skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone from the “global south.” When I see people use the term, I play a game where I check to see if they are a westerner with a degree in something useless. Invariably, they are. The author of your article, for example, is an anthropologist from London. In the actual “global south” (like Bangladesh, where I am from), your mother would be ashamed if you got a degree in anthropology, instead of engineering, business, computer science, etc. You know, things that allow you to participate in global capitalism. People in the actual global south tend to be supportive of capitalism, because it’s literally transforming their lives: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alyssaayres/2014/10/28/banglade...

My family left Bangladesh in 1989. In that time, purchasing power adjusted per capita GDP has tripled. Infant mortality has been cut in half, and life expectancy is up by more than a decade. Malnutrition is down by more than half. The brain drain is even slowing down. While my family left, many bright young people are staying to work in burgeoning industries. It’s a goddamn miracle. Unsurprisingly Bangladeshis are among the most supportive of free markets of any country in the world. This is true all over Asia, where there is a combination of people who have developed the institutions to support capitalism, but haven’t yet become jaded by all the wealth capitalism has brought them.

People who major in degrees like anthropology and use terms like “the global south” are dangerous. They’re selling snake oil. They’re anti-vaxxers or the people telling you to go on a fruit diet to treat your cancer. The gist of their pitch is this: “Ignore how all of the developed world got wealthy. Also, ignore how South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, etc. got rich. Also, ignore how Malaysia, Thailand, etc. are well on their way to getting rich. Capitalists don’t have any answers for you. We, the anthropologists, political scientists, etc., we have the answers.”

Complaining about “enclosure” of farming land? Really? They want us to go back to communal farming? Using “indigenous technology?” It’s like they fetishize our poverty. How about, instead, we do the same thing Europeans and Americans did to get rich? Empirical science, rule of law, stable government, property and economic rights, individual freedom, and free markets.

(Regarding the claim that poverty has actually gone up if you use higher income thresholds. Your article doesn’t cite sources. But World Bank data shows that even at higher extreme poverty thresholds, rates have declined dramatically: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/3....

Using $5.50 as the benchmark, it’s declined by 21 points since 1990. In South Asia (which excludes China), its down by 14 points. In Latin America it has been cut in half. The only place that it’s not moved is sub Saharan Africa, and that’s because those societies lack the societal institutions to support democracy and capitalism. Which is unfortunate, but anthropologists aren’t going to be able to do anything to fix that.)
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It's surprisingly easy to get zero results returned pasting cryptic error messages. It doesn't mean there is nothing, though. Omit half the string, and there's the dozen stack overflow threads with the error. Maybe it didn't read over the line break on stack overflow or something, but I haven't tested anything.
This article gives absolutely no evidence except one person's opinion. The statements are so broad and general with no direct correlation between climate change and actual mental health issues.
Star Empire to Develop LODI Platform That Nurtures K-Pop Talent
How is it predatory? For $10k you get a complete Chick-fil-A restaurant, without having to pay for any of the building or start-up costs. Sure, that means corporate will take a much bigger cut of your sales/profits, but that seems fair, since they're taking on most of the risk. I mean... it's $10k. Tell me where else you can start a restaurant from scratch for only $10k and retain 50% of the profits? As someone who has invested in a (non-franchise) restaurant before, this is potentially pretty attractive, if you want to run a franchise.

Even for a more "traditional" franchise, where the franchisee is responsible for all the start-up costs, even $50k is small peanuts compared to the full cost to bring the restaurant up from scratch. Calling that "predatory" feels like a gross exaggeration.
BMW Connected Apps Protocol
Normally I'm of the opinion that, if even just one or two people have the same problem with a UI, it's probably worth considering a valid, addressable problem, no matter how much it seems like the user's "fault", but even I'm having trouble rationalizing this one. May I suggest that maybe you're having this thought because, intellectually, you know how disabled fields are frequently styled, however, in natural conditions, you probably wouldn't actually make that assumption unless not all of the fields were styled that way?
My gut feeling is search is bad everywhere because no one provides a pure-text API to the content. Cleaning data is hard and its easier to chuck in all the text blasted off an HTML page than to exclude everything non-signal.

I have no answers for Microsoft File Search, it never returns any results for me, I wonder if they even tested it sometimes.
right, $300 sounds reasonable for a single person having to use this, so maybe a member of a team, and teams decide on their own to get it. But if there is a decision like every analyst needs to have a way to track brands and there are 100 analysts then 300 starts to look like a procurement process, I suppose it could be fixed by offering a discount of multiple licenses of course.
Simpler idea:

Paid search engine that ranks sites based on how often the users click results from that site (and didn't bounce, of course). The fact that it's paid prevents sybil attacks (or, at least, turns a sybil attack into a roundabout way of buying ads).

Of course, at this point, you are now the product even though you paid. But it's a tactic that worked for WoW for ages.
Machine learning, data scientist and real time professional simulations.

You need to have your models in video ram to be able to "play" with them in real time so with 20Gigs they can access larger models.
Russia-Georgia conflict started by Georgian invasion. It's a fact acknowledged even by EU. I guess that just "forgot" to publish it in the media and continue to confuse people saying that Russia started it.

It was a conflict initiated by Georgia but actually they were asked by US to start it.
Pubmed is an excellent example of a boutique search engine.
>and literally my only recourse at this point is apparently to sue them to get my $26 back.

Have you considered to just let your bank reverse the transaction and let Uber sue you if they've got a problem with that?
Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (2005)
>Same color as the background means editable, different color means disabled.

I disagree, and further, have never heard this.
May not be required for gaming but for their GPGPU market that is going to be a big win.

Another use case is the Cloud gaming market where a single GPU needs to serve multiple users.
Learn more languages, you might like lisp or maybe lua with optional parentheses or maybe even haskell. Don't let small things discourage you from the bigger picture
Humab: Genome Engineering for Well-Being of Humankind
This captures the spirit of academia fairly well. The thought "that could be me" is a powerful factor indeed.
Rust framework actix and actix-web are dead
While many items in MISRA are sensible (some I do find quite counterproductive, if code quality in terms of readability and maintainability is also a concern), I have seen MISRA standards being applied to a legacy embedded codebase with terrible effects. What was being done, for example, was putting explicit typecasts everywhere a warning popped up respective mismatched integer sizes or similar, instead of refactoring the code to improve variable typing.

The best end result was largely unreadable code. Why? Because the junior developers tasked with the MISRA compliance efforts were measured by reducing the number of warnings instead of improving code quality.

The bonus was actual breakage in the field, as the test coverage of the legacy code being converted was particularly abysmal. But not to worry, another junior dev was tasked with creating unit tests for every function! With a codebase unsuitable to unit testing through fuzzy interfaces, that effort was about as effective as one would expect, too.
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I get password reset emails on my account weekly too. What’s strange is it’s not a common email either, but one I use under my own domain.

Not sure what the angle is? Like, I don’t see how requesting a password reset would help them exploit the account. Maybe they are just testing for flaws in FB’s system, still weird though.
I think the behavior is more complex. I do get disregarded quotes from time to time so I typically leave them off. However, for the query 'keyword1 keyword2', if I get a lot of keyword1 results with keyword2 struck through, and I search again with keyword2 in quotes, it works as expected.
TL;DR: Don't autogenerate a large monolithic function. Generate many small functions instead.
I think Lisp doesn't belong in this set in many cases (eg Clojure, Racket), it's pretty easy to learn and use compared to eg JavaScript.
> Don’t forget that just last year we were watching videos of innocent passengers being violently dragged off planes that they paid to be on.

Are you referring to the United incident in 2017, or a later one?
I worked at a clueless large company, but even they knew morale was bad, thus me being placed on the morale comititee. Our one meeting we decided it was difficult to improve morale, but after some discussion we did end up with an ice cream social..
Obviously computing output-diffs from input-diffs looks a lot like automatic differentiation. Is there a precise relationship?
If they have an additional ring around the outside of each cup, could they not suction the water back into the system?

Also, wouldnt this be easily defeatable with small dowel protruding "thorns" - or dimples, as on a golf ball - maybe alternating convex/concave dimple patterns? or other ridges?
Why use WebAssembly to create standalone programs, instead of some commonly used languages for writing desktop apps, like C++ or Java?
Yes, but if you want to get a 30% discount on your upgrade, Sonos requires you to brick the device by putting it into "recycle" mode.
Ask HN: Are compiler engineers still in demand, and what do they work on?
I have just graduated and would like to get into the Compiler Engineering field.

Is the field still in demand?
Are there any opportunities?
What will I be working on?
What tips can you give me?
Absolutely. Being able to train with larger batch size helps a lot with performance
Im intriqued by the idea of IPFS, but it does seem like you're giving up a lot of control - Has this been used for anything >= mid-scale yet?
I’d also like to see a minimal, raw, stripped down EV, which still has a good range.
White by Kenya Hara [1]

A brain reboot. If you're into design or a minimal lifestyle or want to be inspired before creating a new thing. Easy to read.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/White-Kenya-Hara/dp/3037781831
In what way is that relevant? Which one are you providing FB for the privilege of using their service? Do you disagree that the dictionary definition of “pay” is as I described it?
In informal usage, "literally" is used to mean it's literal opposite "figuratively". Which I find literally demonstrative of human nature.

"Informal" tends to mean "wrong", "bastardised", or "misappropriated". So I think we're all actually on the same page.
A contribution to an open source project is a gift with a hundred strings attached.

In most cases it's a request for more of the maintainer's time to review, fix, and merge a change which they themselves likely don't need (otherwise they would have added it). In my experience, at least 80% of the time I end up spending more time and effort on accepting someone's change than I would have writing it myself. It only becomes net-positive when a contributor has a long-lived interest in the project and turns out to be a capable maintainer with similar sensibilities; even then there is significant ramp-up time. 99% of the time this doesn't happen; most contributions are drive-bys.

P.S. It so happens that that we previously interacted on that very PR thread: https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml/pull/65#issuecomment-1919...
Google recently released their Performer architecture paper where one of the major achievements was making it work within 16GB. More headroom is incredibly useful!
Need? Who knows. Do customers want it for various reasons? Absolutely.

4k and 8k gaming are definitely going to be a thing. Those textures are pretty big. (I think Final Fantasy XV is like 80GB larger if you get the 4k textures?)
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>I don’t see it. Does he address the fact that dozens of other philosophers over the years have argued the opposite?

He creates an axiomatic foundation out of definitions that most philosophers of the time would have found reasonable (nowadays they're also reasonable, just takes a bit of work to get past the language choices he made, as mathematical logic didn't exist then so it's phrased in terms of geometric and theological language). He then uses this foundation to show that there's no objective measure for dividing individualness (what is me, what is not me) and responsibility (what was caused by me, what was not caused by me), essentially a proof that given the axioms no such measure can exist. Similar to how one might give a proof that e.g. there is no way to assign a Lebesgue measure to every subset of the real number line. Note this is just a very rough summary; his actual proof is long and dense.

>Isn’t this just free will?

Spinoza essentially shows that if free will is defined as "being 100% the cause of some action", then free will does not exist. Because any action we take, is determined by who we are at that moment, and who we are at that moment depends on actions we took in the past, and this causal chain can be traced backwards to who we were as a baby, when we could not make decisions.

Another way to look at it. If the universe was deterministic, and I had unlimited computing power and storage for simulation, then I could exactly predict someone's actions in life (assuming consistent laws of physics). If it was nondeterministic, then there are some things I couldn't predict, but these things would all be the product of chance, so how could they increase the degree to which any particularly individual is the cause of some action? They would just increase the degree to which randomness was the cause of some actions.
Isn’t O(n) here relative to lines of code? So O(n) * k is just O(n^2)?
I also had the same issue and hitting the gym helped me a lot. Dont worry about any other variables in the beginning. Just keep showing up. I read a beautiful answer which sheds some light on the same thing.
https://qr.ae/TUhWqE
Start small and keep building on it. Make compound interest work for you.
All the best :)
The two types of people I have observed getting the sort of freedom you seek are either technically brilliant (e.g. John Carmack) or business leader/owner with a vision (e.g. Elon Musk or Steve Jobs). Anyone not in one of those two categories and blessed with a healthy dose of luck (or wealthy to begin with), well, yup, we're all worker bees.

Personally, being thoroughly mediocre myself, the best I can do is help realize somebody else's vision. I choose jobs that ship interesting products, usually for non-web stuff.
I think is a case of "low priority" rather than not a bug - should compiling a 100k line function take an hour? no. Should that be higher priority than making said function run 2x faster? maybe not. (hypothetical of course, a 2x win in optimized code would imply some unexpectedly bad codegen in optimizing modes, or new tech)
There are...several layers to it.

My dad reputedly made references to the "cortico-thalamic pause", and it was probably a joke. I think maybe it was more of a reference to A E Van Vogt's science fiction than General Semantics as such. And possibly there was a (humorous) association with "we now pause for station identification" on the radio.

Looking at Wikipedia, it seems like Van Vogt was significantly involved in Dianetics which later became Scientology, which seems vaguely disturbing (I also learned of Theodore Sturgeon's connections to it relatively recently).

But, I mean, the concept of pausing and reconciling your feelings and analytical mind seems to make sense, kind of.

The line between stuff that appeals to smart people who think laterally and total bullshit gets hazy sometimes. Or between obvious truisms and deep insights. My father was a physicist with an interest in various things including philosophy, and I recall books belonging to him by Chomsky and many others that don't necessarily appeal to me but I can't ask him now exactly what he thought of them and how seriously he took something.
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Do you plan on making it compatible with Peertube?
Yeah, it's admittedly more along the lines of an insightful blog post or a really good bar conversation than some kind of Rise and Fall, expectations management is probably due here.

But it kind came on this crest of technological advancement nonfiction, like Brilliant or Salt, and gets some of the key implications across in a fast and digestible way.
Of course they are. Page ads are probably as old as print. Most reviews are ads. Travel sections are ads. There are real estate sections, and classifieds as well. Perhaps the most honest reporting is found in the local sports section.
I'm not sure if you intentionally chose a phrase that's usually mistakenly used to also mean the opposite - and then add literally to it.

When I hear someone say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less" then I tend to understand that they value their words, language, and meaning less than I do mine. They're unintentionally signaling to me that what they're saying isn't necessarily what they mean, and so I factor that into my understanding of, belief in, and reliance upon, whatever they may say.
GCC does this too fwiw. Whether or not it is considered a bug, it doesn't have one particular root cause. Several common optimization passes assume small function body. Since functions are typically small, many optimizations use this as a window for heavyweight passes.

In other words, intraprocedural optimisation has always been more aggressive than interprocedural optimisation. If you try inlining every function ever into one giant function, you'll be forced to scale back optimization levels.
mostly i see people working in probabilistic programming languages and formal methods
a_a =: 1 + +
a_b =: [ % +.

py (a_b ` a_a @. has_gcd) y

I know it is math and all that, but when we commit something like this at day job, it doesn’t give you applause. Can the idea of the article be expressed in more readable/obvious form? Or is that an alphabet that you should learn first before solving that?
How do these numbers work? Like if 1000 people have only $20 saved does that mean that a single person with 21k saved is richer than the 1000 people?
Does consumer protection legislation not impose minimum standards?
I imagine you're correct. Especially with shoes, lots of people order multiple pairs to try on like they would in a store. Zappos, which Amazon owns, even encourages the practice I believe.
appending site:reddit.com to your search is very useful.
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Netgear Signed TLS Cert Private Key Disclosure
That's neat! The glitter particles in the secondary explosions look fantastic.
What kind of cluster do I need to just grep the web?
@burntsushi I use ripgrep all the time. I was also able to learn how to go from 0 to release just by reading through your codebase and documentation to see what goes into a release. When I was writing my foss project I asked myself wwbsd (what would burntsushi do). Even stumbled onto how to create and maintain a homebrew tap thanks to you. I appreciate you and the work you put out, thanks!
Winning might be out of the question.

"even if I don't get my $26 back, it will certainly cost them more than $26 just to respond so at least the cosmic accounting will balance out"
Fun with Modulo and Boole
It's worse than the author described. Google won't even sort by date correctly. I ran into this problem years ago and it still exists. Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=where+to+buy+a+phone&hl=en&t...
Getting a "Fossil-like workflow with Git" is not really the point, is it? One could argue that Fossil does not support "Git like workflow". It is not really a good argument either way.

It is not like Fossil's workflow is a global optimum, it's just something Fossil does well.
Walmart.com is very similar to Amazon. It has plenty of no-brand Chinese stuff. Amazon hasn't been the only seller of anything in a long time, and how much of each person's history is oddball anyway?

Also, those places all offer 2-day shipping. Most are moving toward same-day because their inventory is already deployed everywhere.
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How are you handling the intensive processes and why is it worth having JS in the mix? Why not use one language?

Unrelated: the planned federation is muuuuuch more interesting than the stack you're using.
The problem is when you let your shields down and unfriendly nations that DO believe in nationalism decide to take advantage of you. Similar to the whole "no one wants to be the second to last guy to get rid of all their nuclear weapons" thing.
Ask HN: Is Microsoft trying to make a better version of chrome than chrome?
Wait, did Microsoft win the browser wars?

MS: Okay, gooogle, you win, we aren't good at making browsers like you are. Can you take on all the responsibility of making this browser work while we focus solely on what our customers want?

So they can basically blame Google for everything while spending all their time building on top of chrome.
Does anyone know any case studies/AB tests for this with numbers
No one said anything about deletion. GDPR is more than that. They don't respond to general queries about saved data, which they are obligated to. See "right on access".
Another option is setting Firefox to open the profile manager[0].

That's what I've always done when I don't want to use multiple accounts on the machine itself.

[0]https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
Ask HN: Best Music Background to Work?
What's your favourite music when you code,design or work in general?
One of the best ebooks to read for cloud computing learners, by ex AWS engineers
"Is math discovered or invented?" is a question that underlies a lot of math philosophy writings I've read (of the popular science variety) and so I could immediately understand where Lex was going with it. It is a simple question which can elicit as much depth one is willing to dive into.

Similarly I thought all of Lex's questions came from deep understanding of what he was asking, and he would've known clearly what Sanderson would've replied (minus his personal insights) and what other competing answers are out there.

I love Lex Friedman's interviews - he simply asks a small but fertile question and then lets the guest talk.
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> this is the winter essential that will be a wardrobe staple for years to come

Amazon disagrees. I do too. $80 is a ton of money to spend on a coat. I would indeed expect multiple years of use. Either way, less than a year is unacceptable at any price.
Bad news used to spook the markets. Now it seems to lift them