skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, even earlier:

> On Mastodon you can only see or be seen by your close circles. Mastodon is like a library full of small study rooms. You can raise your voice to reach everyone in your small room, but you cannot talk to the whole library at once. People can only get into your room if the room moderators let them in; if they're not in your room, they'll never find out what you're talking about.

I legit have no idea what this metaphor is trying to convey.

I have regularly posted or commented on other people's posts, only to have those favourited or boosted by people on other instances, often ones I've never heard of.

How does that happen?

Well, first, I have followers on other instances, which means my posts end up on their Federated timeline, and anything I mark with a hashtag will show up in searches on those instances.

Second, if folks I don't know spot something I write that they like, either through a hashtag search, the Federated timeline, or by participating in a thread, they may boost my post which makes it visible to their followers, and thus content propagates through the network.

The result is that ultimately that post gets to a large part of the fediverse, it just happens a bit differently.

In fact, I've had higher engagement within the fediverse across instances than I ever did across all of Twitter because there is no algorithm I have to game to get attention.
How much less than 1000 (my German is pretty rusty)? e.g. 900 vs 1100 is not really statistically different, and doesn't suggest a systemic problem. Especially given the heavy focus on shipping for the US rail network versus passengers in the EU. Tracks in the US that are used for passengers are maintained better than shipping-only tracks, for sure.
Metaflow passes state using an object store (s3, azure blob store, etc.) even within Airflow - short circuiting Airflow's xcom machinery. But agreed, Airflow presents many more scalability challenges - this integration addresses a few in-place as well as preserves the ability to swap out Airflow with a more scalable workflow orchestrator if needed.
Revoke the tax-exempt status of religious organizations that engage in political speech.
Then how would you authenticate to the SSO provider?
Yes, and I think this Church has an oversized influence on US Politicians.

But I agree, the fine should be large enough to send a clear message to other orgs like them.
I disagree about online dating. Increasingly, my peers who end up in long term relationships or married have found each other on dating apps. Dating only coworkers and friends gets boring and limiting.
That exists so that the government can't just decide to tax one religion out of existence while favoring others.
Those are very solvable problems. I work with non-TCP traffic in pcaps very often and while I agree encrypted traffic is annoying to deal with sometimes because of the extra step it can be solved with good tooling.
this seems a little convoluted. if I was them I’d just introduce an AI-assisted category and see what “people” come up with
This probably doesn’t do the thing you want it to do

1) if there is a demand to have something, it usually raises price of that thing. You could interpret this as a forced buyback, which may raise prices of shares (and thus reward bad behavior)

2) what does the govt do with the stock after it has the stock? It doesn’t have a system for processing it, as it does with USD

Also, why shouldn’t you penalize shareholders? In the future they’ll think twice about investing in companies that cut corners to juice short term gains
I wonder if we need to replace TCP in the data centers or if what data centers really need is RPC (which ia covered well with QUIC)
No of course not.

Do you mean this debugging interview in particular, because it could potentially be useful work fixing a real bug for them? To be clear, it isn't an extant bug. I think the way they do it is they take an interesting (but fairly straightforward) real bug that they fixed at some point, and they back out the fix.
If the AI stories where good enough they could just stop after finding a few good submissions, but they are all terrible.

Or as they say “While rejecting and banning these submissions has been simple, it’s growing at a rate that will necessitate changes.”
> If you can't do anything against them, but they can do many things against you, there's not much hope for a fair agreement/outcome.

Yeah, I tend to agree. It is depressing, but we are where we are. That said, I might be naive but I think things are fair most of the time. But mostly because people tend to do the right thing, often nudged by laws and regulations and not because they cannot get away with figurative murder, which some employers do.

> I don't know what the fix would be, but it sure seems like there's something fundamental that needs fixing to make it so that when a would-be employer and a would-be employee meet to decide if they want to work together they meet on equal ground.

I am not sure either. A good step would be to increase the bargaining power of the employees, which implies strong trade unions and a working social safety net. Employers have no qualm making informal agreements and coordinating hiring policies. Otherwise employees or would-be employees have intrinsically the lower hand: if they don’t work, they starve but employers don’t lose sleep over a worker’s life.

In an ideal world, this would be unnecessary because a bad employer would soon have trouble finding workers and an equilibrium could get established. We are not in an ideal world, and the equilibrium is unstable.
>According to a 2017 report by Marketdata Enterprises, the U.S. meditation market is predicted to grow to 2 billion dollars by 2022.

There is no need for a "meditation market", and the term itself is absurd. Can I make a shameless plug for Vipassana here? In the tradition of the Buddha, the Vipassana school offers classes and retreats worldwide, and they do not charge a time; only accepting donations and service in return. dhamma.org
> I wasn't born Richard Alpert. I was just born as a human being and then I learned this whole business of who I am, whether I'm good or bad, achieving or not - all that's learned along the way. And you see all those learn things separate, so you start to have this dissociative experience, where all that can become is a point of awareness. I remember the first time this happened to me, I got a terrible panic, because indeed I was gonna cease to exist.

-- Richard Alpert aka Ram Dass

I hope it's transcribed correctly.
I asked it if Biden told any jokes and at first it said yes then it said no.

Not sure how you fix that.
tcpdump works fine with it, and any other ethernet or IP based protocol despite the commands name, it's just 2) that's a problem (for certain perspectives of what is a problem).
Right, but I meant it’s likely to be portrayed as an out-of-control regulatory apparatus going after religious conservatives even though they used the kid gloves.
Tootfinder: Global Mastodon full text search
It's more like instead of asking for a chatbot to try and hallucinate/synthesize/guess answers like large math questions or the population of Geneseo, NY (which it is bad at) to introduce a computing environment [read: eval(completionText)] so it can instead translate questions into executable code or further LLM queries but with a provided context.

This is currently how a number of existing tools work, both in published literature and in the wild with tools like BingChat.

I have personally found this analytic-synthetic distinction to be useful. I'm also a huge fan of Immanuel Kant and I really love the idea that I can loosely prove that Frege was wrong about math problems being analytic propositions!
There has been a few of TCP would-be killers out there, SCTP and DCCP come to mind. And yet, here we are.

I even remember that there have been Linux kernel security vulnerabilities in those protocol somehow exploitable even when you don't actively use them, so... I don't compile my own kernels often these days, but when I do, I usually say N to any and all protocols I'm not likely to be using in my remaining life.
Resources spent dealing with gang activity in one area are resources that can't be spent on dealing with police malfeasance in another area.

We are all impoverished by corruption, even in areas outside of where we live.
Yes, and depending on preference, it's better. With a properly working trackpoint, you barely need to move your hand or fingers at all. Complete screen navigation from slight finger pressure. No swipes, no wrist movement, no carpal tunnel, no RTS. The single best control system ever invented, once you learn to stop trying to use it like a mouse or trackpad. Trackpoint combined with touchscreen is the best.
Gotcha, understood. Mirroring @Denzel's edit, I think that rationale makes sense for configuring some of the intermediate glue which is project-specific. For instance, running test suites, orchestrating deployment, and other more custom actions which aren't terribly reusable across projects (think Bazel's 'genrule'). Caching test results in a distributed way is a great use case, and environment isolation (i.e. without forcing the user to define a Dockerfile or similar, and leaving environment configuration to the build system) seem like great use cases.

However, I think for describing actual build toolchains this way of implementing things might end up being significantly more complicated (and require even more arcane end-user cognitive load) than the Starlark/Python-based build rule / toolchain / constraint approach for actually assembling libraries, binaries, and other compiled artifacts. There are a combinatorial number of backends, conditional options settings, etc. which will be hard to capture with a purely declarative system. For instance, a C++ binary might needs platform-specific compiler flags, or some #ifdef nonsense. YAML doesn't have a clean way of implementing conditionals based on some constraint. So for heterogenous ecosystems (C/C++, Python, container assembly, GPU development, microcontrollers, etc.) this pushes a ton of complexity into the build rules themselves which may be opaque to end users (and thus introduce a ton of cognitive load, steep learning curves, hard-to-debug errors, etc.).
Come on, loadouts and the 'gulag' respawn mechanic were clearly novel in the BR space.
Sorry, I meant more dynamic than generatable... like doing stuff in the build file to build something complex in a more simple way.

It's really 'do you make config an artifact, or do you make it code' sort of argument.
What's so novel about international telecommunication? They had international mail back then. Is it really all that different?
I've learned a lot about storytelling from TaleFoundry.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@TheTaleFoundry
I was more referring to margin-block-start, var (with two arguments), gap... Also, no, sibling selector wasn't really supported very well until 2012, so only in the last ~30% of CSS's lifetime.
And seems they removed from the Settings page the option to use the old version! Cant find it anywhere
It's a very complex topic (especially if you aren't a chemist).

I can't find an accessible video on the topic, but you want to look up photosystem II repair. You need to search up D1 replacement in photosystem II.

To get a flavour of the nanomachine aspect of it all, check out this video on electron transport across membranes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmTKxI4Wn4).

Electron transport in proteins is crazy complex and actually amounts to molecular circuits where energy is guided to different spots inside proteins complexes in a unidirectional fashion. This guy is the grand daddy of the field (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7m9-PEiB8).
Have you even cracked open the Pali Canon upon which Theravada is based? It is rife with references to devas/demons and heavenly/hellish realms, purportedly spoken by the Buddha himself.
remove "that engage in political speech" even!
Not to be confused with Polygon the gaming website. I was amazed for a second that a gaming website Polygon had 500 employees. The fact that an Ethereum startup has 500 employees also seems ridiculous, but I also missed the boat on Bitcoin when it was a few dollars a coin, so what do I know.
Phosgene also has very low environmental persistence. I think the actual amount of dioxin created from combustion of vinyl chloride monomer at atmospheric pressure is very low. In any event, both were dispersed into the atmosphere at concentrations that pose(d) very little danger to people outside of the temporary evacuation zone.
For me, OODA really clicked when I mapped it to the Weinberg-Satir Interaction Model:

Observe -> Intake

Orient -> Meaning

Decide -> Significance

Act -> Response

Highly recommend checking out the work of Gerald Weinberg and Virginia Satir. HN people will probably appreciate Weinberg more than Satir as Weinberg was a programmer for NASA back in the day so his books are aimed at technical types. People from an arts background will prefer Satir who was one of the all time great counsellors/therapists.

https://stevenmsmith.com/AONW/Satir%20Interaction%20Model.pd...
Eh, I have my doubts that's actually what this is. Of course this is just a guess as we don't have the information.

See, per the article they are paying $.12 per word. Much like those spam sites that copy SO and put up ads on the site and get a few pennies per click, I'm guessing this is somewhat the same. Because there was a potential payout someone(s) realized you could bot farm this to make a few bucks.
Shuttlecraft – Run your own social media
Yep. Im the OP and this is what I meant by woke cancellation. I didn't use it as trigger.
PG is an SV tech "influencer". He wants a megaphone, not a community. No great surprise, then, if he's decided he prefers Twitter.
> there was this little framework someone wrote where logic was encoded in config files.

This is one of the most common and traditional shining exemplars of awful code. Absolutely nightmarish stuff. Such code can only be written by someone who has absolutely no idea what programming even is. They looked at a problem and said: "You know what this problem needs? It needs a much worse programming language that I just invented, jammed into a config file." So the code was tremendously awful to begin with, and you threw it out. Good for you.

> I said look, we're SWEs, we know how to edit code.

Absolutely right: this is why we use programming languages to program, and not config files. Again illustrating that you never threw away good code; you threw away the trash.

> I'm replacing this with something centered around an if-else tree that just does exactly what we need right now and can be modified later, with little attention paid to quality. I'm not even gonna bother splitting the codebase into multiple files cause someone is probably gonna have a strong opinion about organization; that person can have fun doing that. So far that's been modified a lot in the past 3 years with ease, it's gotten the job done, and anything more structured would've broken during that time.

A chain of if-elses is probably not paragon-level code, but definitely an improvement over what you described as coming before. My overall impression is that nobody has really taken the time to sit down and really dig deep into the problem, extract out the invariants, model things mathematically, identify the important operations you need to perform, develop useful data structures to support those operations, etc. My feeling is that if it was actually set up well -- really well -- you'd look back on your current situation and cringe.

It's statements like "anything more structured would've broken during that time" that make me think you really just haven't been fortunate enough to even experience what good code actually looks like. You can't imagine the situation being better. But it can.

Does it need to be? Maybe not. Either way, this is still a story of replacing awful code with better code.
Don't want to post any V2.0 solutions. Obtuse hints only:

21: try, try again.

22: remember level 10?
If this idea were completely backwards, there would be no way to tell the difference from what you’ve suggested. In fact, there isn’t even a basic counterexample that holds without predominant confounding factors.

In other words, unfortunately, this is theory is a non-falsifiable conspiracy theory.

Edit: It is rather validating when poking a pet theory produces a negative yet non-substantive response. Sure, go on believing in fairies and yeti. Best of luck to your children.
The shiny toy was fun for the all of five seconds it took before people learned how to use it to ruin six other things.
> As Gen Z gets older, this trend is likely to grow and further entrench Apple's market share, making it increasingly difficult for rival companies to capture new customers and make inroads.

This is the closing statement in the article, but doesn't seem to be supported by the data and arguments provided.

Why would a generation entering the workforce and establishing their careers necessarily cause entrenchment of an existing trend? If anything, as the biggest reasons for Apple's popularity in that generation seems to be driven by social factors, their advantage could very well fade as they leave behind their childhood social circles and build new ones.
Not really. I am very far away from home right now - live in SF bay area, on a trip in northern Alaska. Have 2 cellphone providers, Google Fi and Verizon. Between the two even when in Denali national forest I had cell reception. Spent the afternoon yesterday writing code, had zero issues.

Airplanes are hit or miss, but can take advantage of HN/reddit reading time or read a book (preferred) if access is limited.

As for data caps, no issues at all. Family of 5 on unlimited internet plan. The 5gbps internet I have is mostly underutilized in terms of 95% usage, but fully saturated when transferring big files between different devices.
© is an established, international symbol. "(c)" is gibberish.

If you put gibberish in the middle of a copyright notice, what does that do? What does "Copyright ><(((('> 2021" mean, legally speaking?
... have you met the average person with a driver's license?
Yes, it does. At least to me.
Each local council will have a database of all street and park trees on their land. At some regular interval they need to inspect each tree to ensure it isn't rotten or otherwise dangerous.
> The conclusion is supposed to be that an experience is not a physical fact of the world.

I see what you're getting at and mostly agree (hence the Upvote!). But...

Whether a 1st person qualitative experience is a "physical fact of the world" depends on your level of description. In a sense, it's not an epistemically objective physical fact that I can share with others. However, it is just a brute ontological physical fact of the world that my mind experiences the color red (even if yours doesn't).

This is precisely where we need to clarify "facts of the world". We can't settle this chat until we introduce the notion of subjective vs objective, and epistemic vs ontological.
Perhaps your code is ... compost? headduck
I don't see any mention of what Amazon are actually doing for this partnership. other than providing the same services they provide for everyone.

This reads like "Amazon gave us a bunch of money for us to use and promote AWS."
> Yeah, no. Intercaste marriages barely make up 10% of the total in West Bengal.

Do you have links to such demographic data I can read, because I am a little surprised. In my extended (Bengali) family there are many of inter-caste and inter-language marriages. Personal and anecdotal experience can of course differ from the population level norm, but genuinely curious.
As insufferable as I find him you are correct, he's as close as you can get to being completely self-made
The SEC is, largely, a powerless bogeyman due to chronic underfunding and lack of staff. Another wonderful feature of corporate regulatory capture in the US.
I fear the Wikipedia article offers only the slightest of overviews of a surprisingly deep subject. Don't get me wrong, it's a great place to start.

But I would suggest also reading the related "Patterns of Conflict" Wikipedia page:

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

Which references this 1986 version of the presentation:

https://www.ausairpower.net/JRB/poc.pdf

I met John Boyd at Eglin when I was a kid, and later in the 80s when I was a Marine. Dude was a complete nut. But I mean that as a compliment. Preaching a brand of war-fighting at odds with the dominant narrative, I would not have been surprised to see Apple feature his image in a "think different" commercial.

The Air Force was slow to warm up to Boyd (and the OODA Loop) -- but the Marines were ready to hear something new. Here's a page with some decent info, including a link to a short video where John Schmitt, Van Riper and (my old boss) Al Gray discuss the "intellectual renaissance" in how they thought about war-fighting. If you're not a military history nut, the 5 minute video is good to give you an idea for how "novel" ideas permeated the US military in the 70s and 80s. You don't HAVE to be an Air Force pilot or Marine to make use of the intellectual underpinnings of Boyd's "Patterns of Conflict." But you MAY miss out on some critical detail if the only thing you read is about the more-generic, not-specific-to-the-military OODA loop.

Which is to say... even if you're not inclined to study military history or operations, you may get some decent context on the formation of the OODA loop by investigating the environment in which it arose. "Maneuver Warfare" is much more than the OODA loop, but it was definitely influenced by Boyd's E-M Theory, Patterns of Conflict and the OODA loop.

Here... the videos on this page total just over 10 minutes. Worth a watch.

https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/pme/qpme/history-of-mcdp-maneuver-warfare/context-background

And... the link to the full video seems to be broken, so here's the direct YouTube link if you're hip:

https://youtu.be/RL4__NVYByw
Ah, disappointing!

In all seriousness, I have found the conclusions you drew from your chatgpt summary to be quite useful for making my way in this particular era of history. Being able to just evict any such controlling narrative from my head has prevented me from severely losing touch with actual reality, which I have sadly seen happen to more and more folks in recent times.

This has ultimately made me a much more "reasonable" person, but at the cost of having many hard convictions that I'm willing to "unreasonably" stand my ground on.

Being able to be stubborn like that can occasionally be a force for good (e.g. civil rights movement), but can also lead to personal ruin, not unlike bashing one's head into a concrete wall trying to move it. This has led me to think really hard about what convictions I do hold dear. I haven't come up with many, but so far I'm leaning a lot on "don't treat people like objects".
You're building something like buck/blaze and replacing starlark with YAML ? I want a full programming language when defining complex rules. Build systems do a lot more than execute commands.

You lost me there. Buck/Blaze aren't perfect but configuration was never an issue.

Moon like it is currently is a glorified task runner.
Here's a related random fact: Fidelity, the well-known investment firm, runs donor-advised charitable funds for rich clients that in aggregate constitute America's charity [1]. The three largest recipients from those funds? Harvard University, Stanford University, and the Mormon Church...organizations that aren't in any way hurting for money. I guess people fund what they are familiar with and for prestige.

1- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-21/how-fidel...
From what I understand a lot of those are in the rail yards and not at full speed.

Here is a poorly made website which can generate reports on this:

https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/que...
I'm a religious type and I agree; making churches tax-exempt corrupts the church.
Is the Clock Ticking for TikTok