skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They decided that they are the moral police and will directly fine customers for being mean on the internet or doing anything else they alone decide they don't like.

see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33062320
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945147
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33151975
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33136147
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134249
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32980157

tldr: dumpster fire of a company, don't hold assets in a PayPal account and I wouldn't even add long-term payment methods.
Been using swap files for years and most recently started turning on zram and it’s been smooth sailing.
I had the pleasure of sitting across from Carl and asking him questions about how to approach issues relating to open access for a project I was working on. I still draw energy and motivation from listening to him for 10 minutes, years ago.

I'm really happy to see him getting recognition.
Are security guards employed as 1099 common? I was under the impression that most companies were just outsourcing and guards were actually full time employees of companies specialising in security in the same way most cleaning staff works for a cleaning company.
You could have a bit of logic on top of PG to better handle the search query, for example using https://github.com/caub/pg-tsquery
Elevator Saga – The elevator programming game
As someone who intends to post several different future endeavours to HN for fun and professional reasons, I’ve been collecting info like this (from other people who did the hard work) for a while now… and I’d be curious if a meta-analysis revealed any long term trends and potential contrarian behaviour trends after posting each stats analysis as people for reasons ranging from desire to maintain fairness to a general hacker tendency to be a little defiant at being profiled, but regardless of the cause I can imagine the HN crowd would be self aware enough to push back on a trend slightly… just case. But as it’s grown in size I suspect this trend has likely gotten smaller as the total user base becomes more and more statistically representative.
science does not have answers to everything and it admits that. plus different psychologist, different results! you can not blame an entire method just because you tried once or twice! there is ton of ways of approaching CBT and DBT which may work or not for you

now do you think is BS to repress some form of treatment that can not get any valid proof and its rate of success is equal than a placebo?
* plus i said it should be considered a crime recommending BEFORE any other type of more-prone-to-solve-your-problem method
Clickhouse is great a single table analytical queries (Group-by + aggregates + filters over a single table). It can match any top tier columnstore database at this, maybe even better at smaller scales, and if that is all you need it will do the job well

Beyond this, it has a naive query optimizer and limited ability to run distributed joins. This is why you won't find well known analytical benchmark results like TPC-H and TPC-DS for clickhouse vs other SQL data warehouses.

SinglestoreDB has been doing real time analytics much longer then clickhouse and has a much more mature feature set at this point[1][2]. Our go to market is more big enterprise driven so we are definitely much less well known among developers. Revenue share-wise I suspect we are the leader in real time analytics (see disclaimer below - I'm biased but our revenue is reaching thresholds for IPO readiness).

Also, if you follow Jacks later posts you'll see he replaces DynamoDB and Redis with SinglestoreDB as well. Now were getting into places Clickhouse doesn't tread at all...

Disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounders of MemSQL/SingleStoreDB (still working away on making it better all these years later...).

[1] https://www.singlestore.com/blog/the-technical-capabilities-...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3514221.3526055
That looks awesome, I'd be interested in giving it a whirl once they add Linux support! Currently I'm sticking with Bitwig for the excellent DrivenByMoss Push1 integration, but eventually I'd like to give Reaper a try (since it has the same Push1 plugins).
If there was intent to use a nuke it would be used and no one can do anything about it. That door to pandoras box was opened and has been demonstrated horrifically already. If that fear and acknowledgement isn't enough then there is nothing you can say or do to stop that escalation.

Where do you stand on gun control / gun rights? Do you think it's important to have the ability to stand up and defend against armed agressors?
Fractional reserve banking allows a bank to take deposits and create loans up to some ratio, thus increasing money supply in the economy.
They are accounting the tax money going from the government bank account into the owners of power plants. Money that could go to pay for hospitals or schools.

They don't account for theoretical subsidies of money, as then there would be more money in subsidies than there would be money. The theoretical subsidies that currently goes into fossil fuel to pay for global warming is reaching the point of infinitive money in the case that global warming goes beyond the tipping point. Theoretical subsidies are fun thought experiments but they aren't very valuable, as is infinitive money.

The report do account for decommissioning subsidy if there is actually government money going into the hands of power plants owners.
> imagine the twitterati had been supporting

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Twitter is a just a bunch of people. (According to Twitter, there are over 200 million mDAU) Anyone with a device that can connect to the internet can sign up for Twitter, if they want. It's not an organized special interest group. So you're imaging that the opinion of a bunch of people had been different. Which, yes, would have made things different, but I'm not sure this thought experiment is very useful.

> many see Twitter as indicative of voting trends

> No matter how stupid it is

But it does matter how stupid it is. I was trying to point out that stupid and cowardly leaders are actually the problem and always have been the problem. You could abolish Twitter, but the problem of stupid and cowardly leaders won't magically go away.

We're letting the leaders off the hook by blaming the "Twitter mobs" for their behavior. I believe this is the opposite of what we should be doing.

> Russia understands that too, given their troll army.

Well, their troll army doesn't seem particularly successful. Even less so than their real army.
Well, duh. "Incognito mode" was never any more than a comfy label to make ignorant users think they had any choice about Google knowing everything about them.
I'm thinking that legal/illegal might not matter so much if you happen to annoy somebody at the NSA. And betting that they wouldn't be able to tell might prove regrettably over-optimistic.
I read somewhere that Linux hibernation requires swap (1-1.5X RAM?). So I have been configuring my laptops with a 1.5X swap partition. Unfortunately Linux hibernation has not worked for me since the early 2000's, across 10-15 different laptops. Apparently hibernation can use swapfiles, but I've never been able to verify that.
It’s sad to see people invest in things like firebase without understanding my the technology. Right tool for the right job.

If you don’t need scale then you don’t need firebase. If you need joins, don’t use firebase, etc etc.

If one insist on using a proprietary managed database I’d use Spanner.
Thank you for these, I just subscribed to most of them
And then someone will come in and tell you that most things tried in mice don't work out in humans, and we will issue a collective shrug as we don't know what to believe.
Clickbait is just as often about half-truths, or omissions.

Anything that leads to a reader/viewer asking "Why?/What?", and which triggers the human curiosity that leads to a click - constitutes clickbait.

Such content may later disappoint or cause annoyance to the reader/viewer; but they still clicked, which is all that matters.
> Where'd it go??

Previously unaccounted for labor costs. Bought x amount of labor yesterday by paying y > x tomorrow, but not acknowledging y > x in any official reports. And, of course, there was most likely some loss due to corrupt investments.

Note that federal laws exempted taxpayer funded deferred compensation schemes from laws such as ERISA 1974 and PPA 2006 specifically because taxes can be increased in the future, so why bother preventing future taxpayers from having to pay for previous generations of taxpayers?
If you haven’t already, move to Firefox.
Okay, I'll byte.

I love almost every aspect of computing, from software to hardware.

Distributed systems, networking, single-machine vertical scaling, graphics programming, statistics and ML, NLP, vision, frontend.

Also love server hardware, grew up water-cooling and overclocking systems in the late nineties and early 00s.

I also find it fulfilling to help friends and family resolve their computer problems.

I'd like to learn more about embedded systems, I fantasize about creating my own devices stop esp32, but haven't gotten close to having time to explore this yet.

I will learn and use whatever language it takes to get the outcome I wish :)

I will also say that as I'm getting a bit older, I'm a little sick of the physically boring aspect of sitting in front of a computer for many hours on end. No longer appealing.

Cheers.
Closest I am able to think of is recent tool Facebook released for checking citations on Wikipedia:

https://tech.fb.com/artificial-intelligence/2022/07/how-ai-c...
Loans create deposits, this whole fractional reserve banking is nonsense taught in many schools.
> I beg to differ. It was radar-guided anti-aircraft guns

The 8.8cm german flak gun WAS a radar-guided AA gun.

> and proximity fuzes for artillery shells

The axis may not have had proximity fuzes, but the 8.8cm flak was so accurate that during a statistical analysis it was determined that the part of the gun that introduced the most accuracy were the timed fuzes. They switched to shells that detonated on impact and actually ended up scoring more kills than before.

The actual piece of equipment that made this thing so accurate was the fire control computer, the Kommandogerat 40.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UnrEetRYIuLoUT--ic0i...

Here is a Google Drive link to some scans I made in college of the book written by the designer. It explains all the calculations that the analog computer is doing.
> Isn’t community the single biggest advantage of Bloomberg Terminal?

No.

Calling Bloomberg a 24k/year chat box is doing Bloomberg a great disservice.

The reason Bloomberg is 24k/year is because of the extensive global dataset.

You can get everything from the latest on Apple to the latest on an obscure company in Mongolia.

You can do extensive comparisons and analysis on a global basis.

And the data is cleaned and standardised. So no concerns about messy dirty data that is often found in cheap or free options on the internet.
I wish there was a browser extension where I could mark publications that resort to click-bait titles so next time I read an article from them I can be reminded of their journalistic standard
I installed a copy of Ubuntu Studio on a spare machine a couple of years ago. I had come from Windows and Reaper and was used to one app where everything was controlled by the app. I was relatively new to Linux but kind of new my way around. But I found the principal of separate applications talking to each other a compelling idea, but in practice totally frustrating! I had VSTs I wanted to use and I got some to work though I don't remember how, but many synths just wanted to act alone via communication. Has anyone done anything to make all that less of a headache? Or was I doing it wrong?

Not suggesting this is any fault of Ardour's.
The story allegedly is that it goes down the government pensions sink hole. That pension thing is crazy in and of itself. They put a commitment to fund pensions in the constitution. It’s nuts.
This is true but the gains are surprisingly limited. From Algorithmic game theory there’s the concept of “the price of anarchy” it measures the gap between cooperation (a centrally designed or coordinated solution) and competition (where each participant is independently trying to maximize the outcome for themselves). Selfish routing basically what we have now has price of 4/3. This means the greedy status quo is only 33% worse than perfect coordination.

I’ll quote from one of my favorite books Algorithms to Live By:

“It’s true that self-driving cars should reduce the number of road accidents and may be able to drive more closely together, both of which would speed up traffic. But from a congestion standpoint, the fact that the price of anarchy is only 4/3 as congested as perfect coordination means that perfectly coordinated commutes will only be 3/4 as congested as they are now.”
Seeing as you can request the data Google has on you for legal reasons, wouldn't this technically infringe on that? (If they're withholding information they actually know about you when you're using Incognito Mode.)
The military is paying for both software and hardware. Recent dod programs have had outrageous unit costs because of this. There will probably only be 1-2k F-35s ever produced, but the DoD had to pay for sensor fusion software, avionics, new UI, targeting software, and weapons integration software. All of which must be guaranteed to work in any environment for the next 30 years. Same thing happens with modern missiles.
I add this warning because I'm seeing a lot of younger software engineers try out custom peptides to boost their iq, memory, and work ability.

Eh, I say let 'em. People need to stop pretending aging isn't a tragedy just because it's our natural state. We should be as bold with treatments for it as we are with treatments for other fatal diseases.
Worst redention of Pink Floyd.
Assuming the goggles actually give a big boost to soldiers, that will just become a training & screening issue.

Can't handle it? Guess you're not cutout to be in the AR unit. Just like not everyone is cut out to be a pilot or a navy diver.
Being anti apocalypse and world war 3 is bullshit now?

Flag away if it allows you, or have the moderator remove me, but bear in mind that all you are doing is flagging/removing a comment suggesting that peace is preferable to war.
As a practising JavaScript-decliner for a few years: your “only 5% work” figure is wildly, extremely wrong. It depends a little on what types of sites you’re dealing with, but for contenty sites rather than appy sites, I’d put it past 95%, with a few notable major site exceptions (so that by content it may well be below 95%) and certain subcategories that are more commonly broken.

And I’d say the battle has actually gained some ground in the last eight years, as server-side rendering of JavaScript content stacks has made headway.
Learn Web development.....pick up Rust, Golang or Java.... it's hard to find jobs with C++
Education, writing, and materials would be independent of agriculture or any one local invention.

It often takes an incredible number of different materials fabricated in uncountable ways for generations before even one single new material can be identified or developed.

Same with inventions.

Each culture that responds to their environment sustainably for millennia is not in a rut compared to those who truly got stuck in some unsustainable way and are no longer with us.

Intercommunication between these different environments can combine the accumulations of education, writing, materials, and inventions, and they can be seen to grow in an exponential way, so it appears those millennia were just the low-slope early part of the same curve.
The best response is to rate limit nuisance traffic to 1kbps, and setup fail2ban firewall rules to trip a ban on scans/bot-blind-probes.

In general, abuse reports are often useful for kicking users from services involved in illegal activities.

If you don't get a response, than black-hole the entire IP blocks and their routes. i.e. play possum, and they will eventually get bored enough to find a softer target. The other users are collateral damage, but if they aren't a customer... than who gives a toss. =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
Same was true of oil. People predicted peak oil multiple times over, thinking we’d found all the easy oil, and drilling for the expensive oil was gonna lower production. That never happened, instead people found ways to get the hard oil cheaper, e.g. by fracking, and peak oil has yet to happen. Lithium mining is sure to go through similar story. Maybe after the third failed prediction of “peak lithium” they will find ways to harvest it from the ocean or something.
Remember, our discussion in this thread is the purported “legitimate and urgent fear of a foreign power invading [America’s] shores”.

(a) This balloon bombing was covered up and essentially nobody about it at the time, so clearly not something people were urgently worried about.

(b) This militarily irrelevant bombing of a handful of random civilians is hardly an “invasion”.
I'm more surprised that they are using Ubuntu. Just feels there seems to be so many compromise nowadays compared to for example Debian or Arch
As an old person, I agree. Too many times, the younger generations forget why some things come to be. It's important to understand the problem domain and be open to new and old solutions.
>See? We agree that there is an equilibrium macrostate. When I fist asked you to clarify what did you mean by macrostate you told me that “it changes with time; even at equilibrium.”

I still stand by my statement. Even at equilibrium it can lower in entropy. The equilibrium is simply the highest entropy state.

>I asked “How does your configuration where the balls were near one corner in the cube cause mercury to rise to a different level than the configuration where they occupy a larger volume near the center?” and the answer “The balls have to touch thermometer” doesn’t cut it. The balls don’t touch the thermometer in either case.

I stated this is pedantism. The concept and intuition remain true. I changed the definition so that it's a volume around the thermometer if the particle is in that volume and heading for the thermometer is counts as a collision.

I stated all of this already.

>You seemed to imply that the higher concentration means a different macrostate with lower entropy. Or maybe the low entropy in you example is because the balls are near a corner?

Yes. The higher concentration has a lower probability of occurring. And occupies a different temperature reading on the thermometer. Each temperature reading is a different macrostate.

>Anyway, it would indeed have been easier to say that definition of macrostate included the density of particles in each octant of the cube - or something like that.

Sure, Divide the box into a bunch of cubes. If 1 or more particles are in the cube then that cube represents 1, otherwise 0. Add those numbers up and that represents a macrostate.

The inuition remains the same. For all particles to be concentrated in 1 cube is a very low probability. And the macrostate will be quite low too. With enough cubes and boxes such a state has a very low probability of occuring.

But all of this is, again, independent of your knowledge of where the particles are in each cube.
Mice will take over the world. We’ve fixed aging, cancer, and a lot of other issues in Mice, so now they will outlive us.
There are no security issues.
Google's Journey from Java to Kotlin for Server-Side Programming
What doesn't work in mice is typically for mouse-models of diseases: we try to replicate a disease based on what we think causes it, then try to cure it.

That's typical for cancer, Alzheimer etc. No wonder the things tried in the toy problem don't work out when faced with the real problem!

The problem isn't so much the mice being so different, but the disease itself being very different from the toy problem.
Babies offered free choice from a variety of foods seem to automatically know how to pick in a way to get a good balanced diet [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626509/
Any article actually disclosing the counts of soldiers? This 80% number is useless on its own without knowing more about the overall population tested.
Makes for a great scare headline though.
How's the latency situation nowadays on FreeBSD?
All told, yikes. That’s a pretty damning — and funny — insight into how much Google's own employees believed in the browsing mode's privacy, which is to say not a lot.

As a former Googler, I'll say this: You will have a hard time finding people more critical of many of the actions of Google (the company) than Googlers (the employees of said company.) Even after all these years, and into the Sundar times, there's a rather healthy internal culture of critique there. Usually with the best interests of the broader mission statement of the company at heart.

Naturally much of this is necessarily muted in external communications, and in some forms of writing... for legal reasons. Sounds like some people slipped up here and didn't pay attention in their mandatory communications training.

TLDR it's not "damning" -- geeks inside Google are much the same as geeks outside. They're just taking a paycheck.
That is $2B per year. Which when used properly, would have been a great advantage / head start to AR / VR. Or even the software quality on Windows, assuming it uses Windows and lots of additional improvement because of VR requirements.

How are other companies suppose to compete? How are European companies suppose to compete?
I do fine on 16gb, with loaded browser and 4gb vm of Windows running.
> low-latency convolutional neural networks for battlefield devices.

It is called YOLO.
That sounds plausible. But also, most software (browsers, web service SDKs, RPC frameworks) treat TCP connections as fallible by setting read/write timeouts and aggressively reopening broken connections. So, I’m totally not surprised this issue went unnoticed for this many years.
100% worthy observation from my career experience.

Choice of a framework both attracts a certain type/subculture, and repels another.

Example: You have an old app that uses Backbone+CoffeeScript for the front end. If you stick with that, it will absolutely impact your hiring. But what about switching?

If you pick React, that will have one impact. If you pick Ember, that will have a different impact. And so forth…
Sweet great to hear.
Cost of doing business. Seems like this had positive ROI.

I’d like for companies that do illegal things to have repercussions in line with what an individual would face for doing the same thing. Whoever signs off on it at the highest level should pay the price.
It's too bad that this very interesting research being led by an obviously talented person has to be overshadowed by the sexual misconduct of the men around her.

I hope her and others like her can help fix the world before my daughter grows into it, but I worry patterns that are millennia old may take longer than a few generations to fix.
I didn't realize Tmobile exceeded Verizon in market cap. wow. VZ has taken major beating in share price lately because of its high debt load.

Looking at Tmobile's plan, https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans I'm shocked at how low their price is for 3 phonelines. $90 essential plan is all I need. Similar plan on ATT would cost me at least 30%+ more.
It’s pretty damning for Google, the company, which clearly had knowledge they were misrepresenting “incognito mode”. Whether or not it’s damning for the individual engineers is a matter of debate, likely depending on whether or not they worked on the feature or if they had the ability to do anything about it.
Agreed. When a company does something illegal, the "company" is liable. But it was actually a person within the company who made the decision to do this; companies are not sentient. Why are the decision makers not held liable instead?