skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to help, but you actually supported my point. You learnt guitar because you wanted the good feeling of people joining in you, which is the feeling of admiration.

You've supposedly been very successful and are caring of your friends, so I might be wrong of course. But it sounds like a case of socialmedia addiction along with incel-esk belief that if you matched a certain image, women would simply line up. You should do things because they are your passion.

To test this, is there a skill you're proud of and promote as your image that would not be seen as classically attractive? A stunning Pong score, a weirdly advance knowledge of B52 planes? A passion for fantasy books and their effect on the Mongolian peninsula?
No mention of pirates? Or hackers that can just hijack whole ship.
Yeah I don't think you are going to get far with React + Kotlin/JS if you haven't used React before.
Guilt–shame–fear spectrum of cultures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt%E2%80%93shame%E2%80%93fe...
But the "proprietary crap" part is where they've implemented all of the Python support, among other things, isn't it? And last time I looked the license prohibited using Microsoft's proprietary plugins with VS Codium.
I found this video to be an excellent explanation and sufficient to implement the algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9EbD6iY9zI

Code: https://gist.github.com/void4/6f5ff23a3df81d6115fceb6adefddd...

This site contains a nice visualization: https://sha256algorithm.com/
Sorry, there was a typo in my comment (very -> were). What I wanted to say is that the situation in Europe is actually better in most places now than it was in the past.
It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
Apple hit it well and truely out of the park with their M1 and follow ons. No other company makes their own CPU cores. They license them from ARM. I suppose Qcomm or NVIDIA could take an ARM core and make a great Laptop/Desktop SoC but I think they dont have the capability to do so.

Also, IBM established and propagated the PC standard. That was adopted by many others. While there is a ARM standard for servers that is just started to gain some traction there is no Desktop/Laptop standard spec.
Quantum physics sets a speed limit to electronics
> a) Implies someone thinks they are too important to deal with emails that they establish a paywall ... So its basically arrogance mixed with an inability to manage their time correctly.

I don't have a PA (ha!) but I still get a lot of random email from people wanting to get in touch. Especially just after I publish something. And I find it socially overwhelming to respond to everyone - especially when lots of folks seem nice & interesting, and they're asking to schedule a zoom chat or something. I like a lot of those conversations when we have them - but scheduling and socializing really takes it out of me. And that means less coding time, which costs.

I suspect making people donate $1 to a charity in order to reach me would help cut down almost all of the traffic. Gosh, I'd enable that on linkedin in a heartbeat if I could. If everyone who messaged me on linkedin first paid $5 to a charity for the privilege first, I might even check my linkedin messages.

But for email, my worry is that it would filter out the interesting people, and leave the pushiest and most entitled people in my inbox. Probably leave them feeling even more entitled to my time.

> So its basically arrogance mixed with an inability to manage their time correctly.

I wouldn't characterize introvert tenancies + social overwhelm from strangers as "arrogance". To briefly reframe it, nobody is entitled to my time no matter how nicely worded their email is, or how much effort they put in to a pull request. My attention is my own to direct. If you're a stranger to me, basic civility doesn't demand I reply to your email, or publish my email address at all. I often do reply; but the decision (and the rules) are up to me (the receiver). Not up to the sender.
> A 20MB interpreted bundled in the browser is basically nothing considering the browser sizes.

My install of Google Chrome is around 85 MB. 20 MB is a lot more than nothing.
I'm not going to claim answers, but many of the scientists on the WHO investigation and in that letter have conficts of interest: careers based on collaborations with labs in China, careers based on funding labs in China, etc. Dependencies upon the continuation of Chinese government support and upon the continuation of gain-of-function research. Many of these conflicts are still undeclared. Not to mention that the WHO panel reviewers were not able to access the raw data: data was synthesized for them by scientists of the Chinese government.
> In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, she can calculate its future for all time and all space.

No (or only in very special configurations). See for example the n-body problem.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem
(Kind Reminder) China's Nuclear Pledge to Ukraine (?)
Does our word need an etymology? Looks to be beyond MVW scope. (or should I say MLW here?)
> select a few random notes from my database

I've got a Shortcut which surfaces 10 random links from Pocket (which haven't already been surfaced - they get tagged) to the top because I am woeful at remembering to read things I've bookmarked.

(Unfortunately it also relies on having your Pocket links as a text file because their API doesn't have a way to find out how many URLs you've saved which means you need to download the entire set if you want to make a random selection...)
Not sure what you are seeing, but I don't have an account and the "continue reading" button is not a paywall indicator, it just works when you click it - in case you refer to that?
Scientists Are Working on “Contagious Vaccines”
Lagged replication is truly a great feature. Nowadays, on most systems we run one instant replica and one with 24 hours delay.
The screening/Faraday cage will still work with the mains power disconnected, so one should ensure the mains plug is removed before such a test.

Note: I'm a past master at destroying old electronics in my microvave (this way I can't change my mind later and then not throw it out).

About three seconds is all it takes (just time for the magnetron filament to warm up) - any longer and the stuff starts to stink from the heat. There's no second chance if you make a mistake.
There’s nothing inherently wrong about short videos. Content isn’t inherently good because it’s longer or on a specific medium. Nobody is saying that only one type should exist.

Everything has its place.
Anything by Cathy ONeill is worth a read to me. OK admittedly i am downloading the audiobook but at least I get to listen to her for a few hours as well - intelligent and still caring - a great social commentator
She's young, she panicked, she came back. She is from another culture and I knew she'd been reported a flight risk from abc news reporting iirc.

Your point is well made. I probably wouldn't post given a second run.
For the record, I made (and make) no claims about "non-Lisp developers not being smart enough".

My claim is that Lisp is perfect for thinking about a new idea or a new approach.

For example, I implemented a program that merged Expert Systems and Knowledge Representation into a single system (KROPS) that allowed a domain expert to express their knowledge as rules or as facts. Anything the system learned by either method could be expressed in either representation. Thus, the two representations were "unified".

Another effort involved Human-Robot Cooperation to change a car tire (TIRES). The system could interact with the human through pseudo-natural language, learn rules dynamically, and expand its knowledge base of the current situation in real time. So the system self-modifies and learns through human interaction on the task.

Both of these systems required self-modifying code which is rather more difficult to do in other languages. In Lisp this is trivial.

As for commercial sales witness:

Axiom, a 1.2 million line Computer Algebra program written in Common Lisp, was sold commercially by the Numerical Algorithms Group.

YESOPS, an IBM Expert System program implemented in Common Lisp, was sold commercially.
There are generally two choices for immigrants to any country really. You either keep the spelling of your name or you (try to) keep the pronunciation.

The first is the only realistic choice in a lot of areas - if you are going from latin alphabet to latin alphabet. I'm not even sure how to spell my name to get a Norwegian-speaking person to pronounce it correctly, honestly, though a few folks that know it is a common American name do well. Even then, I'd have to first change it on my American passport and documents first. It isn't worth the trouble at all.
> I'm not sure whether Srp is similar. The Serbian-language word for the Serbian language itself is Srpski (српски), but srp is also Slavic for “sickle”...

Native speaker here, these are in fact two different words, since the change that happens in the root of the word 'Srb' that converts it to 'Srp' when the suffix 'ski' is added is called Consonant voicing or originally 'Jednacenje suglasnika po zvucnosti'.
This is cool! I was looking for something to integrate into an automated downloading setup. I had already setup a docker container that connected to wireguard and then the other containers would connect to the internet through that one, but doing it with socks is a lot easier and more of an out-of-the-box config. Decreasing complexity. Very nice!
Mercedes says they will only take legal responsibility "while the system is active."

The system will deactivate and hand control (and liability) right back to the human just in the nick of time if it encounters any marginal conditions (stormy weather, presence of emergency vehicles, etc…).

So it looks like just an attempt to one-up Tesla with a marketing gimmick.
Is this refering to simulations to recreate The Large Scale Structure, by specifying initial conditions?
And I say all of this as someone who tried to learn guitar because I wanted to have that cool singing moment, but looking back I just wanted to be the center of attention. Which is very unattractive.
Autopilot operates on normal roads. It’s essentially lane following and dynamic cruise control.
Because I trust hacker news (somewhat), I just installed tiktok for the first time.

15 minutes into it I felt it starting to suck time out of my life because the algorithm is repsecting my wishes and (unlike others) seems to recognize that people have more than one interest and that not interested means not interested.

I just removed it again for that very reason.
Nature’s Neglected GoF Laboratory
Not sure if anyone made that claim in this thread.

It is however true that "an average person in portugal" can get around 1.5 mac mini m1 and not 0.5 as you claimed. Given that a computer may easily last someone 10 years of usage, and that its a tool people use to earn money, it does not seem relatively expensive.
Generally, with an added yet invisible vowel. Entire languages are written without vowels as we (with the latin alphabet/english speakers) would know them. (Hebrew and Arabic are the languages I had in mind).
Surely not, drugs are bad or so i've been told and I _never_ question what people have told me. Especially when I trust them because if I trust them then they are right by definition because I only trust people who are right.

And if you read that without noticing the sarcasm then just stay away from drugs.
It was in 2015. Mozilla's post: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit... and HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10021376
Malicious Packages in NPM Targeting Azure Developers
Political party membership is not a protected class. Ditto for "illness" (I think you meant 'disablity'?)
Maybe he could try again with Jetpack Compose for JS? Then he can use his Android knowledge for the UI and there is less complications with bridging Kotlin code in JS/typescript. To be fair though, Jetpack compose for web is quite new so there is not yet a big ecosystem.
> Nowadays, it would be considered disrespectful to call a language feature "confusing" (also it would sound dumb)

I disagree. IMO "confusing" is not a value judgement. It’s simply confusing to any person who doesn’t know this accent. I for example would have no idea what the difference between č and c is. That does not mean I lack respect or that I’m dumb, that simply means I don’t know it. I’d expect someone who never encountered German Umlauts to be confused when they encounter Ö. Hell, I’d even expect someone who never saw Latin letters before to be confused about Latin letters.
I'm with you on the fashion bit but I'm a recent immigrant (to Australia, as it happens) and the driving culture here feels a lot saner than where I'm from. Being asked for bribes, ignoring pedestrian lights and crosswalks, queuing across and blocking intersections, etc.

Is that a controversial observation?
I first heard about this on JRE and subsequent articles based on JRE.

However, China did pass "Recommendation Algorithm Regulations"[0]. Not sure if enforced.

ByteDance does operate a separate Chinese app specifically for kids[1], which is enforcing the recent anti-gaming regulation (no nighttime access, 40 minutes per day only).

The app also enforces that all kids use their real name, and they stated the following about content[2]:

In the youth mode, we have also prepared wonderful content for you, such as novel and interesting science experiments, exhibitions in museums and galleries, beautiful scenery all over the country, historical knowledge explanations, etc. I hope these contents can arouse children's interest in a certain field, and they will learn and gain something while watching the video.

[0]: https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-passes-sweeping-re...

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-20/bytedance...

[2]: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zp43DhzwanDApoPCIgCvJQ
Had been writing SQLs for decades. In the beginning tried all kinds of joins, but every one of those had some unwanted side effect. Especially where there were un-expected nulls.

Figured out LEFT JOIN eliminated all of those and produced what I want.

Had been using LEFT JOIN since. I ever remember only one time when I didn't use left join, because that case needed a full join.
Will Taiwan chip engineers be key to success in the race for tech supremacy?
JupyterLite would probably be my go-to for working on a script or just trying out some Python or something like that. It looks like it'd be way less friction than getting Jupyter running locally, especially if you don’t use Python often.

Pyground is specifically written for a use case I wanted to optimise: to get data from a file on your local machine into a structured Python variable fast. I think with Jupyterlite you’d have to upload the file and then write your own code to read it/parse timestamps, which is just boilerplate. So if you're trying to do something like that and don't need anything else that JupyterLite offers then pyground might get you there faster. JupyterLite is way more flexible though.

Also you can use pyground to load the data, then do `import pickle; pickle.dumps(data)` in pyground, copy the output and then do `import pickle; data = pickle.loads(<copied output>)` in JupyterLite and you'll have the loaded data variable way faster than writing that code yourself and all the flexibility of JupyterLite :)
Unless you are exposed to the languages, no one realistically knows how to pronounce them.

I'm going to guess, however, that the real reason for dropping them was due to typewriters (and later computers) that simply don't have them as an option. You can't print punctuation and letters that you simply don't have access to. ö, ø, å, æ and the like get dropped as well.
Does the talk do a comparison to Pyodide? Seems very similar and I'd be very interested to hear what the advantages and disadvantages are.
Having to install QuickTime on Windows was far from a pleasant experience. If I remember correctly, it came with its own non-native UI and a massive pile of bloat you never used. It was incredibly slow.

Before it (thankfully) disappeared altogether, we used the tiny and much faster "QuickTime alternative" player, to avoid needing to install the original.
It's more cultural than racial.

The 23 year old wearing the Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt driving the expensive car with custom plates just screams young immigrant with rich parents.

I'm not making any claims that there something wrong with being an immigrant, they're just easy to pick out.
"Infosys has a small team of employees based out of Russia, that services some of our global clients, locally," it said.

"We do not have any active business relationships with local Russian enterprises."

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/03/25/ind...
Ask HN: How do I secure the domain for my business?
In all of my infrastructure, the provider hosting my domain (nameserver) is the most critical part. If I lose the account/access to whatever provider is hosting my domains everything crumbles. It's a single point of failure.

What are best practices to make this as secure as possible?
DEC didn't have it in their DNA to compete on price and deliver 'good enough' solutions. We praise them today for these fantastically robust boards and very clean power delivery, but in the end it destroyed the company. Ken Olsen was wilfully blind to the PC revolution, mainly because he knew he couldn't get the margins needed from home users for his over-engineered designs and expensive sales teams.
Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years
I have a master in physics, but I share your surprise over this paragraph in the OP.

I’m a bit unsure though how widely and quickly the probability mass dissipates over possible future states. E.g. the existence of quantum computers implies that at least in some physical systems the probability mass stays concentrated on a few possible future states. I wouldn’t expect that to hold for the universe as a whole though.
So teaching Mandarin is validating the CCP? God forbid you take a tiny step outside your own culture and pick up the basics of a different language.
Not trying to be rude, I am genuinely curious how a niche, low quality project like this is the 11th post on HN?
>Refresh rate is linked to mains frequency.

It doesn't have to be. Japan has a split power grid with 50Hz in the east and 60Hz in the west, but television frequency is 60Hz on both sides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan#/m...
Treat them as any other user/customer. Obviously you are doing something right and they want to check out their competitors.
They stopped doing this in 2020. Now you can easily find very popular subversive content
I love that I can read the whole page without scrolling.
Plagiarism at Yale School of Management
Sure, why not. However, will they be? No.
For a simple example, [integer-overflow attacks](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/intege... ) could be trivially prevented by always bounds-checking integers.

For another simple example, [buffer-overflow attacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow#Exploitation ) could be trivially prevented through the same sorts of checks.

A popular website for programmers, [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/ ), was named after this sort of thing.

Then there're memory-management errors that could be prevented through automated-memory-management (e.g., [use-after-free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_pointer#Security_hole... )), invalid-parameter exploits that could be prevented by parameter-validation, format-exploits that could be prevented by proper encoding (e.g., [SQL injection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection )), etc..

Likewise, the current zero-day affecting Google's Chrome presumably could've been prevented with more robust type-checking on everything (assuming the bug is as-reported in the article). Such type-checking might be a bit slower, and possibly require a bit more RAM if objects weren't already carrying type-identifiers, but then no such zero-days, either.

A specific optimization that might be faulted for this zero-day in Google's Chrome, etc., might be describable as [type erasure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_erasure ). Presumably this was done because carrying type-identifiers (basically a tag that says what type an object is) requires more RAM (to store the type-identifiers) and more computation (to check that type-identifiers are correct/etc.). However, other optimizations may've been factors in this zero-day too.
Individual particle decay is also truly random/unpredictable
Not quite. Anerican corporations made a steal in Iraq. That country was robbed.

And pushing America's economic interests like prolonging dollar as main currency of resource trade was huge benefit to every USA citizen because main USA export is the dollar. That's why USA van run deficit for decades and be the richest country on Earth.
It sounds like you are trying to find differences where there are none.

It also looks like you're forgetting that Java has been for years (decades) owned by Oracle, which is renowned for taking very public legal fights to milk Java to the extreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
the 1% is extremely important though, and the tools for it look very different.

I do algorithm design, a lot of which is seeing what's possible/feasible before committing. I prototyped a classical AI planning system for orchestrating maintenance. there's no battle-tested standard library to reach for here. I needed prolog, I chose picat because it had a good planning engine.

before this, I worked on an NP-hard graph problem that involved tons of topological transformations for heuristics. I wrote the damn thing in C#. it was a nightmare. it's so hard to iterate and experiment in a language like that. even using something like Python/Jupyter, nested loops and horrible messes of bidirectional maps and indices bog you down. I should have done functional. nobody touched my code for two years because it was pure math. I think using C# made it much harder to understand - too much scaffolding obscured the semantics.

now I'm doing another NP-hard graph problem. this time I'm using MiniZinc. because it's concise, because it's powerful enough that I can at least figure out how to specify my problem and see where scale falls down.

so I'm in this position of using a menagerie of bizarre languages not because I'm a hipster obsessed with pretty code, but because my problem domains are really weird and maintainability doesn't matter when you're not sure if what your goal is even possible. something like Lisp - a lingua franca for weird DSLs - would be great, for my very niche use case.
Tesla puts way more marketing BS than others, so I naturally believe others more.
In most chicken egg problems you have to provide either side at the start.

For example reddit got big by simply posting themselves until they had enough users posting for them and gaining traction.

It's kinda hard to do that in a dating app. Maybe that's where the bots come from.
I suspect the reason people claim that is they are training ML models, which may take O(hours ~ days) to run anyways. In this usecase, C++ calling C++ is faster than Python calling C++ slightly in O(seconds) is outweighed by the fact that Python is more convenient for the ML practitioner trying different models.
Duang (2015)
> I expect most people know not to microwave their phones

I think you're vastly underestimating how little people know. A friendly FYI: seems you're in some kind of a bubble.

Personally I didn't learn about don't-microwave-metal (incl phones), until I was about 20 -- and at that time, I had already been studying physics at university for a year, and knew vastly much more than what most people ever will. I wouldn't say I was a child, at that time.

Be happy if people in general realize that photons and coronavirus aren't the same thing, although they're both small.