skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link to the sample chapter: https://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/sample_chapter....

It's a fun read. There are some surprisingly lively parts, like the unattributed chestnut analogy from Grothendieck , which Tao seems to have taken to heart, or this bit on Kepler calculating Mars' sidereal period:

> Kepler likely did not say “Bingo!” because that word hadn’t been coined yet, but this was precisely what Kepler needed. Bingo!

The Brahe-Kepler brouhaha also provides good evidence that the (much-derided on HN) territoriality of modern academia is not at all a new thing or limited to unimportant minds.
I thought that too, but it's actually the difference between 1.0f and the next larger number; so it only represents the smallest difference for the non-dotzero range.

See here: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cfloat/
The speed of sound in steel is in the neighbourhood of 6000 m/s, whereas in air it's a mere 343 m/s.
Also he was a great dancer, but just an okay rapper.
Somehow the article is entirely free of statistics. According to http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/diversity/pdf/bame-career-progres...

In 1971 only 2% of the UK was made up of non-white people, today it’s around 14% [..] In the lifetime of the current Diversity and Inclusion strategy the BAME [Black, Asian, and minority ethnic] workforce has increased from 13.1% in 2015 to 14.8% in 2018.
I'm building a set of beautiful, native Flutter UI widgets
The eyes creep me out right away. Uncanny valley.
Not sure that was ever the case. My Nikon from ten years ago had the 'bulb' exposure mode that would stay open until a remote trigger was released.
Looks like a major upgrade to leaflet.markcluster (https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.markercluster), which supports 50k points at most.
I wrote a simple streaming data pipeline project post, using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and PostgreSQL DB. Hope this helps someone. lmk if any questions/thoughts/concerns, etc
I’d be curious to see an example - there aren’t any in the article.
The article does not say anything about the situation in the USA that is why I asked. It is a bit much for you to take the 'if you read the article' line when the article only mentions one half of the two items which you say do not compare. You have presented no more information than the article, just a snide response.

> Collecting kindling in California won't help as you're addressing the wrong problem.

1) Are you saying that flamable items on the forest floor do not contribute to Californian forest fires

2) The solution to climate change is rather harder to achieve than picking up pine needles. Therefore whilst it is not the root cause, it does not make it not worth looking at.
Sound travels through steel ~17 times faster than through air at 1 atmosphere.

At 500 meters, the "kachunck" of a train wheel going over a bump will take ~1.4 seconds to reach you by air, but only ~0.08 seconds to reach you through the rail.

A pretty big difference.
They took up a huge amount of desk space though, which was quite inconvenient. But perhaps they could be made flatter?
There are a lot of these lists on the internet and they're all personal, but since you asked, here would be mine. This list is just a starting point.

If I started over, I would focus solely on building the intuition of time and then start with the strictest consistency models and work my way down. I'd ignore persistence entirely and every time state is mentioned I'd just picture an in-memory number or tuple. Much like the rest of computing, everything we're doing today is based on the original ideas of the 70s/80/90s, just with more sharding. A lot more sharding.

- Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System[0]

- The many faces of consistency[1]

- Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems[2]

- Viewstamped Replication Revisited[3]

- Consensus on Transaction Commit[4]

A lot of people recommend the FLP, CAP, and popular industry papers such as Chubby and Dynamo but I don't find them very useful in the beginning. CAP is too vague to be useful anymore and it's much better to speak in terms of specific consistency models instead. The FLP paper is certainly worth reading later on, but all you need to know in the beginning is that reaching consensus (termination and agreement) over networks with unbounded delivery times (the Internet) is impossible. Once you understand this, or don't understand it but have convinced yourself to accept it, the reasons for why fault detectors enter the picture is a lot easier to digest.

I prefer Viewstamped Replication as a deep dive into learning consensus because I find it to be a lot more concrete in contrast to Paxos.

0 - https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf

1 - http://sites.computer.org/debull/A16mar/p3.pdf

2 - http://www-users.cselabs.umn.edu/classes/Spring-2018/csci898...

3 - http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf

4 - https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/consensus-on-transac...
Is Yandex's Image search better than Google's?
Really? I find them pretty convincing.
Mastodon is federated, which means everyone can start a instance. There will always be instances not controlled by the government and you cannot chase everyone.
Why would this not be the subject of a defamation suit?
More info from MIT: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/overview...
'South Park' Compares Yelp Reviewers to ISIS

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-compares-y...
The big tell for me are the ears, which are frequently distorted, and ghastly ‘people’ in the background.
Mr.T does not use the words jibba jabba
>But if you are truly worried about speed, surely your whole site should be behind a CDN – not just a few JS libraries?

Does it have to be all one or the other?

I feel like this kinda hand waves away an advantage.
Lurkdown
yet another markdown parser that was built on nodejs with typescript to create standalone html files
That's caused by the mechanism described in the article. If you squeeze the handle hard you get a fast flow. This can cause the gas to splash back into the nozzle and cuts off the flow because it appears that the tank is full.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280
@yes_man, mammals capable of same emotions that humans have, are brought into this world just so that they can be stacked on top of each other in horrid conditions for 1/10th of their natural lifespan in order to be slaughtered and fed to a species that is dying of obesity anyways.
> What I’ve come to appreciate in the years since is that the stories portrayed were not exactly value neutral. Television, like all forms of fiction, contains implicit messages about how to be a good person and what sort of aims are worth pursuing.

This is very, very, very true. A screenwriting teacher of mine once explained to me that the vast majority of us no longer get our "sermons" from church. We get them from sitcoms.

Sitcoms aren't just joke-delivery vehicles or advertising conduits (though they're those, too). They're actually the primary place the majority of Americans learn about how to be a good person.

It may sound like a bizarre claim at first, but pretty much every sitcom follows a plot something along the lines of: character has bad idea, character debates whether to do it, character does bad idea, idea seems to succeed at first, idea ultimately fails miserably, character is in trouble, character gets bailed out by someone who loves them, character learns their lesson. Virtually every sitcom episode demonstrates a moral lesson in their A-plot. (B plots and C plots are more often just gags though.)

Given the amount of TV most Americans watch, we learn far more "lessons" in any given week or month than we have the opportunity to do so in real life or through friends.

Sitcom writers actually hold a tremendous place of responsibility in American society that they can use (and have used) for good. As the article notes, Will & Grace was a big factor in changing Americans' attitudes towards gay people. Just like the Cosby show was for attitudes towards Black families. So you might think sitcoms are dumb... but they're a huge part of people's moral education, most of all when watching them as kids and teenagers.
Thank you for posting the real link!
I have half a mind to write an HNbot to autopost a scihub link whenever possible.
There are different "epsilon" constants in different languages that mean different things. In C and C++, FLT_EPSILON is "Difference between 1 and the least value greater than 1 that is representable." (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cfloat/). You might be thinking of the C# constant.
I remember the word "domestic terrorism" being used after the Oklahoma City bombing. That was in 1995.
I don't claim to be any kind of investment guru, but here's my two cents.

I've had solid returns from investments in industry segments I've worked in. The strategy outlined above by wegs2 reflects my thoughts almost exactly, including not investing more than 25% into these "personal experience" investments, since it inevitably means putting many eggs in few baskets. Most of your investments should be in lower-risk, highly diversified things like index funds.

I'd add a couple of additional things:

1. I'm pretty confident about predicting the success of an industry, but not individual companies. There's just too many factors in play to predict individual winners and losers. So within the "personal experience" investments, I hedge across several competitors who I think have good prospects. (Happily, all such companies have done well, so I guess I've avoided winner-takes-all outcomes.)

2. Even in industry segments I'm very familiar with, I avoid companies that are prominent household names. I think there's just too much investor psychology wrapped up in this, and overvaluations are more likely. So I avoid investing in companies like Google and Apple. (Granted, if I had invested in Apple it would have done well! But it being a household name gives me cold feet.) One way to avoid this is to consider upstream suppliers the general public may not be familiar with, but nonetheless produce great value and have good prospects.
http://mrbazilewich.weebly.com/uploads/6/2/0/4/6204690/twain...
Thanks a lot, I didn't expect I would enjoy scrolling through old paintings like I did!

Would you consider introducing a comment section? I'm mostly interested in a few words about the context of the painting or understand some weird elements on the painting, and I'm pretty convinced a comment section would do the job.
> some of which will is due to not emulating a weird IEEE floating point rule about rounding numbers of the form N.5 to the even number instead of up like everyone is taught in school.

Round-to-even (also known as banker's rounding, because it's used in finance too) isn't weird at all. It minimizes rounding error, especially on repeated calculations. The rounding rule that everyone learns in elementary school is bad and results in systematically biased computations. We can and should do better than that flawed approach. This post explains it in more depth: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/2120
FLT_ESPILON is the bound on rounding error for certain operations. Plenty of numbers smaller than it can be represented in most floating point implementations
Yeah, give the plenty of nuts that will accuse businesses of anything a weapon to use against any random business...
I'd be really intrigued whether you can find something at the harmonics using an infrasound microphone (some can measure down to 0.1Hz), but the price is probably prohibitive for an experiment.
You'd be surprised how many new websites out there are still made by importing JS from a random CDN, no version control of course, code is uploaded manually through FTP
Yeah, I didn't spend as much time studying ears as I did eyes in art school, but now that you mention it, I see it.

Most of the "parts" of the face look like they've been clipped out of a magazine and photoshopped on. There are subtle errors in orientation that don't match the head's orientation. It makes the overall head look flatter than the lighting on the face would suggest.

Incidentally, I work in VR, and mismatch of depth cues between color and position are things that can cause simulator sickness.
It may come as a surprise that research seems to show that sharks don't feel pain.

"Snow and his co-workers concluded that elasmobranchs lack the neuronal machinery absolutely essential for the perception of pain."

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/s_pain.htm
I love writing modern HTML, and using all the cool new tags and attributes to write content that is semantically correct. For eg, I found out recently about the <aside> tag, which works great alongside the click-to-open nature of the <summary/details> tags resulting in a semantically accurate aside tag that my readers can click-to-read. Works great as a in-content footnote of sort. Demo on my site[0].

What I've realized recently is that there are fewer people left with the ability to write raw HTML these days. Most content platforms these days either hide away raw HTML, or disallow it (like Medium) - resulting in users that can't use these features.

While writing in markdown is great, it only covers the lowest-common-denominator of HTML, and we need modern editors to embrace these new HTML features somehow.

[0]: https://captnemo.in/monopoly-deal/
Not anymore.

It used to be commonplace to tip gas station attendants everywhere in the US back when boomers were growing up; full-service was the norm and the attendants would check your oil and clean your windows.
Open Sustainable Technology
Not to mention another TCP handshake, TLS handshake, certificate validity checks, etc.

HTTP/2 changed everything. Now the fastest way to serve your assets is to push them down the pipe that has already been set up.
TFT Central's reviews are a great source for detailed measurements of response times: https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_rog_swift_360hz_pg...
Although, I do think that Vue handles the webpack config in a great way. I've been using vue-cli to manage my webpack config for years now, and never had a minor upgrade of any dependency break the build. It also provides a nice way to hook into the webpack config, so you can still add your own plugins and loaders without having to opt out of it managing it for you.
Back off from what? Nobody has said they have even threatened anything.
This.

Also Yelp, like certain other evil tech companies (like Google and FB) probably tries to brainwash its employees into thinking that they're not evil, and this feature will help with that: "see! we're policing racism against BIPOCs! we are on the right side of history."
They only do it in response to a news article, meaning that it's been vetted for credibility by a third party.
Oddly, I found the people more believable than the cats. The people looked realistic about 70% of the time; the cats, never.

I did pull one body horror: a little girl, with a background of flowers, and a petal-shaped wound in her cheek. Freaky stuff.
I remember my Sony Trinitron and Iiyama monitors fondly. RIP.
I believe Blazor desktop is really promising. Same premise - and let’s you use C# for the underlying native system access and reuses the native webview.

https://gunnarpeipman.com/blazor-on-desktop-webwindow-experi...
I was curious to see if it might be related to something called Schumann resonances since there are three harmonics that fall in to the range of human hearing at 20.8, 27.3 and 33.8 Hz [1].

I doubt that it would ever be strong enough to be perceived by the human ear but if the ionosphere can act as a wave-guide at those frequencies (20 and 40 Hz) then a fairly distant but loud noise could conceivably 'bounce' the sound hundreds or thousands of miles and 'hearing' it would depend on a) being at the exact location that the sound wave bounced down, b) ideal atmospheric conditions, c) being able to hear low frequency sounds and or d) having something inside a house that develops a sympathetic resonance.

Slightly plausible but highly unlikely but it did lead me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds which made the thought experiment worthwhile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances
Have you tried using option-shift-[f1] to subdivide? or the brightness slider in the settings.
1 feels too restrictive. I'm not sure how easily it would allow for writing math that isn't yet amenable to machine computation. Just as a random example, what if I'm doing some Étale cohomology stuff, maybe throw in some stacks and whatever else. How impressive would this code have to be?
Couldn’t you also test the recovery logic with a hasher that yielded collision more often? It’s like take your system, make it worse (use very dumb hashing), and see how it degrades and/or breaks?
This is why the big rational data type is so useful on occasion. When you just want to get one calculation exactly right, and performance doesn't matter so much because you aren't doing huge numbers of repeated operations (as in ML), use a big rational with its arbitrary precision numerator and denominator and you don't need to worry about even epsilon error.
Don’t try to “be” anything. Do it, and let being emerge.
Engineering a battery fast enough to make recharging like refueling
What does Wordpress do ?
When you fill in an.airplane, you need to ground it with a special cable that comes with the pump.
Better at some things than some LCDs maybe, like taking up desk space, heating the room, that sort of thing.
Well, goldenboy Apple has been caught yet again in its own hypocrisy. These mental gymnastics the fanboys are pulling are worthy of some gold medals.
Or, even simpler, just stub out your hash function and to something that always generates the same value and test with that.
Maybe I just haven’t looked at enough samples but the eyes look acceptable to me.
The problem is that I'm not sure "a third party" has a great track record either. Seems like something more like a judicial system is appropriate if policing enters the picture: right to face accusers, adjudication by peers, standards for proof, right to appeal, and so on.
People use the phrase "TV programming" without a hint of irony.
Went looking for the mentioned book "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System", which is a few decades old, and found this Atlantic retrospective [0] that had a few more interesting recent thoughts on the matter and a few more books to read.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/class-d...
I’m thankful to live in a state that doesn’t have this requirement.
Trying to compile exactly that list! What would be your top N experiments for kids to perform?
Yes, I think that the gender and race of the ears doesn’t always match.
Maybe gender is the wrong word, but some ears look too delicate for the individual or something.
I’d never guess these were fake if I saw one by itself though.
Kafka in Pieces
wow that is hilarious. I think it reminds me of the Saturday Night Live spoof of zenith system 3. There was an advertisement:

https://youtu.be/VhRu8aWHchY

"the quality goes in before the name goes on"

and SNL had a spoof called Horizon System 12 where

"The parts go in before the name goes on"

With parts flying in like in the zenith ad, but an enormous number of parts...

can't find a clip, but I found references:

http://www.snlarchives.net/Commercials/?198003153

http://www.snlarchives.net/Episodes/?19800315

p.s. for a long time all I could think about were two cube amps, one for each (stereo) speaker. Could never afford them. :)
Why does the website has a button 'Support us on HN' containing the URL[0] to vote this submission, are you trying to do a CSRF attack?

And in github auth you are asking for read and write permission to data.

[0]: URL news [.] ycombinator [.] com/vote?id=24744645&how=up&goto=show

Edit: Add URL from the website.
Then you can prove your algorithm correct using proof libraries like Z3.
Interestingly, on my early 2015 13" MacBook Pro, the very lowest brightness setting seems to have no change in brightness on those last three subdivisions. Once I get down to one full "block" of brightness, option-shift-F1 moves the slider down in quarter-block increments but the screen gets no (perceptibly) dimmer until it shuts off entirely. All the other brightness settings have perceptible changes in brightness at every subdivision level.
Sorry, but a news article "Business accused of racism" is hardly vetting.

Since you only need a clickbait chasing journalist and a twitter nutjob to produce one.
awesome, thanks for the breakdown!

Any experience with Plini? It seems to be the closest to Nolly, and from a cursory look it seems people generally like it better. I suppose I'll have to get the trials for both to compare

I had never heard of GGD's IR loader, seems awesome! Definitely on the list of things to buy now

Feel free to drop a link to the album you made with the nolly plugin, I'd love to take a listen
Sadly, from ground zero (India), that is not the impression. Certain people have twisted what was mentioned in the national education policy into a lucrative business.
As for enhancing computational thought: Coding games are fun. Google had one. I have seen videos where children are taught some concept (network sort I think) using a sorting mat; students are given number placards and asked to stand in predefined squares. They are given an instruction. When they play it out the result "appears". All the kids do is follow the instructions given by the instructor. It inspires them to expand their thinking horizons; take a step back and understand what happened. That should be the education.

These tv ads are more inclining to app building, online coding playgrounds, etc. Its not the right education.

Perhaps for an epidemiologist, or, a researcher who has to work with a lot of data, some of these skills are required. (More of the stuff that comprises computation thought). Would an epidemiologist require to build an app? Would an emergency doctor want to build an app? Its rare.

There is an explosion in apps in our generation itself. This is even several years prior to this recent national education policy. You can imagine the chaos that would follow from this.
On a tangential note, this part of US history is somewhat relevant to this subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
Apple Could Bar Epic Games' Fortnite from App Store, US Judge Rules
I agreed with you, then flicked through a load. There is something going on that isn’t right. Having the eyes at the same coordinates each time is quite creepy too.
I’d recommend adding bias lighting to your monitor. It won’t make the monitor less bright, but it’ll light up the wall behind your monitor so there’s less of a contrast between the wall and your monitor, which reduces eye strain.
What do you mean not allowed? I know plenty of people on H1-Bs that get huge bonuses.
Pandemic sparked European cycling revolution
Absolutely agree. Fun fact;

> Gedankenexperiment, (German: “thought experiment”) term used by German-born physicist Albert Einstein to describe his unique approach of using conceptual rather than actual experiments in creating the theory of relativity.

It would be ridiculous to say that experiments can only be done physically. Thought experiments are responsible for developing one of the most famous theories known to man.
During code review we just discovered that a somewhat popular npm library used a CDN for its assets (images of flags corresponding to country iso codes), forcing us to reimplement without the library.
Workable solution for "who was in the office" to aid tracing, but the capacity part seems a bit off.

You'd really want to know ahead of commuting what the planned capacity is, and make a decision based off of that.

Otherwise you run the risk of travelling in and walking into an over capacity office. Surely better to prevent this than view a report about it after the fact.
am hearing that racists will be self reporting their own businesses.