skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Difficult is subjective.

> at least 12 years of education to learn how to read and write their languages at a basic level

The idea of a "basic level" is fundamentally flawed.

Can a 10-year-old child in Japan function to a similar level in their society as a 10-year-old child in England? If asked to water the plants can they do so? Can they catch the correct school bus? Can they read a children's book for their age level? Yes? If so language has served its purpose, and there isn't really a fundamental difference in difficulty level.

Yeah, native speakers will tell you their language is hard, but they too are influenced by the media that all says it's hard.

You might be right that it takes 12 years for the average kid to learn a particular set of Kanji but that's a very arbitrary standard applied to a language that does not demand you know all of those Kanji to be functional in society. There is context, there is the simple act of asking, there is so much more to it. Likewise, English speakers don't demand that they know the entire Oxford English Dictionary to be considered literate. I mean, yeah, if you asked the 10-year-old to "irrigate the agricultural enclosure" instead of "water the plants" you might stump them, sure. If we had those kind of expectations, English would be considered "hard" -- look at that thick book of the OED! It's thicker than the Kangxi dictionary and Xinhua dictionary combined, and therefore it must be harder! (My point is -- logic isn't the way to analyze this.)
Its auto regression. Think of a row of pixels as a signal y[n]. Assume y[n] = a y[n-1] + b y[n-2]. estimate a,b. Then store y[0], y[1], a, b, and the residual, then encode the four values and the residual which will mostly be zeros. You can vary the length and number of coefficients very cheaply, but a fixed two beat png in my tests. There are fast standard algorithms to find a,b and which along with some simple tricks to correct for the precision ensure lossless encoding. Its the mathematicians version of the ad hoc thing png tries to do.
I hate people taking multiple minutes in standups (we have 1 person who almost always takes far too long) but I wouldn’t want to do them asynchronously. It’s certain that people aren’t going to even glance at text updates. As much as I hate phone calls and meetings, I think a proper daily standup is a good thing.
All of my failed projects have the same problem. For some reason, my interest just switched off. What was an intensely interesting learning experience that I would work on in every spare minute just stopped being interesting. Quite often, this happens before I have a working thing made.
In fact, my successful projects all have these same discontinuities they just come after it’s working.
The same way and principles, actually containers mimics the golden image pattern used in physical infrastructure.

You need an image (qcow, raw, etc) of your vm with the things you want installed on it. Then you distribute it across computers that will used it through qemu, libvirt, etc.

It's also interesting to see how pxe works :-)
Rather, the way HN makes money (helping YC founders advertise and hire) are aligned with the interests of the community.
There's lots of info on FB, behind soft walls. Lots of businesses don't have homepages, for example. Or people organize their events there. And the general network effect - by its nature, you miss out of everything that happens there.
Yet I saved my mom and later my landlady by insisting on reading the contract they were about to sign.

In my mom's cause she bought a condo, and cable/phone contract was to bill her for services the previous owner had but she did not have or need.

In the case of my landlady, she thought she had a money back offer on a new furnace if she did not like it. But the fine print showed she would own them for removal of the old furnace and the installation/removal of the new old if she did not like it. I knew something was fishy since they kept trying to get her to sign the paperwork despite the fact they could not come for a couple of days to do the work. Their way would cost her $4000 even if she decided she did not want to kept their furnace, turns out she just needed a new motor that cost her $150.
Rayiner, there is no "era of redlining". De jure redlining is over, but de facto redlining obviously lives on, as you can immediately discern from a 10 minute walk in the west side of Chicago. The point, of course, is that there's a commercial infrastructure in many ethnic neighborhoods that doesn't exist in the redlined neighborhoods due to decades of overt systematic disinvestment. It's why you'll see Mexican groceries every couple blocks in Belmont-Cragin, but only Food and Liquors in Austin. Economic path dependence is a hell of a drug!

I don't know if redlining is the only reason for this gap, or even one of the most important, but it's obviously a part of the story. If you're going to make generalizations about entire cultures this way, I think the onus is on you to engage with the history, even if only to say why you think it's not playing a part here.
How is python doing a thread pool with the GIL?
I've heard this before but I have not really seen any examples of this. It seems like virtually every paper I read has been rendered with LaTeX.

I would totally be fine with LaTeX being replaced, but I hope to god that I'm not forced to us MS Word all the time.
But who repairs the repairers?
Surreal and hallucinating, as in real life:

"Meanwhile, a few yards away, a mother, dressed in leather pants, knee-high boots, and with bleach blond hair, oblivious to it all, supervises her kids, dressed in knock-off Disney snow outfits despite there being no snow, playing on an immaculately clean and neon bright playground set, while texting on a gigantic phone. All punctuated by the constant sound of the kids tossing fireworks into the cement blocks."

Every time I visit Bucharest it fills me with such memories.

If you want to immerse yourself into Romanian realism please enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/c/THECINEPUB_filme_romanesti_online
This can cause a problem when dating as background checks become involved. Thankfully my SO realized it was a different person with the same name.

Even at a small town library there was another patron with my name.
If you do that, then there's no point in using JSON -- you won't be able to use preexisting JSON parsers or writers anyway.

Meanwhile, the sign-the-bytes crowd can use any preexisting format.
By paying for Premium I am not actively harming content creators like you.
Wow, that’s bizarre. I don’t recall governments ever aggressively propping up their currency, usually they devalue it as a silent tax or export subsidy.
I find it funny that a farm in the valley has "water use rights" and will end up using millions of gallons of water per month and pay almost nothing for it meanwhile my sfm which uses about 15k gallons a month will cost $300 for the privilege and I'm allowed to keep going and water outside as much as I want however California regulations prevent me from installing a second shower head in my walk in shower wet room under the guise of not wasting water.

All this even though the place where I live is basically 97% recycled water so you're really just paying for the cost of treating the water.

Eh I generally don't understand why my property has to stay a dessert while 10 minutes from my house the farms take the water and sell it for themselves in the fruit.
DO has better uptime lately
To clarify, both named tuples and dataclasses can be immutable (the former are always immutable and the latter can be made immutable with `frozen=True`).

There is no way, however, to make a named tuple mutable.
I know another indie founder I believe is working in this space. Their app is called Rehabit:

https://rehabit.co.za/

They've been building it in public for the past year, but I haven't seen updates for a few weeks:

http://whatgotdone.com/michaelcampbell/2021-11-05
And the actual “clue” looked like a borked copy paste in the part of the syllabus telling you about university wide policies that the student would have read elsewhere already.

But sure lazy students don’t read the syllabus
Attrs was mentioned in the PEP [0] for dataclasses.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0557/#why-not-just-use-a...
Wow, you’re completely off the mark, buddy! But nice try with the amateur OSINT haha.
Machiavelli wrote De Principatibus to get a job with the Medici after losing his position when they returned to Florence. There are a lot of interpretations of the work but the simplest is that it's a manual for an autocrat and that Machiavelli believed that the maxims he described were true. The most important is that the ends justify the means.

It's quite a different question whether Machiavelli personally believed in autocracy. In the Discourses he discussed the management of republics. He also worked for the Florentine Republic for many years. There's no question he saw the strengths of republics, but his views are also conflated with admiration for Rome, which was Republican after 510 BC.

I think the simplest answer is that Machiavelli believed in Florence, desired the unity of Italy against foreign invaders, and wanted to be part of the action. That's just my own opinion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#The_P...
Because you can come up with people being psychotic monsters, it does not mean people are psychotic monsters.

There are a lot of barbaric things that go on in families all over the world in all sorts of families. What exactly is your point?
> Probably every single word is there due to a particular legal precedent or carefully calculated risk.

Or, possibly, just a recognized incalculable risk. The frequency of natural impacts is known and not expected to be subject to rapid change; the frequency of impacts by manmade objects doesn't really have a long history of constant conditions or conditions that are not subject to change over the life of the contract.
You don't have to. Just collapse the comment and move on.
What is generating this HTML page? I'm always looking for something like this can help automatically generate documentation from code comments; it's very easy to get buy in for "update the docs when you update the code," much less so for "go through the comments for every piece of code you touch and double check they're still relevant." It's one of those things everyone nods at then promptly ignores.

Something like this with a discrete task that can be checked on code review would help immensely, I think.
Even the sender of a communication may be a source of error by phrasing something different from what they meant to convey.

From not communicating in one’s native tongue or not learning one’s native language well enough to simple brain-farts - there are numerous things that can lead to miscommunication on the sender side, too.

Communication of complicated concepts is just incredibly lossy every step of the way.
haha great question - either, i suppose :)
Contracts can get longer if either party is very distrustful of the other. If you expect the contract to be contested it makes sense to lock things down.

An other reason is avoiding precedent and certain judgements from applying to this contract. I think this is quite common with financial documents, to the point where there is a lot of boilerplate that everyone understands without reading (just checking it is actually there).

Sadly, contracts with the public hit both cases. Lots of precedent, and so many people you can expect a few of them to try and misuse the agreement.
I've discovered two previously unknown data breaches this way. I was gratified when the operators of the sites thanked me for reporting it. Most times, though, I get the treatment you're describing.
There is something so strange about reading such a beautiful thing and then reading that comment at the bottom. The juxtaposition is just bizarre. Is there a word for this feeling? It happens to me frequently online.

Anyway, thank you for sharing.
This is overstated in my opinion. The internet will remain relatively free in true democratic states unless there's a population of people out there who are just begging for their government to lie to them and manipulate them.
Do you mean the Graal JIT compiler or AOT compiling? The former may at times be better at escape analysis, but I don’t think there would be a significant difference. Using an up-to-date GC implementation is already night-and-day (I use G1GC with slightly decreased target pause time and larger heap size. But ZGC would be probably the best for this use case)

I’m not sure whether Intellij could be AOT compiled, would be interesting due to faster startup time but AOT compiled binaries can be somewhat slower than what the JIT compiler is capable of.
Organizational skills beat algorithmic wizardry (2013)
If anyone is interested why this is even a thing, you can see here [0] how every change in the IDE repaints whole window, thus eats CPU like mad. On the MacOS with external 4k+ monitor, this really tanks even macpro, like there is no GPU acceleration at all and everything is rendered by the CPU.

[0] - https://photos.app.goo.gl/fsxgEHXCsTzKL37w7
I could care less about giving YouTube a cut of creator revenue.

Contextual/integrated advertising is something many creators already do - in a lot of cases it's because they have no choice (their videos have been demonetized for etc).

Mind you, there are ways to get around that too, but I don't mind. After all, as you say, they need to get paid.
In the case of Armenia, the country was becoming a hotbead of CIA activity. So Putin wanted to make an example of it.

Russia allowed Azeris to win that war, just to show Armenia how vulnerable it is without Russian help. Plus, they now have troops patroling along the border with Nagorno-Karabah.
Nice article on human evolution, buy if I'm not mistaken, we'll be needing a time machine to answer that one.
Turns out that A is the correct answer. Also, she wasn't "low-level", whatever that means.
Can't find anything below ~1/month at zoho for just mails; care to share a link?
I think this is because of how the various constraints work against each other. We need the telescope to be as large as possible to work as well as possible. But the rockets can only be so big (i.e. we're constrained by the largest available booster). The only thing here under our control is how hard we work on fitting the biggest possible instrument in the available payload envelope, and that is exactly what happened.

With a machine this complex I think it's also not easy to crank out multiple copies since I'm imagining most of it is made by hand without the benefit of a production line.
But what is the problem?

It may have a religious origin but a headscarf is a fashion accessory. Like trousers or shirt buttons. We could ban them too, just for fun!

Up with skirts!
Down with trousers!

See? What fun!
There was an excellent refutation of using Adverse Events Reports for anything but safety signalling.

The author of the linked substack could have uploaded the death reports himself. And he didn't even think about comparing his numbers to expected numbers.

So, no: children don't die from the vaccine.
"For the lawyer, each word in a formal legal document has (or should have) a purpose: it has been chosen instead of other words, and also instead of no words at all."

I know people who can engage in free-form conversation in this manner. Not to say like a lawyer, but where there are no words missing, no words incorrect, and no words superflous. I've marvelled at that ability and find that style of speaking mesmerizing.
Do any professionals here use it? I did some AutoCAD in high school and tried this years ago. It felt competent and less crashy than late 90s AutoCAD, but a little more awkward.
I started a project with dataclasses and quickly ran into their limitations (which are by design) and migrated to attrs. It's quite a bit better.

If you take 10 seconds to read attrs website they do go over the differences and maybe discussing those would be more valuable than some cheap snark.
I thought this was about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
Python's numpy has great support for matrices and all kinds of matrix operations.
I like Three Stigmata too. Both books are amazing.
oh yeah you might be right, I had skipped the donglebook models and compared to the last pre-M1 model that had magsafe and an sd card port

I had googled the size comparison before I purchased the M1 Max model and it helped move the needle for me, but I don't remember the source and we were likely comparing different models
I don't consider HN to be in the same category of most social media apps, though it has some of the danger zones. There's a Hacker News Demetricifier extension that helps a lot with "oooh, let's see how many upvoties my wise, intelligent comment got this time!" checking.

I draw the line at "algorithmic, individualized feeds." To the best of my knowledge, HN state is global (to within whatever level of distributed consensus is required for the server infrastructure). If I look at HN, what I see in terms of front page state and comment order is what other people see, and what non-logged-in users see. It's not optimized for what the algorithm things I want to see - and that's the difference.

There are still plenty of dark patterns one can integrate within this space, and I think Reddit is in a very grey zone (I no longer use it because I don't like what the new interface has done to technical text content and their pending IPO or whatever is certain to ruin what's left). The only real improvement I'd offer to HN is the ability to hide your own comment upvote/downvote comments as a check toggle somewhere, to demetricify it even more, while still maintaining the ability to moderate content. That comment scores other than your own is hidden is a great improvement.

If there's a better line, I'd be interested in hearing it, but my personal point is "individualized, algorithmic feeds are evil."
"Marginally"?

It millions of man-hours of development to get VS Code even remotely near what JetBrains has been doing well for over a decade, and that's being very generous in judgement. How much money was wasted trying to get Electron to not perform super shitty?

Jetbrains software has its issues but it handles and has handled nearly every language I throw it save dotnet. And I grew up on big chunky IDEs and that is what I know and like. Vim is cool (I use it for more basic tasks) but lobbing molotovs like that only furthers pointless holy wars.
How the Jesuits Charted the World
> Renter’s insurance should cover your losses, not the landlord’s

Renter’s, like homeowner’s, insurance, usually includes some liability coverage. The landlord is a particularly likely person for a renter to have liabilities to.
The reason we can't achieve the same resolution as JWST with interferometry has been mentioned in a recent startalk podcast. The distance between the telescopes would have to be coordinated to a precision somewhere on the order of nanometers.
> I'm not sure why we wouldn't be able to go back to normal,

There are no path back to normal unless the virus disappears. We have vaccines that work for a limited time, we'll soon have pills@home. It will still not be `back to normal`.

> and taking a stance that we never will strikes me as somewhat defeatist.

We'll also never have FTL spaceships or teleportation star trek style.

> I'm more of an optimist. Having a small percentage of the population that's at greater risk of serious implications from infection (respiratory or otherwise) is something we've learned to live with before (see: the flu) without masks, mandates, or dramatically rearranging the way we live.

Covid is not the flu. Hoping it'll magically turn into a flu or that we can manage it like a flu is ignoring the reality currently unfolding.

40 years later and we still need condoms. We are not back to sex as it was in the 70's. Generations of teenagers have had their first time with a condom. This is what is normal now.
Yes. There are lots of problems with the HN "guidelines," not least of which that they're actually rules you get punished for breaking and not "guidelines" you can choose not to follow.
Ads pop up after 5 gameplays.
Capitalism: What Has Gone Wrong
can you tell me which parts feel verbose? In my recent usage, I've not found myself using the older, more verbose approaches.
Ads. They show after 5 gameplays.
The reason why we are barely getting started into VLBI in the IR on the ground (and nothing that I have heard of yet in space) is that the different apertures need to be stable relative to each other with a precision better than a small fraction of a wavelength. (One tenth, one twelves and one twenties are often used, depending basically on which performance drop relative to the theoretical optimum you are willing to live with.)

For radio astronomy, where we do VLBI everyday, we have to handle waves of wavelength 1 cm and position antennas to a precision better than a millimeter. Not easy when the antennas are scattered across the country, but something we can pull off.

For IR astronomy we are talking wavelength in the range of 1000 nanometers to 30 microns. So at the easiest end of the spectrum you would have to position satellites to a precision better than 3 microns relative to each other, while flying on orbit and being pulled and pushed by tidal forces, gradients in the graviational fields and solar wind pressure (which contains turbulent fluctuations). For it to actually work in near IR you would have to get the positioning right to within 100nm.

For comparison: The mirrors of JWST itself are flat to within about 25nm. And in some sense we ARE doing IR VLBI with JWST since we have separate mirror segments that we all position correctly relatively to each other. But doing so we separate freeflying satellites is something we just aren't capable of yet.

PS: Yes, LISA Pathfinder has demonstrated measurements of spacecraft separation down to a few picometer, so we are slowly getting there.
> They literally straight up pay salaries to wahabbi terrorists

Really? I did not know that. Have you a source?
I generally don't check my personal spam folder. I've honestly not seen any false positives with Fastmail. But I certainly do have to check every now and then for my work O365 account which is pretty bad at marking legitimate mail as spam. YMMV of course.
Things i use without a smartphone:

- Maps

- Tickets, Vaccination pass

- Coins and Cash for Payments

- Taxis

I hoped for a moment you were kidding. Now i'm a bit sad.
Tesla has 70,000 fulltime employees and this repo has 2 contributors.

It is impossible for this to be a tremendous waste of resources even if this was the only thing those employees did for the company. Its a rounding error.
For those looking, it is:

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion:_The_Center_Will_N...

89% on RT. So pretty fkn good.
You’re wrong on this one, pre-“metaverse” it was just called social vr, and that universe is really something special. The creativity and energy in there is like nothing I’ve ever seen before and it’s very very exciting

Not the vision you’ll get from Meta however
And we have the technology to get to a large asteroid in a month, from the frikkin 1960s: Pulse nuclear orion ships can have payloads of SEVERAL MILLION TONS.

The issue was the detonating of the bombs in the atmosphere for initial launch stages, but as you say, launch them from the Moon.

Near earth asteroid mining may be key to making a planetary space economy worthwhile.
For anyone interested in differences between attrs and pydantic, how to use dataclasses, etc. I can't recommend the mCoding channel enough, this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLetdhswMg goes into the different libraries and there are other videos going more in depth on how to use them.
Whoops, sorry - that was me. Belatedly fixed.
Would love to see a video or animated gif example!