skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's with Google? It's not like Google is the Internet.

About everyone I feel a need to connect with understands that, so they don't use gmail, at least exclusively.

If a company trying to hire me can't receive email from me "because google" - then to hell with them, period. They are incompetent.

Although I must say there were no lost, rejected or diverted to spam messages from my deliberately ignorant MX to gmail for the last year.
This is good to know. The other week, I ended up breaking a flat directory with approaching that number of files in it, into a hierarchy of subdirectories.

Fortunately, the filenames were timestamp-based (down to the nanosecond), so could be be solved in one line of `sed`, and the hierarchy made tons of sense.

Normally, especially knowing older filesystem limits, I would've done such a filesystem hierarchy from the start (even if something wasn't as inherently hierarchical as timestamp strings, like if it used hash strings).

But this wealth of files (originally a secondary QA/debugging check, now a potentially valuable training data set) was due to unexpected success of an MVP launch, and it held up perfectly in production. I only cleaned it up when saving that data offline the other week, so it would be convenient&correct to use with tools that might not scale as well as that Linux filesystem and GNU tools did.
I was reading a book [0] and they mentioned Horner's method for evaluating polynomials.

It's simple to implement. Maybe even too simple to be worthy of a crate some might say :P

But yeah, I decided I wanted to put it in a crate for future use anyways, so here it is.

And the crate is at https://crates.io/crates/horner

[0]: ANSI Common Lisp, written by pg and published by Prentice-Hall in 1996.
Closer than ever :)
There is a monthly post on ocaml's discourse that reports progress in upstreaming patches into mainline ocaml (see https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-july-2021/8232 for the latest). I think it'll happen next year.
My feeling is that we tried. We tried for 20 years. It didn't work.

At some point, you have to throw in the towel and cut your losses—even when those losses are really, unimaginably terrible. 20 years is certainly past that point.

There's a lot of good we could do in the world with the resources we put into Afghanistan.
I said biggest, not majority. But there are also other reasons to focus on transportation over other sectors. The US is an outlier from other developed countries in their high CO2 emissions per person because of their transportation choices. And these choices are hard-baked into the design of our land use, and will be the hardest to change.

Despite the existence of a tiny fraction of electrical vehicles, we are nowhere near on track to decarbonizing in time. In order to naturally shift over to EVs in time, with the natural aging out of gas vehicles, we would have had to be at 100% EV for new vehicles in 2020. We won't be to 100% new EVs any time soon at all.

In contrast, other sectors are really easy to decarbonize. Electricity generation will decarbonize faster than current predictions, because everybody uses old data in their models, and even two year old renewable data is hopelessly out of date.

Heating by heat pumps rather than natural gas is also fairly easy to transition through building codes. Simply requiring all new outdoor AC units to include the $200 switch to also heat would result in a fairly speedy transition for the second largest residential use.

So with the conundrum of transport, the only real solution we have is for people to drive less, while also transitioning to EVs as soon as possible. However we have planned nearly all of the US for car-dependency, and there are very few places to live in the US that don't require a car. Very few. This land use change, to allow car-free living, is a bigger battle than switching away from meat, and far harder to convince people to do. There are so many more vegetarians and vegans than people that acknowledge we should allow less driving, and it's a switch that takes far longer to make.

Further, this switch to less driving is under local control, controlled by local planning committees and local transit committees, not mysterious billionaires living in mansions. It's under supposedly-democratic control, it's just that the people showing up to these meetings are not people who care about climate change, or at least they don't realize the connection between land use and climate change.
What about Kiko Rivera?
Dies the Fire is a first of a series of novels about a global power failure due to an alteration in physics by an unknown cause. Most humans starve to death, but some in the right locations resort to farming by hand, hunting and fishing. Others set up feudal kingdoms.
> It's also interesting you need to prompt Codex for security best practices

Well, that's one of the central lessons of ML - garbage in, garbage out. There is a lot of garbage code out there and no easy a priori way to distinguish garbage code from good code.
It appears I misunderstood the service. This isn't actually a cloud service, these are tools to facilitate the use of your own cloud services it appears..
The article actually mentions that that has been proposed by: Moore, A. & Kennett, D. Cosmic impact, the Younger Dryas, Abu Hureyra, and the inception of agriculture in Western Asia. Eurasian Prehist 10, 57–66 (2013).
It has been a bit over a year now but my T-mobile SIM was hijacked twice in one weekend. After the first time I reset the PIN to a six or eight digit PIN expecting that to be good enough. After the second time I made it even longer. That said, I believe that it was some sort of inside job and the PIN was never actually needed. I vaguely recall some story in the following months regarding prosecution of T-Mobile staff for related activity.

CORRECTION: This was almost 3 years ago. sigh
Well, a press secretary is a big figure in an informational autocracy so the militia commander makes a favor to press-secretary to prove his loyalty to Lukashenka. She in turn has some fun and also proves her loyalty to him.
Here’s a clue: _finding_ the material isn’t the problem.
> the US changing its role there [..] to "Nation building"

You must mean "installing puppet government". The Taliban were before, the puppet government lasted two decades, and now the Taliban are back. If it had been done with more diplomacy it might have succeded, but after the Twin Towers attack there was a push to overreact, and to profit from the sudden political capital.
Apparently newer versions of Chrome are equally strict and would also produce an error. The issue is now fixed.[0]

[0] https://github.com/lynnandtonic/nestflix.fun/issues/65
This is the sort of problem that some astute design calculations should be able to disentangle. ;)

Maybe they were using a topology optimizer driven by reinforcement learning to come up with the initial Pareto front.
Imagine trying to do this on a normal site where an input is controlled and nested in 300 divs
The Bay Area has a long-running plan to bury all of them anyway.
I use a sub-domain of a domain I registered. For example, I use in.[myname].ca.
Oops, I did indeed, 70m cents.
“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot”
I'm sorry you got downvoted, it's a reasonable question to ask and I would have voted it up if my noprocrast hadn't run out.
> Some people are afraid of cockroaches

Not so much "afraid" (I don't think they will attack me) as "deeply disgusted", particularly by their smell, and their fouling of my foods. There are lots of reasons to hate cockroaches.
Lisp is very old; it started out competing with languages lacking even reentrant function calls. Lisp had a lot of good ideas and a few poor ones from that era. As compilers improve, it becomes feasible for languages to only provide pure functions, lazy evaluation, and immutable data structures even on the same old imperative CPU cores.
I hope some future exists where we just make stories because they're good stories.
I feel this way too.

> Humanity always gets better, eventually.

I feel that it is inevitable that we, us, and the state of the world will get better.

We as humans are rational and that is our power. We can choose our thoughts and our feelings. When we choose thoughts of love, compassion and altruism these lead us to actions of love, compassion and altruism.

The Dalai Lama talks about secular mind training. When metacognition and how to choose thoughts and feelings is taught in schools then there is an opportunity to move more people towards a more helpful world. More helpful for our own personal lives and also helpful to others.

Until this happens, I do what I can, which is talk with my friends and family about this. We remind each other that we always have a choice about how we can respond to anything in the external world and we do what we can.
The 5th gen iPod Touch (and 6th and 7th) is only 6.1 mm thick, so while I don't think just because Apple can pull it off Pine64 should be able to also, it seems like there might physically be enough space. I was going to note that the 5th gen iPod Touch is from 2012, but then it feels like much of the miniaturisation progress since then has involved removing the jack. Agree that it's probably not easy though.
Biden Says Kabul Is No Saigon
Kind of ironic, AFAIK SQL was first envisioned as being so natural language-like that it could be used by non-programmers.
It gives a score as well, in the API, I can for sure add that to what you see on the "Try out" page. I was planning on adding a button where you could see the raw data.
You're defining success using a metric one person companies don't use to define success.

The only ones that survive to success are "normal startups" which are not actually normal at all for most businesses around the world.
That explains things - in my experience I have seen money as the most conspicuous main barrier in the Northeast. Get above a certain threshold of wealth and even in sparse areas they go underground and poorer areas can get a bit more density than usual before being forced underground. A suburb with power lines is on the lower side of middle class. An urban area with power lines is practically a red flag for poverty for the two go together.

Reminds me of the joke about cancer risk and lowered IQs and power lines - the mechanism of the damage is insidious - it doesn't act through radiation but through lowered property values.
Ideally, stay in your vehicle and wait for help to disable the power. The vehicle's frame will protect you as long as you stay inside the car.

If it's necessary to leave the vehicle (e.g. due to fire), you have to avoid being in contact with the vehicle and the ground at the same time. You have to do a funny looking hop into the air.

Source: Corny energy company safety video https://youtu.be/fLVzvMTgGDY?t=168
The Need for an Attention Diet
All of the major clouds have stop/start for this same purpose. It is left as an exercise for the user to trigger and run a command based on work completion.
I have had similar experiences with Mercedes, New England salt included. Bought an E series for cheap with only 24k miles and drove it with only regular maintenance to 300k miles before the salt won. I’ve heard many other people with the same complaints about Mercedes as the parent but my two cars have been excellent.
Requiring a license to run LTE base stations is a disaster. Zero of the carriers are managing their infrastructure in any way resembling competence and responsibility and most of them probably couldn't even tell you how bad it is because they don't know and don't even have shells on their own equipment.
Isn't an "apron" in this case an overhead structure? They might have been worried about the power lines touching the top or sides of the truck, or getting tangled and making the situation worse.
Soma wasn't meant by Huxley to be a positive thing. It's a way of controlling the population. Brave New World is dystopian.
I totally get that. That's why I'm planning on making the service (or at least parts of the service) open source. You can already get insights in the storage usage of the server through status.lngzl.nl (click scan.nsfw.rest). If you upload files, the storage size does not increase.

Also, one of the things I should make a little bit more clear is that it's best paired with data that will be made public anyways (for example, a social media platform) and shouldn't
be run on private images (even though it's not storing anything it's probably not needed for those use cases).
Well, for example standard Common Lisp defines 978 symbols. ;) At least that's what (length (apropos-list "" "CL")) told me.
Enron (energy), GE (rails, aerospace, industrial), cars (GM/GMAC), homes (Countrywide, IndyMac), home loans (Lehmans Bros, Bear Stearns, AIG and others that repackaged the loans in addition to CDO and other derivative instruments), ad nauseum. The pattern is there. When you get out of the business of selling widgets to people and getting into the business of selling widget loans that you are originating to investors, that inextricably changes the type of company you are. You are going to optimize for the inevitably higher ROE business line of securitization, and you are going to eventually make bad widget selling decisions to prioritize widget loan sales.

I have commented more than enough, so just going to tack this on, but people may forget that loan ownership and "zombie debt" was a big problem in 2008. It is not a great sign that Carvana was banned from selling cars in a mid-market due to title delivery issues: https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/wake-county-news/ncdmv...
At the beginning of the year their rate was not the highest, but other groups got convinced (their rates lowered), but PhDs remained constant.

To me it means the PhDs have a high degree of confidence in their own beliefs (surely thinking they've come to their conclusions rationally and with rigorous scientific reasoning), and no push will change their minds. Whether this self-evaluation is accurate or not, is a different question. I wonder what their PhDs are even in, if it's molecular biology, then, well, maybe there's a case there, but a PhD in, say, Polynesian cultures?
I made a similar little GPT-3 toy (for Linux/bash) that also ended up generating a Rickroll URL.[0]

In vague cases, GPT-3 functions approximately as well as a markov chain - it will give you the most “probable” sequence of tokens. There’s some implementation details regarding how it deals with tokenization, but unless you really increase the randomness (“temperature”) you’re likely to get very popular YT video IDs.

In other cases, it will “hallucinate” things like URLs, UUIDs, hashes, and other things that are basically a random string of characters. In my experience it will make UUIDs that have the right number of characters but seem suspiciously non-random and don’t fit any of the defined UUID formats.

Fun stuff.

[0] https://youtu.be/j0UnS3jHhAA
The age of WebGPU is almost upon us. Chrome 94 comes out this quarter. I doubt React will be the major player in this next epoch. It will be something new that can pull off an instant load shared world game.
The evidence is all around. We are not alone. We have never been alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku
I just saw a video of a man who was rescued by police from a burning vehicle. He suffered a medical incident while back his truck up and ended up flooring the gas as he got into his parking spot. The tires spun high speed while the truck stood still until they caught fire and almost burned him alive. He did suffer smoke inhalation but I believe made it. It could have been the bus driver attempting to make evasive maneuvers added to the fact the car hit it as well could be why it ended up a bit farther off the road then expected.
Yes even the name itself implies the burden should be bourne by the individual. It's a fantastically successful disinformation campaign. We should refuse to call it "identity theft" and call it "identity fraud" instead.
Honestly hadn't considered that angle. I assumed the writing was intended for public consumption, but you're right, I should have checked.

I'm attempting to contact Bruce, though it seems I'm past the edit window on the original comment.
I guess it depends on the audience. Pretty sure that if the parent post were a Twitter thread it would get 32,000 RTs, as everyone seems to be a doomer on that site. Glad to know that HN is mostly in the optimist camp. As argued in the article, building things requires optimism.
I think big-O makes sense as a kind of filter for the truly bad solutions.

When you have some big constant factor that's not good.

But when you have a big exponent that's not workable anymore, even for smallest input.
I don't think it's illegal to own a Harrier jet. I think the weapons systems just need to be removed first (there's probably also a lot of paperwork involved).

Here's an NPR article about a guy who has one:
https://www.npr.org/2014/07/27/335839280/sold-harrier-jump-j...
Ask yourself, if philosophers go on strike, who will it inconvenience?
Perhaps it's safer underground, but repair is also more expensive.
Does that make Lisp somehow not a functional programming language? That other languages have been developed to provide features that most lisps do not does not remove them from the group of functional programming languages. It just means they're part of a different branch of the same paradigm.
Some departments are trained in shutting down the power to a building via cutting the service line to the building. LAFD does this as response times for power companies are long.

This incident involved high voltage lines which are a different problem. Taking these down requires a bucket truck and specialized tools and training. Firefighters have a lot of training but most of us stay away from electricity. Not to mention they would essentially have to have a specially trained crew that is trained and educated regularly for what are once in a decade type incidents.

Scenes like this are an extremely rare situation, more then likely why it was highlighted in this group. Firefighters enjoy looking at cases like this and thinking about how they would deal with it in their jurisdiction.
Yeah I agree with you in that there's definitely a steep curve for newcomers. Some work on that is needed, but it's coming along, take @blagovest's comment as an example.

As with anything in life, just don't give up. Everything sucks till it's finished :D
It's economical for new developments. I lived some years about a mile outside the Washington Beltway, in a rowhouse development built in the mid-80s. Everything had been done on the cheap, but the utility lines were underground.
> some subset will always be willing to cheat

I think a more charitable way to interpret the parent post is that they want a good faith effort made to enforce the mandates, without requiring that those efforts be 100% effective at achieving compliance.

Personally I think that if someone cares about an issue which requires collective action, then their moral obligation is only to contribute to the solution more than the median person. Of course it is impossible for most people to do better than the median, but if most people pursue this goal, it would bring the median down, while creating a democratic mandate for reducing the maximum.
Fair use is more complicated than that. I see no hard line rule from the courts saying that a whole article couldn't be shared under fair use.

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

But also, it's a Facebook post. The author's not selling subscriptions to this content. He's not charging per download. He put it in the public square himself, and in the comments he even positively comments about it being shared more widely. I would be very surprised if the author felt as strongly about this as you do.
> Would they be allowed to form an Little Afghan since most of them don't speak English or know the local culture?

Of course, this is always allowed. Chinatown, Little Italy, strip malls throughout America... Why would Afghans be any different?

But, now that you mention the language difficulties, well, that's actually a good idea. Hook women up with English lessons, maybe at local libraries. There'd probably be no shortage of English-speaking volunteers who'd help for free, but some government funding couldn't hurt. Surely it's cheaper than funding a war.

> Would the women refugees be able to bring their children too?

Sure, if they want. Not sure what the age threshold should be for male children. Maybe 16.

> Would they be protected from the hate against Arabs the media has fanned for two decades?

Not completely, but you can't compare the occasional racist in America to enslavement by the Taliban.

> This reads like the plot of a B movie.

I do my best.
Hackers can 'poison' open-source code
Apple claimed [0] "If you look at the last month of connections made worldwide by Apple devices, we see that IPv6 now accounts for 26% of all connections made. Twenty percent of the time, the connection could have used IPv6, but the server didn't have it enabled. And when IPv6 is in use, the median connection setup is 1.4 times faster than IPv4. This is primarily due to reduced NAT usage and improved routing." Also [1] "As of June 1, 2016, all apps submitted to the App Store must support IPv6-only networks." I guess, that is a good point for performance and revenue stream security.

Of course, IPv6 has problems in some parts of the world. IPv6-only usually means, there is IPv4 on some central gateway but your clients don't get any IPv4 assigned. There is a number of really big networks doing just that e.g. most of the mobile operators in the USA.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10111/
[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/ipv6/
In Germany the powerlines are always below ground except for high voltage. I’m pretty sure this is also the case for most of Western Europe.
T-Mobile is a joke about that though. So many reports of people having that on their account and still getting it ported.
If your account is deactivated on a separate google service (let's say, adsense) what happens to your Google Fi?
This issue is what makes me paranoid when putting a lot of files into a directory. Having directories whose sizes cannot be shrunk makes me really uncomfortable, so I try to avoid such a situation as much as possible. What's unfortunate is that you cannot predict at what point a directory will grow above its initial size, because the size of a directory is affected by not only the number of files, but also the varying lengths of their filenames. It's a complete mess.

I wondered if NTFS on Windows is also not capable of shrinking already-grown directories but could not find information about it. As Windows doesn't report the size of a directory itself, it is hard to test the situation.
The origin of the name POSIX (2011)
The Carvana UX is smart and coercive. You get a (possibly artificial) time block to buy the car, which I’m sure drives conversions.