skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sincere question here - was it really that lucky? Other colonies that didn't separate seem to have a similar (occasionally even higher) standard of living than the US.

Were a lot of really good things caused by the independence of the US? Just off hand, it seems like slavery likely would have ended much sooner and the rise of fascism in Europe could have been greatly abated with a non-independent US. Of course, it's impossible to know what would have been, but it makes me wonder.
> their own survey indicates that only <1% of users are on Linux

This is interesting to me because I spend 99.5% of my time on Linux (even for most of my gaming), but I still boot into a different OS when I want to use Steam, so I don't show up on the stat sheet. I wish I did. Two reasons I do this:

1. The Steam installation is kind of messy on my OS (Arch Linux). It involves a big client that doesn't integrate into the OS very well, requires a lot of 32 bit compatibility libraries that I wouldn't otherwise need, and leaves a bunch of large data files all over my home folder.

2. It simply feels weird and uncomfortable to run closed-source DRM-including software on Linux. I can't explain it any better than that, because it really is just a mental "purity" thing. I'd rather completely separate the "foreign" software that I have this instinctive distrust for onto a separate system entirely, where I already don't trust the OS.

I'm still grateful to Valve for the support, because it encourages developers to get their software to run on Linux, even if most of the games I play are DRM-free binaries purchased from the developer.
> it still stuns me that in 2019, middle school and high school tackle football are not seen as child-abuse.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-10-29
This is a classic osm way of handling something though. They make every smallest disagreement into a giant dramatic deal that needs to be fought to the death. It’s a toxic community that drives out people unwilling to deal with the crap, and that’s a large part of why splits like this happen. No one wants to be on the tagging mailing list because it’s probably full of opinionated curmudgeons just like the rest of the osm mailing lists, and now those same curmudgeons are pissed about being left out of tagging decisions. They’re pushing people away and then complaining when their opinions are no longer centered in the conversation.

Disclaimer: I used to be involved in the mapping space (including osm and Mapbox) and have moved on, despite my love of the work.
Because doctors are spoiled children. Were rolling out keyfobs for 2FA for our e-prescribe solution, but I'm keeping the fobs because I KNOW the docs will forget them/lose them. Docs only get soft-tokens on their phones because they never forget their phones.
Where Is The Edge? https://semiengineering.com/where-is-the-edge/
anyone who says they work with ‘AI’ must be in sales
Is this over the public internet? If so...then wtf??!!
I mean, you have all sorts of scans happening in any responsive internet facing machine. You should also be performing similar scans against your own IP addresses.

The way they describe it,it appears to be strictly recon, by all means..DHS and NSA should be scanning any IP address they want just like any security researcher or company would (e.g.:shodan,shadowsserver).
Yeah take challenging classes that open your mind but you should fully appreciate that the job will have you use only a subset of what you learn. For example, I don't work in video games, but I took some computer graphics classes and it was amazing to learn how rendering and ray tracing work. Same for hardware. Even though I'm doing web dev, I've had hobby hardware projects I've worked on and enjoy tinkering with circuits every so often.

What employers do care about is that you worked on something challenging, you're able to overcome adversity to ship something, and you're eager to learn more.
I’m not sure if this is the same person but it sounds about right. The cowboy-pilot whose ranch he landed on died about 20 years later in a plane crash:

https://oklahoman.com/article/2151107/cowboy-hall-figure-die...
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The Blogger Behind “AI Weirdness” Thinks Today's AI Is Dumb and Dangerous
Also, you already can play Steam games via in-home streaming on your TV or Android phone.

There is also a program that lets a remote player connect and play with your local computer. This way, you can play couch multi player games via the internet together.

Also, there was a reveal regarding steam gaming cloud recently:
https://youtu.be/GqY5WYBDyyQ
"You are currently dying in the fire" Would be humanity is extinct. Mass death and wars don't mean humanity is doomed.
Citation needed. France was both powerful and generous, name a potential ally that could have provided anywhere near the level of support.
You're a bit behind. That API has been out for almost a year now:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/scripting-api-now-pu...

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bedrock_Edition_beta_scripti...
>> In which countries are law officers accountable for their crimes? I can't name any.

Basically none, if you mean as a rule. There are exceptions of course in all countries, including the United States, but by and large, officers are above the law.

Yet the answer is rarely "less government / oversight" when it comes to these issues. It's just a race to get their preferred candidate into office who will wield the expanding power in a more efficient and effective manner, of course.
If he did it, it certainly wasn't the way they said he did it. Their evidence was very convenient. They tied her to his bed, stabbed and raped her, but her DNA isn't in the house. They then take her to the garage and there's just a single shell casing with her DNA. This is all done by two low IQ individuals, yet they cleaned everything perfectly. I call bullshit.
Did it not get better with FF 70 for you? They switched the rendering to use a better API on MacOS: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
For people who, like me, thought that this would be slower than repeated division: my crappy benchmark indicates that allocating a new string and taking its length is faster by a factor of 2–2.5x.

Edit: In C, the version that loops is 15 times faster than the version that allocates a new string. Python is weird.
> The only thing Solar cannot compete well with are fossil fuels

So, that's sort of the point of fusion. It's clean energy with no need for storage.
I think there is quite a bit going on now in cognitive psychology as it pertains to education of children. I hear more and more references to mindset and grit.
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I also remember when Frick was kicked out of the country for having unionists murdered and flooding Johnstown. Oh wait...
You would have discovered something amazing if your model worked. From the results on GitHub it’s not clear it does. 90% on mnist does not mean your model works. Please try harder and report better results, then we will be motivated to look into your discovery deeper.
> They drove drunk, cheated on time cards, brutalized family members, even killed others with their recklessness on the road. But thanks to some of the weakest laws in the country for punishing police misconduct, the Golden State does nothing to stop these officers from enforcing the law.

Honestly I dont like the American enthusiasm for restricting employment of criminals that have served their time. If someone had a DUI or cheated on time cards in their past I have no problem with them being a cop. Brutalizing family members sounds more serious but I'd like to find out more before judging someone on a brief description.
I’ve heard that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be beneficial for some people with brain injuries, as well as omega-3 supplementation.
There's nothing wrong with having effective tools to protect life. If people know you have an irrational fear of some object, they just wont tell you. I live in Tucson, we have _plenty_ of guns, but in general, we carry them conceiled. There's no pemission slip. Weapons are the ultimate form of equality, they prevent the strong from ruling the weak. Places where only the criminals are armed are totally different.
Agreed, Linux gaming has finally gotten to the point where it's actually pretty good, largely thanks to Valve's efforts. I'm grateful to them for that.

I do also worry that it'll eventually stop, but right now, with the competition essentially actively discouraging native Linux ports (EGS exclusives with no support for Linux downloads)... well, I'll take whatever I can get with open arms.
That is exactly the reason large cities self-insure.
Because (to be 100% Frank) nobody wants to pay to fix it, they just want the problem away from them and out of sight.
Between not paying fines and not paying fines, of course people are going to choose to not pay fines.
To me it feels weird to use binaries from outside the repos, period. On Windows double clicking an exe file feels natural. On Linux "chmod +x something && ./something" is icky.
For you perhaps, not for me.

Are we just making up meanings for words on the fly now?

It would be rather ironic if I was being downvoted for a lack of hate.
There have been notable Tesla fatalities on "long boring roads". The software has a long way to go..
It's been a while, but when I was entry level the only employer I encountered who cared about GPA was Google. Have times changed?
>If allowing a particular person to visit means several others will refrain from visiting, is it then a good idea to permit that? That's a value judgement for the organizers to make.

That's part of it, but it's also a value judgment for everyone else to make.

In many cases, the rest of us in society care enough about how those decisions are made that we've passed laws prohibiting businesses from rejecting customers for certain reasons.

For example, if your market research shows that allowing Jews into your event results in lower overall attendance, because too many of the other potential attendees are anti-Semites who refuse to go to an event that allows Jews, you still don't get to ban them. We've established that making those opportunities equally available to all religions, ethnicities, genders, races, etc. is more important than maximizing profit. Even when that discrimination isn't illegal, it's often frowned upon by the culture.

And one reason for that is that we distinguish between the business deciding you can't visit them, and you deciding you can't visit them. We expect businesses to be inclusive, even if that means more people choose to exclude themselves -- because this way, the people who are excluded at least get a choice.

>And if you think they made the wrong decision, feel free to tell them so or even to boycott it yourself, giving them a reason to consider other potential solutions.

I've got no reason to attend a Kubernetes conference anyway, but I have the same interest as any other member of society in ensuring that people get treated fairly.
I like top posting. My experience has been that snippet-and-reply sometimes leads to an argumentative and confrontational style of discussion, perhaps more than top posting.

My theory is that snippet and reply may lead to taking quotes out of context and replying with an uncharitable interpretation of the snippet.

So while top posting may be less logical and efficient, I believe it may be more conducive to a friendly discussion.

Of course I could be completely mistaken about this, and it was just a coincidence that the communities I was involved in where top posting was heavily criticized had cranky people in them who would have found something to get upset about regardless of posting style.

Edit: I don't mean to imply that you are one of those cranky people just because you like bottom posting or snippet and reply! :-) Just observing something I noticed in online forums many years ago.
Why are cops getting special privilege that normal citizens aren't? I'm not a fan of the criminal justice and reform system either. But police should be held to a higher standard, not lower one.
Obviously, if you put all data into one table, it's not a complex query. (But then you also just reinvented document databases with its own set of problems.)

Even having them in several tables is not rocket science, OP was just trying to give an easy example of types of queries that are easier with datomic than with sql.
> 71. The ad-driven profit model is a necessary but reasonable trade-off to make the world a better place.

I was glad to read that amongst the rest.
Genetics and evolutionary ecology falls into the category of "layers of abstraction." Mechanisms for up and down-regulation, self-catalysis, epigenetic.

You're convoluting the simplicity of each step of an experiment with the level of complexity of the field itself. Memorization is a crucial component, but if you believe that's all there then you are severely underestimating the study of life. It would be like claiming that since CS can be boiled down to 0's and 1's that it is therefore a simple field of study.
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I've never been paid to speak, but I have had event organizers and/or my employer cover my expenses. For example, I got a "free" trip to Europe for speaking at a conference once.
I've also seen plenty of cops flash their lights on the highway when traffic is slow just so they can get to lunch or wherever the hell faster, and then immediately turn the lights back off when they can go back to doing 80 in a 55 without people in front of them. If that isn't a casual and blatant abuse of power I don't know what is.

We'd like to think most cops are "people who want to stop crime, the good guys!" but it often seems to just be people that get off on the power-trip. Even then, what crime are they trying to stop by camping behind trees to meet their ticket quotas for speeders when I can't even remember the last time I've seen a cop go the speed limit themselves?

But to quote someone else that also has far more power than they should: "some, I assume, are good people"--this does not mean that there is no cause for serious concern with the operations of the "thin blue line".
B) is my choice and I have made peace with it. Generally speaking, the HN crowd vastly overstates how important any one person's data is and/or vastly overestimates the ability to get out of this future anyway.
A public safety rationale would be about cops service weapons. The parent post sounds like he means individual cops can buy guns on the open market as private citizens would be allowed to do in states with looser gun laws.
You're welcome! This stuff is way outside my area of expertise, but I'm obviously curious what the heck is going on. Glad to see this discussion here on HN.
def digitlength(n):
digits = 1
while (n > 9):
digits += 1
n /= 10
return digits

Also may want to set n = abs(n) in the beginning, in case n is negative.
Is there an easy adjustment to the algorithm parameters to make things better?

Wanikani does an amazing job at SRS. I wish Anki followed its model.
You say that but while there's a few good games but not that many and if you talk to anyone that games on Linux I guaranty you that we all own all those games.
As best I recall (it seems it's not easy to find sources now) the biggest problem was with player-killing and griefing. The devs left player-character interactions relatively unrestricted in the expectation that social order would be (largely) maintained by the in-character actions of the PCs. Similar things had worked in text-based MUDs of the time. When they naturally got a Hobbesian bloodbath instead (classic MUDs have many more hours of active games-mastering per player than any MMO) they began the retreat that led to the fake-roleplaying, theme-park experience familiar from World of Warcraft etc.
The problem statement said that the input would be natural numbers.
I've never once thought to myself "I'd really love to perform some neurosurgery, if only it weren't illegal!" The reason people don't perform neurosurgery is because people don't have a need to perform neurosurgery - why think of the consequences of something you never think about in the first place?
From the article:

> One salvo in Richey’s battle against newcomers was his property tax proposal, which he called Proposition Zero One Two Three. His basic tenet: The longer you live here, the less you pay. Sixty-year residents would pay no property taxes, while newcomers would shoulder the burden.

Amusing that the anti-Californian candidate here basically wants to introduce California's Prop 13 property tax rules which have done so much to discourage housing development and drive young people out of California.
> On one side are well-paid union members, many of them third- and fourth-generation dockworkers.

Which highlights one of the dirtier parts of the history of union jobs: the rampant nepotism and exclusionary culture it develops in local communities. Valuing who you know in a community over your merits as a worker. It had a long history of being used to keep black workers out of white jobs: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30030646 and the note about workers taking "2hr lunch breaks" is unsurprising in such a culture.
that just means the language isn't being understood, in a very basic and very dangerous way.

you don't need to check the call tree. without `finally`, it is not "always", period. we can debate at length about if that leads to desirable outcomes or not, but the behavior is unambiguous.
The whole point of Apple is that they take full responsibility for the goodness of their products and they don't pass the buck. So when they outsource something and it goes wrong Apple has to own that failure and fix it.
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Oh, cloudflare is amazing. A few really great things it does: free(ish) bandwidth, ddos protection, cdn caching, configurable page rules to apply all sorts of things such as granular caching, workers including a key/value store database, to run code inside 150 points of presence all around the world... Plus it does dns and ssl like you already have.

They do a bunch of other amazing things as well, but those are a few favorite features off the top of my head. Definitely check them out!
It's being reported that people with equal or better credit scores are getting lower limits.
Amphetamines (or basically crystal meth) is becoming super popular in China. I've heard a bunch of stories from the news and anecdotes from people living there. Something something evil capitalist drug-of-choice.

But ultimately that sort of thing is more destructive than helpful. Missing valuable hours of sleep and the (well recorded) low ROI of working long hours is extremely overrated in its utility to society. Which has been a particular problem in asian work cultures where working yourself to death is cheered on. While actual output of those hours and big-picture returns of employing someone over a long period of time, where outside-of-work things like family and health really does matter, is often ignored.
He does and that is currently the law in CA. Police officers can buy any handgun with any magazine capacity they like as personal property.
I guess there's a corollary to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect here. If the media thinks Woz is an expert on Apple, what does that mean about all their other "experts"?
There are two main versions of Minecraft.

Minecraft (formerly known as bedrock) which is the C++ edition and runs and plays across Windows 10, Android, iOS, and Xbox.

Minecraft Java Edition (formerly known as minecraft) which as the name implies runs on Java and can play between Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Feature sets of the game are VERY close now (and get closer each release) with the major difference between them now mainly being in how redstone works. Java has redstone bugs that have since become so relied on they are considered features, the C++ version doesn't have them. Someone picking up minecraft for the very first time wouldn't feel they were missing anything using C++ version.
What about len(str('12345'))
If your teaching python you may as well take advantage of the standard library
> The author may have have conflated the terms, but most people’s primary (and often only) exposure to the internet is via a web browser.

I don't think this is true. Email is probably the most notable exception, but also social apps like Instagram and TikTok that are used primarily or exclusively as native apps. Chat apps (WhatsApp/iMessage/Slack/IRC/etc) are usually accessed outside of a web browser. Dropbox syncs files over the Internet between my computers, but I rarely if ever visit their website.

Obviously most of these things are accessible on the web, and you often have to use the web to set them up. But the day-to-day experiences of using them happen entirely outside of a web browser.
That some of them are in fact experts and others aren't.
I honestly think it is the novelty of suddenly not having fines rather than the actual not having of fines. IMHO (most) people don’t not return books when they’re a day or a week late because of fines.

Ultimately, I believe it’s too early to draw any conclusions beyond observing the number of books returned for now. It will certainly be interesting to see where the steady state will wind up, though.

(I’m a CPL member.)
> "who can learn knew things as needed"

Not worth mentioning but just in case you wanted to fix it and have missed it.
I'm not a security expert, but it would seem to make sense, to have the password reset 2fa come to an account that your phone isn't attached to.
Thank you: had not known of this.
I have been toying with the idea to store programming projects in a single sqlite3 database butt never seen enough value to actually pursue it.

As you mentioned though, it's interesting to think about.
Conway's law holds true beyond the scale it was intended for. The things people create mimic the structure of the society that creates them.

In an oligarchic world with centralized power structures where few have power over the many, we make a system with centralized power structures where few parts have power over many.

The internet won't be democratic and decentralized until the world is.
Uhh, "is California too conservative?" is a rhetorical question I thought I'd never hear. Democrats have supermajorities in state politics and all the major cities are dominated by Democrats.

I think a problem will always develop at some point when a state becomes "too conservative" or "too liberal". Truly, the tug of war of ideas between the two is essential for good compromises to be worked out and to avoid the excesses of either ideology.

That's an unpopular opinion these days but I think it's the reason for the United States success.
0. The same costs of when I attended it at 17.
Public federal university in Brazil.

PS: Of course it’s not exactly free as everyone pays taxes. Just following the premise in the article.
The end of the cookie as we know it
Maybe FAANG cares about GPA, but I haven't had it listed since I was applying for internships.

Not a single person has ever asked for it.
If you read the article, you will see that this solution was covered at the end.
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"pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps" is not, and has never been, a real thing.
What were you able to make easier to use?
> My theory is that snippet and reply may lead to taking quotes out of context and replying with an uncharitable interpretation of the snippet.

Whenever you start to see multiple quote snippets appear in an HN (or any forum) comment thread, it's basically guaranteed to have died and splintered into a bunch of uncharitable nit picks.

It encourages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop.