skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am thinking if we might get different form of theatres? Not everyone has a house, not every teens can watch movies on their date in their "parents" house. Unless there are much better things to do in 20 years time than going to see a movie together on a date I dont see theatre every going away.

I do wonder if we get smaller, private space theatre in less prime locations. Basically these rooms could be used to watch latest movies, live sport, or other things where a group of people can stay together and socialise. You still get a 90 days theatrical window with much higher quality stream than you would be renting on Netflix 90 days later.
The bit about monetizing one’s influence / reputation reminds me of Cory Doctorow’s novel _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_.

https://craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_t...
I think you kind of missed the point. It's all fiction and greed.
Hazegrayart
It's differently social, at least in my experience.

Getting the boys together to watch a film at home usually means playing MST3K all night while we pound beers and butcher a pizza.

Hitting the movie theatre means we keep our mouths shut, focus on the film and the experience of being in the theatre, and the compare notes over dinner/beers after the fact.

It's like comparing going to Easter Mass with watching a televangelist over public access on Easter morning. The two are vaguely analogous, but experientially incomparable because of the environments and framings in-which they take place.
Awesome-Rust-Formalized-Reasoning
You could use Blocked Bloom Filters[1]. It's essentially many small Bloom Filters that each fit into a cache-line. The first hash function decides, which of the smaller Bloom Filters an element will be saved in and can still cause a cache miss. All subsequent accesses to the small Bloom Filters are cached.

The main drawback is that, because the elements won't be completely evenly distributed among the small Bloom Filters, you need some additional space to compensate and keep the false positive rate low.

[1] https://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccmcgeoch/cs34/papers/cacheeffic...
The closest analogous tool people would use back in the classic cron and bash days was MRTG.
likelihood of commenting out last N lines >> .. first N lines

What happens is I want to comment out a join entirely, and all its columns. I rarely find myself commenting out the first column. I'd prefer trailing commas on every element, where allowed, to be sure! but leading isn't so bad once I got used to it.

Plus to scan for a missing leading comma is a linear (literally!) search whereas [missing] trailing commas don't line up.
I wonder if there is any systems using 7-bit ascii in production... Or extended code pages...
Yup, this article falls squarely in the "misinformation" category, and the author has no experience with tax law, nor does he cite any authorities to support the tax avoidance thesis. He's just winging it, improvising, about corporate tax law. It's crazy how low journalistic standards have fallen as the line between news article and "personal blog" has been blurred.

I am not ascribing ill motive to the author. Just incompetence in trying to write about a very complex topic that is far out of his depth, and doesn't allow for simple moralistic summaries like "Big biz not paying their fair share!".
Rather than just a link to a video, this is a link to the whole channel; recreations of past ideas for rockets, very well done.
Related thread from 2018:

MiSTer: Run Amiga, SNES, NES and Genesis on an FPGA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18721594 - Dec 2018 (30 comments)
The bit about monetizing one’s influence / social “capital” reminds me of Cory Doctorow’s novel _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_ (which is a great read regardless).

https://craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_t...
>I'm not an economist

The last thing we need is the insights of an economist when it comes to solutions to climate change. It's thanks to economists that we're still dealing with the problem in the first place!
What makes it complicated? I don't do games development so I've no idea how the project structure looks.
The parent is clearly not invoking "uncaused cause," since the parent literally says:

> all death is ultimately caused by sin

So unless you're saying the big bang was a sin, your comment does not follow the parent's logic.
I think that for VR:

buyFactor = price / howGoodTheTechIs

If either the denominator increases or the numerator decreases it could more popular in the future.
This AMA is quite old. Probably, this attack is harder to pull of with pin-and-chip cards that are used now.
I think you could mount some interesting objection to the Lindy effect, but this isn't it. I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.

It's not claiming to be a scientific law; it's a heuristic for making decisions. The rest of Taleb's books are also about making decisions, not "being right" (whatever that means).

A concrete example is if I'm writing a blog, and I want people to read my posts in 5 or 10 years. Do I go with the cloud platform that just launched or an older hosting provider? This is a decision people make every day. Of course there are many people who don't care if their blog is readable in 5 years; this isn't a judgement.

The Lindy effect is not about what's "better"; it's about what lasts longer. It's also not making statements about the present, which is what survivorship bias typically means.
Yep, and those are a recent development and much less likely to last than 4-legged chairs. So are, for that matter, offices.
Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla
> Films might actually get better when the demand to crank out the most popular drek for box office bang fades away.

I think we have been at this step for decades already. Look at what is featured and promoted at the Sundance festival and what Annapurna produces and what others do: we already have such movies without the marketing and production budgets of Marvel or Disney or big budget producers.
> formula depends on a normal distribution and financial returns are random but not independent...worse than useless.

This is sort of like throwing out physics because Newtonian mechanics don’t account for fluid dynamics.

Yes, the original theory assumed that away. And yes, the original theory is taught in undergrad. But the work has been developed far past its original, adjusting for or incorporating away those initial assumptions, and—to a large degree—having been shown, empirically, to work.

(This is not your fault. Popular writing on the topic is terrible, elevating drama over accuracy. Against the Gods is one of the better ones, and doesn’t require much math.)
The JVM is rock solid, and recent improvements in garbage collection have reduced tail latencies dramatically.

But I find that most people who say that it has "great performance" have not built a parallel implementation in JS, Go, Rust, or even .NET Core. I'm omitting memory unsafe languages by default and Python here, because I think that's the domain Java competes in, and Python lacks the investment these other languages have in performance.

The lack of value types and the amount of pointer chasing that JVM languages do as a result, the way generics are implemented via type erasure (which the JIT then has to re-optimize), and so on usually mean that CPU and memory usage for the same throughput is much higher than a competing implementation in a different language. And on older JVMs, tail latency will be orders - plural - of magnitude worse.

It is absolutely true though that for most workloads that efficiency isn't necessary and the ability to reuse that ecosystem reduces time and cost to develop. But it's just definitely not true that Java has "great performance" and I don't think that's ever really been true.
Apple is looking for “Linux Driver and Kernel Developers”
Are they still considered civilians when they work for a military program that threatens Israel existence?
My grandfather was a scientist working for the army, he had a salary paid by the military and was part of it.
I did YC startup school (twice, actually), and one of the first courses was about the legal aspects of setting up your company. The talk basically said "just register in Delaware", without explaining why.

For me as a European (and many other non-US founders in my SuS group) the course material was basically useless. But we did have a good discussion afterwards on loopholes, and why they exist in such way in the US.

As I understand it, Delaware is what Dublin is to Europe.
Does anyone still use SNMP to announce metrics/monitors?
The problem is not all developers have such a nice experience. Maybe the reason is underlying assumptions - they can really help in learning or become a really big obstacle, if one isn't aware of them. That or another, my several attempts to grok Gradle from existing scripts and documentation still fail to produce understanding.
Or, more plausibly, these societies without writing systems might have developed their own writing systems eventually.

Your post could be applied to the Vietnamese writing system, for example. Or to the many other languages that have adopted variants of the Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin writing systems.

No society is frozen in time.
It's neither the best, nor the most advanced. It has two centuries of law pretty much focused on upholding management at the expense of all other parties' interests (including non-management shareholders).

Today, most new companies form as LLCs, which are regarded as the "most advanced" form of business entity for legal and tax purposes. In that regard, Wyoming is generally considered to have the "most advanced" law because many governing LLC concepts and regulations originate there first.
Thanks for your comment! (I'm the author of the image/poster). At first, I wanted to give a similar explanation than yours, but then decided to make it more verbose / less technical, and it ended up having more text that I would like to.

Also, your last sentence is a great summary of when they should be used. I included a few use cases, but I should have also included something like what you said.

I'll take that into account for future posts, thanks!
Whether or not UK leaving was good for them or the EU is very debatable. It was a demagogue vote, that many wanted reverted as soon as it passed.

And as for the EU, sure it is a bureaucratic hell, but it’s core values are imo at the right place.
How can an individual trader use the formula?
Quotation needed. All studies show the impact of flying as being much higher than driving, even when shared.
Here's the article

http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...

Edit: huh, seems to have got truncated over the years. Here's an archive link

https://web.archive.org/web/20160120004603/https://blogs.ted...
Safari on iOS back button is awful. If I am scrolling a page, I need to scroll back up to see a back button and if my keyboard is open there is no back button no matter what I do.

I normally really appreciate apple’s UX and simple designs but this is one of those cases where I think they got it wrong.
> Aboriginals had no writing system so there would be no keyboards.

Mesoamerica had at least one family of complete writing systems (I'll call this Maya, although whether or not they invented it or adapted it from others is debated), and another proto-writing system that may well evolved into a full writing system (the Aztecs, who at the time of contact appear to have been in the early stages of planning a conquest of the Maya). Andean cultures had a maybe-it's-a-writing-system-unlike-any-other, the quipus.

Of course, positing a less domineering conquest, it is very likely that cultures may well have developed their own indigenous writing systems via contact with Europeans--that is precisely what the Cherokee did. I doubt they would have stubbornly refused to pick up any writing systems.

> That should be a signal as to how 'far apart' colonialists and aboriginals were with respect to development of cultural institutions.

Yeah, Tenochtitlan had public zoos and museums, organized anthropology, universal primary education, ethnic quarters, professional sports leagues at a time when all of those concepts would take another few centuries to be 'invented' in Europe.

Oh, wait, were you suggesting that it was the Americas that was culturally backward?

> The writing you see in this post is invented by a Canadian-English Methodist Priest in the mid 10th century for the benefit of the aboriginals. The system, in current terms is itself 'firmly colonialist' (I'm sure someone will cynically characterize it as a form of oppression).

My understanding is that the modern indigenous groups see the use of the syllabics as less oppressive than being forced to use Latin, as the syllabics are designed to more closely match the language than using the Latin script.
Thank you!!

Yes, that turns out to be exactly it [1]. Looks like there's even at least one JavaScript library for it [2].

It seems like such a useful and intuitive idea I have to wonder why it isn't a primitive in any of the common programming languages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic

[2] https://github.com/mauriciopoppe/interval-arithmetic
If you have a landline, you can send a fax from your PC with just a $15 USB fax modem. Windows has built-in faxing software (Windows Fax and Scan) that is dead simple to use. Have you ever noticed that "Fax" is also one of the default printers? Yeah, me neither, until I saw a YouTube video on it.

Just plug a phone line into the modem, print to "Fax" from any program, enter the fax number, and hit Send.
Thanks a lot, will take a look into those once I know more.
> Your Google search isn't equivalent to my medical degree, residency and decades of experience afterwards.

Agreed, though I see the value of expertise partly in how it allows those with it to explain why they see things differently, rather than simply point out that they know more.
As an aside, I hate the expression that “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” because it’s just not true.
Poor people don't fly that often
The Wikileaks and Snowden revelations showed that the NSA had tools to point the hacking at others like a false flag operation. With that knowledge in mind how can we ever conclusively blame anyone for a hacking attack as the proverbial smoking gun can even be placed in the victims hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
The loss of privacy is the dark side of "information wants to be free"
Telegraf is just going to do the "probe" component, right? You're still going to need Prometheus or Influxdb for storing the timeseries, and Grafana for visualizing I expect.
The tractor thing is quite an interesting one( not necessarily with just this particular one): the older tractors ended up being so reliable that people often try to get an older one instead of splashing out on a brand new John Deer and this annoys the manufacturers down deep to their bones.
But isn't that a feature, rather than a bug? It prevents you from getting "false accuracy".
Because that's not how people attend meetings. Meetings are mostly not-full focus events. That's not to say that VR couldn't have a role in, say, an in-depth review of a hardware design. But, the typical meeting? People are turning their cameras on and off and are probably spending about 50% attention depending upon how relevant the current topic is to them. This of course happens in the physical world as well.
Bruh white rice is not a type of rice, it has to do with the way it's prepared.

What you're saying is equivalent to saying all peeled fruits are bland. Peeling the fruit has less of a correlation with the taste than the variety of the fruit you're eating.

Try jasmine/basmati rice, they have a lot more flavor (both with and without the bran, aka white or brown).
No such thing as business sense. There's doing as the first part, learning from your mistakes and try again. Your goal is to find what works. There are a lot of arm chair entrepreneurs who talk but never do anything. Most that try aren't successful the first time but if you try and learn then eventually you will succeed. Don't talk about it and wish. DO something! Start by selling something and go from there. If it fails find out why it failed and start again with a better base and ideas. I bet you put more energy into writing your post than starting a business. Think about that.
To add to that, in modern processors FP calculation is faster than integer calculation, both in terms of latency and throughput (as long as you don't hit subnormal numbers). This is very unintuitive and mostly due to disproportional demands.
It seems building "smart cities" is a trend now... Saudi Arabia started one, Elon Musk wants to build something like that on Mars, and there's all these ideas of floating cities being passed around. I don't know much about Akon's entrepreneurial record but "smart futuristic city powered by a blockchain in Africa" seems like a huge and mostly imaginary leap from "local solar company". You'd be hard-pressed to come up with the cash to build this in America, so doing it in Africa feels like an unrealistic utopian dream disguising a ploy for money.
The fact that the implied returns distribution is not normal is more or less "priced in". This is why you get volatility "smiles" and "skews". From the volatility surface (Volatility in respect to strike and time until settlement) you can easily calculate the propability density function for what the market assumes to be the future price. This is rarely if ever Gaussian, true, but it is not fundamentally wrong.
What is the cutoff for elite athletes vs non-elites? A 5 minute mile? 6 minute mile? Why would there be a discontinuous jump between what a lay person should do versus a profesionally athlete? Sure, volume and intensity would be scaled back but type of exercise wouldn't be all that different.

See https://bodyrecomposition.com/training/endurance-training-me... for an example. The German track cycling team does 90+% of their training at low intensities. For an event lasting 4 minutes. The simple fact is that at the highest level, all pure endurance athletes do mostly aerobic work.
https://www.codeforamerica.org/ and their local brigades https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/brigades/ do.
Java has support for the schema definitions that I need, the other languages you list don't. I am happily using JPA/Hibernate too.
There’s a lot of blatant racism in that video, but that aside, his description does not align with the way I understand the attack occurred.
Google is shutting down its mobile Shopping app
I disagree with a couple of his verdicts.

1. Mechanical hard drives. These have become a bit more niche, but if you deal with larger files like that movie library the author ought to rip from those fragile optical disks he still has lying around, spinning rust is the far more cost-effective option for storing files you don't use all the time.

2. Phone numbers. His original prediction is that people wouldn't use them, not that people wouldn't remember them and dial them manually. A number of popular messenger services including Signal use phone numbers as identifiers, and I wish they didn't.

3. The fax machine. This absolutely, 100% deserved to be dead a decade ago. Perhaps most faxes aren't actually sent using physical machines anymore, but a lot of businesses and some government institutions treat fax as more secure than purely digital file transfers. My vote in the 2020 US election involved a fax. I'm disappointed in the tech community for not producing a solution that achieved near-universal buy-in from more conservative institutions in the past two decades.

4. Optical disks. I haven't used one in years, and I suspect a lot of other people here are in the same position. There's not that much content I want to watch more than once, so the issue of streaming non-ownership isn't a big problem for me. The author has kids, and kids definitely do that, but there are both legal and less legal ways to obtain permanent copies of content by purely digital means. Note to content sellers: I'm happy to pay for content; don't make it so difficult for me to do so that I seek alternatives.
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Are you saying that a diet from higher carbs will produce more fat gain than an equicaloric low carb diet?
I think the people who were marketing/hyping VR and self-driving cars for their own gain made it seem like those technologies were just around the corner.
FWIW, the Librem 5 can fully work with no battery (including the cellular modem and WiFi, which often don't work with no battery on other phones) as long as it's connected to a powerful enough USB-PD power source. You can also reconfigure the battery charger directly via its I2C interface: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq25895.pdf
This is what confuses me: before the brexit campaign, I don't think anyone here (brit checking in) cared about fishing. Naval battles maybe, but not fishermen. It was never a part of national identity for me at least...
Related past threads (not about this article):

0.30000000000000004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21686264 - Dec 2019 (402 comments)

0.30000000000000004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018450 - April 2017 (130 comments)

0.30000000000000004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871 - Nov 2015 (240 comments)

0.30000000000000004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846926 - Oct 2010 (128 comments)

Resisting temptation to list floating-point math threads because there are so many:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Wow! This is exciting. I'll bet Apple is going to either release a WSL-like environment in MacOS, or release a Linux distro tuned for M1 Mac Minis (which are frequently used as mini servers).
Linguist’s analysis of body cam footage of George Floyd in Derek Chauvin trial
Oh, OK. Regarding the background: That works, and you do the same thing in GIMP but that doesn't handle transparency. In GIMP there's the Color to Alpha tool which is pretty much magic.
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I don't think people will even want to wear glasses. 3D TVs were hyped for a while a few years ago but died off quickly.
Ah "nextafter" is indeed what I was looking for it just isn't in the JS standard library or Python version I use. Google has plenty examples of the function once you know what it's called though.

Complexity wise that actually seems to give an equally simple "shortest answer" method - nextafter up and down and using text processing find the first digit that changes, see if it can be zero, if not choose the lowest value it can be an increment by one, remove the rest of the string accordingly, and right trim any 0s from the resulting.
TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks would like to disagree with you.
Thanks for your comment; added it to the article. Sometimes the solutions are so simple they're hiding in broad daylight.
Ah, that’s a good distinction. I’d be pretty scared of damaging the hardware by doing that, but I’m sure there are some really experienced folks out there that would appreciate the hardware donation.
My impression is that a thorough investigation is the normal thing for any major epidemic.
A shame Google's Pixels don't support wired video output.
I did not entirely keep the original title (verbatim: '"I ATE TOO MANY DRUGS": ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!") and instead edited it to explain what this is about, hopefully that's okay :)
Pelagic fishing in Britain literally only employs about 10,000 people. Prawns, crabs, lobsters and fish farming employ more but they have all been thrown under the bus by the brexit deal that the halfwits in charge have negotiated. The industry is just waking up to the fact it has been conned.
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It is the shortest decimal number that converts back to that exact FP number. There are tons of complex algorithms for that [1].

[1] See my past comment for the overview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26054079