skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite distinction: “rubber.” In the UK, an eraser. In America, a condom.

I know more than one ex-Brit who had the unpleasant experience of shouting “does anyone have a rubber? I need a rubber really bad! Can anyone give me a rubber please?”

In middle school.
I'm a big fan of `pbpaste | jq` for JSON formatting
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Heterodox STEM: EDI in STEM Slides
I've actually seen the opposite, that homeschoolers (especially in large urban areas), have a ton of friends. A lot of people think of homeschooling as kid sitting in a kitchen with their parents learning math on a chalkboard. In fact, modern-day homeschoolers tend to be much more out and about in their community. They connect with others in classes led by parents or experts, in big park days where they play on the playground - or explore nature, or in co-ops where parents share skills. In places like Portland and NYC, there are large centers where homeschoolers go to take classes together. Unlike school, they don't have 30 minutes of recess to interact and are in classrooms with mixed ages, they have long periods to play and learn with kids of different ages. Being exposed to older peers is actually quite healthy for growth and development because kids learn by modeling. For example, if an older child knows how to read, it inspires them to learn. I'm doing a study on this right now and finding that homeschoolers are much more satisfied with their social life than parents with kids in public school (and this was true both before the pandemic and now with kids back in school). A large part of this is because they can curate their own social experiences. And homeschooling, unlike school has much less bullying, clicks, etcetera. And the groups are much more diverse and inclusive. Since many of the people who choose to homeschool were having unpleasant social experience in school, they tend to be quite a welcoming community. I really think a lot of this can be attributed to homeschoolers getting to curate their own social experiences as opposed to having this socially engineered for them.
Borderline Celtic.
> I don't think that's a commonly-accepted (or useful) definition of "blocking." By that definition, getpid(2) is blocking.

When it comes to expecting a specific duration, getpid() is blocking. If you run getpid() in a tight loop and then have performance issues you can’t reasonably blame the system.

> This isn't a portable program; it's a Linux program

But the interface is a portable interface

> POSIX does not mandate that close blocks on anything other than removing the index from the fd table

And what if the fd-table is a very large hash table with high collision rate? How do you then specify how quickly close() should complete? 1ms/open fd? 10ms/open fd? Etc.

It should be clear that the problem here is that the author of the code had a faulty understanding of the system in which their code runs. Today the issue was close() just happened to be too “slow.” If the amount of input devices were higher, let’s say 2x more, then the same issue would have manifested even if close() were 2x “faster.” No matter how fast you make close() there is a situation in which this issue would manifest itself. I.e. the application has a design flaw.
So the cool trick to not eating sugar is... not eating any sugar.
I think you're conflating "these tests cause harm" e.g. radiation and "the information gleaned from these tests could cause the patient to make poor decisions". Having a regulatory body make this value judgement for people has quite a bit of disadvantages. See "DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME: THE FDA’S RESTRICTIVE REGULATION OF HOME-TESTING DEVICES" https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article....
This article seems a bit deceptive. We are going through NIPT soon and our doctor went over false positive and false negative rates for the common screens. Our doctor has pointed out some of the screens (esp for rare conditions) are not that accurate. The only procedure with high accuracy, amniocentesis, has a slight risk of miscarriage (our provider quoted 0.3% ) so its still statistically better to take NIPT and then only consider amniocentesis with a positive result since there is no risk from NIPT.

You are supposed to treat a positive on NIPT as “there’s a chance your baby has this, need a more accurate procedure to confirm”.

It sounds like their ob gyn wasn’t able to explain results to them or they didn’t understand the probabilities. To be fair our provider didn’t even suggest tests for the disorders in the article, probably because of the false positive rates and rarity. Sounds like these extra screens shouldn’t be offered.
One of my favourite shows. Love the quote
I think the burden is on you to show how fuzzers can show bad code structure and suggest better organization, instead of just finding bugs.

I would be interested what is the evidence that you're talking about. If my experience doesn't speak to your experience, so be it.
As someone keyed into this stuff, it doesn’t feel so normal to me. Feels pretty momentous!
Laughs into my millions of dollars of investment earnings.

In all seriousness, I do get a wiff of traditionalists complaining about an emerging change that isn’t a straightforward understanding. Take Tesla short sellers for example: they just can’t contain their frustration for all the billions they lost over the past years and love to tell everyone about it and the haters come out in droves with theory of X and Y but no real theory is proven without s proper set of experiments.

We’ll be playing the crypto experiment for decades.
> Bitcoin solves the inflation problem

With a cool little 300% increase in the value of single BTC over the single year, with some years seeing it go over 1000%, you're right, it solves the inflation problem by making it a ponzi scheme! Sweet!
The code is compiled as it is in order to handle the case where the indexes need to wrap around. Suppose i1=0xffffffff on entry - you then want to access block[0x00000000ffffffff], block[0x0000000000000000], block[0x00000000000000001]. I've written out all 64 bits of the offset, in the hope this makes the problem clearer: there's no addressing mode for getting the 32 bit truncation. That's why there's an LEAs after each access. (Note that they write to the 32 bit part of each register.)

In the int32_t case, suppose i1=-1. Then you want to access block[0xffffffffffffffff], block[0x0000000000000000], block[0x0000000000000001], and so on. You can do an initial sign extension of the indexes, and then the base64+index64+disp32 addressing mode gives you the right result.

Make the unsigned version take uint64_t indices, and you get the same code for both. Or #include <stddef.h>, and make it take size_t - same thing. This is exactly the sort of thing that size_t is there for.
That depends on the person though doesn't it? I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation. But 7% seems awfully bad odds for painful and debilitating life.
This is what ever worked for me. I block social media to one time slot per day, and it is of 30 minutes.

I never use social media outside of this slot.

I enforce it even when I have nothing else to do- like waiting in a queue or waiting for someone.

I do something else, or stare at the floor rather than pulling up my phone and opening a scroller.

This has had more benefit than just saving time. Attention span has gotten better, focus has improved. It sounds BS, but you can verify this yourself.

I have learned about it in Cal Newport's book Deep Work.
Yes. The Service Book carried a lot of information that these days people take for granted on most devices. And with the APN down and nothing handshaking and serving a default service book (which, incidentally, was served over a proprietary TCP connection IIRC), the phone just won't get the right configurations.

That is why I said it _should_ still work for base calls (and likely SMS), but nothing else, really.
I was going to post about code violations but I’ll just tuck it under yours here so we don’t flood the top level (although one could argue that this really deserves it).

I had to stop reading r/diy because half the stuff in there made me angry. Especially people building lofts to store heavy stuff without knowing anything about construction.

You can’t overlap rooflines like this. That’s how they allow people to build small outbuildings but make large projects have to get permits. If the roofs “touch” then you’re using a loophole to make an illegal addition to your house instead of a shed.

> The way I did it was to run both wires inside a 3/4 inch PVC conduit using 14/2 electrical wiring + 100ft cat6 ethernet cable.

You are going to get somebody killed. I didn’t see you dig a trench, which means you have a single plastic conduit carrying power and data and exposed to the air. It’s supposed to be grounded metal buried conduit to create a faraday cage that can’t be electrified by nearby lightning strikes or hit by a tree or debris in a wind storm. And deep enough the next owner doesn’t kill themselves planting a hydrangea.

I have half a mind to doxx you to your city planning office.
you are speaking in a fictional "we" .. the wealthiest economies are built on pure selfish action, and grew like ivy in the garden in the last 500 years of expansion. Meanwhile, plenty of other cultures teach their children to compete with others based on language, "tribal" affiliation, other reasons.. You are trying to explain half of a world-view, and your ten year old easily finds the dissonance in that.

source: a person raised in the fictional "we" whose neighbors were not
The 'planet' doesn't need saving - the planet is fine. No matter the damage we do to the planet through our predatory ecosystem exploitation, it will recover in a few million years. The most difficult step - the one that took almost 2.5 to 3 billion years, was eucaryotes and multicellular life. It's pretty unlikely we can do enough damage to undo that, even if we nuke the whole planet. The planet still has some 3 billion years until the sun turns red and that's plenty of time for another species to have a go at sentience.

It is human civilization that needs saving.
That’s why I said “vast majority of people”.
We used to top off a banana bag with a little bag of D50 and supplemental O2 via nasal cannula. You could always filch a replacement from the ER on your next visit.

As a recovery mechanism from a punishing night out -- like, say, a volunteer firefighter's bachelor party -- I highly recommend it!
Voters decide who sits in congress, not who gets to talk on twitter, thats a job for twitters employees
What do you see that implies that?
Well, if it wasn't a blockchain, it would be a lot easier to rewrite history and give myself millions of bitcoins.
Because they don't give a single shit about the technology of it. All they're happy about is that their speculative asset keeps going up. They're grifters.
> I could list dozens

Please do.
Corrosion usually affects the body, the suspension, the exhaust, and bolts. The only thing the EV doesn't have is an exhaust system. And compared to the Model 3, which is mostly steel, there are some ICE cars which could do better - for example, the Ford F-150 has had a majority aluminum body for a few years now.

Regardless, this isn't a win for the EV column, it's not the powertrain that rots.
Generally, if your system can handle the vast majority of cases easily and most edge cases with some effort, you don't think about tearing it down to replace it with an entirely new one that's far less efficient and far more difficult for the end user.

The appeal of cryptocurrencies for most buyers is that Bitcoin dectupled in a year and people seem to be getting fabulously rich off of them everywhere you look. No more and no less.
Did we read the same books? Everything that you mentioned is actually a plus for me. Alright, different tastes I guess.
I'd love to see a study with real data on this topic too, but at the the most basic level, with up/down voting you can figure out several metrics:

- quality (or rather, agreeableness): up - down;

- engagement: up + down;

- controversy: min(up, down).

First one is the most common (HN, reddit, ...). Second famously is (was?) one of the core metrics for youtube recommendation algorithm, and also something pretty close to the only metric upvote-only forums end up with (twitter); same goes for forums where "reactions" are intentionally orthogonal/ambivalent/confusing (facebook). Third feels a bit dangerous for direct use, but might be a good signal to flag for a human moderator to review.
You are literally correct, but if I use excess energy in Iceland to create Bitcoin, which I electronically send to Chile to finance a hydroelectric power plant, thus making electricity available in Chile that previously wasn't, how is that not like charging up a battery in Iceland and sending it to Chile?
Could maybe slant it parallel to the house? Towards the photographer in these photos - not directly at either the house or the property line.
>When you feel yourself getting bothered, angry and you have to prove someone wrong on the internet, step away. Or if you are wasting too much time on it. You are taking valuable time from your own projects and quality of life.

Everyone, please do this. Time is basically the only resource you can't get more of.
> Wouldn’t we be giving up an essential lever to adjust to changing economical conditions?

Who’s we? You, I, and most people have zero ability to move those levers. The question is should they have access to those levers and I firmly believe the answer is no. I’d rather have a world with sound money and no one in control than the people who have dominated the west for the last 100+ years.
Exactly. I've got both units running in different locations for different (personal) networks. I'd say the quality of the Protecti unit is a bit higher where as you get a bit more for your money in terms of hardware with the Qotom. I was leery of both at first but so far no problems with either brand.
This is why I weightlift. It's one of the few exercises that doesn't get boring. If it does, add more weight.
Picture is here (from last year): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01585-9

Looks a little like coffee grounds in a grinder, only if you ground charcoal.
Much of the 2007/8 crisis was caused by derivatives and other margined (leveraged) financial contracts between banks and other institutions
meaning there were huge liabilities that were not well understood, or even understandable (no global ledger or database, public or not). When the crisis hit, no one knew how exposed anyone else was and thus nobody wanted to extend credit to anyone else, margin requirements went up, and margin calls got more urgent.

Given time, things were nowhere near as bad as you could have been forgiven for thinking at the height of it. But the risk created by the fact nobody knew that caused the credit “crunch” and liquidity to dry up, and while banks were bailed out and recovered, the downstream impacts were horrendous.

That scenario simply isn’t possible even with the craziest, risky-as-shit defi protocols. You can see how much is at risk in every contract for every address, reports could be built automatically, and the risk is defined by the code, there is no ISDA agreement or OTC contract that might cause someone to come along and say you actually owe a bunch more money than you put at risk, and every cent (or satoshi, or whatever) of collateral is accounted for.

So it’d have helped a lot. Albeit the whole financial system would look quite different to how it does today (that’s the goal!).

Also, although the general principles are good and the primitives are increasingly in place, the protocols (financial products) in defi are mostly still “toys” and not, for the most part, ready to replace the current system. There is no technical reason why they can’t though, and progress in that direction is happening even if a lot of defi doesn’t make it look that way.
Isn't "dopamine addiction" (as well as "dopamine fasting") a scientifically-debunked myth?

Also why would I block a website if reading it is what I enjoy? Won't this just make me less happy?

I personally am blessed to have zero interest in Facebook and Instagram but I procrastinate a huge lot (seemingly way more than I should) by reading HN. But this also is my primary channel through which I get useful knowledge (more than half of which, picked by my attention, is unrelated or loosely related to IT) and most of the idea about what's going on outside of my home and office. Should I block HN?
Thank you. Some perspective is warranted. If society can cope with crack and meth without completely falling apart it can survive Facebook. What I do think is that this is covering up for more fundamental problems, like people being worked to death and have no time to form meaningful bonds with people in healthier ways than Facebook. It's like fast food for the soul. People are not eating Taco Bell rather filet minion because they like Taco Bell better. It's because they don't have any money and need something quick that they can eat in the car on their way to their second job. People are extremely isolated. Social media is the shit alternative to being completely alone.
treat your future self like a friend or client and set him up for the activities and habits you want. in the moment you’ll never make a good decision. but if you make commitments to be more social and active it will take up the time wasted on social media
I'm not strictly in favour of total economic freedom and wasn't the one to bring it up. Namely I am in favour of regulating the physical commons - rights of way, air, water, etc. that we all must physically interact with. I'm against the paternalistic regulation of how free people should peacefully interact with each other, with the view to steer outcomes to some random idea of good.
> I don’t like mailchimp and find the pricing to be atrocious for my purposes (emailing 5k people once or twice a year).

Have you looked at MailerLite[1]?

[1] https://www.mailerlite.com/
I was so hoping to see the Tau'ri symbol.
> the government’s assertion that these powers are rarely used, and only against the “very worst”

To me, this is without exception a gigantic red flag.
no way Argentina wins the World Cup
In a normal phone, you don't need to text anything to get the SMS setup - your SIM card should come with the SMS Center MSISDN baked in.

But Blackberries just don't operate like that. They never did while I was using them (until 2015, IIRC, and I had family using theirs for a few more years, so I know the setup process remained the same).
"""If you want to stop eating sugar, throw it all away, and when you go to the supermarket go when you have just eaten, and avoid buying sugar and sugary products."""

So much easier when you live alone. My spouse buys sugary crap for my kids and then I have to resist all the time. Which I can't. Thus I am overweight.
Nope. Nuclear is very land efficient, and you can build them in the desert far away from civilization, and the new reactors are much safer than the Chernobyl reactors.
Tesla's investor relations department leaks these sandbagged estimates to the press at the end of every quarter so that they can beat them. It's an old game.
> Furthermore, immediately referencing the Bill of Rights to call Twitter's activities "freedom of expression" is wantonly destructive to any sort of discussion.

It's absolutely appropriate to reference the Bill of Rights. As a collection of individuals, Twitter is legally entitled to both freedom of expression and freedom of association. That said, Twitter also has every right to ban Marjorie Taylor Green for breach of contract.

> The scale Twitter operates at is much closer to that of government than that of the People.

I'm sorry, but this argument is objectively false. You cannot compare the power of Twitter to the nearly unfathomable power of the three branches of the US government. Twitter can't levy taxes. Twitter can't declare war. Twitter can't prosecute you and/or put you in jail. Twitter simply doesn't have these powers.
But they aren't using BTC as a replacement for the financial system. Most buyers of BTC are using it much like the Dutch were using tulip bulbs: buy because the price (in real money) is going up. The exceptions are for illegal transactions or to pay off ransomware, and it isn't the best choice to do those either (other coins are better at hiding transactions).
A British friend of mine is fond of saying the US and UK are two civilizations divided by a common language.
I was referring to the Indiana life insurance company’s data, which doesn’t seem to be broken out.
So, by your thinking, anyone who leaves the home to go work in an office regrets having children and regrets living with their spouse. Yes, I agree with you, your lack of understanding is offensive.
PRO TIP: any standalone WFH structure should integrate a Faraday Cage.
The lower right ring seems to go over the intersection of all other rings in the center. Is there a reason for the asymmetric arrangement?
Great catch! I assumed the JIT would identify f32 arithmetic but I guess that isn't really valid numerically. I wonder if there's a way to use Math.fround[1] on your benchmark to get expected speedups?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The problem is that with the current system falling apart that will be it for modern human civilization. I wouldn't be surprised if the technological level fell back a few hundred years.

Our civilization is too interdependent with no place being able to sustain any level of advanced technology on itself. We traded all the resilience we had for "efficiency". Our current system is very brittle and if it fails, it fails globally. Expect hundreds of millions to die if it does.
I use it around once a month. It's often used here to hide the answer to a puzzle or something like that.
Tech has a higher barrier to entry than the comfort elements. If it wants, Tesla can easily have the interior look like the traditional car, but instead it does away with the clutter of cars that came before it. Other carmakers on the other hand have a lot of years to catch up in with the tech, charging network and autopilot/fsd.

I own a 3 LR and a performance Y, and both cars are great to drive. The seats are comfy to me. I do agree Tesla could have used better quality components in the interior for the price of the car but what you are paying for is the tech. Not sure if I would pay more for a better looking interior, and I think that’s the audience Tesla targets.
What's the current percentage of humans who identify first as Earthers? What percentage is the tipping point?
Edit: I don't have direct evidence of saving lives (e.g. somebody bribed a guard with bitcoin in order to escape execution), but it's not hard to argue that these resistance organizations do save lives.

* https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/09/09/belarus-nonprofit...

* https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/10/16/nigerian-banks-shut...

* https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/07/15/russian-activists...

* https://wikileaks.org/
Why do NoSQL databases not support joins?
NoSQL doesn't mean non-relational, it just means the absence of the Structured Query Language. So why isn't there a NoSQL relational database?
You mean like documentation? Or what type of notes are you talking about?
High deductible health plans might as well not exist a lot of the time because people don't use them and don't get preventative care in order to save money short term. Health care is a racket and a joke in the US.

Anyone getting rich in the insurance business or hospital administration, writing overpriced administrative tools or telehealth software, selling overpriced medical equipment, etc. is profiting from death and suffering, and should feel terrible for it every time they cash a check, but the thing is, they don't. There are too many exploiters milking health care due to inelastic demand and the extreme depravity of people eager for money that passes for virtue among the depraved.