skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I recognize the arguments for UUID keys:

- Avoids people being able to just iterate through records, or to discover roughly how many records of a thing you have
- Allows you to generate the key before the row is saved

I think I default to auto-increment ID's due to:

- Familiarity bias
- They have a temporal aspect to them (IE, I know row with ID 225 was created before row with ID 392, and approximately when they might be created)
- Easier to read (when you have less than +1,000,000 rows in a table)

I agree and think you're right in that UUID's are probably a better default.

Though you can never find a "definitive" guide/rule online or in the docs unfortunately.
I'd like to see the proof that increasing speed improves safety for the cyclist.

There's no road I commute on (including 25 mph city streets) where a 30mph bike would keep up with traffic, riding a skinny tire 40 lb bike at 30mph in the road shoulder that passes for bike lanes around here sounds hazardous.

If I wanted to keep up with car traffic so I can ride in the road, I'd get an e-scooter or e-motorcycle that's designed for higher speed. But then I couldn't ride in bike lanes.
Right but they're exceptions in the case of DF and Kickstarters are run waaaaay below the actual cost of production for lots of reasons. If all games were funded that way you'd have a tiny number of games made.
It is only with hindsight that we can say that loosing control of the Oroville dam did not have a catastrophic result. They lost control and issued a evacuation exactly because they did not know what would happen at that point. In hindsight it only caused minor flooding and debris that was addressed downstream, and then the weather improved.

I have not heard of a nuclear accident where they lost control of the reaction, issued an evacuation order, and then later managed to regain control with only minor damage. If it happened we should still not describe such accident as acceptable since people could literally return a few days later. Loosing control of a destructive force is unacceptable regardless of outcomes, and anything else would just result in deviation of acceptable risk.
That's a great way to tarnish all USC alumni. I hope they give the school an earful for this disgusting practice.
The internet that exists today is to a huge degree based on advertisement revenue. It think, a replacement for this alone could be a game changer.
Data point of one:

I am disabled and don't move around a ton. When I do walk, I often have a limp. But I don't have MS.

Facebook is constantly serving me ads about MS.
Which primarily is not driven by tokens (outside of video games for psychological manipulation of money), but in fact real government issued currency.
This, errors that are bubbled up should have some context added to them. Otherwise every error ends up being totally meaningless.
Cool! Sorting by number of ratings, the first 30 or more results are all by "Maangchi". I think there is something wrong with their ratings.
Meta is an advertising company. Their products will not be ad free.

Source: a friend working on such matters there.
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I hate to beg the question, but what's stopping us from creating new terminology ourselves? English is malleable and I've witnessed new categories and distinctions spring up in my lifetime. For instance, 'cis' for gender identity matching biological sex. Growing up I never had a word for that concept and I don't think academia adopted the term until relatively recently.
the opportunist and misleading comment without adding value to the discussion. It's hard to read rules before shit posting or trying to flamebait.
> It's not news that facial recognition is best at white male-presenting faces

Really? On the male part? I'd have expected it to do best with women, because I'd have figured facial hair is more difficult to deal with than a wider varieties of hair styles.
The bulk of that fear comes from ignorance about how vaccines work, and there's enough reputable sources to get educated for free, learn how they have worked in the past, and make an informed decision.

It's more stressful to be sick two weeks and struggling to breathe because you got COVID, and I'm saying that as an asthmatic who is not scared of mild difficulty to breathe.

There is no sensible posture to rationalize antivaxing, but every country has a percent of the population who hesitates about vaccination, and a percent that not only refuses it, but stubbornly refuses to practice hygienic measures. This should be taken into account when designing future health programs.
True that. If nations have no sense of national culture and identity, then corporations inevitably become more powerful because they are still able to operate in a coordinated fashion, by "virtue" of being directed by a single person.

Actually, I suppose a lack of national culture or sense of national identity would also weaken democracies more than dictatorships.
What shortcuts would you recommend?

The pattern itself as written above is rather useless. What you end up with is a call 3 libraries deep that returns nothing but "EOF", and you have no idea what happened. In practice, you should really wrap every error return in a message and/or with a callstack. If the shortcut method can a) accomplish that, and b) avoid everything being nested, like try/except tends to do, I think I'd be more interested in the concept.
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In the South Bay it's only AT&T DSL or Comcast cable.

I suppose Sonic is also an option that I would love to entertain, but they're just reselling AT&T DSL here.

If only we had municipal broadband, but the corps own the infrastructure and have long contracts with the cities :(
I live near Detroit and have seen before/after photos. Good on you for speculating the role of survivorship bias, but evidence that you are just plain wrong exists. One example off the top of my head:
https://www.birminghammichiganbank.com/birmingham-national-b...
I must tell you that your intuitions are not wrong.

Many language models do predict.

In this case, they either try to predict what the next word (or character, or sub-character in case of Chinese, Japanese, etc.- this is totally the decision of the DS) is , or what some "masked" word are.

w_i becomes w_(i-1) in the sequence
where w_i is the last word generated

The ones that are trained to be able to predict the next word are the ones that are good generators.
C can call into Pascal too. Does it mean libraries should use pascal strings in their interface?
A cup is exactly three tenths of a half of a metre wide/long divided by the inverse square of a millilitre, provided the initial measurement was in cubic zlotys at half a pint over Pi.
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I have a friend that got a speeding ticket on the back side of the Marin Headlands - it was a moving violation, he went to driving school to keep it off his record.

Where in the Bay Area are bells required? I've never heard of police there ever enforcing equipment requirements, not even lights at night.
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Imagine Kant had issued the “categorical imperative” as an NFT. It could be worth billions today. Other ideas such as hell or courage or irony are so old no one knows who invented them. But a market in ideas conceived as NFTs could solve this. I envision such a market as a powerful tool to determine the value and originality of ideas, while providing a powerful social incentive for the development of more and better ideas. Notice that because ideas are purely abstract, they are exceedingly fit to be represented by purely abstract entities like NFTs.

https://brunomacaes.substack.com/p/nfts-and-the-marketplace-...
In addition to how widespread the outage is, it’s also taking them longer to fix it than any other outage I’ve ever had with Comcast.

I can’t help but wonder if this is the result of a cyber attack on Comcast’s infra.
Both terms mean something. Both are amorphous, change over time, and cast pretty large nets, but they serve as loose coordination points for many more specific ideas. That is a useful function that isn't about hiding the underlying more specific ideas.
Just speculation here

Exactly, and not really correct. Building on the commandline, no VS used at all, still has the same problem. It's really just the compilation istelf which is the main factor.
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Correlation != Causation.

American kids go massively into debt because their parents, their legislators and their universities have largely failed them. Kids aren't given a proper financial education before making the biggest financial decision of their lives. Laws were written to make student debt the most secure form of debt ever for lenders. Schools flush with public money have done nothing but increase the costs of education in ways that are often hardly visible or impactful for their students.

American students get an incredibly poor ROI for their education on average. Pick your degree wisely.
Nutrition isn't a "hard science" because people digest food differently, and that varies over time. We adapt. Your first week of a bean diet will be harsh but after the 3rd year you're probably ok. or dead. Some people wouldn't ever adapt to it.

There's "hard science" there but to throw a rope around the whole field is more of an exercise in faith, that there is One True Diet for All People.
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I don't belive this is correct for postgres. It's true for other RDBMS, I believe.
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Okay, yes, hopefully that's hyperbole but it's still a LOT more than most people are going to want to spend — that's why this works: if they were trying to take your house, sure, you'd lawyer up but when it's more like a principled stand on privacy, an awful lot of people are going to reasonably conclude that it's not worth the cost. This is the advantage to having, say, a government privacy regulator which has lawyers on staff whose entire job is to do things like this.

This is especially work considering with this particular company, which has a history of using legal threats to silence critics:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio

I would DEFINITELY not jump at the chance to incur a similar reaction.
Because most of precautions are already applied and your computer no longer crashes that often.

Things were much, much worse 25 years ago.
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Oh wait, it's function definition vs callsite (duh). This is still unnecessary confusion.
Ask HN: What current AR is the closest to The Terminator/Continuum?
The Terminator famously showed PoV shots of the cyborg identifying objects using what we would now call Augmented Reality (AR)

Likewise the TV series Continuum

What current AR offerings are the closest to those [sci-fi] portrayals?

Google Glass seemed to be close[ish] a few years ago ... but it got discontinued

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refs:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(TV_series)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass
It's the same model as automotive. A luxury brand where they try out new tech, then spread it to the cheaper models once they've amortized the R&D far enough.

Or you have the manufacturing ladder, where you start out making low end goods until you've built up QA and engineering practices that let you go up-market. Sony was once cheap electronics only, and eventually LG took over that crown before rebranding and moving to high end too.

Kia seems to have taken the latter approach, introducing the Genisis name for luxury goods only recently.
Is it not used by Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J in these cases to peddle a more profitable vaccine over alternative generic drugs (such as Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Monoclonal Antibodies, etc)?
If you do believe the same thing applies with non-capitalist societies, then you then surely agree even more with my initial criticism with NFTs? (which was the primary thing I was talking about?) I don't understand why you're making such a big deal out of this.

Yes, I believe that my statement can be expanded into certain non-capitalist societies also, like in previous instances of feudalism and communism (where the state "owned" everything through military coersion). The reason I've brought out capitalism is because it's the environment in which NFTs were born, and therefore its relationship with it should be talked about it. But what you're talking about has absolutely nothing to do with the main discussion (which is, how state power and ownership is crucially interlinked, and NFT's failure to acknoweledge this is the problem).
Those (presumably unintentionally) reminded me of an old Jason Rohrer game, Cultivation. You had to sort of tend to a garden that would produce five generations of bugs.

http://cultivation.sourceforge.net/
Money and stuff are inductively connected, like reactive power and active power in electrical engineering.

Assuming the 'power factor' of the economy is one is a category mistake.
> So if that is the case, Many other heavy drinkers of that
> era and place would have had similar deafness issues, no?

I believe that they did.
XAML is the only thing I was ever able to write a complex layout in, run the app, and see it look exactly as what I intended on the first attempt. That would meet my definition of productivity.

For example, my experience with CSS has been the opposite of that. F5 a million times before the layout works the way I want it to. Sometimes even googling how to do create some type of layout because I can't think of it on my own.
This is a huge problem on conventional social media too.

We seem to be moving toward a society where grifters simply feast on the uneducated and un-discerning. The thing that makes it hard to police this is that the marks will themselves fight for the grifter, as we see with all the people fighting tooth and nail against their own access to health care or against treatments to stop them from getting horribly ill or dying in a pandemic.
One problem beyond the technical "How" is that culturally Go didn't have Sum types, so there are existing APIs where, if a Sum type was possible that's what you'd do, but it wasn't, so they didn't.

This isn't so different from the problem Generics introduce (why isn't this API generic, oh, it pre-dates that feature). And it might similarly be worth it for Sum types, but it's certainly an extra consideration.

On the technical side, Sum types kinda suck unless you have niches. If your Optional sum type is always actually bigger than the Some type it is wrapping then why even bother? So then you're also adding promises about niches in your implementation.
I have never really understood the fascination with associating this "trick" with Feynman. It's an application of Fubini's theorem, if I recall correctly, and well known well before Feynman from analysis and measure theory (and probably less rigorously before that).

It's worth pointing out that when physicists do this, they are often doing so formally, without care whether the rule actually applies.
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I appreciate this perspective. I also appreciate that you responded to a comment that could have been construed as dismissive or personally attacking without a hint of defensiveness or enmity. HN often surprises me.
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Drivers are a big one, it depends from device to device, but on average the hassle for connecting things on Windows is much less than the hassle for connecting things on Linux.

MS Office also to a degree, it wouldn't be a deal-breaker if the rest of the company wasn't also using MS Office (I've never purchased it for personal use), but the MS Office experience tends to be more polished, especially if you are dealing with documents originally written for MS Office.
If it's okay for John Deere to do this, then why do people get arrested for scalping toilet paper?
I am not an expert in Chromebook. But if the build quality of Surface Laptop SE is anywhere as good as the Surface Laptop, this seems like a good contender to fight both Google and Apple.

It is also interesting as both Microsoft and Google are trying to make better Experience with their own hardware.
> I'm heartily sick and tired of the way white South African men are portrayed as the 'new bogeymen'.

New boogeyman? The malign influence of whites in Africa is not a new phenomenon. The statement you took issue with is true.

Of course, nobody reasonable would suggest that all whites in Africa, or that all white South Africans, are bad people, but it's disingenuous to dismiss historical facts about what white people have done in Africa on the basis that it hurts white people in Africa's feelings.
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The entire thread is about buying and selling NFTs, so I think it’s fair to infer that we’re all talking about the merits of NFTs having a non-zero price.
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Actually it's in Universal War One: Revelations #2. The comic has way more time travel and time dilatation than I remembered.
I think they mean having Microsoft provide a Windows VM like WSL, but for the Linux desktop.
I can't, why is this even a requirement? Are they worried about a Google Glass like thing?

Actually surprised they don't require you to take the test naked.
I thought we're talking about the Metaverse?
For me most of these Metaverses sound like Second Life on steroids. So the Metaverse bis just a software running on some companies servers.
Shouldn't it be about standards and protocols?
Is it.

The reserve ratio in the UK and Canada is zero. Which means we should have infinite money in the banking system according to your beliefs.

Yet demonstrably we do not.

You have the line of causality backward, as the Bank of England helpfully explains in detail here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
I still can't wrap my head around there being only one individual involved here and this playing out over decades. Surely there was more than one person working to test and verify here, and an auditor involved somewhere. Then, once discovered something seemingly so impactful yields a paltry fine? Feels like there's a chunk missing from this story.
This is a dupe of the same article (posted by the same user) on different hosts over the past 4-5 months.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=+%09+%09Suppose+I+Wanted+to+Kill+a...
You’re reading too much into it… that there were many South African mercenaries is a historical fact, they’re not stereotyping any population in that sentence.

For what it’s worth, in the popular consciousness outside of SA, the white South African as a bogeyman probably peaked a long time ago, I would say around 1989 — when Lethal Weapon 2 was released with South Africans as the bad guys.
Draconian measures have only workied in China, for now...
99% of the time, I'm ssh'ing to a remote host

So it's `ssh <host>`
You've touched the painful spot )
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I don't know what does nVidia put in those HUGE driver DLLs (probably FPGA config), but that could be fine unless TONS of bloatware round.
That would be HMQ.
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> while also providing each user with an individual sense of “presence”

On the Internet I'm merely an observer, not a participant. Sure, I can contribute but that's like sitting on the bench screaming instead of actually playing the game.
Why would we expect that to change?
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What is the alternative to prestigious journals? Each scientist should read all of the papers published in their field every day?

The work of curating a journal for various metrics (subject matter, standards of peer review, impact etc.) is crucial to the everyday working of science. This doesn't mean that a few for profit corporations should get to extract profit from it, but it also doesn't mean that academia should give up the whole idea and just read all of scihub or arxiv to make up their own minds.
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Lust may be the wrong word here. Infatuation is more like the term I tend to associate with people's initial attraction and substance of their relationship with someone else. The simple reason has more to do with the fact people simply CANNOT truly know each other, their values, and the result of their behaviors and choices, until enough time passes.

It is also worth mentioning that people's lives arc on their own, in that they change. Preferences change. Values might even shift for some people over time (e.g. a religious person becoming totally secular or even atheistic later in life). And those changes also do not typically emerge in a couple of months of dating and flirting with one another.

It's.... just human nature.
You've correctly realised that you want to keep the attack surface as small as possible by limiting the services that can connect to your investment accounts.

Given this constraint the easiest way is a spreadsheet that you update manually.

Thinking about it, if your portfolio was fairly simple you could write a script that calls the yahoo finance, zoopla and binance APIs every week or so to see the progress of your investments. You then manually change the script whenever you make an unscheduled trade, or get charged fees. The script knows how many units of each asset you have, but it's not a security risk because it doesn't connect directly to any of your accounts.
The "isms" referenced are less about the fact you can work around these complaints line by line and more about the fact no one bothered to check them before rolling out required surveillance technology for education.

White supremacy is not just bad faith things done by bad people, it is also the assumption that whiteness is the default experience and the failure to account for that not being the case. Similarly with ableism and sexism.

That being said, complaining about the accessibility & inclusiveness of our required surveillance technology does have a dystopian feel to it, lol.
The whole notion of online proctoring seems pretty whack to me also: what world are we training and testing people to live in? The real world has internet, you can search for stuff, you can work from home and take a break.

I'm not good at things because I'm always able to magically materialize the right answer out of my mind inside an anechoic faraday chamber, I'm good because I get the right answer in a reasonable amount of time using all the tools available to me (the internet, my brain, books, whatever).

I get that there are a few professions where you're really going to need to know the right answer quickly without looking it up under high-pressure situations, and it seems like testing and certifying doctors and lawyers is important enough to society that we can arrange to proctor those tests in person (and still maintain covid safety, disability/poverty access, etc). That level of extreme proctoring security seems pretty dumb for random exams WHERE school <= undergrad.

If you elaborately cheat your way through all online classes all the way through undergrad, that seems mostly bad for you