skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi all - creator of Wayfinder here! Though it was very much a team effort.

Happy to see this resonating with so many people. :) Feel free to ask any questions!
> Your comment about microorganisms is about 'where to draw the line' and your comment about 'tend to infinity' implies you like the 'appeal to extremes' form of argument.

I would say that's accurate. I think extremes can bring out honest positions in an argument. Where would you suggest we draw a line? How long should a chicken live before we decide to kill it?
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"The Netflix of Wellness”: Inside the Hollywoodization of Peloton
So, has the market gotten to the point that even in small towns, people can choose more humane meat?

Yes, at least in Europe. Organic meat comes with certain rules about the treatment of the animals.

edit: see Article 12 of EU Regulation 889/2008 for organic poultry standards - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:...
Don’t be disingenuous, the change was anything but sudden.

There still is no hard evidence for either the intermediate host nor the lab leak theories, intermediate host just seemed more plausible before a year was spent not proving it (and at this point the virus might have moved on).

So yes, the lab leak was largely unfounded and weaponised by racists who wanted to get their “china virus!!!” fix. Who, by the way, also kept implying that this was not accidental.
High availability (through mirrors) is still a good thing. My experience is that torrent files are sometimes a lot faster, sometimes less so. Just as mirrors.
There are libraries that offer more appropriate ways of dealing with it, but last time I ran into a FP-related bug (something to do with parsing xlsx into MySQL) I fixed it quickly by converting everything to strings and doing some unholy procedure on them. It worked but it wasn’t my proudest moment as a programmer.
His code snippet had rounding errors on the boundaries towards the next unit.

However he notes:

> FWIW, all 22 answers posted, including the ones using Apache Commons and Android libraries, had this bug (or a variation of it) at the time of writing this article.
Not sure if it's quite what you had in mind, but SO is starting to address the issue of updating old answers with the Outdated Answers Project: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-...
That’s some very low estimates for lifetime VR advertising revenue based on just 900 hours usage per device and 10 ads per hour. By comparison FB makes 32$/user as a global average in a world of ad blockers. The kind of users buying VR headsets are worth significantly more than average, they can’t block ads, and they practically need to take the device off to skip them.

This isn’t 4 year olds mindlessly watching YouTube, these are the ideal demographic to sell stuff. At even 3.5x your ultra low estimate FB is at 1/2 the retail price of the device. Massive subsides are an easy choice for FB assuming VR doesn’t die off quickly.

Still even using your numbers a drop from 350$ to 300$ is a big deal before considering other revenue from app sales etc.
No, you need to build a button pushing robot then.
You should almost _always_ focus on code readability and simplicity over inventiveness and cleverness.

Very few people I have encountered have complained about code being 'too simple' or 'too readable', but the opposite happens on a near daily/weekly basis.

Write comments, use a for loop, avoid global state, keep your nesting limited to 2-3 levels, be kind to your junior devs.
I say we engineer a breed of Mike the Headless Chickens. Just enough brain stem to stay alive, not enough brain to care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Plus the B-29 was previously bombing Japan from China, which was farther than the Marianas, right?
This is good to know.

The takeaway for me is to go claim my login.gov ID (if possible) before someone else does.
I'm admittedly not impressed by the pcap processing.

It identifies a bunch of fragments of HTTP headers as "YouTube Video ID".

Meanwhile, I can get the same info and more by running

$ strings FollowTheLeader.pcap
*]?>
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.0.2.5
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: SimpleHTTP/0.6 Python/3.7.3rc1
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:42:13 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Content-Length: 105
Last-Modified: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:41:10 GMT
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Ants have a symbiotic fungus in their gut that they use to digest food. We have corn that we use to digest sunlight. Chickens that could not survive on their own now are the way we can turn carbohydrates into protein. Computers turn electricity into cognition. We will probably take chickens and corn with us to other planets.
Greenwald is no longer with the intercept, and he hasn't been an editor for a long time.

Much of the world is a part of the USs economic imperialism, and hence isn't as far from the mothership as you'd imagine. All sources have biases. At least TI does fully independent reporting.
The author's lookup table is incorrect.

The question being answered clearly wanted base2 engineering prefix units, rather than the standard base10 engineering prefix units.

suffixes = [ "EB", "PB", "TB", "GB", "MB", "KB", "B" ]

magnitudes = [ 2^60, 2^50, 2^40, 2^30, 2^20, 2^10, 2^0 ] // Pseudocode, also 64 bit integers required. (Compilers might assume unsigned 32 for int)
While you are not wrong about beans as a protein source, this argument always strikes me as a sort of "let the poor people eat bland mush their entire life, and if they want better food they can get rich like me and have meat from ethical sources." A large part of why factory farming exists is to drive down costs as demand rises, but you gotta keep in mind that the demand rises because eating beans and rice for every meal your entire life is miserable.
Chickens can achieve the age of ten under special circumstances (pet chicken protected from predators)

Chickens in their wild habitat will live a year, two maybe three before succumbing to predators or disease.

So if you have a hen and it’s over 3 years old, it’s older than most chickens in the wild. You should feel as guilty as a fox feels if you have it for dinner.
Yeah. I'm interested if it was extended or not. I cannot really tell from the article.

I expect this works great for 2 to 3 months when it is novel and everyone is keen to prove it works, but will begin to regress back after that. Where it ends up longterm is the big deal.
Seems to me that 'registers' are just really fast memory locations that get referenced by a 'stunted' address space in order to fit into most instructions. In other words, this is not a conceptual necessity. It exists because it's hard to build HW which can access all memory locations really fast. This hardware limitation leaks into software via hacks like 'registers'. Dealing with this hack is what forced Armv8 to remove PC as R15; "In the A32 and T32 instruction sets, the PC and SP are general purpose registers. This is not the case in A64 instruction set."

There is a lot of other HW crud that leaks into sw for dubious reasons. For example, although 'wasteful' if every memory location had tag bits -- hardware enforced -- capabilities would layer naturally. More sophisticated memory protection would be possible.

Instead, we have these von Neumann archs hellbent on winning some synthetic benchmark. Will the computer-using community ever demand some sacrifice in overall potential "adds-per-second" to enable better security and to support better abstractions? Sadly, I doubt it. Even Risc-V is a baby step.
We do it a bit differently (French company).
Since the only cookie that is endangered is the « third party cookie », it is very much ok to store anonymous session information in a first party cookie for all anonymous visitors.
So we store page views and utm there, and capture this data in the datawarehouse when (and only when) there is a conversion.
This is also working with returning visitors (who most likely kept the first party cookie).
"only 50% cut if something works,"

This is still very generous. I know salaries are very low for PhD students but it is still a generous offer. I think my US university was 1/3 Uni, 1/3 Prof, 1/3 PhDs. They even handed stocks to a Post-doc with a 6 figure sum.

In an company you may get nothing or very very little.

Wiki: "In United States, however, an employee may have to sign over the rights to an invention without any special compensation. Germany has a law on employees' inventions providing strict rules concerning the transfer of rights to an invention to the employer. It also prescribes mandatory compensation of employees for inventions they make."

What is worse, that in some countries this also covers invention, unrelated to your field of employment. Wage-slave I guess.
You're right about that bassline! I love the full, round but tight tone.

You might like Richard Bona and Linley Marthe, both of whom played with Joe Zawinul's Syndicate project. They both have that similar kind of solid tone.

- https://youtu.be/c4zNb01nA_A
- https://youtu.be/ppNFJbMrOHw
I understand the aversion to re–implementing such things!
My guess would be that it's the other way around: corporate buyers aren't very sensitive to the price, so they can jack the price up by $400.
Well your tracking a user via the Anonymous id. Once you see a link (checkout url, order link, form submission, etc) you create a link.
Now you have a list of cookies, their linked email at a moment in time. Then you create a table that has the cookie and who it maps to from a timestamp to a timestamp. This is then used to update the past and future identities. Think multi-user, multi-device in time.

So in the example you gave, the user who opens that links becomes tied to that cookie from the time they open the order to the next linked event.
This is really critical because it will continue to stitch the users identity over time.

If link sharing is happening a lot, you can choose to not use that linkage foe identity resolution.

Does this help clarify the approach?
You're saying she's dumb because she Googles the answer.. not the part where she hosts malware on her own domain? Maybe voluntarily travelling to the US from a country with no extradition deal with the US? It's the Googling that does it haha

Being able to search is a legitimate skill that relatively few have too. We will probably disagree a bunch here, I can't be fluffed to have that to and fro -- so I downvoted and moved on
Npr repeating the PR lies...
I really like the Quest 2 as a standalone (non-tethered) device, I hope FB doesn't end up killing it...!
One of the best tips I have gotten from the internet is to never copy and paste code you have not written yourself. Even rewriting it verbatim makes you think about what it is you are actually copying.

It's a pretty neat rule to have in mind.
Botswana diamond could be world's third largest
Sourcetree has never had a Linux version either. Are you insulted by Atlassian now too?
The top comment in the third link points out that Microsoft Japan later walked back the productivity claim:

In the announcement dated October 31, one of the listed "improvements" from the 2019 Summer Work-Life Choice Challenge was an increase of 39.9% in labor productivity (sales revenue per employee) in August 2019 compared to August 2018, with a graph below.

While this number is factual, it is not solely the result of this challenge, and was achieved due to a number of different factors.

To avoid misunderstanding, we have removed that claim from the above summary of the direct effects of the challenge.
von Braun is so well known that I think people who feel they need to say who he is is a bit weird.
> this announcement, which essentially amounts to "leading VR platform tests new way for developers to monetize applications with personalized ad service". People seem to think this is Facebook injecting ads into games all willy nilly, when in fact it's just a platform for developers to add ads to their VR apps/games.

This piece (along with others I've read) attributes the action only to Facebook and not to game developers, so readers are likely to miss that part.
Imagine how many companies would give their workers 4 day work weeks and enjoy greater productivity, if we introduced a UBI (and abolished labor unions and minimum wage laws).
On macOS it’s doable[1] with AppleScript[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534252

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
> "The economy" is defined by what is legible in the financial system.

No it is not, this is categorically wrong.

Simple question: does a barter-based tribe have an economy? Yes.
Draft resumes?

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well, young is relative :)
> The LEM could land itself

No, really it couldn’t. Someone had to reset all those 1201 alarms while manually hovering it down to a boulder free site
Am I being naive? I think it would be pretty absurd to lie about this.

I don't think anybody want this to be career ruining. It is really hard to check assholes with authority. The least we can do is take this person's complaint seriously.
Shouldn't productivity increase mathematically when reducing number of hours?

Like if you reduce everyone to 10h per week. Sales may go down from 4M to 3M but because hours went 4x less you can still claim 300% increase in productivity. It doesn't meant anything in term of efficiency, creativity, or actual performance of the organization. I would be interested to see actual studies on this.
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Why are you writing code? The question was for a static method in Apache Commons, not your "I'm so clever" implementation. Think the reading comprehension is flawed.

(Of course, this static method exists in Apache Commons, going back at least 20 years. But the fellow "code golfers" of the author voted someone to the first answer who similarly had the irresistible urge to try to be very clever. It's a scourge on StackOverflow.)
I would have one if it weren't for the fb requirement and this outcome is exactly why I don't.

Are people actually shocked that a company with such a pristine reputation for carrying about their produ..um..Users now wants to jam ads directly into their eyes?
I don’t think this is actually more common on academia than elsewhere, really - but I do think that once you have reached a certain level in academic career, there are few consequences for it. This makes it stand out.
If you want to discuss this, I think it would help to highlight or post some applicable quotes for us rather than dumping a page of close to 50 quotes (of varied content) and expecting us to read through all of them until we find the ones you may or may not be referring to.

As to Mile's supposed racism. I've never gotten the impression that he's had some inherent prejudice against other groups. What I would agree with, though, are his reactions to the various injustices and indignities of his own experience in America. His statements are nothing that I wouldn't expect from someone who was treated the way he was.

In his autobiography he describes his experience going to Paris for the first time and the revelation of being treated with the dignity and respect for someone of his status. Something he had rarely, if ever, received back home.

As another poster has said, if what he has to say about white people in America offends you, then perhaps you need some thicker skin. As far as I can tell, Miles' assessments are fair.
Do we really have to be respectful of deliberate nonsense? It seems that only serves to validate that nonsense as worthy of serious debate... which it isn’t. This time policing serves only to help spread the ridiculous conspiracy theories, anti-science, and anti-reason.

Taking the high road has repeatedly failed in public discourse.
Python library that allows you to create complex report from various sources
I wish DDG would have a toggle for the privacy/speed/other attributes of the destination site. I'd like to set minimums and simply never see those sites in my results.

This would require allowlists and easy disabling for targeted searches but would generally stay enabled.
Correctness of what? That a single variable explains success? Its completely ludicrous
I've used my Quest 2 more in the last month, than the Rift S in the 2 years I've had it. With the Q2 there are no cables to get in the way, and I can put it on and play Beat Saber instantly - no steamvr to fiddle with. It's a more realistic Wii Sports at this point, but a fun purchase.
That code snippet is explicitly introduced in the article as not the author's.
No benefits, no social security, no resume, no references (outside the criminal world, if they even use references), no personal network (outside crime), permanent and catastrophic damage to your reputation if you are caught ... but you save on taxes!
> It is completely fair to expect that, at some point in the future, FB will inject ads into any VR app on Occulus at will.

"Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures [...]"
There are plenty of stupid cyclists who don’t prioritize their own safety. One of my pet peeves is to have bikes on the road in the dark without lights. Most of these people are adults and they should know that a car driver can’t see them.
She charges in dollars, so she knows what's up.
Two common misinterpretations:

- 10k hours guarantees top success

- 10k hours practice is required for top success

The 10k hours rule does not say either. The 10k hours rule only says 10k hours deliberate practice is generally required to be a top expert in most fields. So there are cases where 10k hours practice is not sufficient, and there are cases where talent people (Mozart?) need way fewer practice than regular people.

The 10k hours rule also does not say top experts need more hours to be better. So there is "debunk" claiming no correlation found among top expert performance and practice which is kind of strawman attack.
It's more than just a few bad actors. From 06 May 2021:

New statistics from the Federal Aviation Administration show a rapid rise in plane rage incidences.

The FAA says it’s gotten 1,300 reports in the past three months, as the number of passengers remains below pre-pandemic levels.

...

In a typical year, the FAA sees anywhere from 100 to 150 cases - only a fraction of those seen since February.

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/faa-reports-rise-in-plane-...
I actively discourage anyone in my social circles to remain clear from Oculus. I wouldn't say that VR has taken off yet and Oculus could've been the needed impetus had Facebook kept their fingers out of it. I mean, if Facebook just owned the brand and didn't try to force Facebook down the throats of its' users, it would've been quite a viable option.
She said that Rowling's article was "a perfectly reasonable piece", relative to "all the noise" it was generating online. Are we talking about Rowling's actual words, or what they were morphed into on twitter?

Have you ever characterized something which you don't necessarily agree with, but appears genuine and well argued, as "reasonable"?
That is not the author's code. That is pseudocode for one of the example answers that he is improving on.

The author's code gives an option for the units:

int unit = si ? 1000 : 1024;
The asymmetry here is really quite simple. On the one hand, you have an academic sharing a set of views that, while intellectually unfashionable, are well within the scientific mainstream. On the other hand you have people trying to get him fired, rather than ignore him or politely try to change his mind.

Did he expect the kind of response he received? Sure, though I think hoped for better. But that's not making a scene. That's just not being completely acquiescent to unreasonable people.
> Image search is nothing to write home about

DDG has my favorite image search.

Generally, I haven't used Google in years. If DDG isn't finding something, I use some other privacy-oriented search engine.
I read once that if you're on a ship and notice the lighthouse is rising, you are are going down.

Similar concept.
Hopefully the results out of Spain's trial are positive!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/spain-to-launc... (March 2021: Spain to launch trial of four-day working week)
25 minutes and everything starts at either XX:05 or XX:35.

People get to be human and do things like use the restroom, get a drink, or just take a breath in between meetings without being flustered and apologizing for being late.
Didn’t hurt his career much? He was barred from the securities industry forever. Sure he had a lot of money left, but how can you know where his career would go if he weren’t prosecuted? That’s like saying that if Bill Gates were forced to cash out of Microsoft in the 80s it wouldn’t have affected his career much because, after all, he would still be a billionaire
I just feel if you have bit twiddling, byte munching needs JavaScript shouldn't be the language of choice. Doing that is a rather rare edge case and if you're doing it for performance reasons, working in Javascript is the much bigger performance problem.
Say what you want about the stability of the npm ecosystem, but if this were JS, a new SemVer patch release could be cut, and it would be fixed in thousands of code bases essentially instantly.
Antlr and LL(k) parsers in general are great when they fit the grammar you want to make well. I remember discovering it when it was called JavaCC a nod to yacc.
100% anecdotal, but: my elderly mother can't watch kids play console games on TV without rapidly experiencing motion sickness. She does just fine in VR (mini-golf is her favorite game on the Quest).

I'd love to see actual data on the issue. Until then, I'm optimistic that VR's floor of non-acclimatable users is similar to or smaller than the same for regular video game consoles.
"single variable explains success"? It is not what it about.
The biggest oops we're stuck with is the Referer HTTP header. At least that one was intentional.
Chimamanda, as far as I can tell, never argued about women's safety, or really anything like that. What I do know she said that got pushback was that transgender and cisgendered people have different histories and experiences. That doesn't seem particularly controversial, but then again I am not a twitter justice warrior.
Yeah I definitely need to work on how I actually work and create a mindset and space that supports that. But for me, only the maximum dosage of methylphenidate had any effect. I've heard of people getting the gurn on it and obviously it's a decent amount of speed for anybody, so I haven't felt comfortable continuing on it.
By the way, if anyone wishes to build the latest dreamforge (df467.tar.gz) you're going to have a hard time because that code is very old, also once you link two servers you're going to have to change some code around sendto_common_channels() IIRC. Not only is it hard to compile due to the various code hacks, the protocol logic is broken as well. But once that's out of the way you'll have something somewhat workable. Good luck for anyone who wishes to touch that. I've done that out of pure software archeological and curiosity driven pleasure. Awesome times were had.
Hopefully this isn't what you meant, but behavior like that isn't acceptable regardless of how common it is.