skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok,

Weather ?

Say it's raining, this makes riding a bike much more dangerous. Or even just heat, if it's over 90 F out biking is going to be rough.

American cities are spread out to the point you may need to drive 5 miles to buy some oat meal. Fix that first, I'd vastly prefer smaller cities.
In this case they are treating the company as adversarial. Part of the process is to feign weakness and to appear sympathetic to outsiders. They know that the company cannot do anything when such accusations are thrown out.
OCaml was single threaded until this or what is this exactly? There is no description of what the PR does which is pretty bad form.
I see that as a separate text editor and pdf viewer but I guess it blurs the lines a bit.
I wish we didn't need that disclaimer. This is not how science or the scientific method is supposed to work. You shouldn't need an entire paragraph apologizing about your findings so that armchair warriors and tech companies don't censor you.

It's honestly quite disturbing that this kind of upfront apologizing is needed.
With MSDN docs the older the doc the better it is. Pick something from the early days of win32 and it is a 10 page doc, very well done. Pick something they made up last month and you usually get very basic things. It has been that way for a long time. I remember the orig .NET docs were terrible to use. They have improved decently over the years. I can not prove it but I suspect the docs are only improved when a support case necessitates it.
I can't wait to see what the first virtuoso thoight-controlling person does. Will they be a musician? A plumber? A soldier?

Uh, actually if they're a soldier I'm happy to wait.
Bike theft. When I lived in Bologna it was so rampant that there was a place where you could assemble a bike for free out of the parts left by thieves, picked up by the cleaning services.

Then again Bologna isn't particularly large. I never had a need to cycle there. I would either walk or drive and occasionally use public transport.
Exactly, more specifically Blåbjerg is one of the landing points of TAT-14 as well as Havfrue/AEC-2.
You are describing privilege, although it's a bit of a tainted word now.
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"Protectorate" has a very specific definition and Denmark is most certainly not one.
Some of us have seen the exorbitant damage bad unions can cause, for example ILWU destroying Portland, OR’s container shipping industry in a bid to steal two jobs from another union. https://www.universalcargo.com/jury-hits-ilwu-with-93m-verdi... (less industry-oriented source: https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/11/29/longshore-union-faces-...)

See also: public sector unions.
North West Leicstershire council tax for band D is £1,886.88 including police, fire, and the two-layer system (plus parish/town precept)

Rutland is £2,143.75 (plus parish/town)

That's £20 a month extra.
Altruistic expectations, no.

But I seem to recall a time (up until perhaps 15 years ago) when Google would not have been expected to engage in such blatantly Machiavellian tactics as placing fake op-eds.

Nowadays though, I don't put anything past Google.
People who would not really know a laser would have such a long range. I guess people just do this because they don't know it's dangerous.

I admit doing it once when I was a kid, but for like 10 seconds, but you never really know if you are pointing exactly at the aircraft, since it's very far away. I learned years ago that I did something illegal...

Of course, people who got caught are pointing those lasers long enough for those camera to spot them.

I guess that a loooot of people try this, but don't do it long enough, so they never get caught, and also since most aircrafts have no way to find who did it.
> The cause of Bufferbloat was that previously, congestion control relied on packet loss, which was a signal that the buffer is full.

I couldn't understand "congestion control relied on packet loss"? could somebody explain? Thanks!

does it mean "congestion control is triggered by the packet loss event, which is a signal for buffer being full"?
I think the entire point of the article is dual license FOSS and some other commercial license.
Interesting, that's my memory too, but a quick test reveals it to be 60 now. It's even documented: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/referen...

Wonder if they changed it at some point, or if I'm just misremembering.
Extremely boring fact check: Rutland is not "the UK's smallest county" - it is England's smallest county, once again English organisations find it hard to tell the difference between England and the UK.

Clackmannanshire (159 km2) is significantly smaller than Rutland (382 km2).
I got the sense that the author doesn’t have a good grasp on engineering nor on business.
Counterexample: the struct in the article. It's "large enough that you care about shaving padding" in aggregate. The 2 optimal arrangements eliminate padding so it uses 1/16th of an x86-64 cache line. This guarantees the whole struct is on one cache line and uses the least total cache, so the 2 arrangements with padding are strictly worse, regardless of which fields are hot or cold.

A struct of arrays form may be better still, but that's more than rearranging fields and beyond the compiler to produce.

More generally, there are surely cases where it's better to arrange all the hot fields together at the expense of increasing the struct size, but I'm unsure it's the common case, and my bullshit alarm fires when people say so without evidence. (Even more so if they're also saying programmers are commonly arranging the fields optimally by hand.)
Of course the regulators themselves also need to be regulated and held accountable. It's either that or prevent all concentrations of power, including corporations.
This is exactly right. The disparity in the level of healthcare that you would get in an Indian state like Bihar vs that in a state like Kerala is similar to the difference you'd expect between Sub-Saharan Africa and a second world Eastern European country.
Many CPUs have USB support. Pin count also doesn't correlate to latency, what matters is the minimum buffer size and transfer speed.

USB can beat PS/2 for latency without issue.
Yeah, using blinding weapons on planes in a war scenario isn't very viable, treaty or not. Arguably blinding weapons could be helpful against infantry or armor, but not really against aircraft. If you're close enough to be able to shine a laser at an aircraft you're also more than close enough to fire a missile at it. Far more likely to have lethal effects, better range, plus you don't have to worry about your weapon being defeated by fog (to a degree if you're using IR-guided missiles). This is really limited to these "gray zone" conflicts in a non-wartime environment, and possibly when waging guerrilla warfare.
I now have to effectively maintain two machines

In a VDI infrastructure, your physical desktop should be either literally or effectively a dump terminal that gives you access to your virtual desktop. Why would you be using both?

The server isn't even notably faster than my MacBook

That isn't the benefit. The benefit is having a desktop you can access from anywhere with Internet access regardless of what physical client you have access to. Another benefit is that everything is centrally backed up including a full-fidelity copy of your workstation. Another benefit is that it is lower cost than distributing high-end desktops/laptops to users.
I've got an anti-histamine for that
> They funded me at the start a lump sum

Sounds like they paid you to build this app. It doesn't sound like you're a co-founder of a company to me.
> trillion dollar company with some/many employees delivering quite a bit more value than they are paid

Companies structurally and intentionally pay the average employee less than that employee generates in value. (If they paid more on average, they'd obviously either decide to never start or would go bankrupt. If they paid people working equal to their contributions on average, they'd show no profit and would have no reserves to cover for employees who are out on paid leaves that society or the employees want companies to cover the costs of.)

The underpayment relative to value delivered is a necessary condition (at least in my opinion, by simple math above). If you want to capture all the net value you create, you should work for yourself. For many (including me), I'd rather trade away some of the upside in exchange for a much lower stress existence.
TBF the new biking lane in Viale Monza sucks big time.

Also: you can make how many bike lanes you want, they will never make biking in the cold comfortable, especially for people that are not used to it.

A lot of people living in Milan come from warmer weathers.

So the main users of bike paths are riders delivering food with their e-bikes and/or tier scooters.

EDIT: I've been living in Milan for 8 years, i live where the new bike lane is, it's 100% a design by committee [1], that it's so bad that sometimes it runs on the right of public transports, so when the bus has to stop, the bikes run into the people getting off, some other times it runs on the left of the bus stop, so when the bus has to stop it needs to cross over the bike lane, which is as dangerous as you might think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee
I don’t think this kind of analysis is ever productive. Have you considered the possibility that they’ve been convinced not by subconscious machinations but by arguments they believe are valid? If someone went around saying that your beliefs come from subconscious influence operations, is there any way you could prove them wrong?
Blockchain was intended to solve the “double-spend problem”. It is however the most brute-force way to do it, making everyone store everything.

Blockchain always uses the maximum amount to secure every transaction — like using an armored truck and a convoy to transport $0.25. So it can’t support micropayments or even mainstream payment systems.

You can shard Ethereum by smart contract, for instance, but then when the Total Value Locked in that contract exceeds the cost of a sustained 51% attack, there are incentives to destroy confidence in the chain and take the money. (So the theory goes.)

https://community.intercoin.org/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...
Fisher Information is under the "Kindergarten" section?

Maybe I've just been interviewing at the wrong places, I'd be very curious if anyone here has been asked to even explain Fisher information in any DS interview?

It's not that Fisher information is a particularly tricky topic, but I certainly wouldn't put it as a "must know" for even the most junior of data scientists. Not that I wouldn't mind living in a world where this was the case... just not sure I live in the same world as the authors.
The only barbaric thing about it imho is the scale and way we do it, not the process of eating meat in itself. There is a big difference between eating 300gr of cheap meat from a shady slaughterhouse every day vs once in a week piece of meat hunted by a local friend.

But that's capitalism for you, we basically have meat factories now, we have to make it cheap and in mass quantities no matter the "moral" aspect of it
You think Google’s internal plan (with vague details in the article), which was entirely internal to the company, convinced most HN commenters of a specific political position?
The question now is mostly “why, why do you need to add a blockchain” and I think that in a lot of spaces these things will pop up just because of the transient trend.

But that actually solves the short term problem of “where is the infra?” and it’s not impossible that in a few spaces, this will actually survive.

Remember how everyone and their mother had to launch “cloud” services 10 years ago, and in 9 out of 10 instances it added no value. Some of those are still things despite never actually being necessary.
> - Better end of life care. I think something around 40% of healthcare expenditure is on patients in the last 2 years of life. Patients and families would benefit from earlier access to hospice care and less aggressive therapies that only prolong suffering.

I feel like the choice has to be removed from families as our current system has proven that life will be extended regardless of quality simply due to the fact nobody wants to make a difficult choice. As the only quantitative item on the list and a very substantial one this should be ranked much higher in terms of priority (not sure if list was unordered or not).
> companies don't like unions and do what they can to discourage unionization

Are you sure? All of the big tech companies are entering one of the most union-entrenched industries in the US: media.
Null and void. All my NFTs on Nifty Gateway are now ‘null and void’. Here’s why
> the crap that some light shows get away with is criminal

Seconded.

Telecoms laser engineer here, and amateur musician. I'm astounded how casually class 3B and class 4 lasers are treated in the entertainment industry, or that using them in free space with poor travel limit stops / beam containment is even legal..... Often it appears little-to-no consideration is given as to what happens if a beam becomes misaligned or reflected into the audience.

You only have one set of eyes.
I was referring to the assertion that "most people [cannot] ride a bicycle." Nobody, overweight or not, is going to bike 4 hours a day to get to and from work, that's outside the scope of what we were discussing.
and, as many people pointed out, the actual domain concept is in Mandarin, and a single word.

So a perfect example of the word "Or" that does not denote a logical disjunction but a translation-artifact. I thought it was obvious that it is not literally implied the letters O and R are never allowed after each-other in code. I mean: obviously having a class named OrGate in an electronics simulation is fine. As is OrParty in a system modeling Israelian politics.

This is about the word Or denoting that your class, value, type, variable, model etc, is One Or The Other.
Interfaces are contracts between people
I was trying to say that the investor doesn't need to understand the technology that they invest in, which is pretty common. Your post hinged on this point and I wanted to offer a contrasting view.
I believe the less scary race in Java implies a lower performance upper bound. Does the nicer guarantees in multicore OCaml have the same drawback? I.e. even less than Java?
I was thinking of something like an ONNX file or something that can easily slot into different runtimes.

Makes sense that this would be less beginner friendly so maybe you're correct that this is a P2 feature.

I guess I was thinking more in terms of pricing models and scaling up a service which is obviously a complicated decision for a startup so I'm not really sure what makes sense here.
My rationale for wanting to buy/rent the model is that as a service scales it becomes increasingly important to own the model and the hosting. One of my concerns with building on top of a service like this is that it will potentially reach a chokepoint in the future.
In general training a model is expensive and unique but hosting it is a commodity service. This will incentivize customers to use the service when they are small and then drop it when they grow to a certain size which is not necessarily ideal for either party.
And probably "via a female parent" as your father's sister's daughter isn't through your female parent.
> instead of letting them die in a place where they can't even get a COVID test done.

I find it hard to believe that they are unable to get tests. During the peaks, it may have been true. Outside of that, there was no shortage. And we don't even need to go to hospitals for covid tests, there are plenty of independent labs. So, if their parents don't trust hospitals, they can go to those testing centers instead. Many in my family did that, that too 2-3 times (since they have to show negative RT PCR result for travel).
Downvoted, but can anyone explain how it's impossible if the base is quadrilateral? [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/C3tDi50
As a user, I feel pain when I use something free that seems like it should work, and I invest a lot of my time in making it work, and then I run into a bug, and report it, and the bug isn't fixed because there's no investment in it. I know it's my own fault for trying to use something without paying for support. But I get upset anyway, probably because I wasted my own time, and believed the unconscious lie that I told myself that using this thing [without support] was a good idea. (And even paying for support isn't a guarantee a bug will be fixed!)

I develop open source projects too, so I'm intimately familiar with both sides. It's a bizarre feeling when I realize I am acting (as a user) the same way other users act towards me (as a maintainer). I think being a maintainer is a healthy reminder that I should lower my expectations as a user of free stuff.

The reason I create open source stuff is there was a problem I wanted to solve, and I want to share my solution with others so they don't struggle with the same problems. I try hard to make it easy for people to use my solution, and I hate the feeling that someone might be inconvenienced by using it. I really do want to fix all reported bugs. But at the end of the day I have a life (and a job) that gets in the way. I feel bad about any bugs, but I don't feel bad about taking a long time to fix them, because my quality of life is more important.
Ish. OCaml didn't have any constructs in the language itself for parallelism. You could fork processes and things and libraries did/do exist to write parallel code in OCaml.
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> Say it's raining, this makes riding a bike much more dangerous.

Wait what, why? Because I'm going to get a bit wet? The rain is no more a threat to a cyclist's safety than it is to a car on a wet day. You just might need to wear a rain jacket, too.

The Dutch certainly don't give a shit about rain, snow or shine, as the saying goes "there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes."
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Is it not? If you buy an ugly ape, does the creator actually transfer copyright? If not, you literally don’t own anything more than a piece of metadata. You don’t own the url (because the person who owns the domain does). You don’t own the jpeg (because that’s a nonsense notion). You don’t own the copyright. You literally just own a bit of metadata that references a url.
The author's point was that "inherent" advantages and third-party support are more to luck than to any intrinsic value a person brings to the table.

Having conversations on a website is a choice. Interest in tech is probably a blend of luck and choice (hard to be interested in something you're never exposed to, and hard to sustain interest in an environment where people consistently discourage it; people ending up in those situations are the "roll of the dice" the author is referring to).

In short, justifying a lack of empathy with "they made their choices" underestimates the amount people do not choose their circumstances in life.
Because IPFS is decentralised permanent storage. Blockchain handles ownership, IPFS handles metadata, visual assets, etc. It's kinda how things work in real world with real estate, for example. There is a registry and there is physical property. Same here.
Have the roads been taken back though? Segregated trickle-lanes have been taken, but in the process the roads themselves have become effectively limited access down to tertiary level. I'm not saying that the Dutch method is bad, the results speak a very different language, but "taken back" is not what happened.
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"I'll recommend they fork the project"

This is really the right answer a lot of the time. The first few times I submitted a PR and got rejected or ignored, I took it personally. Then a maintainer explained it to me (ran into him at an in-person meetup), and it was very similar to Jeff's explanation here. Also, what makes it really hard for maintainers is that a lot of the requests they get are from people who don't have the ability or desire to fork the project (and even less ability/desire to maintain the fork).
I wouldn't even call it "low in communicativeness".

Because if you ask a question that can be answered in one word, but are expecting more for whatever reasons, that's your own damn fault.

It's like greeting people with "How are you doing?" It's not a real question. No one wants a comprehensive answer to that. So if you actually answer that question, people are going to get annoyed with you.

This style of communication is infuriating to some of those on the spectrum because it involves navigating a byzantine set of rules that are never defined and ever shifting.

Communication should be clear, concise, and honest if you want it to be effective. Don't make the other side work to understand you. If you want to know something, ask for that information. Don't ask a vaguely related question and hope the other side volunteers the information. Because it's just like the "How are you doing?" greeting. Except, we're not supposed to volunteer information there. And sometimes we're not even supposed to volunteer information in those other situations. So when do you expound? You're stuck in a position of trying to read the other person's mind trying to figure out if they really want to know something. It's tiring and infuriating.
I mixed up right and left.
Are they happier at Tesla? Because I hear it is pretty terrible place to work as a software engineer.
> For them to hire a lawyer to determine this

They don't need to hire a lawyer to determine it, the junior paralegal in the in-house counsel’s office with a checklist will do just fine, since all the information needed to make the determination will be on the papers they are served with.

> If the initial action costs nothing, you have nothing to lose

Not at all true; one of the other standard techniques for getting things out of small claims court is for the defendant to find anything about the interaction in question that they could countersue for that would raise the amount in controversy above the small claims limit (since the requirement for linked counterclaims to be handled in the same case and the small claims limit interact to requiring moving the case when this happens), even if it is something that they wouldn't sue over otherwise.
Hence why developers always recommend to use immutable sources when importing modules
Nothing you're saying disagrees with the posted Twitter thread. Without the IRL arcade prize counter agreeing to turn ownership of a token into a tangible privilege the NFT is worthless. And if you already have the prize counter then you don't really need the NFT since you have a central trusted authority. You could maybe argue that using an NFT is easier than minting your own system for arcade coins but binding goods to and transferring them between "accounts" (which you have to have already to access your goods) has worked for decades. The auction house in WoW, and the Steam marketplace has been doing digital marketplaces long enough to prove it works just fine.

> Why do so many here seem to be so proud of their lack of understanding of the value of NFTs?

I think most people are proud of their very concrete understanding of the value of NFTs -- which is zero to anyone not trying to make money on them.
[2] says:

> illicit transactions making up less than 0.5% of Bitcoin’s yearly volume in 2020

No adding required.

[1] throws a lot of numbers including/excluding different categories of drugs/etc. You can squabble about 7% or 12%, but the point is it's an order of magnitude higher than 0.5%.
That's what would happen theoretically.

In the real world what will happen is the malbehaving dominant party will capture the market by any means available to them. In thoroughly corrupt countries they will bribe legislators, in less corrupt countries they donate to the legislators' election campaigns.
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