skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's vast and unpredictable.

Example: Two weeks ago I re-entered US as a citizen. Several people ahead of me smoothly went through the border control line. I was 'randomly' chosen for inspection by border patrol, an agent fabricated a story that a dog alerted, and I was forcibly strip searched where yet another agent fabricated he saw a 'plastic baggy' coming out of my ass. This 'evidence' was used to cuff and shackle me and drive me all over the state, while the government failed to find a doctor to anally probe me against my will. A warrant was even written by a crooked agent testifying this absolute bullshit. Government incompetence cost me 16 hours of my life, cuffed and shackled and mocked by doctors and agents publicly in waiting room of multiple hospitals. After two agents examined my feces to make sure there were no 'drugs' I was released, sans the discharge paperwork that was stolen from me and sans the affidavit of the testimony the agent wrote which he conveniently neglected to hand to me when he served me the warrant.

Will you end up like the guy in front of me, smoothly going through, or will you end up cuffed and shackled while agents try to get you anally probed. It's anybody's guess.
what is the difference between fitness training and exercise?
He didn't understand the email, and thought that buying the bonds wasn't successful.
I don't know about you, but I would prefer it if the security of critical Internet infrastructure wasn't dependent on the popularity of some shitcoin. Which would be necessary, since the distributed consensus depends on the financial motivation for people to spend resources on mining new blocks. You'd need enough random people mining that a government couldn't do a 51% attack.
Show the results and how you will achieve them at a business level of detail.

e.g. "I will change parameters A, B and C of widget X" -> "I will optimise widget X to achieve higher throughput of process Y, saving you $Z dollars per widget".

You don't have to get into the details of A, B and C because they shouldn't be relevant in a business conversation.
Retargeting works, which is why companies continue to spend money on it (and I'm speaking from personal experience). You can set it up to exclude purchasers.

I agree ads don't always get it right, but they're a long way from useless.
Spotify had a blogpost about it back in the day[1]. It was based on prior work that's a bit more general[2]. The basic idea was that you don't really want to randomize, you want to distribute.

[1]: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-son...
[2]: http://keyj.emphy.de/balanced-shuffle/
This is neat, but you can do this offline by pasting links in a text document, separated by newlines, which is essentially an M3U playlist, and opening it with mpv+yt-dlp. Works cross-platform.
I think Elixir falls into the same category of Clojure when it comes to "niche". However, my experience with Clojure is that the community is small but tight-knit: you can usually easily reach library authors in case there are issues and discuss things on Clojurians Slack. The libraries usually adhere to "don't break" like Clojure itself and when there isn't a library for a specific problem, you can drop down one layer to the host system where there is usually a library for everything (Java, browser, Node.js, ...). So although Clojure is fairly niche, you can use a wide array of mainstream libraries to solve problems.
Not if you want e-ink
To be honest, when I was very young, there was always the thrill something unexpected might happen on TV, and crashes were part of that. But this has quickly faded. I only dimly remember the Bianchi incident, at the time watching I didn't think too much of it. The Grosjean incident though was really something, and I got similar vibes a few weeks ago with the Schumacher (Mick) incident where he wasn't shown for a short time
Well, you could, using unsafe. But you also couldn't write the index operator (without unsafe), and I don't think anyone would call that "magic". And in either case that has nothing to do with its treatment of nil.

It would be more magic if it somehow updated a hidden pointer, like maps do. (And this has also been my experience teaching Go, people grasp quickly that slice length/cap is immutable but often forget that non-nil maps are mutable and always "by reference".)
It's interesting and useful to me merely to be given the heads up that it's possible to hack the system.

The details would be even better, but I can think of at least a few ways a person might become aware of a fact like that without being able or morally obligated to disclose more than that heads-up, and without even themselves having necessarily ever done anything wrong.
I’d bet people generally think even numbers and multiples of 5 seem less random.
not OP: Little Snitch is my go to
The reason the trend line drops over 60 is that there are fewer people over 60 taking the test and thus, the questionable responses have a bigger influence. If you sample less from that cohort, it will be less likely that your sample is representative.
Cheap and disposable: short hand pads from a high street chain of cheap stationery shops in the UK (The Works). One pound for 150 leaves with top spiral. Pages stuck up on wall for todos &c, discarded when complete. Also a ream of A4 photocopying paper which I use on a clipboard for diagrams sketches and mind maps and drafts.

More permanent: generic A5 sketchbooks from artist materials shops. Typically 80 leaves of 100g/m^2 off white plain paper and board covers with sewn signature bindings. Around a fiver each.

Recently discovered somewhere in the middle: Muji 'Pocketnote' A5 plain notebooks with paper covers and a lot of leaves (over 100). Flexible, thin shiny pages (no good for sharpies/gel/ink) but cheapish around three pounds and a nice feel.

None of these are so expensive to become precious.
The only targeted ads I ever see are for items I have already purchased.

I don't see why these ads don't work like Amazon's "People who bought this also bought" recommendations.
> “fighting to compel speech for teachers” is a bit of a stretch — they were pushing for teachers to use students’ correct pronouns, which is a common courtesy

Well, you’ve convinced me the ACLU is against free speech. Fighting to force people to speak “correctly” and with “courtesy” is the opposite of defending free speech.
You could interpret the "excess purchase" as the excess amount (so $25 refund) or as the excess purchase transaction (so $10000 refund).
3 and 7 seem random :)
That's so disrespectful of them (both asking for such a take home, and losing it). Definitely not the kind of company you'd want to work for.
The way we happen to notate music doesn't help to endear people to f sharp major, certainly! If you keep practising all the scales and try to learn to do more by ear/improvise, I'm pretty sure you'll end up enjoying other keys more.
I found that ambiguous, could either read it as the excess amount or the entirety of the purchase that resulted in excess balance.

But anyway it just shows more UX issues - if it's the former then why didn't the balance update to show $10k; in either case why does it accept the payment before checking? It should just say no you've hit your limit this year, or you've already subscribed $25 this year you're limit is $9975.
We just moved here. I saw a Brown Thrasher on my wood pile. Bit of a weird place for one, but cool. Then I saw the neighbor's cat take a flying leap at it. Now I'm thinking it would be irresponsible of me to put out a feeder or attract birds with this cat running around. Which is kind of a big deal for me.

I'm trying to work out how to explain to the neighbors that I love cats, but my yard is my yard and I have a right to not have their cat in it killing birds.
APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)
> Most of the new stuff is invented by Google
...to gain even more control over what's left of the Internet. Yeah, everytime I get "your browser is not supported" after loading a shitton of CSS+JS (literally megabytes), I remember Google and their cronies like framework writers and careless site developers. Just because Google added new CSS keyword doesn't mean everyone should drop old ways of doing things.
>Except that in dating, women overwhelmingly prefer men over 6', and very small differences like 5'7 vs 5'9 double or triple the matches in online dating sites.

This is why you shouldn't put height in your dating profile, so you filter out a bunch of superficial people.
I wish people would read this paper before criticizing golang - https://cacm.acm.org//magazines/2022/5/260357-the-go-program...
From my PoV that would be the most important lesson: preventing the disaster is equally important to mitigation of consequences. Good API design is cheap, why not fixing it first?
I'd imagine it's hard to prove randomness. Yes, HHHHHHHHHH can be chosen randomly as equally as HHTHTHTTTH. I don't remember seeing anything in the article speaking to the statistical significance of the data...though, I'm not a scientist, so maybe it's inferred from the discussion of the results.
The I-bond guarantees a return rate at inflation or higher. You're saying you expect negative inflation this year?
It would make more sense if terminals had a generic hook that shells like Bash can use to show completion suggestions in a popup menu.

But obviously, you can't turn that into a profit machine.
The Myth of Hush-a-Phone vs. United States (2019)
> C++ makes no pretence of being a safe language

Yes it does. Throughout the entire history of C++ has been touted as as a "better C", where "better" includes "safer". This was not just empty marketing; the claims were justified.

For instance, std::string is a heck of a lot safer than manipulating character arrays. You can do str1 = str2 + str3 without worrying about memory allocation. Not to mention "return str1" as if it were a scalar value.

There are ways of using C++ that are entirely safe, along those lines. Not just modern C++ either, but old C++98. You carefully develop some classes that are nicely behaved, and then use only those classes. No C arrays, no C pointers.
This is not a paper and it came out today.
Computer says 'trend'....
I think they are saying official inflation figures can be manipulated to be below real inflation
I don't understand how this niche tool can be a company, with a jobs page full of positions and everything. I'm really puzzled how this can be.
Delightfully delusiounal. If you forget to buy it, you probably didn't need it to begin with. Get adblock and stop yourself from wasting money on useless stuff.
>> he zeroed in on a niche: financial domination, a form of humiliation kink where clients pay him to degrade them and take their money.

OMG that's a thing? Can anyone shed light on the psychology of this?
I'm saying that he's lending money to the people who write & interpret the rules, and those people do not intend to pay their creditors back in real terms. Indeed, they have probably crossed a practical threshold where they cannot pay back the real amount.

It doesn't matter what the rules say right now, his wealth is at risk. They can and do change the rules sometimes. They can change what the word "inflation" means. Maybe someone legislates that inflation is 1% now for paying back I-bonds, I dunno. This is risk, it could happen. Something is going to happen, the debt situation is unprecedented bad. Will that something affect these bonds? It is possible.
I really like that you can use duckdb to sql query an on disk directory structure of parquet files with no preloading into RAM or other db formats. Super useful/quick and only one line of code! Instead of selecting from a table you just pass a glob pattern into the SQL - and since it’s a oneliner I can use it in adhoc notebooks too. It even has a to_df() method on the query result so you can get it into pandas for further manipulation
Thanks, Tacoma and Fez are already on my to-play list, I played and enjoyed Braid when it was released and I haven't heard of Quadrilateral Cowboy so I will have a look.
No comment on the substance of the allegations but some of those replies are really mean, a few even question his masculinity for not working hard enough.
What remains of Edith Finch was such a great game. I loved it. Firewatch is another one that I would add to that list.
It's basically a small UI change, but I think I would actually benefit from having a real window instead of the in-terminal completions. However, I want ONLY that UI change.

If someone could pull the autocomplete list out of fish and style it as a floating window that moves with the courser, that would be wonderful. Sounds more like a tool developed by one person than a venture funded startup though.
Isn’t that a reason for putting in height if you’re short? You could even lie and pretend to be shorter and filter out even more superficial people.
A very high risk? A bigger war than WWII? They are losing? Citation needed and who is they if you don't mean us.
The venn diagram of internet users that read about super specific financial products, decide to buy them, while not even understanding the need to keep an emergency fund such that a move like this leaves them with under $200 in their account seems to be growing.

It seems to be a weird mix of wall street cosplay and financial ineptitude.
> I do think on a long enough timescale, programmers will eventually move to a "better" language. But in my opinion, that time scale exceeds the lifespan of a human :)

Zig exists and is here today.
The X-ray tech that reveals chip designs
The community is made up of people from all walks of life from everywhere on the planet. It's impossible to speak of it in general terms.

No, not everyone wants an ideological free-for-all.
Nitpick, but that's still 8.5% for half the year; it's 4.25% total return after half the year.

But anyway it staying inflation-linked is presumably what people buying it want? The more often it updates the better, could go up too.
Zero risk loan and guaranteed interest rate doesn't mean no risk the government won't default on repayments. If that happens, it is likely to get back the full capital + interest, but at that point in a currency worth initial capital - interest.
Lending to a government is only safe when trust of that government is high. At the moment we are at a all time low since the 30s with regards to the US government treasury.
I don’t even think blockchain counts as interesting tech. Hash functions are old.
FWIW the creators have been quite clear they didn’t think a “wrap it up” season would have worked. I can see why. Their whole storytelling method was unlike anything else in the business. Ironically, since they more than most shows just wildly ignored the convention that episodes should be the same length, it was uniquely suited to streaming. (Master of None does this, very few others do.)
Get B1 HCL 100-2000mg + NAD+ booster (Niagen) + Mg Threonate, that resolves inefficient energy metabolism in your brain/nerves that might cause the feeling of your brain being depleted (pseudohypoxia). Also, at your age L-Carnitine might be needed. Q10/Quercetin/Pterostilben/Bromelain/Betaine/NAC/R ALA/DCA might be worth considering depending on what other issues you face.
Yes the visual layout and input method is an interesting bias. If you imagine drawing a line between all choices on the number pad (which I do), I realised my answer avoided doubling-back on itself. My 'random' shape looked more like a nicely distributed squiggle, which is less random.
To be fair this mystical 8.4% has been plastered everywhere as a “buy now” which is causing serious fomo.

Also the blog clearly indicates they were going to poke the fate bear, poked said bear, and then went surprised pikachu.
That's a good resource to answer some "Whys?". Thanks for sharing.
I have started with web dev on windows 10, is there an alternate to cmd/powershell
like terminal for linux where I can run basic linux like commands but for windows 10.
Life is both unfair to men and women but in different ways.
Can I use this to remove the ads from the lock screen? Or is there any other method that does not involve jailbreaking?

Removing the ads from the filesystem using a computer and keeping the kindle in airplane mode does the trick but I really liked the feature of sending books by mail.
> Claiming Boring is only a marketing company is not accurate. Even the first maschine they used was modified.

No, stating that the Boring Company is a marketing company that bought a COTS is an accurate statement. The Boring Company didn't invented tunellers digging holes in the ground, and just because it claimed it did modifications to a COTS tuneller (and uncorroborated ones) that changes nothing.

I understand that the Musk Stan phenomenon is a thing, but let's not try to make it look that he invented fire and the wheel.
Lots of good stuff from the PineNote project as well. We might get a default free userspace for e-paper devices.
If that battle is lost, I fear the NFT will be part of why we lost it, due to the need to create artificial value beyond the link and meta information container features NFT's add onto art.

Steve Mould, one of the better known Science You Tubers, brought up one of the few solid cases most people in my circles thought could make sense: Tickets

A record of both attending and having paid for being able to attend an event seems like a great use of the NFT, but it's not too sexy and I am quite sure the likes of Ticket Master would have something to say about the idea, and would want their share. (which always seems to be a bit more than people feel makes sense)
I'll recommend to find her a mentor. Some friends or acquaintance that knows about computers and tech who could guide her.

Back when I was in secondary school (1995) I loved computers and programming, but my parents had no clue about them whatsoever. However they had a friend who was a lecturer at local university. They asked him to visit and talk with me about computers. He gave me a book on the C programming language, he gifted me some CDs with a 'novel' operating system (freeBSD) and he gave told me to learn about pointers data structures and algorithms. Of course he was also very available to answer my questions.

I thought It was the best thing ever at that time.
A solution for the Rubik's cube that's easy to memorize (2003)
Which is weird because if fig is good, it could easily gain adepts, especially here. I'd have nothing against trading my xterm or rxvt for fig if a) fig was better, b fig was was available on Linux and c) fig wasn't collecting data.

Meanwhile, after reading comments here, I eventually added fzf completions to my shell and I gotta say: it's quite good!
The key to mitigating that risk is crossing it with the same risk on the other side - for example, a mortgage. If the US dollar devalues, so does the nominal value of the mortgage.
>it increases civil liberties by protecting our most vulnerable

Why yes, sacrificing the individual in the interest of "society" is truly the greatest thing for civil rights.
> But it does you no good if you want to do something like draw a circle.

Don't know about the UK / rest of western world but in eastern europe the spectrum clones were running quite a bit of homemade software for scientific/engineering purposes.

Including graphs. No graphs with a NES tile/sprite system.
It was actually much more heavily inspired by OCaml than Haskell early on. See this comment talking about it, which includes a quote from Graydon on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24956301

But it’s true that much of the inspiration for Rust comes from functional languages, and the trait system is definitely inspired by Haskell.
Even if we assume the measurers of inflation are honest, using honest metrics, inflation is hard to measure and the measurement has a natural skew downwards.

We’ve all heard about shrink inflation by now. Theoretically that’s measurable by taking the Oz. into account.

But how about the drop in quality of goods? Raisin Bran with few raisins, cars with thinner door panels, etc. This is impossible to measure, obviously happens, and is systematic in one direction resulting in a lower reported inflation rate.
Anyone making six figures can live like a king almost anywhere in the US. Capitalism.
Except that Believe Music, Elsevier and Disney would write the standards for those associations and those associations would be mere intermediaries.
hash functions are not what is new with blockchains: its the distributed zero-trust consensus algorithms.
Those are the instructions from the original survey. Those if destructions being under defined, yes that is part of thr entire point.
While being "techy" I too restrict Conversations from running in background. Moreover, it's annoying and dangerous to keep XMPP running (reconnecting, giving out your metadata) while roaming over different networks, so I'm killing it myself. But, aside from tremendously, ridiculously bad UI concept, I find Conversations to be one of the most reliable OMEMO-enables jabber clients for Android.
In my experience, data in Prolog programs will look like alice, bob and dhalia only in very artificial examples or exercises. For example, I have never seen a person's name spelled bob, and spelled like this, it is rather unlikely to be the name of a person one would represent in a Prolog program.

In Prolog programs that arise in practice, names are far more likely to look like "Alice", "King Solomon's Mines" and "La Grande Bellezza", and these names would need single-quotes or escape sequences for atoms too.
In matters of finance the government gets it right eventually - but it can take its sweet time getting to that eventually.

Amusingly one of the “nicest” government arms to deal with is the IRS.
Yeah I expected a matte finish as well, but i'm not very sure why.. maybe that aspect could even clinch the deal for some use-cases though? Would like to see what it's like for sure!
Show HN: Turn GitHub repos into tutorials with code that can be edited and run
If there is one thing I have learnt from working at startups, successful or not, it would be that turnover is extremely high in the first few years, and that’s fine.

I have interviewed countless candidates who have a romanticised idea of what a startup is. Perhaps it didn’t help that HR kept using euphemisms like “fast paced” or “extreme ownership” in job postings, I don’t know. Reality is, not many people are ready to work in a constant state of uncertainty. When the company didn’t get the expects funding, uncertainty might as well be seen as almost chaos.

The author softens it a little bit by saying that, in startups, everything is a “variable”, which I believe is, again, an euphemism.

But I guess that it would be way harder to hire if you said the bad parts out loud: in their early stages, startups are messy, chaotic, and you never know if you are going to make it to the next week, regardless of how awesome the product is.
Yes the android turtle looks way better.
Don't use this font for your mother then?

The rest of us aren't forced to use XL sized text because some people need it, I don't see why emoji colour should be any different.
I can imagine some niches (like freelance war correspondent) where it could make sense but it can also be easily abused for nefarious use. We should IMO always lean to: no, unless [..]. Where unless could include question of does the pros beat the cons? Why share it? What could be the repercussions? For example, we could assume nobody wants to kill a freelance war correspondent but if you look at the current major war in Ukraine I don't believe that to be true.
> While your passion for the project and excitement at its prospects are clear (and I've very much enjoyed following along), this comment makes it sound you've opened a yak barbershop inside this poor support department.

Perhaps something useful comes out of it. If I recall correctly, CMake (the de-facto standard build system for C++ applications) originated as a yak shaving subproject of a medical visualization application.