skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh, stack overflow. Hugely popular thread with a lot of engagement? Lets lock it. Wouldn’t want to encourage behavior that doesn’t match our narrow minded “vision” for the site. Still though, an improvement over the early years where they just outright deleted countless pages with countless contributions. In the end it’s their site and they can run it however they want, but it’s sad to see such massive potential squandered through a policy promoting deletionism. Hindsight is 20/20 though and it’s not like I’ve gone and coded a better one, so I should probably just delete this comment and move on.
I haven’t been impressed by any of the old UK houses I’ve been in, from rowhouses in London to detached houses in a midlands to mansion in Cotswald.

The insulation, pipes, and wiring all are quite inferior to modern standards.
May people who write articles like this find inner peace one day. Envy is a sin.
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>Is it reasonable to expect Facebook to do all those things, compared to other choices that are consistent, neutral, and inevitably result in various type I and type II errors with respect to the nature and purposes of posts related to violence?

I would say it depends on how Facebook presents itself to the wide world.

Is is just a content aggregator that allows others to share their thoughts? Nope, we shouldn't expect them to do it.

Are they a platform, where they curate the content? absolutely yes, they chose this - you can't eat the cake and still have it.
Ask HN: What are good life skills for people to learn?
My initial thoughts; learn to drive, first aid, a sport, play an instrument, a language, how to manage finances, to speak in front of people.
Market volatility brings vintage hedge fund strategy back to the fore
Totally agreed. Plus it's not like these are even really separate problems. These petrochemicals exist entirely because they're effectively by-products of fossil fuel refinement, the use of which is the major contributing factor to CO2 emissions.
The thing is that brazil is mostly cutting forests down for slash and burn farming. If they modernized farming practices, the rate of deforestation would drop significantly. The solution there as with most of these questions of climate fairness is for first world countries to invest in technological development of poorer regions. If brazil’s farmers could practice farming in the same way as european farmers, they wouldn’t need to cut forests down.
Most likely the number of cells is irrelevant, but there really is no way around the fact that an egg and a sperm are not conscious and that a 5-year old is conscious (for any useful definition of consciousness).

Sure, you could opt for the scientific version of panpsychism, where we attribute a property that we call consciousness purely by analogy to any system with some physical properties. But that still leaves you with the hard work of (a) proving that that property has anything to do with what we normally understand as consciousness (qualia, inner voice, etc.), and (b) defining the point/range where a system has enough panpsychism-consciousness to be considered conscious in the regular sense - e.g. at what size/age does a human have its first experience of thought? When the first neurons differentiate? When it is born? Later? Panpsychism could be a way to give an answer, but you still need to actually quantify this.

Of course, spiritual/religious panpsychism doesn't have this problem, it can posit that the soul should exists even outside of a physical body, that electrons can feel love etc. It is not provably wrong, but it is also outside the realm of what we can scientifically study, at least for now.
No one can. It all depends which side you support - the only option is to present both viewpoints in equal measure to 3rd party audience.
That last point is not true without qualification.
I think the reason people are concerned about CO2 and greenhouse gasses is that we know they will end up hurting us, while industrial waste is not something to be concerned about at the moment beyond local effects. The fact that this is 'damage we don't even understand yet' points to this simple fact that this is not a significant problem and can safely be ignored while we work on the problem that we know will have serious long-term consequences.
I feel that being practical in the engineering is one thing but an overemphasis on practicality could also be dangerous in that it could build up technical debt down the road to the point of no (easy) return. Therefore a balance has to be struck.

Though the top comment's interpretation about the difference between the incentives of consultants and regular workers, and how workers should be rewarded more for good work, is very interesting and definitely rings true to me. The importance of proper incentives/reward mechanism is overlooked in many companies, which is a shame.
Honest Question :

What is the real benefit of this over ocamlc ? Can we get erlang interop ?
> hundreds of millions of people in China could still afford it at the prices quoted.

Maybe (I would be more comfortable with a claim that tens of millions can afford them), but they don't have them. Why not? Because the affluent "elite" largely consists of the CCP's 91 million members. They are the winners in the current system, and therefore the least likely to oppose it.

What China fears and cracks down on is free flow of information to and between the masses of ordinary Chinese.

> This isn't some small Finnish town we're talking about, it's 1/5th of every person alive on Earth.

Moving the goalpost there. 1/5 of Earth's 7.8 billion is 1.6 billion, not your "hundreds of millions".
It's unlikely that humans will die out even assuming worst case scenarios. So I guess it depends on your definition of "history" whether climate can cause it or not.
It always depends on what applications you're looking for, but yes there's tons.

https://benchmarks.sciml.ai/html/MultiLanguage/wrapper_packa...

https://gist.github.com/ChrisRackauckas/cc6ac746e2dfd285c28e...

https://gist.github.com/ChrisRackauckas/4a4d526c15cc4170ce37...

are the ones from the top of my head.
For those that don’t know, this website and lifestyle were actually heavily inspired by CS/Machine Learning work done by Ken Stanley and Joel Lehman.

They co-authored a book, Why Greatness Cannot be Planned, about the philosophy and results behind an algorithm they developed for evolutionary computation with no explicit objective other than finding new artifacts: Novelty Search. You can see a review of the book here: https://medium.com/@John_Saunders/what-ive-been-reading-why-...

As I understand, the author of this site took the work quite literally!

If you’re into the intersection of CS and philosophical topics, I’d highly recommend reading the book.
I am sorry to not understand, but what do you mean?
I think few would argue that big news outlets are free of bias and sensationalism. The questions is to what degree?

There's a tendency, on the internet, to write off establishment people and groups completely, based on their all-time most egregious mistake (eg: The NYT is reduced to their toadying to Bush over WMD, election polling is meaningless because it failed to predict 2016, etc).

Most of these organizations aren't stellar, but, at this point, the public perception is so paranoid it makes Noam Chomsky sound as credulous as a boy scout.
The question is how do you define extravagance? Ask someone in a middle class suburb of the US and you will get a different answer than the most of the rest of the world.

The biggest extravagance is space. Having space (I.e. detached houses) has a knock on effect of increased emissions of everything. Increased energy usage to transport mass increased distance.
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I can't really put my finger on it, but this article seems slightly biased against Silicon Valley CEOs.
> Manifestly, the B extension isn't in any of the chips being produced now

The RISC-V chips produced today are not made for performance or be competitive, they are proof of concepts, toys and prototypes.
The current state of the RISC-V spec is not competitive with either ARM or x86. Therefore why use this as a comparison point?

> It's a proposed extension, not finalized.

Like many other extensions such as the Packed SIMD one, the Vector one and Hypervisor one.
These 3 are probably even more important than bit manipulation for performance and are not finalized either.

The RISC-V ISA is still under construction.

> It's a large extension, so (like other large extensions) it won't be implemented on the smaller chips that will also lack.

Did you know that it's stipulated in the RISC-V spec that instructions not present in the hardware can be emulated in software?
This makes it possible, in a small chip, to handle an extension as large as B without the need to implement all the instructions.

> For all we know, it may never become a standard extension. Somebody said they were trying to get the POPCOUNT instruction removed even from the extension, or made an optional part of it.

> I don't know why I would need sources.

You need a source because you make surprising assertions.
There is a huge fusion reactor in the sky that we can use. It provides energy much cheaper than any fusion plants we can hope to build in the next fifty years.
Money is at the top for many people, though I would claim on a household level.

In my case my income really isn't the primary determinant of my household income. As the secondary earner being able to support the primary earner fully is of much more value to my longterm household income than fighting tooth and nail for an extra $20k p.a.

Since many competent people couple up into two earner households actively targeting the secondary earners by offering the things that are more valuable to them than money feels like a "society-hack" that should be achievable.
Not really, it would be akin to phone company allowing it's users to create multi-user international terrorist hotline, and refusing any kind of responsibility for it... while also sending out promotional material to people they deemed 'potential terrorists'
my software is a 1 man show, easy to fork and self-host, though still a bit green and only text and images for now
I was thinking it just does the the work of providing an interface to the cheap controller, so you could replace the attiny85 with something like what's shown in this article.

Though you're limited to pulses that drive the second hand. So you would have to keep track of pulses and hold one back or add an extra now and then. Something like waking up every half second, calculating current ntp time minus last known ntp time and sending pulses to match.

Daylight savings that goes back would be an issue for that hour, best you could do is wait, or send a bunch of pulses to go around as quick as the stepper allows.
Those photoshopped images though. Hard to imagine productive discussion coming from framing a group of people, a priori, psychopaths.
I think this might be due to regulatory issues. If I remember correctly, a Twizy will be categorised as a "light vehicle" [1] which will probably lower some requirements in terms of safety or whatnot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadricycle_(EU_vehicle_classi...
> option to work three or four days a week for (50% or 75% of pay)

Work 60% for 50% pay or work 80% for 75% pay? Sounds like a raw deal to me.
I never saw Hacker News as a "international computer news web site".

Usually, in my favourite threads, someone posts a problem (be it a deadly amoeba in the water supply, be it an unsolved math theorem) and in the comments solutions are discussed (often involving technology, sometimes not).

If a discussion starts here about tech advancements to water supply planning, that would be interesting to me.

Can I ask why a kid dying from a deadly amoeba in the water is political and a man dying after eating a bag of liquorice isn't?
I still get forced reboots on my workplace Win10 laptop. I can just postpone the update like 4 weeks. And then stuff brake.
Compare this:

private static function request(?string $method, ?string $url, array $options): array
{
...
}

To this:

function request($method, $url, $options)
{
...
}

I can grasp the latter much better. It immediately forms a structure in my head that I will remember while I read other parts of the code. To do the same with the former, I think my brain uses up twice the energy or more. And even then, I will not have such a good grasp on it as with the former.
>The largest H-bomb test ever carried out was in Europe!

While technically Severny Island is "in Europe" in the historical continental sense, Russian arctic islands aren't what anyone is referring to as a comparison point with the US in this discussion. Nor Russia in general for that matter.
Yeah, well I don’t think life has ever been very certain ?
Ubiquiti

or
just a lot of value for the money:

search for N-BOX-S2 in aliexpress
like:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000893344365.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000738202595.html
> Yes, you need to listen. But you'll never sell anything if you can't articulate a destination, lay out the path and showcase to the customer how what you're representing will benefit them more-so than the products you're trying to displace or something new that will bring with it a myriad of gains for said customer. IYes, you need to listen. But you'll never sell anything if you can't articulate a destination, lay out the path and showcase to the customer how what you're representing will benefit them more-so than the products you're trying to displace or something new that will bring with it a myriad of gains for said customer.

But you don't know where the customer is trying to go...you don't know their pain...you don't know their priorities...

Without listening.
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well except for push/pop, and all the microcoded stuff.

IMHO the x86 has been successful because it started out semi-RISCy - no indirect addressing modes, no auto inc/dec, only one memory access per instruction - (except for push/pop and the microcoded segment stuff).

It means either an instruction goes to completion, or it faults, there's no state change to undo if something takes a TLB miss - compared with a 68k etc it's an easy implementation
The Pulfrich Effect – 3D and 2D Simultaneously
Well, I wonder if you think it makes sense economically for Mozilla to go through that model for asking its users for money - For a browser. Be honest.
Facebook is going to release soonish a new language on the BEAM, that's fully static typed.
Pleae be nice to the 2374568234th user that could not manage to read any manual or just google for his error message before opening a new question!
actually, for tourist visa, you at least need a somewhat filled bankaccount. the south american or russian nomad might not be a multi-millionaire in the US, but he'll be quite rich in his/her homecountry.

And no, average "3rd world remote work" lined up likely won't cut it, because I think most countries want you to be able to support yourself for the duration of the visa (and I think "I'm a nomad, the internet pays me, here's my Indian LLC" isn't what officials want to hear).

Then, even just the fees for one VISA are likely a months income for most people from countries with a bad passport...

Given that: with careful planning and a good passport you can certainly do things like this on a budget, given that most countries of this world only cost you a tiny fraction of living in population centers of Europe or North American coasts.
Sorry, I think I was referring specifically to the dude that did integer polynomial equations. His name starts with P i think.
Interesting - i’ve read a lot of medium articles over the years on a daily basis, and not once it ever gave me an “upgrade” button.

Maybe the writer can decide if it the article is free to use? I don’t know - but from my experience Medium is one of the more “open” platforms without any restrictions for the reader.

Strange our experiences are so different.
Curious, what's wrong with graphviz?
The statement is not a fact about ontologies but rather about specific existent ontology languages and the trade-offs they made in their data model and logics to remain tractable. When an ontology is represented in a plain relational database without any fancy logic. All relations with finite extent are representable.
At a web startup I worked at years ago, I spent all night tracking down a nasty bug related to user signups.

I eventually traced it to one specific line of original founder code, and lo and behold, on that line was the comment: "this is probably buggy".
Good one !!!
Cool story. Here's a real one, if anyone's interested...

A Tiny Mistake
https://pastebin.com/gZa36S0K
We Learned About the Aztecs From Their Conquerors—But New Research Is Letting Them Speak for Themselves

BY CAMILLA TOWNSEND NOVEMBER 1, 2019

https://time.com/5715476/aztec-history-myths/
> The minute we start making cyborg augmentations to improve filtering of our air ducts

Market it as a COVID-19 solution, and you won't have any issues finding funding :-)
Perhaps he was warning people about an actually bad place?
"fairness" is just Orwellian double speak that really means unfair. That is, introducing literal bias (in the ML sense) to cancel out the subjective bias of woke activists.
The intermittent white flickering (encountered on iPhone iOS 14 Safari) becomes really disturbing while trying to relax, TBH.
Marketing is the message.

Advertising is how that's communicated.

Using a billboard or a TV advert is not marketing.

Of course, marketing needs to be advertized. Else you'd just be sitting around a confernce table all day. Sooner of later the (marketing) message will need to be...advertised.

And yes, the medium can be the message. But a magazine advertisement is not a brand style guide. Tradeshow swag is not a tag line.

It not a question of placement - inside or out - it's simple proven definitions.
Ask HN: What are the pricing factors do you consider while choosing a software?
We're building a new product that will replace old behaviour of evaluating and researching a software.

Being a trend setter in the market, help me understand at what scenarios customers are ready to pay and switch from old behaviours?
Let me get this straight..

I open a Coinbase account. I feed it $50 for some bitcoin, and use a small amount to pay for a web hosting package somewhere.

I then have to pay taxes on whatever bitcoin is left if the value of BTC goes up?

this sounds... way more complicated than I thought.
.... and as we can see, it also attracts downvotes.
This is apparently just a timer with an "impossible challenge" tease.

How is that not terrible clickbait?
This reminds me of Randotron [0] from Rick and Morty :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wezE6RLlcDA
Hey that’s cool, I didn’t know about this. But there are a few things that would make this difficult to use:

1. How do you even call a Java library from Go?

2. Graphviz generates diagrams, whereas according to the ELK page:

> Note that ELK itself doesn't render the drawing but only computes positions (and possibly dimensions) for the diagram elements.

It also wasn’t really clear to me from glancing at the page, what this does better than graphviz.
Getting a large amount of visual tearing on Firefox on Android on a fairly powerful phone.

Who thought that a countdown would be a good way to induce relaxation?
This is the one I'm watching. Besides the docs not being done towards the end of the getting started syntax guide, it seems to be among the most developed of the make Erlang static typed competitors.
Someone once told me something very similar before... I was too polite to say otherwise.
Hi, where can I learn more about Distributed Systems? I guess your job requires that knowledge. Any accessible resources for a fresh grad?
Any favorite, of the android RPN calculators? I've been using just free42 for a while.
Can anyone speak to the possible energy savings this change may provide?

Or is BTC too fundamentally tied to CPU-bound work?
So if I'm understanding correctly, your theory is that MS will be expecting Windows servers with DirectX and WSL to be the targets for ML production workloads? Instead of Linux servers in Azure...

Wouldn't developers just write native Windows ML apps then?
>When an ontology is represented in a plain relational database without any fancy logic. All relations with finite extent are representable.

Ah OK, I agree.
I wish they'd allow both external RBS files and inline markup.
Perhaps you have not read enough of the available information ?
This is extremely unjust. Just because someone produces more value for society (works harder, is more intelligent, and is therefore more useful to their fellow humans and thus gets higher compensation) shouldn't mean that society takes more from them when they break the same laws as everyone else. A poor person speeding and a rich person speeding are both creating the same negative externality and should compensate society by the same.
The correct thing is imho to pass an immutable SomeType or an interface that only exposes the parts of SomeType necessary for the calculation and doesn’t allow mutation of the object.

Of course you don’t send around references to mutable objects and of course you only send to a function just what it needs - but that’s regardless of type system.
The Aztecs pretty much the third reich of the new world can’t say they did not get what they deserved. Illness and epidemics have followed war and empire for ever just look at the history of plagues in Europe and enormous consequences it had for economy and political outcomes.

The obsession of trying to pin guilt on one historic area or another is ridiculous. Last time I checked nobody has gotten a mea culpa from the mongols.
I do like that they are focused on being a collaborative Q&A site, nothing more and nothing less. Some sites care so much about "engagement" that they try to be all things to all people and end up simply becoming yet another generic forum.

I have other issues with SO but having a USP and sticking with it isn't their problem, IMHO.
My 99 year old grandma says that the greatest invention in her lifetime was the washing machine, freeing up an incredible number of labor and hours wasted every week in every household (and usually by women) for more productive tasks.
Why do you want that? Interestingly, Joe Armstrong said that people always asked about a static type system, but he couldn’t figure out the value of them. They were able to build extremely reliable systems with Erlang’s existing type system. And he mentioned at least one project that was 2 million LOC, so these weren’t just toy projects.

So what are you unable to accomplish in Erlang that makes you feel like it’s missing something?
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That's my secret agenda ;) I want to see affordable tape drives! If the number of people who need a tape drive, but don't know it, and won't find out till its too late, knew they needed one, there'd be more competition in the market.
Jordan Belford. Don’t waste your time on non customers, and don’t lie. Help your customers, even if it means referring them to a competitor.

Cultivate a following, and they will follow.

And don’t lie, when they ask you to sell you a pen, ask if you are in the market for a pen, and what company you represent and what pens you have to offer. Never lie about the pen being in space, everyone knows scummy sales people lie.
AMD – Number of CUs of Navi 23, Navi 31, Van Gogh, from macOS 11 Beta
Ten years ago I found a comment in Excel's code base preceding a function over 1000 lines long that seemed to be parsing dates:

// I just cleaned up the code. I have no idea what this fn does. Here is
// what the comment said earlier for your reference!
// --> BUG!! - this code is a crime against nature and has absolutely no
// --> redeeming value (other than the amazing fact that it works)