skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need to get that upset over it...

When we switched to OpsGenie it was also to consolidate billing with other Atlassian products, but we all knew PagerDuty worked better and that OpsGenie was still pretty new and rough around the edges. We certainly didn't gain any business advantage by switching, but we did have to do a lot of work to switch which took away from other things we needed to get done. But ultimately we had no say because somebody just wanted to save a little money. I also doubt that there was a thorough vendor assessment before we picked it up, since it was a vendor we already used.
I didn’t like the Stanley parable. Undertake had bullet hell gameplay. That seems hugely different? I found it’s aesthetic to be kind of annoying personally.
Ask HN: Is it worth to learn COBOL?
I hear stories about COBOL programmers gaining a long, stable and well paid career being employed by banks that depend on it. Some people say it is a boring a job, other people may say it is stagnant. Also, even though there are very few COBOL programmers, it is hard to estimate how good or common are job offers.

So, the question is: Is it worth to learn COBOL?
I don't think you're wrong to point this out, but it's also obvious that nobody is discriminating against men for being short or women for being fat the way people discriminate and have discriminated against people for being members of those groups.

I don't recall any red-lining against short men, separate water fountains or schools for short men, short-men not being allowed to get married, etc. Also, remind me the next time the NYPD sets up some extremely questionable surveillance of short-men at northeastern universities or a presidential candidate adopts banning foreign short-men from the country as part of his campaign platform.
interesting post... yesterday they ban me because my name was SLAVA UKRAINI and my background profile was the flag from Ukraine. I had purchase that background for 500 steam points from the official steam store from a game called Ukrainian Ninja to support ukranian developers..

Screenshot https://ibb.co/W3gCJFn of my ban

they changed my nickname to some numbers.... My nickname was SLAVA UKRAINI..........

my profile deescription was:

SLAVA UKRAINI..... STOP URUKHAI.
Which is ridiculously annoying. I have to edit the HTML every single time to remove "readonly" on that field and paste in my randomly generated password.
So does HN think Dart and Flutter are niche?

What about Erlang?
Look, this criticism comes up every single time and has been addressed in many research papers already. Among other things they do nearest-trainingset-match searches for output to see how much is reproduced verbatim. It's generally very little. And the inverse square root thing is a very poor example because it involved deliberate prompt engineering. It's like saying humans are just memorizers because some human can recite a short poem after you explicitly asked them to by citing the first line.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asks this...

Perhaps we should investigate how many HN comments are regurgitated vs. novel?
really nice. I'm trying to be speed cuber. currently around 40-50 secs for solving.

Did you defined ranking program? what is the default rank? is it going to be similar to chess (e.g 1000 for starters, 1800 for experiences, 2300 for masters etc) ? how are you going to measure it? would it be changed only when you do 1x1 games? or also self training impacts it?

also, how can you protect against trolls? everyone can fake it, you know.
Without extensions you can do it per-case via `seq`, see https://wiki.haskell.org/Seq (although it might get tricky because you might have to do it repeatedly because it only performs one “level" of evaluation)

There is also another GHC extension called bang patterns to request strictness on pattern matches.

The original bang (`!`) which is Standard Haskell can make fields of data structures strict, see: https://wiki.haskell.org/Performance/Data_types#Strict_field...

In general both lazy and strict languages can be strict or lazy. But the way it shows in the data types is different. A strict language can defer evaluation by adding a level of abstraction (instead of type `X` you have `() -> X`). A lazy language can force evaluation (it will have to evaluate at some point anyway) but you might not see it in the type. I’m not sure which one is better to be honest. Being able to infer laziness/strictness from the type is nice, but it also hinders interoperability.
The reason is that we don't know what the next rate will be. So if you bought in April you are guaranteed the 7.12% and then 9.6% return, versus buying in May you will get 9.6% for 6 months and then an unknown rate after that. It could be more, it could be less - most people are expecting it to be lower.
It's just a question about what we perceive as random. It has nothing to do with the probability of the sequence being produced by a die, only with the probability of the sequence being produced by a human. A 20 20 20 sequence is not less random, it's just more likely to be produced by someone with incentive to cheat.

How did the researchers measure the "randomness" of a particular sequence in this experiment?

> Formally, the algorithmic (Kolmogorov-Chaitin) complexity of a string is the length of the
shortest program that, running on a universal Turing machine (an abstract general-purpose
computer), produces the string and halts.

Oh, interesting.
It’s capitalism. We have plenty of housing but a capitalist society protects hoarding housing more than equalizing housing. You end up with more airbnb, “investment” rentals or abandoned properties stuck in legal limbo than inventory for first time home buyers.

you can’t build to infinity when everything is built out…
not to mention russian players would always troll me and try to kick me from the CSGO games only for having the ukrainian flag.... they would also insult me with voice chat everytime....

i never attacked somebody for having a russian flag or being russian....

Why are they so offensive? they act like bad people, like if they were invaders with no morals
Classic fallacy fallacy. The fallacy fallacy is a fallacy that asserts that because an argument is fallacious, the conclusion of the argument is false.
I do wonder if differences in language governance models impact uptake. Being completely biased (having worked on the SML/NJ compiler a long while ago), I very badly want to see more adoption. There is definitely continuing activity with new (IFL award winning) LLVM backend work [1] and Manticore.

[1] http://cs.uchicago.edu/news/smlnj-overhaul/
https://www.cato.org/blog/swedens-big-welfare-state-superior...
If Sweden’s Big Welfare State Is Superior to America’s Medium Welfare State, then Why Do Swedes in America Earn Far More than Swedes in Sweden?

"A Scandinavian economist once said to Milton Friedman, ‘In Scandinavia, we have no poverty’. Milton Friedman replied, ‘That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either’. Indeed, the poverty rate for Americans with Swedish ancestry is only 6.7 per cent: half the US average (US Census)."
Yes if you don't mind mainframes.
It's suppression or prohibition of etc.

And it's because the government (politics) deems it unacceptable.

Fits the definition.
I'd love if Inkscape implemented Xfig technical drawing features.
Exactly - a responsibly made work of art conveys a message, a feeling, an idea in a reasonable window of time and let's you go back to your life.

This I think, is something the bigger 'industry' doesn't and will never fully aim for, because games like this don't drive the type of consumption that can deliver the kinds of profits which are to be expected with industrial scales of production.

Something similar happened in filmmaking in the 1970's, when tools for film production and distribution methods became gradually less expensive and more accessible. I think that we will see something very similar in the coming decades as game-design continues to develop as a mature artform.
>It was formed after 9/11 to make sure knives and explosives didn't get on planes.

That is the TSA. DHS was formed as a major reorganization of existing government agencies dealing with immigration, customs, border patrol, and many other functions, including the new TSA.

https://www.dhs.gov/operational-and-support-components
> But I think the Freenode "hostile takeover" of 2021 dealt a heavy blow to the IRC community.

Perhaps.

It was a painful experience for many but I think what came from the ashes (libera.chat) is a yet better FOSS-centric IRC network and now it is on much more solid footing than what Lee burned to the ground. This resurgence was due to the hard work of very dedicated opers and the users all wanting to keep the good parts of freenode and fix the bad.

I just checked netsplit.de and libera.chat has around 45k current users. Less than freenode showed before the coup but also I think clear that this number is less inflated by zombie bouncer connections than it naturally was for any long running network. Point being that all the "real" users moved and largely picked up where they left off.

In any case, my feeling about the Gnome IRC vs matrix thing is that the game is not zero sum.

From my single IRC client (weechat) I connect to multiple IRC networks and a few matrix channels. In some cases I'm in several channels of the same topic across these connections. And, that doesn't really degrade the experience. I don't use Gnome any more so have no skin in this particular game, but I think "officially" moving to matrix (specifically) would not be damaging to the community (the same is not true for the proprietary options). Any Gnome IRC channels continue (assuming Gnome doesn't get pushy on that front!) and Gnome matrix will become yet another way for people to connect.

If you see me on IRC, say "hi".
They still have a web browser but a web browser is not the same as EPUB support. No Kindle has ever supported epub natively.
(This is the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch, in case anyone is looking to search for it.)
Couple of companies I have worked for held their real estate properties in a sub-companies which allowed them to carve off assets as needed. All these companies owned was the asset themselves and liabilities directly associated with the asset. I can see how just selling the films and the film characters could be similar.

Maybe it explains Disney declaration of the EU being no longer canon? I am not familiar enough to know where this writer’s content sits. If it’s considered EU, it’s possible that they don’t hold that liability.
Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
A new Stanley Parable!!?? Well I know what I'll be doing for fun today. That's an automatic buy for me.
George Marsaglia suggested a very simple multiply with carry PRNG you can use in your head to generate better quality random numbers. [1]

1. Select an initial random number between 1 and 58. (This is accomplished by mentally collecting entropy from the environment, e.g., counting a group of objects of unknown quantity)

2. Multiply the least significant digit by 6, add the most significant digit, and use the result as the next state.

3. The second digit of the state is your generated pseudorandom number.

4. Goto 2.

Sequence generated by 42:
42|16|37|45|34|27|44|28|50|05|03|18|49|58|53|23|20|02|12|13|19|55|35|33|21
2| 6| 7| 5| 4| 7| 4| 8| 0| 5| 3| 8| 9| 8| 3| 3| 0| 2| 2| 3| 9| 5| 5| 3| 1

I really like the idea of using this when playing for example rock paper scissors (I'd take the last digit mod 3 and reject any 0's, so the distribution isn't as biased).

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/sci.math/c/6BIYd0cafQo/m/Ucipn_5...
One important detail: the works in question where written using Disney (Lucas Films,Marvel, ...) characters, so even if the original contract is void, the authors can never own the full rights to sell it to Netflix.
Ask HN: Why Prefer Blockchain over Distributed DBs?
As an engineer myself, I haven't been really able to understand what advantages do blockchains offer over general distributed databases? It can be lack of knowledge as well but to me blockchains just seem like extremely inefficient form of DBs

The only comment I have seen is that they allow decentralization. But then why would it make sense for them to use for private companies, banks etc. ?

Note than I am not talking about Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. I am more interested in the basic tech on which these platforms are built.
India – where repairing a bad road could make life worse
It would be incredibly stupid to take the bet, as it's way more likely that the sequence was not produced by a fair die than that it was (i.e. the dice is rigged in the example)

Just because it's impossible to know for certain, doesn't mean you can't make a prediction with very high chance of being correct.
I realize that this project is trying to provide a sort of meta-framework to make working with many different frameworks easier, but the tagline still reminds me of this Xkcd

https://xkcd.com/927/
You have ad preferences instead of ad blockers? Are you Mark Zuckerberg?
Having said that, they are the best option if you need to work with mainland China. Huawei is so bad it's almost hard to believe (literally everything is broken in some way), and AWS China only really makes sense if you are already tied to AWS.
The whole project is doomed from the start. The automated filter has no hope of detecting whether something is fair use or not and current legislation requires that to be evaluated before a takedown. Unless you’re willing to throw out fair use entirely automated detection fails spectacularly.
Yes, I would think that the ACH to the government can be easily reversed if the account were fraudulent but returning the money is not so easily reversed as a scammer would withdraw it and disappear.
Giving badges to different programmers would only stratify the programming 'purity hierarchy' further.

Having said that, I for one welcome our rust/clojure overlords and humbly submit that I am but a lowly react developer.
I read this as 173.12 of remaining savings "to invest" (and not entire savings)
Right, but a Vec is basically a tuple containing a pointer to allocated memory on the heap, the capacity of the allocation, and the length of the Vec. That tuple is what lives in the stack, or in a struct in the example from the article. The tuple has a fixed size, known at compile time, so it is perfectly fine for it to live on the stack. In fact, it is also ok to move a Vec around in memory; the pointer will still point to the same allocation on the heap. The problems don’t start until you want to both borrow (take references to) individual elements stored in the Vec, and also move or resize the heap allocation. That’s where the borrow checker must step in.
Additional context on the waste: gas fees are not only charged to those who have successfully minted an NFT - so those paying ~$5,500 worth of ApeCoin for the NFT plus ~$2,000 - $6,000 worth of ETH for the gas fee.

If a mint is failed because of the wallet ran out of ETH, those people lose all their ETH and get nothing in return. An outlier, but this how this person lost $6,900 of ETH to get nothing in return [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/existentialenso/status/15205751405636649...
It would be great to have a website where you can see, more or less accurately, the ratio between niche jobs and niche programmers for a specific language.
Don’t know why you are addressing the author directly.

It’s unlikely that the author reads hacker news, and even if they do, they have said anything in this thread for you to respond to.
See also the sources from this article [1].

[1] https://questioncopyright.org/promise
The History of May Day
We trialled Linode for a bandwidth-heavy product and found that their network has quite heavy contention (decent enough speeds for bulk TCP stuff, but frequent periods of elevated packet loss, latency and jitter that caused problems for our realtime application). It makes sense given how cheap their bandwidth is, and probably isn't an issue for hosting websites / API servers / etc, but something to be aware of.
Not sure if this might be related but humans have a stimulants addiction that most primates generally don't. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned by the article.
The problem is business leaders are not scientists, or at least have not been trained with the scientific method
Weird he would say that as he gets an overview of the bonds he did purchase as he did with the 25$. If he got those it would be somewhat weird.
Why doesn't entropy or kolmigorov complexity qualify as a valid metric here? A random process will produce a highly entropic result or something with high kolmogorov complexity, whereas something biased will produce something with less (like HHHHHHHHH).

Edit: saw this other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31224738 ) about how kolmogorov complexity is a bad metric and am now second guessing myself
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https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
The DHS was billed as a solution to the problem of the FBI, CIA, and other organizations not communicating with each other. The scope creep had already started happening decades before; this just made it more efficient.
Maybe it was because of unavailability of that much masks of suitable properties (KN95/FFP2) for all people, and inertia to realize that situation?

And then, saying at least Duck&Cover! in case of a thermonuclear explosion, because SDI/Iron Dome/Someshinyshield failed. Better late than never? Or nothing at all?

At some point they had to say something.
It’s possible, of course. Still, he’ll have it the day after the ACH file hits a real bank somewhere.
Is Julia a niche language at this time?
So the undetermined inflation rate for November 2022 has to go down to less than 7.12% (annualized) for that (the April case) to be a real "golden" opportunity? How likely is that?
In this case, the investor will get 6 mos of interest at the 7.12% rate, then later this year will begin a full 6 mo term of interest accumulating at 9.6%

It confused me for awhile until I figured out that different people with different investment dates will have different instantaneous interest rates as a function of their date of investment.

So buying now lets you take advantage of the similarly nice previously set rate, for 6 mos, then another guaranteed (and known) nice rate for another 6 mos.
I've always loved this clip of Lucas Etter posting a speed cubing record time, in what appears to be a gathering of Stranger Things kids in real life...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vh0W8E4cNkQ
Also check out Ipe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipe_(software)
I'm not sure it's possible to protect people from bad financial advice without creating class stratification between those who can actually invest in useful things and those that can't.
It's usually quite hard to find people who don't work at Oracle who speak positively about Oracle Cloud.

We tried to use it at work, it was the second-biggest disaster of a cloud provider we've ever encountered (Huawei is the first). Stuff is just broken so often it's hard to ever feel like you can trust it.
I think in the case of Putin, there may be some justification on the basis that he and his supporters (including in the West) portray him as super macho, etc.

On balance though, I think I agree with you.
It could be that the email was ambiguous (because the refund amount was not stated in the email) and he'll get back only $10,000 total (only $25 from the first deposit), in which case he's actually purchased $10,000 worth of bonds, but he'd only find this out in 8-10 weeks.

Shoddy software like this undermines general trust in the government.
Believing that the Republicans are anarchists is just laughable. I would like it if they were, I prefer a much smaller government than what the Republicans desire.
If the corruption is deeper that just means more officials deserve to be imprisoned for decades. The only reason not to shoot malicious prosecutors at dawn is we can't be entirely sure we have the right ones. Official malice is a threat more dangerous than an invading army.
It seems to me, if you grant a copyright contingent on some royalty, if the royalty is not forthcoming, then the copyright must revert to the author ... is that not true?

And if that is not happening, then it means the author never held the copyright, but rather had a royalty that was based on some other mechanism. If the author did not have copyright, it means they must have been doing their work as a work for hire.

This does not change the fact that Disney is a bunch of scum bags.
feature flags are supposed to be simple, this is not. Am I thinking of the wrong there here?

feature flags are often used to release a feature and then removed once that feature is in production. Why do we even need an API?
The law isn’t so cut and dry like that. The court would absolutely rule that since water is an unavoidable necessity that this constitutes an unreasonable search. But I agree that if challenged they would be fine with a search when applying for a mortgage.
I feel a democratically elected government it entitled to deny your right to consume such propaganda, although I don't understand why you would want to.
You cannot have censorship of “disinformation” and democracy. They are necessary antagonisms. If you want a free society you just have to accept that sometimes people will hear and believe untruths and do your best to argue your side. This has been the case from the beginning - even in America, we have ample examples from the post-revolutionary era of people complaining that “designing men” were misleading the public to rile them up against their representatives. And of course, the Adams administration used the foreign policy position of the state to throw their critics in prison as being seditious. People like to say that well, social media has changed everything. In fact, we’ve simply returned to a situation more like what we had prior to centralized mass media, where rumors and panics and “disinformation” originating in the common people (and often blamed on foreigners) frequently caused all kinds of dramatic events and political upsets.

The very idea of an “information war” that can be won only by silencing your adversary is an attack on democracy.

> videos of $ALLY/SELF committing them that come from reputable source or that can be verified should not be censored

There is no world where the authority delegated to protect us from propaganda isn’t going to censor these. It’s well and good to posit the idea that untruth shouldn’t be allowed but by giving someone the authority to arbitrate what is reputable and true you’ve already ceded the entire idea of self-governance.
Yeah but then you have to live with a conservative.
Well, you’re not completely wrong there. In this case however, San Francisco is full to the gills with 100–year–old two–story houses, which the city government will not allow anyone to knock down and replace with four–story houses.
I had the same issue. I generated random numbers and still got over 60 years old. I had to dive deep into it, and it turns out that the original paper is shit.

They ask participants to make sequences that are as random as possible but they use Kolmogorov complexity as a measure, which (surprise) doesn't actually measure randomness but complexity. Random distributions tend to have lower complexity than what humans generate; see [1] Fig. 4. Here are the complexity scores for different sequences if you want to lose more sleep over this: [2]. At least the authors were nice enough to be open about their data, so props I guess.

[1]: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13428-015-057...

[2]: https://github.com/algorithmicnaturelab/HumanBehavioralCompl...
It's really quite simple a lot of men just want to be able to experiment sexually before they settle down. A lot of women do too. The difference is for women this is easily available in the dating world.. for men.. especially short men.. it's a distant fantasy. If these needs were met they would harbor no resentment towards women.