skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole country struggled to produce just a little more than one American university. They may think more independently, but it seems that it was so independent as to fail to advance human knowledge much more than a single American university.

Has the university produced the Nobel laureates, or are they merely currently based there?

Also, producing Nobel laureates is not the primary goal of education. Independent thinking is a skill that is useful to everyone, in many areas of life.
oh, shoot. i assumed i was trying to guess an island nation since it wasn't rendered with any surroundings. but it renders all states this way — just the border, as if it had no neighbors?
I think you couldn't have really given that comment much thought.

It takes no imagination at all to poke a hole in that.
The point is that most people gullible enough to buy NFTs won't care about having their password in the URL. Those ignorant suckers are the same ones who complain that the government should step in and enforce their precious decentralized Libertarian "ownership" of their ape jpeg when somebody "steals" it with the "Save as..." menu. They fall for NFT scams for the same reason they fall for hunter2 password scams.
Just forget it. There's no special need to breed. India and China makes up the slack for the rest of the world.
True. But to perform that precomputation, you have to find a database of country geometry outlines. And (manually?) filter out things like Hawaii and Guam from these. Then, assuming country geometry is given as lat lon polygons, it seems you then are computing either O(n^2 * m^2) distances where n is the number of countries and m is the average number of vertices per country. Or you might come up with some space partitioning algorithm on the vertices to reduce that to maybe O(n^2 * m log(m)). It's doable, but my comment was merely pointing out that it's much more complex than comparing country centers.
Back in the 90's I bought several audiobooks on tape for long car journeys; the retail prices listed on Audible seem similar to the price I actually paid back in the day. A lot of the titles are also available on iTunes as well, and the prices were comparable to the retail price listed on Audible. Audible really is a good deal.
How is it deceptive? To me it's an extra tidbit of information that doesn't seem important. It's clearly linked with distance, so I know it's something to do with distance.
Hey, thank you. We run our own crawler but also use Bing for most generic queries.
It also never was by definition. The meter was originally defined as (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre) “one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris, assuming an Earth's flattening of 1/334”

You have to add the fact that earth is almost spherical to go, from there, to “the length of the equator is about 40 million meters”.

Reading that Wikipedia page, I think it already was known when the meter was defined that the polar diameter of the Earth is smaller than its equatorial diameter.
Oh, interesting. I guess it makes more sense, in that case. Would be nice to have an explicit "Anonymous editorial" / "The editorial team" byline, though.
They don't give you a discount for a better helmet because it's cheaper for them if you're dead vs paying the hospital bills for your injuries.
I'm expecting your exploit to be something like "automatically signs you into Google search". I don't like that sort of thing (in fact I use Firefox, mostly for moral reasons) but I disagree strongly with your general argument.

The average person has their personal information known by data brokers. All using an insecure niche product does is add more attackers with their personal information. In addition technically-legal attackers constrain themselves a bit to not violate the law too much, whereas Russian gangsters have less incentive to restrain themselves.
What you are missing is that 'Anonymous' is just a definition of some people on 4chan, there's no organization, group or anything of the sorts, you can claim to be a member too if you want and there wouldn't be anyone to deny it.
The reason the point about 𠒇 holds is that it really isn't a character. I didn't claim it was "rare", I said it was a typo or a misinterpretation of an actual character (for the case of 𠒇 it is a misrepresented form of 兒.)

To presume a character is "real" merely because it exists in the Kangxi dictionary is as valid reasoning as presuming a character is "real" because it exists in "some other encoding standard" that you've been dismissive about. It's just that Kangxi is the de-facto Han character encoding scheme before computer encodings were invented. (Unihan even contains all details about the radical, stroke and even page number where it was sourced from)

A lot of those characters appeared once in some ancient text, and took the Kangxi form due to transcriptions from scribes across the centuries, but we actually have no evidence that they are "real" (at any point in time). Some of these characters are known alternative forms of common characters, or are only known to appear in some ancient text before Han characters were standardized. Some are plain typographical errors. It's like a 3 year old child learning to write "ABC", which looks a bit weird, and then the unicode committee assigned 3 code points to them.
Yeah this is the difference between professionals and less experienced narrators.

I'm not buying the 5h/h thing neither. How long is an average audiobook? Booking studio time, etc for that plus the heavy editing that a 5h take would take is just not worth it.
There’s a reason why Apple uses Linux for its server infrastructure.
Basically every city in the world is growing and thus demand is increasing. If you increase costs and make it unprofitable to build, nobody is going to build until the rising demand increases rent to make it profitable.
> The monetary value itself is useful to everybody who makes a decision.

But I think the real value of education can't be expressed in monetary terms alone. Educated people tend to live longer and healthier. They tend to make more rational financial decisions and plan their lives with more foresight.

In a democracy it is essential that the voting population is educated and able of processing complex information, otherwise it stops functioning.
That's what I meant with "opening multiple connections doesn't increase concurrency so don't do it unnecessarily (by using a connection pooling library for example)". I was suggesting to only use a single connection for the entire request and NOT to use a connection pooling library.

Now, PHP doesn't share memory between requests so there's no way to re-use the same connection across requests. That's just a sad fact about PHP and I don't think there's a reasonable way around it other than not using PHP.

PS: I haven't used PHP in over a decade so my knowledge might be outdated.
Most people don't unplug their Mac Mini in the middle of working, and most users who do lose data after that happens would just think it's normal and not realize there is an underlying problem and modern OSes aren't supposed to do that.

I've seen APFS filesystems eat themselves in production (and had to do data recovery), twice. Apple don't have a perfect data integrity track record.
Well known authentication factors:

- What you are

- What you have

- What you know

Lesser known but additional authentication factors:

- Where you are

- What you do

Microsoft MFA basically overburdened and overused the “what you have” part.
The final versions used for the tables/figures in the book are here, I think: http://www.bcaplan.com/returns.htm
I mean, when we say "Anyone could do it." we mean "Anyone with a strong enough understanding of Haskell's syntax and type system to be able to formalize it" which is a surprisingly small number of people. It's probably smaller than the number of professional Haskell developers and that isn't that big a number.
If I remember correctly, Stripe does this (or used to?) during some of their software engineering interview rounds.
Paying a lot of money into education prevents homelessness! Educated people are more likely to find an income than people who have less knowledge of the world. And it's not only purely educating people, it's also about providing supportive services, such as job finding programs, mental health counseling, etc etc. By spending more on education you may spend less on homeless right now but you can prevent people from becoming homeless.

And on top of that, you can also reform how homelessness works in your country. In Germany, having a home is a fundamental right, why is it not in America? By burderning the government with sheltering you and giving you a postal address, a lot of hurdles for reentering the job market are simply taken away, reducing the need to spend much.
As some who normally uses GNOME, I actually like apps to have distinct visual identities so that they are easy to tell apart at a glance. When using VSCode or Chromium I prefer their native title bars and modal dialogs, which integrate with the rest of their appearance, instead of the grey system-provided widgets.
The cited paper uses chord clusters containing four notes, and say nothing about dissonance as a dyadic concept which is what the discussion of ratios have been focusing on. The results are not what the PR piece states since Figure 1 of the cited paper[1] which sums up the results show that for the non-Westerners (Just Pakistani tribes of Kalash and Khow. If that is enough to claim "universality" in the social sciences then God help us.) low valence ratings for chromatic clusters are similar to their responses to major chords, so there is uncertainty about interpreting this result as their aversion to harsh dissonance or simply something they are unfamiliar with.

Just browsing the paper and I come up with some shocking inaccuracies, consider

>Notably, low preference for the major triad among the Northwest Pakistani tribes is not corroborating the theory according to which the attractiveness of consonance is due to harmonic similarity to human vocalizations and is in line with the historical observation according to which the major third became consonant only over time in the framework of Western music as well.

The preference of the Pakistani tribes for the minor triad over the major triad (which is shown in the paper) is most certainly not in line with the gradual
acceptance of the major third in Western music for the very simple reason that in the west the two types of thirds were accepted together. And if we consider the acceptance of thirds in the final chord of the piece, the western experience is exactly the mirror of the Pakistani tribes: the minor triad was deemed less 'stable' than the major triad and it took much longer for the minor triad to be regarded as acceptable to the ending of pieces.

Shoddy research like this which betray a lack of historical awareness is why I have very low opinion of most these types of social research. They are not good writers on music, and some, I assume, are good people.

[1] https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ny...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30326428
Seems like an attack vector that I don't need. I turned it off in Firefox (about:config -> webgl.disabled == true)
> Reducing complex historical figures to labels like 'good guys' and 'bad guys' is simplistic and avoids facing complex and uncomfortable realities.

Yep, absolutely. People are nuanced creatures.

Pétain was a hero from WWI, there's no denying that. Like there's no denying he presided over terrible atrocities in WWII. Minimising Vichy France contribution to atrocities is a weird Feench far-right obsession.
I wonder if this was posted every day and only got upvoted when a country that is definitely in the top 5 easiest and virtually everyone will get it in one or two tries was on offer.

I wish the rotation would be on by default (the distances are enough of a hint), or at least work if I turn it on.
You can lose some file changes even after asking the OS to make sure they don't get lost, the normal way.

That's a problem. It means e.g. transactional databases (which cannot afford to lose data like that) have a huge performance hit on these machines, since they have to use F_FULLFSYNC. And since that "no really, save my data" feature is not the standard fsync(), it means any portable software compiled for Linux will be safe, but will be unsafe on macOS, by default. That is a significant gotcha.

The question is why do other NVMe manufacturers not have such a performance penalty? 10x is fine; 1000x is not. This is something Apple should fix. It's a firmware problem.
Spotify is acquiring two major podcast tech platforms
I still think if you are internet savvy you detect these things almost instantly. Uncanny valley works on text too and the revulsion is just as strong.

And all it takes to destroy your best cooling for cpu now bot setup is one user saying “No it is not and here is why…” right under the comment.
Everyone wins except the viewer who now has to manually skip through ads because adblockers don't block those type of ads
The internal workings of his campaign, like abusing Wikipedia, are interesting.
Seirdy's article is mostly focused on bug-finding in the binary
domain, by fuzzing, memory analysis, decompiling and other techniques.
He makes the entirely correct observation that having source to audit
is only one part of thorough debugging, because many exploits are only
manifest at runtime in the context of specific hardware, operating
systems, and build chains.

Seirdy does not denigrate source auditing as some interpretations of
his words here seem to say. This feels like quite a mature article and
there are implications he touches on but doesn't fully explore like
Thompson's "Trusting trust" rabbit hole of the "malicious compiler"
and the fact that security by obscurity has some serious clout if you
can compile for non-standard hardware. The Non Specific Agency may
have a zero-day for your Debian package, but it won't irk the program
on your FPGA emulated Fairchild F8 Microprocessor.
And a lot of people just can't get over significant whitespace, and curly braces, and lispy parantheses, and semicolons. No syntax can please everyone, especially so with people unfamiliar with the language they're looking at.
I guess I am old but the assumption I live by is that if power is suddenly cut from a computer - no matter desktop or laptop - it can damage the FS and/or cause data loss.

For any mission critical stuff, I have it behind a UPS.
If you do, do not include the image.
Technical Debt Sounds Dumb
> But it’s Audible. What choice is there?

I mean, at $11 a year it doesn't sound like Audible is a critical part of your income, so why not create a gumroad account and sell directly from the authors and/or narrators website? It sounds like you could even offer a heavily discounted price and still come out ahead.

If enough producers come together this way you could even create some producer's co-op that can put up a basic webshop and account system.
>What is so hard about it?

quick: without looking anything up, write something in bash that takes a string of comma-separated values and turns it into an array of those values.

then check to see if your answer is on this very long list of wrong implementations:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/45201229/6107981
> I always say that when it comes to lack of candidates there's this magical thing called "money" where if you throw more of it on the table the problem suddenly resolves itself.

In the past few years, developers’ salaries have increased significantly in the continent. In Germany they are almost on par with London.
So to convince somebody to move to the UK and go through the immigration checks, you have to pay more than the average British employer can afford. For 80-90K£, you are far better off getting 60K€ in Germany or Austria. I wouldn’t advise a EU citizen to move to the UK if they aren’t going to earn more than 120K£.
> To be honest, I’ve never been quite clear on how we’re supposed to get over centuries of judging people by their skin color or ethnicity by paying more and more attention to skin color and ethnicity.

That.
My first instinct was to vectorize the interpreter, amortizing the cost across searching many possibilities in parallel. But 9^14 is still a huge search space even when efficiently implemented on a CPU, and indeed the compile to Rust brute force version I built later isn't faster than this one at finding the lowest/highest answers.

Then I started to think about pruning the search space with early out. If you squint, there's a similarity here to bloom filters. It gives you two possible answers: definitely no, or possibly yes.

I was expecting to run in to issues where the state grew too large, but that turned out never to be the case.

An alternate way to approach it would have been with dynamic programming, but I didn't feel like that would be as much fun.
Yes. fsync() on Linux pushes down to stable storage, not just drive cache.

OpenBSD, though, apparently behaves like macOS. I'm not sure I like that.
The person you were arguing with is saying that it's a compelling reason to not use the model because, I quote, the conclusions of the model are "batshit insane".
Imagine my great-grandfather planted a seed 150 years ago for $0, then we did nothing but wait for 150 years, then I chop it down and get $100 of lumber.

But you can't enter the market and compete with me, because you don't have the right grandfather.
>Google's solution that "outside links" are considered as "votes" that this site is good is what made it good but also what made it vulnerable to SEO. Do you have any other idea on how do you decide if a result is good or not beyond the literal text search?

Maybe you could have a "report spam" button next to every search result, and sites that got reported more often would get weighted way down in the results.
But whatever google was doing around 2010-2012 is my benchmark for "actually good search engine". Maybe hire some people who worked at google back then and have them write something similar

>90% of people do potentially hundreds of searches everyday. Especially non expert users that practically use the search engine to search for the domain of the sites they need to go too. The people ready to pay a fixed fee /per search wouldn't be able to cover even a fraction of the infrastructure costs of : "search engine that is actually good"

I'm pretty skeptical of this. Ok, so you spend a few dollars per day on search. So what? People spend that much on coffee, and you get way more utility out of an actually good search engine. The market would definitely exist
Bread is easily produced locally or regionally from bulk materials. Processed meats are shipped hundreds and thousands of miles to the consumer.
I implemented a very similar solution to the one in the OP in Python, abusing the superpowers granted by Pandas. (Using Pandas was strictly necessary, Python itself is too slow)

The "correct" solution to the problem is, as often is the case for Advent of Code, too tedious to implement: since the only way the program behavior changes is if the states of the registers diverge after an input operation, you can consider inputs that lead to the same states as "related". The coarsest partition with respect to this relation may be found by partition refinement. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_refinement)

Assuming an efficient representation of the search space, this results in a solution that does the minimum amount of work possible.
I never use Office 365, but how this fatigue attack work? If I have my phone lying on my desk and I am not doing anything with Office 365, wouldn't it be very strange that I receive a request to authorize a login?

I would call the Helpdesk, like I am instructed. Or do people just get annoyed and click "Authorize" eventually?
SponsorBlock might be of interest.

> Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time. [0]

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
PHP is the OG serverless
How much does numeracy matter for policy-making?
I have a similar HN reading modus. I created an app for my ebook reader (Pocketbook HD 3) that enables me to read all my RSS feeds saved to my miniflux instance[0].
The app displays all current articles, I mark the once that are interesting to me, download them as HTML and the HN comments to an database and then I am able to read the article + all hn comments offline. If I cannot read an article (sometimes miniflux failes to fetch the content), I send them to Pocket as I created an small app to read Pocket items on the ebook reader also. [1]
As both apps download the content I just sync the things that are interesting to me and then read everything in the train or wherever I am.

[0]: https://github.com/JuanJakobo/Pocketbook-Miniflux-Reader
[1]: https://github.com/JuanJakobo/Pocketbook-Read-offline
> In practice this doesn’t happen, however, at least here in the UK

Especially in the nice areas of London you could probably drive for years without numberplates and nobody would ever stop you.
Step 1 is quite difficult, and step 2 has the downside of disincentivizing people to use it. There are some attempts to make search engines where you pay per month.
> the only person who determines if it’s cheating is you

This is something that is unequivocally true, yet I get mildly irritated/frustrated (is there a word for combination of these two?) when people use google or something to "get words".

> There are settings to rotate or hide the map here, so we’re not all playing the same game anyway.

Wordle has hard mode too. But in this case you see the map before given this option. And at least the rotation doesn't work for me.
Taking into account the risk/reward ratio, I suspect said generalists wouldn't want to join at that point.. get low wage, "first employee" little equity, and most chances not worth anything..

He's better off getting a job with some BigCorp really.. can't blame them.
> After Lenin died Stalin took power over the USSR and committed atrocities against mankind

The Red Terror campaign under Lenin killed over a million people. Let's not pretend Stalin is the only one responsible for atrocities.

> Mao expanded on these ideas in China

Under Mao's brain-dead economic policies, China suffered the worst man made famine in history. China's recent acendency only came about after Deng Xiaoping's far reaching economic reforms. The idea that China is still following Mao's plan is ridiculous.
There is a pretty good and short walkthrough of the XR term on Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-specific-difference-betwee...

I have a really hard time seeing everyone would want to walk around with even sunglasses to augment their reality, though it could make sense for specific situations such as travelling to foreign countries.

But its really hard to be optimistic about some Metaverse or Second Life clone by Facebook (sorry Meta), where the difference is the use of XR.

If you are thinking about the future, why not consider using controlled robots as the movie Surrogates centers around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates

For gaming, XR or even VR will benefit a lot from smaller devices, but as with flying cars its still a long way off a photo realistic experience.
> what they would've done differently in their teenage years

They are not saying this.

They are saying as adults they could go back and easily get laid with teen girls. Freaky Friday style. Or such.

You do not have their magic abilities (To pick & code in a teen body) so their advice does not apply to you.
Yeah. If the same thing happens to a brand-less garbage SSD you purchased from Aliexpress it's clearly cheat and plainly malicious and incompetence, but the Apple tag certainly made us believe there is a second reason.

Trading correctness for performance without shouting at the users "YOUR DATA IS NOT SAFE WHEN YOU DO THIS" multiple times a day in a storage is benchmark-snake-oil. Period.