skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are all you crack-junkies, running SQL queries against live...? I've seen enough literature saying we don't do this anymore... ooooooooohhhhhh. right... yes, the people writing about that aren't the ones actually shipping and making the clock tick ;-)
I mean. I am not trying to underscore the work. But I feel you are making it sound magical. This is not much different than cooking, is it? Try making bread or beer by adding things out of order.

I feel so much of this mysticism is driven by over reliance on associative and distributive laws for elementary math. And it is super annoying because I know I do the same thing.
Owner of a Quest 1, so I've never linked to FB, but that's also locked me.out of Venues (which was how they broadcast Connect in VR). Any speculation on whether Venues will still require a FB account?
iv is not many single family homes. it’s most duplexes. there’s some larger buildings in the back. it’s a highly dense party town. it scares parents and donors. ucsb has one of the lowest rates of greek life attendees in the entire uc system. why? because maybe you need to pay to join a frat if you want to party elsewhere. at ucsb you will have more than enough parties to attend even if you never set foot in a greek house
Inside The Machine That Saved Moore’s Law
While I agree separating families is bad, 450,000 USD?! That's 11 and a half years of my gross income...
You’d have seven roommates and would also have no window. Looking at the layout, it’s like sharing a tiny apartment with 7 other people. This is the worst part, if you have one disruptive person out of eight, they are going to make everyone else miserable. Hard to get sleep, hard to study.
It is not that much bandwidth bound. You sill need compute. The goal of ethash is to require a lot of memory.
Seems like something they could easily use to try to get him on conspiracy for, even if never used, since having the discussion and providing techniques even if never used is a concrete action in furtherance of. If they wanted to try to throw the book at him.
Ask HN: Looking for a discrete math course with programming
Hi all,

Background: I am a totally blind programmer. That is, I cannot see at all. I am using a screen reading software to read texts, but not images. I am unable to get a computer science degree. Now I am a full-time web developer but I am still very interested about computer science so I am learning as much as I could on my spare time. This post was inspired by section 2.3.3 of SICP https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e3.xhtml#g_t2_002e3_002e3

For many years now I am trying to find ways to study discrete math. There are many free wonderful resources and courses. Unfortunately, everything I could find (E.G. MIT OCW, Book of Prufe) uses math rendering that can't be read by my screen reader. After much searching, I believe my screen reader can only read math notation rendered in the mathjax library (like the SICP version I linked above) and LaTeX. I could not find lecture notes that have their math notation rendered by these two.

Then, I have thought of bypassing my notation problem completely. Maybe there is a course that teaches discrete math through programming just like how SICP did it with sets. I know SICP does not intend to teach discrete math, but I feel that the same idea could be applied when actually learning discrete math. I am hoping that by using this approach, even though the mathematical notation are invinsible to my screen reader, I still have some code (maybe written in a functional language?) that I could play with to understand the concepts. I am counting on abstraction here (E.G. I am confident that objects in graph theory can be represented as data structures).

I would like to ask: is there such a course? Can anyone recommend a course like this? Like a discrete math and programming combination?

Also, I am aware that bypassing math notation is extremely dangerous to do. After all, reading and writing prufes almost involves reading math notation. I have come to accept that this might be my (or my screen reading software)'s limitation that cannot be fixed at the moment. I will settle for learning the concepts enough to at least being able to pruve the time complexity of my own programs.

Thanks all!
I think the best way is a combination of both. Async written message first to establish context, followed by in person communication—if necessary—to clear up any confusion.

For example, our team used to have a 15 minute standup meeting every day, where we would go around and give our status updates. Many people complained that most of the time, the information being shared wasn’t relevant to them. We replaced it with a daily Slack thread where people could share their updates. Then, in the 15-minute meeting people could ask any questions they had or bring up anything they wanted to discuss more. This resulted in the daily standup meetings becoming a much more effective use of everyone’s time.
California markup, I guess.
Cheesecake-to-Go Saved the Cheesecake Factory
> Why should anyone be forced to do that shitty of a job? Why can't the wage be increased and/or the quality of treatment be increased?

Because if you did that we wouldn't have billionaires.
Your roommates chose to have blackout curtains. And they could choose to open them.
This wouldn't change if it were a store account instead of a device account.
Most people use google's play store but this doesn't mean every android device needs a mandatory google account.
Crawling Shopify Application Ratings
perfect, get a whole bunch and we'll have potentially compiled a network of thieves without their knowledge

do you think enough people are opportunistically malicious to form a reliable mesh network of jerks?
Would be interesting to compare it to siphash.
Surely this will become a non-problem as we migrate to NOSQL... no...? oh? we're migrating back? great.
Why do you trust a closed down chip like TPM, why do you trust secure-boot when the only time it's verifying the kernel is at boot time? Why trust something like IntelME? Why trust something like a proprietary UEFI?
Yes, I recommend it. Beat Saber and Thrill of the Fight are great.
I’d much rather skip reading a useless Slack message than be stuck in another useless meeting
I'm sorry to be short in reply to such a well written post but - the first amendment doesn't matter, he's not an American, it's not his right to be protected or prosecuted over.
Accessibility: Lipservice and the Reality
yes, I understand the perverse incentives that led to greenlighting this. its also not an excuse. they should reject the $200 million donation and hope Munger sends another with no restrictions. that's where we are at.
Another question not addressed in the article is whether the shrinkage is linear or happened in spurts (and if so, when these occurred). It's entirely possible, for example, that there was some shrinkage 60-70k years ago, then noting happened for 50k years, and then some more shrinkage in the last 10k years.

Another interesting tidbit not mentioned is that you can actually remove a full half of the brain of young children (hemispherectomy) and these people have very normal lives with extremely small or no impact on their brain functions, which is pretty bonkers. This underscores that size isn't everything.
Selenium WebDriver: What It Is, How It Works, and If You Need It
Unless he advocates violence, criticising things and calling them "backwards" is not far-right, which is usually reserved for extremists.

Also here's the motivation for "islamophobia":

> "I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again."
Maybe so. This article elides a lot of details... in fact, they don't touch on fire safety aspects at all as far as I can tell. So maybe there are sufficient accommodations made in terms of fire safety. It's hard to say.

But... if the design really was done by an amateur architect who probably has little or no background specifically related to fire/life safety issues vis-a-vis building design, and it truly hasn't been modified from his design... I don't know. I'll just say "color me skeptical" for now.

If I'm ultimately proven wrong, then I would actually be very happy. I'd much rather suffer the indignity of having to admit I was wrong about something on HN, than watch a news report detailing hundreds of student deaths on campus.
Though it's nice to have so many choices, devs that really want actors will pick a battle-tested platform like Erlang+OTP in the 99% of cases. Because of the natue of BeamVM, which also got a JIT upgrade recently.
His past behavior supports denying bail but absolutely doesn't justify solitary confinement in a maximum security prison.
Nope, you're still on target with Minecraft.
That's a nice sell to Zuckerberg himself
I think there's a fair amount of ARM that's different about each implementation.

eg: early boot - initialization of hardware is timing/order dependent
If you want high salary potential of FAANG and want to go there, then you'd have to be good at algos, regardless of if you have 1 year exp or 10 years exp and Fullstack expert. So you can skip the unrelated part and just learn algos and get in at the start of career. If algo is too much you can apply everywhere else but instead of algo you'd be tested on other skills. Reason TOP companies don't test open techs is because they have internal tools they use so they can't test people on things nobody would know on account of not being in the company. So they test on something very general and innate to programming.
His money represents less than 10% of the final cost of the dorm, while retaining 100% of the design rights.

Something's happening here that's more than just the money.
Don't get me wrong, if I were Assange I would fight this extradition to the bitter end. Pretrial detention alone is an incredibly harsh punishment (and why he won the first extradition case).

Despite the US's vengefulness, Chelsea Manning is now free, if not entirely left to her devices, and she's the one who actually leaked the information that Assange is being indicted in reference to. Reality Winner is in a halfway house now. Things are not so bleak as you picture here. Both of them had plea deals, and although Manning was put on trial, it was not in front of a jury. We desperately need a reckoning to decide if we're a country that will imprison people for speech.
Erlang nailed the actor model.
Ha, this sounds exactly like our Springer Spaniel. She is highly focused, extremely agile, never really misbehaves, but absolutely looses her marbles if there are squirrels in the yard and she is inside.

It's like she views her entire purpose as eradicating the yard of squirrels. But if I put her outside while I'm working, she comes back immediately to the door and waits for me to watch her chase the squirrels.

She also does the head tilt nearly every time I talk to her.
Note that many of the positive reviews are from pre-covid times and the two that coincide with the pandemic note how ill suited it is to such conditions.
Oura ring switches to subscription, requires new purchase to grandfather access
Sure, we get the goal. It could even be an interesting experiment. Maybe some people would like it. Maybe lots of people. Or maybe it causes lasting psychological harm. But this is going to get built and used for decades regardless of the results of the experiment.

> My college roommates had blackout curtains on the small windows in our rooms. Not sure how this is different.

You and your college roommates had a choice. Did everybody in your dorm do that?
The subject at hand was whether or not people, even ones who make messes, should have access to public bathrooms, not whether or not you should be expected to have someone over for dinner.

I mean, let's be honest, I'm relatively certain I wouldn't want you as a guest at my home either. I still think you should have access to places to take a dump when you need to.
Auto Annotation Tool for TensorFlow Object Detection
Are you tired to label your images by hand to work with object detection? Have hundreds or thousands of images to label? Then this project will make your life easier, just create some annotations and let the machine do the rest for you!

https://github.com/AlvaroCavalcante/auto_annotate
Your suggestion makes no sense. Without a mandate, how are Pfizer and Moderna going to get paid?
Hope Lyapunov_Lover will show up to shine some light.
This is not about SQL; it's about user interfaces. The author is only using SQL as an explanatory tool.
that's not it yet.
There wasn’t the political will in Congress to make SLS a success because it’s not a voting issue for most of their constituents. This is the fate of any ambitious tech development unless that technology can be used to incinerate half of the world in nuclear-fueled hellfire (moon race), spy on the American people without a warrant, kill brown people in the third world, or be give secondhand to the police to fight the war on drugs.

However, never underestimate Congress's undying political will to give bucketloads of American taxpayer dollars and money the government borrowed to rich people with no accountability.

Really makes you think…
A new small apartment in San Francisco cannot be built for less than $800k these days, so coming in a $333k per resident is not too surprising to me in a similar high-cost city with a building with a ton of amenities.
That’s interesting, I didn’t know number 5 was actually a crime (other than the “hacking tools”). So maybe the US potentially does have an actual case.. I just assumed that we were having a witch hunt since people in power got mad at Assange
I agree that for an optional tool, Cloudflare can make any blocklist they like. People have a fundamental Right to Filter. I personally don't think it's consistent with Cloudflare's brand or stated purpose to go down this route, but that's just my opinion, people can have other opinions.

I do want to kind of question how egalitarian we are inside free speech communities about this stuff though in reality. I am fairly confident that if Cloudflare added hate speech to 1.1.1.3 or started adding misinformation to their filtering list, that is something that would show up on HN and see debate. I think a lot of people on this site wouldn't see that as a neutral act, I think a lot of people would be on here arguing that it was a dangerous value judgment, or at the very least a dangerous behavior for Cloudflare to normalize.

We all have the right to filter content, and we all have the right to choose which filter lists we'll use. But is that actually our philosophy? Would we collectively as a community be applying those same standards if Cloudflare started blocking Covid misinformation or conversion-therapy sites from 1.1.1.3? The way society debates filter lists can sometimes betray our collective ideas about what kinds of information needs more or less protection.

> or people were forced to use it

There's a separate conversation to be had here about the fact that children are forced to use filter lists. This is exactly why Cloudflare reacted so quickly to stop blocking sites like GLADD and why if it ever does offer the ability to choose custom categories, it's probably never going to offer an "LGBTQ+ information" category to block.

Cloudflare (to its credit) does at least recognize that child filters are often only semi-consensual and can be (and regularly are) abused at the network level.

That doesn't change the overall debate, it doesn't mean that making a filter list is always evil, communities still have a Right to Filter. But it is important to bring up, kids at schools don't get to choose whether or not the filters on those networks are too conservative or too liberal with what they block.

Kids (necessarily by virtue of being kids) do not have agency to decide what networks they're a part of. There are good reasons for that, but it still puts kids into a somewhat more vulnerable position, and it means there are more dangerous implications for network-wide filters than there are for user-controlled filters. This is also something that kind of gets glossed over in these debates sometimes.
Ask HN: How do you efficiently keep track of the changes/features in a commit?
I often find myself working on a project for an entire day and when it's time to commit I spend a lot of time trying to remember what are the changes and what are the new features that I've introduced in the codebase.

I've once tried to make a commit every time I introduce something that should be noted and then at the end of the day squash all those new commit into one, but this felt a bit strange and it required a significant amount of work at the time of merging all the commits' messages into the squashed one.

Can somebody point me out to some best practices for this?
And just to add a bit more color, Oculus-the-subsidiary became Oculus-the-brand in Sep 2018.
$29 per sq ft is amazing! Have you documented your project? Interested to learn more.
Gave them a call today. Who knew they had toll free international call lines. Quite impressive.

https://myaccount.economist.com/s/contact-us
Yep, my Spaniel seems to do it every time I say words she doesn't know/understand.
If the donor is attaching terms to the donation then I'd expect there will be some sort of contract in place to ensure his terms are met.
I live in urban environment and it is not hellhole some people like to make it into.
False, I purchased a VR headset to use with Steam VR (mostly), but I fully expected it to work in a standard way, with understanding to the variations in the handheld controllers.
SpaceX seems to have quite a bit of accountability; I'm a big fan of how Commercial Crew and Commercial Cargo projects were run (fixed costs, especially, which is biting Boeing in the ass right now...), and hope NASA uses it as a baseline for future projects.
Being paid to do a job isn't public assistance.

You can argue CEOs are overpaid, and you can argue government contracting companies engage in regulatory capture, but this scenario is so tangential that it has zero bearing on the question at hand.
> You are assuming a lot about whether the safety designs exist, or are adequate.

Uh, yes. Because there are laws governing how we can construct buildings in a safe way, and on the whole (c.f. the number of deaths in building fires over time) they work well. So I trust them.

As far as the putative logic flaw, I don't see it. Everything is a tradeoff, even "because money". Saving money on the dorm means lower tuition, more scholarships, more facilities elsewhere, maybe a few new endowed professorships, etc...
Ask HN: American Divorce
Should the US consider a divorce between the states?

We have an inefficient costly system because people are pulling in two different directions and the power oscillation wastes years of productivity when power changes hands.

A phased separation with a scheduled timely vote for the union to continue on a per state basis. If the state doesn't have a simple majority vote to continue the relationship it is dissolved. Second if a simple majority of states in the union votes to remove a state they can.
This makes me think, maybe the most important thing in the universe is silicon, and also, we're silicon life, computers Are our babies. I am yo neighbor.
I build Firefox without dbus for NetBSD, current version works fine.
This could be super useful for deduplicating large photo datasets!

It might be worth changing this link to the github, there’s a lot more info on the hash there.
Seahash came out very well last I have seen in it, any comparison? https://docs.rs/seahash/4.1.0/seahash/
Zillow shares surged >400% in 1y (Mar 2020 - Mar 2021) and they're still up 285%.

Zillow still wants to buy 5k homes/month by 2024.
OWASP Top Ten 2021
>Or can Microsoft sing an NSA backdored Linux so it appears that is "secure/genuine"?

If you keep the default Microsoft keys a big YES.

Just trust secure-boot if you absolutely believe that there is no chance that there is a hidden "non detectable but updatable" key ;)
Wake me up when the resolution isn't garbage. I have two Oculus kits collecting dust due to facebook and the fact that looking at my monitor is still a more pleasurable experience.
That building holds 630 residents. The proposed building holds 7x more.
Who will watch the watchers? Oversight surely already exists, but it is likely as corrupt as the rest of the system.
Found this in the readme:

Due to recent discoveries by Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, we have decided to reclassify Meow hash 0.5/calico from level 3 to level 1. This means that we recommend not to use this hash for message authentication codes, or for hash tables in scenarios where collision induced denial-of-service attacks are a concern.
For level 3/MAC capabilities consider migrating to SipHash. If the performance of SipHash is not satisfying, continuing to use Meow 0.5 for hash tables is better than migrating to another fast hash.
Siphash has pretty bad performance on large inputs. From what I remember, even MD5 was faster.
Multi-word terms get entries if their meaning is unpredictable in some way. For example, "red herring" should get an entry but "blue herring" doesn't, because it's just a herring that's blue.

The purpose of a dictionary is not to define individual words. In fact, it's not meant to define anything. It's meant to objectively capture the ways language is used today, with the primary intent of being used as a tool to help people understand things. If you read or hear a sentence containing a particular term that you're unfamiliar with then a dictionary will help you to understand the intended meaning of the sentence.

Acronyms, idioms, compound terms, and even punctuation are just as necessary for understanding as standalone words, so there's no reason not to include them.
I agree. Had I been given the choice of no windows or no roommates, I would choose no roommates.
I've used Akka extensively and beg to differ. It's such a clean departure from traditional concurrent programming and the "let it fail" mentality around it is real.

The distributed features work as intended to great effect with only certain edge cases (split brain for example) that need to have care but at that point in scale, you're already leveraging all the best parts.
DuckDB-Wasm: Efficient analytical SQL in the browser
Ouch, I hadn't even considered highDPI!

You're right, haven't crossed that bridge myself. I have three displays but all rather normal pixel density.

Agreed - if someone wants Wayland, I'd have to suggest Gnome (or even KDE, I hear they're doing well).

As usual with window managers, you've got to build your own fun - and moving to Wayland (through Sway) has not been that.

I started with i3 - so I basically had a working config to copy/extend... but the amount of extension necessary - oh buddy.
SMHasher benchmark numbers are here (including Meow Hash):

https://github.com/rurban/smhasher#readme
$200 million+ and no one raised fire safety because they hadn't read Wikipedia?

The are far more that 'two entrances' on the plans. What are you talking about? What plans are you analysing? I count 12 not including things like the laundry and lobby exits, which are also inter-linked.

What's wrong with HN. This is a really interesting project. Tech is getting very cool for dense living. And we know dense communities increases innovation and is the most environmental thing you can do.

Anyone who's dealt with architects know they are the absolute worst. It's all about looks not usability. The widows is controversial, but that's the point. A system that works without windows changes the game. And university students are not old HN people who want to live their entire day in a room.
You've misunderstood. I was directly answering the question in the comment that I was replying to. I know nothing about the OP's situation and said nothing about it.
You raise a good point--dogs (and cats) have been domesticated for so long that interaction with humans has become essential to their...worldview is the word, I guess?

Certainly various breeds have been bred for different purposes, and are very good at them.