skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go with a Lenovo or HP machine before a Dell. Even if they all have the sleep issue (I don't know if that's the case), both Lenovo and HP have better build quality.
Why does this require the extra step of using a burner account? Why not tweet https://twitter-unfurl-faker.herokuapp.com/ from your main account and that's it?

Does Twitter only unfurl t.co URLs? If so, why would they write separate code for unfurling t.co with ?amp=1 vs without ?amp=1 ? And why would Twitter unfurl a t.co link past the first non-t.co URL? I guess that's the vuln, right, that they don't stop after the first non-t.co URL?
It is more about streamlined process of package management to which Linux users are used. At least with deb/rpm package I understand where package stuff goes and how to uninstall it (of course, packager could mess up this with arbitrary install scripts).

And each 'curl https://' packager has its own idea where his software should be installed. And many of them are not even providing automated way to delete their application.
Does the shelving system of the library that owns the book matter to the library requesting it?
ILL is a distribution, not a storage, mechanism.

The DDS codes subject to shelf location. For a given library, materials selection is largely relevant to its own interests, and in many cases, location and local culture have a strong influence over that.

(As I've discussed in an earlier comment, DDS is not the only shelving system used, though it's a commonly encountered one in the US, and serves as a basis for numerous others. There are also non-subject based shelving systems, though those are typically not publically-accessed.)
Finally got to make it-- just had to trim the words some.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004677

https://ibb.co/rvtFDR9
> the need for lawyers grows non-linearly with population, because the need is correlated with the number of transactions

This is a cultural artifact, not a cross-cultural truth. The historical norm is to use zero lawyers even for the largest-scale transactions. It's still the modern norm to use zero lawyers for small-scale transactions.
QINZHOU, China, Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S. remote-control maker Universal Electronics Inc (UEIC.O) told Reuters it struck a deal with authorities in Xinjiang to transport hundreds of Uyghur workers to its plant in the southern Chinese city of Qinzhou, the first confirmed instance of an American company participating in a transfer program described by some rights groups as forced labor.
“Stop posting this shit” does not fly on HN. You may not like it but some people may be interested in what the article has to say.
The 1972 film Silent Running had three gardening robots called Huey, Louie and Dewey.
> Like how banks have that "only type your password if we show your correct profile picture".

Do they? My banks did that years ago, and they also stopped doing it years ago.
Knowledge classification is not directed.

I'm not sure entirely how to describe it, though "probabalistically associative" is a phrase that comes to mind.

It looks like a digraph in many local regions, but overall is not.
Schemas are an ignorant / arrogant person's tagging system ;-)
You've got some timely details drawn from an experienced point of view.

Even beyond formal credentials scientific progress can primarily only be made by relatively fewer workers then ever holding their position or inching upstream against an increasing current flowing downstream.

I think what you will find is that the rewards for STEM creatives who are in position for their abilities to be leveraged by mass media, will always be greater than those without it.

Microsoft started selling CD's as fast as Michael Jackson but for 10X the price.

DOS had already been pulling people away from natural science since the '80's.

Apple mass-marketed pop music to sell hardware.

Google started as an anti-advertising utility but reversed stance to convert a huge user base into a mass market.

Amazon was all about a mass market to begin with.

Facebook is what the National Enquirer would be like if they had gotten the idea to scale an internet concept and had that kind of capital to strategically deploy earlier.

Mass media has such a major component consisting of fiction this is an attraction plain natural science does not possess. Scientific research has such a focus on pure reality that mainstream interest just can not be maintained continuously, as so much relatively unexciting time must pass before progress finally pushes one little bit of reality to actually become better than fiction.

But that's where it starts to get good.
This is not the same as "sudo curl https://getsomefile.ro | bash". That is dangerous. While I understand your point, it's really not the same thing. This checks your system for its architecture and then downloads the correct binary to the directory you run it from. I know this because it's very easy to copy the URL, drop it in your browser and read the script. That's what I did before running it. And it is certainly safer than adding some random software repository which is what a lot of instructions suggest.
Because those are the places hiring physicists.

When we were focused on building hydrogen bombs and rockets to obliterate civilization, everyone needed a friendly neighborhood physicist.
Please don't make spurious generalizations about the community—these images are nearly all in the eye of the beholder, i.e. people with the opposite preferences to yours see the community exactly the opposite way (and make similarly spurious generalizations about HN favoring Apple or whatever $BigCo they don't personally care for).

Because such generalizations are just encodings of personal likes/dislikes in the form of general claims, they lead to lame discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Ask HNs are my favorite part of HN. It was a hassle for me to go through /new looking for just posted Ask HN threads

I'm confused. /asknew doesn't just show Ask HNs though.
Firefox is doing a horrendous job of rendering the text on this site for me, on Arch Linux. Is it just me?

https://i.imgur.com/ZP9wC85.png
The inability to define multi-tag searches (intersections) on Pocket is ... one of many gripes I have with that so-called tool.

Article roach motel is more like it. Though the roaches can escape via bitrot, and often do.
25 Remote Work Stories from Nomads
You could say that again, play v1 was so simple and productive. Then v2 was pure insanity. I switched from v2 to golang and it felt like I had been punishing myself.

This is what really sold me in Go as a language and I’ve used it liberally since then. Nothing beats just being able to get your head around things.
Thanks for this. I was confused why a page of 404s was staying on the front page for so long, as I've never heard of _why, but I just went down the rabbit hole for a bit and I'm very intrigued now.
Ah! What you describe drives me bonkers!

I’ve had interviews which start very casually, “we just want to have a high-level conversation, no crazy whiteboard coding or anything”, then, absolutely randomly in the middle of said “high-level” discussion, I get

> “well we did prepare a question to test your quantitative reasoning skills; so assume we have a bug that is detected by an analyzer with a false-negative rate of 0.3% and the probability of a bug existing at all is 7% and <sea of numbers> what’s the probability that a given test will report blah blah blah”

Of course this is communicated purely verbally.

> “This looks like a typical Bayes rule problem. Is that what you want me to calculate?”

> “Maybe, maybe not. That could be an approach. We just want the final percentage. Feel free to pull out your phone and use the calculator.”

Then of course, on the spot, I’m fumbling around with whether you divide by P(A) or P(B) or … to find P(B|A), and mucking around on a 4-function calculator like a dweeb.

So much for the “high-level discussion.”
What is the correct graph of arccot(x)?
I found that akka (akka-core) was not just bad, but bad enough that it dragged down the reputation of Scala. Most (maybe all) of the time simple future-based code accomplishes the same thing in a much clearer way, and without sacrificing the type safety that's one of the biggest strengths of Scala.

(Some higher-level things under the akka umbrella e.g. akka-http (formerly spray-http) and akka-streams might be useful; not coincidentally they also tend to be more type-safe)
Hi! Thanks for trying Distrod! I've reproduced the problem except the part that it affects other distros. As a workaround, restarting the distro you installed should solve the problem.
`wsl --terminate Distrod`
The problem was caused by the fact that /etc/resolv.conf was not initialized during installation. Updated the README.md about the workaround. I'll publish the proper fix soon.
Thanks for trying Distrod again!
It also has his picture, and he kinda looks like Jack Black.
> extremely conscientious people, and I think interview anxiety goes naturally with that.

No, conscientiousness doesn't correlate that much with neuroticism. You can care about the results without getting cripplingly anxious, the anxiety isn't a good thing.
You might be able to write a shim layer in Scala. Java interfaces, Scala classes that implement those interfaces and call the third-party code. That's the nicest way to do it IME.
That's why I'm really enjoying Andromeda. Took a while to get going but the open world-esque exploration is great.
I've been dealing with this ever since a software update to the M1 MBP last summer and it's been an absolute nightmare. It's obviously some kind of system-level memory leak, because my workflow is just basic apps (Superhuman, Chrome, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp are the only apps running most of the time; with the occasional other stuff like Keynote).

I used to do software development, running a million things at once and in decades I can't remember last time I saw the out of memory error. Sure, slow downs due to swap, but never straight up the error forcing me to kill apps.

On the M1 MBP, this error modal would pop up dozens of times a day. I would literally be constantly be quitting any app i'm not directly working on. It'd take a few days to get to this point, but at this point nothing other than a reboot would get it back to normal. The memory total for the apps running (plus the background stuff like Dropbox) was way below the built in 16GB, not to mention zero swap to SSD. Somehow there must be a leak in the OS.

Currently sitting at:
WhatsApp Helper (Renderer) 3.57GB
WhatsApp 1.37GB
Dropbox 1.13 GB
WindowServer 1.05GB
etc.

This is not normal…
I think it's mostly firefox just holding things in memory since so much is free. Eventually it just all adds up and eventually I try to compile something and then it will run out of memory.

Yes, I can go setup an oom daemon, but Linux should handle this for me out of the box (ideally with some sort of logic to avoid killing something like X taking down every single program I have open). Getting stuck for half an hour or longer is just not acceptable to let happen.
> There’s a sense that in the history of the creation of music, the living presence of the creator/performer wasn’t huge until recently, surely due to acceleration of distribution and access via broadcast media, and remained so for a decade or two (bobby sox, fainting at the sight of Elvis, Beatlemania, etc.).

You might read up on how far J.S. Bach walked to listen to Buxtehude perform/improvise on the organ.
I reread the parent quote several times and cannot detect a hint of throwing blame at all.
The main difference, though, is that Pilgrim wasn't an assumed identity. I think in his case, he just got tired of being a spokesman for Python and wanted to get his privacy back.
> completely flat exteriors.

Having a bit of an overhang or shade over the windows lets the sunlight in in the winter and shades the window in the summer.

Overhangs also keep the water off the window frames, meaning they'll last a lot longer.
Perhaps a more permanent link:

https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/pdf/apple/lisa/office_...
The grandparent is talking about parity, data bits, and stop bits[0]. Different serial communications protocols had different framing needs. If you were dealing with PC-based BBS's, for the most part, you wouldn't have run into anything aside from N81. I didn't see much E71 outside of X.25 networks.

[0] https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-man...
Venn and Euler type diagrams for vector spaces and abelian groups
I've had an issue with Windows 10 cutting off the first 0.3-0.8s of any audio that plays over Bluetooth for a while now. It's occurred across entirely different systems with entirely different bluetooth chipsets and entirely different headphones. Nothing is a surefire fix except for keeping a silent audio file playing in the background, which is ridiculous.

The bug isn't that bad if all you use bluetooth headphones for is YouTube, video chat, and music but it makes Anki language learning decks with audio almost unusable.
How about LOReL, where a robot manipulates objects and open drawers when given text instructions: https://sites.google.com/view/robotlorl
Do you mean for fetching? I've got offlineimap set up for mine, and it's primarily a background task, because Emacs is not dealing with it directly.

Using mu4e, it is more of an interface to that local store with its built-in search API.
Want to be better at Leetcode. Does this apply?
Ah yes, the highly educated CVS parking lot vaccine administrator.

I called my local doctor asking for the vaccine because I wanted it administered by someone used to delivering vaccines and trained in same. They don’t have them and referred me to CVS and Walgreens.

I cannot help but wonder if the administration is correlated in the high number of adverse events.
There are a lot of cultures around the world that have the same salary and travel as other cultures, and they have not melded. Perhaps it is because culture is something that specifically resists melding.

At the same time, some people's idea of what a culture is, or what is "melding" culture, are amorphous and ill-defined. Is McDonalds culture? Are the many regionally-specific dishes at McDonalds around the world a result of "melding" culture?

Is the Poutine at McDonald's in Canada a "melding" of culture? Or is it just Canadian culture expressed through a McDonalds? Is the Banana shake at McDonald's in Japan a "melding" of American and Japanese culture? Or is it actually just "McDonald's" culture, since it's offered in Great Britain and Italy?

I'll leave you this quote from the 1976 movie Network!:

Arthur Jensen: "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel."
More than anything, this reflects how many business decisions a "programmer" makes.

If a "programmer" was actually just a programmer, none of their beliefs would matter. Either it met the spec, or not.

But in reality, a lot of the job of a "programmer" is to make all those detailed decisions, and handle all the exceptional cases, that other people don't want to be bothered to think about. But those detailed decisions and edge cases need to be handled because much of the value of software is running the business worldwide at all hours with fewer humans involved, so those edge cases will come up constantly.

So all these little decisions fall on the one writing software. That's actually an incredible amount of power once you realize it.
Ask HN: Is Brave Mobile down for you?
Wife and I use Brave mobile, Android. No updates, it just quit working on both phones. It loads a half sized address bar, doesn't respond to touch, then is force quit.

I'm really curious what Brave is attempting at startup to cause such a condition.
Yes Magnus has a team (all top players do).

Whenever I've observed him seeming bored I've assumed it comes from him being mentally so many steps in front of the interviewer. He's already evaluated all the positions, variations ad nauseum prior to being asked about them. Even if he did have something interesting to say it's unlikely he could put it into words that would resonate with the audience. I assume if he actually didn't have passion for chess he would've retired by now as his record is already good enough to be one of the all time greats.

Take the above with a grain of salt though, as it's probably just me projecting from my own experience as an IC that spends a lot of time working in a fairly specialist/abstract role.
It's is sad isn't it?

In the last 20 years PC hardware has become ridiculously faster - and yet the user experience seems to have changed little.

I saw an article ages ago whereby Microsoft apparently had a dependencies approval gateway. If you made any change based on Windows you had to remove/reduce your dependencies or make a good case for not doing so.

I was hoping that would catch on.
QKD has a number of fairly well-known limitations:

* It suffers from a built-in vulnerability to denial-of-service attacks because eavesdropping destroys quantum information.

* It lacks an authentication mechanism and is vulnerable to MITM. In practice, classical protocols are used to add authentication and to protect against MITM.

* It is a hardware solution and thus expensive to deploy, upgrade and maintain.

At the same time, contrary to the usual claims of "security guaranteed by the laws of physics", its security is limited by the security of non-quantum elements of the implementation. IOW, the usual reference to the no-cloning theorem for quantum information is irrelevant because QKD uses both quantum and classical information and the latter is clonable and therefore implementations suffer from side channel leaks.

Thus, QKD is an expensive and impractical solution to a problem already solved robustly and cheaply by classical protocols. Hopefully, the hype around it fizzles out before it harms related fields with an actual promise, such as quantum computing.
I wonder - is programming language agnostic? Suppose if I learn a particular language - L1, my programming style & thinking is biased by the convenience of the language L1. Now, if I start programming in language L2, obviously for next few months (or years) - I continue to think in L1 & program in L2. It takes time to unlearn L1 & learn L2. Because we are humans. Do we have a bug in our expectations?
lol good point
What? The database made the call to compare the strings as Unicode. Are you accusing the DB developers of not doing their job?
Raspberry Pi Zero 2W: What does the silicon contain?
The lack of skilled trades people is not a consequence of elite overproduction, it is a result of the collapse of the apprentice class. The combination of improvements in technology making low skill work easier and an expansion of bureaucracy that requires more certification for more complicated work have made it such that there is a wide gulf between unskilled and skilled labor in most industries. Where in the past people would gain experience on the job and their employers would get useful work out of entry level employees, now training represents a significant investment which is liable to be poached, and thus there is no training pipeline. To reach the skill level required to make good money at a trade, you need to be willing to invest large amounts of time and money into your own tools and training, and anyone who can afford to do that can afford to work in better conditions in other fields. This is short term thinking by corporations biting them in the butt, not some "millenials are too entitled to do real work" bs.
my advice, build something that scratches an inch for you. a little tool or website that sticks two part of the internet together in a way you think is fun. if you're like me, you'll retain most of what you learn that way. And if you're like me, everything you learn by just reading about it will be out of your brain in a month ...
It's been a few years since I investigated, but Boston dynamics was using mostly old non ML methods. See [1]

IIRC and Waymo vehicles used ML for some of its perception but also depended heavily on the lidar and a rules based approach. Sadly I can't find a link at the moment.

What examples are you thinking of?

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-does-Boston-Dynamics-use-AI-machin...
> Terry Pratchett asked Neil Gaiman to destroy his unpublished works after his death. Gaiman obliged. Do you think he was wrong?

The Kafka and Pratchet requests aren't equivalent.

In general I'd say that the choices by the executors in both cases were justifiable.
Looks like some poor subpixel rendering. You might want to try looking for some settings to tune it.
you can use the other 20 displays wiht synergy.
Yes, only handling articles marked as [flagged] and [deleted]. I am not sure that handling [dupes] would add much.

Recently we get a lot of stories that are flagged into oblivion, they had their title removed, I am ignoring these, as there is nothing left to show. like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29125712
Other entry ids: 29134197. 29134252 29134228 29133766 29131529 29131488 29131218 29129712 29123845 etc.