skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ever get a chance to tour a manufactured home facility, one of the big things you'll notice is that there is almost no waste coming out the back end, and certainly far, far less waste than you see in a typical site-built home (huge dumpsters of waste being hauled off regularly).

They're designed so that there's just not much in the way of waste - because dimensions are standard, and consistency is pretty good, you simply make sure that if you have a cut of a standard piece, you need the other half of it over there. There's just very, very little waste.

On top of that, there's very little transporting of random stuff, because it's all built onsite. Cabinets are built as an entire unit in a quarter of the factory I toured, and are simply run across into the house before the roof goes on. There's no need to make sure the cabinets fit through doors and such - the entire assemblies are brought in and dropped in place (or nearly so) through the top.

The roof, meanwhile, is built at more or less waist height (depending on slopes). It's assembled, "drywall up," on some jigs that hold it properly, wiring is run, the joists are added, and you end up with a roof segment that is then lifted up, painted, and set down on top of the house. It almost entirely eliminates the "roof work" risk for doing roofs.

I know in most modern tech circles it's incredibly popular to hate "trailer homes" - which tells me that most people's vision of them is a 1970s single wide, 50 years of limited maintenance later. Modern manufactured homes have nearly nothing to do with that - ours is 2x6 exterior construction, drywall, Energy Star rated, metal roof, good insulated windows, etc. Out of curiosity I signed up for the power company's free "energy analysis" thing, where they come and check the ducts, do a blower door test, etc, and they left saying "There's literally nothing we can improve - this is a tight house, comfortably in the top range, and your ducts are very well sealed too." I'd wager my results against any similar size site built home in the area.

People we have over are consistently surprised to find out that our place is a manufactured, because it doesn't match the "trailer house" image. I think it's blindingly obvious it's manufactured, but I also saw it come in on trucks, and I know the signs to look for - simple rectangular floor plan, a strong marriage line down the center, and typically water only on one half of the house (it avoids having to do any water pipe joins onsite, which reduces the risk of leaks). We have a concrete foundation under the house, and it works great for us.

But, you know, we do legally live in a "trailer home." Doesn't bother us in the slightest.
Author here! I implemented every method I described in the post in the pip library I used in the post.

In case you missed it:
https://github.com/banditml/offline-policy-evaluation
I agree that technical docs should be the closest to the code. But one problem of that is docs is more difficult to discover. As you need to browse the repo and docs is in the middle of source code.

What I tried to do, is to use Github API to list all .md files in a repo and index them as if they were Confluence/Notion/.. docs (with tags, attributes, folders, ...). One issue, there is not a lot of granularity in the permission system of github, and the app would need to have a view right on all files of each repo, which can be an issue when you offer this app as Saas. Same this is not possible to share only one file of a repo with an external app
In a few years, I can imagine governments mandating that all computing devices come with these chips, ostensibly for cyber-security purposes.

The question is, what happens after that? Do they mandate that your connection to your ISP be secured with the TPM too? That way they can also require that your OS provide remote attestation that it is has applied all the relevant security patches.

By the end of the decade, I predict that it will be almost impossible to run "unapproved" software on any computer connected to the internet. I also suspect that "unapproved" software will include any software that supports End-to-End encryption, or even anonymity online.
Not defending Reddit, but it's the same with Facebook, and have you seen the Google Search results in a "developed country"? First full screen on mobile is ads that look like search results. Thankfully there's a small "ad" in the corner that no one can see.
As others mentioned happens for them, I'm still logged in, and can get to the settings page to fix it without logging in again.
> I'm not sure how it's politically inconvenient for me when I'm a registered Pacific Green.

The West being less hostile to and more willing to collaborate with Russia is a frequent position promoted in Pacific Green circles; Russia being tied to active hostile activity against Western regimes is politically inconvenient to that message.
I don't think Canadians will welcome a huge wave of refugees that dwarfs their own population with open arms.
Can you explain the API a bit more? If you're batching writes in a single thread, doesn't that imply that clients don't 'know' when their writes are actually committed to disk? Or are their requests kept open until fsync?
I think it’s just an oddity of newspapers. Even before it was called “going viral”, they’ve been a bit like that.
Google is warning users when its search results might be unreliable
It’s much easier to track user and adds they see on mobile apps then mobile web... So more money from advertising and selling people usage patterns and info would be my guess...
There is nothing wrong with it.

Like I mentioned, there are perfect legitimate reasons and need to do it.

However, the best privacy practice is to never share it. If you share, then it is no longer privacy first. The goals which one wants to achieve come first. I'm not saying it will not have adequate privacy protection. But it's not "privacy first" because it introduces the risk to someone's privacy for the benefit of something. That something comes first.
Isn't that need to considered in relative term? Some people showing certain behavior, when they are below certain percentage, just not going to affect the overall outlook of the nation. And we are talking about the national sentiment of China, comparably speaking, that applies to equally large scale sentiment in US. For example, there are a lot of people believe in flat earth theory, but that does not stand to be a US sentiment, one cannot claim that US people believe in flat earth. Same, one cannot claim Chinese people believe they are evolved from independent source than people living in other countries.
That's a bug in my web mention scraper! I've been meaning to fix that but I have had bigger things to worry about.
>Wikileaks claimed to have GOP emails as well but for some reason never released them.

[citation needed]
Regarding desktop, and even mobile. old.reddit.com still points to the previous version of the site. It's less than ideal for mobile but you can set this as the default site in your account settings. It's under beta section, need to uncheck box for using the new reddit site.
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> but doesn't the US also heavily favour new construction?

I don't know if my view reflects the majority, but around where I am from, older and even historic homes are the crown jewels because they were built before the race to the bottom occured in construction -- namely cheaper, thinner walls, smaller usable space, etc. Older homes are built with old growth lumber, and often come with thicker plaster walls and better layouts.
Doesn’t have to be left vs. right.

Politically motivated reasoning can come from any party or person.

The comic’s content suggested some anti-Hillary sentiment, that paired with “Russiagate” suggested some pro-Bernie political lean, Green Party probably fits with that? Aren’t they more hard-left?

Sister reply is also relevant.
The amount of waste in general for constructing or remodeling a house is incredible. In my experience, even if you wanted to be conscientious about the waste (e.g repurpose timber), it would require so much more effort that’s already going into the project that it’s just easier to throw all the waste together in one bin and take to the landfill.
I’m fairly sure you can’t do that. For example, suppose you have logic that uses some inputs to compute an output:

A, B ⇒ C

Add ECC bits to the inputs, and you want

Aa, Bb ⇒ Cc

Now, if you want this to detect errors made by the “⇒” part, you can’t do this as “drop the ECC bits, compute the result, compute the ECC bits of the result”.

So, how do you compute the ECC bits from only the Aa and Bb bits without having to compute the C part?

Depending on the ECC logic chosen, that might be doable for bit shifts, but for addition? For multiplication? For IEEE float square roots?
People with no control over the software they run get surprised when it does something they don't like. News at 11.
Pragprog has a book on genetic algorithms using Elixir!

https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in...
I'm afraid I don't understand your question completely, so I'll answer what I guess you mean. Let's say you have a function in one module that expects a bytestring. This function is called from another module, and a unicode string is passed. What happens?

Well python is a duck-typed language, so it will handle the unicode string as if it was a bytestring, and this may or may not work correctly. It's up to the modern code to interface correctly with the legacy code. This could mean manually converting between bytestring and unicode string.
RIF is fun user myself. Like others have said, I haven't experienced these issues. If reddit shuts of the API I'm probably out.
How does the upscaling on apple tv compare to Nvidia shield's ai upscaling?
It will not stay in the box.

The allure of armies of supersoldiers without sense of emotions, conscience, and remorse is irresistible for dictators. I bet Chinese, or Russian militaries are already working on that.
"too niche...Only relatively technical people hang out here"

Sounds like early reddit.
One thing Microsoft didn't discuss: Windows 11 privacy
Browse HN threads on any other topic like guns, tobacco, or energy/climate change, and read multitude of harsher, simplistic responses to what are really tough challenges.

But watch the mellow language, the "nuanced response", the "it's a complicated problem" when it comes down to the holy cows.

I think it's fair to say HN is pretty pro-regulation. Strongly regulate social media, or ban it altogether. It's literally killing people, ruining relationships, perverting elections. It's a net negative by objective metrics.

No half assed hypocritical solutions.
You are correct. The SFHs in Tokyo are usually built roughly similar to stick-built (slightly post-and-beam, but walls are load-bearing). Wood can be precut to length, but they are constructed on-site.
On the other hand, are tribes or nations which are not intimately connected to the western world that much better off?

And science evolved greatly in the highly interconnected parts of the world.
>Doctors infused billions of microscopic structures known as nanoparticles carrying genetic instructions for the CRISPR gene-editor into four patients in London and two in New Zealand. The nanoparticles were absorbed by their livers, where they unleashed armies of CRISPR gene-editors. The CRISPR editor honed in on the target gene in the liver and sliced it, disabling production of the destructive protein.

this is one of the coolest paragraphs I've read in a while. if it's accurate, serves as a great reminder that we're in the future as we speak
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First time I got into the computer room back in the days when one unix mini-computer ran hundreds of terminals. I was asked to put a reel tape into the drive to load a tar archive into the Oracle database.

I couldn’t get the tape drive door open so I looked around and saw a key next to the door.

That didn’t open the door either. I was stood there scratching my head when the double doors burst open and half a dozen sysadmins came running in like a SWAT team.

I was a bit surprised until I glanced down and notice all the lights were off.

Yes the key that turned the power off had been left in the machine.
> I don't know if my view reflects the majority

It doesn't. For example this article expressing surprise:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/previousl...

Even the term 'previously owned' for a house is baffling to UK ears. Of course a house is previously owned. Why would you be building your own?
Ever notice the difference is that people on FB have identities to defend but reddit users are just anon usernames with no identity tied to it?

I think this is a serious aspect of why they produce different conversations.
Technically there were a bunch of German "emperors" although they called themselves kings. They're the people that Justinian fought against, more or less, when he reconquered Italy and in the process killed large parts of the population.

I'll have to double-check Duncan's podcast to see if he ends it in the 470s or in the 530s or so. Personally I think the Gothic War/Lombard Invasion makes a much better ending point for civilization in the West than 472.
>The West being less hostile to and more willing to collaborate with Russia is a frequent position promoted in Pacific Green circles

Pure DNC propaganda. Zero basis in reality.
This assumes being evil is free. Google, Facebook etc are trading long term value for short term gains.

DuckDuckGo users are funding ddg’s growth and R&D which makes it a better product over time. Google essentially converted some minimal short term gains into an existential threat. Assuming they become widely known as the worse search engine it’s extremely difficult to regain users.

Facebook bought out several competitors, but Facebook.com for example has serious issues with younger demographics. At this point any platform they don’t buy risks killing the company.
Precisely. Reddit's customers are not the users but the advertisers.
> that wikipedia page doesn't appear to mention anything about computing information

From the opening of the Wikipedia page:

'Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that "any logically irreversible manipulation of information, such as the erasure of a bit or the merging of two computation paths, must be accompanied by a corresponding entropy increase in non-information-bearing degrees of freedom of the information-processing apparatus or its environment".'

Computation is in the first sentence, it's mentioned by name 8 times in the opening section - information 6 times. I'm not really sure how you came to the conclusion it doesn't mention anything about computing information. Even skimming it's hard to find a spot not mentioning it directly, by name.

> Given that computing information with a computer is just switching transistors on and off in a clever way, it makes no sense that if we are unclever, then suddenly all of the heat becomes "waste".

What you call "clever" and "unclever" are (essentially) ways of describing how entropy was changed. Another way of thinking about it is there is a very specific order to where energy needs to go and how it needs to be arranged to be "clever" and calculate something vs unclever and not have the answer to the number crunching problem.

Also note there is a difference between "energy that eventually ends up as heat" and "waste heat". All work will result in heat if you follow it long enough, some energy spent doing that will not go towards the amount of work done but will still end up as heat. The latter is known as waste heat. Waste heat is not just "heat I ended up with at the end".
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Functions like `atoi` parse strings into integers, but will happily accept “ 10blah” and return 10. In my experience it’s best to validate that the string is well-formed (e.g. contains only digits) before passing it to one of those functions.
A somewhat less meandering explanation for the modern dominance of balloon framing, which also draws parallels to software development:

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/balloon-framing-i...
Agree the crypto industry has been riddled with bad actors and copy/paste code masquerading as "new" technology. Difficult watching retail investors get burned over the past decade.

That said, the Internet Computer blockchain (ICP) is completely novel cryptography and advanced computer science.

Raoul Pal, one of the most influential people in crypto, recently said, "The Internet Computer project is clearly the biggest in ambition of any project in the crypto space because it’s basically saying, ‘Here’s an entirely new architecture for the internet that is driven by cryptography and is scalable beyond anything that exists currently today.’ It’s faster than all the other blockchains."

If you want supporting evidence, check out DSCVR, the world’s first fully blockchain-based social media platform. Note: This is being built by a prominent engineer at a notable Big Tech company during nights and weekends... and the Internet Computer only launched 7 weeks ago.

http://dscvr.one

Important to note, I work at the DFINITY Foundation, alongside ~200 of the world's most accomplished cryptographers, distributed systems engineers, and programming language and operation experts.

Encourage pioneering entrepreneurs and developers to apply for a grant and start building.

https://medium.com/dfinity/how-to-write-the-perfect-develope...
I'd like that, but also been observing that only very specific topics trigger the stop telling me what to do.
My 2cts with teams. Multiple clients use teams and sent me invites with team links.

There seems to be no way to open or see the meetings directly within team. I always have to open my mail, click the link, go to the website, click on open in teams and only then will it open the meeting.
> And, whether your intention or not, that’s exactly what your comment was: patronizing.

E: Not quite. You perceived the comment as patronizing. This is not a universal assessment. From my point of view, I didn't find it patronizing. I'm not saying I'm right and you are wrong; I'm simply saying it is far from clear cut.

Here is one definition of patronizing that I find useful:

> apparently kind or helpful but betraying a feeling of superiority; condescending

You may think that someone else feels superior to you. That is your assessment, I respect that, and I'll listen. At the same time, it is subjective and is uncertain, because your knowledge is incomplete.

The principle of charity is useful here. I hope you can see alternative interpretations that show N does not perceive himself as superior. In particular, their commentary, in my view, is by and large very thoughtful, with the exception of a few sharp edges (which everyone has). From what I can tell, N's edgier comments came out because they felt attacked.

That's the pattern I see here. A person feels attacked and their communication becomes less charitable and even abrasive. At least two people fell into this trap in this thread. As a community, we don't benefit when this happens, but this is human nature.

The solutions are not easy. In my view, we should try to observe, be thoughtful, and attempt to deescalate tensions. I believe a vast majority of people are here for positive reasons and have plenty to learn from each other.
Could you share this decent evidence for us who haven't seen it before?
That's a pessimistic way of putting it.

"In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas"... but aren't those brought about by evolution as well? And as far as I can see the top ten keeps changing, evolving.

My argument is that the internet has enabled hyper-evolution. You get access to the best possible information, you have through torrents and libgen access to all the media and books ever produced at your fingertips, free of charge. What you might've figured out in 30 years of your own trials and tribulations can now be learned in a couple of years reading books. Of course pride and arrogance keeps us from learning but that's a different story and will probably be weeded out by evolution much faster now than ever before thanks to free access to information.
Since when do Nvidia products come with that expectation, though?
> But in all of the sane systems I know, at the end of the day it’s really all “when”.

Aren't databases basically "where"?
Edit: "reined in" and not "reigned in".

I apologize for the Freudian slip as my edit window has passed.
I am a big Crichton fan and wish he was around to skewer Fuckerberg & Co.

Truth is we haven't got to 5 billion online. Just getting 3 billion online has run into massive issues that has split the net in many ways no one imagined. It doesn't look like we will ever get to 5 billion.

So there is some baked in natural resistance. Andrew Odlyzko is looking like he was onto something when he said Metcalfe and Reeds Law of network growth would not hold.

Primarily the limitation is the 6 inch chimp brain and the Dunbar number. If the avg chimp has the channel capacity for a 100 ppl max what's the point of all this connectivity?

We are taking our sweet time to realise it.
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The courts are specialists in the law, not the truth. I sincerely doubt them deciding what is true and what isn't "beats the hell out of the position that any attempt to arbitrate the truth is unacceptably oppressive". It would quickly turn into a dystopian nightmare.

Have you never thought about why freedom of speech is an important and worthy fundamental right?
It was written by the same people:

The Java HotSpot Performance Engine was released on April 27, 1999, built on technologies from an implementation of the programming language Smalltalk named Strongtalk, originally developed by Longview Technologies, which traded as Animorphic. The Longview virtual machine was based on the Self virtual machine, with an interpreter replacing the fast-and-dumb first compiler. When Sun cancelled the Self project, two key people, Urs Hölzle and Lars Bak left Sun to start Longview. In 1997, Sun Microsystems purchased Animorphic.

Source: wikipedia
Often the C vs C++ debate comes down to a religious war where the C side is arguing that their hammer is best for pounding in nails and the C++ side is arguing that their screwdriver is best for screwing in screws. I don't believe they're suited for the same purposes at all.

If you're writing code where you need to interface with the hardware directly (embedded), or manipulate things in kernel-space efficiently (OpenGL, audio, games), then C makes a lot of sense (and if you try to write C++, you'll end up using C anyway, and your attempts to shoehorn in C++ features will be ineffective).

If you're writing a high-performance C++ version of a Python web service, C++'s nicer memory management and string handling will be very VERY useful, not to mention object types for serializing/deserializing data.
On the other hand if "global uniformity" stops us from nuking each other to smithereens than maybe it's not a bad thing.
Sure... we might not innovate enough, hopefully we don't decline to the point of pre-industrial levels but at least we might have a chance to make it out alive; instead of being in a creative destruction process akin to evolution.