skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting thought. I think this falls in line with explaining mistakes to people and is quickly off topic to op.

If AI could help people to bring their point or grievance across in a clear manner, this would be the opposite of a shadow ban. This can be done transparent, in Form of a suggestion.

E.g to write penis as p.e.n.i.s. to make clear that proton enhanced neutron induction spectroscopy is abbreviated here, might be helpful to some.

AI can create a feedback loop ethically, if it makes itself know as an AI or automated system or Eliza 2.0. The user can choose to just opt out or mash on his keyboard as he pleases, as we do since 1964.

That is all ethical, but deceiving users and trapping them definitely isn't.
As much as I appreciate my x220’s god knows what they would be like if I hadn’t replaced the stock OS. Thank god Ubuntu aren’t shipping Lenovo Vantage just yet
Mexico also has rights to some of that water. It is undeniably a sovereign state.
Everything old is new again - delay line memory at the speed of light.
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It’s fascinating that the conclusion / forecast is that tools will abstract engineering problems and DE will move closer to the business . While over the last 20 years the exact opposite has happened and the toolset has actually become harder (not easier to use) but orders of magnitude more powerful and DE has moved closer to engineering, to the point where a good data engineer basically is a specialized software engineer.

The absolute pinnacle of “easy to use” was probably the Informatica / Oracle stack of the late 90’s and early 00’s. It just wasn’t powerful or scalable enough to meet the needs of the Big Data shift

Of course I guess this makes sense given the author works for a company with a vested interest in reversing that trend.
Not the Time to Get Greedy: House Flippers Getting Burned by US Housing Downturn
... until all your numbers become dates.
And what's crazy is that everyone thinks it's going to be electric cars that somehow saves us. When the fact of the matter is there is a ton of stuff we can start doing today that would positively impact the environment.

It's pretty easy:

* Restore lawn areas to native plants: small (wildflowers), medium (bushes), big (trees)

* For areas that are kept as lawn, simply mow less. Allow plants to flower. Don't treat clover as evil. Support multiple grass types. Stop using chemical fertilizers and stop trying to feed the grass. Feed the soil with organic fertilizers and compost.

That's it! It reduces maintenance costs and time, reduces the use of gasoline, reduces noise pollution, and vastly improves soil health, insect and wildlife health, and increases pollination of our own food. It's a literal win-win.

And yet, no one does it. They turn their lawns into wastelands and never even use them. I've heard that lawns should be compared to deserts but that even that is disregarding the biodiversity that deserts have over lawns.
> In the end, the 8th instruction has 99 possible byte-offset, and assuming that we put, as you suggest, a decoder for each position and length, we need about 1590 decoders and many multiplexer to decode 8 full instructions per cycle.

Um... wat? No CPU tries to decode 99 bytes of memory in a cycle. ADL is at 32 currently, I believe. And the instruction starting at byte 12 doesn't change depending on anything but it's own data. It either exists (because the previous instruction ended on byte 11) or it doesn't. So you decode 32 instructions starting at each byte you've fetched (the last ones can be smaller subset engines because they don't need to decode longer instruction forms), and then mask them on or off based on earlier instruction state. Then feed your 1-32 decoded instructions through a mux tree to pack them and you're done.

Surely there's more complexity, since this is going to have to be pipelined in practice, and a depth of 32 is going to require something akin to a carry-lookahead adder instead of being chained.

But the combinatorics you're citing seem ridiculous, I don't understand that at all.
Ever since sophisticated real-time 3D graphics became a thing, I've often heard the idea expressed that we could learn about history by experiencing it "first hand". An incredible VR experience, surely.

The problem is that a meticulous recreation is really hard even if you have a bunch of historians doing the work, and very likely to reproduce a ton of modern biases without good documentation of every tiny detail. For medieval Europe, it's probably simply impossible to get right. The written record just isn't good enough.
How high quality are we talking here?
I remember there being one but I forget the name and can't find it now. I just reinstall Windows before the first boot.
Palm os based Sony Clie PEG-SJ20 Handheld is the most comfortable, handy and effective personal digital assistance I've had so far.

iPhone is still yet to keep up in some tiny but crucial UX and usability details (like auto context menus for contact names in any text field, amazing cursor management etc.)

But they lost in other aspects. So it doesn't make any sense to say
"<software/company/person> was right".
And people wonder why I still hold a grudge against Microsoft. We still live with the consequences of three decades of bad behavior. A little deathbed conversion doesn’t mean as much as some think it does.
It’s called the Flynn effect and reverse Flynn effect.

From the 90s on, test scores are falling, even if this specific data doesn’t show it.

I agree that what is seen here in this short-term data is the lockdown effect.

Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6042097/
A lot of people don't realize that California's biggest export is actually airplanes and airplane parts. Whenever there's a war California's economy rapidly grows
Most of them lost everything. Idi Amin expropriated wealth from this group, that is how they ended up in the UK.

The reason why this group hasn't had economic woes is because they work harder than everyone else. I know a few families with this background, all of them came here with nothing, all their kids went to private school, they just worked harder and spent nothing. One family I know: three kids, all private school, their parents slept on the sofa and floor of their living room in a tiny flat, mother worked two/three jobs, dad worked 5am-10pm every day...if you didn't know what it took, they are privileged...but all anyone sees is "private school"...must be rich.

GPs and pharmacists didn't make that much money back then. Drawing sweeping conclusions about someone because of the school they went to (particularly given that Sunak was massively successful after school) is weak, it is the kind of narrow-minded viewpoint that the left constantly claims to be a victim of (in the UK).
Ory [0] is also an OSS Zanzibar implementation.

[0] https://ory.sh
These aren't the Thinkpads power users usually buy. The bloatware machines are generally their consumer lines.

I use the Lenovo Vantage update app that I think the thread is talking about on my own dual boot Thinkpad. It's a particularly slow app with pointless animations to look good. It makes warranty info prominent to try to sell customers on an extended one, and has some other 'useless to power user' features. However it only runs when I run it, and I'm just there for the firmware updates.

I expect the consumer line also includes other bloat beyond that though, or enables mis-features to 'protect' the user.
If there's a liability issue, and they can't fire, then this sounds like the only choice?
Imagine a bunch of professors trying to be “influencers” instead of real scientists and you’ll not be far off.
That's not how businesses work.

That's not how humans work.

This is a complete unhinged fantasy.
If you look at the paper objectively even someone without the proper credentials should see red flags popping up left and right. He may have the credentials but his social media activities and his blatant hate for the scientific community (as he repeated in the post) during the pandemic seems to be driven by anger and hate. If he despises the scientific community that much and sees his studies and pre doctorates as a waste of time but uses them to give himself credibility seems odd. The "we did what we could we did the data we have" is also strange even if 90% of scientists are in on the conspiracy you would find somene who could provide a proper dataset. He could have avoided all of this if he would have just waited for the peer reviews, but we mostly know how they will turn out if he is that angry now. There are certainly still "Heureka" moments out there in which a hobbyist can outshine the status quo of the scientific community but this is not it.
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Can California sign treaties with other countries?
How would do that nicely and automatically, to do funny things like that in a way that would be resistant to the accidental optimizations/resizing that will be applied to the JPG?
The only environmentally friendly way is for each person to travel to the place of manufacture on foot, pick up the items they want, without any packaging, and then walk back to their homes. Nothing else is acceptable!
A rollercoaster of a post...
The difference is that the probability of any given "real" number being used for anything, ever, or even being nameable, or even being potential covered by a naming scheme, is 0.
This is also true for countably infinite collections of real numbers.

Real numbers are unreal, at a scale incomprehensibly beyond the merely slightly hidden numbers like complex algebraics and the known transcendentals. Real numbers aren't numbers. R is a background continuum in which numbers exist. It is almost entirely void, yet contains an infinite collection of actual numbers.
> America and Poland are the most likely culprits.

Whatever benefit any NATO agent might have from blowing up these pipes would be negated by the risk of getting caught.

Neither, the US or Poland would want a weaker more fractured NATO -- which would be the result if they got caught doing this.

In that sense, it even makes sense for Russia to be coy about it.
There’s no reason to just assume that it’s legal.
Yup that's why it sucks Obama handed control of large swathes of rare earth mineral deposits to China. (Try to make those iPods last a few extra years if you have one already lolllll)
That would make btrfs a CAS filesystem. The indirection hurts performance, which is why I recommend having an ex-Merkle cache of physical locations right where the pointers are. The indirection gets you dedup automatically, too.
There's a cultural expectation that a fired or laid off employee is entitled to severance (unless they were fired "for cause"), even in the absence of a legal requirement. You are also entitled to state unemployment benefits in the US if you are fired or laid off (again, unless fired "for cause"), whereas you're just on your own if you quit.
A modern ICBM (see: Sarmat) carries multiple independently targetable warheads (or hypersonic gliders), equipped with active missile defense countermeasures and decoys, striking from arbitrary direction (eg flying over south pole on a non-ballistic suborbital trajectory).

Now try to shoot that down.
"Mathemetics"

Is this the regurgitative didactic method I keep hearing about?
We're monkeys living in groups, looking for food and shelter. The same struggle has been going on since before we consider 'ourselves' Homo sapiens.
Standing desk?

What's your workout regime? Squats? Bench press?
This brought back a wave of nostalgia, thank you!
Because we aren't worried about ICBMs anymore. We are worried about hypersonic nuclear missiles launched from nuclear sub that are off our coastline. All you need to do is design missiles that will fly low enough and fast enough so that no type of anti-missile system would be feasible. And they basically already have this.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15020726
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It's one of those things that's such an obviously bad idea that it should be illegal regardless of the consequences. That said, I'm pretty dubious that this sort of sharing has had much of an impact. Prices at big apartment complexes aren't exactly secret. You lose some fidelity due to negotiated discounts/concessions and you lose exact occupancy information. But the publicly available information is good enough to use as comps.
It doesn't matter whether it is hours or one minute, it's unacceptable. A sibling comment here describes how a Windows update started in the middle of a presentation someone was giving, which indicates quite clearly that Windows Updates take productive time away - not just of the user of the computer, but those who were listening also.

Again, computers are our servants, not our managers.
If we truly used up all solar and wind power on the planet (which is a mind-bogglingly large amount of energy) there is still nuclear fission which is also a very large amount. Then if we invent fusion, that's basically infinite energy for free. And on top of all that, Earth is not the only planet, and the Sun has energy that does not only hit the Earth, so we can be construct a Dyson sphere.

Energy from our human scale today is basically infinite when we count all the sources available to us.
What we have recently seen from China is actually just a missile sponge of large silo fields of ICBMs being built so that even if America does strike first, China still has a nuclear deterrent in the form of the missiles not wiped out.

It's hard to take out a lot of targets even if they are relatively soft.

https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1212970/a-second-sil...
He was barking up the wrong tree too, as HTML indentation is controlled by 'indentexpr' and not 'cindent' or 'smartindent' (and was in 2011 too). These options are kind of legacy from back when Vim was mostly just an editor for C code and before there was anything like VimScript so indentation had to be in Vim itself, rather than a runtime file.

It's unfortunate; I still see people confused by it today.
The opposite stories do get written. e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-19/mark-zuck...

I do agree that it's a very lazy form of news generation. Most of the (publicly) richest people tend to hold most of their wealth in stocks, which have always had volatile prices. So "the rich got richer/poorer" is largely synonymous with stock prices went up/down.

Exchange rates tend to be a bit less volatile, but they do fluctuate quite a bit, so that accounts for quite a bit of the changing fortunes of California vs Germany. Still, it's quite remarkable (if true) that California has similar nominal production/income as Germany which has twice the population, implying that the people are on average twice as productive.
Actually, I’m half Iranian. And I lived there in the 90s for 5 months so I know first hand exactly how backwards and primitive the people are and the conditions they live in.

The roads have no traffic lights or speed limits it’s total chaos. They can’t make uniform bricks to build houses from. The toilets are a hole in the ground and there’s no toilet paper just a shared wet cloth. They don’t even have air conditioning where it’s so hot you can fry an egg on the pavement. The religious nuts come to your house if you don’t turn up at the mosque for prayer 3 times a day and you better have a good excuse why. Back then there were posters up to report your neighbor for having a satellite dish for watching western television. People were scared to talk on the phone. They have no furniture everything is done on the floor.

They have no refrigerators, everything is bought fresh at the bazaars, mostly goat cheese and unleavened bread and jam and black tea with sugar. There are mosquitos everywhere. Women are considered a type of animal, and many men have multiple wives in separate houses as allowed by law. When I say primitive I mean primitive. And anyone with sense ie the young college students desperately want out of the country. They fight tooth and nail to get a placement in a western university just to escape that hellhole.

And that story about people getting shot on the beach by machine gunners on jeeps? Those were my cousins. They didn’t get shot but it was a really really close call. Had the men not been there to negotiate, they would’ve been killed for sure.

The stories I heard about Iran before going were complete bullshit. They lie and lie about their country some type of national pride, but they live in squalor and under religious oppression. Since I grew up in a Christian school I once made the mistake of saying I was a Christian (I’m not). There was total outrage from the family and I was told to STFU in no uncertain terms.

Also at least in my family the parents beat the children. I mean full on assault punching kicking and with sticks and belts, all the way violent. There was screaming and crying every other day, and I mean true despair. One of my cousins had her nose broken and a black eye for having a fit having failed to get into college.

The pressure for the young to escape is intense. Some, like my uncle, joined the army to escape, at 15. He was dead in a week in the Iraq war. They named the street after him to encourage other kids to join up.

Ok, I’m saying a lot of negative things, so in fairness, the common folk are friendly and humble and kind. They aren’t bad people, but they’ve let the religious nuts totally break the countries infrastructure and destroyed any opportunity for joining the civilized world, and while they claim to be a democracy, which next to their neighboring countries is comparatively true, there is no form of freedom in Iran. They’re still hanging people for being gay and cutting the hands off thieves.
I suspect that is the parent commenter's point: If you can't externalize the problem, you are forced to deal with it. If you have to deal with it, chances are you won't just dump it in a landfill.
> Also the political risk for everyone else seems suicidally high.

Yeah, the risk of getting caught would be non-zero.
I wonder how easy it would be to change "most recently pushed" to something like a redis sorted set where each document has a score and only the top N results are retained when sorted by their separate score value? That would allow you to sort by pageviews / popularity in a more useful way. But it fails entirely when looking for uncommon intersections of common words, which feels like it makes it useless for most actual full-text search use-cases :(
I thought one of the most interesting points of the article was towards the bottom. Part of inaccuracy is that you'll be wandering around the village in the game and you'll find adult pigs in pens. It sounds like pigs were mostly free-range and in the woods for their adult life. Later on, as the "wilderness" shrank they transitioned to more of a farm animal.
I don't agree.

It's an opportunity for the younger generation to change how things are done.

Management is not necessarily incompetent for doing this. Good management also tries its best to replace old systems with new technology before the old people are even gone, but you can only do so much given the infinite pessimism from the team members below at all levels of experience as well as leadership higher up.
I've thought about this too, but tbh the water sequestered in bottles should be nothing compared to what gets pushed under the mantle during tectonic plate movements, and the amount that falls into essentially unreachable and unknown aquifers.

Also in the long run that water will be squeezed out of those bottles by pressure and degradation, so I don't think that's too much to worry about.
I would like to see some formatting on that formula on the article.

I have some people on the business side that are good with Excel, but I usually have to work some magic in Python for them when the row count gets +250k.

I know the row limit is 1M, but when you get beyond 250k your Excel really starts to drag.
The other thing to keep in mind is that German universities and US universities are very different. In Germany sports team, high-end cafeterias, student experience centers, and all the other things wealthy Americans appreciate are unknown in Germany. The focus is very much on classrooms and labs. Also, the teacher/student ratio and class sizes are much worse in Germany so it really depends on what you're looking for.

I got a fantastic ME education at a German university and I wish the tuition I pay for my kids in the US would go more towards academics and less to all the other overhead.
I never asked that! I said it would be interesting to see how the line count of Wireguard and the 3rd party software needed to bring it in feature parity with OpenVPN compared with OpenVPN since the line count of Wireguard by itself is touted as an advantage.
An epithet is not an argument. I'm not saying you are wrong; I am saying you are not even wrong.
Anecdotally, I purchased a surface pro 7 and the ridiculous number of unexpected automatic updates and reboots without warning (overnight) lost me a bunch of data. Luckily it wasn't work related, but it has continued my deep-seated hatred of the MS "user experience". Don't get me started on the tracking & surveillance crap built into Windows 10+.

It was okay after about a year of random reboots. It's a shame because MS was looking to become "better", but they're just better at increasing their bottom line at the expense of user data and their privacy.

Software development and everything feeding into it should have a code of ethics like other professions: medical, law, engineering. I don't know how it will survive long-term without losing trust. But then again it's been limping on from scandal to breach to incident to overreach for decades now.
Then you've read some terribly misleading, romanticized false version of history. Hunter-gatherer lives should not be romanticized as being desirable. They were (and are, in the few places they still exist) incredibly hard, dangerous and miserable existences.

Think of it as the most extreme form of poverty. No clean water, no shoes, malnutrition, limited protection against the weather. Every day going about basic tasks carries the risk for death, disease and disablement.

There is a reason that human population didn't rapidly increase until relatively recently in our collective hundred-thousand-year history. It's because most humans died before reaching reproductive age. Even in the few pockets of the globe with conditions favorable to survival, periodic events (weather, disease, rival groups, over-hunting, etc) wiped out entire tribes in terrible ways.
Not using a tool because people might not know the tool already is an interesting take. Learning a few extra symbols isn't as much of a bottleneck as you think. Heck, people learn to read entire new alphabets, I'm learning one right now and that's a task much harder than learning some APL glyphs.

> APL probably don't have as many modern, free and online resources as other languages.

Not as many, but that can be a good thing too. Lots of languages have tutorials, libraries and articles that use horrible practices. I write React + TypeScript for work, and it's an especially big problem.
Using your metaphor, the sidewalk is your ISP. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not the sidewalk, but instead a megaphone given to these people. The problem is society, but these platforms are not just places, they are giant amplifiers of this problematic society, and they are absolutely choosing (algorithmically) who to amplify.