skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're acting like they're evil. They're not hunting for “big juicy targets”; they're trying to solve societal problems, and are working off the model that there are a lot of charismatic abusers out there, so people defending their actions should be treated with incredible suspicion. (In general, that's a bad attitude to have… but the harm of believing an abuser can be pretty high, so I'm not even saying they're wrong to take that stance by default, given how often they need it.)

If you're not charismatic – you don't try to defend yourself – they'll run through their investigation and find something or find nothing, and then give a fairly fair verdict (or as fair as anything on Twitter ever is).

In this case, the author could've engaged, probably, and said something like:

> This was actually meant to be sarcastic; you're meant to notice how unreasonable it is, and disagree with the narrator, but the narrator doesn't represent my views, which are [XYZ]. Your advice would be good, if I actually agreed with what I'd written, but the point is that it's outlandish and bad, because I'm calling out attitudes in the game industry.

> The feature I'm documenting there is usually used for bad. Your suggestions would be good ones, if I actually believed in that bad, but I don't. Do you have any ideas for how to make it more obviously sarcastic?

I think the author probably missed the boat on this, though; the Twitter mob grows quickly.
It's certainly striking, but the world is full of surprises like that. Goldman Sachs' CEO is an EDM DJ with 550,000 monthly Spotify listeners. He performs at nighclubs and music festivals, gets plays on Sirius XM, and his tracks chart on Billboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Solomon
Thank you. :-) Although ..you seem to have used as many jargony or cliché phrases in this paragraph as the previous one, it doesn't seem at a significantly lower level. "exists to prop up the status quo" .. "the incentives at play" .. "play to the confirmation bias of their audience" .. "the status quo is presented as the objective ideal"

All these seem a bit murky, rather hand-wavy. Maybe it's not possible, or would be too lengthy, to ELI10. I kind of know what you mean, but I feel there are unexamined assumptions buried in those murky phrases. Who can tell if they're right or not? It's impossible to say exactly what they mean. e.g. How would you go about finding out if something actually "exists to prop up the status quo" or not? (Sorry if this comment is a waste of time.)
I tried both and VS Code is a clear winner. I think Microsoft is keeping Atom around as a "consolation prize" to the people they acquired.
I do not see the genius of this move.
I would probably be grumpy if I encountered this code during a work day.
Given Microsoft's ownership of Github, I suspect it's inevitable. If anything, I'm surprised that it hasn't already happened.
Very neat!

For a deeper appreciation, check out "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants": http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
It's give and take. I've been writing Haskell for a long time, and I think just reading slowly is a big help in general when dealing with any Haskell code not written by me. This is true for everything but I find it especially true here. There are stylistic choices concerning the code base that some people would quibble over (please nobody start a flame war over 'lens' thank you) that make it a little more opaque to non-Haskell users though, I think. Like, I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking:

scribe toMem . First . Just . InstrMem =<< dePC <<~ use fetchPC

just doesn't read very well if they don't know it Haskell, though I admit it's perfectly readable and understandable to me, and I think could be explained to a novice with a little help.

If you want an alternative to SystemVerilog, another alternative is Bluespec. It's higher level than SV, but much more productive and easier to get right, too. (Incidentally, Bluespec is also a kind of Haskell, but it has two different kinds of syntax, one inspired by Haskell, and one inspired by SystemVerilog...)
Making the study about bitcoin in particular seems like a clickbaity way of getting attention, when the core issue seems to be dirty power generation. Bitcoin makes up a tiny fraction of non-essential American power usage, so focusing on it in particular just seems like jumping on the "Bitcoin is terrible for the environment" bandwagon. Articles on this topic seem to pop up every couple weeks on HN lately, and they generally aren't novel or interesting.
It appears the fire that led to explosion was caused by a valve that started leaking even prior to touchdown. i.e. unrelated to the leg failure.
The U.S. Invented Life-Saving Car Safety Ratings. Now They’re Useless
The underlying music for a large fraction of classical music is public domain now (but not all...classical music never stopped being composed).

But copyright can also cover the performance itself, not just the underlying music. So even though Beethoven's 9th symphony has long been public domain, for example, the Telarc recording of it by Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Celeveland Orchestra & Chorus is not. If you want to do something with that specific recording, you need permission.

Also, a particular arrangement might be copyrighted. Consider Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". That was composed as a piano piece in 1874, and long ago became public domain.

Since then, numerous other composers have arranged it for orchestra, with the most well known arrangement probably being Maurice Ravel's in 1922. There have been dozens of other orchestrations including several this century, and also numerous arrangements for other types of groups and combinations of instruments and solo instruments.

A given recording will only be public domain if the underlying work, the arrangement, and the performance are all public domain.
I assume it's been selected entirely for range.

All narrow body aircraft only have enough range to do a one-way flight. The 767-300ER can land, do a return flight and have plenty of fuel left over for reserves.
> An (increasingly rare) person from a single-kid middle class home is not only a social minority, but has to create more of their own opportunities because they are an outsider to both societies.

I don't follow: is a single kid from a middle class family an outsider to kids from other middle class families where they have 2 or 3 kids? I mean, I understand that middle class is neither rich nor poor, but what's the difference for a unique child compared to middle class families with serveral kids?

Do the siblings typically provide opportunities for their brothers/sisters? (I'm personally launching atm a new endeavor with my brother but I don't see that as particularly common).
Thanks for the interesting case. I guess many readers have read too much into lt2 and lt3 but overlooked the code under 2.4.2: C++ could actually be that bad. In that code, you only showed the timing in comments. The result may be worth a table. Perhaps another way to structure the manuscript is to give the surprising result of 2.4.2 first and then to explain what makes that happen.
Jesus+of+Nazareth+–+What+Does+this+Name+Mean?+|+Good+News
it's fascinating. I think we're watching hyperreality take on a new aspect in real time.
This would be easily foiled by reading the wikipedia page of the condition beforehand, right?
Around here the fathers (or any visitors) weren’t even allowed in the delivery room, not to mention being forced to labor with a mask on. An awful experience for the mom. Nevertheless some of us are crazy enough to build our families even during these times because, like you said, it’s about the long plan.
Congrats!! Hope it's smooth sailing for you and your spouse and your child.
Once you deorbit you select between one target landing strip and lithobraking.

Starship could conceivably land on anything reasonably flat if it needs to land in an emergency compared to Super long special runway the Shuttle needed.
I'm sorry but you don't understand how dealerships work. You seem to think the only amount of money they make is the difference between their price from the factory and the final price you pay on the invoice. I agree this number is small but that is not where the profit comes from. They make far more from the financing which today sees people getting 7 year loans to pay for a $65K SUV. They also make a ton from selling extended warranties and other add-ons, and they push this stuff aggressively (sadly). Additionally, they make quite a bit from reselling used cars. There is a lot of obfuscation in how much you get in rebates and knock-downs versus your car's "trade-in" value. The "real" acquisition cost of a used car is far lower than you might think. (One trip to a dealer's car auction will set you straight.) The markup on a used car can be far more than a new. They could sometimes make 25% or more plus they are still going to sell a lot of people extended warranties since the factory one is almost expired. Additionally, parts and service make quite a lot since, as you point out, upper middle class people "trust" the dealership and pay 3x the cost for most vehicle services. (Source: my dad has been selling cars for over 40 years)
I mean, in the case of cereal you’re buying garbage so any price you pay you’re still getting garbage. I don’t believe cereal and durable goods are equivalent here.
Anecdotally, my experience within my immediate geography in a southern state are opposite from the hypothesis in the article. My wife and I had a child in late 2020, and with my social circle I can name a dozen more newborns last year that were conceived after we became aware of the pandemic. Just last week two friends announced they were expecting.

This could be regional, as the economy where I live hasn't taken as big a hit. I wonder if the state's lax policies amidst the pandemic, which have and are sure to continue to draw strong emotional responses, are responsible for a different outlook amidst the turmoil.
> There is a large and robust literature to assess these type of damages

even granting you that we have a robust model to assess damage (which on its face seems to be a wildly improbably claim) we do not have an accurate model that predicts WHAT damage will be done due to humanity's impact on weather change, so the resultant-cost benefit analysis still propagates that uncertainty forward.

> (search for Social Cost of Carbon)

i havent read it all because i just looked it up[0], but it directly contradicts your claim of our "robust data and damage models". section 5.1 "damage functions" is about how previous damage models are all incorrect.

side note: one of the paper authors is in references 30 times. idk if this is common or not, but it seems suspicious.

> The methodological challenges are discussed really well in the paper actually. Much of the damages calculated here aren't even climate but direct air pollution

wouldnt know, dont have access to anything but the abstract.

look, im not well read into the field of future predictive damage modeling. you may be right that the field has some definition, however i stand by my smell test. even ignoring everything relevent about health, damage, and climate, the start of the sentence "$1 of BTC" is enough to give pause. BTC price is up 30% in the last month and 470% in the last year. not exactly rigorous scientific measure.

[0] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28472/w284...
There are certainly tallies of the expenses. I don’t know about over time, but Googling immediately got me the number $233k in 2015 from the USDA. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-chil... I’ve seen many other such lists over several decades, so charting the average costs over time should be possible.

It might be worth checking out the countries that have implemented child bonuses to check the hypothesis that costs are the reason. https://money.com/government-pays-have-a-baby-low-birth-rate... (Not to mention what others nearby have called out: look at birthrates tallied by socioeconomic status. If birthrates go down with increasing income, maybe costs aren't a major factor in birthrate declines, perhaps increasing income is the reason?)

What this kind of thing doesn’t tell us is anything about the alternative choice that is much more difficult to model: what is the cost of not having children. There are cities in the US and countries in the world whose economies are collapsing due to population loss. And I’ve watched people in my life go through breakdowns due to angst over not having kids. I’ve lost at least one very close friend in part because I chose to have kids and he chose not to.

The costs also don’t really help evaluate the goals or the choice to have kids or not. The reason to have them usually isn’t primarily financial, and for most people the reason not to have them also isn’t primarily financial, even if there’s a secondary influence like costs.
The energy used by bitcoin would simply have been not-used. Massive numbers of e-waste would've been avoided as well.
Of course, if it wasn't Bitcoin, another cryptocurrency would use as much energy as Sweden right now.
It's unclear to me what is the truth. David Lee Roth's quotes here do little to indicate it was a professional way to ensure rider compliance, given he trashes the green room, and does the show anyway destroying the arena floor. If a venue failed the M&M test then the band did what exactly?
It did make sense. Adobe creates authoring tools and the web is a target platform. Think of Dreamweaver.
As recently as 1989, not only Ukraine, but all of Eastern Europe was aligned with Russia/USSR. Strangely, Western Europe was not drafting grandmothers at that time.

I don't see any reason to think that Putin wants to do more than control his near abroad. He doesn't have an expansionist ideology. He likes being rich and controlling his periphery and sticking a thumb in the eye of the West, but if he e.g. invaded and conquered Paris, where would he exile his oligarchs when he needs them to take a time out for a while? He needs the West as a pressure valve. As long as he can still have you murdered at your hotel in DC (Mikhail Lesin), he can keep you in line without needing to have ships in the Potomac.
There are currentely 19 million + results when searching for code using sscanf on github. I wonder how many of those are suffering under the same problem.
Those are not for eating. For visual confirmation only.
FWIW I had issues with it on debian 10, until I built and installed it from master. It was a bit smoother on debian 11 but I couldn't get bluetooth to work.
Unit That Conducts Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Read: Journalists and pundits need FUD to survive so let’s question longstanding economic measurements because it suits us
My best understanding (which, it's been a while since I took classes about it) is that there are some functions that tend to be more lateralized to one hemisphere or another -- with language being the prime example. However, some people do show more balanced functioning, and in some cases (more frequently among left-handed people) the lateralized functions can even be flipped from "normal".

However, there's left-brain/right-brain in terms of "some functions of the brain tend to be more on one side or another", and then there's left-brain/right-brain in terms of a pseudoscientific personality test about whether you're more of a "logical" thinker or "artistic" thinker, blah blah blah. There's no evidence for that. It's just mumbo-jumbo Buzzfeed-style quizzes to make you feel good about yourself.
How much of that loss in birth rate will be taken up by immigration or is that even a consideration?
It’s extremely common over time, but rare for any one calculation. This is why ECC memory is so useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_parity
"RISC architecture is gonna change everything"

:)
It can be good for TSMC, due to increased revenue, forestalling competition, reduced risk (earthquake, geopolitical etc).

Whether these things are good for Taiwan at large is a matter of discussion; the decision is not obvious.
Hello climate change
True, but how many of us are willing to work for them?
It assumes the value of Bitcoin is in the mining of new coins. The network also has value as a ledger to record transfers of Bitcoin (billions per day) which contributes to the value of the network

The analysis can be generalized to say anything that uses 0.05 electricity creates these large harms. Perhaps true, but it’s not going to be unique to Bitcoin
Hi the_duke, thanks for your feedback, all your concerns are on point.

If not a secret, did you/your team use any type of voice messaging maybe? I'm trying to find different use cases so we could anticipate any possible issues/bottlenecks down the road.

Thanks in advance!
Semi-related: I remember a story from HN a few years ago where someone started experiencing crashes and tracked it down to a single flipped bit in memory which went away when he purged his page cache so the binary was reloaded from disk. Does anyone happen to have a link to it?
Safari reader mode improves things tremendously.
Yep and how to construct, the naturals from set theory, the integers from the naturals, the rationals from the integers and the reals from the rational. I've forgotten the details at this point, but I remember the conclusions.
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This has always been the case, though. The top-line unemployment rate does not, and has not ever included people who aren't looking for work. So why is Jay Powell just now losing faith in it? Why was it ok to make economic policy based on this narrow definition before?

Could it be because "not looking for work" was the result of more "natural" forces (disability, old age, etc) in years past?
Ok, I think your definition of "field" is different to mine. Mine starts "A field is a set F with binary operations + and x" and then goes on to list some properties they have to have, yours seems to be doing something different. If you start with mine you get a whole bunch of different complete ordered fields, but you can easily show they're all isomorphic (e.g. Spivak does this IIRC).

>This whole discussion is about definition

No, it isn't this whole discussion is answering the question about computing pi * pi. Maybe I was slightly sloppy in my first answer to that question, I was only attempting to sketch the method.

I don't really want to compute products of arbitrary reals in that way (or any way), but the method I sketched works for computable reals which is sufficient to cover the case of \pi. By computation I mean something that runs on a Turing machine, but I don't assume finitary (I'm happy for my Turing machine to keep producing more and more bits of precision forever).
In public universities yes, but not in private universities. You will also have other expenses as well when you study (rent an appartment, food etc.)
I think it's because the company lost a Python engineer or Java developer and is looking for a replacement.

You could take it as a red flag that it's not a system design position and more of a maintenance role, but then again they're asking for a "developer" and not a "designer" or "architect".

So the hiring company is being pretty direct about what they want.
I use logic to make music and the noise from the fan on my 15" MBP goes beyond annoyance to making it hard to perform my task as I can't hear subtleties without cranking up the volume to compensate for the fan. As soon as the 14" drops later this year I'm on it.
We have two kids (meticulously over-planned :) ), but when I look back to the incredible level of uncertainty that was in the world in March-May of last year, we'd have taken significant precautions to not get pregnant during that timeframe.

No one knew what hospitals were going to look like in July 2020, let alone Feb 2021. I'm glad that we are in a stable situation where providing in-hospital labor&delivery care is reasonably safe, but you couldn't have really banked on that to be the case at the critical start of the process.
Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker
Also had a child last year, the staff at the hospital said they are busier than usual.
"Euromaiden" is a funny typo.
You mean for free file forms you don't like getting an email with some incomprehensible language? Oh, don't worry they provide a tool. Just copy the _entire_ email they send you and paste in some tool.

Genuinely it is a horrible experience, but I suppose it is better filing by paper and waiting a few weeks for a small correction.
This is sad news. What will it take to do as David Attenborough and many other scientists are saying we must: to rewild about 50% of the earth's landmass and oceans? This point gets so little attention despite our very existence, and the existence of most species, depending on it.
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Are chemical rockets beyond 60% efficient?
[I work on Dart VM team]

`dart2native` just concatenates two binaries together: AOT runtime binary and AOT snapshot binary. AOT snapshot is an ELF binary which contains native code generated from your original Dart code.

The approach is not pretty but was chosen as an implementation shortcut.

That's why `strip` does not actually do good things to the binary.

There is no reason to run `strip` on such binaries - because they don't contain anything strippable.
I guess, although I do believe I've heard the argument that the baby boomers had every step of their lives tended to politically because of what a massive voting block they represented - nobody wanted to screw over that block. Small generation? Ok let's sacrifice them to the benefit of other interests!
Do you explicitly indicate the type of the array? E.G., `let array: [Bazinga] = [ … 70k elements …]` instead of `let array = [ … 70k elements …]`.
Dads were allowed the whole process here. But nobody else. It was nice to be free from in-laws, friends, overbearing family members...
To be frank, I don't think sanitation and cleanliness were top bill for the Van Halen members back then.
>If the cost of mining is higher than the price, then people won't mine, and the cost will go down.

People will roughly decrease mining up to the new cost. That doesn't lower the cost further. If a mining pool explodes, decreasing the total power going into mining the price will not be affected.

The causality is fully from price>mining output, and there's no mechanism for the opposite since mining produces the same # of coins regardless of the amount of energy put in.
And the unemployed have lost faith in US policy makers, what's new?
HN is not reddit. Comments should meaningfully add to the conversation. In this case your comment is just adding noise for people to scroll past.
An argument that cattle could be farmed differently for less impact doesn't really contradict what the article is saying since, rather obviously, cattle aren't farmed that way.
Oh, so then it's ok to have a "currency" where one transaction uses 650kWh, 12000000 times more than a credit card transaction.

I get all the benefits of crypto, but there are also massive downsides, the biggest being the energy/hardware usage, which has to rise constantly by design.
One of the sad things about the modern ad-supported internet economy, is that respected veteran journalists are under pressure to produce the same sort of filler content that is little distinguishable from the output of low-paid freelance content writers.