skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dash is Debian's default non-interactive shell, and it isn't POSIX compliant. The only way to get POSIX compliance on Debian is to switch to a different shell (e.g. bash).
Animated guide to Symex: Emacs structural editing with Lisp
J&J poisoning babies doesn't make Facebook less bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
It's definitely not intentional. If it was intentional it would be animated, and there's no indication in the HTML that it's anything more than a FOUC.
With name like "meta" it will be harder to find bad press about them.
How can I see a list of of all the newly added words? The blog only lists ~30 of them?

Does Merriam Webster use a form of Version-Control to track changes do their dictionary? It seems like versioning is a good use-case for a language information service.

I'd like to get the diff of how definitions and examples to words have changed over time, and perhaps why those changes were accepted.
My understanding is this kind of alignment is essentially what makes Shenzen in China such a manufacturing powerhouse.
nice work, I thoroughly enjoyed this yesterday. how many hours did it take to create it?
Apple’s system to tell on creepy apps just arrived in beta
Hedge funds might be closer to baseball than regular business..

Software tools including programming languages and something like an operating system have transformative applications.
There’s No ‘Supply-Chain Shortage,’ or Inflation. There’s Just Central Planning
It must be no coincidence that my karma lately has seen a modest boost, rising out from the negatives.

Personally I think downvotes should also be calibrated by user, a person who rarely downvotes should carry more weight in a downvote than someone who downvotes everything, and perhaps even have user-to-user calibration where your downvotes against someone become weaker the more you target them. It would help nerf people who scour a post history looking for more comments to downvotes, and help prevent downvote gangs of people who consistently downvote the same person no matter what they post.

A certain amount of dissenting opinion is necessary to keep discussions novel and break up echo chambers, but you don’t want to allow so much that you become poisoned by it.
Only in unstable
google is called alphabet now, so MANAA
Junior data science interview questions
Yes. Iron mines run out in Factorio. That then causes the player to search for new sources of iron to fix your supply chain issue.

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In contrast, if you buffered up... you end up running out of Iron 10 hours ago. Then your buffers deplete and you're back in the same position, except you've built out your supply chain to be even more fragile than before (because you had an additional 10 hours of expansion).
How did you get your ISP to give you a static IP block or prefix? I can get an IPv4 block, but despite the yelling of the IPv6 fanatics regarding how many IPv6 addresses are available, I can't get anyone to allocate me even 20 or so (much less a prefix!).

Is there something in the spec that makes this hard to do. It's been 20 years.
> In the grand scheme of things, having a couple weeks of extra inventory on hand will not help you weather a 100 year storm.

That's not really what he's saying. It's not about a single company, it's about the whole economy. When every company is running JIT, a small temporary supply disruption anywhere can bubble and propagate through the whole chain, becoming a huge disaster. It's like a traffic jam; when a highway is running right at capacity it only takes one person hitting the brakes to turn the whole thing into a parking lot. Except it's worse than a linear highway because the economy has many backlinks where companies early in the chain rely on companies later in the chain, causing feedback loops. Whereas if there was slack in the system then the relatively small initial shock wouldn't propagate.
I'm diagnosed with MDD. I was prescribed an SSRI and was not made aware or informed of the sexual side effects. Thankfully after quitting them my libido has restored but to the other extreme where I'm constantly horny.
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the rebrand? If Facebook is going all in on Meta, wouldn't they want people to think Meta does X instead of Facebook does X? Especially if they're trying to distance themselves from the increasing stink that is Facebook.
> Because if you literally enumerate over all Turing machines, including trivial ones like those that ignores the input and just acceps/halt no matter what, then it doesn't help you solve the problem at all...

I think there is a step which was not explicitly stated in the GP comment. When a given Turing machine accepts, we check whether its output is a valid proof of the answer to our problem. Per definition of NP, we can check that proof in polynomial time. If the check passes, we accept. If the check fails, we ignore that accept and move on.

So we are executing all possible Turing machines in parallel, not just the ones that accept the problem. And when any of them accept, we have to check whether the accept should be ignored or not, because most of the Turing machines are doing something completely unrelated to our problem.
> realities as unfortunate errors ripe for optimization

Yes, it is a deeply optimistic and progressive worldview. It's a real shame people don't respect the unimprovable world as it really is.
NYC Firefighters Union Tells Members to Defy Vaccine Mandate
Google didn't change its org structure for consumer-facing rebranding purposes. It was a move for the market/investors, to separate out more clearly the (lack of) profitability of individual sectors and acquisitions of the company that don't happen to be ads or search. Alphabet was about creating internal transparency.
Hiring for expertise you don't have
I’ve always presumed that the vast majority of Facebook engagement now is not with personal content created by Facebook friends, but with the mass media content from large Facebook communities. Most of what I see when I look at my feed are posts from groups or “pages” which I have never heard of. Most of those posts aren’t even there because one of my Facebook friends directly shared or interacted with the post.
Click to watch the keynote... "You must log in to continue."
Liquidity is a service customers pay for. It’s not clear to me that’s unproductive work. More efficiently allocating capital can absolutely improve productivity.

Some activities classed as renty can be economically beneficial. It’s not all pure usury, but activities that seek to increase rent revenue without increasing the value provided are a problem and that’s the ‘rent seeking’ part. I’ve no problem with fair value rents, but rents should be as low as the market can reasonably bear as excess rents are essentially a tax on production.
Ask HN: Is VR/AR just a fad?
Facebook has recently changed their name to Meta and it seems that they're going all in on VR/AR.

While AR/VR could offer some really nice things like an unlimited amount of virtual monitors or adding information to your surroundings I just can't convince myself that it's going to be the future and replace let's say our phones.

The main reason is I find it hard to believe that people who do not need to wear glasses will want to wear them.

As someone who started wearing glasses young I remember when I first had to wear them and how annoying it felt. (Despite my glasses being way lighter than any vr headset currently on the market)

Also VR feels like a compromise on AR and AR feels like a compromise on actually having real Holograms.

What do you think of all of this? Will AR/VR become ubiquitous?
> Wearing something on my head for 8+ hours is like anti-ergonomics, and the benefits are dubious.

Playing Devil's Advocate here, but I'm already wearing something on my head for ~16 hours per day - my eyeglasses.

The issue here is only that the current generation of devices aren't yet suitable for long-term use.
You'll find fluorine atoms in a disproportionate number of poisons, while other halogens are much weaker. It really is an anomalous atom and the comparison to Chlorine is not accurate (which is less electronegative than oxygen).

I wondered why we don't use something that can also promote crystallization of hydroxyapatite (primary mineral in surface tooth enamel), and apparently it's because carbonate also promotes plaque crystallization. However, if you go to the dentist regularly, it seems an objectively better personal option.

The argument for water fluoridation is a macro-argument that looks good from 10,000 feet, but when you apply nuance, such a policy does not benefit (and probably subtly harms) the vast majority of readership on HN, and is more likely to affect the most impoverished who do not brush their teeth regularly and cannot afford or do not prioritize going to the dentist (which is a surprisingly high percentage of the general public).

That isn't to say it's a bad policy, but it certainly isn't black and white.
Interpol Weaponized by Governments Seeking to Hunt Down Critics and Activists
I take it you would be fine with a hog feedlot moving in next to you?

(I grew up in the vicinity of cattle feedlots---they're nasty. Industrial chicken coops are worse. But hogs are a whole different order of magnitude of stank.)
I remember being 11 years old and feverishly researching video cards to play unreal and quake 2 and basically was deciding between a power vr and a voodoo 2. This 3-4 month period, along with a few years later building a pc from parts contributed to my career in software more than anything else I can think of.
These are baseless assertions, absurd on their face, supporting hate. Why is that important to you? If you think you are fighting a political war, avoid the mistake that many before you have made - becoming so caught up in the mob dynamics, the cause, the obsession - that you disregard the consequences. Don't say later, 'I didn't think' - that's fine for a night out, but it's not good enough when people's lives and welfare is at stake.

Everyone faces prejudices from some others; should everyone act on them? What kind of society will we have? On a practical level, how does that bring freedom and economic opportunity.

You have a great model that has been far more successful than anything in the history of humanity, the free world, based on universal human rights and equality. The (general) lack of prejudice where I live works wonderfully; the bigotry - almost always from outsiders who have no experience with the people they hate - is the only problem. If they all went away, we'd have one less problem.
No.

My industry (international freight) is hemorrhaging people left and right in "the great resignation", COVID outbreaks at ports and facilities have been shutting specific facilities down on and off for almost 2 years, cargo containers aren't moving from ocean ports because there aren't any chassis to be had, Suez canal, weather, etc. etc. , so on and so forth.

Not "Return on Equity".
Si ingles es mi lengua materna, pero hablo Espanol tambien.
I was thinking more of TV in the way it captured audiences in the 50s, 60s, 70s. You're probably right though that AR has a bigger chance of capturing something like the way TV is interacted with today (a background activity).
This tweet storm is largely nonsense.

For example:

>The proper way to do accounting is Next in First Out (NIFO). This means you price your goods against the cost of replenishment.

NIFO isn't GAAP which is why it's largely pointless.
> Fish can't even live in the water you're drinking. It affects plant growth too.

Yeah, that would be the point -- kill the nasties that otherwise get into the broken-ass pipe system, and kill them with something that our physiology is well prepared to handle but theirs is not.

I am sure there are some nature fetishists who prefer their water "raw." I do not.
To answer your last point - it’s not IPv6’s fault but ISP’s. In most of the EU it’s trivial to get even more than one static v6 prefix and I wish I didn’t have to deal with NAT or even double NAT as it’s more and more common and instead could just run v6 only.
That last part isn't true. People report credible effects of positive mood immediately. The issue is you can't necessarily trust these self-reports and it takes roughly 1-2 weeks for someone with a clipboard to start writing down results that correlate with a perceived increase in mood.

Some adverse reactions to SSRIs are so bad people will kill themselves if they go a month. If it doesn't feel right you should just stop taking them.
Many people rinse with water afterwards. If I don't rinse I get a wicked stomach-ache almost immediately after swallowing some toothpaste residue, so I rinse
LOL....what a bunch of ass-hats. Like this is going to white-wash over the fact they are a cancer on the species and the culture...
US stamps of today seem to be far less decorative (talking about the design on the stamp itself) than ones I've seen from days gone by.
Steve Reich's Phase – Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Michele Anne de Mey (2009)
Visualization of Steve Reich's Phase by two dancers and their shadows.
It’s hard to write 20 consecutive blog posts without seeming extremely pretentious. To the average Twitter user, massive Tweet chains means the person has something really important to say. The fact that they’re getting around the max tweet size makes things very rebellious, adding to that counterculture feel you only get on Twitter.. Add in the blue checkmark next to the name and yeah, I guess you could say Twitter users are pretty cool for using Twitter.
> a cosmologist that wants to argue against e.g. DM is putting his career at risk

Academia doesn't work like that in all countries, at the very least.

Putting together a single-author or maybe two-author theoretical paper in gravitation or cosmology is commonplace, and getting it published is usually a lot easier than stopping oneself from throwing it out because of unsolved problems that almost inevitably creep up when one sets out to write down a non-trivial theory.

You don't really have to take my word for it. Start here: https://arxiv.org/list/gr-qc/new and observe the large number of one-and-two-author papers.

Then let's try https://arxiv.org/search/?query=mond&searchtype=all which by default sorts newest-first. The first four digits of the identifers are YYMM. You can see for yourself whether there are only few papers dealing with Milgromian/Modified-Newtonian-Dynamics gravitation, and work out some median author count.

If you do an in-browser search on that second results page you'll see "Famaey" a lot. Benoît Famaey's career in academia has hardly come to a dead end because of his many explorations of MOND over the past fifteen years or so; he's a Belgian working in Germany and France and indeed has grad students and a research team (cf. https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/deebea0f ), although not just for MOND to the exclusion of other areas of galaxy astrophysics. I think Famaey in his mid-50s or so, but I am not an especially good judge of people's ages.

Whether he could have had this sort of career in private universities in the U.S.A. is a sociological or political question that I decline to speculate about.

With minor effort at searching, you can certainly follow the publication lists and careers of his many collaborators, if you are tempted to argue that he is an especially rare or lucky individual to have avoided "hav[ing] trouble" or being "seriously trashed".

I would not read too much (bearing in mind I did not search deeply) into his recent coauthors being almost all from European universities, even if tempted into speculating about cross-juridictional comparative academy.

Finally, I'll end by pointing to Stacy McGaugh, an American at a U.S. university https://astronomy.case.edu/faculty/stacy-mcgaugh/ , has coauthored specifically about MOND alternatives to General Relativity and Dark Matter with Famaey and it does not seem to have wrecked his career, and neither have his rather forceful blog statements at https://tritonstation.com/ .
I appreciate your honesty. Here are some negative effects of this:

* Costs:

If the wealthy people are allowed only one house and one other rental, they will build a huge house and rental in a really expensive area, and forego building rental stock in cheap areas. So that means that poorer people will be hurt as there will be less rental stock available to them. Now, you can say, let them buy condos! But a lot of people are not ready for owning their own condo the moment they move out of their parents house, or if they are just spending a summer somewhere, or they have an internship in a different city, etc. E.g. even though the U.S. has an insanely high homeownership rate (probably too high) there is still a good 30% of the population that needs shorter term housing than the commitment of buying a place, but longer term housing than a hotel. And now they wont have that option, or it will be much more expensive for them as the rental stock is large, expensive units in highly desirable areas, and there are fewer of them.

* Ways to bypass it:

Of course it's a bit impractical. Wealthy people in the US will just buy up apartments in Europe or Asia, and wealthy people there will buy up apartments here. So this just creates a class of really remote landlords, because you've made it illegal to be landlord in your own nation.

Also, corporations will buy up apartments -- REITs. But maybe you will ban REITS, which means much of the drivers of more housing are taken off the picture and they focus on building offices only, exacerbating the imbalance between office space and housing.

OK, we did the downsides.

* Benefits:

Well, someone who owns 2 apartment buildings, their own mansion, and 100 million in equities will now own 0 apartment buildings, 1 rental mansion, their own mansion, and 150 million in equities. How is this a better world? And here, I am assuming full compliance.

Point being, I see the benefit as being purely symbolic. Like you have this law passed, and the existence of the law is its own reward. I don't think this is a good way of doing public policy. In fact, it's extremely disempowering to be even turning the legislative process into a LARP. It's a kind of learned helplessness to use the power of the state as therapy instead of to actually solve social problems. Banning plastic straws is one example of this.

Now if you want to say, "Hell let's abolish private ownership of capital", then at least that is going to make a difference and not just be a symbolic thing. It is an honest attempt to get at the root of the issue. But I think people understand this specific attempt is a bad idea, so what they are doing is retreating to these weird little symbolic acts, instead of searching for the next big idea. And I'm not picking on you -- I see this a lot. Just ordinary conversation, and people say "We should ban X", and it's a little worrying how ready people are to ban random things as a form of satisfying some inner unease, due to feeling powerless to address the real, underlying things.
Carriers must move 60K containers out of LA/LB by Halloween
I don't need to read the article to know that Paxos and Raft have substantial commonality. That does not make them the same. That does not make a proof about one a proof about the other. That does not make a program that implements one a program that implements the other.

An abstract state machine, such as defines a version of Paxos, maps trivially one-to-one to parts of a program that implements it. A different abstract state machine, such as one that implements Raft, maps trivially one-to-one to a different program.

You might reasonably demonstrate that two different state machines define the same system behavior, but you would need to provide that demonstration. That has not been reported.
Cf. 'The Myth of Mental Illness' by Thomas Szasz (1961): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness
I tried this. It doesn't work. First, which ISPs give you the static IPv6 blocks? Its pretty easy (for $10/month) to get a block of IPv4, but I had a hard time getting anyone to find any free IPv6 addresses (oddly).
Even the robot character was awkward.
Ask HN: Request for Ideas – AI for X Competition $10K
I will have to find out what "Lagrangian" means. It seems to be important in SM.
That's not the same as no-fault divorce though. That's typically a Community Property provision.
typically when you're selling aircraft carriers, you're selling it before you build it - the customer is paying you to make it, not paying you for the one you've already made. so the neither the economics or the accounting work the same way as acting as middleman for retail goods.
> People are saying "why didn't we buffer up more" ? Well, there we go. Play Factorio. You'll see just how bad buffers are in a simulated factory.

A shortage in real life causes critical issues for real people. A shortage in Factorio does not.
my isp (google webpass) is v4 only and I read someplace they will probably never go to v6
Was IPv6 needed at all?

What problems would occur if we were just nat-ing everyone behind those 4 billion IPv4 addresses?

I run a popular website and I have never heard anyone being unable to use it because it is IPv4 only.

I just tried test-ipv6.com and it gives me a score of 0/10, saying "You appear to be able to browse the IPv4 Internet only.". I basically live in the internet. And I am not aware of any problems this causes me.
They do have two issues here, I believe: the problem of how to fix this relatively fast having in mind that this might even worse for other than English languages where longer words might be in the use, and the problem inside company because someone who approved this had clearly no idea how this global menu works. I doubt they'd go for application specific toolbar menus or hamburger menus à la GNOME.
With the exception of AirPlay, the Nvidia Shield seems to fit the bill.

There are AirPlay receivers for the Shield IIRC but they are unofficial and unsupported.
Twilio Signal 2021: A Pivot from CPaaS to Customer Engagement Platform
Google created Alphabet as an umbrella company so that Google search would be isolated legally from all their other non-money making projects. There was no shift in the company mission/focus.

Facebook the company is rebranding to Meta. Unlike Google/Alphabet this move marks a shift in the company focus from Facebook as the company’s main product to developing products for the Metaverse.
This is exactly right. It's about the term length of incentive alignment. Most founders have a long term reputational stake in the company they founded. Hired CEOs generally do not.
Yes, it's just a fad for now, because it's too expensive and awkward to be anything else.

And at best I think it will become a niche platform that has some limited uses, but it will never become ubiquitous like in science fiction. The fact is there are simply too many applications for which existing input methods (keyboard, mouse, etc) are better suited, and to which simulated visual and audio immersion don't add much value.

Between the two, though, I think AR will find more uses.
Unless you consider liquidity to be valuable? No?
> The point is to create a massively deep and wide technical and capital moat between iPhones and anything else on the market. It’s a very deliberate long term strategy that’s been running for well over a decade.

It's worth noting that this is also the reason that non-Apple ARM-based CPUs won't be taking over from x86 for a long time if ever; the difference between Apple/Intel/AMD in terms of performance is still multiple years ahead of Qualcomm/Samsung/anyone else's best efforts, even though these companies have had ample time to catch up.

Now, maybe Apple can put some time in getting their newest UI framework to work properly.