skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you're not smoking. Wouldn't you end a date with a smoking person? Because as I see it smoking is a big deal if you're looking for a partner for more than one night.

And I'm personally not exactly anti-smoking person since I can smoke hookah few times a year. But I still can't imagine being together with a person that smoke daily. I can only imagine how bad this can be for a person who actually hate the smell.
In Germany we have the same saying.

> Einen guten Freund erkennt man in der Not
(A good friend is recognized in times of need).

Edit: Formatting
There's this obsession with the iPod like it was the first mp3 player in the world. It wasn't even the best.

I had an MP3 player before I heard about the iPod, moved on to PDAs with MMC cards for music (because why have two separate devices), had smartphones before the iPhone was even released, had an MP3 player with a high quality DAC/preamp (big difference with good headphones).

Apple is just good at marketing and Americans are good at buying (hence, the initial and continued success of many American companies). You'll have a harder time getting most Europeans to buy your new revolutionary/life-changing/world-saving stuff, imo. Probably the same for Japan.
Small scale money laundering maybe. For the big money look at the property prices in London.
It's impossible to build the infrastructure without taking away space from cars and/or drastically changing zoning.
Although there is a Python frontend, Dlib is really a C++-first toolkit that can be easily integrated in to other C++ applications.

The examples are thoroughly documented, and the code itself has been a great pedagogical tool for me and others I work with. Basically, it's simple and well written.
most were already banned at this point
Or register Ubuntu Livepatch service, let everything install automatically, and stop care about updates and restarts at all ;)
The GPL does not require to release the source publicly, only to the same people you distribute binaries to. This is not an obligation to share back to the project itself. Therefore the sharing back that does happen is down to culture not to the license.
> I'll argue with anyone about anything. For free.

No, you won't.
While you largely have a point, I think you're perhaps a little too optimistic about the big picture, especially when factoring in timelines.

Simply saying no to cars doesn't solve the problem of transporting goods of any kind, e.g. a family load of food shopping for the week, furniture or building materials when doing a house renovation.

And while covid has nudged employment towards a more decentralised model, some countries (the US comes to mind, especially in rural areas or AFAIK cities like LA) don't really have a public transport alternative, for instance.
This, exactly. I also saw a quite big difference between monolingual English speakers and Italian speakers. The average monolingual Italian speaker that has had a basic exposure to certain English words through TV or media in general WILL definitely mispronounce the words, but the result is never so corrupted and garbled to result incomprehensible to an English speaker. For instance, the average Italian might pronounce a word like "cocktail" as /ˈkoktɛl/ instead of the correct English /ˈkɒkteɪl/, or "underground" as /andɛrˈgraund/ instead of /ʌndəˈɡɹaʊnd/; I've yet to find an English speaker that hasn't studied Italian that doesn't do butcherings like /ʃəˈbɑːda/, which an Italian won't definitely recognize as "ciabatta" due to the fact that it is supposed to sound /tʃaˈbatta/. I think it's a process somewhat similar to how Japanese corrupts loanwords, but in the other direction: English has a vastly larger array of sounds compared to Italian, so speakers somewhat fail to understand that Romance languages (except French and friends, but we don't talk about French) are usually much "flatter" in sound than your average Germanic language with 16 vowels.
I'd love to read more about these prep schools. Have you a recommended link by any chance?
> 107 minute read

Hmmm... that is truly way too deep.
The questions posed by your parent comment are rather high-level inquiries based on statistics and basic scientific reasoning.

They do not require domain expertise to answer, just a decent command of statistics and a curious mind, and I agree with the parent that they are fundamental to knowing the scientific truth.

> you cannot expect a newspaper article to include these.

Why not?

If you're driving a narrative, using hyperbolic language such as "punishing" or coining terms such as "heat dome", the burden-of-proof standards should be equally high on your part.

I'd expect any scientific reporter in a newspaper like The Guardian to have basic scientific inquiry skills, and if the hypothesis is "this is caused by humans" to try hard to refute it, and not to leave questions like that unanswered.

Is that too high of a standard?
I’m a lot more optimistic. The American idea of a compact car is the British idea of a big car (judging by labelled parking spaces in Davis CA), so that’s culture or fashion, and those can shift fast. And all the big companies are shifting to electric now, so even big isn’t as important.

Vat meat is starting to get on the market, and while we’ll have to wait and see if this is a iPhone moment or a Sinclair C5 moment, the prices have come down rapidly since the first attempts.

Flying is going to be a hard thing to totally green, but it’s not impossible either, merely low priority.

Yes, there will be those that reject everything — I’ve encountered those who think a self-driving car will take away their freedom, instead of regarding it as a chauffeur — but when the economics are against them, when they have to pay extra to be eco-unfriendly instead of paying less? History shows most people follow the money, not just for ill but also for good.
I always wonder why would someone write a thousands-words article as a Twitter thread? Why not publish it on any other platform and link it?
The “related posts” section has some incredible interesting headlines, one of which is already also on the front page of HN right now.

Seems like the whole blog is worth looking through
I'm pretty sure all these crappy tutorials only appear in the top results because of shady SEO tricks. Do you really think these are "authority" sites which Google claims to rank highest? It's a sad fact that Google is still unable to stop black-hat SEO, so they are at least partly to blame.
These licenses are in set-aside bands specifically for sharing. You're talking about 80 GBP per year for up to 10 MHz, and 80 GBP per year for each additional 10 MHz.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your-licence/radiocommunicat...

This isn't nationally auctioned spectrum (which gets bid up to billions, then operators have to pay those fees into government coffers).
Another hands on guide I really rate is Tokio's [1].

You create a very minimal Redis clone progressively by swapping out synchronous for async.

[1] https://tokio.rs/tokio/tutorial
If they can make natural gas turbines send soot thousands of feet into the air like coal plants then we could buy ourselves some time. We need soot generators.
Not the original commenter, but I'll try to explain because something similar happens in Italy as well

It's not a "wrong" pronunciation, but it's clearly influenced by how Spanish/Italian stresses individual letters way more than English.

Let's take Hillary Clinton as another example: Italians pronounce it "Heel-lah-ree Clean-tone" (/ˈilari ˈklinton/), which is way different from the actual pronunciation.
> My family has been pronouncing it incorrectly

Well, the French usage for names generally is just to use either a straight French pronunciation based on how the name is written, or an approximation of the foreign pronunciation using sounds that exist in French. Only a handful of well-known names get to have a special pronunciation.

If your family has been in France for 100 years, I wouldn't say they pronounce the name "incorrectly", they just pronounce it the correct way in France.
Cars are the choice dictated by infrastructure and land use patterns optimized for cars. Strictly separate residential areas and commercial areas, connect the two with wide roads and offer free parking at each end and, surprise, people really like cars. Build neighborhoods where daily necessities are in walking distance and connect them using trains and, surprise, people really like walking and taking the train.
> The poorer the insulation (southern homes' insulation is crap compared to northern) the more you need to pump the aircon.

Insulation can only do so much when the outdoor temperature doesn't drop below 80F for weeks at a time.
A little offtopic:

It's telling how you can tell the article was written by a mathematician, apart from the obvious fact that it's about mathematics. I'm talking about the structure. For example:

"How do mathematicians prove theorems? This question introduces an interesting topic, but to start with it would be to project two hidden assumptions:

(1) that there is uniform, objective and firmly established theory and practice of mathematical proof, and

(2) that progress made by mathematicians consists of proving theorems"

It reminds me of a joke I was told by my math teacher when I was at school about how mathematics shapes your thought (I may do a poor translation):

An air balloon traveller encounters very dense mist and gets lost and so is forced to descend to the ground, where he finds a guy taking a walk. The traveller asks the guy "Excuse me sir, could you tell me where am I?" The guy, after a very long pause answers "You are on a balloon". The traveller smiles and says "You are obviously a mathematician". "How do you know?" asks the guy to which the traveller replies. "Easy, there are three very good reasons. The first one is that you took a long time to answer, obviously considering just the facts and proceeding with strict logic. The second one is because the precision of your answer. And last but not least because your answer is useless"
So where is the line for nsfw, visiting a porn site, seeing the actual porn video, or do I need to download the file to my work computer and then watch it?
“Let the market fix it”
If global human CO2 emissions stopped, the ocean would be absorbing some of the current atmospherical CO2, so it would start going down.

The ocean is already currently absorbing, and acidifying as a result. It is not currently in equilibrium.
Of course, as it warms, its ability to absorb lessens. Warm water holds less CO2, used as a denialist talking point to say that the CO2 is from the oceans, not from humans. But it actually makes the problem worse.

But what's even more important about the nature of this problem that local emissions don't matter. If the US stopped but EU and China etc continued, the US heat dome problem would still go on.
That's why this needs to be coordinated internationally. It really matters a lot what the US president and congress does regarding international treaties.
I found it oddly refreshingly honest.
These devs don't need to. As long as they get work done, create `value', their skills are sufficient. Admittedly, there are times when people who know better are needed for specific tasks and that's why we are paid better.

Proof by induction is more akin to for-loop than optimized sort algorithms. It's often taught in the first mathematics course that includes proofs which can be Calculus II or even Linear Algebra. I would be surprised if a Math student did not learn it by their first Analysis course.
I'm amazed that some of the salaries that are offered are way more that what you would earn in Europe (countries like NL, DE) for the same experience. I wonder what is the average attrition rate given there is so much options to move around and how do companies try to retain employee.
Is this Flynn effect in action?
Not an American,but born and raised in Germany. For about 20 years now, I have gotten used to a motto (see below).

I had this motto in mind after I once witnessed how political decisions were made within one of the youth organizations of one of the two mainstream parties here in Germany and was disgusted by it.

> The parliament is the theater, which is performed, so that the citizen believes to live in a democracy. While the actual power is exercised elsewhere.
SSD Products
> Are they miserable because of inherent challenges of car ownership that other countries try to mitigate or is it really municipalities actively causing their misery?

Can't really talk for the NL, but for Paris, it really seems like the municipality is trying to make drivers miserable, while not improving the situation for everyone else
The site makes some very bold claims ("The Safest Password Manager"), but most of it seems pretty standard fare for password managers. Also am I reading it right that backups and unencrypted and it is left up to the user how to handle them? Or if they are encrypted how do I unlock them on a new phone if I don't have access to the old one (if it was lost/destroyed)?
Actually if you use .NET EF Core 2 FromSql or ExecuteSqlCommand, you get parametrized queries from string interpolation for free: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/what-is-new/ef-core...
Covid showed us that we are generally inclined to act collectively but very easily fall to conspiracy theories. I hope we ACT, although the pessimist inside me is not so sure.
Are you just talking about prepared statements? Mysqli was released in 2004.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.quickstart.prepared-sta...
Andrew Gelman has provided plenty of evidence, though. I'd certainly say that PNAS, though it's a high quality journal, does sometimes go for "marketable" social science content over less shiny, but more substantive work.
> Because I judge a project backed by a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars and with hundreds of developers differently than I judge a company with a few tens of millions and only a dozen developers.

Any project that can at least afford a string of external audits and proudly advertises on multiple claims of high quality security and privacy should be held to very high standards, especially if they are serious projects in security and privacy and are not toy or pet projects.

Hence this, I would expect all Signal engineers to be the best in their field and qualified in both of these standards to justify the compensation price and uphold these claims for Signal. The same goes for any serious secure messaging platform prioritising security and privacy.

The harsh reality is that serious projects and competitors with bold claims of security and privacy all get treated the same. No exceptions or passes. Otherwise it can't be considered a serious project or even recommended to users if they don't prioritise and fix critical issues urgently.

> I'm not sure why any sane person would judge these with the same metric.

So you're telling me that Telegram or Element are able to prioritise urgent and critical security issues much better than Signal could? Signal is a serious messaging app going with its bold claims of high quality security and privacy isn't it?
Why Netflix is moving into gaming
Pfff that was in 2014, hell if I remember. All I can remember is that it was 15-20 minutes walking from the Estrel hotel but that's as much as I can narrow it down.
Is this the difference between cz and ć?

https://translate.google.com/?hl=pl&sl=pl&tl=en&text=cza%20%...

Click on the speaker under Polish.
Discussed here 2 days ago (85 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934539
That's the problem with this list: you can read it any way you like, derive whichever conclusions you want. But then you're only looking into a mirror. On its own, the list is just a lot of feel-good bullshit, mixed with stuff that's just wrong. It has very low information content.

> I read this as "certain principles must be upheld at any cost" and I agree with that.

But that's you reading things that aren't in the text. And by itself, it's not a good principle either:

- "certain principles" - which principles exactly? Of them, which ones are related to quality?

- "must be upheld at any cost" - any cost? There's few things in life that truly "must be upheld at any cost", and they're in the scope of morality, not software. Even "thou shalt not kill" is full of practical caveats.

Everything in software engineering is negotiable, all principles have a price. The important parts are all in the details: what exact principles we have, how they trade off against each other, what benefits do they bring, how much do they cost, how much is too much. This list doesn't touch any of it.

You continue:

> E.g. if your project is dealing with people's health data, not securing that database is a cut on quality you just shouldn't make.

Yes, now we're starting to see a glimpse of something useful - but it's still a bit too vague to work with. Consider:

- What is "health data" under consideration? For example, someone's smartwatch BPM and GPS log, a result of MRI scan, a list of visits at a clinic, and how old they are - these are all "health data", but fall into different qualitative categories, and merit different level of care in handling.

- What is "dealing with"? Storing? Forwarding? Processing? How? Giving access? To whom? Etc.

- What is "securing that database"? Are we talking access controls against the dev team? The company stakeholders? Securing against script kiddies? Securing against Mossad? In which particular way?

You may feel I'm splitting hairs here, but this is reality: quality is always negotiable, and day-to-day negotiations will happen at this level of granularity. Nobody has infinite budget to respond "yes" to any idea that could be presented as "increasing quality" or "increasing security of medical data".

Developing lists of principles and heuristics is of great value - but this list isn't that. The heuristics you want need to account for the reality we live in (including working around organizational dysfunctions and individual cognitive failures). And they need to be formulated in practical terms, or they'll forever be words on paper. Their only job is to help you answer the question, "is it worth it?", every time you consider two options of different quality.
In some ways, the iPod or the iPhone are largely not technical innovations, but political. For the iPod, you had to get the catalog online and digital. For the iPhone, you had to get the data rates in USA low.
That just leads to the "oh yes that's a good idea, let's form a working group!" response but never leads to actual change because that would require taking space away from cars.
I'm always curious how does the HN submission acceptance algorithm work? I sometimes get redirected to another submission, while sometimes (like in this case) there are multiple submissions with the identical URL.

Shouldn't all same-URL submissions be considered as one, at least in a certain time period?
> But saying "cars are everywhere" in NL seems a bit of an overstatement, no?

Except for cities with pedestrian only centers, cars are everywhere here. In some bigger cities there are certainly some people that go around without cars as they have everything they need close by and good public transport. But most of they (especially just outside of the city center) have at least one car in their household.

Car ownership is even growing faster than population: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2020/10/autopark-groeit-ster...
Because the climate crisis is missing one of the key ingredients of a proper crisis: there's never a reckoning time that forces the decision makers to the table, and forces all other things off the agenda.

If there was an asteroid coming, there would be some deadline imposed by the astronomical observations.

If it's a pandemic, there's a time when all the politicians have to stop thinking about Brexit and start thinking about lockdowns.

In economic crises there's that Lehman moment when the government needs to decide right then and there what to do about the economy.

In pure political crises, there's a vote of no confidence in the government and the politicians have to think about how to form a new one immediately.

With the climate, there's just never a time when you absolutely have to do something. People have even tried saying "we have to do something by x date" but you can't manufacture a crisis point, in fact those kinds of deadlines seem to have the opposite effect to what was intended. That slowly boiling frog analogy is somehow quite appropriate.

I think part of it is the nature of noise. Once you see an asteroid, you don't doubt that it's there. Government falls, you need a new one. People get sick in large numbers, better not let it grow.

But if it rains a lot or gets hot, that will pass. Once it passes we're relieved and we go back to normal. Even if storms get bigger and more frequent, the day after is sunny.

My last point goes back to the first: a proper crisis forces everything else out of your attention. 9/11, Lehman, Pandemic, those were all things that blocked out the news. That has never happened with the climate. When did you ever have a news day where all they talked about was climate? Where all the talking heads on TV were climate scientists/commentators/lobbyists? Where you could see politicians going from meeting to meeting with only one topic being asked of them?
Why are we the only human species left on the planet?
In my opinion two things are very important for your core real number type:

1. Closed operations without exceptions;
2. a total strict ordering.

Additionally, being able to represent positive and negative infinity is convenient and makes closing the operations easier without having to resort too much to the catch-all nan/undefined value.

So rather than a single point at positive/negative infinity in posits, which would once again introduce the mistake of a non-total or non-strict order and lack of exception-free math, I would much prefer this (for the 4-bit posit, listed in ascending order):

1001 -> -111 -> -inf
1010 -> -110 -> -4
1011 -> -101 -> -2
1100 -> -100 -> -1
1101 -> -011 -> -1/2
1110 -> -010 -> -1/4
1111 -> -001 -> -1/16
1000 -> -000 -> undefined
0000 -> +000 -> 0
0001 -> +001 -> 1/16
0010 -> +010 -> 1/4
0011 -> +011 -> 1/2
0100 -> +100 -> 1
0101 -> +101 -> 2
0110 -> +110 -> 4
0111 -> +111 -> inf

And yes, in this scheme 'undefined' would compare smaller than zero but bigger than any negative number. It is a bit arbitrary but much better than not having a total order. Any operation involving undefined would be undefined.

EDIT: it seems that the original posit definition is also workable, where there is never any overflow and instead just rounding to the nearest number. The unfortunate thing is how the +/-inf value is labelled: it should just be called 'nan' or 'undefined' or 'indeterminate' or something similar. It can never be generated by overflowing operations. There should definitely be a total strict ordering however, so I do still recommend placing the undefined value right next to zero.
"Our sample comprised over 1,000 Top 40 recordings from 25 years spanning five decades. Over the years, popular recordings became longer in duration and the proportion of female artists increased. In line with our principal hypotheses, there was also an increase in the use of minor mode and a decrease in average tempo, confirming that popular music became more sad-sounding over time...."

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-12935-001