skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was being serious. But perhaps I wasn't being clear. I'm certain _I_ and probably most everyone on HN could refute a flat-earther (or at least present a coherent case that undoubtable would be ignored). The question I was raising was how many in the "general populace" could do the same.

I probably shouldn't be at this point, but I continue to be amazed by the inability of those I converse with (outside of folks in my tech-circle) to justify or explain basic mechanisms of how the universe functions - especially those that are usually taught at the secondary-school level.
A classmate of mine in high school brought in a paper dress that her mom had saved. If I remember correctly, it was slightly thicker than card stock and had the texture and flexibility of felt wool.
I know of a Danish company paying double that to retain their full stack developers. This is second hand info but from a credible source.
Why do so many people use the word smell to disparage code? The human part of me always feels it's super douchy and elitist, and the engineer part hates it because it's inaccurate and misleading.
If you don't have a clue, then staying in cash is probably your best option.

John Hussman has a nice article on the option value of cash.
https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc201201/

tldr:
Suppose I offer you a security that will pay $100 two days from today. You can buy as much of it as you like today at $50, or you can wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow, I’ll flip a coin. If it’s heads, I’ll sell you the security at $99. If it’s tails, I’ll sell you the security at $25. What should you do?

Clearly, if you buy the security today, you’ll double your money two days from now. That’s a 100% expected return for each dollar you invest, over that 2-day period. If you wait, you’ll earn nothing on the first day, but you’ll then have two possibilities. If heads, you’ll get just 1% on your invested money. If tails, you’ll get a 300% return, quadrupling your money. With a 50/50 chance at each, your expected return for every dollar you invest is 0.51% + 0.5300% = 150.5%. So waiting adds 50.5% to your expected return over that 2-day period.
The MIPS name was originally was an acronym for "Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages". The RISC-V docs that I've skimmed seem to show quite a lot more hardware pipeline interlocking than the last gen MIPS processors. So the name is a bit funny now.
I've spent hours on here before observing the changes around my flat. Crazy how much stays the same as the 20's/30's
White collar criminal liability in the US is absurd. Out of a political desire get the big bad rich people we have in the process turned every executive of a sufficiently complex operation into an unwitting criminal.
Yeah, but OTOH we're mostly software people who have seen first-hand what happens when you try to apply naive metrics to software. In other fields you're more likely to be right.
Well, people that know me know that I am not arrogant but actually I'd like to counter (pun intended) that offer. My Co-Founder and me want to work one year full time on the project. Here is our mail: hey@counter.dev
Sure! As an illustrative example, let's look a bit at the standard process for funding.

One of the main parts of being a scientist, at least as measured by time spent, is writing grant applications. Scientists spend a huge percentage of their working hours asking for money from an elaborate, high-overhead funding system that goes to great lengths to try to avoid spending money on the wrong things. But in practice the correlation between attractiveness of grant proposals and the quality of the resulting research doesn't seem to be strong, meaning that this process might just be, at least to a first approximation, an ever-more-expensive random number generator.

You can certainly imagine other ways to do it. Funding agencies could try allocating money at coarser granularity, e.g. larger grants shared among more researchers with much less specificity about how the money is to be spent; I hear this used to be more common many decades ago. Or they could do a quick-and-dirty screening for what 1-2 page research proposals aren't obviously terrible and send out money to the vaguely plausible ones at random [1], which would at least have lower overhead. Or you could have grant money allocated by individual people instead of committees, with less deliberation and guaranteed fast turnaround time to a yes-or-no decision, e.g. [2] and [3].

In general there's usually more than one way to do something, and I worry about a monoculture getting stuck doing things in a deeply suboptimal way but unable to change. I could tell similar stories about the modern peer review process (a relatively recent thing, and arguably not very good at solving the problem it's meant to solve), or the persistence of bad statistical methods in a lot of fields because they're the standard that everyone expects, or various other things.

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/18/18183939/scienc...

[2] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/09/em...

[3] https://fastgrants.org/
Except when it was forced on us by our IT department.
Possibly because it mirrors the national mood?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/311228/national-mood-shows-litt...
Will magnetism underwater have any effect on organic creatures' livelihood?
It likely forces an inflection point for existing MIPS users:

1. Stick with MIPS for as long as possible.

2. Follow MIPS into RISC-V.

3. Or go to some other camp.
This concept of background check on the US is strange.

In France, once you left prison, it means that you have served what you had to serve and start again. Nobody can check whether you did prison or not.

Some specific jobs require a document stating your juridical past but you bring it, this is not some can do on their own.

Then you have military and sensitive civil servants jobs where this is checked for you, but it is really specific.

I would not be happy if anybody could check my past online...
I'm currently a software engineer based in Berlin and I've found that stock options are not common at all in Germany [1]. I'm curious to know, is this scene different in Netherlands or other places in EU?

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/5778f3d0-1b3c-11ea-97df-cc63de1d7...
Electricity prices have gone up substantially last 10 years.
From the RFC: Relying Parties MUST NOT use CAA records as part of certificate validation.

A normal user is in roughly the same situation with and without CAA; is a particular certificate trustworthy? Only trusted root CAs and CRLs can answer the question. CAA is only cryptographically secure with DNSSEC, and transparency reports give at least as much auditability.
Using both this and k9 without Google play or any Google. They work great. But both of them, no longer allow storing your mail and/or attachments on 'external' or SD card. That is frustrating. This anti feature, just started in the last few months.
You probably mean "TIMI" which is the user-visible ISA of IBM's "midrange" systems (ie. AS/400 or System/i) which was from the start meant as virtual machine ISA that is then mostly AOT transpiled into whatever hardware ISA OS/400 or i5/OS runs on. z/Architecture (S/360, ESA/390, what have you...) is distinct from that and distinct from PowerPC. Modern POWER and z/Architecture CPUs and machines are somewhat similar when you look at the execution units and overall system design, but the ISA is completely different and even the performance profile of the mostly similar CPU is different (z/Architecture is "uber-CISC" with instructions like "calculate sha256 of this megabyte of memory").
Nobody knows that. That’s pure speculation based on the linear no-threshold model.
I think it means Pumped Energy Storage
A system that can't fund itself via taxation alone is broken and needs fixing. Money printing is a proxy for taxation but targeted at the poor, as the rich aren't affected (arguably, they do better as assets go up).
We can use tools that protect us (secure software, anti-tracking software...) and educate practitioners about privacy enhancing technologies and privacy engineering in general.

But there isn't any technological solution to the arms-race of offense and defense.

We need strong regulation, and effective enforcement as well.
There are torrents of related ones floating around, although they tend to be huge and not very seeded. For computing-related ones, especially popular subjects, you can often find a copy someone has hosted sneakily amongst other unrelated documents if you search hard enough.
PC hardware doesn’t have hardware implementation of negation.

Possible to do in 2 instruction, xorps to make zero, then subps to subtract. Combined, they gonna take 4-5 cycles of latency (xorps is 1 cycle, subps is 3 cycles on AMD, 4 cycles on Intel).

If you do that a lot, a single xorps with a magic number -0.0f gonna negate these floats 4-5 times faster. People don’t pay me because I’m a normal person, they do that because I write fast code for them :-)

On a serious note, I’d rather have the current +0.0 and -0.0 IEEE values to be equal and be the exact zero, and make another one with 0xFF exponent encoding inexact zeroes, +0.0f or -0.0f depending on the sign bit.

Or another option, redefine FLT_MIN to be 2.8E-45, and reuse the current FLT_MIN, which is 1.4E-45 / 0x00000001 bit pattern, as inexact zeroes.
Where does the anonymous data come from? If anonymous data are considered as a disjoint and absolute point, then you're right. However, when considering the result of a set of transformations originating from an actual individual, we may have to question ourselves. Does the individual agree to be part of the process? Shouldn't we ask for his consent in the first place?
Okay well you can 'simulate' the GoL forward and see what it's going to be in a few fixed number of generations. That's basically how you do anything with these undecidable systems. I'm not clear on how he got some state that looks like a Mona Lisa when most or almost all states that look like a Mona Lisa are Garden of Eden states, and then from there worked backwards (I'm not clear on if/how you can go backwards in GoL).
Can you drop some non legal plain language on what you do with data?

Frankly speaking, I 100% would assume you're going to sell my DNA and information to huge body of people.
It's not just the ISO. ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), PIA (Plastics Industry Association), etc. all have standards which they are supposedly trying to promulgate. There are a few standards that I've needed professionally which are freely available: the USB specs and the MIDI specs.
https://usb.org/documents
https://www.midi.org/specifications

When specifications needed to be printed and shipped, I understand that costs money, but electronic standards should be very low to zero cost to download.

I did find that DIN (Deutsche Institut für Normung or German Institute for Standardisation) is starting to publish some of their standards for free.
https://www.din.de/en/din-and-our-partners/press/press-relea...

In the US, anything that is published by the government is supposed to be free of copyright.
https://www.govinfo.gov/about/policies
>Do you mean that more people get into gaming because of modding?

I meant that some games tend to get people into programming
I say I'm hopeful because there have been meaningful changes in bail reform and decriminalizing drug possession recently. Some attitudes do seem to be changing.
Refactoring has the meaning that we impute to it. God didn't hand down golden tablets in the 60s with the words "thou shalt only use 'refactor' in these prescribed ways".

Instead of being sorry for being nitpicky, maybe just keep your nitpicks to yourself in future.
Well, if you do give them practical job training, another voting segment is going to scream bloody murder at "prison labor".
You're right that the map is not the territory, but it doesn't change the fact that you need a map to navigate. No science is comprehensive enough to fully model the territory (even physics)
It is actually. Pumped energy storage is crazy cheap and efficient, assuming you have land and water.
Whatever they use on Mars will need to be lightweight and designed for the application. I can see them building some prototypes, but putting them in the middle of an active launch site seems overly risky. The current distillation plant under construction is second hand and much too large and heavy for being sent to Mars.
Not in France. Everything is publicly accessible on Legifrance.gouv.fr.
It'd be cool if it worked like that but I'm sympathetic to it not
Speaking only from personal experience, medical researchers in the US may not have any training in Calculus. I'd put it at ~30% that do not. It is only taught in High Schools if the child and their parents want them to take it and is not required for graduation (though this varies a lot from district to district). Depending on the major and the school, Calculus may also not be required for graduation from university. Depending on the grad-school, Calculus is also not required for a PhD.

Speaking personally, I know of entire departments where Calculus is not known among the majority of the faculty members who are publishing in medicine/biology, though this is a bit rare. However, higher order Calculus like Lagrangians, Diff-Eqs, and Matrix algebra is as rare as hen's teeth among bio/medical researchers.
The crazy part is that all thousands of employees at Google and they don’t have a single one reviewing what the AI is doing? A review team doesn’t fix mistakes? Even if they do have a team, it’s been proven impossible to get in touch with them to fix anything.
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I do. Why am I wrong to advocate for them having pleasant conditions?
I was under the impression that the RPi CPU is too slow to process/sync blocks. And unless you have an SSD to store blocks, IO will limit your capacity to verify new incoming blocks every 15 seconds. This was my experience a few years ago.

Are your running a full archival ETH node on a RPI with a 3TB+ SSD attached?
Assuming a simple PoS system of more stake=more blocks validated achieving a 51% attack is as capital intensive as it would be on a PoW system of the same size. So as far as the most basic notion of security is concerned there's no difference.
Taco Bell just launched and sold out a collection of taco-themed NFTs
Glad to hear that, thank you!

Slavs in general tend to struggle with "a/an/the" in English, because most Slavic languages lack articles. Out of the entire language family, only Bulgarian uses definite articles.

Articles feel unnatural to me, too. I got used to them, but in a similar way that one gets used to a prosthetic arm: you can do things, but it feels mechanic and distant.
Should we all wear sensors to avoid being run over by driverless cars?
This is a great idea and site looks really nice. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get the book data with book images. ?. I too want to build on an idea involving books.
As I see it, with point-and-click, simple things are simple, medium things are quite hard and complex things are nigh-impossible. With code-based tools, simple things invoke a bit of effort, medium things a little more effort and complex things are only a little harder still.

Maybe it’s my perception, or
maybe a function of the kind of tasks I do, dunno, but I spend a fair amount of time to go away from GUIs if only I can
I don't think I follow. Check it out:

$ du /swapfile

329696 /swapfile

$ du --apparent-size /swapfile

33554432 /swapfile

Looks to me like it's behaving as expected?
When are we going to put crooks in jail and get the innocents out?
People here advocate for them to have pleasant conditions because it ultimately produces a society that has less people who would rape their own mothers.

It's people like you who are so blinded by your hunger for revenge to actually consider solutions that would decrease our recidivism rates.
I’m in Eastern Europe, I pay around 15$ monthly for Cable TV with around 100 channels, and high speed giga level internet.

Once Steam came up, and our standard of living increased, we pretty much stopped pirating games due to the convenience. When Spotify came up, and all the other music streaming services, we pretty much stopped pirating music. When Netflix popped up, most of the torrent sites dissappeared over night.

Now, a lot of people seem to turn back to piracy, and I suspect money is not the primary reason.
My favorite part is when he calls "GEB" a slog. I think it's one of the most overrated books of the last 50 years.
>It's just that police in Europe and Asia don't really face dangerous and determined criminals.

That's just laughable. People in the US are not more dangerous than people in Europe or Asia. Lots of dangerous individuals get stopped by police without killing them with 41 bullets. What is more dangerous is the police's behaviour, behaving like an occupying force. US police would also rather kill someone trying to escape from s minor offence than let them get away. Different way of thinking. One values lives above killcount.
The mistake is in trying to quantify a qualitative issue. Trying to reduce progress building a program to the number of lines and such. It inherently doesn't make any sense and it's not possible to accurately represent such things as a number or collection of numbers without losing all the detail (and thus, being wrong).

The idea that only truths expressable in abstract equations are objective and thus true is exactly the kind of false belief that gets us in trouble.

> Right now our metric is basically - talk to the developer and try and see if he's BSing you and goofing off, that's super subjective and very vulnerable to personal biases, but, it is a metric - it's just not an objective metric.

That isn't a metric. Metric, having the same root as metre, is about measuring. What you're talking about there is a heuristic, and they're much more effective for tracking qualitative issues.
> Yes, healthcare and the cost of living are more expensive in the US

I feel Europeans looking in on the US from the outside consistently have a misleading view on healthcare. I'm saying this as a European in the US working in big tech.

My plan's maximum out-of-pocket in a year is ~$3k, which I can pay pre-tax thanks to an HSA. It is less than 2% of my total comp in the worst case (in 2020 I spent less than $300 on healthcare). In return I get coverage that is generally better than the free public healthcare back in Europe.

I think CoL is similar, but not as clear cut. One thing CoL discussions often miss is that many expenses are independent of the local CoL; for example, a Macbook Pro costs the same in every US city. If your salary adjusts exactly for CoL, you're actually doing better because of this.
I'm sure there's more in play, but the concept of "At Will Employment" we have in the US creates an environment where only very specifically legally defined discrimination counts as such (race, gender, etc). Outside of that you can fire, or not hire, anyone, for any arbitrary reason you want...even for "no reason given".
Pumped Energy Storage
(or rarely: Potential Energy Storage).

Aka pumped hydro.
Taken to extremes of solar+pumped-storage, we could end up with a situation where the earth spins more quickly in the early morning when the moment of inertia of the planet is lower because the solar panels haven't started moving all that water mass to its higher elevation yet.
I was wondering if he was suggesting we roll trains up hills with excess power and use regenerative braking or something like this, I hope he will respond
> Nobody in financial services thinks that real-time settlement is a bad idea

Maybe this is referring to something else, but e.g. Matt Levine thinks it's a bad idea: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-02-26/money-... discusses how real time settlement on spot prices for electricity would be worse than the alternative.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-02-25/money-... discusses how real time settlement would require you to have all money on hand immediately, making trading more difficult and expensive. Also amusingly:

> It is not unimaginable that the stock market could move to real-time settlement; you could put stocks on the blockchain hahaha.
Has pandemic lockdown really changed that many people’s views? In some countries it has become a faux pas to complain about lockdown conditions. Often that is because people don’t want to hear complaining about things we seemingly have little control over, but sometimes it is because some people honestly don’t see any problem with life in lockdown.

For example, when scientific advisors to some governments appear in national media and say there could be upsides to maintaining social distancing for potentially years into the future, and this evokes little popular outcry outside a tiny fringe of wacko “great reset”/antivaxxer conspiracy theorists on Twitter, then you start to wonder if a lot of the population has simply accepted the new normal. That might create less sympathy with prisoners, not more.
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Exactly. If whatever metric that is being used does not reflect the inflation a real person experiences, then the metric is simply wrong (or more generously, it measures something else, not inflation).
I think the real issue comes from once-removed tools. The people writing a tool that you use may have access to and adhere to some ISO standards, and that information may be quite helpful for debugging while they're building their tool - but it doesn't really help you all that much since you lack access to those same standards.

The C++ standard is pretty different and an interesting example here, traditionally there were portions of the standard that weren't really accessible and that, in part, contributed to different compilers not being called out on differences of opinion along with the ability to have differences of opinion not being called out by experts since they didn't have access to the standards to see where those contradictions lay.

In the modern world the C++ standard is what I think ISO should aim for with all their standards, it is widely available and heavily discussed and that feedback has allowed the standard to grow by leaps and bounds as the language has adopted things once seen as impossible (outside of Qt & boost) like foreaches and not-terrible-to-work-with lambdas.
What if you just accept the one that's coming from the node with the most stake on it? Or a consensus across multiple nodes with high stake on them?
When you say “voting age population”, you really mean roughly 70% of all residents?

You and I probably agree that a 12yo should not have the right to decide what the state should do with its might, but the argument is the same regarding how the legal voting population of this tiny state of 16k citizens decide to expand who gets to vote in their local elections.

What I say is that I’m impressed by the federal government of Switzerland for allowing even such a tiny group such self determination to select who can vote in local elections - until the UN forced them to conform in 1991 that is. I think this is why they don’t have civil wars when they disagree - they instead let others do their thing and the cantons run their competing systems simultaneously.

Regarding your question whether I would think it was ok to have a Swiss canton where local government was ran by one person, it’d be ridiculous but I would not think it’s right to use force to stop it, unless that local government hindered anyone from leaving. This is at least, as you have identified, the logical conclusion of the argument I am making, and the Swiss did until 1991. In reality no single person would likely run it well, and it would end up an economic disaster, and sooner or later change. Instead of coercion letting a hundred seeds grow, before separating the wheat from the chaff
Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it
I wonder how many HNers create beats/raps/songs or whatever.. share with us !