skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really more about surjectivity and simple counting. Neither the pigeon hole principle not a max/average argument are really necessary.

Say you're trying to find a way to compress every n+1 bit string into an n bit string. Losslessness means that you have to come up with a function d from n bit string to n+1 bit string that decompresses. The number of n+1 bit string is larger, so there must be n+1 bit strings that are not in the image of d, which means that such a function d cannot exist.
GitHub Desktop is actually pretty awesome.

What I don't get is why MongoDB Compass is so slow. It's almost like they have artificial timeouts everywhere.
https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing
It might be that pbfs are stored inside sqlite? The whole thing is really incredibly confusing to be honest.

What I can tell you is that my vector slippymap XHR is requesting .pbf files, so that would definitely imply protobuffers as the wire format. Ultimately that's using t-rex and mapbox-gl.js, so... not sure if there's something intermediate. But the mapbox docs say sqlite? I'm just very confused now.
I want to share few things I learnt while making https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor.

It abstracts component development for frontend hiding details about framework.

I applied DRY principle on code that we write. Framework syntaxes are a repetitive hardcode that I tried to abstract.

Pragmatic programmer is the book referred to me by a friend of mine and it definitely works.!
Rapper Kanye West announces U.S. presidential bid on Twitter
> Moloch should've never let open-source software happen.

Maybe Moloch is catching up to open source. We read regularly of open source maintainers who are poor, burned out, and quitting. A lot of the open source work that happens is actually controlled by for profit corporations. Despite Chrome and Android being open source, it is optimized for advertising revenue for Google. Successful open source projects are incorporated in a SaaS offering, often cutting out the original developers. Other open source projects are acquired by large corporations and are shuttered. There still is not a reliable strategy for open source developers to support themselves, other than trying to use that notoriety to get hired by a big corporation, or try to upsell to non-open source add ons.
Heard good stuff 'bout Ramnode.
There are things in here I had not considered before. I often abstract away to make something "easier for me" to think about, but I rarely consider "what is likely to change" and hide that behind a layer. Thank you for sharing.
Cool project for sure, but it does provoke the obligatory Emacs org-mode as a spreadsheet plug. [1]

I use it often, mostly for my D&D character sheet, but occasionally for work.

Works the same in terminal or GUI, with elisp formula evaluation (including Emacs calc functions), column types, table relationships, and, with org-babel, access to other languages and their libraries (for plotting, etc.) Can even read from DB into an org table and then manipulate data and write back.

[1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro...
You proved that faacists can exist on both the left or the right by your last post. Imposing that point of view is equally unpleasant right or left.
The fundamental reason is the Fed and globalists (Bill Clinton's record on this is terrible) helped big business move jobs out of the US, strongly impacting demand for local labor.

All the while American socialists have been encouraging illegal immigration that undercuts local laborers' competitiveness.

No growing demand for labor, no negotiating power.

The American worker got fleeced by globalists, the Fed and corrupt politicians. Good luck fixing that with more socialism, Fed activism and more rules and regulations.
I think your first point is really about the same thing, only taking a top-down design approach instead of bottom-up. The top-down approach is good in cases where you're confident in your ability to estimate the feasibility of constructing an implementation that matches specifications. In cases where you äre more likely to do well in estimating the utility of constructed implementations, the bottom-up approach works better. (Randell, 1968)

In reality, though, a combination tends to be used, and development is an ongoing process of "I have this set of operations and I would like to construct a component that meets this specification -- how do I join those realities?"

I agree strongly with your second point, though.
A REST application to dynamically update firewalld rules on a Linux server
Fully offline, fully searchable copies of personal data (email, tweets, calendar, etc.), English Wikipedia, IMDb, OpenStreetMap (tiles, routing, points of interest), geocoding. Fully offline and state of the art speech recognition. Fully offline voice assistant with almost complete coverage of the most common usage.
No, there are other possibilities, such as enacting policies around masking and cleanliness in business and public, without shutting anything down, e.g. Sweden, which has a number of deaths in line with other countries that had lockdowns.
So, like COVID, have FB and Twitter gone to equilibrium or are they still gaining traction?
Bonus tip: any time your team has a heated argument about any decision, that is a strong contender for abstraction.
Naaah ... we are just living in the onion timeline
Kanye West tweets he's 'running for president of the United States
Does anybody remember the old desktop.com, circa 1999? It felt like it had a lot of promise, but thinking about it now I can’t recall why.
Like other things, stock have value because other people think they have value. Even stocks than pay dividends pay it in fiat, which only has value if other people think it has value. Ultimately, there's not much difference between stocks that pay dividends to those that don't, when you really get down to it. I suppose you could make an argument that stocks that paid dividends in food or slaves would be the only ones that had "non-Ponzi" value, since these things have value apart from any sort of value other people place on them. Other items in this category of inherent value might include guns, ammo, or alcohol.

Perhaps some find it scary that we collectively value some things so highly that are pretty arbitrary, but I think it's only natural. Abstractions are core to what we are as a people.

In short, if non-dividend paying stocks lack any value, so do most things in the world. Also, about Ponzi schemes, there's no real problem if the amount of capital flowing in increases at an exponential rate. In the last hundred years, this exponential inflow has not been a problem, so things have worked out pretty well.

Though, in regards to the voting rights, I do think we'll see the end of ridiculous supervoting shares, at least for awhile. After WeWork, I think the paradigm has shifted.
It could be several things, but it's most likely either CGNAT, or you're using a CDN and these are their ranges.

The first step should've been looking up the hostnames to see what you're dealing with.
SA, we're heaps good!
The excess death stats are accessible to us all. What's the non-COVID-19 pneumonia # for 2019-2020 so far?

It's nonsensical to expect everyone to agree, those that want a mask, should use one for viruses. This is like pretending the cold is going away, and we must all obey until that happens. Wont happen.

As you mention, fixing the situation of the vulnerable is the way. Quite possibly would have been better response in the first place.

Viruses are only getting easier to engineer. Shutting down the country only makes them _more_ valuable.
I’ll just leave this from 2015 here https://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/why-dab-radio-in-the...
We can replace the word slave by "continuously guided workforce/population". Slave masters could be then just "managers of continuously guided workforce". Slave markets would be "continuously guided workforce exchanges" etc.

Erm, it's probably best if the word "slave" kept its highly negative and polarized meaning...
What descriptive alternative would you use for "abelian group"?
An interesting view. However how does it deal with the main issue - when Twitter etc is gripped by a groupthink and the mob is wrong?

There’s an old line that one person saying something is a crank, ten people a cult and 100 a religion.

Social media allows you to find the other dozen people in the world who think what you do.
I find it a bit ironic that the page isn't being rendered correctly on Safari 14
The questioning of opinions in the service of building a nation in which everyone has equal opportunity is one of the most American opinions there is.

If that’s gone then all is lost.

[Edit: and I don’t believe it’s gone!]
I think you may be limiting your view to software here though. Software has an entirely different cost-of-entry then virtually any other industry, and most of the major products you see coming out of the industry right now are a combination, reimplementation, or reimagining of already existing ideas. Most patent issues in this space are issues with "business method" and "XYZ but on a computer" patents, the validity of which are both arguable, but a separate issue from the wider value of patents.

There are many other industries where advancement is not made without huge amounts of investment, and the only thing that protects the little players are patents. An industry like Chemical Engineering and Manufacture for example – the development of a new useful chemical compound may cost 10s of millions of dollars in research, testing, process improvements, etc. Why would any company bear that cost if they could just wait for another company to do it and start producing it themselves, undercutting the cost of the original developers who must price their offering higher to recuperate their R&D cost? What would stop any large manufacture from taking a novel new compound developed by a smaller competitor, or recent entrant, and using their large already existing production and logistics capacity to undercut their small competitor?

Also, regarding collective knowledge -- remember that the only alternative to patent protection is to keep something a trade secret. That encourages a company to never publicly disclose anything about their process that they can keep secret, which can theoretically be done forever, and can mean that when the company eventually ceases to exist, that knowledge can be lost.

I’m not saying that the patent system doesn’t have its flaws, and really needs some revisions and updates in places, but it does provide a real value.
100GB bandwidth/month for free, it's quite small traffic.
I checked the neighborhood I grew up in Ukraine, that had great road access. It was orange and red. I think the methodology is too aggressive.
See, you just assumed I don’t worry about those things, but I worry about all of them. There are thousands, if not millions of people worldwide held in slavery because of loose sexual morals. Some criminals can clearly never be rehabilitated, and separating those who can is a wicked problem. And in the Late Bronze Age Collapse, hordes of immigrants very nearly destroyed Western Civilization. So yes I am freaked out about these things.

The idea that I don’t worry about morals and livelihoods because I’m a liberal is another dangerous meme. Not once in my post did I suggest censorship as the solution; you’re applying the liberals wanna censor meme.

So you’re shutting down thinking because you had preconceived notions from media you saw: thanks for proving my original point.
Does this come assembled or is it a DIY? I did not find details on the order page other than “2 Layers PCB 61 x 106.7 mm FR-4, 1.6 mm, 1, HASL with lead, Black Solder Mask, White silkscreen”
The thing with Newton's Principia is that's an exposition of the laws of his dynamics using proofs from elementary geometry but no calculus as such.

Newton and Leibniz separately discovered calculus but the calculus they created had no rigorous basis - it took until the middle of 19th century to formulate the axiomatic system that calculus is framed in today.

So it's natural Newton would want to write his results in a form that was rigorous and unassailable. But this meant that, as Keynes says, the final form didn't bear a relationship to intuition it was taken from.
Ideas are nothing, execution is everything. Some of the ideas in this idea generator are already making people money, but I’m sure there is a gem hidden in there somewhere. You just have to reload the page a couple of times to find it. :)
Why didn’t you go with Ionic or Stencil? Did you roll your own design?
This is still the pigeonhole principle, just inverted - If you have more holes than pigeons (and you can’t make fractional or quantum pigeons) at least one hole must have no pigeons.
Rocket Labs record attempt failed: launch failed, payload lost
commutative group (which happens to be another name they often go by).
That's literally fascism.

Creating a society of citizens around who passes an arbitrary test of "are you really American" is as clear-cut of a definition of fascism as you can get.
> And the patent system is perfectly fine if you patent something then sit on the idea for 20 years and never allow it or any derived products be made or used.

This should be banned either way by mandatory licensing requirements under FRAND terms as part of the patent grant, especially if the holder does not actively use the patent.

Too much progress in society/technology is blocked because companies are sitting on patents and not licensing them.
Easy Photo Filters for iOS
This is already how copyright works, so I am not sure what you are proposing. A reduction of time? How much?
> Unfortunately, variable-sized types interact poorly with arrays

Unsized types interact badly with everything, really. That's why you usually shove them behind a pointer.
I think it may be more accurate to describe it as
>the process of expressing ideas that are conceptually familiar to users, often through metaphor.

IMO fits it better than implementing interfaces.
We Colonize the Sun First
I'll forever use old.reddit.com

Between that subdomain, RES and a custom userstyle, Reddit is quite a pleasant experience.
Like altruism, ethical behaviour is ultimately an expression of enlightened self-interest. People know this on an individual scale, and it's just as true on a corporate scale. When a company acts unethically, it is almost always paying a high price later for a small immediate win. We see this kind of behaviour a lot in companies that have been taken over by short-term MBA-style management, who temporarily boost quarterly revenues by burning years or decades of accumulated reputation and good will.
How this that convenient when you then have to use something like 13/16?

Just look at the standard wrench sizes (https://www.cnm.edu/programs-of-study/programs-a-z/automotiv...):

* Standard Combination Wrenches: 1/4, 5/16, 11/32, 3/8, 7/16, 1/2, 9/16, 5/8, 11/16, 3/4, 13/16, 7/8, 15/16, 1.

* Metric Combination Wrenches: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Measured in millimeters.
This is more complicated. Southern states seceded over slavery. They put it in writing when they seceded and it was in the Confederate constitution. Although Lincoln attempted to get them not to secede with conciliatory gestures, they assumed the worst of the candidate of the Republican party, because it was the anti-slavery party.

Although the stated goal of Lincoln and the US government at the beginning of the war was to preserve the union, the underlying north-south conflict that turned into a war was about slavery.

You might argue, though, that it wasn't originally about ending slavery in states where it was established, because few people had a goal of doing that before the war. (Abolitionists did, but not as a practical, near-term goal.) The most serious political fights were about whether to expand slavery to more places, and here the South wouldn't take no for an answer - they not only wanted to preserve it, they wanted to expand it. And that was still about slavery.

Yes, it was all really weird and horrible.
No, copyright restricts copying and derivative works without royalties. As I said in my comment, I propose the restriction only be on profiting from work, and for a much shorter period of time than currently (70 years for creative works? Absurd. 10 years is far more appropriate).
It is NOT. It's a paid commercial software where only the client is open source.
Is minority a shorthand for not white or black? Why is that the dominant axis for parsing the population growth difference? Is the correlation with racial distribution more pronounced than with other axes, or is this article aimed at people too stupid to understand that people differ in more ways than race?
I guess they mean it doesn't give you that feeling of "there must be a better way" because chances are very high there is not, and so after some time looking for better ways and never finding them, since there's no feedback loop of "yeah I found a better way!" that feeling stops occurring.
Slightly misleading title. My personal anecdote:

We’re about to board a long haul flight and our son was too eager to download Netflix kids programs so that space ran out. Apple has a default policy of offloading unused apps to conserve space. Unfortunately it offloaded the Netflix app itself :-/
The set of an order-independent operator, perhaps.
We're writing too much code.
So I'm making stuff that will help us write less code.

Like a vim-like editor that translates your spec into generated code while you also see it on the go to fix any issues. Think yeoman on generics and steroids.
Perfect. Glad to hear they are legitimately expanding and trying out the model in the US.
They release their firmware updates on their page, packaged with upx. Someone could enjoy decompressing it
https://onyxboox.com/firmware
Can you see how a reasonable person might read this as catastrophizing? The tweet you linked to is pretty banal, and appears factual. I'm having trouble even connecting the dots from "many of the founders were slaveowners" to "let's cancel America". The nuns taught me the same thing in 1980s Catholic grammar school.
Why our current system needs IP?

Because it is collateral for loans - which is the system we use via Interest Rate targeting to inject money into circulation.

Banking systems from the physical industrial era worked by discounting physical assets. You built a car and then discounted that asset at the bank to build more cars.

That model doesn’t scale with ideas and services. Unless you have something that makes ideas and services behave like physical assets.

If we moved to a system where we discounted time instead (ie you can always sell your 8 hours of labour power) then we wouldn’t need to fund creativity by bank lending.
I find twitter to be friendly and helpful. It depends on who you follow what experiences you get.

You can have real or filtered experiences. Twitter is going in the real.

The problem is twitter brings in so many people to the discussion tribes form. I would elimate tribes by removing identity.

When you reply it is no longer in your name connected to your profile, the identity is a secret. This allows users to go back and continue the discussion but not follow users around the platform.
Jim Steyer: the man who took on Mark Zuckerberg
IMHO, people don't get philosophy. There's philosophy about the "inner side of things", that uses cryptic symbolism with ten layers of meanings, and philosophy for the public. Only the latter is taught in schools and discussed. All these famous philosophers of the past - Plato, Aristotle, and even the modern Kant - were known first for their contribution to that "inner" philosophy, and coincidentally they also left a few texts comprehensible by the public, and only those texts are discussed. There are famous philosophers that only cared about the "inner side of things", there are statues to honor them, their books are kept by some libraries and individuals who recognize significance of those books, but you wouldn't hear their names, unless you do some research.

Modern science has the same dualism: some scientists bother to educate the public and simplify ideas for them, while some don't and only leave incomprehensible cryptic math. Einstein is a good example: GTR is what made him famous, but he got a public award (Nobel prize) for some side research.
The leaves don't contain detectable levels of safrole. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumbo_fil%C3%A9#Health_concern...
Prediction: that won't work. If people are not productive or distracted by other issues that is a sign there is something wrong with the company culture. You won't fix that by yelling at your employees, you fix it by addressing the root cause.
Here in Sweden I don’t even know if digital radio is available. Never seen it in any car.
Ask HN: Would you buy second hand phone / laptop?
Not entirely by accident.
DNA Linked to Covid-19 Was Inherited from Neanderthals, Study Finds
Where by "we" you appear to mean "The University of California" and by "cancel" you mean "didn't cancel".

From the same article, in its update:

Contrary to what has been reported, no one at the University of California is prohibited from making statements such as “America is a melting pot,”
Dectectron2: Object detection library developed by the Facebook AI Research team
Solidity Tips and Tricks
i'm curios about the speed. i live in London and use Hyperoptic with the 1000mbps up and down subscription (and according to my ubiquiti, the speeds are real).
it would have been very easy to defend him against this ancient article

Would it? Or would anyone who tried to defend him also have their own 30+ years ago opinions dredged up? It's not safe for anyone until there is "herd immunity" against being cancelled and we're a long way from there yet.
Re drug development: Why should they get an exception? This is how we create a flawed system. There are lots of things in the markets with high entry costs that's part of the challenge to bringing a product to market.

You still get a huge market share/reputation and likely can keep that by being the first to market which is enough reward imo to a product to market.

If the public did subsidize any ip then that ip should be disimenated after the subsidy period to the public.
The argument is that this doesn't apply to innovation that are expensive.

However, I already pointed out that 3D printer are more expensive to develop due to involvement of physical objects rather than just writing line of codes.

In any case, governments are perfectly capable of funding big expensive projects should we wish them to do so.
Out of topic for sure, but I tried the same combination and my AirPods keep falling off while running. Do you have any solutions to this?
If having kids is profitable or not is open debate.

Most people I know would love to have kids but they don't want to have them with a wrong person.

And what is considered "wrong" have changed over time.

Many people want to have kids on their own terms, not the terms of their partner. They want to have zero compromise in personal freedom - so they don't takers for that offer resulting in them not having any kids.
I've said this elsewhere. But I genuinely don't think that they know what the gpl means. Maybe someone could approach them in Chinese preferably directly to the company instead of the forum minion. The forum minion always responds with the same answer to any question that is asked. That person gives the same answer to a quick switch option between the notes and library app.

Usually what happens in the onyx customer forum is that a person asks for something. The forum minion says it's been forwarded and being worked on and then the cycle repeats until one of the customers gets pissed and starts threats.
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
I've tried few around and this one seems to be most user-friendly, tho it looks like it has trouble displaying menus with multiple entries (spacebar interpretation)
An apt comparison. I'm also worried of what will be of this immense amount of content when YT will go the way of the dodo.