skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also dislike it. As a small child, I remember hating the boredom of needing to learn by rote the times tables at school. That left my appreciation of mathematics scarred for many years. Only when I was approaching my teens I started to like math again, when presented geometry at school. That makes me think, does this traumatic experience with arithmetic tables right at the beginning is what gives math a bad reputation among lots of students, setting them in a course to hate the subject for life? Sometimes I think it would have been better for society to settle in a number system with a smaller base, say 8 or 6, instead of 10, so the tables got a lot smaller (64 or 36 entries, respectively, instead of 100), giving young students a better experience with aritmethics from the outset.
I wonder this as well. Unless it's the CEO/CTO going to jail, it's not actual responsibility... it's just "we'll pay you some tiny amount if we kill someone" YOLO
I am looking forward to reading this but I need to point out that section 1.3 Ignorance is both interesting and necessary. What 1.3 basically outlines is, "I used R for a year, but the way I used R is very different than what most R people use R for."
When you buy commercial off the shelf software such as any ERP, it is not "wrong internal policies / incorrect process" or "loopholes exploited" (notion I've seen in couple of comments here) but a design reality of the mode you're operating in.

The more you customize a COTS application, the harder your support gets and the more pain you get when you patch or upgrade.

Building on top of it is practically as well as procedurally safer. It is, legitimately, reduced risk and impact. You keep the solid stable core that is fully vendor supported, and you have the piece that you built and own neatly separated.

In that way you can almost think of rpa as a shell script: You don't customize the kernel every time you need something done. You leave kernel well alone (and reduce both risk, and pain of future os upgrades) and build on an easier language something you own on top of it that interacts with it.

Note I don't do rpa and my team doesn't do rpa, but I've seen it around and seen it's value. It does feel I'm talking To folks who want to reduce this to "management sucks" as opposed to any effort to try to actually understand a technology's Place in ecosystem though...
You don't have to "make your own cloud" to use Syncthing : you can just set your phone and your laptop as sharing, and never have to handle a server at any time.

Of course it's not magical : for them to be in sync, you'll then have to have both turned on with Syncthing running at the same time.

But if you have something lying around, like an old laptop, it's trivial to have it running, and maintenance is super low, just keep update it from time to time : I have Syncthing running on a low cost server for multiple years, syncing pictures + documents, and the only issue I ever had was disk space running out once.
The best space newsletter with the best people. I wish I could upvote again!!!
I give you that, haven't spent much time on coming up with it.

I would like a competent plumber and if he does some fancy work in his spare time and gets even better than great.

But I would raise an eyebrow if beside my work he will also want to be paid for 6 hours he spent in the weekend, experimenting on his bathroom...
Oh, sorry, you're right, I confused TW with GW.

I used the data from:
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
which dates from 2019, and has become worse than the data from wikipedia that dates from 2009.

135 GW is the total electricity production in France in 2009.
Of which 80.1% were from nuclear power, or 108 GW.

The situation has worsened, nowadays we only have 70% of nuclear power, ie. 61 GW.

This is only the power installed. In terms of energy produced, it's even worse. At least, the 61 GW can produce almost 24h/24h ie. 1464 GWh of energy, while the solar panels work at best half the time, and actually much less, and a lot of their energy is also lost in the transformation required (storage in battery, building and recycling the batteries, etc). That may be acceptable for mobile applications, but to power factories, or static computers, this is a waste.

But my point is that is far from enough to replace carbon based energies, and that we're too late to build the number of nuclear plant that would be needed world wide.
It's been widely reported for decades, I remember hearing about it as a kid.
In countries where such laws exist, most of the same links that take you to a button will immediately unsubscribe instead. I guess IP addresses are used.
It seems like you can install a new module or a pair of identical modules, do a DFU restore, and install a new OS image. I bet eventually there will be aftermarket options.
They don't have to. Their site will be entirely separate and hosted under whatever domain they want.

Imagine using WordPress to construct your website. If some page existed that listed all the sites that use WordPress, and that listed some disagreeable ones (as it surely would), that has very little impact on your usage of the software.
Jason Momoa was 100% Jason Momoa. His (lack of) characterisation was so bad I stared at his scenes in disbelief.
"are more important to more and more law students than due process, the presumption of innocence, and all the norms and values at the foundation of what we think of as the rule of law."

this assumes that there was due process, presumption of innocence and a "rule of law" to start with.

truth is, rich people can afford the best lawyer, poor people have to take a 10 years plea deal.

I gave a bit of thought into this and came out with a solution which is called "loto-lawyer" you spin the wheel, and you get what you get as a lawyer. As ridiculous as it may sound, it would be something closer to justice...
Introduction to Algebraic Data Types
This Pokémon Does Not Exist: Using AI models to create fake cards that look real
Xiaomi is the number one brand in Europe and India, and was the number 3 brand worldwide by unit sales in the year 2021. Xiaomi actually does the worst in its home market. It was the 4th largest brand inside China in Q3 2021, and it fell to 5th place in Q4 2021.
See:
https://www.gsmarena.com/strategy_analytics_xiaomi_is_the_to...
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-03-0...

As for Xiaomi being comically large, I found the mid-range Samsung and Motorola models to have larger bezels and to generally be larger for similar specs when I bought my Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 a couple years ago. The reality is that the majority of phones from Motorola, Xiaomi, LG and Nokia are designed and manufactured by 3 Chinese ODMs (Wingtech, Huaquin and Longcheer), and even 20% of Samsung's phones come from these 3 ODMs. See: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/comparing-l5-and...
Yep. It’s fine to explore the problem space by coding. It’s not fine to think you already have the solution and end up coding yourself into a dead end. Ie. solving the wrong problem.
Be right back, turning this into a SaaS for people who want to avoid traffic :)
The best justice money can buy. If you look past the silly complaints about word choice and such, people like Weiss are complaining that people want to change that.

Same as the nonsense about 'cancelling' - the actual complaint is that uppity low-status people are talking back.

With people like this, every complaint is an admission.
The article isn't about revolutionaries throwing incendiary devices through the windows of law schools. It's about the vested members of the establishment itself voting by a 20-to-1 margin to reflect on the flaws of their system. It's the most mild, milquetoast revolution of all time.
Is the subset R interpreter you wrote available on the net?
> Everyone deserves an attorney, not just even when accused of heinous crimes, but especially when accused of heinous crimes.

Yes, but no lawyer should be forced to defend a specific person either. Effective representation requires at least a basic level of trust and communication between client and lawyer - the consistent negative outcomes associated with poor persons unable to afford their own lawyer and being forced to rely on public defenders who are often overworked and underpaid are long known [1] [2], not to mention that unlike e.g. Germany, DAs in the US are not required to also search for evidence that is helpful to the defense.

In the end, issues of payment aside there will always be a lawyer interested in taking on any case - no matter how heinous - simply because of the publicity that showing good work in defending a client will bring.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/27977109

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/17/poor-r...
This is absolutely spam. Sending not just one unsolicited message but a followup nagging you for not replying is absolutely spammy behavior.
> 95% of companies on the planet do not have the necessary resources or expertise to run a robust authentication infrastructure

Wait, what exactly makes this problem so fundamentally hard?

What stops someone from just releasing a software system that solves the authentication infrastructure problem in a general way (e.g. as Kubernetes did for cloud orchestration)?
Bing and Cortana, the two most important and best working Microsoft products.
Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail
Think of it this way: the two cars (if they’re the same weight) create a virtual immovable object at the impact point.

“Brick wall” is doing a lot of work there - note that it’s not the same as hitting a stationary car at 50mph, that car would move. We rarely encounter actual immovable objects on or near the road, which is why a 50+50 head-on is more violent than a 50+0 collision into something softer.
"Battery swapping, a relatively new technology pioneered in China"

I assume they mean for EVs, since I have been swapping them in my portable devices for decades.

Also, I bemoan the use of the word "technology" just to make something sound more impressive. What technology is involved in swapping batteries?
"Having difficulty" means it's still possible, just difficult and - dark patterns aside - the OP could still succeed if they knew the right steps. Given what OP said though, that's not the case here, so yeah, that phrasing is deflecting responsibility. Definite weasel wording.
If you really really want long options, it's not that hard to just write your own argument parsing function. Certainly it would save you a couple thousand lines of complexity over this. (personally I just use getopts)

#!/usr/bin/env sh
while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
x="$1"; shift
case "$x" in
-v|--verbose)
echo "verbose mode" ;;
-o|--output)
OUTFILE="$1" ; shift ;
echo "Output file is '$OUTFILE'" ;;
esac
done

$ ./foo here is -v an option --output foo.txt command here
verbose mode
Output file is 'foo.txt'
I should have capitalized Pixel, since I meant the phone. iphone doesn't do this as far as I know. if I remember correctly it's to blur the background.
Sicario is his work?! Didn't know that, but liked it a lot.
There are a few things the author did not mention, such as RStudio Server, Shiny. If you get to know them, you will find they do certain tasks extremely well, and there is simply no equivalent of these in other data programing ecosystems.

Comparing R with others as merely a language is close to meaningless. You have to take the whole ecosystems into account.
The problem is that people are rational and 1) the costs of using Uber for routine trips to the bar are very high; and 2) the likelihood of getting in a crash on any particular trip are pretty low. So millions of people every year do the math and decide it's worth the risk.

I think they're wrong to do this, because the worst potential outcome of drunk driving is so devastating and catastrophic that it's personally optimal to eliminate that risk to zero. But the fact is that this isn't really how humans weigh risk.

Obviously anti-drunk-driving campaigns have been somewhat effective. People take this problem more seriously than they did 40 years ago. But I wonder if we aren't at a point of diminishing returns. Some people are going to drive drunk, no matter how many times you tell them to take an Uber.
Open Source Textbook: Introduction to Modern Statistics
I believe something is fishy with the hydro storage number from electricy map, as they report roughly 4000% of hydro storage energy in use (with regards to installed capacity). Would be nice to make some bug report :)
It makes sense as well. If we assume each car has the same mass, and picture the collision from the side, it would appear as if each car was hitting an invisible brick wall that separated them. Or, picture hitting a stationary car while driving 100km/h (perhaps on some frictionless surface) - afterwards, both cars would be sliding at 50km/h.
Please give this a watch with an open mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93A1ryc-WW0

I promise it's worth your time. Being honest, I fell in love with the score before I even knew it was Zimmer's, and once I found out, my first thought was "of course."

To each their own, but if you want an idea of what went into the score, that video above is insightful.
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> People dispensing justice want to see that you're making strides in their movement.

Since when was that the case? The "people dispensing justice" are judges - and separation of powers takes away the interest of the judiciary from being minded in advancing politics, ideology, and 'movements'.

The "people dispensing justice" have no business in the politics of their day -- their business is strictly concerned with law and evidence, not the fashionable ideology of a particular era - especially in the originalist and constitutional context. Any attempt by "the people dispensing justice" intentionally to advance a cause is malpractice and an abuse of process, not sound law.

It is especially worse now that the 'people defining injustice' are now being asked to jump to conclusions and assign culpability upon sand - i.e. upon allegations, rather than upon evidence. That is not the legal system of America that we know of.
Show HN: Coding interviews stress me out, so I built a takehome test tool
To some extent I think "monolith" is actually changing connotation as people realize that microservices are not a silver bullet. For example, Shopify calls their system a "modular monolith":

https://shopify.engineering/deconstructing-monolith-designin...
Even if you're right, there are degrees of inflammation and it's important to avoid the hotter ones.

> the narrow views around here

Hmm, I'd be careful about such generalizations—they usually come from a much smaller set of data points than it feels like they do, resulting in false feelings of generality. People who go down that path mostly end up feeling like "around here" is dominated by the views they most dislike, which is usually neither a pleasant nor an accurate perception.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
1) It looks like I misread subtext. I took it to mean the lawyer did not want to assist Boies in defending Weinstein. I suppose it's a little different if they're just some random unrelated lawyer at the firm. Still, the author made a huge leap from point A to point B.

2) Sure, firing them is your right. I just think it is perfectly acceptable to hold people accountable for their actions even if they felt morally obligated to perform those actions. And I fully support those that choose not to associate themselves with anyone, for any reason.
The Supreme Court just made a US-EU Privacy Shield agreement even harder
If you’re tracing Crash back to Magnolia, keep on going until you reach Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993). Magnolia uses a similar template, just weighs it all down with more melodrama.
One could argue iPhone 7 had computational photography as well. But let's spilt it between Apple actually mentions it, ( iPhone X ) and prior iPhone.

For a long time, iPhones' Camera were the most realistic of all Smartphone Cameras. No HDR, No filters, it tries to preserve the image as real life as it can be. And that means things do look a little dull most of the time without proper lighting and adjustment. It carries on from Steve Jobs era. While Samsung, much like their TV, likes to tune their colour profile with high contrast and pop colours. It was easy for most consumer to think Samsung takes better quality pictures, but Apple stood ground. Refuse to give in, if you wanted professional edited photos alike, use a separate App.

This changed with iPhone X, or more accurately with the release of Google Pixel in 2016. Where the race of computational photography began. Apple decided to show their own take on iPhone X a year later. And since then Apple went all in on eye popping colour. The direction of their Camera profile took a 180 degree change.

And it is sort of strange in 2022, Google Pixel and Samsung actually has less pop colour and contrast compared to an iPhone.

I cant name many things or if any thing Tim Cook's Apple has done right. But I can list many things they have changed and done wrong. Camera being one of them.
What about public defenders? I think it is reasonable for them to defend anyone qualified. Or then arrange funding for private defence.
>but you are unlikely to see it as an ordinary consumer

They have plenty of business customers using it for auth to their external public customers. You can see MGM resorts, Major League Baseball, Albertson's Groceries, etc, here:

https://www.okta.com/customers/
I try to contribute fixes/features I want and think make sense to upstream as much as I can, on projects I'm using either for myself or at work. I've mostly worked for companies that recognise it's worth the extra time to get a patch in a good state to upstream/do the docs/PR properly to avoid being forced to use a fork.
I'm having trouble following what you mean. How can IP address help? What is the point of a button if you are immediately unsubscribed anyways?
National Parks and How to Protect, Expand, and Celebrate Them This Spring.
The first half was about world building. It was atmospheric and interesting, however elusive. Right in the middle when the s** hit the fan, the film started sinking in the quicksand of plotting and by the end the director was MIA. The second half was so Hollywood I felt it was written by Kathleen Kennedy.
This is eroding also. For example, Kathy Hochul ordered that priority be given to patients of "Non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity" when seeking certain covid therapies, citing "longstanding systemic health and social
inequities." The framework operates on a points system, and that affords a point.

See page 3: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/202...
Ah comedic tennis, funerals and research are a thing.

Is there anything so mundane or horrific that we as a species haven’t attempted to make light of it yet?

Maybe this dichotomy is what makes us human.
How Putin’s War Is Sinking Climate Science
The idea that a corporation is just a collective groups of folks is simply wrong.

Take this situation, nobody is going to poll Google employees and ask if they would prefer if Google waived attorney client privilege in this manner and act accordingly.

It's not just a group of folks making decisions, it's a structure for a small group of folks to manage the asset and labor of others with minimal oversight.
A better answer to the, "‘How can you represent someone who’s guilty?’ question is that defense lawyers defend the integrity of the legal system and process against the people who have found themselves in government because the sovereignty of the process is what the rule of law means.

However, the process of litigation is not the representation or discovery of truth, it means currying the favor of a judge or jury - which is what makes current critical theories of social justice so pernicious, because they are also based on this "throw everything at it and see what sticks," approach to political power. Students coming out of schools appear to not be educated as stewards of truth and culture, but as raiders and looters of it.

If you have ever found yourself in opposition to someone using political complaints, they also often litigate in the same way, where you may not have even done something objectively wrong, but you have let yourself become exposed to someone leveraging a taboo against you the way that prosecutors can choose to lever laws, and it doesn't have to be true, if you have something they want (or don't want) there are no conseqeunces to lying or misrepresenting facts in the course of social justice. The judge and jury today is social media and this ubiquitous "narrative," where participants trade in slanders.

Part of this ideology is that "muh freedom," e.g. limits to state power and accountability to principle, only deprives marginalized people of complete power to wield justice if/when they seize the reins of it, but it is supported by another intellectual solvent of subjectivity that means there is no objective truth, only appeals to power and consequences.

These are the factors that made their way out of the courts, into the culture, and are now making their way back into the courts as a zombie freak ideology where there is no truth or meaning in language, and sadly I don't see the centre holding.
Why would getopts be discouraged?

Where does the POSIX standard say that getopts is discouraged?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/g...

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
You could make this same video about Las Vegas, but it would be more on point.
A new tool for finding dark matter digs up nothing
It doesn't. It's just ironic. They end up in my spam box thanks to Gmail not thanks to the law.
Finally a good source on space from business lens, the industry has really been lacking- love reading every morning for my talking points
Couldn't you print the snippet as a QRCode and then scan it on the air gapped system?
Hi HN – I’m Karim, the creator of Fairlane. I built this because as a hiring manager I found out the hard way that take-home projects were way better than any other way to screen candidates.

I know some people here are very against take-home projects but believe me, lots of candidates love them because they remove the stress of having to code live in front of a stranger (me included!).

As a hiring manager, take-homes also let me take more chances on candidates since I didn’t have to convince one of my colleagues to give them a phone screen. The only issue with takehomes is that they’re pretty intensive logistically – there's a lot of emailing back and forth with the candidate to find an appropriate time, following up to ask for the source code, etc.

Please let me know if you have any questions – AMA here and you can also reach out by email at karim@fairlane.io!
> The final section blames South Africa's recent issues on... checks notes... the end of apartheid.

You have a much more creative sense of reading comprehension than I do.

Nobody said anything about the end of apartheid. They are complaining about the bad things that can/could come having a legal system that is not demographically blind. The article quoted someone saying something dumb about implementing a policy like SA did that had less than stellar results. And then the article went on to quote people who were calling that original quote dumb.