skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so you're saying contribute to absolutely no 3rd party code? The person is saying that if you spend time outside of your VCS bubble, then you will end up using git, even if you don't like it.
Remember that advertisers have the majority of the power in this relationship because they're the ones with the money. If advertisers demanded that ad networks only showed ads in an ethical manor they'd comply. Advertisers don't however, because they don't care.

You don't get to play the game of "oh this thing we're trying to do is ok" but ignore the fact all your methods to do it are are unethical and you know that and you still continue to use them.
I have no idea what Monkey Language is and after reading first few paragraphs it looks like the author does not plan to explain it either. So unless you know what Moneky Language is, do not bother to open.
AI Can Identify Race from Just X-Rays and Scientists Have No Idea How
Around 1995, AOL client itself could use winsock and work over tcp. So you could dial into your local ISP , select Winsock or tcp or some option like that on the main login page and be in AOL, while still have the ability to launch other apps like Netscape or irc client. You didn't have to dial into AOL's number. I use to use AOL on the school network to chat with family or friends that hadn't discovered the wider internet yet.
Example of a distribution which would not fit this description:

1. 4096

2. 2048

3. 1024

4. 512

5. 256

6. 128

...

Here, the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its rank to the power of two, not the rank itself.
I have strong personal anecdotal evidence that dreaming and creativity are interconnected. I began dream journaling a few years back, recording descriptions of my dreams along with sketches and drawings. These sketches and notes often led to inspiration in my painting and drawing practice. Doing this also actually increased the lucidity and frequency of memorable dreams I was having in a kind of feedback loop. I have talked about this with other people who have tried dream journaling and it seems to be a common phenomenon.
Not an exe, but here’s the installer right from their site: https://files.community/download/stable
I did something similar about ~18 months ago; brought up the wrong window and I deleted a table at the bottom of the relationship hierarchy (via the SQL Server Management Studio GUI no less, so I had to click through). Half a second later I realized I was on the wrong server and I tried to cancel the operation. My stomach churned. It did take me a moment to snap out of things (this table had like 200 million rows of ephemeral data that was scraped from the web), but I came to the conclusion that the data is either completely gone forever, or I can talk to co-workers to see what can be done.

Someone suggested we restore the database from its last backup (which we do daily with a few weeks retention), then do a "SELECT INTO FROM" to re-fill the table. We lost a couple hours of data and were soon back online.

I am sure there are more nuggets to take away from this story, but I took: always maintain a robust set of backups and let people know about the problem so you can at least try to work out a solution.
> Instead, they use a random algorithm to choose which seller “sold” this drill and gets the money.

So the Makita store is not guaranteed to actually ship me the product, it just comes from ANY store that matches the UPC code? Holy shit.

> This happened so many times to me on amazon Canada I stopped buying there altogether. This and the classic obviously used and returned item sold as new (best one was a pair of Wahl clippers with someone else’s hair in them)

Yaarg!

Fortunately I've never been screwed over like this since Amazon started, but I guess I don't buy enough stuff to be at risk. Or maybe I have been subject to it but the product was OK so I never noticed. It is weird that Makita actually sends you to Amazon to purchase.

Thanks for the head's up.
The power law is surprising. We're taught that the Gaussian distribution shows up everywhere in nature (aka the "Normal" distribution) yet here is a distribution that converges to a power law tail.

For comparison, Zipf has a power law tail (x^{-\alpha}) whereas a Gaussian distribution falls off doubly exponentially (e^{-x^2}).
Yeah, let me just withdraw my coins from Quadriga...
I did the same thing in college and learned fairly quickly that I don't really care to remember all of my dreams. Nights where I remember all of my dreams don't feel restful and are sort of disorienting.

It's hard to describe exactly what was so unpleasant about it for me, but there's some element of time perception involved...it was as though my memories of dreams were encoded on the same track as my waking memories, and my days were missing the "pause between songs" so to speak.

Thankfully, at least for me, this is an effect that goes away quickly after I stop keeping a dream journal. I have had a similar effect when stressed/overworked, though, where I start dreaming in code. That's terrible.
Under Australian law Google, Facebook etc. are considered publishers and publishers of defamatory content can be sued. This is not new and there are multiple precedences.
Ouch. A single round of SHA-1 means you can easily make over a million attempts per second on a single general-purpose processor, considerably more on GPUs or specialised hardware. Ignoring any of the other weaknesses of SHA-1, this means that if someone gets read-only access to the database, anything but a long random password will fall very quickly (like, probably within a few seconds).
And how does that relate to counter space?
Interesting, that’s the second report I’ve heard of mentioning this effect. Are these seasonal (pollen) allergies?
I would love to move back to California but had to relinquish my Green Card when I moved to Asia for over 2 years.

There is little chance to find a US employer sponsoring a new one. They just don't care to go through the process. Even though it's not too cumbersome.
I saw it on the awesome selfhost list, and Dashy seems cool and flexible.

To save one more click from the dashboard and allow desktop integration, I now use these:

- https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier
- https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox

.. and wrap self-contained apps to be started from the Start Menu, xfce4-appfinder or (no self-contained apps AFAIK) the Android launcher
Some features that helps not only disabilities but also other people tend to put under Accessibility menu.
I too am fortunate to have frequent vivid and lucid dreams. Some of the music generated in my dreams has been the most beautiful I have ever heard. I've always been afraid that I would have less lucid dreams as I got older after reading statistics on lucid dreams, but it's reassuring to hear that you were still able to experience vivid dreams as you got older
Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (2019)
I wouldn't call 20% "a small insular bubble".
For me, it's that emojis tend to be very high context since they're basically pictograms. They add communication overhead because you have to think about what they mean, and what the writer intends them to mean, and whether those are the same.
No, only mutable shared state is subject to race conditions. Mutable shared state is rare, and you can use a mutex to guarantee exclusive access to it. Note also that only the implementation is async, but the programmer interface is synchronous (in other words, the programmer doesn’t need to type “await” all over the place).
PlantUML does sequence diagrams very nicely, using a pretty simple markup language. It becomes very easy to draw up sequence diagrams quite quickly after using it for a short period of time.
Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson take aim at Apple's SEP devaluation agenda
Modern combustion engines are very robust and usually not any significant source of failure. Cars on the verge of being scrapped have everything else wrong — rust, suspension, ac lines, electronics, locks, windows, lights, etc etc.
Dreams are a mixed bag, they can be quite positive or negative experiences, or just a tedious regurgiation of one's daily experiences that one could do without. The phrase "a deep and dreamless sleep" generally implies a good night's sleep, and excessively vivid dreaming can be rather exhausting.

Curiously there are some ways to manage dreams, here's an interesting article on researchers investigating what's apparently a form of lucid dreaming, very Inception-like work:

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-entered-p...

Interestingly I find those long Youtube 'relaxing sleep' videos to be a good way to moderate dreaming, possibly via a similar mechanism. Maybe white noise has a similar effect. One I use has waves quietly crashing on the beach, although once it resulted in a dream of walking through a thunderstorm in a forest and I'm pretty sure every time the waves crashed I'd experience a lightning-and-thunder strike which was rather alarming, complete with vivid imagery, and eventually woke me up. However, using the same video over and over again seems to result in a constant point of reference when dreaming, leading to more peaceful and less intensely random dreams. (Right after the Ukraine war broke out I started having vivid nuclear annihilation dreams, which were a bit much, and using these Youtube videos mitigated most of that)

For those who struggle with sleeping through really intense dreams, strong indica cannabis will suppress dreams for many people, but the side effects are a lot of grogginess the next morning. Maybe for PTSD it's worth the tradeoff, but for many the cost-benefit ratio will be too negative.
I meant my post more for people who already had a smartwatch, I think. That being said, I prefer the smartwatch experience. Otherwise you have to keep your phone either in your eyesight to see a notification, or you have to have it in your pocket for a vibration. Smartwatch works a little easier IMO.
If your budget isn't balanced you need to borrow. When you borrow, you have to pay interest.

Paying more and more interest leaves less and less money for services for your citizens. To compensate you must raise taxes and print money.

Printing money inflates the savings away from middle class citizens, and wages lag inflation causing a double whammy. This generates increased inequality, which then puts more pressure on government.

So yes, balanced budgets do matter.
See also BattleCode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3a5dXaj-XA

A programming competition at MIT, it looks like they change the engine out every couple years. When I first encountered it, it was a starcraft style game. Now it looks like agents competing in a resource constrained environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d00wtBX3k
Considering this is explicitly part 8 of a series, I would recommend starting with part 1, where this is explained.

https://medium.com/@mario.arias.c/comparing-kotlin-and-golan...

The language website is here: https://monkeylang.org
You can use .gitattributes to set which program will be used to generate "diffs".

A new VCS isn't really needed.
Any undergraduate intro to fluid mechanics textbook will cover this material thoroughly. Looking at my bookshelf I have "Fluid Mechanics" by Frank M White from third year fluids back in the early 00s which treats this material in a chapter called Turbomachinery, building upon the preceding 10 chapters or so.

If you don't want to deal with calculus you can get most of the way there with the Bernoulli equation and friends.

Edit: this looks pretty good after a cursory glance: http://brennen.caltech.edu/fluidbook/
My favorite feature in AOHell was the chatroom text spoofing
.where you could make it appear as if someone else had typed something. Later when I got access to the VB source for AOhell , I found out how it was done. The dev had figured out a clever trick to exploit the way the chatroom window did line wrapping. Also who can forget the ASCII middle finger that one could scroll across the chatroom. Those were fun days. I had a decent local dial isp. But still logged onto AOL for the 'warez'. It seemed like AOL provided unlimited email attachment storage. So warez files were traded over email in AOL via multipart RAR file attachments.
It's my guess that it is rare that someone decides the tilt of their head. Posture is cultural, it varies from culture to culture. In industrialized nations most people have excessively curved spines and as a result most heads tilt back, as shown in the first photo. When people have balanced posture the face is vertical, as in the second photo. The study gives another reason (an appearance of cooperation) to balance your posture, so your bones are on the axial line of gravity.
I have not had to service my 5 year old EV yet. Only expense has been tires and a (standard) car battery replacement
> Mostly everyone I talk to says they don't like to write documentation. Why is that?

I hate writing documentation. You know what I hate even more? Having to talk to people. I got into this trade so I wouldn't have to talk to people, dammit.
Apple has lost the moral high ground because they decided to spam everyone with notifications for revenue-generating services like Apple Pay, Apple Music, Apple TV+ etc in order to increase their services revenue.

This also means they can't effectively enforce App Store guideline 4.5.4, which says:
... Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI...
> "I'm the one being demeaned, you inferior clueless simpletons!"

That’s true, though.
> I think of Ryzen as the first modern chip that has a multipurpose serdes,

Do you mean specifically that Ryzen was the first CPU to offer that kind of IO flexibility? Because Intel desktop chipsets were doing that kind of thing long before Ryzen hit the scene. Here's are chipsets for Haswell and Skylake:

Haswell: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/7963/FlexIO.png

Skylake: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/9582/122%20-%20HSIO%20H.jp...
The game I was thinking about was Hearthstone, which basically legitimized digital card games as a mass market genre. Perhaps I am too harsh on Overwatch, but it is a lot like Diablo 3, which made huge releases with huge hype initially (based on expectations created from their earlier games) and see great initial success but ultimately are unable to retain or grow in the same way their competitors are.

Keep in mind that the profitability of the game is also a result of it being a paid game that also has microtransactions, and even then the gaming market has grown so much that a competitor like Apex is close to making 1 billion a year in comparison.
If it's ok for workers to unionize shouldn't it be ok for businesses to close as a result? After all, companies would rather make some money than no money, so presumably they would stay in business if the union wages are worth it.
It was meaningful for me, personally. I don't know that many people who run homelabs, though -- I think it's fallen out of favor somewhat.
With insane schedules of game dev, I'd be surprised if they could contribute something back, except by open-sourcing their older code.
Hilarious. Alien technologies can’t beat it! Only one question remains: which end is encrypted?
It’s incredible this is out already. It’s about 40% of the way to DALL-E but you can mostly tell the prompt from the image.

Is there a Dall-E Ultra Max in the works?
I think you underestimate how quickly the world can change. You have lived a US-centric life where all of popular, social & political culture has been dominated by progressive, liberal & Western ideas. Your way of thinking has been seen as the gold standard - not that of, say, the average citizen of the Phillipines of Kashmir.

Over the next 10-20 years, that is going to radically shift towards China - a collectivist culture with a set of values diametrically opposed to the social norms you're used to.

You don't think you're going to feel a seismic global cultural shift away from the value system you grew up with?
Sometimes when they created a new feature (eg. Groups), they would email everyone about activity on it even if email notifications were off.
A nice book about this subject that I haven't seen references here yet is Joseph Tainter's "The collapse of complex societies".
There's also lots of ego and us-vs-them in many places. For example chefs will often berate waiting staff and think they're better, which then becomes an issue where the front staff gets tips but don't feel like sharing them with the kitchen. And that's kind of tolerated by owners, because in fine dining a chef can leave with half the kitchen and take the restaurant's ranking with them. (awards are for chef+restaurant, they go away if the chef changes) I've seen very basic laws ignored by the managers as well, like the minimum number of days off.
The H (2013)
Seems like a model of true prevalence might be possible?
Could you explain that a bit? How does that interact with this?

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/center-drug-evaluation-and-res...
After AOL chat waned, MSN Chat was really fun too 2003-2005?. I spent a ton of time on the local chat and I really missed it when it left. I know AOL had that but it was before the great ISP unbundling and was mostly gone by 2002 IIRC. I never found a broad audience on IRC.

Reddit is close to a successor but came much later.

Craigslist personals was a good way to connect to people and of course that’s gone too.

We lost a lot of communities. Instagram, Facebook, dating apps, and just about every other social network evolved while never capturing the original excitement, IMO.
The insurance cost being lower such that it offsets labor costs is obviously not true.

If it were true, then there would be a business opportunity in the other 48 states for a gas station to sell full service gas at the same price as others are selling self service at. But it never, ever occurs, so it is trivial to prove the labor costs are material and would result in higher gas prices that people are not willing to pay for.
Right; they're likely better for the environment than ICE cars (certainly in terms of direct carbon emissions), but they're still not good for the environment or for us. For example, tire dust alone is still an issue whether the cars are electric or not:

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/califor...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171215105310.h...

Cities need to be thinking more about how they can make it more possible for people to get around without a car in the first place.
The surprise I guess is that—when plotted on a log chart—the prevalence of each rank forms a straight line with respect to its rank.

Of course the frequency is going to be proportional in some way to the rank. But there are many ways that could happen. #1 could occur 10% more than #2. Or twice as much.

And for the law to hold true no matter how deep you go is also surprising. Language seems like it should be a little more chaotic than that, with the top, say, 50 words following one distribution, then the longer tail kinda bumping around at different slopes.

This is my lay understanding. Corrections welcome :)
This thread is about the abuses of power, privilege and money "granted by birth" by the British Royal Family.

If you want to discuss the same by the "State" that is a different discussion altogether.

The former is not predicated on the latter.
TL;DR: Putting stuff in order usually doesn't tell us much of anything about the values themselves we are ordering, but in the case of word frequencies, Zipf found that it does.

Let W be a set of words in a large text. Let f(w) be the frequency of the word w (say, as a ratio between w's count in the text and the most popular word's count in that same text). Assume for simplicity that no two words have precisely the same frequency.

Then we can take all n words of W and put them in descending order by their frequency, thus giving each word a unique index:

w_1, w_2, ..., w_n

where

f(w_1) > f(w_2) > ... > f(w_n).

The only information we've organized is an ordering of words by their frequency. We can't really decide in any generalizable way by how much it decreases, at what rate, or anything. (We could, of course, attempt to characterize these things for a single, specific text.) It could be that in your favorite book, the frequency decreases by 0.0000001% for each index in the list for all we know, or it could be that in all Hacker News posts of 2021,

f(w_(i+1)) = f(w_i) / 2,

that is, each word in the list occurs half as often as the word just before it. It seems reasonable to believe that if there is some relationship, it should depend on f (which depends on the text being analyzed).

What is surprising is that it doesn't really! For all practical purposes, regardless of text, f(w_i) can be written in terms of a simple function of i, specifically as (roughly) 1/i. That means w_1 occurs the most, w_2 occurs half as often as w_1, w_3 occurs a third as often as w_1, w_4 a fourth as often as w_1 (and thus half as often as w_2), etc.
I think a key is not to try or push too hard. It's lighthearted and casual. You're not measuring any attempt for success or getting despondent if no one cares - you're just being sociable and ultimately should eventually make connections or develop rapport. Unless you are seriously unlikeable, people will remember those that give them feedback or are nice to them without being transparent in trying to get something for themselves.

And if you're not naturally sociable, convince yourself that this is the type of person you have chosen to be. "I'm the type of person that makes these small efforts."

I always think of it in basketball/coaching terms. If there's a non-shooter at the top of the key and the coaching instruction is to sag off them, don't react instinctively and rush out to defend. Just stick to the process and the odds are that over time the smart method plays to your advantage. Don't get upset if people don't reply (they might be busy, for one thing) and don't overwhelm them with replies if they do.
I already make close to six figures half-assing my day job. Taking on blogging, courses, and ebook writing as a side hustle doesn't stand up to any sort of reasonable cost-benefit analysis, IMO. It would be too much time invested for too small a financial return unless I'm outrageously lucky -- at which point I might as well just buy Powerball tickets.
we see that "depletion of mineral resources" is #53. So why #53 as opposed to #191, or #67, or #3?

Most causes in the list are just idiotic, so it doesn't matter. There are a few that are more convincing than "sexuality" TBH.

Anyway, yes, the article and everything around it is just weak, malthusianism all over again. The first wtf for me was the "every civilization has fallen, why not ours". Exactly, why not? Don't they see any difference? And did all previous civilization fall for the same reasons?

Maybe they fell because "complexity"... come on.
Ponzi schemes don’t need much of an attack to collapse
Dreams are weird. Last night I had an eye surgery, but they did it from the inside, by removing the top half of my skull. Then they attached it with three wing bolts. I was worried that it would fall off, because it was wobbly, and I tried to fasten the bolts but it didn't seem to work very well.
AOL CDs made great coasters.
I am looking at the Costco app and gas prices are $0.25 per gallon cheaper in Vancouver, WA compared to all the gas stations in and around Portland in Oregon.

Oregon gas tax is ~$0.38 per gallon ($0.10 extra in Portland). Washington is $0.494 per gallon.

The claim that labor costs for full service gas are not reflected in prices at the pump that customers pay for a low margin fungible good like gas is ridiculous to me. Even more trivial is the proof by way of 48 other states having no full service gas stations, with the only possible reason being that people do not want to pay the extra cost for someone else to fill their gas.
It's because they don't add anything. If you removed them all the page would be no worse.