skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC it was https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/the-lib... (or at least in that series) and finding a samizdat'ed scan took a good deal of work (and maybe even some поиск'ing).

Best I can do at the moment is to recommend searching from http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nachumd/term/EarlyProof.pdf which was one of the papers I passed on the way... (IIRC Goldstine and von Neumann has diagrams resembling Figure 2; I don't recall if Figure A had been anticipated or not — remember all these people had been attending the same conferences, so it's very likely)

Basically, back in the rosy-fingered dawn of electronic computation, they already had in mind "know what your state should look like at all points, so you can binary chop to find what control flow first made it go wonky".

(a question I have not investigated: how well developed were debugging techniques in the card computing era? I've read horror stories of Los Alamos computations being corrected on-the-fly, with "new code" cards on a different coloured stock being run at the same time through machines that were still busy processing "old code" cards on normal coloured stock.

And in terms of "know what your state should look like", card machines did have facilities to abort jobs if the input card deck should fail simple sanity check logic, implying that's been a thing since, probably, Hollerith ca. 1890.)

[Edit: I'll have to dig it out of my library, but an old book my spouse got me on Naval computation, from back when "computer" was a job title, not an object, talks about how to organise jobs that would take a week or two to run. I'm sure they had plenty of double-checking going on to make sure a slipup on Wednesday wouldn't result in complete garbage by the following Monday.]
I have a small script that does hash(key + masterPasswd). key is usually just the site's domain name. I have the script and a few of the important passwords (eg my email) written down on paper in case my drive dies. It works fine for me.
I, personally, agree with you. If you are sick, stay home. And nobody should have to use vacation time to stay home sick. Will some people abuse this to stay home when not sick? Absolutely. Let them stay home anyway. Better than getting the whole office sick. Also, you should be able to stay home if any family members are sick. Keep those sick kids out of school! Hopefully your work is such that you can work from home. Otherwise, better to be home than in the office getting other people sick.
> The first casualty when war comes is truth

Most wars would not be fought if governments were trustworthy. And those that remain could be fought with full transparency.

Trust is everything in society. When you start making exceptions everything falls apart.
Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.
I would be interested to see how you think this short video supports the claim you are making here, as it does not mention evolution, common sense or faith, and is ostensibly about how little knowledge one gains just by learning the name of a thing.
It would have had worse short term political consequences because it would have been an unpopular decision. But it wouldn’t have reinforced the worldview of conspiracy theorists.

They screwed up a bunch of things during COVID, but not many really trustworthy organizations actually just straight-up lied. Having something concrete to point to can’t help.
They could might as well dissolve the whole company. Most, if not all of their products are very security sensitive.
This was attempted with the "Do Not Track" header, but that initiative collapsed (lack of vendor support, lack of clarity in the spec regarding what it meant to not "track" someone, and ultimately it got yanked from Safari because it was yet another bit that malicious site operators could use for browser fingerprinting purposes).

The "Global Privacy Control" header is apparently the second attempt to cook this goose.
This contributes nothing to the discussion, except giving you a reason to feel better than others for arbitrary reasons.
Astonishing. Based on reports from employees on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/comments/zw32yt/p...), the actual story here is that Southwest has had a complete operational failure and is simply incapable of determining where their crews are, what flights they are eligible for, and associating them with flights on the schedule.

It sounds like there is a semi-automated system which broke somehow, or more likely failed to support the load of cascading changes that resulted from weather disruptions, and they simply don't have the capacity or flexibility to deal with this other than by cancelling flights for three days until they can sort everything out manually.

Reading between the lines a bit, one possible root cause is that their semi-automated system required crew members to update their status by phone when something goes wrong (perhaps with another human in the loop), and the sheer volume of disruption overloaded their phone system and resulted in the automated system becoming completely decoupled from the actual state of reality without sufficient bandwidth in the phone channel to get it back in sync in a reasonable amount of time.
Encrypted email just isn’t a thing. The minute you send a message to someone else it’s out in the wild.
I'm not sure about the insight. But i hate the UI, UX of Lastpass. Why it's so hard to change for simplicty and ease of use ? Is it dark pattern, is it technically impossible due to technical architectural complexity, or tech debt,.. ?

At least the UI tells me something about the internal.
No: Consider iPhone users with old phones which could open a browser to access darksky.net but cannot get the latest iOS (to which the updated weather app is tied.)

Also: Consider all the Android users which had the DarkSky app, plus all the other devices which could open a browser to visit darksky.net.
I'd like to, yes, absolutely. As a disclaimer, I don't like short-form videos - they're too often lowest-common-denominator content and further reinforces the whims of the younger generations (I have ADHD, for the record, so I'm in that target group) that can't bother to focus for more than 15 to 30 seconds. I'd rather see longer videos that actually teach me something.

Too many times I've seen what is definitely trash content - memes, dancing videos, AI-narrated "did you know" videos, etc... very low effort and low quality.

If shorts were a gateway or lead-in to longer videos (like a preview or highlights), I'm all for it. A quick example of the channel's style of explanation or what their content is all about. For example, I'm into cooking - If a short was like 15 seconds and said "hey, here's the recipe we're going to make today, and here are the ingredients, watch the full video for the full walkthrough", I'd be all over that. Same could be said for other things I'm into, such as music production ("here's a quick overview of how I made the lead sound for this song, watch the full video for the song breakdown") or economics ("Argentina goes into hyperinflation every decade or so, watch our video for a more detailed explanation of how and why").

Shorts could also be quick tips or interesting things like that. There are a few sports-related channels that provide instructions that can be summed up in less than 30 seconds and don't need a detailed explanation. I find those to be really useful. The famous tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglu is a good example, some of his shorts are great in that they provide simple fixes to issues a lot of tennis players of all levels (including some pros!) have in their game. Have an issue with your serve toss? Do this drill. Have an issue with your net game? Here's a simple drill to fix it. Easy, and straightforward. You learn something quickly, and you move on.

Short form content can be really useful, but it can also be bad in that it's too much junk as everyone wants to be a creator yet doesn't really have interesting content to learn from.
I was heavy working in Flash around this time, I remember Apple saying the performance of Flash was too bad to consider using on iPhone and I remember around 3 months later the Mac version of Flash magically ran 4 times better when for years and years it always ran a lot slower than Windows and Adobe pretended there was nothing they could do about it.
> The main problem is that I don't have the 5-10 years to really sink into that comfortably to get there from raw experience, or the stamina to go through what would seem to be my own personal hell in the meantime.

you've described a very difficult situation. i wish i had concrete advice for progressing with it.

you do seem to have a strong sense of your weaknesses and strengths though.

off the top of my head, perhaps developing some kind of SaaS such that you can deal with clients in a very algorithmic way / purely by API, would suit you best? as opposed to dealing with per client contracts/formalities...

sorry, i wish i had better advice and/or perspective for your situation.

in any case, merry christmas :)
This is BS. The storm was last week.
"Some of you": nice.

You do sound like someone who never had to decide anything in their life and thinks only theoretically, disregarding reality.

Absolute free speech is dividing by zero, basically.
History suggests that trying to fit a "once and for all" solution atop a populace in disagreement results in disaster.
Precisely. Will of man vs will of God.

The same thing is repeated all over the world unfortunately with other religious faiths.
Bootstrapping and Convexity (2020)
So much of your argument is just plain wrong I can’t even begin to reply. Our society is not dying because people are having less children. Stop trying to justify your bad decisions and offloading guilt on the rest of us lmao.
https://nicole.express/2020/super-ultra-mega-tera-grafx.html

> That makes a grand total of six exclusives, plus Darius Plus and Darius Alpha, a limited-release special edition of Darius Plus that seems to exist primarily to make it hard to collect a complete set of SuperGrafx-compatible games

> It’s not surprising that the SuperGrafx wasn’t very successful.

With 6 games total? Yes.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/194051
How is throwing a party during finals a facepalm? I recall that being one of the best times to party...
Google currently employs at least 165 people from the Intelligence Community
> Can you tell me how GDPR has improved European lives over say a New Yorker?

My spam disappeared overnight. There was a flood of "click here to give consent" emails a little before GDPR came into force, and then radio silence. I now only get the low-effort botnet viagra emails that are trivial to identify and catch, and even their amount has dwindled to only 5 this month. I guess most of them fail SPF/DKIM/etc tests and don't get delivered at all.

Same with snail mail. I used to get a pretty large pile of all kinds of ads every week, now I get only invoices, official notices and postcards from friends.

In online services like Youtube, I don't have to click through menus to opt-out of tracking anymore. There's now an equally visible opt-out button on the consent dialog. When I visit sites like USA Today, I get a much nicer version without tracking, ads and auto-playing videos: https://i.imgur.com/YQXaavw.jpg
Yeah the storm angle is a lie.
What is a "cookie" if not a generalized abstraction for "logged in"?

You seem to be calling for some kind of regulation that defines how identities are stored and managed on the internet. And that sounds really interesting to discuss.

But it's absolutely a much bigger problem than one "should" clause on HN
I wrote a wrapper around these some years ago which I’ve been using since. It’s been working pretty well for me.

https://git.sr.ht/~charles/dotfiles/tree/171c95a20394552e02a...
If I’m paying them to answer me, yes.
Repost: Why immigration doesn't reduce wages
I see a few things that might be worth adding, as some were explicitly why I switched from LastPass a few years ago:

* Security model. What is stored server-side unencrypted? In what circumstances is the server-side encrypted data available on the server in plaintext?

* Defaults: "parent-safe"? What trade-offs are made with the defaults picked?

* Ability to edit (Android) app associations. Bitwarden has this, and it solved a huge problem I had with duplicates on LastPass. There's URI entries like androidapp://com.example.app that are easy to manually merge and keep together with corresponding web sites.

* Domain matching. Bitwarden can do: base, host, exact, starts with, or regex. Lastpass had an "equivalent domains" managed from obscure settings, which never really worked the way I wanted. I used to have a billion entries for things in .mydomain.com, but bitwarden fixes this and by setting that flag properly I get only relevant things for each internal app. At the same time, for .myapp.com and .myapp.local I can get the default dev login, so when I deploy a new instance/tenant for dev, it "just works".

Username generation. Can it do plus-addresses? Catch-all domains?
It would be interesting to hear people’s life philosophy in this area.

For me, lastpass always seemed like a bad idea as passwords are very important to me and giving someone else a copy of my passwords seems like a bad idea. Similarly, I don’t let any services know my bank passwords even if they super promise to protect them and not misuse them.

Another similar seeming task that I can’t delegate is to read my bank statements and keep track of my assets and performance.

This isn’t meant to shame people who are now at risk from lastpass’ failure, but to understand if HN readers have similar personal habits and rules.
Counterexample: I powerlifted myself into a couple of abdominal hernias. The price of hitting a 3x bodyweight deadlift. It would've been a benefit for me to stay weaker, but I wanted that number.

While being somewhat strong is good I argue there are no general qualities past your 'beginner gains'. When you hit that wall you'll need to optimize, which is the same as saying you will become worse in other areas to progress. Efficiency is opposite to robustness.

My paternal grandfather was a military man. He was as hard and stoic etc etc as they come. He was not an emotionally available person and died estranged from the whole family for no reason. There are tradeoffs to becoming too good at something, so we better have a good reason for going that distance.
I always found running 12 containers for hosting a password repository a bit overkill.

https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/
Even better, use Neovim’s server mode in your IDE, since then you're getting “real ” vim, not just a plugin that attempts to copy it.
According to that post they also have no idea where bags are: "Checked bags are currently a disaster. Plan to not see your checked luggage for at least a month. In the interest of 100% transparency, some bags will be 30+ days lost in the system."
That’s such a weird 180 on their part considering how explicit they have been about it.

I guess they did a bunch of work to make the case work and are confident about it, but it just seems like such a weird decision considering they’ve been adamantly telling their devs not to do this for years.
I want to be able to opt out of tracking. GDPR has improved my life.

Websites that want to make it easy for me give me a “reject all cookies” button. It is not the fault of GDPR that most websites want to trick you into just clicking “accept all.”
What follows from the idea that new construction raises rents?
Relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

One little annoyance I have with reading books is when the text is small it's hard to track back from the end of a line to the next line's start. A bit of a shame boustrophedon isn't used.
DNT, like all other configurable browser features (including script blockers), can be used to fingerprint you too.
EU has every right to regulate companies that want to operate on European soil. Just as American companies have every right to stay out the European market if they don't want to comply.

As we see, despite the fines, they choose to stay, which means they still profit.

If anything EU should increase the fines.
IMHO yes, if you squint a bit, there's no such thing as a "C ABI", C compilers just happen to implement those CPU/OS specific ABIs without much 'translation work' going on.
If we based what should/shouldn't be allowed for a corporation or any individual based on if it physically causes harm to any person, then we'd have a really shitty place to live.
I'd love it if youtube provided settings to turn all shorts recommendations off, from subscriptions page too as a separate option. I'd certainly use it.

While they're at it, maybe they could consider an option to remove all "upcoming" / "notify me" items too, so only showing video thumbnails I can click on and, you know, actually watch a video?

An additional option to avoid "mix" thumbnails in recommendations would be another win, as far as I'm concerned.
In many businesses, the single largest limiting factor on productivity is the cost of coordinating with others. It’s possible you have been shielded from this by managers who do that work and give you deliverables you can work towards on your own. But for anyone actually involved in communication heavy work where you have to get everyone on the same page, high bandwidth communication (in person being the highest) is just so much more effective.

Humans aren’t actually that great at working together as the group size scales. It’s a lot like a distributed system that runs over faulty networks, and even worse is not always aware when communication has failed.
Seeing a lot of people here saying wearing hijab is a free-choice in Islam. As a Muslim this is totally wrong. Religion is not just "I believe in God" and now I can do whatever I want. There are rules and regulations that must be followed in private and public life. This is how Islam has always worked.

Traditionally, the Islamic government legislates and enjoins these rules upon the people. Hijab is one of those rules. From our perspective there is no logical difference between this and Western dress codes in public.

The reason people find a problem with this whole Iran/Hijab thing is not because Women are being compelled to wear it. This wouldn't make sense because governments force things on us all the time.

The real reason is that they hate the hijab. To them, the hijab is oppressive, a sign of patriarchy, a sick form of sexual repression. I mean why else are women protesting in the streets because of it? Surely it must be a symbol of oppression that is finally finding expression in public? Right?

This is a much more sensible reason for us. The haters of Islam have always been running their mouths. They have never made a difference to us Muslims.
We've used both DataFusion and Polars for very similar use cases, though recently we've really begun to coalesce around Polars and most further development will use it, barring any complication that would require something else (DataFusion included).

Basically what we do amounts to bringing in a ton of json, pulling objects out of that into jsonl, applying a bunch of business logic/transformation etc and storing that as parquet on s3, then querying that directly using a thin HTTP API wrapper around Polars. Everything is written in Rust.

Experience thus far has been great. Initially all of the primary steps (json -> jsonl) were done in Python, but this proved an order of magnitude or two too slow. Rust (with a lot of optimizations... explicit SIMD etc) allowed for huge improvements.

As far as querying the data, the biggest surprise thus far has been how performant Polars can be with thoughtful application. We're able to do a lot more with a lot less than initially expected.

The cost savings for some of the ETL-type stuff vs doing it with a Spark cluster have also been very significant.
Good bit of history, and definitely a lot about terminals that I didn’t know, or things that filled in the “why” of some things I did know (^Q/^S for example).

Some things that poked me while reading:
* varying use of “encrypt” and “encode” for transmitting data; suggest sticking with encode/decode
* mention of Intel x87 when I think you probably meant x86
https://archive.vn/HgmCl
i think the youngest claim ive seen was 10 yo.

im not so sure that was a regular reader, but they posted about some accelerated academic achievements
I feel like people can only get attention for something if they express how disturbed by it they are. If this is creepy how creepy is a search engine? You can find the websites of "democracy advocates in Hong Kong, Putin-critics in Russia, gay people in Uganda" using any search engine. People put stuff on the web because they want it to be found.

It reminds me of the hand-wringing about the youtube recommendation algorithm. Billions of people discover amazing stuff is not a story, a few people discover disturbing stuff is.
Usually John Cook’s blog posts are extremely high quality, so I’ll give him a pass just this once.
Why the Rent Inflation Is So Damn High
>But none of them have noticed that the unit economics don't work. No customer is willing to pay the true price of the food, the delivery and even very minimal overhead. If they charged enough to break even, the demand would completely fall out.

I thought food delivery services were profitable on a per unit basis, it was just the marketing/development spend that was causing them to go into the red?
When I ask a question, I'm usually implying that I don't know, not that I already have some reason to believe in one answer or the other.

We shouldn't jump to conclusions - medicine can be strange sometimes. We inject mold juice to fight bacteria and put explosives under our tongue to stop heart attacks.
Math. A surprising number of people in 'data science' lack good understanding of basic statistics, leading to poor data quality or incorrect conclusions from the data.
Institutions like 'Elon Musk'?
It's an Indian news site. The framing makes sense for a domestic (and expat) audience.
Also, if you want to help... we're hiring :)
You may be right. I haven't wandered around, recently. But, from what have seen, even those places most destitute, they're not much worse off than what I experienced in the 80s and 90s.

Now, it's a shame that those places haven't experienced the growth and vibrance that many areas did over the past 30 years. But, having lived in the US without basic necessities like housing, plumbing, food, or heat, I will say that it doesn't seem as bad as you make it.
I was expecting it to be dog slow.
This was previously referred to as a "Kvetcher". [1]

There were and I believe still are businesses set up to offer Kvetchers for hire in cases where lawyers will be less effective or too expensive.

[1] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kvetcher
Don’t count on that encryption. It’s a great marketing point that has no real way to verify or audit. And even assuming Whatsapp's end-to-end encryption works as advertised: that doesn’t mean that the app is free from backdoors.

Message contents also aren't the only kind of data that Whatapp knows about. Facebook doesn't need message contents to monetize your communications. They almost certainly harvest Whatapp's metadata and tie it to everything else they know about you.

If you like the service, that's great. Use it and enjoy. But don't assume that your communications are secure.
This basically proves my point, if I was writing a post for public consumption at work I would avoid this language but outside that it doesn’t really matter.
I have used pytorch as a (almost) drop in replacement for numpy. Are there good reasons to look at jax instead assuming I'm doing DSP and not ML?