skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not fixated on flying cars. I brought it up initially, along with meals in pill form, and shows set in the future that have either already passed or will pass soon, to show how shit we are at predicting the progress of progress.

You then said we haven't done flying cars yet. You singled it out and made it the point of your response to me.

So I was supposed to not respond? Because there are good reasons to not have flying cars. And I mentioned that. But most of all of my posts have been about things other than flying cars.

We may feel comfortable to extrapolate on timescales humans haven't even existed on yet, that doesn't make that extrapolation good. You want to look at just the last 100 years and extrapolate from that. First by assuming that the last 100 years is geometric progress and not linear. But even given that it is geometric, where's the evidence that it will continue being geometric. Look at the last 50 years. We haven't done much more. We went to the Moon in 1969. We've thrown some robots at Mars since then. It's possible that progress isn't a vertical asymptote, but a sigmoid with a hard upper boundary. We don't know.

And we can't get to Mars. As in actual people. It will take a person 9 months to make it to Mars, assuming all of the other problems are solved. Because there are other problems. We are not built for space travel. The radiation and lack of gravity are real problems with no good solutions at the moment. We haven't been to space (depending on your definition of space) since the Moon missions. Everything we do now is technically in the atmosphere and protected by the Earth's magnetosphere. Yes, the ISS is above the Karman line, but it's still within the thermosphere. And I'm not completely sure about the Apollo missions, but the Moon spends some time within our magnetosphere as well, so they may have done those missions during the time when the Moon was under Earth's protection.

And that magnetosphere is important. Like all life on the planet would die without it important.

So, living outside the Earth's atmosphere is not something we do. Ever.

I find this extreme long term techno futurist optimistic thinking worse than useless. This is navel gazing at its most extreme. It either wants us to ignore the problems of today or ignore very real limitations imposed on us by various aspects of reality. Thinking ahead is fine. But techno-optimism forecasting out millenia is not thinking ahead. It's wishing.
It was enforced during licensing. In order to obtain a license from the FCC (which is effectively required to launch a satellite, unless you never want to communicate with it), you had to prove it would either deorbit naturally in < 25 years or that you had a system to do so at the end of the mission. The rule was generally to have a plan and an ability to deorbit after 25 years. A lot of satellites fail in ways that prevent using a propulsion system.
My understanding is that this is because the tlb update can't be speculated through. That means that once speculative execution hits that barrier it will stop and can't then look at data that would be mapped in if speculation kept going. Basically there's a hard fence there that it won't/can't go past so if you do hit a page fault in kernel space on one of the unmapped pages you know it will be from an active and not speculative thread running.
Just "we detected malware spreading from your site" would sure narrow things down a lot. Time to inspect the web server access logs, 'diff' the site contents with a month-old backup, etc.
VPNs help against geolocation and geofencing though.
If they tell you the steps you have to take to get off the shit list then its not hard to reverse engineer how to avoid being on the shit list.
When I'm working on a web project, like my "PlotBinder" WIP, I spend way more time trying to hit 60fps than I do in my game(s). Adding little css animations or transparent overlays cut the framerate down to 40fps on my old laptop until I tinkered for a while with it and made some compromises. The way pages render on the web is finnicky to optimize for.
People don't pay for newspaper subscriptions either. I have coworkers whose kids have grown up without ever getting a paper delivered to their house. It's a totally foreign concept to them, an anachronism you see in movies from the 80s/90s. I'd lament about how kids nowadays never get to experience the Saturday morning comics in them but they've got webcomics now, which are debatable better quality than the dull, mass appeal cartoons found in papers.
Im not sure where the freeloading claims come from, because, to my knowledge, no site hosts the content of these articles.

It seems like we are trying to ban talking about articles, and banning sharing links, unless we pay. That seems ghastly.

I'd love to figure out where to give newspapers & media sites some kind of help. But this seems alarmingly misguided an attempt.
That cookie wall uses a font too small to read without zooming. Anyone pressing the 'go away' button on such screens can probably not be considered to have freely given consent and their data should be... Ah, who am I kidding.
If FHE could be made to work (and we are a long way off), the cloud provider would not be able to see your data even though you're doing processing on the data that remains on the cloud provider's CPUs, so in that sense it would protect you from Amazon/Google/Microsoft/plug in your cloud provider here.
The world I worked into no longer exists
Will mortgages and markets stay afloat in Florida?
IP fragmentation and the DNS – Vulnerable DNS servers
On the contrary, I think that's a self-fulfilling perception. If assets are already organized as objects, then it'll continue to work well with oop. But if you take the approach from the get-go to use data and FP approaches, things can be quite nice. Examples:

- interface/trait based programming / structural subtyping (widely used in go/rust, increasingly in TS and python)

- terraform

- react

- aws lambda / cloud functions

- flow-based data processing (the whole of deep learning, spark/hadoop)

- and of course, anything declarative DSL based (SQL, jq and friends)

So I would counter that the more valuable skill is "how do I solve problems in terms of applying and composing transforms to data"

To clarify, since everyone has their own definition of OOP, and of the four pillars, Abstraction, Polymorphism, aren't at all unique to OOP, and Encapsulation is just Abstraction: the defining features of OOP are inheritance and poking-and-prodding-state into opaque objects. Inheritance is subsumed by interfaces / structural subtyping, and poking at state is contrasted with reactor patterns, event sourcing, persistent data structures, etc.

Oop really shines at the middlin-low level, in languages without a lifetime (state for things like IO resourcese, at the GUI widget level, and the (micro)service level, which is more like the original smalltalk sort of objects, in which case inheritance isn't a think.
I have lived and worked for at least several years in both the US and the EU (and I am from an EU country). People in America like to portray everything as being better in Europe, but from my experience life there is fine and there are certainly some things that I prefer, but overall I think the quality of life for a middle class person in the US is noticeably higher.
Hopefully insurance costs will not be extracted throughout the entire country. The insurance rates must reflect the true cost of residing in hurricane alley.
I see. So is the problem with the volume of cattle that there's a lot more methane built-up before it's able to break down?

Are there good numbers on that? I believe so far everything I've read adds up everything and muddies the water a bit.
People generally don’t tolerate browsers that phone home with any and all accessible information. But if you claim to also run a built-in VPN service...
> it may be merely selection of a pre-existing color variant that already widely found in nature... very dark / black frogs which are already found in nature, may have just reproduced better

If this variant is being selected for preferentially, that's evolution: "Typically, we think of biological evolution as changes in gene frequency within a population over time – if, say, birds with genes that produce wide beaks went from being rare to being common over multiple generations."

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolution-101/mechanisms-the-...
I know COVID stimulus has numbed people to large numbers, but $100B is a huge amount of money. It's two million people working for a year at $50k salary
I Switched from Neovim to Emacs, Here’s Why
That’s bizarre - it jumps on not overflow? And jumps forward? But that’s statically predicted not-taken - it’ll statically mispredict and stall the processor every time!
That's what the PD standard basically is at core. It tucks on other things, too, like negotiating alternate modes, USB data roles, power roles, role swaps, etc. But the core of the standard is just "here's a list of values, and here's a way to tell the source which value I want to use" + method of communicating + some legacy USB stuff and some simplified alternative methods for power sources without PD chips (resistor pull-ups on CC lines to negotiate between legacy/1.5A/3.0A).
About 15 years ago, at JHU, I heard about an algorithm that detected a writer's gender with more than 90% of accuracy, and the NLP professor considered that problem solved.
The CIA Wants to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
There's precedent for this, or rather for people figuring out a way around it. A NYC law that paid rewards to those to report idling vehicles. A few people make non-trivial sums doing this. They act like tourists or like they're lost in a phone conversation so they can hang out around the vehicle and record the violation. They have to record the truck idling for a few minutes to collect the money, so without a disguise they risk being beat up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/nyregion/clean-air-idle-c...
What game have you personally ported to Stadia in one click?
I'm self-taught. I learned to program making flash games.

I started making meaningful software because there was a bug I wanted to fix.

I continued making meaningful software because someone sent me a hamper of chocolates a couple of years back.

I continue making meaningful software for many reasons, but primarily: I'm altruistic by nature. I talk and I listen to problems.
And just like every other case in US government contracting, the american people overpay for pretty standard functionality because half of the citizens think it's unconscionable for the government to do anything.
What is the distinction between adaptation and evolution here?
We've been toying around with the idea of what a proper IDE would look like for the data science workflow and open sourced our first cut at it. Super high level: quick data exploration, cell based code execution/native .py, and experiment management built in to the IDE. Drop us a note if you'd like to test it out or provide any feedback. Happy Friday!
I didn't know DuckDB could read parquet natively[0]. Thanks for mentioning this. I recently had the displeasure of trying to deal with parquet files in nodejs and it was a disaster. I might try going through DuckDB instead.

[0]: https://duckdb.org/docs/data/parquet
If they provided proof they wouldn't get "we swear our website is actually fine" tickets. Or if they did, it would be easy to resolve them: Post the proof.

If you launch a product that targets other businesses and has the capability of destroying them, you better take responsibility for that.
Not really, I've had Control paused for ~20-30 minutes sometimes as I did something in another window. I think it was even on a free account (because I kept thinking about the 1-hour limit).
Foi: A different kind of functional programming language
I've seen someone with a similar experience to you (and also a SaaS) a few days ago: https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1574404009288425472

Not sure if they solved it, but might be helpful asking them.
> led me to think they pay way under market value in the UK.

This isn't true; you can look up their salaries - they're one of the best paying companies in the UK.
Tidy Data with Java and Jupyter
This is using auto_subtitle from https://github.com/m1guelpf/auto-subtitle with the medium whisper model
I'm not trying to flame bait here, but this whole article refutes the "Java is Dead" sentiment that seems to float around regularly among developers.

This is a very complicated and sophisticated architecture that leverages the JVM to the hilt. The "big data" architecture that Java and the JVM ecosystem present is really something to be admired, and it can definitely move big data.

I know that competition to this architecture must exist in other frameworks or platforms. But what exactly would replace the HDFS, Spark, Yarn configuration described by the article? Are there equivalents of this stack in other non-JVM deployments, or to other big data projects, like Storm, Hive, Flink, Cassandra?

And granted, Hadoop is somewhat "old" at this point. But I think it (and Google's original map-reduce paper) significantly moved the needle in terms of architecture. Hadoop's Map-Reduce might be dated, but HDFS is still being used very successfully in big data centers. Has the cloud and/or Kubernetes completely replaced the described style of architecture at this point?

Honest questions above, interested in other thoughts.
As someone who lives in Florida I am wondering when this will all come crashing down.

According to McKinsey non-hurricane/weather events will skyrocket from ~20-40/year to almost 250/year causing constant water damage. Let alone from hurricanes like Ian or Irma.
There's something conveyor-belt-like about some high salaries in some areas that isn't appreciated. A Wall Street salary (comparable to the Silicon Valley) comes with it no remote-first, a questionable commute unless one is paying top dollar, and the very likelihood of continuing to rent versus buy. And who can resist the 7 dollar coffees and the expensive outings with friends or colleagues at a restaurant.

In a sense you can try to save money, but it is hard in HCOL like NY and the Bay Area.

When on paper we see the person with the 300, 400K salary we sometimes assume they have a lot of money saved up or they live very well. And indeed probably they live with many many conveniences that few people on Earth have.

Most of them (us?), though, aren't smart enough to make that much money and figure out a way to retire early on it.

If there's a trick to do so without roommates, I'm all ears.
I'm going to run my VPN on Edge running a VPN.
Is there a equivalent to something like https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/06/21/girlsdopor... when it comes to the meat packing or janitorial industries?
That is nonsense.
When the US attacks other sovereign nations than it's a freedom fight that can't be televised, when someone else does it it's an evil act of aggression.

I'm tired of the double standards.
I would reverse that assertion under the one condition that you don't use a VPN provider from your own country. In Australia at least, ISPs are legally required to maintain logs of everything you access for several years. By choosing to trust a VPN provider outside of Australia, you defacto have better privacy than you otherwise would have.
Except for housing, the governments failure to intervene in these distorted markets is the problem - not the government itself distorting the markets. Even for housing, there are plenty of high level policies that could be implemented regarding zoning, tax assessment, etc. that would ameliorate the issue.
It's already installed and it works well enough. Plus, if I'm using Windows, I'm already sending a bunch of telemetry to MS, so I don't see a reason to go out of my way to send some to goog, too. Also, I'm not a Netflix customer, but I understand that on PC you need Edge to get high-definition (>=1080p) video. Chrome doesn't work (neither does it work on Mac). So the question becomes: is there a legimate use case for Chrome when Edge is available (and is mostly the same thing)?

I, personally, am quite against using a Google browser (or derivative), but for my gaming PC where I only launch the browser once in a blue moon, I just can't be bothered to download anything else since Edge works. On my work PC I use Firefox, and am quite happy with it.
Edge is the only Chromium-based browser that allows for Vertical Tabs.
What the Securing Open Source Software Act does and what it misses
Hmmm interesting another reason for me to avoid microsoft browsers.
There are significant changes in Edge compared to Chrome stable and perf and efficiency improvements on Windows (not to mention deeper system integration).
By my extremely crude understanding, isn't that basically what the FUSE filesystem interface does?
You're reading something into my comment I didn't want to say too

I just felt the need to point out that declarative languages are essentially always a DSL, wherever this DSL is actually performant and should be used depends on it's implementation.

Generally speaking, SQL is very well implemented so using any of the well established databases is probably a good choice. Nonetheless, few declarative languages come even close to SQLs efficient implementation so they're very rarely the answer.
Management gets fat bonuses for reaching profitability targets, investors are happy.
The government desperately needs to step in and regulate these automated "destroy your business" practices.
The problem is that "the idiots" will also resort to violence. It is not like cars being parked in shitty ways is a big enough problem for me to want the escalation on that matter on a societal level.
A dominant strategy in game theory means it's your best strategy, regardless of what strategy your opponents pick.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_dominance

> In game theory, strategic dominance (commonly called simply dominance) occurs when one strategy is better than another strategy for one player, no matter how that player's opponents may play.

That is what is being described above.
1) Use Zstandard with a generated dictionary kept separate from the data, but moreover:

2) Organize the log data into tables with columns, and then compress by column (so, each column has its own dictionary). This lets the compression algorithm perform optimally, since now all the similar data is right next to itself. (This reminds me of the Burrows-Wheeler transform, except much more straightforward, thanks to how similar log lines are.)

3) Search is performed without decompression. Somehow they use the dictionary to index into the table- very clever. I would have just compressed the search term using the same dictionary and do a binary search for that, but I think that would only work for exact matches.
I am 100% with you in general, but this feels more like the Windows Defender launch than some fully cynical power grab. That is to say - Microsoft gets a lot of grief and work from windows installs getting taken over / viruses / etc. For users who don't pick up their own protection (and don't choose to turn off the default windows protection) this feels like a better default. I don't trust Microsoft, but you are already exposed to their manipulations when you are using their OS - and this will help protect you from other manipulations.
> Any consumer who took opiates and got addicted has exactly one person to blame - themselves for being uninformed.

Let's see how you feel after you've been in a serious car accident, then.

Heaven forfend such a thing should happen, but I'm prepared to bet you'd be hitting the fentanyl as hard as you possibly could.
I would hope insurers are smarter than that
Every time I see this I seriously consider buying a cheap Android device to play with it
Can anyone even get (good) insurance in Florida at this point? I believe many large insurance providers have backed out of Florida over the past few years by making their rates so astronomical that there's only one obvious goal.
I remember a Louis CK bit about a crime serial he was watching where the (albeit fake) ejaculate on a dead woman could be shown but the breasts had to be censored. Of course, he turned out to be a creep and good luck ever finding one bit on that topic considering the massive news coverage of his bad behavior.

But ad hominems aside, he had a point. It's really disturbed when you think about it: the degree to which an influential subculture in America elevates and defends violence while censoring and degrading women's bodies exposes a sick preference for death over life. Even if portions of it claim to be "pro-life" they are, to all intents and purposes, a death cult.
European cities typically don't have the same level of crime as NYC's outer boroughs...historically. Angled parking presents a problem when people want to lie in wait to rob you. It's also difficult for street-level cameras to track people.

Guaranteed NYC will never do this.
> I grew up in Germany, enjoyed a free engineering education but moved to US after graduation

The idea that you can get the education in X but not pay the dividends for it there, instead getting paid much better in Y, wasn't really your point. But there are limitations to giving your life to everyone too. Germany can't educate free workers for the US forever.

That said I don't think there is a competitive election anywhere where voters decide benefits based on an ROI. It's not about the ROI.

Singapore by comparison requires you to come back and work if the S. government pays for your foreign education. You can ask Singaporeans how they feel about that. Even though, on the face of it, like a lot of things in kind of fascist Singapore, it "makes sense."

> the situation becomes worse for blue collar and untrained labor workforce it's clear that it's coming at their expense... Wealth inequality in the US is a huge issue and needs to be addressed.

The most interesting thing about wealth inequality is, whom do you include in your denominator?

First in a whole economy perspective: Do I include the people in China who manufacture my shit cheaply? That reduces cost for me, giving me real wealth, in exchange for paying them less. Common sense. [1]

Both US political parties had, at alternating and even sometimes coinciding times, thought wealth inequality was related to immigration policy: that people from Latin American countries would come and work below cost in exchange for their kids being able to grow up in America. [2] [3] Same common sense energy.

Has wealth inequality gotten worse, or are we just measuring it better? Are there things that force it to be measured better?

Germany has the same forces at play, it's the reunification economy. [4]

[1] In 1995, "Estimates by Oxford Economics show that workers in China’s manufacturing sector received an average wage of 40 cents per hour in 1995, equivalent to just 2% of the average hourly rate of US$17 paid across the G7... If common prosperity leads to centrally-mandated increases in wage growth that far exceed productivity, then it could spell trouble [like inflation]. " https://www.schroders.com/en/us/insights/economic-views/is-c...

[2] Bernie Sanders: "I’m paying you [an illegal immigrant] $5 an hour, O.K.? You don’t think that’s going to lower the wages that [an American] gets?... I think that’s kind of common sense. It’s called a race to the bottom." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/13/opinion/berni...

[3] George W. Bush: "Americans don't want to pick cotton at 105º, but there are people who want to put food on their family’s tables and are willing to do that" https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/372882-george-w...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_German...
I beg to differ.

Please compare the severity and extent of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Privacy...

with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.

Depending on how you weigh the issues MSFT is far from equivalent on privacy
Situations like this should remind people secession is a bad idea.