skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise. My wife now wears my late mother's wedding ring, after we had it remade to fit her. (Resizing was non-trivial, as it is not a simple circle.) It's not hugely valuable, but it has a unique character and history.

(Added twist: the jeweller couldn't have it ready in time for the ceremony, so we made do with a dime-store trinket, and swapped it later.)
Thirding this. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid but for some reason was never offered meds. Got reassessed as an adult while I was seeing a psych for other stuff and got a script for Dexedrine. Never looked back since. I don’t think I could do my job without this stuff. I also drive a lot more safely which is a testament to how much it really helps my concentration.
Really?

I've never met anyone that talked about it at all. Maybe I don't have conversations about diamonds very often, but people only ever seemed concerned that they were 'real', and latterly that they were conflict-free.

> People want to believe that they’re buying something special.

What if it turns out they're not?
I know, but for someone who wonders how a 200+km race can be decided at photo-finish it would maybe be more intuitive to split the race into "regions", with a sprint at the end between those in the lead. And that sprint is usually very similar to what a normal sprint stage would look like. I can see the point of asking "is it really necessary to separate them if they've been pretty much equal for the whole time?", but to me at least it does improve the experience of watching the race unfold on a few levels. It's supposed to be a competition, after all.
Why is using Twitter for telling a story a thing.

People that are smart as hell using a tool built around what feels like mental whiplash to tell a relatively complex story.

I actually think there is value with Twitter applying pressure and economy of words (I would fall into the category of over-explainer) helping folks like myself be more concise, but can't the story just go here?

Thinking out loud I'm sure there is an approach towards multiple networks being hit simultaneously but it'd really be nice if linking to a Twitter thread roll-up just automatically dumped the whole text here without needing to click into and pull in ${threadReaderTooling}
RNG quality is probably the least of your worries.

The curse of dimensionality means you often need a huge number of samples to guarantee a useful level of precision. Additionally, many quantities you'd like to know come up in Monte Carlo simulations themselves. That creates an intractable O(N^2) problem.

Here's an example that I encountered at work yesterday:

You want to know P(x>=a and y>=b) where (x,y) is a standard bivariate normal with correlation R.

You can:

1. Simulate a bunch of (x,y) and take the mean of the indicator function 1[x>=a, y>=b]. This will take whole seconds to compute.

2. Use an adaptive quadrature method like scipy.integrate.nquad. This will take dozens to hundreds of milliseconds.

3. Write a fixed grid Gauss-Legendre quadrature routine in c. This will take less than a microsecond.

I needed this value inside a Monte Carlo simulation. If I had to simulate the solution, the problem would be intractable.
Why does this surprise anyone? What company would do anything different?

This is why I’ve never made selling on Amazon anything more than a side-hustle. You’re just a pawn, totally at someone else’s mercy, and if you are too successful you’re bound to be eaten by a bigger fish who knows how your sausage is made.
>It sounds like you're saying that businesses should...

They are saying slavery based businesses should... If you profit off slavery you don't want it to end.
Diamonds are precious partly because they're rare. If you find a way of 'making' a diamond it loses some of that value. It's interesting to me that someone would even try making a comparison between a precious stone and something like water/ice which is mostly desired for utility and not any sentimental reason.
My mistake! It seems that when I download your CV and open it another PDF is loaded (also named CV.pdf).

Sorry to have caused the confusion and I probably should have realised the mistake given the different names on the CV!
Knew my partner wanted a diamond and of a certain cut. Knew I wasn't excited about spending a fortune on a diamond. So I split the budget midway so half was spent on the diamond/ring and half was spent on a trip to propose overseas somewhere memorable. Ultimately the happiness of your partner is what counts, but this combination made it more palatable for my practical self.
One could argue that your "rational brain" is in fact an extension of your limbic system for longer timeframes than immediate - I think I heard that line of reasoning in Sapolsky's lectures.
I would seriously doubt any claiming coming from Brazil in this context of anti-science aligned government and fake news scenery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BEANS

Do NOT click on the red button.
> our teacher asked all of the women

Sounds like a pretty sexist thing to do. The same question can be asked without putting women on the spot. "If you were to buy a diamond, what would you rather choose?"
https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/plans/
Then nature got natural selection backwards too. Mating discrimination was shown to be real.

Theorizing is great. But once there is evidence the reaction needs to be to adjust the theory instead of arguing away the effects that have been observed since they are inconsistent with the theory. "You're getting it backwards" is exactly that.
Not that they're insurmountable at all. More that they are insurmountable to implement in a country where legal policy such as the one you're proposing violates freedom of speech and voluntary association. It seems a lot of what you're asking for come down to turning RFCs and standards organizations (i.e. W3C et al) into laws and legal bodies. Or giving the government a final say in what someone can or can't program. That's the only way I see forcing interoperability as a workable solution.
Tuitions have ruined our education system
It’s also not guaranteed that a gene that makes you glow red under fluorescent light will be noticed by other mosquitoes, but we can probably toss that in the pile of growing evidence.

“A fluorescent marker gene that glows under a special red light. This allows researchers to identify GM mosquitoes from wild mosquitoes.”
https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/community/si...
There is a chapter in "Expert C Programming" by Peter van der Linden called "Bus Error, Take the Train", which made me laugh out-loud.
This is almost certainly true, as apparently they filed a separation agreement along with their divorce filing. In other words, all that is left is for them to wait the 3 months mandated by Washington law as a “cooling off” to have a Judge sign-off and they’re pretty much done (other than fulfilling the obligations in the agreement).
> or maybe it's that my country is somewhat backwards and is not used as the reason this often

Please don't dismiss mental illness here.
I find that most of these payoff periods are generous on one side, but lax on the other. For example, does the payoff calculator include the opportunity costs? I doubt it, because it would likely be impossible to ever achieve break even.
> Actually helping these people means improving their existing options, or giving them new better ones.

Yes. A basic income for which one doesn't need to go into the diamond mines, for example.
Google easter egg May 4th
I see "fewer" vs "less" has become the new "between you and I". Quote from the researcher, presumably mangled by some illiterate subeditor:

"We're not saying that fewer happy people use more social media."
My initial instinct agreed with you,but I then wondered if there would actually be a relevant gender difference in answers.

In western culture, still today I think,majority of men would be buying and majority of women would be receiving diamonds. It would be interesting if this affects answers. Would a buyer go for more practical cheaper option while receiver goes for more expensive traditional options? Or a different split completely , or none? I think it'd be a fascinating exercise.
This is only a problem when translating words or short phrases which is usually one of the first things that language learners try to do.

When you know the original intent behind a sentence (for example if you are its author), you can usually convey its meaning it in any of the languages you know well.

As your wife said, there is a way to express a friendly sentiment to somebody on their anniversary and let them know that you remember them. It's just not literally using the words "Happy Birthday".
"He started it Miss, it's not my fault!"
He does provide his email address on the purchase email.
The same technique can be used outside the browser with Clojure + JavaFX [0] and even at the terminal [1]!

[0] https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx

[1] https://github.com/eccentric-j/cljs-tui-template
Kubewarden, an Open Source Policy Engine, Based on WebAssembly
Ask HN: Why Amazon EC2 Instead of AWS EC2?
I often wonder what the thought is behind branding AWS services with Amazon instead of AWS.

Does anyone have an explanation?

In my mind, there is no additional perceived value for customers, in both directions. Eg I dont think I love EC2 more if it is prepended with Amazon…
> Also with diamonds it's probably a factor that the fiancé is expected to present serious intents with a deeper monetary investment. "Look honey, it's an ethical, clean diamond and only cost 1/20th of a dirty one" sad, but feels wrong.

Then he can spend the same money for a bigger diamond ? That would give also more bragging rights to the future wife (nobody will come and ask if it is a natural or artificial one).
Also in the UK, plus one to everything above (with the caveat I have no experience in the children area)

For friends and family, the older relatives on both sides I believe just assume we're married.

There is one difference, and that is in default treatment. If I died/was rendered otherwise incapable of communicating my desires, there is now an onus on my partner to prove that we are in the relationship she claims we are. That exists with marriage too except it's "solved" by a marriage certificate.
Do a bit more research; you’ll find that it is very much possible to build a hardened sysvinit-based custom distribution with ALSA as the default.

That said - the unchecked fear of systemd, combined with some folks’ refusal to RTFM (to disable unused components) reflects a lack of rigor on their part, and not systemd itself.

If you’re not building your own, reproducible embedded system images, you’ve already lost.
It's cheap and easy to blame mysterious outside forces (like Video games, violence on TV, Drugs, Communism and now social media) for social problems. It saves us from facing up to the downsides of the society we have built and maintained. It reassures us none of our problems are our fault.
Full quote:

Technology engagement had become less strongly associated with depression in the past decade, but social-media use had become more strongly associated with emotional problems. We detected no changes in five other associations or differential associations by sex. There is therefore little evidence for increases in the associations between adolescents’ technology engagement and mental health.

In other words, "some links got stronger, others got weaker, there's no clear pattern so we don't take these changes that seriously."
Would you rather buy a Banksy NFT Or JPG of a Banksy they are the same image at a fraction of the cost?
> If you think you are any kind of forward thinking person, you would not be on board with this archaic practice at all.

What if both people want to do it? You are demonstrating a vast amount of ignorance.
> simple technical skills like optimally encoding a video respecting a maximum bitrate requirement.

This is in no way a "simple skill" as maximum video bitrate is only one of a number of factors for encoding video. For streaming to end users there's questions of codecs, codec profiles, entropy coding options, GOP sizes, frame rates, and frame sizes. This also applies for your audio but replacing frame rates and sizes with sample rate and number of channels.

Streaming to ten random devices will require different combinations of any or all of those settings. There's no one single optimum setting. YouTube encodes dozens of combinations of audio and video streams from a single source file.

Video it turns out is pretty complicated.
North American culture is individualistic in theory, not in practice. Coming from a very collectivistic culture, I can tell you people care way less about number of followers and number of likes than North American people do. You'd expect in an individualistic culture, people wouldn't be obsessed about curating perfect image in social media or dream about being a social media celebrity. That goes against the very idea of individualism. What's happening here isn't individualism, it's validation seeking. That's why I used the word narcissism. Because narcissism at its core is insecurity and validation seeking.
Why marry in the first place?

Currently my wife is humming the first 4 bars of The Star Spangled Banner over and over and over.

The best answer I can come up with is that marriage is a constant battle of wills. A never ending struggle for absolute supremacy over the will of another person. To take an independent human and bend them to your desire or at least drive them crazy.

What's more thrilling than that? Also how can you be more crushed when that's done to you.

In short marriage is 100% pure adrenaline. Now that bloodsports have been abolished it's the purest most glorious release for any sadist out there ... also any masochist because one way or the other you're gonna get a big swig from both cups.
Mitch Bradley (author of Open Firmware) also developed a version of it for the OLPC:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OFW_FAQ
Eastern Europe. We didn't bother with the engagement stuff and the wedding rings were plain gold bands. Which we don't bother with any more after 20 years.

I've almost never heard of anyone buying engagement rings, diamonds or no diamonds.

I do know a nouveau riche (or aspirational nouveau riche) couple whose wedding bands have tiny diamonds on them.
With a side dish of "appeasing the algorithmic overlords".
Or what about this experiment actually working, this specific species going extinct (or at least driven out), and that 4% nice that's now empty gets taken over by another type of mosquitoes or other type of insect that has the bad properties you describe? Not too unlikely as we tend to have no clue what will happen when we eco-engineer something away. And if we think we have a clue, it tends to be wrong.

Or what about this: they go extinct/away and it turns out there was some predator that now doesn't get food anymore and is decimated while their competition gets now out of hand? Next pest please.
Maybe the key would be to keep the artificial diamond ring at a similar price point. Larger, designer brand, more manual labor details, I don’t know. Not saving money, but get a superior product.
Looks like it's behind their paywall.
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IMHO the ATmega chips (on the Arduino boards especially) are the easiest and most fun way to learn how CPUs work as they're 8-bit RISC so they have have a really basic and simple to understand architecture similar to that of Apple II's MOS 6502 or Intel's 8008, but have modern documentation and toolchains.

I can easily recommend an Arduino or a clone instead of a Raspberry PI to anyone wanting to get their hands dirty.
Hehe! I can now understand why you went to th effort of reverse engineering! But yes, just slide the power button past the on position.

First slide will tell you which device's are connected.

Subsequent slides will cycle through the device's in what appears to be most recently connected order. Subsequent slides cycle to the next device and when you hear the name you want, stop.

Also, since two devices can be connected at once, the device you least recently connected to will be disconnected.

It's super intuitive once you get the hang of it.
What might brainlets in a dish tell us about what it means to be human
One way to avoid this problem is to do research that tells us whether outside forces actually are, or are not, responsible for social problems. That's what scientific studies like this one try to do.
Avoiding buses: “a plea for help” (PHP)
Dry-rb – Introducing dry-files
I don't want to know if this is true or not.
Phishing with Fake Meeting Invite
> It is not like you could allow your kids to have unlimited amount of playing any game they ask for.

You can apply this to any kind of recreational activity, it doesn't matter if it's videogames or soccer or reading books at night. If you don't put limits, they don't learn them. And of course, don't pretend to put limits at 10 when they weren't earlier on.

The kids need limits for any activity, but parents aren't always there to put them.
My expectation is that autocorrect and sentence completion tools will get better over time, until we get to the point where we have tools that take outlines and turn them into first drafts.
> The reasons they gave all seemed to tie back to branding and natural diamonds being “real.”

Forced child labour used to extract natural diamonds in some parts of the world is also real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_the_diamond_in...
It's a codec developed by Google, for Google, and Google will happily abandon it. From the article:

> After pushing out and upgrading to VP8 and VP9, Google is moving on to its next codec, called "AV1," which it hopes will someday see a wide rollout.

I still can't see how this is a win.
Prof Art Owen at Stanford has a free book online about MC:

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/mc/
> Have a button that cycles through which 2 devices are simultaneously connected.

I understand this as being able to cycle through all combinations of two stored devices. I'm only able to select the next previously paired device, not a combination of two devices. Have I misunderstood the GP? I can't find any mention in the help about selection of two devices, only iteration of previously paired devices.
> Humans are in fact, really good at playing god over long periods of time.

That's some weird god who mostly cares about themselves.
> What if it turns out they're not?

Buyers remorse or post-rationalization.
I’m worried that it takes a certain amount of poverty/desperation in the local workforce to be exploited heinously. For them, an exploitative job is probably the difference between eating a little or not eating at all. Yes, it’s good that they won’t be exploited once the mined diamond industry goes away, but I think they’re still getting the rug pulled out from under them. Their income is replaced with nothing, and in a country with a weak economy, there’s probably very little there to help these people in the interim. It’s a desperate situation, even if it’s for their benefit.
Negative comments regarding Brave usually center around either their ad blocking and replacement strategy and "fairness" to advertisers or the political views of Brendan Eich.

As if advertisers somehow deserve "fairness" as they unfairly track and invade and usurp your privacy.

Choosing personal privacy over politics and "fairness" to advertisers should be a no brainer.
The Power button. Just push it past the on position.

First slide will tell you which device's are connected.

Subsequent slides will cycle through the device's in what appears to be most recently connected order. Subsequent slides cycle to the next device and when you hear the name you want, stop.

Once device is connected, you can cycle again to select a second device.

Also, since two devices can be connected at once, the device you least recently connected to will be disconnected.

It's super intuitive once you get the hang of it.
Quite likely they have a good approximate number.

But knowing the exact number can indeed be hard. It would take stopping the entire uploading and deletion activity. Of course they may have counters of uploads and deletions on every node which handles them, but the notion of 'the same instant' is tricky in distributed systems, so the exact number still remains elusive.
your comment made me think of this comic: http://english.bouletcorp.com/2011/12/08/pixel-quantum/
In the US at least, clean room reverse engineering is not required (see the "case law" section of the article, which documents two cases where clean-room separation was not maintained and the reverse engineers still prevailed) nor does it necessarily protect you (all the examples in the article predate the DMCA, which puts significant restrictions on reverse-engineering itself, and as the article points out, the clean-room approach is it relevant for patents).
I didn't say anything about the ideal savings rate being 0%

The quantity of savings is divorce of the quantity of money available for investing or, in other words, lending money doesn't come from savings. That's an empirical fact.

Of course, households and firms are going to choose to keep savings, and that's OK. If people choose to spend more and keep less savings then, Central Banks could accommodate the Interest Rate in order to make lending more expensive and avoid inflation, or the government could increase taxes or some other solution that retires money from the economy.
Here's a question: If medical procedures were available to extend your life to 200+ years but to get the procedure you had to have never had children and would have to allow yourself to be permanently and irreversibly sterilised, would you take the option?

Would you trade the chance to pass on your genes for the chance to live personally for an extended period?
Well, there are (lots of) statistical regularities that disfavor specific groups of people. And any one individual could have answered “no,” and thus avoided showing themselves as an idiot who values rocks just because a monopoly prices them exorbitantly.
Found that very interesting too! I'll try working around writer's block using that technique :)
>- without dedicated processors, VP9's encoding is roughly 4.5x as slow as H.264, while with the VPUs, the two formats perform the same; this is a big win for the open format(s)

H.264 is an open format. Just not Royalty Free. The baseline of H264 will soon be "free" once those patents expires in 2023. ( Or basically MPEG-5 EVC )

The hardware encoding for VP9 being the same as H.264 is mostly due to hardware specifically optimise for VP9 and not H.264. The complexity difference is still there.
It will be interesting to see if some of these monetization methods actually help creators and actually stick around. Skeptical of a lot of these that are good for PR but minimal in helping smaller creators.
Wrong forum. The overall consensus here is that everything can be solved with tech.
They were just given the insight, so that's not it. It's more that they don't care.