skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a similar argument to maximizing GDP. If all we care about is that number rather than the quality of transactions happening, then we can't really make useful or accurate conclusions or predictions about the health of an economy.
In mathematical theory, the ends of the knots have to be connected. Otherwise, the knot can be untied and it's just a straight piece of string. It's not really a "knot" unless it can't be untied. A circle is the simplest knot, and is effectively the "zero" of that mathematical system.

So, the physical knots you might think of being useful in various situations have only somewhat of a relationship to mathematical knot theory.
That doesn't explain your previous comment. Was the accusation about [[pretending that "no comment" means something it doesn't]] a misunderstanding of what I was saying? Or a confusion between me and powersnail? Or something else entirely?

If it's about what powersnail is saying, I think they're just wording things imprecisely. The canary doesn't actually affect the meaning of "no comment". The canary means that if it disappears, things are very suspicious, and if ask directly about the canary and get a "no comment" then you not only stay very suspicious, you also know they didn't forget. The no comment itself is not a "yes", but from a security point of view you should treat this active lack of canary as if it is a "yes".

Which they referred to as a "practical/tentative yes". Which I think is a reasonable way to describe the situation. It's not "flat out wrong" or "counter-productive".

> so even if it's going to lose you some customers, no comment

You're going too far here.

If you used to comment on something, and you could easily comment on it, and it loses you customers not to comment... you should comment. If you don't, it is suspicious.
People have different ideas what capitalism exactly means, but free matkets are generally part of it. And properly working free markets would ensure that profits are zero and that to a first approximation everyone earns the same. Making profits and getting rich is against the spirit of capitalism.
If you genie-wished the atmosphere away in one instant, I wonder what type of explosion the oceans would do as the new at atmosphere emerges, from the gases and liquids that didn't count as atmosphere before suddenly find a new equilibrium.
Congrats on the launch!

Something I would love to see is an integration with all my messaging apps where I stay in touch with people.

Beeper.com offers such functionality (can also be self hosted, which is something I did) and it’s amazing if you can see when you last messaged people, what the content was, etc.

Beeper itself is purely built for messaging, so an app like yours would be the perfect companion to give you all the CRM functionality and could then use beeper to send the messages out and log the interactions.

The disadvantage if you don’t self-host is though, that you need to trust beeper with your messenger connections.

Keep up, this is a super interesting area!
A mystery is made extra-mysterious by the nonstandard abbreviations in the article. What's a "Tb"? It's not bits. Does he mean terabyte? tebibyte? Same for "Gb". It's mostly about disk space, so it's powers of 10 right? Except it's memory-mapped, and memory's in powers of 2.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units
Isn't this validly described as "it lets you execute commands as a particular user on a particular host, but requires you to first execute a command as that user on that host"? Even in "defense in depth" or "zero-trust networking" paradigms, what does this ever let attackers do that they couldn't do already?
Sorry, I was asking about accountability, not performance. The purpose of my question was not in regards to how to produce better teachers; rather, trying to understand how problematic teachers are discovered and held accountable for staying in the role past the time when it is healthy and safe for the children in the classroom.
I know enshitiffication is his term and all but keeping Doctorow's name in the title would have been helpful, moreso than defcon31.
I'd rather be unemployed and live off charity kitchen soups than engage in these juvenile games.

As a society we need to find a way to stop rewarding slyness and trickery (aka marketing)
> see, it's going as far with complaints about "shadowbanning" as to say "well maaaybe 5% might see it - But it's still a shadowban!" - that's the part that makes the complaints sound like bullshit that they are

I've no dog in this fight, but this seems deliberately obtuse. You could call "traditional" shadowbanning "100% shadowbanning" and what you've just described "95% shadowbanning". They're extremely close.
Why do you need Salesforce Outlook integration for your org?
I'm a bit confused by this.

The video was posted to YouTube in 2021. It looks like a video shot in 2021. It has a copyright notice at the end that states 2021. Yet it's talking about a then-current 193nm wavelength lithography, which according to this post from ASML's newsroom was the then-current process for producing 100nm chips at the end of 2000:

https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2000/asml-announ...

According to the reporters comments at the start of the video, this would have been a current process when he started at Intel 21 years ago, but he's talking about it as a current process?

I'm sure I've missed something simple in the video but I don't know what it is?
Not that it was the best idea, but NIN made you wait in line at the venue during the last tour to buy tickets. I got there early and was still in line for at least 3 hours. When I finally made it to the counter I didn’t have any issue getting the tickets I wanted (floor, general admission).

On the one hand, I didn’t have to deal with TicketMaster. On the other hand, it took a significant amount of time out of a Saturday morning. I’m sure there’s some happy medium, like if you’re part of a mailing list or bought some merch before tickets were announced you can get a pre-release code to buy online.
I use a cutting board that’s a single piece of oak if I remember correctly (no gluing of multiple blocks like with many bamboo boards). I did also use the typical bamboo board but the adhesive mixed with heat and steam made me a bit uneasy. Not sure how healthy that is, or how well one of those would take too many repeated partial (mostly above the bowl) heating cycles.
I’m guessing someone there has recently read Children of Time.
Not sure what you mean by jank, but nothing else even comes close in my experience. Gnome feels clunky in comparison with stuff like missing server side decorations and lack of adaptive sync on top of that.
> Going further, the researchers removed visual neurons from the box jellyfish and studied them in a dish. The cells were shown striped images while receiving a small electrical pulse to represent collision. Within about five minutes, the cells started sending the signal that would cause a whole box jellyfish to turn around.

> “It’s amazing to see how fast they learn,” said Jan Bielecki a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physiology at Kiel University in Germany, also an author of the paper.

Could someone please explain this bombshell?

Did visual neurons learn all by themselves in a dish? And how did the researchers know that the visual neurons would interpret "a small electrical pulse" as a collision? (I'm surprised visual neurons "know" what a collision is.)
Show HN: Thinker App – Like Reddit but also everything gets ChatGPT responses
Well some banks went out of business.
> and still switch email hosts if you choose and like the client later.

That's actually the whole idea behind having your own domain. If you are john@gmail.com and switch to john@fastmail.com, you have to tell all your contacts that you changed your e-mail address, which is not practical.

If you are john@doe.com, you can use it with GMail, and later move to Fastmail, and nobody has to know about it.
Healthcare Triage: "To the research!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkO44tzkXyQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFBBjynBpSw

tl;dw -- the relative risk reduction can be as high as 50%, and depending on risk factors, the absolute risk reduction can be 5%.
In London, the Long Wait for a Super Sewer Is Almost Over
It's not, no. But it's also very easy to write alloc C# code and people will if you give them the option. That won't be possible in Rust / C.
Every single day there are millions of people using the self driving features on various vehicles with zero issues.

I don't really understand what you want here. If you claim that a person in one of these vehicles will increase safety I am sceptical. Concentration falls off drastically when you're not actively driving.
What is the point of the sentence at the bottom then?
Orland Park, represent! :)
I feel like if one goes through the trouble of switching away from GMail, it would be worth considering a competitor that is not a FAANG. Just to support smaller companies instead of quasi-monopolies :-).
I'm a big fan of Rust (and a minor contributor), but one can't deny that a garbage-collector makes most developments much easier. Now, I'm not convinced that a gc makes much sense in driver development, but I could be wrong.
I don't know if I agree.

Perhaps in 99% of pages you want the latest version, but I think in 99% of requests you want an immutable thing.

Generally speaking web pages are made up of vast numbers of immutable resources.
Yes. I feel like AMD consumer laptops are much more the norm in EU compared to US - Funny how that works out.
Microwave popcorn has been confirmed to have high levels of forever plastics.
Again, academia and the tech press overlook to talk about Actors, and we live in a world with poorly implemented pretend Actor subsets, without any of the true Actor features (work stealing, message passing etc, and best of all, no contention since no shared resources, other than Actor references).

Fibres, goroutines, promises, futures, job queues, etc, are poor substitutes for Actors.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-thieves-are-stealing-hyund...
I read somewhere that the hottest mix of the two is around 30 degrees.
Crying out for an animation. A recent (5y) BBC series on the seasons had a phenomenally good speeded up view of the equinoctial shifts and visually explained why the North and south don't get an equal deal in this (the orbit is an ellipse so their respective summer and winters take place at different distances from the sun)
The thing that always gets me us that when we reach the shortest day (southern UK here) the latest sunrise and earliest sunset are actually several days apart. And this leads to the rabbit hole of how mean time varies from solar time, when considering noon
Google’s Privacy Sandbox is privacy quicksand
A developing idea has a level of pressure/energy that drives its realization. Relieving that pressure for that hit can be -so- tempting ... and fatal.
Waymo has driven 20m+ autonomous miles btw. [0] The 1 million mile number appears to be rides with external passengers, but the first sources I found lead to dead links, so who knows.

Anyways, quite a difference. I’m not sure where the threshold should be set for proving safety. I recall the number for provable safety being something like 20bn+ miles, so no one is close if it’s set there.

[0]: https://waymo.com/waymo-driver/
“a complete cycle of one day and night is called a nychthemeron […] I love odd words like that”

I love them too! Lithuanian language has the similar concept of “para”, sometimes very handy and i don’t think i’ve seen it in other european languages.
> But pure software products/services shouldn't be priced like their counterparts with recurring costs.

There are few truly "pure" software services. I certainly don't think the ads example qualifies. Uber requires armies of customer support and recruiters. Facebook needs tons and tons of moderators. Facebook and Google both require tons of people to produce the content so that people have a reason to go.

> Why aren't Google and Facebook ads a lot cheaper than they are since it's all built on dirt-cheap software?

Google and Facebook ads are selling eyeballs, not software. Most importantly, the specific eyeballs for your niche product. The software is merely plumbing to connect the ads to the eyeballs. Ads would be cheap if anyone could easily make something to get tons of eyeballs coming back day in and day out and know the details of those eyeballs to know what they are likely to purchase. This would also require unlimited viewers to consume unlimited ads.

So there is a scarcity of ad watchers.
Sure, that's the theory. In theory someone cleaning toilets should also earn more than software developers or CEOs. People doing badly paid unpleasant jobs should all learn to program or manage a company and then drive down the salaries until cleaning toilets pays a premium because it is unpleasant work no one wants to do.
> I'll keep it around awhile, but it's already not my main email provider.

Just a reminder that if you had your own domain, then you could seamlessly switch between e.g. gmail and protonmail without having to change your email address. That is really convenient and gives you the freedom to change email provider whenever you want.
C# is my main language but this is one of the few cases where it's not the best choices.
From the ai.mil blog post linked in the article:

>GAMECHANGER is an AI-enabled policy Natural Language Process (NLP) search capability and centralized document repository for the Department of Defense (DoD)

I am all for uncritically bashing on the burning money pit known as the Department of Defense, but from this description I do not get the sense that this is some cutting edge LLM type AI tool, nor does its existence seem controversial. If anything, I'm surprised to learn that the DoD did not previously have a searchable, centralized document repository prior to 2018.

Am I missing something?
Weed smell is awful. That's the worst part about decriminalization. I can't wait for society to treat burned weed with the same shame and looks of distaste as they do with burned tobacco.

I smell it everywhere now. It makes me furious when I'm in a public park with my kids and clouds of nasty smoke are wafting around.
yeah DHTML which interestingly enough was another Microsoft-promoted thing. They were trying to tie up the open Web with their own tech but as a vision of the Web as an app platform, it was really quite forward-looking/prescient.
It would have been nice if they could open the river Fleet up.

Fun fact, at the mouth of the river Fleet was a prison, since 1197, the name Fleet becoming synonymous with the word prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Prison
Oh, I didn't notice. Thanks for pointing out.
Content addressable means the URI contains some information uniquely describing the content (typically a cryptographic hash). So if you load https://cdn/js/e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b9... you’ll always know it will contain exactly the same contents, regardless of where it comes from (and that can be verified by the client as well).
Can you replicate this simplicity in your sshrsyncs for 3 iOS/Mac/Windows devices :

Setup:
1) install an app
2) create a folder
3) share secret link with other systems

Use:
1) open an app
2) see all files in that folder autosynced with another system (if it's also running an app)

So transfer is as easy as opening an app and copying files to a shared folder
The answer is a resounding yes. The corporate cloud is fake. A mirage. A timebomb whose chance of going off nears 100% over time. When it goes off your digital belongings are gone.

The only way to own things is to have copies offline. In three or more geographically distant locations.
Everyone tests in production. Some people also have additional environments to test in.
Found a small bug -

1. Found CUTE and CUTER.
2. Tried CUTEY.
3. It added as a bonus word but was displayed in between CUTE and CUTER.

Should have been after CUTER alphabetically.

Nice game!
I have no idea how high Apple's profit margins are, but I am quite sure they are not small. But what is your point, that is also a market failure.
That Katy Perry contract solves a large piece of this puzzle for me - if we are selling to scalpers direct then there has to be a deniable way for the scalers to have got the tickets another way - for example confusing ticket purchase processes
I founded a company and reached $6M ARR with >50% net profit margin. After 4 years decided to do a full rewrite. Finished it successfully within a year including full migration of all clients. Was the best decision ever.
Going back to Libet's original thesis -- the refutation of free will -- wouldn't the influence of random noise on the readiness potential be just as helpful towards accomplishing that goal as any other form of unconscious decision timing? It seems that later research has merely offered alternative ways to beat the same dead horse.
I am probably an idiot, but so many tool sites (web, GitHub, ...) don't seem to know how to describe what their tool really does for someone not familiar with the product and maybe not familiar with the class of product.

It all sounds so general. And powerful. And flexible. And Plug and Play.

And I realize these are tools, GraphQL, Phoenix, Ecto that are probably helpful.

And of course, Resources, Authentication, Community, Authorization, Multitenancy, Data Layers, Admin, Extensions, Observability, and Compatibility are necessary features in all things.

And they have sponsors.

And quotes from people who like it.

And its obviously a very nice site, since it let's you opt-in for yummy "essential cookies".

But without using any of the related tools, generic qualities, and wonderful but also generic features, how would I know who would use this, why they would use it. And what is wrong with other tools in the class, that this solves.

Is it a complete win? Or does this tool provide a different tradeoff?

Other than being "better". (I get that "better" is the TLDR.)

Or, perhaps I am an idiot. It is hard to tell, I can't rule that out.
I've never been able to play one without enabling js
This is exactly the kind of question Randall Munroe answers in his What If <https://what-if.xkcd.com/>. Unfortunately, this specific one seems not to be answered there?
There is nothing wrong with choosing a language like Python/Ruby over "command line sorcery".
Building a string art machine
Oddly, your username is relevant here. It's a common refrain of mine when I hear about someone undertaking a rewrite that becomes something of an albatross.

The only times I see rewrites succeed (where success is measured by how often your customers notice you breaking stuff) is when there's a comprehensive set of integration tests to write against. That really seems to be the sole determining factor.
I feel like you're missing the point here.

P2P protocols like IPFS are built with the expectation that clients are persistent. They take a nontrivial amount of time to start up (e.g. to discover peers), and require continuous maintenance from the application to keep running (e.g. to chat with those peers and keep them happy).

These characteristics are incompatible with clients like curl. They're written with the expectation that connection setup is cheap and that connections don't require maintenance while they aren't being used. These expectations are all true of existing protocols like HTTP(S) or FTP; they fail with IPFS. And there isn't really any way to solve that without introducing another process to act as an intermediary -- which is exactly what an IPFS gateway does.
I've worked in anti-spam since 2003. I am skeptical that his claims about ARC work at scale. Google does not have a rules-based spam filtering system. It is entirely driven by a massive machine learning model that adjusts its weights in response to user interaction. You can't beat that model.
And there’s a whole thing about Fleet marriages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Marriage
By para, you mean a complete day & night cycle?

If so, we have something similar in French, with « jour » being a 24 hour span, whereas a « journée » only designating the daylight part of it.
I’m honestly not sure if this is satire or not given the subdomain.

And definitely didn’t like the “People who don’t work on software… …are stupid.” - can’t stand that kind of chit if it’s not satire.

But guess to piggy back on other comments my experience with full V2 rewrites is - get laid off because the project gets canceled.

The things mentioned in the article can be also useful when migrating/upgrading large features within projects, which may be more common, but is kind of self evident imo

Edit: clause
The post carefully avoids making any more expansive claims than "I tried to use WASM in the most obvious way apparent to me and ran into a lot of difficulties". What this implies for the grandiose claims of some WASM boosters is left to the reader to determine. (And I'd describe myself as fairly pro-WASM myself.) In that sense it's a great counterbalance to the hundreds of "here's how I used WASM to accomplish some trivial or meaningless task" pieces you see out there.
Self Organizing Textures (2021)
Hi!

I hope you are right, and also someone else will pick this up -- I've just seen an awful lot of projects over the years that provide a huge speedup for 90-95% of the functionality of other products, and very few manage to keep the speedup once they hit full functionality.
Ticketmaster (Live Nation) own the venue.
With RTK extensions, and depending on exactly how you augment them, GNSS systems can get you to sub-meter levels of accuracy without too much work. But they're expensive. One of the least expensive devices in this space that I know of is the SparkFun RTK Express Kit.

There may be better solutions out there, but you should also make sure that you know what the possibilities are with the old tried-and-true systems. Then you've got a baseline that you can use for comparison, and see how you can better that with other options.
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Nodes end up in unconnected islands of content knowledge. Whatever node you pick to query has a low probability of knowing about some content posted on some other random node. The workaround is to force the p2p topology to make a reachable subset of nodes that you use for both posting and querying, but that's not too decentralized because someone has to coordinate the topology override scheme.
I've only witnessed one full rewrite in my (admittedly short) career so far, and it went shockingly well. The goal was to rewrite a C++ application from the 90s in Java, since the company had largely moved to the web and C++ devs were getting close to retirement. The C++ application was also written in the underfunded startup phase, and then over decades new features had been "tagged on", so the architecture wasn't that robust.

The team tasked with the rewrite set a goal to finish in a year, the first 4-6 months were entirely spent on planning. After that, features were implemented in a modular and iterative approach. I think overall it took a bit longer than a year to be feature complete, but by the end of the year they had a working platform with all the core features implemented.

I think the key here really was very good planning, and the pitfalls you describe can be at least partially ascribed to agile development not being the right tool if you have a very clear and large set of requirements.
Last time i went to a big show i arrived more than 3 hours in advance - with tickets in hand. Doesn't sound like you lost any time.
It's a static garbage collector