skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slavery?
How hard would it be for DO to change the sign up button to 'Sign up/Login'? Seems like an utterly trivial change to make for something that's completely possible, but totally hidden, while the 'visible' solution is extremely aggravating.

That's a textbook example of poor UI.
So, why not submit a patch to fix the segfault? Or submit a bug report at least? Bashing other projects might be fun but it's rarely productive.
I'm coming late to this, but I think there is a parallel in policing generally, where cops would rather take on low risk, easy win "mall cop" activities like petty drug and traffic enforcement than deal with major crimes that have a real harm in society. Without a much more specific mandate from lawmakers, it is too easy to go after minor infractions by defenceless people instead of doing some hard work.
> The fact that you might object to considering such procedures algorithms rests on the fact that the "thesis" is providing a definition.

Unfortunately, many people don't seem to understand this.

An interesting paper related to this issue is The Myth of Hypercomputation [1]

Basically it is easy compute something that is uncomputable by using uncomputable inputs.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-05642-4_...
We discovered, after accidentally having twins and bumping the kids count to 3, a typical sedan cannot physically carry more than two children because you cannot fit 3 or more child seats in the back as required by law. That's why families of 3 or more kids have minivans. It's not like the 80s where you toss the kids in a station wagon and let them wander in the back, they are required to be in massive padded seats.
A student in my gf class got killed during commute in a morning as he exceptionally drove an old beater instead of his pick-up. A full-size transport truck crashed into it. He would probably still be alive had he been driving his pick-up.
In my experience, no. I used Oracle in a professional setting for 15 years. I’ve only used Postgres for 2-3 years, but so far it has been superior to a Oracle in every way.
Docker is available for Windows and does not require WSL. Docker options include[0]:

> Linux containers in WSL 2 mode, Linux containers in Hyper-V mode, or Windows containers.

0: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/
That’s why they said “even a Camery”
Another way of looking at it is that no matter how beautifully you describe American car culture or how much you romanticize it, it has immense externalities. The externalities don’t depend on how much people enjoy using cars however they please.
But something can be socialist even if it came about before the idea of socialism was put forth.

Remote villages have lived in communistic systems but have no idea about the concept of communism.
Pi is a concept that is divorced from reality, Pi is irrational because a chain of logical inferences and applications result in the definition. The definition of Pi is predicated on a geometric description of a circle which is distinctly non-physical. The entire meaning of Pi is based on a logical chain of defined symbols, that while meaningful to some conscious thinker are not observations of physical reality. The geometric conception of a circle as an infinite collection of points, which are inherently not physically possible objects, exhibits a ratio between its radius and its diameter, which is called Pi, and that ratio needs to be expressed by a number which is definitionally irrational (the definition of which is predicated on a definition of Natural numbers (via a definition of the Real numbers)). These symbols are merely the language we use to describe logical relations between various symbols, that while possibly applicable, with prediction and accuracy preconditions, to physical reality, are merely a logic used to describe natural numbers and the properties thereof.

It is this complete logical decoupling from any physical, observable reality, that I cannot accept mathematics as anything other than an, ideally, internally consistent, logic used to define and discuss symbolic logical objects. And I am of the opinion that logics are merely invented by conscious beings as means to systematize areas of discourse and to derive internally consistent inferences and implications built there on.

I would agree that if irrational numbers were prohibited from being inferred in the logical system of math then some things would not work within the logic. Because a change in the axiomatic or inferential rules of a logic are changed the logic as a whole changes. But, if, as you describe it, math was forked to be limited to rationals, and the precision of those radicals was calibrated to be on the order of 1/10 of a Planck length, I am not convinced that any equation attempting to describe 3 dimensional space would be inaccurate. However, I could wrong.
Whenever I hear someone saying the market is huge I think of this classic Thiel talk. Sounds like its definitely something you should watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k
> It sounds like you speak for the half of the population that lives near and in metro areas.

The guy is canadian and he doesn't speak for anyone. I wish these people would talk about their own country rather than trying to pretend to be relevant by hiding behind "north america".

Also, metro areas in the US are full of big cars - SUVs. It's not just the rural areas that love big cars, americans everywhere love big cars. Politicians, cops, firefighters, security guards, soccer moms, dads, grandparents, etc all like big cars. It's why the top 10 best selling cars are predominantly trucks and SUVs.

> you might realize that what you hope for is laughably out of touch with about half of the US.

He's laughably out of touch with most of america because he's canadian. The only people he is aligned with are the fringe who thinks everything is "toxic".
Reducing accuracy to try and improve fairness is definitely the politically correct thing to do. There was a good paper on this topic about how trying to make a model more fair can result in worst outcomes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04383 If some group does happen to have a higher recidivism risk, pretending this isn't true and just correcting against that fact will just result in more crime.
No, this is different. Graphviz is primarily about laying graphs out, and secondarily (if that) about using them to draw diagrams. This is an "open canvas" diagram description language and tool.

The closest I can think of is ditaa (ditaa.sourceforge.net), but ditaa's front end is completely different - it requires you to actually "draw" the picture using text. pikchr (and PIC before it) requires you to describe the picture using words and it will draw it for you.

Plantuml and Websequencediagrams have frontends that are similar, but they are constrained in domain-specific ways. This is any 2D picture (well, within the primitives supported)

Plantuml, IIRC, uses Graphviz in the backend and is in impressive attempt at hiding that fact :). I have spent many a hour trying to get Graphviz to lay a diagram out they way I want it to before learning that the one true way is to let Graphviz be itself - a displayer of the network you described to it, not a displayer of the diagram you want to see.
If you have tried one of the robo investors, the amount of transactions that they generate, even under routine usage (regular contributions, tax loss harvesting etc.), it is beyond any human's ability to comprehend. Fortunately for IRS, computers can very easily track, trace and make sense of large volumes of transactional data without breaking a sweat.
I've seen centralised logging scale to FANG level, so I really wouldn't worry about bottlenecking.
South Africans Protest, Demand Deportation of Nigerian Illegal Immigrants
Why don’t they try to sell that here? (US)
I'm glad you wrote this comment since I think this happens to almost everyone in the current system to some degree. It's sad that even those who see the beauty in mathematics are basically forced to rote learn algorithms to recite them later. It's no wonder that maths, school, and boredom are synonymous for a lot of people.
But when was that written? Latest date version/example is 2018. Wikipedia says 'development has stalled since 2011'.

Otherwise, as I understand it, this woupd be helpful for Fusion360 refugees looking to get their 3D models (the part of F360 that uses proprietary DWG format) into other tools?
That’s correct. I recall that almost all of New Jersey is considered urban. New Jersey is almost exclusively suburbs and then farms.
> Step 1 is slow the vehicles down

I can't even imagine what that would do to traffic that is already pretty congested. Large swaths of suburban metros would just grind to a halt.

> 30k / year die in car accidents in the USA

Closer to 40K. Even then, that is compared with almost 3 million people who die for all reasons combined. It's actually sort of amazing how low the fatality rate is given just how much movement there is every day. One for every 100,000,000 miles driven. That's remarkable.
>I mean it's Rolling Stone, the biggest music magazine of all time.

Huh? Rolling Stone hasn't been relevant since the mid-70s...

We in Europe had NME, Melody Maker, MOJO, and lots of other higher quality music magazines...
Pac-Man Maze Generation
An experiment to inform universal basic income
Code Complete
https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Cons...
What convinced me was the book Goedel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter. It was my first exposure to the more abstract and playful side of math, and motivated me to become a math major in college.

I was "good at math" in high school, to the extent that I could crunch through any problem in the math or physics textbooks. School math existed mainly to serve the science and engineering students. Now I was happy to use math, for instance in my electronics and programming hobbies, but that wasn't math as an end unto itself.

But proofs are what really made math come alive for me. I don't think this makes me a freak. A lot of people I know from my generation said that their favorite high school math course was geometry, which was heavily proof oriented at the time.

Sadly, the contemporary K-12 math curriculum is sorely lacking in proofs.

Now, what about the students who would be more motivated by usefulness than by abstract theory? For those students, I suggest looking at how people in the so called "real world" actually do math, and work backwards from there. My days of abstract math are behind me, but I am still one of the "math people" at my workplace, in an industrial R&D department. When I do math, I'm never far from a computer. Yet school math is still taught by mainly pencil-and-paper methods, even if those have been translated to online forms.

For many of my math tasks, I start by playing with numbers, e.g., computing a function and graphing it in a Jupyter notebook. It brings tears to my eyes that K-12 students are not exposed to this. For one thing, it's fun, and it's an honest portrayal of how people actually work. For another, you can brute force your way through a problem even if you've forgotten some particular formula, making it more likely for someone to use it later on. Graphing calculators are of course a thing, but they hardly go far enough.
Absolutely this. Any single instance of cancel culture is an individual exercising their right to free speech and association, as well as the so frequently touted primary method of individuals to voice their opinion within capitalism, voting with one's wallet. Somehow when many people all with the same opinion do it in concert it becomes cancel culture. Both sides of the political divide do it, and both seem to have a problem with it only when the other side does it.
Decrying a fundamental mechanism of democratic speech because it goes against what you agree with seems to me rather undemocratic. And I think the view that it is disliked by those in power as it gives normal people an unusually powerful weapon is spot on.
Interesting article, but unfortunately none of it is verifiable. It cites creationism.org (!!!) as a source and concludes that the fossil shoeprint is regrettably lost.
Might exposure to snuff films be a morally appropriate consequence for financing the production of such films via tax payments?
I'm not deeply familiar w/ what's available for RISC-V but it seems like all that comes in the box for testing is a black box reference design to bench against. The complaint about "lack of UVM support" may be a poorly stated reference to a need to write a lot of your own verif.
A motorcycle can't carry my family from place to place, or store my emergency goods, carseats, sporting equipment, etc.
Open Source is a small issue thing in the context of an entire economy.

It's nice to have some support for it, but it doesn't even lend well to that: it's very hard to know which projects to support until after the fact, of course we know that 99% of it is never even used. The kinds of people involved don't do it generally for money, and also have their own ambitions. What happens when you have a 'great piece of open source' that AirBus and Daimler really want to integrate, but the 'maintainer' just doesn't care to make the necessary changes? Or is against it? Or is only working 'now and then
? Or doesn't feel 'large corps should benefit' or whatever? It's a tricky space. Worth supporting, but it would take a very specialized team and frankly, not that much money.

Europe needs large industrial organizations because they are the lifeblood of the economy, in fact, the hallmark of advanced civilizations. You want to know the 'difference' between 'rich' and 'poor' Europe? In 'rich Europe' a far grater portion of the population works in corporations with >1K employees.

Only at a certain scale can a lot of activities be addressed: you can't make an airliner with all it's supply chain, IP, R&D, systems integration, training, support and the myriad of operational activities with 'open source' or even with 'small shops' or 'vc money'. A lot of know-how is embedded within these groups that given them competitive advantage, and of course, scale is necessary to be competitive at an international level especially in 'winner takes all' type markets.

EU investment in open source is nice, but it's a side-show. What EU needs is Googles & Salesforces etc..
There are many finite constraints. First, there is no infinite time [1]. The most famous uncomputable problem is the halting problem (given an algorithm A and an input x, can we compute it? that is, will A stop on x?). Although we have an infinite tape, since the time of a computation is finite, the space it uses is also. Second, we describe a Turing machine using finite sets.

[1] Actually, as described by Turing, a Turing machine neves stops, but this is only because he is interested in computing real numbers (for example pi). But even using an original Turing machine, we do not "compute" pi. We only "compute" pi with some precision.
So I did my due diligence, and it sounds like these systems were developed for NASA as part of a grant. Why are they posing their product against trendy minimal home offices on their website? And what have they fundamentally achieved here compared to a guy with PVC pipes and a pump?
> Do you really think the Iranian government is going to subpoena twitter to acquire evidence that Iran committed war crimes and then prosecute themselves?

Another country's government could. War crimes can be prosecuted by any country (under universal jurisdiction), by the country on whose territory the crimes were committed (territorial jurisdiction), and also possibly if their citizens are among the victims (passive personality principle).

Even if in practice prosecution isn't feasible (such as due to inability to apprehend/extradite the defendants, a legal system which disallows trials in absentia, limited availability of evidence, etc), at least a foreign government could hold a formal investigation and publicise the results. Subpoenas aren't restricted to criminal cases, they can also be used for formal public inquiries (such as the concept of Royal Commissions found in Commonwealth countries, or the 9/11 Commission and Warren Commission in the US), for inquiries by the legislature (inquiries by committees of Congress/Parliament/etc), for intelligence collection, etc. It is also possible for a national government to subpoena data from private companies and then provide that data to an inquiry by the UN (or one of its agencies).

There is also the International Criminal Court (ICC). Iran is not a member state of the ICC, but the ICC could exercise jurisdiction over Iranian citizens in one of three ways: (1) if Iran were in the future to join the Court, or consent to its jurisdiction in a specific case; (2) if the Iranian citizens are accused of committing war crimes on the territory of an ICC member state; (3) if the UN Security Council made a referral. Now, in practice, Iran probably isn't going to join (or consent to a specific case), and China and/or Russia would probably use their Security Council veto to protect Iran, but method (2) might still work.

If some country's government, or the ICC, wants to subpoena data about Iranian war crimes from a social media platform, the social media platform is likely to comply (although there are all kinds of complex political and legal factors involved.)
>So Sgt Pepper is beautiful? What makes it so?

For one thing, it captured a place/era almost perfectly (as agreed by tons of people in that place/era - including fellow musicians).

Second, it has the height of maturity of what was considered the most important band of all time (and close to such as seen by both the critics and commercial success).

Third, it unarguably has considerable skill in several areas (melody, harmony, orchestration, playing, etc).

Fourth, it was largely influencial.

Fifth, most experts (critics, rock musicians, etc) agreed so for half a century.

Those things are enough to call it beautiful in mind book.

Just because we can't measure something (e.g. beauty here) with some technical instrument doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or people can't agree on it.
I was not responding to an accusation or difficult question.

I was raising the fact that the same things happens nearby - and one might feel the same sickness over it. And maybe do something about it.
Is this how you substitute experience in an industry? As in the “we built this because we needed it, and it turns out a billion other people did, too” story?

It sounds like everyone ‘improves’ their offering based on feedback - but some folks seem to ‘just know’ what they are going through, and that somehow resonates with others.

I’ve always wondered if there’s a difference between approaches or if it’s all just window dressing.
This sounds like a really tough time you are going through. I hate that for you. I hope you feel better tomorrow.

I imagine you are very good at your job, better than you think. I also imagine you are more capable than you believe. One note about devops and modern [insert popular technology/methodology] is that as tech people we love to share but we often don't share with the proper context. "I love X!" we say, instead of "I love X and work at company Y doing Z in order to solve Q under S constraints!"

Large companies deal with incredible scale, copious data, and as far as I can tell create only complex solutions. This is because the challenges they face are complicated, so... no easy wins. Is your company FAANG size? Maybe start to learn Kubernetes, if not... ignore it for now. Don't feel the stress of learning solutions to problems you don't have. Look for the UNIXs not the Blockchains.

The best quick intro to the modern devops/cloud developer stuff is easier. Learn a bit of docker. Learn a bit of AWS, Google, Azure or Digital Ocean. Make little experiments, or simply ask people who care about it. You don't have to know everything, no one expects you to. Trying to "cram" a bunch of complicated technologies into your brain while you are afraid and hurting isn't easy.

Feel better friend.
That would tend to encourage raising tariffs. Which is, generally, bad for business (and gets very complicated in the context of trade treaties and the WTO).
> It is merely a lack of creativity to pit these two goals against each other.

Exactly. Lightweight, low-speed electric vehicles still allow you to hit the open road, haul a load of trash to the dump, or commute in from the burbs. There is nothing about that freedom that is dependent on being able to go from 0-60 in a specific time, or having a specific top speed.
We undermine line workers in Software Engineering world as well. We tag them as "hackers" or "folks who take short cuts" or "don't do good job" when we see an unconventional solution. We need to understand the perfect solution differs from case to case.
Hey, I worked in sales for years. So did my mother. I started B2B sales when I was 16.

Don’t “learn” sales. A lot of reading material and courses could actually negatively effect you by causing you to overthink things. At best, you will come across as calculating and at worst you’ll lose deals due to getting lost in the weeds.

Here’s two things:

Whenever you deal with someone, try to conceptualize yourself as a consultant and not a salesperson. Great sales people are more like matchmakers, people have some kind of problem and you have some kind of solution. People are pretty sensitive to in situations where they could be persuaded. Conversations should have the feelIng like you are trying to convince a friend to watch a really cool movie rather than high pressure, ultra confident wolf of Wall Street closing.

Two, if you really want to learn the actual craft of it then put yourself in more situations where you can talk to a salesperson and put them through their paces. Start taking calls from telemarketers and instead of hanging up tell them you would rather they send you an email. Go to a car dealership and tell them the car you want is too expensive. This is a decent way to get experience.
"The worker who'd placed the unapproved fan on the production floor was finally identified. They were counselled and sent to three days of mandatory retraining to ensure they understood that no further incidents of changing procedures outside of the formal change-approval process would be tolerated, and the installation of unapproved equipment was grounds for dismissal. The note on their file blocked any promotion, but the economy meant they couldn't change jobs. Eventually the learned helplessness and bitterness set in and they started amusing themselves by adding things from the break-room fridge to packages being shipped internationally. Five years later, they and everyone else were laid-off when a competitor figured out how to get otherwise unemployed people with cars and phones to deliver things for less than minimum wage."
Or if you do, don't try to make it work like California (either socially or politically).
Agreed, I'd like to see noise laws enforced in the US also.

Motorcycles are probably the main offenders but some cars, trucks, and even 2-stroke gas scooters can be ridiculously loud. The law should not discriminate.
Understood, and I agree that most users will be part of the race to the bottom.

It has been encouraging, however, watching more and more creative people switch to a direct relationship with their fans and basically doubling their ad-based income when only a small fraction of their audience signs up.

If 1% of your audience pays you about the same as the revenue from the other 99% through ads, there might be alternative models that can work. Not massively scalable ones, mind, but ones that can still provide a sustainable living without turning the user and creator into the product.

I am holding out for those platforms. In the meantime, I directly sign up with the people I like, and I avoid feeding the beast, trivial as I am.
Google Crostini had the Linux in a VM architecture + Window support long before WSL became WSL V2 in a VM.