skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But they're interesting because they are laws - because there's some structure there, because the same causes consistently have the same effects. Superdeterminism denies all that.

Wait, how does it deny it?

> i'd say that if you're an inherent part of the causal chain that makes something happen then it's fair to say that you changed it. You don't have to assume free will to acknowledge that we affect our environment.

it's separating us from the environment and saying that one part changed the other, but that's just a simplification as our heads can't contain the whole system with all it's events. A blurry reflection. So now we "look" at this reflection and say : this is wrong, it makes no sense

Without simplification, we had some "initial" state and it "goes" somewhere. Like sand in a clock. We all know where the sand goes and what will happen in an hour.

We have words like "interesting, learn, understand" which don't really mean anything when we think about determinism. Science requires an observer but who is looking?
MS SQL IO is tightly integrated with Windows, including modes (like instant file initialization) that are not accessible to user mode apps. That makes it 'kind of Direct IO' on Windows, I am not familiar with the Linux port but I don't have any expectations there.

MS SQL configuration and tuning is less and less about storage and more and more about server parameters (most defaults are coming from the SQL version that introduced it, ex. SQL 2000 almost 22 years ago), query and index tuning. The last 2 can make huge differences, many orders of magnitude, so this is where most time is spent optimizing. The server configuration part is usually a list of 10-20 parameters every DBA is changing from start almost never touch later. This makes it really easy on that part.
Centrifugo maybe [1]

[1] https://centrifugal.dev/
Similar story here.

I also feel as though PortableApps was the catalyst that pushed me to look into open source software, and Linux.
Using `itertools.groupby` will probably give the cleanest solution. Something like this (untested):

groups = itertools.groupby(sorted(mylist, key=lambda x: x['thing']), key=lambda x: x['thing'])
newlist = [{**group[0], 'count': sum(item['count'] for item in group)} for group in groups]

I'm not overly fond of it, having to sort the list for `groupby` is unpleasant and extracting values from dictonaries is verbose. If this was an array of tuples it could be made much more concise, but of course that doesn't allow storing extra information for each thing, which this solution does.
Excess deaths estimates are in excess of 10million. Ie totals of 18.4 with 95 confidence..

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
Chinese Fenghua GPU Aims for GeForce RTX 3060 Compute Performance
Is there an equivalent to the NAACP for the Uyghurs in China?
Why divide by the number of reviews? They don't sell candles that don't smell.
AMD AOCC 3.2 Helps Squeeze a Bit More Out of Zen 3
More than interesting; it would be required to see the data before 2020 to know if this plot is actually meaningful.
I did mean single computer in terms of 1 active primary machine at any given time.

Negotiate the advantages of this architecture with the business. For the systems I've built, synchronous log replication is a natural extension of the performance abstraction, and provides fairly robust protection when some manual intervention is allowed.
Don't know about elegant. The following doesn't have the O(N^2) performance:

def merge_counts(mylist):
thing_lookup = {} # map thing -> item
newlist = []
for item in mylist:
thing = item["thing"]
if thing in thing_lookup:
# seen before; update count.
thing_lookup[thing]["count"] += item["count"]
else:
# first time I've seen this thing
newlist.append(item)
thing_lookup[thing] = item
return newlist

It, like the original, mutates the original dictionary. I would prefer:

# first time I've seen this thing
thing = thing.copy() # don't mutate the original
newlist.append(item)
"In August, Amnesty released a report that documented that at least 15 000 migrant workers had died since Qatar was awarded the World Cup hosting rights in 2010."

If these figures are true, then no matter how 'successful' the World Cup 2022 turns out, it will always be tainted by these shameful figures.
Yes, well, “capitalism” is built around “capital” aka money, assets, real estate, etc etc.
> I know how dumb customers can be

Maybe a more constructive way to look at this would be that people simply do "dumb" things. In customer support where you only see those moments, it might not always seem that way, but dealing with people's simple mistakes is also educating them to do better next time.
I have personally spoken with mainland Chinese Christians who report increasing persecution there.
As an on-the-spectrum brit who was forced to play "footie" at 9:15am in 5degC frosty september mornings by uncaring, unsympathetic, if not abusive, PE "teachers" at my comprehensive secondary from age 11 to age 16, and previously bullied in primary-school to the point where I tried to hang myself in the toilets with my school uniform tie at 8 because I didn't support any football team and didn't collect those stupid football stickers - stuff like this makes me just feel despondent at the utter lack of any redeeming values in association football.

Burn it to the ground.
The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope
Such concerns specifically led to my decision of only uploading sensitive data to S3 with client side encryption. Since the aws cli tool only supports server side encryption with keys stored on amazon servers (where the non-default managed keys cost like 1 USD per month), I decided to simply symmetrically encrypt the backup of my syncthing data volume with AES256 using gnupg and only then pushing it to the S3 bucket.
Sorry, but these seem like weak excuses for complying with what sounds like a brutal corporate takeover of your country.

I don't have a cell carrier or any Apple/Google controlled devices. I run a b2b tech company and it isn't a problem.

When I really need to send an email or chat message I find WiFi to connect my small CalyxOS device to. The rest of the time I am living in the moment without notifications and this has done wonders for my mental health and social relationships as I plan things ahead and act with more intention.

When parking spots require Apps I find there is normally a webapp or a parking attendant that accepts cash. When there isn't I park further away and get some extra exercise.

When I split a bill with friends I use cash or crypto-assets.

When a restaurant demands I use my phone to view the menu I ask for a paper one.

When all hospitals in my area required I use their proprietary app, I accepted the appointment in the webapp, cited that the app didn't work on my device, and was able to get the doctor to call me on my VoIP line.

I am finding out recently I can use cash or prepaid Visa cards almost anywhere if I ask.

I am not aware of a single democratic country with any laws that can mandate all citizens accept the terms of service of Apple or Google.

Any private entity that demands you accept them must be avoided. If all private entities do this and you literally can't use essential services like grocery stores, then you must bring it to the attention of your local legislators as a serious discrimination issue. You could be the squeaky wheel that sparks change in your area.

We have a right to live fulfilling lives in the modern world without accepting Google or Apple ToS.
Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web
Is it as misleading as calling the graph or chart a plot?

Seems a bit click-baity to me. it may be accurate but is exploiting the duality of the word "plot"'s meaning.
I think fast fashion is a behaviour of the individual consumer rather than an attribute of a particular brand though.

I suspect wherever you buy the clothes from they likely come from the same sweatshops and factories in Asia just with different markup.

Many people say Zara is fast fashion, yet I sit in the Zara clothes that have lasted me 2-3 years. We are fortunate to be able to produce high quality clothing incredibly cheaply due to the wonders of modern manufacturing and the brutal exploitation of foreign labour - yet that won't stop people throwing it in the bin to get the next shiny thing an 'influencer' has shilled.
WASM compilation! SuperTux nightlies can now be played directly in the browser (thanks to Semphris). See below for a link to an online version.!
Teams pulling out would most definitely make a difference. It does make you wonder why the players/managers do not get together and... strike.
Thing is, k8s is not about scaling out. A core part of it is about efficient usage of hw you have (which also maps well to avoid expensive cloud bill).

The more I optimized, the more I could leverage k8s to optimize hw usage.
Nah moral outrage is on the Winter Olympics 2022 right now. Hard to maintain concurrent moral outrages at the same time.
Quick question: How is Apple reporting you to the government, and Google not? When they both report to the exact same entity? (The NCMEC.)

Also how do you rationalise Apple bad, everyone else Good. If Apple are actually the only company to have public consultation about the new feature - while the others implemented theirs silently and have been running for years?

One last one: Why do you think political memes uploaded to an iCloud Photo Library are the target of governments, if such memes are trivially detected when posted online? Why do you think Apple would comply here if Google(et.al.) don't?
If referencing China, are you not aware who runs their social media? Also why do you think that new memes can't be created on the fly - ones that wouldn't match a set of hashes used by nefarious governments.

Side note: Are you aware Google uses hashes to detect CSAM imagery too? Better still, are you aware Google use AI to guess at what might be a CSAM image and report those as well?

https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093...
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
I don't think it's that simple. For example BCI performed multiple audits since 2012 and hasn't found a single case of forced labor.[1][2] Despite that, they've pulled back from Xinjiang. Companies don't want to deal with Xinjiang just so they can avoid controversies, regardless of actual facts.

Also, the Xinjiang Forced Labor Prevention Act is based on the maxim of guilty-until-proven-innocent. There is no way to conclusively prove a negative. Even if you perform 100 unannounced audits you can still say "oh there's 0.001% chance that they fooled you 100 times"

1 https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1375456747477815296
2 https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-26/BCI-s-China-office-No-...
> When I was at Los Alamos and would get a little time off, I would often go visit my wife, who was in a hospital in Albuquerque, a few hours
away. One time I went to visit her and couldn't go in right away so I went to the hospital library to read.

> I read an article in Science about bloodhounds, and how they could smell so very well. The authors described the various experiments that they
did--the bloodhounds could identify which items had been touched by people, and so on--and I began to think: Itis very remarkable how good
bloodhounds are at smelling, being able to follow trails of people, and so forth, but how good are we, actually?

> When the time came that I could visit my wife, I went to see her, and I said, "We're gonna do an experiment. Those Coke bottles overthere (she
had a six-pack of empty Coke bottles that she was saving to send out) --now you haven't touched them in a couple of days, right?"

> "That's right."

> I took the six-pack over to her without touching the bottles, and said, "OK. Now I'll go out, and you take out one of the bottles, handle it for
about two minutes, and then put it back. Then I'll come in, and try to tell which bottle it was."

> So I went out, and she took out one of the bottles and handled it for quite a while--lots of time, because I'm no bloodhound! According to the
article, they could tell if you just touched it.

> Then I came back, and it was absolutely obvious! I didn't even have to smell the damn thing, because, of course, the temperature was different.
And it was also obvious from the smell. As soon as you put it up near your face, you could smell it was dampish and warmer. So that experiment
didn't work because it was too obvious.

> Then I looked at the bookshelf and said, "Those books you haven't looked at for a while, right? This time, when I go out, take one book off the
shelf, and just open it --that's all--and close it again; then put it back."

> So I went out again, she took a book, opened it and closed it, and put it back. I came in --and nothing to it! It was easy. You just smell the books.
It's hard to explain, because we're not used to saying things about it. You put each book up to your nose and sniff a few times, and you can tell. It's
very different. A book that's been standing there a while has a dry uninteresting kind of smell. But when a hand has touched it, there's a dampness
and a smell that's very distinct.

> We did a few more experiments, and I discovered that while bloodhounds are indeed quite capable, humans are not as incapable as they think
they are: it's just that they carry their nose so high off the ground!

> (I've noticed that my dog can correctly tell which way I've gone in the house, especially if I'm barefoot, by smelling my footprints. So I tried to
do that: I crawled around the rug on my hands and knees, sniffing, to see if I could tell the difference between where I walked and where I didn't, and
I found it impossible. So the dog is much better than I am.)

From Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Prison labour is the unfortunate exception to the Thirteenth Amendment that allowed effective slavery to continue. The whole system is corrupt. It allows prisons to pay prisoners peanuts (~25 cents/hour) and pocket the difference giving an economic incentive to incarceration and an unfair competitive advantage with people who can't choose not to work because doing so will generally extend their sentence.

But you know the difference?

I can say that without it being taken down by the government or some company acting on their behalf. I can say it without it hurting my "social credit score". I can say it without being "disappeared" and ending up in one of the sprawling "re-education" camps in Xianjing that are so prevalent you can track their massive growth on Google Maps.

There is clearly an organized effort to extinguish a people and culture here, just like it has been and is in Tibet. Given the history of this sort of thing, it's astounding to me how many will defend, deflect or deny this.

Every time a valid criticism of the CCP comes up some shill pops up and downvotes any criticism and/or leaves some "but what about X" lame justification. It's actually depressing.
Isn't this a straightforward corollary of 'more than 50% information can be gleaned when watching at 2x speed'?
The most important sentence in the article:

> The timing mattered, though: only those who’d watched the 2x video for a second time immediately before a test, rather than right after the first viewing, got this advantage.
This guy speaks the truth…
(S)he's just saying that Amazon's claims about their business practices can't be audited by anyone and are therefore unenforceable except by lawsuit on a timescale of years.
If they were made inferrable, it wouldn't cause runtime exceptions. Here the data race guarantees of rust type system are elided instead.
The point is that with separate stacked monitors you can angle them independently such that one tilts downwards.
"Heat pumps can do way better most of the time."

Sure, but they are so rare at present thay in my entire life I have not even seen one.
> a good small company basically bought my freelance time in bulk and gave me 5% ownership, and I get to build beautiful software and set my own life.

It was pleasant to wake up, and see where this thread went.

I think that happiness is alignment of wants and needs, coupled with the means to satisfy them.

Some people need to be rich, as it satisfies an internal metric, of some kind, so the enormous work and sacrifice that are required to be rich are worth it. Unless you are born into wealth, getting there is a great deal of work (and some breaks, but it’s always work). I have known folks that got there, and were devastated to find that it did not make them happy.

I need to be a craftsman, to work “with my hands” (so to speak), on small-batch, artisanal creations, so my work has been focused on getting to the point where I can do that.
This is also the best way to navigate any meeting.
Apple investors call for civil-rights audit
That there is any controversy in this statement is insane, but I would be very wary of ever making this statement non-anonymously, because I know I'm more likely than not to be cancelled for it.

China has mastered the manipulation of the west's successor ideology better than those in the west that instituted it.
I do not understand why persons worth is measured in personal income, without including expenses, child support, taxes and negative externalises such as damaged health. Company can include all sort of expenses and pay zero taxes, lowly employee can not even put gas into expenses.

It leads to absurd situations, where person has actual negative income (has to borrow money to get by), but on paper is "very rich". But millionaire with couple of properties can claim hardship and ask for social welfare.
> I have no interest in the way you live

Then you shouldn't mind if other people chose to live differently ( without any of the ridiculously exaggerated downsides you mention). But the problem is that due to zoning laws, buildings densely or anything else other than sparse suburbia is just impossible in the US. People like you shouldn't force everyone else to live in a thoroughly unsustainable manner, subsidised by everyone else.
Yes, there is one extra "kestrel" in the source: <a href="/kestrel/kestrel/2018/01/29/on-elf">previous article,</a>
I'm guessing the submission might be in response to the recent "Against 3x" essay:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621642

Another variation on 2x is to listen to 2 different people at 2x on the same topic can convey concepts better than listening to only 1 at 1x. Different speakers use different vocabulary, different analogies, etc.

As for listening to the same presentation twice at 2x, one reason it works better is that most narratives or lectures do not provide a "mental map" or "scaffolding" to hang all the sentences on. So the 1st pass feels like it's a bit random and incoherent but it lets listeners mentally build an outline structure in their head, and then the 2nd pass makes it easier to link the sentences to that structure and it feels more coherent.

If speakers did a better job of explicitly providing that outline structure and constantly referring back to it during the narration so listeners don't get lost, the 2nd pass wouldn't be as necessary.
Does this support out-of-tree format decoders? From an initial glance it looks like all decoders are in-tree and written in golang. We have a lot of internal binary formats at $WORK that I would like to use this on...
My point here was that this was equivalent to using Object type in Java/C#. Here the data race guarantees of rust type system are elided due to this GC.
Unfortunately JCOP[0] will only be finished in 2640 AD...

[0]: https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-ha...
> It seems that FIFA isn't exactly free of corruption

John Oliver has made a great summary of FIFA's darker side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I
>God, by definition, defies human understanding.

There are many statements in the Bible that God is "beyond understanding" but when God shows up he seems cut from similar cloth as every other ancient sky-father deity, which is to say mercurial, violent and authoritarian (as expected of authority figures of the time) but still comprehensibly human.
Yeah. I don’t think ls and has support to IAM yet.
Coldplay to stop making music as a band in 2025
You're not wrong. But I think that's more a culture thing.

The media - not just traditional print media - is feeling increasingly fragile since the shift away from newspapers.

So while there's an appetite for it, news sites will cover any topic that needs covering. So, for example, the existence of Bolsonaro would have mostly gone under the radar had the septic spraytan not endorsed him, at which point the media felt it could start calling out the BS that was coming from there.

But it isn't just the slimy swampcleaner salesman, when antisemitism scandals that mention Israel erupt, that becomes an acceptable time to talk about their bad behaviour, under the guise of "these are the legitimate criticisms that this person is / could be raising". Do Israel stop being human rights abusers when antisemitism is not in the news? Of course not. But it isn't seen as newsworthy enough unless something local has piqued our interest.

When people are killed in racist attacks by american cops, BLM activism and systemic racism become part of the news cycle again. Does racism stop whenever there hasn't been a high-profile racist murder recently? Of course not. But without that hook, people looking to follow the story won't be clicking on every link.

And unlike traditional newspaper, where you could buy the thing just for the crossword and the advertisers will still pay, only the individual stories and individual page loads bring revenue. And so the media can no longer afford to finance investigative journalism that might not resonate with the public.

So I don't think it's that the rhetoric that has changed. News cycles are responding to what they think our attention span is, based on the numbers they see in the ad revenue. And in this specific instance, while China has had an uneasy relationships with the Uighurs since at least the 1950s, it's the secret and courtless detention and "reeducation" centres that have really got people riled up (shhh... don't mention Guantanamo) and that's only been happening since around 2017.
It's probably possible to do this in a one-liner using half of the stuff in itertools, but just changing the output data structure to a dict (at least temporarily; one can always make a list from it at the end) would yield code that is short, understandable and gets the job done without linear searches.

Essentially, I'm agreeing with eska's comment, with the addition: "...but consider your data structures!"

groupby looks neat, but it requires sorted input, so it's very easy to convert an O(n) problem to an elegant but O(n log n) program.

EDIT: one could also do it with a one-liner in pandas, which means that as long as the input is less than ten million lines or so, the "import pandas as pd" statement is going to take longer than the actual program...
If your company makes losses people will sell shares to hold money that is guaranteed to earn 0% interest. When you think about how money is just an accounting mechanism where all value and physical capital is created by working people whose time on this planet is limited you will notice that something is fundamentally wrong about our economy in a way that gives no room for ethics.
No shit, with Youtube favoring longer videos content creators need to pan out the running time.
Even if you are able to circumvent all this the only way at them moment to protect your savings is to borrow money and invest it in real estate or whatever.
Unfortunately, as a life long fan of football in the UK, this rings true from the opposite side, and I'm sorry you had to go through that.

However, the sport itself has nothing todo with the bigger picture here. It just so happens that it's the biggest sport in the world, hence worth so much money to $REGIME who will do anything they can to capitalise.
There's a great documentary on this subject by Michael Bertin:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/throwabillion