skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an introverted person who used to want to do everything by e-mail, but have eventually come to agree with the usefulness of interactive communication to discuss certain types of issues. In particular, the ability to share screens via Zoom has made it a lot easier to quickly show someone a lot more context than is possible with e-mail.

However, if a question can be easily resolved with a single e-mail, I much prefer that to being interrupted by a call or Slack message.
This reminds me so much of achieving level 99 in skill in RuneScape. It takes about 50-200 hours, and most people don’t accomplish it for years. Once you get to 99 you just, teleport somewhere else and move on.

I’m now writing a book about this, for what it’s worth. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
Why is Canada euthanising the poor?
I've also suffered from what I've understood to be ocular migraines, characterized by the intense ocular disruptions. I went to the ER when the first one hit, because I thought I was going blind.

> It was disappointed. I didn't want to stop reading. I was enjoying the book. So I decided to keep reading until the scotoma made it impossible to continue.

I do the same thing now. I had one come on recently when I was lifting weights. I just decided to power through it. It was perhaps the most intense aural disruption I've experienced but the typical after effects (which, in my case, tend to be very bad and render me useless for 2-4 hours following an "attack") were almost completely subdued. I recall that I felt like I had a slight hangover and was able to fully function after it passed.
Interesting, can you describe a sparse vector and how it’s packed using pop count?
Unfortunately it's not that accurate. At least not without adjusting UI scaling.
>>r that Tweeting memes is how adult professionals handle workplace disagreements

Clearly you have not experienced Teams or Slack where MEME's are pretty common in both even in professional discussions. There is even a built in interface for search for meme's / gifs to respond with.

>what was his actual goal in tweeting the image?

To convey a complex point in less than 180 characters by using a image which we all know is worth 1000 words far more than you can put in a text response

To believe the meme's goal was "harassment" furthers the stereotype that people on the political left just cant meme....

The meme was in no way targeted harassment.

>>predictable misogynistic backlash.

So if that is the foundation, does this mean women are never to be criticized at all because some 3rd party may respond to that criticism in a misogynistic way. Sorry I reject that premise
> Then we get to the cost. Estimated ~15B pounds. Actual cost is what? 20B pounds? Again, that's honestly not that bad.

Considering the UK gov announced 7B pound to improve transportation for _the rest of the UK_, the 5B overrun is put in perspective.
> I don't know how you could avoid this, and it has me wondering if you understand the issue.

I understand the issue. Someone else has already mentioned how you could avoid this: allocate fds randomly instead of sequentially. This would significantly reduce probability of accidental reuse. If you widen fds to 64 bits then you're pretty much good.

Yes, it'd break syscalls that rely on sequential allocation like select. It just shows how POSIX has painted itself into a historical corner, alongside with many interactions with threads being a kludge.
And hopefully we can bury Reactor Core in the garden and never talk about it again
1 IP can correspond to multiple different clients.
Yes, exactly, and a channels abstraction to output formatted text on different targets: screen, printer, ...
> I think Amazon will likely use their own EPUB system, and maybe called it AEPUB.

God, I hope not. That just invites one more opportunity for Amazon to take an existing standard and shit all over it with some proprietary bits and nigh-unbreakable encryption, leaving it increasingly difficult to convert Amazon books out of their ecosystem.
People can’t change what they’re doing that fast - you’d have to do it over weeks or months.

The goal is to tip the balance from “30 min drive vs 1 hour transit” to “30 min drive + 10€ vs 1 hour transit” and if the equation keeps changing people will feel trapped.
I haven’t noticed many tv adverts at all - the last one I think I saw live was during the England vs Croatia in July 2018 which was sadly on ITV instead of BBC. I don’t remember much more.

I also tuned in on YouTube to watch the superbowl adverts (there was one with skeletor and heman), and I tend to watch the big budget Christmas adverts on YouTube at the start of December

I guess next adverts will be in December if England get through to the last 16 and the game is on ITV.
apple device with back light toggle would be fantastic. the pulse width modulation used on their current screens makes my vision slightly blurry even after only a few minutes of use.

i didn't realize there was a chance they might own some passively lit screen technology already. you've gotten my hopes up.
The “invisible stack frame” idea is genius and so elegant. I’m currently working on a file parser in Rust and have run into this issue several times now, especially when I really want to avoid heap allocation (say the references to the file contents are MB in size).
I looked and the saying does not appear to be from the Bible
The USB Tobii Eye tracker is pretty sweet. It seems gimmicky at first, but a number of games have great support for it.
??? All the time? I reboot ca once a month, for windows update.
So why are you watching them?Research?
Need is the mother of invention. I think that in
"The Fabulous Riverboat" people used dragon fish (whatever that is) for armour.
I don't think anyone in my class was interested in playing a numbers game and being more likely to lose individually against someone playing conservatively. Maybe there's a game theory thing that says you ought to if you know everyone else is playing conservatively, but I don't know that people were broadcasting their strategies, either; I just know that when we had periods for people to redistribute their investments, groups huddled and chatted, and made updates on their sheets, and I just read.
> If you start every day with 'what's our priority for today' - that indicates a lack of planning

How much experience do you have at very early stage startups? From my personal experience, things are often very chaotic prior to product-market fit. It is wasteful to plan too far in advance because there are so many uncertainties. There are too many teams that spend a whole lot of time feeling productive while scheduling and planning, but in reality they aren't actually getting s** done. Not saying this is always the case - it depends on the product/industry/tech, but getting things done without a clear plan is a very advantageous trait for early stage founders.
I think air pollution is a much more likely explanation.
> in my experience things like Tailwind are mostly pushed by managers, not developers

In my experience, Tailwind adoption is pushed hard by engineers who use it on side projects and see how delightful it is to use.

And if you think it's unmaintainable, maybe you should explain why you feel that way (apart from your clear distaste for it). My counterpoint is that it's amazing to be able to pick up a project after months or years and instantly understand what's going on.
No, it's an insignificant increase over what your eyes already receive.
Unfortunately the standard model does not work "extremely well".

Even if we suppose that the standard model is completely correct, it does not allow the computation of the majority of the useful physical quantities.

What is needed is a model that would be able to compute all the physical quantities that are important in practice, e.g. the masses of all hadrons and of all atomic nuclei, also their magnetic moments, the energies of their excited states, the energies of the excited states of the atoms and of the ions, and so on, starting from the properties of the elementary particles and of their interactions.

Despite the huge progresses which have happened in experimental physics, we are now no closer of having a useful theory able to compute what we need ab initio, than we were exactly one hundred years ago, before the most influential work in quantum physics was published by de Broglie, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Born et al (from the point of view of the computable values, the Dirac theory of the hydrogen atom was only a minor improvement over what could be done using the Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization condition from 1915 and the more complex systems remained uncomputable; the quantum field theory improved a little the precision of some previously computable values, but only very few other additional quantities became computable ab initio).

All the useful applied physics, e.g. the theory of the semiconductor devices, or theory of the lasers, and any other theory used to design real devices, do not have any use for the standard model, but they use various empirical mathematical models, which contain lots of parameters that are determined experimentally, in order to match the predictions of those models with the experiments.
As the other comment already pointed out, the study linked in the article [0] makes it clear that it's not the case that 1901 was the hottest March, but instead 1901 is the year that data gathering began. The warmest March on record was 2010.

> Characteristics of Average maximum, minimum and mean temperature for the country as a whole and over four homogenous region during March 2022 and its comparison since 1901

> [...]

> The country averaged monthly mean temperatures of 26.67ºC is the second warmest since 1901 (The warmest year on record was 2010 (26.671 ºC)).

[0] https://internal.imd.gov.in/press_release/20220402_pr_1551.p...
They are an de facto faith-based group, so they probably don’t want evangelizing on their doorstep.

If someone showed up trying to peddle their MLM scheme, I expect that they would be asked not to bring their work to the meeting or please don’t come back.
I've come to the conclusion that, for the most part, option types make no sense in object-oriented languages. There are exceptions, but they tend to fall into "proves the rule" territory. OCaml, for example.

Not just because of the null problem. It's also that option types push you toward a "conditional logic everywhere" way of doing things, because that's how you handle the options. That's all well and good and holy in a functional language, and perhaps even a procedural one. But it's the opposite of good object-oriented design.

To quote Dr. Mark Crislip, when you serve cow pie with apple pie, it does not make the cow pie better. It just makes the apple pie worse.
I've dealt with far too many cases of crashed programs retaining their locks on files to call it anything but buggy. And Windows offers no UI for finding out which process is holding the file handle.
I mean reserves don't actually constrain lending: http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/04/02/ptolemaic-econ...

Edit, also:
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/03/29/krugman-on-or-...
It's a very good finding! Thank you!
Again I will make this point, again and again. Here, today, on HN, in this comment section, we have people endorsing mass population culling of the most dispossessed people on earth, and the least responsible for climate change. How am I the moral transgressor for arguing, abstractly, that redirecting the harm towards those actually perpetrating it is preferable?

The CCP isn't my problem honestly. Most of the major contributors to climate change are operated from within my own country, so I'll focus on that. There's plenty of work to go around, I'm sure someone over there can handle that part of the project.

The fact that people can never really come up with anything except "but well CHINA" speaks volumes to me. You aren't rejecting this stance because you abhor violence. Climate change IS VIOLENCE. Where is your outrage, what are you willing to do about it?
That's the problem, you can only migrate once you've saved up to have a property elsewhere.
Didn't you know? AWS is the only cloud provider.

AWS is, additionally, the only way of doing functions as a service.

/s
It's better because Medium optimizes for clicks while substack optimizes for subscribers.
When you say:

> this should be expected

there is some larger evaluation context implied, which I find interesting.

Repackaged: I don't know how much faith I can place in random sequences.
“I know I’m fucked because they paid me in crypto, and I don’t even know how to cash out.”

How does this guy even tie his shoes in the morning? Try walking up to literally anyone attending these “banging” crypto parties that you’re going to, and ask if they want to give you cash for your crypto. I can’t think of an easier environment in which you can quickly convert your crypto to fiat.
I learned a bit of hobby sleight of hand as a kid, but never enough to work as a pro.

I did later learn another set of similar skills, though, and owned a business in that field for a while: martial arts.

Some martial arts are like stage magic in that they work in part by training yourself to do things that most people find surprising because they don't know how you do them or what training it requires to pull them off.

Not all martial arts use techniques like that, but some of them do, and some of the tricks of the trade make pretty good party tricks.

One example of a party trick that I've witnessed (and even learned to reproduce, poorly):

I know a guy who can take a dart in his hand, hold it with his arm fully extended, and, without bending his elbow, stick it in a dartboard from normal playing distance. It looks like magic: the dart flies across the room and sticks in the board.

If you have the relevant kind of training, then you know exactly how he's doing it (although, simply knowing it doesn't make it easy to reproduce!), but if you don't, then odds are you don't believe it's even possible.
If there isn't any triangle, than the position of the handle on the little pump is the indicator.
If you have GA4 linked with Big Query, couldn’t you just build the dashboard pretty easily in Google Data Studio?
You can imagine how sad some of us were when the last remaining flyable SR-71s, maintained in flyable storage by NASA Dryden for flight experiments, were finally retired for good. Here's a NASA page on them, but I haven't seen anything explicitly published on when in the early 2000s the decision was made to pull the plug: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-03... One year they were still doing J58 runs, another they were on static display out of the hangars. @jhugo's comment is right.
Materialize also isn't open source (just source available) so there could have been strategic reason not to use it. (This is now the first open-source streaming database of its kind [that I've heard of].)
What allows neutron stars to overcome the degeneracy pressure? Does the electron get so close to the proton that it gets absorbed and then the pressure disappears?
Oh, he definitely tried R but was not very impressed. Says it's only moderately better than Python's otherwise excellent bindings to a lot of libraries, and that he had no patience for Julia. He isn't exactly a programmer, he's just a very practical guy that is open to learning some programming to get his stuff done quicker and with less mistakes but that's about it. He has a short fuse for ecosystem deficiencies -- tbf I think we the programmers have to learn from such people. :D

And yeah, Elixir's scene in this area is just now starting. The NX project opened a lot of possible doors but the community just started stepping up. It's going to be a while, granted, but I am optimistic because Elixir's overall community values quality and centralization (with all the sometimes problematic collaboration efforts that entails) over rushing to have 10 competing implementations.

Time will tell. I have no horse in the race either way, just sharing various observations really.
The garmin Phoenix has the same color display as the color pebbles. The instinct however is solar and never needs to be charged, while simultaneously having more features than the pebble.

I still wear a pebble 2 daily, but am going to upgrade when price drops on the garmin
> Usually without any actual content worth viewing

Yeah. The less info the more clipart/general crap you'll get. Weird innit.

As to your other points, I can't argue. I accept a higher level of inconvenience for a higher level of security, that's just my choice. I won't inflict it on others who make different tradeoffs.
Here is the thing with "busting rust": by the time you get to the end of the ship the other side has already started rusting again
Live in central London and usually walk everywhere, never experienced or even heard of black snot. Pretty sure it’s only a thing for the tube-travelling demographic.
Fascinating. The first image is exactly what mine look like but I was told (by a doc) that they are ocular migraines.
Why would that be good? Nothing else is priced that way.

Also it greatly increases enforcement costs so not only would it have to be better, it would have to be a lot better.

Moreover, I know a lot of very wealthy people that are very frugal and actually care more about $10 than I do.
I feel like this was too much a diatribe on why supersymmetry is not a good solution and didn't spend enough time on evaluating what the actual implications are of this result holding.
There's Matomo, formally Piwik.

https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo
> the virtual machine (universe) we run on just has some emergent constraints

But this is not to be confused with some sort of cosmic operating system?
> I might take up your challenge and write a blog post about it or something if I get any success.

Success or failure, I would really enjoy seeing that write up! I would be even more excited to be proven wrong.

The promise of "universal function approximator" is very temping. My personal dream would be to have it so one could essentially run scipy in reverse and learn the entire library with a NN. Even in the case I gave, the idea that you could learn an arbitrary quantile function means you could also arbitrarily learn a sampler for any distribution, since all you have to do compose a uniform sampler with whatever quantile function you learned.

Of course for this example I'm using "solved" using a similar approach with variational inference (pyro has a write up on it: https://pyro.ai/examples/svi_part_i.html, you might find David Blei's "Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians" useful as well https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670)
Now I'm going to buy McDonald's and fix all the ice cream machines...
The line above with some emojis still gave 2.24% tho. lol
It doesn’t favor the rich, it favors those willing to pay. But that’s true of any purchase in a market economy.
That is correct. Most retailers build this into the price of the item and you have to pay it anyway even if you're paying cash.

Sometimes you may notice that retailers will charge less if you pay cash, or will have a minimum for using the credit card machine. Especially at low volume places. This is because it's possible to even lose money on fee's if it's an especially small transaction.

Visa and mastercard essentially offer an $850B duopoly for payments.

Like most monopolies the quality and price of service is not actually that good.
Sofia, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
A cool example of power projection: The Great White Fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet
Well there was a collapse, but it "only" lasted for 100 to 200 years and no anything close to 600. Populations in Mediterranean and European decreased sharply between 5th and 6th centuries due to the plague and climate change and growth remained modest until the medieval warm period. However there was nothing the people living at the time could have realistically done to avoid this.

However outside of that period it's not that straightforward. The Roman economy was stagnant or declining well before the Western empire officially collapsed. According to some historians growth in much of the Mediterranean region stopped with the Roman conquests at the end of the Hellenistic period. But even if we assume that ~200 A.D. was the peak can we really say that there was more technological innovation and economic growth between the 3rd - 5th centuries than between the 8th and 10th centuries? Probably the latter..

And it also varied significantly depending on the area we're talking about. Italy probably took the longest to recover but it's economy was massively inflated due to wealth transfers during the Roman period. However the center of economic and political power in Europe has shifted to the other side of the alps France and Germany had nearly the double the population in 1000 AD compared to their Roman peaks. And some places like mainland Greece arguably never did until the 19th century (it was probably was past it's peak during the Roman period as well, though. A similar process occurred in the eastern Mediterranean where the center of power shifted from the coast to the inland areas (like the area modern day Iraq).

And we're only taking about absolute growth here, per capita productivity probably wasn't as much affected and most of the decline in international trade (which eventually recovered) was balanced out by higher availability of land (per capita) and improvements in agricultural techniques and tools.

If we're talking about technological growth, well again in some areas like architecture the decline was severe and near total (most communities couldn't afford to maintain the buildings they already had). In other areas the reverse might had happened, based on archeological evidence the average quality of metal tools and weapons in Western Europe was already much better in the 7-8th centuries compared to what the Romans ever had. The heavy plow was introduced in agriculture, water mills continued to be built. Literacy rates fell, however that was to a large degree an outcome of the collapse of urban populations. However the link between economic and technological progress and education in the ancient world wasn't all that clear.
you are eagerly missing the point :) the REPL in those languages have a fraction of the capability in Common Lisp
> Streetcars on rails are so smooooth

They should be, at least. San Francisco runs historic (interesting, attractive) cars on the Market Street line, some of which sound and feel like the rails are surfaced with gravel.

Every time I ride one of the orange cars from Milan Italy, I am reminded that the Milanese in the 1930s had bigger things to worry about, and that I should just get over it. :)
Without comments like that, HN would have 1/3 of the total comment volume. I find it highly entertaining.
I canceled and encouraged people to cancel[1] after The Closer was released. I will continue to encourage people to cancel when they mention Netflix content as a way to demonstrate allyship. It is a small act of protest anyone can do in just five minutes.

1. https://www.netflix.com/cancelplan
It’s a joke and a reference to another part. That’s the problem with referring to the Talmud in secular non-Jewish circles. People have misunderstood it for millennia with extremely negative repercussions. There’s a case in Menachot 37a where someone asks a similarly ridiculous question about conjoined twins which later is recorded as occurring. So the Talmud should never be understood literally. It’s trying to teach us that everything can happen, that there are no stupid questions but sometimes there are stupid questions, the irony of life.
Open source and private alternatives to popular platforms and services
The Linux Command Line by William Shotts [pdf]
The Programming Paradigm to Find One Solution Among 8,080,104 Candidates
Yet it's thankfully not that stable as is Venus's crust, otherwise we'd have much more carbon in atmosphere, so persistent hothouse effect and surface temperatures of 100+ Celsius.
An Ess-Kew-Lite.