skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. And that's in developed countries. Talk about entitled.
> False. All water in the Gaza strip, is explicitly controlled by the Israeli state. Specifically, this stems from the fact that the construction of wells requires a permit from Israel.

In practice, no Israeli permits are needed to construct a well in Gaza. Nobody asks Israel for one and Israel doesn’t give anyone one.

Hamas says you need a permit from them to build a well in the Gaza Strip. Since they exercise de facto on-the-ground military control over the populated territory of Gaza, they are much better placed to enforce their laws on the topic than Israel is.

> More specifically, anything constructed without a specific, israeli approved permit, is demolished. This applies to both the WestBank and Gaza.

De facto, it doesn’t apply in Gaza. People dig wells in Gaza all the time and build things all the time. Nobody ever asks Israel for a permit. They may be forced however to get a permit from the Hamas-controlled Gaza government. If you don’t get the permit from Hamas, armed Hamas men may come knocking on your door. Whereas, Israeli troops were never going to invade Gaza over a mere well.

As evidence it applies in Gaza, you are citing an Israeli air strike on Gaza’s water supply infrastructure. I’ve never heard Israel attempt to justify such attacks as enforcing its laws on wells. Rather, it seems clear the attack was justified as a reprisal for a Hamas attack on Israel. Whatever the rights or wrongs of that reprisal, it has nothing to do with water policy in Gaza during those periods when the Gaza Strip and Israel have been (relatively speaking) at peace.
Best to combine a carriage return and tab.

irb> puts “2021-11-21\r\t15:10:35”
2021-11-21
15:10:35
To be an EU public servant, you need a PhD. Many, many of them have “fake” PhDs, written by PhD candidates for money. How do I know? I used to date a girl that was writing one for an EU servant.

And yes, there is plain corruption. Look at Mario Draghi that overlooked Greece's false debt accounting at Goldman Sachs (GS) and then became president of the ECB. Or Emmanuel Barroso, that went swiftly to work at GS after his mandate. Or the commissioner on digital economy that went to work for Uber. That's corruption.
I love this one! It has occurred to me that while there is a wealth of information online, there is perhaps even more information in print that takes a staggering amount of work to digitize and organize sensibly. It's very interesting to come across someone actively working on a project like this.

An idea I had recently that's vaguely related is that it would be really cool to try to put together a massive product information catalog/database. Maybe it could be maintained similar to Wikipedia in terms of editing/review/adding new content - the idea being that it should be as objective, unbiased, and complete as possible. The impetus for this thought was of course that I hate advertising and on some level think it shouldn't even exist, so I was thinking of what an alternative might look like.
no worries!

I think this stuff is still very much in its infancy. I look forward to seeing more as time goes on -- the Tezos community has always seemed more focused on this than "price price price" like some others.
> Same activity level now as then.

As you go from untrained to trained you burn less calories doing the same activity.
and now Google is barely returning any relevant results anymore :/
I log in to my Windows machines with a local user account. These are unbranded, but I'd call them a Windows account.

I didn't attach an Apple ID to my Macbook either.
Here’s a crazy idea… I don’t want to give any money to Google, but I would happily pay double the amount in taxes to get public infrastructure of comparable quality.
Slonik author here. Happy to answer any questions.
Premium does support creators. Views from premium subscribers are worth significantly more than views from freeloaders.
The carbon credit contingency says otherwise. You can actually get carbon credits by planting trees.
Is there a big difference? I suppose to start I want to write software in informatics and maybe pick up more of the biology on the job if I can.

How did you find your job? What kinds of companies hire roles like that? I looked at a few pharma companies (in Canada) and have seen very few roles that seem like they would hire software engineers.
Since everyone here seems to be screaming for absolute dates, let me say the opposite. Whenever I look st a timestamp, 80% of the time I’m interested only in how far back that time was relative to today. Relative timestamps are great for at a glance viewing.
Slonik: PostgreSQL client for Node.js with runtime validation
This reminds me of the University of Chicago Law professor who wrote a post about how he wasn't rich because after paying for three kids to go to private school, a gardener, a house cleaner, and retirement he only has a few hundred dollars of discretionary spending left each month... https://web.archive.org/web/20100920033403/truthonthemarket....
YouTube has no problem serving content to my yt-dlp client without ads, payment, authentication or terms of service.
In a way it is a large, slow, bumbling monster that destroys all it steps on, except it only steps on donations and good will toward firefox.
Let’s say, for example, you make the mistake of putting a stateful firewall between your users and your recursive DNS servers. As a rough guide, you can expect about 0.1 DNS query per second per user, so about 2000 qps for your site (average, peaks will be higher). Firewalls often rely on a timeout for expiring UDP state, let’s say, 5 minutes or 300 seconds. In this example, the firewall will be keeping 600 000 useless states.
So pay if you hate it so much. Do you think people make the content for free?
You have any evidence that that's the case? Everyone I know with access to municipal fiber loves it vs their private alternatives.

The competency of Comcast's network engineering department is irrelevant, they aren't in charge. They can only do what corporate is willing to fund, and corporate is happy to let its captive markets' infrastructure rot. It boosts their stock price to do so. If a municipality tried that, there could at least be consequences via the local government.

Perhaps the ideal is what we already do for every other utility, heavy regulation but managed by private entities. Of course, every time we try that the telecom lobbyists pout, make apocalyptic ads and throw money at congress critters until it stops. So municipal fiber is the workaround we have. If our choice is between two bad options, I'll take the option where I at least have a vote/can run for office and potentially change something vs the option where I'm just screwed.
Ooh, good call. Yeah, crash dump seems likely.

Though I remember something about Facebook uploading phones' binaries to the server for inspection or soemthing. This was a few years back, so it's probably changed.
If you read the actual text of that mathoverflow answer you'll see that it was first disproved for dimensions >=12 and that all the rest of the work was in dimensions 3 thru 11.
Google doesn't sell your data to advertisers.
Great site! I kind of have a predisposition to summarize linux performance, be it tuning or monitoring, taking a deep breath…

This is such a depth subject, with a long list of variety of observability tools. At minimum, make sure you know deeply uptime, dmesg, and iostat. These are your friends to give you a glimpse into various system aspects like load, memory, CPU, and more, enabling a diagnostic overview of system health. This is what I call, the “let me take a look at it” check list, 1st page of 100!

When emphasizing methodologies for performance analysis I recommend careful benchmarking to holistically evaluate system behavior and workload characteristics. with before and after scenarios. Make smaller changes first, then gradually compound what you think will provide benefits. Remember, labs and production never behave the same.

This is where it gets tricky, CPU profiling with tools like “perf” and visual aids like flame graphs enable targeted analysis of CPU activity, along with tracking hardware events to optimize computational efficiency. You need to know more than “it’s the app man, was fine until the latest release from development”

When you are the admin and speaking to a developer; Linux, tools like ftrace and BPF come into play, allowing for detailed tracking of kernel function execution and system calls, which can be vital in troubleshooting and performance optimization. You can also be the developer, varying the admin’s intuition… as the saying goes, trust but verify.

When it’s your code, then you better know BPF! It not only facilitates efficient in-kernel tracing but also propels the development of advanced custom profiling tools through bcc and bpftrace, offering deeper insights into system performance.

Last comment, it’s %$$% hard! Tuning means you need to navigate through adjusting a myriad of system components and kernel parameters, from CPUs and memory to network settings, aiming to optimize performance and reliability across various system workloads, else you can blame it on the network! :D

Really, you need to have a good behavioral attitude at change management, as chasing code or kernel parameters could be a daunting task that just overwhelms everyone in a moment where you might be time constrained and the preasure could lead to a higher degree of human errors.
I also did a 65km and then 135km ride with similar "training" (2x7km four times a week to school), but it was way slower than 25km/h. They took 4.5 and 10 hours, respectively. I think riding 100km without training is possible, but at 25km/h very difficult.

> Now I live in America need a car :(

Why? Are there even longer distances?
By the time Bezos started Amazon, he was already an SVP at DE Shaw, so he certainly could have found the money somewhere else. His mom had him as a teenager and his adoptive father was a Cuban refugee. That said, his grandfather was quite wealthy.
Disable 'auto play next video'
Except for eating—and that’s only if it’s because of lack of means—every one of the listed criteria are relative to the community and culture.
Show HN: Virtual Recipe Binder – Grossr
Despite there being a sea of recipe managers out there, I've struggled to find one that focusses on curating and storing your own recipes, as opposed to planning meals or discovering others' recipes.

Grossr aims to provide a low-friction, clean, web-based way to create, iterate, share and even publish your own recipe creations.

Please leave any feedback here!
Skinnier would mean more surface area to volume, but less surface area total.

If we're just looking at energy in and energy out, it could partly be less thorough digestion. I wonder if there are poop studies that find more leftover fat or carbs in faeces of children.
my calculations and very limited experimental notes on this from 02020 https://derctuo.github.io/notes/desiccant-climate-control.ht... cover domestic heating, cooling, humidity control, and water harvesting applications, listing 33 alternative desiccants, with wholesale costs for 10 of them and thermodynamic data for fewer, plus some links about related research and the economics of load shifting

see also https://dercuano.github.io/topics/cooling.html with its list of notes like https://dercuano.github.io/notes/solar-air-conditioner.html from 02016 which explores the thermodynamics of using wood rather than calcium chloride as the desiccant

fwiw blue sky or whatever they call themselves never bother to say what desiccant they're using, so probably they aren't sure yet. they say it's a new desiccant, which is unlikely given that they also say it's a non-flammable, nontoxic salt, dissolved in water. non-flammable implies inorganic, and you aren't going to discover a new nontoxic inorganic salt in 02023; we already know all the elements that aren't ridiculously radioactive. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/26/1076731/material...
Is it just me that wants Mozilla to stick with Firefox? I need a Mozilla account like I need days old bread.
Parliament doesn't have initiative and is only consultative (0 power). It can mainly give its perspective on the curvature of cucumbers (yeah it's regulated in the EU, don't mess up with that).
Because actual traffic for the overwhelmingly vast majority of users is asymmetrical, and traffic engineering isn't about the 1 out of 10,000 customers who want to run a server. Even remote work is highly asymmetrical, at least looking at stats on the couple of tens of thousands of users we have WFH.

Illegal? Under what delusional definition of 'illegal' would you classify "doing what works for pretty much everyone but you"?
Wealth disparity seems more tangible to me. If you grow up in a city that was transformed by tech but weren’t able to make the switch to computing, you can’t afford to live there any more, you have move. If your job was lost to automation, you’ve objectively lost your healthcare.
What's the principle? I should get anything I want for free as long as I can get away with it? I shouldn't have to pay for anything if I don't want to?

Genuinely curious what the principled argument is here.
Who cares about the SIZE of Texas? Allow multiple fiber Carriers to operate in the state and build a statewide common infrastructure. Presuming there can be only one is limited thinking.

Consider Internet infrastructure to be a core state & national economic mainstay. Hold your governor and state legislators accountable.

Pressure your Federal representatives to do the same.

The USA has lost the will to all aspects of infrastructure, including power, high speed rail, next generation highways, bridges etc forward.

They’ll provide jobs for companies building the tech and for deployment.
One thing to note is that sounds like writer's family was not time poor, IE, family had enough time to ensure structure for the kids. Many families from low to moderate income levels seem to lack the time and wherewithal to manage this, often in ways that seem externally inscrutable.
Appreciate ya.
Traits may be normally distributed, but they are not independent. People who are good at something tend to be above average in other things.

People have done some research on that in Finland. Due to mandatory military service, the vast majority of men have taken the same intelligence and personality tests. The research found that male politicians performed better in the intelligence test and were more likely to have favorable personality traits than men in the general population. The effect was already present among the candidates in local elections. The higher up you went, the more significant the effect became.
That is one of the most frightening things I have read this month.

I think you're absolutely right. And as you say, it's a huge problem.
My problem with it it's that demonetized channels don't get money from premium viewers. If a creator gets demonetized because of advertisers guideline, why go out of your way to punish him by removing premium monetization as well?
Youtube Premium is a waste of money, they bundle a crappy $11/m music service with it, for $13/m. It's worse than having to pay for cable or landline telephone to get internet.

I'd pay $2/m, or even $4 bucks, for ad-free Youtube, but I'm not buying an additional music service I don't want or need.
Content on YouTube is shaped by the incentives Google sets on the platform. So what we get, mostly, is junk that best sells ads, best gets clicks, eyes, attention etc. etc. Just like TV was before pay cable came along. Notice how TV got better when you just paid HBO to show you good shows? Paying Google to watch YouTube without ads is like paying ABC to watch The Bachelor without ads. The content is still trash.
Just because RDBMS have added JSON support (MySQL has had it since 5.6 as well) doesn’t mean it’s a good fit. The language and its implementations are designed for relational data that can be normalized; JSON is neither.

Have you ever tested JSON vs. normalized data at scale? Millions+ of rows? I have, and I assure you, JSON loses.

Last I checked, Postgres does a terrible job at collecting stats on JSONB - the default type - so query plans aren’t great. Indexing JSON columns is also notoriously hard to do well (even moreso in MySQL), as is using the correct operators to ensure the indices are actually used.
Not for me. Seems to have short outages every week or two. Had about two weeks recently during which, about half the time, the outages were severe enough to show up on Comcast’s tracker.
> Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Double title inflation! What’s before this? Junior Staff Machine Learning Engineer?
I think this is a bad take, because YouTube is a rare web service that allows you to just pay them directly. Then you aren’t the product anymore
That doesn’t mean it’s allowed, only that they haven’t blocked it again. You can’t use your neighbors’ pool without permission just because they don’t have a guard checking IDs, either.
They have an ad free subscription. You should probably do that instead of leeching.
This comment is completely unrelated to any discussion here, and I love it.
Possibly because most users are using the Internet as a content portal, and that's all they want it for?
Yeah I set up a pihole a while back and abandoned it because I couldn't get it to block YouTube ads.
Is it able to feed user interactions back to YouTube? I want to like and comment on videos I like.
Ahhh right, my bad. It seems I had a bit of a brain fart there :P

Still, I think you see my point.
Well… I also consider Javascript to be a horrible language. Python is horrible as well, but better than R. IMO python and javascript are in the same ballpark.

Not all non-typed languages are bad. Clojure, for example, is one if the most elegant languages I’ve worked with (despite my dislike of the JVM).
Looks neat! Is there a way to buy one without having to build it myself?
I'm disappointed the term "anti-anti-adblocker" isn't instead "adblocker blocker blocker". If we're going to use repetitive negatives, we might as well lean into it.
You still get the analogy though.
I’m curious why I haven’t seen any ads or warnings to disable my ad blocker on YT yet. I do watch a lot of videos. I guess they are likely rolling it out and I will get it eventually.
HN is on one server, isn't it? I think we can estimate the hosting cost pretty well.

For youtube, we don't even have good estimates for how much data they're dealing with.
> You mean the hamas created and promoted by the Israeli government?

Yes. Every power employs divide-and-rule as a policy to control their opponents. When their opponents fight each other, a lot of their resources would be too tied up to fight Israel.

The sooner the West realises that jihadis are not their allies and cannot be controlled, the better.
> "I can't trust Mozilla, they get too much of their income from Google"

God forbid they’d just make us pay for it…

Give me a $10/month Firefox subscription and I’d pay it in a heartbeat. But I don’t want it to be a $10/month ‘other bizarre Mozilla projects’ subscription. Right now it’s hard to trust that any money I give them would go to a better browser.
Lol, I don't know that I would call Comcast "the pros". Working there gave me even less confidence than the shitty service I got as a customer
IIRC, he gave it all to the press and gave them the burden of going over them and releasing them as they saw fit. He was concerned about sensitive material getting out that would harm other US interests / people on the ground, etc. Most outlets didn't want it, but the Guardian picked them up and reported it.

Assange was the one that just dumped documents, and look what happened to him.
Mozilla has gotten billions of dollars from Google - if they had stayed small and put a significant portion of that income into an endowment fund, they'd be in a much better position for the long term.
Rather more the local media. I can't think of a mainstream newspaper in my country (France) that is publicly pro-freedom of speech.
I agree. I used to watch youtube with ads, no problem. But then there was the infamous update that made ads really annoying, usually it was 5s before a video and then it became two unskippable ads in the star plus an ad every 10 minutes or so. That's when I started using an ad block.
Really? Do we have names and evidence or just feelings on this? From the outside looking in ... any institution feels dirty for the fact institutions sacrifice the individuals in favor of the institute. But is this criminal or systemic? Does the system define the crime or is there an individual to convict?
They did add some privacy-preserving features and services, like locally-processed translation (Bergamot) and Relay to hide your real email.
Such is their prerogative. You'll notice that nowhere are people saying "Google should have to give you a switch to turn off ads for free."

You act like that's a gotcha when "I owe you nothing, you owe me nothing" is the state I'm arguing for.
You should make the text reflow on mobile.
You want a government-run YouTube?
In the US you might be able to, but this guy is Australian and the cheapest leaf I can find here is just shy of $12k.
I don't see any mention of getting anything in that comment, I just see a refusal to give google money.
Glad to hear that! I love pool because it's so easy to pick up the basics and have fun, but there is always more to learn.
>> our internally developed algorithms out-performed Kalman

Could you tell me more about this? What other algorithms are used for position tracking and motion estimation. I have seen various ML models... RNN/DNN used. I'm guessing with VTMIS you are doing time-series predictions?
This has a major fault, it assumes that the freely available online tabs are representative of the whole but it is only representative of what people upload tabs for. This could just as easily prove that the c g am f progression is the easiest to recognize so the most likely to be tabbed out. It also ignores that the other instruments can and do change the progression. At most they proved that the rhythm guitarist tends to fall back onto this progression.
that was a fascinating read. here is another "interview with an extraterrestrial" writing from him

https://arachnoid.com/lutusp/alien.html
Turns out, I can.
Taxes are very high in the EU as a result of generalized waste of money. The green energy subsidies come to mind. We're massively subsidizing solar panels in Estonia, for instance (no light in winter).
Despite the title, this article is actually about creating a hybrid so the engine will always be running.
I'm cool with what they're doing.

Their investment into AI yielded some cool things like on-device language translation that I use a lot in Firefox.

Rust is something that grew out of their investments into programming languages/tooling/etc.

Their investment into documentation and technical writing brought us MDN, which is a great resource for web development.

Mozilla's development of password managers, that they eventually walked back on rolling out as an independent product, yielded a better password manager built into Firefox, as well as Firefox Verify.

It's also important to make a distinction between the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit, and Mozilla the corporation. The non-profit is responsible for many of the non-browser investments.
Yes, and this stood out to me -- "They were much better at saying what they didn’t want to do than at making sensible plans for what they did want to do."

To me, choosing what not to do when you have ideas pouring out all the time is vital.