skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Floating point numbers are represented in a form mantissa*2^exponent and they are distributed non-uniformly over their dynamic range. The density of normalized 64-bit floats around zero is about 10^-320, while around one is about 10^-16. Therefore, do not expect to get the smallest positive float in sampling from a uniform distribution over [0,1]. There is a good tutorial about floating point numbers and their pitfalls written for computer scientists [0] where Figure 1 on page 7 (pdf page count 3) shows how non-uniformly floating point numbers are distributed over the number line.

[0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~david/courses/cs552/S12/handouts/...
Funny, last time around it wasn't the interviewing that got to me, but the nightmare of lining up and going through interviews while also having a young baby and working full time. I remember working during the baby's naps on the weekend and then doing take home quizzes / online tests at like 10pm and like, barely scraping through.

I considered applying for Google at the time, but the combination of the famously arduous interview process, AFAIK both in terms of the time taken and difficulty (for which the recruiter recommended taking further studies in advanced data structures and algorithms) meant that attempting it would be silly.
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TikTok Brain Explained: Why Some Kids Seem Hooked on Social Video Feeds
I think “your ice cream” is perfectly appropriate.

The flip side to seeing wealth as communal is that you need to respect the division when it happens. As custodian of the family’s money, you bought everybody ice cream. But some of that ice cream is now yours. It’s your fair share of the ice cream, you picked the flavours and the sprinkles and what not, because it was for you. It’s entirely appropriate, and indeed desirable, to assert ownership over that. Not respecting boundaries is a Bad Thing.

What you can, and should, teach on top of that is generosity. “This is my ice cream and mine alone, but you can taste it if you like.” That sort of idea.

It’s your decision to share, but sharing your ice cream with me means you get to see my smile as I try that really good flavour you asked for, and that smile is really valuable.
> [...] rinses the dishes for the dishwasher [...]

Is that a thing in the US? My current dishwasher is from 2015, stock standard Ikea.

I never had to rinse anything for it to come out sparkling clean. Even in the fast program that only runs 64mins.

The other day I had an Airbnb guest from NYC and I saw him rinsing. And when asked why he told me that was necessary because the dishwasher couldn't cope with it otherwise and stuff would come out dirty.

He looked perplexed when I told him no dishwasher I used for over twenty years required rinsing beforehand.

Is this 'rinsing requirement' an urban myth sticking around in some areas of the world?

Edit: I live in Berlin but have been living in Australia, the UK, Japan and Italy over the last two decades. No dishwashers in the apartments I lived in in those countries required rinsing either.
> mostly for speed reasons that were valid 20+ years ago.

I think it is more likely the same issue Posix had, the official standard came after the implementations. So it had to unify all existing implementations under the same definition. Which means the standard could not require sane behavior if even a single implementation failed to validate its input or two implementations disagreed on the exact error.
We have a slack bot you can summon to deploy the site. We also have a QA version of the site to proofread articles and see how they look before publishing. The notion database has a "Published" checkbox on each blog row, which controls which posts make it into the production blog.
Yes, I have some training in adjacent areas and have found the political argument very frustrating. The molecular evidence is very compelling for natural evolution. The idea of a naturally discovered virus leaking from a lab is plausible, but the accusations of it being lab created are absurd.
> And I wouldn't be surprised if it has come up in discussions, too.

This is an oddly hostile take about one of the best corporate citizens the web has, IMO.

There is an open question about what happens to the theme market generally once truly block-configurable themes exist (how many themes are necessary, really?) but pivoting that into some evil empire fantasy about Automattic -- a business that rescued Tumblr, that bought Simplenote to run it for free forever without ads simply because Matt Mullenweg depends on it -- seems a little odd.
The Red-Pill Prince
brainless entertainment
> break hard for a paper bag

This is why you have radar as well. The paper bag absorbs minimal energy and you roll through it. (also it's "brake")
I bet the most popular track name in techno is “Untitled”.
This seems like a product fit for content farms/SEO optimised sites that have no intention of anybody reading the output.
gotta include the opportunity cost of not knowing your supplychain when outsourcing
> Go anywhere you want.

Which is the office where my coworkers are. It makes working a lot more fun for me.
> Whoever says overall productivity increases, is probably talking about very disciplined individuals.

That's a very simplistic view of productivity. The kind of work most people here are doing cannot be measured in hours. I can be in an office for 10 hours, bash my keyboard, blabber away in meetings and not produce anything useful. Conversely, I could spend the whole day sitting in the garden and come up with an idea to solve a problem that has been plaguing the company for months.

If people are working an hour a day and still getting their job done then great. If they aren't getting anything done but it's not being noticed then that means they never had a job to do anyway. Being remote doesn't change anything.
It seems like either a typical class action suit. The city's negligence/unenforcement led to higher rents in that neighborhood.

Or could be even easier to show that the lack of said units led to displacement for actual families.

I'm not saying it's easy peasy but if affordable unit advocates believe they are important then logically enforcing the regulations they fought for shouldn't be just shrugged off, at least as a signal to cities and developers.
True, but the article is all about electromagnetism, not acoustics.
I'm sure the author of the article was not the same person as the person who made the graphics. They probably ought to have communicated with each other a bit more clearly.
Please divert all of your charity spending to archive.org
Doesn't seem to solve the current problem, but definitely looks like a useful tool since I sometimes need to do timing diagrams as well. Good recommendation!
I used to publish a personal blog solely in Emacs. Then I upgraded my Emacs version and some quirks I relied on got fixed, so I can't publish anymore. I also got children to take care of, so I can't spend much time taking care of a somewhat brittle configuration.

I'm thinking about either

- containerising an older Emacs version configured just for this,

- hosting something like WordPress on my own, or

- looking for a hosted alternative.

I heard Drutopia was run as a co-operative which seems like a great idea for a writing platform. However, it doesn't seem that way from their website.

If you know of a co-op in this space, let me know!
"Error establishing a database connection".
Communism in North Korea started after WW2, so it has 75+ (three quarters of a century - 1946 to today), while communism started in Russia after WW1, but, at least officially, ended with fall of USSR in 1991 - so in there it was for 70+ years (1918 to 1991).
Not-forking tool to merge multiple upstreams
> But I’ve not heard of anyone doing great science (or great anything really) because they went on a trip.

Kary Mullis claims to have come up with the idea for PCR while on an LSD trip, though he also said a lot of nonsense so I'm not sure you should be too much weight on that.
Worth noting that a lot of HN lives in Europe which seems to manage to legislate these things a lot better. My own view is that the US failings in this area are in large part the fault of the “small government, no regulations” crowd hamstringing legislation and giving lobbying groups a chance to influence proceedings. If government jobs were considered higher status (a cultural issue) then there likely wouldn’t be nearly as much corruption.
Seems like even the page 2 didn't have the time to get archived https://web.archive.org/web/20220402201945/https://contrachr...
They were abused as DDL warez host that's mainly why they dialed back on the storage.
Of course, I already started building my page via Jekyll (and I have the domain and the hardware to host it), but wanted to see if there are any more carefree options, just for fun actually.

Looks like I'll continue building that page via Jekyll on the same hardware. Probably automating the "generate-publish" cycle a bit with some little CI/CD pipeline and calling it a day is a safe bet.
Thoughts on Writing
The only real gladiator stuff going on today is Calcio Storico.

Proof me wrong.
US$15/month in India is EXTREMELY expensive. The average monthly salary in the country is US$210, to give some perspective. Obviously there are many people particularly in urban areas who make far more, but that base price is sky-high.
Dishwasher soap in the US is garbage now, so you have to scrub anything that might possibly stick on, despite the wash cycle on my dishwasher taking nearly two and a half hours.
PDF version that doesn’t need to connect to any databases: https://contrachrome.com/ContraChrome_en.pdf
I've noticed some of these for years. When designing a music database, you do need to be aware of them. You need to use unique identifiers instead of names. last.fm doesn't do this.

There were four bands called Kaleidoscope, all active around the same time: one from England, one from Mexico, one from the USA, and one from Canada. To disambiguate them, generally the country is specified, e.g. Kaleidoscope (UK).

There were two bands called Bulldog Breed, both of which recorded albums called Made in England. They're decades apart, but as albums can be re-released, they're normally disambiguated by record label, e.g. Bulldog Breed: Made in England (Deram).

There are two Nirvanas, the original UK-based band, and the US one. The UK Nirvana recorded a cover of Lithium.

You'll be aware that the Beatles recorded an album called Revolver. A Russian band, called Revolver, recorded an album called Beatles.

Do you include the definite article in the band's name? If so, what about The The?

Tintern Abbey released a single single, the A-side of which was called Beeside.
Nobody’s gotten there, but I remain convinced this is the future for networks like Tile and Apple’s AirTags. Not the tags themselves, obviously. The idea of having a huge phone/app network that can relay messages for simple embedded devices that don’t themselves have a working Internet connection. Imagine having a $.50 BT chip in your device and any mobile phone that walks near it acts as a messaging relay to the Internet.
Do you have a source for that claim? It sounds like nonsense. My parents divorced when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I’m pretty sure it would be unimaginably more traumatic if one of them had died instead.
I'm not even complaining, at best I'm armchair quarterbacking :)

I made an observation that mixing local politics with getting approval for an already set rules seems ripe for conflicts of interest, inconsistency, arbitrariness, predictably bad optics when local special interest groups get favorable treatment compared to less special (ie. poorer) groups.

basically separation of powers is missing at the local level. the executive branch (ie. civil service) should be separate from the local "legislature"
EU draft law adds security checks to all crypto transactions
Doesn't have the leaked csgo,tf2 source code. Why even bother...
Of course. The problem doesn't (in fact, never) lies with you - it's always the _others_ who are incapable of practicing moral acts that are at fault.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30893815
The opposite goes for offering the storage with traffic. AWS, gcloud, azure everyone had price adjustment last year especially on the storage side of things.
The real magic mouse is made by Logitech, not Apple
This works well for non-tech people? From a developer perspective, static websites are a dream, but accurate live previews and immediate/fast deploys on edits for site editors can be obstacles depending on your setup.
Where did pornography come from?

I’d argue social media is far
more damaging, especially Twitter and the advent of outrage culture. It breeds hatred and intolerance, two thought patterns that will send us back 30 years.
WordPress(.org) has completely lost it. It started outputting real junk in the html[0], out of the blue. This kind of stuff should be at least opt-in.

With this block madness it turned from a "semantic publishing platform" to some lousy PowerPoint for the web.

It's time for a hard fork, or for some new project/idea to disrupt it. It may take some time, but this is something inevitable at this point.

[0]: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38299
Why wouldn’t you just search for the app in your App Store if you want it?
Albini is a complicated figure and much of his rhetoric is at times in contradiction with his actions.

In Utero is a truly fantastic album, and the sound was/is radical and unusual and …

It’s unclear to me whether this had anything to do with what the band wanted, being true to how the band heard themselves, or any of that stuff.
Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits (2012)
thanks for your comment. Environment for collections is definitely on the roadmap. Probably one of the first things I will implement next. How would you want a feature like this to look? Is having multiple collections with the same content but different environments OK or would you rather have one collection with multiple environments and you can switch them at the click of a button?
Pretty sure Olly Moss is still at Valve
Work it through.

Person X spends $10 at casino C. C has gross profit of 10 at this point.

X wins! C pays X $100. C's profit on X is now 10 - 100.

X puts their $100 back into casino and leaves sadder and hopefully wiser. C's profit is now 10 - 100 + 100.

In other words, $10.
As much as I share your sentiment, my daughters disagree.

They buy quality handbags, jewellery and jackets, but everything else is a consumable. They do share their clothing amongst each other and a couple of close friends, but otherwise will hardly wear a combination more than once (outside that is).

Here I am, buying all my cloths in 5 fold, since I do not like matching different items.
Social media wasn't ubiquitous and certainly not mobile. What was there was an extension of your meat space life. It wasn't until the late 00s early 10s that social media blew up and took on a life of it's own.
In the last 6 months Vizio's stock price has fallen from ~$20 a share to Friday's close of $9.06. They'll get more from progressively fewer until they have nothing at all.
If it's a site you use often, and you have basic css skills, you can use a plugin like stylus to apply your own custom css. I use it on a lot of websites that only have a dark mode option.
As a guy of 50 I observe we are at the end of a 20 year sales funnel squeeze for the big online providers of free.

As the article points out when companies start to charge they may not be charging for what we want. For example, I've just migrated from Gsuite free as their squeeze wants me to pay for features I don't want.

A lot of us have been spending a lot of time at the digital mall and may find ourselves back in our local, smaller shops. Maybe not a bad thing.
Provocative, you could say.
Not the OP, but search for some of the exported methods can sometimes bring up details.
2001, before that, 1990.
One the queries will fail with something like SQLITE_BUSY
I believe it’s actually the other way around. Smart tvs are subsidised because they expect to make money off of ads.
Strong disagree.

For me Nevermind is more pop.
> Kay: [OOP] is basically an abstraction of an unlimited number of complete computers networked together (and where — by definition — the interior of the computers can also be a system of computers (both real and virtual). If you only worry about semantics, this provides a very powerful universal building block at all scales.

Maybe I missed it, but I don’t recollect Kay using this generalization before.
Why would I need to make a comic if I spent 80% of the comic close up in someone's face with text all around him.
Imagine the reaction to

The Secretive Russian Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside the USA

The Secretive Iranian Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside the USA

The Secretive North Korean Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside the USA

The Secretive Israeli Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside the USA

Really makes you think
The trend I have seen with clothing brands is most often once they become popular, become a recognized "brand name" - often because of their high quality, good design, and relative affordability. Then the economies of scale "engineers" of business folks start to scale it by reducing costs (less quality control, lower quality materials, etc) to maximize profit per unit sold - milking the brand as quickly as possible to extract as much as they can as soon as they can. This leads towards killing the brand or where it just becomes at par with whatever the status quo ecosystem allows based on environmental costs like mall rental space, etc.

Executives seem to know or are making the bet that brands may not stay popular for long as it may be fad buying and not a sustainable trend, or they simply know they can make more money individually/selfishly if they use these tactics - and hire people who use these tactics; why make $15+ million over 20 years when you maybe could milk a brand to death and get $10+ million in 5 years?

What I wonder is though are there potential pitfalls of this for consumers?

Have they or anyone done a study on cost changes, e.g. will costs increase substantially in short-term but perhaps that is more than made up on the tail end with the durability?

Did they publish a list of known poor quality textiles, I imagine that would include such things as low thread count for the textile and perhaps for stitching as well?

Does this impact certain styles of clothing that say due to their sheer nature?
Well, I sure was hoping this was a good excuse to play some SuperC in the browser this morning...
>One theory of why you see so much symmetry in biology is that it takes less information to build something using symmetry than specifying the whole directly.

This makes a lot of sense.

It works the same way in computer programming. Instead of rewriting generic code for every new program, components can be split off into separate files and called when needed in a standardized way. This speeds up development and leaves less room for error.

It's not very far fetched to think other life forms are using the same strategy unconsciously to fuel their own evolution.
Could be both.. My power usage today is way less than half what it was 20 years ago.

With remote working, my travel consumption is way way down. Food delivery has all but stopped my need to ever get in my car.

I mean it's not the end solution, but it's not a non-starter

Nuclear though. 100%
This sounds like one of those tools that was built internally that could spin out to be it's own project/startup. It's such a clever and easy way to solve their problems.
I have still to see one thing this web3 is supposed to solve that cannot reasonably be solved with the standard web1.0
I think the OP knows that, but complains about the fact that randint()/INT_MAX (which my mind autocorrects to rand()/RAND_MAX) takes on at most RAND_MAX+1 different values (that _may_ be as low as 32,768), and returns each one with equal probability, so that it returns zero 1 in (RAND_MAX+1) times, on average, and won’t ever return most possible floats in [0,1]

Even if you decide that returning only RAND_MAX+1 different values, I think you should divide the [0,1] interval into RAND_MAX+1 equal sized intervals and return the floating point value at the center of one of such intervals. The given solution has both zero and one stand for a value in an interval of size 1/(2RAND_MAX), but picks them with probability 1/RAND_MAX, so it picked both of them way too often.

Aside from that there’s:

- rand(), on many systems, is a very poor random number generator.

- the API of rand()* is poor. Because there’s only one global state, you can’t run multiple independent generators, and it doesn’t help you much as soon as you want to generate anything other than a discrete distribution with RAND_MAX+1 items (a number that even is implementation dependent, so that portable code needs special care even if it may not be needed on most platforms). For example, because RAND_MAX may be even, you can’t even simulate a fair coin toss with a single call of rand().
Lets be honest: your daughters are a victim of the cheap fashion brands and their succesful campaigns to brainwash people into thinking you need to have new clothed every week.
Youki's v0.0.3 with WASM support, a container checkpoint support
To add on to the list of bot competitions: there's a really great one with a nice interface for a version of blind chess: https://rbc.jhuapl.edu/
Ukraine’s holding yearly war games with NATO on its territory since 2014 - Rapid Trident. This was launched at the explicit request of Ukraine, which had a political change of direction that same year.

Russia is always worried about NATO. Courting Ukraine of all countries is a massive miscalculation, unless… the US made a bet they could sacrifice Ukraine to weaken Russia in the war and test military hardware.

So far so good: Russia is isolated, the EU is struggling with another wave of refugees and is at the mercy of whoever else can give them gas and more dependent on the US.
> The (Chinese) regime has calculated, presumably not irrationally, that the sacrifice (of not having mainland casinos) is worth it.

Or, they maintain that ban on legal gambling because the CCP banned it in 1949 when they took power, and it's just one of those things you keep doing because you've always done it.

Given how prolific illegal gambling in China is, what societal ills are they successfully preventing?
I find it quite tasteless honestly.
Ask HN: An SVG animation tool for idiots?
Hello HN!

I want to create a small animation that looks like the graph on https://playground.tensorflow.org/ (hit play to see the animation).

I have a few images that I want to connect with those "animated paths".
I need to be able to export this as a SVG file.

Is there a tool out there that can help me?

Thank you :)
It was a hypothetical question about whether you have plan B for when you do not find applicants presence in the social media to be enough to draw conclusions but you answered that now. I would consider most of these thing that you listed to have nothing to do with professional aptitude but the fact you took time to go through the process with random dude on the internet for some reason and then deemed these things important enough to list here speaks volumes about you.
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