skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well first off, i think there is an argument that creating & simulating algorithms is CS stuff anyways.

Second its often (not always) a lot more work to test scalability with benchmarks than it is to theoretically analyze.

Especially because people are often worried about both average case and worst case. The input that takes down your site is not the one you expect, and simulating realistic load is difficult.

It can also be pretty hard to compare benchmarks. You probably dont want to test every algorithm known to man yourself, but two separate benchmarks on diff hardware and diff conditions cannot be reasonably compared. More abstract analysis can (to an extent anyways)
Maybe if mice did Math, they could avoid this cognitive decline people talk about..

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1059235/great-contr...
Sounds like a sad way to live but you do you
Can you point to the studies please? Would be curious to check them out.

I have experimented quite a lot during the years and sugar (sucrose) for me definitely has positive effect.

I’ve tried tea, other things to eat, even gluten stuff, and sugar sweets was the only thing that made me retain my decision making focus state at the 16:00 lul ours where you still have a few hours to work, but don’t “feel” like it.

When I care more about me than the company’s well being I just accept that I will not be very productive then, but if there is a crunch and I really do care about the project, I can hack it with some sweets.

Maybe it is a placebo, but as long as its not too unhealthy… there are worse ways to live one’s life.

I mean most of the time I would be able to hack it if I really wanted to without sweets. Its just focusing on things gets a lot easier with the sugar. But I do not get overly active if I’m in a stable state, just get more to “normal” when I’ve exhausted my mind with mental work.
This is wrong on two counts: 1) translation is not the same as abstraction and 2) having the world's encyclopedia translated by an advertising company is not exactly everybody's idea for how things should be organized

Of course wrong criticism doesnt mean the project is a success (i think its been going for a few years now). The documentation in particular does not highlight what this infrastructure is good for.
It should be noted we still “tax” them, as in the laws in place put income tax down, but they grow wealth by paying people full time to legally skirt taxation via schemes like this. However considering the current state of bloat governments are in, I’m not sure that extra money would actually mean anything. Except more to funnel into the military industrial complex and other black book projects.
Great! I'll place an order soon!
When society is so imbalanced in terms of intellectual opportunity, and the fields so green for those few who have the chance, of course those few will have such a lasting impact.

Furthermore, if we were to say, rate these people out of 10 on the potential-to-make-breakthroughs scale, I would expect that any time a 9 or 10 comes along, that contemporary 6, 7, and 8s who may not have made some initial leap will be at the ready to drive that progress forward. Clustering of geniuses seems natural, given we typically rate someone's genius by their contributions rather than their standalone grey wattage.

It would be surprising if some Norwegian was building off greek philosophy principles back in the day. It's not at all surprising that Greek contemporaries and their students did the same, some of which are then labeled "genius".
Doesn’t Google fund a lot of Mozilla’s dev work?
The Hated One also did a rather informative video covering this topic: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto
> First, child protection is paramount

Can you name one authoritarian regime in which child safety has been a priority? If anything the impunity of those at the top has made child trafficking worse. Your position risks giving a massive amount of power to people who have already demonstrated they can't be trusted with it, let alone with kids. Don't assume privacy activists don't care about children.

> Second, The erosion of big tech companies' power is a benefit as far as I can see.

Big tech can't read E2E communications either. This won't reduce their power.

> Third, We still have effective encryption in our hands. TLS is not going to be broken by this.

Effective against whom? If it's the authorities you don't trust then TLS is already useless.

Seriously, the UK is the home of the coverup. Sir Cyril Smith, Sir Jimmy Saville, Sir Peter Morrison, Sir Peter Hayman, Stuart Hall OBE, Rolf Harris CBE. All of them connected enough to 'put in a call to someone' and in many cases, shown to have received some police or official support. Your system sucks but you trust these people enough to give them more power?

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

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-abuse-idUSKBN20J1...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/25/police-and-p...
On a tangent, if you read the book The 48 laws of Power then you know about all the sidenotes (more like complete side stories) throughout the book. I started reading this book on my smartphone years ago, and it was just an awful reading experience. The real paper book was way more readable, but still very annoying because of the long 'side stories'.
Consider how many people a shovel versus a car can kill in a minute.
Please note that overtaking vitamin D is unhealthy as well. It’s a hormone and I believe taking too much is damaging to the liver. But supplemental and when having a lack of Sun is probably a good balance.

But if you can be in the sun your skin can make vitamin D.
All of the details tabs I checked had a message saying that the implementation was hidden.
Thanks ChatGPT for the summary!
[press 𝕏 to doubt]
Isn't that then wasted talent? AIUI, upthread comments were about putting more resources into the gifted children precisely because we don't want to waste their talent.
I want my phone to stay small and simple with clickable tactile keyboard.

Why have phone manufacturers forsaken the likes of us?
'Autism' when applied as a slur to everything and everyone has grown to mean 'talent.' It is very rare to see it referred to the actual medical condition these days.
Tres Comas was the tequila company owned by Russ Hanneman in the show. For those who have not watched Silicon Valley, Russ Hanneman was based off Mark Cuban.
In Command
Lots of satellites have thrusters to stabilize and adjust their orbits. Especially those at lower orbits since they do have to counter the effects of atmospheric drag.

All that's really needed is a convention for those satellites than can, to use the last remaining propellant to perform a de-orbit maneuver.
"translated by an advertising company" is akin to "Tor was funded by the US government" - it's basically organizational ad hominem.

Google's translations are fine and are high quality and don't yet (or in the foreseeable future) inject ad copy into the translations (like they do on eg Google Maps for POIs).
Another one: Lossless storage of energy.
No. It’s because of shifting standards. The “can’t play outside” applies just as much in places with no more cars than there were 40 years ago (or even no cars at all for most kid -> playground routes)

The town I grew up in has, for 95% of kids, no more than 3 internal, slow roads to cross on the way to school. There’s more traffic, but only slightly so - most cars drive away from town, so despite much more traffic in general, inner roads are only slightly more crowded.

And yet, it was perfectly normal for me to walk to school 40 or so years ago as a 6 years old, and it is now illegal for anyone under 9 to do so.
I guess this is currently then the biggest issue with IPv6 adoption: ISPs are not yet ready for it.
To be more precise, what you are talking about is analysing the outward form of the argument, to see trough the misdirection rhetoric has provided. It is then the task of logic to examine the core propositions and determine if they mean anything.
Usually I just know which issues will be or not be in company documentation. I’ve never been wrong before, since every single time I reached out to support they needed to take action that could not be competed by a customer alone. One example is how poorly many SaaS handle conversion from single to team accounts. Usually they end up having to create an entirely different account and make admin changes so I can reuse the email.
The brain is an extremely complicated

I think they may have found one mechanism or one part behind
the cognitive decline in aging.

I am certain there are several different processes that
contribute to it and finding all of them and then mitigating
those may have side effects in other parts of the brain.

I have an extremely speculative and not based on science that
the brain simply is not meant to function forever.

We extend life in various ways, and we get better at it.
Perhaps in a couple of decades people will live (be kept alive)
for 100 years on average. (well those who live in a country
where such medication and treatment is available and at some
level affordable)

But human evolution has not caught up with the prolonged life span
since living that long has been an exception for 300.000 years and
looking farther back in evolution probably millions of years
I think Laplace's Rule of succession [1] could be better here. It assumes there are binary "successes" and "failures" (e.g. thumbs up/down). Let s be the number of "successes", n be the total number of data points (successes+failures), and 1/x the prior probability of a success. Then the probability that the next data point will be a success is:

(s + 1)/(n + x)

E.g. for prior probability 1/2 (success and failure initially equally likely), x=2, so

(s + 1)/(n + 2)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession
The name "Button Pushes You" explains why I hate those.
> Drugs are already very regulated.

Enforcement is lacking, incentives for criminals are extremely high - cocaine, for example, explodes in value from $2000/kg in the jungle where it's made to $20000/kg after it's been smuggled to the US - and quite a few popular drugs can be made at home using basic tools and skills (cannabis, amphetamine, alcohol, tobacco).
In the US people have been brainwashed to think reasonable taxation is 'socialism' - something they need to have a religious objection to even if they don't know what it is.
I think the argument is that improving the train drivers maths skills by 10% has little to no return for society, while the same cannot be said of the mathematician.
> that is trivially bypassed by the attacker just buying VPSs (or botnet nodes) in a freer country

A.K.A. "living off the economic land"
It's actually just first two paragraphs from the article, I don't know why this was posted.
As a fellow Brave user I fear for the longterm viability of the browser. They are an ad company at the end of the day, not browser maintainers. They lack the capital and I fear technical ability to maintain a truly separate fork, which may be required in the near future. They were already railroaded into the “no JPEG-XL” decision Google made.
Yeah, you're not the only one to think that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
I really want to know, why don't we all supplement with L-arginine long term? Time-release capsules are available and I have taken for numerous issues like RSI to great success. Whats the downside to long term usage?
I've had my fair share of useless, self interested recruitment firm representatives who enrich themselves at up to 20% of my six figure salary and literally offer me and my employer nothing. Pre-qualification always consisted of 5 minutes in a coffee shop. They hold on to my police clearance (which I had to pay for) and my medical results, and won't let me have them. They offer no services, or maybe repackage a third party salary packaging company's product if you're lucky.

Literally the only benefit that I have gotten is to be paid on a weekly pay cycle instead of monthly one, which is a dubious benefit to be honest, anyway.

They've sent me to job interviews for skills I don't have, lied to clients about me and wasted everyone's time.

This is a horrible rent-seeking class of no-good people and they shouldn't exist. They should have honest jobs and work for a living like many other humans have no choice but to do.

I've seen plenty of contracted people from such firms be let go due to incompetence, to boot. These people are useless.

I'm not going to beat around the bush on this I'm afraid.
I hate all of this
I think they look nice.

Only putting them in the sea is a big limitation in England, though. It’s not easy to defeat the remaining feudal lords who oppose land ones.
Hi thaumasiotes,
Mathematician here, and somewhow interested in this discussion. I am curious of your definition of full_sqrt, what would be the value of full_sqrt(-3) ?
You would think you can make the lithography faster with electron beams by just having many beams in parallel. But as far as I understand that’s doesn’t really work if you try to have too many beams: keep in mind that the electron beams would be extremely negatively charged. So they’ll repell each other if they get too close.
Billing is why tarsnap was too unreliable for prod usage for me. You deposit funds with a credit card, a difficult-to-predict usage calculation occurs based on how many deduplicated blocks of new data and how many API calls you will use in the next few weeks and months, and then eventually, at an essentially random time, you get an email from tarsnap guessing you have about a week of funds left and warning that your data will be deleted a week after that happens. Then a human with admin backup credentials and the org’s credit card in hand must log into the tarsnap website to add funds, resetting the time bomb for another few weeks or months.

Tarsnap is technically impressive and was reliable software, but the billing system requires an unpredictable manual process requiring two credentials held separately in most orgs. Colin has told me in private email that customer deletion is a manual step not taken lightly, but I didn’t feel that one unscheduled manual process was fixed by epicycling on another one.

I migrated away several prod installs to pay more for predictable and automated billing. Even with usage billing that’s not easy to predict, the date of next intervention is printed on the back of the credit card. (Though really, it does cost less - the engineer time it takes to manually add funds costs significantly more than a picodollar.)
After my startup failed and I broke up with my girlfriend, my cognition massively changed: I was less creative, less quick, and I could see it reduce my ability to code. Otherwise, I lost libido, had paranoia in social interaction, and alcohol or marijuana would cause me paranoia. When I would ride my motorcycle on curvy roads, or when I would play a racing game or read a book, I couldn't get into a flow anymore. Thinking about activities would stress me to the point that I would avoid doing anything.

After a number of years I feel normal, and I think it was due primarily to finding and sticking to a routine. The routine involves little things like watering plants and making coffee, and I just do them every day without thinking. Otherwise it includes exercise, sleep, chores, work, and procrastination.
No one is advocating for no regulation at all, but there is evidence on how limited regulation and not putting people behind bars for consuming even hard drugs like heroin is actually benefitial and results in fewer deaths, look up what happened in Sweden.
Don't a lot of these algorithms come from TCS researchers themselves? They may publish about complexity but if that gives some people a better understanding of algorithms and leads to better ones being invented, it's a win.
Thank you for the statistics, they are interesting. Would also be interesting to know the evolution of those statistics over the last 5 years.

Either way, seems that an IPv4 address is still needed for websites that target a worldwide audience.
Hobest question, why not just use a binary/ternary search? It's because there's no known a priori how many local maximum and/or minimums?

Because that's just an iterative/recursive version of binary/ternary search.
You are completely wrong. There are many quality sources of calcium in plants. For example legumes, nuts, seeds, dark leafy greens including spinach.
You make my argument.

Kids also get taught about smoking in school. It's hammered into them everywhere, all the time. There are massive social prohibitions on smoking. And yet.

The whole point is that people massively discount harms that are not immediately and visibly consequential.
400K of hardware and software that can probably be easily replaced by a $150 mini PC and open source.
Why would Google fund a competitor? On face value that doesn’t make much sense, but megacorps with so many tendrils rarely make cohesive decisions.
In theory they want to have functions in all programming languages
> I’m not sure that extra money would actually mean anything

In an ideal democracy it would.

Its yet again misrepresented interests. And as an extend to my side note: The decades long shift of interest representation went from the public to the private sphere. The distrust in goverment may be justified, but its no counter argument, because the means of democratic participation is the only viable tool we have left.

FUD helps the parasites. Democracies cannot fail, only the people in it do.
99% of the time you might be right but in this case there is literally no benefit to the work described in the article.
> So that kind of thinking is why every second thing I’d like to hobby-use is priced as a free trial with one missing crucial feature, then $300/mo.

You seem to be under the impression that if people didn't charge so much money, you'd have stuff cheaper. That's not true - what would actually happen is you'd just have less stuff, because people wouldn't build them in the first place.

If someone can afford to create software and run it while charging far less than it's worth for your benefit, then wonderful, but it boggles my mind that you somehow think people owe you this service. Do you also expect people to go into their office and tell their boss "actually, I don't need such a high salary, go ahead and lower it"?

> That’s basically the definition of a discriminating monopolist and what gets you airline-style inscrutable pricing and the SSO tax, isn’t it?

You think it's discrimination to ask people who use more of a service to pay more? You think if an enterprise is using something for business purposes it's not ok to ask them to pay more for something than if a user is using it for hobby purposes?

> If you’ve put it in writing and not planning to sue over violations, you’re lying to me.

That seems both unworkable and kind of ridiculous. You're basically advocating for a "zero context" policy around contracts, in which people don't have any choice whether to sue someone. Even if it's a minor violation that isn't worth it to sue over, or a violation that they decide is ok for them in that context. Why would that be better than the alternative?
Does matrix.org publish these stats somewhere?
> Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet

And how did Po210 get into the leaves ?

Some people suggested fertilizers but then every plant culture might be affected.
I hear all the time how rubbish XML is to work with but there's loads of decent standards based on it. RSS, this, etc. HTML could be considered XML. Why's it considered so bad?
Just try some pushups, dips, pull ups, and sit ups. Just do a set of a few types each day until your strength is depleted and you will see strength gains.
Probably in small doses (like what our ancestors 20000 years ago probably eat when they couldn't find better food) it won't do too much damage.
Cooking will also remove some oxalates.

Overall these are plants defense mechanisms. We know they work well as anti bug measures, ruminants have more complex digestive systems to break them down; it's not always clear what prolonged use on humans will cause.

Carnivores advocate against eating oxalates rich food and when you start a diet with no oxalates you will experience some weird symptoms, you can read about oxalates dumping: https://www.doctorkiltz.com/oxalate-dumping

There are plenty of people with "auto immune incurable" diseases who stopped eating vegetables and were relieved of their symptoms.

I personally started experiencing problems after 10 years of a 95% vegan diet and went carnivore, getting rid of a number of weird health issues I couldn't explain.
The sound mix of tvseries and movies are horrendous, and not optimized for voice at all.
You don't manually update the container images, you ideally pull it from the vendor, who knows best what is needed to get it working, it's also less hassle even if you build the images, because the image only contains the components that are needed to run than application, it doesn't contain things that are needed for your other applications.

If you are able to run multiple applications on one host, you are likely doing the things that containers do for you.
Yes. It's because the city I raised my kids in had cars speeding everywhere, including residential areas, running red lights and stop signs constantly and when a driver killed someone with their car, they were on the road the next day with no consequences.
my point it is overpriced no matter how you look at it
Thanks for asking. I haven't finished thinking it through, and I am young without much experience, but I think a possible avenue would be a return to the expectation that there is an "IT guy in the family" to help set up phones and computers for others to use. Essentially, there needs to be a culture change. There is some prior literature to this, for example https://runyourown.social/.

In this case, the non-techies don't need to know or care much about free software, convenience vs privacy/security, who is most knowledgeable, how to not be in the control of large corporations, etc., since it'll be the techie's job to help them set up their OSes and teach them how to use the functionality that they want to use. Additionally, I am assuming that techies are principled enough and knowledgeable enough to hold their own against corporations' anti-user decisions and advertising.

As a practical example, if a techie is culturally expected to buy and set up a laptop for a non tech-savvy member of the family, then the techie can simply install Tor Browser instead of Chrome and set it up to make sure it's working. Any additional instructions, if needed, can be taught via post-it notes. Humans are adaptable, and if the internet speed is acceptable via Tor, then I don't think most people would care or complain.

Of course, I cannot ignore the fact that to some people this seems like a power-grab by techies, or that people's expectations of technology has changed from "oh I'll just ask the IT family member" to "I expect to be able to use <device> out of the box". But I think this is an idea worth exploring, given how flexible it is.
I would characterise rsync.net as aiming at a similar market segment. Both of them have a big "by geeks, for geeks" vibe (rsync.net even has a page designed to be sent to your boss if you're recommending it at work), in fact in some ways rsync.net is even more barebones: they don't even provide their own backup utility, it's basically just an SSH login to a ZFS volume. But it is a lot cheaper, it has some unique features like supporting raw ZFS send, and it has the alert-if-your-backup-stops-running feature that tarsnap apparently lacks, as well as the generally friendlier billing approach you mention.