skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im not good at maths but to get my work done this books helped me a lot:

https://www.amazon.de/Problem-Solving-Algorithms-Structures-...
If I remember correctly it is Python 2

https://www.amazon.de/Algorithms-Illuminated-Part-1-Basics/d...

https://www.amazon.de/Algorithms-Illuminated-Part-Graph-Stru...

https://www.amazon.de/Algorithms-Illuminated-Part-Dynamic-Pr...
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> It works! I checked, and that’s an alternative way to fix this bug – if I just set the CGO_ENABLED=0 environment variable in my build container, then I can build a static binary and I don’t need to switch to the golang:alpine container for my builds. I kind of like that fix better.

With a static binary, you can even start your Dockerfile with `from scratch`. Feels good to have 5kb docker images
Perhaps, but when there are people calling for mandatory voter ID with counterfeiting/authentication measures similar to passports and drivers licenses the Canadian system is laughably weak in comparison and hardly being worth being called 'ID'.

One can easily edit a pdf of a bill and bank statement to have whatever name and address flash a copy of them on your phone and vote in Canada. It's basically an American Voter ID proponent's worst nightmare and yet it seems to work perfectly fine.

Thinking that implementing mandatory Voter ID by itself is going to improve American democracy in any substantial way without introducing a myriad of unintended negative consequences is myopic at best and malicious at worst.

From my perspective as a non-American the voter ID issue is a complete red herring promoted to distract from the real and glaring issues with the American voting process.
What's really weird is that it seems to work.
No one would bother with heavy, high-pressure hydrogen containment for large aircraft, so that is a moot point. The clear choice for aircraft is LH2, where it is fantastically more efficient than hydrocarbons.
Is Innovation What We Think It Is?
This is where our whole society fails. Somehow the general plan is always more money and never less time.

Once when everyone was getting their raise, my proposal was less hours for the same money. I got it, and subjectively I was just as productive as before but now had won a whole extra day for ME.

For me it worked out to working less and less and eventually started to earn more and more because I had time to focus on things I am actually passionate about.

That said I am lucky Switzerland even has the concept of working ex. 80%. In Austria it is usually either 'fulltime' or 'halftime' (which barely anyone can afford)

My main point is that if you work less hours does not directly mean you produce less code. More concrete sometimes when I sit around and do nothing I find a way to reduce 8 hours coding to 1. And yes I realize that only works in some jobs
I think you hit the nail on the head. They argue against something with their own kind of "wokeness", not caring if that something is true or makes sense.
> While yes, as a user you need to grant some permissions to the app, it works without a problem.

Without the problem for YOU, because, presumably, you have a non-shitty phone. It is a much more severe issue on the likes of Samsung / Xiaomi / Huawei. See https://dontkillmyapp.com
It's easier to make money if you have money, but it's not impossible to make money if you don't. A flash of genius and/or stroke of luck can still take you from no money to some money, and if you continue applying skill and have reasonable luck (and take steps to mitigate bad luck) then it will only get easier to make more money. Then you'll also be able to set up your kids to start in a luckier position.
According to the model, those qualities only prevent you from being eliminated from the race. Winning it still requires a repeated stream of good luck events.
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Some models of home routers do run an internal DNS server which makes things accessible under a subdomain with whatever name you've set for that device in the router's configuration.
Agree! A lot of smart people aren't trying to get rich. I bet many nobel prize winners aren't rich, while many of them are smart.
Some people value wealth, some value relationships, some value their free time. Wealth is not simply that
You probably want a 6x overbuild to account for round-trip losses in your storage system. Cost of storage falls very fast as your efficiency requirements are relaxed, which becomes attractive as raw generating cost plummets.
This is interresting device, but i am not sure whether the concept based on measuring light reflectivity is valid, because same plastic can be molded in molds with different surface structure. May it be mold with mirror finish, or matt sandblasted finish. Also color pigments can be added into the plastic. These things highly affect amount of light reflected from the plastic. And i cannot find how exactly they do their measurements. Would be nice to get more insight.
> Just like duchey free customers ruined that for everyone.

But you need to factor this in. Nobody forces you to offer free trial. But if you do, you need to accept the fact that there are people who are going to use your product for free to the maximum available capacity.

In the old days, it wasn't much of a problem: you basically gave away pieces of software that stopped working after a certain period usually with limited functionality. There were many variants of this model: demo, trial, shareware. These free users didn't incur any direct costs for you (often someone else would do that for you, like computer magazines). Now, with SaaS, you need to provide computing resources for them - but this is your marketing cost. This is the problem of the model, not the customers. If you tell them they can use it for free for 2 weeks, they have the full right to use it and stop, period. They are not duchey unless they abuse the system by doing something clearly wrong, e.g. exploiting a bug in your software.
That's not what the model says. It says that being smart and good looking do not have a large effect in the long term; having repeated streaks of luck do.

(Being rich counts as having already had several lucky breaks, you or your family.)
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The only thing you really need is an easily accessible tool to explicitly view which apps are allowed to run in the background. This doesn't have to occupy valuable notification area space.

With current notched phones which are limited to 4 notifications (you get four and a dot if there are more), you can have VPN app, XMPP client, Syncthing, and a generous space for one more incoming notification.
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Yeah, this.

People don't realize and don't want to realize how much of their success in life is based on pure, sheer luck.

I'm not going to say that hard work is irrelevant, but it's very much overrated. Because you can work hard yourself to death and not get any penny to your name. Whereas if you luck out, you luck out - no hard work required.

I guess that we - as narrative creatures - aim to have a satisfactory story to our lives. We that are successful want this success to be our own achievements, not the random fluctuation of chance.

But human brains are very bad with randomness and so we see patterns; the people close to us are good and honest and hard working, no wonder they are rich and successful. They earned it! we think, not taking into consideration confirmation and selection bias.

It's just a shame that we are also lead to believe the reverse is true. That poor person over there? He must be slacking off and is not putting in enough elbow grease - he deserves to be poor and miserable.

Sometimes we're very bad at thinking.
One comment was

“it was easier and more natural for a right-handed architect to draw plans for a staircase with a right-handed spiral”

There’s also the claim that 30% of staircases are anti-clockwise. That’s a lot for any statement of always or mostly clockwise.
While I agree with the sentiment around not paying, I don't think it's as simple as that. Calling on law enforcement to "track down the adversary" is not easy, and when you track it back to a random Russian cybercrime group what can you do with that information?

A lot of these payments are not fortune 500 companies with unlimited IT budget, it's small or medium businesses with a 3 person IT team. Should they have proper off-site backups? Yes. Should we just let these companies go out of business until organizations learn their lesson? I would say no.

I really like the idea of making payment more difficult and mandating organizations to report these incidents. You're correct, companies do have the incentive to cover things up. Banning payment won't stop that.

I'm interested to see how people will circumvent this if the bill passes. If you pay a third-party company who "deal with the issue" on your behalf, all under legal privilege of course, would you still need to report?
Why? It is no different from any other RPC IDL.
That's not how it works. For BYOD or home use, the device is always more important than the network. You can't just tell somebody "lol, Android not supported". Most of the phones out there are Androids, and not everyone prefers iOS even without the extra cost attached to an Apple phone.
Which renders it not worth reading. It's just an ad for a book.
There will be a way of landing a helicopter there.

This isn't a huge issue in the countryside - this is one of the uses of medical helicopters, honestly. You are probably better off getting folks at the scene to help stablize you and allowing the helicopter to come there. That is, unless you were told to go somewhere else.

(I've nearly lost a tree for a medical helicopter when I lived by a overly dangerous curve: They decided to close the road and land there instead. They also help in rugged terrain).
I would like to hear the opinion of an architect. If staircases being clockwise or anti-clockwise can have some advantages.

From my POV since most people are right handed, an anti-clockwise staircase would feel more natural for going up, since you can make the first step with your right foot and use your dominant hand for the handrail. But for getting down a clockwise staircase would feel more natural.
Ugh, very simply? Any STATEMENT is allowed to be, among other things, a LABELED_STATEMENT which is (<ident> ":" STATEMENT | "case" <constexpr> ":" STATEMENT | "default" ":" STATEMENT). Then in the semantic pass it's checked that labeled statements starting with case/default must be inside some switch. That's it.
While these people are extremely uninformed and their "solutions" would be absolutely catastrophic, they do have a point.

What they're noticing are the effects of corporatism: monopolies and other bad market practices caused by government regulation/meddling, often as a result of lobbying.

I'm talking about chemical patents and "safety regulations" making it practically impossible to compete with big pharma, making medicine extremely overpriced. Or government bailouts of banks which are long beyond bankruptcy causing all sorts of mishaps.

The only solution is a return to true capitalism. Career-politicians are just as guilty as (if not more than) the big corporations.
Once you have an ASCII transcription of the text (pigpen or not), you can drop it in a substitution cipher solver like https://www.guballa.de/substitution-solver .

In this case, the solver was able to immediately decrypt both ciphertexts, with a single mistake in the characters name ("Margeline").
There are videos on youtube with various home-made h2 generators/splitters.

The issue with doing something useful with it is compression and storage.

While compression is easy, purification is an issue. With certain lower percentages of purity (from very rough memory under 92%, but could be in the 99s) it becomes an explosion risk.
And then he complains that people dismiss his barely evidenced claims.
Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
I want to start a teaching business. I'm struggling to find good open-source software on which I can start building my platform. The state-of-the-art seems to be Moodle or Canvas which are designed for universities - they use archaic UI and features.

Is there something where I can host an online course, also have live classes and perhaps add on features like a community for students, assignments, etc? The only options I am seeing are things like Kajabi and Teachable which are very restrictive in their feature set, and not customizable.

Anyone running an edtech company here? What do you use? Or do you build everything custom?
I don't like store bought (orange)marmalades, at least in my country, they are congealed orange-coloured-but-barely-orange-tasting jams with random bits of peel floating at the top

However, my mum made it once, and I still remember it fondly, it was warm and syrupy and sticky and tasty, and it was perfect.

But we never made it again, it's such a god damn hassle.

Same with Ketchup, we made it a couple of times and it was amazing, but man, do these things take a lot of time and fiddling. Much easier to just buy off the shelf.

As my mother grows old and our generation has less time for dishes that take more than ~2 hours, I feel some of the charm has been leaving. We don't buy marmalade now, even though it's readily available.
Their proof that their model is correct seems to be that it ends up creating a 80:20 distribution. But many processes do that, that's why it is such a famous rule. So I don't think they can simply conclude their model is the correct one.

I don't think anybody disputes that luck is also a factor.
Yes! That’s such a great post. For people interested in this, I strongly recommend getting a hold of the old Windows 2000 era user interface guidelines book from Microsoft.
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> Why? Just because some topic was discussed on some site once doesn't mean all possible ideas were expressed on that topic.
Not 'all possible ideas' are worth being expressed. Of the subset that are, it gets boring discussing the same old stuff over and over. When people are bored of your forum, they quit.

> Unless the users of a site are static and unchanging there's going to be new members seeing that old topic for the first time.
Newbies should read the old threads. On a well-run forum (admittedly rare) there would be one thread per topic, and members shouldn't reply until they've read the whole thing (and this is only reasonable to demand on a well-run forum, otherwise threads are full of crap not worth reading.)

> I like that HN allows reposts (within reason) and people typically link to previous discussions in the new discussion. You can see the old points made about a topic but then take a look at the new ones. A lot of forums have similar policies on thread necromancy.
HN's reposts are necessary because of its old-thread-suppressing algorithm. Replying here doesn't bump threads to the top. The system works reasonably well. But it's optimised for news.

The "necroposting" taboo doesn't apply to well-run forums. When the quality level of discussion is high, historical context always relevant when something new pops up, even if it goes back years. There's nothing wrong with bumping that. It's only when forum operators allow threads to accumulate crap that it's better to frequently restart with a blank slate. (Social media, where the operators don't care in the slightest about what people post, being the ultimate example of this approach to running an online 'community'.)
>Please note the builders' email addresses have been obfuscated to foil spam harvesters. You will need to fix them up manually (ie change [at] to @).

Yeah, like the spambots haven't thought of that before.
I don't think you should argue this :
No idea what RCMP stands for without a google search.
I got RAF from the context (I assume you mean Royal Air Force ?), but without context I would map it to other things.
And I have no assumption about the meaning of LAPD
Yeah well two more points that the author followed but actually didn't realize:

4. Flee Italy, the most corrupt of 1st world countries
5. Do not even attempt at reproducing in a healthy family in first world countries ESPECIALLY IN ITALY (https://interessesuperioredelminore.wordpress.com/2020/11/01...). It's a russian roulette pointed to your head and whatever you do, it's out of your control if your life will be completely ruined for corruption.

By keeping these additional two rules in mind, you can live a decent life, albeit a quite meaningless one if you, like me, was born with the idea that forming a happy family is the best thing you can do within your lifetime. Drop that pal, it's no longer the right period of time (if it ever has been).
I think we're differing on unimportant semantics. Consider that optimal mixed strategies don't generally assign equal probability to each choice. If they were all equally good (say, as a pure strategy response) then they shouldn't have different probabilities.
GitLab blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-partners-with-g...

Sounds like what you're describing would be possible!
But if you look at the distribution where some people have 1,000x the median wealth it’s usually not because they slowly built it up over time but rather had 1 or maybe 2 massive exits.

I would say wealth follows a normal distribution if you’re looking at number of people at each level. Very few people have <$0 over their lifetime and a same small number have >$25M over their lifetime.

But the outliers are so extreme at the top end you end up with the power distribution of wealth.
Wow, that's something impressive! I'd really pay for a device that can run DOS games from that era (the golden era of video games). Yeah, we do have emulators and all that, but having a real full fledged x86 retro computer running old stuff is cool. I don't know about the author but I think he is in a very good position to push this further and make it a product, I'd definitely buy one!
Falling upwards generally comes with less potential for injury. Falling backwards when going up is probably about equally bad regardless of clockwiseness.
Some value wealth, some value relationships, some value their free time. You cannot have all without sacrificing the other, it's up to everyone who wants to do what.
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That's not really a point in the article's favour. Instead it makes it kind of frustrating and pointless. Anyone can write unsupported assertions about anything. Maybe they're right, maybe they're not.
You may have heard of some of these companies:

- https://appunite.com/blog/top-10-elixir-companies-to-follow

- https://elixir-companies.com/en
On the road, especially as a bike user, your behaviour is not the most important factor. By far the biggest risk to you on the road are motorists. There is evidence [0] to show that motorists pass helmeted cyclists more closely and humanoids with long (feminine) hair less closely. Similarly, purely anecdotal (but may have been studied), those white lines they paint on the road and call "bike lanes" cause motorists to pass closer (they drive right up to the white line).

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/5334208.stm
> IPv4 is also too small for private networks. Corporate networks are often full of hideous hacks like multiple NATs that negotiate interoperability between networks with overlapping 10.x address spaces, "theft" of unused IPv4 space such as US DoD addresses, etc.

IPv4 is perfectly adequate as long as you're the only one using the e. g. 10.0.0.0/8 range. I don't think that overlapping private networks were ever designed into the use case.
The dangers of aquadag charge are enormously exaggerated. The real danger is not that the shock will instantly vaporize you and everyone you love, but that when you disconnect the anode improperly the spark jumps to something-not-quite-ground and destroys electronics, or, when it jumps to you, you hurt yourself because you hit something or drop something.

Off-line SMPS are far more dangerous because their main caps actually contain 100-1000x more energy than a charged CRT tube. And unlike the aquadag on a tube these are very low impedance as well.
To me, the most interesting part of the original paper is how the best leverage from a population's talent is not achieved by funding the most successful so far, but by distributing a small amount of funds equally to all participants. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The people on this website should be best placed to understand why such strategy works.
> Except Android, ChromeOS

Well, yes, these are proprietary walled gardens only using Linux as a kernel.

> stuff like Buildroot

Embedded Linux is special indeed. Core OE layers are well-maintained IMO, but as you use community ones the maintenance quality can vary. You have to take care of OTA of course which is a problem with no standardized solution so far, but the same applies if you develop in Rust for these platforms. But yeah, with embedded Linux you have to take responsibility for your whole system, so not much difference with Rust here (except at least if you have several apps having the same dependency you can be sure they'll use the same version of it).

> Except servers, that’s almost all of the world’s Linux installs

What do you mean? Most servers I've worked with would run one of the popular distributions, probably hardened and stripped of GUI stuff.
The writer of the comic in the article, Ryan North, also wrote The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl which is full of nerdy computer science puns. And many science-based solutions to problems our heroes encounter.

I highly recommend this series. You can read it on Marvel Unlimited, which has a free trial. I suggest reading on a tablet.