skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advice doesn’t need to apply to everyone to be useful. Obviously if you’re struggling with depression you’re not going to start hosting events. You’re completely right.

But if you just moved to a new city and want to deepen your friendships this is fantastic advice. A non zero chunk of lonely people aren’t depressed, just lonely.
The image actually shows the FaceBook page saying “Help keep Facebook free of charge”
Google should stop this whack-a-mole approach and find a better approach.

I think a developer reputation system is much better and far cheaper for Google.
I disagree, they are making an implicit threat that a lack of tracking on iOS will eventually cause Facebook to cost money.

It is of course an empty threat if you understand Facebook’s financials, but they’re still trying to plant that seed in users heads.
That would be weird to go from 1% for 2 years to 100% in an instant. Instead, I will say confidently that it was 1% for an instant, growing to 100% over two years.
Almost no economy is a pyramid scheme. American, European, and Asian economies have been functioning for hundreds of years. Populations only started growing in the late 1700s, even though they (in Europe and Asia) had already had an established economy.
> My partner also mentioned that she'd like a wedding ring of the same calibre since according to her - diamond ring is how much love / value / worth I hold for her.

I don't really understand situations where peoples' partners say things like this and it comes as a surprise. This feels like an extremely aggressive statement on how they view your relationship, and the level of trust and mutual understanding you have.

I just can't imagine getting to the point of considering marrying someone and not knowing well in advance that they will hold an opinion like this. And if they seemed like the kind of person who would have this opinion... I probably wouldn't be staying with them, because it seems like it would flag a variety of other uncomfortable personality traits.

How did you react? Was it a surprise to hear this?
Fantastic!

The Bose app for iOS is a dumpster fire. I fired up Charles Proxy to poke around and found out it was using the Facebook SDK. I just want to control my headphones—I’d prefer it if I didn’t have to send telemetry to FB to do that! (App since deleted and I’ve accepted having fewer controls.)
That was James L. Brooks! He was indeed coming off of Taxi.
The Challenges of Developing ML Diagnostic Solutions
Also how many of those were "spam" accounts banned for to repetitive content policy violation, but the _repetitive_ apps were long unpublished (it's unclear if Google requires them to follow all new policies, but there are reports that they do)? Anecdata, but for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/91x2ow/got_my_a...
Where are the damn drones that install them onto my roof?!
Ruby is still alive and well! It’s still focused on functionality over flash, and it’s not hard to find developers for it.
In 1967, while I was in school, I reverse-engineered the Montreal Metro system transfer tickets. It used a custom paper tape-type punched code. I was able to manufacture tickets. Was real popular with my classmates.

In 1983 I reverse-engineered the Xerox 9700 laser printer font format. Xerox were real SOBs and refused to share technical info with their customers, who were paying $12K/mo rent on the huge printers (120 impressions/min., two-sided). I altered random bits in the font files, and displayed the distorted results. My apotheosis was selling new fonts to the local Xerox branch.
I'm sure you're ok with it, but it doesn't have the effect you think it has:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272849/apple-app-store-s...
Interesting. When I went in to a jeweler to get my Wife's ring appraised for insurance purposes, the tester they pulled out said that one of the (3) diamonds was moissenite. Not surprised that those testers are nearly worthless.
Technology Preview: Jetpack Compose for Web
It's also possible for new forms to emerge throughout this.

For instance, I can imagine that remote workers might attempt to move into a college campus amongst students, or if a college campus shut down for remote workers to move to it, and eventually for campuses that would be created for the sole purpose of hosting remote workers, that might be filled with 4+1's with more space for adults instead of dorm rooms. People who want a home could move close to campus instead of being on it.

This would give the people that need to be outside of their home a place to be, would give adults a nice shared third space. It would be filled with remote people from many companies, not one company per campus.

This is just one idea amongst many that are possible.
> The uselessness is part of the point.

Reminds me of these outrageously expensive dishes some places are selling, where they put gold on the food, and other expensive ingredients that don't fit, all for the sake of creating the most expensive burger/steak/pizza whatever.
Apparently Box is not confusing with Dropbox.
I got lost at Next diagram:

next P : ●ー○ー○

P : ○ー●ー○

Is the P in the 2nd row meant to represent “P after evaluating next(P)”?
* Canada only has 38 million people; California alone has 40 mil. It's a large country in terms of space, but not in terms of people. That limits how many domestic customers you can get, and internationally you're fighting with US / EU / Asian firms that can marshal a lot of resources.

* Hard emphasis and lobbying by oil and resource extraction groups to continue the focus on resource extraction -- aka "the resource curse" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

* Higher taxes. Why pay you 150k when the gum'mnt (fed + provincial) is just gonna take 57%? Might as well just pay you 90k and then throw bennies or a company car. Also means that the money that the consumer would spend is now going to government use.
I'm not talking about visas, just make them citizens with the same rights as the rest of us. Then they can join those unions on an equal footing.
This is a common problem in poor nations and probably worse in the larger ones. Poor nations simply cannot afford the infrastructure necessary to maintain a deep bureaucracy that tracks everything and everyone. In addition, some of the people living there are not educated and too poor to bother with interacting with the government for a wide variety of reasons.

Indonesia in particular is a HUGE nation and makes Mexico look wealthy. Over 270 mil people, on thousands of islands, stretching across thousands of miles. Personally, I'm amazed it's been able to hold itself together over the decades.
> Sometimes we overlook the simplest approaches. We should plant trees. Lots of them. It's not a perfect solution

That's because it's not a solution at all:

https://www.wired.com/story/trees-regenerative-agriculture-c...
Partial solution: change product labeling laws /consumer protection laws/trademark laws/etc to have an exception for diamonds that allows all diamonds regardless of origin to be labeled as natural and/or mined diamonds.
Ask HN: How do you share the stuff you find interesting while reading a book?
Many a times, it happens that after reading a killer book I want to talk to another person about specific ideas I read in that book and discuss it further to consolidate my understanding, also it acts as a great conversation topic. I however feel sometimes that not all friends want to listen to the book talk you have to say, or specific books can be talked with specific persons only. To resolve this, I would rather put the central idea as a tweet or a story somewhere to engage with like minded people. I want to know other ways people do the same
> Another way of avoiding KeyError is using dict.get(val, default_val)

Except that

my_dict = {}
my_dict[val] = my_dict.get(val, []).append('foo')

doesn't work because list.append() doesn't return anything, while

my_dict = defaultdict(list)
my_dict[val].append('foo')

does the right thing.

Defaultdict is sugar for dict.setdefault, not dict.get.
Even better - you can now troll Bill Gates by reminding him that Linux was both more successful than and outlasted his marriage:)
Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio
> Census counts everyone

Census doesn't count. People count themselves in census.
C/C++ build system, I use xmake
I has nothing to do with branding. It is entirely about price and false scarcity.

traditionally it was an important gesture that the man was investing a large sum of money into his soon to be wife
Earlier in my career, I would hear my manager say something about a specific situation and I would extrapolate that into a general belief and theoretical/academic debate that frustrated everyone. Make sure you're not doing that.

As a manager, sometimes you need to say things like, "This bug needs to be fixed by EOD tomorrow" so that your team understands the urgency and your expectations. The more technical the manager, the more likely they can understand whether that expectation is reasonable.
btw, it looks really nice. Didn't mean it as a negative criticism.
The Criminalization of Dissent
All it's missing is the pacifier
Maybe they could create some type of verified developer program. The current fee would stand but there would be an additional fee to cover more in depth checks and for developers who pass the checks, they get a blue check mark. Only blue check mark accounts should be able to pay for promotion in the Play Store.
I think he means national pension schemes such as Social Security or CPP. Longer lifespans and shrinking populations are both very detrimental to their returns.
That's weird, all my SO's friends who are engaged/married here in .de got diamond engagement rings. They also wear a wedding band, and tend to only wear the engagement ring on special occasions..
There are a couple of reasons that might happen. You’d have to use at least 64 bit doubles (or 64 bit ints if using fixed point), since a 32 bit float is ~7 digits of precision.

Also if you’re plugging random numbers directly into the simulator like this article does, the convergence rate will be n^(1/2) which means that going from 8 digits of precision to 10 digits will take 10,000 times longer. In order to get a better convergence rate, you could use jittering/stratification or a low-discrepancy sequence instead of a bare random number generator. Even with a perfect QMC convergence rate of 1/n, getting 10 digits of precision reliably will take 100 times longer than 8 digits of precision.

I don’t remember the chip defect problem, so I’m not sure whether I solved it. ;) But based on your description, and knowing that Euler problems are designed to be resistant to long computations, I might bet on the convergence rate being the issue. I saw your comment about using a better RNG, but if you used a 64-bit RNG, I doubt that is the problem, I think you’d get away with a low quality RNG if you waited long enough.
Clubhouse Is Losing Steam
Could sound better with a filter on the output.
That is really unfortunate.

At least in germany you can go to the Einwohnermeldeamt (citizen Report office) and can request a blockage into your data. This should be enough for a stalker.

Are you allowed to decide what happens to your partner in case of an emergency? Or to decide for her if she is unable to decide anymore?

Also would you save taxes? Here our income is combined and divided 50/50. When I earn 100k and she 20k, we both pay taxes for 60k which comes to something like 100-200$ per month or 2-4% in savings.

If it is similar your stalker already hurts you on a daily basis.
The Little Tok of Horrors
Great for expressivity of multi-level dicts (excuse the goofy example):

state2name2visited = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(list))
state2name2visited[“PA”][“Joe].append(“Pittsburgh”)
This funny stat stood out to me as well:

"Additionally, in 2020, Google Play Protect scanned over 100B installed apps each day"

Are there really 100B unique apps? Or are they saying they scanned some much smaller number of apps, that happen to be "installed" on a shite ton of phones? Why is the number of installs relevant to the how many unique apps were scanned on a cloud server somewhere?

Edit: I'm assuming "Play Protect" just uploads a hash of the binary and makes sure that particular binary has been previously scanned?
There's value in concentrating the energy so that you don't have to cover the entire planet in solar panels.
"Just" develop a nice UI?
I had a quick and dirty script to count listings per technology. Might give you some ideas: https://pastebin.com/raw/bmTqd9eR

I ran that in Chrome dev tools for every page of the "Who is hiring".
This reminds me of the post about SAR satellites being able to peer inside buildings. Setting up a corner reflector would cause a giant bright spot to appear on the radar return. If all the ships did this, it would be much more difficult to track them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25455852
I don't care, Play Store is completely broken from both the user's and more so from the developer's perspective. I feel at this point they should declare a "review bankruptcy" and either scrap the review process or start over with a new inventory.

I had the displeasure of publishing a few client apps recently. The pointless bureaucracy of it all reminded me of the worst interactions I ever had with the government and banking establishments.

Apple: rejected, we couldn't find the Apple Pay feature

Me: it's on the checkout screen

Apple: ok then, accepted

At least Apple has a pretty fast turnaround.

Despite all this theatre, both app stores have become wastelands of broken and scammy apps to the point I never go there unless via direct link from a trusted outside source.
I'm not sure what down-voters are disagreeing with: electric cars have been in existence for over 100 years, there are very few unknowns there. Self-driving cars are a very recent development, and not a single developer has achieved widespread Level 5 autonomy. I thought that'd be pretty uncontroversial, but this is HN, I guess.
OCaml-esp32: Native compiler back end for esp32
You would be an asshole though.
Ahh... using God’s name to guilt people into paying for their own self-destruction. Nothing new. The Bible says a lot about this type of people.
I wish that one day all borders in the world were like this.
Apple snaps up ex-Google AI leader who quit in the wake of Timnit Gebru’s firing
droidscript.org wasn't !

Legit, no (known) spam, 7y old, educational .. and destroyed by bots
Sir, it relates to how does the information in the mp3 file maintain its fidelity whereas a spectrogram transformation of the original analog sampling becomes corrupted. Are you familiar with digital signal processing and sampling theory? Are you familiar with it to the most fundamentally electromagnetic level of understanding? Are you familiar with how computer memory is electromagnetically cached?

I’m quite alarmed that I am being virtually thrown under the bus by those who do not have the knowledge on how they program electromagnetic waveforms.
>I don't disagree with you at all but unfortunately without population growth the social safety net in most industrialized countries would completely collapse.

It hasn't in Japan.
Oh wow, just seeing this post made it to the front page. Founder of Sudowrite here, happy to answer questions.
Read up on black soil.
So long as we aren't talking hard stats, I don't see how one statement is incongruent or not. Companies found in places like e.g. Kitchener, Ontario because they believe there are bright people, 100%. They are still not willing to pay them Silicon Valley salaries overall (exceptions exist)
I agree. Lots of legal migrants from the east and Bihar to the south.
everyone would prefer natural diamonds to artificial ones.

Why? Because natural ones are more expensive. It's literally like asking someone whether they prefer to have $20 or $40.
Female Founder Secrets
Adequacy.org is just... it's from a different generation of the Internet. As someone who read this close to publication, and was fifteen at the time... what a read, haha.
Long time resident of Atlanta. As a Southerner I don’t consider “it is the south” to be a con, and I really do enjoy living in Atlanta. I’m here by choice and feel confident I could live in almost any city I wanted.

I don’t think you’ll find Atlanta a tech hub on par with SF, though there are great jobs here. If you do choose to live here I wouldn’t live in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. It’s strip malls and Trumpers. The fascists in the city at least have sense enough not to advertise it with lawn signs. In the suburbs they are proud of it.
In germany at least there is quite the tax incentive.. Say you earn 150,000k, and your SO earns 30,000, then you pay tax at 180k/2(90k) levels instead of 150k levels....
MSE 007: Is Music Theory Learning That Important?
The effect we think it has is to reduce the number of scams, not eliminate them.
21Nails: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Exim
For me it clicked after I red Practical Common Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp and On Lisp, Let over Lambda and after I did couple projects in Common Lisp.

One day I looked at various REST API clients generated by JHipster. The clients generated for all languages had huge amount of boilerplate.

"Well, that's fair for ability to generate it from DSL", I thought to myself.

Then I looked at the code generated for Clojure client and it was many, many times smaller and looked as if somebody wrote it by hand. It was nice and neat.

Basically, the calls to APIs were macros and rather than generate a stack of code to be put in repository, the macros generated everything at runtime. The DSL was translated 1:1 to calls to macros and all the complexity of the generated code was completely hidden.

This caused me to spend considerable time thinking about the nature of difference between lisp and all those other languages and at some point it just clicked.
I'm pretty sure it's downvoted precisely because it doesn't address the root issue; Google developer accounts cost money, too, albeit less.
Since those accounts cost $99+ I would be surprised and demand proof if you suggested that they were available for less than list price. There are too many examples of a simple entry price being used successfully to limit spam and filter bad actors out of a community (or at least raising the bar to the point where the cost/benefit ratio is unattractive.)

Got a source for the bulk verified apple developer accounts?
> we asked virtually every local jeweller to create something with a lab-created diamond (or even a different shiny rock entirely) and all of them -- to our astonishment -- refused.

ooooo now there is a signal. Putting in the time and effort to find/get a jeweller to make me a custom ring with a lab-created diamond when no one will. Unique, expensive. Not something he can just order from the internet.

Because lets just cut to the chase. The diamond is all about the story, the signal and what it represents, not what it is.
https://teddit.net/r/LOLHackerNews/comments/lghh5k/tools_lik...
I used to use Hurl.it a lot before it had been bought by Runscope. Nowadays I see no reason for use it, since we have tools like Insomnia and Postman.
Moissanite ring for < $1,000. Upper middle class, northeast coast american. Nobody in my social circle thinks rings are important, including SO.

Observationally, younger couples who have been dating longer tend to care less about rings. Older couples who have been dating less seem to care more.
Yeah it really shows how peace and nations working together can make stuff like that a non-issue. Everyone is so relaxed about it.
> The problem is eventually she'll be left out if she's the only one of her peers without social media.

My thinking here is this: its not necessarily the social communication aspect of social media that's the issue, it's the engagement-driven algorithmic feed that presents the addiction potential. Their feed becomes tuned to whatever gets them hooked, even if it's vapid or harmful. Because of this, I'll still let her text friends and probably use Snapchat or other IM apps. But anything that uses feeds is a hard "no."

It still leaves the potential for bullying, but that potential will always exist.
My wife understood my concerns, and she really wanted a diamond that was left to her by her grandmother. Easy compromise with a custom ring.

( I also managed to accidentally end two relationships that were already going in the wrong direction by casually mentioning my concerns about diamonds. At least I noticed how it was being interpreted the second time. 8-/ No complaints with how that accidentally played out. )
I've contemplated getting a Pinephone just for the keyboard attachment before, the pyra on the other hand looks completely untypable.

If what's on the back of the MNT is a Rasberry Pi Compute Module it would be more powerful than the Pinephone, no?
This made me wonder...are (most) of the (undisputed) borders of the world actually stored somewhere? Or are some stones and posts still the "official" borders?
But everyone knows who Rory Calhoun is, he's always standing and walking!
I'll take the NFT.
That is just further proof that .org doesn't mean credible.
Not ergodic. Just because "women still earn 18% less than their male counterparts" does NOT mean any one woman will earn 18% less.

Paying someone less because of their sex is illegal.
Also, please test your download page on different browsers.
Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism
Ha - Hollywood/Debears infected post-war Japan too:

https://danwin.com/2010/08/how-de-beers-diamonds-won-over-th...

The scope of their mass brain washing is indeed staggering. Heck I have a good friend in the jewelry business and we still get into heated discussions about how he feels there is nothing wrong and how he is providing value as an agent of Debears brainwashing. It is pretty disgusting.
You could write the bitstring of MP3 on a piece of paper with a pen and it wouldn't change a thing.
The engine rich exhaust has likely more to do with the fuel input being wrong because of pressure issues in the tanks.

SpaceX can afford to continue to iterate. BlueOrigin needs to produced a fixed finished verified engine to a costumer for expensive military payloads.

> except Aerojet Rocketdyne prototype

Was only a part of the engine.
Reminds me of when Jamie Oliver tried to convince kids that chicken nuggets were bad by showing them how nuggets are made. Even after showing disgust at the whole process, all of the kids still wanted to eat chicken nuggets at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwL5G5HbGA

I think it takes a lot more than logic to convince most people to change opinions - especially on matters of preference or taste.
Most of the Canadians I worked with in the US have gone back to Canada.

Our Principle Engineer at my last gig did like ~10 years around the DC area and then pissed off back to Calgary to raise kids and settle down. Still works remotely for the said US gig.

Plus have you ever been through a winter where it dips to -40C? Fuck that noise. I'm from the south and live in Canada and never though I'd miss bitter VA winters...
I've had jewelers make custom jewelry with stones I brought. Maybe you haven't found the right one yet.
Fairylog: program FPGA in Racket (2019)
And we may remember the "Linux is a cancer" (https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_ca...), or more subtly the SCO "suicide attack" attack against open-source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2563673/update--micros...
Or it was illegal for them to be born: https://www.vocativ.com/world/china/ghosts-chinas-one-child-... (at least illegal for their parents).

Westerners think the Chinese murdered female babies, but I remember reading (citation needed?) that the female babies mostly end up being undocumented.