skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I didn't know that cache existed" isn't because of the difficulty of invalidating the right items, though.

And the occasional cache that keeps things forever is so extra broken that it's not doing that because cache invalidation is hard, it's either a supreme misunderstanding or it's incompetence.
>What behavior did the difference between fake and real deltas explain?

Merges... fscking merges. Merge conflicts are completely unnecessary. Who cares about the delta from the last snapshot?, just store the new snapshot!

I've wasted so much time on "merge conflicts" even when I'm the only person, and I've got multiple computers involved. I've completely deleted git repos and rebuilt them to get around the insanity of merges gone bad. (Now I know it's different when you've got multiple programmers, etc... but in the base case, the wrong mental model deranges thinking)

The days of pkZIP files of source code on floppy disks NEVER included merge conflicts. GIT is an otherwise amazing upgrade from those days.

Sometimes the IDE or other tools mung a file that you don't edit by hand, but need in the archive, and you CAN'T merge it.
No, but for that use case you have EVAL which execute an arbitrary lua script on the server.

https://redis.io/commands/eval/
SIM banks used to be a thing, but they get less common and common every year.

Why they are dying out? Because they are not that easy to source, maintain, scale or achieve super high reliability with them. Also, hard to offer a high availability option when the phone network only (well, in most cases) accepts one device per phone number.

Edito: Additionally, important to note is that most SIM cards can only be used for a prolonged time in that providers phone network. You e.g. can not buy US SIMS, ship them to the EU and host them there. T-Mobile US (and others) cut you off after (usually) 2 months of roaming.
> Ask ChatGPT4 for a bash script that writes the unit for you into the right place. Colossal amounts of drudgery, all suddenly gone.

Given that humans can't write reliable bash scripts that don't randomly delete things in your computer [1], why would you expect something generated by LLMs to not randomly delete things on your computer or worse?

If you have to inspect and debug whatever the AI generated, that is potentially a lot worse that just writing it yourself in the first place.

[1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
Heh, in my family that is "Down-under Syndrome".

As in, "oh - that's not how they do it in Australia, did you know I lived in (or visited) Australia for 'x' amount of time?"
I assume that by Hard Mode she meant "hard for an affluent Western democracy". I doubt she was pretending that working late is like getting shot at.

Nothing personal to you, I'm an equal offender with this stuff, but this kind of "well, actually..." nit-picking on HN drives me nuts. If you could harness the power of smart people to correct other people's lack of specificity, it would be better than fusion.
Pretty soon some LLM owner is going to use the argument "Everyone is allowed to have their own opinions, and LLMs are too, their responses don't have to line up with someone else's preferences."
Line Rider
We knew who had lost income vs 2019 based on tax records. How is sending money to everyone up to generous income caps, and calling them stimulus checks, consistent with you theory for the motivation of the helicopter money drop bills?
The Tor Project is a non-profit and the Tor service is used not just by criminals but people under repressive regimes around the world, and there are no real alternatives to it. My VPN provider is a for-profit company and its users are free to choose another company.

a seedbox would be better for your purposes.

A seedbox would suit my torrenting needs but it doesn't fulfil the additional roles of bypassing video stream throttling on my mobile network or letting my overseas friends bypass network censorship.
Exact thing happened to me when I first started collecting arcade games. I was ready to sell a Xenophobe cabinet, which is a massive, awkward monstrosity. Took a huge "loss" on it but at the time needed it out of my house and only cared that a potential seller could help get it up the stairs. :)
I hope you offered the proper/perceived value for them, and not the "cardboard" price
Perhaps the outcome is we get better at actually checking things, not a terrible result.
Self control is not about having Temporary Control, it's about being in (reasonably) full control of yourself.

You see, this is a difference between "complete" people and people who haven't actually finished "developing" (which is the vast majority even at 80).

Control is a constant, not a transient, trait.
Forty-year Houstonian here: About 13-14 years ago, one of my wife's nephews called to say that he and his wife were coming to Houston from their home in NYC — in July — to see the nephew's grandfather (my FIL), who lived near us, and show him their infant child. My wife's nephew said, "be sure to think of some things for us to do that Houstonians do in the summer." I responded, "OK, we'll take you to Colorado for a month." (Yes, I know, it's people of a certain income level who do that, and we don't do it.)
Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
Before my first visit to the Emirates, I made the (what seemed to me) reasonable assumption that it was a dry heat, since sand dunes are literally right next to the city. Boy, was I wrong about that one.
grading homework
$1M Will Go to the Mathematician Who Busts the ‘ABC Conjecture’ Theory
I'm no authority on the subject, but FWIW I tried quite a bit to make various bayesian methods work for me. I never found them to outperform equivalent frequentist (point estimate) methods.

Modelling uncertainty sounds nice and sometimes is a goal in itself, but often at the end of the day you need a point estimate. And then IME all the priors, flexible models, parameter distributions, just don't add anything. You could imagine they do, with a more flexible model, but that is not my experience.

But then, PPL is just so much harder. The initial premise is nice - you write a program with some unknown parameters, you have some inputs and outputs, and get some probabilistic estimates out. But in practice it is way more complex. It can easily and silently diverge (i.e. converge to a totally wrong distribution), and even plain vanilla bayesian estimation is a dark art.
Why should anyone care how a perpetual motion machine is purported to work? You just call it a scam and move on.
Re-waste the time you wasted in your teens then re-regret what you didn't become because you failed to ignore distractions!!!
Settings - Get Started - "Continue where you left off"

https://ibb.co/tC5GVNx
For me it's three fold.

First is that my usage of Tarsnap pre-dates my usage of rsync.net so it's been the primary backup of my home directory since ~2010. I haven't felt a need to change it and the 2 occasions I needed to restore it everything worked perfectly. i.e don't fix what isn't broken.

The second is that while I can in theory restore from rsync.net I actually never have... this is more a testament to the relability of ZFS though I guess and local snapshots have always been enough. That said the convenience of send/recv is sort of awesome.

Lastly is that I don't use ZFS on my client machines. If I did I would probably consider rysnc.net for everything.

So it's not really an explicit I think one is more secure or durable than the other it's that Tarsnap has fulfilled my DR needs successfully for a long time and I have come to trust it to do so in the future.
sometimes it's hard to even know WHERE to change the settings. Last week a friend was trying to setup heroku with api.foo.com and he needed to add a CNAME to the domain so heroku would make the cert and turn it on.

I used dig, i used host, I used whois, I got invited to their aws route 53 and saw all sorts of stuff in there but each change had no affect. Finally I noticed from whois that the name servers weren't even aws they were google.

So they gave me access to the google account but no domains in there.

Finally I asked, have the CEO log in to his personal google account and sure enough, that's where the change could be made.
> in the airport

How was it so unpleasant indoors?!
Do you have any general recommendations to founders or hiring managers to keep in mind when hiring people on visas?

I understand there are certain visas that an individual can obtain independently (like a TPS visa, or being the spouse of a L1 visa holder) without employer sponsorship, and other visa types that require employer sponsorship and other paperwork (I believe even visas like a TN require some coordination with candidates).

Generally speaking, are there any considerations you recommend small startup employers take when interviewing and hiring visa holders? Which visa types require the company to hire an immigration lawyer vs other visa types that don't? Links to external resources would also be helpful if there's a go-to source for this type of information.
Indeed, that's one of the biggest massive turn off.
Can't do that. Breaks privacy barriers.
All correct. It's easy to employ those in F-1 OPT and STEM OPT status. And the size or newness of the company has no bearing on the company's ability to employ those in F-1 OPT and STEM OPT status. The main additional requirement is e-verify for companies wanting to employ those is F-1 STEM OPT status. But this isn't a burdensome requirement at all.
Very nice, I like it. As a total ignorant on this space:

a) how is this different from Canonical's Anbox in the cloud offering?

b) could I use this to run banking apps that won't run in my phone (mainly due to the unlocked bootloader)?
In the same vein of thought free anything that you want always is more enjoyable than the same thing you had to pay for.
My trust factor for online opinion is ranked:

1) Online forums (adding 'reddit' or 'hacker news' to a search query)
2) GPT4
3) Google search
I reject the idea of crypto currencies in its current form because it only offers an illusion of freedom from a corrupt fractional reserve financial system. The systems that are built on top of of this infrastructure, at its roots, attempts to turn everything into a commodity. It's an inherently flawed principle and I think many people that frequent HN are smart enough to see that.
Anthropogenic seems like the best word.
A feature I've long desired would be to be able to ask what lies between or along the average or sum of the vectors representing two arbitrary songs or bands. For example what music is midway between "Florence and the Machine" and "Primus"? Or, what happens if you take the vector from Green Day to Modest Mouse and extend it - do you land on another (presumably obscure indie) band?

If Spotify won't give me those toys, are such things possible via the API that Spotify has provided?
Might have just come with the house. I've purchased houses where the former owners didn't bother to move out anything big and clunky.
I do not support Roblox, and maybe you shouldn't either.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754
Some context about the current status: https://twitter.com/domfarolino/status/1684921351004430336
The systemd man pages are really great. Red Hat may not be perfect but they do a really good job with documentationj. I was shocked (in a good way) with how good the NetworkManager man pages are, among some others.

If you're learning something new, it's definitely worth the time to `man thing` and give it a skim.
Yes, it's true, the C++ implementation has become extremely opinionated.

I didn't initially intend for KJ to become as all-encompassing as it has. I guess I kept running into things that didn't work well about the standard library, so I'd make an alternative that worked well, but then other parts of the standard library would not play nicely with my alternative, so it snowballed a bit.

At the time the project started, C++11 -- which completely changed the language -- was brand new, and the standard library hadn't been updated to really work well with the new features.

The KJ Promise library in particular, which made asynchronous programming much nicer using the newly-introduced lambdas, predated any equivalent landing in the standard library by quite a bit. This is probably the most opinionated part of KJ, hardest to integrate with other systems. (Though KJ's even loop does actually have the ability to sit on top of other event loops, with some effort.)

And then I ended up with a complete ecosystem of libraries on top of Promises, like KJ HTTP.

With the Workers Runtime being built entirely in that ecosystem, it ends up making sense for me to keep improving that ecosystem, rather than try to make things work better across ecosystems... so here we are.
No, I’m not a manager and won’t be managing any employees.
Mike also runs the best PCjr forum! It's been invaluable for help as I got my recently purchased PCjr running with mods and flash media.

https://www.brutman.com/forums/index.php
The two linked source posts are excellent:

http://datacolada.org/109

http://datacolada.org/98

This latest one has great sleuthing examples:

http://datacolada.org/112

Their analysis suggested that the data (originally collected using Qualtrics) had been modified, i.e. that the data in the data files would not match the original data (still stored on Qualtrics' servers).

It turned out they were right:

We have received confirmation, from outside of Harvard, that Harvard's investigators did look at the original Qualtrics data file and that the data had been modified.
What changes specifically? I'm lucky in that I am American, and honestly have never had to deal with immigration, so know nothing about it. Do immigration procedures become harder/easier to navigate? Are quotas (if there are quotas) reduced?
> If McDonalds paid them more, they would be paying more than the revenue that’s attributable to them, and creating a net loss by hiring them and they simply wouldn’t do it.

That only happens when McDonalds is paying exactly as much as the value they get back. Which is doubtful. If forced to pay more or shut down, your average McDonalds would prefer to pay more. They wouldn't be losing money.
i respectfully disagree. the "wonderful culture" chapel hill is known for is a memory from the 80s and 90s. the target store that opened on franklin street is maybe the most blatant sign of the shitty generic direction the town has been going in. it's a nice memory though. here's to the squirrel nut zippers.
I suspect they’re still used for outbound scam calls/texts (and maybe inbound too), and probably gray-market voip-pstn interfaces in countries that make int’l voip interchange expensive.

Some cool stuff on aliexpress with 128 SIM card slots and 8 or 16 gsm radios where you can program your choice of imei.

As a Canadian with crappy cellular coverage, I’ve dreamt of having a couple French SIM cards that I could mail to France every so often so it looked while I wasn’t 100% roaming just to have a cheap unlimited data plan with cheaper int’l calling.
If I give you my bank transactions are you going to collect and sell this?
That seems more technically accurate but less likely to catch on since it's a much less common word. I think my parents are a lot more likely to understand from context a news story that mentions that "lawyers relied on an AI that hallucinated court cases" than "lawyers relied on an AI that confabulated court cases".
I think largely for the same reason that numerical software took off where symbolic solvers didn't.

Much more user friendly, "good enough", and actually scales to problems of commercial interest.
Narrow isles and harsh lighting are another part of the marketing strategy. It’s supposed to make you feel like they’ve cut every corner to bring the lowest price to you, the shopper!
In title alone? Worked at a company too small to afford me and they gave me a title that was completely misaligned with industry.

If you mean aligned with the rest of industry? Even after having the title for > 8 years (~15 yrs total experience) I'd say I still do not consistently do "Staff" level work*, or at least I am currently unable to convince an interviewer that my work is "at that level" .

* I do not work at that level because there's no need at the employer, they really just need an army of low seniors.
I can't give a source but a figure I heard was 30% to 90% of males died prematurely in preindustrial[1] cultures due to violence.

Can't remember the source, sorry.

[1] My word, afraid I can't recall the right/more precise one.

(Edit: I went looking for the source for this figure, tried Google, plugged in the text "30% to 90% of males died prematurely violence preindustrial" and the very first result was this exact comment! After less than 9 minutes! Although strangely, Google reports it as being 13 hours ago? All very odd).
I visited the dark web, and all I got was
It's much more expensive to train models. Besides, compilers are not that smart yet. E.g. a HMM implemented in a PPL is far from the efficiency of hand-rolled code. For many use cases, they are still a leaky abstraction.

However, in areas where measuring uncertainty is important, they have taken off. Stan has become mainstream in Bayesian statistics. Pyro and PyMC are also quite used in industry (I have had recruiters contacting me for this skill). Infer.NET has its own niche on discrete and online inference. Infer.NET models ship with several Microsoft products.

Other interesting PPLs include Turing.jl, Gen.jl, and the venerable BUGS.
It would probably be at least vaguely regional, like people abandoning all of the cities in some extra hot valley due to a lack of water and oppressive heat.
> On 16 October 2017, Bombardier and Airbus announced that Airbus would acquire a 50.01% majority stake in the CSALP partnership, with Bombardier keeping 31% and Investissement Québec 19%. Airbus paid no money, incurred no debt and assumed no liability for its share in the programme,

> After reassessing its participation in January 2020, Bombardier exited the A220 programme in February 2020, selling its share to Airbus for $591 million. Airbus thus owned 75% of the programme; the remaining 25% of shares were held by Investissement Québec. Under the acquisition terms Airbus acquired Bombardier's option to buy out Investissement Québec's share from 2023, with a revised option date of 2026

That's pretty much giving it (majority control) up for free, and the rest for very cheap.

> Embraer would be in trouble to compete with Airbus anyway.

To an extent, but the E2 and the C-Series aren't really in the same segment - one is a regional jet, the other is a short to medium haul one. The Embraer E2s have less capacity and range than the A220, being optimised for shorter and less dense routes, and they have absolutely zero competition in the market today.
> Most Americans have never had real bread.

[sigh]

I was about to argue this (because I'm bored!), but then I remembered an anecdote. My mother-in-law (typical rural Midwest small town ex-housewife) mentioned to me one day that the rolls that I made were delicious.

I was a bit confused because I hadn't made any rolls. I had baked a couple loaves of bread though. Didn't think much of it until an hour later I went into the kitchen and thought, "why the hell is the top of this loaf all picked at?"

Then I recalled the comment. I had made challah, a braided Jewish bread. She had never seen braided bread before and thought the braids were rolls all smushed together.
That project has received only 20 commits since it was open sourced, with bare minimum readme. Doesn't look like they are interested in exposing it too much for outside use.
Is it possible for people to understand how it works and to still oppose it being broadly adopted in your opinion? Can you please clarify what exactly others are not understanding or misrepresenting?
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But a Waitlist gets competitive: if people sign up, they want to be first in line. So I gamified the service -- people can move up in line if they refer their friends -- and that's been a really powerful viral marketing service. Referrals have driven over 1.5 million signups via our platform.

It's been a really interesting journey for me so far. I'm happy to answer any questions!
"The truth does not fear investigation."

I don't think you'd feel the same if you were the defendant in a lawsuit, even if you had a rock solid case.

You might be completely vindicated, but bankrupted.
Or, perhaps your lawyer is a dud, and fumbled the ball.
Or perhaps the jury were idiots.
Or perhaps the law has some unknown (to you) technicality that you end up hanging for.
Or perhaps during the investigation you honestly misremember something or misspeak and the police / investigators become convinced you're guilty and spend all their time and resources trying to pin it on you. Or maybe they're just lazy, and you end up being an easy target. Don't worry, if you plead guilty you'll avoid a lengthy court battle that you can ill afford, and potential prison time if found guilty (are you that confident in your lawyer, your finances, the jury, and the legal system?). If you plead no-contest, you avoid jail, weeks or months of time off work defending yourself, and just do probation. But wait, I thought you had the Truth on your side?
It’s actually ‘anthropogenic’ (as in caused ‘generated’ by humans) if we’re going to be pedantic
Thank you! Yeah I should probably add some info. I've dropped out of uni, but my high school was pretty fancy, with courses on CS and Maths and stuff like that.

Re: age: I'm not sure why I included it. I think it's pretty common in Europe, but I have absolutely no idea why.
Turns out launching something isn't enough, these days - interdependence, and all.

Took some decades to collectively get tired enough to decide on a language to declare it
> it doesn't solve the oracle problem

That was never the goal.

> There's a black market in China for these identities already

It is built such that eventually, Worldcoin identities can be trivially reclaimed by the iris owner, so the market for these identities will drop to zero once people realize they can just sell their same Worldcoin cred over and over again and some sucker is going to buy it.

Their only goal here is to create an identity registration system where..

1. people don't need money to register

2. people don't need to have special friends to register

This is a sybil resistance mechanism, and no other system today does this. Also, the registration is basically fully anonymous. There is no way for anyone to enumerate everyone who has registered, and there is no way to link a registrant with the wallet activity of a credential holder. Say what you will, but IMO these are some pretty useful mechanics, and there are quite a few applications of this technology that can't be done without something like this.
Greta and her PR team do not publish details of her carbon footprint, so I don't have exact details her travels but Wikipedia is a fairly reliable source to give some insight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Voyages_of_Greta...
Unless you have U.S. citizen relatives, the path to the U.S. usually requires sponsorship by a U.S. company. The good news is that many with PhDs qualify for the O-1 visa, which avoids the whole H-1B lottery mess. You also could do a post-doc in the U.S. (typically on a J-1 visa) and then convert this to a longer term work visa or even green card.