skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do have two anecdotes on this - came across two papers in my exact area of combinatorics that had incorrect results; but they had been submitted to IEEE conferences. So presumably the referees just glanced at them and waved them through.

I wrote to the conference organizers explaining in very simple terms that it could be easily shown the results were wrong (i.e. "please send this to the original referees" - easy, you would think ...) One of them was sympathetic but said it can't be withdrawn from IEEE, and the other was like "get lost, I don't care". It was quite an eye opener. You really don't know what this is like until you've tried it.

I eventually wrote to the author and his work (Porton Down) saying the same thing and the author reacted quite well. Still, the IEEE site for the papers doesn't say anything. Just my comments on pubpeer. And that doesn't come up in a google search. So there are still people wasting their time reading a result known to be wrong.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/9842D9E91821B0F7CADE333BE9D...
https://pubpeer.com/publications/BF67542504DA9118ECBE8869EAF...

The only (obvious) red flag for a potential reader is of course - it was supposedly a very big result, so why was it at an IEEE conference instead of a top combinatorics journal?
Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus.
Good for you. It’s always, always smart to question any analysis. Your writing isn’t interesting enough for me to spend anymore time on that post, however. My sincere best wishes on your journeys.
2160 vertical pixels is a difficult fit.

* At 1x, UI elements are very small unless it is a very large monitor.

* At 2X, you have 1080 addressable resolution which looks clunky at larger sizes.
Fractional scaling can be blurry and can tax the video card more.

* 5K with 2880/1440 is just enough better at most sizes.
support this 100%

if you do your due diligence companies like Reliance (Dhirubhai Ambani) are the reason most honest smart Indians are fleeing the country

From things like bribing the government at city and state levels, to 'disappearing competitors' to going after competitors with the sole purpose of killing them off

Of course, now with what is happening with TikTok you could argue US is fast becoming the same

you can just buy Government influence instead of having to compete
There is also a console client for it - cce[1]. It is written in Rust.

[1] https://github.com/ethanhs/cce
There's a limit to how many ceramic and brass bells they can sell, and compared to a local college/University it is not very accessible for their paid workshops.

Getting to self sustainability always suffers from bootstrap problems, and closed loop living systems of this sort, even at 5,000 people, would suffer from lack of domain expertise or specialized resources to be truly self sustainable. At least unless they either target a low technological level of life or pick the exact 5,000 people needed to keep things going.

That's not meant to be a criticism of this project. If anything the project has strong value in helping to understand roadblocks to small self-sustaining communities, while also contributing to the zeitgeist of fascinating, quirky niche communities that enhance our culture in valuable ways.
Price is what you pay, value is what you get. I’d happily pay more for my Stripe accounts. They make my life easy, and that has value.
I've used DDG for about a year straight now, it's adequate but I find myself needing a !g at least once a day. Searching DDG for error messages & recent events from the news tab are really lagging behind what Google provides unfortunately.
Robots, Oracles and Protocols; Breaking Cryptography Through Information Leakage
Wow, I've used `ls -la` for so long that I didn't even know the default `ls` behavior. Thanks for reminding me.
That certainly solved the unauthorized entry problem.
Patients who have a little bit of knowledge and think that means they can make as informed decisions as professionals are also terrible for health. People tend to dramatically overestimate how much they know about complicated topics like medicine.
It's already been flagged, that's why. It's inevitable. Anything to do with race gets flagged mindlessly on HN.
American darknet vendor and Costa Rican pharmacist charged
I’m aware of that. The problem with equivalent rent is that it’s seldom actually equivalent.

In order to compute the CPI-U, the people doing the work essentially call up 14,000 people and, if they own a home, they ask them how much they would theoretically charge in rent if they rented their home out.

The problem with this is obvious - most people do not do rent income estimates for a living and so the numbers are often quite far from reality.

More importantly, people find it very difficult to estimate future interest rates and they fail to take into account things like the sunk cost fallacy (see: 2008 financial crisis, where people in crashing markets still guessed they would be able to rent their homes based on pre-crash prices).

There is also the issue of a negative feedback loop, where low interest rates lead to lower than expected inflation, because “house prices only every go up baby!” - or in other words, people are perfectly willing to accept $3000 in rent even if the mortgage is $5000 if the house is increasing by $8000 a month in appreciation. This appreciation is hidden from the CPI because only theoretical rent is considered. The net result of the negative feedback loop is the fed sees that inflation is low, so it thinks it can keep rates low too, which leads to asset bubbles like in 2008. (And, likely, in 2020 with stocks too...)
I put my noise in an etc/ subdirectory.
Huh? I don't know if you are aware of this, but higher-order functions make heavy use of closures. I don't think there is even a purpose to higher-order functions without closures. I don't how haskell is implemented internally, but conceptually, it makes use of closures quite heavily. It uses closures on currying, it uses closures on monads, and on everything else. If you assert that heavy use of closures alone is decidely unfunctional, then haskell must be one, which is obviously false.

I don't know what definition of functional programming you are using[f], but you don't have to be arrogant about it. Your comment is fairly annoying.

[f] Let me guess, only immutable variables and pure functions? How PF.
At a superficial level - yes

Both grew up in India before migrating to US so understand India very well

In reality

Sundar Pichai - no

Satya Nadella - yes. This guy is a @#$#$ genius. And Indians have a lot of respect for smart people who deliver results

So, Indian Goverment is not owned by Reliance

However, all things being equal Indian Government would prefer an Indian company like Reliance owns the keys to the kingdom, rather than some imperialist cunt like Bezos or Zuckerberg

So now these imperialist companies have no choice but to team up with Reliance

Bezos' plans in India are screwed, though, by the way

WalMart/Flipkart was good competition and still #1

However, JioMart is basically as vicious and happy to do illegal things as Bezos and he has all the connections in India

So India can be written off completely for Amazon retail

Bezos' only choice now is to partner with Ambani as a small stakeholder
I think you should read it if you work on compilers, even now. But the reason is a bit different.

It was the survey of the state of the art at the time, but obviously it is not the state of the art now. Then why should you read it? Because it is written in two layers.

The first layer goes, we tried many optimization ideas, but only these were effective in practice: inlining, register allocation, etc. Others were not. Surprisingly, this layer is still mostly true today! This is both happy and sad depending on your view. Personally I think it testifies that compiler is a mature field, and it matured by 1970. (And that Frances Allen did lion's share of work maturing it.)

The second layer is, so here is how you should do inlining, register allocation, etc. While this layer is also full of gems, it is necessarily badly outdated. The paper predates graph coloring register allocation, for example. On the other hand, ironically, the state of the art 1970s algorithms are often a good choice today when you want an algorithm that is fast and low memory. (Ironic, because they were slow and high memory at the time!) This doesn't apply when there is an important new concern, for example cache locality, but happily it mostly doesn't affect compiler.

I think there should be a project to write the-state-of-the-art-in-1970s compiler. It would be a great simple and minimal alternative to GCC and LLVM, and it would also work great as a JIT code generator. We probably should name it Fran.
only caste Ambani believes in is money caste
they got banned on a technicality: they said children are almost immune from covid. this, to a regular person means there is almost no danger to children. which is absolutely true. so the thing to do here, is to ditch twitter and move to a free platform. one that let's you post text, and for others to reply. so about a thousand other services. twitter can do what it wants, and we are free not to use it. free speech is free speech, and to have our government's speech censored by corporations is just funny.
> As people increasingly are using search to navigate the web (as opposed to typing a URL into the address bar), this traffic increases, those people see more ads, Google makes more money.

Pardon my ignorance but I thought all of Googles search advertising was pay per click and not pay per impression?
It is a fair bit, but for any credit or debit card transaction they’re actually taking on the risk of essentially fronting the cost of the transaction. Well really their partnering bank does, but if something happens they’re left covering that cost. They also have to split the profit with their collaborating bank and possibly the credit card companies. Nowadays I suspect the risk isn’t all all that high, or at least not 2.9 less slim profit margin high. So in the end 2.9% isn’t highway robbery but they’re also not working on slim margins.
Instagram insists I'm a bot and immediately blocks any account I make. Using Instagram without an account is a rather dismal experience since it blocks viewing any posts, or scrolling too far through previews of posts. I also deal with businesses that post all their updates on Instagram.

User experience doesn't seem to be a priority for Instagram.
@dang can we get a black bar in her honor?
What’s the point of censoring a curse word. Genuinely curious ?
>I'm skeptical Apple's introduction of their high performance CPUs exclusively on a low end device

You can group the Notebook Shipment into a few Categories, $1000+, those are nearly all MacBook. With the remaining going into Gaming Machine ( Which is now being rebranded into Content Creation Machine )

You have the absolute low end, Netbook style that are $300, those are not what Apple targets and they are actually competing with an iPad.

You have vast majority of the Notebook in $300 to $600. Considering the lowest MacBook offering at $699, is just the same play as iPhone SE at $399.

It is just $100 more than the median of average Smartphone selling price, and it would attract enough number jumping to Mac platform all while sucking out the oxygen for the other PC vendors.
I guess I don't understand why Lebanon couldn't seize it and resell?
An explosion destroying the main city of the country as a way to postpone a verdict by 2 weeks makes little to no sense.
Looks pointedly at Visual Studio.

Few pieces of development-related software frustrate me more than Visual studio.

The seeming disconnect between what's on disk, where on disk it is, and where and how it's displayed in the UI is cavernous. It also outright ignore things that are present in the folder unless you explicitly add it through the interface. God forbid you drop a file in, add it through the UI then move it because you discover you've dropped it into the wrong one of the 3 million nested folders large dotnet projects seem to generate.

Changing things on disk underneath it practically gives it an aneurysm. VSCode and IntelliJ IDE's handle the same situations without panicking, so why is VS so fragile?
... “shouldn’t be laid out like this” doesn’t explain why it’s a _problem_ though. I’m curious about this as well. I think it’s fine as is.
How to achieve horizontal scalability of Hive Metastore
You are extremely incorrect.
Complex closed systems are susceptible to cascading failures, infectious outbreaks would be one possibility to begin such a cascade. Or imagine a minor HVAC issue: a small build up of moisture. If not caught right away, it leads to mold, possibly "sick building" syndrome, stresses medical resources, moisture damage to structures, etc. Structural damage harms other resources, takes them off line, and more humans are needed to fix those problems, in and on.

Sure, you have things like that with buildings now. But they're not closed systems: You have problems like the above, you ramp up resources dedicated to the problem, bring in outside help to remediate, etc.

I think the higher the desired quality of life, the larger a closed system would need to be. Think a few hundred years ago: a small village could be self sufficient. The average town in Western society cannot be. Even a farm town, with it's reliance on heavy machinery and agricultural industrial complex, isn't self sufficient.
Oof. I'm sorry. :(
The Rails community attempted to do something like this with the introduction of Webpacker in Rails 5. They backtracked after a few months. Most likely after realizing how many thousands of npm packages make tightly coupled assumptions to the location of things like ‘package.json’ and the amount of patches it would require.
costco offers payment processing for 1.99% + 25c (vs 2.9 + 30c), so quite a bit cheaper.

my point is that it’s entirely possible to offer the same thing for cheaper if your main concern is cost, especially for higher volume merchants, and not optimizing for developer experience https://www.costco.com/merchant-account.html
"- what kind of users go to that websites (and does the user searching fit that profile)?

- how much traffic does the website get?

- how relevant the content is to the search term (SEO magic)?

- and, most importantly, does this website fit an acceptable narrative?"

Google analytics seems like a real trojan horse. Surveillance with a side of analytics. Google benefits much more from such a product themselves, compared to the site owner/manager, who supposedly gets thses analytics 'for free'. It's all such a clever and deceptive trick: "just install this small GA snippet and maybe use our tag manager and get detailed insights". I know it's nothing new, but sometimes it just dawns on me how socially accepted all this trickery has become...
Link to the paper: https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp512/Lectures/Papers/1971-alle...
partly it is because in India you need licensing to sell fireworks , the demand is very very uneven, during Diwali season it is 10-30x compared to the rest of the year.

the fire hazard and pollution issues and till a while back child labour concerns as well is why it is regulated

The permanent year around sellers are few and serve as dealer than retailer . During the season they do both .

It was more sourcing a dealer on the fly and pretty common for fireworks .

Price is very fluctuating and there are huge markups due to the nature of demand .

Discerning buyers go to largest shop/wholesaler to get best price.

I knew a wholesaler/ early e-commerce player in this space (bigger players do not this due to regulatory challenges ). He will make his orders in January for delivery in august for season starting in sept/oct and typically paid 10%-15% list price at most.
Yet, no one seems to care what is unloaded from the ship docks, literally a "Port" where 98% of the goods are manufactured in one country including the entire supply chain that spans behind those goods.
dang switched a lot of the comments to her personal username after the fact.
This is entirely anecdotal, and I don't have an expert's opinion on this, but I believe I was suffering from Vitamin D toxicity. I had been taking 5000 IU/125 mcg of Vitamin D3 daily for several years, and one day I started experiencing painful and distressing heart palpitations. They persisted on and off for months, until at one point near the beginning of quarantine I ran out of Vitamin D supplements. I went a few weeks before buying more, and during this time I didn't have any heart palpitations, though I hadn't really noticed until after I started taking Vitamin D again, at which point my heart palpitations restarted immediately. I stopped taking Vitamin D and haven't had any heart palpitations since (several months now). My working hypothesis is that the Vitamin D supplements were causing heightened blood calcium levels, which was messing with my heart.
There's https://golang.org/pkg/os/#File.Readdir
> ... at some point, over 6 years, doesn't someone just say ...

A very small comfort indeed, but now that it's in the public attention expect every other port around the world to quickly review and relocate any ersatz munitions on their docks.
A large dose of vitamin D may not show up in the bloodwork for years if the patient keeps a fatty enough diet.
just more proof they are all grifters
> And further, Cloud file systems do have mode, and directory...

The most popular cloud file system, S3, doesn't have folders. It has prefixes, but if you treat them like folders, you're in for a lot of pain.
Oh my god thank you so much for posting this!
Same reason why we have subdirectories in the first place and don't just shove everything into one directory. Same reason why you (hopefully) don't put everything on your desk and instead designate places for things, like in drawers. Same reason why we have a ~/.config folder now instead of just shoving everything into ~/ like we used to.
What specific part of my argument are you disagreeing with though? You don't need empirical evidence for what you can derive from definitions. It would be more complex if the question involved time or cost.

I agree with what you're saying in general and I'd love to see some robust studies too but you have to accept here that it's prohibitively impractical to get many multiples of developers/teams to develop the same app over several months through to the maintenance stage with all other variables isolated.

That's why most studies use inexperienced students or are based on crawling GitHub repos, then end up being really flawed.

It would probably be challenging to show autocomplete, syntax highlighting and undo/redo lead to productivity gains as well - nobody has the resources and/or will to investigate these at a large scale with all other variables isolated.
The ads appear above search results and so are often clicked on.
You've only missed it so far. tomorrow is another day.

https://www.atf.gov/explosives/binary-explosives

> Mixing binary components together constitutes manufacturing explosives. Persons manufacturing explosives for their own personal, non-business use only (e.g., personal target practice) are not required to have a Federal explosives license or permit.

You might need to find a more remote location than a suburban backyard, however, as local authorities may have some objections too.
I think allowlist and denylist are better alternatives to whitelist and blacklist. Allow and Deny are more literally what this is about. White and Black are just old metaphors that aren’t clear they are just familiar.

Whitelist and Blacklist don’t really have racists backgrounds but it they are part of a longstanding cultural bias that equates white=good and black=bad. Subverting those biases seems like a good idea.
This is one of my favorite things about macOS.

I love that control+a and command+a have different functions. I use control+k and control+a all the time while writing comments on websites, etc. Especially since I've been mapping caps-lock to control for more than a decade.
Google puts ads organic search results, so there's a good chance your users will click your ad instead of the search result. And if you don't advertise, then your ad-buying competitors will show up in search results ahead of your own site, if your site shows up at all: https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/gvdsu1/entire_googl...
One thing that could help with acquiring both self serve and enterprise customers would be effective, B2B focused Facebook ads. I have a ton of experience with scaling these for other big B2B tech companies, email is in my profile if that sounds interesting.
It should be versioned, so it requires a little more effort to be destroyed
I can remember a slew of video based apps that Instagram killed when it added video in the early days - Viddy, SocialCam, Kik, Vine, they were all in competition and Instagram came and ate their lunch, then did the same to Snapchat, now tiktok.
I’ve never met anyone who says s&p is infallible, it’s usually that it is better than any alternative.

I want a 50 year horizon for intergenerational wealth. For myself, I started at 20 and probably wont retire until 65-75. Although it won’t all be in s&p at 75, some of it will.

The 20 year window is useful for retirement, but the fact that one 20 year window in the past 100 years out performed isn’t that handy as the s&p usually outperforms gold.
I’d like to see some evidence of 5G being actually cleanable. See for example https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/
How else could you combine infinite streams?
Curious about the downvotes. Do people believe that this curtailment of freedom can't happen in America? I know people already rushing to prepare for it.

Or perhaps they believe that it will happen, but that it's a good thing?

Or perhaps, as is increasingly common, they believe both simultaneously: "China's firewall restricts freedom; our copy of it promotes freedom."
Cheapest electricity is natural gas one. Imagine a natural gas plant with free natural gas. That would decrease the electricity price by about 1/3 (fuel price is up to 2/3 of natural gas based generation, and the generation is between half and 2/3 of electricity price). The fusion power plant ideally is equivalent of that free natural gas power plant. Though it can't be further from it on practice. Any feasible in the observable future fusion involves neutrons. That in addition to affecting reactor design - cost and complexity of building, operating and maintenance - brings in the whole regulatory regime just a notch lighter than fission. Taken together we'd be lucky to match the current natural gas - I personally think no chance in hell. Carbon emission of natural gas isn't an issue because nobody [who matter] cares about it today, and then, when the issue is finally forced for resolution, adding carbon sequestration would still be a comparatively minor expense. And that not even talking about already free fusion used in solar and wind based generation - hard to beat economics of that fusion reactor.
> You don't have to agree with them politically to see that Google is applying different standards to conservative content than to more liberal content.

Or, perhaps a balanced set of standards is being applied, and the author's Overton Window is off-kilter, and the supposedly "(merely) conservative" content described therein remains outside of the actually-balanced metric for search ranking?

(Granting, yes, perfect balance for any actor or reference frame is impossible; and accepting that some degree of filtering-scare-quotes-censorship is a positive, pro-social quality in a search engine.)
No. Because that would imply that ammonium nitrate has a higher specific energy than TNT. Which it doesn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Refere...
Blazor GameDev – part 7: animations
I’m all for this, it does seem like arxiv is already the arxiv for engineering though.
I'm sure 'Zuck is very sorry.