skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Bitcoin is not a great option for payments due to the time it takes for a transaction to process/settle and the fees involved.
Introduce a ranking system where rank increases with successive perfect runs. Connect the top 1-2% of hardcore truck sim players to real rigs?
That will be determined by DoJ, I hope. Personally I see way too many ultra rich corporation's behaviors get a pass just because they strictly don't equal definition of a "bribe". Or how 95% of the whole word market is not a "monopoly" because "look, there is that 2% competitor, free market works".
If you don't want to get in any trouble, just give it a good name... like in the case of lobbying the US government.
I have run an open source project for nearly 20 years. The mailing list has over 14,000 entries by 380 people. Anyone can post. Anyone can contribute. There are no women postings. This puzzles me.

Yet MIT and CMU seems to have CS classes that have a large number of women.

I have no insight on this subject. But Caitlin's book seems to speak to one of the potential issues. On the other hand, my high school peer group studied physics, chemistry, and chess. Things anyone can do. But no women joined. I had mostly female friends in high school but we never "talked tech". We did have a year long discussion of what "friendship" means, a topic never mentioned with my male friends.

Anyway, I continue to try to understand.
Depends on the claimed rate!
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Thanks, that title is gold:

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The sax solo that starts around 5:30 is my favorite ever, and I say that as a longtime Morphine fan. Never got into jazz much though...

https://music.apple.com/us/album/city-on-down-live/488251077...
I didn't say it is easy.
Yes, they do. That's kinda the point here.
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Then why does MATLAB do it?
It just really depends. I should have been writing these down over the years. A few common points of confusion off the top of my head:

People expecting to put "mod foo;" at the top of foo.rs, to declare that foo.rs is a module.

People expecting to put "mod foo { }" with the contents of the file inside the {}s to declare that foo.rs is a module.

People expecting that "use" declares a module, not "mod."

People expecting every file inside a directory "foo" to be the contents of the "foo" module, regardless of filename, all concatenated together.

People expecting that mod statements never need to exist because it should be inferred from the filesystem.

General confusion about the privacy rules; that "pub" may not mean that your thing is globally public.

General confusion about crates vs modules; main.rs and lib.rs being in the same directory, but declaring different crates. Not understanding how to import stuff from lib.rs into main.rs, because it feels a bit different than other modules.

People used to also struggle a lot with "use" and paths pre-Rust 2018, but that's been mostly cleaned up at this point.
Along these lines I've heard it said that "Doctors don't heal anyone. The get them to the point where their bodies can heal themselves." Sure, there are some exceptions where the body literally can't heal itself, like reattaching something, but the sentiment holds true most of the time.

In another discussion bred from boredom where some friends and I were trying to define entire fields of study in a single sentence (Economics is the allocation of scarcity) one doctor said, "Medicine is about controlling swelling." His response (he was a surgeon) kind of made your point that we imagine that doctors are fixing things and he is saying that he spent most of his time trying to get the body to make it better and not worse.
I am not sure if it is an accident, but there is clearly something wrong with the display/visualization of their results.

In 2 out of the 5 cases; I picked the year far more accurate than the avg., but the visualization of the dots on the timeline implied that the avg. was far more accurate than my guess.

For example; when my guess was off by one year and the avg was off by 4 and 6 years, the dot for the avg was right next to the actual date line, while the dot representing my guess was almost twice the diameter of the dot away from the actual date line.

It gives quite the false impression and is also quite an interesting example of distortion of reality and people's perceptions, even if not intentional. I theorize that most people do not look detailed enough or do the simple math to confirm that the visual representation is accurate; thereby leaving them an impression of accuracy and inaccuracy, depending on the results.
Tulips have intrinsic value, so there’s something wrong with your metaphor.

But you are right to realize Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. That makes it very similar to something like a dollar bill.

That said, intrinsic value isn’t really what makes currency valuable. It’s a nice feature... if the bottom drops out of the market and your currency is cigarettes... at least you can smoke them! And trade them for some other currency at the price of smokes.

But that’s a very special circumstance. Intrinsic value only matters under one very special circumstance: Total market collapse. Under normal circumstances, what matters is use value.

And Bitcoin has some very unique use value. For example, it is a thing that can be exchanged for gold that can be stored in your head. That’s a very unique use. I think those kinds of uses, if you can add up their utility, are the best way to calculate Bitcoin’s long term value.
If we’re being asked to give up our way of life, keep children out of school, damage mental health, give up essential freedoms.

Then yes, I’d like to see it compared to existing diseases we’ve been living normally alongside for centuries!
I could be wrong, but that isn't known to be undecidable, is it? Merely extremely difficult?

I was thinking If you give me a program that solves the halting problem, I'll give you $1.

On reflection though, that's not just a bargain, it's also an outright contradiction; we know no such program exists, so making this offer doesn't affect the market at all. Perhaps there's a sneakier variation on this.
IIRC Psyco was a precursor to PyPy. Armin Rigo was involved in both.
There are a lot of distributions (and pieces of software) that care about compiling on ARM/other architectures thanks to various disparate things that exist -- raspberry pi's popularity, go/rust/and friends making cross compiling easier, etc.

I've had a good experience with ODROID U2 (I personally think ODROID is my favorite SBC producer, so I'm biased, but most have some debian-based or similar distro that you can run and be productive things with.

In the more concrete world, both ZFS and Ceph (Bluestore has checksuming now) run on ARM as far as I can tell:

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Project%20and%20Commu...

https://developer.arm.com/solutions/infrastructure/developer...

Releasing a board meant for NASes that you can't run either of those on seems pretty short sighted for a company that's definitely not new to the SBC game.
Having a coin is a marketing strategy - people get in early because they have the most to gain, and then they spread the word to all of their friends to use the service, and it grows from there. Plus early adopters are extremely crypto-focused and have different groups and contacts who would be your ideal customers. The coin is the marketing - it's as if a tiny SaaS made it super simple to sell equity to their first customers, even in tiny increments.
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At first glance, I see Authelia is written in go instead of Java. Keycloak is an enormous hog of resources, considering what it does... it's safe to assume this is not just easier to deploy and operate in a cluster, but also quite likely less expensive too.
No commodity has "intrinsic value". It's worth whatever someone else is willing to pay for it. There's nothing intrinsically valuable about gold, for instance. It's worth what it's worth because people believe it will be worth something in the future and are willing to pay a price for it.
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Have you written up your views about various UI frameworks somewhere? I'd be very interested in reading a comparison from someone who's used so many.
I don't think so. When one is fixing bugs locally before the thing goes into production one can use each and every debugging strategy under the sun to find the bug. If it runs 10 times slower because of generating massive logs that is acceptable when debugging locally. In production one is constrained to debugging techniques that do not disturb production. This constraint quite often makes debugging times longer by factors of 10 if not 100 while at the same time a customer is getting somewhat impatient.

Also, the bug that would be discoverable locally but not in production is a bit of a strange animal. It does happen for cases where the developer has a better idea than the user what should be happening so the user will not even notice the bug. That sounds more like features that have been specified in too much detail than true bugs, though. More commonly everything that can go wrong locally will go wrong in production sooner or later. And in production you will, on top of that, hit all of the bugs that occur once every month and that only occur if the order of inputs is a bit strange while the database is under some load. If you have not done all possible debug/test work locally the application will hit production when there still is a lot of debug work to do and there will probably be so many problems that they even start interacting with one another and produce some really 'interesting' failures.
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> If you malloc a big buffer, almost certainly page aligned anyway.

Not necessarily. Remember that malloc() must produce a pointer which can later be passed to free() without any other details. free() needs some way to figure out, at the very least, how big the allocation is, to properly free it. Many allocators, such as glibc's, accomplish this by placing metadata in the bytes immediately before the allocated block -- which implies that a large allocation won't be page-aligned.

Some other allocators, such as tcmalloc, manage to place the metadata somewhere else, and in that case maybe they return page-aligned buffers, but it's hardly safe to assume.

(I just ran a quick test and verified -- a 4MB malloc() under glibc is typically 16 bytes off of the page boundary, but under tcmalloc it is aligned.)

> 2. You can try the same with mmap, but large files won't fit in (32 bit) memory, and read() is cheaper than mapping and unmapping as you go.

This thread is discussing the claim that the Linux kernel transparently "optimizes" large read() calls into mmap(), with me arguing that doesn't make a lot of sense as an optimization.

If you're saying that this "optimization" would actually be slower, then that supports my point.

You may be right. munmap() (or remapping with MAP_FIXED) triggers TLB shootdowns, which are rather expensive in multithreaded programs. This is another reason why "optimizing" read() to mmap() sounds awfully dubious to me.

That said, shootdowns would have a constant cost per read(), independent of the size. For a sufficiently gigantic read, the cost of the shootdown would be less than the cost of copying data into the target memory, so the "optimization" would possibly start to make sense at that point?
Before the update, mobile Firefox was so slow for me that using Chrome with no adblocker was a better experience. Now their speeds are about the same. The update was a massive improvement.
This article appear to be a list of python interpreters.

Not all of these were designed for speed,l. For example jython was also intended for Java/python interoperability.

Some of the interpreters on the list haven't seen updates in a while, or don't support python 3.x
Thank you! yeah. I designed it with a thought in mind: A lot of the "exercises" or "challenges" that I see people ask for interviews are mainly stupid leetcode type puzzles that do not really reflect what you will be doing on the job.

I wanted to do a challenge that really reflected the stuff that we are doing at Paystand. When you are building a Web based SaaS application, the majority of time you will be a) Interfacing with crappy APIs. b) Doing simple processing in your logic (hence the string processing and sorting), c) Dealing with GET and POST requests in JSON

That's all I tried to present in the challenge. And if you read it, you will see that it gives A LOT of hints. There's even people who have asked me why do I give so many "clues". But on the other side I have gotten candidates that email me to ask me why they API call is returning an error (it is there in the notes that you must use the proper HTTP header). People are lazy, people don't read, and those are not suitable candidates for us.
Classic bias. Cognitive deficits in people who think they have had COVID-19 (aka believe propaganda & people in white coats) - lower testosterone too!
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I was specifically referring to the claim the effects were probably due to sedation, etc. , not the observation that the study was of hospitalized cases.
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Seems useful! Curious about your business model- it seems like your payment processor takes 0.5%/payment; do you charge some percentage on top of that? If so, how much? Adding a "what is our business model" section in the about/faq page would make things more transparent.

On the operations side of things, I assume your site acts as an intermediary, drop-shipping the item?
It's worth noting, for the sake of everyone here in the comments on a tl;dr tanget, that the organ is absolutely not new or 'mysterious' in the least. There are a pair of salivary glands at the back of the nose in a place no-one thought to look at them. They were discovered because they accumulated radioactive glucose, like the other salivary glands, to an extent that was visible when a fairly new and sophisticated scanning technique was used. They revealed macroscopic structure upon examination in two cadavers.
NIM really is a full stack language and ecosystem. It has a first class compiler to JavaScript (though, I admit, I don't know how tuneable it is, so I think it just compiles down to ES5, it'd be nice to do a differential build where it would compile down to ES5 and/or ES2015/ES2016 at the users discretion)

Only thing it needs now is a compile to CSS solution and you would never have to leave the language. Its a very thurough language in that regard.

It also needs a strong GUI framework for desktop and mobile apps, as well, but still, its very fully featured! My hunch in this area is that you could just compile to Electron/NativeScript/React Native as a relatively 'quick' solution to these problems.

I'm excited to see where this language goes. I'm pretty tempted to use it in production to replace Python for some things and may find it more expansive due to its flexibility of compile targets.

My only gripe (and its relatively small) is I don't like its compiler directive syntax using the `{.directive.}` style, its a little ugly and noisy to me, I'd prefer something like rust's `#[]` (I think this is actually how you use a Rust macro, but its a nice syntax regardless)

Not enough to stop me from thinking the language has some real upside and potential, though.
> Basically, the LGPL exists because the GPL requires any binaries linking to GPLed code to inherit the GPL.

This was my understanding too, but other comments in this discussion seem to imply that this might not be the case.

If you could statically or dynamically link to GPL'd binaries without having to license your own code in the same way, then in the real-life examples I've seen we'd have had no concerns about either using GPL'd projects, or contributing modifications to the GPL'd projects back.
It isn't a query planner/optimizer problem.

Generalized graph traversals require each query to have additional data structures that grow with table size. This becomes an expensive proposition as tables get large, especially if you have many concurrent queries. Some databases designed for graph processing have internals and storage models that make it more efficient to resource manage this extra state. A SQL database, which has other priorities, would not implement this.
On top of that, not every one has the same tissues in the same places, or the same tissues at all. Most famous is the palmaris longus muscle in the arm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmaris_longus_muscle

~14% of humans lack this muscle.

Other deviations range from colorblindness all the way to lack of a cerebellum entirely.

Humans are quite variable, even when healthy.
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I have to agree with this. Before I have to exhaust all the medical resources, in my mind, when people get sick, they go see a doctor, the doctor prescribes medicine, and medicine fixes problems. But in reality we're still largely relying on our own defense, e.g. COVID. We rarely have a drug that directly fixes our problem.

I started having really bad insomnia more than a year ago. I went to see a bunch of doctors. Initially, I was given low dosage sleeping pills, which didn't help much. I went to a hospital to get a CT scan because I was having mad headaches, which my family doctor wouldn't refer me. The scan was normal. Finally, I found a doctor who's willing to refer me MRI scan. After waiting for couple of months, the result didn't turn up anything again. Keep in mind I've been suffering 2 - 3 hours sleep a day all these time. I also did sleep study, and sleep study mostly care about sleep apnea, so they couldn't identify any causes again. Then I went to see a psychiatrist, more sleeping pills, which are really antidepressants. Eventually, after a long wait, I was referred to a neurologist and sleep specialist. I've done so much research on sleep medicine at this point, I already knew what he's gonna prescribe me - sleep restriction therapy. That didn't really help altho I gave up after trying for two weeks. I intend to try it again but I can't attempt it now that I'm back to work. So one year later, I'm still messed up with no known cause.

I know insomnia in my case is not a traditional disease, but it goes to show you that if you're not having one of the common diseases then you're shit out of luck.

The human body's extremely complex, but instead of using proper debugging tools, doctors are mostly relying on "console logs" or "print statements". Even if a root cause is identified, often time we don't have the necessary tools to fix the problems.
If by modern medicine you mean only "the best conclusions derived from the best meta-analyses based on the best evidence" then very little of what any doctor does is grounded in that.

I wouldn't call that medicine. I'd call that, maybe, "research biomedical science".

I think OP's comment is precisely that the practice of medicine has very little to do with what top-quality research would prescribe, and is more like medieval reasoning (like causes like, etc.).

Of course the reason behind this is that we dont have much top-quality research; and what "research" we often have is poorly executed and ambiguous (if honest).

What we "need" is 10k "disposable humans" manufactured on-demand, for 100k RCT experiments. What we have is often much closer to astrology.
This does not sound like a hard problem at all. Just check the query for localizable keywords ( :{KEYWORD} ), and replace that with the word it represents.

So if the query is "in:bin" just convert that to "in:trash" and use that for searching, without the user knowing. Then you also have no problem with switching languages.
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Not since Vista. These days, you'll always have "Program Files", and if you have the OS configured for a different locale, it'll create a hard link for the localized name. The Windows shell (including the standard file picker dialogs etc) will also use the localized name preferentially whenever it has to display a path that contains one of those folders, but still allows verbatim paths to be used wherever text input is allowed.
The site just says: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
You assume all bytes are eight bits, but that hasn’t always been the case. Machines with variable byte sizes were relatively common in the 70s and early 80s. This is why so many RFCs use the word octet instead of byte.
The large tech companies are monopolies. This includes PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Facebook, etc. Sad that they block crypto.
We do this for CCDA documents. Makes it easy when you're passing them around during development.
Numba is actually a pretty interesting project. It allows you to JIT compile a single function with a decorator. Static typing required, and it plays nice with numpy. They’ve also got some interesting stuff going on that lets you interface with nvidia GPUs as well.

Highly recommend it for anyone doing scientific computing
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(H1N1)pdm09 was the worst illness I've had, both in duration and severity. Interestingly, that flu virus mostly affected younger people. I'd be interested in reading a thorough comparison of H1N1 and SARS-CoV-2.
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For one thing, it feels like we're still very much not confident with anything at all because everything has to be tested in real humans, in real time, before it's considered a valid treatment (clinical trials). I understand why clinical trials are needed — because otherwise we'd still be using mysterious compounds and procedures without having a clue if they actually work — but I believe that at some point we'd become so advanced with knowing how the human body works that we won't have to do that, and so could progress much, much faster, while knowing that our treatments work, and theoretically, instead of experimentally, proving that they should work.
I can parallel that for you:
Cash is a magnet for fraud

Banks were just recently outed for laundering 800x more cash for drug cartels than Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency system has ever done.
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The double negative has its use beyond language sophistication. It can serve to more specifically mark a neutral stance in a vocabulary that may seem to only offer a dichotomy. e.g. what I have available is I like her and I don't like her, but what I mean to say is I don't dislike her.
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particularly in the photo with the two "hippy" women - the only clue is how they dress, and that could be anywhere between 1965 and now, because retro fashion is a thing.

I think the experiment would be better if it accepted a range instead of a single date.
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