skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your thinking here is still focused on symptoms rather than causes.

Most people don't develop debilitating drug addictions without underlying problems. Even most people with drug addictions don't get to a point where they can't hold down a job or have a need to carry out crime to fund it, but of those who do it's worth considering why when e.g. a typical heroin addict can hold down a job and could have funded their addiction for ~$20/day if they had access to clean, medical grade heroin (we know the price, because e.g. the UK NHS buys medical grade heroin for use for post-operative pain management - under the generic name diamorphine).

So there's a long path there from failure to address mental health issues and other social problems, via failure to provide safe, clean supplies and early intervention for those who still get addicted to drugs, failure to regulate healthcare properly (e.g. the prescription oxy -> black market oxy -> heroin recruitment path), and failure to ensure availability of jobs, and lacking welfare options, before worrying about treatment and emergency housing is even in the picture.

Start addressing root causes and a lot of the problems later in that chain would either go away or at least be substantially diminished.
Maybe for simple things.
Have you ever tried to plaster a wall or ceiling? You can watch 100 videos of how its done, if you don't have the motor skills and muscle memories it's not so easy.
And even 'simple' DIY might be doable for a sample of the population but there are also people who struggle with putting together flat pack furniture. Are they going to be brazing their plumbing after watching a youtube video?
Interesting. I'm not aware of any other lazy dynamic languages. I would assume it is difficult to optimise such a combination.
Secret audio sheds light on toppled dictator’s frantic last hours
The containers don't have big signs telling them which ones to steal for the food and which ones to ignore because they only contain TVs and covid tests.

If you are desperate, you steal anything and try to sell it to buy food and hygiene products.
Sounds interesting, but I hope there is a light mode too. Dark mode isn't readable for some people.[1]

[1] https://www.boia.org/blog/dark-mode-can-improve-text-readabi...
I do it only if I really have to, so every few years. When I was young I spent weeks compiling my custom linux kernel for my slackware installation, I really enjoyed it, but now I'm 38, full time job, house and family, I don't have time anymore for this.
Interesting post, but the premise is misleading. The title says "Best ... strategy" and the first sentence reads "This post will derive an optimal ... strategy", but there is nothing to suggest that this strategy is optimal.

One strategy which is obviously optimal is to use minimax (recursively, not like Knuth's Mastermind strategy which was mentioned by @christiangenco), however this strategy is not computationally feasible.

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Aside: There is something broken with this site's history manipulation. When I open the blog post it creates two entries in the history list, and clicking the browser's back button takes me to a page with the same URL as the blog post that displays "Error Page Not Found".
> When risking getting caught stealing is more attractive than working then it's safe to say the working opportunities for those people aren't worth almost anything.

That assumes thieves are rational actors capable of assessing risks at least somewhat accurately. Often times (the vast majority of times, even) they are not.

It's also worth bringing up that certain American subcultures glorify criminals. The criminal lifestyle is seen as glamorous by a large number of people, while honest labor is just dull, whether it pays enough or not.
I don't think that expecting prospective developers to spend lots of unpaid time on a skill that's ultimately not going to be useful to the vast majority of them should be normalized.

Do you expect medical doctors to do an unpaid "trial" surgery as part of their interview? Do you expect lawyers to litigate a case for free before they'll be considered for a job?

As far as I know software engineering is the only field where in addition to experience & education you have to waste time gaming the interview process. Every other field seems to get away just fine hiring based on experience and/or education.
As you say, we now know that each standard L-function satisfies a subconvex estimate as its argument varies. This falls short of "solving the subconvexity problem" in two respects.

The first, pointed out already by gavagai691, is that it is not known that "every L-function" is "standard" (this is a major open problem in the Langlands program).

The second is that the general "subconvexity problem" asks for a nontrivial estimate not only for each fixed L-function as its argument varies, but more generally as the L-function itself varies. The general case of the problem remains open.
That varies depending on where you're coming from and where have you been recently (and it changes based on how the situation evolves per country). I'm triple vaccinated and i still need a negative PCR to return to France from abroad.

It's entirely possible a negative PCR will be required for him.

Edit: i checked, and Serbia is in the "orange" zone for France, for which a negative PCR is required regardless of vaccination status:

https://rs.ambafrance.org/COVID-19-dernieres-informations-et...

https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/conseils-aux-voyageurs/inf...
Yes, adapted by me from memory for HN readers, probably missing/changing lots of details.

https://mrakopedia.net/wiki/Окна_домов

Translate link:

https://mrakopedia-net.translate.goog/wiki/Окна_домов?_x_tr_...
Emacs Notebook
Ask HN: Help Identifying Geometry Book
Hi HN,

Years ago I came across, on this site, a math book by a Russian author that's just a carefully arranged sequence of geometry problems. Moreover, each problem is solely a picture with nary a word on the page. As I recall, the reader has to use previous results to solve subsequent problems.

I can no longer find it in my bookmarks and I've searched online in vain. I no longer remember the title or author. Would someone on this site know the book I'm thinking of?

Thanks
Sanjay
This article makes some very good points, all of which are ultimately false.

To make a medical analogy, I don't know that I would trust a surgeon with a billion operations record and a 50% complication rate more than one with a 1000 operation record and 1% complication rate.

And I certainly would hate to be the colleague inheriting their patient.
Or you could consider that if camping in "posh downtown parks" being legal was enough to make that better than the life they already had, perhaps that is a clue to social problems that you just didn't see before because it just wasn't out on the streets in front of your eyes.
You have a mental energy budget. We all know you can't effectively code 16 hours a day, coding takes up a lot of mental budget. Similarly "good" hobbies takes up a lot of mental budget. If you spend that at work your hobbies will be boring, if you spend that on your hobbies your work will suffer. Some people have more budget, some people make choices at work where they get tasks with lower mental budget ie the "9-5" people, while others spend it all on work and look for hobbies requiring little mental budget.
Kirby’s Adventure – Nintendo Developer Interview (1993)
Was Microraptor Glider: Techno-Sorcery
https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/commit/4d436...
I forgot to add that they also added baffles to prevent pogoing, a technique that persisted at least into the Saturn V engines.
It might. However, since there's no record of AI solving big, open conjectures such as the Riemann Hypothesis, I find this quite unlikely.
(153,057 active HN users * 12.6 events per million)/1,000,000 = 1.4*10^-8

This leads to a P value of approximately 0.0014, which is well below the 5% threshold.

This is a very crude calculation, but it does give an idea of what we can expect. Given the small P value, there’s a good chance that the HN community has experienced a similar event to the one described in the article.
If you have a driver's license, doing a one-way rental from one of the offices a the airport and dropping it off near your destination may be your best bet if you don't have anyone to pick you up. The big ones like Hertz have offices for drop-off even in the sticks. Just make sure to reserve it ahead of time so you know they'll be available when you arrive.
Unhealthy diets affect only the people who follow them, not their peers. Smoking is different because passive smoking does affect others - that's why there have been government interventions (higher taxation, public campaigns) to reduce smoking in many countries in the last decades.

Your argument is besides the point anyway: just because there are other factors in life that can make you sick, that does not mean that we should not fight COVID.
(answering myself)

Nope, they don't. They just need to keep a list of free indices when the cache is not full. Upon eviction you reuse the deleted element's index.

This way, you store about O(capacity)*32bits for index in the worst case and save 32bits on left, right and the map pointers so your worst case space complexity is down by O(capacity).

I still expect that the saving from cache friendliness with preallocation will be the most significant.

Very thoughtful optimization. I'm usually guilty of just caring about Big O, usually just the time complexity.
My professor made fun of this article in yesterday's lecture. Nice to see it discussed here, too.

The article does make a few solid points, but the conclusion isn't supported. Even automated Deep Learning based science draws from theories. The data, the underlying statistics, the model, and how we interpret the results are all theory-driven.

We are not entering a new, objective era of science. We are merely chosing to ignore the theory and hiding behind a curtain of statistics.
The article doesn't mention population changes either.

A significant part of the recent downward trend could be because there are fewer college age people in the population. Just eyeballing it looks like fewer 18 year olds every year for the last 15 to 30 years? [1]

A more interesting statistic might be students per capita within the college age bracket.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
> Are you a 10 year old American from the Cold War?

No, I'm from a former communist country, we developed antibodies to "higher causes" rhetorics.
Google’s first hire (Craig Silverstein) was an International Collegiate Programming Contest champion. Make of that what you will.
This said - that there are some risks, one must remember that these risks exists for flu as well. There is definitely risks of long term organ damage, death, or long term symptoms from flu. So when someone asks "is this worse than the flu?", one shouldn't immediate think the question is "is this something that isn't dangerous and everyone recovers without long term damage from?".

Flu can be nasty. So can several other respiratory diseases like RS. If covid fatality rate is cut to 1/10 (which optimistic reports are indicating) then one can absolutely start comparing it to the flu. But the thing is: the flu simply doesn't infect such a large part of a population at once. It's not a threat to the function of society. That's what we should be afraid of now.

If this was a flu pandemic with a virus that had this infectivity, I think the situation and response around the world would be exactly the same.
> … valof clauses (basically where clauses)

I so wish Python had valof/where already. And it’s the one feature I was surprised not to find in OCaml after seeing it in Haskell – why isn’t it more common?
By your logic... I know personaly two people dead two weeks after vax and one paralyzed on half body week after vax. Schould I consider Djokovic as hero?
From memory, "I don't recall" - it was 50yrs ago :-) Though wolfram alpha tells me "nope,it ain't"

Though I do have some recollection of hitting account limits on compute time on the CDC machine. My dad never mentioned any overages though. He was working in CDC assembler building a simulator for something with the odd name (at the time) of a "microcontroller". It was a profs project that needed an emulator so that was his term project.
Technobabble
I think putting people away for a longer time doesn't help much. You need to focus on probability of being caught (by which I mean at least arrested, not chased away).
Sry, the space complexity isn't improved, you save capacity322 bits though.
Atlassian ending development of new features in “Server” products
The complicated research behind pedophilia
Our SaaS landed 20 B2B partnerships with cold email
It's not completely irrelevant. The US has to cooperate with whichever country Kim/Julian/etc resides in. That country can totally reject the extradition request.
You can also just delete your Twitter, and Google accounts, and change your Reddit password to something you don't know.

It makes these services more valuable when you are accessible on them. Don't donate time, content, attention, or even namespace to censorship platforms.
At the same time there’s a massive infoleak from the polish army.
Thank you, I will definitely check it out
Given the multiple 'X lives matter' references I think this response is probably more loaded than the question could ever have been.

The thing with COVID is that it's a contagious and deadly disease. The thing with smoking, fizzy drinks and junk food is that they're not contagious and deadly diseases, they're lifestyle choices.

You can't compare them like-for-like.
Probably not, the point was that being in Rust wasn't either.
Let me introduce you to 12" hydraulic bolt cutters. They cut through the toughest bike U-locks. No lock survives them. If the lock is stronger, there are stronger hydraulic cutters. Containers tend to be protected by puck-style locks. There are specialized hydraulic tools for defeating those also. There are also, of course, blowtorches.

The only solution is armed escort for trains through slow zones.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29921505.
So where are their Raspberry Pi like boards being adopted like crazy by the Maker community?
I like the idea, on the other hand I wish Pop!_OS would stop changing the UI with each version release, especially when version are supported for a short time. I don't know how I'm supposed to get comfortable and productive with an OS that changes every year.
Sorry, but that's not true. A concerning number of users don't know the concept of a file at all.

We're losing the battle for general computing, or may have lost already.
So, which country data do you want to use?

Usa, 480k smoking deaths yearly - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast... , still more than covid deaths there.

And not to mention counting the iffy counting of covid deaths (any death, even suicide within 28 days is a covid death) and covid hospitalizations ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/26/exclusive-half-c... ).

Let's be honest here... covid is really bad for old and already ill people. For young and currently healthy, the impacts of lockdowns will be worse than covid, especially for younger children (imagine just going to first grade, unable to rad and write yet, and you're put infront of a laptop with Zoom running, no real-life contact with friends, parents having to quit their jobs to take care of you, and all that to "save grandma", even with vaccines already available).
>Had the test been done in a big round loop, current wouldn't start flowing at the far end immediately. Otherwise you'd have made faster than light communications.

Yes, this is obviously the case. But it's also not the setup that was being tested.

(Apparently he's editing a part2 which contains many weird & wonderful topological arrangements.)

Honestly though, I'm not sure what your problem is here. His results match very closely what you'd expect theoretically given the experimental setup. Not only that, if you model the setup in software using a suitable electromagnetic modelling code (there are videos on YouTube of people doing this) you get exactly the same result. Common mode noise on both sides is an irrelevance - you can just subtract it away without loss of generality.
Ukrainian! All your personal data has been uploaded onto the public internet
Music piracy isa solved issue. But those people who's job was to fight music piracy need to justify their salaries, departments and budgets.
Emulating the Sega Genesis – Part I
> When risking getting caught stealing is more attractive than working then it's safe to say the working opportunities for those people aren't worth almost anything.

Except when these thefts are de-facto decriminalized in Califronia, and police is either defunded or directed not to fight these crimes, the "risk of getting caught" is effectively zero.

That means that unless you start handing out iPhones for free in local malls, the thefts will continue.

Let's stop pretending these thieves are "starving". Starving people don't pull up to a Gucci or Louis Vuitton in a Porsche and casually steal a luxury handbag for their girlfriend.

If all work is slavery to you, how about the people who produced all these iPhones and LV bags?

We're dealing here with people who are happy to steal the products of other people's work, instead of doing any work themselves.
Doesn't mention the benefits of attrition. A network can be robust since none of the pieces leaves, but what is even more robust is a network that constantly renews itself and gracefully handles the process of swapping out parts. Constant attrition means that your company never starts relying on individuals, instead the process survives and thrives on its own, hiring new people who then hire new people before they leave etc. Such a process isn't very attractive to individuals, of course, but they are very attractive to the owners.
Two years, 16+mio deaths. Total covid deaths, a bit over 5 mio.

I don't get it. You're arguing against government interventions because of relatively low fatality numbers. Yet, the fact that these numbers are not higher is a direct outcome of the world-wide vaccination campaigns. Don't you think you got it backwards?
I think Amber Heard smuggled the dogs and not Johnny Depp. My understanding was that he was already in the country filming a movie. I think she is even being investigated about to again in Australia?
That's real noble, but the issue I'm on about isn't the price, that's its own can of worms and something for you lot to deal with in the US.

Disruption to medicine supply is my concern here, having had supply issues affect a family member where they've had to ration out heart related medication... I'm a little tetchy about it.
I love some of the Mac only apps, but it's undeniable that this 2010-like dream of building a native Apple software and the monetization model (selling it on the App Store) is almost entirely gone. I honestly think this was a first-movers pipe dream. Once the competition caught up and the industry matured, interoperability was going to dominate all other arguments.

Today we live in an entirely different world, and the big corps are still funneling money into keeping these ecosystems alive (heck, there's no other way). Yet, no developer want to learn 6 stacks, not even the big corps do this for their own apps for gods sake.

I will bet my left thumb that eventually GUIs will be predominantly made with web technologies, will run on all platforms, and will have native proprietary extensions. The web today even has a path to become language agnostic with wasm.
Broken families, abusive childhood environments, terrible influences and friends are among some of those root causes. Check out interviews with Skid Row residents on Youtube if you want to get a good taste of the diversity of reasons for why people end up in those situations. It will be really hard to break the cycle in the US without forcibly separating many, many children from their parents and letting the government raise them in more functioning environments.
I see, but it's hard not to see a pandemic as a legitimate emergency and "higher causes"-invoking situation. It's not just a leader inventing a paper foreign subversive enemy out to get us, it's actually a thing which isn't hard to see and comprehend for oneself. I don't think any country's experience under communism is in any way applicable to the current situation.
It implies vaccines could cause auto-immune diseases. There was a paper with many case studies of this happening in real world patients discussed here a few days ago, so it's not theoretical.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872308
So he took the risk of myocarditis from Covid-19, over the risk of myocarditis from vaccine once already. That was a poor choice.

He still faces the same risk in the future. He still has the same choice.
It doesn't change because you are a healthy young person. The risk of this complication is higher from the disease than the vaccine in every group, (the male under 40 doesn't really make a big difference - there you have about a breakeven risk)
LunarVim 1.0: An IDE layer for Neovim with sane defaults
> No, the truth is that nobody would care about you or me doing this stuff.

Rules that are applied hit and miss is not the same as no rules. If the arrest rate for burglaries is 20%, does that mean that burglaries should be not a crime? Of course not.

The truth is that nobody would care about you or me being arrested for doing this stuff, or less, and languishing in border detention for months or years.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/01/time-...

The famous get more scrutiny? Well yes, "more scrutiny" is a working definition of "famous".
It's not like software development is cheap... They're hiring Rust devs to create a DE instead of working on what their actual business model is: hardware.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your experience.
That still has an elevated risk. And he already had covid. What is the justification for asking him to take the risk again?
USA excess deaths are over 1M so it’s still greater than smoke deaths.

646k is for the first year:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w29503

646k > 480k if I’m not mistaken.
Is there a formal distinction between lobbying and this activity?

The article is also fuzzy about the reasons why this is presumed illegal:

> Gardiner also employed a son of Lee’s as a diary manager. He said the son had resigned after MI5’s disclosure. “The security services have advised me that they have no intelligence that shows he was aware of, or complicit in, his mother’s illegal activity,” Gardiner said.

> The government is planning to bring in a new espionage legislation to update the Official Secrets Acts. Dr Alan Mendoza, the executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, said the Lee case demonstrated that the bill should be brought forward urgently and “that Britain’s arcane espionage laws require urgent updating”.
I've done the latter, in JDBC and I built the (?,?,...) part programmatically. However you have to be aware how many ?s are elsewhere in the PreparedStatement such that filling the query with the array contents works correctly. It'd be a much better design decision if JDBC actually supported named parameters (as JPQL does).
Is crime rate proportional to inequality or poverty?
It used to be 500 viewers. This change happened because streamers lobbied the government to enact change. Now it's just a higher number. The point of this example is to show what kind of a country it is and what the population of the country seems to think is okay. Digital business is something they seem to want to hinder.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann

https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemDesignInterview

https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-...