skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yann LeCun said something to the effect you cannot get reasoning with fixed computation budgets, which I found to be a simple way to explain and understand a hypothesized limitation
1. That covid19 virus came from a lab
2. That the vaccine was not effective in preventing transmission
3. That covid19 was not deadly to kids
4. That masking and social distancing was unfounded in Science
5. That most covid19 deaths were with covid19 and not from covid19
> Reed Hastings announced that the company was expanding into almost every country around the world — including markets with subpar broadband infrastructure and consumers who primarily accessed the internet from their mobile phone.

The optimistic take here is that the purpose of this encoding work is to make Netflix accessible consumers in ALL countries- not consumers with beefy internet.

IMO the realistic take is that Netflix knows it can do this while saving $$$ serving lower quality video to consumers who cant tell the difference.
it's like that tolerating intolerance infographic but instead of nazis it's homeless drug addicts
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How I Organize My Work as a Solo Founder
> I really hate progress bars, they are incredibly distracting. One of the worst examples of front end programmers wasting their time reimplementing browser functions badly. I already have scroll bars! I do not need more scroll bars!

This is addressed though in the following paragraph (indirectly), where a table of contents is rendered on the side. (Similar is a minimap, which I like for code or complex articles, but not for long text-heavy articles.) Maybe you also hate that, but it actually serves a purpose that scrollbar can never replicate and is much more useful than a scrollbar for many people.
The original purpose of dealerships was to isolate "vehicle manufacturer going bankrupt" from "organization you bought your car from going bankrupt" events.

The idea was "if you buy a VinFast" from vinfast and they exit the market, you're 100% hosed, but if you buy a VinFast from "Karl Marx VinFast and Fiskar Dealerships of North Idaho" you can go back and talk to KMoNI Inc about your new car.

The dealership model was established a very long time ago back in the cambrian explosion era of car manufacterers and people were buying cars from companies like Auburn, Cole, Crow, Davis, Dixie, Durant, Elcar, Grant, King, Kline, Lafayette, Kurtz, Marmon, Mercer, Overland, Peerless, Pilot, Roamer, Saxon, Stearns, Velie, Wescott and Winton [1] and then the company would vanish and there would be no support.

[1] https://www.supercars.net/blog/cars-of-the-1920s
By numbers of communication actions, pretty much everything may actually be a message exchange, but by the amount of data that was transferred for many years the file downloads and uploads had been dominant on the Internet, which are the kind of thing for which TCP has been designed. For a big file more data may be transferred than for thousands or millions of message exchanges.

Nowadays perhaps video streaming, which may be lossy, so TCP is not needed for it (i.e. what is now called streaming does not have the reliability requirements of the TCP streams), might transfer more data on the Internet than file downloads, but that is not a desirable technical evolution, the replacement of downloading with streaming is just a means to extract more money from those who are satisfied by such a service.
Crazy how we are talking about this like a weather event, like it's just an unfortunate outage. Cyberattacked by whom? How? What vulnerabilities allowed the intrusion and what organizational processes created those vulnerabilities?

Naturally the people who know these answers are very busy today but hopefully we will hear more soon.
> "We can't link to our website" is INSANE. It means any other company can undercut you or impersonate you on Amazon because your customers have no relationship with you as a company!

It's even better when Amazon undercuts you with an Amazon Basics product. As a bonus they'll give the Amazon Basics product a preferential position in search too.
CDK is the company that got cyberattacked; DMS = dealer management system.
Hydrothermal vents on seafloors of 'ocean worlds' could support life
But aren't alterations confined to the epigenetic proteins found in chromatin? I may be mistaken but I thought the DNA itself stays the same while the epigenetic annotations change dynamically.
Yep. Basically, in no election we can practically foresee, is this going to be a politically salient issue. The voters aren't motivated enough about it, and the interest groups involved are mostly aligned on keeping the status quo. Elections put people and parties into power, not individual ideas.
I would simply throttle those requests. Update comments once an hour. Or once a day. Not everything needs to be realtime.
More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
An eerie 'digital afterlife' is no longer science fiction
+1 on finding progress bars distracting. I personally feel like they also "hurry" you into reading faster. If I see a progress bar, my first instinct is to try to finish as quickly as possible, even if that means a poorer understanding of the text.
Stripe charges 1.5% + €0.25 ($0.27) in the EU to accept EEA cards [1]. Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 for processing domestic cards in the US [2].

The reason it charges 1.4% more for accepting US cards is the US card fees (interchange fees). These fees are complicated and roughly five times more than European card fees [3].

[1] https://stripe.com/en-fr/pricing

[2] https://stripe.com/pricing

[3] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/small-business/credit-car...
The typical way stores get around it in Canada is with a "discount" if you pay cash.
Yes and I will send you my diagramed study.
I’m not sure what we should be waiting for. The time for the free market to fix Boeing and “capitalism” (read: don’t regulate us please) to save the day would have been before Boeing killed 400 people in plane crashes.

I get that the idea of self-correcting markets are very appealing. But there are a ton of situations where they don’t work or don’t fix all of the problems they cause. Those situations are under the general umbrella of market failures. This particular market failure would probably be classified as adverse selection or more general information asymmetry.
it's not imagination to look at log books and say "well, they weren't reporting things here that they were reporting there".

Thats not imagination. However, they're simply following up the "corroboration" part. Because someone identified a problem, _now_ they have to be a detective.

I'd posit, _it is their job_ to find incriminating evidence and thus enforcement. In many places, they are not doing this. They are purely reactive.

Thats my point; has nothing to do with imagination.
Parallel Processing with Rayon: Optimizing Rust for the Multi-Core Era
I'm worried about cases like these. They will set major precedents for what's to come in the post LLM world.

While I understand where they are coming from (theft is bad), we risk stifling innovation by siloing off access to data for training better models.

OTOH, the current precedent isn't helping. Big AI labs are scraping and training on whatever they can get their hands on and big social platforms are charging insane costs for access to their APIs.

All of this seems completely backwards to me. The data originates from users, yet it's the platform owners fighting for control over it.
Regarding scrollbars, it’s user-hostile if the user can’t control it according to their preference.
It would help if you listed some criteria.

- Purely for reading? (Don't care about pens or drawing)
- Desired size? (10 inch? or 7 inch?) I find 7" too small for textbook PDFs.
- Android support? (Being able to install Firefox with an ad-blocker is nice)
- Libby support required? (For borrowing books from the library)
- Back/front light required?
- Budget?

I'm considering the Boox Go 10.3, but I'm waiting for more reviews to come out. (10.3", Android support, no light, comes with pen)
Yeah, I assume they had an assortment of clerks who’d be hard to replace right this moment, especially given that the duration of their employment would be like, what, a week or two? However long it’ll take to get this attack taken care of.
I would not scoff at AVL trees. They are easy to prove correctness for, and admit a short implementation at ~100 lines. They're as short as AA trees, but AA trees are harder to prove with more cases. https://www.nayuki.io/res/aa-tree-set/BasicAvlTreeSet.java , https://www.nayuki.io/page/aa-tree-set

B-trees require a much longer implementation than AVL trees. https://www.nayuki.io/page/btree-set
How else do you give it away free? The CTF applies to anyone with business revenue who meets the install requirements, even if you're not charging for that specific app. Development apps are time limited by Apple's terms.

Furthermore, all of the limits exist solely at Apple's discretion. Apple is essentially being benevolent, not saying they have no claim to the transactions.
The new Forza game was not supported by the previous LTSC version for a long time so I wouldn’t say that it’s the most compatible version for gaming.
Checks out. I live a few doors down from a Hells Angels clubhouse, and they are constantly driving by with their shitty motorcycles with illegally modified exhaust, sometimes late at night or in the wee hours of the morning, setting off car alarms of cars parked along the street.

I'm sure it's no coincidence that they're considered a criminal organization, and the FBI & county sheriff has raided them a few times since we've lived here.

Unfortunately then the article devolves into racist, xenophobic dog whistles...
as long as they're normalized
Because that's clearly been happening the last 40 years?

Can you name someone whose been scapegoated for 200+ deaths recently?
Neither Index funds nor ETF's are likely to do the research & oversight stuff themselves, true.

But that is quite different that saying that the Indexes & ETF's would for-sure sit on the sidelines if some more-active large shareholders were pushing a credible plan to force better behavior down the throats of a major corporation's C-suite. And the Indexes & EFT's backing such a measure - which effectively costs them 0.00000% to do - would likely prove the critical thumb sign from the Imperial Box.
I remember part of it being that they beat efficiency into your brain throughout most of early CS. In college, using the naive approach is treated as being ignorant.

Then you work on real software and realize that computers are pretty fast and basic hashmaps & arrays will likely suffice for the size of the datasets you're working with, and beyond that, performance is more about tool/database choice than rolling your own algorithms.
Yes, but it is not my primary mode of thinking.
Surface Copilot+ PCs the most repairable ever – iFixit
> otherwise the note becomes the main content.

There are some authors whose footnotes (even sometimes indices) I read before the main content, because in the past they've hidden all the best bits there.
Perhaps relevant - https://github.com/OpenEPaperLink/OpenEPaperLink
R&R is still one of the largest. The elitism was definitely something I saw when I wrote the RCI integration at Dealer Wizard around 2014. I've heard they've been trying to change the culture internally. I'm not sure how that's going, but it'd certainly be welcome.

Does Fortellis even accept other DMSes? I've dealt with it a bit to integrate with eLeads (now CDK CRM), but there didn't seem to be much on there apart from CDK's APIs.
Didn't they also outsource a large part to an India-focused outsourcer as well?
What do you think is a large UI? Can you give me an example?
Show HN: Create and share little lists of your favorite online creators
Work in progress. Gotta be on desktop to make a fanzine.
To be fair, the author notes this and offers an alternative:

> One immediate thought is that this is completely superseded by the regular browser scroll bar that’s ever-present at the side of the page. However, the scroll bar could be deceiving. If your page has a comments section, the comments could make the page look dauntingly long. Similarly, references to other pages and general “footer material” count towards the scroll bar, but would not count towards the progress bar.

> Combining the two, you could imagine an always-visible table of contents that highlights the current section you’re in. With such a feature, you can always see where you are (including a rough estimate of how far into the page you’ve scrolled), and at the same time see how the current section integrates into the broader structure.
Commercial air travel is the craziest idea. We need to slow down. Nobody should be flying except in emergencies.
B-tree deletions are quite complicated too, requiring stealing keys from either-side sibling or merging with either-side sibling.

In practice, I find that a B-tree implementation is 2 to 3× the length of an AVL tree impl.

I also fuzz-tested my implementations thoroughly. https://www.nayuki.io/page/avl-tree-list , https://www.nayuki.io/page/btree-set , etc.
> As someone with a less than average understanding of medicine and health in general, I don't know what to do with this information other than be sad and concerned.

Wait until you hear about all the chemicals you inhale out in nature as well. Fine silicon dioxide particles can cause silicosis. Don't go to the beach!!
I haven't bought a new car in 8 years. Do they still do that thing with the pen and paper where they write down a bunch of numbers while crossing other numbers out randomly for like 10 minutes?
Controversy is the most powerful way, bar none, to establish a new brand in content.

How you manage the fallout is important, but the outrage is short lived so it’s most important to protect yourself at the time.

Bottom line: calling out fake videos will win you enemies and allies.
I confess to having a soft spot for sleeper cars. Dont know what the equivalent term would be in Germany. But anything that looks convincingly like a family car but can do 0-100kph in a flash would qualify.

Example: Volvo V60 Polestar wagon, or the legendary Ford Taurus SHO

Im sorry to say that in my corner of the US, an AMG Benz screams man-child rather than car enthusiast, because they tend to be driven by idiots. Ditto any BMW M.
I feel like we've entered a new era of HN.

First there was the excessively dismissive era that spawned the infamous Dropbox comment (Which was widely misunderstood).

Then came the functional programming era, where people worshipped Haskell and frequently got posted to /r/ProgrammingCirclejerk. Eventually we got past that one as people discovered that Haskell isn't really useful for anything besides showing off how you can implement Quicksort in a single line or starting arguments over what the hell a Monad is.

Then there was the needlessly pedantic era, which basically spawned the "ACKCHYUALLY" meme. The pedantry was often a huge distraction, never added anything to the conversation, and often was actually incorrect. If you've ever said "Actually, that's not ray tracing, that's ray casting!", then congrats, you're part of this era.

We're now in the era of being dismissive, not for technical merits like the previous dismissive era, but for being unproductive. Any time a project is done purely for fun or personal reasons (ie, nostalgia), there's someone in the comments talking about how useless it is, and that the time could be better spent Making The World A Better Place(tm)[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso
Nobody is asking for the ability to put a label on their App Store listing that shows the price of the same software or subscription on the web. What they're doing is akin to dictating what the creator of a product could put in the manual or paperwork that comes in the box - you know, where you'll often find manufacturer's coupons and adverts for registering your product with their website.
yeah locality of reference is way better as you're traversing the array than as you follow links in the tree
we’re not going to call it research paper fraud insurance, just professional liability insurance

they are still going to gave the threat of a public records civil charge from the government
>Many people, on all sides of the political aisles as well as the population, supported the "war on drugs". It's not really fair to single out Joe Biden for a policy that was unquestionably popular during the time.

But let’s looks at the facts, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4802783/user-clip-joe-biden-p...

>> And the more actionable complaints that he was selling influence to Joe while complaining about his cut.

Right, the good old, “well there is no evidence except for the evidence that isn’t enough to convict”. These people knew exactly what they were doing and covered their tracks except for the crackhead son of course, because crackhead.

You don’t need to protect him. His being a bad person doesn’t mean his opponent is a good person.
Not only they do that but they also give out deals and rebates without asking the merchant.

I would automatically give the clients a rebate equal to the Amazon fees if they purchased through my site.
Annuities are the same math but different product, and got valued first by Haley. I'm not aware of life insurance being illegal per se, and there might be ways to work around it via structuring as a fraternal organization ala the origins of the insurance industry in the US.
Mint feels more like Windows, by design.
The author is certainly very serious about writing highly distributable production software that works and will continue to work far into the future.

It's already being used for serious things - Mozilla's llamafile and redbean are two examples that come to mind.
*7 years so far....

But what's your best anyway?
It started last Wednesday, and the estimate for the fix is “several days” according to the AP. I think it will be difficult even to get somebody hired in time.
Backlinks are cool
> What I dont get is what stops Chinese manufacturers from recruiting equally skilled local artisans in Asia to create their own luxury brands, and what stops Hermès from outsourcing their own bag manufacturing to those artisans in China instead or France or Italy.

A bag of this sort gets dramatically less valuable to the clientele if you cut the price by half. They don't want a cheaper version. If anything, they want it more expensive.
I mostly agree but I think iOS/Android/Windows (and maybe MacOS) are so important to our economy that they represent a difference in kind and should be regulated more stringently. I don't really care if vacation rentals are more expensive or worse than they should be, I do care if the software that mediates our lives is.
Plotly has an option on box plots that shows the individual points as well, which I like better than violins
In the age of strategic bombers it got some research, but the weight of radiation shielding makes it challenging.

And I imagine that compared to the 50s people would now be much less open to the idea of nuclear reactors flying over their heads. Nuclear reactors that could at any point in time crash due to any number of reasons.
Why? really, what did you get out of doing this? As someone who really respects, admires, and is grateful for Lynn Conway, this really hurts to see someone do.
In modern times, we don't really think about lights or having to keep a supply of a light source on hand. But when ever I see period pieces showing candles used as light sources, it makes me think about how important keeping candles in stock was and were they only something the rich could have.

The idea of pretty much not doing anything after dark except from sleeping sometimes seems very attractive. Sure, fireplaces could provide some light, but it's just one of those can't quite grok life where a light source at night would be so just not so readily available.
Well, you want companies and products to compete on their own merits (are subsidies their "own merit", though?) but you also want your industry not to be obliterated... So, as always, it is a balancing act.
I'm surprised how many people are either forget or intentionally misrepresent the actual real-world scenario of letting people handle medical advice by themselves.

We already did this experiment 1-Javascript-Framework-lifecycle-equivalent ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin_during_the_COVID-19...
Human neuroscience mustn't forget its human dimension
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer.

Context is not an "improvement" over Redux, because they are different tools with different purposes. (This is the primary misunderstanding people have when they try to compare Context and Redux.)

Context is a Dependency Injection tool for a single value, used to avoid prop drilling.

Redux is a tool for predictable global state management, with the state stored outside React.

Note that Context itself isn't the "store", or "managing" anything - it's just a conduit for whatever state you are managing, or whatever other value you're passing through it (event emitter, etc).

I wrote an extensive article specifically to answer this frequently asked question, including details about what the differences are between Context and Redux, and when to consider using either of them - I'd recommend reading through this:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...
There’s a difference between working to build an amazing product that wows people, and working to fulfill mind numbing regulations created by people who couldn’t run a coffee shop. One is soul enriching, another is soul crushing. If Apple wants to torture its developers into doing soul numbing, slow moving work, I guess they can but the default response would be to not do that and give their developers more meaningful tasks that leaves them and Apple happy.
I think that just means the author is writing bad side notes. Structurally, they do have a place. You said that yourself - "I do like to see details and I'm curious". An author moving all their side notes into the main content would not make it clearer. An author deleting their useless side notes would make it clearer. Neither of those speak to the usefulness of side notes.
Definitely depends on the branching factor! There are other encodings like Eytzinger that can provide further improves over "standard" binary search too [1].

[1] https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/data-structures/binary-searc...
Agreed. I can rarely identify with the character(s) I’m supposed to identify with, and it’s virtually always a tedious read.

It’s also possible to use a question-answer style without having a dialog and characters. What would that look like? Well, similar to this very paragraph. Not that I would particularly recommend it either.
I look at it like this.

For me, Linux.

For my mom, Mac.

For my enemies, Windows.
How many of the Stouffer's TV Dinners can you recognize in the second photo?

I remember the "Chinese" one (just above the SpaghettiOs) as being especially vile.
We cannot get sustainable businesses without sustainable financing... Go Gaël ! Go !!!
How is this different than what Apple did for the x86 -> ARM transition?