skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Credit cards and phone numbers aren't edge cases, but they're very clearly examples of data that should not be modeled as numbers.

"Clearly" is debatable. Regardless of how you input the data itself, nothing is stopping you from parsing and encoding it to a valid number of a certain type in a certain range.

Encoding it as something different than numbers seems even more dangerous and I have not seen yet an argument for it that goes beyond the input.
Some of your comments are valid and I agree with them, but some of them are a lot of nonsense.

>This was caused by a weird mismatch between its javascript desktop and its compiled code that was too hard to fix so they decided to just constantly run the garbage collector and marveled at how not horrible this performed in actuality.

No, this is not even close to what happened. There was never any weird mismatch, the refcounting is very similar in both of them. The bug was that the garbage collector wasn't running correctly. Please read the (now 4 years old) blog post: https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-mem...

>Deprecates features that people use without replacement.

I would like to know about these desktops that are still under active development and have never removed or deprecated features. I've never seen one. I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find people complaining that Windows 11 doesn't support 8-bit color displays at 640x480.

>See tray icons for a literal decade

This never happened, there has been several extensions for tray icons for the entire decade. The real problem here is that all the APIs for tray icons are broken and nobody bothered to implement one correctly.

>Has no addon API forcing addons to monkey patch the javascript desktop ensuring such efforts can trivially fail on any version update and addons that aren't actively developed will stop working.

This has nothing to do with javascript or addons. In general code that isn't being developed has a high probability it will stop working at some point. And this presents a false choice too. I've heard this statement so many times but nobody has ever proposed what a real addons API should look like. AFAIK there are no desktop platforms or mobile platforms anywhere with an addons API that does everything that can be done with GNOME extensions. The closest I've ever seen are things like addon widgets for Android and KDE which aren't even close to being the same thing.

>Worse if they crash they especially under Wayland take down the entire session

That's not really important anywhere, the apps themselves are supposed to implement session management to insure against any system crash.

If I were you I would avoid commenting on these things again unless you have a proposal to make, they cheapen the rest of your comments. It's honestly tiring to keep seeing these long lists of random grievances where the ultimate suggestion is "just throw it away and start over while somehow avoiding all these issues in a way that is not explained". Do you really think having yet another choice is going to make a difference?
So a clock that takes two hours per segment?
It is strange that, although https://github.com/syndtr/goleveldb is used in the go-ethereum project for years, it is mentioned rarely (comparing to other go dbs).
Wow this triggered some memories I cannot place but I love it!
Perhaps roughly half of the eligible voters correctly estimated that the chance of their vote affecting the outcome is exceedingly low and that the cost of voting (even if it's just a few minutes of time) is not worth that small chance of affecting the outcome.
Another WFH hit piece.. I am noticing these are becoming more and more common now.

I bet Edward is also breathing and blinking on company time - how dare he.
> People aren’t perfect, not every engineer comes fully-formed grokking the industry’s best solutions and their trade offs.

The thing is, David Crawshaw is being extremely honest and humble here in admitting their shortcomings and how they're learning from it... but an entire troupe of Silicon Valley engs seem to have lost sleep over it, for reasons beyond me.
I'd imagine the tolls for bridges and tunnels are prohibitively expensive for last-mile shipping going from Jersey to NYC. Tolls are absent from NYC to Jersey in some cases, though.

That area also has some of the longest commutes and traffic in the country. In my mind, it doesn't make much sense for time sensitive deliveries or efficiency.
Totally off topic.
I am not an UI/UX designer but why can't the page scale to the size of the screen? Sure I could ctrl/cmd++ but is it hard to detect the screen size?
Genuine question, not trying to be condescending.
I think an underground airbase is much cheaper than a destroyed airbase. The situation in Ukraine showed how unprotected airplanes sitting on the ground are.
> Indeed, on its way to Laayoune, wind blows the lighter particles of white ore off the belt.

I was wondering why it didn't have any side-walls. Maybe it's just not cost-effective to try to avoid losing pieces below a certain size.
My Theory of Everything
https://pastes.io/ndstlmls2t
I expect it will be understood to be several separate things, which express themselves in vaguely similar ways, but are quite different both in origin and treatment.
It depends on the person. Some people see net worth as an ends in itself (boring, IMO). However, for other people, the point of more money is really to play other status games exponentially better.

For example, money in itself won't make you a famous actor, an award-winning musician, a bestselling author, a renowned artist, or an Olympian. But it will open the path to such goals by giving you leisure time to pursue them without worrying about pure survival.

More directly, it's extremely easy to transmute money into status via vacations, ownership of desirable real estate, expensive cars, etc. I would submit that it's generally not the money being coveted here, but the lifestyle it allows.
This is all well and good, but we have essentially had this for 40 years where anti-trust enforcement is concerned. I don’t think anyone can honestly say this has been a good things, especially not for small businesses. There is a conservative argument for breaking up big businesses thereby enabling democratic control over our economic destiny, which has been largely lost, to the detriment of 99% of us.
Yes, of course migrating to macOS is equally painful.

But after doing that transition myself many years ago and then back to Windows now... I think that the macOS shortcuts are objectively better. The consistency across the whole system is hard to describe unless you have experienced it, and the distinction between Ctrl and Cmd is quite ergonomic.

I'm kind of sad that, in 1995, when Microsoft introduced the Win and Menu keys... these did not become _the_ keys to drive shortcuts. I think it's only until recently that extra shortcuts have been added to the Win key.
Nevertheless, even if you wish it was otherwise, the thing paying the bills for the most people isn't C++ it's Javascript.

Brendan Eich's slapped together Lisp clone with semi-colon language syntax is paying the bills more than Bjarne's "What if C but with a kitchen sink of extra stuff bolted on more or less at random?" language. They're both terrible in different ways, but at least Brendan had the excuse of a hard deadline.
In other words, life is impossible?

That will be surprising to those of us who, you know, exist.
"status games" might be in the same class of things as "don't think about x". Even by not playing... You're just playing on a different level (lower or higher).
If this is true, where can I read about these specific genes, when and how they were discovered?
Right? I _despised_ one of the laptops I got from work because it did not allow me to install AHK to leverage my macOS-like shortcuts, so I was extremely unproductive while using it. Kinda fixed now that I've been retraining myself to the PC-style shortcuts.
Most of the time is indeed spent looking at rock, at least back then.
I've been using todo.txt too, for personal tasks and appointments.

I have a few tweaks: https://www.neilvandyke.org/todotxt/
Not to mention that the entire class of Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques only form a subset of general uses for Markov chains.

Markov chains form the basis of n-gram language models, which are still useful today.

Markov chains are also the basis of the Page-rank algorithm.

Hidden Markov Models (which are just an extension of Markov Chains to have unobserved states) are a powerful and commonly used time series model found all over the place in industry.

In the pre-deep learning model Markov chains (and HMMs) in particular had very wide spread usage in Speech processing.

They are probably one of the most practical statistical techniques out there (out side of obvious example like linear models).
The cost of grain in a cereal box is trivial relative to the price. The bulk of the cost of cereal is in advertising, labor and logistics.

Logistics are the most likely culprit but my guess is the price has doubled because people are still buying it and they can.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/31760/does-the-...
I have a 65/66 912 converted to a 2.7 liter six. I love
this car.

When I got it there were issues. I have worked through many of them. The PO did not understand the regulator for instance. I gutted the wiring and redid it. It now charges and there is no battery drain.

Like OP the lights were not good. I replaced those with LEDs. The suspension was worn, it was completely replaced.

The engine has good compression and the leak down showed it was healthy. It did leak oil though, sealed the engine. It no longer leaks.

You can’t just buy one of these cars and drive it. You have to wrench on it. It takes care and feeding.

I find it rewarding
Bidenomics
This doesn’t have to be interpreted as anti-WFH. It’s not as if the disengaged office drone archetype hasn’t been around for as long as Dilbert or Office Space.
Show HN: Host Touchless Menus for Free
Many restaurants moved to touchless menus during the pandemic. The restaurant owners need a solution to host their existing digital menus (in PDF) online and give QR codes to their customers. When customers scan the QR codes, they can view the menus on mobile and order in person.

I built a website for this simple use case last night. I'm planning to get first 100 users and validate product market fit in next few weeks. The basic functionalities will always be free. I probably will be able to monetize by offering tracking and analytics. I don't know if there is a strong need for ordering food on mobile. Some restaurants certainly do this. However heavy automation in the ordering process creates a different dining experience which may not fit all restaurants.

I'm not a frontend engineer by any means. The UI is very primitive. I can also open source the project if there's any interest.
Thank you for the thoughtful response I’ll have a deeper look into this!

Can you point me towards an outline of the experiment that shows that angular momentum is quantized in multiples of hbar?
"Average"
My 5-year-old knows that squares are a type of rectangle. Her kindergarten teacher corrected her when she said this during a shapes lesson and told her that rectangles always have two sides longer than the other.

We haven't bothered to correct the teacher, but used it as a lesson to say that even intelligent people aren't always correct about everything.

(She also had a preschool teacher that told her that blood is blue before it gets oxygen. This lesson is one that will be repeated throughout her life.)
One of the clear problems I have with this format is that you have to write a dash in front of every todo. This may seem like a minor gripe, but when writing todos is by far the most common action, it really does increase the friction a lot.
That data is out of date. Go directly to Vanguard's VOO page and you can see that they also hold 507 companies, just like SPY. But it doesn't even matter.

Even if the fund held 510 companies, those last three companies would each represent 0.00% of the fund's holdings. We're literally arguing over a 0.00% difference between two funds.

I also think that the difference between a comparison to total market volume and a comparison to a second competitor is immaterial to this conversation. It doesn't really affect any conclusions about anything.

In conclusion, we're so far off-topic that it may be best to call this thread quits.
Oh I absolutely believe in wiring everything stationary. That doesn't need justification beyond reliability and performance.

I'm talking about the logical inconsistency of scheduling wifi to avoid exposure. Your phone used without headset or speaker is a cm from your brain putting out up to 2W and your wifi access point conversely is 1/10th of a watt 30 meters away. You are getting up to 180 million times less exposure than up against your head.

Comparing speakerphone usage 15cm away isn't much better. It's up to 800,000 times the exposure vs your wifi.

If that is dangerous enough to schedule your phone logically needs to go straight in the trash.

You are underestimating how low energy your wifi is and how much the difference the distance makes.
I don't really understand your argument. It's one thing to disagree with the law itself, but in what way was this case not judged on its own merits, and what agenda was the judge serving? I hardly think "I'm sentencing you in accordance with the law so that people will see that if they break the law they will be sentenced in accordance with the law" counts as some person agenda. I see no indication that the judge said or believed that the person did not violate the law or did not deserve the sentence according to the law, but was being sentenced merely to serve as an example to other people.
nobody goes to these restaurants for their omelets, though at the same time nobody should care how tailscale actually implements things so long as it works well.

imo they’re not solving a notoriously hard problem, they’re realizing that they have the tiniest version of this problem (and that will most likely continue to be true). when that’s the case and you want to prioritize stuff that moves the needle like dev velocity, why do anything less simple? getting hung up on building scalable solutions far beyond what you need is somewhere between a fool and a big co employees game. far too often people introduce complexity way before it’s needed, and that almost always slows down your devs ability to actually fix bugs and make the product more reliable.
This is great! This is the nearly the exact format I’ve been using myself.
High housing prices aren't the result of stagnant wages and rising wages will only cause housing to become more expensive (more money chasing the same housing stock) unless something is done to boost supply. Unions don't fix this, they might make it worse on the margins.

Unionization is a mixed bag. The UAW has been in the news recently for a seemingly never ending parade of union leaders being sent to jail for corruption.
Underground airbases can still be destroyed. You just have to attack the entry and exit points. There are also specific munitions you could use. You could even fly a cruise missile through whichever entry is used for planes to leave.
Could rounded corners help here?
That's not terribly new. Similar view with everything organic below the fold for most lucrative search terms. Try:

mesh wifi router

hotel in las vegas

flights to tahoe

leather sectional
Getting involved puts them at risk of retaliation. I wouldn't be surprised if that causes chilling effects on voter turnout or involvement in organizing.
You probably don't really want that. But not in the way that people didn't want WoW classic.
From the article I read in the NY Times it was a gap of over 10% https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/technology/amazon-union-e...
How fast do you need to go? Hyster, Crown, et. al. make what you want.
Didn't it start as an open source database? then apple acquired it and made it close sourced, then open sourced it again after several years.

It is weird that this DB has a good reputation which doesn't match its popularity.
Are they actively sending out invites to people on the waitlist?
Autism has a few biological sequelae so I don’t think this is gonna be the case. For example their brains grow faster than normal for the first few years of life but slower thereafter. And you can see differences in their brains under a microscope. Or at least that’s what I read in a book recently, I am not an expert.
probably this one? https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
> it’s undecidable to compute if two finitely-presented groups are isomorphic.

But (iirc) it is semidecidable, like the halting problem, and isomorphism is decidable for finitely presented abelian groups.
Is there any good documentation about the algorithms for adding and multiplying posits? Most of the stuff I have found focuses on how well they represent numbers, and less on how to manipulate the bits.
This should be a new logical fallacy: appeal to current year. Every time I hear someone say "it's $CURRENT_YEAR, we obviously need to implement $PARTISAN_POLICY" I wonder about what fringe politics will be "obviously correct" in 3022.
Wow the examples of UK prosecutions under Section 127 of the Communications Act are an embarrassment: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/7/22912054/uk-grossly-offens...

Most of them are just losers saying stupid offensive shit; clearly not worth giving the time of day let alone prosecuting. And one was someone who was understandably angry about the actions of foreign troops in Afghanistan; he has a right to express his anger.
If you ever work with people from DARPA you’ll find that they have great capabilities in both secrecy and humor. A lot of 4chan types end up there.
> oil vapors are exhumed from the cabin

Very creative malapropism!
I have been working on a Message Board Social Network. For now its called Qhipu http://yuyaykuna.com/gigabots/db It is like a User Forum, but you can use it to store data like todo lists or notes. Since Message Board formats are hierarchal and are tree-based they are inherently data storage devices. The trick is getting people to think tree-like. Not everyone thinks like a programmer. Right now its really basic, read-only. I had something more elaborate working with crud functions and a UI using JQuery tricks but I lost the code and had to start over. You can see it now it with sample data. I need to update it as I said so you can create a thread/reply.
Except that the judge said specifically that he was sentencing him as a deterrence to show other people.

> "The deterrence is really to show people that despite the steps you took to try and recall matters, as soon as you press the blue button that’s it. It’s important for other people to realise how quickly things can get out of control. You are a good example of that, not having many followers."

Jesus, 18 months supervision and 150 hours unpaid labor, for a tweet by an unknown Twitter user, who named no names, and who deleted his drunken tweet after 20 minutes.

Did the judge have minimum sentencing requirements? If not, this was absolutely discretionary and absolutely out of proportion to the "crime," and is only "justified" by the judge using him as an example.
Adobe Illustrator. I’ve been using it as my main art medium since 2000 and I run it with one hand on the keyboard and one on the Wacom stylus.
"People are fired when they underperform their peers [over some time window]" is much more common, since most organizations have a very fuzzy grasp exactly on value returned per employee.

Candidates should try to be aware of companies that won't give new hires much of a time window to prove their performance level or value creation. Especially if large amounts of their compensation depend on going at least 12 months without getting fired.
> Linux is held together by a scrappy group of volunteers competing against millions of dollars of investment and armies full of full-time employees.

The best example I know of this is GIMP; it has just a few (4 IIRC, could be 3 or 5 too, but thereabouts) people working on it in their spare time. That's it.

Folks complain that it's not as good as Photoshop, and that's true, but if you consider the team size it's actually pretty darn impressive! How many people work on Photoshop? I betcha it's a few more than a handful.

Not all of the Linux ecosystem is just volunteers though; most kernel contributions come from various companies; Ubuntu and RedHat work on a lot of different things (cue systemd discussion), etc.
An old laptop by itself wouldn't be that alarming but all the messy wiring inside which they'll see when they X-ray it probably would raise some eyebrows yeah :)
I find it bizarre how uncritically the social construct of doubling the ranks of the mentally ill/disordered in the course of decades has been introduced. There is no way in the last few decades the amount of mentally disordered people has expanded so greatly, it must be the case we're simply calling more people disordered. The growth of mental disorders is starting to plateau now but things are still growing.

I find it all to be part of a modern fetishization of victimhood as as something that ought to give you entitlements without responsibilities, and consequently has greatly expanded the ranks of victims in society. I find it straight up bizarre in some sense that a student in an elite school will get academic accommodations and access to amphetamines on the pretence they just can't be as successful as other students when it has to be the case many of these students would end up at community college or state school without the drugs and be fine. It's kind of like to me an athlete playing for a crappy school team getting diagnosed with "strength deficit disorder" getting on steroids and breaking records and this is justified with all sorts of pseudoscience about how steroids actually have the opposite effect on muscletypicals (proving steroids are a drug for only those with legitimate medical need) when the entire sports team is on steroids. We also give them a headstart in all races to ensure that they don't have any performance anxiety.

Re: Experts, The expert she's referring to, more than anybody, is Simon Baron Cohen and his research has been replicated many times yet only applies to MOST but not ALL autistic children. He famously applied the Sally-Anne test to autistic children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E2%80%93Anne_test to demonstrate "mind blindness". I would say the biggest issue with the research is that it took place is 1988 and autistics are not remotely the same group of people that they were in 1988, so it wouldn't even surprise me if autistics were no longer mind blind in this way, since autism is not even remotely consistent in its definition across time. I sympathize with any criticism of "Experts on autism" because they have shown nothing but incompetence as a group.
Lol. It's literally `find . -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e s/her/them/g -e s/him/them/g ... && git commit -a`. This is a bash one liner. Has to be April Fool's.
> except in an authoritarian society.

I would point out that governments in authoritarian societies have a habit of labelling certain groups of people as enemies (either because those groups challenge them politically, or because it's convenient to have a scapegoat to blame the government's own failures on), so in practice you end up with just as much, if not more, vitriol spewed in authoritarian societies.
Look up how alcohol-free beer is made and never ever drink it again. Why would you want it as a product has me at a loss.
Right, none has ever worked that way.

Radio receivers do not depend on an analog to digital converter, or even a resistor, to extract a signal from an antenna. The essential component is a diode.

(That is not to say that, having detected, amplified, and demodulated an antenna signal, the result won't finally drive an A/D converter; you can drive anything you want to after all that. Even a speaker. But operation of the speaker, too, does not depend in any way on heat.)