skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sexual attraction is complicated. There are cultural influences, especially when it comes to races, at specific time periods some races are seen as cool to date, some are fetishisized, while others are avoided:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_racism

Interesting article based on studies from tinder an okcupid:

https://www.inverse.com/article/36379-tinder-black-women-asi...

Even if you completely ignore race an society's influence, we seem to be both attracted by genetic differences AND similarities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Wedekind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction
Hmmm, use cases? I guess really just the one, people who want to use cloud type services, prefer to self host, and need an easy way to deploy those services.
Charging endpoints just seems like a very simple solution. Charges don’t need to be ubiquitous for Tesla to sell another 10,000 electric cars this month. Tesla is clearly supply constrained. That’s my beef with the article or really the headline, sales are off the charts.There are certainly complicated scenarios, like the urban apartment dwellers out there, and they may have to be among the last to adopt, and that’s a ‘barrier’ several orders of magnitude smaller than $6T. the 100+ million housing units in the US alone can rapidly adopt electric cars in a distributed manner. A surge in gas pricing could flip that switch too. I’ve argued elsewhere on HN that gas stations, commercial garages, and retailers, and employers are in position add some circuits. It MAY be a $6B problem sprinkling 1,000,000 connections across the country at a generous $6,000ea, but it isn’t a $6T problem.
As are ships. But we still often say she.
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Sugar provides calories and salt is a preservative. Your analogy doesn’t make sense. Menthol has no value other than taste.
What about the language limits the number of containers?
It looks like variance is increasing as distance increases. This is bad statistics.
Or "we're not interested in being regulated by a foreign government".
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That's a good point. Of course there is a physical limit of placing many humans in a limited space (if we assume that there will be no low orbit habitats which may not be the case). However, it would rather be economical reasons to leave overpopulated areas (e.g. move to LEO/Mars/Moon) rather than fertility related. For instance, people may leave New York because it feels too crammed, but nobody in their right mind would say "it would be great if fertility of New Yorkers went down as low as possible".

So my point stands -- the problem of overpopulation is not real as long as humans can adapt technologically, environmentally, and socially. The Earth is a limited space only as long as humans don't have the technology to expand habitable space above (and below) the surface. And above the surface only the sky is the limit. Literally :)
Hiding it behind a VPN sounds fairly secure.
I know the article isn’t attempting to portray the Jesuits as good actors, but from a basic human context, the indigenous Guarani didn’t care about being Western-educated or earning high incomes or need these things before their subjugation by the Spaniards. Their original way of life was destroyed and they were forced to comply with the Jesuits or any other conquest-seeking organization.

This is like one society(A) conquering a perfectly functioning desert dwelling culture(B) that was previously unconcerned with A and teaching B how to swim the butterfly stroke because being a good butterfly swimmer leads to prosperity in society A’s socioeconomic system. This now valuable training was passed on through the generations of B and today they are good swimmers and more prosperous in the new society then those who historically didn’t get the lesson. And we look at this correlation to say that investments in swimming is a good thing and pat ourselves on the back. Ok.
>a voice message as an email attachment

Dear god why
I didn't say it was easy :) But that's still no excuse to say B leads to C when in fact, it (probably) does not.

Science isn't supposed to be easy. Truth isn't supposed to be easy. If it's easy, then there's a fair chance it's not either one of these.
Those times in catholic countries Bible was in Latin so I very much doubt that it was taught at all. What did they teach then? To read, write, do maths and practical stuff for jobs.

Edit: of course they would teach religion, but not from reading the Bible.
I keep all of it but I don't back it up. Disk is encrypted. Fancy commands go into Evernote for easier searching.

Also, I use fuzzy finder for cmd+r. Absolutely love it.
All hail the nanny-state.
What statistics does one need to understand to know that the correlation on that scatter graph is terrible? Hell you don't even need statistics - just use your eyes.
> At nation scale, lending money does not work like buying coffee.

This seems to be the econ 101 answer all modern day Chicago - school influenced economists give out.

Student: if the US has a debt that's more than their current GDP, isn't that bad? If a family had a credit card debt higher than their current salary, we'd say that they were in bad financial shape.

Economist: The macroeconomics of a nation work much differently than a single family's budget.

Student: Well, when the family has no plans to cut expenses, continues to charge more and more each year on the credit card, and their solution involves some vague plan of getting a huge raise sometime in the future, how does this not end in disaster for the family, but turn out fine for a government doing the same thing.

Economist: Running deficits and borrowing money in perpetuity is good for a large country to do, just not for an individual. It is known.

Student: well eventually the family's interest payments will be more than they actually make, leaving nothing left for actual expenses. At that point, their card is canceled and they have to sell all their stuff, move out of their home, and crash with the parents. And nobody lends to them again for a long time, and only at high rates. How does a nation avoid this outcome when the math is the same?

Economist: Trust us <waves Jedi hand>.

I get the feeling we're going to someday look at today's accepted macroeconomic theories, and wonder just WTF we we're thinking.
sqlalchemy has a cockroach dialect.
Not Elon, he just pays a small fine.
As in the article my main gripe is the iCloud storage. As you buy more Apple devices your free storage allotment doesn’t scale up accordingly.
You were misusing background location updates to periodically run your app in the background. I bet you were also misusing some keychain API or similar, to determine whether the device is locked or not, because there’s no official API for that either.

You were misusing multiple APIs and hoped that the reviewers won’t notice.

Facebook used to play silent audio in the background to prevent their app from being suspended. They got found out too and had to stop doing it. Suck it up!

I hope Apple would one day reject those apps that misuse silent push notifications for uninstall tracking too.
2. I still believe the 16 bytes stands on x64 (8 byte aligned, thus 4 bytes padding).
Have personally made contributions to the project once or twice. I think its a fairly young project so far being used part of bigger graph database. I went back to BoltDB for it’s stability and decent performance. I think everybody has his own scale for measuring fast vs stable. It was fast but not stable enough for my scale.
Tech debt is like real debt. In business it should be leveraged for growth, but beware of interest payments.
Ask HN: Where to discuss the future of software?
Software today is a mess.

It's an horrible experience for both users and developers. The fragmentation keeps getting worse, and so does the associated decision fatigue.

The are too many applications, websites, frameworks, programming languages, developers. We need to delete everything and start over.

Most people are pragmatic and conservative. They care about problems they can solve today. They're satisfied with incremental improvements. They couldn't care less about far-away moonshot theories of software.

I want to read from people interested in the future of software. I then want to ask questions, and ultimately contribute.

I'm looking for people like:

- Ted Nelson

- Tim Berners-Lee

- Douglas Engelbert

- Alan Kay

- Bret Victor

- Chris Granger

- Evan Czaplicki

- Juan Benet

- Vitalik Buterin

Where do people like these hang out (preferably online)? Where can I learn much about the state of the art of software?
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Ask HN: What Alpha Test Legal Agreements do you need for your app?
I am about to release a very early Alpha version of an app I have been working on to friends and family. What legal agreements do I need to put in place for this, if any? Or is this all semantics and should I consider my current release the "Beta" version of my app?

As discussed in this article (https://instabug.com/blog/beta-test-legal-agreements/), it makes complete sense that you need a legal agreement between you and your Beta Testers, but what about at the Alpha testing stage? Should you trust your friends and family without any NDAs, terms and conditions, or limited liability? Or are you better off finding some boilerplate legal document that basically says, "If you use the app you won't (1) sue me unless something goes really wrong; and (2) you won't copy my idea." Or is putting this in place overkill and unnecessary before you even know what you have?

I'd be especially interested to hear how Dropbox handled the release of the Alpha version of their product since they went through YC (https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/). It is clear they had Beta testers so I'd be interested to know what type of agreements they had in place with each tester before signing them up.

For what it is worth, it is a web app that should not have the ability to cause any physical injury. However, data protection is obviously an important responsibility that poses liability risk if user data was compromised without any legal agreements in place.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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Well, the free storage is for your account, not your device, right?

I suppose it would be nice if you get extra free monthly storage per device you use your account with. Maybe a model where the amount of devices you have simply multiplies the free storage baseline.
I think using pronouns reserved for humans on a ship (engineered mass of wood/metal that doesn't spy on you and you can own) is more acceptable than using it on a company (which spies on you, is not something you own, etc).
A better title would be “Economic Development and Investment has Lasting Influence”. (Brought to you by Obvious Publishing, Inc.)

Isn’t that what civilization is all about?
Legacy code and legacy architecture :)
>there are downsides and unintended consequences to every option

Even so, there are not the same "downsides and unintended consequence" to every option, nor they have the same impact for every option chosen.

So, this is not some "6 of one, half a dozen of the other" case.

>The question is, do we want that power to be controlled democratically or to be arbitrarily exercised by the most powerful?

Whatever we want, in practice, and for pragmatic reasons, we usually get just a mix of both. So it makes sense to have laws that don't give so much possibility for arbitrary execution, or don't give too much power when arbitrary executed.
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> It was really easy, just watch the teacher slowly peck-type her password. It was "teach".

Exact same story on my side, and the password wasn't much better either. The worst is that she hinted at what the password could be (I assumed it was a joke to calm down curious kids) but it was totally right when I managed to actually see that password for myself.
Speaking to the ineptitude of the district, you have to understand that a lot of districts are horribly understaffed and/or mismanaged. "Best practices" from an IT perspective is often an unknown or misinterpreted/ignored to band-aid disparate systems RIGHT NOW because someone forgot to renew a license or so-and-so at DO got this great deal on some (most-likely) Pearson product from a frat-brother/neighbor/family member. There is no room for growth professionally and not much in the way of training/certification that doesn't require the employee learning on their own time and dime.

Soul-crushing lack of accountability is a factor as well. Outside of physically assaulting someone or stealing a bunch of shit it is almost unheard of for someone to be terminated for either incompetence or negligence unless it's so optically bad for the district or administration as a whole that they have no choice.

Then you have to take into account the skillsets that you're left with when capable people leave. In my experience, those that can swim best often jump ship first and with them take knowledge that was either carelessly preserved or is totally unattainable by the staff that remains. Positions are sometimes never back-filled leaving less capable staff to pick up slack and the cycle continues, things get overlooked and stagnate and smart, bored kids own your ass.
Have you tried hckrnews.com? You can filter by top 10, 20, 50% of articles.
Normality test and normplot of residuals? Durbin-Watson test and residuals vs order plot? Residuals vs fit test? Bartlett’s test?
Is anyone able to get this working with Parallels Desktop, especially v13?

The OS itself installs and is extremely fast to install and use, but it doesn't seem to recognize the Ethernet or Sound in Parallels Desktop this time around. I've tried changing the VM from "Other Windows" to "Windows XP" and installing Parallels Tools, but the installer hangs the VM at the 74% point.

EDIT 2: Apologies for my repeated edits & postings. To get networking in Parallels Desktop, you need to use the advanced settings to choose the Realtek driver emulation and then it is automatically detected, as outlined in this post: https://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17056&p=13...
How about the polity?
Nice strawman, do you have more of those? Where did I say the government should do that? Try with some intellectual honesty next time.

Rescuetime is not some new company it's an old company who actually provide real utility and have been on the Apple platform for a long time.

One would think that balance was to look at the utility and reputation of that company.
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It seems to me that you can't build a viable business and be so vulnerable. Apple or Google can pull your plug anytime they see fit, for any reason they want.
When the only difference is Amazon making a silent firmware push, or endangering $10B+ of business?

No.
> Me: That sounds trivial to break; have you tried XOR?

> Friend: I'll try that now. [Tries ONE value] It's just XORing each character of the password with 0xC9!

Really? You kids just guessed it on the first try? I'm skeptical.
The part that says you have to be an entity (data controller or data processors) that matches a specific definition, not merely a person living their life.
A webside definitely shouldn't be a poster. The "nice" redesigns offered in the article "work" as visually interesting posters, but utterly fail as websites - they become unusable, they sacrifice function to improve the visuals. A book-like website may be suboptimal but is usable, but a fancy poster-like website is much worse than that.
And his name is not Tommy Wiseau!
In this case, the person (a politician) did request it -- and the enforcement agencies (headed by pals of said politician) try to make sure they'll get it.
My policy is to decrease on push notifications as far as possible. WhatsApp and Telegram still have the privilege but that's it. I feel like by seeking out information rather than it coming to me, I at least am making a conscious decision to waste time on social media.

Interestingly, implementing that had the effect of me now spending hardly any time on there at all. Funny how that works!
What kind of stability issues did you run into?
They don't show a comparison to bfloat16 PEs/FMA. IEEE half precision uses a larger mantissa than bfloat16, and the cost of multiplication is proportionate to the square of the mantissa size. I'd expect much lower gains relatively to bfloat16
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Nothing unprecedented about it. Most traditional cigarette flavors are banned, since 2009.
We do, but that's not the part of Bell Labs people usually reminisce about in a programming context or the era TFA talks about.
This article is older... OK, I see there's a 1994 there, but not in the HN title. I remember it clearly because I did a similar thing (for 1/4 the lines though) just before I read it in 1999. I felt like a million dollars :)
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That is completely untrue. Containers (distinct from the Docker /daemon/) provide significant security gains.

Try breaking https://contained.af/
Why use Tab separated values instead of Comma separated values?

Is it possible to just use some random character, maybe even from different charset, to act as delimiter for importing/exporting tabular data?
Just random nitpicks:
The "interact with me" emoji is hard to make out, looks like a glitch at first. Emojis should be images, for both consistency and making sure people don't get boxy question marks if their browser can't render. "toggle fullscreen" is off-center vertically. The demo frame is messed up in Edge. The text in the about page needs a max width.
Like others mentioned the demo is a bit overwhelming, it also has some minor UX issues and is generally the weakest link design wise at the moment.
A counter-question: imagine the Earth's population is just 2 million. How many high-technology jobs would we have with the current level of robotics? How many Einsteins would we have?

The [optimal] population size is directly linked to the current level of technology. If it feels like humans would be better with fewer population it only means that our technology and resource utilization skills lag behind and the solution should be to advance in technology/management, not reduce population.
This thesis works with even more power in Europe. From 1517 to the 1550s, Protestantism spread rapidly. It's spread stopped when the Jesuits began to build their schools. In every city where the Jesuits opened a school, the advance of Protestantism was quickly stopped. Its often said that the Jesuits were the foot soldiers of the Counter-Reformation, but specifically, it was their schools that were the main thing. And the schools helped make each city wealthy, where the schools were.
I'm not convinced. Excel is used predominantly used to evaluate formula's that are based on values in other cells. While I'm not a fan of Excel, vim simply does not have this capability and really can't replace Excel for most reasonable use-cases.
I couldn't agree more with the author. Give me a terminal and better solutions for the list of awkward workflow restrictions the author mentions and I am ready go to full iPad. I don't need a clamshell shape and a touchpad, I just need a full OS.
For a casual user, a design that requires extra learning effort to use it is objectively worse than a familiar design.

So for a generic website which cares about first-time visitors (as opposed to a specialized tool that people use often) following established standards and familiar UX paradigms is good usability design.
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You might as well use a simple hash-table then.

It seems that most of the design effort of this project was focused on fast disk access.
The 21 year old guy said he doesn't remember raping, robbing, or murdering her because he "blacked out" but he says he regrets it?

You believe that? That means he doesn't have to supply a single detail of how the rape and murder even happened. And the DNA evidence? Trivial to link to somebody in a corrupt system. If he's going to confess he needs to provide details, like if she was sodomized, where he hit her, etc. Plus what drugs was he on? Either he could still test positive or they can hair test him.
You think your Visual Basic GUI could be used to track a killer's IP address? Because if so, that shatters my entire reality.
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Yes, it’s for your account. But as you add devices you want to back up it pretty much pushes you into a paid tier. Hence the fuming. That will be $1000 plus another $5 per month.
I wish all comment threads started with a summary. Thanks!
'Free' is a bit misleading: not opensource. Still good news that Windows got the codec.
I agree HN is very addictive, maybe the most of all social media. but why ?
Probably not. There's hardly ever a push to get staff members trained in ways like this for a myriad of reasons, some of which are sound. The irony being, the next week an admin could be phished or have their account compromised in the same manner. There just seems to be this acceptance that, much like the view of the current public education system, it's not worth the investment to improve.
> It looks like variance is increasing as distance increases.

Given the topic, how would it not?
The argument is here [http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html]:
This format is to Unix what CSV (comma-separated value) format is under Microsoft Windows and elsewhere outside the Unix world. CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.

In fact, the Microsoft version of CSV is a textbook example of how not to design a textual file format. Its problems begin with the case in which the separator character (in this case, a comma) is found inside a field. The Unix way would be to simply escape the separator with a backslash, and have a double escape represent a literal backslash. This design gives us a single special case (the escape character) to check for when parsing the file, and only a single action when the escape is found (treat the following character as a literal). The latter conveniently not only handles the separator character, but gives us a way to handle the escape character and newlines for free. CSV, on the other hand, encloses the entire field in double quotes if it contains the separator. If the field contains double quotes, it must also be enclosed in double quotes, and the individual double quotes in the field must themselves be repeated twice to indicate that they don't end the field.

The bad results of proliferating special cases are twofold. First, the complexity of the parser (and its vulnerability to bugs) is increased. Second, because the format rules are complex and underspecified, different implementations diverge in their handling of edge cases. Sometimes continuation lines are supported, by starting the last field of the line with an unterminated double quote — but only in some products! Microsoft has incompatible versions of CSV files between its own applications, and in some cases between different versions of the same application (Excel being the obvious example here).
This article and all the comments here are really making these kids out to be heroic geniuses. Maybe, just maybe, they knew they were breaking some pretty serious rules. Because, you know, while not exactly geniuses, they weren't idiots either.