skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in high school in the early 2000s Wikipedia was entirely off limits and “unreliable”. When we had to read a book that had been translated the teacher quickly caught half the class cheating because the Wikipedia article spelled the main character’s name slightly differently than the translation we had been assigned to read.

I remember sitting in the library later that day telling a friend what had happened in class. I pulled up the Wikipedia article only to see it had been updated to say something along the lines of “John Doe (or Joe Doe in some translations)” and I knew immediately it must have been someone from my class who’d made the edit in an effort to save other kids from the same fate they had suffered.
"Sun->Earth or Sun->Jupiter is a small beer"? How do you mean? This is a real physical example with real physical consequences for example for how much dimmer the light is per area (by 1/r^2) and by how much redder it is (by 1/r).

What are the real physical consequences of thinking that the photon is "emitted and absorbed at the same instant"?
What a thread. Right now literally half the posts are greyed out for saying things I don't understand in the slightest.

Feels like some kind of cultural war is spilling into the site but due to nature of HN, no one is really sharing their actual thoughts on the matter so there's a lot of voting based on subtleties.
right, I meant I'm not picky for the food I eat, I'll eat damaged fruit, some fresh ripe fruit from the tree with sometimes some little worms, I won't mind, or a bird bite, or one on the ground even if it looks fresh enough, that's what I meant by non-picky, not wasting stuff, eating cucumbers or zucchinis raw and with all the skin of course
I know two others have commented here but I really want to point out the ridiculousness of this comment. It's literally answered _in the first sentence of the article_. Why did you think this was necessary?
There's so many cases where a hacky Exec or five becomes necessary. For example, I am not aware of any Puppet module that does disk partitioning + formatting. Our solution was to write a class with a few Execs to do that. But there's so many edge cases where this can go wrong if it's not truly idempotent. An accidental disk wipe across our fleet would be a disaster, so what did we do? We basically wrapped the class in a big if guard that checks if the disk is already partitioned. That's not idempotent at all of course or declarative - it's just a script.

I can think of another horrifying example. We extract archives on to the machine to a specific target directory, and all files in that directory should have a specific owner and group. So we have a File resource that states the target directory exists which is ordered before the Archive resource. But we need to recursively chown after extraction too because tarballs preserve the original owner and group on extraction. We can't add a File resource with the same path that states the owner and group after extraction because duplicate resources aren't allowed. The only solution in this case is a hacky Exec. And that isn't declarative either because you'd have to check the owner/group of all files recursively to know whether it's in the right state or not. We just have this Exec run if the Archive resource refreshes. What if something else adds a file to this directory with the wrong owner/group? It wouldn't be corrected. Again, not declarative.

And god help you if a machine in the fleet runs out of disk space and resources only partially apply. The state will be completely fucked up and you'll have to manually nuke directories to correct it. Because Puppet only pretends to be declarative.

/rant :(
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Two things make Google Sheets infinitely more useful than Excel to me on a daily basis:

- Regex support in find & replace and regexextract().
- FX rates as a formula instead of as a data type. IIRC Excel requires 2 columns to display a FX rate (one to specify the pair, one to print the number); Google Sheets specifies the pair inside the formula.
Insanely wrong, the opposite in fact. Hard to be this wrong on the internet tbh
The mandatory requirement of a phone number to even set this up (with SMS as the verification method) doesn’t suit me. I use other TOTP apps that don’t ask for a phone number or email address or anything else.
Yes, why does the chip shortage only effect high end card/car chips. I would be pretty darn surprised if laptop/smartphones have less number of chips than cars, still the former industry doesn't seem to be affected by chip shortage even though they sell a lot more pieces for lot less price so the later industry would be willing to pay more per chip.
This is probably the regulation you’re unaware of: https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-controversial-new-sex-traf...

I suspect the increased liability risk is the main cause of what we’re seeing.
And some used to knit themself to freedom:

https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/prison-knitters

In India, there is a prison that has somewhat of a tradition of experimenting with unusual methods of behavioural change.
Last time in 2015 it was Yoga:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/shorter-terms-for-priso...

An even more traditional way is known in Thailand, prison fights.
Officially:

https://muaythai-world.com/muay-thai-thailand-prison-fights-...
> I want to run Windows - when I need it - for games that intentionally disallow VMs

I don't understand this.. You want to run Windows in a VM for games that disallow VMs?

I dunno, this seems like such a complicated setup... what do you gain from all this? Might as well just run Windows + WSL2.
The Ansible —diff and —check options were the main reason I started using it in 2013; the other reason was that it’s agentless, so I didn’t need a special vm to run it on and I could control when it might change things.
Propel (Free Fellowship) opens its doors to a 4rd cohort of ML/DS/FE/UX folks
Photosynthesis is limited by the availability of light, water and co2.
They can't gorge without sufficient amounts if all three.
At what point did they remove photosynthesis from the curriculum?
Java suffers from Python 2 like syndrome with Java 8.

Those shops aren't going to use ZGC.

Nor they will profit from the several performance improvements, including the free JIT cache across runs with PGO data on Hotspot and J9, that used to be a commercial feature on third party JDKs.
I think the default M-y does that and it's confusing. helm-show-kill-ring or counsel-yank-pop makes this much more manageable kind of like how undo-tree makes undoing simpler.
Rust occupies the C++ space, and is a massive improvement over C++. It’s type system is relatively complex but in practice is simpler to use than C++ once you learn it and far less bug prone.

The dogmatic C partisans who insist on building houses out of sand with tweezers will never like it.

It’s basically C++ rebooted with ideas from Haskell, Go, and other modern languages. If Rust completely displaced C++ that would be a huge win for productivity and security / reliability.
SF has very high property crime, but fairly low violent crime. Most of the America’s incarceration rate is driven by a small number of prisoners serving long sentences. Usually for violent crime or drug trafficking.

An amazing statistics is that if the the US released every prisoner except the murderors and rapsists, we’d still have a higher incarceration rate than the EU.

A city full of bike thieves, shoplifters, and public defecators isn’t going to have a high incarceration. Even if the police are vigorous about arrests, those people just don’t spend very long in jail.
> If my TV is acting smarter than what’s needed to do the HDCP handshake, I’m not going to be happy.

I am not happy my TV does an HDCP handshake. My device should not enforce someone else's rules.
Yes, usually working with "--diff --check" flags as well, and did not know about "--step" either. Will incorporate that into my workflow for sure.
https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9827886/abortion-clinic-attack...

"Since 1977 there have been eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings, and 186 arsons targeted at abortion clinics and providers across the United States."

It's not on the same scale, but the faction clearly exists that would do it if they could get away with it.
My TV required connectivity during setup and then removed the config afterwards. About a week later I noticed the "home screen" showing adverts and somehow the Android TV had "auto-magically" reconnected. Had to change the WiFi password to avoid reconnecting.

That reaffirmed my stance on Smart TVs remaining dumb in my house. Netflix through the Xbox only!
Zig is certainly not weird in the way that something like prolog or scheme are.
Yup. Similarly my parents grow 1 grape bush for 3 decades already and make wine out of it each year, but it's a hobby, it wasn't commercially viable till a few years ago.

There were less than 20 wineyards in Poland in 2000 and none in 1990, now there's almost 500.
My understanding of the theory is that animals which subsist on greens have a huge gut to allow for fermentation to get the calories from the fiber in the plants. Eating meat allowed our brains to grow larger and gut to shrink, since meat is more calorie dense, and the brain consumes a lot of energy.
Can you expand on your use case a bit? Why do you need multiple VMs?
Peter Thiel on Technological Progress and Stagnation (Odysee.com)
Stuck in the Middle
What else do they move in lock step on? Isn't that collusion?

Just another reason to smash these banks into a million pieces.
My perception of Sony is that they sell higher quality products. Sometimes only slightly higher, maybe not enough to offset the price premium if there is one, but I assume all their higher end stuff is top notch.
> Eventually knowledge is lost

There're thousands teams all over the world working on various projects which require people to program. At the very least, someone needs to write and maintain these libraries. Also there're interesting domains like game development, CAD/CAM/CAE, HPC, embedded. Knowledge is transferred within such teams.
That's certainly an effective way to get a bad rep and cut yourself from half the job market.

In the UK, an enormous amount of jobs goes through recruiters. Even if you did not get your current job from recruiters, it's quite likely that some your coworkers did.
I don’t think they’re a patch - they were part of the original design.
It's a stack, though. Sure, no sex work consumer ever said that[1], but their bank sure as hell did. Which is why they had a handy credit card in their pocket with which they were able to easily pay OnlyFans, who were able to easily receive the transaction. It's about TRUST. Banks and consumers and providers work together to come up with a framework where fraud is so difficult as to be largely a vanishing concern for routine transactions.

And that's what you need in the crypto world. It's not enough to have anonymity. It's just not. And that's why this hasn't been solved yet. Keep at it.

[1] Actually some did, who was the starlet that produced a giant chargeback flood a while back by promising nudity she didn't deliver? I'm not the expert but I remember the story.
Speyer has the Buran as well

https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran
Or a portmanteau of "pride and joy" and "bread and butter".
They're capable of caving to pressure from different groups at the same time?

The nature of culture war is appeasing the squeakiest wheel, rather than finely balanced ethical calculus.
People also were happy to buy unsafe food at low prices, or cars without seat belts and airbag.

Consumers make myopic choices all the time, and it's legitimate to establish regulations enforcing a more long-term outlook.
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Never said that. I'm solid on speed of light as a max, gravitational lensing, gravitational redshift, and all the real world measurements that are in total sync with relativity.

The point is that I think claims like "distance doesn't exist" is the kind of thinking that comes from people lost in notation.
> If one bank decides it doesn’t want to deal with porn, fine. But when all the banks decide that, that’s very very bad.

I think that's not quite what happened here. It's not that, literally, all the banks decided this; it's that the banks are so huge that, when one or a few of the mega-banks make the decision, it's effectively the same as if they all did. Ultra-consolidation is the real problem.
Why do you think JavaScript is a good language?
I still haven't read it, but you can find a nicely done radio drama from the BBC of The State of The Art which is fun to listen to. I agree on the minds keeping us around too. Are we like ants to them? Do just the monitory of minds even ever deal with humans and human stuff?
Dropbox Capture
This was somewhat common voluntarily or not thanks to the Farewell double-agent "revelations" of an actual massive technology siphoning operation from the west to the Soviet Union. There's a funny anecdote on Buran's TPS, which was allegedly based on a very early US iteration of the Shuttle tiles that was discarded and "given away like candies" to foreign spies.
> call for harsh measures against Covid misinformation

Such a hypocricy... Vaccine fan communities contain disinformation too.

Even their first sentence contains lie: "Everyone on this planet has been affected by the SARS-Cov-2" ( https://old.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_cal... )

Actually not everyone, at least I was affected by covid hystericals only but not by covid.
I suspect post wife-noticed-the-charge clarity is a bigger issue.
Even without active malignment, Smalltalk is largely perceived as a historical curiosity of primarily academic interest. Even among many people who like it.

Since Pharo wants to position itself as a modern, industrial programming language, it makes sense that the project would want to distance itself from that reputation.
Exactly. There you go and that's the idea. This can happen to anyone.

I don't understand why they cheer on with the same "X is a private company and can ban, censor or remove whatever they like" argument when it happens to someone they don't like with but only care when it happens to them or to someone they agree with.

Just look at how Google Play removed other apps on the Play Store after Parler was banned [0]. This can happen to anyone.

These companies that hold this power are not anyone's friends and once again are on the side of profit. When will supporters of such acts learn that it can soon happen to them and realise that these large companies are the problem?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28173060
If you are interested in the Brazilian prison system you should take a look into this:

[1] - Retratos do Cárcere: https://vimeo.com/383384532, https://www.pandafilmes.com.br/portfolio/retratos-do-carcere
This is a series about inmates life's. It start giving a brief overview of the current state of Brazilian prison system, including some history to explain why it is this way. Then it go on to show what really means to be an inmate in Brazil. It shows the conditions inmates have to endure, the treatment inmate's family receives, the role religion has inside Brazilian prisons, etc.

[2] - Central: O Poder das Facções no Maior Presídio do Brasil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lbSBVpo9JA
This is a documentary about the "Presídio Central" (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres%C3%ADdio_Central_de_Porto...) which is the largest prison in the state of Rio Grande Do Sul. The prison is overcrowded and falling apart. It is considered one of the worsts active prisons in Brazil.

[3] - Deus e o Diabo em Cima da Muralha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbTMV1-0BTk
This one follows Drauzio Varella, a famous physician, while he gives the last goodbye to the most infamous prison in Brazil(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carandiru_Penitentiary).

Unfortunately I don't know if these are available in languages other than Portuguese.
This article [0] has a lot more images of the bridge before it was finished and installed. You can e.g. see the beams inside there. NPR has larger versions of the images in the submitted article at [1] and [2] by the way.

[0] https://parametric-architecture.com/mx3d-steel-bridge-in-ams...

[1] Side view: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/08/27/3DPedestrianBrid...

[2] View along the bridge: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/08/27/3DPrintedBridge-...
PSA: This article starts right out with a minor spoiler for Excession if you haven't read it.
Probably you'll have a different perspective about the significance of screwdrivers once you learn a little more about the history of technology.

To correct one misreading on your part, though, my claim was that the technology of distillation was developed in India (or possibly China), not the Sprengel pump. I too would be very surprised to find a medieval Sprengel pump from India or anywhere else.

I'm curious: would you also be so foolish as to claim that chemistry and physics have nothing to do with the pseudosciences of phlogiston, numerology, astrology, and alchemy? How about the steady-state theory of cosmology?
Richard O'Keefe (2013), erlang-questions mailing list:

Once upon a time (about 1992ish) in a land where the moles
have beaks and swim and the deer jump on their hind legs
(Australia), a certain computer science department (RMIT)
decided that Pascal had reached its use-by date. What shall
we do? What shall we replace it with? Set up a committee!

I was on the committee. We set up a short list.
(1) Scheme.
Tiny language, amazingly capable, REPL so you can try
things out, implementations for all the machines we
cared about. And Rob Hagan at Monash had shown that
you could teach students more COBOL with one semester
of Scheme and one semester of COBOL than you could
with three semesters of COBOL.
(2) Miranda.
The commercial precursor of Haskell.
Melbourne University were also looking at this (or had
already switched to it) which would make it easier to
pick up some of their students.
(3) Ada.
Close enough to Pascal that our staff were comfortable
with it and our material would not need major revision.
A better Pascal than Pascal.
Handled concurrency about as nicely as an
imperative language can.

What was the deciding factor?

Schools.

Our deliberations leaked, and we started getting phone calls from
careers masters saying "if you go all theoretical [read: (1) or (2)]
we'll tell our pupils not to study with you."

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-January/07...

Personally, I'd maybe not apply the adjective "smartness" here, but there is some sense in which some languages have better taste than others, and what drives language popularity is not usually good taste, and I interpret pg here to be saying he prefers to recruit programmers who show good taste in the languages they work with.
That merely reinforces the popular notion that Amazon is a miserable place to work.
> If that were true they wouldnt be investing in Facebook.

It's easier to stir up outrage against porn—sexual prudishness has a long history—than against Facebook—the ability so globally to overshare, and the (inevitably delayed) realization of its consequences, is only in the very beginning of forming.
Yeah can second this. Always spend the premium time on premium projects. A couple hours per day is good enough.
Svelte is the fastest growing JavaScript front-end framework
IMHO both panics and async are a mistake. The latter should be a standard library with some macros and the former should be replaced by proper error handling everywhere.

Yes out of memory errors should be able to be handled. You might not care when writing web backend slop designed to run under orchestrators but for systems code it is necessary sometimes and Rust is a systems language.

It’s possible to work around both shortcomings but they contradict the languages mission and are warts. Async is a big “excessive cleverness” mistake.
If you move back to the right when you're done passing it sure as fuck does.

I get more done in 7 lanes of rush hour traffic in California than anywhere else.
Now that's false.

The point is that the data calibration mechanism introduces bias before any analysis has been made. The data is calibrated to assume galactic recession. That's the problem.
My parents experimented with making wine from grapes grown in the UP in the 80s.

That's different than commercial viability of course, but the vines thrived even then.
Would someone confirm my understanding that rice fails to germinate above 34C, and that most rice is grown in equatorial regions hovering around 32C?

Given the +1.5C in the IPCC report, the loss of suitable land for a food crop as important as rice seems like something we should be actively talking about.
awesome: profoundly reverential

awful: causing dread

https://www.etymonline.com/word/awe?ref=etymonline_crossrefe...

Words are weird. Adults understand context, limits of reductionism.
Well, I didn't, but can you tell me your why your way of thinking doesn't apply across the board?
I’m not either (and debated rephrasing that), but at this point, I do want to be able to watch content that currently requires HDCP, so…
Heh, and intra-crypto wars like this are one of the reasons the Trust Problem hasn't been cracked yet. People are too busy trying to fix the part that's already solved!

I mean, look. Yes, there are ways to trace bitcoin et. al. given some level of sophistication. But the threat model isn't an intelligence agency trying to unmask a single porn consumer or cam worker. These technologies are "anonymous enough" so that an outfit like OnlyFans can reliably take payment from arbitrary consumers without fear of regulatory interference. This part really is solved. It's just not enough.
A girl pleasuring herself isn’t the same thing as encouraging people to storm the White House and overthrow democracy, I’m confused why you would interpolate the two. It is just more fuel for the argument that America has always been so uncomfortable and Puritan with sex and way too comfortable with violence.
> They're called "warrants" but they can't possibly be supported by probable cause. Treating everyone in the area of a suspected crime as a criminal suspect until things can be sorted out inverts this concept.

This not a good faith analysis. Probable cause to make an arrest of a suspect is different for probable cause of a search.

Only the former requires probable cause to believe that a crime was committed and that the person in question committed it.

Probable cause for a search means probable cause to believe a crime was committed and that the area to be searched contains relevant evidence. It is the question of whether "there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place." Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 214 (1983).

If there was a murder in your neighborhood and your neighbor saw a random person digging a large hole in your back yard and putting a body bag in it, there would be probable cause to search your property without regard to whether you yourself were implicated as a suspect.
Are you referring to the situation 1-2 millions years ago when human brain size expanded? The sitatuion back then and now are not comparable. Just like inuits don't eat much plant-based food, like I said they had no choice, they needed fire to warm themselves, they needed food, any food in their different climate at that time. We can't transpose this situation now, we can grow more various vegetables, we can get all the nutrients from them, and actually more than meat
You're describing the average business. Businesses are primarily there to make money.
That's because what you type can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion.
You can (an arguably should) change that by improving your LinkedIn profile. Add relevant work experience, send requests to past colleagues, update your profile pic, and use some keywords. I spend maybe a total of 20 minutes on LinkedIn in a month and receive a night trickle of job propositions in my inbox. These recruiting emails actually leak useful information and are worth reading.