skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading that article when it was on the front page of HN, and felt underwhelmed by the conclusion.

Reading the quoted conclusions again, I almost fail to see what the discovery is.

Natural language follows a slightly modified version of Zipf's Law / Power distribution, but from what I remember from college, so does randomly distributed writing (if you draw randomly from [a-z ] and split on spaces, you get a similar distribution)

EDIT: From Chris Mannings book "Statistical Foundation of NLP" (MIT-1999)

> As a final remark on Zipf’s law, we note that there is a debate on how
surprising and interesting Zipf’s law and ‘power laws’ in general are as
a description of natural phenomena. It has been argued that randomly
generated text exhibits Zipf’s law (Li 1992).

>To show this, we construct
a generator that randomly characters from the 26 letters of the
alphabet and the blank (that is, each of these 27 symbols has an equal
chance of being generated next). Simplifying slightly, the probability of a
word of length n being generated is the probability of generating
a non-blank character n times and the blank after that. One can show
that the words generated by such a generator obey a power law of the
form Mandelbrot suggested. The key insights are that there are 26
times more words of length n 1 than length n, and (ii) that there is a
constant ratio by which words of length are more frequent than words
of length n + 1. These two opposing trends combine into the regularity
of Mandelbrot’s law. See exercise 1.4.

Where "Mandelbrot’s law" is the above "slightly modified version of Zipf's Law / Power distribution" I mentioned, and was published in 1954
If you want to prove you had an idea first, or something like that.
NimScript is. Unfortunately, it's quite abandoned.
Finally, an OS for Grundoon, who lives in the Okefenokee Swamp with that Pogo fellow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comic_strip)
While I usually cringe over popular media wokeism, your point of View is very one sided.
You neglect to account the exploitative over representation for the most extreme views which is driven by cynical profit oriented mentality of media moguls. You forget the technooptimists that created this attention economy. And the politicians agressively leaning in the strife and societal tensions caused by the above.
Blaming critical theory without considering these is pretty shallow....
It's verifiable. Your approach is just "trust me bro".
I've often wished for some kind of dream recorder. I have had some very intense dreams, even "inception" style where I fall asleep inside a dream. In these dreams I'll talk to witty people, hear incredible music, see fantastic sights. But once I wake up 90% of the dream is gone and I only remember some highlights.

A weird realization for me is all the events in the dream were produced by me. Yet in real life I'm useless in front of a piano, or a paint brush. It would be great if there was a way to tap into that creativity once awake.
Storing barrels of oil, and selling during the next crisis seems like a sure fire way to make a lot of money.
I am curious at what scale do you justify using containers.

I was just messing around in AWS making a cluster left it over night (few days), I had a $10 bill. Which is fine but yeah, in contrast my person apps/sites have been running on a $5/mo VPS.

Anyway it's still cool to know/eventually use this somewhere but I'm concerned how you keep it fresh if you don't personally use it.

edit: I left it on longer than that (90+hrs) but yeah, other one was EC2 NAT gateway hours
Not OP, but the difference is you can run the code at compile time, so there is no performance penalty.
That’s not how it works. If the data is connected to the VIN it is likely considered Teslas data, not yours. (Just like googles logs are theirs, even though your IP/fingerprint is in there). The data they store explicitly against your identity is yours by right in those states that have decent privacy law. It doesn’t include secondary/tertiary/derived data.

If you request your data from Google - you don’t get any web logs… but they definitely have them.
At the time of ancient Rome or the British empire, talent, people, money would also gravitate to towards the center, whether it being London or Rome.

In a way that is how an empire works, sucking dry the areas that it controls, while constantly waging war to conquer new land.
This thread is quite interesting, if the universe is that simple does that imply a complex runtime? Because DC itself should probably be taken as part of the universe here as well as the OS and the hardware it all runs on.

So then the question becomes what is the absolute minimal hardware and software configuration that you could use to generate a mandelbrot?
Quantitatively. Proportional (numerically) to /the value/ of its rank.
Actually Perl's characterization was that the easy things should be easy, and the hard things possible. Sometimes Python could learn from that.

Oh you want to print to stderr hmm?
10x Performance Improvement for Expression Evaluation by Vectorized Execution
Yes. Macros are evaluated at compile-time. You can put arbitrary compile-time computation in a macro. For instance, you might want to initialize a look-up table at compile time. (Have you ever seen C code where it has a header file with a giant array of pre-computed constants, say, as a lookup table for values of sine? You can just generate that with a macro.)

Since macros in effect receive structured source code (basically an AST) as input, you can also do analysis of that code. For example, a macro to simplify algebraic expressions at compile-time.

Abstractions based on high-order functions also tend to allocate closures at run-time, so in practice you frequently get a performance penalty for their use.

High-order functions remove the need to use macros in some cases, but definitely don't replace all of them.
I dont know ... way more common problem I see is unwillingness to abstract. Spaghettis are way more frequent than massive abstractions. Now the popular thing is move toward functional-like style, which leads to one stream of flow that is quite difficult to decipher.
Drink the tea while sitting in a high pressure chamber with 100% oxygen if you want a really good time

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.202188
A good starterpoint would be any old 8 bit machine with bitmapped memory and a copy of Newman and Sproull.
This seems to be the extreme opposite though of other posts with badly structured responsibilities. As a senior I will always rely on having a set of eyes or other opinions and viewpoints. Its invaluable!

I wonder if you went back to the source code now would you feel the same about its brilliance! :)
Why China's Population Is Shrinking
The article mentions looking at randomly generated words and suggests that the power law being verified in that case may have to do with the generated lengths.

Has someone tried to generate random words whose length follow the distribution of natural languages?
I don't see why it matters. Sounds like they aren't going to be registering many domains. Looks like they register something like 4 domains a day, which is completely insignificant.
Outside of patents, which is already a thing, with a very large legal framework around it. Why is that important?
The only numbers in programming are one, two, and many.

So if you’re not very careful and nothing stops you, it’s pretty easy to create an unbounded amount of anything.
An actively exploited Microsoft 0-day flaw still doesn’t have a patch
That's a different kind of lab =)
The Final Paperwork for the EU Type Certification for the Rimac Nevera
Solidarity Day: Today in France everyone is working for free
This could be implemented via blockchain too , where in you can prove that you had posted the idea before a certain block was mined.
Timestamping blocks can be done via schilling coin based oracle.
If you still think EMH is valid after this cycle, I have a monorail to sell you.
> Who says they'll make more money? Based on this thread alone, it sounds like monthly customers would spend very little money while whining and demanding more support time.

Based on that thread there were multiple people saying there 30-50 sized dev team wanted to signup but couldn’t get approval for the whole sum in one go. One even said they followed the issue for 3-years before going to GitHub because they can pay monthly.

> In a good business, the metrics are set by somebody who knows better what will actually make money.

Who said it was a good business? They just stated they couldn’t accept an extremely standard and probably most the used payment option because they work out employee compensation based on year subscriptions. To me, that is a red flag and makes me wonder what goes on there.
I'm not sure what they're attempting to describe in the article but so far seems to me like a child's toy compared to a proper multi-stage flash distillation plant (which uses multiple stages and decreased pressures at each stage to massively decrease energy requirements) -- and even those should use more energy than reverse osmosis plants.
AFAIK and what I've seen are mostly SQL query logs that are analyzed, in the sense that the queries that are expected (aka generated by the backend) are compared to queries that look suspicious (e.g. select * from users).

Of course that's kind of assuming that the database host OS isn't compromised at that point, but it's very likely that someone got either user access or found a way to do SQL injection in this scenario.

I'd also recommend to take a look at web application firewalls. Usually they mitigate all kinds of requests that look suspicious.
Numpy is the library that absolutely everything uses for array data. It's not part of the standard library but still.

All the other things built on top that people use Python for are very interoperable because they use the same base data type.
You would think.. But Epam is a contractor for one of the clouds and has access to client data. Another few (contractor/outsourcing ) companies i know of have access to all their customer's customer data.
That is for a smooth sphere, which the world is neither.
What can we learn from the secret habits of genius?
Pride I guess? I'm sure there are other uses. This idea has been done many times before (e.g. with blockchains).
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Strogatz
American dream and impossibility to develop in their own countries.
Yup, class is a huge part of diet. No denying that.
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5FA is a chemotherapy drug but a myeloablative agent as well. As a side effect, it supresses the ability of bone marrow to produce blood cells. That’s why it’s used in this study.
This has been done for a while. Two links:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_timestamping

- https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-bl...

The company in the second link: http://www.surety.com/
Only way to go is w/ either magnetic core memory or isolinear chips.
Or you can just convince parents to remove the foreskins from their newborn baby boys. Lot easier to identify on a full term infant.
You can do that with Markov chains. Just letter-by-letter instead of word-by-word.
The NHS website would fit here. Their content is very easy to read, even though it's about various medical topics.
Not to mention that Europe simply doesn't have the LNG terminals required to replace their pipeline capacity regardless of efficiency.
The GitHub repository in the article doesn't exist?!
This quite nicely matches the use-case that causes me to go to a notepad - mixing text and little simple diagrams or sketches. I'm gonna have to give it a try :)
I'd argue that a lot of highwat building in the US did a massive disservice to the population (maintenance debt, pollution, unsustainable city planning, neglect of public transportation) and listening to early objectors might have mitigated some of these.

But they were labled as crazy moralists whatever their opinion was. Arguing with the pace and direction of progress is not the same as being anti progress, but for some parties it pays that it's perceived as such....
Another advantage of tinygo is that unlike "Go proper" FFI with C code is blazingly fast, which makes it a reasonable option for inter-oping with C-library- whereas use of Cgo is actively discouraged in "Go proper" due to performance and other reasons. So using board specific libraries which are very likely to be in C is doable via tinygo.
> Most big companies don't use contractors for work that gives them access to customer data like that

[citation needed]

Okta is a recent counter-example.
> Even Lestat got bored.

You mean the fictional vampire character?
My contribution, the over-the-shoulder cellphone holder, is just one recent innovation helping groceries and personal shoppers to reduce costs, save time and enhance revenues and so on (https://SNEKmount.com)

Amazon, as well as owning Whole Foods, an upmarket grocer, now runs 29 “Fresh” supermarkets, mostly in suburbs of large cities. At these stores shoppers need not use a till at all, instead being automatically charged as they pick items off the shelves and walk out. Until recently, home delivery of groceries in America (unlike Europe) has often relied on gig-economy workers walking round ordinary supermarkets—a costly model.

But that is also changing. Walmart’s head of e-commerce, Tom Ward, is British and has brought ideas pioneered in Britain, such as “dark stores”, where goods are packed exclusively for delivery. In Arkansas, Walmart has even experimented with dispatching groceries by drone. On May 24th it announced that the programme is expanding to five more states.

How much these ideas will change how Americans shop is unclear. Cutting product lines is often unpopular; big cars and big fridges still support a model of big grocery stores with surprisingly high prices. Still, as consumers fret about inflation, the pressure on American supermarkets to innovate and cut costs is bound to grow.■
I wonder how many needles it detected.
The community version is https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim

And there is for Julia: https://github.com/JuliaAnimators/Javis.jl
It's just a sign of the times. There was a long period of time when everybody dreamed in black and white, then when color TV was invented everyone started dreaming in color again.

I don't know if it's particularly creative to dream with a sound track just as I don't know if it's particularly creative to dream in black and white. But your brain is definitely influenced by cinema.
He's currently training Dall-E mega: https://twitter.com/borisdayma/status/1532071560558759937
The Lost World of Soviet PCs (2015)
Specific to this demo, Inigo Quilez did a breakdown back in 2009 called 'behind elevated' for Function 2009 but I can't find it on his site today. Maybe it's there. But here's the archive link to the pdf.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120119015415if_/http://www.iqu...
I've been a premium account holder for over a year with about 20 users.

I don't even have ready access to an account manager. And support is no more prioritised than if I was any old user raising a bug/issue in their public repo.

It's not great.
Kinda like "Seeing Like a State" sim (but with less grim/more pro-state viewpoint). A god-game/Civ combo that operates on worldwide scale, but you don't get to order people around, like move meeples from farmers to scientists, or maybe even have legible pops (any more than states at a given historical stage did). Starting at the earliest stage where you are a budding city-state but not in the middle of an empty chunk of map - as with real life, most of the environments worth exploiting would already be populated, and you have to conquer/absorb/convert/assimilate/... all those peoples.
Almost all developed nations have a low birth-rate and so it seems like China is just following that trend.

It's quite interesting to consider why that is the case, maybe, it is a psychological thing that people in well-developed nations value material goods more instead of the security of having more children or maybe it is the high cost of child-rearing which is turning-off couples from having more children.
It violates rule 5 "Flat is better than nested".
This is a write up.

https://in4k.github.io/wiki/crinkler

And some more info from 2005 seminars. (search for crinkler)

https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2005/assembly05/semin...
I am not sold on programmable keys (yet) but I do deal with a lot of code and scrollable data. Will definitely check out 502.
So what's the difference between fexprs and macros? Can you give an example that illustrates it?
I live in the SF Bay Area as well. He's right. We had multiple days where the smoke was so thick that the sun was blood red.

Here's a couple of news clippings from different days in 2020

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/one-year-ago-san-francis...

https://www.abc7news.com/amp/red-sunrise-bay-area-smoke-in-s...
White font on light gray background. White font on dark gray background.
It is better to protect your eyes before it is too late.
Many big modern organisations are built by bureaucrats whose specialisation it is to create more bureaucracy. Thus they spend a lot of time thinking up ways to measure the work performed from various angles, create reports for their superiors, and find other ways to ride on the work of others to earn their salary instead of doing actual work. This propagates downward and soon everyone (but perhaps the most junior contributors) is working in politics about meta-work, rather than doing the actual work.

It takes rebel managers to go "no, I won't participate in this seventh time allocation study" and instead do actual work to break the cycle.
Best air fryers reviewed and recommended by the Reddit users.
I think you're being sarcastic, but this is basically what OPEC and others do.
This is a good hack, even with some very light abuse (once per 12 hours) of CT logs.

I don't see the need to build new tech though. It should be trivial to build a CRUD layer over git repo (which uses a merkle tree DAG) - and you get public logs to boot, including simple hosting and wide tooling. Immutable commits maintained in a public tree. This could also be combined with the above hack (using commit id).
As already pointed out, whole file is parsed before it's actually run. If you have any unsupported syntax, you will get a SyntaxError without your message being printed at all.

What would be your suggestion to do this for single file scripts?
Feeling Down
What's wrong with printing to stderr in python?
I'm in the process of researching to replace my swimming pool pump. My current one nominally runs at 2850rpm and has a nominal power consumption of 1650W, but I think I measured it at around 1100W. I imagine the maximum load is when starting and also if it has to "suck" with a large head. My pump is about 0.5m above the pool level. It is a 14 year old pump that is obviously just a single phase (240V 50Hz) AC induction motor.

The replacements are permanent magnet DC motor driven, with a variable speed (presumably frequency and voltage) drive can control speed from 600 to 2850rpm.

After priming at full speed for a few minutes (to purge air) it looks like you can then run it at say 1300 to 1800 rpm and save a coal truck worth of power. (I do have solar PV panels on my roof, but I am hoping maybe 1000kWh or more a year saving ).
My company hasn't used anything but Open/Libre Office since its inception. No problems.

The only slightly related issue has been the one client who continues to send email attachments from Outlook as winmail.dat.
Why do people with no grammatical sense insist on re-wording the original headlines?
Much of the time, once my code is the way I want, there's almost nothing to test. Any tests I write would just be an echo of the implementation itself. I think if you're using your static type system to its fullest and writing clean, "obviously correct" code, 80% of your tests are simply not necessary at all. It goes:

- Bad code: almost no tests.

- Good code: lots and lots of tests.

- Great code: almost no tests.
LinkedIn helps me keep in touch with people that I worked with at past jobs. Yes you can swap emails/phone numbers but emails frequently get buried, people may change phone numbers as they move, additionally emails don't have any discoverability (eg what is Victor who I worked with 8 years ago doing these days... ohh he is working at company XYZ, that's interesting I am considering applying at company XYZ maybe I can ask him what he thinks of the company from the inside).

The recruiter spam is a small price to pay for the incredible professional value that LinkedIn provides for me.
Perl also has the motto "there's more than one way to do it".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...
If your goal is to ensure that google has as little data about you as possible, this is not a pretty absurd thing to worry about.
I have switched on that, and figured out that there is more benefits of coding early than later:

- Users can give feedback ( theoretical exercises is hard for users that’s not technical)

- Get ownership over the product

-Easier to learn “what you don’t know that you don’t know” when you can iterate

-You have do so more development up front, but I believe you save it in the long run

Took me almost 10years to have enough examples that coding vs no-code activities should not be 20/80 but 80/20.
I prefer "must", personally
Really cool project. I was a bit confused about his explanation on measuring where the anchors were in space. Why would a tape measure not be enough?

I was also a bit surprised that more primitive CV wasn't used to track the ball--he had to freeze the ball and then machine holes into the ball to insert tracking objects. I would have thought that image recognition could have solved the problem without the trackers. Maybe the issue was that this requires very low latency?
Our Entire Generation Has No Hope
Japan lets its banks and other entities issue stablecoins
I’m afraid that ship has sailed.. https://hiccaway.com/
It is better to have a functional organisation where people float in and out of roles defined by the expectations of others and everyone is capable of judging basic business tradeoffs, yes.

That, in my experience, makes people happier. They get to focus on important problems, help people they know, and develop their well-roundedness as human beings.

I think you might be underestimating the amount of overhead that is added by a heavy bureaucratic hierarchy.
I work on very large (>300 pages) and very complex Word documents containing graphics, table of contents, index, footnotes, end notes, bibliographies, etc. I also have to work on Excel and PowerPoint files. I have tested LO with these multiple times as each new release appears and have always run into format compatibility problems. To be fair, these problems are slowly getting fewer but they’re still enough to make LO impossible for my work. This doesn’t mean that MS Office is perfect. After all these years, Microsoft still can’t make search and replace the same for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and the spelling checker in Word is brain dead (“replace all” doesn’t, for example). If the compatibility problems go away, I’ll probably switch to LO but until then I’ll continue with MS Office because that’s what my clients use.