skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SQL query performance is opaque and dependent on an optimizer to make the right decision. The developer has imprecise control and a given query pattern's plan of execution is subject to change at unpredictable times.

This is really hilarious framing to me.

The entire point is to make the whole process opaque to the developer (unless they insist upon explaining a query plan). SQL is about maximizing productivity and focusing on the information of the business. Being able to write a SELECT statement that has never been seen by any other computer on earth and have it execute ideally 95%+ of the time is pretty close to pure magic.

Why would you reset 20+ years worth of experience on an existing SQL query planner/optimizer/et. al.? Wouldn't you rather build & ship a working product?
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -H. L. Mencken
That would be funny since the only thing I use my gmail account for is YouTubeTV. I guess forcing them to save me $72 a month is an option I had not considered.
Akira ransomware targets Cisco VPNs
it's fine to call them spheres in a freewheeling discussion with a fellow traveler but it's a deliberately misleading shortcut here. at the barest of minimums it could say topological n-spheres

And if you don't become more confident in your idea after a well-orchestrated yet entirely failed attempt to destroy it, you are not a rational person lol. it's called trial by fire and it's older than i am

the sensationalist nature of the writing has generated a lot of discussion so I guess it has does its job
I really figured we'd have super easy hardware Raid1 in even consumer level PCs by now given how cheap drives are (and unreliable).

My SSD boot drive makes me nervous as heck, constantly backing it up.
If insurances dont cover you for future risks its not worth calling it this way. Insurance's only purpose is to help the minority of us who will get serious problems throughout their lives, not that exclude them.
This tool doesn't in any way meet the legal definition of fraud. Any if everyone working on online advertising loses their paychecks then that is an acceptable outcome.
Well, I'm not a mind-reader, but I'll humor your question. A charitable reading of your post is that you are refuting a hypothetical reader who might think that the point of the post is that the artist came up with the idea of a cell phone decades before such a thing existed (and was thus judging them to have extraordinary ingenuity). A more straightforward reading is that you are independently judging their contribution to be inconsequential because they didn't go on to realize the idea as a working object. Maybe you meant some third thing and hoped we'd read between the lines to find it. Regardless, my contention is that question of whether to credit the artist with inventing the cell phone is beside the point (however you come down on it), and the real interest of reading this has to do with empathizing with a century-old observation that feels relevant today, despite the gap in (realized) technology.
> One other good question to ask is [...] if it takes 30 years, we'd better also invest in alternatives, like nuclear.

Yes. That's been my question from the very beginning of the thread. Glad we got there.
In my experience, marketing does track the cost of user acquisition through ads, and of different ad platforms vs each other.
That's a nice euphemism for loan sharks (:
In that case this should be made illegal to use diagnosis results in this way. Insurances are not supposed to be in the business of refusing coverage.
I’ve seen an incomplete proposal from an adtech CEO that suggests we have a global user ID that we set somewhere, somehow (the tech details aren’t worked out, but the data would be stored centrally in some ad watchdog type org, something like the PCI-DSS Council), and publishers could offer varying levels of access to their site for varying levels of access to your data for advertisements. The user would be able to remove access to the data from any publisher at any time, delete all their data at any time, and they’d be able to centrally manage their data for all sites.

His argument for began with essentially what you said, this is going to happen whether we like it or not, so let’s get ahead of it and create a system that leaves the power in the end-user’s hands.

That’s not going to happen in the current structure where Google basically owns advertising because of Chrome’s market share. Google will control things.
Right, aside from friction for users, spammers will attempt to find ways around any system you implement. They are malicious actors. I don't think protecting a system against malicious actors is trivial.
Nine months would be less than one year.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668605>
> But if you're already blocking the ads, then the tracking shouldn't work anyway.

But doesn't that fail if the blocking is anything short of perfect?
Did you switch to a mac or to a windows machine?
Stop being vague. Which specific law do you think that might violate. Provide a citation.
> I always wonder what a popular science/math magazine would look like if it were oriented towards hackers. In this I mean people who have little background in the field but also the type of person who is used to bluntness and knows to RTFM.

Expensive.
Sure but the spirit of my comment stands and it’s a small adjustment to the math. Needless to say pedestrian safety is paramount.
It's only far fetched if you look at it rationally. Whereas if ads pay your salary, it's obviously click fraud. GP is describing an angle that some people might take for personal benefit, not an actual argument.
The value of the playstore or appstore doesn't come from the apps on it. It comes from the fact that it is bundled with every single device running the corresponding OS. Any app that wants to be successful has to be on them. Even OEM app stores aren't that widely used. And web apps are often not a choice since some functionality are not exposed to them. So the other comment is still valid.

If we want these companies from abusing their dominance, they have to be either penalized heavily and forced to compensate the victims, or it should be mandated that these devices bundle a trustworthy 3rd party store.
With respect to a subscription bundle being the right model: probably so.

But contrast Wirecutter with NYT restaurant reviews. Or movie or theater reviews. Those have permanent staffs, who are free to establish their own brands, e.g. Ruth Reichl, A.O. Scott. If those reviews are coopted by the review subjects, I'm not aware of it.
I know this used to be true, but is it still true post Obamacare?
Haha wow, thank you for this: I had no idea! It's a good word, deserves more exposure than that :)
Classic:

How to draw an owl:
1. carefully darw a circle as the head of the owl
2. draw the rest of the owl
This is very dependent on where you study. British and Australian chartered engineering councils signed off on giving software engineers professional standing under charter, some time ago. it incurs costs, (CPD, amongst other things, and external degree compliance assessment) as well as consequences (professional indemnity, obligations in law for certain functional tasks undertaken in-role as an engineer)

It's true the generic field of software engineering has some bogus stuff, but the actual quality of "you have standing against a professional board assessment" is actually there, and valuable (in my opinion)

"You shouldn't call yourself a software engineer if you aren't chartered" might be a better take on it.

My degree (1982) in computer science missed out on charter status by a year. I could have up-lifted but I was lazy. I do regret this sometimes. I would love to have been an engineer, purely as a personal achievement. I kept membership of the BCS until pretty much this year. Engineers in the BCS get a distinct grade of membership, with all the CPD and indemnity stuff, I was just a member.

Humerous aside: There is a worshipful company of computer professionals in the UK, with official livery, and an order of precedence in the Lord Mayor's dinner, against the cutlers, the butchers, the goldsmiths. They do good works, Charity, and advance the cause of computer science. This is distinct from the British Computer Society.
I think some day rather than the current paradigm, even including declarative package managers and environments and distros, the future will be per-user and even per-app chrooting or jails, or something similar. Apple already uses something like this today. Many people who are smart about information security have one login for shopping and banking and bill pay, one for their business, and one for cruising the web or gaming or whatever. That way a breach of one doesn't necessarily end up pwning the whole system.

I only have two accounts, one "serious" and one "off hours" but I still feel better protected than most people.
Or non-bespoke.
Wirecutter rarely shows up any more on DDG or Google’s first page for results.

In fact, I don’t remember when I last was directed to WC via DDG at all.
Man, I really wish frontend package management could be this simple, but with a system that ultimately ships bytes over the wire, we have to not only massage the dough with chopsticks (insofar as try to reduce our dependency tree with weak, feckless tools), but also, with the sheer number of transitive dependencies for each package addition, it’s almost impossible to really know what’s going on with your dependencies unless you write plug-in after plug-in.
Statistical mechanics needs to assume the existence of atoms to give you the results of Carnot's. Carnot's thermodynamics does not. That makes it a bit less straightforward to say one strictly follows from the other. Otherwise the gist of what you say seems reasonable.
You’re speaking from the position of someone clearly privileged enough to afford all the services you’d like to continue using. There are vast swaths of t people for whom an additional monthly subscription to watch YouTube, have access to email, read the news, browse social media, etc just isn’t financially tenable.

Especially in the year 2023 where technology and internet access is so crucial to survival, I’d prefer for a low-income family to not have to choose between a meal and renewing their monthly email subscription.
How predictive is it really? p-values and confidence intervals of hazard ratios only tell you the probability of comparisons to null effects on hypothetically repeated data. What I really want to know is, under the prior of proportion of PD in the general population, what is confusion matrix for this method?
I've found smaller categories of products with decent reviews on youtube. Project Farm and America's Test Kitchen spring to mind. I'm not sure they're as rigorous, but it's beyond what I'm willing to do at home by myself.
I recall two companies working on this - RightEye and Neuralight:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/17/righteyes-portable-eye-tra...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/neuralight-aims-to-track-a...

Probably there are more by now. As I recall this data is great for essentially saying "you should go get a real test." No one is diagnosing - just saying that a certain, say, eye movement slowness is correlated and you can detect it much earlier than a hand tremor or other more prominent symptoms.
One could implement a FQL -> SQL compiler and then it could be used anywhere.
The ability though to safely encode logic in SQL in a single round trip would be really nice. FQL could be a better way of doing "ORM". Although you can find similar tools for SQL that help map joined results into arrays, etc, but don't obscure the SQL (for example Jet for Golang).
Just explain what we know and dont know. People will become a lot more charitable when you do the effort.
I do not think I understand what this means.

Is the point that the newbie does not understand what they are failing to achieve? Is the newbie just supposed to know it when they finally achieve whatever the goal is?

Speaking of, what even is the goal? I understand mediation has benefits, and people that can succeed at it are usually never shy to sing its praises. However, I still do not understand what benefits one actually gets from it.

If you want the honest truth, I have only wanted to mediate to fix various aliments in my life -- anxiety, stress, negative emotions, etc. in a healthy manner (assuming it even works for that).

Perhaps it's my impulsive tendencies coming to light again, but I do not actually care about mediation, spiritual journeys, enlightenment, etc.. I just want to find some god damn relief that isn't just another form of copium.
Online advertising industry is at the point of negative externality. If everyone is blasting ads to users, the effectiveness of each ad goes down, and thus an advertiser need to blast even more ads. All this is at decreased quality of user experience and increased resource serving ads (screen real estate, servers, developer hours) while the economic efficiency (matching willing sellers and buyers) is no longer increased. In other words, between online advertisers, it is a zero sum game -- there are only so many willing buyers' eyeball-hours.

It's difficult to imagine how to end this negative (externality) spiral. A legal ban on online ads could reduce drastically, but that is throwing the poor baby out with the bathwater. I wonder if something like phantom clicking ads could tip the economic scale for advertisers such that it is no longer cost effective for them to blast ads at people.

There is a serious game theoretic optimization going on in this trillion-dollar field (and I worked in this field before) and a novel tech or paradigm can change the game completely.
> Each to their own,

> I used to ride a dirt bike 30km to high school every morning

I true bogan. I appreciate that.
That's helpful. My father was an academic, so his way of showing respect (as he thought it) was to approach every statement with skepticism, and subject every utterance to inquiry. He "treated us like adults", which I appreciate, but I'm not sure that's a great way to treat adults, either! (At least, not outside actual academic discourse.)

A sibling reply said something about assuming the content of someone else's statement, and thereby missing what they're actually saying. I know I do that, too. That's a hard one for me to break, because often - in an area that I know something about, at least - I can anticipate the question, so 90% (or something) of the time there's no immediate negative feedback. Wait... No negative informational feedback: there's probably a negative interpersonal reaction, to which I'm not properly attuned. Right.

That's worth thinking about. Thank you! I really appreciate your response.
i have 2.5 million emails in a 32GB datastore. no mailprovider is going to allow me to store that much mail, and search is actually quite fast. if it isn't for you, then get a better mail client.
Fabbing our own chips is a no-brainer for maximum certainty around function, security, supply, etc.

Agree with working together but many leaders don't see it that way, so it's best to remain realistic and be prepared for bad scenarios.
I believe Obamacare did fix this in the US, but at the trade off of requiring people to hold health insurance at all times. The thinking was otherwise people would just only get insurance when they got supper sick. The republicans chipped away at that requirement (it was one of the least popular parts of the bill) and I think removing it didn’t actually cause the insurance market to collapse which everyone thought it would, but I’m not clear on exactly why? Generally requiring insurance to not charge extra when people only buy it when they need the insurance is doomed
What do you think of Lavabit? I think they operated in the same way, but the US government forced them out of business for refusing to hand over their TLS keys to allow the US to spy on Snowden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
No, you can't. If you'd like an analogy from 3D modeling to see why not:

Any polyhedral mesh has an integer called its "Euler characteristic", which is simply calculated by taking the number of vertices, subtracting the number of edges, and adding the number of faces. (V-E+F)

Obviously, smoothly deforming a surface by moving vertices around doesn't change its Euler characteristic. A bit less obviously, any sequence of local refinements to "patches" of the mesh can't change its Euler characteristic either. (For example, splitting one face into smaller regions that are still connected to their surroundings in the same way.) Anything that you might reasonably call a "smooth" transformation will keep the Euler characteristic unchanged. You can convince yourself of this by experimentation with whatever 3D modeling software you like.

But a spherical mesh has Euler characteristic 2, and a torus mesh has Euler characteristic 0. So no smooth deformation can transform one into the other.

The only way to change the Euler characteristic would be to change the mesh topology itself, which would mean there's at least one pair of faces that are connected by an edge in one mesh and not connected in the other, which means the mesh has been "torn" along that edge.

With a lot of math, you can extend this argument to arbitrary continuous surfaces, not just polygons. If two surfaces have different Euler characteristic, then you cannot find a bidirectional continuous mapping between them. Any such bijection must be discontinuous somewhere, which roughly means that arbitrarily close points are "torn apart" from each other.
fraudulent purchases are not identity theft.
With ZFS, he is better prepared than other WD and Sandisk SSD users.

https://petapixel.com/2023/08/08/sandisk-portable-ssds-are-f...

https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portab...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37042587

https://www.theverge.com/23837513/western-digital-sandisk-ss...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37188736
See Letter Of No Record at
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...

Really helpful to have birth listed in a couple church public registers.

For baby passport, basically the parents attest to the child being born as American along with "hey look at this public record". And a SSN is apparently never required and State Dept should probably not being relying on a tax agency number. I mistakenly transposed and messed up the digits for the SSN box ten years ago and the passport arrived. So they didn't even do a lookup on it.
Maybe IA needs to split itself into multiple entities that cover various subtasks to be more resilient towards these lawsuits. As to how you'd do that exactly... I have no clue, but someone educated in law might.
Yes. Then it having separate -Context variants means they really wanted to provide both, and not just the context one.
Usually drug and alcohol addiction ends up hurting other people and being a drain on social safety nets, right?

I guess if the monks can live cheaply and not bother anyone, it's fine. It's not for me, though.
I used to think they were good but I think they were only good on paper, even before they were bought by NYT.

I checked out a lot of their top picks and a lot of them had like 2/5 ratings after a few years and it turns out a lot of their picks weren’t really reliable or weren’t that good once you used it a lot.

I feel like Wirecutter just bought a bunch of stuff and compared things superficially.
The government in which the majority of google employees live under will control everything.
> laws that target specific companies or individuals are unconstitutional

This is a misunderstanding. The constitution prohibits “bills of attainder”, which are laws that short-circuit the justice system and punish past behavior legislatively rather than via the judicial system, basically declaring “it is the law that x is guilty of crime y (and will be punished with z)”. Targeting an individual or small group is only one of the several criteria that need to be satisfied for such a law to be unconstitutional.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C3-2/...
I recall this being necessary on older main frame systems where monitors either didn't exist, there was limited time on a shared console, or you didn't have access at all. However, once we had networks and workstations/PCs there was a decreasing need for paper. I believe that elimination of paper was a long-time goal and good for the environment. As far as code review goes, we have IDE's with incredible navigation, linters, debuggers, unit tests, and amazing environments to submit PRs with diffs and collaboration tools. Also, since we have automated tools that produce a huge amount of automated/generated code in some environments, the thought of printing all of that out feels like a long laborious task.
Open source does not mean anything in the first place. Terms like Libre or Free Software exist for a reason.
An aside - I wanted the username xl but someone registered it the day before (the day before!) me on hn.
Because airborne viruses are well know to stay within the vicinity of a positive case…
If it’s predictable you’ll fail, that’s not insurance. Insurance is about unpredictable failures. It may sound odd, but it’s the nature of it.
From that website:

The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more.
It was a metaphor. They always want to tie the display of one piece of data they’ve gathered with some other piece of day they gathered separately. And they eventually come around to the idea that they want it to be consistent. So now your two concepts that were separate are part of some feature that correlates them.
Fairly tough.

I got laid off 2.5 months ago. Decided to take a 2 months to center myself. Ive dropped about 12 applications now, had 1 interview at second round. Another contact me, then ghost me, and 2 "sorry you arent a fit", the rest have been silence.

Im a Senior devops/automation engineer, 20 year career in some IT field.
Interesting. I always assumed that the immediate dial tone after origin disconnected in movies & TV was for dramatic effect to let watchers know that the person hung up the phone.
Sql is one of the coolest languages ever developed and I hate the resistance to it. It's basically applying relations over (multi)sets, and set theory can be at the root of basically all today's mathematics if you squint or translate hard enough. So much of programming is taking data from one place and putting it in another, having a consistent language to do so such as ANSI sql is so powerful.

Until cloud formation/terraform/infrastructure as code came around it was basically the only declarative language that most developers would come across (unless you count markup), and I think that was the cause of some of the resistance.
WebGL virtual visit of Amsterdam Rijksmuseum
is early diagnosis useful?
When the whole discussion of "libreoffice for personal use" came up, I found out that the foundation, libreoffice foundation DOES NOT HIRE DEVELOPERS. Due to some stupid German laws, that would equate to competing with for profit orgs.

Any donation you do to foundation is for "conferences and stickers".

There are only free volunteer developers and paid orgs like collabora.
Fecal. Like Sequal.
"Open source" is defined by this page, which has been around since the 1990s: https://opensource.org/osd/
On the other hand restaurant/movie critics have a vertical. If I want a ukulele I prefer a different critic that the one reviewing toasters, this is not possible with permanent staffs, unless the team is quite big or expert in everything.
So parents reporting unattended live birth would get a "certificate of live birth" with first name 'baby' or whatever? That paper could actually be useful for purpose of passport.