skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in any random sample of numbers

To be more precise:

> Benford's law tends to apply most accurately to data that span several orders of magnitude. As a rule of thumb, the more orders of magnitude that the data evenly covers, the more accurately Benford's law applies. For instance, one can expect that Benford's law would apply to a list of numbers representing the populations of UK settlements. But if a "settlement" is defined as a village with population between 300 and 999, then Benford's law will not apply

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Explanations
I read an older articles that German compaanies were seeking access to Bolivian lithium deposits. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-bolivia-lithium/g...
I work on yt, and I just wanted to comment to say that whenever I stumble on a mention of it somewhere, I genuinely feel warm inside. Thank you for thinking of us!

One of the things we've tried to do -- especially by leveraging the technology and innovations in the tools we build on (especially matplotlib!) -- is to make it easier to make visualizations and plots that are "by-default" communicative and information-rich.

And, of course we have lots of room for improvement, for picking up and encouraging "best practices" at the library level, but it has been really enjoyable and illuminating to have the opportunity to explore that with the community.
Every time n hits a power of 10, not n!.

E.g. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Table%5B%5Bfrac%28log1...

In general for b << 10^k, we have fracPart[log10((10^k + b)!)] ≈ fracPart[log10((10^k)!) + b(b+1)/(2 log(10) 10^k)]. So it takes sqrt(2 log(10) 10^k) steps for these factorial values to work their way around the unit interval. Increase k and you fill it arbitrarily finely.

Edit: ^^^ To be clear, the approximation there is formed using the linear approximation log(1 + b/10^k) ≈ b/10^k, and basic log multiplication/addition/division formulas.
Yes, unless many of those other restaurants also discriminate in the same way (which can be treated as an exclusionary cartel).

Keep in mind that our modern anti-discrimination laws were passed at a time where that was demonstrably the case. And I'm not at all sure that it wouldn't also be the case if the anti-discrimination laws were repealed today. My point, rather, is that the purpose of those laws, and really any laws, should be prevention of harm, not a moral statement. If and when we get to the point where discrimination on some basis becomes so marginal that there's no measurable harm from it, it should no longer be illegal. But not until then.
Lightning is not censorable as participants in a payment channel route cannot know the sender nor receiver of a payment. It's similar to tor relays.
So no more wholesalers? No more commission for sales reps selling through partners?
Yes and no.

There are times I want perfect quiet and isolation.

I also don't think I'd want to live with my partner in shared accommodations.

This would be perfect for "single life" or long-term boarding away from home.
People say they get addicted to porn, what does science have to do with what they say?
I think pip can select the version automatically as long as you provide the right metadata with the package. Shouldn't matter much really.

Maybe write in the README that the package is only tested on 3.7 and above so users can be aware of that and check. Bet they struggle to figure out what version to upgrade to as well.
> If ridesharing is so bad then govt should invest in proper public transport to create more choice

This is an excellent idea, and is consistent with also taxing any societally borne externalities caused by ride-sharing, the primary being congestion. And taxis should be held to the same regulatory standard.
I don't think Swift's success is gated by Apple execs. If it's a tool developers value and the ecosystem brings it to other platforms, it will succeed there. Swift is just a programming language.
Society is a victim if there is a drug overdose and society has to pay for the cleanup.
In the US, each rural driver has two senators.
> Got any standardized methods that could be automated/scripted

I'm sorry, I wish I did! Interest in hardware performance is only a relatively recent interest of mine. I especially think the IDE tests would be a bit challenging as I'm not even sure how to instrument or measure those. I might reach out to the Intellij folks to see if they have any ideas..

> under a clean Windows environment

Ah, shucks. I haven't touched Windows in years :). That's the tricky thing: according to Stack Overflow's surveys, only about half of software developers use Windows. The other half are split evenly between Mac and Linux. Covering all three platforms would likely be a challenge.

> Give me a shout

Thanks! I'll do some research, and if I have something more concrete I'll be sure to pass it along.
The papers all stress that wind farms are considerably better than fossil fuels no matter what, so 'accelerate' is maybe not the best way to put it. I propose 'influence'.

However, the consequences from each technology should still be debatable, and are an interesting question in itself I think. The problems start when questions become political - what are the implications? In the hard sciences we usually don't concern ourselves with that unless we have to, but when discussing sensitive research topics in public one has to be more careful since many people tend to deduce intentions where there were none. (I need to remind myself frequently.) I think your post fell victim to that.
On my iPhone 7 at least, the rear camera seems to have an IR filter but the front one does not (or perhaps it has a filter but is less effective). So I can still test remotes in 'selfie' mode.
Inspirato keeps spamming me on Instagram with this exact ad. $2500 / mo, any of their hotels across the world. No idea if this is some glorified time-share.
Yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526982
Interesting,

but of dubious merit when presented with the Guy Fawkes' mask, especially in today's online battlegrounds.
If you have a negative utilitarian moral outlook, it follows that if some beings will suffer by existing and its not possible to know which beings they are in advance, then bringing any beings into existence willfully is morally wrong. I am not a negative utilitarian myself, but the position is not selfish, crazy, or based on personal unhappiness: people who themselves are very happy can be negative utilitarians. If those happy negative utilitarians see unhappy people in the world, they can then come to the conclusion that they should be antinatalists, even if they are themselves happy.

By the way, asking people "why don't you kill yourself" is not very nice. Even if you disagree with someone's moral philosophy, jumping to "why don't you kill yourself" isn't going to win anybody over or garner you any understanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism
None of your statements are correct.

1) Intel has per-core frequency and voltage control. To the extent that AVX-512 inhibits higher clock speeds that effect is local to the core or cores on which AVX-512 is active, and only those cores.

2) Not all AVX-512 instructions have this effect. `vpermb` for example does not.

3) Some other AVX instructions that are not AVX-512 have this effect. Also anything else that makes a core hot has this effect.

4) Most importantly, Cannon Lake microarch and later don't have this effect.
Many countries have already set up addiction centers for gaming. It’s no surprise, anything that releases dopamine can be addictive.
Eh, I would be wary of that definition, even though I am totally in support of platforms not being allowed to get rid of content that isn't illegal. There should be way more nuance than what your definition provides.

For example, if I host a very popular forum for discussing cars that somehow manages to exceed 1% of the population of the country it is offered in, I feel like I would be totally justified to remove posts that have nothing to do with cars and talk about completely off-topic stuff like videogames or politics.
We-work'd boarding house.
I think this would actually undermine their market. People dont want a revolving door of out of towners, they want to build community with people who stay >1Month at a time.
On Linux, 'less' can probably get you owned (2014)
What's wild west about it? What needs to be regulated exactly vs having people drive their own cars?
A Simple Differentiable Programming Language
Spoken like someone who has never had a cat. Cat's do not only eat meat, anyone who's had one knows this, and it's apparently important for their health (see https://www.petmd.com/cat/wellness/evr_ct_eating_grass for example). Evolution is slightly more complicated than you understand.
Oldie but Goodie: CPU Steal Time on AWS EC2
Hostels seem to fit the bill: cheap, worldwide, and willing to accept you for long-term travel
"New bugs for old! New bugs for old!"

(With apologies to to Aladdin.)
Over half of Fortune 500 exposed to remote access hacking
Germany already has the highest power prices in Europe. How much higher can this really go?
That’s what I was guessing. I’d bet most of the people who don’t like the current (I guess now, the old) arrow key arrangement also have a 15”.

It’s honestly not something that I ever really noticed with a 13”.
I stopped at 2000 dollars a month, this seems insane? I’d love the concept for like maybe 5 or 600 a month
> Socialist nations who have transitioned smoothly from capitalism have done so very successfully (take Norway).

Do you have a source for that? I'm pretty certain Norway (and other Scandinavian countries) are not socialist and more of a social democracy, where they simply provide a large social safety net through heavy taxation.

I believe they still very much are in favor of a free market economy.
Is there a right to travel without a driver's license in the united states?
Why deep neural networks work (explained with paint and pianos)
What if all the businesses were MLM?

What if MLM schemes were also designed to re-distribute rewards so all the wealth wouldn't concentrate in the the top members' pockets?
Why shouldn’t the principals of a company that willfully harms so many people’s lives receive a criminal punishment on par with what someone who murders a single person gets?
Taxis got away with it because there was no competition until ridesharing came around. They wouldn't have provided good service on their own when protected by laws.

Nothing has improved commercial services like competition. Nothing has ruined it like regulation. I've yet to hear how any of these externalities are solved with regulation, or how they are unique to ridesharing vs private car ownership.
you could mandate that you can only move locations every 6 months, unless you pay double rent or something. it could work.
It isn't like sociology...you either haven't studied economics or sociology.

And I would agree generally but I think your reasoning is wrong. Economics of itself dictates no outcome. This is an argument that sociologists often make (i.e. the person uses the tool but the tool also uses the person) but, ironically, this is an example of trying to universalise a principle of sociology to an area where it doesn't really apply. Why? Because if you want to value any end...just build a model that does so.

And btw, arguments generally about the function of a society are politics. You will find this kind of thing taught in politics, not economics. Economists can have a view on them but you have to use politics to demonstrate that any goal of society is better than any other...which is inherently subjective anyway. Ironically, the main people who complain about economics having an orthodoxy about the function of society generally have fairly rigid ideas on this topic already.
I use ff exclusively on android and pc/linux. I found 1pass to be inferior on android, but I also use lineageos so maybe that had something to do with it. I dunno, it might be worth another go but lastpass seems to be good enough for me. Even though it does have bugs, as long as I can get the passwords when I need it it's not a big deal for me. The big deal is making sure all forms capture and update passwords as needed, and lastpass seemed to be far better when I was messing with it.
No, I'm still on topic. I did not realize that Hacker News would rate limit for that long, so I had assumed your comments were just being flagged or killed.
Not a bad idea (unless you flash your own firmware, since then you'd want to be able to rtsp to them), though I am still fairly skeptical the cams could intercept much on the network that wasn't encrypted, and that their tiny SOCs have the horsepower to do much of that...
It’s somewhat a risk, Apple is trying to Sherlock password management.
I wonder how these kinds of trends will impact bitcoin and crypto. May be this is good for crypto currencies.
> Why don't you kill yourself.

It's important to note that the anti-natalist position isn't the same thing as pro suicide.

It isn't even a suggested solution to the problem.

This also isn't a depression issue. You can be happy (define this however you want) and hold the position that it is preferable to not exist.

Once life starts however, it is probably a better option to let it run it's course. The anti-natalist position is just that never existing doesn't have any downsides.

For example, how were your first 13.7 billion years?
Age of Empires 4 – Official Gameplay Trailer
HSBC in Mexico.
Social media banning ads is like a printed newspaper banning ads. The dollar and some you pay for a copy is for the production of the paper and delivery only. What pays for the journalists, the research and all are the ads. Why would they remove the ads? [1]

Unfortunately the newspaper industry didn't have much of a say since advertisers found a more lucrative venue online. Now they are shutting down.

But social media companies have a say. You can't tweet anywhere else but on twitter. You can't post a rehashed picture with a motivational quote, and gain thousands of likes, anywhere else but on the facebook networks.

Social media is not a public utility. I think they should have all their ads.

My suggestion is to follow the less dramatic path of teaching people how to use the internet. I am serious. Most people don't even know they are on the internet when they are on their phone.

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/we-never-paid-for-journalism
> He argued -- or quoted people who argued this -- that it's likely human intelligence arose as a side-effect from the brain structures needed for an upright stance.

As stated this doesn't pass the smell test because a long list of animals are able to "stand" and walk upright (cats, primates, bears, what have you...) if they so chose. Not to mention kangaroos, birds (who are also capable of things like flight with generally much smaller brains), etc.

On top of that we have taught neural nets to control a humanoid body doing plenty of things, even parkour, but we didn't manage to teach them human levels of intelligence yet. Even non-neural-network solutions do pretty well here with just old-school algorithms.

Walking upright really seems like something you don't need "much of a brain" for. You don't even need to teach a monkey to do it.
Alexander Graham Bell's 1880 paper on photoacoustic effect
Keepass, been using it for 10 years. Just a password manager, just works well. No fear of being locked in.
The congestion would be the same if people just drove on their own. You can see this in Los Angeles and New York. The answer to getting cars off the street (whether private or shared) is to build other options that people can use.

Taxis are cars too by the way. How did all those taxi regulations improve externalities?
Amazon Protesting Pentagon’s $10B JEDI Contract
Been there, done that, never going back to communal living again. I don't have a 4 bedroom house either, but I do have my own house that is the right size for me.
What are some Python 2 features that make it hard to transpile to Python 3 automatically?
Like some sort of WeWork (WeLive?) type of arrangement?
I find it much easier to reason about my async Python code when the async yield points are explicit. If every line can potentially yield to another async task, I find myself thinking long and hard about a lot of those lines.
The freedom of press in the 1st amendment refers to the printing press and the owners of those presses didn't want to be restricted on what they could print or be forced to print things they disagreed with.

It was not, in any way, intended to refer to "journalists", a group whose only defining characteristic appears to be employment by a certain group of private companies.
Articles are a poor source. The drivers wouldn't be driving if they weren't making any money. I've taken thousands of rides and discussed Uber with about 90% of my drivers. While they all would like to make more money (who wouldn't?), they all make a profit and enjoy the flexibility the most.
The key inflection point was around Python 3.3 when enough bridging technologies and tools came along to either migrate code or else write code that supported both languages. Things like adding the u'string' syntax to Python 2, the creation of six.py, all the various features in the future package. That gave a much smoother transition path and enabled crucial libraries to work in Python 3, which then let everyone else migrate too.
U can have more people over in your house when you want and rest of the time you can have quite time. Once you go in communal space you don’t have a choice.
Halftone magazine printing? Check.

Videocasettes? Check.

Internet? Check.

Thank heaven for prurient smut, driver of all great technology. Without it we would still be in the stone age.
There are some crap Taxi's in Tokyo, but on average they're amazing. I'm sure there is still regulation and taxes they need to pay in Japan too.

It's not just because they're Taxis they suck. There is also bad Uber drivers too.
That’s why TurboTax is 90% fancy loading bars breaking up work that takes milliseconds in total.
would probably work a lot better if you filled the void space with any kind of goop.

You probably had very little metal-chip contact.

Even toothpaste works well, until it dries out.
Someone posted here on the photoacoustic effect a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454851) and the link above is a cool old paper I discovered down that Internet rabbit hole...
And if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.

Actually, a Co-op seems like the answer to your second question. Profits are shared among members in proportion to their activity.
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I have had a lot of trouble mocking my AWS calls. I’m going to give flight recording a try because I am already basically doing that in my mocks, but manually. It’s painful.
Makes sense in a military context especially - GPS can be jammed.
I wonder how well it would work to super glue a set of bolts to the cpu.
Also a good way to detect hidden surveillance cameras at night.
Well that was his second line. They are working on a project to get the rent down to $800. Only if you would not have stopped:)
IPI is the Cato institute of Illinois. Consistent track record of putting conservative talking points above facts.
would you be willing to port my 796,113 line program for two hours of pay at $45.00/ hour? Because if so it would be a bargain to hire you. Last time I tried to plan the conversion by looking over the codebase it took me two days of concerted effort to just come to the conclusion that it wasn't worth the effort.
This idea is about 20 years old already: VICEX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitium_Global_Fund
Instagram influencer gets 4 years in prison for illegal cosmetic procedures
Explaining U.S. healthcare costs in about a million charts
Tho I'll give this one a try too, I've been using Orgzly a fair bit and am mostly happy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly

I haven't been able to find much else that supports org mode, except for emacs... which seems ridiculous, as a non-emacs-user. What is it that makes this one of the apparently-most-loved features, but so incredibly poorly supported externally?
That statement reflects your own feelings not the state of society or anyone else.
What do you mean that the ads aren't commercial?
1.8% is significantly below the targets those policies are pursuing. So printing money doesn't seem to be producing any (desired) increased inflation.
>"... is a private company and it is their right to refuse service to anyone"

>"Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences"

>"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope_fallacy"

Nothing is out of the order.
Now it makes sense! Thanks for the clarification. :-)
Boarding houses, driving a taxi in your spare time, renting out spare rooms for extra cash, odd jobs.

Except this time with apps. Yay.
Nobody is saying use one tool for everything. In fact the argument is why not use PG until you grow out of it (most people won’t).

Agree on devops. Of course.

There’s still the security surface area argument and the overall complexity argument—complexity of the system of systems is NOT reduced by adding technologies.

By way of analogy, using military aircraft, take the F35 vs. the A-10. The F35 is insanely more complex than the nearly indestructible A10 in large part due to the massive number of subsystems, software, sensors, etc. Sure the F35 way more capable (this is NOT a head to head argument about the military capabilities or said aircraft) than the A10, but it also has orders of magnitude more failure modes. More parts. More complexity. More opportunities for failure. This is engineering fact.
Interesting that the tag line is "world's best". I feel as though they usually go with something more quantitative like "fastest" or "most powerful", etc. "Best" obviously being completely subjective.
Serious question: how does a guy like this actually get into a business like this? If I walked into YC suggesting to build dorms, I'm sure I'd be laughed out. What's the differentiator for Jon? The only distinction I can see is that he grew up in a commune.

I do see the potential of the idea. The next obvious step is to bundle it with office space. You could give a discount for every employee you move into the dorm below the office. It's easy to imagine a building with shops on the first floor, dorms in the middle, and offices at the top. You could live on a budget, never have to leave the building for work or food, have 0 commute, and some sense of community.

I think there's going to be a rising demographic of people that don't want to work and are willing to sacrifice having kids for an early retirement. This would be an excellent choice. I could have graduated college, put in a decade in a dorm above a software factory, have minimal expenses, and retire by 30-something.
I haven't personally toyed with either, but I've seen these used with increasing frequency.

https://commento.io/

https://utteranc.es/
Amazon protests Pentagon’s cloud contract award, citing ‘unmistakable bias’
Pretty sure every bank in the United States is subject to federal regulations.
Charisma and connections help.
Rremove the case of shame! Attach the case, of triumph!
I thought the reason was because Py2 was still getting new features too for some time. I’ve only just started learning And using Python so it isn’t my world.
Yep - they cut down some trees in my vicinity to make room for billboards.