skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn’t like there were other theories of information at the time. He established a very neat theory for the first time, and showed a very intriguingly idea of entropy that proceeded naturally from it. He showed how the information a channel can transmit is related to the bandwidth. He showed how you can estimate the entropy of languages.

If this seems obvious to you and not remarkable it is only because of hindsight, because his insights have been absorbed into the common culture.
Not me, but someone pinged out slack chat asking for us to "please revert".

We didn't realize the issue until he admitted that he had run an update on the full user table (forgot a where clause) and every single email was now being funneled into his email account.
> Moving the character and collision detection

This sort of thing is so domain specific and idiosyncratic, the right answer is "follow tradition."
That would be what the Radeon Pro WX 2100/3200 targets.

The nvidia equivalent would be something like the Quadro P400.

Of course, pricing, even on these cards, is a bit crazy right now.
I believe it should give you pause to adjust your point of view of the history.

Not that it'll matter if you're truly disinterested, but you posted a reply, so I guess you're not.
Not the OP, but have forgotten birthdays, and am a classic introvert.

That's a bit of an extreme take to pivot to; birthdays happen every year and if you have more than 5+ people to remember, that's a lot of days to keep in the head. Quite frankly, there's a lot of people out there (including myself) that see birthday greetings as rather meaningless - or simply not one of their love languages. (It strikes me this whole thread shows the rather diametrically different love languages of people.) Why send a card that's going to be read and tossed, realistically? I'd much rather have a meandringly long coffee chat out of the blue once every few years.

Conversely, cancer is life altering enough to the point you're far more likely to hear through the grapevine of social contacts even if it's an acquaintance, let alone a close friend. There's workplace social circles, family social circles... Then you can adjust to the level of proper severity and be on hand for food assistance, longer chats knowing time is short, and so on.
Interesting analysis of the implications two overlapping distributions of characteristics between men and women. Two key grafs:

It comes as no surprise then that population-based studies have demonstrated sex-related differences in personality and preferences that are independent of social influences. When social influences are weakened (in more egalitarian societies such as the Nordic countries of Europe), the sex-related differences in personality and preferences actually increase (the opposite of what one would expect if men and women were wired in an identical fashion). This suggests that as environmental pressures become relaxed, innate sex-specific preferences surface.

A closer look at personality traits shows that when data is analyzed in aggregate, there is a roughly 30% overlap between sexes, as schematized in the accompanying figure. The consequence of this overlap is that adolescent males who fall on the left end of the male (blue “masculine”) curve, and adolescent females who fall on the right end of the female (pink “feminine”) curve, will exhibit personality traits that diverge from the majority of other members of their own sex. In fact, due to the overlap of personality traits between males and females, the personality traits of some females will be more “male-like” than those exhibited by some, or even most males’ and vice versa.
Has Microsoft publicly made it clear that the true reason for the tpm requirement is all about shepherding all users into the windows App Store? As in users might be allowed to install non App Store programs for a while, but the operating system will give complaint/hassle dealings and require the user to go through several extra steps (aka macis).
Some future windows releases will likely be licked to only allow Microsoft App Store-signed apps.
It takes many of us longer than 5 minutes to compose the BEST response (part of option 2), especially if you have a queue built up.
The notion that you cannot keep wood treatment on anything in the UK is ludicrous. You can choose to leave raw wood exposed, or you can chose to treat it every 5-10 years.

Source: my family in Norway owns several wooden houses that are a couple of hundred years old, and as a kid/teenager I spent a lot of time having to treat these houses :)
Podcast that does nostalgic millennial culture commentary
I guess I'm concerned with rounding errors in the intermediate results leading to a similarity of 1.00000001 or something. When you say 10/14, I don't know what you are referring to btw. I couldn't easily find the original bug or library.
I had been messing around with some new tool to generate bespoke weird packets all day when in the afternoon I was introduced to my new intern.

I was talking about what garbage our ethernet switches were (this was one of the earliest L3 switches-- full of blue wire bodges and buggy firmware), and how I'd already encountered a dozen different ways of crashing them.

While typing I started saying "and I bet if I send it an ICMP redirect from itself (typing) to itself (typing) it won't like that at all! (enter)" --- and over the cube partitions I hear the support desk phones start ringing. Fortunately it was a bit after the end of the day and it didn't take me long to reboot the switch.

I didn't actually expect it to kill it. I probably should have.
The Bullish Case for Russia
Or it simply means the student does not have the aptitude for programming. Not everyone does.
SNTP is something else (a text based protocol IIRC) than ntpdate-style oneshot point in time sync, which, while still vulnerable to hitting one server and getting the wrong time, uses the ntp (binary IIRC) protocol to do so.
I want to say that the average is nearing $300k, still lower than this example.
Genuine question: what's the usefulness of Solaris' default behavior? Why kill all processes?
Would you mind expanding the use cases you would have used Kafka streams for? And why no other solutions could have helped? (Performance or complexity etc)
Mainly the gaming features. DirectStorage and Auto HDR is exclusive to Windows 11.
For bonus points, hook up a GPS with a PPS output to the local one so it's stratum 1.
They do need to localize the name to fit the language of people using it although. It's like Kakaotalk insisting keep all written forms of their app's name in hangul: 카카오톡, which sounds like "kakaotog" in korean. That would be a recipie for not being searchable outside of Korea.

Similarly, for English, I would label it Kutch and probably make other appropriate photogenic transliterations for other languages.
"After experiencing the kinds of bugs I described above, it became clear to me that – despite their merits – immutable data structures are not a silver bullet."

There ARE NO silver bullets. So many developers want them, but they don't exist. It's a gigantic form of laziness that causes so many problems in software teams, and people drowning in it can't see it, or refuse to.

Good developers that see tools in a toolbox instead of constantly searching for silver bullets are rare and should be retained at great cost.
And they only ever pursue the small targets.

Their failure to actually prove that justice will catch up with the big fish at the top of the crime, drugs, and terror chains has resulted in the domestic extremism problem.

The FBI's continued incompetency laid bare. Possibly by design.
Hmm, I wonder if we’ll see a John McAfee last-message deep fakes scam.
Rapid displacement of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 by B.1.617.2 and P.1 in the US
> I recognize that Googlers aren't stupid.

Everyone is stupid, but on different levels.
I've actually been on it for 5+ years, and dA for 10+. :)

A great niche for what it serves, but this topic is far beyond what a single site can bring to the table, and much more like a cultural/moral war.
I don't think the comparison works.

Music generally is what people want to listen to for its own sake.

UI is disconnected from what people want; everybody wants to do something, and UI is how you get there. As is in-app advertising, electricity, and so on.

And not only is UI tied to other things that aren't available a la carte, but the whole package is frequently chosen by someone (corporate software) who will never experience the UI and didn't talk to anyone who will on the subject.

So I think it's a fallacy to assert that UI is in general what the public prefers. The same fallacy as saying consumers want binding arbitration, or melamine in their milk, or surveillance advertising.
What is a "real friend" then? Many would argue that shared interests or experiences can certainly be the basis of at least some level of friendship.

There are certainly some people who might claim that the label of "real friend" only applies to those you could "trust to help bury a body", or some other extremely unlikely/intense situation. Like most things, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. There are likely varying degrees of friendship. Qualifying them as "real" (or not) comes across more like the informal logical fallacy of an appeal to purity (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman) than anything.
He's now been in HMP Belmarsh, a notoriously hard and high security prison, for two years without a trial.

It's very hard to make a case that this isn't arbitrary detention at this point.
>Copper plumbing is still widely used in most parts of the country. Pex plumbing is strictly superior. It’s much cheaper, easier to install, more reliable, and less likely to damage the framing. Despite being around for decades, most contractors still use copper.

Which parts of the country? Not in my area.
Good friend of mine once fat fingered something like:
sudo chown -R 777 /
What a surprise... MS following Google and Apple.
Hilarious story, thanks for sharing.

> "Is the light on the AIT array green or amber?"

Can you explain this? What is an AIT array?
I’m primarily a front and developer and I wish that was the way I went. When I work in even basic back end code now I feel unprepared. I highly doubt I’ll ever write assembly code and if someone was to ask me to I would essentially face plant
I agree. At the very least, teach assembly in the first term, at the same time as students are learning a high level language.

If you know assembly, you can understand why arrays exist in C ( because CPUs have base-and-offset addressing), why records exist (same reason), what pointers are (assembly is pretty much about pointers), why ints are different from floats (ADD vs FADD) and so on, how functions are called (system stack).

Absolutely. My first year of programming we took both Fortran and IBM assembly. It all made a lot more sense, and still does.
cool stuff. i look forward to trying this.
On my Android phone, and probably the vast majority of Android phones, there is a UI affordance that the share options are scrollable. The rightmost icon is only partially visible, which makes it clear that there is more content that lies offscreen. This is the same affordance that's used on iOS devices. The author's phone happens to have a screen width that displays an exact number of icons, so this affordance breaks for him.

This is clearly a tradeoff. Either you tightly control the set of valid screen sizes (like iOS does) and guarantee that the affordance works across all devices. Or you allow for flexibility and accept that on some percentage of devices, this affordance will not work as intended.
Signal is centralized, server is closed source last time I checked, smells like a fed op, one of the creators was trying to use it to pump some shitcoin, it requires you to give them your phone number.
Modern developers have the luxury of computing power, but you're right, it can only take you so far.

I've heard far too many people say things like "[hard drives/memory/cpu] are fast, who cares about how efficient this is?", "we'll just scale up some more instances to deal with the inefficiency.", "pfft, it's 2015, the internet is fast, who cares if network calls are inefficient, microservices are the future!"

Lol. Kills me.
Cellular: A command line elementary cellular automaton visualizer
It doesn't require top-down capitulation to the CCP. Much cheaper to infiltrate from the bottom-up. How heavily vetted are those filling the ranks of YouTube's Community Standards teams?
I guess the challenge for MS wasn't to make native app on multiple platforms but to beat the competition i.e Slack as fast as they can.

They operated like a startup. Used electron, reached to market fast, gained traction. Now they can thing for performance improvements.

Note: Most of the users using MS Teams are not startups but listed companies. That's a constant source of revenue. Tapping that segment with not so shitty electron app has worked wonders for MS
True. Even if someone only understand truth table, excel formula and some mathematical operations (max, min, ceil floor avg, mod, root, pow), they can be very useful to support any companies.
Six hours before a trans-Pacific flight on Friday afternoon my key production database started experiencing high latency (PostgreSQL on Heroku). Had recently installed an add-on to sync data from the DB to Fivetran. Three most experienced engineers including myself paired to remove the add-on to ensure the weekend was drama-free, and instead deleted the entire database - as a result of a UX issue within the Heroku console.

Recovery took 30 minutes (Through Heroku support as Heroku did not allow backups-via-replication outside their own backup system), but that was a very long 30 minutes.

Second worst was a cleanup system that removed old CloudFormation stacks automatically by only retaining the latest version of a specific stack. Deployed a canary version of an edge (Nginx+Varnish) stack for internal testing. Cleanup script helpfully removed the production stack entirely.
Elon Musk; Simulated Universes; Moore's Curse; (...) and Technological Hubris
A series of photos of ever darkening toast. Swipe right when you find one that looks appetizing.
One thing people never realize when they talk about this kind of technology is the amount of time code spends in a non-compiling state. Think about what your dream tool does what you cannot parse the code into an AST because you're in the middle of an hours-long refactor. That's a huge reason why it's so useful having the lowest-level representation as text.

Another problem is that virtually all of these efforts completely misunderstand what makes programming hard.
Dangling pointers kill people.
> What prevented people from being more introspective and curious about these subjects 10, 20, 30 years ago?

Perhaps we should be asking, what subjects are we failing to be introspective about now, that will fall into this category 10, 20, 30 years in the future?
I started with BASIC in middle school on a TRS-80, then bought a TI/99-4A when I was in high school. At university it was a mishmash. Every course was different. PL/1, Pascal, Modula-2, FORTRAN, Scheme, C, assembler were in the mix.

I'm not sure it matters, but I think most people would do best learning a simple imperative language like BASIC or Python to start. I didn't really "get" Scheme/LISP functional programming until after I graduated, but now it's my favorite style and Erlang is my favorite language.
Is it? I thought the appeal of Windows is supporting old software with new versions of Windows.

Getting new hardware is easy, getting new software isn't.
"sending 'i love you' once a day" - ewww. I would hate anyone that did that to me.
Three-piece suits being the iconic business clothing over most the world, even in hot climates where it's completelly innapropriate and antiergonomic.
And then you have to get to know the quirks of your particular toaster to know in which direction you need to adjust by two shades to get what you actually want.
Do you think someone is at a serious risk if they physically distance outside while wearing a mask?
Gamestonk Terminal – We are much alive
Hey guys,

I just want to follow-up on the terminal progress as it has been some time now. We're still working pretty fast on the terminal, adding new features almost every 2/3 days. And the prediction is that this will continue for a while.

The more we grow, the bigger the community and interest around the terminal. This includes not only users, but companies approaching us to integrate their data, which is great. Hence, if you are interested in helping out in some shape/form, please reach out (https://discord.gg/Up2QGbMKHY). There's definitely a lot to do!

Sorry for last time not being able to reply to the comments, I was constantly being PM'd to fix/improve the repo (mainly because I didn't expect it to get so much traction in a day), that I barely slept the days after trying to improve the installation, and helping users one by one with the install process. It is now in a much better shape, though.
UseEffect – React Hooks Series
I feel certain you could find plenty of people who self identify as liberals and are concerned about free speech issues, just as you can find folks who self identify as conservatives who are concerned about the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories. Dividing people into groups and setting them against each other like this isn’t helping.
Yeah but what's the issue of posting your own PII?

I mean I understand that probably you shouldn't, for various reasons. And posting someone else's PII should absolutely be banned. But if I want to post my ID online, what harm can I make to anyone else?
Would you agree then that those employees are systemically set up to be forced out?
I did not mean to complain the moderators. I just want to draw the comparison to readers. I understand your points and know it is flagged by readers. It shows people intrinsically view things differently, thus, there won’t be fair view in real and virtual world. HN has done a better job than most of platforms already.
To be fair we don't know whether he's telling the truth now - but it certainly creatges reasonable doubt
i deleted the first comment because it was making assumptions about you. That an inability to understand what the original poster meant could only signify trolling demonstrated to me a lack of either imagination or good will. Given this is HN, I assumed the latter, but upon reflection decided that it didn't necessarily follow. Accordingly, I deleted the post.

I figured I should then at least have the candor to sign post what I perceived to be the original poster's intent since you and others seemed to have trouble with it. Given your hostile response to that response (naturally after having been attacked) I won't continue to try.

In all honesty, if you're that insulated from the current zeitgeist, consider yourself fortunate.
It absolutely could be some sort of "limitation" in the student. Some people are just dumb.
I generally do install JDKs as root from the system's package manager. This is primarily due to the system integration that it provides.

However, I often keep a collection of older versions and different patch levels in my home directory. These work fine for testing with the non-openjdk distributions for compatibility purposes.

I wasn't familiar with the icu library issue, so maybe it is something straightforward, but it seems odd that the fix was an env var. I certainly wouldn't say something like "welcome to linux" because of a scenario like this.
Hm. Well, I don't disagree that the crypto market is probably something of a giant Ponzi scheme. I don't have a favorite shitcoin, and I hold a minimal amount of the largest coins, mostly to try out dApps freely. (I can't resist asking you how the market cap of the crypto market has reached some multiple trillions, if not without the assistance of traditional finance.)

I think that's a wholly separate issue from that of the specter of bank malfeasance. Which is to say that you're completely off the mark in that regard; it's clear that finance is abusing its position and running right up to the line - if not over it - in spite of the lessons it should have learned after 2008. And the argument here isn't that banks are conspiring to destroy crypto; it's that they are (were?) using crypto as a tool to avoid insolvency due to the fallout from inadvisable activity over the past year or so. Even those not swept up in the cultish thrall of crypto and meme stocks are looking at that behavior with a wary eye; Archegos et al., after all.

That said.

>Please stop reading or linking to that sub, it's probably the single greatest free improvement you can make to your life right now.

No. :) Someone asked a question and I answered with what I thought was a likely explanation. You can disagree, or even be offended by my stupidity, but I presented it respectfully and in good faith, so here it will be. Silliness aside, I do find the core holding of the GME crowd compelling, and likewise, occasionally, their analysis of what is an unfortunately murky subject. If you disagree, the spirit of HN's standard of discourse is to explain the manner in which "obvious nonsense" is such, and not just to simply state so in an offensive and patronizing manner.
Don't save your outrage here until they start taking down videos of human rights abuses in the USA, too.

Google delenda est
Damn, this could be like the Peloton of Chess: an actual physical board that lets you play with people online. Would be pretty amazing.

I'm visualizing a board with magnetized pieces and your opponent's pieces would move on their own.
You’re underpaying, obviously.
James Stanley did that last year -- using magnets!

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/autopatzer.html
I feel like it is becoming more common here in the southeast as well. I don't particularly like it, tbh, though it does have some advantages. It seems to block noise pretty well.
> When you say 10/14, I don't know what you are referring to btw.

I did the calculation manually, the answer is exactly 10 divided by 14. Basically you just take ( 1 * 3 + 2 * 2 + 3 * 1 ) / (3 * 3 + 2 * 2 + 1 * 1), which is 10 / 14. Computing cosine similarities is really simple as I said.

Edit: The funny thing is that his answer is actually a bit too low since he truncates instead of rounds at the end. 10 / 14 just continues as 142857 and repeats after that. So if the library is smaller than his then the library is wrong and not him. Anyway, blindly trusting the results of a library is just dumb, they make mistakes so often you are right and they are wrong.
All Palestinian violence, especially by Hamas, is used very effectively to gain international sympathy for Israel and to excuse violent & unjust policies.

A much greater level of non-violence from the Palestinian side would result in far stronger international pressure, and also domestic American pressure.
Google wants back in to China, antagonizing the CCP is not on their agenda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

> The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions.[1][2][3] The public learned of Dragonfly's existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.[4][5] In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have "effectively been shut down" after a clash with members of the privacy team within Google.[6] However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.[7]

> In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.[8]

This project even included a weather widget that took the AQI from a special government server in Beijing instead of the usual sources, so Google would be disseminating the state lies about air quality. Google engineers in the US worked on this, even after Google claimed to have shut down the project.