skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing as the west and Ukraine knowingly used tons of videogame footage and pushed it on us as real war footage, or used footage from Ukrainian soldiers and called them Russian if they do something ugly.

They lied knowingly to us several times, why trust them now?

I will just wait for the real information to come out, for the real war crimes investigations to finish. We will know then who was the war criminal.
of course you can waste time in the office as well, from people joining every meeting and asking "but does it scale" to people playing table tennis, but in general its harder to do than remote
I think that's subjective. It probably doesn't sound like a live performance would, but it does probably reflect fairly well what you'd hear if you were in the room with them rehearsing.

Listening to the album again now it's such a relief to hear a recording with such dynamic range, not the appallingly over-compressed loudness wars derived style we're subjected to now.
Some users like to add their own features or have problems to debug. They surely care. Others may want to move coordination to a remote host and care about some single-file transfer of the exact version of the tool. They also care. It's ok that you don't, personally, of course.
Not like the adults are doing much better.
Do you need to be comfortable with everything your company does? Without elaboration, it's hard to answer. Is it an ethical thing, is it some kind of irritant, is it a political thing you don't agree with?

I'd start by asking if it's really your hill to die on. You never like everything about an employer (same as a friend, spouse, whatever), so the question is, can you live with it, or not. And if not, do you think it is possible, or worth the energy to change, or should you just move on.
>HDDs worry me in the long term

Are SSDs any better in that regard?
Cool, thanks! If you share your github username, I will add you as a collaborator. You can mail it to me at flo at t21n dot net, if you don't want to post it here.
I don't really care about mr. Stone's opinion, I care about the facts he exposed.
Consider the following scenario. "Bad chemical compound" (which is a close variant of "good chemical compound") exists in a concentration of 1% when your total level of "good chemical compound" exceeds Y.

Therefore a high level of "good chemical compound" correlates with the harmful effects of "bad chemical compound". Does "good chemical compound" cause the harmful effects? No. Does it correlate? Yes. Now "good chemical compound" is the evil compound that must be lowered.

Now imagine that there is a product that has a high degree of "bad chemical compound". So suddenly there are lots of people with low levels of "good chemical compound" but they suffer from the very same harmful effects that higher levels would predict! "Bad chemical compound" has been found in the product itself and therefore the product was banned.

However, the fact that "good chemical compound" isn't the problem hasn't been recognized because detecting "bad chemical compound" in products is very easy due to the extremely high concentration but difficult (read expensive) to detect in the blood due to the much lower concentration. So the only "reliable" indicators that exist must be based around correlations because measuring the "bad chemical compound" isn't done.

That was a long winded way of saying oxidization of cholesterol causes inflammation and the formation of plaque in blood vessels. Detecting oxidized LDL is possible but almost no lab does it. Instead you get spurious correlations, the most reliable of which is HDL to triglycerides.
My team at Daily is actually hiring for this, although I don't see the ad on the site yet (https://www.daily.co/jobs#open-positions)

We're distributed and largely async. My day to day work includes creating demos with our APIs and writing technical blog posts about them, helping maintain our docs, and helping other teams write about what they're working on. I'd been interested in technical writing for a long time, but was hesitant to apply for any of these kinds of roles because I thought it might mean giving up engineering to just write about other people's code. What drew me to this particular role is knowing that I was going to be programming as well as writing. It's been great so far, recommend checking it out if you're interested in that kind of work.
So where is the US interference? You were adamant it existed, but now your complaint is Ukranians didn't follow their constitution? Yanukovich was voted out and sought no petition with the Ukranian courts to resolve the issue?

How are those rubles spending these days? Dead Ukranian civilian blood didn't lubricate them very well did they?
I have skimmed. I did give it a try. Not for me.
There's one more potential gotcha in your example that has burned me a few times.

You have a function that takes char *endptr and passes *endptr to isspace(). At least on the particular version of the MSVC compiler I usually use, char is signed by default, and isspace uses an ASCII lookup table internally, presumably 256 bytes long.

So if anything passes a so-called "negative ASCII" value to your routine, memory will be accessed prior to the beginning of the table. Usually just causes a crash, but the implications could go well beyond that. Whenever I use any of the is...() functions, I've learned to cast the value to unsigned char to make sure underflow can't happen. It's caused a lot of bug reports from non-US-based users who end up with ANSI (extended or 'negative' ASCII) characters in various places.

Obviously there are plenty of facepalms to go around here, ranging from the C standard's failure to disallow signed chars to certain compilers' adoption of them, to Microsoft's failure to protect their standard C library function inputs, to my negligence in not realizing the implications of the foregoing. Definitely something to watch out for in your own code.

As I write this, it occurs to me that they might actually use a 128-byte LUT. So I should either stop using iswhatever() functions altogether or write my own wrapper for them....
There is a balance to genome size in terms of selection. If you have a smaller genome, mutations are more likely to have an effect, which means faster evolution (good if you are a pathogen for example). There are smaller energy requirements with replicating a smaller genome, and fewer atoms needed from the environment with shorter DNA. There is probably some optimal physical size to the nucleus, which gets larger as there is more DNA inside. Deletions can occur during cell division. A deletion bias is observed over a duplication bias:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_genome#Deletional_bi...
I was referring to the lower bound.
The part about B3 sounds very interesting but whats a prostaglandin flush?
It's more of an intro level book, aimed at scientists rather than numerics geeks or or people into theoretical math. So it does a good job of presenting things simply and in ways that don't require navigating too many fine points. That approach mostly works, though it leaves openings for things to go wrong. The topics (root finding, integration, etc.) are similar to what you'd see in an undergrad numerics course. It specifically doesn't have anything about PDE's, since it defines that as the boundary between introductory and advanced topics.
Liberals and conservatives is just two teams created so that citizen can believe there is some kind of choice. Liberals hegemony is an imperialist philosophy that has been accepted and pushed by both liberals (Clinton, Obama, Biden) and conservatives (Bush). In fact, it is sad to say this but in this sense Trump really was anti establishment. He was the only one to not subscribe to this ideology, and we could see that in his foreign policy.
That sounds completely unacceptable plus like an easy way to just have all customers disconnect their TVs and just use a third party device like chromecast for watching anything.

Samsung does this nowadays too but at least they show ads in g their own content (they broadcast some TV channels) which I think is fine. I can choose to just not watch their content.
So you didn't take a look at the link? The scarcity of oil is built into Handmer's business model. I'm not sold on it myself, but the guy is clearly quite bright and willing to quit his job in software to try it out.
If you want max entropy and normally distributed values then, I think, there's no other way to go. Nice post btw
Show HN: I built an open source automation to extract keywords from PDFs
Don’t singers sing through the microphone so their voice is coming from where the speakers are directed towards?
It's been a very long time since I've used NR, but it was pretty terrible code that was a poor competitor for NAG and IMSL.

The discussion of algorithms, being informal and well-illustrated, was the high point of the books. The code, not so much.

I had the Fortran book and so, when the C book came out, I bought that as well. The C code seemed to have been auto-generated by the Fortran code, and it was really quite terrible.

Functions in the fortran code had arguments for what I'd call "work arrays". There was some risk in that, because if the documentation told you to give space for 2N+1 floating point values and you gave 2N, you might get into problems. I don't think that was a real problem in practice, because people were accustomed to this general way of working and so they were careful.

The C code took a different approach. The functions allocated and deallocated space as needed. And, since lots of functions called other functions for very simple things, there was a massive amount of memory juggling going on. This made the functions be wildly slow. So, the point of the boycott was not terribly relevant, because I think pretty much everyone trying to use that C code just rewrote it, anyway.
And yet, every time democracy votes out capitalism, fascism intervenes to protect the capital. The capital gladly renounces democracy in order to protect its interests. This happened literally every time.

The only way you get rid of capitalism is with a revolution. They won't allow you to vote it away.
Isn't that an obvious red flag? Given the hundreds of years of oil reserves available in the oil sands, peak oil theory is complete bunk now, and only slightly less obviously so 20 years ago.
Hemorrhagic stroke is a leading candidate for the mechanism of low cholesterol induced mortality. It is a known side effect of statins, albeit rare.
What do you mean by "normally distributed values"? Your reply also doesn't follow a normal distribution by the way. Did you mean uniform? For uniform values there is a way to go and my other reply exactly describes how.
> I'm not sure the pandemic is solely or even largely responsible

I agree that the pandemic is probably not a root cause: I think the global reaction to the pandemic could have a related root cause (social media, outrage / attention culture, the breakdown of normal human discourse, polarization) as the mental health problems. Blaming "the pandemic" fails to acknowledge that covid was as much or more about our collective reaction as it was about the actual virus. It's the "powder keg" thing - the conditions were there, and inevitably something would come along to set it off.
Textbooks are obsolete.
Literally impossible to find out about new restaurants. There's no other alternative for finding out about what's happening in my local metropolis. No idea how I'd find out about events. I'm not very proactive about legal updates, that information usually gets propogated through fb or STEP.
"Kafka keeps saying my replicas are under-replicated, but it's only temporary as I apply a rolling restart!"
For a datapoint on Sceptre quality, I've got two 24" Sceptre monitors in front of me that are incredibly annoying because Sceptre cheaped out and doesn't bother to program the monitor serial number into the EDID and instead just use a static placeholder value. This means every time I reconnect my work machine there's a 50/50 chance the display layout will be backwards because MacOS can't seem to use the interface path to differentiate monitors like Linux does.
And for new bands: Maybe try not to name yourself after a Siri/Alexa/Whatever revered word. Jus try asking Siri to play a song by "Them." Ugh.
This was interesting and highlighted some distinctions between strategies that I hadn't explicitly considered before. Thanks for sharing!
A bit off-topic, but SQLite continues to impress me. This year, we've added a simple form builder to our product which allows creators to quickly gather feedback/input from their audiences. Basically each form has it's own small sqlite database as a datastore and a json file for the form definition (field styling/constraints, etc). It's 'low tech', but performs great. Not having an additional service running also means having one less thing to maintain.
You think we have a working system producing a substance that is only ever harmful?

If it's ever helpful, that's already guaranteed to produce a U-shaped curve. Just like I say in the quote you pull.

(It's theoretically possible that mortality won't go to 100% at zero cholesterol. But that's not the quote you pulled.)
Luckily these types of dystopias are only stable in fiction. Lets hope future ones will destabilise faster than the e.g. soviet union did (after 70 or so years of existence), though.
You don't necessarily need an extinction event to create political change. People can be convinced by others' ideas.
Hopefully Project Valhalla will make this easier :)

JEP 218 (Generics over Primitive Types)[0] allowing Map<Key, int> without the performance penalty of boxing, and the Value Objects JEP[1] allowing the record in the example to become a value type.

[0]: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/218
[1]: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8277163
Everything accelerates when you have Internet.
Here comes the commie:

This is something I'm struggling with personally. My firstborn is just about the age where he is starting to exhibit territoriality around things he is currently using.

To what extent do I want to reinforce the idea of private property in the home? Philosophically, I'm definitely against it. Practically, it seems like it has certain benefits and drawbacks and I don't know which are stronger. I have no idea! Opinions, please.
Not all dorms have shared bathrooms. Like put that stuff at the back of it. There’s even probably a way to combine all the requirements into one living area with minimal partitioning at another extreme. In a sense people are already experimenting with this with tiny homes. People will be people, but a good portion of your concern can be addressed through design.
"The The" is my go-to example!
Non-cookiewalled: https://text.npr.org/641266260
SerentityOS really shows the power of community engagement. The project is extremely open and welcoming. The project releases often. There are official demos videos of progress both from the project leader and a community showcase of other contributors. There are developer interviews, office hours, and an active discord server. The founders now famous opening catch phrase is “hello friends” and other contributors now mirror that in their videos. The founder says that he is building the system primarily for himself but he very clearly sees the value in the community and comes as as extremely grateful for the attention and engagement. There are major contributors that basically learned C++ to contribute to the project and the founder trumpets that like a proud father.

ReactOS on the other hand is very opaque and unfriendly. The website goes without updates for months. There is a sparsely populated forum that is filled with hostility and frustration from the inner circle. The current release ( made not that long ago ) is based off a branch that the main development moved off of years ago. There is a wiki that shows what is appearing in the next release but it has not been updated since June 28. Most of the project discussion happens at chat.reactos.org but I am not sure how you are to know that even exists. To me, it feels like the project attitude towards the community is that they are useless freeloaders. People better than you are busy doing important work that you would not understand. Don’t bother them.

Another aspect of the end-user focus is that SerenityOS has an emphasis on producing working software that is useful. Despite its alpha state they are redesigning dialogue boxes and controls to be easier to use. Animations and subtle GUI effects are celebrated as are small usability features in applications. Despite it being a project goal to build everything from scratch, there is a large ports collection and some of the most notable live streams show the founder porting popular programs and games. While ReactOS cannot even bother to get a browser working, SerenityOS is creating one from scratch.

I have a huge respect for the ReactOS achievement but it is no great mystery why a project like SerenityOS has had more momentum. In my view, the way the ReactOS project is managed has absolutely held it back. I could say the same for projects like GNUstep unfortunately.

Projects like Haiku have not bottled quite the same magic as Serenity but Haiku is very community friendly and it shows. Haiku is also pragmatic and, while the goal is to mimic BeOS and to offer an alternative app platform they have built compatibility layers in order to port over apps. They even run WINE. Haiku also has a browser ( not totally from scratch ) and there is already a port to RISC-V. Despite not being at 1.0 yet, there has been a lot of emphasis on creating a working end-user experience.
1950 Census
Sure, but all this misses my point that these are comparisons. This is what has happened with other technology in a similar ballpark of "we know how to do this, we can (technically) do this". You're arbitrarily selecting for a specific outcome in the space of all possible outcomes. When not only do we not know enough about any outcome to favour it, but we have knowledge of how other technology being developed in a similar space, with similar constraints, turned out -- i.e. it didn't turn out at all how we expected in any specific way".

So let's be honest here, in the space of all possible outcomes -- the negative outcomes where "it doesn't work" or "it works but is too slow to use" or "it doesn't understand how it works either", is a larger order of infinity than the outcomes where it does work, at least based on what has happened with pretty much every other technology that we have records of predictions for (Is there a technology that we have predicted where it wasn't wildly different or handicapped compared to our dreams? I'd honestly like to know TBH).

There is literally no reason for pontificating more over this. All of this, the best guesses, the worst guesses, is all just a variety of wishful thinking. The only true answer is we have no fucking idea.
Not that I can remember, but I'll come back and update you if I see anything interesting.
Repeating a somewhat lengthy action 2000 times is for me an excuse to look into automating this with something like selenium or autohotkey. Something that automates mouse 'clicks' on a browser.

Measure how much time it would take to remove 5 images, multiply by 400. Can you automate it in less? Note that you might learn something new, and because it is a one-time script, it can be super hacky.
Wikipedia lists it as "Cross": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_(Justice_album)
Doesn’t have to include other people.
you realize in this context you are the employee as well.
I mean she starts out by saying she is quitting comedy.

See also https://blog.ted.com/how-hannah-gadsby-broke-comedy/
what is the point of this comment?
> Own an NFT with a link to that specific revision.

Fixed that for you. NFTs don't store actual data, just links to them.

And having an NFT with a link to something really brings nothing to the table when talking about link rot.
Speaking of Vizio, how is the Conservancy lawsuit going?
"Idle hands are the devil's workshop"

I couldn't think of a worse situation than being isolated from classmates and friends, cooped up at home, having extra time on my hands and unlimited access to social media.
One of the issues is in terms of sample size. African populations are the most genetically diverse, so you would need a much larger sample to draw the same power you get from a less diverse population of say icelanders (1), who are even less genetically diverse than western europeans. Another favorite population for geneticists for similar reasons is a group of mormons from utah.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCODE_genetics
Wow, det visste jag inte. Det är jättekul!
Technically, many planes could been used as ICBMs, from silo.

For example, F-35 have needed capabilities. Other notable examples - Harrier and its relatives.

Basically, all modern fighter jets are capable to start from catapult, some need additional gunpowder accelerators (also possible to use as brake).

Landing is harder, for it need big enough runway, or some sort of aircraft carrier flight deck, or plane capable of vertical landing (some F-35 modifications are capable).
You're going to have a hard time pointing to utopian novels from the same period.

It's not that something closer to utopia was never possible. A lot of CS from the 70s was explicitly utopian. Even the Jobs "bicycle for the mind" idea was far more utopian than "Let's create a monopolistic monoculture with adtech and noise."

For some reason the cyberpunk writers chose not to imagine it or promote it.

Warp drive is similar. It seeded the idea of FTL in the popular consciousness and made it something almost everyone has heard of. Without that, it might have remained an abstract curiosity.

In Propaganda, Bernays says that instead of preaching at the public you need to dramatise the behaviours and beliefs you want to see the public adopt. The ad industry is based on this, but of course it runs through fiction and other media too.

Star Trek is one of the few attempts to dramatise a utopian future. Everything else is a wasteland of darkness.

And it has certainly had an effect.
Finally, was looking for this for ages now. Thanks digital ocean!
if its not in warranty, why would small claims court matter?
I bet she's devastated that her struggles are insufficiently entertaining for you.
Right, but this is blood cholesterol concentration, not total body cholesterol.
Most kids I know, think social media are lame. They use it complement for their hobbies and activities. It was pandemic that glued them to their phones, not the other way around.

But must protect meh narrative!!
dude. the 70s were like 50 years ago. you think tech has not evolved since then?
Rhyming dictionaries have existed for a very long time: at least back to 1775[1].

Not that an app wouldn't be useful to someone, but if they need rhymes today, bookshops (and websites) have an MVP already.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker%27s_Rhyming_Dictionary
There were even points to bind it to the Iberian language, as the numerals are almost the same.

BTW, I am a native Basque speaker.
> dystopias

> soviet union

what about the american imperialism covering much of the globe today? this world is a deep dystopia for a very large amount of people already... (and growing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--TsGaNyr0U

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
Why is Reddit drama relevant to HN?