skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, right. I applied the "just reinstall" method many more times to Linux than to Windows because frankly, Linux is much more fragile and likes to break in absurd ways. Things got better over the last decade - there's still something broken on every single Linux install I have or had in that decade, but usually those things are non-critical and tolerable. E.g. on my current Linux desktop the GPU has randomly broken shaders, nmcli doesn't show any networks beyond the one connected to (unlike in the past), and every other restart, X randomly crashes within 2 minutes of startup, but only once. At least it's nothing like the "let's randomly overwrite MBR with a broken bootloader on install", or "today ALSA won't work", or "today your USB modem won't work" stuff I remember from my teenage years, so there's progress.
They could just randomly skip some numbers. That would maintain the XXX to YYY advantage.
Interesting, thanks. How do you automatically revert a setup script though? Can you just not have setup scripts with dnf?
There was, of course, PHP's notorious Hebrew error message T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM:

https://yvoloshin.github.io/php/2018/01/20/why-does-php-spea...
again, only in the aggregate/ entity of measurement level.

I would argue anyone who says otherwise is either being disingenuous or doesn't actually understand economics.

That is not to say that is not trotted out frequently.

Also, to be fair, during my economics education they had this whole focus on modeling policies and finding optimizations where no one is worse off.

Of course, in the real world, that practically never happens... and there is an argument that the focus on efficient/competitive markets/ equilibria/rational agents is also a bit "wouldn't it be nice if the world was actually like this...", whereas in the real world only the most trivial goods/markets can vaguely be described as such...
Yeah,and that's the point I was trying to make about right now. But at some point we'll find ourselves in the position of having created general intelligence. Be it smarter than us or not. In the case of this model, it "could accurately simulate how the universe would look if certain parameters were tweaked [...] even though the model had never received any training data where those parameters varied."

This means that it somehow was able to figure something specific out based on data that had nothing to do with it. Whether by accident or because there's a correlation that we haven't yet figured out, this model was able to understand it. And that's amazing and scary at the same time.
What are the constraint matrix dimensions and density of the matrix, objective and right hand sides? Can you email me at mb@primaldual.io ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen

This man wanted to stay in the United States, was kicked out for fear of national security, and later kickstarted the Chinese space program.

I realize immigration policies are complicated and obviously political, but the US seems to be going about it in a pretty stupid manner.
I use https://ns.reddit.com along with Firefox's Redirector add-on to make sure that I always stay on that domain... not sure how much longer it will stay around though
Show HN: Hgscn2 – Load static sites over webtorrent via a data URI
It's not like it's hard to see either, there's routinely news of Chinese scientists and engineers caught with some kind of industrial secret stolen from their employer trying to go back to China in a hurry. Every time it's mentioned people on HN react like some grand conspiracy theory was unveiled while it takes 15 seconds on google to find examples like:

https://www.biospace.com/article/-jc1n-second-scientist-plea...

or

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/ex-coca-col...

it's pervasive and it's stupid to think it will stop on its own. China has been at war with us for quite a while, we just failed to recognize it because it is convenient for many not to do so, but we should behave accordingly.

Edit: since my comment was called "inflammatory and nationalistic" I'm going to add a link to a book that explains the war ongoing between China and the US, from an author that's very much not either of those things:

https://www.amazon.com/Cool-War-United-States-Competition/dp...
They escaped the Soviet army
> And because of digital rights management—the mechanism by which platforms retain control over the digital goods they sell—you have no recourse

I feel this is actually the relevant point - and just a sign of the things to come.

What's done with systems like DRM - but what is also directly integrated into many new products - is the ability of a producer to essentially keep full control over a product throughtout its whole lifetime - in particular, even after it was sold.

You can see this trend in a lot of different areas: IoT, connected cars, game consoles and games that must always have an internet connection, subscription-only software, etc.

I believe, consumer protections are not even remotely compared to this kind of model.
Many of those German scientists involved in the rocket program came as refugee (voluntary or not) after the war, not very related to the exodus of Jewish scientists during and before the war.

A significant part of America’s tech industry was built by Chinese scientists who escaped Mao’s China. There was one is who was stupidly forced to go back during the red scare who restarted the PRC’s rocket/missile program during the Sino Soviet split.
You could implement ext4 on the nt kernel and have wsl1 run on it
Does anyone know how Americans are treated in China?
That's a lot of effort when you just. Need. To. Send. An. Email...
Actually, the minimal Hello world example in Svelte is 2.7 kB even before gzip. It's really awesome and I already used it in one production app, the results were pretty amazing performance wise.
I don't know about pros, but I do that. Sometimes you don't want to waste time figuring it out, and you were thinking about upgrading or switching distros anyway.
>The big tech companies all tend to have excellent security teams, each of which have particular strengths. Google's obviously includes low-level vulnerability research and browser security. Apple's includes hardware security and cryptography. I would be surprised if they "missed out on a half dozen important security features".

>In particular it's "signing with apple on the web" that they've analysed, which is open for anyone to analyze using the developer tools in a browser etc.

Why is it I am getting the idea Apple just aren't very good with the web. I am reading it as Sign In with Apple ID is secure on the devices, iOS and App, but not when used on the web.
I mean:

> While in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, Larry Wall and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it. They would then use this new writing system to translate various texts into the language, among them the Bible.

And Perl was explicitly designed with a slant towards natural-language traits. Wall has said that he didn't know as much about creating programming languages, and that this likely affected Perl. So he might've written about the linguistic aspects instead.

> Wall's training as a linguist is apparent in his books, interviews, and lectures. He often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale. He also often uses linguistic terms for Perl language constructs, so instead of traditional terms such as "variable", "function", and "accessor" he sometimes says "noun", "verb", and "topicalizer".
Kolme's comment is a very good reason, as someone who picked a non-standard frontend language I'll add my 2 cetns. I'm working on a project that went from javascript to reasonML when we felt the lack of a really strong type system was making managing the complexity of our app (which is unusually complicated) unmanageable.

When I was evaluating Elm it was my favorite choice out of all the various strongly typed flavors of javascript, clean syntax, good abstractions, and very strong runtime guarantees. The thing that made us reject it, and will keep me from recommending it to others, was the change made, I believe in version 0.15 which, as I understand it, restricted FFIs so that only core maintainers could write them. I know several companies have frozen their version of Elm due to the change.

Particularly when working with external packages written in JS, not having an escape hatch is a huge vulnerability. We've already hit one instance since using Reason where if we could not drop down into pure JS we would have had to either rewrite one of our main dependencies or at least hard-fork it and re-write substantial portions of the application, a multi-month (maybe multi-year) slowdown that would have killed the project.

At this point I would not recommend Elm to anyone who is not willing to rewrite any pure javascript module they might want to use (this may fit the bill at some very large corporations).
It might also be interesting to read the today's articles in Wikipedia's news magazine The Signpost.

Did Fram harass other editors?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Gmail is certainly not faster then Reddit for me... too much javascript
All the robots were the same AI and it effectively killed off humanity because it thought that we were not good enough. When a machine starts killing us off because of dubious and intrinsically evil and selfish reasons, then I can't think it's benevolent.
Yea, maybe they have helped but I don't think they are doing as much as they could do for the planet. I wish they would do more so their products are as close to 100% recyclable as possible. Their relenting push towards upgrades for-profit can't be good for the planet.
It doesn't work for cycling. A couple of reasons why...

People pulling out of side streets have to either merge into the first lane of traffic, or cross that lane and merge into the second (generally). If you have cyclists coming against the flow of traffic at sometimes 20mph, that driver now has to cross 2 lanes of traffic, and always at least one.

Car drivers rarely give cyclists space (in the US) as it is when traveling the same direction. How unnerving would that experience be when what was a 10/15/20 mph difference in passing speed effectively doubles (and then some)?
It's a mistake to focus on the particular issue like this. Trading away long-term process to get one short-term result is a bad trade. It doesn't much matter how bad Fram was; the particular issue that started the matter is mostly irrelevant in the face of the breaking of process. Don't get blinded by the short-term issue. Don't make short-termist trades. Fram is an object-level, short-term issue; the WMF is a process-level, long-term one.
I get the feeling Bloomberg just lets anyone post there....it feels like medium sometimes.
Lenovo ThinkPads at least up to the --30 generation are very repairable/user-serviceable, more so than HPs.

And, unfortunately, at least for certain purposes, X230s/T430s are the most recent reasonable laptops anyway: after that it's currently impossible to replace any of the Intel/AMD firmware with something inspectable.
LIGO seems to have been quiet for a few weeks
People definitely unnoticeably adjust their diet to their exercise level.

It's apparent when they stop doing exercise and they gain ton of weight until they adjust their diet again. Usually that requires concious effort.

My buddy seen that when he quit judo.
MIPCL (http://www.mipcl-cpp.appspot.com/) is a very fast and free (as beer, but not open source) solver for (Mixed-)Integer Linear Programs ((M)ILPs).

EDIT: In Hans Mittelman's benchmark of MILP solvers (http://plato.asu.edu/bench.html), MIPCL is very performant: http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/milp.html
While it's possible that there's room for improvement, it makes sense that parsing a subset of JS (JSON) is faster than parsing JS. JSON is just so much simpler.
Shameless self plug - I cleaned up my take on a very similar idea a bit today after seeing this post: https://github.com/allanlw/hgscn2

Basically, it uses a data URI and Webtorrent for a similar concept.
Unfortunately the article is somewhat unclear about how it's using the words "round-the-world" and "flight".

I assume he didn't follow a great circle, so what is the minimum path length needed for a flight to be round-the-world?

> In Thailand, he even crashed into a lake.

So it wasn't a "flight"? More like a successive series of flights.
You kind of hand-waved 70 years of economic history/decisions. How does “US jobs decline” match with an historically low unemployment rate?
Philosophy- Links- 5-2019
Yep, VBA had localized keywords. The standard functions still were named in English though, so the weirdness didn't even buy significant localization.

Almost 20 years ago I wrote some Excel macros on an even then ancient Windows 3.1 computer with German Excel. I tried for Hungarian notation (as I said, almost 20 years ago) and used d for date. So the end date of some range was dEnde. D is also the first letter of Datei, which is German for file. So when I brought the Document to the boss's newer computer the program got translated but all the variables still had German names except for dEnde, which turned into EOF.
I can't imagine programming with ESL and having to deal with code where some english speaker thought they were super clever and named various classes and variables after things that are super referential or punny. I see a lot of classes at my current job named after 80s TV shows or inside jokes. Maybe having ESL would make that type of thing easier to deal with actually since it drives me up the wall.
Y not touch the sparse matrix of that system?
Interesting article, though I think it incorrectly leaves
the reader thinking that there is some interesting
informating hidden in the average spacing of the numbers.
In fact, all you need to know is that maximum observation
and the number of observations. Once you simplify the average
spacing goes away.

If M is the maximum serial number of N is the total number of
observations, using the formula in the post:

M + (avg. spacing) = M + M / N - 1 = (N + 1) / N * M

To me that gives a more clear picture of what the unbiased
estimator is doing: inflate the maximum value by a factor that
limits towards one as the sample size grows.
None of those links work. Do you mind reposting ones that do below?

It seems that you copy pasted the links from a different comment, but since HN will automatically shorten long links when presenting them, the links you copied end up cut off.
This is a good point, actually. I'm still not sure it works, though - at the lower bounds of visual resolution, are capitals easier to distinguish than cursive letters? Because otherwise, any size capital can be compared to an equivalent box cursive, and I think the capital would be less legible. Perhaps the typically smaller eyes of cursive letters would swing the pendulum the other way, with smeary ink? I think with simply low resolution, cursive would always win out.
> why an app like this would only support sign in with Google.

To be fair, they developed an iOS app first and there currently lacks Android support. The Google Sign-in could just be a matter of prioritization and it's easier to implement this boilerplate at Google.
Your part on history is just wrong.

> It certainly definitely contributed to Germany losing the war

There were no jewish nazi scientists in significant numbers after Wannsee? Like, what do you learn in school?
It's explained somewhat in the article:

We’ve also had a combination of tax and regulatory policy that has encouraged capital formation and increasing returns to capital, so labor’s share of returns has decreased.

To add to that, capital is exponentially more portable than labor. With globalization, capital in the form of investments can move wherever it needs to to grow, it's borderless. Labor however, in order to grow wealth has to physically move. Remote jobs for basic labor doesn't exist - that's almost exclusively knowledge work.

So if you're a coal miner, your ability to create wealth is extremely limited to certain physical places. If you're a remote Java dev, you can code from anywhere and grow wealth much easier, but there is a serious time cost to switching work. If you're an investor and just need to drop money into an account, not only can you do it from anywhere, you can move things around more or less immediately with little (relative) cost.

It's about portability of the thing that is growing the wealth. Labor = slow, Capital = fast.
I worked a job where the web filter blocked the majority of blogging platforms as "social media."
Apple is the only mobile device company I know of that has a recycling program, and builds hardware free of most common pollutants / toxic substances; they’ve built machinery specifically to disassemble their phones.

If the other top two vendors would just achieve the same, we’d be in a much more comfortable position.
But there are indications of corruption within WMF, capriciousness of the T&S team, and no evidence against Fram was given.
The effect you're talking about is not instant. If you get a lot of asylum seekers in a short time your GDP/capita will take a hit until they've been integrated into society and become a net positive.
> Programming uses the same words as regular English, but it is a completely different linguistic register, so there is never any conflict.

That's debatable. It's impossible for me to say "if" in any context without thinking about programming now. I can't help it.
I think they should count energy savings associated with health benefits of riding normal bike. Hospitalisations use ton of single use items that bound to have some energy cost.
Garbage in, garbage out.

While Enrons happen, a fundamental aspect of Western-style accounting is legally-mandated transparency (at least to someone, somewhere).

Without a standards-based legal system, what's to stop anyone from cooking the books?

And if every ledger is a lie to some degree, then aggregating those just produces bigger lies. Until you're finally left with the "unable to calculate [...] with any level of certainty" answers to a host of important economic questions.

Sounds familiar from the 1980s...
It is broken, it relies on pumping tonnes of co2 into the atmosphere, so there does clearly need to be a fix. Should the fix be nuclear or something else? That's the question.

Nuclear is expensive, slow to build, but worst of all, it doesn't have the political support. Personally I'm not against nuclear, you get someone to build it then I'll support it, but I don't want to spend time talking other people round to the idea when we could and should be doing something now.
Trump tariffs may triple price of olive oil by next month
> This sort of of statement is one I made back in the lates 90s and early 00s. As an absolute statement it was wrong and still is wrong, and I think the enthusiast tech community's adoption of it has done a huge amount of harm.

It's absolutely a correct statement from a user perspective.
The idea that Koch is investing all his money in politics for the sake of making more money is a silly affectation. He's poured way more into the conservative/libertarian movement than he ever expects to get back.

He genuinely believes in his principles. Obviously they align with self interest in lots of ways, but he'd be materially better off if he took a much less active role in shaping conservative ideology.
Risk of Misplaced Arguments in Java
Details are missing, but straight quote from the article:

> These changes have not come about because of globalization or outsourcing.
False, I recommend Ha-Joon Chang's writing on this subject. The US did not develop in a climate of trade openness, it used tariffs to protect its development. In fact no developed economy developed this way, all of them protected their industry until it was mature and ready to compete, had their governments invest in research and infrastructure and so on. If you have an example of a country that successfully developed through export led development and trade openness I would love to hear it.
> The problem with strict democracy is that everyone ultimately votes to give themselves a raise.

The homeless deserve a raise (aka being housed). It's not a problem when a system fights to help the average man and those that are worse off. It's a problem when the system is only helping those that are already rich.
They work well... until they don't. Anyone from Eastern Europe over the age of about 40 can tell you about it.

Like anything else redistribution falls on it's face if you go too crazy with it.
FWIW `DynamicForward` turns on a SOCKS5 proxy, so a dedicated Firefox profile[0] that has its proxy set to the dynamic forward port will be able to browse as if running on the remote machine. I believe remote DNS resolution, works, too. It still could clash ports if you have the same DynamicForward port for multiple ssh configs, but it can drastically reduce the number of port-collisions

0 = you are of course welcome to try running Chrome with `--proxy-server` et al, but I find Firefox a ton easier to use in that situation
Fram isn't a short term issue. There are countless arsehole editors who get away with being insufferable arseholes because they make many edits and because the admins turn a blind eye, and this has been happening for very many years.

The inability of ANI and arbcom to do anything is the long running issue. They had their chance, they fucked it up, it's entirely unsurprising that WMF is enforcing the most basic wikipedia conventions.
Tutorials:

Install: https://gnunet.org/en/install.html

In a Nutshell usage (wip): https://gnunet.org/en/use.html
A plethora of problems plaguing democratic countries (not just the U.S.) stem from money having too much influence over politics, which was a problem for democracy even in ancient Greece.

You might happen to agree with Soros and Koch on this particular issue, but how about all the other times they've bought influence with money to serve their own interests? If rich people using their money to influence the government has been a problem in the past, perhaps it's not something we should be celebrating now even if this particular case seems less disgusting than is typical.

I will save my applause the oligarch who puts his fortune and power to the task of reducing his own influence over government and thereby strengthening democracy.
Classes named for inside jokes are an example of horrible programming practices which should never get past code review
https://www.biospace.com/article/-jc1n-second-scientist-plea...

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/ex-coca-col...
They're often rooted in the lack of emotional tools us men are given to process anger. We are raised to be "strong" and talking about your feelings is seen as weak. So things bottle up until they explode, often in the direction of domestic partners because they are closest. Particularly in situations out of our control... it's even been shown in studies that reports of domestic violence increase when a local sports team loses a game.

By comparison the violence that happens when a person gets mugged is wrapped up in the act of the mugging. Rarely is anyone doing it for fun, they're doing it because they need money. Being convicted for a crime you didn't commit has nothing to do with violence at all. And men being sent off to war... well, I'll spare the pages long post about nation states, but the point is that the cause of that isn't meaningfully similar to that of domestic violence.
Some thoughts on running successful teams at Google