skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know that. The situation right now is a great example that Russia likes to adjust its "goals" in retrospect, to say this was what they wanted all along.

And "money wouldn't have been spent unless it was deemed necessary"? You have an awfully high opinion of Russian institutions' fiscal responsibility!

I still say what I said right after, and have said for 4+ years: Russian propaganda during the election was probably intended to hobble Clinton with domestic political troubles, not actually for Trump to win.
> That’s not good enough, argues Renske Leijten, a Socialist member of the Dutch parliament

Exactly, and especially in the public sector on the EU level this could be even vastly more damaging. The warning were loud enough and people didn't listen or care, so it is probably necessary that many will have to feel it before anything will change. This is probably too small scale, even if thousands are affected.
Again, this is what I'm talking about. If you don't know the exact details, why do you want to teach how it works? Learn it first, try it, THEN teach about it. Silence or questions arebetter when you don't exactly know how things work.

__new__ doesn't call __init__, the interpreter will call the __init__ when an instance is returned from __new__, otherwise it won't even be called.
>..Account created 20 days ago with a comment history that feels somewhat tendentious to me. Anyhow:

What shall my punishment be?
That was kind of my point. People have got used to Bluetooth being flaky, WiFi having dead spots, WiFi performance not being that great, etc. They've forgotten how good wired connections are.

In my house I have a nice WiFi set up and performance from the Apple TV was awful. I discovered that someone had put in some Cat 5 in the walls and managed to test it, splice a few cables and get Ethernet working. End of trouble.
it might be useful for those having a hard time understanding what "fake" means here to think of it in terms of the shovelware games found on our modern app stores. sure, they're still technically games and they were technically made by actual people and you can technically have fun playing them, but they were created with the intent of siphoning off attention from the well-known games they were inspired by.
Working for an espionage agency doesn't make James Bond a spy any more than working for Mercedes-Benz makes Lewis Hamilton a mechanic. He is an assassin, and attracting the enemy's attention is an alternative to attacking them, with the same lethal outcome.
Would this be in a scenario where homes are producing more electricity than they need, and using the extra to reduce iron oxide? With solar getting cheaper and cheaper, definitely a possibility.

A system more similar to what we have in New England would be the opposite of what you describe: a truck drops off a load of fresh (elemental) iron, and it's oxidized over the winter to heat the house. Then, in the spring, someone comes back and removes all the rust for recycling. This plan would allow iron to replace a lot of propane and heating oil if the energy densities work out.
Wikipedia flipped a long time ago. My local language's wikipedia is horrifically run by people deleting virtually any new content based on their own interpretation of rules, effectively turning away newcomers, and the English-language Wikipedia has a lot of articles with anything but NPOV content (and edit wars looming the moment you add other, non-popular information of a subject, even if sourced).

Wikipedia still is a good source for general-purpose information on unpolitical topics, but the moment even the slightest amount of controversy exists around a lemma, it's unreliable and unusable.
You're probably on a phone. On a desktop the content spans all the way across the screen. More paragraphs could be used in order to split up the text as well.
Wake up, first thing that pops into my head, "I should check HN" (normally it's imgur, yeah bad habits).

Number one post is the Linking Sigil. Neat.

If you know, you know.

As for how a chaos magick symbol concocted in the 21st century ended up in a 1994 font spec, clearly discordians used the power of fnord to retcon it.
Yeah you are right, it doesn't show correlation specifically for blockbusters. I misinterpreted.
Of course, every large corporation in Germany is required to have worker representation on the board.
I remember that after I moved house I needed to buy 5 new energy saving light bulbs. The store near me had an offer:

> £1 each or 4 for £5

I checked with the floor manager if that was accurate and how could I buy 5. Turns out I had to do it in two different transactions.

Moral of this story is: store promotions often don't make much sense.
Yep, I do. If not ergonomically perfect for sandwiches, they are great for toasting for soup or oatmeal or ramen noodles. They also make an excellent meal when broiled with some chives and melty cheese on top. Heels are under-rated.

My wife disdains bread heels too.
She grew up upper middle-class, while I grew up in a working poor family.

My theory is that one's estimation of heels is in inverse proportion to how well-to-do your family was growing up.
Uh, meaning don't discuss your crime, search for crime related things, etc, on your phone or home pc, etc. Not living in a cave.
I guess you cannot install Nix on that Mac because you are not admin?

In general you can install the Nix Package Manager and home-manager an macOS. There were some rough edges when macOS Catalina came out, but that should be resolved now. The way it works will probably require admin rights though (https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-...).
> risks of using algorithms

Bubblesort so dangerous. Not exactly the best headline, is it?
I use cable where I can and wireless only when I absolutely have to.
Sorry for the crashes, have you sent the crash logs to support@lnav.org or opened an issue on https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues ? I try to take a look at crash reports, but I’m not always able to figure out the issue from just the logs. If you have some time to spare in replicating the problem, I can take a deeper look.
Or... Just install systems that don't have waste heat, like heat pumps.

Anytime you hear 'use waste heat for X', the thermodynamically more efficient version uses a heat pump. And with time, the thermodynamically more efficient version will also be the economically more efficient version.
Fintech Brex bets big on software, lands DoorDash as a customer
Hikaru is awesome to watch.

He's headed to the candidates where I hope he takes it. It will be amazing for chess to see him compete for world championship.
But character encodings don't limit the number of codepoints. Unicode is just a big list of correspondences between an integer and a glyph. There's no limit to how many integers you can assign.

Unicode encodings are separate standards that give correspondences between Unicode code points (integers) and byte sequences. If Unicode changes in a way that invalidates an encoding, that just calls for a new encoding.
What are people's views on having your dotfile repo public? I generally have mine public in case anything comes in handy for others but have been wondering lately whether there is a heightened risk of inadvertently committing something private/secret.
Clearing NHS backlog will take years, Glasgow doctor warns
Nadine Dorries (UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) was right, we should simply get rid of algorithms. They are clearly harmful /s

[0] - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nadine-dorries-micros...
China interest in Taiwan predates TSMC. US interest not sure. Maybe this would be a war deterrent for USA but hardly for China.
I was doing the same on MS-DOS, keeping "secret" files on a floppy disk with a directory having a name ending with an invisible Alt+255... it was even impossible to look inside it with the Windows 3.1 file manager.
The parallel port was wonderfully hackable. Having your PC control an LED light, or even a motor (with some effort), didn't take a whole lot of electronics knowledge. Or 8 LEDs, one per pin. And controlling it was as easy as sending text to a printer. We lost this in the age of USB...

When I was a kid my dad helped me hook up a pin to a motor. And not just any motor, but one inside a cassette tape player. I could then make little games in BASIC that had real voice! Of course it had to be linear, it basically played chunks of voice recording and stopped at the right times.
The Modern Data Stack Ecosystem: 2022
Heels are the best!
At least speaking of European bread.
> practically need to give up because it simply would become economically infeasible for them to do that.

Wars are economically unfeasible. Didn't stop governments from waging them.
Google’s Pixel 6a is likely to be released in May
uh...

$ grep remote files/* | grep "machine learning"

you're welcome?
Having both progressive and conservative friends, I have to say that I see just as much division on the right nowadays, as on the left. Trump and Romney, for example, don't get along all that well. Christian conservatives and Tea Party activists have very different priorities on, for example, gay-marriage vs. big banks, and very different attitudes towards big corporations or many other topics. It was, for many years, true that the right was more cohesive than the left, but this seems very different in the last ten years.
FORTH like I.
You're missing webranking, and other core components of core products. Deciding in which order results pop up on google.com is both very challenging and we'll recognized. Same with people that do ad ranking, people that manage the enormous storage systems, etc. If it is core to the company it is prestigious, you never have to explain the impact of your job.
The vast majority of the nasty stuff that happened around GME was not the work of regulators trying to hurt ordinary investors.
This is the type of thing to overlook as being bias when you don't grow up in that culture that would be offended at the accusation. I watch the PBSNewsHour, but I absolutely recognize they have a bias on certain topics, and know I am unable to see the bias because I am too steeped in it on other topics. That is true no matter how "fact based" any reporting is. It isn't terribly hard to stick to "just the facts" and still leave readers/watchers with a very warped picture by putting greater emphasis on some facts while downplaying or outright ignoring others.
In the US, producers just apply shrink-flation to sell us half-sized products at stable full-sized prized.
I think this takes the crown as the least-charitable interpretation of a comment that I've ever seen on HN.
The vast majority of regulation is there to protect CERTAIN market participants.
Minimal webmail client that uses EmailEngine to access IMAP accounts
...give it time.
I guess that depends on the point of the community - to my understanding, the point is to discuss. Reasoned discussions are based on arguments and observations, not just evidence and citations. I don't even know what kind of evidence you can bring up for something of this scale - it's not like the are metastudies on where people allocate capital within the crypto market, and what the outcomes aside from wealth transfer. It's a more systemic thing.

I don't even understand how people can argue against this. Do you have the perception that most people are buying coins for reasons other than to sell them again for profit? The only types of studies I find are self-referential in that they report on market size.

The reason I discuss the subject at all is I'm hoping that one day somebody gives me the piece of information I'm missing that shows that the crypto industry isn't just everybody trying to get rich while burning tons of fossil fuels, that there are reasonably positive outcomes from it. So far I just get a lot of angry reactions and accusations of having no proof, despite this not being a court case. Like, show me something good that's been made because of crypto! It's the easiest argument in the world to win.
> But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

- Carl Sagan
How‘s that surprising at all
It seems like bodies of government without accountability have something in common: corruption.
Nostalgic! I used LapLink a lot back in the days. When Ethernet became affordable I was baffled by the speed of data transfer. Lightning fast!

Written from a mobile phone with 5G. Tell me about exponential growth.
Defense Intelligence Agency: Challenges to Security in Space [pdf]
Around here we have a law where any decision taken by the public sector with the help of a computer program must (upon request) be explained in plain language, the calculations detailed step by step.

Of course, this indirectly prohibits the use of the kind of programs that seem to have been used in this case, since instead of an algorithm, they use a neural network which is a black box even to his trainer (or architect).

Sadly, I hear that our own tax authorities have started to use them anyway, but then they have long had this tendency of consider themselves "special", and that laws didn't apply as much to them...
That's a fair point and likely to be a factor in this, but then there are still the 'regular' bikes for the people that do not want to wear a helmet.

I cycle a very large amount ever year and the number of accidents and near accidents is much larger than on the same number of km by car. This is kind of frustrating because I really enjoy biking and try to do as much of my mileage by bike as possible but the safety of it makes me wonder if I'm not playing some kind of lottery with 'very bad prizes'.
I think he’s talking about concrete data structures, though, not abstract types. I don’t think you would need generic types to write git?
Since it looks like a caduceus on a graph, I propose it as a symbol for ethical statisticians.
Unless the government ask for them...
I wouldn't consider myself a wine snob, but I'm not really looking forward to being served a nice Pinot Grigio from Trentino (DOC) with cubes of frozen Liebfraumilch. The logistics of keeping matching iced versions of wine sound overwhelmingly complex.
This is what the about page of the site says:

> This website is of course a non-useful, silly little thing. But I hope that it can get people to start thinking about why more stores don't sell half loaves when it seems like a more practical thing to do.
Why have they stopped improving?

Because they don't have to

Between it being a dying platform and it working well enough for their purposes while they try to branch elsewhere, there's no need to "improve"
Can you recommend any philosophy of science (or life) treatises about this?

I long considered myself a Popperian. A few years ago, I decided that I'm a "Predictionist" (a placeholder made up word until I learn better). I'm struggling to figure out what that even means.

I still agree with Popper. Empathetically.

I'm just tired of arguing. I forfeit. I give up. I no longer believe that discourse is helpful, that people are persuadable, that we can share Truth.

Instead, I just want to know the predictive strength of someone's Truth.

For example:

The Earth is flat? Oh? Cool. Please, tell me, how does that Truth help me?
> Nothing in crypto is fairly distributed.

Are we speaking relative to fiat here? .... Lol.

Besides, there were many attempts at fair distributions, so you're simply wrong there. My favorite, Nano, distributed small amounts to people who solved captchas between 2015 and 2017.
"any more and we'd be lying"

I live and work in Colorado, which has had a similar law for over a year. I have been offered positions over posted salary ranges, and I have confirmed others have taken positions with salaries over the posted range. Without an enforcement mechanism for the law, it seems like this behavior is unlikely to change.
The ice cube trays trick also changed my life after my sister showed me. I even ended buying different sizes of molds to use depending on what I'm freezing.

During the lockdowns I also started with some more traditional preservation techniques like oils and vinegars. Not for long term storage (not enough space) but just for a couple days or weeks at a time. E.g. buying a bag of average quality olives then chuck them in a jar with good olive oil, fresh herbs, garlic, optionally things like chili and an orange rind. Yields both great olives as well as flavored oil for dressings.
Meta Plans to Take a Nearly 50% Commission on Purchases Inside the 'Metaverse'
US has had a strategic interest in Taiwan since day 1 of its existence as the Non-Communist part of China and has military supported them since then.
The moment you understand your web project as a "movement" is the moment you need to take a step back and carefully consider which track you are really on. Very few good things ever came from organisations that self-described as a movement, but we got plenty of crime and sometimes genocides out of movements.
Bonn, like the i3 and other mid/late-2000s UK sewer infrastructure installations, failed to even meet the baseline metrics set by first generation micro trenching fibre rollouts - which, as we know from Google Fiber in Louisville, KY, is an extremely low bar to hit. Micro trenching was a decidedly inferior solution to instead utilizing existing above-ground conduit or doing proper in-ground installations with full fat trenching or similar methods. Google’s micro trenches failed so badly in Louisville that they fled the town and paid $3m+ in remediation fees; this is the tech that is SUPERIOR to sewer installs, according to the results from Bonn and other Western European municipalities.

TL;DR: AFAIK, there is not a single trial run that has found sewer to be the best option for any of the following metrics: initial installation cost, ease of installation, lifetime cost/TCO, maintenance frequency, and network downtime/reliability rates.
Assuming you can afford the massive price hike from the current on prem pricing.
Ask HN: What's the deal with self appointed regulating bodies in security?
The whole computer security field now seems completely gated. The plethora of industry certifications from self-appointed regulating bodies is so incredibly extensive. A new one seems to pop up every week. I'm seeing job postings requiring 6+ certifications costing 1000's each.

General computing jobs are subject to a very high amount of competition, 100's of applicants to one position. Naturally, succeeding in these certifications offers no guarantee of employment, but in fact having them has become the bare minimum and it seems highly unlikely that one would be employed regardless. How does one justify gambling 1000's? Is there a better way?

Is this beneficial to anyone? Is this the future of computing jobs? Will we end up seeing this in other fields?
There are very few compliance rules to begin with for this space. I'd imagine that the compliance department at Coinbase is just a dead goldfish
Meanwhile, the irony amidst all this is that the Netherlands is the largest tax haven for companies globally. Literally every brand/company you can think of is legally headquartered in NL for tax purposes.

Eg: FAANG, Disney, IKEA, Uber, Mars Chocolate, etc etc
No fly lists too, no algorythms involved
Firewalla Blue Plus (home network filter)
Context: https://tme.miraheze.org/wiki/Ellis_(sigil)
It makes me sad to think of all those simple little services we used to run on *NIX machines, like `finger` and `whois`. You'd never want to disclose that information now, but at the time it was quite nice to be able to see if a friend or colleague was around with a simple network query.
There's precious metals (platinum) in the catalytic converter. That's why they get targeted by thieves & are expensive to replace. $6k seems high though. I had to replace one years ago and it was less than half that.
The version I had came with a thin blue serial cable with DE9 and DB25 serial connectors on both ends. The thick yellow parallel cable had to be purchased separately.
Sanctions wouldn’t be sanctions if you didn’t get in trouble for breaking them.
Accredited investor rules was an example of not having a even playing field. The market is not open to everyone which contributes to unfair outcomes. I'd welcome reforms to transparency as well there, as lack of transparency also contributes to unfair outcomes (the company can exploit investors).
It is part of the theatre, unelected government officials waste taxpayers money on something illegal so they have to pay with taxpayer money for it. The only real punishment would have been is jail time for the people involved and explaining to the rest of the unelected government officials that they can end up in jail. Just like how the rest of society works.
Music tweets. Sounds like a highly engaged voter base…
Here in Baltimore, MD, too, although the focus is mostly on kids books
Ducth impressions of safety always make me giggle. I'm only alive today due to a helmet I was wearing when a car decided to turn in front of me. Yet, gems like this exist

> “If you are hit by a car on your bike, there is no helmet that will protect you.”

From here: https://dutchreview.com/culture/cycling/5-reasons-why-the-du...

If this statement was really true, then no one would ever take a trip on a bicycle on a public road. We would have bicycle fatalities almost everyday.
I hate how the correlation between income/country of origin and fraud probability is discarded as „racist“ by at least Amnesty International.

Maybe we should first do a correlation and causality analysis and see what it yields instead of closing our eyes because of PC?
Good luck!

I've spent an inordinate amount of my career working out ways to make it dirt easy to get test data documented, traceable, and maintained.

When your usability of your solution is good, people will use it, up to the point they can't fit the entire data model in their own head. Then you get the laze that creeps in. Fact is, most large production datasets end up being so bloody bloated, or data pipelines so bloody denormalized/convoluted, most developers check out mentally from the documentation/test data management/maintainence aspect of test data curation.

My only theory as to why is because it is hard, and we glorify ignorance through praising abstraction and clever marketing like "serverless" that makes it seem like it isn't a big deal to know where your data ends up and how it gets there.

You do need to understand the system. Yes, you can work on small chunks, but you need to be able to deal with it holistically.

And if one more person tells me "but I'm different" they are getting a shoe thrown at them. Test data management is like the 2nd to last if not final boss of software testing as a general problem. You are implementing verifier machines that test the transitions of another from state x to state y for function f(x) = y. There are so many ways to wipe the raid, or do it wrong, or make it impossible for people to follow. If you don't understand your data provenance, you don't understand your system. Period.
You can easily build on web3 in 2022 without trying to peddle your tokens to retail investors, too.

But those aren't the projects that you hear about.

It is disingenuous of you to recognize the possibility on the web in 1999 but then characterize people building on web3 as not wanting to build useful or interesting stuff.
Perl Data Language (PDL) 2.078 released