skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always interpreted this work as a satire of Ayn Randian style objectivism/exceptionalism. It's funny that in school we were taught that it was a criticism of communism/socialism when I think it's really a criticism of the popular perception of communism/socialism.

The underlying premise is a misunderstanding of equity that persists today. The idea behind leftist ideologies is not to handicap the brilliant and able, but to extend the material buffers that allow brilliance to flourish to everyone:

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

But at the time and today, people (leftists included) thought that leftist ideology must have been based in envy or some inferiority complex. Harrison Bergeron is that 'meta-ideology' taken to its extreme.
No. Because there (currently) is no such thing as an "eco-terrorist organisation" that is not just an eco-activist organisation (funded by donations and governmental subsidies) being disparaged by an opponent.

Or do you have examples of what you call "eco-terrorist" organisations?
The district where my kids attend have suggested this on a few occasions. Frequently advanced math is the target. The district has hired a consultant that is charged with professional development for educators in the district. Among other things, the consultant makes claims that tracking is "... a racialized system of exclusion.” and compares it to Apartheid on multiple occasions. The rationale is explicit: "The biggest problem with tracking–by a million miles — is the equity issue." In my opinion combatting inequity in this way, by eliminating a resource that students need to succeed, is an example of “leveling down” or "Harrison Bergeroning" the situation if you will.
Does merchandise/outside sales count as breaking the cycle?

This guy (a glimpse inside) talks about how YT became a sales lead generator for his woodworking in this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pKiWVQK-YJE
"connortumbleson.com refused to connect" - HN HoD?
IME, using "virtual assistants" is as much about training you as it is about training them.

If you as the question as "Hey Siri: how many days until the end of the year?", you get a valid response. I intuitively guessed that the word "until" was a trigger that would make Siri understand what I meant.

In other words - it's not that Siri isn't _capable_ of doing things like ordering medication, but that the syntax for doing so is still obscure and specific enough that most people aren't using it for purposes like that.

I've set up a number of shortcuts that I regularly use. For instance: "Tell my wife I made it" will send her a text message letting her know that I've arrived wherever I was going. "Tell _them_ I made it" will send the same message to my wife, daughter, and mom.

Until the NLP algorithms get better at inferring intent, a combination of user training and custom shortcuts will be needed to do things like this.
> If you produce creative content, you are at the mercy of the whims of your audience.

More like if you produce creative content, you're at the mercy of your distributor. Google is making significantly more money off of the channel than the content producers are, I wouldn't be surprised if the difference were an order of magnitude.
Really the only thing we run into trouble with is `count(id)` where `id` is the pk of the table. This is surprisingly slow when you get above a couple hundred million rows. We're 3rd normal form, with proper fk's and indexes.

I _highly_ recommend having someone or some team in charge of db architecture. Use the "remarks" column to make a data dictionary that's stored right in the table. Have an _exact_ specication for table names (plural nouns), column names (agent_id (always a fk), agent_name), index names (udx-agents-agent_name), fk names (fk-leads->agents).

But, here in lies the rub: ALWAYS implement today's requirements, not next-years. If your app can be powered by a single mysql instance, _just do it_. You'll be in a much better position to scale later that if you pick some excessive technology you _think_ you might need in the future.
Seems to - because it's a great marketing.
Awesome! See you there!
I’ve got no proof he did it, but based on his other actions, he’s one of the only people I can believe might do it, for reasons exactly like this. The other candidate in my mind is the USA based on the weirdly vehement comments earlier this year about never letting the Nord Stream 2 happen.

It just doesn’t make any sense at all for someone else, it’s either weird, overly convoluted, risky or impossible based on lack of necessary equipment… this isn’t something you can just do a lone wolf terrorist attack against, it’s armoured agains ship anchors, sunk into the seabed, and deep underwater, you can’t just bomb it with some home made depth charges from a fishing boat… which is why this whole thing is so damn weird.
I think it's looking at Tesla's 875 billion dollar market cap and saying "I can do that". Which I think they can. They'll sell a ton of cars on brand alone so long as they don't mess it up.

It's kind of an interesting dichotomy. You can look at Toyota, GM, Tesla, etc. and say why would Apple be interested in those profits. But then you look at Tesla's market cap and then it's obvious why Apple would want some of that.

Ultimately I think the Apple car (and Tesla) is a long term bust. Automotive manufacturing is a well trod industry with, frankly, too many companies as is. I don't see how they could ever generate the sort of profits long term that the market caps imply.
Bizarre. I (US-based engineer with an Upwork account) was invited into a less sophisticated variant of the scam in spring 2021:

> Nice to meet you. I am looking for a US person who do business with me. You can earn money with a few cooperation. Do you know Upwork or Toptal site?

They also had the text of the message in a GitHub repo. I tried reporting them to GitHub, Upwork, and Toptal, but I don't think they knew what to do with it? I assumed my scammer was looking to evade banking rules or sanctions, but it could be for either fake employment or actual work with a US-based persona like in this case.
> I dont understand why some people still go by brute force memorization when there are better methods. Those that our brain naturally uses. You won't see memory champions using Anki for competitions as their main memorization tool that's for sure.

Thats because Anki isn't for memorization, it's for time optimization and scheduling. Nothing about Anki makes you remember a fact better, that's still on you, and the memory champions use ALL those tricks and techniques.

Anki just schedules the non-memory-champions needing to mostly remember most of the things, and minimize the time taken to try and do that.

Said as a multi-year daily Anki user getting really close to a 1000 day streak.
The Book "Small Giants, companies that choose to be great instead of big" covers Steinway well. Good book, good company.
Might actually happen in Bulgaria. And yet, for the most part, people are overreacting. I for one have lived in a temporary unheated german apartment with horrible insulation (build around 1955, not upgraded). It sounds way worse than it is. The only actually unpleasant thing is washing your hair. Just keep an eye on the humidity.

I won't heat my (different) apartment this winter. It will be ok.
For most remote jobs I've had there was still an expectation of some travel, usually 1-2 on or off-site visits per year. Further, many Big Name companies will ask that you travel out as a part of the interview process in the first place, remote or not. So long as there is no undue burden out-of-the-gate, i.e. you pay and or we reimburse, it's not particularly untoward.

Still, that wouldn't solve for the "My laptop doesn't have a camera" problem for the early phases of the interview. You would need to save face / voice samples to cross-reference at various stages of the pipeline to watch for the changeling.
What does this mean for miniflare?

Currently there is no way to test for cloudflare-esque failures. For instance, what does my worker do when the kv lookup fails or another cloudflare infrastructure related promise isn't fulfilled? I think actually running the true worker runtime in a testing environment is key.
DNS DDoS is usually spoofed requests to real servers, then the real servers send back a response to the target.

It's not clear from your post if you're getting the requests or the responses?

If you're getting the requests, the source addresses are spoofed and abuse contacts for the source IPs won't help. You need to rate limit your responses so you're not a good reflector and the abuse will stop, mostly. If you have good relations with your transit providers, you can maybe try to get them to try to track the source of the traffic, but if you had that kind of pull, you probably wouldn't ask here.

If you're getting DNS replies for questions you didn't ask, abuse contacts should help... But I wouldn't expect much unless the rates are really high.
I don't think that's a satisfactory answer for a layperson. Infinity is a size/quantity, for most people that usually means "number". The reason it's not a number is because it doesn't exist on the real number line, but again I don't think the helps people intuitively understand what's happening.
Hot and humid, but less so than much of India. I am working out the logistics of moving somewhere colder, freezing temps don't bother me because you can just keep adding more layers with no extra CO2. That doesn't work the other way around :(
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Thanks, These are great sources, the main issue is sending video files to the outside so a surrogate (a news agency) can post the video on a platform. I guess google had this project Loon, but it would be easy for Iran to shut it down because they have drones and long-range missiles. The idea of creating an encrypted peer-to-peer network is great too, the kind of network that carrier nodes can't open a file until it gets to the destination, not sure if we have such capability. I actually liked the idea of a peer-to-peer dial-up internet network, If we don't have such a thing I will be happy to start one. How can phones transmit data as voice?
One can prefer not using AC for environment reason even if you could afford it financially.
Something reading this reminds me of is “Golden Child Syndrome”

In dysfunctional family dynamics, children take on different roles that persist into adulthood. Some children are always scapegoated for the family’s problems. But others are the “golden child” who feels their love depends on their personal success. Parents project their needs and own personal shortcomings onto this kid, and the kid can feel like they carry the burden of the whole family’s success on their shoulders. It’s pernicious. I feel it drives a lot of people that are obsessed with work.

In my family there’s clearly a dynamic where my Dad uses my success to “brag” about how well we’re doing to his own siblings or friends. As if I’m the exemplar of the families success My other siblings are mentioned less. It’s a lot of pressure, and I’ve learned that it’s his issue, bot mine. But it took a lot of work.
Consider the bloodsoaked frenzy that surrounds any celebrity who steps out of line.

Consider, in social media, our quaint tradition of "voting". Suppressing the smart and stupid alike. Enforcing conformity to the norm above all.
The post links to this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...

so the answer is, a lot of things:
* v8 isolates

* private processes for debugging/inspection

* "cordoned" V8 runtimes organized by level of trust (guards against V8 zero-days for one)

* linux namespacing as an outer sandbox layer, blocking fs and network access

* explicitly allowed capability-based security
...etc.
Yeah no gauge in a modern car is directly connected to anything, except maybe the fuel gauge in a cheap car.

Everything is being run the cars ECU, all of those gauges are servo driven, all of them are getting their data in the form of discrete digital values. That’s assuming your car even has physical gauges, and not just digital gauges on a screen.
This is one of the many reasons I don't dilvulge anything on LinkedIn and merely use it as a funnel to my contact page on my own site.
Yea it takes a while but I have a playmat to guide.

Also, the Lightning bolt is wrong in the upper left corner (https://fabiensanglard.net/mtg_extended_1997/deck_necro2.png) but it gives a little "artisanal" feel to the overall so I am going to leave it this way.
I'm not sure deniability is so important when it's multiple coordinated explosions.

How else could it have been done.. What about explosives being built in from day 0? Sort of like how some bridges in Europe were pre-mined during the cold war?
We are trying to remove some of that noise by building a better podcast discovery and search product at JKStream (https://jkstream.com). For e.g., here's a cleaner feed for Malcolm Gladwell: https://jkstream.com/#/personality-malcolm-gladwell-Q318429. You, as a user choose to subscribe to your favorite thought leaders and personalities and you get a much cleaner, personalized podcast feed.
It's remarkable how Equity was just smuggled into "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion", without people realising that it doesn't mean the sort of equality that the majority supports.
As another bit of trivia, when Cleopatra and Caesar were together, they toured Egypt. They almost certainly made a stop at the Pyramids. (As much of a must-see in Egypt then as now!) But they wouldn't have known, not with certainty, who built them and when.
I remember the brand, though I never came near one. Friends all had various other machines.

Sounds like they missed the memo about Moore's Law. It really was a special time for home computing in the 1990s, every time I went to see a friend with a new machine it would be miles better than one from just a few months earlier. Sounds went from a bunch of beeps to what we now think of as ordinary. Graphics went from green text on a black screen to proper 3D. The father of a friend of mine had a high end machine that he used to do research, super precious about it. Not long after I had a gaming machine that was much better.

You can see why your average business manager might think to keep the outdated models around as entry level machines, and then people got so disappointed they never came back.
In other places like St. Louis, MO USA as well. I never had Schizoaffective Disorder until I worked as an programmer/analyst at a law firm for four years or so. It made me disabled and unfit to work, all that talent went to waste.

I am learning Python right now, got an Ubuntu PC loaded with language compilers.
It is entirely possible that Vonnegut was a socialist and that he worried about the logical end of an obsession with "equality". He may have believed that socialism applied entirely and only to economic matters. After all, Marx wrote that socialism would unleash human potential: "while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes". (There is a better quote for this, which I cannot recall/find.). So Vonnegut may have thought that envy and a resentment of excellence were entirely apart from socialism.

Now, I myself detest socialism, in part because I believe it establish a stupid, reductionist and overbroad "equality" as a goal in its own right and unleashes many forces to tear down excellence, freedom and accomplishment in its pursuit. I expect if this consequence of socialism were better understood we'd have far fewer socialists. But this is by no means obvious, and of course there will be many socialists who don't agree.
You can get people to self serve by putting stuff in the wiki. It’s a good way to make sure things get into the wiki in the first place.

Tired of answering the same question? Did you write the answer somewhere? Can people find it? No? Then you’re part of this equation, buster.
Sounds like this scam artist did more work to land Connor a job than some recruiters.
> All the data is one MySQL table

This is not correct at all.

Facebook has many distinct MySQL tiers (distinct sets of shards) supporting different purposes. And each tier has many tables.

The UDB tier (user database / primary product backing store) had several hundred tables when I worked on Facebook's MySQL team 7+ years ago.

This was before the MyRocks migration though, and it's possible the UDB layout changed to reflect MyRocks' extensively different file layout vs InnoDB. But in any case, especially keeping in mind all the various distinct tiers, saying all data at Facebook is one table is egregiously incorrect.
By that standard, there's no such thing as monopoly. If you think there is one, you're always free to start your own country.
Yes, it’s a central part of our stack so I guess this one I can’t talk about, thanks anyway!
This should have its own submission or be at the top of the thread.
I wonder if it's viable to have a site where you pay for asking questions (there are thematic sites like this, we call them "support forums", but AFAIK, no generic one).

Volunteer based answering will always lead to some kind of reputation economy, and those seem to attract assholes.
> this mysterious, complicated and important concept

For me it's not mysterious. I believe it's a fundamental phenomenon of the Multiverse and that the Universe was two or more Universes colliding which we call the 'big bang', a Universe among infinite amounts of Universes where multiple ones happen to collide all the time, sprouting new ones. How else can you explain our Universe spontaneously sprouting out of 'nothing'?
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(Assuming it would not be beneath the US or proxies to do such a thing.) It would not make sense right now. Germany was nowhere reopening Nordstream 2 and if it came to that the US would have other effective means of blocking its use before reaching to outright sabotage.
I stopped believing in infinity. In the real, physical world. That makes much more sense to me and fits in much better with my understanding of the universe.
Math on it's own, with concepts like this, can get a bit abstract.

I like connecting the concept with something concrete. For example the infinity of time. I once watched a fascinating documentary on the end of the universe, that talked about what would happen if the universe were to keep expanding forever and ever. first all the stars burn out, then a bunch of blackholes form, thenthe blackholes dissipate, etc,etc. they mentioned that actual protons would eventually breakdown after many 10 to the 10s etc.
“was that wrong? should I not have done that?”
Ukraine has had 7. There's literally no one left to fight. Most EU countries populations had a willingness of under 20% to sign up for war. The next biggest "European" army is Turkey and they will certainly not fight Russia for you.

"A new poll suggests Americans are growing weary as the US supports Ukraine in its war against Russia."[1]

I think it's time you put your evil/good ideology aside and face the reality that most economic publications have admitted by now that Russia has by all accounts won the economic war and that there is absolutely no way that Ukraine(which is by the way in default, the US taxpayer is paying people in public office in Ukraine just like they did in Afghanistan before it collapsed) can win the war.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/new-poll-signals-americans-a...
There was a 1995 adaptation for Showtime starring Sean Astin.

It's on Youtube. I remember watching it once back in the late 90's but haven't watched it since, so I can't vouch for its quality but it's definitely a nostalgia trip. The more recent "2081" adaptation might be better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBcpuBRUdNs
While my Honda Passport does have a reasonable number of physical buttons--which probably are still fly by wire--I'm pretty sure all the gauge displays are all just digital readouts of readings coming off the bus.
The global scope polluter has pretty bad performance and interop surprises, you shouldn't depend on it and instead use getElementById even if it's a bit more verbose.

It uses a property interceptor which is fairly slow in v8:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:out...

to call this mess of security checks:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

which has this interop surprise:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

which in the end scans the document one element at a time looking for a match here:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

In contrast getElementById is just a HashMap lookup, only does scanning if there's duplicates for that id, and never surprisingly returns a list!
Well there's the disingenuous way in which they present the choice, defaulted to opt in with flowery language, versus the popup third party developers have presented to their users.

There's also the "app store health card" which the cynic in me would say is designed to scare people away from "competing" apps, because none of the Apple equivalents have a health card. Additionally there's no nuance - both iMessage and Twitter ask for location data - but only if you want to share your location. End result? People looking at Twitter in the App Store surmise "well, they must be tracking my location at all times!".
funny to see this. I wish HN would have an option to hide the karma. it's obnoxious. why do you need some ticker to validate your posts constantly staring at you?
Sure, I see.

I guess it's not a problem I've encountered so far. Perhaps I just haven't worked in a company big enough? Only on the scale of hundreds so far.

Branching, agreeing on interfaces and tests have been sufficient to allow linking, in my experience.
It takes a special kind of human to name variable "name" but not have it be a string.
Or, don't ask the question and do the right thing so you don't go against orders you never received. That is kind of what I'm suggesting works if you are stuck in an environment with crappy responses.
It's a great idea, I tried it in German (fairly fluent) and it seemed pretty legit. But I'm guessing you're at the 90% completion point and that last 10% will require another 200% effort from you guys...

What do you use for speech synthesis? I have a little side project I'm investigating text-to-speech engines for (aiming for as much realism as possible, at least in English, plus the ability to possibly modify errant pronunciation somehow, and add pauses of varying length)
They can make the mp3 players in enough quantity in a single place. You can air freight mp3 players to do JIT delivery.

With cars that’s not possible.
> How else can you explain our Universe spontaneously sprouting out of 'nothing'?

It's turtles all the way down. Where did this multiverse come from? Some hyperverses colliding together? Where did the hyperverses come from? etc. etc. At some point, something seems to have sprouted from nothing.

Either that, or "nothing" and "something" are fundamentally the same thing. The distinction of the two is an illusion of the human mind.
Intense amount of conspiracy chatter is in this thread. Let the dust settle a bit and see what shakes out.

To be fair - I do understand how fun it can be to play at conspiracy theories especially given the circumstances here.
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> but at the same time also weary as our experience with coders from India is far from stellar.

it boggles the mind that you apparently don't understand selection bias, and would say something like this on a public forum, in the year 2022.
If the Philippine debt is repaid, you'll have established the new Silicon Valley, complete with a talent pool dominated by software engineers and a large number of blockchain and AI experts.