skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well first of all I am not a mathematician, but I enjoyed assimilating the basic principles of math.

Considering the problem as follows:
"Bob and Alice have 10 candies in total, and Bob has 2 more candies than Alice. How many candies do Bob and Alice each have?"

My own solution would be to just define the variables as follows:
Bob = Alice + 2;
Bob + Alice = 10;
2xAlice + 2 = 10;
Alice = (has) 4 candies;
Bob = (has) 6 candies.

Adjusting the problem with an odd difference instead of an even number we have:
"Bob and Alice have 10 candies in total, and Bob has 3 more candies than Alice. How many candies do Bob and Alice each have?"
Bob = Alice + 3;
2xAlice + 3 = 10;
Alice = (has) 3.5 candies;
Bob = (has) 6.5 candies.

I find my solution to be easier to understand and somehow more logical than "let's add/substract this and that and divide by two". Probably my main issue was explaining to a kid how having 3.5 and 6.5 candies works seeing candies I known all my life are basically unbreakable (unless you have a kid's teeths which is known to be able to devour metal).

As an anecdote I recently dated a lady who has a teenage daughter and she showed me the math exams her youngling has been taking. Having never been one to withdraw from a challenge, even mildly implied, I printed the things and started working on them only to be horrified how much I've forgotten in terms of elementary mathematics. I genuinely felt shame even though I scored a decent number (but nothing to write home about).

I feel we're failing our children in how we're pumping them with information but without always teaching them how to learn and that makes me really sad :(
>we have financial methods to account for it.

Could you go over some of them or point to some resource? I'd love to learn more!
Agreed on online and then maybe local from there might be the better way to go. (After all that's how DEFCON got started right ;) But I like the idea of seeing people in person, especially after COIVD, and hardware projects are harder to collab on in the net.

No hate on more professional "networking" type events. I'm personally just not looking for more work after work and, at least for now, that's really only what's available on meetup.
Mathematics of Digital Hyperspace
Yup. People who get their news mostly from Western media might believe Chinese live in a repressive Orwellian hellscape, and conclude that if there is not widespread resentment against the CCP it must be because it's all suppressed. The truth is probably a lot more pedastrian: life in modern China is not bad at all, both in comparison to their own history and compared to other large countries in the world (NOT compared to exlusively rich countries). So a large part of the population is probably at least somewhat content with the current government.

Life is probably far from pleasant if you're an Uyghur or a Falung Gong, but the overwhelming majority of the population is not too concerned with their lot. The CCP clearly does suppress dissent, but it can be targetted to minority opinions.

The median Chinese citizen doesn't just see Western Europe and the USA and concludes that democracy leads to great results. (S)he can also see that it did not appear to bring great prosperity to India, Brazil or Russia.
> This has been going on since before Israel when terrorist groups like the Haganah and the Levi would terrorize Palestinians to force them to flee.

One of the differences between me and you is that I admit Israelis have faults.

What you say is of course to some degree right.

But presenting it this way without mentioning all the Arab terrorist groups, how the Arabs sided with the nazis etc makes it a huge lie anyway because it makes people think it is one sided.

It isn't.

And media is constantly fueling the same lie.
That's the revenue for ByteDance, which is more than just Tiktok (though it's probably it's most popular product)
>geometric patterns appearing in textures

Is it similar to the kinds of visuals a person using psychedelics might experience?
It seems like a lot of people use Core instead of the stdlib, so much that I felt like it was best practice to do that. I explain that in the first sections.
Wow. What a quarter! Google cloud’s loss was just shy of 600M that’s down a ton.
I think condescending really is the wrong approach to people that have crazy beliefs like climate change deniers, holocaust deniers and anti-vaxxers. These are people that choose to believe in something dogmatic that is absolutely not covered by facts and no rational discussion will be able to convince them otherwise.

In my opinion, people should be less accepting of stupidity like this. There are opinions that should not be accepted so condescension is the wrong approach, rejection and ostracization are the ones that are right in my opinion.
There is one way of storing carbon in the soil for the long term: biochar[0]. Biochar is organic matter heated anaerobically (pyrolysis) until it turns into something like charcoal. Biochar is stable for a long time. You can then bury that in the soil... it seems to improve the soil by providing surface area for soil micro-organisms and to store nutrients. This could be done on a very large scale, and pyrolysis can actually be energy positive because you can burn the hydrogen that's released to perform the pyrolysis and still have energy left over.

This may be one of our best options, and we should accelerate more research in that area.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
Would you say that you believe Samoa or the Maldives, for example, should anticipate a small and gradual change in climate that doesn't warrant a massive upheaval in their economy?
I would like to see a citation that very many of these are by car... and satisfying vacation demand is, anyway, a pretty substantial part of what the entire car rental industry already exists for. All those people at the airport didn't take their cars with them.
Any experiences teaching kids/students programming with FP? Starting with FP that is.
Past threads related to this book:

Functional Programming in OCaml - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22408664 - Feb 2020 (58 comments)

Functional Programming in OCaml - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400233 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)

Functional Programming in OCaml - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19292067 - March 2019 (144 comments)
If what you say is true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang could be dangerous.
True. If they all quit I'm most could find jobs relatively quickly. However, that isn't true for everyone. Is it really worth the risk of not being able to find a job and or getting worse pay?
Need to include that into my next command line tool.
Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring our first analytics engineer
Ivermectin – For and Against, Briefing Document
Climate change denier and climate change skeptic focus on whether climate change is happening, from the progressive technocrat view that from these facts there must naturally follow certain policies.

If anyone actually wants to persuade the other side, they need to focus on showing that the policies are likely to accomplish their goals and the least intrusive means of accomplishing those goals.

But the "we must do something" crowd can't even seem to accept nuclear energy, which people can interpret as a sign that preventing climate change is just an excuse for policy goals already desired for other reasons.
Basically it comes down to the seat position relative to the road. Many people like having a higher position and midsize SUVs/crossovers provide that. Whether or not it's actually safer or provides more visibility, some people prefer it to a sedan experience.
Signal: How to Ethically Boost Your Revenues
Agree. The official story trailer suggested that it would be quite similar to the first game, but then it wasn't.
Is this really meaningful?
Honestly, all I really want is Carplay on my iPhone. Vehicle sensors aside, there's no reason they can't deliver 90% of the functionality I (and probably most people) use, in a Carplay app. Bluetooth gives me the stereo and speakerphone integration already.

This would be a huge sell for all of us driving cars that are just a bit too old to have a stereo with Carplay, and/or whose head units can't be replaced for technical reasons.
If gas were to become expensive enough I bet people would think harder about it.
I think we will see more of this as time goes on. As the innovation of hardware slows, the importance of its longevity grows.
Cars, asphalt, heating/cooling, industry, and population density increase?

"According to the EPA, many U.S. cities have air temperatures up to 10°F (5.6°C) warmer than the surrounding natural land cover." https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/...

This "urban heat island" warming has progressed at the same time as CO2-driven global warming, and its measured magnitude (5.6°C) is larger than the estimated effect of CO2 so far (up to 1.5°C).

I'm startled to read an article that claims to be "putting myself in the shoes of a climate change sceptic" without even mentioning this basic confounding factor of any urban data set.

Even CNN and MSN (those bastions of climate change skepticism) call out the urban heat island effect when talking about early blooming cherry blossoms:

"There are two sources of increased heat, which is the main factor making the flowers bloom earlier: urbanization and climate change. With increased urbanization, cities tend to get warmer than the surrounding rural area, in what is called the heat island effect. But a bigger reason is climate change, which has caused rising temperatures across the region and the world." https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/japan-just-reco... (note that this link is msn, but the authors are cited as CNN)
It would be nice if it had examples without Core, too, using only OCaml's standard library. I would like to stick to the standard library first, and if it is not enough, then maybe OCaml Batteries or Core.

Perhaps give a reference to "libraries" on the first page (or all?) where you use Core so people know how to use Core (opam, dune).
It's like Bridgegate. The way these people become powerful is by being smart enough to both delegate crime and never write anything down about it.
The stock is down AH
> I'd love to reduce hours, but I've never found a way to make it work.

How seriously have you tried? I don’t know you or your situation but often when someone says this they just mean “that sounds nice, but…”. If it’s something you really want, treat it like a job to figure it out. I’m glad I put in the effort and time to work it out. It’s a mix of reducing / eliminating expenses and trying different things. There are so many options once you (and your partner) decide you want it more than a million dollar house etc. The specifics depend on the individual.

Most of the things we collectively (society) spend money on are unnecessary and often even detrimental to contentment. For the things that are necessary, there are often cheaper options. I’m not referring to some kind of new age self help nonsense. Just look how your grandparents or great grandparents lived during the depression.
Storage failures tend to cause the biggest end-of-life disruptions, whereas CPUs and networking hardware tend to work until they suddenly don't. I interpret "servers" as meaning primarily CPUs, rather than storage, so this seems to point at functional equipment taking longer to become obsolete, rather than being more durable.
> Their position stems more from a lack of manpower than any strategic decision.

That doesn't seem to be what Mozilla thinks, which is that it was never reliable and no one used it:

> “The SSB feature has only ever been available through a hidden [preference] and has multiple known bugs,” Mozilla’s Dave Townsend explains in a Bugzilla issue tracker. “Additionally, user research found little to no perceived user benefit to the feature and so there is no intent to continue development on it at this time. As the feature is costing us time in terms of bug triage and keeping it around is sending the wrong signal that this is a supported feature, we are going to remove the feature from Firefox.”

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/mozilla-firefox/...
Almost every EV post ends up with a discussion about broken chargers but I wonder why are they broken so often? How much maintenance do they need? I had use of a friend's Leaf for a couple of months and was disappointed in how frequently I came across broken chargers. Luckily there was usually at least one in the bank of chargers that still worked and my travel habits only required 30-40 minutes of charging to extend the range enough for me to get home but it still gave me anxiety that one day every charger would be out of service and I'd be looking for an extension cord and someone who'd let me use a 110v outlet.

The Department of Energy gave a resort town in my state a grant to add a bunch of charging stations. The thought was that people from the city would be more willing to use their EV to travel to the resort town if there were plenty of chargers. But after a year almost all of them were broken. On review sites, there were also complaints about ICE vehicles sitting in the EV charging spots all day and no one would do anything about it. Even the chargers outside City Hall were broken. Most (all?) EVs won't allow you to drive off while they're plugged into a charger, so I doubt it's vehicle collisions, at least not EVs, causing the charging stations to need frequent maintenance.
From what I’ve seen you’re right, but I think it’s a case of incentives distorting people’s beliefs.

I would assume there’s also a correlation between the “don’t do anything about climate change” folks and limited government/capitalist beliefs. All of those beliefs seem distinct but they all have aligned incentives to keep the economic status quo.

I’m not trying to be condescending towards that side either, I know it’s true for myself too. I generally support change that shifts power away from the powerful, so I was always going to support something like the green new deal over a privatized solution.

Edited for clarity
> 15 minute break for the toilet and getting a takeout coffee will give you 60 miles of ran

That sounds terrible to a Canadian. 15 minutes every hour?
Understandable to be wary of anything Google offers given their track record, but GCP is way too big and strategic for them to get bored of it.
It really is the element in the complaint that stands out.

First, pay and promotion discrimination are widespread and are less shocking. Acceptable? No. I like DFEH's authority to go hard after companies to get this addressed, but I somehow shrug and say "Let the lawsuit parade begin. Ok, Blizzrad can go first."

Second, some of the anecdotes in the Blizzard complaint come off as problematic but not shocking. "Cube crawls" which seem like "get drunk at work" parties that led to sexual harassment: getting drunk at work is a management-stupid recipe for trouble. DFEH Lawsuit worth? Less obvious.

Third, the named executive who was a creep comes off as a problem for that creep. He was let go quietly and management didn't otherwise change. It's hard to tell if this is worse than average for creep executives. Lawsuit worthy by DFEH? Unlikely on its own: management acted to address the issue.

But the suicide. The victim was exploited, harassed, and abused as an employee. The complaint insinuates that her traveling coworker had demeaning sex toys on hand. It's not obvious if she was the intended subject of the coworker toys, but it is implied. Her suicide seems to have been preventable and, therefore, tragic. More than anything else it suggests that the other elements of the complaint led her to a feeling of hopelessness in her work environment. It is not a stretch to imagine that she was not alone in that feeling as a result of that environment.

RIP, victim. The lawsuit will bring insufficient justice for you and negligible peace for your family. Perhaps it will begin some broader change.
May I posit that, while they technically meet the definition of "pornography" in most dictionaries (and sometimes common use) that written erotic stories simply are in a different category altogether in many ways? Now, as a fair disclaimer, I personally have no moral objection to people getting erotic pleasure or stimulation from such media, in the abstract. I think it might actually be a net-healthy thing in some limited contexts.

But I do worry about how what sex acts are depicted as normal might scramble our interpersonal relationships. I worry about how implausibly beautiful people might damage our self-esteem. And the increasing integration into "endless scrolling" with a social aspect and the clicky-clicky dopamine feedback cycle is the death blow.

Most of these concerns are close to nil with an erotic short story, by comparison. To brutally chop this down to a simple idea: Monkey see, monkey do. Monkey think abstractly through imagination, monkey imagine but not see and so not do.

After all, don't you think it's telling that, while teen girls are hooked on the image-pornography of fake stardom lives on Instagram, and teen boys are hooked on OnlyFans content and half-clad Twitch streamers, that there is (to my knowledge) no epidemic of compulsive erotic story writing and reading to go with it? Oh, I'm sure some people do spend 12 hours a day at that, but it seems not to tickle our brains in quite the same way. Such things are merely sporadically titillating, not horrifically and compulsively addictive, at least for the typical person.
Yep, and when I read those kinds of claims I think "this is what advocates for specific interventions around climate change believe is causation, therefore, they don't know what they're talking about"
https://news.ycombinator.com is pretty great for that specific area :)

And:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Naval%20Architecture&type=stor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
How would one set out to prove they were not vaccinated?
I recommend the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon. He is portrayed as a genuinely decent human being, and the stories are interesting.
While this is certainly evidence of something changing, simple urbanization is one thing you’d have to correct for when evaluating this data.

The urban heat island phenomenon is well documented, and since all Japanese cities have parks with cherry trees in them, UHI alone could cause a significant shift in how early said trees bloom.

You’d have to do a careful study to disentangle the UHI effect from the climate effect in this case.

So if anything, this article is a great demonstration why real science is hard, but sensationalism is easy.
On HN this week something like half of the articles (e: from a Google search) about PHP had SQLi in them.
But half of those people are there with broken legs and apendicitis. Only half of those stats are due to covid. As an invidual, every person in a hospital is too much... but when considering lockdowns, because there are (eg.) a 1000 people with covid in hospitals, it's worth to know if those people are there because of covid, or 560 of them would be there normally.
Rather than revenue increase, the more interesting thing seems to be the significant fall in loss. Since they are close to profitability, it might allow them to be more aggressive on pricing.
When people talk about this they simply mean that cappuccino cafes are better than landmines, and that Italy beats Syria by that good vs bad metric.

It's not an argument that we should replace all culture with a European facsimile, merely that some movement towards the proven model for success is needed.
I appreciated the honest fault acceptance. That was refreshing. Thanks!
Assuming that something is false isn't the same as denying it.
That’s a pretty generous interpretation that offers about as much evidence as the article does for the opposite.
Studying the impact of being on Hacker News first page
Since beginning of 2021, my blog has been popular a few times on the website Hacker News and it draws a lot of traffic. This is a report of the traffic generated by Hacker News because I found this topic quite interesting.
No.

You better be able to articulate what job-relevant reason is behind your dislike and be able to express it in those terms. If you go with your gut feel alone, you could be easily selecting for physical attractiveness, extroversion, a nice smile or some of the many less acceptable biases. Maybe you have perfectly diverse personal discretion, but most people choose copies of themselves or attractive members of the opposite sex.
Do you have a preferred one?

We're currently on the big 3 US ones, in process of working on our 4th provider, our goal is very much to deliver the best Postgres experience whether on bare metal/on-premise or in the cloud, self hosted or fully managed.

Edit: Always feel free to reach out directly, I'm always happy to spend time with anyone that has questions and usually pretty easy to track me down.
"Asset Recovery Section" nice way of saying vultures, but sympathy for someone raising the price medication is rarer than NFTs of Mr. Shkreli's mugshots.
This is interesting to me but the motivation behind this is unclear. Since FastAI.jl uses Flux, and not PyTorch, functionality has to be reimplemented. FastAI.jl has vision support but no text support yet.

What does this mean for the development of fastai?

What is the timeline for FastAI.jl to achieve parity?

When should I choose FastAI.jl vs fastai?
Is DDR4 refresh only usage power really that high?

Regardless, the standard is that the sleep mode must be ACPI S3 or if it is not S3 it must meet the stated power criteria criteria, (and for most desktops the limit is only 5W if under 32GB). I'm not sure why an S3 sleep is good enough to not need to meet the specific limits.
It's later than you think (2019)
It might be worth an additional “paired” law that companies are not allowed to both sell hardware/OS and copyright-protected media.

Some of the worst DRM has been because Apple has a vested interest in restricting your ability to use your computer freely.
It's less "seamless", but also more flexible. The Discord reply feature only works within the same channel while you can share slack messages anywhere, including in threads by linking. Linking to discord messages works, but there's no inline preview.
So, couple things about the Discover page.

First, it's categorized. The platform uses emoji instead of hashtags and the Discover page has a set of defaults, so clicking on the dropdown at the top of the page will give you some other options. You could also try a keyword search to find posts related to topics you're interested in, and then see if you want to follow those people.

That being said, the second thing to know about the Discover page is that it's hand curated, and I'll be the first to admit that there's a pretty clear bias in the kinds of posts that bubble up. :) For example, I follow @adamcomputer (https://micro.blog/adamcomputer), because, as you can probably guess, I'm very much a nerd. But I don't know that I've ever seen any of his stuff land in the Discover feed. So instead, I sometimes find interesting people and look at who they're following and go from there.

Now, I still very much enjoy browsing the Discovery feeds! But I'll be the first to admit discoverability is, at least in my opinion, still a challenge on the service.
I'm still having a hard time with this. You say you don't know, and from that you conclude that nobody else does either?

> I just wish people would admit "We don't really know"

Surely somebody has spent time "researching the data, looking at the implications, and listening to the arguments"? Why are you so sure they should "admit" that they don't really know? Especially when so many have come out and said that they do?
It's strange because I think if the same $5000/hair offering were made for an average person it would be much more serious. But in my mind someone who is so prominent and guarded by the Secret Service is in virtually no danger from such an outlandish thing. But I do understand how someone would see it the other way and not be comfortable with the risk at all.