skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, this is the first generation where economical equals are marrying each other

Basically the idea of a man with stability marrying a woman who is seeking stability is now false, replaced by two upper middle class college educated people that are prospering in their careers

Therefore, the new progressive and self aware observation is how this increases inequality much greater than the previous iteration of inequality (where women weren’t in university or the professional workforce). Ironic, but worth paying attention to. I find it interesting to think about. Marrying into wealth/stability is now a less reliable option despite our cultural predilections and assumptions not really catching up.
The most expensive reality TV show ever made.
In places with cold winters, it is often forbidden to approach wind turbines because of the risk of falling ice.
But at least in Canada the homeless will be addressed by their proper pronouns! One has to set priorities.
Equation Group
>I have two girlfriends who live two train hours away from me. As the two implies, I'm not living a regular relationship, so I'm inclined to go to greater lengths when finding someone that fits.

I have to take a train to find someone who will fuck me is certainly a weird argument to make.
^ today in Dyson Sphere Program tips !
This is my personal favorite:

> 'Sometimes a 'four' would be outputted when '5' was passed through the perimeter
Yay, Blender: Nvidia edition! Not blaming the Blender devs, this is largely AMD's fault, but still... I guess I'll need to get a Threadripper because there's no way I'm dealing with Nvidia on Linux again
> There is no law that requires the use of the same variable naming style as std. Also,

While that's technically true, it doesn't work out in practice because people look to the standard library as "the way" to write golang. It's basically an implied rule and I haven't seen anyone not folllow it so far.

> It would be good to know the domain here

Both infrastructure level work as well as CRUD type work.

> interface{} is really really rare

We have to use them everywhere for things like JSON parsing, config file handling, and pagerduty integration. Not to mention wrappers around SQL handling (e.g. batch inserts, pagination, etc.)

Generics will fix some things in the language, but not all. There are too many issues with it like the ones I already mentioned. It's still a very cludgy language to work with.
> Why not allow spaces for light commercial use in apartment buildings?

Noise.
> What's the point of the Space Shuttle if launches were more expensive than disposable rockets? What's the point of the Buran, if the Soviets didn't feel like they need an answer to the space shuttle "just in case", even though they couldn't see any point in the shuttle design (except as a nuke carrier)?

Rather than nukes, I always thought the main advantage of the Shuttle was the ability to bring things back to Earth. Which it did, a few times:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-32

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-A

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-57

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-72

When then Shuttle was proposed, this was one of the main selling points. Having used it just 4 times over 133 missions... Well, that's not what was envisioned.
"around a near-teenager ... and long term not something I want..."

"long term" they won't be a near-teenager, or even teenager. ;). I do understand the quiet solitude for work issue though.
While I certainly have no need to find undocumented x86 instructions, I do find this style of explanation great learning a bit about how processors work (something I would like to learn more about).
I'll have a crack:

You are a bad cop, and you expose the government to liability. After a few such liabilities, the government makes it clear to your chief that this will affect his (or her) budget.

Your buddy officers, with their pensions threatened, confront you in the locker room.

Or perhaps your department takes out insurance, and the premiums are high and rising. Buddy officers etc. "I'm sorry Binks, but there's no money for CoL this year with this wrongful conviction thing."

I'm just speculating. If the government insists against visiting the negatives on the culprit law enforcement agency, then it's the citizens who suffer instead. But I think that the costs would eventually exert influence on the problem children.
Actually doing it is important. “I can go to the moon anytime I want” stops being true after a solid generation of not doing it. There is institutional knowledge in doing something in the present world. Further, specs and documents are nice, but rarely sufficient. A famous example is the F-1 engine. Every one of them was made off spec and if you took the factory drawings alone you would never make a working engine. You need builders who understand the design and modify it.

It’s all possible to do this, but the longer you wait to do it again, the more factors change and the more work it will be.

NIF exists to keep a team of nuclear bomb experts warm in case we need them. It isn’t to make a power plant or to make new bombs; it’s just there to keep the kettle warm.

Anecdote: I work at a physics project. When the PI asked for 200 million USD to build a new machine after 20 years they were awarded 3 millions USD to do an upgrade to the old machine. The funders are making sure that a team can still be assembled and get shit done under the PI’s leadership. If the upgrade goes on time and on budget then the new machine might be on the table.

The same thing is going on with many physics projects. Small prototypes get funded. “If you can make that and it works, then we’ll talk about the next step.” It’s slow, but it’s safe.
By moving from AWS to a cheaper backup storage provider like B2 you would get costs from 200k$ to 50k$ per month.

There is S3-like interface, so you may just change access key, and region host: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/s3_compatible_api.html
How does A/B testing not violate the geneva conventions on human experimentation?
Zoom (or Teams or ...) will allow you to change your face as a feature.
Nix pills might be a good start if you want to understand how all the pieces fit together. https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills.

There is nix, the language/package manager which can be used standalone; nixpkgs, the ports or homebrew like repo of packages that can be built/run on many systems including macOS; and nixos, the Linux+Nix distro that puts it all together.
BoxedWine does OpenGL passthrough on platforms where available.
This does not extend to the WASM/WebGL, but I really tried! I was able to get it working for some simple OpenGL applications with help from gl4es, but was unable to make it work with textures beyond one example [1].
I would appreciate some assistance if anyone has the required skills.

[1] - https://kevodwyer.github.io/boxedwine-examples/v1/boxedwine....
That's roughly New York City, or how many cities of the world are doing. You don't get a backyard with that, though; and parking will be difficult.
As mentioned in other comments, there's a bunch of drawbacks with this approach, but there's a more general term "boolean blindness" [1], which is usually applied to programs (not databases). I find it useful to avoid using booleans where more descriptive types make sense (and can be used), as well as not throwing information away when it may be needed still, but to a reasonable extent.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15150/previous-semesters/2012-spring...
That’s a huge hyperbole. Governments are not dictators. They are a democratically elected body that is given power by the people to enact laws. With proper separation of power (this is the most important!), this power can be revoked anytime.

They are absolutely not infallible of course, but they are the best formation we managed to come up with. So we have governments at the present time, and let’s say a power grab were to happen. Then does it really matter that we had such a law now? They can then do whatever they want with or without laws, so your fear is baseless. It is a good decision that will save lives and is basically without price.
There is a certain risk that women could find your statement offensive.
Right, that's the impression I got from reading. And it looks like we have regained that technology, which is what threw me off the remark. Will take a look at that paper, however I'm totally a stranger to most geo-something sciences, just a regular software engineer here (with quite a bit of scientific curiosity though).
Straight from the source itself:

https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot

To be clear, the 'foot' used in day to day use has already been standardized to the international foot. It's only in surveying where there's weirdness, and that's what this is resolving in.
> TCP doesn't lose traffic,

I know. And if it did you would see it in commands you type, too. Not just in invisible passwords.

I just said this mystery came to my mind when reading the story of being able to communicate with som web servers but not others. Not trying to claim we have that same MTU problem.

Actually now that I type it, I had the problem of half-broken internet myself in the past when roaming internationally with my phone. I needed to use a VPN to contact certain web servers. Need to keep this in mind when roaming becomes relevant again some day... (This happened in the UK and somewhere in the EU and affected e.g. my online banking and a Linux Foundation conference web site. I don't think censorship was the culprit.)
Better use something so far in the past that the software certainly didn't exist yet, like 3 January 1970. In fact, you could use all of, say, the '70s to encode lots of flags... gets excited
In the Christian circles I grew up in, women used to say they were in college to get their MRS degree.
Sorry you have so much negativity. I’ll be your friend.
That’s pretty close to the mall’s original intent. They were supposed to be little villages of the future. They turned into uninspired, bland corporate centers.
DDT was also used incorrectly. It was supposed to be sprayed on walls, so it was made to be persistent. Naturally farmers crop-dusted it on their fields, and that made it an environmental problem.
I've had experience with the soft delete in laravel and I'm not fond of it. Because we had a separate dashboard with manual SQL reports without an ORM to magically filter out all the deleted_at rows. And it gets tedious to remember to filter out the rows with deleted_at timestamps.
I would like to see the soft-delete implemented differently, say a second trashcan table for each active table, e.g. users_archive, and the delete operation would move the row there.
بنك الفتاوى – وزارة الشؤون الدينية والأوقاف
Nowadays RL and Gaussian processes are very popular on the trading side, as is applying attention-based NLP techniques for pattern recognition. If you are interested in stochastic calculus and convex strategies, John Hull's "Options, Futures and Other Derivatives" is a classic read. Another good book is Marcos Lopez de Prado's "Advances in Financial Machine Learning."
> how much land there is.

most of that land is away from the city!
I'm not understanding the distinction. The only thing you get out of this schema is knowing what happened (implicitly defined by the field), whether it's happened yet, and when it happened. That feels like an event to me.

Fields where there isn't an discrete event don't work. E.g. is_dog_owner can become adopted_dog_at, but is_dog_lover can't become loved_dogs_at.

I'd actually even argue that this is not storing state directly. You derive state from knowing an event has occured in the past: deleted_at (event) => is_deleted (state).
I wonder which country of the mighty triumvirate of USA, Liberia and Myanmar would be the first to leave this club.
Mating and marriage are not the same thing. We're social creatures and my view is a set of shared experiences and friends creates stronger bonds between people, which in turn can lead to marriage.
>>> You can look at this at the macro level, as on comment did, and see that one 1.2PB RackmountPro 4U server is $11K

protip: $11k is the cost of the empty enclosure. disks are sold separately.
If you have a 179.99 degree wide angle lens.
Maybe they are single and want to find romantic partners. Some women like to find partners who share common interests. Imagine you like to cycle and you like to find a romantic partner who also like to cycle. Wouldn't that be great?
Factors affecting e-commerce profitability
My POV from Sweden, where the adoption rate is roughly the same.

From the merchant's perspective:

- There is a law regarding cash registries, to prevent tax evasion by cash accepting businesses. The cost for getting a compliant cash register is probably at least as high as getting an online payment solution set up.

- Not handling cash decreases the risk of robbery.

- Adoption rate is high enough that not accepting cash payments won't lose you many sales, as long as you accept both card and app payments.

- Adoption rate is so high that only accepting cash payments will lose you a lot of sales. I.e. you need to get that online payment solution set up anyway.

- There are several online payment providers (for instance Klarna) which accept app payments.

From the customer's perspective:

- There's an authentication solution (BankID) which is almost used by everyone. You can use it to sign online payments, do your tax returns, and sign the payment app transactions. On your smartphone, this can be done with the fingerprint scanner. I.e. signing a payment isn't harder than unlocking your phone.

- The payment app (Swish) is supported by most Swedish banks and account transfers are instant and free. If I have your cell phone number, I can send you money instantly. This drove adoption amoung young people who already were attached to their phone 24/7.

- Contactless card payments in stores now have a reasonably high limit (400 SEK ~= $45-50), which makes it at least as fast as presenting cash and accepting change.

For me this is at a point where I can't even remember when I last payed with cash, and cash in my wallet is "gone" in the same way that those £25 in small change sitting in a drawer after the trip to the UK are.
Compute and Storage Should Be Decoupled for Log Management at Scale
Show HN: Collect and render details about Go modules graph
I feel that extending the definition of 'a machine' to include abstract or virtual machines is an extension of the original meaning of 'Assembly' - it's not how the word was originally used.

But it seems like it could be a better definition, as it gets closer to the essential meaning.
I am probably wrong but I think all this conversation are heavily biased because:

1) it's mostly US centric
2) it's mostly Silicon Valley centric

Surveys say nothing because they are heavily biased, Google Trends too.

While we are discussing Rust vs Go, Python vs Ruby or whatever language is brought on the table, companies around the world are making millions with PHP and many other languages considered legacy.

At the end of day, we don't realize that the language and other tools we select to do our jobs are influenced not by how useful they are to solve our problems but how much they increase our chances to get a new job.

We disguise our choices as technical choices but they are not, they are, indeed, just our preferences biased towards our necessity to find better jobs.
I did live kind of like that off and on for a year in my first Afghanistan deployment. You are correct that most people have absolutely no idea what it’s like to live like that, but once you do you realize it’s both restrictive and liberating. Being outside all the time makes it hard to be inside in a way that’s hard to explain.
There’s so much more art in nature itself than it is art.

By the way, his book “The Precipice” is quite worthwhile to read!
Boxing an AI
To make it easiest on review, I do fixup commits (commit --fixup <sha>) and then clean them up at the end. If the conflicts are too messy, I don't rewrite. I have a check to prevent merging with fixups present. Id love it if that was built into the merge itself.

This is one problem with the "don't rewrite history" comments people make: the advise isn't clear enough, People advise against it once "push"ed or "public", but that isn't right. Its when collaborating, like on a long lived branch. PR branches are 99% of the time single contributor.
It is kind of annoying. In my job we have to use both all the time. Schematics will sometimes use both in a single drawing! Metric may not be ideal -- I appreciate the English system for it's ease of halving, but it still would be better if there was a single standard.
This video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM

explains it: they can change the attack angle of rotor blades for different positions, which produces a torque, though you have to compensate for the gyroscopic effect, which lags behind.

Humans cannot fly this, but computers can.

The video also explains why the chose two contra-rotating rotors instead of a quad-copter design.
Yes, I already support that. You can "like" people publicly or secretly. The thing you talk about is "liking secretly". If both people like each other secretly, the interest would be revealed to them.
> In my experience you don't see many homeless in poorer countries because housing is cheap relatively speaking.

I also wonder how much more likely certain countries are to quietly move mental health cases into clinics. This implies a whole lot of things about freedoms and due process.
EU law already handled the credit card duopoly, should work the same here. The changes didn't propagate to US though.
IIRC, in a previous installment of this drama, Navalny himself somehow phoned the people who poisoned him and got them to admit doing so, how it was done (underpants) , and their reasons for failure (it was a murder plot).

Someone has gotta do a movie of this.
It's not about planting trees, it's about freeing up land
> Somebody will jump to the wrong conclusion that we need to provide massive amounts of battery storage

+1 for the post, but I don't see this that much.

Whenever I see the debate come up, it's when someone is directly comparing the cost of solar to nuclear/natgas without factoring in the additional cost of batteries and DC lines, which obviously leads to an invalid (or at least incomplete) comparison.
Agreed, Google is no saint. But compared to the dirty tricks campaign Microsoft waged overtly through leveraging OS bugs against competitors and threatening competitors (read: what the DOJ sued them over) Google was the relatively clean choice. Hindsight makes them look way worse, of course.
The diff view is unusable if master has moved in the meanwhile. What you really need is a UI for "git range-diff".
Some coward flagged my comment instead of replying and using words. Here it is again:

Not the pandemic, no. That's clearly incorrect attribution of causation, because it's not as if malls can't keep the stores staffed due to people dying. It's government policies that are killing businesses, not the virus. This is exactly the kind of take one would expect from the Washington Post, a propaganda outlet.
By this logic, could any social activity among 18-30 year olds be called a marriage market?

Video games as a marriage market.
Instagram as a marriage market.
Church as a marriage market.

I’ve never met someone who selected a particular college because they expected to find a better mating pool.

There are lots of people who don’t go to college who have marriage markets of their own.
If you had the money, you could rent a rocket from SpaceX and send a film camera to take more pictures. But what would be the point?
ProxyStore: We're running a data-minimising order service
It's likely to be a kind of privilege escalation and trust transfer. They first fool a chain of trusted outside sources and lower-level staff to raise their trust level to be accepted by the target.
>What I don't see is that people join the institution with that market as an intention.

It was a quite common idea in the upper middle class back in the day (let's say '20s to late 50s in the US with adjustments for countries in different stages of development up to very recently), somewhat after the initial women's liberation, but not so much so that women careers where not rare, that parents sent their girls to college not to study for a profession, but to snatch a husband.
> function of proximity.

If you define proximity as spending time together IRL or virtually, then I agree.
People buy apple phones since they are fine with spending money, so then they spend more money in app stores as well. It has nothing to do with how Apple runs the store.
It's crazy that everyone here seems to blindly accept that this was actually a deepfake just because the news says so. Odds are this wasn't a deepfake.
There is another fun one wich is Ada, there is a hardware implementation of it. So is it a assembly language?
https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400
Materials density is irrelevant, materials abundance and scalability is far more important. The more you spend on dense materials, the less money you have left to actually store energy.

We use pumped hydro because water is basically free and it is infinitely scalable depending on geography. Meanwhile the proposed system is limited by the size and existence of mineshafts. In other words this is a dead end.

Energy vaults is impractical but it at least tried to solve the scalability problem by taking advantage of the fact that the energy storage grows quadratically with the length of the crane arm. Assuming it is possible to actually build that system in a sealed tower to protect it from the elements (wind makes the control problem almost impossible). Given a large enough energy vaults system there will be a point where its advantages massively outweigh its downsides.

Going one step further, you could carve out a large cylinder of rock out of the landscape [0]. By using wiresaws you will only need to cut the surface area of the cylinder out. At this point your material costs are approaching 0. The only challenge is sealing the walls of the hole and sealing the walls of the cylinder to turn the system into a giant hydraulic cylinder. Storage scales with the fourth power of the radius. Considering the theoretical performance of a gravity storage system anything that is below r^2 scaling is just laughable, which is why the mineshaft idea will ultimately fail.

[0] http://eduard-heindl.de/energy-storage/energy-storage-system...
Lichess is so good that I spent more time there than I probably should have.
Decentralized Medical Imaging Centers
>I knew a girl at university who was there to find a husband, and she did! In South Africa there is even a colloquial Afrikaans term for it: BA Man Soek, i.e. Bachelor of Arts in Finding a Husband.

That motivation is not uncommon for some demographics such as students at Brigham Young University where it's openly acknowledged:

“The point of Mormon women going to college is to find a spouse, period,” says Kate Kelly, an alumna of the college who graduated in the early 2000s. [...] “BYU is just like a dating factory,” she remembers, “but [for women] that was the entire point.” -- excerpt from : https://qz.com/1778333/the-brigham-young-university-wage-gap...
Not sure how does the lens angle change the front/back position of the objects around it. But still; cheaper than a whole space program ;)
Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories
the stores being staffed are not the problem, its that people dont feel the need to go anymore.

nothing is stopping us from going to malls. the pandemic made me realize i dont need to.