skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with your comment, but I think it could use further elaboration. This is going to sound ridiculously obvious, but obviously it isn't: most things in life are a lot more complicated than we think. Like what it means to be "excellent" or "average".

There are a lot of people who are viewed as excellent and yes, it often takes tremendous drive to get where they are (sometimes luck plays a bigger role), but how excellent are they really? Your suggestion that "they seek tremendous joy from walking that path" may work for some, but certainly not for all. A lot of the high achievers that I've known are relentlessly driven to the brink of mental or physical self-destruction. They may be proud of their success, but they don't seem to be joyful people. They may feel good when comparing themselves to someone like me, but they tend to compare themselves to people who are more successful than themselves, creating a vicious cycle of demanding higher achievment for themselves, yet never being satisfied by it. They concentrate on their careers at the expense of their families, so they have a lot of familial strife. Their spouses and children are virtual strangers. Then can't connect with them emotionally because that's a beta trait. On the other hand, I've known high achievers who are very happy, loving people. Are the former types really excellent? It depends on where we place our priorities, but as a culture (in the US), we tend to view ruthless, self-obsessed near-madmen as excellent.

What's average? Inevitably, it's someone who hasn't made a lot of money or grown high on a career ladder, or who hasn't had a large presence in helping people outside of his or her immediate social circle. In this last case, how wide does the circle have to be to elevate the person from average to excellent? Can an aide who works with disabled children in a high school be considered excellent? She's just a regular person with a below average income. But she may be inspiring because she's loving and thoughtful and thought-provoking. Her presence in the lives of her student may be the single most positive thing in their lives, but that impact is within a very small social circle. But then again, her small social circle of impact can include one person who goes on to have a tremendous impact on a large number of people. Does that now make her excellent?

Contentment with our lot seems to be one of the most underrated of human achievements and it can be well within the reach of the average person and far beyond the reach of the person of excellence.
A/UX was a choice too, with memory protection and preemptive multitasking. There was a compatibility layer to run system7 binaries too.
That project doesn’t compare GC implementations, so it’s probably not that useful here.

Also, the Swift implementation is a bit questionable if performance is a goal. That is, why not try to remove the memory management from the inner loop? Probably the first thing to try is value types instead of reference types, which are more generally preferred anyway.
Have the yellow vests achieved anything?

Not that that protests have to achieve major results. Sometimes the main thing is to get exposure so that powers that be realize there is foment that needs addressing (in a positive way, not in a crackdown way).
I think it’s because in German, sch is one consonant (like sh in English), while in Dutch, sch is a consonant cluster of s-ch, ch as in Loch Ness.
I don't need to look around, a quick Google on monarchies and GDP before your initial post would have given you the information you needed to not post it.

Eg the first link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/23/shut-...

Btw your jeering tone and determination to classify either of us as morons is unhelpful.
West Berlin was a political enclave in DDR. ~150 km from the inner German border [1]. Just outside Berlin is pretty much ex-DDR territory. At the same time Berlin does have quite a strong foreign community and high migration, lately negative for Germans and positive for other ethnic groups [2]. It is the second largest city (by population) in Europe after London with much lower living costs [3]. Also Daimler and BMW have strong presence in Berlin. Those factors may have influenced the Tesla's decision a lot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border

[2] https://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/produkte/kleines...

[3] https://teleport.org/compare/berlin-and-london/
How does that compare to SwiftNIO?

https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
What’s amazing to me from that is that the Mac had even 1/4 the selection. Clearly both the PC and Mac software markets were in very early stages.
Making relatable analogies is hard.
Average people can matter in very important ways indeed.
Comparing the Syntax and Semantics of Awk and JavaScript
Maybe the link to [1] would be more interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems
Probably eating too many sugary snacks, since I've got a bit of a sweet tooth.

I also tend to put things off a bit much. Got way too many projects I need to get around to finishing, tons of articles and videos I need to actually read/watch at some point, and a ton of things I generally want to do that I never get around to actually trying.
No, it is not pretty much assumed because most readers are not experts in the area to know about PPP; I double checked the article, there is no mention about PPP in any form: bad journalism.
It sounded like this particular family was doing ok until the wife lost her job when she was on maternity leave (wouldn’t happen if maternity leave were actually protected), so they started illegally subletting, and then they got kicked out of their illegal sublet. Yeah it’s clear they basically had no savings at that time though, other than the car.

I read the article a few hours ago but I think I remember them saying like a quarter of the kids in the Salinas public school system were homeless? I agree that in general, people should be responsible about having children. But let’s be clear: a quarter of a city’s kids being homeless is indicative of a deep systemic problem. That’s not something that we should simply accept as natural because they are poor.

Of course, the big issue which they touch on briefly is that the whole “affordable/subsidized housing” crap is not even close to reaching the scale it needs to be at to address the problem. You can’t solve a housing shortage by selling $10 for $3 to a couple thousand people.
The awk is a great tool and TAPL one of the best technical books. Besides its manual-like introductory chapters, it shows how to use Awk for data processing, generating reports from data and implementing other languages. Generally it shows how to use awk for text processing which is the area that it excels. Two interesting examples it provides are (a) a text-based relational database and (b) a make-like file updating program.
Fines are the cost of doing business, you need to do more than that to see meaningful change.
Sure it does, memory management impacts the performance of the task being achieved, writing an high-speed network driver.
Gödel’s Proof, by Nagel & Newman gives a good explanation for the semi-layman or undergrad coming across this for the first time.

Before picking up this book as an undergrad in pure maths, I still had romantic ideas about a separate platonic universe and the divine authority of mathematics to explain all human thought.

This book, along with studying the various geometries, each with a different choice of axioms not necessarily based in ‘reality’, destroyed the majority of that romance.
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> but I am confused by its claim ... without knowing the game rules.

> probably some similar hard-coding of Atari actions

Nope, no hard coding.

Consider trying to MCTS on an Atari game. You have to "learn to predict" the <next frame, action> pairs. Initially this guess is very bad, but eventually your predictions are good enough that rolling out a tree of predictions improves your action selection

For Go, and chess, we twist our self into NOT using the game rules in the simulator e.g. for each move, just indicate if GAME LOSS WIN

Whether this paper worthy of a new Nature hype cycle is a separate debate
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SwiftNIO is not high-speed network driver to start with.

As for memory management impact in overall performance, a similar set of benchmarks would be needed.
Can you point where is that PPP in the graph? Not only it is not mentioned, but not even the year of the data: "most recent" is terribly vague, even if true.
You've given us your conclusion, but not your findings.
Scotty, thanks for a honest reply.

> Objectivity is a lie.

Or science wouldn’t exist. Truth is objectivity. Scientific method depends on objectivity and being able to criticize. Facts are facts, when it’s time to state your opinion, you can preface that that’s your opinion.

I’m afraid that you’ll spread the message that nothing is objective in the world and nothing can be trusted.

Educational part is great in your videos.

I’m just sad reading your response because I’m was an expat in China and what you show is just one side of the coin. And the fact that you admit that you’re afraid of angering CCP members - isn’t that terrifying to you?

Can you imagine only making positive videos of America and never being able to criticize? You have a responsibility man... you reach millions.
I’ve given thought in the past to some sort of ‘support reputation system’. After calling tech support, they’d rate your manner and how capable you seemed, and this would feed through into your future calls (e.g. calling an ISP with a genuine + very technical question might mean you go straight to the highest tier of tech support next time you call).

It would save time for tech support workers too; no need to vet very tech capable callers for things like ‘have you tried turning it off and on again’. So theoretically, the call wait time might even reduce for callers with simple/obvious questions.

There are probably some details to iron out and problems to solve, but the basic idea seems pretty feasible to me.
Cute!

I hope that background doesn't get them into copyright trouble though.
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>it isn’t a state secret that “500mg of acetaminophen” and “a Tylenol” are the same thing

I always make a habit of specifying the chemical name anyway since certain drugs have different names in different regions. For example, if you were to order Benadryl in the USA, you'd get diphenhydramine, but in the UK, you'd get cetirizine. Also sometimes if you specify the brand name, they'll give you the brand, rather than the generic.
Imagine for the moment that the OP's IP address has changed during this time and they don't have SPF or DKIM configured. Or imagine SPF is misconfigured to say "only IP 1.2.3.4 is qualified to send email for this domain" but they've since moved to another IP. Or imagine their DKIM configuration is broken and their messages aren't validating. There are a ton of ways you can configure a mall server so that recipients can't reliably tell you're not sending spam: it's not just what content you send but also the reputation of your IP and the signals you choose to send via SPF and DKIM.

This isn't specific to Google: all the companies that receive email have the same difficult problem. Email is the only major fully open federated push protocol, and spam has come close to killing it.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, nothing related to mail, speaking only for myself.)
> Ukraine liberalized its economy and it pretty much destroyed the place.

The Russian invasion destroyed the place.
The states don't get attention because that's their choice. They could switch to a per-district method like Maine or proportional representation, then it doesn't matter how blue or red they are.
Romania is 5-6 times bigger.
The monarchies the articlementions are all liberal, more or less capitalist democracies.
Funny you might say that.

Baby’s First Garbage Collector[0] (from the same author) uses this approach.

[0]: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...
No, this is not blockchain messaging.

"How would one party prove they have the right data?"
Before two urbit servers communicate, they exchange and verify public signing keys.
Then, all messages are signed with verified public key.

If you mean what's stopping one party from changing their local copy of your data.... Nothing that I know of.

But they're the only ones who will see their local data.
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The text in that image on Imgur is barely readable due high compression. Please consider hosting the image on your site next time or someplace where they don't compress that much.
Completely agree. The guy should look at his own profession first and realise how easily he could spot people who learnt a few phrases or facts then look again at himself.
I feel that better types of verification are dangerous. Sure it's convenient, to scan your face or fingerprint, but it's also a way of verifying that you were with your device at that place and that time.
But Donald grabs pussies....so no good metric matters -Lefty
I wonder why they dob't do this - it would be a win-win for every ne. I've done this for years, describe in the initial ticket your environment, and say that you're reinstalled several times. Stuck for weeks with Microsoft and Adobe on the part where they just keep parroting the script and asking to reinstall no matter how many times you say you're done it. It's infuriating!
Is it possible to have a material that doesn't conduct heat?
Fundamentals of Networking in AWS
For health insurance claims in the US, apparently you want to say "I want to file a grievance", at least in Massachusetts (magically fixed $5000 bill where health insurance company was obviously lying). I'm told "I want to talk to the ombudsman" also works.
Don't be thick. A handful of oligarchs seizing all the wealth created by Soviet "slave" labor and sharing very little did destroy Ukraine long before the loonies in Lviv decided to overthrow the shameless crook from the Donbas.
> I also have to admit that this creates a society I like, with talented wealthy celebrities, and a large population of people who make their living in and around the industry.

What should we value more: hacker principles or phony outdated business models that aren't compatible with the realities of the digital age?

Copyright was created back when industrial capacity was required in order to make copies at scale. People had to own stuff like printing presses in order to infringe copyright at a scale that caused any damage. This is no longer the case. Copyright infringement is trivial now. It's as easy as copy paste. To solve this, the copyright industry intends to lock us out of computing. They think unlimited computers are too powerful for mere citizens like us and we should have access to nothing but limited versions that can execute nothing but predefined functions approved by them.

The mere existence of copyright is an existential threat to hackers and their values. If the preservation of free computing and internet requires sacrificing the entertainment industry, then so be it. The alternative is to sacrifice free computing.

Due to the existence of subversive technologies such as encryption, governments have been increasingly adopting the same perspective as the copyright industry.
At the risk of sounding like a cynic, a lot of that animal intensification on existing pasture uses supplemental feeding with crops that the growing thereof also have a deleterious effect on biodiversity - corn-fed beef, or even worse, dairy cattle being fed palm kernel grown using slash and burn agriculture in rainforest regions.

Not to mention the faecal and nitrate pollution of aquifers and rivers due to higher animal numbers in a smaller area.

With regards to GHG gas emission, one of the biggest issues with ruminants is methane - but a new approach (patented by scientists from Australia's CSIRO) looks very promising: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/116683942/g...
Another pharmacy one is just saying "brand" vs. "generic", generally.
> OK: it's fairly trivial for someone like me to do this, and you don't even need "ML" to do it. It's just counting, binary trees and simple models.

Would you be interested in PoC'ing it out for such a trivial project?
I can't use this because I'd like to be able to put files outside of $HOME :(
An odd thing I learned about wind turbines recently is that their peak efficiency is capped at exactly 16/27, or about 60%:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law
I have lots of good memories of FidoNet. I was a teenager with a modem, computer, and lots of curiosity. I had been using BBSes for a few years, but they were all local to me, dialing up to various numbers where I lived (Long Island, New York).

The idea that I could connect not just to people on a local system, but with others around the world, was just amazing.

I wasn't a part of the technical infrastructure, and I clearly missed out on a lot of the politics and discussion... but I had lots of good discussions with others, and even contributed a few articles to FidoNews back in the day. The fact that they were willing to let a teenager write for them was extremely encouraging for me.

Thanks to all of the FidoNet folks for the amazing stuff that they did, and for giving me a taste of an online community before using the Internet when I started college.
You peddling horsesh*t is unhelpful. Your fluid goal posts don’t help either.

Obviously any U.K. style “monarchies” and republics with a figurehead. Your best bet therefore would be Middle East monarchies, which are obviously a product of the extraction industry. So even that is not an argument.

Remember how China realized that the communist system isn’t sustainable and introduced elements of monarchy? No? Me neither, because they went with (very light) democratization.

If you want to talk facts, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

But my favorite part is when I suggest you to look for immediate evidence in the real world and you’re like: “No, here’s a cherry picked article”. This disregard for facts is just plain offensive.
Where Does My Main Battery Go? (Battlestar Galactica)
This article describes advances in a fundamentally broken system.

There is another way, and you get to keep the beef:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_agriculture

https://joyce-farms.com/pages/regenerative-agriculture
Another sign that we're in a new Gild Age?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
Windmill Efficiency Always Less Than 16/27
> 7. Legal-Doc-to-Google-Form

Shout out to Clerky who has been doing this wonderfully since 2011.
The lack of a material, e.g. a perfect vacuum, as long as radiation doesn't get involved.
1) Do your homework. They do you exist, my flower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Russia
2) Absense of something doesn't make it illegal.

Looks you have failed logic state here.
Nobody said it was impossible
No, that would essentially mean that it doesn’t interact with neighboring matter (eg air bouncing off of it) since heat is really an emergent property of all the particles in a material bouncing/vibrating amongst each other. There are things that don’t conduct heat but they aren’t regular matter.
Talking to my mother about Hong Kong
That background was apparently a fairly complicated project:

https://gmunk.com/Windows-10-Desktop/
Ask HN: Safe places to buy a house in the US
If you want to buy a house within continental US, what would be the top safest places for the next say 50-100 years if we ignore anthropogenic (social, economic) factors and focus only on geological, climatic changes, natural disasters, etc.

It's seems logical to assume that coastal states wouldn't be safe - some parts of the East coast most likely will be flooded, and there's too much seismic activity, drought and wildfires in the West.

So where do you think it would be safe?
What is a pill? Some substance that has a biochemical effect on your brain.
Like sugars.

Try keto/low carb diet for a few weeks and see what it does to your brain/mood/alertness.

Every time you eat some bread you literally pop a pill. ;)
This is quite noticeable among the modern far right; there have been a number of mass shooters who cite the same arguments and articles in their manifestoes, but there isn't any kind of conventional authority linking them. No command-and-control relationship or terrorist cell. Sometimes called "stochastic terrorism".
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I'd be inclined to agree, but parent poster was concerned about solving problems numerically, which is trivial for line integrals, as they are just sums of triangle hypotenuses.
>A bank: a) Do it only on paper. b) Address to any of Office of the President, Chief Compliance Pfficer, General Counsel, or Investor Relations.

My dad speaks English as a second language and asks my family to proofread things. I have no idea where he got this from, but there was a period of time when he'd write letters addressed to the President of JP Morgan, or, The Comptroller of Maryland, etc. At first we all thought he was just being kooky, but lo and behold these letters were effective for all sorts of issues.
SWD is purposefully exposed on that board and instead of flashing via the bootloader I got flashing with gdb via SWD with the `load` command working. I just use a male header with some jumper wires for the connection. It seems stable enough. Some pictures of the debug port here:

https://files.timakro.de/IMG_20191201_142259.jpg

https://files.timakro.de/IMG_20191201_142246.jpg
Georgia suffered a massive civil war from the time the Soviet Union fell until 1995, that caused its GDP per capita to fall by 2/3 to 1995. The economic reforms happened in the 21st century and growth since then has been very quick. From Wikipedia:

> Since the early 21st century visible positive developments have been observed in the economy of Georgia. In 2007, Georgia's real GDP growth rate reached 12 percent, making Georgia one of the fastest-growing economies in Eastern Europe. The World Bank dubbed Georgia "the number one economic reformer in the world" because it has in one year improved from rank 112th to 18th in terms of ease of doing business. Georgia improved its position to 6th in World Bank's Doing Business report 2019.
>Because wind usually often weak and below rated speed, you need to build extra capacity to get enough electricity in normal days.

Luckily it's dirt cheap to build.
I'm somewhat uncertain of the precise distinction but we should focus on what we appear to agree on - any time spent learning about Urbit is absolutely wasted and thus, it does not belong on HN.
Can Psychedelic Drugs Reduce Criminal Behavior?
Scott Adams is a Nazi-loving douchebag who fantasizes about raping babies.

Geez, relax, it’s just a joke! I barely even know Scott Adams, can’t we just agree that I rushed to judge him and move past this already?
Unions recruit at work.
Those who like HTTPie might also like http-prompt[1] which is an interactive prompt built on top of it.

[1] http://http-prompt.com/
I think one reason some people prefer symbolic links over directly managing $HOME with git is that there's less chance that things go wrong due to a bad accidental git command. For example, `git clean` (with the appropriate arguments, e.g. '-fdx') could delete all non-dotfiles from all of $HOME.

Admittedly, the chance of this happening does seem much lower when the git directory is in e.g. '~/.cfg/' while the work tree is $HOME, as the linked article proposes, than when it's set up with just a `git init` run in $HOME (because a `git clean` in a non-git-repository directory somewhere under $HOME won't cause any problems, because there will be no '--work-tree' argument). Still, at least to me, the symlink approach feels more comfortable.

I wonder, does anyone else have other reasons to prefer symbolic links?