skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang
Outside of US you usually pay for the data
I think this can be expensive for some people
So the lottery is so unlikely it is not worth thinking about? Are there bounds on the possibilities? Can’t you just check a lot of values and hope for the best?
A Million Random Digits Was a Number-Cruncher’s Bible. Now One Has Exposed Flaws
Don't you have to register your architectural plans in most all cities anyhow?
Works in Chrome & Firefox for me on macOS Catalina but not in Safari.
That's like saying "let's compare species of ants on Africa, Asia, America vs Antarctica", you would need to melt the ice first; iOS is uncharted territory.
Tesla, Cox and Google in the last 48hrs =/
It's not "salt" as in table salt / sodium chloride, but it is a salt.

And yes, it's great!
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Interesting, thanks for the link. I've been curious about the Estonian one. I'd be interested in hearing how that has worked out for people.
In-app purchases are important for non-gaming apps like audio book stores, ebook stores, and anything that has pay-as-you-go content.... and anything with a free trial like VPN apps which give you a free week tor whatever before billing you monthly.
Not quite. A lot of weed commercial weed is sprayed to smitherins with chemicals and actually just tastes and smokes really poorly. You cant tell that just by looking at it. Here in Canada, every single order I've gotten from government and private licensed shops has been average quality at best. Dealers have at least as good quality.
'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming
echoing this. i find typically that academics in highly specialized areas are excited a member of the general public is this enthusiastic about the conceptual problem the academics are working on.
Missing harm considered harmful.
Confusingly the word "agent" is used for both the recruiter and recruitee.

In USA it tends to be Agent/Asset whereas the rest of the Anglosphere tends to use Officer/Agent.
Do standups just before lunch. People tend to work on different schedules, start/finish early, start/finish late, but most tend to have their "middle of the day meal" at around the same time. So instead of 9 or 10am, or 4 or 5pm, do it at the "natural" break time, eg 12:00-12:15.

Two advantages, people that have got "into" the work flow in the morning need to break anyway, people that use the morning for "admin" and then afternoon for work can finish their housekeeping with the standup.

Same applies at the next order of magnitude, start/finish sprints in the middle of the week, not the beginning or end. No one wants to sit in a review on a Friday afternoon.

Retrospectives make sense at the end of the working week. Planning makes sense at the beginning.
If your organisation has a good async communication culture, yes. Many don't.
Wow you really summed it up nicely here thanks for sharing your hard-earned wisdom from living it I can tell.
> Amazon expects that users won’t mind sharing a small fraction of their bandwidth with their neighbors.

Very interested to see how this will be protected against exploits.
I was a kid in the same times. Yes, for those of us lucky enough to have access to machines that had good modems (or, well, any modem), some semblance of this was possible. To argue it is at all at the same scale, though, is rather wrong.

The comparison was "it has never been easier." Back then, just don't buy that rather expensive modem and let the kid take up the home phone. Nowadays, it is "don't buy the entry level game system or ubiquitous computing device."

It really is vastly harder nowadays, because of how ubiquitous networked devices are. Can it feel easier? Sure, but I guarantee that most motivated kids can and will outsmart most parental controls used by less than tech savvy parents.
From what I understand, SwiftUI uses this so that each "snapshot" of the View tree generated by the app can be intelligently diffed against future snapshots. This helps make rendering more efficient, as well as with things like animations. Consider a simple view like:

var body: some View {
if someStateBool {
Text("True")
} else {
Text("False")
}

Suppose that initially, `someStateBool ` evaluates to `true`, and then is updated to `false` (triggering an update. If the control flow were "flattened" (i.e., without `buildEither`), the two snapshots would look like:

1. Text("True")
2. Text("False")

The algorithm wouldn't be able to tell the difference between "same view with different string" and "different view entirely". With `buildEither`, the snapshots end up looking more like:

1. ConditionalContent(first: Text("True"))
2. ConditionalContent(second: Text("False"))

Now, the update algorithm can determine that the entire view was swapped out for another on the update, rather than just changing the text.
One downside of training on TPUs is that by default they save models to GCE buckets. When buckets go down, there’s no way to save or load your models. It’s kind of funny: my model is training right now; I see it training right now; but it can’t save, so the progress will be wiped out if the TPU preempts or malfunctions.

Luckily they’ll fix the issue within 24h, which is when TPUs preempt. :)
Sorry, what is taint in this context?
Can't something gnarly getting checked in cause a service outage?
Keep your eye on the Sackler/Purdue Pharma case [1].

Purdue steered over $13B directly to the Sackler family by aggressively marketing opiates, misinforming doctors and the public about their dangers, and giving medical software companies kickbacks to push more addictive long-release versions of their opiates to doctors.

One company, Allscripts, was able to pay $145M to resolve criminal and civil kickback allegations [2].

They directly killed over 400,000 people between 1999 and 2017 and indirectly killed many more/caused unimaginable human suffering.

The family is proposing to pay $3B over 7 years and an additional $1.5B by selling off another company they own.

This is the real opiate crisis jackpot and the high-scale, high-powered, industrialized version of the crimes that are happening on the dark web.

I'm sure there are more large companies and high powered individuals involved and agree that the 200 arrests/$6M is an infinitely tiny drop in the bucket, but it's way easier to prove and stick than the larger operations.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-bankruptcy-...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigati...
It is absolute insanity that they charge a 30% fee to buy some services like Fortnite, Tinder, etc, but then charge NOTHING if I buy from Amazon or Instacart.
and it worked. it slowed the spread.
> The only place I ca think of in the US with fiber are university dorms

While definitely nowhere near the majority of the US, there are many metro areas with large residential fiber to the home (FTTH) deployments. Suggesting it is only available at university dorms is massively misrepresenting reality.

In pretty much all the areas I've lived for the last decade, FTTH has been extremely common. I'm certain lots of other people have had very different experiences from me. Lots of other people have had experiences vastly different from yours.

https://broadbandnow.com/report/fiber-optic-availability-map...

https://www.att.com/shop/internet/gigapower/coverage-map.htm...

https://www.verizon.com/home/fiosavailability/
Common Lisp has a concept of a "potential number" number which is a token that looks numberish, and it permits implementations to have custom numeric literals that are potential numbers. Even then though, if you have e.g. an asterisk or a percent or something it will not be a potential number.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_caa...
What does 90% mean, and out of curiosity can you distinguish two notes one semitone apart on e.g. a piano?
I worked in a company where we had this kind of surveys, but there was a catch; every feedback that was not excellent, was considered bad performance. So yeah, not so great place.
Sidewalk Labs launches AI platform to help commercial buildings save energy
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24585478
A SwiftUI view is a function which returns a strongly-typed value. Strongly-typed here is stronger than you may be familiar with, it's like `View<HStack<Button, Slider, TextField>>`. The whole view hierarchy has some type.

You don't have to write these types because Swift can infer them. But when you write a view, you're really also stitching together a type. This explains some of the weird-feeling limitations, like no more than 10 subviews - since every possible count needs its own separate generic function! [1]

Anyways the control flow constructs are needed so it can be encoded in the type. You need a way to say "I can be this type, or that type" at the type level - that's what _ConditionalContent encodes. Not a SwiftUI expert but that's my understanding.

1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/viewbuilde...
Not sure if I'm missing something, but under the "Conditionals" heading there is an example.

I've been writing a lot of SwiftUI code since it came out - and a common use is like that example. Imagine a settings UI where you want to only show an advanced option if a switch/checkbox is toggled.
In some places, excess death is now lower than recent average years, probably due to less commuting and other dangerous activities.
I literally just saw someone advising people to liquidate their 401K to buy uniswap. Whether they explicitly say it is a get rich quick scheme or not, this is the message the marks are receiving.
Is there evidence that plants feel pain or that bugs do not? I don't know of any, but I would definitively be interested as that could change my view. I want to go wherever the evidence leads, even if it's uncomfortable.

In either case, if plants did feel pain, would a person cause more suffering by eating plants or by eating animals that eat plants?
Yep - I agree, small wins are easier, and especially if you can use buzzwords like we do in tech. It also leaves more option for agent corruption to bring some of that cash home.

This possibly one reason why white collar crime is less punished (see: civil forfeiture - though more so that the likeliness of a successful court case is very low) - less money to take home because rich people will spend it all on lawyers if they have to, then use their connections to get right back on top.
When I was in high school, one substitute teacher would try and get kids to compete over who could keep a piece of Dubbel Zout in their mouth the longest. I tapped into my Dutch ancestry and just calmly ate mine while everyone else seemed on the verge of tears.
This is completely unrelated to what I said, to the point where it’s genuinely confusing what you’re going on about.
Isn’t it telling that they described a complete ban on gatherings for an entire age range a “minor sacrifice”?

Really shows you how far the overton window shifted.

Also doubly ironic that I got called paranoid for talking about what is literally happening right now, not what I fear might happen.
I see domain name, I cut domain name, and suddenly url is pasted. That's a glaring UI bug.
When I last worked in an org with standups, whenever I intended to go head-down on something substantial I'd simply tell the vp of eng to not expect to hear from me or even see me for at least a few days until I have something substantial worth sharing on the subject.

There was never any resistance there, and I've never encountered friction in that vein anywhere. No cto or vpe above me has ever wanted to get in the way of someone productive getting into a multi-day flow state anywhere I've bothered to work that hard. Peers or underlings however, the competition that is, it's a different story I mostly ignored.

Having said that, I found standups to be a very obnoxious, passive-aggressive tool management used for dealing with folks unable to maintain a relevant and correctly prioritized todo list, and stay on task day-to-day. It's a group I've dabbled in being part of at some employers, and found quite unfulfilling and frustrating because management is way more meddlesome in that mode and individual leverage is practically nonexistent without playing the politics game well. YMMV
It seems they have the capacity for the principle of reciprocity, amazing!
Deciding to Switch Companies
The Common Lisp specification has the entire reader algorithm laid out[1]. It fits on a single page, and it's really easy to understand.

Note, however, that there is heavy lifting done by the default read-table (the CL reader is table-based and is dynamically modifiable[2]), so you will only be able to read tokens if you implement what is on that page.

However, the most common characters are nearly trivial to implement: #\( #\" #\' as well as the most common dispatch characters for #\#

1: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_b.h...

2: Someone modified the lisp reader to be able to read in valid C89 code, and implemented a backend to compile that to common-lisp: https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis
> I mean if last December you had told people that we would issue stay at home orders and lay off 20 million people in the span of two weeks then keep all that stuff for six months they would have called you ridiculous and paranoid too. And yet here we are

Much of the country never issued stay at home orders and almost no place has stay at home orders now, so they would have been right to call you inaccurate if perhaps paranoid isn't the right word, as we largely didn't do that, and where we did we didn't keep it for six months.
We only support subscriptions at this point, not one-off sales.
The Julia community is large and very active. Julia is also rapidly ascending in various language rankings (19 on IEEE Spectrum, 28 on Tiobe).

It's sort of a random ask, but Qt bindings do exist:

https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/Qt_jll/s7blD/5.15.0+3

along with a higher level QML wrapper:

https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/QML/JLkMo/0.6.0
Yeah, this likely isn't on disrupting Tor. There are loads of other targets on Tor which have been around for a relatively long time. The cops figured out how to nail people some other way.
Yes, once you've eliminated the taste of the vegetable you can start experimenting with lots of things that taste good!
Yeah! Sit them down in front of a TV to watch reruns of cartoons or give them a magazine to read both full of ads for toys like the good ole days!
I'm looking into this gap right now. In the US for example, deaths from dementia so far this year are much higher than the average for the past five years (up until ~Aug 15). There's also a not insignificant amount of notes saying deaths are being underreported in a lot of jurisdictions.

Pretty much across the board jumps for most major causes of death. Haven't pulled in anything on suicides yet. Interestingly though, deaths from lower respiratory disease are down for all regions of the US. I wondered how much that has to do with less traffic/air pollution which might otherwise aggravate that?
By volume, or by weight?

edit: A "cup" is just as shitty of a unit of measurement as "a bag":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
It's been like that for some time and is a not considered a bug but a feature. You click twice to see the full URL, some of this behavior can be changed in chrome://flags
I loathe to see us getting more and more experienced at killing and controlling animals - go check out that thread on crow intelligence - we should stop and think for a while before we laude our superiority over the world.
Yes, Google publishes a security report that indicates that devices that side-load apps have an 8x higher malware incidence compared to devices that only use the Play Store. (https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_S...)

As an example, HummingBad infected 85 million devices primarily via direct-download on malicious adult websites. (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-android-malware-has-infec...)
Great, there is a business opportunity for global game streamming.
Yeah, I worried the reference to Nazism would set people off. It comes off like Godwin’s law. But I didn’t make the comparison lightly, I literally mean that this type of blind obedience to authority is literally what allows factions like the Nazis to come to power.

In any case, I take solace in the fact that pretty much all of my comments in this thread are more or less equally downvoted :P

I’ve had to stop browsing HN as much during covid because people here tend to be very rabid about this issue. I am
shocked how normalized the idea of forcible business closures and total bans on population movement for years (“until the vaccine”) has become. All to avoid a virus that spreads so well that even literal islands (NZ) have been unable to contain it, which has per the CDC a .65% IFR (I personally think the real figure is .3%), and which unlike Influenza does not kill children.

But I digress.
Everybody wants a different set of App Store rules. The problem is that there is only one App Store and one company choosing the rules. With competing App Stores (e.g. “Great for Kids Store”, “Adults Only Store”) we’d have freedom of choice instead of single corporate rule.

Imagine if one company set the rules for allowable websites. What would (wouldn’t) they ban?

Instead the Web is wonderfully open and parents, schools, individuals, even nations can choose configurable filters to have a web that aligns with their values.
Are there legal implications on an ISP subscriber if illegal activity is conducted via their network? I would very much mind sharing a ‘small fraction of bandwidth’ while having arbitrarily large legal exposure.
Is the flavor of grapefruit primarily bitterness? I guess that does sound right, but it was initially surprising to me, because I cannot stand grapefruit, but I very much enjoy all manner of strong coffee and bitter beers like IPAs.
Incidentally, this affected Google's game streaming service Stadia, which is an interesting timing with Amazon's Luna announcement ;)
It's more fundamental than that. Consider:

var body : some View {
if something {
return Image("hi")
} else {
return Text("hi")
}
}

this function won't even compile because Swift infers different types for the returns (Image vs Text).

In order to give the return value a type, the if statement has to be encoded in the type system itself.
Android yearly updates aren't for you anymore
Show HN: Parametric Equalizer for PulseAudio
Is there a reason you treat the arithmetic operators specially in your reader? Non-lisps do so as they are infix operators, but most lisps treat them the same as any other identifier.
Incompetence, not malice. Who would dark pattern their status page to keep you on it longer—def an accident.
There is no evidence that the measures slowed the spread as compared to the natural dynamics of an infectious disease as immunity builds. Compare Sweden’s curve to New York’s for example.
Thanks for this great feedback! As for the ‘disappearing code’, you could have gotten back to it by clicking the yellow dot on the timeline. We should obviously make this much clearer.

We’ll make sure to cancel the auto-advance as well if a user starts interacting with the code.

As for DS topics: we’ll first add general backend topics, but DS would be natural to venture into after that.
I don't trust microsoft to act ethically with that power.
How much contact do you figure these university students have with the outside community? Or their families?
Why? If an app is not present in the App Store then it's Apple's fault for not being an attractive option. That's how competition works.
This is a decentralized market? Drug markets have a lot of links. The feds likely found a way to uncover one node and followed that thread.

I wouldn't assume that the "darknet" itself was compromised. There are still lots of bad targets out there which have long been in operation. The cops found another way to get inside the network.
I didn't make any claims about their raids on Europe though. I was talking specifically about Iceland, and Greenland, and only about Iceland and Greenland. So all your sources are completely irrelevant to what I said. You're reading things I never wrote.

The Thule people of Greenland arrived in 1300-1400, after the vikings had arrived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greenland#:~:text=A....

I was writing things I find interesting from a social development perspective, and a historical information perspective, but there was nothing political implied about what I said. Nor did I make any sort of far fetched claims, I claimed that Iceland and Greenland were uninhabited when the Vikings arrived, and that claim is true. And the point I was making is how much of an outlier that is, I understand that contact is usually followed by violence, that's why I pointed out how unusual that situation was.

I think that this is the result of people assuming political intent where there is none, reading into what I wrote things that weren't there, and basically just failing to be open minded in terms of exploring little known corners of history. The knee jerk downvote reflex is toxic and I think it's acceptable to talk about that.

I understand that in this day and age everything gets transmuted into politics but in this case I’m just a history nerd relaying something fascinating I know and to get this instant negative response is.. well it’s discouraging and frustrating. We’re all hackers here; don’t we want to learn new things and not just have our biases confirmed? Seeing the Vikings in their aspect as explorers rather than warriors is an aspect that isn’t often talked about. Of course they were warriors too, I don’t want to paint them as perfect people.

Oh whatever, I’m just shouting into the wind.
You’re missing the point. Most people don’t want to download a video instead of streaming directly, which is a far lower barrier than procuring equipment, dealing with compatibility issues, doing system updates etc. I doubt competitive gamers will ever move across but it hugely reduces the barriers for casual or time poor gamers.
CU has a lot of elder care and nursing homes near it. These people are in poor health to begin with. Covid is not doing them any favors.

I know this because I have family in those facilities that I have not been able to see since this all started. We (low risk) have been banned from these facilities (high risk) for months now.

We are lucky in that we are still somewhat healthy in regards to my family near CU. Many other families in these facilities are not and have lost loved ones due to the pandemic. The bans are not working as well as hoped, especially since the start of the school year.

The decisions of the CU community in relation to the larger Boulder community are contentious at the moment. Many parts of the larger Boulder community do not appreciate CU's 'cavalier' policies.
Surprised both the article and the comments here ignore that licorice is known to be high in lead.
Having drugs sent to you is evidence you bought them. Maybe not conclusive evidence by itself, but certainly good evidence. Almost certainly there would be corroborating evidence such as drugs paraphernalia, financial transactions, positive blood test, internet history, etc

You are unlikely to get caught because you are unlikely to have the package intercepted. If it is, you should expect to be convicted.
Why are there two comments back to back missing the fact they're obviously referring to this part of the comment:

> News sites injecting their homepage in history on an article sometimes make me wonder if it's worth it.

They even bring up a news site as an example.
Can you bring your own toilet paper to a public restroom?

An Apple restroom would prohibit you from bringing your own toiler paper, plus, it would force you to use the new iPaper worth 6 times more than any other toilet paper.