skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a high population density area with 3 generation sharing the same apartment because that was the way to go. It is far from being a bright future one would want.

Constant conflicts in the family because the grandparents want to watch TV, parents need to rest after work, and the child wants to study.

Constantly hearing your neighbors when they want to have a party, or do some renovation.

Trashed up common spaces because some guys just don't give a damn and will throw trash, or literally pee on the staircase, and you are forced to share some area with them.

I grew up with the biggest dream of escaping that hell and it was one of the main reasons I immigrated to the West, where having your own private house was still affordable for most people.

Now, through unwise fiscal policies and excessive centralization, the entire generation is completely priced out of it. But instead of seeking to change these policies, push for decentralization, and be able to afford freedom and independence, they seek to blame those who was born in a luckier time and want to force everybody to live in a concrete box. I don't think it's the right way.
Awesome. I was going to get my son a telescope for this sort of thing.

The coolest satellite sighting I’ve had was when I was up on Mt. Hood a few summers ago and could see it really well. There was a meteor shower going on too.

Large mountains and infinite space are humbling in a good way.

That night was quite a journey. :-)
Thanks. Yeah, it was mostly to try something different. Maybe this isn't ideal but might be the next step to something even better.
The copy methods that Kotlin generates construct a new instance of the class with the updated fields - so any validation done in the constructor would in fact be done again.
That’s the dumbest “manage my cookies” popup I have ever seen. I will never click on a Guardian link again.
That's fine if you're local but I hang out on the vintagecomputing subreddit and about once a week you see a horror story of a collector getting something from ebay and it's delivered essentially destroyed.
> fixed seed

Yeah, the idea was that the preview would be generated on upload
What Kotlin features do implicits serve to replace? I'm new to Scala and am having trouble imagining when I'd want to use an implicit, so I'm genuinely curious.
Google Caves Under Demand for Permanent WFH, Blow to Bay Area Office Market
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This guy is a saint. To have that kind of contentment and peace is the goal of most religions. Honestly I'd like to hear more of his life, would love to talk to him.
It's not black and white. I'm working remotely in New Zealand making more than 45k euros with 1 YOE and my company seems to care a lot about W/L balance.

I'm sure there are also office-based US companies with good pay and W/L balance.
The FAA should reverse its moves away from ground based air navigation systems, and up the game to include the entire US. The Navy and Coast Guard should get Loran back up and running. Society shouldn't be only one critical path away from collapse. We need backups.

[Edit/Add] I think that the FCC should include ground based navigation beacon transmitting as part of any terrestrial base station licensing. If every AM, FM, TV, Cell Phone station transmitted location/timing information that would greatly increase the number of sources to cross check, and increase coverage. With everything being SDR driven these days, it's just a software update.
> But remember that even though all those traditionalist revolts ended in disaster, it is in fact the traditional societies that survive to this day, whereas the Greek and Roman empires have long vanished.

Might this not "just" be because those "fallen" empires largely blended into and became whatever came next--arguably barely even having an identity other than their government--while these separate smaller cultural groups chose to maintain their heritage (something "Rome" arguably didn't have any of to begin with) and so can be subjugated and suppressed but not destroyed? Like, to the extent to which Rome is even a thing with a culture as opposed to merely the world's most thinly-stretched government, I have seen a lot of historians now take the position that it was more of a decline than a fall, that depending on where you were that it might have existed for a very long time (a century? longer?) in a form where people on the ground might have only barely noticed changes, and that maybe it arguably even still exists in the form of greater western civilization.
Yeah, because SR-71 was very fast, they had to build special computerized star-based navigation system for it, as this was the early 1960s, a decade before GPS.

I wonder how similar the new and old systems are. All the principal astronomical science hasn't changed much at all, we just got faster compute and better optics.

https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...
Not sure why you are complaining about this author in particular when both of the examples in the link show exactly what you asked for: they answer Y and then ask for clarification on X.
How incredibly small-minded.

I respect people who've tried something and decided it's not for them. But to never even try a different kind of food? I suspect it's less that he's found what he likes and more that he's scared he'd find out he actually liked something else better, and has wasted those 10 years.
There is value in finding your place in life and being content with it. Yes, you might be able to change it, perhaps to conform to more traditional standards of 'success', but why bother if you're happy as you are?

If we humans optimize by happiness, then we should have nothing but envy for a life like Wilf Davies leads.
I grew up in Atlanta and highly recommend it.
“ By not leaving my apartment for a year except for shopping” this is entirely foreign to me. Where do you live?!
A buddy of mine has rice and beans nearly every dinner though he knows how to cook variations so it’s a surprisingly tasty diet.

I’m surprised the guy in the article could go decades without eating any veggies but his diet has clearly worked for him.

The strokes could just be genetics and/or old age catching up.
This would be a great scene in a dystopian star warsesque universe.

Planet is bombed, human suffering, etc. Then, because of light speed travel, minutes later broken lamps and broken toasters fall from run down ’good will’ ships that finish off the planet.
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Post it on BitBucket or GitHub, then post a link here.
Much weirder than Xen.
That's a tremendous amount of money. I'm sure the church bringing in professional services to handle funerals is a more modern innovation too. The ideal in my head is that it would be entirely handled by the community - I presume this ideal existed in the past, though I'm not sure how far back you'd have to go per-locality. In the UK where I live, churchgoers also are typically buried by a funeral director, so I'm not talking about something that still exists AFAIK.

Also, I'm sorry for your loss.
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I agree. If you don't want or like this person's life, more power to you. But here is someone who works hard and finds satisfaction and enjoyment in what they do. I hope we can all be so lucky.
Yes, he kind of reminds me of the aesthetics in India and elsewhere. Respect.
> Don't forget that if e-ink wasn't patented, there's a good chance that it would be cheap enough to integrate into everyday utilities.

Why do you (and several others on HN) keepi making this claim with so much confidence? Do you work in the electrophoretic display industry? Do you know what the costs are to make electrophoretic displays? Is there any evidence that patents are what dominate the costs of producing electrophoretic displays? Or do you think there is even a slight possibility that the dominant factor of price is actually volume and scale of production?
I very much echo this experience.

I have ben asked countless times to explain the problem, and in practice problems are harder to explain than attempted solutions. I once spent a long time explain the architecture of a multiserver supervisor dæmon manager because they insisted when I was looking for a rather simple answer regarding unix domain sockets.

The actual problem often requires an explanation of the entire design strategy of the software at hand, which is often much.
Dude just loves his life. Doesn't feel like he needs anything else. Lucky him I say.
Oh, I believe that. I once ordered a rare book that was destroyed in shipping. It was terrible.

But with cragslist, you usually pick things up from the seller, as it's local. Ebay is a bit dicier.
Nonprofits can actually make a profit, they just can’t distribute it to its owners (usually the board of directors) as a dividend. Goodwill pays its executives well, roughly $1MM to many of its regional executives. Its primary charitable work is claimed to be hiring people who are otherwise unemployable, often paying them below minimum wage. Some of this is discussed on the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_Industries
I think there is a trend for a set of tools which auto-generate stuff. It started back with web tools generating websites from WYSIWYG, now it is getting everywhere.

We build services and models using https://www.protoforce.io, which also auto-generates client and server side. Generally, it is impossible to generate good code using templates only, so it has to be transpiled.

I think from amazon's side it was coming sooner or later anyway, with the amount of APIs they have - it is inevitable. I just can't see how many teams you need to have to manage all of the client side code for many languages.
I think I would be more worried about the nutrient diversity and serious deficiencies of vitamins and minerals for having the same meal for 10 years.
Are there outside places to hike outside? That might be a healthy and safe. Frankly it doesn’t sound healthy to not leave home but you aren’t the only one who’s been shut in for a year. Millions of people.
This is an amazing story that all engineers, mathematicians, and nerds will love.
> A prospective test is blind. You don't know what the data looks like, so you can't cheat.

Suppose I blind myself to the holdout set. What's the difference?

> It's surprisingly common for models to pass all of the cross-validation you want to throw at them, and fail in the real world. I don't care what statistical techniques you've applied, if you don't conduct blind tests, you don't know how your model performs.

What exact failure mode is such that a) prospective testing guards against it, and b) traditional validation methods do not?

Take for example distribution shift. Suppose I'm worried the underlying data generating process is going to change between training and deployment. You propose, I guess, that this is fixed by collecting more data prospectively. OK, suppose and I do that and everything checks out. Now what guarantees there is no distribution shift between the time I do the prospective testing and subsequently deploy the model?

To be more direct: one eventually has to make assumptions of statistical regularity and distributional constancy somewhere, at some point, in order to do any statistical inference at all. If you have good reasons to make such an assumption, I don't see why prospective data collection is any different from a regular holdout set. And if you don't, then you're screwed no matter what you do.

> Setting this aside: TFA did nothing you're talking about. Let's be clear about that.

Sure, but strongly held, unorthodox opinions about statistical practice are more interesting to me than tearing down some mediocre article.
Thanks for the reply. That surprises me but I'm glad to hear that x86 support is strong. It does lead me to wonder, what sort of things are people using Illumos for? Maybe it's time I checked it out. :)
It's an absolutely horrible, awful, no good system.

We can act all shocked and horrified that somebody has to leave their home and their roots, but that's what we have already with the current system.

It's just that it's people with less wealth that are being forced out, rather than the policy being applied to everyone equally. Doesn't matter if they lived here for 60 years, retired, then had a medical expense that cost them all their savings and their home. It happens to people that lives here their entire lives, retired into social security, then were priced out.

If we are going to entertain some idea of "demand side management" it had better be applied fairly to everyone, because our entire system is built upon freedom of movement. If one state is going to opt out of that system, it needs to be applied fairly to its population rather than unfairly.

And if we are going to maintain a system where people can be arbitrarily forced out of all their social connections, then we should just make that clear from the start. That would really lessen the demand.

I think that people should have a right to stay where they are. But with that right comes a responsibility to either let more people live nearby.
(In the interests of educating, not of "dunking") I suspect you mean ascetic? The difference is explained [here](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aesthetic-vs-a...).

(Of course, it's also possible that that was just an autocorrection failure)
I did the same thing when I was an amateur weightlifter. Granted, I only did it for about 2 years, but the level of peace it brought was real, especially since it made it way easier to keep track of calorie and macronutrient intake, which is important in weightlifting.
How incredibly ironic
> but his diet has clearly worked for him.

Is it clear, given the multiple strokes? We don't know with certainty whether the diet was a significant factor, but it's possible.
Maybe food just isn't that important to him as anything but sustenance. He sounds like a very kind and content person.
To be more positive, look for organizations like local churches/synagogues/mosques, community centers or homeless organizations that will give your donations directly to people in need. This works well for clothes and home goods, not as well for e-gadgets. For those, you might consider selling them on EBay and donating the proceeds to a charity.
Map for others to reference and judge whether “right across” is a reasonable description.

https://www.breakingasia.com/wp-content/uploads/Wuhan-Virolo...

A virology lab studying the human transmissibility of bat corona viruses ~10km away from the purported epicenter of the outbreak of a bat related coronavirus is notable.
Aw ya poor nutrients and mineralogy be out of tune. Worry is your life unless you decide not to.
We've built a similar thing at https://www.protoforce.io, which auto-generates client and server side. It actually transpiles, parsing the models definitions and emits actual code with a bit of shared runtime.

Good amazon opened up their stuff, there should be more competition on this front.
Do you have reading material on how the funds have gotten into dire straits?
I often envy people like him.

Working in tech it’s very hard not to get lost in rat race and always go for more money, more knowledge, more everything. I’m actively trying to avoid it, but it gets to me as well. And most of my friends think I’m weird that I don’t want to get one more promotion or why I don’t want to push myself outside of my comfort zone. I’m fine where I am.
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"The book is so masterful, and exhibits such brilliant writing and exhaustive research, that I wonder whether Menand could truly have intended where his history of the postwar era landed me. I learned so much, and ended up caring so much less."
Here's an interesting thought experiment – would you (and everyone else here) have the same reaction to this article if it was written by a North Korean farmer who was perfectly happy with life being in the exact same situation as this Welsh one?

Would he still be "enlightened" and "content" or brainwashed, oppressed and a victim of propaganda?
The GDPR is (as that R hints) a Regulation, and so yes it directly binds EU member states, however it is the successor to a Directive, which is EU legislation that works by telling member states to all write their own local legislation to achieve some general goal in their own way.

The UK transcribed the Regulations into its own law when leaving, because that allows to delay the tedious work of figuring out which rules, if any, should be modified, or eliminated for the UK itself going forward, something that in principle the elected politicians would obviously want a say in but there's always something more important.

The UK had anyway had similar rules prior to even the Directive, in the form of the Data Protection Act. More modern rules change some of the details, but the general thrust has been consistent, you should not have data about people that you don't need, and unless you have some compelling reason not to ask (e.g. detectives obviously won't be telling somebody they're collecting evidence that they sell stolen goods) you must ask permission before you store data about people in the first place, and people have a right to ensure your data about them is correct, which necessarily means they have a right to know what that data is.

The first Act cares too much about exactly how you store data, so that a filing cabinet full of information about people ends up not captured, while an Excel spreadsheet is. In current legislation (and the GDPR) you can't get away that easily. If you write all those records by hand, then shove the piles of paper unsorted, into an old shoebox and put it in a broom closet, then they're not subject to the rules, but they're also now pretty useless to you. The moment you arrange to make them easily accessible so that your business could benefit from having these records at all, they get captured by the rules.
Off the top of my head: Extension methods. "with" contexts. Scope functions (by letting you write your own). Many of the things done with kapt (e.g. typeclasses, not that there's a good way to do them in Kotlin). Spring-style autowiring (not part of Kotlin proper, but seemingly the idiomatic way to use it). The magic last parameter lambda syntax thing (by letting you implement the magnet pattern).
Where do you live? I live in Portland, Oregon. I haven't left the home except to go on walks around the neighborhood and to pick up groceries from the store (I order them online and they bring them out to my car) since last March. I'm seriously dreading the end of the pandemic. I love never having plans to go anywhere.
Where do you live where you _have_ been leaving your home for non-essential reasons? I recognize that different countries have had differing levels of effect from COVID, but I'm not aware of any that hasn't had at least _some_ impact.
Have you given any thought on how you plan on reintegrating into society, and the negative health effects of this type of isolation? I’m curious what the balance is between covid risk and isolation risk.
It’s interesting that it has gotten around even without your knowledge. If I may ask do you have a large following on some social media platform, from where it originated or spread out?
Why not get up in arms about it? One is done in support of a flawed nation with democratic and freedom ideals, the other is done in support of a murderous authoritarian regime that wishes to annihilate democracy and freedom. It's perfectly reasonable to be up in arms about it.
Death by firing squad is relatively humane (especially in comparison to electrocution), so if you really need to have capital punishment and your options are electrocution and firing squad, the choice is pretty clear.

I think the reason executions moved away from firing squad was that it was mentally taxing of the people in the firing squad, not because the alternatives were more humane.
See Autofac by PKD.

Short Story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac

TV Show: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/
Guideline 401(k) fees go up, no longer fixed or low cost
We mustn't forgot the Eastern value of going to an important business meeting in shorts while high on LSD!

Trying to pull the race card after you get fired for tripping on acid at an investor's meeting is the most Silicon Valley "young disruptor" high-on-the-smell-of-your-own farts CEO thing I've ever heard of.
“ easiest way to not die” are you super high risk? B/c you’ve already likely deceased your chance of dying by just not driving compared to Covid. But if you’re over 65 or have other major health issues then makes some semblance of sense.
He said he has an onion every day.
I feel like my could hear that kind of contentment. But of course there are property taxes and the like. It's easy to lose what you have and what makes you happy. I want land, but will never get it.
Iran also captured intact a big US drone claiming by doing GPS spoofing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jdL7FyYDA
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IEEE S&P’21 Program Committee Statement RegardingThe “Hypocrite Commits” Paper [pdf]
Sickening.

As the saying goes, better 100 guilty persons should go free than 1 innocent should suffer.

I am fiercely opposed to the death penalty, and this example goes a long way towards conveying why.
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I built a (research) library a few years ago to rewrite ELF binaries; our research projects ran into a lot of limitations with doing incremental patches to a binary (ELF has a lot of redundant representations of the same data). For us, parsing the binary into a normalized representation, modifying that, and re-serializing worked — we could make more intrusive changes to the binary, and (almost? I don’t recall anything breaking) everything in the Debian repos still ran after the binaries has been rewritten.

I expect the library is now woefully out of date, and documentation is mostly in the form of conference talk slides:

https://github.com/jbangert/mithril

there’s also https://github.com/aclements/libelfin (parsing only, supports dwarf); https://github.com/bx/elf-bf-tools (Turing machine inside elf relocations) and of course the “olg guard” of ELF reversing tools ERESI/elfsh (website seems down; GitHub mirror on https://github.com/thorkill/eresi).
Do most statistical arbitrage/high frequency trading/market making shops manage state pension money? I use these terms loosely – if you want me to be more precise I can just start naming individual firms.

Again, I take no issue with the firms that responsibly manage people's pensions, help the public access equity and bond markets, and so on. But those are not the firms that the people making demeaning comments about "Wall Street" are talking about. So I don't think that comment is responsive to the question I asked. Again, that question is, what is the "meaningful mission" of those other firms?
> How incredibly small-minded.

How incredibly patronizing.

Have you considered that people have different tastes? Personally, I hate eating; if I could take a pill to replace all my nutrition needs, I would in a heartbeat, even if it costs more than my current dietary expenses.
You mean if there was a strong implication that there wasn't a genuine choice, but an adaptation to hardship brought on by human rights abuses and an authoritarian government? Call me hypocritical, but no. I don't think I'd have the same reaction.
To be fair, I don't either! I missed that part. Thanks for pointing it out.
It really depends on the context -- it is acceptable as informal speech in the US. It comes down to the socioelect you intend to learn. So perhaps "I already saw x" is not incorrect per se (from a Descriptivist point of view), but it sounds very colloquial and would not be found in formal writing.
Can you share what meals you enjoy making? :)