skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python (the snake; doesn’t show up at all for me in Google’s “All” results).

Swift (the bird; Google eventually gives me https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swift, but that page thinks it’s more common as a name of a lizard than as the name of a bird, so Google’s small preview says “Definition of swift · 1 : any of several lizards (especially of the genus Sceloporus) that run swiftly · 2 : a reel for winding yarn…”)
And the people who think that's a bad thing because now bosses are going to ask for more work... Having more time in your day doesn't mean you have to be more productive at your job. You can do tons of other things, whether that's caring for children, learning a new skill, or working on a hobby/side project.
Question, in what manner is your work level impacted by your coworkers' work level? This is different from where I work where if somebody goes on vacation, we adjust our sprint capacity accordingly during our planning.
This is one of those titles that pull on the heartstrings ... "oh think of the children" then it turns out it is a complication that affects a vanishingly small segment of the population.

Then we use the fear to impose rules that severely affect 100% of the children: for example not letting people go outside or go to school.

All part of the relentless propaganda of scaremongering where the weak want everyone to be equally afraid.
> I’m pretty sure their education wasn’t self-funded

I would clarify that they have not gotten a studentship either.
Because it's just there on devices they have. It is the default for tweens and teens who just got an iPhone handed down from a parent, and it works on day one. Regionality happened with IM clients back in the day as well - some areas favored AIM, some Yahoo, some MSN. Why did that happen? It just does.
There is plenty of people which want to kill themselves for few, but common reasons, like cancer. It's not a stopper for terrorists.
It's better to have a leader that do some good and some bad things than having a leader that do a lot of good and lot of bad things.
Read it again. I'm agreeing with the parent.
Technically the institution owning the domain could forge the identity of one of its members. In practice, the sender having the password and Duo push for an institutional AD or G Suite account is a pretty good assurance.
'Ethiopian' and 'Libertarian' are both also nouns
> MIS-C, a syndrome linked to <1% of children post-covid, damages children's hearts

There is also never causality discussed in all these post-covid syndrome articles.

With many millions of confirmed cases, you are guaranteed that some people who have had covid will get unrelated diseases later on after recovering. With <1% of cases linked I don't think this is worth worrying about.
yeah, i was struggling too. egan’s books are too much for me because i feel like i need a highlighter and a graphing calculator, but i totally admire them and wish i was smarter.
https://manjaro.org/
Greg Egan is truly one of the most creative minds on the planet. He has a book called Dichronaughts that's set in a universe with 2 space and 2 time-like dimensions. It's very hard to get your head around but the result is a universe with a hyperbolic geometry where movement on one axis implies changing your shape entirely.
> Apple's iMessage lock-in

is a choice.

Nothing is stopping you and your friends from moving to another platform, each with their own """lock-in"""
I'm not a fan of Snap, in fact I've complained about it on HN before, but it really isn't that big of a deal. It's a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things.

At least for me, it would be a spiteful decision to go to macOS of all operating systems, where system package managers don't exist, and the only viable option is a 3rd party Homebrew or Macports repository.
Let's see... you're proposing that a company should just hand out their competitive advantage just because some parents are unable to curb their consumerism / keeping up with the Jonesses an dealing with "psychology in teens"?

Nobody forces you to use iMessage. Use Snap, Whatsapp, Telegram, FB messenger, whatever. You don't need to be upgrading with every cycle (or even every other cycle) either. I am on my 4th smartphone since 2008, replacing a battery is cheaper that replacing phones. And if your teen insists on the latest&greatest instead, that should be your problem, not Apple's.

Without their walled garden Apple is nothing but a commodity hardware maker and those do not survive for long on this side of the Pacific.
Huffman coding, Turing Machine, Amdahl's law, Boolean algebra, Currying, Ada, etc
From the underlying paper there are several interesting snippets https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.01694.pdf

> while maintainers are aware of that they sometimes intentionally bypass the process, they were surprised of the magnitude of unreviewed patches

Would love to see an analysis of these changes - are they just simple merge style fixes or rearrangements, or more significant?

And then there is the hard to define distinction between a security bug and a normal bug, which is then mixed into the the incredible productivity and pace of kernel development:

> Koah-Hartman argues that only a small fraction of Linux kernel security fixes are assigned to CVE entries. From 2006-2018, 1005 CVEs were assigned to the kernel. He argues that, on average, bugs with CVE entries are 100 days fixed in mainline before they get a CVE assigned.

Seems there is long lag between the bug being introduced and the exploit discovered, so there must be many potential security exploits that are never discovered before they are fixed - and so are not practically exploitable as they never get into downstream distribution kernels.
Definitely this. Manjaro is out-of-the-box ready, but based on Arch. Manjaro stable is also two more testing steps away from Arch, so the packages are less likely to cause issues. And there are four sources for software: Manjaro repos, the AUR, flatpacks, and snaps. I have never been in a situation where I could not install the latest software via one of those routes. I ran Debian for years and often ran into situations where new software was just not installable due to library incompatibility, etc. Manjaro feels like a Swiss Army knife in comparison.
I'm pretty used to this sort of inverted 'No True Scotsman' (you know, if you believe <innocuous thing> then you're really a <follower of a definitely non-innocuous set of complex and frequently inconsistent and contradictory intersecting beliefs, norms and practices>) assertion about Christianity, Agnosticism, Atheism, Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Feminism, Objectivism, Belief in the Paranormal or UFOs, and whatever John McAffee is currently raving about. I will, however, confess to some amusement at seeing any careful parsing of the rules defining anarchism.
I understand your message, but you keep framing it as a temporary issue and response when that doesn't matter - it's a preferential response, which is the whole issue. Rather than providing actually-equal time flexibility and time off to all employees in response to WFH challenges, companies provided those to only one class of employees.
Sure, but step-by-step guide always increase your chances heavily.
Example: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
I have no opinion on naming stuff at advanced levels. But in high school and university I felt a palpable frustration on a very regular basis for randomly named stuff. I couldn’t and still can’t get my brain to remember things with unrelated names.

So when I learn about and need to recall “isostatic rebound” and not “the Chip Dipson Effect” it just eliminates an entire layer of key lookup and parsing I have to do.
Well, a leader can only do so much with what he/she is given. (or conversely, for all the success, only attribute some of it to a leader)

One of the most important contributing success factors was that Singapore had a population and people dying (literally dying) to have effective government, material improvements in their lives, and a willingness to be compliant with leaders who delivered.

It really makes a big difference when your people are cooperating with government. It costs less. It produces more.

When your people contribute their own time and work, when people keep things clean and disapprove of crime, when they don't tolerate disorder or corruption, gangs, etc., when they don't sue each other left and right, you achieve a lot more with the same resources.

It's a cultural thing, so it's hard to reproduce except over decades of changing a people's mindset.

You could put all these structures in place somewhere else, but if people don't want it, or don't support it, it could simply produce every run-of-the-mill banana republic that we know all too well, with elite institutions and guarantees of competence on paper and nothing in reality.
Link to the source of the first graph: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
I don’t understand this at all. Where’s the 13% increase coming from? (if i work the same number of hours)
Council-GAN – Breaking the Cycle – Colleagues are all you need (CVPR 2020)
> What's the point of dynamic linking

There's a certain subset of developers who are against dynamic linking at all, and they do have some convincing arguments that are worth reading.

I don't necessarily agree with them, but their arguments are worth acknowledging.
Yea, CRFs and graphical models in general are extremely versatile! It’s a shame more people don’t think about them. The major problem with them is computation, but there are approximate methods like belief propagation, expectation propagation, and even sequential Monte Carlo that you can leverage depending on your inference goals.
This article really betrays a lack of deep understanding of the concepts involved.
This same tyranny exists with money. The beauty of financial transactions as work and recognition is that there's never any ambiguity as far as your work being valued. In academia you have, on the other hand, things such as nebulous awards and recognition of placement on a publication. These things have real implications for career placement. That can be an analogous sort of tyranny, I think.
IIRC https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RTH6WK (about Robert Noyce) covers it in some detail. And I'm sure it's documented in more detail in https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Genius-Shockley-Electronic-Mac...

He did identify some very talented individuals but apparently was constantly slipping into paranoia and eugenics theory.
Maybe this is just a US centric issue? I have an iPhone for years, a lot of people I know too, yet I never saw anyone using iMessage, nor I personally use it. Everyone I know is using either Facebook Messenger, Line, Whatsapp, Telegram or a combination of both. SMS are dead, and are too costly to be used internationally to begin with. Apple could remove iMessage that are not SMS related (useful once a while to get a confirmation code) and most of the world wouldn’t even notice.
The point is, on the Apple mouse I feel and see this stuff, at other mice I don't.
Generally it is not bad for your health, sure, but I do not like the feel of it. Feels greasy very fast.
I couldn’t get Manjaro to install successfully. First operating system I’ve tried to use that just didn’t work. Their easy install thing is a bit too easy, in that it can’t even tell you what went wrong. Also docs were very weak.

I like what they are trying to do but it just did not work for me.

Arch is hard to figure out too with the wiki based docs but at least that’s advertised as unfriendly.
The real problem here is excessive governmental tolerance of monopolies and the lack of an adequate regulatory/legal regime to protect end-users from harms caused by vendor-lock in.

All of the companies you mention have near-monopolies in their respective sectors. Hundreds of years of economic history show that monopolies are extremely harmful to their customers.

Autodesk is only able to get away with what it does because regulators allowed it to buy out its competitors. Further, the extreme technical difficulty of reverse-engineering complex file formats--including legal obstacles such as enforceable shrink-wrap contracts against reverse engineering, the DMCA ban on reverse engineering, and patent issues--means that it's virtually impossible for competing, interoperable, products to emerge in Autodesk's markets.

Microsoft continues to be a problem because the US government decided, 25 years ago, that stopping Microsoft from abusing its operating system monopoly was unAmerican.

Companies, like people, follow incentives. The incentives created by strong copyright and patent law, combined with the deliberate unenforcement of anti-trust laws in the United States, prevent competition. Without competition, customers always lose.

Getting users a fair deal means changing the rules that define the software market to consider the needs of users rather than only the wants of vendors.
Every Christopher Nolan Film, Ranked for You to Disagree With
> No. Words have meaning. Violence's actual definition: behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

I was eliding what I thought was the obvious conclusion. But let me be more explicit. If someone is determined to do something, and you are determined to stop them, the result will be an escalation that leads to taking actions that hurt, damage, or kill the other person.

> It doesn't. If it was, they wouldn't be lifelong criminals.

You just restated the original assertion I responded to, again without evidence or argument. Why not try responding to the ideas I presented?

> That shouldn't be their role. Violence just leads to more violence. They are breaking the laws they're paid to uphold otherwise.

That should be their only role. The biggest problem with police is that they are doing a ton of other jobs that they are not qualified to do. A firefighter is trained to put out fires. A paramedic is trained to perform lifesaving medical procedures. Pretty much the only thing a police officer brings to an emergency is a gun. And most emergencies cannot be solved with a gun. A car accident can't be solved with a gun. A cat stuck in a tree can't be solved (except in the loosest sense) with a gun. A psychiatric emergency can't be solved with a gun. But a handful of emergencies can only be solved with a gun - an armed bank robbery, a terrorist attack. And many more situations can only be resolved because the authorities can wield the threat of violence. Consider a criminal investigation for instance. When the feds show up at your business to request financial records, they don't usually carry guns. But even though you may not want to give them documents that will incriminate you, that's still preferable to the investigators calling the police and seizing the files themselves while you sit in the back of the police car.
How stable is testing? I want a stable build with relatively recent packages. I don’t think they’re exclusive.
I think starting off your comment the way you did made the conclusion fairly natural.
Yeah I hear you about the frustration. Btw I just came back here to add that there is a way to get at least some partial satisfaction: if you see some specific case that you're worried about you can email hn@ycombinator.com. We always look into it, and we're usually able to say something without giving away the store. Just be aware that the HN inbox is brutal, so if something requires time to look into or properly reply to, you may have to wait a while. We look at most emails as they come in, though, in case there's something that needs taking care of immediately.

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The idea of requiring a reply for downvotes or flags comes up a lot and I'm sorry to disappoint, but we're not going to do it, because all of our experience is that it would just lead to a lot of low-quality replies.

In terms of equal treatment of flagging: flags are almost all done by users and we can't control what they do, so this is beyond our power. When we do intervene, we definitely try to do it in an even handed way [1], so if you see an unfairly-unbalanced situation, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is also an option.

[1] Anyone who bothers to slog through https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... will see, for example, that we moderate all varieties of nationalistic attack and don't play favorites.
None of those messengers were tied to expensive hardware like iMessage.
I don't know why everyone always says someone or the other united all of India - they always ignore Kerala and Tamil Nadu (and often parts of Andhra Pradesh) which were neither a part of the Maurya empire - nor a part of the Mughal empire.
There were several misdesigns in it that they would not allow the option to change. That and other missteps always doom their projects.
Yeah, sortition looks very promising, I recently read this article describing it:

https://newpol.org/issue_post/the-return-of-democracy-by-lot...

My main concern with it, is that black people (and BLM supporters in general) are routinely excluded from jury duty in the US, so if there's a system in place that could exclude people from sortition, that would be ripe for abuse
imagine a person gets cancer and dies. this is, by itself and with no context, an act that has no moral component—it just happened. now imagine YOU gave the person cancer.

this difference is the difference between the presumably undirected evolution that led to us, and the sort of fucking around with actual living things we would need to do to direct evolution ourselves.
I'm not sure who you are arguing with regarding the whole "opportunity" thing, did anyone even mention that as something that affects this situation? That everyone technically has the opportunity to have kids?

Your metaphor is not at all similar to the real situation parents find themselves in. It's not "oh here, some people who eat meat gets Friday off". It's closer to "because of a situation outside of the company, anybody who ate meat in the last year has to do 2x as many work hours, and no longer has any time off, so in recognition of this, we're going to try and balance this out by giving them certain benefits".

That is the situation parents find themselves in, at least parents of young children.

You seem to be looking at this as a pure benefit to parents. It's not - it's a global catastrophe that has caused a massive problem for parents, and companies that are trying to at least somewhat mitigate that massive problem.
Of course, with this mouse I have to.
Feels greasy very quickly, so I have to sweep it all the time. Very annoying and not functional.
I am not trying to say that things couldn't be designed better. They could (that is never _not_ true). But it is also important to remember that this was a crazy accident as well and several uncommon things had to go wrong at once. The reactor was designed to withstand 100 year earthquake and tsunamis (that's equivalent to flipping almost 7 heads in a row) (we're also not accounting for the odds of the tsunami). But what I am suggesting is that there is a limit. Sure, we could foresee 100 heads landing in a row, it is certainly possible, but at the end of the day you have that end up with an acceptable amount of risk. I do not think 100 year events (1:99 probability) is correct as climate change is changing those odds, but it isn't like this was engineers being lazy and dumb. You are using post hoc analysis to justify actions made without that knowledge. As they say, hindsight is 2020. I do want to remind you that this was the largest earthquake to EVER hit Japan. That's much harder to predict and extremely reasonable to believe such an event is unlikely during the expected lifetime of the reactor.
Like I said, I work in the industry. I know how to understand product. The high CBD products are almost universally so low in THC that it takes quite a lot to get a small buzz. Which itself isn't necessarily a bad thing (although can be quite expensive), but that also means very large doses of CBD, which tends to make me very sleepy and dopey.

The product I wish I could find is very rare, I've almost never found it. Something more akin to the "dirt weed" I grew up with, THC around 4-5%. There just isn't enough of a market for "I want to get a little high". There's a high THC market, and a high CBD market, with not much in between.
Or you could change the other side of the equation, and allow non-Apple devices to communicate with Apple devices without limiting them?
At first I agreed with you, but I think your analogy to algorithms actually somewhat counters your point.

The Wikipedia article for Dijkstra's algorithm gives an alternative name of "Shortest Path First", or "SPF algorithm", which I do think is a much better and more descriptive name.

It also made me think of sorting algorithms, which all have wonderfully snappy and descriptive names. I think the world would be a sadder place if – instead of quicksort, mergesort, and heapsort – we had to struggle with opaque names like Hoare sort, Neumann sort, and Williams sort.
Where is Project Milo?

We may have Final Fantasy 15 and The Last Guardian, but who cares when mankind's greatest achievement is still nowhere to be found?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czcSxnBlW0A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Milo
Chris Gerlinsky did a talk last year on the process he uses to decap chips and extract their ROM bits with a microscope: https://youtu.be/4YpSevQWCX8

My favorite line was when he described how one hint you've got the decoding right might be stumbling upon a recognizable ASCII string, and said "sometimes the only ASCII text you find is a copyright notice... keep putting those in, that's great!"
The link to https://www.righto.com/2020/06/a-look-at-die-of-8086-process... is worth clicking
>> house IS AN ASSET.

> Yes, if you own your house. No, if you have a mortgage, the bank owns it.

This is incorrect in most of the United States and in other countries, like England, where the mortgagee only has a lien; the mortgagor has legal title. That is, the mortgagee only has a right to obtain legal title in the event the debtor defaults. Until the debtor defaults and the mortgagee secures legal title, the debtor has legal title and owns the mortgaged property, which is properly the debtor's asset.
The only thing I want (not need) that is unavoidably distributed via snap is Canonical's Livepatch. I don't want it enough to keep snapd around but it irritates me that I can't have a useful security feature.
Probably not entirely a coincidence - Ken Shirriff is doing a series on the 8086 which may account for at least one of the other articles you've noticed. My disassembly was only possible because of Ken's high-resolution photos of the die with the metal layer removed - that's why it took me until now to do it.
I'll highly recommend "Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor". https://www.amazon.com/Ashoka-Search-Indias-Lost-Emperor/dp/...

Not so much about Chanakya, but about that period in India, and describes in depth how the history was pieced together.