skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds terrible for short indie games and good for long grindy games.

Short and long are terms that make sense for games that have a natural start and end. Not every game has that story-likeness, so even a simple game that can keep people's attention (or get a lot of little slices) could do well.
quoting myself, emphasis added:

>... the ocean is full of salt, how many half-lives until corrosion prevents containment?

quoting you:

>They have not corroded away and released wholesale nuclear waste after many decades. If that's not relevant to your line of inquiry then I must be totally misunderstanding you.

You don't misunderstand me, you purpousely misinterpret my questions so you can give easy answers...
If you're a uMatrix fan, just open up the tool in your favorite browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc) and see what cost you pay for that Reddit service. Hint - it ain't free. You pay in data. Reddit has a horde of remote JS embedded just waiting to read every single little thing you do on the platform

(Not saying Apple also isn't collecting various metrics, but certainly saying that Apple isn't trying to collect every little data point and sell to advertisers, like Reddit. Disclaimer - I <3 reddit)
This article is both extremely insightful, and overly pedantic.

If you are not aware of how floating point value work, this is an excellent illustration of that, and you should spend some time learning about the risks and edge cases associated with working with them.

At the same time, enabling floating point exceptions on your platform is probably the most pragmatic way of dealing with these issues. until you are in a domain where this level of effort is an investment, over-engineering modules that use floating points is a waste of time.
arent they? or who cares about "company" making internet videoconferencing - technology already DONE at least 15 years ago. all companies today only worsen actual performance and completely destroy user experience.
I might replace my FT sub with this. Only one datapoint though. But I’ll sub day 1.
> Apple News: This service will combine stories from newspapers, websites, and magazines into a new tab in the Apple News app on iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

I still don’t understand how this is any different from what’s happening in the Apple News app right now, other than it will cost $10 per month starting on Monday and is now free. Also, the Texture app requires that you _download_ issues of magazines, whereas magazines on Apple News are currently instantaneous.
The solutions proposed by the Seattle City Council are to aid and abet addictive habits, and to pursue 'more of the same' for every policy that put things where they are today. No amount of tax money they would receive would fix the problem, because they have shown they cannot spend it competently.
I see you do not know about JRPGs :-P.
Kind of an old article, here is a link to an article written around the same time that was updated last summer.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fish-oil-friend-or-foe-2...
What are the differences between Dvc and Pachyderm.io, which I should have mentioned earlier?
Paradoxical Problems: When Hard Work Doesn’t Work
In California, you must have a special license to do almost any business, but be a landlord. You need a license to do people nail's (nail technician). And in some cases, there a special taxes applied to that industry (like legal cannabis).

Landlording needs this (not nail techs). Keep up your certification, provide quality living conditions, and pay extra tax to offset the housing problem.

Furthermore, we should have non-profit, non-governmental institutions running low-income housing, not slum lords.
That should be automated. Look at the way Bitcoin nodes find peers. (Which has nothing to do with the blockchain.) There are a few well known nodes, but they mostly redirect new nodes to other nodes.
Among other factors, disease:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/medieval-diseases...
> The problem is figuring out what to do about the homeless people who refuse to accept shelter and other forms of government assistance.

Does San Francisco have shelter beds that are sitting empty? We just don't have that problem yet. The people refusing shelter are refusing to throw away all of their remaining possessions for the promise of a few nights inside and then getting kicked out.
Anecdote of one: I have all three as well. As the days go by, I find myself questioning if Netflix is still worth it as I'm not necessarily a big fan of a lot of their original content and think HBO seems to do a better job in licensing the movies I'm interested in (to say nothing of their amazing original content). I think at this point I only keep Netflix around out of habit as it's something I share with family and will myself occasionally indulge in some older licensed TV programs not on Hulu.
'It's not a big deal to kill a man': Norwegian black metal's murderous past
Don't forget that most people aren't on HN and Reddit.

Pricetags aren't for do-able vs. not. They're for convenience.

Many people can't and won't learn to use Reddit and dig into the comments section on their iPad (their only daily conduit to the internet).
We should not hide the problem, and we also should not elevate it to 'a valid lifestyle'. Surely we can try to find other options between those two.
This brings back memories from my childhood when my father would spend his weekends drinking Michelob, gnawing on a massive stick of pepperoni, and watching sports on television.

Boxing, bowling, and several other sports that were mainstream then and available all the time on free, normal, mainstream TV that are only niche online or pay cable things now.
That sounds surprising. How would you fake trades if blockchain is by definition public? Can't people see the amount of actual bitcoin going to and from exchange's bitcoin addresses?
I had the hardest time parsing the title. For a moment I thought it was talking about a new company, from apple, specialized in digital transformation or similar (“Reinvention as a Service”)
probably the same is true for the stock market because of the HFT
Saying it’s underfunded makes assumptions around how likely we are to find a solution. If hypothetically spending 1 trillion dollars gives us a 1 in 1 Billion chance of finding a cure then that’s simply not worth it.

Further spending more money does not give linear increases in value. Bumping up from around 2 bullion a year sounds great from a budget standpoint, but do we have another 8 Billion dollars worth of promising research to do next year and people able to carry that out? We are already ramping up funding rapidly, but there are only so many specialists out there.
> Could the very same not be claimed about nearly all other non white ethnic groups?

No. To be sure, people of (all) color have been systematically discriminated against in the U.S., but none other than Africans have been subjected to centuries of legal enslavement. All other ethnic groups came voluntarily, and could leave if they wanted to. Blacks couldn't. That makes a big difference. Also, no other ethnic group has ever been the target of legalized discrimination on the scale of Jim Crow. The treatment of blacks has been uniquely horrific in the U.S.
> The people refusing shelter are refusing to throw away all of their remaining possessions for the promise of a few nights inside and then getting kicked out.

That's true for some. But there are many who would not accept a guaranteed permanent shelter bed because they prefer the freedom of living on their own. If you won't accept the reality of that, you'll never solve the problem.
Probably Facebook, but I'm not entirely sure, since they didn't start with GraphQL but rather created it along the way
100%! There are on-chain scaling projects in the works though.
The attitude towards streaming and the whole video on demand idea 10-15 years ago reminds me so much on the attitude towards electric vehicles today:

- Quality is too low

- speed is too slow

- many people want to own their movie, not just rent it

- people don’t want to watch movies on a computer

- the large studios and cable companies will never allow it

And within little more than a decade that all changed.
Spotify is in a much worse competitive position than Netflix. Nothing separates Spotify from Apple Music. Any competitor can license music from all of the music providers. There is no reason for most people to keep both Spotify and Apple Music.

Netflix has spent years negotiating TV rights to third party content and releasing its own. Apple has a long way to go.
That produces an unavoidable special case when the number of elements in the list is a prime number.
You know how there are expensive chairs that look really nice, but which don't provide any benefits over a regular chair? Same idea.

You don't buy a mechanical watch for maximal timekeeping utility. You buy it because you appreciate it as a form of art.
Data science is squishy to begin with -- those wanting high performance are heading to fixed-point hardware-accelerated solutions where loss-of-precision is a given, so not having a fully accurate answer with high-precision floating-point along many steps to solving the problem doesn't seem like a big deal.
> What would be a good system to determine a fair amount

Maybe something more like other content services - ensure there are multiple competitive fixed-rate game services that take risks and auction/bid on getting a specific game for a season at a time. It could include both an upfront payment and a performance payment.
> Well, this is a discussion forum.

Absolutely. While I do mind your opinion, I don't mind you giving your opinion.

> The "if you don't like it, move along" argument is fine in general

There is actually a lot of issues that I would have people take a firm stance against more often, instead of just letting it slide. This just happens to not be one of them.
Exact rules depend on the state.

In NY a typical eviction process takes about half a year.
Show HN: Doctest: Fastest C++ Testing Framework v2.3 is out With XML reporter
React Sandpack
For problem (b), this is the standard case for inverse problems, which are almost always ill-posed / ill-conditioned. There is now a vast literature on this subject, including many algorithms for solving them robustly.

"...incorrectly posed problems were considered ‘taboo’ for generations of mathematicians, until comparatively recently
it became clear that there are a number of quite meaningful problems, the so-called ‘inverse problems,’ which are nearly always unstable with respect to fluctuations of input data."
— H. Allison, Inverse Unstable Problems and Some of Their Applications (1979)
Computer viruses are about to converge with the biological ones.
Perhaps I'm overly critical, but I find most paywalled journalism (let alone non-paywalled) to be low-quality. I had a subscription to The Information, and while I initially found their journalism to be high-quality, I eventually realized this perception was strongly shaped by my experience of pervasive low-quality journalism elsewhere. I cancelled my subscription because while The Information was better than pretty much anything else, it still didn't seem high-quality (more moderate-quality).

Is there anything that surpasses the quality of The Economist in this environment?*

*(not that The Economist is clearly non-relatively high-quality)
Business Failure Modes
Ask HN: Which uses less battery, a native app or one more Chrome tab?
Whenever I want to open Discord, Slack, Notion, Spotify, etc. I struggle to choose between either (1) opening the native app or (2) opening as another Chrome tab. In the interest of extending battery life, which option is better?
If, in the Soviet Union, people had to live in tents while working, most sensible people would blame the economic system in place.

Yet in capitalist America...?
Huh, I dont know where you are, but here in the States I got my iPhone through 0% financing (amortized over 2 years) program that allows you to get a new phone every year and comes bundled with AppleCare+
If Apple's going to be a services company now, wouldn't it be great if they kept themselves honest (and their products great) by honoring a level playing field for the services they compete with e.g. Spotify? Imagine if services like iCloud, Pages and Mail were comparable to or better than the existing product landscape? Apple's been holding themselves to too low a standard for too long. Maps was a wakeup call for them, it'd be cool if they lit a fire like that across the board for their products.
I get the impression some people see criminalization and housing the homeless in jails as more than just hiding the problem.
Similar to retrocomputing, mechanical watches can be a fun hobby, and there is an active and relatively big community dedicated to modding and finding rare vintage watches. Here are a few videos that may spark your interest:

Building A Vostok Wristwatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-JMoUoMtXo

How does a mechanical movement work?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYM4PpiTcEA

9S Movement Manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0hR9jagpSM
When Microsoft breaks the built-in VPN client going from 1803 to 1809 (which has caused me a lot of downtime and troubleshooting), it makes me pause and consider if it'll break again with another update. So I've been considering other options.

Microsoft isn't known for its stability; especially lately.
Unemployment rate has only been a part of the factor, and the U3 number is a VERY VERY bad indicator or economic health which is the number the news reports

U6 is much more comprehensive but even it has its limits, you have to contrast it with Workforce Participation numbers which is still at a Decade low number though it on on the rise

2009 (peak of economic rescission and unemployment BTW): 65.7% of people where in the workforce

2018: 62.7% of people where in the workforce

U6 Unemployment sits at almost 7.3% where U3 is 3.8%
I think that’s the key to this thing’s success. There’s no way enough people are going to pay $120 per year for newspaper/magazine articles to make it worthwhile for publishers or for users.
It definitely was the coolest emulator when it was released.
> The issue with federated services is that they operate from the assumption that everyone has an anarchist sysadmin in their friend group who is going to help everyone run the federated infrastructure.

I'm not sure this is a real problem. Email is federated, scales to approximately everyone, and there is no shortage of email providers that all interoperate with each other.

How to fund it when no one you know wants to operate it personally is also no great mystery. Either the server provider puts ads on it, or the users pay for the service. And the individual users can decide which of the various options they prefer but can still interact with everybody who makes a different choice.
> Any competitor can license music from all of the music providers. There is no reason for most people to keep both Spotify and Apple Music.

Android is 81% of the US market.

Unless Apple Music comes to android, I don't see Spotify being threatened.
Access to paywalled content for a single fee.
So rent seeking is brilliant?
Don't leave us hanging - did it have a negative or positive effect on the outcome?
Sounds fitting, since a lot of the blame here goes to germany who, despite big surpluses, did not invest in the south the way the chinese do
Unfortunately, with the combination of the electoral college, gerrymandering, the concentration of more liberL voters in cities, and each state regardless of population having 2 senators, even if the majority of the population doesn’t want these policies, they are drowned out.
> The US has lots of room for lowering expectations and standards without moving to "shanty town" standards. For starters, we tend to expect a really large amount of space per person.

We tend to expect a bed for nearly every person too! Many people around the world share a single bed in a single room with no complaints.
I would blame are current economic system, which is pretty damn far from Free market Capitalism as over the last 80 or so years we have instituted a wide range of socialist inspired programs and regulations that have largely stopped and in some cases rescinded the gains against poverty that a actual free market system brings.

if you look at any economic data you will see Poverty rates where Plummeting until the "War on poverty" began and the government started trying to "solve" the problem.

Government: If you think society has problems, wait until you see our solutions
The iPhone upgrade Programme which I presume is what you are referring to are not popular outside US, and Apple barely advertise about it. ( Which is why I said push in the original sentence ) And it is only available in selected countries and under some condition.
I wonder if it's about low-income or there are other factors like neighborhood crime rate, education level or the amount of garbage on the streets.

I understand all these correlate with income level, but it would be extremely interesting to see statistics controlled by income.
I wonder if you could make separate 'zip/unzip' stations to compress/decompress them with histone proteins, like the body does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone
Very pithy, Leon. What made you think to write this?

P.s. When you slightly tweak MIT code you need to include the copyright and notice in your license, or ask the copyright holder to switch to 0BSD.
Anthrax was also guest starring in Married With Children
For the probably simplest solution to the given problem if summing doubles there is a hardware in every x86 CPU which allows the biggest number during the computation to be 1.18e4932 (using 80 bits internally, 15 from that for the exponent, vs. only 11 in the 64-bit double). By just activating it the sum can be done very fast, and no need for any modification: first sum, then divide, convert to double at the end.

You should not use SSE for that however, but the old x87 "FPU" instructions.
Ah, I see what's going on here. Please review the HN guidelines.

I-131 has an 8-day half-life and is the primary threat to populations in large early releases. The direct answer to your question for I-131 is at least 2,000 half-lives. Sr-90 and Cs-137 have 30-year half lives, so for them it's at least 2. As you surely know, the longer half-life nuclides release energy more slowly and are therefore less dangerous to biological systems. At the extreme, U-238 has a few billion year half-life and can be handled safely without shielding.

In the scenario I'm painting, the reactor would be recovered from the sea within ~5 years so none of this matters. The corrosion will not fail the system within those 5 years. I do not propose to just leave any failed reactor down there indefinitely.
Business idea I got from grant cardone event
These "presentations" are very vague. What crimes, specifically, do they try to prevent or prosecute?

Why victims are not complaining about these crimes?
Zenodo?
Sorry, I should’ve been more clear: when I said “precision” I meant any of several things related to floating point arithmetic including, but not limited to: actual numerical precision of operations, non-associativity of operations, overflows (which affects the latter case as well), etc. (Which is why I mention dynamic range in the GP.)

The point is that there is an “unwritten contract” between the user and the library: if we want any kind of performance, then we have to promise that the inputs are “well behaved” (in a very specific sense that varies from algorithm to algorithm). The user knows this and so does the developer, because otherwise most algorithms will spend most of the actual compute time converting problems to “fully general forms” that work on every input, but are hundreds if not thousands of times slower than the original.[0]

The point is that most people want “mean” to be fast, and a simple implementation of mean will work on almost every case, without needing to resort to arbitrary precision fractional arithmetic. The claim I make above is that the latter thing is almost never what people need, because if they did then almost every numerical algorithm is doomed from the start, whenever they perform operations that are more complex than “take the mean.” Now, if they really need this to be done for the huge numbers given (or whatever the case is), then there are libraries that will do this at a huge cost in performance. (But, if they really did need it—for example, when a problem cannot be rewritten in a simple way that would work with the available implementations—my bet is that this user would know).

Also apologies for mistakes, I’m currently on my phone walking to a meeting.

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[0] that isn’t to say that if you can write a fast and general version, that you shouldn’t! Just that it usually incurs some overhead that is often unacceptable (see, e.g. using arbitrary precision fractions for Gaussian elimination).
In 1930 5.9% of all Americans where living in NYC. The importance of cities has seen minimal changes, the issue is we stopped building enough housing and transportation infrastructure.

Many US issues come from where we place the borders of our local governments. Local was more meaningful before the car, but with increased mobility that’s no longer the case.
Consider them threatened. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
If Apple's going to be a services company now, wouldn't it be great if they kept themselves honest (and their products great) by honoring a level playing field for the services they compete with e.g. Spotify?

I think this sentence speaks for itself. Apple's record on whether they will discourage competitors on their own turf speaks for itself.

Maps was a wakeup call for them, it'd be cool if they lit a fire like that across the board for their products.

True, but the tendency is for people and companies to push it out of their minds as an "aberration" and refuse to learn a thing.
Calculating (a+b)/2 isn't even entirely trivial for integers - the trivial implementation overflows on large numbers, as one may find out when doing a binary search over a 4GB array.
> scientific data primarily at a larger scale (100 GB to petabytes)

Buying hard discs (100TB for a few 10kEUR a few years ago) is a real investion in our institute. As far as I understood, with distributed storages each participant volunteers to share his disc to store his (and other) data. Here's the devil's advocate: Why should I share my expensively bought disc space with you?
The biggest challenge I've seen with using decentralized systems today is with on-boarding the average user into them. As @woah mentions, the process isn't straightforward and even remotely close to signing for a facebook or ig account. I think there are a few problems that'll need to be solved before all this is actually usable.

(There's definitely a parallel here with the AOL and CompuServes of the world vs the open web, but not quite)

- It almost feels like that for a variety of decentralized protocols to take root, someone will have to build a browser-equivalent (or perhaps an extension to an existing one) that allows the normal user to partake of these new systems in one place. That means, a chrome or firefox style system that supports IPFS, but also offers tools for ActivityPub and SSB and whatnot - in the same way netscape navigator used to be bundled with a news reader, a web browser and an email client.

- The next challenge is to get the average user to use this on the mobile and then the desktop. That's a problem best solved by modeling this as an app - and there needs to be a reason for the average user to use this. The words "killer app" come to mind, but honestly, even if there was something slightly more useful that current services provide that built on top of this - it would be helpful. I'd download this new "chrome" on my phone and use it. Is there something out there that people think can be that?

- Lastly, we'll need to democratize information and app creation for this browser.