skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reproducibility is absolutely achievable. It is difficult with languages that have C system dependencies like C and Rust though. Usually you have to effectively check the compiler and system headers into your repo, which isn't ideal.

For something like Go it's trivial though. If you're using pure Go code then reproducible builds are pretty much as simple as "compile using Go 1.xx".

I don't understand why you think 3. and 4. are issues. Bit flips are very unlikely at compilation scale, and the hardware you use to compile something shouldn't affect the output. In either case you can just compile it twice and on different hardware and compare the result to confirm.
I have no idea in what goes on in Putin's mind, and I put little credence in what he says, but if I look at what outcomes would benefit a resurgently-belligerent Russia, the one that most concerns me is that public opinion in the USA turns against NATO, from an impression that Europe is unwilling to make anything but a token stand here, on account of its economic dependency on Russia. (Aside: I wonder how much of the initial planning for this invasion was done under the assumption that Trump would win a second term?)

In comparison to this, these other issues from the article seem to be secondary at most.
Are you saying the DNC primary is to blame for reddit's content policies?
Related work at Johns Hopkins [2019]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20685944#20688094
It’s basically how almost all freelancers get work in Sweden, via “consultant brokers”.

Basically a bunch of sales people whom you call and say “I want an assignment and I know X, Y and Z” and they hook you up with an assignment in exchange for 5-15% of what you invoice.

I’ve been using them ever since I started in 2018 and never spent more than 1-2 hours to land a 6+ months long assignment
Poland is a post-Soviet country, and its quality of life is incomparably better than during Soviet times. Also the life quality in Ukraine exceeds this of Russia.

I believe the main problem here is Russians’ delusion that they are still an empire. War against Ukraine might help in dispelling this myth.

Also: the sooner Russians realize that they need to flee the country - because it won’t get any better during their lifetimes - the better.
Let me guess the device is over two years old, your display is always above 70% brightness, you have chrome opened with over a dozen tabs, alongside it a bunch of other background apps you don't actually need open. Oh and probably a VM or docker. How close was I? ;-)
Perhaps it is brand by brand?

I purchased a HiSense TV with Roku from Costco. When I first turned it on, it asked to connect to Wi-Fi. I said no, and it hasn’t bothered me since. There were no terms of service or click-through licenses to agree to, or accounts to create. I imagine all that comes after you connect it to Wi-Fi.

But never having been connected to the internet, the HDMI ports and TV tuner all work fine.
For anybody suffering with tinnitus I highly recommend the protocol William Shatner went through. You can train your brain so it’s not noticeable any more. Like wearing pants, it fades into the background.
Cool. What I'm saying is that you cannot pay lip service to liberal ideals while also suggesting that simply having a very large number of people vote for you is evidence that you shouldn't be removed from a service for policy violations.
If triple A gaming has taught me anything, no, the prices are not lowered in compensation for the additional revenue stream. There’s no upside for them to do so.

Even if they sell a third fewer models, the ad revenue way more than makes up for it, and it’s recurring revenue to boot.
I wonder if you can provide more context. I've only had issues when I tried to use external domains, e.g. gmail, as my reply-to when sending in fastmail.
> So we are actually paying more(of course, lots extra hardware cost) for less

I thought they subsidized some of the cost with ad money
So it would only do some good, therefore don’t do it?
I suppose we can look at this with nostalgic eyes.

I was a big Shirky reader back in the day.

But the truth is that all kinds of things disappear all the time in all aspects of life. The web is no different at all.

Take my dad for instance - a quite profilic and famous mid level artist. It’s coming to the point where not much people remember him. And when my siblings pass on that will be that.

Let’s not get too nostalgic. If someone is interested they should try to preserve the writings and keep them going.

That’s why certain groups have taken it upon themselves to preserve old important films. And as we know they are always fighting for more donations to keep things going.

Because in the end… no one really cares.

50 years from now children will be asking who was Van Gogh.
Maybe also of interest is a nascent package for R calling Nim (or vice versa): https://github.com/SciNim/rnim
This would be a great way to destroy (privately held) farms and significantly, permanently raise food prices.
Kubernetes for ML – how are y’all doing it?
I recommend you check out info on Syria, where German-armed, NATO-integrated Turkish troops did a little special operation (and failed in a similar way against much worse equipped Kurds/Islamists) and American and Russian special forces stopped their vehicle chases short of blowing each other up.

Then also, NATO already risked direct confrontation in Ukraine, sending large training units to a country at war with Russia. As we speak US AWACS is providing early warning across large swaths of western Ukraine and the Black Sea, one wonders if missile sites actually use their early warning radars in the case where they most likely have a notebook with a nice situation log besides their soviet terminals.

In this situation I wonder why noone is pushing conspiracy theories around the Moskva sinking (which could still be Ukrainian luck combined with Russian ineptitude) which embed these facts. Apparently this ship was hit at the extent of the Neptunes range. Is it that much of a stretch to think that such thing might have been made much easier, when the ships SatNav was spoofed by a Globalhawk leading it towards shore, while the Ukrainians knew exactly where to look when they flared up their targeting radar?
Subjective. When I used to rent, I never saw my landlord after signing the lease. I was renting a house and taking care of small maintenance issues myself. I'd say it was far less effort to rent to me, then it would have been to live there himself.

Of course there are bad tenants, but I suspect, like most things, we focus on those negatives and ignore all the low maintenance tenants when thinking about it.
This.

1. Immediately turn a profit would mean that monthly rent is higher than the cost of the property. This is not a thing. If they person you are replying to means “cash flow positive” then sure in 20-30 years the renter will have paid off the property for the landlord.

2. Renting provides choices. Tenant wants to move across the country or across the street? No problem: ride out your lease and move when ready. If you own the property you need to sell it to move in most cases. Ever try to sell when the market changed and suddenly your property lost 30% in value and you are suddenly underwater? I have. On the other hand if you are renting you can just move on a relatively short timeframe and get the fuck out of dodge no matter where property values are.

3. The responsibility for maintaining the building is on the landlord. Sure, some are bad at this but know your rights and interview your landlords well and it won’t be a problem.

4. Rentals provide inventory. If you don’t have $500,000 saved up for a large single family home in an expensive state (like where I have been stuck for the past decade), what do you do for housing? Mortgage your life away and hope jobs and markets go your way? Or rent for a small premium over a mortgage payment with no money down and a 12 month commitment?

For most people renting is actually a much better choice provided they save the difference between renting and owning the home and invest it wisely. Over a lifetime there are few places in the US where you’d be better off buying instead. NYT had a nice comprehensive calculator to this effect.
Cool find, amazing it's still online. You may recognize his voice as that of the talking skull Murray from Monkey Island.

I felt a deep pang of nostalgia when looking at the simple, clean source of the page...
The example of processing and querying a 1GB "JSON Lines" [1] file, where each line is a json document 0.1-10KB in size with a varying schema on every line is a very common use case in data engineering. On top of that, there are additional constraints where we might only be allowed to allocate 1vCPU to the task, there's additional IO overhead of downloading the file from S3 and finally, even though there's TBs of the same data we only ever need to process a few GBs per hour or day. How well can simdjson perform under these circumstances [2]? Probably quite well but not as fast as having to serialize a single 1TB json file.

So my metrics of success in this scenario are based on that fact that I have to deal with 10-100 such queries in a project in my day job, so I would choose SpyQL to write and maintain a simple and readable 5 line query in under 5 minutes with decent performance to solve a trivial use case of computing an average.

P.S. I know the article is about performance and your response about Python being is slow is beyond accurate and yet I will always choose to use it because it is not ashamed to sit on the shoulders of the fast and ugly.

[1] https://jsonlines.org/

[2] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson/blob/master/doc/iterate...
Your premise is true, but you aren't looking at the context at all.

France gets 70% of their energy production from nuclear and they are not dealing with destabilization. Germany never crossed the 30% mark. They can drastically increase their nuclear to actually deal with the destabilization problem that they do have.
It's also becoming harder to buy dumb refrigerators above a certain size.
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From TED yesterday.

"Funding was indeed secured. I should say I do not have respect for the SEC in that situation. I don’t mean to blame everyone at the SEC, but certainly the San Francisco office. The SEC knew that funding was secured. They pursued an active public investigation, nonetheless. I was forced to concede to the SEC unlawfully."
You are discarding the views of countries because you think they have vested interest
Another set of countries because of proximity another set because of reliance o Russia another set because they have similar design/intent

Leaving the one true view as what matters

The one true view that matters also lean on countries, have proximity to other countries and have designs and interests so why should their views be right and pure ?
What makes you think the price was discounted just because they found another way to monetize their users?
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The front fell off...
In my mind, LVT only works properly when you've ripped out every other tax: income, sales, capital, you name it. Absolutely no more friction and warped incentives. Divide the government budget by the weighted land values and tax accordingly. But that could never work in our world. There would be too much temptation to add a small tax here for this other thing, and then it snowballs, and then we're back to where we started but this time LVT plus numerous other taxes.
And you can’t regulate crypto? How did China do it? Would it somehow be harder when it’s so transparent? Of course not. Anyways you have only a surface level understanding of the post and crypto currencies if you think the way forward is not a technological advancement. People outside the space seem to discover these issues and think that those in it aren’t acutely aware and working on them, which they are.
yeah.. these days you really can't tell; every opinion, its counter-opinion, its meta-counter, its sarcastic spin, its trolling version, its counter-trolling, meta-counter-trolling versions.. everything (in the absence of body language cues etc.) is equally likely, which if I recall correctly is the definition of maximal entropy of information, i.e. random noise
> How do you manage to get around that if you must?

Use an older crypto library or an older browser version from when that crypto was supported.
The reform of zoning laws (atleast in California) is blocked by property owners sitting on low-tax properties.

Raising the land value tax would be a surefire way to make the opposition disappear as property owners would have to scramble to make their land more productive.
I think it is common knowledge that much of the profit from Smart TVs comes from data collection. Last year I gave our beautiful Samsung Smart TV to a friend and bought a $199 dumb TV from Walmart, and just have an Apple TV box plugged into its HDMI port. I love this combination! My wife is not so happy with it, but went along with the change.

Everything about watching TV now just seems easy, no ads, no crap. Love it.
I think he's trying to differentiate between intrinsic desires (creativity, passions) and compulsive desires (spiritual junk food of various flavours). I do think he goes too deep into purple prose though, forgetting that poetic language in philosophy is usually either referential or narrative, but this article is using purple prose in an explanatory fashion which often reads badly imo.
Thanks for the recommendation, will look it up. I have friends who suffer from tinnitus and I hope it can help them.
Excerpt from a newer paper by Nuhfer (2017) adds more clarity:

“… Our data show that peoples' self-assessments of competence, in general, reflect a genuine competence that they can demonstrate. That finding contradicts the current consensus about the nature of self-assessment. Our results further confirm that experts are more proficient in self-assessing their abilities than novices and that women, in general, self-assess more accurately than men. The validity of interpretations of data depends strongly upon how carefully the researchers consider the numeracy that underlies graphical presentations and conclusions. Our results indicate that carefully measured self-assessments provide valid, measurable and valuable information about proficiency. …”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312107583_How_Rando...
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It matters if certain drivers require certain toolchains. C89 is portable across all sorts of C toolchains. If the Linux kernel added C17 features, only toolchains that support C17 could compile the kernel.

You're correct that the kernel codebase could pin older versions of crates when it is appropriate, but it's never quite that simple at scale, especially if the kernel pulls in more than a handful of crates.
Yeah, I was thinking of a more-ready-to-run distro for non-technical people.

When I have some more free-time (haha) I might look to building one.
What if they started making 4:3 laptops again?
Indeed I don't think C cares about how the pointers you mark as "restrict" were constructed, it just cares about how you actually use the pointers and in the example code they are never used in an "overlapping" way.

I just checked cppreference and it says: "if some object that is accessible through P [marked restrict] (directly or indirectly) is modified, by any means, then all accesses to that object (both reads and writes) in that block must occur through P (directly or indirectly), otherwise the behavior is undefined"

The only accesses I can see are "*x = 0;", "*ptr = 1;" and "return *x;". "*ptr" is an indirect access through "x" by way of an integer round trip. If the orignal program is indeed UB that would mean that pointers built from an integer round trip are not considered (indirect) accesses through the original pointer.

The author assumes that it is an indirect access: "However, the only possibly suspicious part of the original program is a pointer-integer-pointer round-trip – and if casting integers to pointers is allowed, surely that must work. I will, for the rest of this post, assume that replacing x by (int*)(uintptr_t)x is always allowed."
It's good to keep in mind that just because a company puts ads in our faces, that does not necessarily imply they are doing it to offset costs. This is true for websites as well as smart TVs.
Oracle bought Sun for MySQL. All the rest of the software assets were just icing on the cake.
Ok, "Comrade". What you're doing here is classic whataboutism.

You have deflected any responsibility or acknowledgement of the facts: that Russia initiated the conflict without provocation, that it was under false pretenses (Nazi fear? against one of two nations led by a Jew?), and that it continues to brutalize, murder, and rape civilians.

Your deflection to talk about media treatment is just that: deflection. And frankly, destruction of civilians by US forces are rare (not 0, but rare). This is common behavior from Russian forces, there are a thousand similar reports from the last month.

So let's get back to talking about the behavior by Russia. An unprovoked war in which they are killing and hurting Ukrainians to fuel the ego and agenda of Putin, and Putin alone.
> providing no service

Landlords are not parasites and provide a valuable service.

I think a land tax would be great to curb speculation. Buying property, not providing any service (neither by renting nor capital investment in improvements), and just pocketing the appreciation, I agree, that's parasitic on the community.

FWIW - I don't think a landtax would create a meaningful tilt towards more affordable home ownership, especially single family home ownership, since it's such a poor use of land. Instead, I think it will tilt to more affordable housing in the aggregate. Lower rents, but a lot higher capital improvements in what's now underdeveloped land. More apartment buildings basically. More units, more affordable, closer to amenities, but smaller overall.

> buy-to-rent a property and immediately turn up a profit

That's just never the case (at least, the immediate part of it), maybe only in the most lopsided markets. Buying a property is a huge capital investment, and can take decades to start seeing meaningful ROI. It does create cash flow quickly.
Intel you read in the news is always filtered through the mouths of politicians laden with agenda. During the Iraq war, the Bush admin ran their own intel operations when the pros didn't tell them what they wanted to hear. That being said, the accusation against ZH is from politicians too so I guess it still applies.

Still they were right and ZH ran propaganda. Whataboutism doesn't make them less guilty. Their unflinching denial makes them more guilty.
Yeah, I'd actually use the barrel charger on the road so that it can just live in my backpack and USB-C (provided by an appropriate dock that's connected to a keyboard, monitor, etc) at home.
> If that were the case, why has someone else not bid $1 more to buy that house and rent it out?

Because capital is privatised and scarce, therefore a working-class family wishing to buy a home to live on cannot do so since they're outbid by those with capital. This leaves them with two choices: (1) pay rent to a middleman with capital, who buys the house, or (2) beg a private entity for a capital advance to be repaid with future expected cash flows, i.e. a bank loan.

The fundamental issue was always there, but for a time the house prices where well within what working/middle-class people could afford. Now that capital, incl. behemoth investment funds, have pushed these prices well outside what most people can reasonably afford, it becomes much more visible. It's kinda silly that your take is "well why don't working-class people just bid $1 above Blackrock"?
The performance hit is quite unacceptable in games such as CSGO. I cannot really think of any competitive game where the performance hit is justifiable.
> beloved by most Australians

That doesn't say much either way and isn't relevant - could just be that the propaganda is doing its job.
At TED yesterday he said it's as much a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of his favorite books. 42. The answer to everything.
Ah, reminds me of the "Moscow residents please stay indoors, there will be a storm tonight" news bulletin after an officially not a nuclear incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident
This security thing is so broken. Lots of good old button phones with an access to Internets became internetless. For example, rn I am reading HN from a device which can access to HN and a few websites - no google and no wikipedia and no way to open those. I really really really need an option to skip all those so-called secure cryptographic so-called improvement. But they give me no option except of to buy more electronic crap even more short-living then previous, even does not have an ability to attach a cord so that the device doesn't fall down from hands.
> The only thing the Ukraine is providing

Ukraine is providing leadership, initiative, and massive amounts of weaponry on their own. Zelensky is asking western governments for more every week.

As for cannon fodder, civilian casualties are most likely much greater than military casualties at this point, and will likely get worse. Add to that the all the material destruction.

The cost in human lives would be far greater without western aid.
Why would they deliberately come up with a study design that harms their evaluation, trust, reputation, etc. and not one that optimized for best lab-condition results, like any sensible hair loss product company, for example?
For those who don't know, there's no need to download the full MySQL package(s) that the article references ("200+ MB"); there is the "minimal" package, which includes all the required binaries - as of v8.0.28, it's ~52 MiB.

This is a relatively new introduction; v5.7 doesn't have any minimal packages.
True, but presumably EU pays its soldiers EU wages and buys modern technology which has been tested for safety and reliability, whereas Russia sends conscripts to war in austere equipment.
In other words people are quite bad at estimating their skill level. Some people will overestimate, while some other people will underestimate and on average there will be a relatively constant estimated skill level that doesn't change all that much based on the actual abilities.

Given that fact, it logically follows that people who score low ability tests will more often than not have overestimated their ability (and the same on the other end of the spectrum).

You can frame this effect as autocorrelation if you wish or just as a logical consequence. But that's missing the point.

The point is: why on earth are humans so bad at estimating their own competence level as to make it practically indistinguishable from random guesses.
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Why?

You’re not paying me to do so. Instead you would be looking to attack my examples.

Instead go and google how monkey troupes operate and look at the analogies in human society.

I did it, so surely you can too!
I also know it happens. And I'm also mostly like "Yeah, that makes sense".

X: They keep banning my favorite subreddits

Y: Like /r/programming?

X: No, not that one

Y: /r/movies?

X: No

Y: /r/lego?

X: No

Y: /r/nfl?

X: No

Y: Well, which ones?

X: /r/letsmockminoritiesanddisabledpeople
I wonder if a threaded discussion where the parent being responded to is always visible as you scroll would be a workable and usable interface? I get turned around sometimes if there are dozens of replies to a comment in a threaded discussion, especially when I get to the grandchild or great grandchild comment level.

It would be analogous to when people quote entire paragraphs in a forum post to add their 1 sentence reply (which always bothered me for reasons I've never come to terms with). Once I found reddit, I really appreciated the threaded discussion.