skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That leads to the angle where the animals wouldn’t have existed at all.

Think horses in the 1900s (ubiquitous) vs now (rare pets mostly, may be used for some farm work). The utility as dairy or meat producer gives them life. Are you sure that they’d be better off not living at all?

And what do you suppose those people would be doing that’ll be better off than being a productive member of the society making dark chocolate?

I am sure you meet a ton of people like me every day - even kids. I am surprised you’re coming away with the assumption that they’re are all full of drive to do something worthwhile and are being oppressed by the world into a day to day job: I think the job provides a lot of structure and purpose for many.

If your assertion is we’d be better off leisuring away our lives like wall-E people rather than working towards a productive albeit excess world, I wouldn’t consider it better off.

Tying this back to my first argument, In asking for a life of leisure + no excess, ironically and contradictorily - you are denying chicken et al the life you seem to want for the people :). Just live it out pottering around until death come.
Dont put your eggs in one basket. Dont spend 100% of your time in a startup if your idea was not tested yet. Dont be employed without side projects. You will be happier when u have more balance.

A job gives you some TODOs that u dont like, but it also give you more than enough cash. A startup makes you dream, but it will empty your pockets and may destroy your relantionship with loved ones
If you don't need it to be predictable or timely or anything than filling the interior of anything large with propane/natural gas can be enough to create a boom like this. It's essentially just replacing quality with quantity

Also on a vaguely related note getting annual statistics for meth lab explosions is surprisingly hard
Exactly, this is likely a logical fallacy.
In particular, how can your expectation of the future value minus the current value depend on your buy-in price? That's a property a prediction should not have.
Let's wait until the new owners of the app fix the flaws and find new features for their app
Any particular reason why these two posts were rendered dead?

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Back in the day, Dev-C++ was the ideal IDE for the C/C++ beginner. Simple, easy to use and very light in term of resources. I remember being able to run Dev-C++ on a 166Mhz Pentium I with 32Mb of RAM (which was hopelessly obsolete even by then). You could even install C libraries automatically as DevPaks.

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ku-man 9 hours ago [dead] [–]

Wow, Dev-C++...

Let me see 2004 to 2020... I am old...
I think it is nice in Haskell to retain the ability to control the underlying representation of a string. The laziness allows the native linked list representation without the user having to know about the underlying representation. Your memory mapping function can simply return a lazy linked list of chars in Haskell as well. If the underlying representation turns out to be inefficient on the current system, then that can always be tuned by the user. Maybe in Prolog it is sufficient to leave all of that to the runtime system.

Thanks for the Prolog tips. I had a look at clpqr, and could not find any reference to boolean variables and operators. Maybe clpqr intersects with another system whose docs do refer to boolean variables. I could not see how to combine clpqr with clpb. Basically what I would like is for certain linear constraints to be active only if other chosen boolean expressions are true.

Example: Choose energy price based on maximum power usage over past month. There are some Japanese electricity tariffs which do this. There would be a partition of maximum power usage ranges, and each range is associated with a price. Associate a binary variable to each range. Ensure exactly one of the variables is true (sum = 1). Create a range constraint over the maximum power usage for each partition, and multiply the bounds of that constraint with the associated binary variable. When a binary variable is set to zero, you have a trivial constraint.

It is indeed possible to represent boolean constraints as linear constraints over binary variables and develop a DSL to translate in this direction. I am wondering whether a system exists which allows easy expression of linear and boolean combined, and which provides tools for solving them efficiently.
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Anticompetitive Tying. Google used the existing ad monopoly to try to gain a news distribution monopoly.

Pretty low.
Am not an Apple user, was tasked with setting up a new Apple ID for a parent's iPad today. Took an hour, one of the most unpleasant computing experiences I've had in recent memory, and I deal with embedded Linux systems.

14 OTPs sent to their mobile number, frequently being dumped back to the login screen. Maybe this was the reason, but damn this has discouraged me from ever going into their walled garden.
Can't you get a better, higher resolution clock simply by setting the time in a cell and setting the font size very large?
Can I ask what you've tried? Unless you have existing referrals from somewhere, you need some marketing strategy unfortunately which isn't easy if you only want to focus on coding.

I think a key part is moving from the mindset of e.g. "I'm a JS programmer who can help you" to "I help X achieve result Y".

I can relate that's it's tough starting out though and it's tiring when people make it sound easier than it is. Good luck!
Yes. Straight up lie. Do they know that? It seems like lying would be bad damage control, but I guess fud works
This is something that really irks me. The reason you always get paracetamol packaged with codeine is to prevent abuse of the codeine. They'd literally rather you destroy your liver and die than risk getting addicted to codeine.
Thank you very much, this is very helpful!
Ahh.. nice to know after many years, eventually it's updated.

It's my IDE of choice many many years ago when I just started learning C/C++ on Windows.
How many kids did this priest abuse?
Why did you post this to GP? He's being an asshole.
Before reading Patrik Svensson's "The Book of Eels", I first read the New Yorker article from May 2020 [1] (and corresponding HN post [2]). The article is very much worth the read.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/where-do-eels-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23265000
Curious as to the relationship between ATT and Apple's iCloud outages, if any. (I remember ATT was the original carrier for iPhone.)

Fair disclosure: this -is- a paranoid musing. Does my iCloud login ping "Room 641A" in ATT per some understanding between the national security state and apple computer?
+1 HN point for a complaining top comment in a thread where there's literally nothing to complain about.
In our first aid course, the instructor told us to give aspirin in case of a suspected heart attack (while rushing the victim to hospital, of course).
I'm sorry, did you read the post? It is full of profanity and name calling.
Could you expand and explain why you think so (I do understand it’s a novel idea).
Yet another boring emulated crap. Not even FPGA, just a good old raspberry pie and Fuse.
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Meh, disagree. A bunch of developers I know don't know the Pythagorean theorem but they are crazy good (developers). It completely depends on what your job requires you to do. For some developers to be great, they don't need even middle school math.
I know a sample of people on “basic income”: they are on unemployment benefits (or similar.)

There is a much bigger cohort, that is retirees.
I am a mathematician. Nature is of no consideration whatsoever in some fields of maths. But nature or applications to it are the primary focus in many other fields of maths. In still others, nature would be a source of analogies, or applications of a few special cases, etc. Muddying the waters, some mathematicians would expand the definition of "nature" to include completely abstract ideas - anything that feels "discovered", for example.

Mathematics is the study of patterns. Any kind of pattern you can imagine, in anything, including relationships between things. What things? Any things. That covers a lot!
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What city in Florida? I have only seen this in newer planned communities, never city or county wide in Florida.
I see mathematics as completely opposite to studying nature.

Mathematicians work on extremely simple objects as a basis. For example (since we're here), give them a 0 and 1, and they will spend 200 years building a whole theoretical world from that, an artificial system they will describe through thousands and thousands of pages of theorems, getting more and more complex as time goes.

Nature is an extremely complex system from the start. Trying to understand and describe it is not at all the same approach. You take a complex system (the complexity of the system is given, fixed externally by the nature) and try to simplify it.

You can see this difference in the software world too.

Mathematicians (CS) will build and favour the use languages which are based on a single simplistic axiom: "everything is a list" for the most famous example, "everything is a function" for others, and then you are supposed to build all the rest on those simplistic bases, and in practice that will mean twisting, bending, squeezing the problem world (i.e. the nature) to make it fit in your model.

On the other side, you have programmers, which will more often favour practical, pragmatical languages, which do not exhibit the clean regular, symmetrical simplicity of the former ones, but which are more adapted to describe a complex, irregular world.
Once you see them (which started for me when I read about the secret NSA data tap room some At&T worker discovered), you can't unsee them. They're pretty cool.

I'm actually really surprised that there was ANY damage at all. If you look at the photos of the building post-blast, it barely looks scratched. In fact the news has been focusing on pictures of the burned-out vehicles outside on the street, because the damage to the building is so underwhelming.
Probably https://earlyretirementextreme.com
They deliberately do not use grid electricity, as they don't like sparking and there is no need for it.
It's just simple mechanical pressure regulators, along with gas turbine compressors on long supply lines to boost the pressure.
> Invent a better cow catcher

Whatever protection system one comes with, it would better be good 100% of the time. Because a 99.999999% success rate will be a death sentence.

> It's a lot harder to hit something smaller and more mobile

People are very inventive when it comes to new weapons. By the time we have the technology to reach 0.01c, we'll have invented 10 more generations of weapons. We might miraculously avoid interplanetary wars before we reach for other stars, but I would not bet my money on that.
What would you consider the IRA to be in lieu of anti-government?

I don't think I said the IRA were a militia, I drew a conclusion that this incident, which I speculate as being tied to anti government militia groups in the US, shares similarities with other destructive anti government groups seen in Ireland and Spain. I don't think I said those groups were militia groups specifically, and I don't think the comparison is such a stretch since there are other commenters making the exact same leap to the IRA.

My contradictory wording is likely to be a subconscious defense mechanism of sharing my opinion on the internet. I have not claimed any specific knowledge or authority over this event or even in defense of my own speculation here. In full transparency, the only reason I posted was because people were going all in on the "heist" theory, which I find ridiculous.
I agree fully with you, again!

Just adding a bit more context as your previous comment seemed "sure" in that you're proclaiming "X is Y" while reality is not that black-and-white. Again, I agree with this and your previous comment.
So spending time with your kids would not be worth any money to you?

You are very wrong and misguided about economics.

You have worked to earn money, so that you can give your family a home and be able to spend time with them. It is absolutely untrue that it has no financial value to you.
Is the wavelength restriction a blocker though? There's already use of quantum dot film to shift light wavelengths into spectrums more suitable for growing plants[1]. Theoretically shouldn't this be able to be used to shift a larger percentage of the light spectrum into the 350-360nm range, resulting in a far higher actual yield?

[1] https://ubigro.com/
Please define "talented artist". Artist != someone who sells artworks. Selling art is something else than making art. You could argue that it is almost completely detached from making art.

If UBI makes 10% of the population "talented artists", what does that even mean? Who should consume all this art? Doesn't it make "art" much more common and thus, less valuable to society?
I still fail to see how calculus relates to programming for what most people do. Web or not.
They would need less believable stories and to impersonate interns, subcontractors, etc.

The pattern in the attacks could be extremely brazen, like impersonation of the editor themself or a higher position colleague to resist social checks.

Pretty strange for a long term editor to have few paths to themselves within their own publisher. (Since each attempt to gain a new connection in the publisher risks someone noticing the email address is a fraud of their own company and cause revocations.)

If the attack is 100 or 1000 times less effective it is probably written off as a complete waste of resources.
lol

Did you say youts?
> But yes, monitors eventually kill eyes

Are you sure?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/safeguarding-your-...

"Myth: Reading in dim light will worsen your vision.

Fact: Although dim lighting will not adversely affect your eyesight, it will tire your eyes out more quickly."

"Myth: Staring at a computer screen all day is bad for the eyes.

Fact: Although using a computer will not harm your eyes, staring at a computer screen all day will contribute to eyestrain or tired eyes. Adjust lighting so that it does not create a glare or harsh reflection on the screen."
I thought this might be like a Star Wars Christmas special, but set in The Matrix series of films...

Although I’m having a spot of bother trying to imagine what that could possibly be; I bet it’s bloody marvellous though.
I've been reading a bunch of medical studies recently and I've found the same thing painfully often. Wow, this study is p<0.01, that's amazing! How much did the substance alter the measurement, though? Never mentioned.
"Huge" is a tough one to quantify, but in speaking to a lot of the regulated sectors like legal, this is a big area, and one that people are waking up to.

One part of the issue is most aren't even aware they're breaking the law (or their regulatory obligations). You're right, there's certainly an online "bubble" around privacy/security, but equally, from the other perspective if you speak to people outside of the "startup tech" industry, they'd say the notion of randomly using third party services with unmanaged storage on personal accounts (a la iCloud) simply isn't an option for them.

I guess when you add it up - regulated financial services, legal, anyone falling under GDPR who needs to show systematic measures in place, any serious business that needs to have processes that out-live any individual staff member, systems based around "convenient personal cloud" suddenly start to become the minority.

Most serious companies won't allow company IP/data to be stored on "personal" systems (which would encompass iCloud and similar).
It appears to be good science, but lousy engineering. To be fair to the original, the whole 'this research will save the planet shtick' is pretty much boilerplate for any paper[0].

Photocatalytic H2 production will never be practical vs even boring old solar->electricity->Water-splitting. Literal acres of catalyst and transparent plumbing are not cheap or maintenance free, never mind that a hydrogen 'farm' producing mixed hydrogen and oxygen will make the Hindenburg look like a tea candle in comparison.

re the conditions: the energy cutoff appears to be at around 370nm, so it essentially operates under UV light only, at atmospheric to a few bar pressure and close enough to room temperature.

[0]e.g. Every nanotechnology paper is going to claim to all but revolutionize one or more of: drug delivery, cancer treatment, materials science, or my favorite, lithium batteries. Nine times out of ten though they are just taking <insert metal> and making <insert shape>: something which is useful to know how to do, but not typically revolutionary.
Olvid: The most secure messenger in the world
Personally, to me a 16:9 vertical layout makes more sense than 4:3 for a device that will likely specialize on text.
>Took an hour, one of the most unpleasant computing experiences I've had in recent memory, and I deal with embedded Linux systems.

I'm pretty sure you've had tons of opportunities to spend far more than "1 hour" diagnosing, fixing, and handling some hair pulling desktop/server/embedded Linux issues - even when there was no outtage involved.

Did these equally discouraged you from ever going into desktop/server/embedded Linux?
Top feature (in my opinion): No trust in TTP, by using a security model like PGP web of trust (with its problems?)

Some claims that I can't find the details of them: metadata encryption and anonymity features.

The design paper: https://olvid.io/assets/documents/2020-05-09_Olvid-specifica...
palm prints are standard now along with fingerprints, the creases within palms and fingers are verifiable.
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Cryptocurrency Fake Giveaways Impersonate Elon Musk, Trump, and Others
> it would only allow the rest 99.9% to focus their time into consumption

Here is an article in agreement with that point, from a different POV though: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/i-used-to-argue-for-ubi-then-... “[UBI] merely serves as a way to keep the wealthiest people (and their loyal vassals, the software developers) entrenched at the very top of the economic operating system.”.

Ideally I think a UBI appears interesting, however practically I can’t see how it could work.

I’ve digressed from the article topic, because I am interested in why UBI has such zealotry (appears to me at least).
It wasn't because of the outage, I had the same experience setting up an AppleTV a couple of months ago. It seems like the whole "it just works" motto only applies if you use nothing but Apple products. It actually made my wife decide to not buy another macbook because of how transparently user-hostile the setup was.
I am wondering how well will it work on modern hardware? I have a CRT monitor, but AFAIK modern videocards have very poor support for the legacy video modes.
I agree with this 100%. Hard math rarely has a use outside of it's scope. How often are you really trying to simplify the cotangent multiplied by an arcsin? Sure people who deal with trigonometry do often. But that subset of people is even smaller than people who do geometry. I'd wager carpenters do more math on a daily basis than the average programmer.
I'd expect a not insignificant amount of image hosting sites to throw away unrecognized chunks, especially if they contain a few dozen kilobytes of data. It might even make sense for privacy or security reasons, just like EXIF data is usually stripped.
Sometimes I feel like software developers don't actually know the fundamentals of how the programs run, not taking into account all the math behind the algorithms, etc. Being good developer IMO is first understanding the system from ground up, second - understanding the domain and if it requires math, yes, you need to know that as well.
Otherwise you can go on your whole career copy/pasting and using APIs/language features you have no idea how it's working.
Is it? Bing works just great for me. A lot of Google's results have been inaccurate lately, mostly from too much SEO manipulation.
>I would argue that this is wrong. That's what physicists do, not mathematicians. Mathematics is about abstract ideas, which can live regardless of nature or application.

Regardless of nature of application, yes, but not so abstract otherwise.

Many mathematicians consider math to be more like physics, where you discover things, there is experiments, etc., than a mere axiomatic system where you invent things.

That was an increasingly popular idea about math in the 20th century (and haven't heard otherwise in the 21st).
I suggested using peroxide not hydrogen, as the peroxide reaction is more exothermic. Either way I suspect that you'd need to burn a lot of extra hydrogen to overcome the latent heat of water and create sufficient heat to melt the ore / alloy.

A quick back of the envelope calculation would be at least 1 million litres of H2 per ton of steel. So maybe 2~3 million litres of H2 per manufactured car just for the steel alone?

[EDIT] Peroxide also has the added benefit of being a liquid at room temperature.
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I migrated over to Big Sur yesterday and rely on iCloud Drive for storing all my dotfiles / initial setup scripts, using symlinking between home directory and iCloud.

So a consequence of my solution is that I am stuck now, waiting to be able to sync.

This has happened before and I promised myself to migrate from iCloud if it occurred again so I guess this will be one of my New Year’s promise.

On a side-note; due to the ability to add .nosync to a folder / file, resulting in content being ignored by iCloud, you can have a pretty decent folder structure.

For example;

- Work

- A Company name

- invoices
- illustrations
- documents
- repos.nosync (everything in here is ignored)

The problem is if you accidentally git clone into a directory that is synced, iCloud basically blows up rendering both the computer you work at unusable since it won’t sync properly, but also other devices since it’s trying to sync node_modules containing 500 000 files.

Would have loved if iCloud Drive supported block lists - would have solved so many issues.
> Of course, it also assumes that people can choose exactly how many hours they work at their regular hourly rate, which isn't usually the case

It can be the case, but then the trade-off is even worse:

This article suggests calculating your net income as an average rate across all your hours worked.

If you have chosen to increase your hours, you are taxed at the marginal rate on these increased hours, i.e. the highest possible tax rate. Your net income per hour is reduced - as such, you are undervaluing your own time.
Ah good, another win for Brexit. Truly, unmitigated success.

It's amazing how the pro vote was to strengthen the sovereignty of Britain outside of the EU and all indications are that sovereignty was just, uh, transferred to anyone who will pay in exchange for stop-the-bleeding type trade deals.