO.
Can they evade uBo, too? I had a stretch where I was getting them in FF with uBo & Privacy badger, even after updating all rules, but then they started being blocked again on their own.
This seems incredibly risky, given the severity that prions present
Oh the sweet, sweet irony of this author making the frontpage of HN in a post that declares they're trying to disengage from it.

copy/paste this to see the article: macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news.html
> In this article I will discuss how I successfully escaped the PS2 emulator developed for the PlayStation 4

Sounds like a great way to destroy Sony's motivation to support backwards compatibility :P
My sounddevices mixpre 10 records in 32 bits. Granted not all of those bits will be significant, but the preamps are good enough to take 24 bits to the limit.

32 bits are less critical to set the gain for (more headroom) and audio files are tiny anyways (compared to say, video). So in a practical sense I need to be less precise with setting the gain, or can record a bit more dynamic events. I am very happy with the results.

Sounddevices has a good explaination if you are curious: https://www.sounddevices.com/32-bit-float-files-explained/
This is way more complicated than most of the comments imply. It's not only about your taxes, but about the company's payroll taxes, and also other regulations and services. First of all, it's a unique thing about software engineering that you can get away with working while living in another country and pretend that "well the work is for a US company and I pay taxes in US so it's ok" or "I don't have a work visa in Japan[1] but I'm working for an American company from Tokyo so it's ok". If your work is swinging a hammer, it's more obvious, but in reality tax generally treaties specify that work done in the country you reside in, whether by hammer or laptop, is taxed in that country. Because you enjoy the services from that country.

One example is raising kids in country A while you are employed by country B. OK, you pay sales tax and maybe property tax in country A but country A is expecting payroll tax to help pay for education, and healthcare fees based on your income to help pay for healthcare.

Another example is insurance. If you work for google you can probably sue them when your WFH desk bought with inadequate WFH allowance collapses and breaks your ankle. But does google's insurance cover the case of working in your summer home in Iran, or is able to make a payment to an Iranian hospital? Not likely. At least it's a moot point compared to the embargo violation and export control violation that now comes to light.

Another example is just legal stuff in general. "Work" in US and live in Spain? What's the legality of the NDA you signed? What's the process to fire you? Who knows, but a company sure doesn't want these uncertainties times the number of countries its remote workers are located.

Mature companies know all of this and put rules in place and either open a proper office when it's justified or hire a middleman company who then hires the remote worker as a contractor.

[1] I use US and Japan specifically because I just finished a 10 year stint in Japan and well, it's common online to see Americans living in Japan on a marriage visa or something, trying to get remote/American salaries and totally missing the basic requirement: work done in Japan is taxed in Japan and also subject to other Japanese regulation. So not only can you be in trouble for not paying taxes in Japan, your company can be in trouble when it realizes that by paying an employee in Japan, it is also bound by Japanese labour law. My understanding is that this works similarly for most country pairs.
Not only that, but you can download the videos for offline viewing / listening.
imagine you are reading lists of currency amounts off to another person across the room going over ledgers. It's an easy shorthand to adopt to compress more information into the bandwidth. And if you adopt it as a way of speaking every day, you don't need to talk about it any more.

I think people are forgetting, before the days of numeric calculation by machines, there were rooms full of people tasked with keeping track of these things.
"If a criminal spies on my credit card # as I make a purchase and uses that to go on a spending spree I can fix it with the credit card company with little cost but a few hours of time and frustration."

You just made a great case for why crypto as a backend for balance transfer that's abstracted by centralized payment options built on top of the transfer network for funding balances but directly interfaces with POS outside the crypto network will almost certainly continue to grow into a thing as crypto grows.

Get rid of bank accounts, and then firewall balances behind 3rd party abstractions powered by your crypto wallet.

By all means charge my vendors 3.25% of the transaction to firewall and insure my wallet against theft.

Give me 1-2% cash back and I'll be even more excited about the prospect.
I think he was preceded by Norman navigators many times by the way.
Song Will Break Your MacBook’s Speakers
How far back does one go for indigenous groups? Kennewick Man, in the case of Washington State? How do we figure out which Indian tribe gets how much, of the dozens we know about in California history? Do we discount for those tribes that owned slaves?
This is a standard, and terrible, practice with many large companies. They want you to call them so a "customer retention" specialist can try to talk you into not cancelling. They'll usually offer you a great deal to stay.
Multi-threading and globals in Pumpkin OS
Most of those are from fossil fuel or nuclear shills. You can get wildly varying numbers based on what you include and exclude.

Meta analyses say current/upcoming techs are about as good or maybe a bit better, but energy payback time is significantly lower due to reduced lifetime. Additionally the GHG impact of nuclearand wind isn't quite proportional to energy payback time because of concrete.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8118077

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

Really though the answer is both are fine and nuclear probably wins once you include a mix of wind, hydro and storage. And embodied emissions will go down as low carbon energy becomes a bigger share.

The main arguments against new nuclear are political (making new oil barons but with nuclear is stupid among other problems) and opportunity cost (using a nuclear reactor to replace 1GW of fossil fuels 80% of the time uses the same resources as using renewables to replace 10GW of fossil fuels ~40% of the time -- some of which is uncorrelated -- but at much longer delay).
I think your second point clearly explains OPs problems with CloudFlare, they're not asking you to move off Cloudflare, they themselves do not like it's core values, and would rather use some other CDN.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835071
100%. I have a hard time explaining even to myself what makes it feel so wrong to pay google for their monopoly, it's a good product after all and usually that means I feel obliged to make money roll.

On pc I indeed also use the ad blocker, but on tv that doesn't work. (I also tried pi hole)
Because I'm talking about AI, not AGI. And because I'm observing the frontier of AI:

https://twitter.com/AdeptAILabs/status/1570144499187453952 https://twitter.com/runwayml/status/1568220303808991232

https://scale.com/blog/text-universal-interface
Technically yes, but it's doesn't force voters to get a nonexistent score out (I also don't mind the tactical voting implications). 0/1 is pretty close to a ranked choice which allows equality - which is a problem... but no perfect system exists.

My problem with the cardinal systems is score/range systems which believe voters have a super-exact utility function and we just need to get it out. I strongly disagree with that assumption.
You're ok knowing YT content creators can't monetize their content when you watch it?
Are you talking about sky weaver?

I started playing it and I am having fun, unfortunately I'm not good enough to beat any real players though.
Cable TV started that way. No ads because you paid $x/month.
At the time, Apple employees talked about the acquisition while the NeXT guys talked about the merger.
Imagine that in this other alien culture, most people were using credit cards for most transactions and rarely ever use their ATM/debit card. They don't have a day to day use for cash so do not frequent ATMs nor do they have much reason to frequent bank branches.

They've been presenting a credit card and making a squiggle with a pen for years and never remembered a PIN at all. Their credit card bill is paid electronically online somehow, either automatically because of a direct debit configuration setup years before or via an interactive banking website. These were authenticated with a web password and perhaps archaic knowledge of a routing number and checking account nunber. No PIN in sight there either...
A related question I sometimes wonder: wouldn't it be fair to return the cathedrals and the property of monasteries that were "stolen" during the reformation back to the Catholic church?
Anyone have a working link to part 2? The link at the bottom of the page [0] doesn't seem to work.

[0] https://cturt.github.io/mast1c0re-2.html
But what do you amortize the fixed cost over? Refugees can use bitcoin to hold money while fleeing dangerous situations. Not being forced to do a transaction is the value in such a case.
No one has yet recognized the Taliban government.

Give it to Bangladesh then.
The original vaccine still has strong protective effects vs even BA.5 though.

That's my point. The original vaccine may be "worse" than the BA.5-specific vaccine that came out last week. But its still doing its most important job (ie: keeping people out of the hospital and/or morgue).

"Not getting sick" is still useful (and BA.5 specific vaccines should be great at that). But is kind of a secondary or even tertiary concern of mine. Deaths and hospitalizations are my #1 and #2 statistics that I'm worried about with regards to this subject.
I don't know of any big fish where's there's sufficient evidence that they have committed crimes and where the DOJ has decided to not charge. What are some examples?
Lago looks beautiful, thanks for sharing!
It’s only interesting if you’re interested in arbitrarily narrow, contrived definitions of words that everyone is already pretty clear on.
Why shouldn't the scientific community be entitled to investigate claims made by corporations regarding scientific progress?
But e-bikes need speed limiters. Fascinating.
The real estate trilemma: affordable, high quality of life, near good jobs; pick no more than two. (Or have the government mandate that it's all three, somehow.)
Brave for both iOS and Android automatically blocks YouTube ads.
But the Khedivate of Egypt has a direct successor state - the Arab Republic of Egypt. The Sikh Empire, Durrani Empire, and Princely state of Kashimr and Jammu do not - this is why tensions are always high between India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Not really, it's not nearly as complicated as all that. The Governments of India and Pakistan formally inherited the relevant obligations and ownership rights from the British Raj, which itself assumed control over the same from the East India Company. The chain of ownership is clear and the only issue in dispute is whether it should be India or Pakistan who is more entitled to it, an issue which both nations are perfectly equipped to sort out amongst themselves.
it's just pretext. The obvious answer is, let the parties in question figure it out. I'm sure they'll come to an agreement on how to share custody of historical artifacts as long as they come back home rather than stay in Britain.

Art and historical objects circle through different museums all the time, it's not a new concept. "Gosh I plundered something from India or Pakistan, oh my whoever will I give it back to?!" isn't a serious issue
Paid Accelerators (Newchip)
We got solicited by newchip. They evaluated the high level value proposition of our startup and made a proposal. For a fee of $9k, they are offering to introduce atleast 20 VCs, get 1 term sheet within 3 - 5 months. They are providing some additional subscription goodies. We are new to this space. Is this legitimate? Any experiences with paid accelerators?
> But there's always the paid option.

I am sure ads will come to paid option too soon so enjoy while it lasts with truly ad free paid option.
And the reason the bros like it is because it's legitimately good quality and it looks good. You can wear it on the slopes and keep it on at après-ski, so to speak.

Also, my personal endorsement: I love my Patagonia fleece vest. I got mine used on Ebay 7 years ago and it has held up that long.
I agree, but I also think human-driven cars shouldn't go over 85mph, so I don't pretend to speak for any majority.
No matter what, whenever we need to go back in history, some segment of the population feels harmed
Everyone starts paying them 11.99 or whatever and they will still start adding ads. Gotta keep the revenue charts pointing up for the investors.
So did Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Yeah, we (Googler here) know, but it's not our post, so we can't edit it. :D Best we can do is hope people read the comments (weird thing to say on the internet).
Based on the example videos I think it could be an amazing accessibility aid.
It's been useful when domains are routed to a bunch of microservices internally. It keeps the gateway functionality centralized. For people using kubernetes, the new k8s Gateway API will obviate a bunch of the gateway tools out there.
Interesting. I've also been trying to find if royals other than the now deceased Queen have volunteered to income tax and capital gains tax, but I cannot find clear information on this (which is unsurprisng).
Where does it say paying actually will remove ads, and if it is, how long it will be until google will change their mind?
You can (sort of) block those ads too.

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
Why would this be such a difficult thing to communicate to a customer?

"Hi, we've noticed an increase of frauds/chargebacks on your account so we have taken X action"

That also doesn't really explain why long-standing, established customer accounts were frozen with this particular business.
What will this reduce the average person's yearly carbon emissions by? 0.0001%?
YouTube is a monopoly, and either needs to be regulated as a utility or broken up.

Nit: YouTube offers no such service. You will still see ads if you pay for YouTube premium, because YouTube policgies incentivize creators to put ads and sponsorships in the video
Some things I associate with the word modern:
* New, fallible, and untested
* Trendy and fleeting
* Undocumented
* Incompatible and unsupported
* Needy
* Pet project, single author, no community

I haven't used DFlex or what it intends to replace so I can't comment on what would be a good replacement for the word 'modern', but I doubt you meant to say any of the words I listed above.
Neither, it's just not quite what folks expect. The postgres/spanner interface is about accessing SPANNER functionality via a PG interface. It's not about using Postgres with a Spanner back-end. That's all.
> Google offers an ad-free paid experience

I wonder how long that will last.
Staging Is a Trap
All that work youtube did to get content creators to create ad friendly content then google goes ahead and pumps out content unfriendly ads.
And at 12$ a month I still have to watch through all these 1min long sponsored segments.

YouTube without sponsorblock became unusable. For iOS I recommend uYouPlus: https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
I agree, incentives are everything. That's why I don't want every restaurant to turn into classy hooters—yes, tipping strongly selects for attractive people, especially young women. It's so hard to shake the feeling of insincerity, for the very reason that I'm aware of the incentives. Are we all so lacking in affection we need people to butter us up for money?
Recommend you read about slashing staking and zero-knowledge proofs to understand why this is not a problem at least from theoretical point of view
Sure, the probabilities are different (although as far as I know we don't what those probabilities actually are), but the same principle applies.

To take your Usain Bolt example, if you won 3 out of 5 races against him, that might just be because it was an off day for him, and not because you are actually faster than him. If you won 300 out of 500 races done in various circumstances on different days, then that is much more conclusive that you are faster than him. And this bet was even worse than that, because im each of the five tests, the best out of 10 results is picked.
as someone who used to drive their street-car NB miata to the track , packed with track-wheels ready to swap when I got there, I don't really understand your point.

Switching wheels at the event is extraordinarily common in SoCal -- so much so that many drift/circuit events have a place to check your street wheels at so that they're not stolen in the pits. This service used to be offered routinely at Willow Springs, my local stomping grounds.
Very well written article and very impressive magazine generally.
Sorry Tom, had to upvote this ;)
With love.
It is pretty tragic that the most upvoted comments on almost every article anywhere on the internet tend to be people nitpicking the content or an unnecessary contrarian view.
Does the school district have something to do with it?
Technically speaking, we don't really know who owns it. But what we do know is that the British definitely doesn't own it.

If somebody stole this from the British today, they have no right to complain!
Well, that was the period 2002 to 2014. Let's hope things are better now in terms of math acceptance.
Correct, we (Google) didn't make the post, so unfortunately we don't have access to changing the title. Just have to hope folks read the comments.
Yeah as someone else said, you will figure this out. There's only so many things you can do with a crying baby. It's completely natural that you will walk and hold them and figure out a rhythm. I've figured out with my second that lighting levels are important. Timing the darkness works well, and I figured it out by walking around with her but the lighting is really variable in my house and going too light or too dark will startle her. Probably could do a study on hoe gradual shifting of lights effects baby.
There's a lot of people here who act like the only ones annoyed by this are people who refuse to pay for YouTube premium. But here's the thing... /I/ do pay for YouTube premium, and I still find this annoying. Here's why: I'm not always logged into my personal Google account on a device, and I don't necessarily want to log in on some devices to my personal Google account, but I still need or want to use YouTube. YouTube /is/ a wealth of information, and it's worth paying for, but that wealth of information often extends into topics which are, for instance, relevant in the workplace, but I am not going to login to my personal account on a work device.

Increased ads affect everyone, not just people who don't pay, paying only limits how it affects you in /some/ ways, but not completely.
Debian does package some open-source browser extensions (e.g. uBlock Origin https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/webext-ublock-origin-fi...), so you could install extensions that way if you're using Debian or a Debian derivative
Why is it unsustainable? We are much closer to 'too little' than 'too much'.
> rate limiting, ip address filtering ,caching and so on are ridiculously trivial

Maybe if you're running one instance of your API server.

But if you're not then API Gateways end up being significantly simpler.
When still requested, the signature is often just scrawling something into a signature box on a touch screen of the same device with the chip reader or contactless receiver. There might be some stylus dangling on a tether and often a spastic finger tip is sufficient to satisfy the UI.