skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a blog that's generated with a static website builder. Whilst is very light on resources and has practically no security holes, I actually miss the comment section.

Previous blogs I operated were WordPress and the comments acted like a guestbook, letting me know I wasn't just shouting into the void. Now it feels very 'one dimensional' and not much of a conversation.

Disqus and its ilk might be a solution, but for me they are out of the question - I don't condone data harvesting.
Should the US implement a ‘robot tax?
> - Chess, a popular game in Russia and a game of gambits and bloody material exchange for a pawn: the Ukraine war

And yet, here we are. American strategists planned, and the governments executed a chess-like game against Russia decades ago, and the public in the west knows everything started last year and attributes all the bloody hell only to Russian expansionist politics ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
Cooking makes us better cooks.

Edit: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Wait, which subculture?
might have been a screenshot of the conversation sent to Shannon You
What would a good browsing interface be like?
Re Agincourt. The ground was so muddy that the French armoured knights had to walk their horses rather than charge. That's not the same as fighting on foot - or at least, not until your mount has been killed beneath you by English and Welsh longbowmen raining arrows on your densely packed (and slow-moving) forces.
If your monthly PITI payment is $4k, principal $1.5k, rent $3.6k, then your net worth hit is actually only $2.5k/mth from the house.

If you’re saying interest, taxes, and insurance were all $4k/mth, $400/mth, then sure, but people usually don’t talk about the costs of their mortgage that way.
> imo there is absolutely nothing wrong with the conflict of interest, pretending it doesnt exist however suggests either dishonesty or a special kind of stupidity

Right, in principle I don't strongly disagree with you. Certainly in the short term the intelectual dishonesty bothers me more than making money by bumping up results.

But whether that is a real issue or not, depends on how relevant Google is in our society. If there's alternatives, people can try them. If there's no alternatives, having the power to control the results to benefit yourself is maybe too much power concentrated in too few hands. It's unclear to me where we stand right now. I haven't used Google search in many years (DDG), but I'm aware they're hugely influential to basically everyone else.
curl -O

https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-O
Sure? I would assume many of the world's countries do not care about copyright infringements on the internet.

Also much of the existing speech control infrastructure is used to censor what people can see or say outside of copyright and CSAM (see China, Iran, Myanmar, UAE, Belarus, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, ...)
> Didn't read the article.

From the Hacker News Guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Next time you don't read an article, please keep it to yourself.
> I wonder if all those "ergonomic" designs really aim at the right corner of the solution space.

I don't think your question comes from the right corner of the problem space to begin with.

If you have a class of products which are linked with health problems in a subset of the population, and another set of problems that mitigate or eliminate said health problems in that subset of the population, then why should we complain about the products that are designed explicitly to protect your health?

And think about it: it your keyboard is causing health problems, why are you exploring solutions that involve perpetuating the root cause of your problem?
>Will this still be the case in 30 years when India and China’s economies have matured and high paying tech jobs can be found elsewhere?

Even EU can't compete with the US on funding and high tech skilled wages(except London and Switzerland which aren't in the EU), what makes you think India and China can?

> where they’ll be developing the economy of those countries rather than that of the US

To develop companies that can threaten the established US ones you need more than educated capable brains, you need massive amounts of VC funding, which even the EU doesn't hand out, let alone see India and China match not only enough money to catch up with the US, but also to overtake it. Returning Indian and Chinese engineers and scientists means nothing if there isn't tens of billions waiting for them in funding when they get home.
Can't seem to read the article. Some JS crap is freezing the page and can't scroll down (Firefox).

I've learnt lots from both books and videos. Being a "good cook" requires a few things:

* Skill in common techniques,

* Knowledge of ingredients,

* Good tools,

* Repertoire.

Videos are great for learning techniques. I've got books that do an admirable job of teaching how to knead or whisk etc., but nothing beats seeing someone do it. Some techniques are impossible to replicate without the right tools, though. You won't be able to replicate the chopping techniques you see with a cheap, blunt knife, for example. Videos often fail to mention this.

Books are the best for knowledge about ingredients. Videos could do it, but I've never seen one and it's probably not good for TV or the Youtube algorithm. You just need to know a few key things about ingredients like how to buy them, how to prepare them (which bit to peel, which tools to use etc.), how ingredients interact with each other (for example, a video will show you cooking the onions before putting in acidic ingredients like tomatoes, but will it tell you why?) Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a must-have.

Repertoire comes with time and I think you can get that from either books or videos. The best cooks don't really follow recipes after a while. A brief skim is often enough to assimilate a new recipe and it can then be carried out using existing knowledge and skills. For such a cook, a video can be a very inefficient way of learning a new recipe.

I think of repertoire as like a giant Makefile in my head, I wrote about it in a bit of a silly article on my blog: https://georgek.github.io/blog/posts/cooking-with-make/
> Kubernetes is up to 80% cheaper compared to PaaS like Heroku

What do the authors ever mean? How so? The smallest k8s cluster that makes sense has 3 nodes. This means you need to run at least 3 VMs and pay for everything else you need (storage, secrets, egress). And on some cloud providers like AWS, you pay an extra hourly fee just for the privilege of using k8s (that amounts to around $70 last time I checked). So the above statement makes no any sense.
The problem, I think, is that in our generation many of us had at least some freedom to leave home and roam and socialize when we were bored. Nowadays bored children don't have the same escape valves as we had.

This is not an argument defending screen time, just recognizing that it is a difficult problem with no easy solutions.
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Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses
It was always dramaticised and perhaps from a certain point of view. But they've taken it to the next level, just look at ancient aliens.
Yet there are languages that are much more phonetic than English. In fact, most probably are. But I've been told that Polish is perfectly phonetic without any weird pronunciation surprises. (I don't know Polish, though.)

And spelling is only more rigid in English. Plenty of languages update their spelling over time. Only in English this is useless because there is already barely any connection between spelling and pronunciation, so the break would be far bigger than in other languages.
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Agreed.

Laws should be indiscriminate and should be evenly enforced.

They should not be driven by moral outrage about what other people do with their lives.

They should focus on what is best for the child, while still considering the needs of the parents.

Going to school is important, it provides personal formation, liberty and opportunities.

That being said, a lot of school systems are really bad and underfunded - that is a problem, too!
FFT describes everything with sinusoids by default. For QFT, it's wave functions. Wavelets are more like NN neurons that match (scale-invariant?) quantized sections of waveforms.

Fluids are decomposed into things with curl.

A classical universal function approximator is probably not sufficient to approximate quantum systems [...] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37379123
This newer comparison is also by Daniel Stenberg and is hosted on the same domain, but it's on his blog instead of the curl docs.
Chemicals used for animals/fish farming seems to be an underestimated issue, for example see the recent HN post about the vulture populations dwindling in India due to anti-inflammatory medicine given to cows. In the above article, the pesticide use is to prevent lice from killing the salmons.
This is just confirmation bias. You're looking for patterns so you're finding them. If you look for the opposite patterns you'll find them too.

Russia besides the mandatory invasion every decade has been infiltrating the west and avoiding the direct confrontation for decades, they spent a lot of money on encouraging brexit, trump and financing a lot of far-right and far-left parties in EU in hope of breaking it.

Russia also invested heavily into gas infrastructure hooking up Germany to have direct influence on its politics.

China isn't above invading some countries either when it thinks it can get away with it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Peo...

China is also currently running concentration camps for hundreds of thousands of people. Somehow we don't talk about that.

Both countries are agressive militaristic dictatorships using whatever tools they think will serve them best at the moment. China is simply more patient because it isn't in obvious decline (yet).

Another contrast is that China is importer of basic resources and exporter of goods - so it needs international peace to profit. Russia is exporter of basic resources - so it needs international chaos for best prices. When you listen to Russian economists they often talk about international "pressures" that are beneficial to their economy because oil prices go up.
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I suppose it is a reaction, just not in the chemical sense
Because US governments are led by 60/70/80 year olds who know nothing about technology. All they've done is weaponize TSMC and Nvidia.
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I started to hate natratives. The narratives authors construct reflect their biases. If their bias is weird enough it gets popular (because it's not boring). It's most attractive for people that are already (lightly) biased in the same direction. It makes them more biased. All it does is draw people away from correct understanding of objective reality. And yet narratives are praised as a way to understand reality better.

So if you want to indulge in fantasies of twisted minds about how the world works read literature. If you want to improve your model of reality read a coursebook or a manual.
It could be that this is plain marketing :).
The most interesting finding so far is it will blur any human face: https://twitter.com/j_stonemountain/status/16986398994091911...

Open to more ideas of what to send it
Interesting! Can you link?

I guess US can only ban US citizens/companies. So S Korea is still working with China?
China salaries are surprisingly high for skilled specialists (IT, robotics, biotech, etc), if you factor in cost of living and taxes, they would be higher than EU ones even now.
Lmao, Discord is for gaming. It's essentially the "now" version of Mumble and Teamspeak. Why anyone would use it instead of something business orientated like Slack or Microsoft Teams is a bit odd. I could understand for a start-up/small project, but people should migrate to something professional once they start making some cash.

I suppose it's almost like app developers basing their entire businesses on the whims and unfair practices of App stores...
Agreed. Practice at something makes us better at the thing.
that's a stretch the size of jupiter
> I would bet that part of their induction is to train their employees how to combat these ideas.

Exactly. This has been reported [1] and expanded on [2]. In a nutshell, they have internal learning materials designed to train employees to not recognize anti-competitive behavior.

[1]: https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/08/07/google-doc...

[2]: https://zyppy.com/seo/googlespeak/
> almost all corporations decided to implement Communism

Since when is anyone equal or paid the same? It’s definitely not communism. Maybe dictatorship or so
I find it funny how US nationalists keep bringing up that China can't innovate and can only steal/copy.

Have they looked inside a tech company office before? Have they seen how many Chinese immigrants/second generation Chinese Americans power high-tech US tech companies? Do they think that only the Chinese people in the US can innovate? And that once they're in China, they lose that ability?

Or have they read a science paper recently? China's universities dominate the Nature Index for high quality science output: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/annual-tables/2023/insti...

Heck, just read any science paper from top US universities. There's a good chance that one or more Chinese names are on it.
I hate the way OpenAI treats its users. It's like you're a fraud by default and you have to prove otherwise. Terrible.
I have a newer card and it works very well
> There are many browsers

Not if one doesn’t want to end up supporting Chromium in any way. Which one shouldn’t if they believe “chrome and google in general are the first in line to cause problems”.

On macOS, that leaves essentially Firefox and Safari. Except Firefox has no support for AppleScript so it’s excluded from a ton of useful automations and is thus not suitable as a daily driver for many people. So Safari remains. And Orion, which is also based on WebKit. Both are closed-source.

There are indeed many browsers if all you want to do is display webpages. But as soon as you have any hard requirement, be it ideological or technical, the choices drop dramatically. Unless you don’t mind supporting Google, that is.
> however SMT 2N3904s have been EOL'd

Can't you use the MMBT3904? DigiKey has several active suppliers of that (in SOT-23, as well as other packages).
That makes sense. I will try out the moonlander and the kenesis and i might pick this up as well if i return both of the others. It's cheaper so that's awesome.
The Elon Musk Post Series (2017)
A potential heuristic for the optimal number of management layers in any company is the base10 log of the total number of employees.

Assuming 1 manager oversees 10 people (then -1 to subtract lowest level of engineers).

Google 190,000 => ~4 levels of managers (5 - 1 = 4)

Apple 164,000 => ~4

etc.
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Graham Greene's The Quiet American has a similar feel. About an American spy in Vietnam.

Edit: Also, Mick Heron's Slow Horses series, based on a group of outcaste MI5 spies in London. (The first book was made into a TV series on Apple TV).
Sure, but there's a world of difference between doing something and practicing it.
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Disagree. I'm crap no matter how much I cook and I even cook some things worse than I used to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Created_Disco

> I Created Disco is the debut studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris

> All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with OctaMED

https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/interview-calvin-harris...
Where did he say that it included exclusively working for one employer?
A classical universal function approximator is probably not sufficient to approximate quantum systems
(unless there is IDK a geometric breakthrough in classical-quantum correspondence similar to the Amplituhedron).

IIUC Church-Turing and Church-Turing-Deutsch say that Turing complete is enough for classical computing, and that a qubit computer can simulate the same quantum logic circuits as any qudit or qutrit computer; but is it ever shown that Quantum Logic is indeed the correct and sufficient logic for propositional calculus and also for all physical systems?

From "Quantum logic gate > Universal quantum gates":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate#Universal_q... :

> Some universal quantum gate sets include:

> - The rotation operators Rx(θ), Ry(θ), Rz(θ), the phase shift gate P(φ)[c] and CNOT are commonly used to form a universal quantum gate set.

> - The Clifford set {CNOT, H, S} + T gate. The Clifford set alone is not a universal quantum gate set, as it can be efficiently simulated classically according to the Gottesman–Knill theorem.

> - The Toffoli gate + Hadamard gate.[17] The Toffoli gate alone forms a set of universal gates for reversible boolean algebraic logic circuits which encompasses all classical computation.

[...]

> - The parametrized three-qubit Deutsch gate D(θ)

> A universal logic gate for reversible classical computing, the Toffoli gate, is reducible to the Deutsch gate, D(π/2), thus showing that all reversible classical logic operations can be performed on a universal quantum computer.

CCNOT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffoli_gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate#Toffoli_(CC...

CNOT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_NOT_gate

H: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate#Hadamard_ga...

S: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate#Phase_shift...

T: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate#Phase_shift...

Implicit to a quantum approximator would be at least Quantum statistical mechanics and maybe also Quantum logic:

Quantum statistical mechanics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_statistical_mechanics

Quantum logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic
EMV based systems aren’t necessarily authentification based / don’t always phone home depending on the card issuer.
So is off-street parking.
Screen Time API
Does Apple allows third party Screen time apps to export user usage data to their DB?
I would guess "up to" means once these costs you mention are amortized. Sure k8s isn't going to beat a $10 dyno or however much they cost now, but I bet a cluster of 10 large VMs each running 50 containers blows the equivalent Heroku setup out of the water on costs.

K8s basically gets cheaper the more you run (as cloud costs, setup costs, engineering, bin-packing, volume discounts stack up), whereas Heroku basically scales linearly.
There's a problem in tech where people will work on stupid things a lot. Not just individuals, but literally entire teams will work on projects that are non-deliverable for years at a time, they'll deliver projects but they won't affect any metric of note, they'll do tech for the sake of tech, and sometimes they'll just simply not bother working.

This will happen even in a small org if your leadership isn't essentially driven motivated, and willing to take action.

At scale, this only becomes more difficult to manage, and the reality appears to be that almost nobody in leadership can actually keep up well enough to stop perf devolving into politics.
You know, there is this old joke:

Partner 1: "You'Re watching cooking videos all day, but still can't cook!"
Partner 2: "Well, you're watching pron..."
By education I am an industrial engineer. I also am a hobby historian, read I like reading on history. As a result, the industrial revolution and historical impact of manufacturing technology is right down my ally. I jave to say, I love it when historians, and those come with all kinds of secondary expertise, try talking about post-industrial technology (and sometimes earlier one, generally zhose are easiwr to understand on a superficial.level, but then some e.g. Roman engineering feats are hard to get without a proper engineering or crafts background) without a solid knowledge basis. Results range from hilarious to ignorant to outright embarassing. Not sure what category the article, and the paper, fall in. I'll settle for hilarious.
The real solution is to let the receiver of the money have a "verify" button which will, if connected to the internet, contact a central server and check that no double-spends etc. have happened. Up until verification is done, the money shows as "provisional" in your account - but you can still spend it. Only one person in the chain needs to verify for the whole chain to become permanent.

Then the users and merchants can decide if they wait to click the verify button. And the default for anyone with data connectivity should probably be auto-verification. There is an incentive to verify, because if any double-spending has happened, the first to verify is the one who gets the money.

Double-spends will happen in any system that allows offline transactions, because a user has to be allowed to log into a new device (if they lose their old one), and there is no way to know if the money spent from their old device was synced to the server yet.
to be fair cloud is (on the whole) about 5x the price compared to bare metal. Depending on several factors which make it really hard to compare (apples to oranges and all that).

For my use-case, which does not require HA, is relatively B/W intensive etc; K8S on bare metal can be 11x cheaper (with the same amount of hands-off, click to deploy, no messing around) as GCP.

So, fundamentally, there can be enormous gains w.r.t price vs cloud, 80% cost reduction leaves an infinitesimally small margin though; if they really are providing all the same benefits as a public cloud.
I would also add at least "sane default options", "continues downloads" and "retries on error" to the Wget column. I recently had to write a script that downloads a very large file over a somewhat unreliable connection. The common wisdom among the engineers is that you need to use Wget for this job. I tried using curl but out of the box it could not resume or retry the download. I would have to study the manual and specify multiple options with arguments for this behaviour that really sounds something that should just work out of the box.

Wget needed one option to enable resuming in all conditions, even after a crash: --continue

Wget's introdcution in the manual page also states: "Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved."

I was sold. Even if I by some miracle managed to get all the options for curl to enable reliable performance over poor connection right, Wget seems to have those on by default and the sane defaults make me believe it will also have this expected correct behaviour enabled even for those error scenarios that I did not think to test myself. Or - if the HTTP protocol ever receives updates, newer versions of Wget will also support those by default, but curl will require new switches to enable the enhanced behaviour - something which I can not add after the product has been shipped.

To me it often seems like curl is a good and extremely versatile low-level tool, and the CLI reflects this. But for my everyday work, I prefer to use Wget as it seems to work much better out of the box. And the manual page is much faster to navigate - probalby in part due to just not supporting all the obscure protocols called out on this page.
Ironically "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman" is a great example of what the article talks about: compelling and repeatable stories whose basis in fact is often extremely dubious.
It would be fun to see a video going into depth about the various speculations on how the laryngeals sounded like. I personally think of them as /h/, /x/, /x^w/, but there are so many arguments for the different sounds that people speculate about.
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