skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot know the effects of something that didn't happen. I guess if we had some kind of multiverse-hopping machine we could do some experiments.

If you're just saying that it is not possible to know for sure whether Brexit is the cause of the 20% decline, well, you're right. Seems like a reasonable hypothesis though.
I'm in my late twenties but look about four years younger, I'm in good shape but I'm also bald and have supposedly a "weird" face. I'm sure if I was forced to go back to an in-office environment I'd encounter progress issues because of my appearance.

While at FAANG I actually started to wear makeup to mask the dark circles I naturally have under my eyes - for better or for worse I also have an expensive skincare routine now.

Undeniably I look weird - I really worry about this going into the future.
By definition he is not dressing well. There is a ceiling to what you can do with certain body types but frumpiness and untucked shirts is not that.
Sounds like Japan.
Many similarities in languages too. Persian (Farsi) has the same root as some European languages (and should not be confused with Arabic, which is totally different than both).

In Persian | In English
mädar | mother
barädar | brother
dokhtar | daughter
pedar | father
bad | bad
...
Human Error Types
If you want Markdown instead of Org Mode, Codebraid is great.

https://github.com/gpoore/codebraid
I dislike AMZN just as much or more than the next person, but your perspective appears have veered off into paranoid conspiracy theory territory.

Amazon has been and continues making money hand over fist. At this stage Amazon is a money minting machine, at a scale like we've not seen before.

"Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity or incompetence."
In the UK, people who are annoyed by GA plane noise will look up the owner’s details (these are held in a mandatory, public database by the CAA, equivalent to the FAA) and contact them directly.
That's just for certain flows, like the common authorization code flow. The client credentials flow does not require a browser, for example.

Not sure about Google, but Microsoft supports client credentials for IMAP/POP3[1], but not for SMTP yet. IIRC it was supposed to be rolled out this January but is still missing. Hopefully they can get that deployed ASAP.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/...
What would be the purpose? If you want to purposefully limit power you're forcing the chip to underperform. You can just get the lower cost chip that does run at that power. For example the 5600x being 76W versus the higher chips.
The best coaches I have worked with have cues they use instead of, or with, the explanations. Things like "pinch your shoulder blades" and "push the floor away". These give the practitioner an understanding of how it should feel, physically, without the need to go into details about which muscles and joints are involved.
The UK is in much better shape than Hungary, Poland, Germany and Italy...
Can you name a .22 semi-automatic handgun that doesn't jam?
Verizon happens to be the provider I had at the time, I wouldn't be surprised if other providers did it too.
The acceptability of accents is heavily influenced by pop culture, which is perhaps why a high-pitched British accent may seem OK, because of the compensatory cultural value of the Britishness.

A Russian accent will not be treated as generously in the English-speaking world, after years of bad-guy one-liners being the reference point. Same goes if you have a Middle Eastern accent, or an Indian accent.
We’re not for sale ;)
I'd probably be considered old too but all these point services add up to a lot of complexity IMO. I've been running on WordPress for about 10 years and it got unworkable because everything requires a plugin. I finally got off and vented my reasons and delight with an "all in one" platform like Ghost. YMMV of course and we still use things like Zapier but still!

https://ipocandy.substack.com/p/free-at-last-free-at-last
Can a Windows expert chime in here. Why is the NT hash even calculated any more? Is it still the default? Can group policy be configured to tell everything to not used to disable NTLM everywhere? And can't AD be configured to disable RC4 everywhere? Do MS ever plan to properly deprecate NTLM/RC4, disable it in new domains and start displaying prominent warnings when they're enabled?
Yeah it needs to help you do better "encoding". This is what determines how sticky information is straight after learning it.

One way that Save All (a company i run that's like anki, https://saveall.ai/) helps you with encoding is that it suggests alternative ways that we can quiz you on a card you just made. This helps you engage with the card a bit more as you're making it which makes it more sticky.

Other than that a good way to also improve encoding is to link new knowledge to existing knowledge. Things like Roam help you do this with their backlinks
They are trying to juice the economy with an adrenaline shot and hoping it still will work like it would in "normal" times.
I don't have access to a non-Prime Amazon account. What are some examples of what you see?
The fact that the UK government are at odds with the UK central bank makes markets nervous.

How much worse would it have been if there was no intervention in energy and we had riots on the freezing streets this winter?

As Macron said 'we are at the end of abundance'

To future readers; the last days of abundance were great!

On Monday 26th September 2022 we could buy a £25.00 Raspberry Pi for only £49.00 on eBay.
A 250g tub of Lurpak (butter) was only £2.50 and you could buy it in lots of 'shops' just using 'money' without a ration card and gold level social credit score.
Ah gotcha. Well sometimes posts re-surface after many years as HN allows for that. I've often posted something that was on HN ten years ago, and have a whole new discussion, even if the URL hasn't changed! Some posts are given a second chance and are not deemed a 'dupe'.
This is the second time I've read this Ali Baba paper and I'm pretty sure I got hung up on this, too. And I don't see what that property is good for (though I am aware that other people do).

Maybe the paper should have a preface. It might work for entertaining someone who already knows all about zero knowledge proofs, but it doesn't seem to do much to educate those who do not.
Very interesting book link, thanks for sharing.
Cache sizes are also significant in these gens. The 5800x3D outperforms the 12900KS in many games. They just stuck a bunch of cache onto the 5800.
It wasn't just Steve Jobs. It's never just one person.

Many people enable punitive & regressive decisions like that.
I don't think that is true.

People claiming to be brutally honest, are often far more interested in being brutal than in being honest.
Look at history and tell me where governments deciding these things has worked. Bonus points for understanding how this worked out in China, the Soviet Union, the French Revolution, and South Africa right now. Bureaucrats never, never make these decisions without corruption, greed, and ignorance taking over. I assume you believe that they would be able to make decisions about your job better than you?
I use vectors for everything in game programming. If I want to rotate something, Unity has this:

transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(directionVector);

I never touch sin, cos, pi. When I see a sin function in someone's code, my first instinct is that they're doing something wrong.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/02/diplomacy-watch...
In convos, you know the other person hears you and can respond. But when you comment under a post with 900 comments, yours is probably not going to be seen and responded to. How many people scroll all the way to the end of comment sections to read all comments?
The ECB and BoE are also raising their rates, and they have a consistent history of being lower than US rates...
I suggest you have a gander at Marc Andreessen's photo for the New Yorker (or was it Vanity Fair), and ask yourself if you look weird by comparison. I can almost assure you that you don't, at least not in comparison to that pic.
> What I actually want is a well designed and integrated solution for 80 to 90% of these functions.

I agree. I think a lot of this should just be done by one tool. Unfortunately the incumbents like Google and Microsoft are doing a poor job beyond the initial software they built e.g Google Cloud Dashboard takes 5 seconds between page loads, this is horrendous. To be honest I think if you scrapped a lot of the UI functionality and made it CLI based it would work far better. If all SaaS tools were reimagined as a singular CLI tool, maybe even in a UI, it would be better than what we have.
I was under the impression that “firebombing” exclusively referred to aerial firebombing during war, so it sounded super strange.

Now that i looked up the term, i see that it can mean “any act in which an incendiary device is used to initiate a fire”.
Most people don't complain about working a few hours of unpaid volunteer time on a worthwhile cause; whether that is donating to a soup kitchen on a Saturday or fixing a bug in an OSS project during a couple evenings. The problem is that serious OSS projects (just like running a major charity organization) often require a lot more than a few evenings or a weekend here and there.

Expecting people to donate thousands of hours of unpaid labor toward anything seems a bit extreme. If it is considered whining to expect some compensation for what amounts to another full-time job, then we should not expect anyone to stick with it for very long.
There are plenty of different way to learn, and the optimal probably depend on the material to learn.

For example, in machine learning, there is something called stochastic gradient descent, where to learn you present a single random element at a time from the dataset.
In the end it will have learned of all concepts, by becoming more and more confident in each individual concepts.

For example to learn QM, you pick a random QM wikipedia article, and try to push through the article, even though there are some things you don't understand. Then you do the same thing, for a different unrelated QM article.

For learning tennis, you don't learn specifically forehand, then learning backhand, but you alternate them at random so that you have a single unified way of playing with smooth transitions, instead of having to switch between different "modes" of thinking.

Sure more memory can allow some speed-space trade-off in learning ability, but using your memory too much may make you miss some fluency that may have emerged. For example the old-school of machine learning was using databases and K-near neighbors, which used a lot of memory and was slow. But the new-school of machine learning are using constant memory algorithm and compressing the data in it, and it can learn to generate all the pictures in the world with only 4 Gb of weights.

Learning is imagining, once you bootstrap your imagination, its bandwidth to synthesize new examples from which you can learn from, is much greater than the bandwidth of looking up new data material to learn from.
The protestors in Russia (the small number which is still on the streets) likely did not read any Soviet Sci-Fi at all. What they read is Harry Potter.

The parable from Soviet Sci-Fi to the current events is quite confusing. It's an attempt to create a narrative where there isn't.
There's no reporting on this in the Western press, and GP has overstated the reporting that exists [1].

In Ukraine's Pravda, which is not the same as the former Soviet Pravda, it was reported that in April -- after Bucha, and everything else -- Johnson warned Zelensky that Putin could not be negotiated with.

[1] https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/5/7344206/
Cambridge isn't exempt - if you're a great rower you can get into Land Economics pretty easily ;)
A quick googling brings up this:

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/02/diplomacy-watch...

Apparently reported on in an article on Foreign Affairs:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/world-puti...
I think the Wikipedia system of learning mentioned in the article would work. I call it "just in time learning". You click the link, you read it, if you decide that it is useful then you learn it by repeating it and understanding its relation to what you already know.
I'm not sure I understand this comment: age doesn't have authenticated encryption, but neither does PGP. The closest thing in PGP is the "Modification Detection Code," which is hilariously broken[1].

Edit: On top of that, every PGP implementation that I've ever worked with happily streams unauthenticated, decrypted plaintext before completing MDC verification.

[1]: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
Japanese calendars start the week with Sunday as well.
Sure, if you like it for its own sake but I’m just saying that there is no career advantage to living in Toronto rather than Winnipeg now, since I’ll probably never again work for any Canadian company.
They want to be in front of every website, behind every DNS request and now they want to control your cellphone traffic - while bleeding money by tens of millions of dollars a year and making promises they don't intent to keep. The trajectory of this company's life is obvious in advance.
containers are where you want to be, if you can do it.

BYO environment.
Thanks for clearing that up :) Is China a big market for you?
That seems pretty far-fetched. Do you have examples of such effects being shown wrong on CRTs without scanlines?
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Have folks had good success with using this? For me it was extremely slow and it was far faster to just push a branch to github and test.
I once worked on a project where the input was YAML config files and a lot of different programs would read/write the files. Every different parser had at least one implementation-specific quirk. Often we would run into the quirks because someone edited the YAML by hand, and one parser would handle it fine, while another would barf.

That's when I found out the YAML spec explicitly says it's human-readable, not human-writeable. Our mistake was assuming YAML was a configuration format, when actually it's a data serialization format (again, spec explicitly says this) that is easy to read.

Now I only write YAML files with a YAML generator, because just running a hand-edited file through a parser may fall victim to a parser quirk.
It’s still early days. You can’t use “act” locally if you have a reusable workflow. And what bit me was that you can’t pass environment variables from the caller. My workaround was to write them to a file and then cat the file into $GITHUB_ENV in the reusable workflow.

However, that then exposed me to the up thread bug about files. So now I also have to delete the file before creating it. Sigh.
I was just passing on something claimed by the largest computer parts review site in China. They claimed that their site has been required not to release their review until tomorrow, the owner of the site further claimed that there are two batches of reviews and his site is in the second batch for obvious reasons.

See the url in my replies.
I think there have been frat/party themed movies with that trope in them.
When you log into the system, a keyboard is usually the only device you have to enter the password, unless you store in on paper or on a second device. And even if you store it on paper and the password is long, some operations like lock screen (that can be also misconfigured by domain admin) become expensive and thus impractical.
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The real question is "when did you stop using inkjet printers", the answer to which is "a long time ago". I got a Deskjet 500 when those were fresh and managed to never buy an "official" (i.e. expensive) cartridge for the thing, instead using a syringe+needle and a jar of fountain pen ink to refill the thing. When the local Aldi supermarket dumped some HP colour inkjets I got one and used it for a few weeks until the ink ran out. For that printer HP had learned their lesson and made it nigh impossible to refill the cartridge so back into the carton the printer went never to be used again. I reverted to the Deskjet 500 and fountain pen ink until I got a Laserjet 2200 DTN from some job which was about to throw it out because of a broken fuser sleeve. One new fuser sleeve later I entered the wondrous world of toner-based printers and never looked back. This is some 20 years ago now, the Laserjet still works but it recently got relegated to emergency duty when I got a Canon MF9220CDN for free due to similar reasons. One new black toner cartridge later we entered the wondrous world of toner-based colour copy-printers, we will see if we end up looking back. The thing is ridiculously over-specified for our use but since it only uses 1W in standby - less than the Laserjet - that does not really matter. It takes up space but makes good for that by including a scanner. A toner cartridge which is supposed to last for ~6000 pages (i.e. years worth of printing for us) costs around €20-€30, a full set of 4 around €80-90. I have 2 black cartridges so I'm set for a number of years...
Bill Gates, Barrack Obama, Greta Thunberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Prince Harry to name a few.

> small group who does those things is in any way representative of the environmentalist movement as a whole

That small group has an amplified voice and all their talking points are spread by the other activists.
It's actually still there and no need to be offline. Tested this the other with a brand new win11 22h2 install drive.

The workaround is to click "connect to my work account", then "domain join". Not Azure AD, but regular AD. This then presents you with the classic offline account creation dialog. It doesn't even ask you what the domain is.
I think the point being made is that remembering is a huge if not key aspect of learning anything, and people underestimate the importance of memorization. Maybe that title is a bit misleading, could've been "No serious learning can happen without memorization" but that doesn't flow as well.
Curiously, as I've gotten older I've found that "weird" looking people who are also confident enough to some degree are almost always far more interesting in terms of personal pursuits / interests than "pretty" or conventionally attractive people. Maybe this is a personal bias - but in time being attractive impresses me to a similar degree as someone driving a flashy car - sure it's pretty looking, but I don't ascribe that to real success or depth of intellect.

Dating pretty people in New York quickly illustrated how dull most "pretty" women are. The one thing I'll never understand is how shaving my head actually increased my perceived attractiveness with women - admittedly I'm a weird somewhat unattractive person.
You're paying for secrets.

When secrets are written down on paper, then it's hard for people to share them without buying more paper from you. Sure, people can copy the paper and publish it for free, but convincing them not to is still a scalable solution. Printing takes work. At least, it did when copyright was invented.

When secrets are published on the internet, anyone can publish them again for free. Worldwide. Instantly. Literal billions of copies if they feel like it. There's no holding that back. It's not remotely scalable.
Even if your claim is true, it still would have been the smarter long term move to keep the war going. The prospect of a western aligned russian regime is so valuable it's worth fighting (and funding) the war for.
Since there are comments saying things like "I've never seen them based on dollar value":

My well known company has always granted stocks based on dollar value. Many employees incorrectly thought it was "number of shares", but if anyone actually asked the manager who decided how many shares they would get, the answer was always "We're given a dollar budget in shares to allocate amongst our reports - the system then converts that dollar amount into shares based on the stock price at the time."

So if our company has always done it this way, I suspect many others also do it this way.
I think there is an important difference between tools/services you need once and those you need continuously.

Designer or developer tools are something you only need while you build the product. If those suddenly go away, the code you've already written with them will continue to work, so while it will slow down future development until you find an alternative, it won't stop your current product from working.

Services that your product depends on to work are a different matter; if you built your service on AWS InfiniDash and it's suddenly deprecated or they hiked the price beyond what you can afford, you are screwed - your existing, currently-working product will stop working.

I don't see much of a problem in using third-party tools for the former but the latter is definitely dangerous and should only be used as a last-resort.
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Here's a great book I reccomend: "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" (https://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Architecture-Strategy-Foun...)

As you think about your organizations business processes, and capabilities (note capabilities are distinct from tools, I don't think programmers think about this a lot, but it's important) there are trade offs depending on your business model. The book gives a solid foundation on the trade offs of integrating systems, and not integrating systems. It was written before the modern age of SaaS, and it comes from the perspective of a large enterprise, but the concepts are easily transferrable, and I think you can take some of the ideas and apply it to any company trying to make a build/buy decision.
Change the plot duration to 1 month, and I suspect you will conclude otherwise.
"Amazon walking back raises after internal bug miscalculated their compensation"

This headline reads as though it came straight out of a newspaper in SimCity 2000.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/b102240b1a68b839c4c38b883f85e437...

Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction, or enmeshes uncannily with it.

Related references:

SimCity 2000 Newspapers ProcGen detailed inspection: https://procedural-generation.tumblr.com/post/134086657418/s...

Thread from Sep 2019 about the SimCity2K in-game article generator (first search result for "sc2k newspaper": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20971526

Edit: SimCity2K ProcGen deserves it's own submission, no? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32984133
That's an optional extension by any other name.

You can't "give some grace period of compatibility" in an open / distributed ecosystem, every version of the protocol lives forever.

YAML's dumb fuzzy booleans still cause issues all the time even though Yaml 1.2 was released 13 years ago.
It's nice to read that! I know what you mean. At the same time, I think there's always gonna be an overlap in comments because you might share your perspective whereas someone else (whose comment you didn't read) has already written a similar comment.
thanks. and yeah the domain didn't change
…and if I never see it, I'll never miss it.
A telephone is a device that allows anyone anywhere in the world to make a bell ring in your house. -- Len Deighton (paraphrase from memory)

He preferred teletype, and had a teleprinter in his home. Maybe still does.
I was going to guess the Instruction Based Sampling, but that appears to be only 15 years old.