skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you can be even bolder: accuracy never matters. It's always about the consequences, not probabilities. Sometimes the two are the same, but most of the time they are not.

Also worth noting that the arithmetic expectation is only a good way to measure the profitability if we are talking about small amounts compared to your total wealth. For any other case, you should use the geometric expectation of total wealth to evaluate options. (This is equivalent to maximising log wealth, the Kelly criterion.)
You are confusing 2014 Ukraine with 2022 Ukraine. Paramilitaries and militias aren’t really a thing in Ukraine anymore.
Not strictly necessary, but neither is the dismissal of serious usability issues as "well actually, it's this way because of reasons" which basically boil down to "not designed with the kind of use-cases in mind that many users here are saying cause them pain". The idea that you can't remove a package by the same name you added it by is just obnoxious.

Sure there are reasons for it, but the reasons boil down to "screw you users" if you're just trying to use it. And a project which is actively hostile to usability feedback doesn't fill me with excitement to start depending on it.

`nix install foobar`:
There are N versions of foobar. Choose one of:

* nix install foobar.gnu

* nix install foobar.lfs

* nix install foobar.experimental20220104

(pre-formatted for copy-paste)

`nix remove foobar`

You have two versions of foobar installed. Choose one of:

* nix remove foobar.gnu

* nix remove foobar.experimental20220104
The cppreference.com link says it removes "Representations for signed integers other than two's complement" - this could be pretty significant in making many previously implementation-defined programming patterns strictly conforming, but is it true? Doesn't seem mentioned in the Twitter thread.
C++ requires to devote your life to it but you can learn C and spend a year using it and suddenly you have a dangerous but powerful tool in your toolbox forever.
It's 2 hours times the number of passages through the tunnel. Hint: there will be more than a single passage.

Jokes aside, there are sometimes rail projects where millions are spent to save 2 minutes. Or even just tens of seconds. Over the lifetime of the infrastructure it is still worth it, especially when combining multiple projects.

2 hours savings is huge. You won't find many infra projects with those kind of time savings.
There won't be a war precisely because it's taking a long time, just a bluff.
Yeah, the LWN comments mention that Intel attempt and some other ones like the RPi video decoders.
School - actually it was kindergarten I think, was hit on Ukrainian side, so that’s unrelated to evacuation in DNR/LNR
Indeed, any culture that actually lasted long enough to get to the next star would have become, in the interval, comfortable with not being near any star, and could roam freely, doing nothing that could attract our attention.
Based on another thread - I think the following topic should be an interesting one for HN to chew on: If someone wanted to write systems type of programming (whether it be embedded or Unix tools or even writing a library), should they go for C (C23) or Rust today?
Loopholes are legal in theory but not necessarily in practice. They could have just as easily ruled that the use of a private truck requires compensation on top of pay.
Nope, there are no adblockers on chrome mobile that I'm aware of. I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S10+.

Good to hear about SSH being on your roadmap!
That's an extremely negative way of looking at things. Journalists aren't professional liars, they're like every profession, there are good people with integrity, there are not so good people with no integrity.
Docker's relatively heavy and a pain in the ass to operate. We've switched everything other than our K8s cluster and local Mac dev away from it and I won't be sad if it disappears from either.
Why shouldn’t they use stable technology they are proficient with?
As someone who's worked remote since long before the pandemic, I often wonder if this attitude will eventually become a significant portion of the chunk of people who are saying "remote only forever!" now.

In my case, sometimes - about 50% of the time roughly - I want an office to work out of. I want to separate home and work life for a multitude of reasons, most notably, just to get some damn peace when I'm done with work.

The emotional toll of "walk into your living room, there's work. Wake up, there's work. Done with work? Go chill in your living room an-nope, there's work." can be a pain in the ass after so many years.

So I wonder if I'm somewhat unique in that and maybe it's all in my head, or if eventually, once they've had a substantial remote experience for a few years, more people will be in a place similar to me: they like the benefits of remote, but man that constant work presence thing takes a hell of a toll after a while.

Guess we'll see in a few years if people eventually change their points of view. I don't expect it to be the majority opinion by a long shot, probably not ever, but eventually it may rise to a non-negligible number.

Personally I'd prefer a flexible "come to the office when you want and for very rare special occasions" (critical client meetings once or twice a year, etc.) policy. I think success here is going to break the simplistic "everybody must do x" one-size-fits-all-whether-you-like-it-or-not typical corporate narrowminded oversimplicity, and instead be enabled by flexibility and control on the employee's part, effectively managed by a good manager.

That'll be rare.
Eh, it's typical retrofuturism type stuff, extending current technologies quantitatively rather than trying to predict categorical changes in available tech.

Also the issues of dyson spheres aren't that bad. they could for instance channel the heat loss energy in a narrow beam out of the galactic plane so at least they'd be hard to spot by other galactic observers.
Ask HN: Anyone using Edge AI or TinyML tools for real world development?
Hi folks

I am doing research on the Edge AI and TinyML market in 2022.

The whole area seems very interesting.

What has been your experience of the tooling in this area?
I don't think it's spreading panic. Especially by informing on what Russia will soon do ( e.g. false flag operations), it's calming the situation because people know what to expect.
Seems like all of your issues could be resolved by paying for it, which is WAY cheaper than $20/month.
> Hacker news relevant how? Please, if I want to read war news I go to reddit or any other new source.

There are a lot of 'hackers'/programmers & IT-companies outsource departments in Ukraine, so any "full-scale war" on whole territory would cause IT sector worldwide, including many large corporations and open-source projects.

Of course, does 40 million lives in Europe, even single life of Ukrainian HN user matter for non-Ukrainian HN's on Hacker News?...

JFTR, I'm from Ukraine.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft

[1] https://git.io/DailySolveSpace
I'm still waiting for a TPM that would support Ed25519. Unfortunately I haven't found any yet.
I'm going for C, because I am experienced with C and despite it being more tedious, with having to do everything yourself, I stick with it because the compile times, and in fact the compile process, are so much faster and simpler. I really enjoy the direct feedback I can get. I considered C++ but that too had terrible compile times. Ideally a debug build should simply not take longer than 100ms for a codebase that isn't even 5KLoc, and only C seems to be able to offer that experience.
Email Harvesting from GitHub Profiles
> the sun is very inefficient at energy release

I'm not clear what is meant by "inefficient at energy release". Does that mean that the in the process of energy release, some of the energy is converted into heat? I.e., more energy?
Literally every last thing in the whole universe that can radiate heat is at least as warm as the cosmic background radiation. You cannot shed any heat at all unless you are warmer than the background radiation, because you would be absorbing as much heat from it as you radiate. If you were colder, you would necessarily be absorbing more.

Thermodynamics does not play around.
As a software engineer I still don't understand how this is even possible.

What kind of logic behind a URL preview can bypass everything? I think companies like NSO Group are just finding backdoors not software bugs.
On the contrary, the bluff is costly and it's costing money every day. It doesn't make sense to continue it for long after seeing that the initial public objectives aren't attainable. Furthermore, the evacuations and mobilisations from the separatist republics, and the false flag bombs and stuff, feel like going too far for merely bluffing.
If you can get your car to beep at you when an object is close in front of you (either by being in reverse or by pressing a button to turn it on) your car is equipped with radar.
Is there a system for running a package cache for nix? I love how Nix stops dependency churn from breaking my builds. What worries me is that it introduces quite a few dependencies on remote servers, both for any global repository, and any tarballs referenced in the nix file.

With golang, you can setup your own package proxy, point GOPROXY environment to that, and then be guaranteed that even if the original host is no longer available, you can build your code. Is there an equivalent for nix?
My expectation would be a similar result in humans to what we observe in all the non-humans we’ve been selectively breeding for eons.

Vulnerable monocultures; hyper-optimisation for a specific trait (or many breeds each optimised for a different trait); morphology significantly different to the wild form, with fashion preferences leading to fundamental health issues that can only be fixed by altering the fashion (GSD hip dysplasia, pug squashed noses).
What would prevent it? Good sense. To be able to do it is to know better than to bother.
Why do you need Ordway Labs for usage based pricing?
Yes, because the reaction time is indicative of how much time you've spent with the thought.

The worst of the worst are those who react before the other person even ended the sentence. Those people themselves most oftenly consider themselves as intelligent, because - in their minds - they already know "everything".

But, sure ... that's not helpful in regards to your post.

The opposite must be true, because otherwise you give room for the idea that thoughtlessness is intelligence. As the depth of thoughts is a function of time, the longer the brain can "analyse and gather", the better the response will be.

The less time spent, the less time the brain has to "analyse and gather", which means that it will bring up whatever matches the patterns first.

It's quite amazing. We're capable of conversing without needing to actually think about what's being said and people aren't even noticing the fact that they're not actually thinking about what's being said.

If you wish to believe that (consciously or not) reducing ones self to pattern matching in conversations equals (any level of higher) intelligence, then I'm not convinced you have any practical experience on the matter.
Louis Rossmann, who pay $13,000 per month for his place, has posted MULTIPLE videos where he goes around looking at shops in NYC which are tiny, and how, despite demand being down and supply being up, have actually INCREASED their asking rate, which makes no sense.

The local govt is asking people back because they run on NYC property taxes, but both them and the property needs to learn that rates needs to come back to reality.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2lvV4KY2Ag7r...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2lt_n88l7WC2...
But why would they leave the same artifacts over and over again? Seems like a pretty boring existence for a "god". We've got blackholes, magnetars, pulsars, binary stars... and... that's about it... Seems much more likely these structures are the end result of some fixed set of physical rules than insane gods trapsing around the universe.

Also agreeing with one of the comments above about how mind bogglingly massive space is, we've been effectively "listening" to space for only about 100 years, which creates an effective "listening sphere" of 4.188×10E6 light years^3, or 0.000524% of the milkyway's EIGHT TRILLION cubic lightyears in size (even if we could listen to all directions simultaneously, which we can't!)

I mean, we've been listening to the Wow! area for 50 years now, which also hampers the kind of electromagnetic 'sweep' we could possible be doing in the meanwhile.

My overall opinion is that it's just simple not been enough time of listening.

Actually this idea seems quite interesting, it would be cool to do the calculus to figure out our effective "increase" in contact intersection as each consective second, minute, hour, day, and year goes by as we "listen" to space. Infinite overlapping spheres in an infinite 3D space... hmmmm
Good web standards are whatever simplify my work as a developer. Firefox used to be at the forefront of web standards.

I can guarantee you Firefox will eventually be running Blink because Mozilla has no vision for the future of the web anymore. Mark my words.
It's been going on since 2014, so it's more question of remembering than predicting.
It is a cost that will probably amortize itself easily over the decades it will be in service.
Thank you for your reply.

Can you please help me understand in what ways Backbone/Knockout is considered more stable than React/Angular/Vue technologies?
Great an comprehensive writeup. I use Notion (am a paying customer). And would only add that the mobile experience on Android is for roughly a month now abysmal.

First the app got stuck on the last page opened before the update. I (and judging from comments on the net many others) could switch to other pages, could create new unnamed pages, but not edit them. The app was basically unusable for weeks. I even wrote to Notion but never received a reply.

Then after weeks it got better for about a week. Now, with the latest update regarding the better text editing experience my app seems to be constantly on the verge of or actually regularly crashing. So again unusable to me.

When I am not at my desk I use Notion to quickly add to existing documents. Write down ideas for my clients and just use it as a brain dump to later structure when at my desk with a big screen.

Currently this part of managing my idea flow in my business just broke.

So while I still use them because I get value out of their incline tables and such niceties I am already looking for a suitable replacement. They need to get their quality in order. I expect my tools to work. I need to trust in my tools. Else I have no use for them in the long term.

I follow the philosophy of buying cheap the first time I need/try a new tool. And when that breaks on me after some use I know better what I really need and can buy quality items according to my needs.
and the commentor has a liberty to comment if they dislike a given license. If the core of marketing benefit is a given program being open source, yet the license is limiting in that sense, I don't see anything wrong with mentioning that issue.
Six African countries to begin making mRNA vaccines as part of WHO scheme
I reject 95% of loan application, so if u just predict reject 100% of the time, then your accuracy is 95%. Just stupid shit.
A technique favored of course by housecats too, though to less deadly effect.
>Why should companies or people be punished for finding and using loopholes?

You answered it yourself. They're against the spirit of the law.

In any other circumstance where rules or obligations are enforced, exploiting loopholes is completely unacceptable behaviour.

(To clarify, I'm not arguing that the judge made the wrong decision in this particular case. Instead, I don't think this type of behaviour should be tolerated by the system at all.)
Jupiter is much smaller than the Sun, so it isn't really relevant what it's made of.
Jobs are not good in themselves, they need to serve a purpose. The reality is that the coffee you brew at home is just as good as the coffee you buy at ten 20 times the price. These are jobs that should not exist
> Considering that the CHAZ was in Capitol Hill, I assume the people in that neighborhood were supportive...

Frustrated residents near Seattle's 'CHOP' zone want their neighborhood back:

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/frustrated-resident...

Capitol Hill residents and businesses sue city of Seattle for failing to disband CHOP:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/capitol-hill-resid...

Two teenagers shot in Seattle's Chop autonomous zone:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53224445

Another Fatal Shooting in Seattle’s ‘CHOP’ Protest Zone:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/seattle-protests-CHOP-...

> It was cool to see FoxNews have some of our buildings burning down even if it wasn't true, their media narrative was pretty messed up

What do you mean "it wasn't true" ? It was certainly true. People were formally charged for carrying out the act.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/spd-rioters-tried-trap-offi...

"According to the criminal complaint, DAVID-PITTS had arrived in Seattle from Alaska just three days before Monday’s protest. After marching with the group in downtown Seattle, DAVID-PITTS is seen on surveillance video piling up trash against the sally-port door at the Seattle Police East Precinct. Over an eleven minute period the surveillance video captures DAVID-PITTS not only piling up the trash, but repeatedly lighting it on fire and feeding the flames with more trash. While DAVID-PITTS was lighting the fire, other people who appeared on the surveillance were attempting to use crowbars and cement-like materials to try to disable the door next to the sally-port to prevent officers from exiting the building"
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/alaska-man-charged-fede...
Sure, there are good and interesting arguments as to whether anyone would bother, but that's orthogonal to whether we can distinguish them from natural sources.

EDIT: but I like your idea, sounds like it would be a fun short story!
> “there is no war in ba sing se”

War is ongoing for 8 years already, since February 20, 2014.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War
Share the exact same thought, and it made me wonder dont these kids have legos at home which they play with, with siblings?
This isn't a news article.
It's almost certainly the case at that scale and with engineer and tools churn the answer is: we don't know and that's why we're always adding and not subtracting
The problem is not the language but the “standard library” used by it, which is quite ad hoc and organically built.

The language may not be the most intuitive at parts, but I feel that it is not the actual problem people have - I think what trips up people (me included) is that one pretty much grep for a similar package to be able to start doing the work. Why does a python derivation require this function instead of the generic one, what are the package names, etc. Some stricter structure would be welcome, in my opinion.
Foreign Office IT issues hampering UK’s response to Ukraine crisis, say insiders
Languages exist that compile to C which gives them many of the above advantages and more, so why choose C over them?
What about the important question: will the source code for Turbo Pascal ever be released? I mean the actual source code, not a disassembly or reimplementation.
Not sure why this was posted here?

After reading this article, you’d think Ukraine is a terrible, dying place not worth visiting - a take that strays into “Russian propaganda” territory. But it’s not; even with all the corruption and dysfunction, Ukraine is a fun place to live, full of smart, energetic people. They’ve got so much potential.

Also: the capital is “Kyiv”, not “Kiev” - Kiev is the Russian spelling (but maybe that was deliberate?).
190k was the updated estimate according to the US administration.

I agree with a lot of points, but not that an invasion is unlikely and i don't think a ww3 naritive is being pushed.

That it will destroy Russia's economy and will leave them open for China to take, is my best guess.
How fast talent rotation is harming the decision-making quality
If you have time and interest, would you like to share your views on the threat of invasion, how it impacts you and your business? Does the article accurately reflect the views of the general population? Do you have any contingency plans for yourself, your family, and your business in the case of invasion?
During this period is tech workers have the power and we need to make sure we use to the maximum. I’ve flat out told my bosses I will quit if they try to get me back into the office. They were begging me to stay and we’re still fully remote!
How would you do the example using Excel Lambda?
You should read the writeup. This was run in a sandbox. Sandboxes are not silver bullets and too can have bugs.
Congrats, you've just discovered referential transparency :-)

Such a nice feature of functional programming languages, like excel formulae.
Given the research by Meehl, if there's a decent numeric rule and a human decision that are closely predicting each other, my money would be on the numeric rule being slightly more accurate.
And since most of those people are kooks and/or narcissistic sociopaths, the results would be even more disastrous than where we are today.
A WebGL Spotify Visualizer Made with Vue, D3, and Three.js
Its so embarrassing

Junior engineer logic
is nix commonly used only for compiled languages? for example, is there anyone who creates and manages separate packages for frontend and backend in a web project? I would like to hear what benefits there are if any.
I wish CrystalLang would gain some popularity and thus traction.
It seems to be a good alternative between high level syntax and performance.
I'm not mad about the name. It's just an ugly one.
Livestream of Planes Trying to Land at Heathrow in Big Crosswinds
Yep agreed, so sometimes it's better to write business logic on the DB side because other wise you'd have to do code gymnastics and multiple round trips in your application code.

As for error handling, you can raise an error with a specific format in your plsql and have your application interpret it like any other DB error, the the application does whatever it wants with it, including sending it to the FE if needed.

Ex :

FE clicks a button to append a payment to an order.

BE creates the payment entity assigned to a wallet of a specific user and currency. BE attempts to assign the new payment to the existing order (the order was created for a different currency).

DB runs a trigger on payment creation that checks that the associated wallet's currency is the same as the order's currency, if it fails, the DB raises "payment_wallet_currency_mismatch"

BE catches the error and matches the error code, throwing back an error to the FE saying that the currency in the payment is invalid for the order.

With this example, a single call was performed to the DB and all the necessary checks were performed on DB side with no extra round-trips.

One downside is version controlling all this, it's a bit of a mess doing code review for DB function changes because you have to write the whole function every time in a new migration file just to change and if statement, for example.
I’ve used amazon in NSW and it’s the only time I’ve had an issue with online shopping. The package was empty! I had no easy recourse because the item was only about $25.

Australians are used to using alternatives to Amazon, and I hope they continue to do so. Amazon’s awful treatment of workers has no place in Australia.