skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question is about finding opening tags in XHTML using a regular expression

Bzzzt, wrong, sorry! The question is about finding open tags in the presence of XHTML self-closing tags. That difference alone places these interpretations gulfs apart. But there’s more: it does not specify that the input document is even XHTML, only that XHTML-style self-closing elements may be present. In fact the original question was barely
minutes old and tagged merely “regex” when that famous answer was written in 2009; the question was not tagged with “xhtml” until 2012, and not by the original author either.

Revealingly, then, if we review the broader context (i.e question history) of the original question author, it’s clear that yes indeed they were trying to fix a malformed document, and in particular to normalise it into XHTML, with focus on fixing up any so-called “dangling tags”. For this task, the suggestion of “use a parser” is indeed sound advice.

The real moral here is, don’t be a jerk about the precise semantics of a question, look at what the person needs, and help them ask better questions.

Otherwise, you’re just gonna discover that there’s always a bigger jerk, and they’re on Stack Overflow, moderating your stuff.
I believe this article completely ignores the product side of the story.
Elon doesn't pitch, he builds. His products are significantly better than market alternatives, with a steady momentum of improvement over time.
In the unofficial biography there's the story of how Tesla pulled an unlikely funding from Daimler. The Daimler executives visiting Tesla were unimpressed, skeptical and bored to death by the PowerPoints. Then the Tesla team took them for a ride in the electrified Smart they had built in a hurry. All the executives stepped out of it with a smile. The check arrived later. It was about the product, not the "save the earth" narrative.
Correct, but this is a different hypothetical.
Arenas are great for latency sensitive programming. But some of the advice in this piece is a bit limited in that it assumes the presence of swap (often disabled on server hardware) and programs whose important "hot" datasets are likely to fit in memory (i.e. the memory use is nice and predictable--an enviable but not always achievable property).

When working with bursty memory demands and code/data you don't always fully control (think a big thick runtime with its own allocation decisions, some of them decidedly "1975") on a system whose swapping behavior you can't predict, hand managing on-disk versus in-memory data residency in userland (via manual memory mapping or something like sqlite/lmdb to take care of it for you) becomes necessary.
Elon spends nearly as much time at SpaceX as he does Tesla. There's no question that Elon mucks in at the lowest levels of engineering at SpaceX.

If you want evidence from a reasonably neutral observer, take Sandy Munro (himself an engineer who has worked on everything from cars to aeroplanes). He recently interviewed Elon, ostensibly about Tesla but the interview was in a meeting room at SpaceX. After the interview he was invited to a two hour design review meeting and was "blown away" at Elon's depth of involvement.

https://youtu.be/S1nc_chrNQk?t=370 (6:10 to 8:45)
Indeed. This website has been pushing this word for almost 10 years (since 2012, along with others, but sonder seems to be their biggest "hit"), seemingly just for the sake of coining a neologism.

But I too have never actually seen it used in the wild as a word, and now it's become a short-term rental startup (https://www.sonder.com/) and a support network (https://www.sondersafe.com/) -- though the second actually does seem to relate to the word. The first probably just used it because it sounds like slumber + wander or something.

The goal of the website is to coin words for specific emotions. Maybe they should focus on writing content that requires them and get that published first. Demonstrating a need and all that...
Wiktionary explains its etymology well:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonder

And it does so without using more than 75% of the page to show how many people reblogged it
>Ah yeah, I went to skim the Pitowsky reference. I forgot that people call (what I was taught as) Bonferroni inequalities Boole's inequalities.

Bonferroni inequalities are also on the wikipedia page of the Boole's inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boole%27s_inequality

>I'm still not sure what probability distribution (or measure) you want to be defined in that paper. Experimentalists generally don't assume any probability distribution in advance, I am not sure why they would need to in this case.

That's the thing, if you try to model it correctly you realize that what you were doing was not the thing to do, and that there is just nothing to see here, apart from yourself asking the wrong question.

Take a zone of space (the detector volume), and define the discrete event "blip" as 1 if somewhere inside the detector volume at instant t0 the field value is greater than 1, or zero elsewhere.

That's all you need : this mean you just expressed an event as a conditional probability.
Therefore when you have multiple such events, you are expected to encounter some Boole's/Bell type inegalities (provided that there is information conservation in your model).

Experimentalists are doing circular reasoning. By not assuming an underlying model, they don't realize that the answer they get is due to implicitly defining events as conditional probabilities which don't span a consistent Filtration_(probability_theory), then they try to ask the wrong question, getting an answer which confirm their biases.

QM is a not a model of the world, but a model of what we can observe from the world based on what we observe from the world.

Bell's inequalities tell nothing about how the world works but only tell you that your way of observing the world is wrong.
> In a physical system it is related to how many arrangements of atoms/molecules/things there can be that would result in the system being in the state you can see.

Mind if I ask follow-up question, what is a "state"?

Doesn't the entropy change when I change my definition of the state? If I go to the extreme and there is only one kind of state, an actual arrangement of particles, fields etc., the entropy would be the same of each and everything (one possible arrangement per state).

Does that make entropy an entirely subjective measure?
A quick search would have led you to the Wikipedia page, where the first paragraph is the following

> [SVT] is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament) https://www.regeringen.se/regeringens-politik/medier/ny-avgi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Television
Open19 rack standard project goes to Linux Foundation
In this case, I think if the user makes an HTTP connection to a site, even if the site is HTTPS only, the attacker can intercept it, and man-in-the-middle it or pose as the legitimate site

edit: and, the reason it's an issue is not because these systems and networks don't have strong secure communication options available, but because if there is any potential security hole at all, some users will fall into it
Also CDNs became cheaper and easily accessible. They don’t eat anywhere near 100% of your traffic for most sites but it’s likely enough to get a big chunk of the cacheable traffic at lower latency than your own Varnish server can unless you’re running them all over like Fastly. If a significant fraction of the traffic coming back isn’t cacheable the benefits of running Varnish might sink below the level where it’s worth dealing with another layer of production infrastructure.
They're not glorified bushes, they are charging and communication hubs for birds.

Because as we know... birds aren't real, either.
The Tor project's published a FAQ on it, in fact: https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/e... and the only bright spot is the claim that section 230 will protect exit relays, though political winds seem set against that.
Dwarf Fortress has similar “breakpoints” where major releases that had to drop save file compatibility have separate “version” pages on the wiki to support those who remain on the older version to continue running the fort or mega project they’re working on.
> La(like law)-tech

That's definitely not how you pronounce LaTeX.

Wikipedia recommends LAH-tekh or LAY-tekh.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nQeXvwx6gE
Also, for example the Bible has multiple short explicitly fictional stories embedded within.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
A phone without a cord? What is this magic?
They just don't make them like they used to
> Why do you necessitate that viewing one envelope's content _affects_ the other, rather than merely allowing to conclude the other, because some law of the universe makes it happen to be always the other color?

Right, I'm not the one necessitating it. That's how quantum mechanics works for entangled particles. You can read more on this if you look up "EPR paradox".
The non-Chia rate for HDDs is $0.15/GB. I'll add higher densities up to $0.18/GB, but not more.
Oh I love Big Clive, I haven't watched him in so long.

I wonder if we could somehow get the same under-powering effect using special bulb socket splitters that reduced the power. So you could have two bulbs in your lamp running at half the power each.
The subtext of this would seem to be that - in reality - the narrative is just an unsubstantive marketing device

I’m not convinced that’s the case with these companies - I think people really do start businesses to have an positive impact and those businesses being profitable is a necessary part of that (but of course many will use “changing the world” meaninglessly too!)

Trying to have a positive impact on the future certainly underpins the career decisions I make and project I work on, and I think the same is true for others I know who are lucky enough to make those choices
There is no app store monopoly on Android. All Apple needs to do is flip a switch and bingo you can use F droid.

If Apple Store is so fucking good people will use it.
Steam cooked. Parasites (especially their eggs) are very resilient. Meat that isn't fried or pressure cooked is not safe to eat.
Years before the pandemic, this is how our company met its needs for new hires. We went from "everybody must come to the office" to "you must be allowed to work in the United States" pretty quickly and it was great for our culture and product.
I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction
NUMA was not widely available / understood in 2006. I don’t recall seeing my first NUMA servers until probably 2008ish.
The linked article is literally where it came from — The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project coined it and some other words in an effort to describe an emotional state that was in need of a name.

(It’s ~8 years old at this point, just for the record.)
One thing that entry does not cover is all lower-case names. Although a couple things I looked up (gnuplot, xkcd), Wikipedia does seen to respect all lower-case. I'm not sure how many companies actually have all lower-case names--even if their logo is all lower-case. And my observation is that even many projects that are nominally lower-case, aren't very consistent about it as in the current example.
... or eating the flesh of any animal

Edit: ... or eating plants:

https://www.virology.ws/2015/06/25/prions-in-plants/
The reason country is has spent so much time on “STEM” is not that there is a labor shortage but that salaries of “STEM” people are too high and business owners need more people not to fill shortages but to overflow the system such that salaries go down significantly.

There is no shortage of labor for jobs paying high 6-figures … :-)
I don't suppose it's being modified, but I wonder how much -11 code is still running, even on real hardware.
I have fond memories of buying hard-to-find books and CDs on Amazon back in the early aughts. It felt well-curated and trustworthy.

I stopped using Amazon some 5-6 years ago and when I returned recently it felt like a mix of a dollar store and credit card phishing site. Hard pass.
In general.

In particular, many trees grow from a central strem that is nearly perfectly vertical, and many have a more organic growth pattern. I see no reason to assume these have common ancestors that were trees any more than crabs and jellyfish.
This is probably the thing that annoys me the most about golang: It abstracts everything as if you were on a 1975 computer, so there's allocations, allocations everywhere! And trying to keep them under control requires intimate knowledge about go's implementation details. Failure to do so dooms your program to run 3-4x slower since allocations are horribly slow to begin with, and now your data is spread all over the place. And even then, there are still some things (like []byte <-> string) that you simply can't get around (unless you want to delve into unsafe land and risk your code blowing up once the runtime implementation changes).
Agh, you are right. There should be two “start over” rows in each of GGC and GCG. I can’t write “N/A;” we must say “yes/no” in those.

Doesn’t change the result though.
One important piece of advice is missing: sleep. So many times I've struggled with a certain piece, only to be able to play it flawlessly the following day.
I might be misunderstanding you, but if you're referring to things such as ζ(2)=π²/6, then that doesn't strike me as a good example of "nothing to do with circles" and "in those places tau does not do better". This value is a special case of a more general formula that specifically features (2π)^(2n), so on surface tau would seem more natural here [1]. Also, the most intuitive explanation that I have seen for this particular case (the value of ζ(2)) was in a 3Blue1Brown's video, and it did involve circles. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particular_values_of_the_Riema...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-o3eB9sfls
Stocks confer ownership of a company. If Apple remained the same, but everyone went insane and started selling Apple Stocks for $0.0000000000000000000000001 and people refused to buy, I would buy every one and then collect the dividends.

Whereas if everyone sold crypto for $0.00000000000000000000001 and people refused to buy, you would gain nothing by buying them all. You can only make money in crypto if people buy it at a higher price.
As a product name, MacOS did not exist until version 7.5 if I recall correctly. Prior to that, it was Macintosh System Software, the system software, or simply System <version number>. Neither icon, logo, nor typeface were associated with the system software throughout most of that period. That seems very out of place for a company that is very much conscious of the value of brand image.
Where people are either socialists or nazis, without a ton of middle ground so you’re likely to get downvoted no matter what you say.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075245
Yeah, but isn't that how the dollar works? Or any asset who's valuation is based on demand? We may not give money for dollars, we give work and production for it, but that's what real value is.
Here is a book I happen to own (and I recommend highly), on the general topic of how to practice piano effectively.

"The Practice Revolution: Getting great results from the six days between lessons", by Philip Johnston. It contains a lot of advice including some overlap with some of the comments in this thread.
Red Army Victories in WWII
Or to really obfuscate called it base 10 (in base 12) :))
Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)
this constraint was unclear to me in the original problem statement, which is why I thought she was wrong, too.
It wasn't until somebody wrote in a letter saying they wrote a computer program that I understand what the rules were, and then it was obvious.

I wish the problem was stated more clearly to say, the host has to choose the door with goat.
Yeah but in English, if everyone pronounces it wrong and you wait 100 years (now more like 20), it will become the default pronunciation via a special rule used by speakers and codified nowhere.
whaaat? i pronounce the g in gnu ("guh-new" but short, more like g'new).

Google now tells me that's wrong.

I guess Gary Gnu on the Great Space Coaster led me wrong in my formative years.
Isn't the same true of electromagnetism?
But its reasonable to:

1. Conclude that its 90% likely to be what happened.

2. Not burden someone by asking a question you don’t need the answer to.

3. Disclaim credit for work you don’t lead.
Seems needlessly pedantic to me, since by that definition electromagnetism isn't a force either -- it's not possible to have a force on a charged object without there being another object that creates the field the first object is interacting with (and vice versa). In fact, Newton's third law kind of implies that it's impossible to have any force in isolation. The same formula argument would apply to Coulomb's law.

Now, is it fair to point out that you can model these forces as fields, and that such a model is very useful? Yeah. But it's silly to argue that something is or is not a "force" but is instead a "field" -- these are mathematical constructs used in the models we use for physics. I mean, it's not really accurate to say that "forces" and "fields" exist in the first place (in the sense that the mathematical models themselves are a real thing that exist in the world -- they are simply models). And in the end it definitely doesn't matter, neither the maths nor the real world cares whether you personally consider gravity a force or not.

(I expect this is also the case for the strong and weak forces, but I haven't done post-grad physics.)
I read this and thought that sometimes, the host would open the door with the car.
IANAP but wanted to say this - Same argument could be made for EM force. There is electric field around a charge but only when you place another charge the two charges attract or repel as per electromagnetic force. That way gravity and EM seem to be similar. But gravity does seem to be different as it can be thought of as not a force (in agreement with your physics teacher). It curves space and time and objects just move along the geodesics (straight lines on curved surfaces). So gravity gives rise to space time geometry. Once that happens, you can stop thinking about gravity as a force. Worth emphasizing again - IANAP.
It's odd that they mention working with Christian McDonald and not Jason A. Donenfeld or Matt Dunwoodie. The module they reference appears to be https://www.freshports.org/net/wireguard-kmod/ which itself came from the work the latter two did here https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-freebsd/log/

And indeed just three days ago the work was announced on the wireguard list https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-May/006711....
It is like mankind woke up one day in 1980s and gave up on the future, a world that had gone the first powered flight to landing on the moon in a generation, woke up that one morning realizing the problems that this evolution has caused. We started rewarding the pessimists pointing out the problems, the zero-sum gamers of wall street. Our universities emptied of optimists and filled up with problematizing relativists... These pessimists are smart of course, we are destroying our planet, our political economy is unjust, our chances of survival are slim to none. On the whole this depression of the human soul produces more accurate predictions, but the prognosis becomes self fulfilling and we stagnate.

I think we need the dreamers today more than ever, to find the unlikely solutions that are closer than we think, to find the miracles of the cosmos stil hidden from us and to find a better live for us all. Let's all dare to dream.
It can be turned off, but IIRC it's on by default, and probably on for 99% of all users.
The difference in the case of porn is whether or not the main purpose of the app in general is for porn.

Reddit for example is probably mostly not used for porn.

Pornhub the app has one purpose - porn.

I don’t think it’s difficult to see here why one is allowed and another isn’t. Same with web browsers.

I don’t really care about porn on the App Store too much myself either way. I actually think it would be nice to see creators have new revenue models (similar to podcasters and the like and yes I know OnlyFans exists) but I think it’s also a bit murky for Apple to get involved in for little benefit. I can already see the headlines: “Apple allows app that promotes and monetizes sex trafficked women!” and then we’ll have the same asinine discussions here we always do about App Store policy and how someone thinks Apple doesn’t do a good job. Why bother?
It’s in group out group signaling. It’s important to have your own in group language and categories to separate yourself from the out group.

It’s why we have scientific names in Latin, military beds are called a rack, and whose life matters.
nope, it's ambiguous as stated, if you're a literalist.
This is quite subjective, but taking some time to analyze the piece and figuring out what works best for you is usually better than just doing without thinking.
Sorry I didn't mean "I don't know where this word came from" because that's a straightforward and in this case uninteresting problem.

I meant I don't know where the apparent widespread online interest in making this word mainstream came from. Not a lot of _individual words_ have a lobbying team but this one seems to.
Writing a Simple CLI Program: Python vs. Go
> I feel like it's only going to get worse.

Why is this a bad thing? Less crowd is good for everyone. Is it not?
It is worth questioning how you define "work". I may only sit in my chair coding for a couple hours a day. (And a couple more on meetings and documentation.) But I'm thinking about the problems while I am doing chores, going for a walk, etc. Then when I do sit down to code, it comes to fruition quickly. If I were to spend 8 hours in a chair staring at the screen, I'd "work" more, but I'd accomplish less.

This is why I am such a proponent of remote work, at least for coders - it allows us to spend more time doing what is truly the core of our job: thinking, and less time just sitting in a chair typing out those thoughts into the proper syntax.
FWIW, I have never heard anyone pronounce “GNU” (the operating system) without enunciating the “g”. Not sure about gnuplot.
Scarcity is a necessary outcome of hedonic adaptation in a finite world, and thus an immutable fact of human existence.

Given that, culture is really the solution to problems of cheating. Which, of course, is not a technical solution either.
Any article that assumes something about the reader is in some way discriminatory or is it just when it assumes that you're a man?
The Shambala Secret Review, Legit or a Scam?
You could also consider a case where they send in a new contestant every time the Random Monty Hall picks a car, and the result is the same.
>there are generally agreed upon fingerings for things like scales or chromatic runs

Can you point out to such "agreed" fingering somewhere? Because as a self learner I perhaps had no chance to know which one is it?
Good explanation.

Firefox has had `dom.security.https_only_mode` for a while and it's amazing.
My manager started playing around with crypto trading, at work, on his work PC…it’s amazing how many alarms it sets off on our Fortigate.