skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a more "popular science" description of what is being said here. I would like to understand what is meant by "Collatz-like". Is it a function like:

f(n) = {n/2 : for even n,
3n+1 : for odd n}

Can I sit round for days making trivial calculations looking for patterns?

What does

M(n) = 0^inf < A 1^n 0^inf.

mean?

I have really enjoyed the Busy Beaver stuff and play with simple code to try and learn what I can but when I read about it I run into the brick wall of math reading comprehension. Numberphile on youtube is pretty good sometimes with explanations but is not a reference. I do not know where to turn (I might ask chatGPT just to see what happens).
This is a great reference, thank you. To me it was clear that Concord suffered from a deeply dysfunctional creative processes.

The character designs alone are so laughably bad that they border on caricature. They don't only violate the most basic of design fundamentals, they show a shocking amount of incompetence on all levels.

Lots of money, but not vision. It's not a coincident that Concord was a hero shooter. Of course big money doesn't understand what they invested in and everybody was just chasing trends without understanding a single dime of what made Overwatch a success.
It's sad that what should have been a huge efficiency win, amortizing hardware costs across many customers, ended up often being more expensive than just buying big servers and letting them idle most of the time. Not to say the efficiency isn't there, but the cloud providers are pocketing the savings.
Where do you draw the line then? If I spend the week jetting across the Atlantic but then take a reusable bag to the supermarket am I an environmentalist?
Free data feeds from the UK company registry
Thank you for posting your comment. The Chrome extension is free and does not require you to create any additional accounts.

It currently integrates with Zendesk, Help Scout and HelpCenter.io with more providers coming soon. If you mean you have to purchase a subscription for the knowledge base, yes, in that sense, it is not free but the actual extension is completely free. Its purpose is to make it easy to access your existing knowledge base from anywhere and integrate it with OpenAI, if you wish. Is there a free knowledge base provider with you would like to see supported?
Yes, but what gas? Maybe the title should have said either "useful" or at least "harmless" gas. The gases that come from basic polymers could be comparable in those ways, to the original petroleum. They could even be reformed into new polymers, or used as fuel.

By way of contrast: Vaporizing lead or mercury compounds, not such a good idea.
You're talking about a top researcher in a field of OBGYN and Surgery and you're asking if you can dismiss his work because you don't like that he said a bad word on social media.

Seems like you have a great opportunity to analyze what makes you think this way, and why this mind set might not be helping you achieve what you want to in life.
We'll believe it when we see first-class Linux support actually happening.
Yes there is havoc, a Wayland terminal and there is bash.

I will redesign the desktop to make it more intuitive
installer is ~5Mb, that is a great sign!
I guess i am orthogonal to this article because:

(A) i don't visit sites that have "Followers"

which i can probably afford to do because:

(B) unlike writing or waitservice, where one's market is huge numbers of people who each are only willing to pay a little, my skills interest few, but those few are willing to pay a lot.
It already happened many times:

Fallout 76, No Man's Sky (at least they managed to improved after release).

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Redfall, Babylon's Fall (Dead after release?).

And many games just force player to do meaningless things (for example, cast one magic 100 times for an achievement or unlock an unique item). Do they actually think this is funny during QA or design stage?
..followed by "YOUR PROGRAM IS +*ç% AND YOU ARE INCOMPETENT".

Cannot underestimate mental health issues after a barrage fire of those messages, usually by people who could not bother to read the README.1ST - been there, done that.
Replacing the mainboard?
Assuming the level of certification will be proportionate the potential risk/harm, then this is actually totally ok. Like would you want to fly in a plane built but a bootstrap startup that had no certifications? Or go in a submarine to extremely deep ocean tours of the titanic? Or put in a heart device? Or transfer all of your savings to a startup's financial software that had no proof of being resilient to even the most basic of attacks?

For me, its a hard no. The idea of risk/harm based certification and liability is overdue.
You can hide the Issues tab, but not PRs. In the PRs you can set a PR template the says you don’t accept PRs and set up a very simple GitHub Action workflow that auto-closes and locks PRs opened by others.
Letting go staff has everything with the owner though.
Toxic positivity is just a new way of saying it was a "Emperor's new clothes" situation. Everybody could or should have been able to see that the emperor had no clothes but was too scared to speak out. Only somebody not constrained by the system, a naive child in the story or in this case consumers who weren't in the corporate structure, was able to point out the obvious truth.

I still think people are tip-toeing around this a bit though. Suggestions that Concorde failed because the genre isn't popular anymore seem like they're trying to avoid some hard truths in particular. I am uninhibited though so I'll say it. Overwatch has characters people want to fuck or see themselves as, and gamers like that. Concorde has characters designed to make people squirm uncomfortably, daring people to criticize their design so they can be called toxic gamers. The character design is deliberately offensive to gamers, defying them instead of pandering to them.
/home is stored in localfs that is persistent in browser’s data
DNase II Can Efficiently Digest RNA and Needs to Be Redefined as a Nuclease
How about integrity? Do you find that relevant? Usually people with integrity have high self-esteem because they adhere to a certain set of ethics. I'm not trying in any way to pass judgement, just to give you a different perspective.
I don’t understand why this isn’t framed as an Economics problem? If a large group of people stop doing something that someone else depends on then that’s an Economic problem. No?

I don’t mean in the narrow of sense of exchanging things for money. If society wants some undefined group of any kind of people to do something but they are not (or they are about to quit) then that’s a resource allocation problem of sorts. That’s the bare problem. This problem does not immediately prescribe a solution like paying someone in dollars and cents. That’s only one solution.

Same if a country is having a fertility issue. The problem is sort of an economic one. But the answer doesn’t have to be paying would-be fathers and mothers. It could for example be to provide more free services that parents benefit from. Or it could mean reducing the hours in the “standard work week”. Or it could be to improve the pension of part-time workers (mothers are often part-time workers). Or it could be to more child-friendly urban planning. Or it could be to improve the public transportation and road infrastructure for households where the two partners work in different parts of the city/municipality/county.

Are professional economists working on this problem? If not, why aren’t they? This seems like it should be their domain. Am I being totally naive here?
Yea if everything else is not enough of a red flag here, the fact that they are sending every single website you visit to Firebase — against stated privacy policies — is the mother of all red flags.

People say they like arc for the UI and there are all alternatives, but do you really want to risk someone stealing your bank creds and stealing all your money for some fancy UI?
You have not maintained popular open source projects for consumers then. There is a reason why the VLC repo no longer has an Issues tab: https://github.com/videolan/vlc

PRs can’t be blocked and you can already see some junk there: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/pulls
Most games aren't good. If we don't talk about the outliers we'll be stuck talking about roblox maps, king.com games, or assassins creed. Everything Annapurna interactive funded was an outlier, that's what made it interesting.
> the amount of downtime due to a db migration is virtually indistinguishable from zero

Besides, once you've run a service for a while that has acquired enough data for migrations to take a while, you realize that there are in fact two different types of migrations. "Schema migrations" which are generally fast and "Data migrations" that depending on the amount of data can take seconds or days. Or you can do the "data migrations" when needed (on the fly) instead of processing all the data. Can get gnarly quickly though.

Splitting those also allows you to reduce maintenance downtime if you don't have zero-downtime deployments already.
This isn't meant as a dig, I'm genuinely curious: how is this not simply imposing static typing in python?
IMO the least known, yet most powerful, driver to understand the world in the next century. The commodification of everything - including deeply personal and abstract things like attention and love - have been commoditised. Not in the abstract, rhetorical sense that Marx and other such people mean, but in the engineering sense where liquid exchanges with sub millisecond latency are trading such commodities. Everyone is constantly playing a game against a quasi omniscient, unblinking entity, trading everything from fragments of attention to romance. And humans are hopelessly outmatched as the entity has orders of magnitude more information, computational power and vast ability to restructure the market to it's advantage.
>more fuel means less compression is tolerated before knocking

Generally, no.

Knocking happens from pre-detonation, that's usually caused by heat from compression causing the fuel/air mix to ignite before it's triggered by spark.

To avoid this engines will run a fuel/air mix that is not stoicheometrically ideal, to make the mixture less likely to ignite early.

It is safer to run a fuel rich mix than to run a fuel lean mix as it keeps combustion chamber pressures low (unburned fuel takes heat out of the exhaust). It is more economical and more ecologically friendly to run fuel lean since you paid for that unburned fuel and it's kinda gross.

In general, more fuel than ideal means more resistance to knock. But these things are complex.

EDIT: Knocking happens from pre-detonation. Knocking can also happen from predestination, like in the case of turbocharged Subarus.
> They are clearly called "villains".

As readers of the article know, they are not:

> The truth is: Technology vendors are the characters who are building problems" into their products, which then "open the doors for villains to attack their victims,"

She’s talking about companies, not individual developers, and she didn’t call them villains but rather creators of the problems actual villains exploit. The company focus is important: it’s always easy to find who committed a problematic line of code - say a kernel driver which doesn’t validate all 21 of its arguments properly - but the person who typed that in doesn’t work alone. The company sets their incentives, provides training (or not), and most importantly should be pairing the initial author of that code with reviewers, testers, and quality tools. When a company makes a $50 toaster, they don’t just ask the designer whether they think it’s safe, they actually test it in a variety of ways to get that UL certification, and we have far fewer fires than we had a hundred years ago.

One key to understanding this is to remember CISA’s scope and mission. They’re looking at a world where every week has new ransomware attacks shutting down important businesses, even things like hospitals, industrial espionage is on the rise and the industry has largely tried to stay in the cheaper reactive mode of shipping patches after problems are discovered rather than reducing the rate of creating them. This is fundamentally not a technical issue but an economic one and she’s trying to change the incentive structure to get out of the cycle which really isn’t working.
With Cygwin you could ssh into cmd.exe on Windows NT 4.0
That's not entirely true, most electric cars sold today have a driveshaft, clutch and gearbox.
I strongly disagree.

If someone puts cyanide in the coffee pot, we don't blame the engineer that designed the coffee pot for not making it cyanide proof.

Criminals are the criminals, not a developer that didn't code defensively enough. The fact that a government official is blaming developers for crimes they don't commit is fascist level rhetoric.
If you want a compute co-op, build a co-op (think VCs building their own GPU compute clusters for portfolio companies). Public cloud was always about using marketing and the illusion of need for dev velocity (which is real, hypergrowth startups and such, just not nearly as prevalent as the zeitgeist would have you believe) to justify the eye watering profit margin.

Most businesses have fairly predictable interactive workload patterns, and their batch jobs are not high priority and can be managed as such (with the usual scheduling and bin packing orchestration). Wikipedia is one of the top 10 visited sites on the internet, and they run in their own datacenter, for example. The FedNow instant payment system the Federal Reserve recently went live with still runs on a mainframe. Bank of America was saving $2B a year running their own internal cloud (although I have heard they are making an attempt to try to move to a public cloud).

My hot take is public cloud was an artifact of ZIRP and cheap money, where speed and scale were paramount, cost being an afterthought (Russ Hanneman pre-revenue bit here, "get big fast and sell"; great fit for cloud). With that macro over, and profitability over growth being the go forward MO, the equation might change. Too early to tell imho. Public cloud margins are compute customer opportunities.
> an acquisition of Intel means the end of x86 due to cross-licensing terms between Intel and AMD which stipulate they all terminate upon either party being acquired

I believe Intel's licenses to AMD's IP would terminate, but not the other way around.
This begs the question because it starts with "how you assess yourself". Why assess yourself, the self, the whole person, at all? So, you're not good at writing. Perhaps you're not good at anything. In that case, you probably shouldn't attempt things except as practice. But why give yourself an overall score as a person, what are you even supposed to do with that information? You can't be anybody else, so it's useless. Work with what you've got, fuck 'em.
We’ve basically solved this where I work, with these steps:

- Each environment gets its own directory. We use kustomize to share config between environments.

- direnv “sets” the current context when you cd under a cluster’s directory (it sets an environment variable that a kubectl alias uses. Nobody calls kubectl directly; it wouldn’t work because we’ve banned the current context from the yaml files). You switch clusters by changing to that cluster’s directory.

- most of the time, the only command you run is ‘make’ which just does kubectl kustomize apply (or whatever). 100% of cluster config is checked into git (with git-crypt for secrets), so the worst that can happen is that you reapply something that’s already there.

I’ve also colored the command prompt according to the current cluster.

But anyway it’s essentially impossible to apply a config change to the wrong cluster. I haven’t worried about this in years.
Did we just take down the website?
According to my dictionary an environmentalist is "a person who is interested in or studies the environment and who tries to protect it from being damaged by human activities".

I can't see how buying a Porsche (or any car really) is compatible with that.
Yeah. Recycling is a long and problematic chain, and no magical miracle chemistry chain-link could change that.

OTOH, there's a lot of plastic that is discarded at larger scales (vs. Chris & Pat drop their empty bottles into bins), and a really good chemistry might make recycling a far better choice in those scenarios. And much of the world does not have well-run (especially long-term) landfills to put trash in. And there's a morale effect, too - if we quite reasonably can recycle some common types of plastics, that injects a bit of hopeful news into the generally miserable plastics recycling situation.
a super-cynical take would be:

investment banker: for the low low annualized price of $50m/year I’ll sell you this company. it’ll never make money, but it’ll attract lots of your negative marginal product workers from across your company, thus improving the success of your other games. it can run for about 10 years. at the end, you shut it down and it’s a big tax write off.

massive game company: where do I sign?
Check out direnv, and use a shell alias for kubectl. And yeah, current context is evil.
Ackshully I think those are Plan 9 file shares, not smb.
Are you going to address the part where you send visited websites to Firebase which goes against your privacy policy of not tracking visited URLs?
Here in Oslo, Norway, they got BEV busses for a lot of lines, and last year was a really cold winter. Somehow, the ones in power were shocked to discover the range dropped to half due to the electric heaters needing a lot of power, causing a public transportation chaos as busses queued up for charging instead of transporting passengers.

Now the busses are getting retrofitted with fuel-based heaters, which will be running on bio-diesel... better than nothing I guess.
Friendly correction for others because your auto correct failed you...

"predestination", pretty sure parent meant "pre-detonation"

A.k.a. Autoignition aka "it goes boom before you planned on it"

Only adding this as it's a pretty crucial word for understanding the comment.
Maybe Overwatch seems to exist solely for Blizzard/Microsoft to screw up, but it seems odd that they seem to be constantly on the verge of shutting down OWL, despite it being a top 20 Twitch game. They got so much right while creating a completely new set of characters, and then constantly leave players with the uncertainty of whether they care about the game at all.
How is that better? At least the phone is still usable and no data was lost.
WordPress is ubiquitous. That's an uncontentious statement. When your open source software literally runs a double digit percent of the internet, complaining about how much contribution you get from anyone is really just whining: WP Engine competes with WordPress.com and they're clearly doing well enough to exceed what Automattic puts out for some customers.

Any attempts to introduce nuance around "WordPress hosting" versus "hosting for WordPress" or whatever legally acceptable phrasing satisfies the legal requirements will hurt far more little guys than WP Engine, and stunt the future growth of WordPress as a project. WordPress isn't enterprise software that you buy support contracts for, like ElasticSearch or Mongo. At this point, other than just making noise on Twitter, the only effect any of this will have is putting people off from using WordPress.
Sounds promising, and plastic waste is a huge problem.

But the article doesn't address the biggest issues:

1) Do you need to separate types of plastics or clean them before using this process?

2) What are the challenges to scaling this? (They mentioned that this is an issue but didn't answer the question)
The main hack these commodification entities makes seems to be to disrupt the traditional flow of information and valuation, then create a new marketplace it controls. For books, I imagine many centuries ago the literary class wrote and read books largely from the social and intellectual forces at the time. The smallest unit of these interactions would be a member reading a book, liking it and recommending it to his friends. The net aggregation of such would slowly produce a trend, communicating to writers that there was a higher chance of being read if you followed it. Now such exchanges have been consumed by digital marketplaces. The sheer size means writers have to make a Faustian bargain to bend to it's needs, while readers have a curated list of books for them. Any well reading writer and reader have an impossible time communicating because the main flow of information has been hijacked.
To me, just is make without features I don't need. There is not a lot of benefit for me, but there is a lot of benefit for other people who need to learn the repo and have no knowledge of either make or just.

Another benefit is that justfile just cannot get too complex and tangled. Simplicity at its finest.
I don't know about that. The slide the engineers sent to management for Columbia warning that the problem had never been simulated was, shall we say, not brimming with positivity. It just was incredibly unclear[0].

[0] https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd...
>No form of recycling will work if people don’t use the bin.

blaming consumers for the industry waste that's being released from their factories into the public environment is diluting responsibility.
If the governments were not subjects of the big multinational petrochemical corporations, they should charge a deposit for every gram of plastic that customers acquire, similar to the German Pfand for plastic bottles and cans (0,25 euro cent).

If a plastic contains 33 grams of plastic as described in their QR code or instruction manual, charge the customer a deposit of 3,3 dollars for each product and pay the customer 3,3 dollars for bringing back that amount of plastic. The environment would be pristine

Plastic is cheap because the future generations are paying the price of pollution
How to Curate Your Own Midlife Crisis
HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles, near 5X previous record
> It's a shame we don't do fuel reprocessing in the US.

Not economical currently: uranium is too cheap (even with the extra enrichment that BWR/PWR reactors need).

It'd have to be run at a loss/subsidized. (Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea: run (a few?) small scale plant(s) just to maintain a knowledge base in case it was suddenly needed.)
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