skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar story here: drove up I5 from Portland to Seattle to Leavenworth and back to Portland. Traveling Fri through Sun. No lines.
Not sure if I'm missing some kind of pop reference here, but taking this comment at face value... how are cocaine or opium considered "spices"?

Surely spices are for, well, spicing food?

I'm not sure if you've ever tasted cocaine or opium, but I'm told they are not at all pleasant - definitely not the kind of thing you'd add to food to improve flavour.
Yeah, this is something I plan on playing with a bunch leading up to the alpha launch, potentially making this configurable.
> They have too many other things to care about.

If they really had total control, having too many other things to care about wouldn't be a problem. After all, they'd totally control those other things as well. But that "task force team from the central agencies" probably has its hands full securing the little control they have.

Given that they do not have total control, things like combating robocalls and phonescams need to be handled by more mundane countermeasures, like adding bureaucratic requirements to the phone number registration process.
Isn't virtue signalling just a modern trendy name for what the ancients called sanctimony?

Accusations of hypocrisy or virtue signaling are a distraction, a way to shout down another without addressing the substance of what they've said. To me, the important thing is to judge whether something is good or not. If it is good, that goodness is independent of the person saying it's good, and it does not cease to be good if the person urging it upon others doesn't really practice it (hypocricy) or is sanctimonious about applying it.

Social media is what perverts morality, by rewarding hypocrisy and sanctimony. The best thing to do with it is to not read it, not participate in it, not contribute to it.
They do not list Heirloom-mailx, which is what I use. Heirloom-mailx uses a command-line interface, uses plain text email, and does not use top posting. It also supports entering pipe commands.
The one in question in this thread is a good example. He spent his weekend with his kids.
Give Rider a go. I'm a complete convert; previous attempts were very unpleasant, but its a complete experience now, very similar feel to VS + RS, without the awful latency.
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Yeah, I wonder what it would take to get something like that going. It'd be risky for sure, but it's still interesting to consider.
Ask the COBOL guys and gals for the true answer ;)

There are accounting, balancing, laws, regulations and reconciliation issues where for the really serious stuff, you use whatever fit spec and requirements, not the other way around. Ruby's BigDecimal will be fine, if you implement the detailed specification about how to calculate each operation every step of the way, with designated precision at various steps, together with truncations along the way that may not make much sense to the developer (or anyone else, but are required to get correct numbers).

Point is, sometimes other parties need to be able to replicate the exact numbers, unrelated to any internal library or coding standards. Code using just plain integers could be easier to certify than a library dependency.

In such cases, you don't just round to make numbers prettier, but may even keep the truncated part of the equation. It's then nice to use simple stuff that are proven to work and not change over time.
I can take your point but your fake example does return very similar results in both cases, I'd be hard pressed to find a real example that acts the way you describe on DDG.
I have also recently switched to DuckDuckGo and so far I am happy with it.
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Heating it should disinfect it. Growing up, my mother would sometimes heat a needle to disinfect it before using it to pierce and drain something, like a boil.

She wanted to be a doctor at one time and delivered babies in her teens. She was quite knowledgeable about medical stuff.
I have a friend in medical school who I asked about googling/etc, and he sent me a good article. Related and way less alarmist (quote from my link, not the article)

> Enter the online world of medical references that your doctor uses instead of Google: UpToDate, DynaMed, Current, and many more. These are medically sound, evidence-based databases that tell doctors most things they need to know to be able to treat just about any patient according to the most up to date guidelines.

http://www.linacolucci.com/2016/08/the-secret-google-used-by...
The fact that international students are willing to pay 3-4x what in-state students pay, joined with the reality that the cost of college has tracked at 500% of average consumer price inflation?

It definitely isn't a zero sum gain for everyone. A lot of money comes into our economy in general from international students. And in a sane environment, we would try to keep them here when they graduate.

But pretending it isn't an important component of college price inflation in a country ruled by supply and demand, and the power of the almighty dollar, doesn't make sense either.
> not everyone is in a good place for that (even youtube stars going through crazy burnout / meltdown cycles).

Then these platforms should actually punish the people attacking, not the victims. Why is it the victim's fault that people around them aren't mature enough to treat them like a human being? Why is it their fault that they're being attacked for being themselves? Why should they be the ones that are being punished for being different?

What TikTok is doing is literally victim-blaming, and it's not ok.
Phone users in China must have their face scanned
I suppose I have not really noticed this specific type of behavior here.

My interest in HN comes mostly from the technical and historical articles that get posted, and the often illuminating discussion threads, rather than the entrepreneurial or networking angle -- I tend to skip the business related stuff and I have never engaged with other HN'ers beyond replying to their posts (like this).

Thanks for replying. I understand better now.
Nio has implemented battery swapping in China:

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/power-shift-batte...

I don't see it catching on. It's too much logistical hassle. Battery packs can't be delivered as easily as fuel or electrons.
Even decimal floating point is a bad idea (for dealing with money) since you still can't represent a subset of rational numbers without approximation and without introducing rounding error during some calculations. It's just a different subset than what binary floating point can represent without approximation.
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In the Go example, can someone explain the difference between the first and the last case?
Thanks for the tip! This is gonna save me a lot of Cmd + Left Arrow.
Current CCS specs are lacking - a 200 Amp limit on DC charging means most EV's can only charge at ~60 kilowatts. The connector is unwieldy and large. The standard doesn't provide the ability for cars to put power into the grid (something that EV makers really want to do because then they can cash in on the lucrative reactive spinning reserve/frequency control market). The connector also doesn't have any way to measure voltage drop across the high current pins, so a bit of dirt could easily cause the whole thing to melt into a gooey mess.

I can completely see why Tesla is holding off switching specs until CCS improves or another standard comes to take its place.
I was very pleasantly surprised to run into a Supercharger station in Leavenworth while walking about.
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COBOL was created to serve the interests of the financial industry, therefore COBOL has fixed point as a first class data type.

Every programming language that has come since has been designed to be a general purpose programming language, therefore they don't include fixed point as a first class data type.

Therefore the financial industry continues to use COBOL.

Every time someone some tries to rewrite some crusty COBOL thing in the language de jure, they'll inevitably fuck up the rounding somewhere. The financial industry has complicated rounding rules. Or better yet, the reference implementation is buggy and the new version is right, but since the answers are different it's not accepted.
This is all YMMV. I find DDG to be much better than Google.
That's more of an "expansion" than a "promotion" (residents are a subset of doctors)
yes?

Does it not intrigue you that people are making up fictional medicinal procedures to pass off as law?
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They’re not really delivered though, they’d be swapped and charged onsite ?
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I must have pedestrian needs; DDG hasn't ever really left me with nothing when I search.
I keep a similar list of sites where you can host plain text or hypertext or Web projects.

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This will be forgotten by the end if the day today.
100% agree with this. I switched a while ago and 98% of my searches are easily found through DDG. I use Google's search as a backup when I'm in the rare case of actually searching for something hard to find or very complex. And sometimes it's just something that can't be found or doesn't exist, even on Google. But using it as the backup is perfect.
> The real lesson is, no matter what base (radix) you use, floating point math is inexact.

This is just not true. If you add 1.5 + 4.25 with IEEE754, there is nothing inexact or rounded. That you cannot exactly represent 0.1 in base2 FP is a problem of base2, not FP.

You get inexact results with FP math for underflows, overflows, or if you don't have enough precision for the result (or an intermediate result). But the same is true for normal integer types.
Tarsnap goes as low as counting attodollars. Yes, that's 10^-18 dollars, judging by the precision with which individual line items and total account funds are reported. Storage price is 250 picodollars per byte-month.
Yeah, good points. With regards to having a praised philanthropic legacy at odds with massive wealth accumulation earlier in a career at the expense of income inequality and unfair markets - I don't see those as needing to be mutually exclusive. I personally don't see one's legacy as a singular thing, there can be good parts and bad parts (whatever one's definition of "good" and "bad" are), some worth admiring and some worth detesting. Gates has done things on both sides over the course of a career, I'm hopeful that Zuckerberg will model himself more after Gates over a similar length of time.
Privacy I assume. Or maybe politics.
Is it possible to use VIM as a text editor in the terminal with SN? Or are users required to use a text editors supported by SN? This seems like an application I'm looking for but I can't ditch my vimrc and plugins
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The period addressed by the article is ~1260 - 1520. So 1000 CE is out of scope.

Even were it:

- The typical person was illiterate Households would not be producing writing materials in any quantity.

- Animal products are expensive, period. Non-animal alternatives would be used where possible.

- For short-term writing surfaces, wood, stone, clay, and at some point (possibly later in time) slate were used. The Greeks used wax-coated boards (few of which, for obvious reasons, survived).

- Woven textiles were a significant form of recordkeeping, such as the Bayeux Tapestry (11th century).

- Notable legal documents, such as the Magna Carta, were written on parchment (animal skins).

- Other surfaces included fired pottery, birch bark, and (in east Asia) bamboo.

It's not so much that vellum was cheap, as that paper simply didn't exist before ~1000. Over the next ten centuries, processes for production and reductions in price increased not only the prevalence of paper, but the total amount of written material.

Gutenberg's press coincided with new, cheaper, papermaking processes. Even so, many of the original works printed by Gutenberg were on vellum, including about a quarter of the original Gutenberg Bible.

In all of Europe as of 1400, estimates are that there were on the order of 50,000 books. Not title, but volumes in total.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing#/media/Fil...
You know how in movies the "alien" learned the language and customs from popular media and so the story pokes fun at them for how oddly they behave (and how odd our popular media is). From this article, it seems like NLP people are essentially worried about the same thing happening.

Now I have a vision of Dan Akroyd and Steve Martin -esque computers announcing that "we are... two wild and crrrazy guys!"
I have additional config for SMTP. Added to http://xenodium.com/trying-out-mu4e-and-offlineimap

Here's the diff https://github.com/xenodium/xenodium.github.io/commit/73a27f...
Same here.

I finally took the plunge and replaced google with ddg in my browser omnibar last week.

After a couple of days I switched back after having to search on google too many times.
The headline is great:

> Once you realize most things you search for online are boring and obvious, you realize you don't really need Google in your life.

Yes! DDG really does work just as well as any other search engine for most day-to-day things, and then there's always the !g prefix. The first page of Google search results are half Amp and YouTube carousels anyway...
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I think you mean that storing money in floating point is always terrible for accounting. Not all of finance is accounting.

Imagine you work at a hedge fund, and you have a model that predicts the true value of some option. Assume the option is trading for $3.00. You do not really care if your model spits out $3.5 or $3.5000000001, you are going to buy either way. And your model probably involves a bunch of transcendental functions or maybe even non-deterministic machine learning, so it's not really meaningful to expect it to be “exact” to some decimal or even rational value.

Even more saliently, you probably don't care whether your model outputs 2.9999999 or 3.000000 or 3.000001, either, because in any of those cases the actual correct interpretation is “we’re just not sure whether to buy or not”.

I think a good first-order characterization of domains where floating point can safely be used is “when the difference between < and <= is not very meaningful” (in calculus terms: when “how meaningful is a difference of `x`” is a continuous function of `x`).
There's very little point in storing money in floats if you're not going to do arithmetic in floats; about the only use case I can think of is JavaScript and JSON APIs.
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One of the questions folks tend to ask me is some form of, "when can I expect my cellphone to contain a quantum co-processor?" That gives me an excellent opportunity to tell them everything that I know about cryogenic refrigerators (which only takes a minute).

The chips we make (speaking directly of D-Wave, but afaik this is true of all superconducting QC efforts) would cost pennies if we produced them at scale. But the surrounding machinery is extremely complex, and very expensive to manufacture -- and scale would only get you so far. My rough understanding of refrigeration is that the temperature differential strongly depends on the length of the heat exchanger. Qubits are famously sensitive to noise; and blackbody radiation gives an inescapable dependence between noise and temperature. In short, a miniaturized fridge would be necessarily hot, and therefore too noisy to perform quantum computation!

So the sad news is that, barring some major developments, we may never have miniature quantum computers. In the foreseeable future, hardware costs will be measured in millions of dollars. So even if you're a millionaire, you probably don't want to buy a quantum computer. If you work for a university, a national laboratory, or a major corporation, you might try to convince your organization to purchase a quantum computer. If you succeed in that pitch, you'd almost certainly need to share it with your colleagues over a network.

So to me, an industry insider, it feels that public access to quantum computing is almost necessarily QCaaS.
> As we see below, you may still need to write some code to convert from C types to something that is more ergonomic to use in Rust. But the marshaling ABI-wise is minimal.

Exactly, as much as I love writing Rust code, there is nothing that is more frustrating that maintaining bindings from C to Rust. Then you'd have to create another idiomatic binding on top of it. Sure bindgen is great, but Zig's cImport and Swift's ClangImporter take this further.

They both use clang modules to tackle the first part. A autogenerated idiomatic solution would be great for Rust, but sadly it doesn't exist.
I really don't get what you are complaining about here; you appear to take issue with a reference to an ancient Indian text - a verifiable fact that the text exists.

Beyond that, there is a wealth of good evidence about curcumin, the main curcuminoid in turmeric - it has been shown that curcumin has antiinflammatory effects and can reduce blood glucose levels.
Sure it did, and it's a shame to the US that it happened.

But the US did also prop up democratic regimes. Now, in contrast, China and Russia... did they ever help democracy, anywhere?