skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I've heard of this but "All the users are connected through a central key server at key.upspin.io, which holds the public key and directory server address for each user"[1] sounds like they reinvented PGP's key server. To the best of my knowledge one can have arbitrary metadata in a published key[2], with the benefit that it's subject to revocation just like any other part of the key. I believe that's the whole idea that keybase.io was trying to build upon, although them orphaning their infra when Zoom bought them isn't lost on me

1: https://upspin.io/doc/arch.md

2: https://openpgp.dev/book/certificates.html#user-attributes-i...
Are you trying to say this quote is painting him as not innocent? That really doesn't seem so sinister. Sinister would be buying billboard space in west virginia like something out of newport cigarettes playbook.
the whole thing is so chaotic. I don't get the impression that Guinness World Records or anyone in the Youtube comments is aware it's a segmented run, but it is clearly stated in the original submission:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091121211238/https://speeddemo...

it's cheating for other reasons too, but it's confusing as fuck trying to figure who originally thought the record was segmented or not.
I have to admire Texas politicians for opposing "green energy", going so far as to blame their 2021 power crisis on The Green New Deal, while also simultaneously investing heavily in and reaping the benefits from "green energy". The unapologetic hypocrisy has to be respected.
Titanium is also great
> However, in the playoffs, when the going gets tough, usually the jitters set in and the teams hit a lot less 3 pointers than in the regular season.

Is that stats based or anecdotal?

Link to random person on reddit, but it seems like shooting percentage overall drops due to getting rid of bad teams in the playoffs. And 3pt and fg are affected equally. By about 1% - ie not that much.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/12luk37/oc_how_does_pl...
> What about a decent stable life where you are not struggling, and actually can start a family before turning, say, 35?

I suspect you are an American who doesn't know much about the outside world. Here in the UK, for example, you can finish a PhD in three years (so you could be around 25!).

> And PhD isn't really a place for satiating your unfettered, unhinged curiosity.

Try stopping me! Seriously.

> You have to do research along your advisor's line of inquiry, look at funding prospects, churn out papers at a cutthroat pace, and then deal with politics.

This is simply not true in general. Perhaps it's true in the more woolly, fashion and politics-driven disciplines.

> If you want a FAANG job, you can get that without a PhD.

I mean, no shit...

> at 33.

Again — I don't know where this idea that a PhD takes '5-10 years' comes from. It's nonsense.
Maybe I was not paying attention, this is of course a possibility, but until at least early 2019 the react website's main page was only mentioning the class-based "stateful component" as the way to write components.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190105060636/https://reactjs.o...

Although they were mentioning function components at the time in the documentation, I can't say how mainstream that was. Hooks were introduced in Feb. 2019.
World's Sea-ice falls to record low
> send one or two people into the boonies ... there was the small (vanishngly small?) possibility of a good payout

This was called "wild catting." It gave people an excuse to carry TNT dynamite into the boonies and detonate explosives for fun (like fireworks for grown ups).
> I am not sure what sprawl matters, but I agree electrical infrastructure that is surrounded by fuel or can be affected by winds is problematic.

without sprawl forest fire is just forest fire. August Complex fire was 10x larger than Camp Fire which caused 80x deaths and 50x damages.
Personal experiences of the author are in fact the subject of this article, as explained in the introduction.

> here’s some notes about what I’ve learned so far

Anecdotally, I found them useful and interesting; I’m also a web dev and I toy with the idea of trying xcode.
Yes! Lighter weight would help make them safer and would help with the other big issue which is road wear.
How much of the NBA economy is predicated on those regular season ticket and arena sales? And despite viewership dropping off, it isn't zero so the ad money lost is still a thing too isn't it, unless they charge more?
What I am concerned about is the increasing number of bean counters and MBA-flunkies filling positions where technical or medical expertise should be required.

Just based on his resume he shouldn’t be managing state/federal medical resources. He should be managing a franchise of fast food chains. He has no medical background. LinkedIn only mentions graduating from Harvard. Out of college he joins the parasites at McKinsey. Then fails upward from there.

Current administration is doing this across all departments.
So much of our life is consumed by work. Seeing your lifespan laid bare like this, there's a perverse instinct to optimize what remains. Have to be more productive, more efficient. But it's a bit like seeing you're bleeding out and deciding to optimize your blood donation schedule, isn't it?
I disagree; that would just squeeze the action into a smaller area of the court because offenses would avoid the corner 2.

Another proposal would be to widen the court so the 3 point line would be a complete half circle.
Weight shift is a good reason, rear and all wheel drive Regen should result in 2+x as much contact patch, versus friction brakes typically favor the front 70/30, applying 70% of braking to only 2 tires.
I like how much the EV interfaces gamify using the regenerative braking to encourage its use: regen indicators, miles per kw per trip, etc.
Yeah sorry, I didn't mean to imply these folks have any clue what they're doing. I misread your comment as "it's been a while since I saw a CMS-based site, big sites are all static now" instead of "it's been a while since I saw a CMS rawdogging it."
The truth is we're probably still unaware of the worst offenders but here how I go to reduce my exposure, in no particular order:

Food:

- avoid all that came into contact with plastics, use glass containers
- sea salt has microplastics in it, rock salt can be a better alternative
- don't use plastic utensils or equipment, like plastic grinders
- overall, avoir processed and packaged food, buying locally helps
- eat smaller animals: bioaccumulation is worse in larger animals
- I almost completely eliminated all seafood from my diet, if you want to eat fish, prefer the smaller ones

Water:

- use glass water bottles or reverse osmosis system that can filter smaller particles for drinking water
- if you enjoy soda, you should know most of them are contaminated, that is because carbonation increases internal pressure and mechanical stress on the bottle walls, which can accelerate the degradation of the plastic and release of particles. And it gets worse: every time you open the bottle, the pressure release causes even more degradation
- therefore for soda: use glass bottles too, cans are coated with plastic but not as bad as the bottles (they use epoxy resin which is more stable and the stress on cans is less than plastic bottles), but here glass is still king.
- I use a service in my city that delivers boxes of glass water and soda, it probably exists in your city too and is more affordable than you might imagine

Air:

- there is not much you can do to avoid microplastics outside, car tires supposedly account for 28% of all microplastics entering the environement, avoid living close to busy street? Truth is we don't have enough studies and data to truly know about that
- use an air purifying system for your home, the commercial ones are mostly bs, make yourself one with at high MERV rating (MERV 13 or above), there is a whole community of DIY builders, look it up
- use a vacuum cleaner that uses bags and possibly has an HEPA filtering, this will prevent you from blowing all the microplastics that may have shed on your floor into the air, make sure to keep in properly maintained

The typical advice also makes sense: avoid plastics in your clothes and in cosmetics, but I found these not always easy to apply and not as significant as the rest (water, food, air). So here's my bigger point: don't stress over removing all plastics from your life, it'll only make you miserable, pick your battles and make the changes where you can tolerate them, you'll probably be better off than most people.
More like administration disrupting status quo, with a healthy dose of concern about services and process that are important and have historically been left to their own devices (freedom?) which are now being threatened based on what are known as a Hegelian dialectic, where simple worries are presented as higher problems to push alternate agendas. The news about NOAA is a good example.

I think that one thing we’ll see that is common with manipulative people, is that we’ll see an argument formed that talking about things like this at any level will be considered pushing back on the manipulation and then it will be rationalized to “cut off” the critical thinkers by swamping the signal. When that happens here, perhaps sooner than later, you’ll jnow things are fixin’ to get interesting.
So the biden administration had no way to contact them except by showing up at their job? lol
They have a massive war chest. They're not going anywhere.
At that point you probably need a cluster of k8s clusters, no?

For anyone unfamiliar with this the "official limits" are here, and as of 1.32 it's 5000 nodes, max 300k containers, etc.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-larg...
In the preface of The Games of a Lifetime by Julian "Jaz" Rignall, life may be experiencing one art piece after another:

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The passage of my life is simply a gallery wall upon which I hang some of the most extraordinary, groundbreaking, exciting and downright thrilling pieces of video game art of the past half century. And yes, as far as I'm concerned, video games are most certainly art.
sorry to make you my QA. Its the first time using a pre tag on the blog. I didn't check it on mobile before pushing.

It's fixed now. Thanks for commenting and letting me know.
Every government faces that with almost every
decision. Every aircraft carrier represents
something like 40 never-built schools or 15
never-built hospitals.

Well, it's complicated, right? When the government spends money it doesn't really leave the economy. $10bil on an aircraft carrier is also tens of thousands of jobs... half of the money goes right back to the government in taxes... etc.
Honestly, this post comes off that way. Or you have a different timeline of what you consider always. Jordan basically invented the modern superstar. Sure, you had the Wilts and Dr J's back in the day, but they dominated based on their talent, not because the game was meticulously planned around maximizing their specific capabilities.
Most of all https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
How is this different than patenting physical designs in practice? If someone develops a novel game mechanic there isn’t really a reason they shouldn’t be able to exclusively capitalize on it if someone else can patent something “irl”. If Nintendo thought ghost cars offer a compelling advantage over other racers, that seems valid to me.

The patent length is a separate issue altogether.
> In general it’s not like war is about who’s right or moral. It’s more about who can bring more and better weapons to the fight.

I suspect, though I'm not sure, that the point was more that a nation that rejects science in favor of a different kind of ideological purity (lack of virtue signaling as its own kind of virtue signaling) is a nation whose weapons are no longer likely to be the better ones.
You're exactly right. The ill-informed commenters here seem to think everything is about 'AI' and 'tech'. Of course you don't need a PhD to publish bullshit experiments on language models and unwarranted pontification — but try becoming a serious pure mathematician without a PhD.

But I guess the retort of the average tech bro HNer will be something like: 'we don't need pure mathematicians — just learn Rust and you'll make way more money'.
I think a big reason we don't have competitive finals is generally not having a harder salary cap and allowing max for contracts. If a player really is that good they should take up 50% of the cap and to balance it out have terrible other players.

Anything else allows stacking value above cost and leading to team imbalances.
I want moderation on the platforms I go to. I don’t want to have to wade through cruft, even if there are false positives.

Also I don’t want anything pro-crypto on my feeds.
Emergence of opposing arrows of time in open quantum systems
Maybe you could just shuffle a full deck and then peel off 12 cards. Probably better simulates the stock market, there's a good chance somebody is going to get totally screwed (the case where the top of the deck is predominantly one suit). I wouldn't want to play for money that way, but playing for fake money maybe?
You are absolutely right.

To be honest, though, I don't want to even mirror that repo on GitHub. Not doing so means I don't have to agree on their onerous T&C for that code.

I was planning on streaming my work on Twitch once I truly get started. I was hoping that might be a goid place for updates.
(I believe the firm you're referring to is the aerospace company McDonnell Douglass which in hindsight may be being seen as having brought a more financial accounting orientation to Boeing)

..and o/w your point is well-taken, thank you for the instructive comment.
> EDIT: Ah, I see you are part of the oppressor class.

I disagree with your parent's dismissal of the worry, but I don't see what this adds to the discourse.
Is a three-colour code going to tell you what's healthy?

I think I'd prefer a standard nutrition label, since I'd guess that a mushroom battered in almond meal and deep fried in olive oil is probably made of three green ingredients but will end up red in combination.
In more mature implementations a simple "doesn't parse" doesn't cut it. You may want to get specific error codes to know if you should retry the request, or blame the user for bad inputs, or raise an alarm because the API changed its schema unexpectedly. You'll also want to report something helpful to the end users, so they can understand the issue or at least have something useful to forward to your tech support, so you don't just get "the app is borken!! don't parse!!11".

JSON APIs often have a concept of an envelope that gives them a standard way to report errors and do pagination, so the message would have been parsed as some Envelope<SecretResponse>, or reparsed as an ErrorResponse if it didn't parse as the expected kind.

JSON is used in lots of places where lying about the content could cause trouble, and this is just one hypothetical example. I just want to bring attention to the class of attacks where a malicious dependency can lie through its normal API, and may have opportunity to turn its caller into a Confused Deputy instead of having to break out of the sandbox itself.
It would have to be aggregated data that's constantly updated if it were to be anywhere competitive to just simply scraping the page.
I didn't get how people end up entering paswords into randon places and click on suspicions links until I started to work for a big corp.

You get a lot of stuff in the inbox that doesn't exactly relate to your day to day work from departments you only vaguely heard about.

Then the UX of corporate stuff, especially one from microsoft is designed in a way to randomly jump in your face with a password prompt without you starting it actively. The session timeout here, kerberos prompt for smartcard here, the vpn hickup, teams needs to reconnect after the laptop gets out of sleep state. Then half of it random at some point updates and looks subtly different too.

After some exposure to this kind of stuff you don't even know what's real and what's level of corporate-sanctioned bullshit is above or below the baseline set by The Policy.
What are the costs of these potentially-interesting uses?
I’m not and these tweets aren’t relevant to what I wrote.
I like to think of us at the thin blinking cursor.
Thanks, I was worried that I missed something!
Mine will allow cloning all data, including issues, PRs, and real-time chats (Zulip-style). I think that might cover your bases.
Recall isn't that simple. Some memories need to be jogged out with colors, smells, or sounds. You probably remember more than you first think, but it would be an involved activity to access.

Maybe a worthwhile one.
This in no way answers the question and is not a source of any kind that supports the argument you made.
There is a finish company working on something that might fit this need: domestic sand batteries.

https://polarnightenergy.fi/sand-battery/
You'd expect shooting percentage to go up based on bad teams dropping out. Elite offensive teams have a much higher increase in shooting percentage over replacement than even an elite defensive team can reduce an opponent's shooting percentage.

But, the game slows down, and everyone plays defense more aggressively, which might account for the change described here.
nice, saved because these days who know ho long the page will be available :)
>> In general it’s not like war is about who’s right or moral. It’s more about who can bring more and better weapons to the fight.

"You have the watches. We have the time." There are many ways to win a war.
I think the point is that the US is no longer a reliable ally, so people will no longer want to buy weapons systems for which the US might withdraw support at any moment.
It's not about being smug:

1) playoff format rends 6 months of games not very important, the biggest difference is in your seeding. That's..all?

2) another way it makes the previous 6/7 months pointless is that your entire season is based on a single set of games. You can be the best team in the league by far, but then if one player gets injured or you're out of form or unlucky it's over

I just don't like leagues with a playoff system, you either have a league or you have a round robin, both seem directed toward squeezing tv rights, not awarding the best team of a season.
Given the rejection of science and extreme virtue signaling the US has had for the last 20 years, I’m a bit skeptical that a slight turning back from that would make any difference to our allies.
> TASes break every rule and are pretty cool.

There's still rules in TASing, just a different set of rules! Specifically, you have to submit a file containing a sequence of controller inputs that completes the game when played back in an accurate emulator (or a replay device connected to the controller port of an original console running the original game).

I co-authored the current fastest TAS of Super Metroid: https://youtu.be/m-Gt57ur7OA?t=2m30s We completed the game in under 2 minutes of gameplay by exploiting a race condition in the game's sprite animation system to start an exploit chain leading to full arbitrary code execution (full writeup: https://tasvideos.org/8214S ).

We used all kinds of tooling to create the run: a recording emulator with savestates, slowdown, and frame-by-frame input editing, scripting tools, debuggers, disassemblers, and memory viewers. We used memory editing tools during development to test different scenarios without having to set them up in-game first, but the actual run you submitted is completely "pure"; just an input file that beats the original, unmodified game.

And just like real-time speedruns, TASes are split into categories too. Here's the world record TAS with major glitches disallowed, by Sniq: https://youtu.be/Rr9gdQ-VkO4 Whereas our ACE TAS is more like a CTF challenge than anything else, Sniq's run is a masterpiece of gameplay that shows how far the game can be pushed beyond the current human limits. But again, it's still a true run of the game; the only difference is that you submit an input file instead of a realtime performance of the run.
Patrick Collison's 'Bookshelf' in a Spreadsheet
I found Patrick's bookshelf article a good source of high value books. I took the data and put it into spreadsheet form so I can do things like add a 'Read' column, add links to buy the books, sort by ratings, etc.

Sharing it in case it is useful to others.

https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
Probably part of it is increasing wealth inequality playing a role. Now that there are more rich people around prices affordable to this group can be charged and still fill out events. Decades ago there were fewer of this sort of potential customer when more people made closer to median wages. In the end the median worker suffers from fewer affordable entertainment options as these are binned to higher incomes. The most obvious model of this is the ski or resort town where this sort of demographic crisis can play out in mere years after a resort opening in a formal rural township with highly uneven economic demographic growth. New housing supply is almost always exclusively made for higher income people due to the cost of construction and land demanding certain margins, so median wage workers are further hurt as they wait for this new housing to depreciate over decades and only if new housing continues to be built unhindered (not a sure thing unlike the yearly new to used car market).
Well, I saw it in the opposite way. Author has done a lot of things between his age and mine. So many new things for me to discover.
Hashicorp Nomad, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, AWS ECS?

I love that the Kubernetes lovers tend to forget that Kubernetes is just one tool, and they believe that the only possible alternative to this coolness is that sweaty sysadmins writing bash scripts in a dark room.
SUSE, it's a German company.
Exactly. Some of us actually write code because we enjoy it.

Ever since release of The Social Network movie this industry has attracted far too many grifters like this who are only driven by money all the while exploiting everything to their benefit.

Can’t wait for the humanist revolt. Dignity, humility, and passionate expression brought back to the art of programming. It needs to be reclassified as art now more than ever.
For my mother, the year of Linux on the desktop was this year.

Basically, she got enough of Windows, mostly due to subscriptions, that there was news being shown in the browser, and some other related issues and she was incredibly happy with Ubuntu (which is of course American, but since it's free and gratis, it doesn't really matter, and there's always SUSE).

She liked the cleanness, the absence of distractors, how it was clearer what was in the cloud and what was on the local machine, that she wasn't paying any continuous fee for LibreOffice and the happiness this switch brought was huge.

The only reason people are still using Windows is gaming and that it's a default on the machines at computer- and electronics stores. They'd be happy with Linux, they'd be more productive with Linux and they'd be calmer with Linux.
that's like asking what if every kids in the class gets an A, or every kids gets an F. Too extreme. We grade on a curve.
I don't really understand the comparison. The game changes with the rules. The meta shifts with the analytics.

But stealing bases has long been a science. It was something I admired about college level development of players in the 2000's - stealing bases went from fundamental to advanced and well beyond "just let the fastest guys do their thing." UVA's coach had a saying like "every player on this team will be capable of stealing bases"
Yeah I was working part time at the time so I was putting in ~8hr days.