skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point of an insecticide is to kill the specific insect being a pest to the crop.

Even this can cause a collapse by removing a food source from other predators.

> I can save you the time. There will be no world.

This is true. Insects are food for a huge number of predators, and insect larvae are a really important component of having soil capable of growing plants.
this is committing the fallacy of equating student loan debt with other types of debt. if student loan debt were dischargeable in babkruptcy, even if only after some period of time like 10 years, it would be a much more sensible propsition. If we are so committed to charging people to go to school, and thereby become much better citizens, (utility to the eventual company that hires you be damned), then the structural problems with the current system can be resolved by requiring that the schools themselves be the lenders and adding this delayed bankruptcy protection.
I think your response highlights the point I was making, and also highlights why you see polarization around this issue.

If you're talking about "volunteering at the PTO", my guess is that you are married with children. Most people who are married with children already have most of their social framework "set", and often times (at least in the US) so much of their free time revolves are child rearing and their childrens' activities such that most of their "neighborhood friends" revolve around the serendipitous encounters they have with other parents - the PTO as you mention, sports games, etc.

But for people at an earlier stage of their life and career, I think you'll find they often have a different outlook. They're often looking for a spouse, they have much more free time without kids so they're looking to meet people, etc.

For me personally, I'm also at a stage where my social connections are pretty set. But I got so many of my early workplace connections when I joined a job that had a "bootcamp" 2 month training program for new grads. I've gotten nearly every subsequent job over a couple decades from that first job, not to mention many close friends. I know I wouldn't have had those close connections if I had been solely WFH in my first job out of college.
> A system which stops 50% of incoming missiles means that only half as many people will die in a nuclear war, obviously a desirable result.

Half as many will die on the first day of nuclear war.

So assume the enemy only obliterated 50 cities when without defense it would have been 100. That's great! But those 50 nuclear explosions are probably still enough to shroud large parts of the country in nuclear fallout. Not to mention the country's infrastructure will still be destroyed, leading to chaos, diseases, famine and all the other consequences of nuclear war. It's not clear to me a defense that could destroy 50% of incoming missiles would make meaningful difference in what happens medium or long term.

This is also another general argument against nuclear war: Fallout cares about borders about as much as covid did. Even if you're the attacker and your defense is so good you don't have to worry about retaliatory strikes, you will with high likelihood contaminate your allies as well.
Yeah, I remembered your posting history. I guess I would phrase my question as whether you really think that he used that as part of some thoughtful economic worldview but also felt “coup” was accurate?
The key point is the petabit per second rate they achieved:

>Using only a single light source, scientists have set a world record by transmitting 1.8 petabits per second.

In 2021 the world record was 300 TB[0]. Why is the headline misleading? for reference, the headline is currently "Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second." This seems to be correct:

>According to a study from global telecommunications market research and consulting firm TeleGeography, global internet bandwidth has risen by 28% over the course of 2022, with a four-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29%, and is now standing at 997Tbps (terabits per second).[1]

>Normally, data over a fiber is multiplexed using many wavelengths of light (wave-division multiplexing, or WDM for short). These wavelengths are generated from an array of lasers, forming a frequency comb.

I think that is a relativly new techniuque. For example see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14010-7 :

>Optical frequency combs were originally conceived for establishing comparisons between atomic clocks1 and as a tool to synthesize optical frequencies2,3, but they are also becoming an attractive light source for coherent fiber-optical communications, where they can replace the hundreds of lasers used to carry digital data

So "normally" might give the wrong impression. As far as I know, no commercial service is using it. One reason is the cost, which this article addresses by proposing a chip based apporach which makes it cheaper and easier.

[0]https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2021/07/12-1.html

[1]https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252524883/New-networking...

Edit: I should point out that the "previous" record was with a 4-core optical fiber, whereas this one uses a 37 core one. They are really two different things: one about the cable and the other about the transmitter. So this one doesn't "beat" the other.
Intrigued. Care to elaborate
Debian runs without systemd fine, at least for me.

Try trinity as a desktop with sysvinit.
One of the reasons for not using Quickwit for user facing search is the latency: for example, you pay 70ms of latency when you make a request on AWS S3... and generally you expect latency below that figure.
Decoupling compute and storage while keeping a very low latency may be then impossible unless ending up by caching all your data on disk :).

You can have a look at lnx (https://lnx.rs/) that is based on tantivy and is performing quite well. It's not yet distributed but the author Chillfish8 has some thoughts about how to do it.
A lot of times IT gets positioned as a service entity, inferior to the adults in the room, so the “xyz guy” is more like the janitor specialist for mopping vs. a valued stakeholder.

It’s one of those warning signs about an organization. When you’re collaborating with fellow engineers, it’s a completely different dynamic.
What bothers me is that many basic ethical principles fall by the wayside when the topic shifts to our own children. The reason for that is obvious: we are the descendants of organisms that valued reproduction. It's nonetheless an interesting discussion to have.

Is it ethical to create a sentient AI that might suffer? -> we already make similar decisions millions of times per day

Don't treat humans as means to an end, instead treat them as ends -> we create other humans to satisfy our current needs in a world characterized by struggle

And of course as you have pointed out, some groups consider that it's better by default for a child to exist in adverse starting conditions (whilst also negatively impacting other people) than to not exist
> I think getting rid of a stigma for those that didn't go to college is fine and probably something we should work at more as a society.

This tends to be pushed by those with college degrees though (high school teachers). As parents who push kids to do something more blue collar but still in major demand (welding, plumbing, electrical, etc) you are up against an entire schooling system that has been heavily pushing college for the last 30 years.
I actually think modern society is horrible in all sorts of ways leading to, among other things, rising rates of mental health issues. But I fail to see the connection between rising rates of depression and mental health issues and what's being discussed here.
Back when Microsoft was great, good old times

Great software
Firefox reader mode works wonders for those kind of issues
Silly. I've been self hosting since I degoogled. Never have I regretted not using docker. To imply that you should do this is the kind of hilariously out of touch I expect from developers :).

This guide lacks the most important tools: fail2ban and tripwire. I block on the order of 5,000 malicious requests a day (mostly recon bots) from Russian and China.
That would take millions if not billions out of the private software industry.
Started last week. So no numbers to show off right now.

This week is going great. 1k visitors so far.
> equivalent response against Russian gas infrastructure. It can’t be done without WW3.

In terms of equivalent / proportional response, RU can fuck with maritime infra and disproportionately disrupt NATO countries more reliant on imports and trade flows / connectivitiy. NATO would have to escalate to disrupting RU within RU soil, or hit one of their critical connections to PRC which would be... bold.
"expensive Apple device" I know it's a lot of money for some folks, but a new iPhone SE is $400, and old iPhones remain serviceable for an absurdly long time — the iPhone SE 1st gen was compatible with latest-versions on release date for seven freaking years.

How is a $400 device that lasts seven years more expensive than even $200 budget Androids that have to get replaced every two years?
I would like to mention the concept of "Soulbound Tokens" as a way of attacking this problem. This is the subject of a paper this year by Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum), E. Glen Weyl (economist/researcher at Microsoft Research) and Puja Ohlhaver.

Here's the abstract:

"""
Web3 today centers around expressing transferable, financialized assets, rather than encoding social relationships of trust. Yet many core economic activities—such as uncollateralized lending and building personal brands—are built on persistent, non-transferable relationships. In this paper, we illustrate how non-transferable “soulbound” tokens (SBTs) representing the commitments, credentials, and affiliations of “Souls” can encode the trust networks of the real economy to establish provenance and reputation. More importantly, SBTs enable other applications of increasing ambition, such as community wallet recovery, sybil-resistant governance, mechanisms for decentralization, and novel markets with decomposable, shared rights. We call this richer, pluralistic ecosystem “Decentralized Society” (DeSoc)—a co-determined sociality, where Souls and communities come together bottom-up, as emergent properties of each other to co-create plural network goods and intelligences, at a range of scales. Key to this sociality is decomposable property rights and enhanced governance mechanisms—such as quadratic funding discounted by correlation scores—that reward trust and cooperation while protecting networks from capture, extraction, and domination. With such augmented sociality, web3 can eschew today’s hyper-financialization in favor of a more transformative, pluralist future of increasing returns across social distance.
"""

Here's the paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105763
I am pretty sure that your second sentence is not true. The government can ask private companies to censor in my understanding. The private companies do not have to comply, but if they wish to, they can. Why do you think it is illegal to ask? Can you back that up?
Reminds me of:

https://youtu.be/1SNxaJlicEU
"Integers and rational numbers are also reals"

Many mathematicians don't think so.

Category Theory has a category of sets. Integers/Rationals/Reals are different Objects (sets) in this category.

Type Theory is similar s/Category/Type.
"guaranty" is the archaic spelling
> A predilection for SQL, yielding "get the answer right once" big-ball-of-SQL solutions which are infeasible to debug or modify without causing regressions.

Yea, thankfully some frameworks have Python / Scala APIs that let you abstract "SQL logic" into programatic functions that can be chained and reused independently to avoid the big-ball-of-SQL problem. The best ones also allow for SQL because that's the best way to express some logic.

> Poor support for unit testing.

I've written pandas, PySpark, Scala Spark, and Dask testing libs. Not sure which framework you're referring to.

> Poor support for version control.

The execution platform should make it easy to package up code in JAR files / Python wheel files and attach them to your cluster, so you can version control the business logic. If not, yea, that's a huge limitation.

> Frameworks over libraries (because the vendors want to lock you in)

Not sure what you're referring to, but interested in learning more.
As a Californian, I wish we'd overtake Germany in welfare indicators too: free college, great schools, good healthcare, etc.
Hardly. I can often do in Excel in 5 minutes what would take me an hour or two with Python.

I've got some output from something or a table of data I can copy-paste into Excel, quickly do some text-to-columns or string manipulation (tweaking it instantly if I see things don't look right) to get the data into a usable format, then go and build up some formulas, sorts, and plots to answer whatever question I had / get something I can share with others.

Each of those steps is doable with Python + SQLite, but takes more time: I have to write my own data parser (yes, Python's string utils are very good for this, but generally Excel is faster to use, despite using Python for years for my job. I have to then create a schema for the data, and then I have to iterate on my analysis functions, and then finally write my own output / futz around with a graphing library, rerunning whenever I want to tweak something (instead of just changing a cell or chart parameter and seeing it instantly reflected on screen.

There is a crossover point where the complexity of the analysis, amount of data, or otherwise makes Excel less practical, but it absolutely has a place as a super-helpful tool, even for those capable of using more powerful general purpose programming languages.
What if you want to be promoted?
Diagnosis of depression going up (as shown in the first link) don't necessarily mean incidents of depression are going up. It could be that more people are trying to treat it than before.
Are you concerned with light or heat caused cancer?
"Do not look at mirror with remaining eye"
I was in a union and learned to keep a lot of automation to myself, as they'd really get in a fuss about that sort of thing.
From my perspective FB/Instagram's algorithm (I'll throw in YouTube too) never really worked. They overemphasized showing me the exact same type of thing until the feed became boring. You liked this post about a chair -- here's nothing but chairs.

I also joined FB to keep in touch with people I met in real life. It changed to push me to engage with groups and people I had nothing in common with.

I didn't join TikTok to keep up with friends that way. The TikTok algorithm does a great job of showing me new stuff that I might be interested in, but is still related. It's remarkably good.

FWIW -- It also seems to forget everything about me if I log off for a months.

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Sure, I'm training data sets. Everything I do online is monitored and analyzed by someone at some point.

I spent a year of my life trying to "get off Google." IMO it's pretty close to impossible if you want to function in society.

I'm skeptical that the TikTok algorithm knows anything about me that my search history doesn't show.

I don't think TikTok is a "good thing" but I don't understand why it is sometimes painted as this unique evil.

The worst part of TikTok in my opinion is how much time I've wasted using it, but that's nothing new for social networks.
Thanks! We do have Rack middleware [1], as well as a Rails integration [2]. Let us know what you think!

[1] https://www.topaz.sh/docs/software-development-kits/ruby/mid...

[2] https://www.topaz.sh/docs/software-development-kits/ruby/rai...
I was a student, barely managed to afford it, couldn’t justify replacing it. Wifi issues were worse than trackpad for example - absolutely terrible range and speeds up to 400KBs. I sent it back only to get the same laptop back with extra scratches. After that I didn’t even get a reply from support anymore.

I managed to fix wifi issues with extra dongle, but how sad is that? Trackpad was always an issue.

You think I’m speaking badly of Lenovo just for fun?
Maybe you're not in your position, but in my position, one of my duties is to spend extra time finding value-added tasks for my employer.
>Every new hire

In what industry?
This resonates with me a lot. I find it quite odd that people are happy to blame facebook, twitter, instagram and etc. for the things people do on those platforms. It's like blaming the public square or the coffee shop or whatever place "problematic" people gather and discuss "problematic" ideas.

No. The platform is just a place just like a sidewalk is a place. The problem is society itself. But I guess that's a hard pill to swallow for people and making up imaginary enemies then laying down the regulations on those imaginary enemies is preferred to addressing issues with society itself.
https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/guaranty
As others have said, it's not random, but woe to you if you get caught in the crosshairs. In this particular instance, the sociopath who became my boss -- best I can figure -- blamed me for something that my previous boss did, and he rode me into the ground with crap assignments and continually-derisive language.

When I finally got a chance to program something for him, towards the end of our time together, and it ran 5 times faster than his favored programmer, he questioned me like I had gotten someone else to do it or something. He was absolutely incredulous, never would admit that, hey, maybe I did know something about what I was talking about.

There's a quote that goes something like, "Never get between a jerk and his goals," and that's what it felt like, for an interminable 3 years.
It is interesting that the source article from Chaitin it seems to regard its own title as mere wordplay, it does not want to get into the Morpheus Question “What is real? How do you define real?”... But the response seems to take it very seriously and get somewhat upset about it.

Other than those aspects the discussion is kind of snore-fest...
I'd say the alternative is cloth reusable bags rather than paper. It's what I use.

It's stronger and easier to handle than plastic; you just need to remember to bring one with you. My partner keeps one in her bag permanently in case she shops on a whim.
(a) probably not based on my personal observations

(b) where is the spelling error? If you're thinking it's 'guaranty,' that's a non-standard but correct use of the word (and in context, possibly a pun juxtaposed with "old English typography and curvy signatures").
Hey hypotheses are meant to be disapproved, it's an important part of the process.
I honestly can’t tell if this abstract is also GPT-3 generated.
It doesn’t have to be that apocalyptic. Take the literal traffic enforcement for example. Driving faster than the speed limit gets traffic fines. Cities have cameras for red light or toll booth violations and have databases of offenders.
The problem is that people want college for free...for everyone. No country in the world provides free college to everyone. You have a lot of stipulations as to who qualifies as we don't need the person who barely graduated high school at the bottom of their class to go to college. That is a waste for society and that person...as they will end up failing out of college and have wasted years of their life.
Isn't this why Windows have MOV EDI, EDI at the start of a function?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...
I know lots of good programmers that had no connections, couldn't do internships for personal reasons, and aren't great at interviewing.
If the government had forced the private companies to comply, it would be the private companies who had standing to sue, not the end parties who are currently suing, I would imagine.
That’s not really high. 5000 ppm is the maximum safe level according to OSHA. The International Space Station and nuclear submarines routinely operate around 5000 ppm and there’s no sign of degraded performance among the crews, who routinely perform cognitively demanding tasks.
Another great project from Komodor!
In the delivery-company-on-a-recurring-basis case, they could bring fully re-usable packaging (crates or something I guess) and then just recover it when they come back next week.

When I’ve been in Europe I’ve often seen that there are no bags except for fully re-usable tote bags that you have to pay 1-2€ for. It really only takes one instance of forgetting your own bags to teach the lesson.
You might be off by another factor of 100 because most of those "active users" just consume stuff and maybe add a comment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
Colleges ACTIVELY game the system by enrolling people in programs they will drop out of. 500+ student freshman lectures turn a profit. 50 student capstones are a loss. So the universities don't mind it if people enroll in stuff they're not qualified for and drop out or transfer after a year or two.
> I can hand it off to someone else and they will both know how to run it, and, in a pinch, how to change it

How to change it, yes. How to get the correct result, probably not.

But well, they will get a result. Many people are satisfied with that.
Require TLS Client Certificates at the load balancer level (or even just HTTP basic auth).
Good question, I don't run any banking apps on Android out of principle. I don't like authenticator apps either but they are better than SMS verifcation which I despise. Where possible, I use a Yubikey or other separate read-only device.

Banking is only done on a laptop booted from a read-only stick and with a TAN-generator.
Agree that this is currently mainly just useful for news (and filtering out low-quality news sites) but it isn't quite there yet when it comes to researching start-up creation.
No.

I am of the view that people claiming others have an ethical obligation to report these things are making this claim from a position of safety that is not shared by the person they are advising.
The article you're commenting on specifically mentions that this all started because of someone asking Microsoft to do this on Twitter
> A lot of companies are hiring right now, and for fresh-out-of-college grads, the requirements are pretty basic and basically cover the schoolwork.

And as a result, they receive hundreds or thousands of nigh-identical applicants. If you don't stand out somehow, you don't get hired.

Check r/cscareerquestions, you'll see many examples. The entry level job market is much tougher than the experienced market.
Assumes the app uses cache as it's cache, rather than names like dlcontent, bananas_content, storage.sqlite, assets, meta, $TIMESTAMP.txt etc.
Still reading the article, but upon reading

> Despite these difficulties, the cognitive notion of a continuum is not at all difficult to grasp. The difficulties arise only when trying to communicate, for example by naming or describing all the real numbers. But one can understand without communicating.

I feel it's important to point out that humans are very good at convincing themselves that they have done a great job of understanding things when they have not. Including brilliant minds.

Since this is in "trust our intuitions" territory about, essentially, philosophy of mind, it's worth bringing along this awareness.
"Just say no" ignores a lot of power dynamics. And they will get mad if "no" means "I think someone or something else is more important than you."

Skill at Excel doesn't always translate well to navigating social and corporate hierarchies well. By showing your Excel skills, you induce demand, often from other team members who are deliberately bad at Excel and who will spend their time on higher-visibility activities and tasks that win them more attention. And you'll be their mule.