skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cherry picked? When write programming code examples this kind of thing would be the first thing I would try.

I would rather call it cherry-picking if one avoided covering such a case to make Java look good. Seems like a pretty obvious problem to me.

Handling basic number types is pretty bread and butter.
See also:

https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/quantum-entanglement...
I'll throw in my anecdote.

I was suffering from hand tremors that had no obvious root cause. It was getting bad enough I was starting to spill drinks while holding (relatively) heavy glasses.

Saw a doctor and got screened for all the potential causes and nothing came back.

I decided to try lions mane and took it daily for about 6 months. That was 3 years ago and my hands are steady as they've ever been. Ymmv.
The fact that an eventuality is likely to occur does not make you righteous for choosing to cause it at a time that’s convenient for you.
I think the hours I spend here go towards satisfying my need to feel part of a community. Without it, I suspect I'd spend the same amount of time on another social media site.
Why do new local players invest in new offerings if it is apparently so obvious that the big telecoms will come in and undercut them long enough to exhaust their capital?
Porter is really the best way to get in and out of Toronto...
That used to happen to me with Slashdot too. I'm so happy that today I didn't even realize HN was down, I think I tried once, it didn't load and went do something else, I assumed it was some local DNS or internet issue.
Ya. The story collection [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights] dates back at least to the 10th century and the 'Islamic Golden Age'... and many probably go back 1000 years before that (said to have entertained kings) ... unknown in the West until translated by Richard Burton.

Aside: a stash of 500 more tales (many new) pulled together in the early 1800s and forgotten was discoverd in 2012. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/05/five-hundred-f...
We got a stash of $2 bills from the bank (took several trips, they’re getting harder to find). Our kids think they’re really neat.
> I’m not sure what real problem self driving cars are supposed to solve aside from some people aren’t able to drive

there could presumably be large improvements in the ratio of cars to people.
I bet thousands of people checked their network and DNS settings today. hn is what I use to make sure I have a connection
Look at this story:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-sells-billions-of-dol...

The headline is: "Elon Musk Sells $8.5 Billion of Tesla Shares After Deal to Buy Twitter"

The deal to buy Twitter gave Musk an excellent cover for selling billions of dollars' worth of TSLA. He doesn't need to sell all of TSLA. He sold a massive amount. If he didn't have this cover it would have looked like he thinks TSLA is overvalued (which in fact it is).

Both Gates and Musk sold TSLA. Gates sold borrowed shares, Musk sold shares he owned. That's the only difference. Of course Musk still has tons of TSLA remaining. But that doesn't change the fact that both Gates and Musk did the same thing (sell TSLA) and yet Musk criticized Gates for it. What a hypocrite!
All of the above? It's good for the entire country to not use counterfeit network equipment manufactured by an adversary.
Alot of them say they are. They are also hypocrites.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/premarital-sex-almost-everyones...
Funny to see a complaint about comment quality when your comment is effectively a restatement of what parent comment said.

Not trying to be rude of course, I do this myself occasionally (my editing skills are bad on mobile in particular), but to me it’s obvious that fewer comments increases the signal-to-noise ratio.
Lol moving it to an even less accountable regulatory authority is a really bad idea.

At least at the local level if something is insanely broken you can have action to correct it. But getting a law to do anything at the federal level is almost impossible unless you fill it with pork for every lobbyist in the DC zip codes.
This is similar to my experience. Slashdot, digg, reddit, then HN. HN hasn't really declined (I think I matured) but I still find some nuggets.

I'd like to see a group like early $PLACE on something like IPFS or whatever to keep the bar high enough.
I don't disagree with the gist of your comment, but by that token, I don't remember Windows ever "just working" (especially not for games!), and neither does macOS...

(The example I always give is that my wireless HP LaserJet printer works automagically with Ubuntu, but always gives trouble with macOS!)

So... all desktops suck?
Did you read the article? This isn’t about not maximizing alphabets profits. The issue is with how the current add exchange favors Google’s web products despite not all ads being ran on google. This solution moves the ad exchange to its own business entity which would decouple it from .com
Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to historic low
That's still just anecdotal.
Hmm, just did that, thanks. Been a while since I last saw my profile here, didn't realize I didn't have anything on it.
Appears HN is currently on AWS:

https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=https://news.ycombinator...

http://50.112.136.166/

https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=50.112.136.166
I haven't read the book, but...

Aren't the digits of pi randomly distributed? So then, you can encode literally any message you want by picking an offset into them. Could even design a "compression" algorithm where a message is designated by its offset, though I'm guessing it won't be very efficient in practice.
I would also welcome an invite to lobste.rs if anyone is able and willing to send me one. My contact is in my profile.

Thanks!
Twitter's SEC filing: "In making this [mDAU] determination, we applied significant judgment, so our estimation of false or spam accounts may not accurately represent the actual number of such accounts, and the actual number of false or spam accounts could be higher than we have estimated."

Neither side said bots, but bots _should_ be a subset of "false or spam" accounts. They basically used "our judgement" and give themselves complete discretion. And 5% is a nice round number plucked from nowhere which sounds awesome! Providing proof of that to a Banker or Backer (or Elon or a future Jury) isn't therefore possible or intended. It's marketing spin in an SEC filing.
We give our kids gold Sacagawea dollar coins under their pillows. Can’t get them from the US mint anymore, but it’s easy to get them from your local bank branch (who are happy to dispose of them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar
I would imagine it’s the other way around, but maybe the infra has changed. I always thought it was Bell at the very top.
D-Wave’s 500-Qubit Machine Hits the Cloud
maybe if he can prove that his bot claims, and claims about twitter's willful fraud, are both true, and the reason everybody sold
Trading up .Net for Ruby is like trading up a lambo for pinto.

But maybe you need to drive over a mountain pass and the pinto has snow tires on it.
regardless of the law, canada chooses not to enforce it when it comes to the big telcos. they do what they want, and the politicians obey.
He doesn’t know. He doubts.
Do you have any references to this? I must have missed the news, something like a cultural blowup internally?
My students won't use anything else, because it is probably the best free text editor on Windows. For me, configuration is exasperating and functionality has various areas of friction. I use a proprietary editor for my own work (EditPad Pro).
It’s not a penalty for backing out of the deal, it’s compensation if his financing falls through. Musk doesn’t have a discretionary out here.
I am not sure what's wrong, but I've been underwhelmed with my 14" MBP's battery life.

I was super excited to get one for work solely because of all the buzz about battery life. But here I'm getting 5 hours or so. Firefox and Chrome are by far the biggest offenders, but I don't do anything special.

Just wanted to give another anecdote.
Even first party domains can be a problem if…uh…certain departments get a hold of the email address. I’ve definitely been I meetings that go something like:

Developer: Does anyone know why helpdesk@company.com is being flagged as a spam address? All of our customers are saying our support emails are ending up in their spam folder.

Marketing guy: Yeah does anyone know why our support and advertising emails are being marked as spam?

Developer: …never mind.
It's a pretty universal reason to dismiss or at least cast serious doubt on conspiracy theories. A close cousin of Ockham's Razor and Hanlon's Law

The amount of competence required to prepare a controlled demolition of a 110 storey trade center which is occupied 24/7 and full of cameras without anyone noticing and associating this prep work with the much publicised plane crashes that happened afterwards would be staggering, even before considering the insanity of such a scheme.

At the risk of opening a can of worms, the best evidence against the considerably more plausible "lab-leak" COVID theory is that manufacturing an alternative chain of evidence that convinces most unconnected foreign experts of an alternative theory (which still points at Wuhan and Chinese market regulations) when they have plenty of reason to find fault with it requires a lot of competence, as well as totally the opposite approach to China's usual way of suppressing stories.
This happened: Wind Mobile. They couldn't immediately build infrastructure across the entire country, so IIRC you were "roaming" outside a few major urban centers. However, I believe they also had unlimited US roaming (much better than the big three).

I expected more uptake since it would have been a better deal for most Canadians in those urban centers, but I think there's a subtle bias against taking these kinds of risks.
Could you give some concrete examples? Something which requires a type of Go generics but which cannot easily be solved in another way?
It has been a very long time since I read the book, but if I remember correctly the first message was actually found in base 11 (a picture of a circle).

Back then it hadn't been decided yet if the distribution of the digits of pi are such that all finite numbers can be found in it or not. Some years ago I read about some proof that they can. That means that "Carl Sagan was right!" in whatever encoding you like can be found in pi is you look deep enough.

The thing is what does "deep enough" mean? If we consider some two digit decimal number, like 27, then the chance that it isn't the first two digits is 99%. The chance that it isn't the first two nor the second and third digits is 98.01% and so on. The chance of not finding it among the first 500 digits is less than 0.6%. But unlikely things can still happen, so finding a message "too near the start" might convince some people that pi was created by an intelligence but wouldn't really be a good proof.
If you look at the front page of the BBC News website right now, it is a fairly high ranking item directly below the Japanese assassination.
It’s the side that raided the capitol building and is trying to convince everyone it wasn’t a big deal
> huge embarrassment

Is a huge overstatement. SpaceX has made an equivalent capsule that has been working for more than a year. The US Gov should stop being wasteful and just cancel the other program (or redirect the money to something useful: e.g. buy more F-15s or something).

It's an embarrassment to Boeing maybe, but not the US' play in space.
Incredible (but maybe unsurprising) that nature is maximizing information density and designing efficient codes (a’la information theory) depending on their noise environment!
afaik there are no material representations or warranties made by twitter which elon has proven false
> microservices do nothing to reduce complexity.

This is such a dogmatic statement, showing a very biased opinion here. And it also depends what perspective you have.

The reduction of complexity for developers writing and reading the system, is at the expense of an increase complexity when running the system... Which is a trade-off a lot of companies are fine with.
Which tech companies aren't benefiting from piracy? YouTube has entire movies, songs, etc. on their platform. Sure, they take them down with a DMCA submission (legit or not). But you can't deny that them feigning ignorance and the whack-a-mole nature of their pirated content hasn't benefited them greatly. It won't change until they get hit with massive fines.

Amazon surely knows what they are doing. They don't care that brands are diluted or merchandise is authentic. Because that just ensures people trust AmazonBasics that much more. There are no downsides for Amazon.
Yes, and they are the side I'm cheering for in this match. Even if Musk is forced to pay, I doubt it will slow his twitter tirades down. In fact, I'd expect him to come out harder to prove whatever his little ego thinks needs to be proven.
Love this. How do you do it? Any code online to take a look?
Microsoft begins "Extinguish" phase of dealing with Open Source:

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsoft-begins-extinguish-p...
Neill Blomkamp: Why I am making video game Off The Grid
With all the credulous idiots out there, I consider scams just bug bounties on stupidity at this point.
Does he read HN?
I bet you could twist their arm into a better deal if you spend a while complaining on the phone about today.

I do a lot of my work off of a mobile hotspot so I'm not tied to an office or home. I try to make the most of what's paid for and it goes very far.

I think that if you're getting a decent price it's probably just customer retention at that price point. If they're ripping anyone off widely at the prices I saw, it's new customers... Immigrants etc, pretty nasty.
My admittedly biased view from the other side of the fence is that it may be a lot (little) quicker initially but you run up against code quality/maintainability and performance struggles far sooner.

Granted in a startup worrying about next week is wasted cycles but I don't think rails is so much more productive as to justify switching away from an existing stack (whether Laravel, Django, .NET or whatever. While Rails was a paradigm shift when it was new most all other languages and frameworks have adopted large amounts of the lessons from Rails). I'd urge you to give C# a second chance
What is a good OCR package that is open source? Perhaps I'm using it in the wrong way, but my experience with Tesseract is not so great.
Tell HN: Create an account for free time on a D-Wave quantum computer
It's very rare for corporations to do things as clearly illegal as robbing banks would be. Instead, this sort of dispute with regulators is typically around borderline activities. Since the final word on what is allowed or not in any given situation belongs to the regulator, it's common for companies to propose various solutions to see if a regulator would find them sufficient.

(Disclosure: I used to work for Google, in the part that this is talking about separating)
Same here, it used to be google but at some point it still just starting loading with no internet connection.
Fireworks are also everywhere and used for many occasions, easy to mistake that sound for a fire cracker.
Gitlab have a self-hosted version of their product too. I wonder if that has influenced this perspective too?
bare assertions by elon on a matter touching his pride seem more likely to indicate the opposite is in fact true

e.g. elon calling some dude who wounded his pride on twitter, a "pedo"
Dolphins are interesting. Researchers tried to get someone living with one in a waist high pool all day to teach it language humans could understand. Funding started running out, so the researcher started giving it handjobs and LSD. No luck. Source:

https://boingboing.net/2013/06/18/dolphins-on-acid-and-other...
In this particular case, did the card billing address and shipping address match?

If you were selling high dollar electronic items or similar online, in my opinion it would be reckless to not implement that as a firm policy, which is fairly standard with high fraud risk vendors such as for photography equipment.

As a purchaser, I know that I've been on the customer side of this many times, ensuring that whatever small, high value electronic thing that I was purchasing from a certain vendor was being shipped to the address which is also set up for my bank and credit card bill.
Not sure how 3.5 follows.
C++ generic programming is super effective and efficient even if not super user-friendly til concepts landed. The good thing about Go generics is thatis has monomorphic generics for value types. That is fundamental. Java messed it up with type erasure and now they are wirh all this Valhalla project for years.
Not sure about country specific, but the IPCC have a climate impact assessment tool:
https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/

Maybe I need to get out more, but I was thinking watching the first video on that page, why does this make me feel like I'm in some dystopian sci-fi game/movie and then I realised the voice and presentation style reminded me of the ingame videos from Doom 3 :).
The natural rate of interest is the one where supply meets demand. The Fed, with its enormous balance sheet, distorts the supply/demand equation.
Gmail has this for PayPal but seemingly nothing else. Shrug.
Isn’t PayPal pretty notorious for being a good fraud tool because it is so consumer friendly?
Microsoft released Linux distro:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-released-cbl-mar...
My subjective opinion was that the starlink was better than DSL and even better than some cable internet services I’ve subscribed to in recent years. The downside of the starlink was that it would sometimes drop out for 8 seconds, but I’ve had cable and DSL that would fail for half an hour. Apparently the dropouts have become much less common in the last year.
Yes, they are sticking to that number. Less than 5% of the reported users. Reported by them.

There is no evidence they don't believe it. Why would they not believe it? If they genuinely thought the number was higher, they'd just report a lower number of active users.

They might have been just straight up lying. But it's not a given, and not even especially likely.
Your work might predate this, but spark/scala now has good support for typed dataframes (they’re called DataSets).
Branch at commit1, make a new commit2, commit2a, then rebase commit3 onto commit2a
Caveat. I did not read the article.

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Our team is based on Ruby on Rails. A bunch of us lament "still being on Rails". We have a few small services in alternative languages. However, everyone we serious consider moving off rails, the list of things we'd lose just grows exponentially. We can never justify it.

Starter list:

* Built in blog/binary storage

* Built in migrations

* Built in models and relationship management. Seriously, it's so freaking easy to define rails models.

* Standards for segmentation

* Gems for just about everything

* Admin panel

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I hope we'll eventually be out-scaling Rails - but for now I'd much rather pay an extra $100/month for the next server up.
He could have been known for that. But his never ending rants are slowly deflating his reputation. He built his reputation up and he's slowly destroying it. He's in his 50's so he has a long time to go. Only the future will tell.
but it is part of the deal, given that twitter says "bot % is <=5", now he may believe that not to be the case. I think its concievable he may have acted before he fully considered whether that number indeed is true
> Lobste.rs

Isn't that for Rust users only?
As Levine has repeatedly stated he didn’t “waive due diligence”. It was a binding purchase agreement. It’s meant to come after all of the due diligence.

He didn’t waive his right. He just opted not to do any before buying.
> there are zero chances a single man, no matter how rich, is going to do more than a dent in that enormous task... Solving the technology problem is just the tip of the iceberg.

Agreed, but enabling folks to get there makes it possible.

Musk doesn't have to build the colony to have made it possible, and it seems to be the thing his attention is genuinely invested in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Surely you mean “pay later”, or I missed the implicit /s.
literally the first thing I thought of was a story the NYT ran last month about "e-pimps" in Miami. Is there a name for this, the GTA economy?

Rosero has a long and colorful résumé. Born in Florida to parents from Colombia, he served in the military, worked as a stripper and imported ponchos from South America. He started Think Expansion in 2017, employing a mix of friends and salespeople he found on forums. They helped generate leads and build social media accounts for any company that came calling: yacht merchants, medical billers, insurance companies, lawyers, influencers, even multilevel-marketing firms. He’s a born hustler whose personal hero is Jordan Belfort; his speech is peppered with a mix of marketing jargon (“lowering the action threshold”) and impressions of film and cartoon characters, sometimes in the same sentence. “My mission is to stop Dr. Evil at all costs!” he said in 2019 in an interview with a local news site. “Haha, something like that — I’m a digital entrepreneur.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/magazine/e-pimps-onlyfans...
Why does anyone try to sell books when Amazon exists? It's the nature of the optimist.
I've made a habit of going to Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/) to search for books. More often than not I can even see the full text of the book if I just want to see a chapter or something.
I presume there are some do/dont lessons about foreign joint ventures to draw from this
Biscuits are a specific kind of dry cookie with little flavor (and potentially a bunch of sugar on top)
This article is too simple to get a full picture of Go custom generics. There are actually both good points and bad points.

To get a comprehensive understanding of the current Go custom generics, please read: https://go101.org/generics/101.html
That's simply false, shutting down a nuclear power plant is extremely fucking expensive. Operators would love to cheaply extend the lifespan, but maintenance costs get so horrific over time it's simply not an option.

It's like trying to keep an old car on the road, except a few critical components are highly radioactive.
I've found an amazing community (generally not techy though) at boards.straightdope.com. Some smart folks and interesting topics from all sectors of life.
Indeed the irony is not lost on me, but main purpose was to get a way for invites to be sent those who want 'em.
What amazes me is that the FTC doesn't address the problem. You'd think they'd care. This has been going on for years; you really can't tell whether you're buying genuine products or not on Amazon anymore. I've stopped buying anything where I actually care about the provenance (like power tools and anything personal hygiene related) on Amazon.
The concept of a linear city only works if you completely ignore real world geography like hills, rivers, etc.
https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Took me five minutes, not four days…