skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is an idea that Scott has just made up.

How can you be so sure? Maybe he's telling the truth, and the idea that he made it up was made up by you.

> The NYT isn't gullible enough to fall for that one.

As I said, they ought to default to granting requests for pseudonymity unless there is strong public interest not to, which there wasn't any in this case.

> There are plenty of cases where there's no injustice in treating people differently without a specific reason

The difference with your example of gifts, is that neither Bob nor Mary have any right to expect any particular gift. By contrast, if someone asks that we respect their privacy, we ought to respect it unless we have good reason not to. It is one thing to be inconsistent in gifts to friends, when we don't owe them anything in particular. It is another thing to be inconsistent in fulfilling one's obligations to others.
PHP used to actually have a performance penalty for splitting things up into modules and using object oriented design, because it meant loading and parsing more files on each request.

I was trying to do that on my first big PHP project, and got called out. The architect said "your code is too good, PHP is for writing crap". If you are going to write good code, you should do it in another language.

Symfony framework is a great example of a PHP framework written by Java programmers. All the same verbosity as Java, but without the benefits of Java.
FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgYMFtxUUw

Warning: funny and rude. But IMHO makes good points.
> "you are within physics" necessarily bridges these two explanations.

But, it doesn't. The reason dualism and free-will are so deeply tied up is because “you are within physics” does not provide a means by which “you” can be the root cause of anything; if you are merely within physics, then you are simply a product of material causes and can only be (to the extent physics is deterministic) a fully-externally-determined phenomenon between the original cause and other fully-determined phenomena.
Very justified in this case.

And I don't normally support some of the more political cases against Uber et al
Have you perhaps mixed up my comment with this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26152783?

I was just asking about your thoughts of how outside of trading jitter is seldom considered. I appreciate it's off-topic from the actual HN post but I was curious given your experience in trading.
For your situation I agree. And when I run into that, I just pass them by and go on to another vendor.

There are only a few reasons where I could see 'contact us for pricing' being appropriate:

1 Volatility caused by unknown market or price war, where competitor keeps causing price stability issues.

2 Complex purchase - too many confusing options - so we have to have a sales person walk you through it. 'So you want a web page and you need a specific person to do it ...'

3 Contractual - in rare instances a vendor can purchase excess product, at a steep discount. But are not allowed to advertise the price.

All other options make me think of a used car salesman trying to figure out how much they can do you for.
The Willpower of a Puppet
Wikipedia says that the Z3 was "electromechanical", though, while the ENIAC is described as "electronic".

You can always play the "who was first" game if you just add enough distinguishing categories.
It's everywhere to the extent that I find it hard to believe it's not lurking somewhere on a default Windows install. I would very much like to be able to say to people "do not use excel for that. It will make you cry" and not have the response "corporate IT won't let me install anything better."
I never said that Apple makes the absolute safest chargers. What I do know is that: 1) major companies like Samsung have made huge safety blunders 2) Apple has no such history at scale (ie entire product recalls) and analysts find its chargers are well engineered 3) there is no 3. I don’t have the inclination to ascertain the safety of Sony chargers, I’ll just get Apple ones and leave it at that.
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Moiré patterns facilitate discovery of novel insulating phases
It’s only “by that logic” if you equate bad reception to explosions.
https://adonisjs.com
I agree - in a lot of these Amazon discussions on HN a lot of people seem to believe Amazon does nothing.

But if you look at e.g. seller forums at Amazon, there are a lot of large threads about the opposite problem - Amazon taking out lots of reviews the sellers consider legitimate.

So clearly they are doing something, and it might even be that only a small minority of fake reviews get through, but due to Amazon's scale there are still a lot of them.
These are my stats from 2 identical sticks of 250 GB Samsung SSD bought in the summer of 2018. So yea, Apple probably want to tweak some settings. I use my computer a lot, Linux more than the Windows install which is mostly for gaming.

Windows 10:
Data Units Read: 11 332 875 [5,80 TB]
Data Units Written: 8 173 369 [4,18 TB]

Linux:
Data Units Read: 5 837 296 [2,98 TB]
Data Units Written: 4 891 744 [2,50 TB]
redeploying on a more beefy instance with 8G ram :)
Oh fascinating, you actually put hundreds of thousands of statements in a single SQLite transaction in an online CRUD app (as opposed to offline processing)? I've never done more than a couple hundred and even then usually they're "logically batched," both because I'm worried about forcing unnecessary read to write transaction promotions for concurrent reads and thereby increasing busy errors, but also because that affects durability to have a transaction open that long (it's not great to let your HTTP response hang for a second before responding as you keep your transaction open).

For serialized writers in any system I'm sure keeping a transaction open as long as possible is the ideal case for throughput, but there's other problems with that in a CRUD app no?
(Disclaimer: haven't read the whole thing)
This just seems like one of these situations: https://xkcd.com/927/

The fact that the same physical system can be described by very different kinds of mathematics is often very illuminating and interesting, rather than confusing. It's one of the reasons that physics can inspire mathematics, rather than maths just being a tool that physicists use. Different types of mathematics often allow you to emphasise different properties of the same system, so being comfortable in more than one language brings you freedom and new insights.
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If you want to create charts quickly there's also: https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/dashing
make the interface more intuitive to the user and fix a couple of bugs in macOS

other than that, it is great!
Of course. "is" is almost always the wrong thing to do.
It's a natural reaction in one-on-one conversations to switch to the language that least impedes communication. That's annoying when you're trying to learn a language but wouldn't be too bad as an outcome if your actual problem is just the lack of English documentation.

But in the case of a larger online community where German is used by default, you'd be unlikely to get everyone to switch to English just by posting in bad German. After all, you might just as well be a Kazakh whose English is even worse, and as just another anonymous newcomer, there's no reason to accommodate you in particular.
Well, the ratings as displayed cannot be trusted here either. Recently, I saw a product on amazon Germany with 3.5 stars, determined from 4 reviews. The reviews were 2x 5 stars and no text, 2x 1 star with reasonable reviews IMHO (and a high number of 'Users rated this review useful').

Still, amazon weights the 5-star no text reviews higher to arrive at 3.5 stars.

(The product now has 7 reviews with at least 3x 1 star text reviews and the weighting still favors the no-text 4/5 star ratings: [1])

[1] https://smile.amazon.de/Lego-Technic-42125-Ferrari-Corse/pro...
look how you can improve it on low latency networks

the auto functionality does not "adjust" to the network capabilities
I was thinking of implementing almost exactly this for mesh decimation. Certainly a decade or so ago you had enormous point clouds being generated that were too big to fit in ram, and none of the common mesh decimation tools worked off disk. I imagine it's less of a constraint now.
How to Scrape Phone Numbers and Reviews from Google Maps?
Neanderthals used stone tool tech once considered exclusive to Homo sapiens
I also forgot to mention that everything is temperature dependent, because ink particles move differently at different temperatures. ;)

OTOH, if you don't mind full refresh (shaking the ink into uniform white by making the whole display black/white/black/white repeatedly a few times) between updates, these displays seem to be quite forgiving, in my limited experience. So it's not all doom and gloom. :)
Fauci wins $1M Israeli prize for 'defending science'
A public digital atlas of extreme wind speeds for wind energy applications
Yes, I see and use sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state machines diagrams inspired by UML or even sometimes correct UML once in a while.

UML hasn't been as successful as some people thought it would be, but if you want to draw a diagram related to some software, you are very likely to use some kind of concepts defined in UML (and others).
He said ask, not risk. And given your friend has stopped helping ... I know he says he is too busy.

You are asking someone to provide for you several hours of their time. Someone who is currently receiving $100 to $300 an hour at their company.

There are plenty of books. Get some, find other people who are trying to do the same as you, and practice together.
Bureaucratic forms have a tendency to change unpredictably. Today they want weight in kilograms, tomorrow they'll want it in grams, and the day after that in standardized intergalactic weight units. I get what you're saying (and I don't like writing unnecessary mapping boilerplate too), but there should be a middle layer to protect the application from craziness like that.
These are all one time/one a year operations.
They build the customer trust by taking financial hits - if you’ve been a long time prime customer they are good at refunding the purchase when you aren’t happy. It doesn’t protect others from ordering the same bad widget but you are at least satisfied not to make it a bigger issue.
I've noticed it started taking a long time to download files, they'd "download" to 100%, then stall. Moving all my "Downloads" folder into an "Old Downloads" folder fixed the problem. I suspect there was a quadratic algorithm at play.
Curated List of Clubhouse Resources
There are still a lot of bugs, features not working at all in windows. So a feature that works but slowly in extraordinary (for most users) conditions is not prioritized.

If you want a bug-free os, you'll pay an extreme price in features or in dollars.
The second is very possible. Maybe a defective PSU and the cat hears the components struggling and gets curious, hence the correlation.
It is stunning that the problem was in such a highly visible location, but the idea that your operating system becomes slow after years of use has always been a thing. Reinstalling Windows was something I would do every couple of years, I even made money in highschool doing house calls fixing people's computers.

It was about an hour or two, most of which was spent drinking tea with a random family's dad. I'd back up their data, reinstall windows, replace IE with firefox and a decent free antivirus. The computer would go from being a nightmare to being a joy to use.

In that time there were definitely more dangers looming, they would accumulate search bars and other adwares and trojans and such. There wasn't much value to be won from PC's then so having a virus would usually not affect their lives much. It would be common to get an email from your provider that they'd disable your connection if you didn't remove the DDoS bot from your machines.
The clojure/clojurescript tooling for QuickCheck is quite powerful - as it has a wide range of generators which are able to generate smarter / more specific data than simply matching on types.

And since clojurescript can be compiled and exported to JavaScript, this makes it available to JavaScript projects. A few years ago I packaged this up as https://github.com/glenjamin/checkers. I expect there are newer versions of the underlying library available now, but as I haven't been working in this ecosystem for a while, I haven't kept the package up to date.
Funny to see RSDN in this list! It now has only around 20 regulars left (many of whom would appear to be posting under multiple accounts), and nobody really discusses tech any more.

But I do love the old usenet-like interface with thread trees. I wish more message boards still used a similar interface (although it is a pain to use on mobile).
> Apple's mobile devices haven't been that interesting since the iPhone X / Watch Series 3. Nothing really has felt like a 'must have' upgrade. iPhone 12 & series 4 watch was definitely an improvement stylistically, but that's about it.

1994 DOOM

1996 Quake

1997 Quake 2

1999 Quake 3

2004 Doom 3

2007 Crysis < Phones are here
"Flattening density is the way forward."

Truly no.

We need nature to do it's thing, and that means removing ourselves from large swathes of it.

Build beautiful cities, with parks, and urban farms (hydropnics etc), and leave everything else alone.
The NHS advertises smoking cessation in general terms, and non-prescription patches etc are indeed advertised.

> Like what are we even talking about?

There's a long history of patients being easily suckered into ineffective or inappropriate medications, or even being persuaded that a condition exists that they wouldn't have been worried about otherwise. And of unscrupulous marketers persuading them to spend money on this.

Has everyone forgotten the opiates scandal? https://www.ft.com/content/7cf7b242-a6e1-11e9-984c-fac8325aa...

Or previously OxyContin (2009): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/

Medicine is supposed to be a science. It's supposed to be possible to determine accurately what condition someone has, what the appropriate medications to treat them might be, and for them to make an informed choice. Marketing is the opposite of that in every respect: it's incentivized to mislead people, even if it kills them.
>skin in the game

I do write/have written reviews, incl. tear down pictures for some products as I'd be happy if I find similar approach/reviews.

Normally I read only 3 and 4 star reviews, or the ones that have disassembly pictures and seem to have been written by coherent people. It's a slow process, unfortunately but it does help with selection.

EU (and the UK) have 2y of mandatory warranty and 2weeks free returns, so the fake reviews are not so prominent.
Wow, I was looking for something like this a few days ago. I'll check it out!
Sony is the current rights holder. They apparently have no interest in putting it up there, making any new games with the IP, or selling it (Mike Dailly, one of the original creators, has tried to buy it back).
Yes, the Z3 used relays and the Eniac used tubes. Relays were more reliable but slower.
> 1. Make Windows ignore autorun.ini on writable media

Wasn't this fixed in XP SP1? You got a OS prompt asking which action you wanted to take when you inserted removable media.
See my reply here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26152103
Claim for giant 'Planet Nine' at Solar System's edge takes a hit
Well there goes my standard tech support line:

"No, don't worry the icons don't lag your computer, just the programs that are currently running."

I do feel silly now.
Is there a Chrome multilogin extension that works for Twitter
I have been looking for one that works with twitter but have not had any success .
> They don't only remove the supplier. They beat their former suppliers specs. (e.g: M1 chip).

They remove the supplier because they beat their specs.
> this telemetry eventually finds its way to Intel in various methods

Wait what? How does that work, and how is that legal?
> VA didn't hire a camera crew either, but a friend of one of the executive staff (Jon Hall) wanted to do a story about Open Source

Jon "Maddog" Hall is an awesome guy, BTW. He used to be a constant presence at the Brazilian Free Software Forum (FISL). He's now the board chair of the LPI.
Please check out logseq.com (used GitHub as back-end with js doing commits from local storage, etc).
Alas, there is no misc.comp group. There is a misc.misc group, however, but the bad news again is that comp.comp group does not exist. :)
Find interesting rooms in clubhouse using Python
I had that phone as well! I remember playing lemmings (also one of my favourite games ever), and a lot of old Lucas Arts adventures with ScummVM.
Researchers rethink life in a cold climate after Antarctic find
I leave reviews for two reasons: To reward a seller when I really like something, and to punish a seller when I really hate something. Rarely in between.

Well written reviews are a common good, and there is good reason to believe that leaving reviews encourages others to do the same, and that helps me, so I do it.

Yes, I know there'll be fake reviews, but most of the time they are pretty easy to spot.

Not least because the reviews that swing things for me -- both towards buying and away from it -- are the negative reviews.

Most of the obvious fake ones are good reviews, but I'm usually more concerned about what the worst thing someone has to say about a product. If someone posts about a printer that it doesn't work with Linux, I won't buy it (at least not without double-checking and verifying that said reviewers info is outdated) no matter how many positive reviews there are. Meanwhile, if I can't find any negative reviews complaining about things I care about it will often convince me to buy.

That is a lot harder to game than getting a bunch of people to write that they love the product.
Marketplace success key ecommerce metrics
I'm convinced that this is the worst possible example given that Viagra marketing produced an absolute tidal wave of spam in the early 2000s. It was advertising at its worst, and least ethical.
That's a good advice. I wish you the best with your recovery.
I love how, now, I can just order a Dell or Lenovo and just ask for "no OS installed".

I wish getting an ANSI keyboard were that easy around here (Ireland)
How Corporations Harvest Data
I'm not surprised! The price of text-books is such that even getting one or two sales out of an account could make a counterfieter decent money
> The one with the customers won't work because creating a new account is trivial.

Creating a new credit card isn't.
Was gonna say, "their job depends on it" sounds ike something straight out of a Kitboga scam baiting video.
Ask HN: ideas for local journalism?
Local journalism seems to be on the way out, in favour of larger media organisations.

What kinds of journalism based in your local area/community would excite you?
Oops, yeah, you're right. I've updated my comment, thanks for pointing that out.
I've had this one, but with a bunny. Carpet + Bunny + PC that stands on the floor, so each time bunny ran near the PC it caused a hard freeze due to statics.
I've been out of the GPU market for a while.

Any comparison with M, other laptops and desktop with various GPU card price points?

What are some current solutions when doing local development without breaking the wallet too much?
No-Code MVP with unfair tech advantage?
There is this as well:

https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

A very faithful browser based reimplementation of the original.
This is awesome! Keep it up - I'll see how I can contribute.
> In my mind, an if/else block is an imperative entity that describes two different actions that could happen. Even if in reality both branches are trivial, my mind will be unnecessarily occupied with the fact that it needs to reason about code here, not just data

That's true in some languages. But in some languages if-else can also be used as in expression. e.g. in Rust I can write:

let foo = if condition { "FOO" } else { "BAR" }
Notion’s hours-long outage was caused by phishing complaints
> There are still a lot of bugs, features not working at all in windows. So a feature that works but slowly in extraordinary (for most users) conditions is not prioritized.

Please don't pretend like Microsoft has rationally prioritized the feature/bug work on Windows. Microsoft is spending resources pushing ridiculously niche use cases like "3D Objects". Microsoft is also doing a bunch of duplicate work, for example, maintaining 2 different UIs for Control Panel even though the old one was fine. Maybe it's time for Microsoft to stop the endless re-designs just for the sake of "new is better", and maybe focus on fixing bugs?
It's based on another meme that the laws of physics are a restriction of behavior rather than construction of behavior. And that's why they are thought to conflict with unrestricted behavior.
“Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
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:) sounds like bcm4709. Funnily, rust wouldn't have a problem there, that's specifically a node problem because their JIT doesn't handle software FPUs. LLVM does.

I'm fairly confident in saying any place you can run any node version, you can run rust.

https://github.com/nxhack/openwrt-node-packages/issues/15
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That's exactly what I was thinking about. For example, last weekend I was looking at the products offered by an online bike shop. There were at most a few thousand pages showing product lists with prices. Some of these pages took more than a second (!) to load. What the hell is going on? What's the server doing all that time? That should be instantaneous. It can be solved by a small folder of static html pages, re-generated when stock changes a few times per week.

I'm not a web developer so maybe what I say does not make sense and sounds stupid. But I'm just astonished by what process this happens to be a complicated problem.
Ask HN: Admit it, who here played Runescape?
Quantum mechanics is not the simplest explanation around.

Plancks energy equation should be

E=htf

h should be in the units of Joule as opposed to Joule second.

This formula reveals the true nature of the photon: its not a fundamental particle. What we regard as a photon today is the energy of 1 seconds worth of light at some frequency f.

Every wavelength of light contains the same energy, h, regardless of frequency.

When you realize plancks constant should be in Joules you will shortly realize that the fine structure constant actually has units of seconds.

Another neat thing is that light has mass: h/c^2 (ridiculously small). If it has mass then it should have net charge as well. This could explain why light curves without needing general relativity.

Coulombs law using permeability of free space instead of permittivity reveals that coulombs law is a long form of expressing E=mc^2

F * d = muc^2 q1q2/d

E = (h2alpha/e^2c)(q1*q2/d)c^2

Edit: formatting
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What do you mean by "derive" the Schrödinger equation? As best as I know, there is no "derivation" beyond some analogy with the classical wave equation. It's an equation penned down by Schrödinger, motivated by the classical wave equation and insights from de broglie's theory.

I'd love to see a derivation if it exists.
I think not. This looks like ADSP level stuff, and requires changes on the mobile operator level (to stop relying on IMSI for various things), too.