skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But my quibble is that I don't think Hemingway valued efficiency. It would be much more efficient to write "There was a man in the hospital who had lost his reproductive organs and this resulted in a tragically failed romance" but that is not how he wrote the story, because it's bad literature. But if someone at work asked me to write them an email about it, that's what I would write, because it's much more efficient than a whole novel.
> even if I was only 10% sure it was happening I would demand investigations and proof it wasn’t because the consequences of it being true is so horrible

True, I agree with this.

> I also feel positive that it’s being picked up and spun for political reasons. [...] That’s a reason to be skeptical of the actions we’re being told to take, not of the fact that it’s happening.

I don't get how can you be so sure that it's happening when, as you recognise yourself, there are strong political reasons to push the story. On the run up to the Iraq invasion, people were equally sure that Saddam was hiding WMDs. The US Secretary of State went in front of the UN assembly and showed a sample of a biological agent being developed by Saddam. Don't underestimate the ability of persistent propaganda in making you virtually certain of things that are not true.

> China has to prove there is not a genocide happening

Ok, what should they do to prove it?
Matthew! I'm a front-end engineer at Twitter and an avid triathlete. Seeing this post and the progress you have made gave me overwhelming motivation. I want to help out, I don't even know how but I don't want to miss the opportunity to be apart of something this awesome.
Is it? Are you sure? Are we following the ISO standard, or the Wikipedia standard?
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Out of interest - how would one judge a professor then?!

Classes taught? Students taught? Students getting degrees (undergrad/Masters/PhDs)? Research grants won? Nobel prizes won?
IDK, many people spend their whole lives glued to the TV or movies. it feels like it has only gotten worse. it also feels like people don't have hobbies these days. I think to convince people of what you're saying, we need to get people back into having more hobbies. or at least reading or something
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Like most stocks BTC's value depends on the buyers hope of a rise of the value. Buy low and sell high.
For the original function of stocks, support a company and get a share of the profit, you are right about BTC.
I would consider the value of currency to be as real as the value of a software license, even though neither is a physical item per se. I guess that's somewhat philosophical.

my real point here is that nominal price increases do not necessarily imply inflation. if the price of one type of good is increasing much faster than the others, a better explanation is that the real value of those specific goods is increasing. does this matter to ordinary people buying food? not really. their main concern here is the nominal price of food compared to their nominal earnings.
If you're able to comfortably do your processing in Pandas, I don't think there is any justification to switch to Vaex. But Pandas begins to strain in the GB territory. If you switch to Vaex at that point, it'll be night and day. Working from the REPL, no more half second pauses for results. And of course the payoff only grows with more data.

Vaex is stupid fast at all the data operations it supports to the point where I've used in it in place of a database for an API.
Debian has been building GNU coreutils and tons of more C reproducibly for years.
but how you monetize a library?

Oh that's a burning question for me. I'm finishing a C lib that - if all goes well - will be very useful.

I worked hard on it and now I don't know how to license it.

I'm okay with non-profit OSS projects to use it freely, but I need others to pay for it. How ? How do you express such a dual license ? And how do you ensure for-profit users reward you ?

That's not the part I prefer in this project...
Do the scales potentially have to be there by weights and measures laws?
This has happened to multiple times in a meets call. But at least part of the reason is because Zoom, Bluejeans, and Teams have a more sensible layout with mic mute and video mute next to each other. So I expect that right of mic mute will be video mute and end up leaving the calls. I suppose I could get used to it if I were using Meets most of the time, but it is still a bad design nonetheless. It shouldn't be so easy to accidentally leave the call.
So is this standard considered 'free' and 'open'?
I really miss when most of the web looked like this. And average non technical people knew enough html to put something out. In retrospect I think Myspace ruined everything.
Ask HN: Site for one-off article posts with random url
Can anyone tell me what's that random site/domain that have seen people use from time to time to write basic articles and share them here. It allows you to go to it, get assigned a random generated url, and it's like a blank page you can write (probably in markdown) and save and it's immediately public.

Random/odd url

Barebones, but saves running any kind of blog/github pages/anything really, but not stuck to writing on twitter threads or anything
No, Intel needs to approach this from hardware alone.

Apple has more freedom as they only have to worry about support from their own OS, and even only the latest revision.
I appreciate the feedback, thanks for listening :)
It’s not a research paper it’s an opinion.
Not until the glibc too gets rewritten in Rust ;)

A project existed[1], but was abandoned since then, so I don't think it will happen anytime soon.

[1]: https://github.com/japaric/steed
HN is large enough that it has many factions, the one you describe definitely exists, as does the 'bro' faction, the 'get rich quick' faction, the racists and the idiots. That doesn't mean that any of these factions are dominant, and besides that HN has many more lurkers than posters and I suspect that the division is not identical between those groups on either side of the lurker/contributor divide.
> Even the simplest things, like a 'torch' are ad-supported on android these days.

This has a built-in feature on every smartphone for years now. These apps are a scam.
Signal me when they’ve taught em semaphore.
GME is going back up right now. I don’t believe it’s disenfranchised Reddit young people anymore (if it ever was?).

I guarantee there’s hedge funds who infiltrated the group playing up this one. Fictional fresh faced MBA from Jamie Diamond‘s outfit, “too the moon homie. Hold forever. They can take my wife, but not my GME. We tards are bringing down Capatalism.” (I used the T word because that the vernacular they use.)

I find it sad that the Retail naive investors will get fleeced again, but by professional billionaire trading outfits.
Around 30-50 sales per day, spread out over 4 books.
Really interesting concept and product - perfect for the times we're in! Desperately needs a video of the product in action on that home page, get on it! :)
I used Finale at the time at home, but Sibelius at school. This was back when it was only on the Acorn ... compared to Finale it was an absolute joy to use.
Spain as well, you can't get cigs from gas stations or super markets like in the UK.
> Developers know best, even when they don't, because they're the ones doing the actual work.

For me, a large part of the fun of being a developer is enabling others to do stuff they otherwise couldn't. As such we absolutely entertain feature requests and similar, and implement a lot of them.

When sales come back from a sales presentation laughing and telling of jaws hitting the floor, it's almost always due to features that started as a suggestion from one of our users.

Very often though the feature requests are trying to solve XY problems. Often there's a better route to achieving what the user wants, which almost always is some way of avoiding redundant work or other workflow simplifications.

Us devs often do know best when it comes to edge cases and limitations, and about other use-cases that this particular user haven't considered.

However most requests are born from something real, so we will usually inquire what the user is after, in an effort to determine the impact and alternate routes. I might even contact other customers who I know use that module or have a similar work flow and ask them what they think.

And based on that implement changes that make the program better not just for that user but for all our customers.
Completely ridiculous.

Firstly, faster solutions in fundamental problems can eventually lead to hardware that supports it.

Secondly, this is already happening for sparse matrix multiplication: the nvidia A100 has some sparsity support, to allow making better use of pruned neutral networks, for example.

Thirdly, sparse enough systems, even without the A100, can run faster on cpu than gpu. If you find yourself with one of these problems, you can just choose the correct piece of hardware for the job. Without a sparse algorithm, you are still stuck with the slower dense solution.

Fourthly, giant sparse systems do indeed arise constantly. Just to make one up, consider weather measurements. Each row is a set of measurements from a specific weather station, but there are thousands of stations: it's a sparse set of observations, with some nearby dependencies. Evolving the state in time will often involve solving a giant linear system. (See other comments on the thread about pdes.)

It is absolutely worthwhile research, regardless of how applicable it is to fscking bitcoin.
> As K. recalls, the recruitment pitch directed toward him was more about the “caressing of ego.” He was told: “You’re the best. We chose you. You’re one in a million. Most people can’t handle this job. You’re a genius.”

8200-alumni, can confirm lol.
Recently I came to realization that unions may be an obstacle to $15 minimum wage, universal healthcare and overall improvement of work environment.

It seems backwards at first, unions after all are supposed to protect the workers. However, union to exist needs a reason for people to join and that reason is that they negotiate better wages and better healthcare, for example.

This is not a speculation on my part but direct observation of Democratic primaries, Manchin's opposition to 15 minimum's wage and local union negotiations.
The same could be said about any change really, but especially when it will affect a business' bottom line. Look at the fight against raising the minimum wage at any amount, not just the current $15/hour fight. The fight to bring corporate offshore money back, the fight against pollution, etc. If any regulation is going to cost a business money, there will always be a fight. Doing the right thing is not normally free to implement.
Didn't Hertz self say, don't buy the stocks because they are worthless and we are broke?
I’ve never understood this logic - algorithms are written by people. It’s not like they descend down from heaven.
You have a disagreement. You don't have a disagree.
I ordered my PP (KDE CE) in mid December.
It arrived early February.

There's another round of sales coming up, keep an eye on the blog.
Using NULL for the integer 0 requires a cast in C (because NULL may have a pointer type). That doesn't break the GP's rule, however neither does `!I` or `I-I`.
Look, I understand the appeal of an argument that paints criminals as simply having poor morals, but it is a completely false and reductive argument that does not capture the complexity behind why people commit crimes. It’s easy to ‘be ethical’ when your needs are taken care of and you’re in an environment that supports you and guides you into being a healthy member of society.

When I say “need”, I don’t mean literally in the sense of “I need to steal that thing or I will die”. I mean it in the sense of a person being satisfied in enough aspects of their life, and having the necessary skills, to turn themselves away from committing crime.
Agreed on both points.

I’m not saying every industry has a cert industry, just like not every industry has a regulating body; just that these are predominant enough in IT and related fields that it shouldn’t be surprising to a lot of people here to realize there are a lot of them.

And of course I get that we were supposed to buy our own copy. We actually had our own copy (when paying $20k for an audit the couple $100 for the spec is insignificant), it was just an anecdote I found funny.

They refused to provide anything about the spec so hard, even though we kept insisting we did meet it... they wouldn’t even tell us which part specifically we didn’t meet because they didn’t want to provide any of the spec to us. I think it took the CTO and I sending heavily highlighted copies of the requirements from the spec to them for them to realize that we had it, it was ok to show us specifically what they didn’t think we met.
Been a while since I saw a license without recurring payment, particularly for code components. B2B, all libraries I've dealt with were paid per-developer-seat-year.
The rants section has dates from as recent as 2020!
The crypto stackexchange post leads to this Twitter thread discussing some of the math details: https://twitter.com/inf_0_/status/1367376959055962112
SMTP (1982) predates DNS (1985).

Reverse DNS was added to SMTP servers as an anti-spam feature about 15 years after HELO was established.

But to be honest, I'm not sure HELO was ever really useful. In the very early years, it might have been appropriate to reject messages where the MAIL-FROM domain did not match the HELO domain. Not for long though.
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Agree, I feel like anything like this as a service can be helpful, but misses the mark on use case.
Investors were warned this was going to be the outcome given Hertz’s financial situation.
Of course there's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFYqjp3E3G8
Competing with Twitch is not realistic and I’m surprised you think it’s bad. Facebook and Microsoft have both spent huge sums of money trying to and failed. And both those companies have deep engineering talent which GameStop does not and it will not be trivial to compete with those companies for engineers. Plus livestream is just really expensive in terms of compute and network costs. Finally and most importantly, Twitch has more network effects than people realize with its follower/subscriber ecosystem. Streamers spend a lot of time building that audience and make more money than you might expect when they do it, so it won’t be easy to pull them away.
They are less sneaky and have less reach than Google and Facebook - but are comparable (they provide some value to users, but mostly to advertisers at the expense of users - and they keep most of that value for themselves. On a smaller scale)

Why do you expect them (or Israelis in general) to decide that’s not the right thing to do? Do you expect the same of Google or Facebook? Or Americans for that matter?
For extra fun, put it into the code like this, including the `...` instead of the actual values. (Make it compile by commenting that line out.) Then define IV somewhere else but make sure to use III before every use IV so someone unfamiliar with these constants see the “right” definitions first.
Those cost money and act as a regressive tax on the poor. Effectively raising prices on them.
It's interesting to me you're getting downvoted which signifies that people don't think you're adding to the conversation

Is this a form of denialism by hardcore "I-Hate-Javascript"ers? I would like to add that I absolutely hate the subset of modern websites that choose to be slow, but I think the parent is completely right. If we keep making it hard to use useful applications across platforms, then we're going to continue to see pushes toward the lowest common denominator that consumer computers can run. Yes, yes, I know techies like you and I believe installing stuff is trivial if you spend even just a little amount of time, but _this doesn't matter to average users_

It's a nightmare even installing Python, Ruby on Rails packages properly without juggling a million virtual environments, and those are supposed to be tools that you can run with a single CLI command and it gives you debugging information if things go wrong. It's a bit much to think that average users can survive without any of the tools or knowledge we have, being locked in a stupid GUI, and at the rate that we encounter defective software (seems like I encounter bugs more frequently as time goes on).

Now we are definitely going to add ARM complexity into the mix because what Apple pushed (M1) is just too good and everyone else is jumping on board for it

Regarding the comment about consumer-Linux, I feel less strongly on your point about web applications being the killer reason why Linux desktop users exist. Anyone using Linux desktop is almost certainly a tech-hacker to begin with and isn't necessarily tied to web applications as their go-to reason, but it certainly helps surviving with it. There are tons of reasons to use Linux desktop with no relation to web, but for market share, it's going to need consumer applications bordering on exclusivity that makes Linux first-priority and dumps support for macOS/Windows. Many Windows users don't want to switch to macOS or Linux because of gaming

Windows games kept me tied to the platform until my life became more focused on software. I only left Windows entirely after I learned that programming was a first-class citizen on Linux and macOS. Yes, you can program on Windows, but making software and using other people's software is more enjoyable elsewhere. So to wrap up this example, what can we learn about this? Well I knew life/job functions would be easier if I replaced Windows, but me doing software is coincidental. Give people a reason to use Linux. Make their lives easier, somehow, and make it clear that it will only happen if they leave their current platform. Otherwise you start coming up with systems like Windows Subsystem for Linux which... I'm not entirely sure why it exists.

I think the oft-repeated ire for modern web does not add anything at this point without understanding that there are good reasons people prefer to use web applications

Or, rather, web applications /are/ the common, universal cross-platform applications that we theorized, just that it arrived in less ideal ways
One solution is always opposed to all alternative solutions, but that does not mean that any of the solutions are opposed to solving the problem.
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local backups (used to be iTunes, now it’s just done from the Finder) do indeed backup everything. And as another commenter pointed out, your application state is also backed up and restored.
Do you have an example of an 8601 that is not 3339 compliant? I’ve never looked at any of the abbreviated formats, but if you’re giving a full date, time, and offset it seems identical (aside from that -).
> Don't you think that once that dystopian future comes - when that info might be used against you - we'll have much worse things to worry about?

What if this kind of technology helps create that dystopian future? What if this kind of technology makes it worse, or at least harder to fix? More sinister and more protracted, so to speak.

We aren't in that future yet, and it won't happen overnight or through one big rollout. We'll get to that future through small, incremental steps that all seem perfectly reasonable at the time.
I think the cult of personality plays a part in it, too. Tesla makes cool, futuristic cars and has a rabid user base (and even a rabid fan base of people who can’t afford to be users) but even still I don’t think the valuation would be anywhere near where it is today without all of the Musk super fans & Musk initially fanning the flames with his war against short-sellers.
yeah I keep up with the Linfra group, they are making steady progress. I hadn't seen SmartCore yet but that looks promising.

I mainly use tch-rs which are just bindings around libtorch, there are a couple edges wrapping c++ (function overloading) but overall it works great. I've also used ndarray a fair amount which is nice.
See also: https://github.com/lducas/SchnorrGate an implementation in Sage Math.
I think he/she commented on the wrong parent comment, it makes a lot more sense about the current top comment
> Huh? I ran Windows on my M1 MBA quite easily

> It was under Parallels but...

You didn't, you run Windows on virtualized hardware which isn't interesting.

Might be useful for you, but not interesting.
Read the whole thing before you rage the title.
Though not as astonishingly aged, the Brewery Gulch Inn in Mendcino, Ca. is paneled with lumber from 'sinker logs' that were lodged in the silt of the nearby Big River for ~150 years. The mineralization has created color variations otherwise not naturally seen [0][1].

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This part looks like those people formed a neural network. They are able to learn to act quasi-intelligently, but when you peek inside, the internal model is just a bunch of numbers.

Edit: scratch that neural network. They just made one neuron so far.
Yeah, I made this comment before having seen Amazon's site linked downthread. I'm sympathetic to the position the original commenter described, but I don't know who the target audience is supposed to be for quips like

> IF YOU’RE PAYING DUES… it will be RESTRICTIVE meaning it won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other. So be a DOER, stay friendly and get things done versus paying dues.

Who's going to take this messaging seriously?
I want us to get back to reality and fundamentals. These days it feels like the entire fabric of society is falling apart.
Everybody I know that uses twitch hates it. Like seriously, it's really bad. The conversations streamers have on discord are very different from what they'll say while streaming. They use it because there is no alternative. I am well aware that others have tried to compete and failed.

But there is a market and nobody likes the only player. Eventually somebody is going to figure it out. And I am extremely confident it won't be Amazon. I'd short twitch in a heartbeat if it weren't propped up by the most valuable company on Earth.
B2B, license per-developer-seat-year.
All this retail interest in meme stocks is gambling, plain and simple. More people entering the market creates a Ponzi effect where new entrants pay for the gains of holders, but by definition this is unsustainable. You can see this basically everywhere in the economy but the meme stocks are the most obvious.

Not financial advice, I thought Tesla was laughably over valued at $40 a share, never bet more than you’re willing to lose.
yeah, spot-on, it's less IKEA and more the cheap assemble-it-yourself knock-offs you find at Target and Wal-Mart and the like that gives that kind of furniture its poor reputation. IKEA furniture I bought a decade or more ago is still in great shape.
Absolutely not. None of the ISO standards would meet either of those criteria.