skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not always possible.

At my first job I built a system to track charitable donations by local bank branches for the banks lawyers. I couldn't even understand most of the status drop downs I built as they were just line numbers in IRS forms (eg 1040 13b). The PM on the project was barely doing any better.

But when we were done the lawyers all agreed that it was 1000 times better than the Excel spreadsheet that the lawyers themselves had built and were passing around between offices.

Would it have turned out better if I'd been a tax attorney before taking on the gig, I'm sure. But you can still get results without the deep domain knowledge residing in the programmer's head.
The TeX license requires you to change the name of you change a single byte.

> All of the methods described in these books are in the public domain; thus anybody can freely use any of the ideas. The only thing I'm retaining control of is the names, TeX and METAFONT: products that go by this name are obliged to conform to the standard. If any changes are made, I won't complain, as long as the changed systems are not called TeX or METAFONT.
That's incorrect.
The name is Windows Subsystem (as in a Subsystem that runs on the windows kernel) for linux, that is, designed to run Linux.
Trump Abused the System. Facebook Created It
I know the situation you describe. It’s debunking when they say they only hire competent people (make the incompetent people feel competent). I mean it’s true that they prefer competent people but they will destroy their mental health, make them quit and then, as you say, take all the credit.
It's only a matter of time, there's gonna be physical casualties at some point in time. We've all seen it in the movies. Experts have warned of the dangers of tethering vital utilities controls to the internet.

Is it not possible to develop protocol or device that operates outside of the web but functions like the'two-man' rule used to launch nuclear bombs?
Sure, the only correct way to read an unaligned value in to an aligned data type in both C or C++ is via memcpy.

I still think being able to define a type that models what you're doing is incredibly valuable because as long as you don't step outside your type system you get so much for free.
How would near field of black holes explain galaxies' rotation curves?
it does.

Unless you tell your iPhone to send everything you have to Amazon, or Dropbox, or iCloud, or Google, or Facebook, or Backblaze, or [insert cloud service subject to Chinese, EU, or US law here].
Could be age too. That use of EDM is in my experience a 90s/00s thing.
In Rust, [u8; N] and &[u8] are both primitive types, and not abstractions. It's possible to create an abstraction around either (the former even more so now with const generics), but that's not necessary. It's also possible to use "extension traits" to add methods, even to existing and built-in types[1].

I'm not sure about a 3 byte big endian integer. I mean, that's going to compile down to some combination of shifting and masking operations anyway, isn't it? I suspect that if you have some oddball binary format that needs, this it will be possible to write some code to marshal it, that compiles down to the best possible asm. Godbolt is your friend here :)

[1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0445-extension-trait-conven...
There's an extremely well defined industry surrounding conversion lift. Which is exactly what you're talking about. Advertisers use holdout groups to test what % lift was correlated to an ad. Using large enough datasets, it's possible to have strong statistical confidence in the effects of ads on user behavior.
America Needs History and Civics Education to Promote Unity
In college, I remember how much faster I was with my PB700 than the other students programming their cool HP-41 calculators.

I aced every test in numerical methods in like 15 minutes.

This was the first time I bumped into the phenomenon @pg describes in his “Beating the Averages” essay.
A few years back we had two different instances of this pipeline getting shut down from newly-found leaks. While they say it won’t cause gas shortages, these articles tend to drive people to the pumps in droves in the southeastern states served by it (like mine, NC!).
Because it implies an unequal distribution of the profits from the labor people invest in the company.

And splitting the company in two like you proposed would almost certainly result in some pretty big changes, as one company would be all workers and the other would be all bosses.
In this case, the lede was buried a bit. The actual source article [0] talks about making this project completely open source and using components optimized for linux and networking from the get-go.

[0]: https://itnext.io/im-putting-a-wifi-router-into-a-wall-charg...
> apostrophes in people’s surnames

In English, my daughter's given name has an optional apostrophe (Ma'ayan). I've seen systems that escape last-name apostrophes but not in the first name.
Dr. Becky does a good job of describing how this could be possible in this video => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMDKDs9C4lo&t=742s
You'd think its because peer review costs money, but they are largely unpaid for that work.

So, there's no real answer beyond "capitalism."
Tsundris
>> but instead something malicious affecting the computers they use to control the process.

I bet there is a layer of windows XP machines involved in a legacy control system. XP machines that weren't supposed to connect to the internet somehow have malware on them. It doesn't even have to do anything. Simply the detection of anything in such circumstances is enough to warrant them being shut down.
I'm just surprised the community made the critique on this version but not the other one.
The hidden performance overhead of Python C extensions
Why is it an issue any more than say, order of fields in a struct is an issue? In one case you read bytes off the disk by doing ((b[0] << 8) | b[1]) (or equivalent), with the order reversed the other way around. Any application-level (say, not a compiler, debugger, etc) program should not even need to know the native byte order, it should only need to know the encoding that the file it’s trying to read used.
I have no doubt Welsh land can support many more sheep per acre, but to make minimum wage (£17k) off 71 sheep you need to make £240 profit per sheep per year.

At £100 per fat lamb, you still haven't made minimum wage even if all 71 have twins and you have zero costs. Maybe they sell some wool, too.

In reality you have bills, sheep die, and you need to keep some lambs for breeding stock
Cyberattack Forces Shutdown of Major U.S. Pipeline
Hm fair enough, I am probably just out of touch then, which makes sense. I used to DJ back in the late 2000s, 2010s, so that's where my perspective comes from. I never played dubstep, but the commercial uprising of dubstep was about when I stopped playing along.
> $30k in 1968. It sold in 2019 for $1.4M.

and the same $30k invested in the S&P 500 in 1968 would have earned you 186x - or $5,580,000 (using http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm as a guide to calculate returns).

And yet, nobody bats an eye that this amazing returns of stocks, and continues to complain that housing prices are too high today, when it was "cheap" in the past. But was it really cheap in the past?
Anyone acan do any business deal with anybody and not disclose it as long as it complies with the government regulations. Companies rarely disclose their dealings with other companies, trade secrets are often the most guarded secrets out there and its completely legal.
in low lighting, many paintings look similar.. this comment is a masterpiece of gray paint?
Unless if you have a backup in iCloud. Anyone with access to your iCloud account could pull that backup.
I think it's more like (Windows Subsystem) for [running] Linux.
>Sideloading/rooting an idevice as long as it can’t do Apple Pay/bypass find my iPhone is fine of course.

Epic actually made a case or suggestion for this all the way back in 2015. The App Store distribution doesn't need to tie with App Submission Compliance.
"100% effective" lol even their manufacturers don't go this far in their puffery
> The fact that China and other developing nations know this but are still willing to take the incoming damage just shows how much it sucks to be a undeveloped country.

No, all it shows is how selfish China is. It's a textbook tragedy of the commons. They get all the benefit of polluting but make us take on most of the cost. If there were somehow a way to make it so that all of China's pollution affected only China, they'd be taking it much more seriously, developed or undeveloped.
I think your desired living situation should be allowed, but it shouldn't be subsidized by prohibiting more urban ones. There would still be houses with garages and driveways for carwashing in San Francisco, but there would also be car-free four-story, four-unit apartment buildings in every neighborhood.
My 6th grade math teacher would often ask questions to students when teaching, the idea being that students would lead themselves to the solution/ideas then it would stick better. I do the same when tutoring students one-on-one in Calc 1 and below math. One drawback is asking too many questions in succession can become exhausting for students so sometimes there needs to be a healthy amount of both instruction and questioning or there needs to be breaks.
Common people on the right now distrust the justice department and the courts as much as the people on the left.
Who are they loyal too.
Hello this is a public account
Yes. And dark matter hypothesis contains this possibility. Just add correct amount of dark matter to ever star and you can get almost any rotation curve.
I'd say, putting multiple of those types into a struct that then perfectly describes the memory layout of each byte of data in memory/network packet in a reliable and user friendly way to manipulate for the coder.
Applied Criminal Law
Not to mention the very real risk of a company going under (as the article notes) or simply ending support for your product. How many consumer IoT products are going to be bricked in the next decade?
If they aren't worth minimum wage, they wouldn't get hired to begin with.

If they are worth hiring, they are worth minimum wage, even with supervision. You get what you pay for. Pay more money if you want more competent workers.
Have you heard about a country called “China”?
Your entitled behavior has no place in this project or its issue tracker
Sam's, Costco, and Walmart.com, as well as grocery.walmart.com ... Walmart is definitely firing on all cylinders these days. (Costco has literally the worst website, and they rarely have great deals on it like in the club, so... thinking about letting that one go.) For cheap Chinese stuff, going to Ebay. Also going to Ebay for things like used laptop chargers, since I figure the odds are higher that with new ones, they might be counterfeit.

Unfortunately, I still put up with Amazon for probably 40% of my purchases. It's fast and generally cheap. (Even though even Amazon Prime has gotten ridiculous)
The best would always be long pieces, so this is pretty boring.
I only looked at the comments to find the answer to this question. How does one eat an entire onion?
Not the way it works. On non-jailbroken iOS, entitlements are enforced at the kernel level. If your app is signed with an entitlement that isn’t listed in the provisioning profile (which only Apple can generate with its private key), the system rejects the binary. It’s the same on Mac, but you can disable amfi to get rid of that shit, which used to also be possible on jailbroken iOS.
Crypto
Does anyone know the progress on Libra?
Sure:

1: Download UBlock origin: https://ublockorigin.com/

2: Open Youtube

3: Right click on any element in the page and click "block element". Do this for anything you don't want to see. If you make a mistake you can unblock it by deleting the line in the "filters" part of Ublock settings.

It can take some trial and error to get it working properly but once you do its so nice. I don't even have a sign in button anymore because I don't have a google account.

Edit: For maximum procrastination prevention you can even block those end card recommendations once a video finishes.

Youtube is also massively better with "enhancer for youtube" [1]. It's not FOSS I don't think but it is too good to not use.

[1] https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube
I recall an extension that was looking up amazon stuff on ThePirateBay (movies and books). It didn't last long.
> Nobody rich or poor is forced to use Facebook (and plenty of wealthy people do use it).

That's technically not true though. Whenever website developers add the FB Like button. Those scripts are collecting data about you where you have a FB account or not by placing a cookie on your browser. If the next website you visit also has the Like button, they are tracking you. In this case, we are all "forced" to be tracked.

FB's real tracking ability isn't on their platform, but thousands of app and website developers that incorporate their Login and Like buttons.
Epicycles were a good theory that approximated a ellipses by combinations of circles (essentially through a Fourier transform). When a simpler theory came that was easier to compute, was more predictive and came from a first principles calculations it was adopted instead. That's not the case with the modified gravity (at least right now).

And please don't BS about zillion of parameters. That's not the case. The dark matter only simulations don't have that many parameters (other than the basic cosmological ones) . When you start putting baryons in, yes that's where the parameters start appearing (probably of the order of a 100), but it's hardly surprising give the need to describe the complexity of star formation, gas dynamics, black hole accretion etc.
The modified gravity theories don't need as many parameters because nobody has ever run any modified gravity simulation that is even close in complexity to what Cold Dark Matter simulations do.
I mean, that’s pretty much China’s position with regards to other countries IP as I understand it. There’s just a lot of power still held by the nations that do support a US-style approach to IP, so many countries have incentive not to ignore IP laws.
One hypothesis for why genres matter less is musical abundance and identity as a result of that.

I think when you had to buy a record or CD people would consider themselves a “punk rock” person or whatever for any genre and they’d tend to buy and listen to/show their friends that music.

With streaming services, and easy access to wide variety there’s not much need for this kind of thing so tastes blend more on the consumption side. They then start to blend more on the creation side too.

One thing I’ve noticed is that music has gone from an activity (listen to this record I got) to entirely personal and mostly ambient.

Maybe that’s a factor of my age, but I think it’s mostly related to higher stimulus activities now available on the internet.
I don't think you need AI to decide the best piece. Or any logic at all. It's just always the long piece. Pretty boring.

Might be more interesting if there were other constraints like it couldn't give you the same piece too often or something.
You are not different from your conditioning – J. Krishnamurti
You are completely right that the current system is nonsense. It only exists, because back in the day there was no internet. Scientists needed publishers that would print and distribute scientific results. But publishers might deny publication in their journals if they thought the science is not good enough. Thereby the publishers established a reputation system. For example, it is really hard to get a scientific paper accepted to the journal Nature. But if you manage to do it, a lot of people will assume that it is good science.

The current system doesn't provide much value in terms of printing and distribution (even though some journals still do printing). The thing that keeps these journals alive is their reputation as filters for bad science. But even that is questionable, as proven by a lot of bad science making it into top journals.

And lastly, science needs funding. If you say: My science is published in journal X, then the funding agency will think it is good science/bad science without actually trying to understand what your science is about.
People use the same word "team" to describe both hypercompetitive groups of mutual enemies playing a zero sum game, and happy groups of cooperating people striving for a common goal.

Usually the first group is seen as more socially acceptable and usually makes more money, but the second group almost always has a superior quality of life.

Coworkers and the relationship with them matter. Its almost never talked about.
One such example... a test done at the Idaho National Lab

https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-...

That lab tends to specialize in cybersecurity and infrastructure.

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/idaho-national-laboratory/

The critical infrastructure part of the lab:

https://inl.gov/critical-infrastructure-protection/
I've never been very satisfied with these approaches for C where you hope the compiler does the right thing. It makes sense to provide some C implementation for portability's sake but any sizeable reordering cries out for a handtuned, processor specific, approach (and the non-sizeable probably doesn't require high speed). I would expect any SIMD instruction set to include a shuffle.
That a very valid point.

But the sad truth is that if the people in charge of deciding product direction are the people looking at telemetry instead of bug reports/patches from users then in the end the Linux user's interests will not be high up (or even visible) to the product direction decider.

I've seen this happen before at some previous workplaces where the telemetry and analytics was the only factor controlling decisions - and this lead to the vocal (but not visible in telemetry) userbase getting the short end of the stick on many occasions.
Even in the United States where dishwashers are common, older buildings sometimes don't have them. I lived in a reasonably large apartment from the 1930s that was never upgraded to support a dishwasher. I would have loved a model like this.
The ng-sq-UI project is back
The ng-sq-ui project is back more customizable than ever! + Brand new Rewards Program.

Some exciting component enhancements

Our team is on the lookout for bounty hunters!
> Grow your smaller cities and stop pumping everything in mega cities.

This is precisely what has resulted in lots of our overcrowding. We allow greenfield sprawl pretty much all over in the smaller cities, but modestly sized apartment buildings are banned nearly everywhere in the "mega cities." Yet, still, people still want to live in the mega cities.

You seem to be unable to comprehend that some people, even a huge number of people, want to live differently than you, in a bustling city, without cars, but surrounded by lots of people and experiences and culture. That's fine, you don't need to understand it! But what's not fine is saying that other people aren't allowed to want what they want, or to build what they want.
Neither. That is why cryptocurrencies were created. 2008 Mortgage crisis blow-up mortgages stole citizen's money in bank accounts (deposit custodial accounts). The bailout was to hide/replace this money.

Citizens don't trust private banks. They don't trust the government since congress sells out to lobbyists.
It's like 100x more expensive.

Would be nice to have separate data lines, running fiber optics sealed in pressurized conduits for double tamper detection. The military actually does this for their critical infra.
It would mean black holes have different gravitational properties. Normal matter's field falls off at 1/r^2, but a black hole would be more like 1/r^2 + x(1/r). The 1/r term would make the outer edges spin faster than expected.
It doesn't in my experience. I've been telling it I don't want to see: news, politics, music, or reaction videos for months. It still puts them there.

Last week it decided that I wanted to see rap videos and filled my feed with them. I don't listen to rap. I've never watched a rap video. I've told it I'm not interested in every single video, but it still puts them there.
If there's to be a 'flippening' where Ethereum gets more market cap that Bitcoin, I see it happening when Eth adopts proof-of-stake and gets publicity as an environmentally-friendly blockchain.
Not great timing for Apple, given the US government's sudden new interest in anti-trust and the plight of small business.
It’s excellent for development. Being able to have a complete development and debugging toolset inside the target environment is awesome for all sorts of reason.
> you need to make sure to have a balanced diet with good nutrition

You know, you are going to die. They're going to lower you into a hole in the ground. The worms will have you for dinner. That's it.

Right before you die, are you going to say to yourself, "boy, I'm sure glad I made sure to have a balanced diet with good nutrition" ? Will you say, "I'm glad I didn't enjoy cheese and bread with butter every single day" ?

70 years of pure joy, of every moment counting, of getting just what you want, is worth a million years of trying to extend your life and health. Don't live the life you think you're supposed to, and don't live for the future. Whatever you like, do it now.
Totally agree, see it all the time. I even know of a few NT systems floating around out there. At least most companies are getting their IT involved to mitigate (usually they work with the vendor because they know nothing about control systems). They usually provide funding to the automation groups. People are starting to take it seriously.
I don't think that is true. Look at what your sentence fragment would be:

the a'os'rophy can al'o in'i'ate pro'nun'i'tion

If you leave out those letters you are omitting the important beginning sounds of each sylible. You generally want to highlight that sound and hide unnecessary characters.
The "Old Town Road" Billboard kerfuffle was a great demonstration of the thesis of the piece: that the hard categorisations of music are racially driven.
Sandton Blocked Toilet
A Sandton blocked toilet is surely one of the most common issues we encounter daily in Sandton. Our teams open toilets daily in the area mostly because people are very negligent. Behavioral issues are the main problem that causes these blockages in the first place. People just love to flush those earbuds, sanitary towels, dental floss, condom wrappers, and way too much toilet paper down the toilet. The end result is people contact us to get it fixed up again.
Oh come off it. Little to no mainstream hip hop addresses racism in any meaningful way. It’s still mostly sex, drugs, objectifying women, glorifying the rich, and violence.
What's exactly capitalistic about this? They charge for something they have no property or own. In my experience (and every researcher I know does this) researchers have their own websites where they publish a free pdf version of the research (without the format of the published paper, just a simpler pdf version) or even email it to you if you ask them to (those without a website, for example). I am not sure what exactly is "capitalism" about these journals.
It's cool but it's an iframe over https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
Show HN: Crypto
E2E encryption and closed-source software don't mix imo. They claim that they encrypt iMessages and AirTag locations, but you don't have much in the way of actually verifying that everything is implemented the way they claim it is. And even if it is, their threat models are usually such that Apple is an unconditionally trusted party. Moreover, they hinder reverse engineering of iOS as much as they technically could.
I just use ntohl/htonl like a civilized person.

(Yes, the article mentions those, but they've been standard for decades).