skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorted in _some_ order that may be similar to that of the current locale, but isn’t necessarily exactly the same.

I think it is highly likely they will be somewhat different because file systems that order directory entries alphabetically (1) either

- can’t keep track of Unicode version updates (if they did, old disks could end up having entries stored out of order), so they have to guess how entries for Unicode code points assigned at some future time will sort. I don’t think that can be reliably done.

or

- have to store some data on disk to tell users what the ordering is (original Mac HFS did something like that by storing the code page to be used to interpret the byte sequences of file names as characters on disk). That would mean ls would have to get that data from disk, and only if it matches the current locale, could skip the sorting step.

There also is the risk of bugs in the implementation that can’t be fixed once millions of disks exist (the original Apple HFS file system had a bug there).

There’s also the possibility of traversing mount points during a recursive ls or even of union mounts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_mount) during non-recursive listings, which means the on-disk order can change during listing.

⇒ I doubt ls uses this trick (I haven’t checked any ls sources, though, so corrections welcome)

(1) that in itself is a weird idea, as, on Unix, file names are byte sequences, not character strings. That’s a different subject, though.
If you consider A/B test nonconsensual research, then you can also consider localized versions of the sites as A/B tests. Or even serving differnet content for mobile and desktop.
Virologist are aware of this but I seen no indication that it applies to the CoVi variants we are currently dealing with.
The key is not to predict a black swan, but to keep reasoning and awake, trying to figure out where the focus is needed.

I don't value the outcome (you call it luck), but the reasoning behind.
The answer is about to hit:

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Portfolio website using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
You can steal the car in a quiet area at night when the odds of being caught are much lower. It allows the criminal to pick the time and place of the crime, rather than it being dictated by luck and coincidence.
In general, the more that someone is trying to push the point of view that something is true, the more likely it is to be false.
Exactly so,
its an interesting philosophical idea,but its by definition invalidates the scientific method, and all forms of meaningful reason. The correct answer to the question of if you are dreaming a dream from which you could never wake up isnt perhaps that explains why my math doesnt make sense, its: by premise that can not matter.
Engineer get the job done, a lamp and power line story
Hi JB! Funny to cross paths with you in this context. I don't know if you remember me but I was a rookie programmer who got the pleasure of joining the VideoLan Conference in Dublin back in 2014, and then Paris the next year, and you were very kind to me.

The GitHub issue title here is unfortunately misleading. I have renamed it to "ideas to improve windows header files and libc". Also, I hope it is clear that I rebutted the points made by the OP, because I completely agree with your summary that the mingw-w64 people are skilled, nice and very clever and think about all use cases.

If any drive-by HN readers work at Microsoft, please help us with this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/766
> In figure 2, the authors argue that there is a trend. But the graph seems to show the direct measurements of dependent variables with confidence intervals, and they are all non-significant.

From the Figure 2 caption, I'm pretty sure it's showing standard deviations (of the sample) not 95% confidence intervals (of the mean). Two samples may have overlapping ± 1 s.d. intervals despite having significant different means.
Superdeterminism needs some kind of simplicity, for lack of a better word. To take her vaccine trial analogy further, imagine that you randomly assign a group of 100 people to a treatment and control cell (50-50). It could happen that all 50 people in the control cell just happened to be the 50 most a priori healthy people in the group. But it’s extremely unlikely. Following the analogy, superdeterminism says it happens anyways. But the level of coincidence involved invokes such an absurdly complex series of coincidences, that your coin flip comes up heads on these particular people, that occam’s razor might as well spontaneously cease to exist.

Are there any superdeterministic theories that maintain the level of simplicity that the universe is posited to have without it?
Up from $6B just weeks ago!(?)
I have been working in Infra Automation and deployment automation for a while now. As much as there are complaints about having a dedicated team called "Devops", one thing that this change has really done is that CI/CD is almost a non-negotiable of application delivery now. I am sure there are a lot of teams and orgs still starting out in this transformation but its no longer something I have to explain to application teams now.
OMG, I read the sample chapters from Amazon about the Phoenix project and that was a really really good read, thank you!
Currently that bigger tent coalition is the Democrats, given that the only actual major Republican policy positions amount to "no abortion, lower taxes, and opposing whatever Democrats do".
Understanding Web Cookies
As someone who plans on dabbling into embedded Rust next, this is great to hear. Thanks for sharing. Any resources that were helpful in your embedded Rust journey?
Just means she hasn't thought of the inevitable consequences. Besides, the paradox she is resolving isn't a paradox, she just does not understand the answer in standard QM.
For example, all 3 of the non-English parts of the UK have separatist movements that are big enough they have MPs elected.
He means the One China Policy. But CogitoCogito is right. China is only be "contained" by Taiwan in the hypothetical circumstance of a war; during peace time they obviously have no trouble sending ships around the world and are not contained in any sense. And the only reason they haven't been able to bring Taiwan into the fold is because they keep making psychotic violent threats. All China needs to do to completely resolve any problems with Taiwan is stop being nuts.

China obviously doesn't want the matter resolved peacefully, if at all, because they use this conflict for internal control.
Sounds like what you're really angry at here is a case of micro-services taken to the extreme.
With regret I cannot.

1. The position was actually recently filled. We likely will have another opening soon but the posting is not yet up (perhaps will be in a month or two).

2. It would be personally identifiable

Trying to even find examples of such job postings... I think there is a market fit for a new job search website, it should be far, far easier to find these kinds of jobs postings. I'm not sure how a person can find these things without a recruiter contacting them.
Thanks for taking the time to write this out. Two questions, followed by a response to one of your comments:

1) On the Uyghur issue. If what you say is true, why is it difficult to get CSPAN footage in Xinjiang?

2) Is there a hypothetical future event or evidence that would shift your viewpoint to believe the "western narrative"? If so, what is it?

> Women being lifted out of poverty became "genocide through birthrate suppression".

It can simultaneously be true that the heavy-handed actions (as you put it) successfully lifted women out of poverty, and also violated their individual human rights. The words we use to describe these actions aren't mutually exclusive truths.
I guess it depends on the person, but this doesn't square with what I see, and I live in what's considered a very liberal area with relatively strict mandates. People are going to bars & clubs, eating out, holiday shopping, etc. Even people who are being more cautious right now are itching to get out and do stuff. I think we'll recover just fine.
For how long period? That sounds very cheap. Like bit over dollar per person... Fraction a cent a day...
I want a phone I can use with a single hand, that has a really good camera (within physical smartphone limits, of course), still has upper class hardware specs and doesn't place me on Apple's property.
Real-time alerting system for Covid-19 using wearable data
Being a devops guy these last 2 years I have noticed that besides doing what you just mentioned, I am basically end user support for developers.

And through this I've noticed that developers can be just as bad at communicating issues as any end user I've ever dealt with.

Just because they've written the system end users use, does not mean they're better at reporting problems to me, because their problems are about the pipelines, the kubernetes clusters, the containers, anything outside of their programming code basically.

So I still need to use all the communication skills I learned decades ago when I was doing end user support for people who didn't even work in IT.
Who is deciding all of this? Sounds like conjecture.
No, I have not. Will have a search.
Yes, thank you. Now I know where this came from!
For the relative admission rates that's not a problem, but for the absolute numbers... yeah a bar chart isn't a good choice there.
Looked at another way, the real measure of intellect is how consistent a person's views are within a logical framework. I'm not sure this writer's opinions are actually "diverse". They're pretty logically consistent, (and I happen to agree with all of them, which is rare). They just appear heterodox from the perspective of one or the other party platform in the US. But it is those party platforms which hold truly diverse policy ideas - in the sense that their policies are logically inconsistent and conflicting.

To illustrate what I'm trying to say, consider the two polarizing issues of abortion and capital punishment. The standard right-of-center view in the US - if you asked almost any Republican - is to be pro-life when it comes to individuals not killing fetuses and pro-death when it comes to the State killing grown adults. This is not only inconsistent in its logical application of whether anyone has a right to kill anyone, but also wildly inconsistent with the right wing's antipathy toward state power over the individual. Meanwhile, the other party in this country is anti-death-penalty by the state and pro-choice for the individual, while preferring state power over individual autonomy in most other cases.

Now who's holding wildly different, inconsistent political stances on polarizing questions? Probably the 70% or so of Americans who hew to either the standard liberal or conservative platforms, without considering their internal contradictions.
Would you please stop posting ideological/political battle comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Moreover, when an account is using HN primarily for that, that's the line at which we ban it (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations). Your account seems to be inching close to that line, if it isn't over it. That's definitely not the intended use of the site.

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If you have two people in a system, subsidizing person A and keeping B the same is exactly the same as keeping A the same and taxing person B. Your changing everyone's relative place in society and whats more you are elevating the people that have behaved less responsibly
Victims make poor decisions all the time. It doesn't really imply the story is false - although I happen to find this story unconvincing also.
>The budget woes are a myth. The US spends more on education than most other countries

Correct. New York City spends more per student than anywhere else in the US (<https://www.silive.com/news/2019/06/how-much-does-new-york-c...>). Baltimore, an incredibly poor and run-down city, spends the third most. #4-6 and #8 are all wealthy suburbs of Washington DC, but their schools are all far better than those of Baltimore or NYC on average, despite Baltimore spending slightly more per student and NYC spending 60-70% more.

>in exchange for middle of the pack results comparable to less developed countries with far lower budgets.

Americans do well on PISA compared to their ethnic relatives. (<https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...>) Asian Americans do better than Asians; whites do better than Europeans; Latinos do better than Latin Americans; and blacks do better than Africans.

Hispanics and especially blacks' scores drag the US average down. Both white and Asian Americans score higher than Canada (and white+Asian is essentially Canada's racial makeup), and higher than New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway, and the UK; Estonia is below US Asians but above white Americans. Norway is by far the wealthiest Nordic state but its average is only two points higher than the US national average, despite not having a demographic that is 13% of the population and scores 85 points below the white American average.
How do you mean you spend money on physical fitness? It does sound like a great investment.
Alphafold is interesting, but not a particularly big deal. It's just better homology modeling at the end of the day, and the difference between 60% and 90% is a lot less critical than the difference between 90% and 100%. Those I have talked to in pharmaceuticals are entirely unwilling to stake billion dollar projects on it.
I thought that was the USB stack that didn't come until the plus pack.
Cautiously hopeful that this does indeed work and that it does work for all variants...

.. and that it also would not cost a fortune in 3rd world where we really need easily accessible and storable countermeasures against the bugger.
Well, anything that involves precise drilling isn't really what I'd call "trivial". But it's definitely doable.
Scientific racism is a pseudoscience. To think that it's actually scientific is to get caught up in semantics. It is a very unscientific fringe group
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Correlation does not Imply Causation
Think C was definitely used to make commercial software. Apple developers probably used "Macintosh Programmer's Workshop", which is more like a command line. Whether it gave more feedback I can't really say. But again, this is not comparable to an early 90's 486 system at all. This is an 8 MHz machine that maxes out at 4MB RAM.

The big constraint on IDEs in the first few years of Macs, including this system, is the screen size. 512x342 pixels is not a lot. In the early 90's people most developers would have had something more like a desktop Mac with more real estate, so the editors evolved fairly quickly. But the first version of Photoshop was written on this exact machine (Mac Plus) according to Wikipedia.

I've never heard of anyone cross-compiling end-user software from Unix, except for pre-1984 system bring-up. In the first year or so, I think you needed a Lisa to code for the Mac, but it became self-hosting quite quickly. Mac applications until OS X need a bunch of Mac-specific stuff that lives in the file's so-called "resource fork", and the final artifact (application file) can therefore only exist on the Macintosh file system.
When tweets or news articles like this get popular, I can't help thinking this has a Streisand effect. Crazy stalker people who didn't know they could do this now know they can.
100%.

Having kids is by far the most life constraining thing you can do. Don’t do it unless you want to be a parent! I have two kids and my life is unrecognizable from what it was before. I enjoy my new life but it is 85% dad, 15% old me.

I would recommend the general area of making sacrifices and servicing others in some form. I think that is a big part of the “spiritual” fulfillment of parenting. I used to be so much more self centered. But now I get up every day thinking how to make the lives of my kids and the world better, rather than “what would my lizard brain enjoy today “
>I'd also say 200ms -> 1.2 seconds is very noticable.

One of those things that if I'm looking for it, I'd notice but otherwise...

I deal with so many slow CLI tools daily that it wouldn't even register.
Lihtium Ion cells are depleted at 3.0V, not 3.6V. The 2.5 is the lower threshold after which you should no longer use the device without replacing the battery. Most if not all BMSs on the market are well aware of these data points and will respond accordingly: hard shutdown at 3.0V, after that they will use a few uA until you charge them and around 2.6V they go into 'deep sleep' which means even indicators and other interaction stops until the device is recharged.

It is very hard to get a device to go below that 2.5V, unless you aim for it by leaving it for many months (and with slightly larger cells years), self discharge at that voltage is extremely low unless the cells have been damaged.
Fish sausages are sold in Japan, and these are a finely emulsified sausage of fish with pork fat.

Run the Japanese Wikipedia page through a translator for more background: https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%9A%E8%82%89%E3%82%BD%...

This is a graph of fish sausage production 1953-2020 https://www.jca-can.or.jp/~sausage/tokei-htm/ in Japanese, left axis is tons.

I've translated a 1939 paper on fish sausage and whale ham production methods, comment if interested.
Btw we had a thread about this last month when it went up (Nov 12). It's the post about among other things removing (/=) from the Eq typeclass. It is kind of a yawner imho.
Most people just need lxc-create or virsh create, honestly. It's the only things I have been able to get to work reliably. All the docker and k8s stuff is unnecessary complexity if you just need to run a container or VM.
Ah the blissful ignorance of optimists assuming people would voluntarily do the obviously right thing...
Sure, their laws affect their citizens. Clearview AI isn't a French citizen. French laws don't apply.

How many more times does France need to be told to fuck off before it stops trying to legislate in other countries?

edit: hilarious that all the people critical of the US just assume other people are American.
> Hiring programmers proficient in Rust is much more difficult than in C or C++ due to the smaller user base. Example code, tools, and libraries released by MCU manufacturers are almost always for C or C++. The Rust embedded infrastructure is new, and rapidly changing.

While Rust cost per engineer today is higher, is the cost of the project lower, because due to Rust those engineers are much more efficient?
Why do you feel that the Democrats are deeply corrupt?
I've not been anywhere that actually got far enough to sell it. Mostly theater though. The real intent is to get at least a trio of data points to get the Signal to Noise Ratio somewhere comfortable for the sake of doing a high impact account action.
I'd find a few people that have been at startups of a similar size and stage and talk to them about this.

First, there is no single "startup" definition. Are you the third employee, did they just raise series A, are they nearing IPO or acquisition?

From my own experience - hire during scaling post series A, expect more disorganization than you're used to at an established company, more decisions and direction based on how well you can argue them instead of actual evidence from the market, more changes in direction, overall more chaos. It can be a lot of fun, but if you are not in the company's inner circle, you have to go with the flow a lot more and accept things will change all the time for reasons you have no control over, and product features or deals you worked on can often get scrapped after you put a lot of effort into them.

That was a bit of a rant, I liked working at a startup, but it was much more chaotic with literally nobody knowing what they were doing than I expected. On the other hand, if you're there in a high growth phase, there is lots of optimism, lots of fun, lots of learning and social connection
This is the exact problem - there are a hundred different explanations for why news might be good or bad. High case right? Good sometimes!

You need a fully formed view to come to a conclusion based on details and those most qualified to do so are the least willing to do so.
> Linux is the only system (maybe now FreeBSD, if they've completed the migration to a packaged base system yet) where every single piece of software on a complete and usable system can be managed uniformly with a single set of automatic tools.

Only the software that has been painstakingly packaged for that particular version of that particular distribution can be managed by said tools. This is one of its biggest flaws and part of the reason Flatpak even exists.

You rightly describe a lot of problems with the installer mechanism of traditional Windows, which is not what I am advocating for[0]. I'm advocating for something more like original Mac applications, or RiscOS AppDirs, or NeXT/current MacOS Application Bundles, or just folders with files in them in DOS, or you know, AppImage. Single object applications that can be copied, deleted, and moved the same as any file without a bunch of special tooling. I contend that the need for special tooling is to work around an overly complicated model, not inherent to the problem space.

> This is how you react to playful commiseration about the difficulty of coordinating unification between independent, distributed, democratically managed volunteer projects? Please, I urge you in the strongest possible terms: continue using Windows exclusively, forever and ever. :)

When someone asks me about my use case for features for the sole purpose of being pedantic and telling me things I already know that are entirely useless and that I have heard variations of for twenty goddamn years while literally using an emoji that represents a human face sticking it's tongue out... well let's just say I'm not inclined to have a high opinion of them. Frankly, there's good reason Linux is in a distant third place as a Desktop OS, despite how much Windows sucks, and it isn't because it provides a seamless experience and its community is so helpful and welcoming.

[0] It's weird that when you criticize something in Linux Desktop, for some reason its proponents always go all whataboutism on Windows.
Not OP but I spend money on gym memberships, outdooring equipment (backpacks, boots, tents, hammocks) so that I can enjoy the physical activity of hiking and trail walking which is not only a great exercise, but a fantastic way to get into nature and away from technology.
ahh yes, much the same way Legos are "perfectly misshaped" marbles
Sure, that's generally true. But in the case of a global pandemic, I think the comment is valid
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To adapt Greenspun's tenth rule:

You have a dedicated team building an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Google App Engine (or Heroku, or Digital Ocean App Platform, etc).
Who says they can’t take algebra early?
On your tangent, I use vi bindings _and_ map Ctrl to Alt, so that I can chord using only thumb.
It's 218 working days in some union contracts (convention collective) usually, and 216 in Alsace.
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