skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They work because they use human logic which has evolved to understand the universe just enough to “work” and where that logic doesn’t work we use probabilities to ensure we’re only calculating the odds and deriving from there. You can devise probabilistic systems of equations to describe stock prices and account for when you could be wrong, but this is not you describing some objective set of equations the market emanates from.

It working doesn’t mean it in anyway reflects some objective truth (if such a thing even exists.) It just breaks things down into small enough parts you can then model those parts and make predictions. This does not mean those small parts are “real” just that they are convenient ways to describe the flowing of energy for our purposes.

> atoms work and many other things

Atoms are still just a human created mathematical abstraction we use to describe and make predictions about matter. All there really is is energy and atoms are just a mathematical tool we use to study energy.

This is quite literally the oldest debate in natural science and it seems like one half of the debate just decided they’re right a few centuries ago and stopped caring about the fact that’s not something they have (or can) ever proved.

They’re tools, don’t get me wrong they are very useful ones, but the second you start pretending they’re anything else or that your interpretation of them is how reality really works you become just another religious zealot and that goes against everything science is supposed to be about.
I dont think there is any fundamental physics reasons preventing quantum computers. My understanding is it is an engineering problem. A hard one no doubt, but not a fundamental physics one.

Anyways, my point was that getting a quantum computer at a decent scale is really difficult. If we manage to overcome that burden somehow, the difference between 2048 bit rsa abd 4096 bit is peanuts.
Officer vs enlisted has very different recruitment criteria.
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I don’t have the time or resources to conduct a scientific study on it. But empirically I think it’s clear and the incentive of power attraction makes complete sense.

Also, science doesn’t really prove things true. It can prove things likely. And it’s really good at showing what is not true. I think in general humanities fail to address falsifiable things. This is why we have a reproducibility problem and why it’s mainly bullshit.
Video games (Sony, Nintendo). Manga, Anime!
I suspect that in those early days many of the assumptions we take for granted in computer architecture were not foregone conclusions.

I think the design was much more of a clean slate. Arithmetic is normally done in decimal by people so that was a reasonable way to start thinking about it.

I think this point is a good lesson for system design. So much design these days is driven by accumulated "wisdom" which is immediately buried with another layer of software, without those previous layers even really being considered as to whether they were appropriate or not. Those assumptions can often make the overall system more complex than it could have been.
I really like Seafile for this functionality. I host my own server using podman to run their docker container and it works super well. Their app has the ability to back up any photos/videos taken on your phone, in addition to other things it can do. Highly recommend!
This is a huge loss for Canonical and Linux container development.
You figure people were just bad writers back then? If anything, I'd say they were better writers, though probably only marginally. Read a couple scientific papers from 1945 and you'll more than likely actually enjoy yourself, for example. There's a kind of frankness to a lot of mid-century writing that a lot of cutesy modern writing lacks.
As always, why bother having real support when you can instead wait for paying customer to bitch publicly on HN?

Sickening.
But the observer is in all “probabilities” no?
Yes, exactly! Science is a fantastic way to discover truths about reality and apply them to your own life. For example, putting 15 grams of canola oil in your daily breakfast cereal.
Can't you run it on scren/tmux?
For me at least, it's basically a substitute for a good bookmarking system. I want to get back to that tab eventually, but if I just bookmark it, it'll get lost in the churn and forgotten forever. I hope some day there will be a holy grail of bookmarking software which somehow solves this, but I don't even know what that would look like.

If I'm working on a specific project and find a great resource, I'll definitely paste the link in an Obsidian note and close the tab. But there's plenty of stuff which doesn't quite fit that workflow.
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Thanks! And thanks also for your work on ContEx, its Sparkline module [1] was a big inspiration for what I ended up implementing.

[1] https://github.com/mindok/contex/blob/master/lib/chart/spark...
I don’t think you can fail the ASVAB? If you score 11 you will simply become a rifleman.
Most of these EVs are just bad cars.

I went to the big local auto show in the spring and sat in a ton of cars, including a bunch of the new EVs. They all have Tesla envy. Giant touchscreens. No buttons. Interior and exterior design that's there to shout at you that you drive an EV rather than be useful.

Hard pass.
Nice! I'll await your pivot into the business.
both should be punished.
I think Twitter's lack of safety and moderation of adult and illegal content is one of the next shoes to drop in the amazing reality show of the Twitter takeover. There is so much hardcore content on Twitter I have no idea how they get away with it. It's an area though where no service that accepts user-generated content is perfect, it's just how fast and well you respond when something goes wrong.
This seems to be sugarcoating things a bit:
"... we soon realized that our communication did not register with everyone and there were some users who were caught off guard and lost access to their data."

Not sure they've really helped themselves much with this one.
As an ex-user who has yet to return, the worst part about using it in 2018 was no post body searching and how bad the home page was. You could be reading a post, it randomly refreshes, and you will never find that post again due to the search being unusable. Considering how much I hear about users searching for old classic posts on the platform, I am doubtful they fixed the search.
I mean yeah? If we think that declining fertility rates is a serious problem, but there are dozens of equally plausible explanations, why would we prioritize your pet cause (ie. PFAS) above all others? How does it going to work when everyone says that their pet cause is responsible for 50% (or whatever significant fraction) of the fertility decline?

Note, this doesn't necessarily mean that we should do nothing about PFAS. We just have to be honest about the potential impacts. In other words, instead of gesturing that PFAS is the primary cause for fertility decline in the past few decades (like the linked scientific american article), you admit that the impact is unclear/low, but we should still work to remove it just in case.
I used to love doing these fitness tests as they are very straight forward with no equipment, quick to do, and progress is easily measured.

If I remember correctly the Marines had a 3-mile run instead of 2 and the top target time was 18 min which I would always aim for
So, no our plan is not to train AI models to then substitute the catchers. In fact we have a completely different philosophical approach as all the emerging AI trends do. We believe AI is great technology and tool but our values and purpose are to improve the way humans interact online. So, we will use AI to make better matching and be able to provide appropriate people to the appropriate question, thus providing a better experience. But we want people to thrive on both ends of this service. Thats why we built it that way. Plus AI is great at many things but we also believe regardless of how powerful a model is, there are things it will never be able to replace, like an empathetic human response to a person in need. The human touch...
> The bay area has hundreds of thousands of STEM millionaires. Does the politics look like they're having a lot of impact?

No, I suspect most of these millionaires are not doing much to help their communities. This is my point, there are few people with power and influence that are working for good. It would be great if more people established themselves and then started working to better the world.

Unfortunately it's like politics. The people you want in power don't want the power. The people you want to have money and influence tend to avoid it.
According to TFA, [3] happened _because of_ him leaving:

"Following the announcement of my resignation, Canonical decided to pull LXD out of the Linux Containers projects and relocate it to a full in-house project."
Is 11/100 not the almost ideal marine infantryman score?
Is there any proposed solution (other than just using unencrypted HTTP) that would make it so TLS is no longer the most brittle component of the web?

The constant churn of protocol deprecations, certificate expirations, rotations, etc. is like planned obsolescence on steroids.
> Finally, it will significantly reduce our operating costs, allowing us to focus our funding on continuing to improve your privacy and security.

Does that imply they are paying millions or something for the cross-sign?
Long ago, single-sideband transmitters used a filtering technique or a phasing methodology. The phasing exciters essentially were quadrature phase splitters -- and yep, the Hilbert transform was the mathematics behind this. (another method, by Weaver, uses two Hilbert transforms.

Really good stuff here -- and many thanks!
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2010-2012 Tumblr was truly a magical experience. It wasn't a social media for your real life friends or news, it was just a place for fandoms to share tons of gifs. And there was a lot of creativity once people started sharing their own art as well.

It's such a shame that we probably won't have another website like this again. I guess some of that stuff has moved to Discord now or sub-communities within Twitter, Reddit, etc but it's just not the same.
Calling the 9th of July "second chances" is a stretch, and it was on the 2nd page at the time I posted the "please search" request, but whatever page it was sitting on is moot since plugging in "Sarah Silverman" into the search box at the bottom of every page would have surfaced the 500 point submission in a damn hurry

Extra bonus points for the facepalm of submitting a site that has paywalls in lieu of theverge.com which (AFAIK) does not engage in any such practices
> Should government have any say in whether its citizenry gets educated? Is there a public interest in it?

That's a very dangerous road.

Governments are not some benevolent creature which always acts in the best interests of the People. As a practical matter, governments are usually incompetent and corrupt (usually in that order), and try to get the masses to further the interests of the politicians, the bureaucrats and the donor class.

I want an educated populace. For that reason, I want government as far away from it as possible.
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU
Well that was depressing. About sums up how the modern internet feels

> If you wanted to start an adult social network in 2022, you’d need to be web-only on iOS and side load on Android, take payment in crypto, have a way to convert crypto to fiat for business operations without being blocked, do a ton of work in age and identity verification and compliance so you don’t go to jail, protect all of that identity information so you don’t dox your users

The verification part makes sense¹, but the rest of it... this is why I try to be conscious of what kind of payment methods and app stores I use and incentivize... (that is, no paypal/creditcard if avoidable; f-droid or install directly from developer's own site if they publish it)

¹ though I don't see why you couldn't rm -rf verification data upon setting verified=1 on the account, with a SFW picture in case you need to later check that the person being shown is the one on the material; or keep a provably random 1% of each year in an offline vault to prove that guidelines were followed; or... there are options here
I didn't compare protection of people in low income areas. I compared policing of people in low income areas.

Policing and protection are not synonyms. Ideally they overlap, in practice they may or may not overlap.
Check out Yr from the Norwegian meteorological institute. Completely ad free and works for pretty much any place in the world.
>Implementation simplicity is an underrated security parameter.

Sure, if we were implementing cryptographic algorithms from scratch that would be a proper strong consideration. However, 99% of programmers should just link to an established library/framework and use its cryptographic implementation. These established libraries already paid the price of implementation, and are very battle-tested. There's therefore very good reason to believe their RSA implementation is secure.

Choosing an algorithm should be done on other considerations then. A lower keysize would point to ECC. But maybe we don't want a single algorithm for all encryption - a mixed global ecosystem with RSA and ECC projects would be more robust.
Just wanted to say I appreciate seeing the responsiveness here. First comment on the thread even. Always better if it doesn’t reach this point, but it’s nice to know you can get a human’s attention one way or another.

Hoping to @edwinwee will share the outcome for other businesses who might need to evaluate Stripe.
FYI: https://docs.gl/es2/glShaderSource takes an array of strings and just internally appends them together. So, rather than trying to #include common code for all my shaders, I just pass a common_code_string and a shader_specific_code_string every time.
I think your observations are very apt.

I bike for my primary transportation, and I have zero interest in e-bikes. The reason they aren't interesting to me is that a large part of the benefit I get from bicycling is the actual bicycling -- the physical effort and exercise.

E-bikes confuse me because I don't understand what the demographic for them is. I initially thought it was basically "electric scooters", but you can buy actual electric scooters. So then maybe it's "electric scooters at a lower cost"? But do e-bikes beat scooters in price?

I'm not bashing ebikes at all -- I just don't understand them.
They have planned mixers to remediate a known lack. Obviously the occasional gathering isn't going to replicate the experience of a coed college where you're interacting closely with people every day.
Not a terrible. I wouldn’t mind this.

Are you in sale or on the engineering side? (Seems like sales or upper management)
There's the 't' series of instances that offer burstable CPU. AFAIK still 1:1 on memory though, and there's models that allow you to pay to stay un-throttled when using t family instances vs. getting throttled when out of burst credits.
The current law is that things in the original work are copyrighted from the time they are published, and additions or updates to the character start from when they are first published. If I draw a character today, the copyright clock starts today. If in 10 years I draw the same character but with a silly hat, then the clock for the character and hat starts from that date. It’s a little weird in the modern system, since both end up being the same (if since it’s author’s death+70 years), but in prior systems that have the clock run from publication, that’s how it works.

And these prior systems still matter, since there are works like Sherlock Holmes where most of the character has entered the public domain, but certain revisions remain under the copyright of the Conan Doyle Estate.

To more concretely answer your question, if you release version 1.0 of your game today, with “Space Marines” fighting each other with a shooting stat of 10, then in 10 years release an update that gives +5 to the space marines shooting stat, updates the art for the marines, and adds “Firebats”, then the parts no longer under copyright would be the 1.0 binary of the game, the old version of the Space Marines art, and the stats. What would be subject to copyright would be the 1.1 binary, the new space marines art, the new shooting stats, and the firebats art and characters.
There's no labor shortage. There's only a wage shortage. Restaurants are a particularly egregious example, as someone with firsthand experience. Restaurants treat their employees like shit, work them to the bone, and then pay them as little as humanly possible. I got out and never looked back, because it turns out people are willing to shower you in cash if you can string together 3 lines of Python.

Healthcare as a whole baffles me. They pay well enough, sometimes, but they also just treat their employees like absolute crap. Would it really break the bank to hire 25% more staff instead of having your entire workforce getting paid overtime week after week?
Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds
1000 Mana costs 10$ USD, are you using a different currency?
It's a terrible situation and we failed on many levels on this one. We will improve our process from here and conduct a more full post mortem.
> without royally botching the things that appeal to Tumblr users

I feel like some form of active involvement from users and creators as stakeholders would be nice to see, shouldn't be that hard, and for some reason seems forever off the table. The idea that a bunch of people created all the content on your social network, and their continued (often free) labor is part of the reason new people would become engaged and so keeping them happy is important seems foreign to insiders, and I don't understand why. Not as "user group research" but as collaborators who you are already in a de facto partnership with, because they create all the stuff people look at.
I don’t think TLS is the most brittle component of the web. That award probably goes to DNS, BGP, or (depending on how you qualify it) us-east-1.
How’s that Solaris and zfs open source going for you oracle?

Ahh, right. Keeping things open source only counts when someone else is doing all the heavy lifting for you.
> I think linking to a Firefox account will truncate your local history to the maximum retention of Firefox Sync, which is 1 year or a size limit. It's pretty lame if that is the behaviour.

Uh. Yeah, that seems to track - my current history seems to back to about when I first set up Firefox Sync. If that's really the case, then... it's really lame. I don't recall it being communicated at all during Firefox account creation and activating sync, and it's exactly the kind of information I pay attention to.

In fact, the idea of enabling cloud sync being a destructive operation, silently truncating local data, is preposterous. I wouldn't have thought of it.
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The best data you have is the best data you have, no matter how incomplete it may be.
Anyone here feels like they don't build anything?
I've been a software engineer for almost 10 years and looking back at my career I feel like I have not built absolutely anything. I've been working at corporations doing backend development which mainly involved maintaining existing services.

I don't code in my spare time as I'm too tired from work and need the space to recharge. I feel bad calling myself an engineer when I don't feel like I can build anything on my own or have any personal projects.

What should I do? What are some projects I could try that are less abstract in nature and involve building something tangible?
The problem with your reasoning is similar to coming with the highest possible number. When you figure out a number, someone will say "that plus one!".

Whatever standard of free service you establish, someone with resources can surpass, but needs to be motivated to do it by the perspective of a return of the resources spent.

So either hinder development by forbidding the commercial stuff altogether, or tax all people and then finance authors from public money, but hopefully I don't have to explain how wherever this model is tested, the society degrades towards famine.
You may want to put this in your actual ToS.
My big-org can barely do DNS let alone something as fancy as an intranet search that works/is useable!
Then parents with money and pull in academic orgs will make sure that tuition will float just far enough above that limit that their children won't suffer from too much competition by the less fortunate.

But then on the other hand I'm not really convinced that this would actually be worse than the model of betting (or worse: bidding, it's a market with limited supply of high-status slots) seemingly unbounded amounts of future income on flying really high. And if they do fly high, just not quite high enough, it's effectively indentured service. No limits gambling is never a good idea, even if the game is not entirely devoid of an element of skill.
Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?
I don't. All I'm saying is that progress can be linear/non-existing until a breakthrough is made that allows scaling. For microchips this was lithography. After such a breakthrough the scaling can (temporarily) be exponential.
There are people who value having a wiper stalk, a button to defog the windshield, and an instrument cluster when driving.
Yes, of course a single exceptional exception makes it true.

The reason that works for a world class athelete is because they're extremely careful and persistent to periodize and have progressive overload.

Unless the commenter is an equivalent exception, it's bad advice to follow that, or any other, kind of advice from exceptional genetic folks.

It's very difficult to select the correct weight for an exercise when you're constantly changing it up.

What you're describing are simple modifications as a form of progression. Adding a band to a barbell bench press is still a barbell bench press. But going from barbell bench press, to weighted push up, to (incline|decline|flat) dumbbell bench, to iso lateral hammer machine, to smith, to (low, mid high) (cable, bench) flyes, to dips, to ... Is detrimental.

Most folks should try 12 weeks of the exact same exercise per body part with a RIR3, RIR2, RIR1, RIR0 cycle. (increasing weight each week and from cycle to cycle) . And most folks can do a reasonable selection of exercises for a year or two before they need to tweak for imbalance or personal details like insertions, or weaknesses.
Maybe… maybe restrictions freed up for resources in the public domain… that is no patent, copyright, license or ownership rights of any kind. As in you could distribute the thing unmolested but that’s it.
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Sorry, what is a MEPS and an ASVAB? I'm always mesmerized by the number of acronyms that ex military people throw around.