skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had similar experiences long ago but not in the past .. seven years or so, and i use it as a daily driver. In fact I've encountered less bugs on arch, which follows upstream, than on other distros which often have their own patches and unsupported backports with their own problems.

I have had once a serious bug which rendered my computer unbootable, which i couldn't have solved without my fifteen something years career helping me. But it wasn't an arch issue, i would have had the same thing on debian.
Mercedes-Benz data breach exposes SSNs, credit card numbers
What is 'far wider' ? I don't even get the accusation clear from this particular post.

What is the claim?
Goes to show how we, the end users, don't matter much. There's just so many other profitable metrics to optimize for.
Does the generated light preserve the incoming direction of the source IR? If not, then you'll still need some sort of lens to focus the IR onto the film, and then (if your eye is close to the film) another lens to let you focus on the film. So, nothing like the concept image of glasses enhancing the scenery.
Why Is the Intellectual Dark Web Suddenly Hyping an Unproven Covid Treatment?
Being that the fed buys twice the entire tether market cap in bonds ($120B) every month, their "systemic risk" talk does seem a bit overblown.

I fully recognize the tether collateral situation is shady and could blow up. It also could remain shady and not blow up for a very very long time. It'd be a big deal for crypto but I'm not convinced it would be for the wider world.

I hate sounding like the maximalist who calls everything FUD, but it's really hard not to here
The problem is this email shouldn't be associated with my new name. And yes this email has previously been accessible publicly, it's very old and has been on linkedin or other things in the past, but it was under a different name. It should never have been associated with the new one.

My guess is that the email database updated one part of the data but not the other at one point or another from some public source.

In any case I don't really care how this happened, I mostly care about finding out which company is selling that wrong email to recruiters and how to fix it
Even though I only do it for hobby projects, crawling pages is becoming increasingly difficult unless you are a big player like Google or Microsoft with a whitelisted IP range.

I've had some success in scraping lately with a similar project called FlareSolverr(1).

It's purpose it to get you access to sites which won't let you crawl unless you are using a real browser (e.g amazon, instagram). It doesn't hide your IP but uses puppeteer with stealth mode to get you access to otherwise restricted urls.

(1) https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr
The bits of eigen that make it slow to compile are the same bits that make it both easy to use and fast. I'm sure there are improvements that could be made, but ultimately eigen is big and slow to compile for a reason.
Science is never settled. That's how science do.
Too bad Leonard Nimoy passed, his opinion would have been even more relevant and informed, right?
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Considering the dangers of things like this happening to guys in our industry, what would you suggest as the safe behavior for a (straight) male around women in professional settings?

Would it be too much to:

1) heavily curtail his communication to only professional, safe topics

2) drink only non-alcoholic drinks; do no drugs of any kind

3) politely refuse (or ignore) any spoken or non-spoken invitation or innuendo

4) avoid any time alone with a member of the opposite sex

Too paranoid or just too little?
Their product largely revolves around not following US banking KYC and AML laws. They are locked out of US treasuries.
Hypergraph expanders of all uniformities from Cayley graphs
Michael Yeadon is a crazy conspiracy theorist who believes in the “great reset”.

It’s less about “can’t discuss” and more about his beliefs being ridiculous. He made many predictions in 2020 on the basis of his theories which turned out to be completely false, but hasn’t integrated that into his theories.

For instance, here’s a timeline of yeadon’s statements against the number of patients in hospital beds requiring mechanical ventilation to keep them alive… https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/13555747545273753...
You've only "lost in life" upon the nihilistic assumption that this life is all there is. I remember maybe 12 years ago eharmony basically telling me "sorry but we can't help you", rejecting me from their platform after doing the questionnaire.

Judging from Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything, social ineptness is often a necessary condition for exeptional scientists, etc. We badly need a coherent understanding of life. We have the means to propagate it.

As for me, if I had a "poke of egress" laying around, I might be getting inert myself, but as those are as scarce as meaningful social connections, I reckon I'll have to see things through.

I remember significant personal events occurring in my mid-twenties that radically changed my outlook (perhaps for the better).
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Is anyone here able to provide insight about how these visualizations are used today by humanities / social science researchers?

As an undergrad I helped [1] a German Lit professor run topic models and produce visualizations like this for a big dataset of 18th-century magazines. It was a really fun project to be involved with, and the project generated a few conference papers for the professor, but I got the impression that these sorts of tools didn't have a big impact on his usual research workflow. Our models had a ton of noise, and he still had to do the due diligence of reading every single article in painstaking detail.

I'd be curious to hear more about how people actually use these tools!

[1] https://benrbray.com/posts/2016/digital-humanities-german-pe...
That's not true. More than 80% of soy production is used as animal feed. Similar story for corn and other grains.

> Also, from your link, it is clear that livestock AND fisheries produce 31% of the agricultural greenhouse gasses, while crops produce 27%, so not that big a difference.

I'm not sure which part you're referring to. But a big chunk of crop that we grow is directly used as animal feed.
As much as people like to talk about "footguns", that's the value proposition of C++, zero cost for anything you don't use.

Managed/interpreted langs have a different proposition: pay up front for all the features, but your complexity never increases whether you use none, one or all of them.
> I don't always want a branch to descend from a commit

What does this even mean?

> sometimes I want it to descend from another (less featureful) branch.

Yeah, so? Just do that, then. Checkout the branch you want to descend from, create your new branch, and it's descended from the branch you checked out. (That's literally the default for how branching works in git, so... What are you actually asking about?)
> Your core argument has, from my view, morphed from "inflation hurts the poor and downtrodden" to "inflation hurts those with a fixed income".

No, my argument has always been that inflation disproportionately hurts the poor more than the rich.

You are either misinterpreting my words or intentionally being misleading. Again the ‘widows and orphans’ or those on a fixed income references were simply examples. My argument applies to those on low incomes, middle income or even high incomes.

Only those wealthy enough to live entirely off investments have the potential to suffer a little less from inflation.

I say suffer a little less because even the idle rich suffer from currency debasement - just less than this who are less well off.
Yes. As someone growing and raising between 60 and 100% (depending on year) of my family's food on a run-through clay and hardpan soil (150 years of cotton and tobacco did it), I can definitely say that you can turn compacted and dead clay around. Like the parent said - deep mulch is one way. In my case, leaves, grass clippings, forest duff, soiled animal bedding, etc. Really anything organic. You effectively want to "build" the topsoil, which will over time (4-7 years depending on what you're starting with) create enough organic matter to entice insects, earthworms, fungal growth (critical to soil health), voles and moles. All of these creatures will aerate the soil for you. No work required. If you want to do a test, throw a tarp down (or some other large covering) over an area, and check back on it in a week or two. You should have some moles already going to work on aerating your soil, and in turn, you should see at least some earthworm activity.

Also, don't forget the weeds. Almost all of the plants humans label as weeds, have very deep sub-soil penetrating roots (most are also more nutritious than the stuff we've bred for us or other animals to eat). If you want to rebuild your soil, let the weeds grow and then either use them for compost which you'll later top-dress your soil with, or just chop them and leave them be for the cover crop effect, or work them in slightly, up to you.
For a disease for which at least a third develops no symptoms whatsoever, and about 80% of the rest develops only mild symptoms, I doubt that.
>every piece of gaming software that releases nowadays is malware

Yes.
I fail to understand why you bring capitalism into this when it's the most efficient way of dealing with pollution, since it has a pricing mechanism for raw materials, pollution taxes, etc.

I've lived in the socialism on the USSR and seen what it looked like, it's day and night compared to how free countries deal with pollution. Guess what happens when raw materials are available for free, the economy is inefficient because why bother, and pollution doesn't matter because citizens can't vote anyone else into the office because there's only a single party. China happens. Rivers downstream from textile factories colored with dye-of-the-season, wire fences near cement factories opaque from dust, transport workers spilling diesel fuel into the ground for decades to hide slacking and sub-quota mileage, etc. I've seen it all with my own eyes.

When the first Western experts gained access after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were utterly devastated at the scale of environmental pollution. They had never seen anything this bad. The solution to everything had been "dig a ditch and throw it in", and if anyone complained, arrest and beat them until they shut up, or send to a labor camp if they don't.

The main problem in the West is similar socialism for the polluters, albeit on a much smaller scale. They get to pollute for very cheap, mostly abroad in China. They should be taxed for what raw materials and their pollution actually costs instead of the current artifically low levels achieved through outsourcing to lawless shithole countries, and environmental damage from their actions would be greatly reduced.
I think it's an obvious scam but it's a very useful scam, so there are many people with a vested interest in maintaining the illusion.

From people who want to pump up the price of other cryptocurrencies, to offshore exchanges that want to avoid KYC requirements dealing with real banks, to ordinary users who like being able to transfer USDT... there's many people incentivized to look the other way and pretend that water isn't wet.
It’s certainly much easier to keep a used car running for a decade than it is to keep a used phone running, that’s for sure. And there’s a market specifically designed to support that too.

I think the most realistic choice here is to not upgrade phones every 1-2 years, but stretch it to 3. The recent trend of Apple to not include all the accessories in the box is probably a net good, given how many chargers almost consumers have already too.
The very polarization of opinion as seen in the comments here is an indication of the intrinsic instability of the crypto construct (at least as it now stands). This polarization is only possible in a "I say, you say" type competition that has no reference to any independent reality that can anchor things

Groups of people can hype themselves into anything. with the advent of digital networks we are literally hit by recurrent storms on digital teacups. unless things get tied back to physical reality those metastable collective mental states can flip back as inexplicably as they have formed.

While a good part of the existing financial system is also based on little else than belief there are some critical parts that aren't: the use of its tools (cash, bank money, credit systems etc) to support real economic interactions. you can't simply switch that system off at will because it is a way for society to keep account of its function. think also of the enforcement of contracts and obligations (eg taxation) - ultimately with the use of physical power.

In other words, for the bitcoin nation its a case of: get real or go to zero.
Is using "row polymorphism" the same as using a "structutal type system"?

I never heard about the former.
Maybe not the exact interview, but I came across this interview from Rollingstone where Jobs was super pumped about Objects oriented programming
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/steve-jobs...
Well it depends on your definition of sandboxed. Does your program have permission to perform I/O, either by reading/writing to a filesystem or sending/receiving data on a network?

Most "interesting" programs can perform I/O. Then you run into ambient authority and confused deputies.
If I were in the game industry, I might consider the Pence Rule...

I'd probably just avoid any fandom interactions; the possibility of interactions with unstable people is just unacceptably high.
As much as it hurts to say it, this seems like the safe way to err on the side of caution.
This, love his channel, although he is not very active, but when he is active the project is often really interesting and can go for 10 or 12 hours straight.
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WD My Toaster Live!

The My Toaster is just a regular USB toaster.
Even though I know you’re not promising anything, just the fact that Fastmail genuinely asks & wants to hear feedback is why I love you guys so much.

Hope more folks use you guys.
Nice story, but GitHub is prohibited by the US OFAC sanctions regime from offering service to North Korea:

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-and-tra...

Intentional violations of these sanctions can be punished with prison time.
> none of them thought... glass?

I would bet that lots of people did think glass but were convinced by the social inertia that glass must have some issue that makes it inferior.
You're being kind. The author's statement is utter nonsense. If you store the same fact in two places and only change one of the them, it doesn't matter whether you update in-place, or create a new version of record -- your data is still corrupted.
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Sorting is an example, quicksort is fast since it is done in place and mutates the data instead of allocating new memory.

Very few algorithms are not faster with mutable variables.
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Not the person you're replying to, but I wanted to offer a perspective that might bridge what you see as a gap in philosophies.

The "future you", the one that is healthier (i.e. literally from a medical perspective, not just perception), can only exist if you make choices today that enable progress towards that future state. In other words, the current you, the unhealthy you, already contains the seed of what is necessary to become the future you. Perhaps all you need is a conducive environment, so you can blossom; a seed requires water and fertile soil, but the seed is the one doing the work. You might need to find some water (most metaphorically, but sometimes literally: lots of people are just dehydrated and it contributes to low energy or lethargy), or a different soil to plant yourself in (different city, different job, different friends, etc.), but it is you who does the work to allow yourself to germinate, to bloom.

The point of thinking like this, is to avoid disassociating the future you, to avoid thinking of that person as somehow different from or "other-than" your current you. People already get discouraged enough by looking at the glossy and fake Instagram influencers around them; what a tragedy it would be to let your present self get discouraged by your future self!

You are already that person. You are already worthy.
I'll look into that! X is a bit easier for me to write consistently though (really bad handwriting).
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Mozilla Rally: It’s your data. Use it for a change
This article gives no information about how these microscopes work, what advantage do they have over electron microscopy. An HN comment below actually provided more context.
Who developed this tech and how long have we been working no it. I don't understand how it reached the top posts.

Here's a more info from Technion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtcVL7KnfCI
How to read a book by Mortimer Adler.

Greatly improved my efficiency in gaining understanding from printed works, so acted as a force multiplier across several aspects of life.
> Haskell, as a research project, discovered that you could isolate IO in a lazy language inside a type using a monadic construction to chain them which allows you to track side effects.

Sounds like LINQ in C#. I wonder if there's any correlation.
Well, "these types" have lived long enough to recognize that the solution proposed is itself a part of the problem. We need less robotics and hands off farming for healthy nutritious and sustainable food production, not more.
But an electron microscope can see small molecules or even atoms.
As a consumer, the trees are already wasted. Nothing you can do will change that fact.
The idea of species is quite meaningless in any case. Boundaries are arbitrary, genetic similarity can arise by chance, interbreeding is situational, reproductive isolation is rarely perfect, populations are vague; of the different definitions of species surveyed in the article, the "cohesion"-based one is the closest to admitting that taxonomy is a rough model of cohesive genealogical and evolutionary patterns.
It's anecdata, but none of the retail crypto speculators (five or six now) I've spoken to IRL have even heard of Tether.
None of this is about knowing apps you have installed. Cant be exaggeration if it isn’t true in any sense. That’s the only specific point brought up by your parent comment.
I tried to self-fund a startup that crash and burned.

I'll never do that again. What an expensive lesson to learn.

I traveled the world. I went to all seven continents and fucked off big time. I partied when I wanted to. I went where I wanted to go. I was a bit hedonistic at times.

No regrets.

Eventually, I ran out of money, so I'm back again. I honestly didn't want to come back to tech, but that big paycheck, and I'm good at it.
If I told you the first attempt was several million identically named functions, split across several hundred files, and the compile and link times were ~72 hours on a distributed build would you be happier?

A single templated function & a few n*100kloc macros later, and I got the compile time down to ~1s on a crappy laptop.

Macros are 'fast paths' through compilers — they copy structures in memory, rather than going through the entire disk->lex->parse chain.
I'd argue that the design of cities to optimize for nothing and emphasize driving long distances to the store is a greater contribution, but I see your point ;) Though that's not retail's problem, that's the city's problem.

It takes me 5 minutes to walk to my grocery store at most. Hard to beat
Same here. I think is one of my personal biggest problem. To find and reserve some time to read the backlog instead on continuously open new links.
I've 2 browsers unusable (full of tabs), Instapaper queue full, plus around 30 or more tabs of Safari mobile.

The biggest problem is to filter good stuff from the rubbish. Sometimes I read interesting stuff. Sometimes I waste my time reading stuff that reveals a rubbish.

I think the collaborative collection system implemented by awsomelist works pretty well. I'm asking myself if could exists something better, between the dopamine-injection-algorithm like HN and a static collections on links in markdown maintained with a version system.
I like operator overloading, but it is susceptible to argument dependent lookup while member methods are not. The syntax is literally more explicit about what logic is being called.
Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer
If there were no humans, other animals would take over where humans are now. There would be more prolonged dying at the very least.
Sigbovik's jokes are of the kind where the premise is completely bonkers. The rest of the development is made with the utmost rigor to highlight said bonkersitude, Reductio ad absurdum.
You've entirely ignored the thrust of the parents argument.

I'd also point out that from the perspective of a secular westerner, even if one group is calling for the genocide of the other regularly; is the other group, which is actually committing genocide regularly, able to be held up as morally superior in any way? Is that group (Israeli Zionists) actually worth defending at all?

You have to remember that for the vast majority of the world, neither religious viewpoint holds much weight; only the globally agreed common ethics.
Accountants don't use erasers; otherwise they may go to jail. All entries in a ledger remain in the ledger. Corrections can be made but only by making new entries in the ledger.

This is not true. Accounting is usually a most mutable data source you ever have. Facts arrive at random times and then are entered on a schedule. Corrections await on someone to resolve analytical issues. Different accounting units have different timelines, and in a unit there is many threads of an unordered fact flow. It is all synced together only at specific points, usually when it’s time to report officially or internally. If you ask your accountant and the only thing they drop is “busy”, it’s one of these weeks of the year.

When a company's quarterly results are published, they include small corrections to the previous quarter. Small fixes are OK. They are append-only, too.

This is true, because public reports are legally binding.

On topic: in my opinion, immutability at small scales is good, because modifications do not leak accidentally into the fields of your data structures (e.g. a mutable string is a bad idea in general). But at the bigger scale immutability gets in the way, if not hidden properly. It requires a less common sort of developers who have to think in immutable/functional way, and even when they can, this increases their cognitive distance to the business logic. Properly hidden immutability helps a lot though, and we mutable guys use it a lot, despite a widespread belief. It’s transactions and execution context isolation. There is nothing wrong with mutating the operative area if these mutations cannot escape it. But if you’re short on primitives (a context object, an object model vs global.store and raw fields of a one-for-all object) you end up with setting globally visible state that can be read from the outside and trouble creeps in. Moreover, a real world code rarely looks like you’ve seen in a tutorial and instead of a clear `assemble(this(), that())` you have to resort to non-ordinary functional tricks and concepts in the name of it. As a result, you have to hire (or be one of) these functional guys who may be better in general, but also spend half their cognitive abilities on things that you couldn’t explain to an accountant.

So yes and no, immutability changes everything, but it’s not the only way to change it. It is just the easiest manual way to feel safe if you start naked in the woods.