skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the article goes for tongue-in-cheek, it brings up an important point.

Pedagogy is important. And pedagogy can get stuck.

"Electromagnetism" is a good example. We still learn the Heaviside-Hertz formalisms which are based around an "ether". Why?--Because they work and you can calculate a lot of simple systems by hand. This helps A) develop intuition and B) generate calculations which approximate more complex systems.

However, once you start trying to do motors and capacitors and stuff--things get weird (starting with "displacement current"). At that point, the fields formulations tend to work much better (See: "Collective Electrodynamics" by Carver Mead). However, your calculations take a jump in complexity that you didn't have to deal with before--your linear algebra and vector analysis better be pretty solid. However, dealing with motors and coupled fields and stuff gets much easier.
If I were forced to implement them myself for some reason, I would probably simply do them like this:

fn from_be(bytes: [u8; 4]) -> u32 {
(bytes[0] as u32) << 24
| (bytes[1] as u32) << 16
| (bytes[2] as u32) << 8
| (bytes[3] as u32) << 0
}

It's direct, to the point, and does exactly what it says on the tin because all pertinent behaviour is defined. The way Rust's corelib implements it is to transmute the array into the integer, then call the bswap intrinsic if the bytes need swapping(detected at compile time).
If anyone in the US is new to sardines, of the choices available in US grocery stores, Matiz is by far the best. I recommend ordering online, where you’ll find other great choices like La Gondola, Angelo Parodi, Nuri/Pinhais, and Bela.

(If you’re in Europe, try Rödel sardines at least once in your life. They’re completely unavailable in North America.)
Can you please share either the frequency list or the method you used to automate the deck generation? I've been looking to do something like this, perhaps with genanki.
I miss the ability to see which clients are online and to what they are subscribed to. I'm using VerneMQ because it has that ability but it has its quirks.
Bio-suite? According to article the lab was BSL-2 - "the biosafety level of a standard US dentist’s office"
On the other hand, it significantly reduces the health of certain sardines.
Propositions are legislation; specifically, they are one of:

(1) initiatives which are exercises of legislative power reserved by the people to adopt a law initiated by citizen petition,

(2) referenda which are exercises of legislative power reserved by the people to approve or reject measures passed by the legislature, either with the assent of or over the veto of the governor.

(3) legislation referred to the people by the legislature (often because it would impact a previously passed initiative statute in a manner which the legislature has not been delegated the power to do without popular assent.)

Prop 13 of 1978 (proposition numbers get reused, so “Prop 13” alone is technically, though only rarely practically, ambiguous—though confusion from that ambiguity has been suggested to have helped the defeat of Prop 13/2020, which was on the ballot with two measures that would have modified Prop 13/1978, Prop 15/2020 [which failed] and Prop 19/2020 [which passed]), specifically is an initiative constitutional amendment.
Simply put when there is lower power factor, there are higher losses into cables. And It is not always negative power that causes this (as many say). For a bridge rectifier the power is always positive.
Out of interest, because this has a substantial effect on the meaning of your comment:

Do you literally mean all your descendents? E.g. in 200 years there will be 100ish people still substantially benefitting from your wealth? That's how your post reads and is probably how most people would interpret it but I suspect it may not be what you meant.

Or do you just mean your wealth just benefits your immediate descendants? (What you've written would be a very odd way to say that because most people would describe those people as "my children".) Obviously there would still be an indirect effect all the way down e.g. your grandchildren would probably get a better education which would let them earn more for themselves, etc., but that would fade out eventually through the generations.
My mom isn't rich so hasn't got an apple device.

Neither have I, after 15y of OSX I didn't make the jump to the luxury brand.

I have an SMS limit, because after paying 20k of carrier fees over the years I now have the cheapest prepaid setup that is possible.
The valuation of the product is of course hard to predict, but that is the case for any asset. Don't get fooled, equity prices are not easier to predict than crypto currencies.

But I'm not talking about valuation here, but risk profile.

If a token value is at $100 and drops to $95, you lost 5%. This is intuitive and simple, there is no surprise or hidden risk. Everyone is able to understand the direct relationship between the price of the token and your portfolio valuation.

For derivatives, this is not the case. Depending on your leverage, maintenance margin, etc, a 10% drop in price of the contract can mean game over you lost 100% of your stake. This is the kind of complexity that you want retail investors to be protected against.
No chance all grand children use whatsapp.
The intention of the host only matters if the contestant would have to choose the subsequent action (switching or not) before the hosts opens a door.

If the host has revealed a goat door, and the contestant then has to decide what to do, the intentions of the host for having chosen the door are irrelevant.
As long as we are not eating our co-workers, I think we should be safe to get back into offices
And, unlike the original finding, this one is robust and unlikely to be due to confounders.
Do you mind if I clarify something about this that I have never understood?

Taking your example of the socks, with their varying and inverse properties, why do we need "spooky action at a distance" to describe the fact that one can test the properties of their local sock and therefore know the properties of the distant, entangled sock? If we now that the total value of each property will equal 1 (as in your case) then measuring the local sock will tell us the values of the distant sock.

I am not sure what I am missing, only that I am missing something here.
> Unless my LC oscillator has a low Q, it will keep oscillating

Correct! You can add a resistor in parallel to reduce Q (but it will naturally "not be perfect" since the transducer is putting energy out as sound waves and it's not really a capacitor.
>We want to free the world of the tyranny of central banking

You've been living the last 20 years under the tyranny of lack of fiscal stimulus. The biggest problem with the Fed is that it's the job of the government to distribute the money fairly for everyone and since Obama nobody did the necessary fiscal stimulus but this is changing thanks to Biden.

>debt-based economies

That just means more unemployment than necessary.

> and theft of savings through inflation.

What about theft of future potential through deflation? Does the future generation really owe you more than you worked for yourself?

>It is a noble endeavor.

Noble as in for the aristocracy, who have inherited and did nothing with their wealth but grew it anyway?

>Selfishness is continuing along the old broken road.

Biden has already left the old broken road.
Apple's App store does little to filter malware as they don't instrument they Apps.

Even large companies abuse this, quit spreading misinformation.
>but their effect is usually caused by the synergy that exists between them

It's simple result from the fact that least available essential nutrient is the most important for health outcomes.

If you have a rain barrel full of holes, only fixing the lowest hole changes the water level. Fixing all other holes starts to have an effect after you have fixed the lowest one.
That's a big reason why I use Apple Maps.
Ah, like that! Fair enough, thank you for elaborating (please consider adding a bit of extra context next time, it will go a long way to prevent such misunderstandings)
Please provide a source for such a statement. Even the e-privacy directive has changed a lot lately. Your interpretation would render many business models illegal (e.g., Facebook, google).
So much this. Same goes with all the Kafka usage, making development literally Kafkaesque. The data eventually flows through your microservice landscape, being eventually consistent and performance issues become a whole different nightmare. Yea, maybe I just didn't read enough of the documentation but maybe your 1500 users per month web-app doesn't need 7 microservices and Kafka as single source of truth, all hold together by 8 developers.

It's astonishing how many teams want to use cool tech instead of create a great tool for users or how many teams think that technology will solve bad management.
The Covid Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay
Bach. Bach ain't jamming (though in a sense he was capable of just that) but it's just as much Bach on the page as it is in the concert hall. It's not the only kind of music, but it's most definitely music, and would still be music even if nobody ever heard it, so long as the patterns and organizations inside it were preserved (I think it's less music if it was viewed as only an abstract pattern of ink marks on paper, but once those marks mean frequencies over time it's turning into music)
True. The "root cause" could be that one improves one's diet:

- if you take "sardine" supplement pills and go on eating burgers and fries, do not expect a miracle with respect to type 2 pre-diabetes,

- if you eat sardines as part of a meal, I suspect that you are likely to *replace* parts of your current diet with the (fatty) fish, rather than keep your usual diet and add fish on top of it.

For instance, a funny paragraph from section 4 (Discussion) hints that the SG (Sardine Group) must have added less olive oil to the rest of their meals:

> Another possible limitation of the study to bear in mind is the use of canned sardines in olive oil, which, despite easing distribution and consumption, present differences in MUFA content as compared to fresh sardines. Although this may have modified the pattern of lipids consumed, the SG group decreased their overall MUFA consumption. This could be due to the fact that the use of olive oil added to meals did not occur when they consumed the canned sardines and, therefore, there are no differences in its consumption with respect to CG.

NB: I don't want to dismiss any part of the article, I only want to insist that it is hard to isolate causes because of this effect of "communicating vases".
I wonder if the power factor really matters for something as low power as an LED bulb. The grid has to be able to handle the many-kW loads from high-power appliances (ovens, stoves, kettles, car chargers, etc.) anyway. Doubling the current draw of a hand full of 1W-bulbs seems rather insignificant in comparison.
It does matter if he meant to or not, because if he chooses randomly from the remaining doors, the probability of him revealing a goat depends on whether you have already chosen the car. Whereas if you know he could only ever reveal a goat, then the fact that he revealed a goat tells you nothing about your current selection.

If you are interested in more details, Wikipedia lists this as the "Ignorant Monty" variant.
Thread of actual gamedev bugs in fake gameplay video
Data protection agencies don't get to interpret the GDPR, courts do.

The GDPR does not contain any clause that someone has to provide a service for free without any kind of tracking. That would basically eliminate Facebook and Google as valid business models. There was such a stipulation in discussion for the e-privacy directive but it was legally half-baked and IIRC it is out of discussion by now.
Not ideal. To be honest steam doesn't really worry me in this regard. Their business model is selling me another 100 games that I'll never play, not spying on me.

Doesn't make it OK, but I do try to consider the underlying motivations of the company involved when evaluating privacy threats
The first release of gnuplot was only three years after the GNU operating system was first announced to start development, and long ere it became widely known.
> There is no messaging happening between [meshed gears].

Isn't there? Atoms rub against atoms, electric fields interact and transfer forces. The gears communicate by touching, but it happens so fast that it looks instantaneous. This can be experimentally verified by weakening one of the teeth of one gear, and driving some load with that gear set - eventually, the weakened tooth will break off.
The FAQ says gnuplot used to be distributed by the FSF. So, perhaps it used to be GPL-licensed? I wonder what changed... is there really that much money to be had from forcing derivative source code to only be distributed as patches over the original? I don't get it.
Why not just change the name to GNG (Gnuplot's Not Gnu)?
IME when you move away from Math/Engineering libgen tends to have a much thinner selection (although I'll admit that I've always gone to standardebooks for fiction.)
Programming Should Eat Itself (Nada Amin, 2014)
>, everyone started talking and participating in this Pyramid scheme game, called "The Bubble/Ball Game"

So everyone knew it was a ponzi scheme and participated anyway?
And even in cases where the lowercase starting letter is somewhat accepted, the start of the sentence rule is still left untouched by most writers. Iphones come to mind.
Look a bit lower in the FAQ, apparently they were at some point associated with the FSF. Their license also seems copy left to me. So the name wasn't that wrong and since most end users don't care about these details it probably doesn't make sense to rename it now.
The author has a complementary article that addresses that: https://lethain.com/limiting-wip/.
Edit - I managed to mis-read the press release and read through the wrong paper in detail! Disregard the below…


 Quite. If you read the paper -- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59643-7.pdf -- the word 'sardine' doesn't appear once; 'fish' doesn't either.

The trouble with observational cohort studies is that causality is very hard, if not impossible, to identify. Their main result is based on multivariate logistic regression. I like logistic regression as a technique, and it is very powerful, but if, for example, there is an unmeasured cofounding or causal variable that manifests itself as a linear combination of a number of measured but perhaps more acausal variables, it _will_ confidently give you the wrong result.
>Inflation is mostly a monetary phenomenon

In an economy, where everything is scarce and people can't get enough of the things that they need. The US and EU economies are not like that. Turkey is like that, Zimbabwe is like that, Argentina is like that, Venezuela is like that.

In the US the only scarcity exists in housing and it is purely self inflicted. All inflations are caused by scarcity or shortages, solve the shortage and you solve the inflation. Covid won't be here forever, any shortages it causes won't be permanent but it may take years to recover if you are pessimistic.
inc: step-by-step development of a Scheme-to-x86 compiler
"pi is wrong" It's just hyperbole to get everyone's attention. From that perspective it's pretty good I reckon.
> The author pesters us with an imputation on Hume as an analytically bankrupt political thinker but fails to deliver any concrete proof.

"analytically bankrupt political thinker" - I didn't think the author implied something so strong.

"but fails to deliver any concrete proof" - Not sure what constitutes "proof" in conversation like this. But I think the author did show that Hume came close to understanding the many problems of his society- racism, divorce, wealth inequality- but his over-skepticism led him to dismiss any social change. The central point is that while Hume was skeptical of change, he wasn't equally skeptical of established order.

I'm not that big fan of this article either. But I think you're being unnecessarily harsh.
Forget 2FA: you can't get a Google Account without giving a phone number during signup.
Rather than asking patients directly, they could at least use their previous addresses to deduce many things, such as water supply source, air pollution, etc (while keeping it anonymized). The govt could even run studies on cancer deaths cross referenced with location data from their tax returns, and their parent's tax returns (to figure out where they lived as a child). I'm just saying I've never heard this common sense approach actually discussed.

It just seems like we often ignore the concept of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
If God didn't mean for people to eat each other, then they wouldn't be made out of meat! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw&ab_channel=Vario...
> your real estate taxes are more or less locked at that price and won’t rise as the value increases.

That’s...not true.

For the ad valorem part of real estate taxes (classic “property tax”), the assessment will rise with value increases to a level capped by a cumulative annual increase of the lower of 2% or the actual level of inflation from the date of purchase or qualifying improvement eligible for full-market valuation. The tax rate for those taxes can also change in principal, but the other part of Prop 13 limits the ad valorem rate to 1%, so most jurisdictions are maxed out.

But California has another form of real estate taxes not subject to the limits on classic property taxes, parcel taxes (Mello-Roos fees) which are assessed at a flat dollar amount against all properties in a taxation district.
Ask HN: What are some interesting emails that surfaced from Epic Games v. Apple?
Or internals documents generally.
> This essay is a "just so" story, full of completely unsubstantiated assertions.

As a foreigner from a smaller nation, my experience is that the way to have "substantiated" assertions about your history is to have British or French scientists misunderstand it and write a paper in the Royal Society Journal or some similar nonsense.

The way to have "unsubstantiated" assertions is to ask grandma, who was there.

I'm more concerned about the source (the Internet), but if this were in a local paper, I'd trust assertions like the ones here much more than imperial scientists.
Is that different than many celebrities?
Post-consumer recyling has always been greenwashing.

It acts as a "license to pollute" for Karens, though: "I recycle and tell other people off for not recycling enough; I'm working hard saving the planet, so I deserve my five-hours-each-way plane trip for a weekend break four times a year."
Yes.

The envelope example always seem obvious.

But when particle physicists talk about the problem, it sounds like it isn't that obvious.
Quite. Many colleagues I know want to be addressed by their first name and almost shy away from being called professor. I myself feel awful ramming my titles down others' throats, and basically never correct people unless it's relevant -- it's very easy to make yourself look like a jerk...
Would you call Arduino RTOS or do you normally go “deeper” for mass production?
I belive that most users, after reading 202303 and Apple's public communications around privacy, would incorrectly conclude that Apple cannot read their iMessages.
> the public needs to be educated on who’s paying the most on taxes at the fuel pump, where the monies come from to build and maintain our roads. USA’s road systems aren’t built for cyclists to safely navigate

So literally you pay for a license to kill?
This article seems to be akin to many others that promote carnivorous diets. "Drinking milk reduces X" or "eating [insert animal here] improves Y" might be true, but you don't need to consume the animal (and prolong the environmental impacts) to get them.
Why doesn’t it find its own URL? Getting a 404 when searching for this very post.
I’m probably just going to travel down to China and meet with some factories to get rid of any middle hands. Thanks though!
There is always a comment like this in one of these threads that makes me think too much education can be a bad thing.

Most uneducated people in the world can tell you that there are many traits which distinguish people from animals: religion, our souls, our ability to learn about the world around us, the fact that we act on reason and not on instinct, our ability to read and write, etc. It's perhaps one of the most obvious things in the world that humans are exceptional amongst living beings on Earth.

But with enough fancy words and misapplied education, you can say things like "Oh Elephants have burials too, so human beings aren't special, we're just wild purposeless animals also. Only silly religious people think humans are special"
> Well it will rise 2% every year.

Less (excluding potential new or increased Mello-Roos fees), no matter how the real estate market goes, if, as has often been the case recently, general inflation is <2%/year since the cap on assessments is the lower of 2% or the actual rate of inflation.
> I'm starting to wonder what'll occur first: the bubble popping or the whole hardware market coming to a standstill because of 16 different "proof of xyz" schemes.

In all seriousness, I'm expecting the former. With current trends, the Chia currency is going to be "farming" so much storage that reward per TB will drop below the breakeven point for computing more "plots" to farm, or for even keeping existing "plots" online and taking up storage. It's just a bit hard to predict where that point is since Chia itself is just getting started and has yet to be extensively traded.
If we had modular parts in the past and manufacturers have decided to move away from that, I don't think it's as a result of poor engineering. It looks more like it's to retain their control even after a product has been sold.
> Nutrients found in high quantities in sardines - such as taurine, omega 3, calcium and vitamin D

Surely this applies to any kind of fatty fish?
I was going to say that.

We can see the Great Wall of China from space.

And we can also see beaver dams from space.

(Note the Great Wall was built for a mundane reason - the Han people couldn't defeat the Mongols on horseback, but they could keep building walls until the horses could no longer enter. Byzantium/Constantinople also adopted that strategy, which worked for over 1,000 years until the Ottomans built the world's largest cannon and blasted holes in it.)
'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay
For similar results, you can use SQL with IndexedDB running fully client-side: https://github.com/agershun/alasql
Yes... That was my experience.
Isn't this the paper...? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02615...
I've always understood that viruses are not alive but does the statement "since they cannot reproduce without depending on others' cells..." Not also cover plants that require insects for pollination?
SlimVirgin, developer of core content policies for Wikipedia, has died
It's ancient.
Well the seed is protected by the PK (the 1P salt certificate) and the master vault password, so even if the account password is leaked or realistically keylogged, you still get nearly all of the protection from 2FA in that case since only your devices have the 1P salt required to decrypt the 2FA seed. I don’t think that the ‘common password’ attack that 2FA would typically protect from even applies if you are using a password manager where each account is a random password. In this case you’re only protecting yourself from keyloggers or such.

My 2c.
My impression was that they had a form of communism on the moon, with all the associated problems. I didn’t see it as anarchic or libertarian. Quite the opposite, it felt unfree like communist societies in Eastern Europe.
Everything is jacked up. This one is a full send for better or worse. I don't think there is a good way to diversify that way - short of maybe crypto if you're a believer