skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But masses of people want to use them, despite them not offering the extra features that apparently wouldn't increase their revenue, but that they should provide anyway for unstated reasons.

Are you saying that if they don't provide these extra features, their advertising revenue will fall (due to reduced user base)? Because that's the opposite of what you started this thread by saying.
Come and live in my house. I had two pairs of them nesting in my roof, plus chicks, until they fledged recently. They learned to tolerate me working in the loft, reinforcing ceiling joists. I left them alone and, eventually, they all flew the nest a week or two back. They're still hanging around outside though.

I've seen pretty large murmurations a few times in recent years (this is in East Anglia).
different in each state, but in general a lease is a sale for tax purposes. Check with a tax accountant in your state for details if you care.
The pro-nuke fanboys want to establish climate change as the only alternative to nuclear power.

It's a false choice. Nuclear power has proven so unwieldy and hard to scale that renewable energy is going to be the faster solution, even if it is not fast enough.

And with renewable energy, the technology might advance faster than anticipated. With nuclear energy, the risk might turn out more catastrophic than anticipated.
Dave Smith, “the Father of MIDI,” died last Wednesday (1950-2022)
They are sometimes used as intrusive lists but a generic one rarely used.

Inserting an element in middle is probably only legit use but it is kinda rare to have large enough data that you frequently insert in mid
And now all our kids are being tracked at school too. And in 20 years, their profiles will alter their "choices" of career because some HR will have access to it.

The problem is not to use the tool, the problem is that the schools forces it upon kids (because the teachers can't learn all the available tools -- which is understandable)

What a wonderful world.
I never understood all those autocorrect errors until I tried sending a text on my wife's iPhone a few years ago. The last word in the text was a word it really wanted to correct, and it corrected it when I hit send! I didn't realize what was going on at first and sent the same wrong message 3 times in a row.
German perspective: this material is measured for radioactivity and released from being subject to nuclear material rules if the levels are low enough. It's then treated like any other waste material. The German Wikipedia article on that [0] states that 97% of the material of a nuclear reactor are eventually cleared like this.

[0](de) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freimessen
One problem with this line of thinking is you just end up with a deadlock between countries pointing at each other with "You're higher pollution per capita" vs "You're higher total pollution"

e.g. Canada as a whole doesn't emit that much CO2 but we emit a lot per capita because it takes a lot of energy to keep warm and renewables are not as reliable further north. Our political parties frequently like to point out we're <2% of the global footprint as justification to increase investments in oil/gas while conveniently omitting that we're 0.5% of the global population.
False choice. And hardly anyone is buying this argument.
Terrible advice. If you want e2e you can choose to enable it. It is not enabled because many users choose to receive their messages across multiple personal devices simultaneously. This is not possible with e2e, which is why it is an option.
A free market never exists in a vacuum, which is something that anarchists and libertarians always fail to acknowledge.

Without government intervention any "free market" will quickly devolve into a monopoly or oligopoly. We end up with price cartels as is that we constantly need to regulate and break up.

You really don't have to look far to see what happens with weak or no government oversight in a "free market". Look at Chevron pollution in Ecuador. Look at the baby formula "shortage". Look at the ludicrous and unjustifiable price for insulin in the US. Look at the artifically high pricing on mined diamonds and the de Beers cartel. Look at the fact that most eyeglass frames are made by a single company.
> The richest country in the world can afford $10B to feed children on top of everything else.

This article makes it really unclear what's actually changing, but it sounds like they may be going back to means-testing the "free and reduced price" lunch program.

Looking at some other articles on the topic, this also means that the government will no longer grant "flexibility with nutrition standards," which sounds like it was something that permitted less nutritious meals to be served.
Congratulations Wundergraph team.

I've been exploring Wundergraph as an alternative to another service I'm using and I have to say that it looks quite promising.

Coming from a FrontEnd background, Wundergraph really simplify things for me, not only by providing me with a client that is 100% TypeSafe but by centralizing my APIs and the way I integrate them in my project, it's really neat.

I find Wundergraph to have the best of both worlds, it gives you tools you need to handle authentication/authorization, file storage but it also give you all the flexibility you need to do things your way.

I'm really excited with Wundergraph and how it could help me with the project I'm working on.
Methodological error: if the same people are rating both nerdiness and kickassery, they could be subtly influenced to make their ratings correlate (negative or positive). Better would be to randomly assign judges to rate either nerdiness or kickassery, not both.

Also, it would be good to ask, rather than "how nerdy is this band", instead "which of these two bands is nerdier?" This is usually an easier answer (or, if it's really difficult, that tells you their values are close). It would also give you a hint on whether or not one's subjective measure of nerdiness (or kickassery) is even internally self-consistent. If you often get A > B, B > C, but C > A, then the whole rating exercise is based on a flawed premise.

Clearly worth spending some hours making a web page to ask people these questions, then come back to HN and do a "Show HN" and ask for more data from the symphonic metal fans here.
GCC for Windows 98 (2021)
How do you define load on the CPU?

It may use less power as it is spending more time stalled, waiting for memory. But it could be still using as much time as the OS scheduler is willing to give it.
Increased electricity efficiency kept US coal extraction steady from 1998 @24.1 exajoules to 2008 @23.9 exajoules. Green technology then help drop that to 14.3 exajoules in 2019. https://www.statista.com/statistics/265452/coal-production-i...

Globally industrialization and increased economic activity hides these improvements, but without green technology things would be much worse.
I just found it funny that this existed, haven't seen similar ones on LinkedIn before - anyone else have? I thought it wouldn't be the usual marketing target here.

for anyone not seeing the point, this is a profile for someone in the movie Deadpool 2, which seems a weird marketing connection to make.
I couldn’t tell you what’s wrong with them from n engineering perspective, but from a user perspective the guidance rarely worked correctly (a scary possibility with artillery) and the system the gun was retrofitted with just wouldn’t function a lot. As far as cost, if Raytheon was selling that gps guided drone to the government, you can bet it would cost orders of magnitude more than the consumer version. The military industrial complex is not a myth.
Type Inference for Natural Language
If your dataset has hundreds of columns, do you really want to individually identify the correct type for each column?

With Woodwork, an open source library for rich semantic data typing, we made type identification fast, simple, and effortless.

Read about our work to understand how we added type inference for natural language columns.
And yet, they manage it Tokyo ...

It's a lack of funding and vision, not technology ... which returns us to my original point that I wish the money had goone on the existing network.
I would have a huge problem describing the first one as O(1). Technically the complexity is min(searched, INT_MAX), but the algorithm would also fail to produce a result if it reaches INT_MAX.

Functionally, though, I would describe this algorithm as O(N). It's just a straight up linear scan of the problem space. It's unbounded, with a worst case of O(Infinity) and no upper limit on what searched can be, but it's functionally O(N) regardless.

O(1) needs to basically be something like a hash key/pointer to memory address to get the result you're looking for. It will not increase linearly as the problem space increases, whereas your first example increases exactly linearly.
Oil companies aren’t like software companies.

Every barrel they pump is a barrel they can’t pump later on. In fact, the cost of oil extraction generally trends upward over time as “easier” wells are exhausted and more expensive ones are tapped.

Sure, going full steam and selling every barrel available would make for a great 2022, but they may pay the price in the future if they suddenly are out of cheap oil
For it to be dead, must it not have been alive first?

From my perspective it clearly was not.
I pulled a copy of Perl Best Practices off a shelf of free books the other week, and have been wishing I had bought a copy when it came out.

It is easy to write truly awful code in Perl. But if you've never seen truly awful code in any other language, you've lived a sheltered life.
It sounds like what we need is some kind of door which can efficiently and reversibly toggle its openness depending on circumstance.
Heh, their data model is 99% of the reason why I don't use OSM. It's scattered all over the place with so many tables! It's such a nice project, but damn is it impossible to work with programmatically, let alone poke around it to discover what's all in there.
Well, they did say it was modern.
I want to show everyone how smart I am about predicting current events, or prove that I knew some secret event happened, without my prediction causing interference.
Social audio has the same problem of an audio message: it comes always in the moment you cannot listen to it. Even worse, a message from a friend or relative has much bigger priority.
We have the same in Yorkshire. Being the only people in our street that seem to feed the birds we bought a bulk pack of 150 suet balls in January - the Starlings are massing like crazy and demolishing all the food we put out. Maybe I'll give up the day job and sit there and fill the feeders :) They also love bird-friendly (no salt) peanut butter.
That's the pernicious thing about capitalism and the stock market, really.
So excited for the future of WunderGraph!

LFG
Finland may be the only country being close to solving this issue. And no, it's not possible to ship all the nuclear waste to Finland.

Not every country even has candidate sites. And there's a lot of issues from "I think we have a solution" to actually having implemented it.
Modern electric iambic keyers aren't that loud. You could probably also emulate with a touch screen.
also - posted article feels too spoiler-y. marking for laters
One cool way to generate Zipf's law is through random growth. See an example here for the distribution of cities:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/114/3/739/1848099

The idea is that if the growth rate of a city is drawn from the same distribution, regardless of the actual city size, we get Zipf's law. To me this is a reasonable explanation why we see Zipf's law in many places in nature.
I think Excel is still used. If people work for years with a tool it makes no sense to take it from them. This is like forcing my vim setup on another senior who uses for years vs code. It will not save enough to compensate for the decrease in productivity and mood.

It only makes sense of you can convince people.

There was thrift in my hometown, that was using excel to decide on the max credit for individuals. The document was copied and forked and the outcome was more random than anything. At least they could be convinced to introduce a database and a well written and maintained application, that does reliable work and provides the same output when given the same input.
> If you remove a node in the list now you have to rewrite all the values in the links array.

You actually don't. You can just keep two lists within the same structure, one for occupied nodes and one for free nodes, and just move deletions to the head of the free nodes list.

Example List:

Data: [ a, 0, c, d, e ]
Links: [ 2, -1, 3, 4, -1 ]

Head of occupied nodes: 0
Head of free nodes: 1

Link shape:

Occupied Nodes: 0 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> []
Free Nodes: 1 -> []

To Delete C:

data[2] = empty // free data
links[2] = 1 // Repoint 2 -> 1
links[0] = 3 // Repoint 0 -> 3
firstFreeNode = 1

This changes the data such:

Data: [ a, 0, 0, d, e ]
Links: [ 3, 2, -1, 4, -1 ]

Head of occupied nodes: 0
Head of free nodes: 2

New shape:

Occupied Nodes: 0 -> 3 -> 4 -> []
Free Nodes: 2 -> 1 -> []
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Branch prediction probably also favors the vector, if not as overwhelmingly as the cache locality.
I didn’t impeach anyone’s character. Me, I tend toward nihilism. I believe the only outcome is going to be massive political disruptions. I think things must get much worse before anything meaningful will be done. Hence my vote for Trump. I voted for the apocalypse. As I see things right leaning people in the U.S. burry their head in the sand and think everything will be just fine. Left leaning people tend to think that driving a Prius is a meaningful action toward the problem and in a sense equally burry their heads in the sand.

My views on this are not normative to any major political group in the U.S. One thing that ought to be indisputable is that massively increasing the energy into the weather system will cause major disruptions before the system stabilizes into a new normal (equilibrium).
Travel more. Expect more.

The London Underground is effective, but exceedingly average. The Liz line looks excellent on first impression. Some of it is decent. Some of it is terrible. I'd prefer a more even distribution than a spanking new line ... or both. But I'm sure we sprayed the money on the overspend ...
the meat of it:

> Mr. Musk believes the company is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights (and the company’s corresponding obligations) under the merger agreement. This is a clear material breach of Twitter’s obligations under the merger agreement and Mr. Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to terminate the merger agreement.
I see your point, but I would give GP the benefit of doubt. Their app might be more beautiful and more functional than you think!
If the containmaint fails, it means widespread contamination. This is basically the reason, Chernobyl was so bad: the graphite in the nuclear core caught fire and the fire launched a lot of radioactive material high into the air. So beyond the impact on the immediate region around the reactor, there were nuclear clouds moving across Europe. In consequence, a lot of forests in Bavaria are still contaminated. Even today, one needs to be a bit carefull eating mushrooms and especially wild boar (who ate a lot of mushrooms...) from the local forests.

Also, that was the reason everyone was so thrilled by the news that Russian troups camped and lit fires in the contaminated forests around the reactor, both endangering themselves and spreading more radioactivity. Of course there is much less material involved than with the original accident, but still one wants to avoid any of this.
While I do not know how much carbon is created during the recycling asphalt is nearly 100% recyclable.
Managing navigation state via the familiar URL-based approach. You have to manage “where am I in the app?” somehow.
I still don't get why we can't use the waste, it gives off heat and radiation, so why can't we turn that into electricity? Is it not potable enough? What is the problem?
The thing the drones prove is that you can can solve the guidance problem cheaply and with commodity hardware.

Obviously, an excalibur shell has like a rocket booster, and there are lots of things like jamming that could cause problems, but the thing that I'm really asking is, why doesn't somebody make a cheap (JDAM style) guidance kit for shells?

It just seems to me to be manifestly technically feasible to produce such a kit for very little, even if you went out of your way to overcomplicate things, and if it was jammed, you could just have it drop down into 'dumb bomb' mode.

(Personally, I feel the worse bang-for-buck the military gets, the better, because it means less people get blown up per dollar wasted on weapons[0], but I can't believe it's just institutional dysfunction that results in a 100,000 dollar shell that doesn't work half the time).

[0]: imagine if the war in Iraq had been three orders of magnitude less expensive, for instance: it's entirely possible that the argument for expanding the conflict into Iran would have been viable then, to everybody's detriment.
> Can you elaborate? I'm mostly pro-crypto, but it feels like it's really begun to stagnate since early '21.

My guess is the whole thing is going to collapse in a flaming implosion, leaving broken and dismembered financial entities in its wake. Then it'll rebuild. The cycle will happen 2-3x more times, building up some evidence for what value propositions crypto has and then the show can go properly mainstream.

Something like the early internet. People got very overexcited, things fell apart, then a bit later the likes of Amazon turn up and start using it for serious projects.

> Also, How will proof of stake not lead to big incumbent actors that control everything, like the US bulge bracket?

No idea. Nor much care. If it is worst than the US fiat system then nobody will use it, if better then good.
I feel like Clubhouse fell bang in the "This is a feature, not a product" [1] hole and have simply not been able to get out of it, esp once other apps came up with their own live-audio functionality (and given how Twitter and Clubhouse were very closely entwined, the launch of Twitter Spaces and Twitter pushing it quite aggressively was probably the nail in the coffin).

Honestly though, I always felt like live audio was just a pandemic-era overhyped field[2] which still needs a few years in the sun before becoming ready for primetime, because the current implementations do not really bring anything fresh (or useful imo) to the table that other forms of communication don't bring with them (be it Youtube livestreams or podcasts or whatnot)

[1] https://www.yannickoswald.com/post/the-hottest-question-in-v...

[2] And it's not just limited to Clubhouse, but also region specific apps like Leher (https://leher.app/) which pivoted from social audio to some weird "do tasks to earn money" model
Any parasocial relationships[1] have to be one way to be effective at mass scale. You can't have all of a person's fans talk at the same time. Podcasts are a form of social audio that scales well. Anything that lets someone talk 1:1 with their fans is going to have to have a rate throttling mechanism.

For a while, the obscurity of a platform itself serves as that rate limiter. However, once it kicks off something must replace it, such as pay to meet, or recreating obscurity by random un-announced appearances, etc.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
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A cleaner, simper solution to that is for email clients to delete the DKIM info immediately upon receipt.
> Look no further than Signal's supboenas and how they respond to them. With all the information they hold about an account. Which is just the creation date and last connection date. https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

Signal's subpoenas have always left a sour taste in my mouth. I just can't believe that they are getting so few, at least some cases they'll just send the standard letter out and will try to get something. Having no list of how many they have rejected would at least increase my confidence in them a bit.

But the bigger issue is, that they data they provide is just too good to be true for the majority of users. Signal has a push token for the vast majority of accounts otherwise they wouldn't be able to send out push notifications on iOS and would waste at least some battery on devices with Google Play services installed. The subpoenas always seem to affect people who have an Android phone without Google Play services installed. In my eyes is too strange of a coincidence to be true.

Signal does at least a bad job of explaining what kind of data they keep on an average user.
> But trying to defend for example your right to have a car and move freely is not "extremism". And it's normal to feel personally attacked when they tell you to give up your car. It's literally a personal attack on your freedom.

What most "anti-car" people are advocating for amounts to the option to not drive. As it is now, driving is practically a requirement for full participation in society.
The creators of Java have always been influenced by the ML family of languages, for instance the Hotspot compiler and generational GC came out of efforts to develop very fast runtimes for the ML family.

Also the lambda syntax in Java is as concise as can be, how can you beat

x -> x*x

? Sometimes passing a lambda (or other function) as an argument is a simpler approach to specialization than defining a subclass. That I think is mainstream and accepted in Java today. More recently Java is also incorporating other ideas from the ML family such as switch expressions and algebraic types (records and sealed interfaces.)

There is a lot more to "functional programming" than that, such as the use of persistent collections. In some cases (such as managing the symbol table in a compiler) those methods lead to good efficiency and great simplification, in other cases they are ways to make easy problems punishingly hard.

pidove builds on top of ordinary Java Collections and doesn't push more exotic approaches as does

http://www.functionaljava.org/
Smashing and taking the doorbell isn't a concern of mine. I live in a very low crime area. The majority of crime that does happen is stealing from unlocked cars or open garages. The doorbell wouldn't help with either in my case since my door doesn't face my driveway or garage.

My townhouse is 4 stories. The 4th floor is where my pool table, dart board and home theater are located thus where I spend most of my time when I am home. I got the doorbell camera so I wouldn't have to navigate all the steps every time someone rang the doorbell.
Need Is All You Need: Homeostatic Neural Networks Adapt to Concept Shift
Indeed but, honest question, was it mainstream when they created those albums? (I'm too unfamiliar with Blind Guardian's back catalogue to know.)
And isn't the better scoring those made locally by yourself?

I suggest for ML https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974 or the fact you can't even trust a public model, since you can't really control it regularly in training terms.

You are right saying there is not much scoring in RSS, beside Gnus I know zero other feed readers who do anything alike. In search engines terms, beside YaCy witch is distributed and not so good, I do not know anything else, about bookmarking there are countless "managers" but I doubt they can be useful: in scoring terms, for discovering, we need the classic Usenet and sharing. It can be done, so far no one AFAIK have done that, but in practical terms nothing is still better than modern corporate systems anyway...
What happened to simple, basic web hosting?