skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll admit to only having been to Tokyo about a half dozen times, for up to two weeks at a time. It remains one of my favorite cities, but at the end of two weeks I was ready to go home. I don't usually feel that way when traveling.

I found it lonely for the same reason I loved the city: it was so familiar, and yet so different at the same time. I felt like gears that were slightly out of mesh, not enough to snap, but enough to wear away the edges and cause subtle damage over time.

Making friends as an adult is always hard, but being a transplant into such a new culture is even harder. Everyone was friendly, but finding true connection is difficult: language barriers, cultural differences, biases (on both sides), and perhaps the transitory nature of my stay meant there was always a constant difference.

I always felt like an outsider, even when welcomed warmly. Maybe this was me, but I always knew I was being accommodated: "he's a gaijin, he doesn't know better." This was absolutely kind, but I also knew that I didn't know better, and didn't know what I didn't know, and that created a subtle tentativeness and friction in social interactions.

The classic scenes of Tokyo streets with tall buildings filled with small shops and laced with vertical signage is an apt metaphor for living in Tokyo. There is so much hidden behind the facades that it takes a lifetime to know what's really there, unless you have a guide with infinite patience.

Maybe other cities, or towns, would be different. Maybe it would be much easier if I was fluent, or planned to stay for years. Maybe someone without tendencies towards introversion, or who went with a partner to lean on, would have a very different experience.

But like I said, many small factors just wore on me, and I was happy to return to the warm embrace of home.

I'm afraid I don't know enough about the startup scene to do more than speculate. I was there representing an enterprise software company, which has very different dynamics - especially in Japan.
They way masks truly work is that they afford a sense of comfort to the wearers and those surrounding them. That comfort lowers stress levels and thereby facilitates the immune system to focus its resources on pathogens and foreign bodies. This has been scientifically proven to be true 50% of the time based on a consensus of scientists doing sciencey things.
I get downvoted lots and lots but it’s not censorship. If you don’t like your audience here, go find or build it elsewhere. No one is stopping you. But you’re not entitled to this one.
I see it as a tradeoff of where you want your dependencies.

In analysis using the structured program theorem, you only have three tools, really: Sequence, selection, iteration. If you copy-paste, you lean on the sequence more; if you add a loop or a cursor structure, you're iterating; and if you add more names for things, you're selecting on the name. All three create dependency risks, but not in equal measure.

What a really long function mostly indicates is that the inherent dependencies are mostly sequential. This maps with the domains where they appear most naturally: game loops are notoriously single-threaded, embedded code often needs to operate to hard real time constraints.

I think the appeal in splitting out more names has something to do with linguistic comfort zones: Rather than examine long sequences, assume the functions used by the one you are looking at are trustworthy. Then you are "improving" the code each time you factor it out because you can read more names, and because each function is small there is little concern about sequencing errors. It's intuitive, but shows its flaws as soon as you use another lens like the structured program analysis; adding the new function makes it harder to examine the sequence across the function boundaries, causing the "flea-jump" code you describe.

What I've found works is to let the large functions accumulate and mature, then derive a new dependency - a function, class, or other abstraction - that will simplify maintenance. Not every problem is solved with a new function, sometimes it really takes a compiler to get the desired improvement.
There's no such categories in Chinese hanzi, or at least not generally taught.
> peer pressure kicks in because the "freeriders" effectively get protection from the union without pulling their weight.

I would much rather the peer pressure be applied to those writing the checks, by their competition.
Slightly off-topic but this is an important PSA.

Firefox keyword search has one little known killer feature: You can combine it with data URIs and JavaScript to run small "command line snippets" stored in your bookmarks from your browser bar.

To get started, create a keyword search from any form (like the search bar on duckduckgo.com) and edit the URL of the entry in the bookmark manager to point to

data:text/html,<script>alert("%s")</script>

instead.

What you can do with this is (fortunately) limited by cross-origin restrictions but there are some useful applications. For example, I use this snippet

data:text/html,<script>i="%s";firstSep=i.indexOf(" ");if(firstSep==-1)firstSep=i.length;subreddit=i.substr(0,firstSep);searchTerm=i.substr(firstSep+1);location=`https://old.reddit.com/r/${encodeURIComponent(subreddit)}${(searchTerm!=null&&searchTerm.replace(/\s/,"").length>0)?`/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(searchTerm)}&restrict_sr=1`:""}`</script>

as a nice shortcut to Reddit ("<keyword> <subreddit>" to jump to a Subreddit, "<keyword> <subreddit> <search string>" to search within a Subreddit).

You can also insert content directly into the document which opens the possibility for instant marquee

data:text/html,<marquee>%s</marquee>
Russian military receives Terminator vehicles for testing
People who aren’t starting and ending their days reading HN, probably.
The odds of a quick pick coming up as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are roughly equivalent to winning the lottery in the first place, so “repeat the quick pick until you don’t get this particular combination” seems rather silly, no?
When I was hired by Microsoft in 2001, I crossed out and changed language in the documents I was required to sign. Nobody said a word. I suspect nobody looked at the originals.
Win your battles, win the war.

With Trump 2024 on the horizon, the democratic establishment has every reason to cozy up with big tech; at least for the next 4 years.
The issue is that most Saudis don’t work. Most of the work done in that country is done by “lower classes” of non Saudis. So when the tap dries up and they all have to work. What do they do?
they did a lot of steps in parallel assuming it was okay and also had nearly infinite resources and money to get it done.
No, what I meant was that you might get enough content to fill one university level class on web development. Like a 3 credit class in the US.
xnu is refcounted, its also c++ which isn't swift friendly.

XNU also has ABI stability requirements which rules out rust.
> If opposing counsel feels you've left something out

No, this isn't correct. If opposing counsel has evidence[0] that the personal devices have relevant communications not already provided, they can file for a subpoena to have you turn over personal electronic devices. Your counsel can file a counter-motion, and you'll probably have a hearing.

No where will there be a warrant, unless you're in criminal proceedings.

Like I said already: as far as I know, litigation holds and discovery are fairly common, and what you're describing is not. To clarify, this is all assuming you use a work profile and a personal profile.

[0]: I don't necessarily mean evidence in the legal standard, but they need some basis for this. "A feeling" isn't enough.
> they didn't solve the physics problems created by the engine position

The engine position, in itself, isn't terribly unusual; the 757 and 767 both have engines in similar forward positions on the wings and have a similar pitch up moment due to the engines at high angles of attack. So do a number of Airbus models. Designing flight controls to deal with this issue is not new and has been well tested.

The particular issue with the 737 MAX was that Boeing wanted to change the engine position on an existing aircraft, without requiring a new type certification and pilot retraining. That meant that the flight controls had to not just properly account for the engine position, but to do so while keeping the same stick force curve vs. angle of attack as existing 737 models. That is what drove the MCAS software system that caused all the trouble. If the plane had been designed as a new type from the start, the engine position would not have been an issue; and the redesign is basically doing what a new type design would have done, as far as I can tell from the documents the FAA has published.
As someone who attended one of the schools mentioned (in the non-paywalled portion of the article), it's absolutely true that there were (when I attended, and as I understand it, continues to be) few black and hispanic students. Which is certainly not representative of the locality.

That said, it seems to me that the problem isn't that the schools are selective (via a standardized test). In fact, that's kind of the point of such schools.

Do we just put everyone in honors classes at every school? No. Why not? Obviously that's discriminatory right? Of course not.

There are a variety of reasons why fewer black and hispanic kids end up in these schools. They include, but are not limited to:

1. Schools in poorer areas have fewer resources;

2. Schools in poorer areas are less likely to groom kids for more selective high schools;

3. Schools in poorer areas tend to be dumping grounds for less effective teachers;

4. Poorer families have fewer resources to spend on expensive prep courses/tutoring;

5. Schools in poorer areas tend to have less parental involvement and less pressure to improve teaching and the level of expectation for students -- leading to a fewer kids in those schools being encouraged to even attempt to go to more selective high schools;

There are many other reasons as well.

The solution, to my mind, is to improve the quality of education, level of expectation, resources to prepare for the entry examinations and encouragement from teachers and school staff to strive for such outcomes.

Better teachers would be a good idea as well.

Improving the performance of all students should be the goal, with a side benefit of more students being accepted to to more selective schools.

IMHO, there is absolutely an ethnic/socioeconomic bias issue here. However, that issue lies in the quality of elementary and middle school education, not the selectivity of selective high schools.
Yes, it’s a dark time when the social media platforms, which have always been our only outlet to engage and challenge science, suppress the scientific process by choosing what content is allowed on their privately owned websites.
Crenshaw’s Let’s Build a Compiler might be an option. https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
This is very true. Connecting with other expats is easy and fun, and I spent plenty a night in the "gaijin ghetto." I'm not sure that that would scale for a multi-year stay though; like you say, it's a pretty transient crowd.
"The West wrecked the environment and everything else in the process of industrialization, so we [Chinese] are entitled to do it too," is a truly disturbing line and this isn't the first time I've actually heard before.

Aren't people supposed to do better knowing how much people in the past screwed up? Isn't that what progress is all about? Learning from your mistakes?
As tech workers, likely making American wages, many of the folks here would be better served paying a congressperson and joining a PAC than they would be by paying union dues.
> People also seem to think that RSU grants somehow appreciate in value before they vest. They do not. If you sign for 400k of RSUs over 4 years with a 1 year cliff and the stock rockets up 2x just before your first vest and then plateaus, you’re still getting only 400k.

This happens at some places and happens based on number of RSUs at other places.
Rethink about what a computer or calculator is? It depends on what you value, TBH. For example, let's go back to what Von Neumann architecture, the ENIAC:

ENIAC:
Von Neumann quickly appreciated the crippling limitations of cable plug-board-and-switches “programming,’’ and in fact had already conceived the revolutionary idea of not only stor- ing a problem’s input data inside the machine but also so
storing the program itself that would manipulate that data. Von Neumann was smart and apparently he was known to calculate in his head so he could compare what the computational equivalent, but his wife did most of the accounting for him, as did most of the so called human calculators of the day. He held back progress of computer architectures for a long time.

Now, the ENIAC's successor:
MANIAC-I
37 commands
As a measure of MANIAC-I’s speed, it could
add two numbers in ninety microseconds and multiply or divide two
numbers in one millisecond.

Briefly, the problem was to study how the vibrational energy of the crystal,
if initially located in just one mode of oscillation of the crystal’s atoms,
would over time spread itself throughout all the possible modes of oscillation
(the meaning of mode of oscillation will be explained soon). This mode spreading
of the energy is called the equipartition of energy in statistical physics. These days, "seconds" is already defined (at least in the Si system, but generally you'd want to Metrify stuff because it lets you do paper napkin physics much easier). You can build huge "global wires" of information that the "computer" can precalculate, it may require revisiting the limits of what can be achieved "in silico" or without hybrid "data flow"/"control flow" architectures and distributed virtual power transmission still allow for matter field bulk transport when needed, but dispatch shared resource usage more smartly (this includes stuff we can't "see" like consumption of natural resource flows. these tend to be global issues).
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Amazon devices don't need the "OK" do that hasn't happened (to me).

Though it can get a little confused occasionally when I'm playing some variety of Star Trek on the nearby TV.
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Yep, it's delivery. Now, if we could germline-edit humans to express Cas enzymes, then this would be more practical.
The average cost of residential electricity in the US is just under $0.12/kWh. A $6/mo electricity bill is pretty much unheard of around here. My electricity bill is around $50/mo and we only have 2 people living in the house. It would still take me ~25 years at my current rates and usages to break even, but the economics might work out better if you have a higher occupancy residence.
If I intentionally used my discretion as a developer to check in code that works against my employer, I'd be fired faster than you could say "unionization". I think it is a credible goal to inform people about their rights, but there has got to be a better way.
It's certainly not disqualifying until we are at far far far higher levels of renewables on the grid. Getting to 80% generation would take very little storage.

And people overestimate how much storage costs. In Texas, even with super cheap natural gas, there are more GW of storage in the interconnection queue than there are of natural gas plants. That's at today's prices, in a market where everybody competes on their own costs!

https://rmi.org/clean-energy-is-canceling-gas-plants/

And greater than 95% of new solar projects in California include storage, and something like 25% of projects outside of California include storage along with the renewables.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/hybrid-power-pl...

We don't absolutely need to deploy storage right now, but independent agents are still doing it, because they make money by deploying storage at current costs.
This is the biggest takeaway I got from the documentary, particularly when his young kids didn't recognize him due to his absenteeism from home. The determination and tenacity is admirable, but it's not something I'd think many people would aspire towards.
The CEO resigned, so it's questionable whether there are the same people running things. How much other management changed?
I'd rather they take a reasonable amount of time to evaluate. It's just the reality of things. A lot of those people would have lived if they had stuck with the plan to distance and wear masks but here we are.
It’s iOS.

I have an iPad with iOS12, and when I say “turn off the lights”, all the lights turn off.

I also have an iPhone with iOS14, and when I say “turn off the lights”, she asks where. Super annoying.
It won't. It just makes you feel contentedness. Not euphoria. Or "stoned", either.

According to other commenters, Delta-8 or CBG may.
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I tried this for about a week. But the amount of Star Trek TNG reruns I am constantly watching put a humorous end to that.
A few that I love are:

- 森 (forest) not only looks like a forest, but is a bunch of 木 (tree/wood).

- 众 is a crowd of people, and 人 is person.

- 火 is fire, and 焱 is flame or extremely hot.

- 石 is stone, and 磊 is many stones or great pile of rock.

- 水 is water, 淼 describes a larger body of water.
Lumping all world lotteries together introduces a lot of handwaving, so let's start with what we know and work forward.

According to the article, this event happened for South Africa Powerball, where 5 numbers are chosen out of 45, and 1 number chosen out of 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_National_Lottery...

That same Wikipedia page does some of the math for us: The chance of one combination being chosen is 1/42,375,200. So if we count all possible sequential combinations, N, we'll know that the chance of a single winning combination being sequential is N/42,375,200.

Say the powerball comes out as any number 6 <= M <= 20. There are 6 ways the numbers 1-45 could be picked such that M is part of the sequence. That's 90 ways total. If the powerball is 5, there are only 5 ways, same continuing down to a powerball of 1 where there's only 1 combination of numbers 1-45 where it could be part of the sequence. 90 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 brings us to 105 as our N.

So this single event had a probability of 105/42,375,200, or 1/403,573. This means that for similar lotteries one would expect to see a sequence after about 200,000 picks.

EDIT: If you only count events where the powerball is the high number, as happened this time, N goes down to 15, making the odds 1/2,825,013, so one would expect such a sequence after about 1.4 million picks.
Yeah the JS gives some snide comments about this being the 'creative' way. But this is what I like about pentesting. There is no good or bad way. If you get stuck, try something else. Any way you can break the system is a good one.
I feel like the true spirit of Google is that they test fifty shades of blue, then apply the "quantitatively best" shade of blue in an unrelated product where it makes the text unreadable. Either that or I have no idea what the heck they're testing for.
I'm currently wasting my time on screeps, but I'll take a look, thanks :)
> What do you suppose happens when, for example, Saudi Arabia can no longer feed itself? It just peacefully and gently starves to death?

Won't somebody think of the poor Saudi family?!
Got it. 50c6 is the total combinations. But there's more than 1 combination of 6 ascending balls, right? Why is it 1 in (50c6) instead of 45 in (50c6)?
Most fans have stopped complaining and simply given up by now.
Indeed, I actually meant "read (or check) a specified path/directory status entry" rather than "read a directory" but probably hit submit too quickly.

What this "privacy protections bypass" is doing looks like the former rather than the latter, and it seems like normal behavior if you have x/stat permission.

It could be that Apple's sandbox blocks r/readdir permission but not x/stat permission for some reason.
Because we live on Earth. Saudi Arabia is a strategic ally in the Middle East. We need to have a plan for the future when the geopolitical landscape shifts and incentives change. Nobody exists in a vacuum, our interests are intertwined with everyone else's.
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Why is that the consumer’s problem? It’s literally playing with people’s lives just because a company is bad at what they do.
I suspect it's because a large portion of society didn't take it seriously rather than preparedness. There are a lot of protections against government forcing the populace to do things that they don't want to do unlike in some much more authoritarian countries.
I think the only other confusing part is the bank email. Given that the premise is that her cybersecurity is weak, I would think that the transactions are actually because she fell it.
It's doing much better in terms of actually being used as a large portion of countries electricity generation, as I demonstrated above. But more importantly, the reality is that nuclear isn't competing against renewables it's competing against a fossil fuel grid that's supplemented by renewables. Germany, the poster child for renewables, still emits 10x the carbon dioxide per watt of electricity as France.

Let me put it more bluntly. Renewables are indeed cheaper on a per-watt hour basis. But that's more than offset by the need to deal with intermittency. Batteries are great for cars, but they exist at nowhere near the scale required to decarbonize with a wind and solar generation base. More exotic proposals like thermal storage, hydrogen, or the Sabatier process remain in prototyping and academic stage. The cost of storage is a non-answer, because there's no real plan to build this storage.

Renewables make in a stopgap mitigation plan but we have no feasible way of building a grid that's powered completely or even mostly by renewables. If our plan is to decarbonize the energy sector, renewables do not offer a solution. Hydroelectricity, and geothermal power do, but those are geographically limited. Nuclear energy is the only source that can feasibly replace fossil fuels as a consistent, geographically independence, and carbon-free energy source.

TL;DR:

* Industrialization happened because we figured out we could heat water and push a piston (and later, spin a turbine). Modern society is built off the ability to produce mechanical and electrical energy from thermal energy.

* It's a lot easier to heat water and spin a turbine with a carbon-free source of heat, than to try and capture energy from sun and wind and store massive amounts of energy to overcome intermittency.
What alternative would you propose? You can't just remove Boeing as a company: they have tens of thousands of existing aircraft in the field that need to be maintained, and a large number of people who were not at fault in all of this whose jobs would be eliminated. So how do you hold the proper people accountable without doing so much collateral damage that the cost of that outweighs the benefits?

Also, responsibility doesn't just like with Boeing; the FAA certified the 737 MAX, and the rules that allowed that to happen were written by lawmakers and bureaucrats over a period of decades. How do you hold all of them accountable? Many, if not most, of those people aren't even actively working any more.
Is the MSM narrative that Saudi oil is a good investment?
>Organization is about changing a power balance; it's not just about money.

Maybe I fundamentally misunderstand unions having only been in one for a short amount of time but I didn't feel any more empowered by having a union. It was a bunch of union fat cats arguing with corporate fat cats and all in all it just made the work more insufferable.
All the HTTP error codes are like that. There are hundreds of them, but they're not specific enough to actually tell you what went wrong without site-specific information.