skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people have abandoned discourse and given up on having hard conversations.

I agree that the lack of hard conversations is a problem, although I'm not sure how much people have given it up versus just never did it at all with strangers, whom computers now thrust them in virtual proximity to. But again, I don't think the problem is with the people blocking. I think it's with the propagandists and the purposeful jerks. I think blocking is a fine response to encountering somebody who is not only uninterested in reason, but will be a pain in the ass as they try to silence any opposition to their views. Life's too short to waste time on the "change my mind" crowd. [1]

> do you have an elevator pitch for the insights in the book?

I think the book's value is mainly to people of an analytical bent. Her goal is partly what philosophers call ameliorative, meaning she's trying to sort through the many things that get called "misogyny" and come up with a productive definition for it. As part of that, she gives both a useful theoretical structure (especially valuable to me is her framing of misogyny as the enforcement arm of sexism, as well as her look at who is "owed" what and how people behave when those expectations are violated) and a lot of nuanced examinations of examples. I had no problem spotting open misogyny, but there were a lot of more subtle, stochastic examples that I only saw as a pattern after reading her book.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steven-crowders-change-my-min...
> Android needed years to get into that state and developers/hackers are still sour about the restrictions it puts on them to keep battery life in check.

True. In my experience, many desktop applications do not care about minimizing idle cycles or network activity. So you end up with your radios always active, or some persistent CPU activity. For example, if one were to use Element Desktop, Signal Desktop and Discord simultaneously on PPP (all electron apps), we're looking at ~20% CPU utilization, idle!

Mobile Linux will get there eventually!
Raku contain so many cool things.
We are already in the world of AI-assisted fraud, and we are starting to see it all around us. Companies like Amazon are going to have to figure out how they want to approach this sort of thing, because it will hurt the trust people have in them. I worry that they see selling creative content as little different than selling a USB-powered table fan.
Count yourself lucky it looks like parent wasn't so lucky.

If your studio goes under you do not get paid. Did your studio go under while working there?
>Eventually there will be an accident as a result of parts that can't be replaced, we don't need more lives lost to this war.

Such an accident would solely be the fault of the (well known) piss-poor safety programs in Russia.

They have the option to just, you know, not fly their Boeings and Airbuses. There's no NATO brainwashing machine forcing them.

I can't get myself into a headspace where any amount of mental gymnastics is going to somehow make an airline crash the fault of the sanctions. Can you elaborate on your thought process? I'm genuinely mystified.
Sounds interesting, never thought like that.
In an early chemistry class, the teacher was happy to observe that atoms bond in certain ways, with a certain number of slots available per atom (depending on element), presented various molecular diagrams, and mention that while some combinations don't seem to occur in nature, some have been created artificially.

Some kids asked about molecules they had just imagined. They were reminded that some molecules don't seem to exist, or told why what they were proposing didn't fit the model.

I asked somethnng like, "If the model's rules allow that atoms would be able bond in ways that are not observed, doesn't that mean that the model is incomplete or incorrect?".

The teacher was not pleased, and became dismissive: "The model is complete, and correct.".
As someone who wrote a fair amount of Rust and OCaml code, I have to agree with the author.

While working at Routine (YC W21), I was tasked with porting our core library to iOS to minimize duplication of business logic. This was a lucky opportunity to write something resembling a compiler: it took in schemas described with our in-house data exchange library and generated C (for FFI) and Swift code (for the end users, i.e., iOS developers).

Since Routine uses OCaml for everything (which was a big motivator for joining the company—I wanted to see how that would work out), I wrote it in OCaml. The end result is a 3-5k LOC project. It's by no means a full compiler, but it was lots of fun to write. The language got in the way incredibly rarely. On average, it made my life a lot easier. We did encounter our fair share of issues, mostly due to the cross-compilation tooling[1], third-party libraries, and intricacies of FFI. Those do take their toll on sanity.

I tried my hand at writing small compilers / interpreters in Rust, and the experience was nowhere near as smooth. It was fun, and the runtime performance is definitely there, but the ergonomics aren't the same. I especially miss first-class modules whenever I code in something other than OCaml now.

[1]: we initially used esy [2], flirted with Nix, and eventually switched to opam-cross-ios [3].
[1]: https://github.com/esy/esy/
[2]: https://github.com/ocaml-cross/opam-cross-ios
1) scala/java ... is that fundamentally difficult?

2) zookeeper is being eliminated as a dependenct from kafka

3) durable disk management ... I mean, it's data, and it goes on a disk.

Look, do you want a distributed fault-tolerant system that doesn't run on specialized / expensive hardware? Well, sorry, those systems are hard. I get this a lot for Cassandra.

You either have the stones for it as a technical org to run software like that, or you pay SAAS overhead for it. A Go binary is not going to magically solve this.

EVEN IF you go SaaS, you still need monitoring and a host of other aspects (perf testing, metrics, etc) to keep abreast of your overall system.

And what's with pretending that S3 doesn't have ingress/egress charges? Last I checked those were more or less in like with EBS networking charges and inter-region costs, but I haven't looked in like a year.

And if this basically ties you to AWS, then why not just ... pay for AWS managed Kafka from Confluent?

The big fake sell from this is that it magically makes Kafka easy because it ... uses Go and uses S3. From my experience, those and "disk management" aren't the big headaches with Kafka and Cassandra masterless distributed systems. They are maybe 5% of the headaches or less.
What is with all the self-help stuff that routinely climbs the front page these days? I clicked this post expecting a fun computer story about taking down the Visa database or something, and instead got exhorted to live my best life. Enough! If I wanted to live my best life I wouldn't be coming here.
Tell us, what was it like terminating someone?

What was your hiring process like? Did it require union approval?

What happened if the new-hire didn't want to belong to the union?

What happened if a union-member decided they no longer wanted to be in the union?

What happened if you wanted to pay a new-hire more than the pre-defined salary bracket?

Conversely, what happened if a new-hire lacked qualifying experience and you wanted to bring them on below the pre-defined salary bracket?

What happened if part-way through the hiring process, you decided the job requirements needed to be changed? Did this require union approval?

Were disputes always settled with lawyers, or could you resolve an issue internally?

My points are, the union ends up running your business. It's pervasive, like a virus, and the outcome is not good for everyone.
These planes have been stolen, remember? They were under lease and Russia just said "we're keeping them" because you've all been mean to us.

Supplying them with parts for stolen place is next level of cuckoldry.
permanent.org
Kinda chisels away at their official "We're not a keylogger!" argument:

> Is Grammarly a keylogger?

> No. A keylogger records every keystroke, sends data to a third party for the benefit of that party, and does so without the user’s knowledge. Grammarly’s product doesn’t fit any of these descriptions.
[0].

Certainly the data being sent must be primarily for their own benefit. Clearly if it was for the benefit of the user then they would have not need to make turning it off a premium feature. Maybe Grammarly will create an AI that makes their product better, but they're still using user data to make that product in the first place.

[0]. https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003816032...
Just as higher-end cars have brake pad wear sensors and sometimes caliper temperature monitors....commercial passenger jets, especially ones made in the last two decades or so, are instrumented up the ass.

There's a Minimum Equipment List that specifies the minimum stuff a plane needs to be safe to fly, and under what conditions specific equipment can be bypassed or non-functional. I seriously doubt that overworn brake pads can be mitigated or ignored according to the MEL, and a pilot should be sweating bullets signing off to fly a plane that doesn't meet the MEL.

...at least in the modern, developed world. Which Russia is increasingly neither...
I mean. Consider the recent issues with the FAA and Boeing. People kept getting on those planes.
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036217
Tell HN: I am self-censoring on social media, to avoid AI
There was always the implicit knowledge that all content posted on social media platforms is privately stored by corporations. However, there is now the additional incentive to actively scan and process this content to train AI language models.

I’ve noticed lately in myself that this new perception makes me more self-conscious than before, to the point where I am self-censoring and avoiding to post in my natural, individual “voice”. My unique linguistic character is something I don’t really wish to be modelled and subsequently plagiarised by arbitrary corporations.

This is in addition to prior concerns of fingerprinting the writing style, which presumably is going to become more and more precise, and enables correlating “alt” accounts, perhaps even across platforms.

Technically-inclined people have always recognised those risks. But the success of chatGPT in capturing mainstream’s imagination might make more people aware of this reality. Is this making anyone else reluctant to post original content on social media? Will the quality of online social interactions suffer, because of this suspicion that you risk your “personality” and ideas being analysed, modelled and stolen by the platform you’re using?
I think Amazon wouldn't say they didn't know, but that it's not their responsibility. For example if Random House published a book that libeled someone, and Amazon sold it, you would sue Random House and the author for libel, not Amazon. Likewise, Amazon would tell you to go sue the publisher, who is probably judgement-proof in some way.
In the UK, Scotland, specifically, McDonalds has lost at least two lawsuits against a Scottish family for trademark violations.
I'd say they use a rolling release distro like Arch or similar, where packages are updated very often. In fact, I believe Arch even has a tool to seamlessly manage multiple Java installations.
I prefer easy to fix answers
There was a parade of CEOs before Jobs that could not fix Apple.
Interesting! Maybe there are some differences between local devices and cloud servers.
This is what the city will care about? I think magic mushrooms is way lower in the “should have an idea what to do” below shoplifting and poop.
This work appears to be closely related:

"Anti-PD-1 and Novel Combinations in the Treatment of Melanoma—An Update"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019511/
He literally defined a pyramid/ponzi scheme (depending on how or if value is shared with existing users). That’s very interesting that he feels protected enough to say that out loud.
Some more discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036217
> WHY are they agreeing to this?

Because they don't know that they won't actually get any money at the time they agree.

The "creativity industry" scamming people is a tale as old as the industry.
In my experience in this case you need to explicitly filter out middle-click, ctrl-click, cmd-click and whatever other features the browser may offer. Otherwise you will accidentally prevent them too. I would love if there was a more specific event that avoided this problem.
If the options are:

- have sanctions, more Russians die, and fewer Ukrainians die because the war ends sooner

- the opposite

Then your suggestion seems to value Russian lives over Ukrainian ones.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230708070056/https://manjarno.... (original domain expired)

https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
Re: "analog computing", I presume you have seen the following recent Wired survey/review of recent interest in it, but if not, see:
https://www.wired.com/story/unbelievable-zombie-comeback-ana...

My perception is there has been a steady stream of analog circuit work in recent decades (not quite pure "analog computing", but related to it) due to the integration of analog signaling into cell phone chips that otherwise are digital (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-signal_integrated_circui... ); not sure if any of that is relevant to your explorations.
The books do not appear to be by the same author and it appears Amazon is correctly handling this:

- Book by her https://www.amazon.com/Business-Chicago-Writing-Editing-Publ... links to her Author profile https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Friedman/e/B004KHXQ0U/ref=dp_byl...

- Book by other person with same name https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CD8YW4PQ links to no Author profile and instead to a search for that name

Two people are allowed to have the same name and unless one of them trademarks it, I would expect Amazon to do something like this. After all, J K Rowling isn't her name either, and it could just as well be a name I picked. What makes it hers exclusively to use for this purpose is that she trademarked it. Otherwise, I could also have the pen name J K Rowling.
This is an unusually well argued position on a contentious topic, worthy of a read whatever your prior position on this issue. It takes issue with the prevailing medical consensus on methodological and statistical grounds, without impugning the dignity of its subjects or the sincerity of other professionals in the field.
The question is why is another studio springing up, if even a lay commenter on HN knows it is bound to fail?
Why Integrated Vector Database Can Boost Your LLM Apps?
Superfund Interactive Map
How do you pull a critical fix across branches w/o the occasional cherry pick? What do you do instead?
One would hope that this would also usher in the era of repairability(for electronics and machinery) but I wouldn't hold my breath
Coil whine, if I had to guess.
Benchmark info: https://modelz.ai/blog/pgvecto-rs
"Destruction is a form of creation" - Donnie Darko
I created a successfully funded boardgame on Kickstarter that basically turned UNO into a fast pace action game.

https://www.swiftwave.io/
> ZooKeeper is rock solid

lol. lmao. never falls over or causes incidents, in the same way c is rock solid and never SIGSEGV or causes security problems
Here's also a little bit more detailed write-up with the video of how it works under the hood: https://ichebykin.hashnode.dev/writing-mario-in-sed
My favorite trick for this lately has been to use a stripe of mirrored pairs, where each pair is a WD Gold and a WD Red Pro (of matching size).

They're very similar drives (AFAICT, WD Gold is just a Red Pro but with a higher lifetime r/w rating) but it makes me feel a bit better that they're not from too similar of batches without having to actually temporally space out my purchases. I can buy 1 of each in the same cart.

And then for truly unrecoverable data, I back it up to S3 Deep Archive which seems to be one of AWS's only reasonably priced offerings. Don't ask me how much it's cost in egress bandwidth to pull it all back though. I'm hoping if I end up needing it I'll be grateful enough for my foresight to justify paying it.
Wow, so clear instructions and conclusions, thanks!
Yeah the picos should be priced reasonably lol and if they’re not you should get an SAMD21/51, ESP32, or NRF52 and save your money
It is not some random subreddit, it is r/physics.

HN is a tech forum, plenty of smart people in there, but also plenty of people who think they know more than they really do. Lots of arrogance in here. I am guilty of it myself, and some of my posts got a lot of upvotes even though it was way out of my field of expertise. I try to get things right, fact checking and all that, but my opinion is certainly not worth that of an expert.

All that to say that on tech matters, I think HN is pretty good, because that's where the tech guys go. But for physics, I'd go for r/physics.
If you are filing a lawsuit using a cause of action with harm as an element, you better have evidence of actual harm.

If you are filing a lawsuit using a cause of action about blocking access, then you don’t need evidence of harm.

In either case, if the act is the kind that cannot avoid causing harms, then if it occurred, evidence of harm should be easy to find and put forward, at need.

More to the point of this actual lawsuit, acess or harm to the SVP businesses is not the issue in the cause of action here, harm to competition in the general search and general search ads space, where the SVPs are not competitors to Google but suppliers to Google and its competitors is. So, the lack of presentation hurting their business would not establish the required harm, what would be required is something like injury to their ability to sell data to Google’s competitors resulting from Google not presenting the SVPs in the specialized searches.
did you use this handle on slashnet?
This reads like LinkedIn Spam.
Likewise, my i7 920 continues kicking and handling most any random task I throw at it. I retired it as my daily driver in late 2018, but I sure got my mileage out of that thing.
Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions
> My unique linguistic character is something I don’t really wish to be modelled and subsequently plagiarised by arbitrary corporations.

How unique do you think is your linguistic character, considering there are 7.888 billion people on the planet?

One perspective is that individuals' traits are but punctuated emergence in the sea of probability.
> If I wanted to live my best life I wouldn't be coming here.

ETOOMUCHTRUTH
he should really tell us more about the nuclear power plant thing
If only they had an anodized black option.... The fact that you have to resort to breaking out the rattle-can or use janky stickers on your $3000+ machine just to have it in the most popular computer color is simply maddening.
The only real question with large scale energy storage is which of the many options will come out on top.

I'm concerned about the supply of antimony for this one, though.
The example book just has the same name. It should be defensible; you can write under any name you want.

Amazon itself is the entity attributing the book to the more famous Jane Friedman. This is a case where the "impersonator" appears to be legally fine and Amazon is on questionable ground.
Just like nobody needs more than $5M, nobody needs to live in the Bay Area.
IntelliJ IDEA 2023.2 is super slow and barely usable on iMac, previous version to this was much faster!

No change / add in plugin's everything same.
Here are two paragraphs where the author draws conclusions.

'The short-term effect of GAH is no longer an unanswered question. Its theoretical basis was strong in the absence of data, but like many strong theories it has failed in the face of data. Now that two studies have failed to report meaningful benefit we can no longer say, as we could as recently as 2021, that the short-term benefits are so strong that they outweigh the potential long-term risks inherent in permanent body modification. Some non-trivial number of patients come to regret these body modifications, and we can no longer claim in good faith that there are enormous short term benefits that outweigh this risk. The gender affirming clinicians had two bites at the apple to find the benefit that they claimed would justify these dramatic interventions, and their failure to find it is much greater than I could have imagined two years ago.

I am not unaware of how fraught and politicized this topic has become, but the time has come to admit that we, even the moderates like me, were wrong. When a teenager is distressed by their gender or gendered traits, altering their body with hormones does not help their distress. I suspect, but cannot yet prove, that the gender affirming model is actively harmful, and this is why these gender studies do not have the same methodological problem of large placebo effect size that plagues so much research in psychiatry. When I do in depth chart reviews of suicidal twenty-something trans adults on my inpatient unit, I often see a pattern of a teenager who was uncomfortable with their body, "affirmed" in the belief that they were born in the wrong body (which is an idea that, whether right or wrong, is much harder to cope with than merely accepting that you are a masculine woman, or that you must learn to cope with disliking a specific aspect of your body), and their mental health gets worse and worse the more gender affirming treatments they receive. First, they are uncomfortable being traditionally feminine, then they feel "fake" after a social transition and masculine haircut, then they take testosterone and feel extremely depressed about "being a man with breasts," then they have their breasts removed and feel suicidal about not having a penis. The belief that "there is something wrong with my body" is a cognitive distortion that has been affirmed instead of Socratically questioned with CBT, and the iatrogenic harm can be extreme.'
the paper by ben izar et al :

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15356...
Labor unions have good social effects and bad social effects just like literally every other organization of people. Sometimes the good outweighs the bad, and sometimes the reverse.
It just seems like a reductive argument to me. Why bother ever expressing yourself if you're afraid of someone else copying you?

With or without AI, I don't really follow the line of logic.
Does it support S3-compatible services, notably Cloudflare R2? I heard that there might be special handling for each S3-compatible providers, due the slightly different API behavior and different consistency models, and etc.

If it support Cloudflare R2 then it would be great for multi-cloud too.
I don't think she's asking Amazon to remove the books (though they should), but rather they're on her author page. There should be a way for an author that you've created a page for to be able to say "those books aren't mine, please remove them."
>I just lost a 4 years worth of my kid's videos. I will never forgive WD.

I'm sorry, but your fate was sealed the moment you decided that one copy was sufficient. Drives can fail randomly, so keeping valuable data on one without redundancy will virtually guarantee that you will lose data at some point in time. Just be thankful that you learned your lesson and it only cost 4 years worth of videos. If it happened 3 years down the line it could easily have been 7 years worth of videos.
If it looks like it was written by a known author, you may not suspect anything until you read it.
HN's corpus was included in OpenAI's training dataset, so it might be tool late for that. You could do what I do and flatter yourself that its impressive abilities are thanks in no small part to the brilliance of your prior contributions, and until they release the weights nobody can prove otherwise.