skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Helm-bibtex: Search and manage bibliographies in Emacs
I believe they were removed from the "valid guesses" dictionary and not the "answers" dictionary.
If you don't believe black holes exist, you need to believe in a theory of physics that explains why they won't form. What is that theory?
The CSIRO decision to deinvest was pathetically short-sighted and stupid.
There's also Planner[0] if you're on Linux, a FOSS Things clone that actually gets a lot of stuff right for being free software. Just be sure to compile it yourself if you intend on using it, the current distribution method has been... rather disastrous[1].

[0] https://github.com/alainm23/planner

[1] https://twitter.com/planner_todo/status/1492084099875586049
It absolutely is not misogynistic to point out that many women love to hear that sort of stuff, it's simple fact.

And no high-earning, rational male in a STEM career would ever want to be with a partner that values that sort of conversation.
Oh I see. Yeah I think it depends on which bank youre working with. They may have their own policy!

We have an insurance guarantee :)
She seemed to make just one criticism in the full piece: no solutions were provided for practice problems. If that’s the only issue, pick up the relevant Schaums outline.
Doom[0] (and Spacemacs probably too) supports lsp-mode quite well and it mostly works out of the box - for some languages more than others. As someone who only recently started using emacs it's been a great experience.

[0] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
> I keep hoping to find something under a rock that really wows me

Send me an email at Paul at dokkument.com and that's exactly what we are working on. Yeah unforturnely you will not see anything interesting on our landing page
> We got way more men than we do women in this world under age 35

I don't think this is true. I think population evens out at about age 18 then it's more women until death.
Because in the past the scientist's career wasn't contingent on getting on the author list.
Nothing C does is even remotely special anymore. If anything it's total crap by modern standards because it makes performant abstractions harder. C code uses a lot of linked lists because linked lists are easy.

C isn't the Lingua Franca of fast software anymore. The reason why C programs can sometimes be faster, today, however is not an intrinsic property of the language but rather its inability to allow incompetent programmers to hide their bad data structures.

C also encourages programming styles that are harder to optimize so some loop optimizations are no longer possible.
Your comment manages to be innacurate and terribly unhelpful at the same time. Good job!
Changing yourself so fundamentally to find a woman is the dumbest thing.
> Yeah well, or the opposite.

No it isn't the opposite. Again the last 2 years has shown me by how government and media have responded to recent events proves it. I have seen rioters burn down a cities in the US and call them "peaceful protests" while other normal people just simply protesting in Europe and Australia because they literally can't go to work or run the businesses be labelled far right.

So save me this gas-lighting that you and many others do where you literally telling me things didn't happen and I know they've happened.

> Only discovered by accident, because a bank robbery went wrong. The police was assuming it was all gang related crime and the secret service knew nothing, even though they were indeed quite close, or rather, well connected to the terrorist. And now we have networks in special forces and police who plan for day x. National revolution.

Sounds hard to believe.

Even if it was true, the number of people involved would be tiny percentage of the population (as I said earlier) and you are literally falling for the same old crap that the white nationalist uprising is happening any minute.

> And they do try to creep in everywhere, usually in disguise. I had quite some encounters with them, from early on in schools to later in alternative, ecological and spiritual groups. Where they target suitable, meaning vulnerable recruits.

No they don't. My step brother is a Neo-nazi and people like this and they tell you exactly what their beliefs are. They do not hide it.

> Now with corona and many antivaxx people getting desperate to seek shelter from the "poison system"? They have vast growth.

Some people are anti-covid vaccine (due to them being novel), covid vaccine hesitant (like I was so I waited) and are anti-vaccine mandate. This is not the same as anti-vax.

Almost nobody is going to join the Neo-nazis from any of the groups above. The media wants to conflate all the groups as far right when they aren't. Most are normal people that disagree with the consensus. You are doing the same and just repeating the same old lies that is told on media.

It is pretty obvious you have fallen for a lot of the propaganda that is in the news after talking to you and many others. I used to trust the news, media and government as well. Until they were caught constantly lying about things.
if you've never bought an app on the App store, you're not really using your modern pocket computer to its fullest. Most of the good apps, and good games, cost money.

(as they should)
I would guess that the increased rate of information transmission across society has contributed to this trend. Copying is a key mechanism in how culture develops and propagates, and information moving more easily makes it easier for different groups to copy the dominant examples for any particular activity or discipline. A lot of information systems and cultural phenomenons have winner-take-all / power-law dynamics. Combined with increased information transmission, this would cause the leading styles and practices to become even more dominant.
I did something similar a while back for a word game, just using a trie and removing duplicate subtrees. I wonder how big it would be on the list of all 5-letter wordle words.

https://github.com/joeld42/tk_wordlist

Its not as compact as these others but you can do lookups against the "packed" data. Fun stuff.
Original title: "Gal Gadot's 'Death on the Nile' banned in Lebanon, Kuwait over 'Wonder Woman' star's Israeli background"
Now I'm really curious - how did you actually meet in the cases where you didn't meet online, but hid it with that clause?
Best Buy's GPU restock gets locked behind pricey membership
I think you've misunderstood the terms I used.

By "problem domain" I mean the things that impose constraints — for a structural engineer, that'd be e.g. building materials, soil, weather, etc. The things that have tolerances.

By "solution domain" I mean the space of human ingenuity that we can apply in our designs, in order to make something possible that wouldn't be possible with a naive approach. For a structural engineer, that's things like "suspension-bridge cabling" (more general principle: tensegrity) and, I dunno, "flying buttresses."

The problem domain of building software — the parts that impose constraints — are things like what factors lead to robustness (or lack thereof) of a language runtime under production load; programming-language error-rate as a function of language-syntax UX design; evidence-driven software project scope analysis; the trade-offs involved in attempting to scale a process horizontally vs. vertically; the effects of state on ability to scale; etc.

Someone who understands these things knows how to engineer software, the same as someone who understands material tolerances knows how to engineer a structure. If they only know that, then they can't draw you a building (that'd be an architect) — but they can take that architect's blueprint, and tell you whether the building described by it will fall over, and whether there's any simple thing you can do to solve that, or whether you need to draw a different building.

But note that you learn the solution space naturally, over time, as you're exposed to the solutions people use in the field. A machinist will learn the tools of their trade as they run into them in the shop, and as other machinists demonstrate them, and as books refer to them, and as job-lots demand them. None of this requires academic rigor. It's just learning on your feet.

A SWEng might not be aware of the academic result proving some more-optimal data structure exists for something. Just like a machinist might not be aware of a not-yet-commercialized maser CNC lathe. But they don't need to be, either. Very rarely does solving novel problems require novel tools. You can build the part you want to build with the machines you already have in your shop, and maybe one new one you buy off eBay. You can write the code you want to write with your not-so-optimal data structures, and maybe one new one you find in an ecosystem library.

Every once in a while, getting things done might require you read a journal paper written by an academic. But let's be very clear: it doesn't take a degree in some field, to be able to read — and make use of! — journal papers from that field. We've got educational vloggers — people who perform on camera for a living — operationalizing stuff they saw in journal papers all the time! If they can do it, a professional in an adjacent field to the academic discipline can certainly do it.
Emergence by Roy Hammond
Written in 2001, set in 2036. Quite a good estimate of the future although inspired by the likes of Gates. It’s got everything you’d expect aside from Quantum cryptography.
"I mean, everybody must have been aware for decades at that point that the UK didn't have the resources to do imperial power politics."

Yeah, absolutely true, but just to make sure the U.K. rubbed the fact home with such style and panache that no one could ever forget the fact (comparatively speaking it was much bigger than Brexit—perhaps the U.K. forgot it was no longer a superpower and that international opinion now actually mattered (in that it could no longer get away with such arrogance as it did in the days of empire). What other possible reason could there be?

Mind you, the U.K. was not alone, it was egged on and encouraged by its cohorts France and Israel.
OK so I am busy tomorrow but I figured I would jump on now and say that I was somewhat wrong. I did qualify my prediction based on it happening if the 10 year yield spiked to 2.5% which did not happen either.

So, as I am a good person I will concede that I was wrong, or at the least early in my prediction. It does seem that there will now be an emergency meeting of the Federal Reserve on Monday which most likely will result in a hike in the overnight rate[1].

I figure it is better to be a week early than a day late when it comes to the markets but as I said, I was wrong and am a big enough person to admit it.

So congratulations YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo you win, I hope you feel good about it, and I am sorry to have met you.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/boardmeetings/202...
I suppose that with a good stdlib, you can make a lot of useful while only depending on it. E.g. as long as you mostly consume and provide HTTP-based APIs, you're likely fine with just stdlib.
The NHTSA is investigating this precisely because it doesn't regularly happen with any other car with modern driver assists. It's almost entirely a Tesla-specific failure.
fun, but "Our goal is to make prediction markets an order of magnitude easier for you to create and share" is a lie. your goal is to take a % lol
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I'm a frequent jq-to-less piper and probably a more frequent mobile browsing opener of ESPN scoreboards/subsequent grumbler about ESPN's web performance and experience. I think I'll get a lot of mileage out of plaintextsports as long as it stays up. I will also be sure to check out Jless next time I'm at my command line with sufficient bandwidth to tinker with my tooling/workflow. Cheers!
U could try any of the following things:
1. Try looking right back to them & nod ur head in a way like asking, "What? Do u want to add something?"

2. As others suggested, talk to hr. If u feel like handling urselves, speak to them directly & ask right away, "Whats their problem anyways?"

Remember always whatevrr u do with confidence is always civilized & savage. This s my opibion. Try what u feel like this suits the context. Cheers
Whaaaaat 2049 was a masterpiece
They say the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing man that GNOME developers might one day fix the outstanding issues with GTK2/3...
The cable network is hybrid fiber and coax (HFC.) It's fiber from the head end to the "neighborhood" node, then coax to the home. You may be out of range from an existing node, so they'd have to run fiber, install a new node, run power for it, then obviously run coax to connect you to the node. That's a lot of equipment and labor for one home.
> like the word has some element to it that does harken back to older days

It's more interesting than you might think! Turns out snail is a diminutive form of snake[1], from a root referring to creeping over the ground.

The other aspect of judgments of old-fashionedness is that things that are really old-fashioned, like being named Etheldreda, will tend to be rated as less old-fashioned than things that are pretty recent but out of current fashion, like being named Gertrude. The old old things are too forgotten to be "old".

My other question would be "why 'cosine similarity' rather than 'correlation'?". Same thing, but people are a lot more familiar with the term 'correlation'.

[1] OE snaca preserved the /k/ sound, but OE snægl voiced it, and the /g/ then predictably turned into a Y sound (compare "yard" / "day"), giving us the I of modern snail.
Or, hear me out, you get the available infrastructure set up on the surface of Mars to manufacture fuel and propellant, and then you can send a single ship from Mars to Jupiter. And, if you can bring payload, you can set up the infrastructure to do ISRU from one of the moons of Jupiter, and eventually bring your ships back with samples.

Versus, cannibalising several extremely expensive ships in order to get one ship to a destination it's never coming back from.

And this is just one example. The lower delta-v from Mars would allow extra payload to the belt, so if anyone ever intend to exploit those resources, starting from Mars will allow them to get heavy equipment there in less time and fewer trips (provided, of course, that they can manufacture that equipment on Mars).
Are aircraft somehow quieter in EU cities?
Key take-away for me:

> dang is superhuman; I honestly have no idea how he and the rest of the tiny group (is it still just him and sctb?) that moderates HN keeps it a mostly civil place.

It’s the excellent moderation that makes Hacker News the only Internet forum that I regularly read – or occasionally contribute to.
> Rasmussen connects the decline in lexical diversity with an increase in diversity words - equity, diversity, inclusion, gender, marginalize, underrepresented, and disparity.

You know it can't be right--too good to be true.
What are you doing with testing that interests you the most?
>I've actually run a couple of single-player games, completely vanilla.

I'll have to give it another go then. Do you have any recommended settings for this?
It would be entirely believable that the charge reflects their actual cost and wouldn’t be recovered by your subscription for decades. Local laws and agreements with your local governments might mean they have to do it for free in exchange for the privilege / local monopoly.
I was always curious to know about the org/cultural evolution aspect of this problem at NASA, and I was also reminded of it when the 737 MAX issue happened.

As an organization starts to drift from its engineering origins and management gets populated with people who -- either because of increasing emphasis on management versus technical knowledge skills, and/or requirements to spend time on communicating versus building -- are making judgement calls far from the "detail level", is this problem bound to arise?

How does an organization incentivize its people and structure to keep on making the "right" calls?

*What I'm pointing out here is the terrible realization afterwards that the managers of the program were told about the potential damage to the orbiter, but actively denied requests from the engineering org to get help to image/diagnose/potentially repair the damage or come up with mitigations.
I knew what a matrix was. I don't remember having to actually ever use them for anything.

I learned what a (mathematical) vector was offhandedly in college, but I think it was from talking to someone, not in a class.
Maybe we've discovered diversity etc is worth studying, in part because it does have such a profound effect on the world. There's a reason these words and studies are considered "politicized" and that's because understanding them threatens the status quo. Just because something is politicized doesn't mean it isn't worth studying.
I think they are making a long-term bet here, likely in their ML models as they acquire millions of miles of driving data. The problem is an ethical one, as they are wagering today's safety, and the very real people and property that stand to be harmed.
awesome! I've been thinking how to do it. Like if I highlight from Kindle or Calibre, how do I get them to Anki. However as an avid Anki user for language studying, one issue I found is that the most difficult part is keeping up with sheer amount of review from Anki. I could have hundreds of review, but not having enough time to study them. And I would imagine reading would generate a lot of highlights users want to remember, which would make it much more difficult. So now I am thinking the filtering and condensing parts of such method should be emphasized.
Waterloo also offers a BCS which has fewer math requirements than the BMath: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/major...

The BMath option is only required if you want to have a double major in CS and a different area of math. Otherwise the BCS is strictly more flexible: you have 5 fewer math courses and 5 more electives (which you may use to take math courses if you really want to). From my experience most people are graduating with BCS unless they really like math.
Putin says Ukraine joining NATO would make nuclear war more likely. [video]
Nimble (YC S17) seeks product designer (part-time or full-time, remote)
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Asymmetry is because of how the channels are allocated to up/down stream:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21007799
I tried Mindustry a bit and found it not very appealing, but looking back at it I realize a big part of that is just the visual appeal - or the lack of one.

Song of Syx looks interesting though, definitely worth at least a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
Are there any write ups into the details of how, say, the contest winners work?

I remember having a few good afternoons of fun with Core War as a teenager back in the day (I probably found an implementation on a shareware/freeware CD). But while that made me understand the tradeoffs of some of the common strategies mentioned on this wiki page pretty well, getting into the (often entirely uncommented) complex red code of some of the winners wasn't something I was too keen on doing without at least some description.
Project has been going nine years:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882476
This makes no sense. When you apply the mathematics of fluid dynamics to the problem of water leaking through a dam wall, you get singularities.

It makes no sense to say "you either believe the amount of water in a dam wall becomes infinite and the universe collapses in on itself inside a dam, or you have a better theory, what is that theory?" (you would become a famous mathematician if you had that theory by the way).
This concept sounded familiar, and it turns out that somebody else researched a similar technique a few years ago.

https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/publications/xled-covert-data-exfi...
The first question on my mind : is it feasible to translate redcode to regular assembly?

Take last year's winners. Translate. Profit.
Cool, I might use this, thanks!
This post is titled "The Factorio Mindset" and the author spends a lot of time talking about why it's something positive that should be cultivated. I'm not so sure we do all know that.
Even if there is an LSP server for (La)TeX, will it ever be better than AucTeX already is?

I think for a languages like Python, LSP servers are interesting but for some other languages the existing tools are already very powerful: OCaml with merlin comes to mind for example.

That said, the LSP approach is nice and makes many editors able to profit from each language server :).
Education is IMHO uniquely problematic / a bad example of a professional discipline, because nobody knows what works. Academia is horrible at running RCTs on education methods; and industry is horrible at incentivizing good teaching (i.e. ineffective teachers, whether in kindergarten or college, never get fired just for being ineffective.) Our current "theory of education" is probably just 1000 P-hacked studies in a trenchcoat.

It's likely pretty easy to measure that lawyers from professional law schools win more cases than self-taught lawyers. Or that doctors from medical schools have higher patient satisfaction / produce higher average QALYs in their patient cohort than self-taught doctors.

I think a more closely analogous question to the one of CS vs SWEng might be: if a group of psychiatrists (professionals) and psychologists (academics) switch places, who performs better in the other context?
Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
I feel the same way about games like this.

Many games can be social experiences. Even if the game isn't multiplayer, like a rogue-like (or Wordle -- is Wordle a rogue-lite?) you can compare "runs" with others. Other single-player games have a compelling story or characters you can discuss with friends who have also played it. But some games don't work for meaningful social discussion at all, and it can be hard to want to play them!
It's 900pages (but under 10MB on disk) so your app might have trouble getting it into memory.
But, how does that explain the decline from, say, 1900 to 1990? The decline appears fairly steady over the 120 year period.
Corten steel is often used structurally, even in recent structures, because the idea is that the rust forms a protective layer. As long as water is not allowed to pool, it shouldn't rust through.

Some pictures of Corten steel structures:

https://www.corten.com/what-is-corten-steel.html

I'm familiar with the structures shown in that link. The U.S. Steel Tower seemed to be holding up well when I worked there, although looking out some windows you could see slightly worrying depressions in the steel beams where water had pooled over the years, and the steel had rusted away a bit (leading to more pooling). The Delaware footbridge was constructed much more recently and still looks new - no signs of wear that I've noticed walking across it.

If Corten steel is not durable enough for structural use, we're in trouble. It's used quite a bit, at least in the northeast.