skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple sentence that I've found useful for pedagogy: "the probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin; it talks about you, and about your partial knowledge of the universe."

You can add: "The coin toss itself is deterministic and the result can be computed if you know the initial position and speed." They will inevitably bother you about the physical impossibility to measure the starting position and speed exactly, and then you say "ok, forget about the coin. You have 5 white and 5 black balls inside this opaque cylinder. What's the probability that the top ball is white? This does not talk about the balls (the color of the top one is already determined) but about your partial knowledge of them".

(EDIT: formatting)
You can pause updates in Settings, and totally disable them in the registry I believe.
For the sceptics: do you really think, companies like Roche, Novartis, ABB, Schindler, Logitech, Sonova, Ypsomed, and others don't use or develop cutting edge technology? As you can see Switzerland is on the top of the Global Inovation Index (and no, this index is not issued by Swiss organizations).
Great article. A lot of times even just the first one (Documentation) is immensely helpful.

For example, one time I went through a comment-less source file full of mathematical formulas and replaced magic numbers with meaningful constants and documented which RF chipset datasheet each formula/constant was coming from (including page number). Other developers thanked me later when they were looking for the same thing.
Marked and respectively.

Edit: U+2677 and and U+2678. Obviously no one would ever want to write about plastics on HN, so it's totally OK to strip those symbols.
That’s great that it works for you, but it doesn’t work for me.

What about the one-off search of someone else’s code? I don’t want to check out the repo just to add/edit a file so I can run ripgrep locally. If GitHub has a search feature that is entirely online, it would make sense for people to request they improve it.
Pimsler language audio book works this way.

I found it very effective
Etsy has a web app for searching a git repo, https://github.com/hound-search/hound. But you have to figure out how to efficiently load and update all interesting repos on disk.

I really wish the git protocol had a way to perform remote git grep so you don't need to install potentially massive repos just to search for keywords.
Having worked in the creepy business of "location analytics", I'll say that American's should be more worried about corporations tracking them, than governments.
How to Increase Your Chances of Getting a Job – By Valentin Podkamennyi
This. Self righteous hypocrisy at its finest, with a large dose of cowardice.
Why does it need a special tax? Just use regular ass taxes, raise them if they're not high enough.

> Companies like amazon should provide adequate housing and other perks where they can utilize economies of scale.

Sorry, but this is ridiculous. Why twist Amazon's arm into providing random social benefits, when you can just, y'know, have the government do it? Because that kind of thing is their job?

Imagine if you were like, "hmm, we don't seem to have enough public parks and libraries...I know! We'll force huge private corporations to provide them! I can't wait to go to Jeff Bezos Park, sponsored by Prime Video!" Would that really be an improvement over the local government doing it?
I wouldn't count on that over the long-term.

Currently Amazon has better ways to use their money to grow.

When that's over, a lot of the 3rd party sellers will be at risk.
That is true, certainly in the context of France, and even more in the context of this article.

The far right is not carrying out terrorist attacks and they do not behead teachers. The problem France (and Europe) has is not with the far right, which relative expansion is by and large a reaction to muslim extremism and what is seen as uncontrolled immigration.

Of course some people will attempt to bundle both in order to avoid pointing the finger at muslim extremism because then they might face, oh no, accusations of "islamophobia". This is what is not useful at all.

Your reply dilutes and try to avoid the key problem.
How does the ball situation help? It has the same problems of physical impossibility of measuring however the balls were ordered. (Modelling someone's brain?) I guess the argument works on someone with an unscientific model of the human brain, but that's one step forward and two steps back.
https://archive.md/VSh27
Spotify is publicly testing its own version of Stories
You say that, but attempting to get one that is compatible with Verizon's network is quite challenging, or at least it was a year or two ago when I looked.
> To quote https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/,

>> Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world.

That doesn't preclude installing the program locally.

The official "getting started" talks of remote / web datasettes as "demos" and "trials".
Somebody just put the balls there carefully, and did not tell you in what order, just how many of each color.
I'm still waiting for an airline to roll out proper lie-flat seating in Economy, like couchette/sleeper trains: just stack three bunk beds on top of each other. Unfortunately safety regulations make it difficult if not impossible to implement this, and prohibitively expensive for an airline to even try.
I appreciate how the author signalled to us the nature of the article early on with a bizarre reference to 'cultural marxism'
ChromeOS uses Rust for crosvm, which Amazon's firecracker was derived from.
> If nobody had nuclear weapons the second world war would have lasted longer and the invasion of the Japanese mainland would have cost far more lives

Yes, that's what we were told. But, was it really necessary to bomb Japanese cities to show them force?
Let me explain where the hatred stems from.

The hatred stems from not wanting to spend all my life at work, doing work.

Seriously, the narcissism on display here. Take a day off from your own ego, and perhaps also reflect on the idea that if your special sauce isn't competence or experience or even just plain genius, but that you're willing to spend stupid amounts of time in the office, then you've written "sucker" on your forehead in that special ink only managers can see.
> It is true that the folks working on Rust are focused on "advancing the language," yes. I don't see why it would be any other way?

That wasn't the argument. What's problematic is that Rust developers are focused on their language above anything else, to the detriment of the primary product they're developing. When the product - a web browser to stand against Chrome - is much more important than yet another programming language. It's about obsessing on your tools and being in love with a programming language; I call it "thinking with your fingers".
GDBFrontend v0.3.4-beta Released with PIP Package
Show HN: Simple and fast sticky notes dashboard that keep you focused
How the Hell Do You Govern in a Complex World
Technically true but it does not really matter for what my comment was meant to say. This is the second time in two days that someone concentrated on details that were not relevant to the idea presented in the comment. Maybe I should think better about the examples I use and what to include or not include in my comments.
Looks like he got the idea for PowerDNS from a URL shortening service [1]. They wanted better performance for visitors from the US, and Bert just went ahead and founded a company that made DNS load balancing software. Sounds like 1999 indeed.

I got to work a lot with PowerDNS during my internship, which was at a web hosting company that wanted to implement DNSSEC. What a fantastic piece of software it has become. Thanks for your involvement Bert, and best of luck at the TIB!

[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/history-of-powerdns-1999-2...
2-3 times per day? Until transports are carbon neutral, free shipping should be made illegal....
On desktop, the small arrow next to the search result url still shows the cached link when available.
If the function is ass-backwards and fucked up, add your feature or bugfix in the same fashion.

It's probably that way for a reason.

Every time I tried to clean up code, I ran into the following:

Some arcane bug was exposed
The previous developers couldn't understand it
Something else broke

So unless you have a way to 100% test your change, keep the status quo.
I hadn’t worn a watch for decades. Then Apple Watch came along and I’ve worn one every day for the last five years. I call that disruption.
I disagree. It's newsworthy because it affects a relatively enormous proportion of Teslas on the road.
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I wonder if TSO "violates" ARM standard conformance in some way? Perhaps not since it makes the memory ordering stronger, and is therefore upwards compatible. Or perhaps Apple doesn't care any more about strictly conforming to ARM's specs, which would be interesting news.
I'm not convinced by this, because the object is more complicated and finely made than necessary for making glove fingers. Why a dodecahedron when only one face is used? Why are the holes so smooth and round, which would require extra hand filing to clean up the casting? Why multiple sizes of hole when the size of the glove finger is regulated by the yarn tension?
They’re both bad, but the government has the ability to put you in jail if they want based on anything because they have access to everything.
Using cars too I'd guess then?
Try this guide - it’s quite a good and concise introduction and will get you coding quickly. It can be read alongside a textbook:

https://github.com/ashok-khanna/common-lisp-by-example

(Disclaimer: I’m the compiler of this guide)
AR Conference Map (2018)
In fairness, if the land had been left alone there wouldn't have been any invasive species.
So you’d hope this and the prior design review would stop the consultant from wasted effort. Probably not.
Amazon is probably batching a lot of these orders into one delivery.
> does anyone know of any existing solutions for this?

https://semgrep.dev, though it's mostly an analysis tool it can be used as a search tool. IIRC it's not super fast, but for the cases where there is no way to really contort a regex into something suitable (the regex has way too many false positives and / or negatives) it works rather well.
> the probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin; it talks about you, and about your partial knowledge of the universe.

But it does talk about the coin - a weighted coin would have a different probability. Same in the example with the white/black balls - if they weren't 5 white and 5 black but 6 white and 4 black, the probability you would assign to the top one would be different. Again, the probability is a way to describe the balls themselves, not just our knowledge.

I get the general idea of representing probability as uncertainty and partial knowledge but your statements strike me as just straight up incorrect.
When everyone has the same tracking terms in their contract, you don’t have a choice. It’s Evil#1 or Evil#2 - your choice.
This is the same NYT which is widely agreed to have helped elect Trump by aggressively covering a number of stories about Clinton, including an entire series based on the Clinton Cash book written by right-wing activists? Or is your objection that their reporting isn’t politicized in a way which supports your preferred outcome?
Scientific Forms of the Religious Hypothesis
I can really imafgine what happened: Engineer wants to host dashboard at different provider for resilience. Manager argues that they cant do this, it would be embarassing if anybody found out. And why choose another provider? Aws has multiple AZs and cant be down everywhere at the same moment.
Engineer then says „fu it“ and just builds it on a single solution.
Clock is a up volt and down volt. There is a period of time it takes to reach either up or down.

If I have to get the clock to reach 2 cores/units at the same time that is easier then say 4 cores/units. As you increase the clock speed the time to reach all the cores decreases. So if you are wider you would need to reach more cores/units in the same period of time, hence "harder".

EDIT (To make it a little more clear)
To make it more clear the voltage change is typically represented in books as a vertical line, but that is not the case it's diagonal and fuzzy. By fuzzy I mean not a straight line but will have some tiny mini downs on the way up.

Different parts of the circuits are going to respond to the up or the down. They are also can vary based on the exact voltage. For example if I have a 5V up one circuit might consider 4.8V to be up and another could be 4.9 or 4.7.

Silicon has improved, but there still is limits of scale based on size, volts and timing.
Cars are not free, one of the biggest household budget posts.
Exactly that, nominally.

Though pjc50’s comment looks pretty convincing given gov.uk could have used the same money to make it easier for businesses to restructure to offer delivery...
I think just running bind without a resolver is enough. Make sure you keep bind and thus the roots.hints file up-to-date.
And the government has access to corporate data...
Why is frequentism bad because it only gives certainty for infinite samples, but complexity is good despite being non-computable?

It's two sides of the same coin -- computable uncertainty va non-computable certainty.
The lockdowns are different because it’s not just someone’s own freedoms, but everyone else’s right to life. A virus that can kill and we have no way of knowing how well it transmits seems like a good enough reason to enforce social distancing and the like. I have the freedom to own knives, but I can’t go out in public brandishing one like a weapon. Is that an infringement on my rights?
Doesn't matter. You won't have a choice.

Joe's Covid App (TM) is coming and you will either use it or your life will be no fun and majorly inconvenienced.

I mean you don't NEED driver's license in the USA, do you?
The fact that people are happy about lockdowns just proves that people do not care for their own basic rights. The fight for online privacy is dead given this population.

Edit: I happily shelter in place when asked, but forcing it on others via the threat of imprisonment, given the economic and mental health impact, is just wrong.
What Are the Differences? Traditional VC vs. Rolling VC
> to the detriment of the primary product they're developing

I guess this is the core of it. It is hard for me to understand why you'd think people working on a language would have "the primary product" be something other than the language. There isn't even a single coherent other project to be associated with. Why would "a browser" be special here? It’s even in the name: the Rust developers. We develop Rust.

Do you fault the C standards body for working on C? Or the Ruby core team for working on Ruby? What language do the developers of the language consider something other than the language as their primary product?

Now, of course, as a tool maker, you have to make sure the tool is fit for purpose. You want to enable the people who are working on projects like a browser to be able to do their job. But that's their job, not our job. It seems like you're suggesting that the primary job of Rust developers is to improve Firefox, and it's very confusing to me why you'd say that, when nobody would say that about any other language. Or at least, I've never come across that sentiment before.
With everyone putting their services behind cliudflare or aws loadbalancer you very seldom see a http endpoint nowadays.
Maria Polydouri’s last work of poetry, Echo Over Chaos, pondered the meaning of death as she was dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Polydouri
~450,000 employees over 300M people, equals about 37 employees over 25K people.

Plus 500K delivery drivers , it's another 37 employees.

So 74 employees. How many did work retail in that 25K town ?
> if you dont create such monopoly someone else definitely will

Indeed, unless the government stops them.

If you don't murder your neighbors and seize all their assets someone will do that as well, unless the government stops it.

Your point is less salient than it appears at first glance. It's not actually controversial that without government intervention people acting in their own narrow self interest will destroy society.
it is guaranteed that they will not do good work if they do not give a shit.

Just plain not true. Provable so, over and over and over again. Not other way to say it; this guy is talking utter shit.
It's not like Amazon (or others) dispatch one truck with one item per order. They will batch these to save cost, and I have to imagine it's more carbon friendly than having an individual car from every household making trips, parking in parking lots, etc. etc.
In future, when people ask me why I don't like "my team", maybe I'll just point to this thread instead of boring them again with the centuries of racist violence, in which we are still engaged to this day.
I don't think it's that simple:

Here's an example of an AWS open source project, written in Go and hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-load-balancer-control...
Federal Prisons
That is not why we have those social norms and laws. The War On Drugs was a political move by the Nixon administration that got doubled down on by the Reagan administration and has simply lasted long enough to become baseline cultural context. The costs associated with American drug policy far outweigh the costs of treatment, and our cultural attitude of abstinence only has been demonstrated to increase drug abuse, not curtail it.
As for the taxpayers of massachusetts, why not ask them how it feels to get prison expenses _down_ to $1.4 B with a 33% nonviolent prison population? That's mostly black?

Also take note, Jacob got his start on oxycontin, which is legal, and currently the focus of a series of state-led lawsuits against Purdue pharma and the sackler family, major campaign donors to conservative drug policy causes.

I don't mean to come at you, but that argument of yours is one that I've heard and it's dangerous.
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/quick-statistics
Only conventional left-handed neutrinos are ruled out as significant HDM.

It is rarely mentioned amongst all the Higgs back-slapping, that the Standard Model does not yet have a complete and verified theory of neutrino physics: masses? Majorana/Dirac? self-anti-particle? chiralities? ...

There may be right-handed neutrinos that do not interact via the weak force (which is maximally parity-violating). They would only interact gravitationally and play a role dark matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino
Some previous work with details and photos:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13494.pdf
Casio sells more F-91W digital watches per year than the entire Swiss watch industry, too...

Apple's watch was their usual polished refinement of existing, mainly Chinese, SIM-equipped smartwatch designs. They didn't invent a market segment out of a vacuum.
There should be less jobs in the switch; that's how automation is supposed to work, after all, increasing efficiency and whatnot.

The bigger question is whether the total number of jobs in the economy will stay high enough to not have permanent mass unemployment. My guess is, "yes it will, for now at least".
Again, nobody is questioning their access to that information. Where you typically go wrong is by asserting without evidence that they are performing additional activities without disclosing that. Surely you understand that having IPs be visible does not automatically mean retaining those records, much building a searchable database?
You hired someone to change your code and didn't code-review it, have tests, or ask for tests to be written? There's a bigger problem there than a refactor-happy consultant.
Don't forget to mention rdedup (https://github.com/dpc/rdedup), which is an impressive piece of software. The advantage it has over all other solutions I came across is, that it can do UNATTENDED backups without providing the encryption key... on the other hand it does not have a file scanner, which is a really pity.
What we know about Earth’s new minimoon
Sure, why not

It is nothing more than an entitled demand of a minority of the species that can afford them

Why should that be justification enough to destroy the planet for the entire species?
I am reading a fantastic book about a man who overcame being locked in called Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius. It is so uplifting. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
What? I was there on the early days, that just makes no sense.

Cyrix, VIA and friends were ocean drops, hardly available outside US.
A delivery to ten houses from one delivery truck is less carbon than ten household cars driving to the store (10 roundtrips). Or more likely, 2-3 different stores per each household.

What you propose would reverse that and increase carbon.

Its also worth pointing out theyre moving to electric delivery vans
It's way more carbon efficient than driving to three different stores in a day yourself.
I find unpoly so much better and complete than this.

Unpoly just has bad marketing.
Bye Bert, I'll miss your informative and entertaining presentations at OXmas :(
A Mongo Collection
Good point, let's also make driving yourself to the store illegal unless you hit a minimum item count while there.

Companies already have a natural incentive to batch orders, because doing so reduces their costs. I don't think you need to lean on them to do what they already want to do.
Tor Lindqvist: One of the Last Cape Horn Sailors
I'd say this is pretty strong reason:

https://www.politico.eu/article/terror-trial-in-antwerp-will...

TLDR: the Iranian government attempted to commit a terror attack with a "playstation" (a 20kg explosive designed to set off other explosives). They were going to set it off in the middle of this crowd:

The EU is not pleased, because, well how many terror attacks have happened on French soil with dozens of victims in the last 10 years now? 5? Of course, the EU is mostly concerned about the reaction of France (such as unlawfully suspending the Shengen accords for 5 years and counting, and that's just their most "in your face" violating of EU policy, it's very far from the only one), but until this sort of stuff stops ...
I’m consistently surprised by how bad Amazon is at this. Admittedly this might be because I’m in NYC and there are multiple distribution centers but even when I specifically choose to have things bundled up and delivered at once on my “Prime Day” (or whatever they call it) they still deliver separately on different days.

Not the end of the world but it does annoy me. I’ve been doing a bunch of shopping at Target since the pandemic too, to balance out reliance on Amazon. They’re much better at delivering items together on the day they originally state.
That's why it's called "the boyscout rule" and the verb "to boyscout".

Eg in a PR description "I also boyscouted the entire login service a bit while I was in there".
I wonder how many of them are already logged engineering tasks which never got prioritized because of the aggressive push to add features.
Hiring McKinsey to run the country sounds like the logical and chilling conclusion to this line of thought.
SOIC is the external package though, not sure it'll be that confusing as many chips are typically packaged in many different packages.
While I was also thrown off by the lack of reference to Objective-C, in context I think the author used quotes around “Swift” to make it clear it’s a proper name and that he’s not talking about a “swift (ie fast) programming language”.