skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I really respect what you've done (for those who don't know, Chris is the original developer and lead of DifferentialEquations.jl) and use your work heavily. However, understanding and writing idiomatic Julia, especially with these large packages, is severely hampered by the documentation culture.

A prior comment I made, all of which seems unaddressed to me three years later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20589167

To be fair, I've only submitted a small documentation patch for a package and haven't significantly "put my money where my mouth is" on this topic. But I hope the next time there are thoughts among the core team about what is the next capability to add to the language, addressing this deficiency is prioritized.
California regulators reject governor’s pitch for carbon neutrality by 2035
> [1 light year = 671 million miles per hour]

hmm
You need to do more research on this, even a passing inquiry into current transgender legislation being debated would have answered these questions.

> Is that government/public bathrooms or private businesses bathrooms?

It is the government dictating how private businesses structure their bathrooms. That's ranged from attempts to flat-out ban businesses from offering multi-person gender neutral bathrooms to requiring businesses to attach signage "warning" people that they have LGBTQ+ friendly bathrooms. It's not only state governments attacking transgender populations, it is also the state interfering in private business.

> bans on transgender medical care

Texas's ban on affirmative transgender care literally just went into effect, how do you not know about this? Notably, Texas doesn't only ban transitioning, and it doesn't even only ban puberty blockers, it bans affirmative care of any kind including therapy for minors. There have been talks of extending those bans past 18 years up to 25 year olds.

> I have a feeling that people who are reacting to pre-12-years-olds being shown pornographic imagery of 2 boys doing a sexual activity by defending it as "Queer sex education", I have just the slightest feeling, that those people are, indeed, defending what amounts to pedophilic tendencies.

You're out of touch with the current discourse about transgender rights if you think that these are the only people being called pedophiles. Florida's "don't say gay" bill bans any discussion of gender/orientation regardless of whether or not it's sexual in nature. When schools are threatening students that they can't use the word "gay" during graduation speeches, then I'm sorry but this is very clearly not about protecting minors or preventing grooming, and lawmakers equating pedophilia with even just basic acknowledgement that queer people exist is dangerous, bigoted rhetoric.

You're arguing that this pushback is related to extreme or clearly inappropriate lessons, but again, even just a passing amount of research into the rhetoric being pushed out by mainstream governors and lawmakers would be enough to show that there is a coordinated effort happening to characterize LGBTQ+ identity as entirely sexual in nature and innately deviant. The intention is to create a perspective that someone openly identifying as gay inherently makes that person dangerous around children.
Yes, every category is completely refreshed on Sunday sometimes links are "peppered" in throughout the week as I find events and stuff happening in LA. Thanks for the feedback on the archive.
The comment you replied to says:

> We are still on exponential curves for compute and storage and DC bandwidth.

So what’s the angle here, power makes up so much of the service or the cost of power has increased so much that it warrants doubling the price for managed databases?
"emacs --daemon" and emacs-client are key to solving this scenario
When FMA isn't in the hardware (due to using some chip where it doesn't exist) it has a fallback to a software-based emulation. That is incorrectly implemented in Windows. Julia ends up calling that in this case because that's what LLVM ends up calling, and so any LLVM-based language will see this issue.
Breaking user installs is not aggressively keeping up to date. Have a blank map in the UI that didn’t work for years is not aggressively keeping up to date. Rearchitecting major components three times in five years is not aggressively keeping up to date. Creating, recommending, then removing an install method all within about 3 years is not aggressively keeping up to date. Having four different ways to configure things is not aggressively keeping up to date.

It’s having no discipline nor foresight and instead throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks.
> ...Android phones with keyboard are also hard to find...

To this day, my partner - who is not a tech person - believes that the days when mobile phones had physical, slide out keyboards was the epitome of tech design. She felt is was the proper balance for the tech- and non-tech audiences. She feels like typing into glass is either kid-like or too far fetched for the not-yet-Star-Trek-like world that we live in. Go figure! :-)
The Specificity Gradient
I'm sad as well. To me it feels like we're already living in a cyberpunk nightmare, things just keep getting worse and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.
Alright, 2 or 3!
I don't disagree, I'm just saying that Nvidia literally shipped normal Ampere cards directly to miners. Ethereum is tricky to build purpose built ASICs for.
But the prices for everything else that the company's owners and employees consume are rising.
That .42 has got to be a small wink at Elon… if not from the team that did this, then from the simulation.
Probably forced to since they do not have access to login information. Especially since if you do not post but login you are certainly not a spammer ^^, could still be bot crawling.

But they probably should expand more on this and reflect on how much inaccuracy it adds. With a quick search you can find that less 50% of US users tweet five times a month (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/16/5-facts-abo...). Or the study which, reported that the top 25% of user produce 97% of the content, the median user of the bottom 75% as posting 0 tweet a month (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/2-comparing-...). Those studies were done using survey I believe so should include only active users and no spam/bot.

So with random invalid maths, if you make the assumption that the 25% less active users might not even post every two month (exponential decrease of activity ?) then you need to add back a quarter of the 80% they found as active.

Not to say I believe the 5% number from twitter; and I was going to use the price for a thousands follower as an example, but seeing it appears to be at 30$ now (https://socialboss.org/buy-twitter-followers/ ?) when I remembered it at like 5$ then the twitter team might have done some good work ;).
A flaw in GAAP is not Bitcoin's fault. The OP has no idea if people are actually using shitty GAAP accounting principles to evaluate these miners.
Depends on what perspectives you have. Before Germany took Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia had chance to defend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_border_fortificat...
Energy conservation seems to be a sleuthing tool for our pitiful existence to find some god damn consistency. If quantum mechanics is fundamentally formulated around statistics then energy conservation shouldn't surprise us to become statistical either.
Can you provide more details around this? I was interested in this, but now I'm hesitant.
that's the thing, i wish yaml was just a config format, that it does other weird shit like calling functions is the problem
If you're confident in your analysis you should take a short position.
ST_Subdivide All the Things (2019)
I had a related shower thought - is a math phd thesis is just a slow bandwidth transfer out of the brain
I have been using Backblaze/Wasabi. If you get their European servers, you can rclone mount on a Hetzner VPS and get very good speeds. If you have a fiber connection/very fast disks at home then maybe it will bottleneck. But for file storage and basic playback (for example, through SMB mount) then it is pretty good.

Tbf though, Hetzner auctions with 6TB*2 of disk at 45EUR are a good alternative. It is really a trade-off between having a server with decent power or having the flexibility of scalable S3 storage.
This doesn’t resolve the issue the article has though. I’m a mDAU because I’ve logged in, yet there is no way for the people writing the article to know that I’m active.
> Some have speculated that more people have died thus far in Shanghai from the lockdowns than from Covid itself.

Which only shows how few covid deaths China has had.
The only legitimate use for web3 that I’ve seen is a way to establish trust with strangers before you run arbitrary software on their computers. It’s like a really expensive replacement for AWS. Are there any other cases similar to this and do you think it could ever be cost effective?
I don’t spend hours configuring it: I’ve just put my settings and plugins in a git repo and now I have an identical environment that’s fine-tuned for my uses on any computer I use (but then I don’t use any tiling WM). Clearly for me the initial investment of reading zsh’s documentation thoroughly and playing with a bunch of plugins for an afternoon or two was worth it.

Also remember that productivity is difficult to attribute to a single factor. Just having a more pleasant shell helps staying focused and motivated, even though the settings themselves do not improve efficiency directly.
Even when sending encrypted texts with Signal, I can't help but wonder if the keyboard software is sending everything to a government entity. Or, if a piece of hardware can silently grab screenshots.
How could you possibly believe that?
Instead of totally killing the garbage collector, you can effectively turn it off during startup by setting gc-cons-threshold to a large number, and then restore it after init. The article touches on this but they don't increase it very much and restore it at the end of init.el (emacs-startup-hook runs later).

early-init.el:

(setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum)
(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda ()
(setq gc-cons-threshold (* 2 1024 1024))))
Which is probably the secret sauce for their "neutrality" during WWII. It's easier to "not choose sides" when Finland is slowing down the Soviets in the east, and Norway/Denmark slowing down the Nazis in the west and south.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/WWII_in_...
It updates weekly :) I forgot to include that info.
China has done an awful job vaccinating their population - this is the real story that is being undercovered by the media, rather than trying to convince me that somehow their massive lockdown success is somehow actually a failure.
well I usually have trouble remembering the exact name of the file I was editing 2 months ago? :) . Now if there is a plugin to have rg look through the last few hundred files that I've edited that would be a game changer.
There are a lot of great quality automatic translators - at least for some languages.

https://www.deepl.com/translator works best for me.
Cloudflare is a great option for this.
Here's an example.

If I have (say) 15 affiliate marketing sites, I might make a link aggregator site that looks a bit like Hacker News. Except I won't make just one, I might make 30 of them.

These might subscribe to a bunch of RSS feeds and randomly select articles, maybe 10% of the links on those sites go to my affiliate sites.

If you can inject spam into those RSS feeds that system I describe would amplify it and this could have effects ranging from: you are using my marketing machine to promote your content to my sites getting really obnoxious and getting blocked.

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"Duplicate Detection" is a necessary technology for web search because s̶h̶e̶e̶people copy themselves and other people without bound. It cuts both ways because Google and Bing have no sure way to know which one is the copy and which is the original. So (1) they aren't completely efficient at removing duplicates and (2) duplicate detection can be turned into a weapon against you, just like that link aggregator.
That's good. There was a post on hacker news a week back or so that was essentially ifconfig as a webapl and I was thinking to myself, "what other command line tools can be webapls"
If I were the hiring manager, the first question I'd asked is, what were the results of that redesign?
Haven't seen it posted, but ignore if it's somewhere, here's the table with all the new prices:

https://www.digitalocean.com/try/new-pricing
I think I get what you mean now, you're not talking (just) about your typical overgrown software project where somehow 100 people ended up working on it (which always ends a mess, unless you split it into effectively 10 projects), but rather more multi-domain teams that do more than just code that gets reused.

That is a much harder problem, I agree. For that one I have no solution since it's not a problem I've tried to solve or seen solved.

Perhaps the article sheds some light on this more complex situation but unfortunately it's so drenched in confusing buzzwords that I cannot derive any knowledge from it. Maybe the book is a better source, I'll see if I can get my hands on it.
> Why hasn't public key cryptography taken off as a sign in solution in the same way that email or Google or Facebook have been?

Because people haven't been financially motivated to evangelize it.

I believe that's the core of blockchain/web3 innovations. It's a worse way to do it, but the social hype (driven almost entirely by get rich FOMO) is enough to push it over the edge.
Lurkers are the eyeballs…
Were those discussions about proteins in general misfolding or specifically serum albumin? This is an important distinction, many conversations I've overheard from those not in a bio field seem to gloss over vital details
> it would be the agents (the reputable ones anyway) that would require stringent testing of the seekers

That's a great way to get zero clients. ;-) It's one thing to go through all that crap to get a job, but who wants to go through all that crap just to get an agent? Not to mention, how is an agent even qualified to give a technical test to a software engineer.

In real estate, a home inspection is required by the buyer's agent, not by the seller's agent. Sellers would rather not have that contingency. And the home inspection is only performed after the offer is accepted.
I hadn't seen Axie before, but I have seen a few other blockchain games. They seem to suffer the same pitfalls as the whole gamification trend that went around a few years ago, in that the game part feels tacked on, which of course completely misses the point.

I have no doubt a good game could be built around the blockchain, as are my thoughts on gamification for fitness or whatever else, but the game has to come first.
If it didnt work, would you still see it?
you guys must eat at McDonalds a real lot to be able to discern any difference, it's exactly the same food in slightly different shapes.
A lot of speculation that not all of this btc was actually sold. Sure it was transferred to an exchange but know one really knows what happened after that.
Okay, but the login bit for MetaMask is "just" using public key cryptography though, right? You could strip out the blockchain stuff from MetaMask and that part would still work.
Venv on core. Yes it’s the “expert” install. Yes Docker would be easier. However you can’t guarantee Docker will be supported in the future. They created then dropped Hassbian like a hot potato. In fact there are already signs Docker is falling out of grace in favor of HassOS.
> From the Turkish perspective, why would they allow someone who supports their enemies to join the alliance?

Because the accession process provides Turkey an opportunity to apply leverage against Sweden and Finland to change their behavior. Simply refusing to allow it would gain Turkey nothing and harm them indirectly by weakening (or failing to strengthen) an alliance that Turkey depends on for its own security.
What client are you using that allows you to browse without logging in?
Depends what you need I guess. It’s great to tab complete files on a remote host whenn rsyncing to your own machine. Saves a ton of time over the years. Can you live without? Yeah sure but… why? It’s free.
This one [1] isn't very long, but I think it shows that the cat (Billi) does associate the buttons with a meaning.

The owner is playing with Billi with a toy on a string, then drops it on her back. She then quickly (within 10 seconds) presses "No", then "Back", to tell her owner to get the toy off of her back. If she was just pressing buttons to get a reaction, this would be no more likely than "Morning" "Love you", or "Want" "Hello", or any other arbitrary pair of buttons.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYPFnDOPTQo
Reality aside, there are millions of people in China who are alive today who would not be if they had followed the US' policy.

It is far too early to be calling that a failure.
Seems the examples are contrived.

* Transactions are first-class in most RDMBS, performing I/O in between each one, and then sending a commit or rollback seems bizarre when you can send off one, not to mention implementing it in the host language is unnecessary.

* It seems to be using blocking I/O when most platforms have evolved to concurrent I/O.

* If the host language does indeed expose high level start/commit/rollback, it should be exposed minimally with a RAII-safe callback routine, something like `runTransaction`. You wouldn't want to see the former in the wild.

* It seems to argue for the use of context / implicit parameters, where I think you really don't want to use it in this case. Implicits or Context seems better for something like executors or React Context.

* Are they really using floats for monetary value?
Git Black Arts
Good to know - thanks. I was aware of the human-authorship requirement — see, e.g., the "monkey selfie" controversy [0] — but I hadn't known that the Copyright Office took that position about medical imaging.

I can imagine that a court might see things differently, given that under Supreme Court precedent [1] it takes comparatively-little human creative effort to constitute an "original work of authorship" as required by the Copyright Act. But it's also likely that no one has ever cared enough about claiming copyright in a medical image to go challenging the Office's position — or that I''m simply not up to date on this area of the law (which isn't part of my day-to-day practice).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
Looks like you're judging a fish by it's ability to climb a tree.
Most people don't realize how important is the "size" of active military for any country.

Turkey is the 2nd most powerful military in NATO after USA. It has access to all modern weapons, manufacturing abilities and above all, centuries of experience in fighting, winning and losing WARS.

Turkey's location is very very important for all kind of military operations and trade via Black Sea.
> In many ways, that's the lense through which I look at web3. It might be too late to switch to a pay as you go system.

In that regard, web3 is a solution looking for a problem.

Companies like Medium, Udemy, Spotify, Netflix, LinkedIn, etc already offer users pay-as-you-go services for higher-value content, and none of them required so many buzzword-driven technologies to pull it off.

Heck, even Amazon offers pay-as-you-go access to books.

Exactly what does web3 bring to the table?

> It might be too late to educate people about the importance of staying anonymous and preserving their user data.

Again, exactly what does web3 bring to the table with regards to privacy and "preserving user data"? Those examples seem too vague to have any meaning beyond scaremongering.
Colorado set to become first state with right-to-repair wheelchair law
To be clear: it doesn't matter, as far as Elon Musk and his buyout is concerned.

To quote Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" newsletter:

> “Temporarily on hold” is not a thing. Elon Musk has signed a binding contract requiring him to buy Twitter.

> That contract does not allow Musk to walk away if it turns out that “spam/fake accounts” represent more than 5% of Twitter users... The merger agreement contains a provision that allows Musk to walk away if Twitter’s securities filings are wrong ... but only if the inaccuracy would have a “Material Adverse Effect” on the company. That is an incredibly high standard: Delaware courts have almost never found an MAE.

> Musk ... had the opportunity to do due diligence on these numbers before signing the deal. (He declined.) He can’t now go to Twitter and say “actually now you need to prove that your user numbers are right.”

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-13/elon-m...
This is an excellent plugin though the big problem for me was that it wasn't using 'wal' mode to connect to the database.

This can be fixed by adding the following in db.php at the end

$GLOBALS['wpdb']->query('PRAGMA journal_mode = wal;');
If you have between 11 and 100 fields and only need to lookup
based on 2, it seems like it’s a win?
And you'd not indicated what you were disagreeing with.

I'll say again that on the device I have, I can quite reasonably get a sense of a video.

Video of BOOX playing video: https://yewtu.be.com/watch?v=XRDJv_-wWBI (Videoception!) Yes, it's B&W, yes, the framerate is low (about 4--8 fps AFAICT), and yes, there's some ghosting. But it's clear what the content is. Not appreciably worth from an old B&W television in the day --- better resolution for lower framerate, perhaps, on e-ink.

If I'm writing text, it's almost always within vim or a similar text editor, and my navigation is either paging forward or back through the document (full-screen repaints), or using search. Again, that is well-suited to e-ink.
Some are smarter than others, but I think, in terms of animal behavior or ecology, cats are basically carnivorous rabbits.

That's not to say anyone who has had a trainable cat doesn't like them - mine have their moments - but I think it's worthwhile to consider that.
I agree, and I would go further: Identity is a human right, and it is not to be seen as a privilege granted by governments, nor should we ever give governments the power to revoke people's identities, or require people to "earn" them.
>> They make their money on the potenial eyeballs alone. Lurkers are not helping increase those numbers.
>I don’t follow this.. Lurkers are they eyeballs presumably.

The number of eyeballs allows for the price per ad to increase while the number of places ads can be placed increase the volume of ads. If lurkers are not helping to increase the volume, it doesn't make the platform as much money. Proving the lurkers are actually consuming the ads and making the ad buyer happy is non-trivial. Proving the lurkers are worth increasing the price per ad is also non-trivial. In the end, I personally feel like it is a wash by lurkers being overly represented in the fake account numbers.
Do you believe everything China tells you?
Understand why most people feel this is a slippery slope. If Erdogan says that YPG is the PKK because the YPG politically support the PKK, what's preventing Netanyahu from using the same arguments against its neighbor supporting politically or selling weapons to the Hamas? China attacking India/Nepal for harboring the leader of the Free Tibet movement?

You probably it is not the same, but for many, many people it is.

Also, your example missed the point where the Good friday agreement was drafted with US backing and help. This actually did more for the peace than decreasing fundraisers. Maybe Turkey should learn from this example?
MISRA C or MISRA C++ are used, enforcing much stricter guarantees than what the C or C++ specs provide.