jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There have been a bunch of articles near the top of HN on this result, but I found this one from Quanta magazine to be one of the best non-technical explanations.

Particularly interesting was the focus on an alternative theoretical calculation for the muon magnetic moment: the “BMW” approach, which uses a numerical lattice model and produces a number much closer to the Fermilab experiment.

For an outsider, one of the surprising things here must be just how hard the theoretical calculation actually is, especially as you get deeper into the decimal places and have to include the vacuum effects on the muon of basically all particles in the standard model, including hadrons which means trying to calculate the Strong Force. Back when I studied quantum field theory in college we never got anywhere near actually producing numbers for strong force effects; the equations weren’t soluble with the usual perturbation theory techniques. But it’s interesting to read about how it is possible to get useful numbers with these different cutting-edge theoretical/computational methods - but with some uncertainty about whether they’re actually right!

Curious to hear any practicing physicists on HN weigh in on the BMW calculation versus the orthodox theoretical approach that everyone’s comparing the Fermilab result against.
I'd argue that there is no absolute measure of freedom, or at least, it doesn't matter relative to expectations and feelings of freedom. Expectations and feelings of freedom are widely different today than they used to be -- and we know this precisely because it's a popular thing to say. Everyone complains about cancel culture and mask mandates and vaccination passports and so-on.

McCarthyism in the past didn't have any impact whatsoever on the average suburban family. Now, though, with social media and with everyone living as the main character of their life, "cancel culture" does. There's a deeply libertarian undertone to rural America and it has never gone away. The loss of freedom for socialists in the 1950s didn't matter. "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" and the subsequent overturn of that case didn't matter. Draft dodging didn't matter.

What's going on today does.
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Lua 5.1 likely still is the most widely-supported version by scripts (and though irrelevant in this context, external native libraries). Remember that LuaJIT is also Lua 5.1 compatible.
If your frontend is on CDN, how are you handling auth? Do you use Firebase for that?
I wish TV stations would rerun the BBC serialization of Hitchhiker's. I've actually read Adams' books but it'd be nice to see the TV version again. (I used to love Peter Jones as The Book, his matter-of-fact tone made him just ideal for the job.)
From my experience, I definitely learn the most by doing, not watching, reading or listening.

As long as you know enough to get started on <project>, then you can just look things up as you get stuck.

There is an element of "you don't know what you don't know" when you're new to some stuff, but as you gain experience, the effect is less.
This exactly.

Instagram has people posting “accidental” selfies that took 3 hours of make up, 156 tries under a full lighting rig and then an hour of post processing.

LinkedIn is full of that same brand of fake, just applied to work. Acting like some boring-ass conference was awesome, pretending that celebrating some minor work achievement with cake was the ultimate team building exercise etc.
80% of Toyotas ever made are still on the road[0].

...the rest made it home. But in seriousness, that's exactly what I've been thinking in general, and especially reading this article: Teslas aren't going to age well. I hope I'm wrong, because I don't wish mechanical failure on anyone's car, but even Toyotas get a little loose with one or two hundred thousand miles. What's going to happen to those one-off production line mods to get the car out the door ten years from now? Now we're seeing eMMC failures for which Tesla is trying to charge the customer (seems those that can afford a Model S could easily afford a lawyer, too; but I digress). I don't have a smoking gun to point to, but much like code smell these just don't smell like devices that you'll pass on to your kid when she gets her license ten years down the road.
Interesting datapoints (summarized on reddit):

If you had bought the SPY at the last second of trading on each business day since 1993 and sold at the market open the next day — capturing all of the net after-hour gains — your cumulative price gain would be 571 percent.

On the other hand, if you had done the reverse, buying the E.T.F. at the first second of regular trading every morning at 9:30 a.m. and selling at the 4 p.m. close, you would be down 4.4 percent

Chart: https://i.imgur.com/YPTjg3v.jpg
The study doesn't mention the air flow rate of the box fan, nor the size of the box fan. I'm not familiar with it, but on Wikipedia it looks like CADR is calculated as (fraction of particles) x (airflow rate). So one good explanation would be that even though the box fan could be less efficient at filtering particles, if it's moving 2 or 3 times the air over the BlueAir, it will clean a room faster.

I think it's a feasible estimate of CFM, as the diameter of the box fan's impeller would be larger than the one used in the BlueAir box.
Solid results with exceptional margins and a healthy FY21 outlook. I wonder if markets just have unrealistic expectations (from the craziness of GME/AMC and cannbis stocks) or people are just taking profits on a ~400% run up since IPO.
I really wish they would write a showcase Linux Desktop that would enable their CPUs to shine and create a market for ARM chips they may release in response to M1, but that's about as likely as a genie lamp actually existing.
I don’t get why people still say FAANG, even. Netflix is doing great and has some great tech, but these days it seems like they’re way more of a TV megastudio with a really great engineering dept than a tech giant like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google.

Sure, they’re no slouches, but it feels like any acronym that includes Netflix needs to also include Microsoft for sure. In fact, by the time you get to Netflix I feel like you’d have to have included Salesforce, Tesla, maybe even Twitter, and probably half a dozen names that aren’t coming to me right now.
Yes, C++ has been catching up since C++11.

One thing C++ will never have is D's `static if`, which allows injecting declarations into scopes. Bjarne Stroustrup and others closed that door: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/n3613.pdf
What you are describing unfortunately is due to the external vendor teams managing support -- a business decision as you rightly mentioned.

A lot of support became outsourced and the original support team became more of a tier 3 backline support with the first 2 tiers being handled by vendors. This started for GCP just after I left in mid 2013.

The vendors responsible for support have contracts to meet certain customer satisfaction metrics and time to first response metrics (based on customer tier and ticket priority). The majority of inbound support cases would get auto assigned to the vendor team. Only the top customers would reach Google employees directly.

The vendor and their staff simply have no incentive to troubleshoot an unusual issue - they also cannot have access to the tools that may expedite such troubleshooting. It's all about pattern recognition to quickly resolve a ticket. As many vendors were overeager to escalate support cases to the Googlers it became necessary to impose more requirements on the vendor team to be able to escalate an issue - invalid escalations were being tracked and the vendor would be penalized for the total of these.

I built the internal tool via which GSuite and GCP outages or significant issues would be managed from a support perspective. This had the advantage that vendors didn't need to waste their time (poorly) parroting (with a delay) the status of an outage as related incidents could be (manually) grouped together and then all be updated at once by the current incident manager on the support team - freeing up lots of support folks to work on other support cases.

I definitely agree this vendor-based support model is a frustrating experience for everyone involved. I witnessed that myself after leaving Google. By the way, I'm very surprised GCP tries to upsell you on consulting services based on your support interactions.

Running a support organization for a very technical product with so many unknowns and variables at scale is hard. I wonder who does that well and how they accomplish it (from an operational perspective).

I have no idea how AWS manages support internally. I work at Azure - until last week as a Developer Advocate, now as a software engineer in Azure CTO incubations - I have no idea how our support organization is run or what their quality is. However, from what I hear Azure support is eager to help anyone and everyone. I remember being very confused I got a phone call to inquire whether I needed help within a day or two of signing up for an Azure free trial.
Author here, sorry about the text-shadow. I added it there many years ago and it seemed like a good idea back then. After webs started over-using various shadows and animations, I installed Stylus Firefox extension with rules disabling shadows and animations and completely forgot that the rule is still there! Removed now.
Yep this is the issue: Sendgrid offers "well-seen" ips in their pro tier at 50$/month or so, which is 10 times what we spend on hosting..
Use the keyboard predominantly instead of the trackpad and problem mitigated ;)

I've been using Linux exclusively on ~5 different laptops of varying quality the last few years and I haven't been able to relate to the frequent comments about trackpad support being poor - not sure if it's just I don't use it that much, or don't realize what I'm missing since I haven't used a modern macbook.

My biggest gripe applies to all laptops and that's the insufficient ram offered on most models - IMO 16gb should be the baseline, and 32gb approaching normal with the demands of current software (yes software could be more efficient but this isn't the reality we find ourselves in)
I can read, and you’ve already written that. But there are logical bits missing between your premise and your conclusion. Is there any measurable effect? Is say WhatsApp adoption rate significantly lower on iOS because of this? How much more anticompetitive is it than just bundling a SMS app with every phone?

Anything a company does to improve its market share is a reduction of competition, the threshold for anticompetitive behaviour is higher than that. Not saying Apple never does anything anticompetitive (they do), but iMessage is a very stupid hill to die on.
Have you considered fixing the browser bug by providing a patch?
Well thats not entirely true. Lightning network _does_ use bitcoin smart contracts settled on-chain as a way to provide more liquidity for efficient payment routing. So it is bootstrapped to the same decentralization/trustlessness (mostly).

The analogy here is that its like saying: using TCP (layer 4) for transport reliability isn't giving up on IP (layer 3), its building on top of it. You still get the benefits of the basal level protocol.
Pattern matching is under development. It's not an easy thing to get right. C++26 will probably have pattern matching, and then sum types will have better support. In the meantime, they might not always be the best solution.

Everyone complains about C++ complexity, and also about all the features they think should be added. But each new feature makes the language more complex.

The language is the wrong place to measure complexity.

Complexity people experience directly is in programs, instead. A well designed language or library feature makes programs simpler and more understandable. Obsolete language features fall out of use, and rarely occupy our thoughts. Mainly, when we find obsolete features in programs, that dates the code, and helps us know what to expect.
I'm curious as to the social angle on this. Do you get lonely out there, are friends primarily on line, is your partner (if applicable) happy with this situation, etc?

I ask because I've always dreamed of a life of simplicity similar to what you've got setup, but the thing that stops me is the possible isolation.
This is an unreviewed preprint, treat it with considerable skepticism. Very scary if true, "COVID brain" could be Lewy Body Dementia, even in the asymptomatic. I hope not.
Upgrades are not that bad. I used to also think the same as you, because the documentation is pretty extensive, and I was used to Windows/MacOS "click here to install updates" process.

But in practice, upgrading OpenBSD is basically:

1) Download and boot the bsd.rd for the new version.

2) Select [U]pgrade when prompted.

3) Mostly just accept defaults on the rest of the prompts. Do read carefully however.

After rebooting, run sysmerge(8). This has actually gotten even easier recently as you no longer need to point it to etc.tgz and xetc.tgz for that release.

If you have any packages installed, run pkg_add -u. If anything goes wonky, you might need to run pkg_check to clean up dependencies.

If you have compiled anything else from source you will need to remake/reinstall that also.

It's definitely more "hands on" than Windows, Mac OS, or most Linux distros. But really not bad.
Literally nothing you posted surprises me in the least, and literally none of this work shows that we know anything at all about how memory is implemented. Perhaps read some of the many takedowns of so called "grid cells" which show that it is completely unsurprising and not at all interesting or noteworthy that activity in some parts of the brain correlates with location information. The important questions always remain unanswered.
Fine by me, let people who actually need to commute live in housing close to where they work, and let the rich people who have the money to beta test eco tech do so, even if they're just doing it to flex on each other.
I think the consensus is that it is better for the whole of society to make sure the bottom 5% makes it through that for the top 5% of the class to fulfill their potential.

It's not that I don't understand what you are saying. I was at the top in school and also as a parent I notice how removed education is from... beauty? It's just that economy dictates the rules. Also, teaching is hard.
Also ( no paywall ) Guardian article

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/06/credit-suis...
A NOP slide is a slightly different thing.

The NOPs as suggested by GP are meant to replace unwanted instructions. The purpose of a NOP slide is to serve as target area for jumps and to guide the flow of execution to a particular adress at the end of the slide, independent of where in the NOPed range a jump was actually executed to.
Is there a good git -> fossil tutorial/migration guide?
Interesting dystopian story, but I have some thoughts on it.
One of the main ideas of the story is that cryptocurrencies take over the economy, and because their Proof of Work algorithms require increasing amounts of electric power to calculate useless hashes, there are power outages in the world.
While that scenario could be conceivable if Bitcoin or a cryptocurrency based on a similar technology became the de-facto means of exchange on the economy, I highly doubt that would ever be the case.
Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, the most widely known even by people who doesn't know much about technology or cryptocurrencies, and because it's been soaring due to speculative investing, which triggers more speculative investing, it will soar even more in the short and middle term. And yes, there are a few whales holding most of it so they can move the market easily. Bu t while Bitcoin can be a store of value in the short term, in my opinion it will never be the preferred means of exchange. Sure, Tesla bought 1.5 billion dollars in Bitcoin, and will accept payments in bitcoin, and will benefit from bitcoin appreciating in price, and buying a $100k car with bitcoin might be reasonable even paying the very expensive transaction fees and waiting the very very slow transactions to confirm, but that wouldn't work to buy potatos as in the story...
I do believe cryptocurrencies will replace fiat at some point, but it will not be Bitcoin.
There are many cryptos already that are so much better than Bitcoin at being a means of exchange, but in my opinion one of the most promising from a technical perspective is Nano, since it has zero fees, it's instant, and uses a lot less power (you can do 6 million Nano transactions with the energy consumed by one Bitcoin transaction). There is an issue with Nano with Spam, since the Nano networked has been spammed with garbage transactions, but I think they will fix the issue, or some other cryptocurrency with the benefits of Nano will.
So I think we're now in a speculative phase but once cryptos are actually used as a means of exchange and they're ready to replace fiat, that speculative phase should stop or be highly reduced, so the cult-like following of hodlers wishing for lambos should go away.
Also, while it raises an important concern that any cryptocurrency that reaches widespread use as means of exchange should not have early adopters and hodlers holding most of it, and that's an interesting problem.
But I disagree that having Banks/Central Banks and Governments creating money and controlling it is better.
Governments will try to create their own cryptocurrency anyway... China has already done it (https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-creates-its-own-digital-c...), and the USA and Eurozone are close to it and are accelerating their efforts to have it, and they will be stablecoins. And of course they will use the features of a Blockchain that make all transactions transparent and traceable, while there are other cryptos that have privacy and anonimity in mind, like Monero and others, government issued cryptocurrencies will have the opposite goals.
That reminds me a bit of Mr Robot and the E-Corp's issued E-Coin.
While the executives are dreaming of exotic cars, the engineers are dreaming of exotic architectures. The difference is that when the CEO says, "It's crucial that I have this Ferrari BEFORE the business takes off," nobody takes them seriously.
Um... certificate pinning?

Fortunately, my last caveat covers a bunch of these.

Also, I think you(I) forgot:

* You are in fact hallucinating at this very moment.
fx markets are not generally highly leveraged, other than the retail companies designed to fleece delusional punters.
Aha, thanks for the clarification! Also found this: http://www.governmentnews.com.au/2015/02/electronic-vote-cou...

Interesting that Australia does not scan paper ballots yet, the amount of manual work must be enormous.
Being proprietary closed source software, Matlab is unsuitable for most practical uses; but if it's good enough for your "serious" tasks you are welcome to use it.
On the other hand, recommending Matlab for interactive web demos, which require using Javascript and redistributing your machine learning "toolbox", is absurd, not merely "grumpy".
this is awesome! thanks for this.

Although when I went to share it in slack, the preview text was "You've been Haacked and you like it". I personally find that a tasteless slogan; but more-so it should be the title of the post I linked, not the site title.

I have a few aliases in my .bashrc file that I use:

alias git-branch-list='for k in `git branch|sed s/^..//`;do echo -e `git log -1 --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" "$k"`\\t"$k";done|sort'

alias c="git commit -m '"

alias s='git status'

alias a='git add'

I use the first one to hop around branches and see when the branch was last updated. The others are just because I am super lazy. But reading the post I am moved to be even lazier!
Compared to Monetdb:

https://www.monetdb.org/content/citusdb-postgresql-column-st...
Fractal Design R4, and I think I paid about $120 for it at a Microcenter. You can probably get it for cheaper online.
True for images, but not for the text (chromium+linux). And I get annoyed when I cant select text.
I kind of see all documentaries this way. All documentaries rely so much on manipulation to drive a narrative that it's difficult to classify it as anything other than art. They can still be informative for sure, but I will never watch a documentary and think I've done any kind of research.
Pity to poor "second carrier" in the US.

With the pent up "want an iPhone but won't use AT&T" base and the "have an iPhone but have been abused by AT&T too long" base they could go from zero to 10 million iPhones in a week.

Good luck pulling that off without a black eye.

(AT&T continues to amaze me by providing me a whopping 1000 bits/second over my EDGE connections, even with near full signal. I'm surprised they don't charge me an "intransit data storage fee" on my incoming packets. Also impressive is "The web server is not responding." failures, when it's my web server and I can see from the packet traces that it hasn't responded because their has been no request. I think that error ought to be changed to "We're sorry, we know you are paying for a data plan, but we don't feel like it right now. Suck it.")
That is true, however even your internist is interested in your "primary complaint". There is this idea that one problem should be addressed at a time.
This tutorial is particularly troubling, as the two examples are poorly chosen at best and dangerous at worst. The very basics of neural networks are not very tough, as it's just a black box where you give it some set of real-valued inputs and it learns to map to a set of real-valued outputs. Most people will never get a neural network to function well in a data mining context due to over-fitting. My issue with the two specific examples are:

1) Image recognition is done in so many different ways, but if you're using neural networks, why not take advantage of the geometry of the layout while simultaneously removing the need for learning about things like hidden node layers. Use HyperNEAT: http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/hyperNEATpage/HyperNEAT.html

2) Financial data mining is potentially very dangerous. It's easy for people to create models that look very strong in back-testing but are actually just fitting to the relatively limited history of samples. Some people may be foolish enough to think they should take that signal and trade it with their own money-- yikes!

A much better introduction to ANNs would be in a reinforcement learning context, where you aren't worried about over-fitting as much. Mat Buckland's book does a pretty good job of covering these topics: http://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Programming-Premier-Press-D...
duplicate
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322614
But this is exactly my point. Caps will not stop all (or even most?) heavy users from being heavy users, and there is no data (that I've ever found) to show that caps do anything other than generate more revenues, which may or may not actually be spent on improving the network.

When other major countries are investing huge amounts in their infrastructures to support higher and higher capacities and bandwidth for lower and lower prices, our ISPs are instead capping bandwidth and increasing prices without investing that higher revenue into better service.
Was that jab at Colin really necessary?
I manage the SEM campaigns for Vistage (business coaching) at a digital agency. Looks like Bizo might be a good fit for them. Anyone in particular I should talk with to get some more info?
A script to post random key containing config-like files to public repos and waste these guy's bandwidth/light them up on amazon's blacklist radar would be a cool idea.
I can't name the story, but I did read one. To the FTL travel civilization, with a thousand years of scientific and cultural change, the cryogenically suspended slower-than-light travellers were basically smelly cavemen.