skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But most Brits feel compelled to insert an R, "drawRing".

They really are compelled to insert an R there. That is one of the phonological rules of their variety of English; it's how you avoid running one vowel into another vowel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R

Complaining about this is the equivalent of complaining about how Americans "feel" compelled to insert a vowel into the name Gbagbo, pronouncing it guh-bagbo. They don't just feel compelled; that is a genuine requirement of their language.

It is not at all similar to any variation on "Mel and I", which is an artificial rule that English speakers must be taught in school. The form people use naturally is "me and Mel".
Are there really people who used to buy SLRs and now don't because of phones? They seem like entirely different markets. Professionals and dedicated amateurs have lenses and other gear that simply don't exist for phones.

Maybe SLR sales are down because of the kinds of people who would buy them and literally never use them, because now instead of thinking "I wish I had a camera for this vacation" (which they wouldn't use after buying), they just use their phone. That doesn't seem like a significant market though.
Probably, that guy in front of me just can't afford his turning lights subscription.
In my view, guys who are overweight would be ill-advised to hide from the sun to lose weight. From their paper:

"Our study revealed that UVB exposure enhances food-seeking behavior in males via ghrelin and a process that is prevented in females. ... UV is a well-established carcinogen, but avoiding the sun rays adversely impacts human health, too. Since ghrelin has anti-inflammatory properties, halts heart muscle wasting and decreases arterial pressure, ghrelin may be the mechanistic link between solar exposure and cardiovascular disease reduction. Moreover, ghrelin enhances insulin sensitivity in metabolic syndrome patients and in animal models of type II diabetes. ... In addition to its function in regulating energy homeostasis and the functions mentioned above, ghrelin also mediates glucose homeostasis, muscular atrophy, bone metabolism, stress and anxiety, adipogenesis and the immune system."
Does each nut and screw on the toolbox in front of me count as a different item?
So you use the same password for SO and HN?
In the US many people evade paying sales tax
It’s not a crime it’s a consideration taken into account during sentencing.
This is why fund administrators and custodians are things...
I was going to comment this. Did this guy just take credit without any attribution of this article written 2 years prior?
No. The hardware database doesn't have AX1500 or similar.
> There has been a continuous pressure on costs everywhere at airports, which means the airports themselves have not much flexibility on raising fees to account for increased costs, and the companies providing the services like baggage handling, refueling and whatever usually won their contracts by tender which means they are locked in as well by law.

Our governments (that all signed the Paris agreement) should be happy and seize the opportunity to let airports raise taxes, let service providers renegotiate and pay their staff more, and make low cost flights a little less cheap.
“The scale of energy demand and delivery that will eventually result from these massive charging networks will be like nothing the grid has ever seen. Making good on the promise of the EV revolution is at least as much about building, financing, managing and dispatching utility-scale infrastructure assets as it is about the cars themselves.”
For example pretty much any higher-order function that wants to do some decision-making and then hand over execution to one of several functions provided will want to hand over execution by means of a tail call, so that it doesn't unnecessarily change stack complexity for whatever algorithm is being run around that piece of code.
You have a very clear message and it's beautifully written, thanks!

> A decentralized social network isn't a protocol problem.

When the author talked about "the ability to claim a unique username" I was waiting in joy for him to start talking about domain names. But he didn't...

Then the author talked about "scaling networks" and I was hoping he would mention the internet... and he sort of did.
WASM isn't particularly low-level, in that it's a compiler's IR, with a few concomitant restrictions on how control flow is allowed to work. Here's a piece on those restrictions, and how they make implementation more difficult:

http://troubles.md/why-do-we-need-the-relooper-algorithm-aga...

> WebAssembly isn’t designed as a front-end language for general programming though, so what’s the problem? Well, WebAssembly does have some constraints, specifically it must produce code that is valid. WebAssembly is a stack machine, and you can’t jump to just any label since that label might point to code that pops too many values off the stack, or pops the wrong types off the stack, or pushes too many values onto the stack.

Also, to summarize another part, when a compiler targeting WASM sees control flow WASM can't directly express, it has to implement it in a loop-and-switch form, something called the Relooper algorithm; therefore, compilers taking WASM down to native code have to understand that, and undo it back into a performant form. This adds up to a lot of work most VMs don't require, hence the proposal to move WASM towards a control-flow model friendlier to tail-call optimization, which would bring it more in line with physical hardware.
The why is obvious - the bandwidth involved isn't quite so hospitible to small scales as podcasting. Either we need to revive Moore's law or start flogging electrons and photons for not going fast enough.
Check out the chik-fil-a franchise model.
I sometimes refactor code for purely aesthetic reasons. To each his own.

http://www.synergeticapplications.com/ergonomics.htm

By the way, I feel like I'm at a bar and you're negging me
It's not piracy per se, but the practice of reverse engineering a backend to a paid service, whether that's real logic or just a licensing server, has existed for a long time.

I remember friends running World of Warcraft private servers back in '08 and '09. Heck, we even hosted one as a class project in high school.

World of Warcraft Classic exists partially due to the number of fans who ran private servers as a way to properly experience previous versions of the game as current expansions have you steamroll through older content.
YouTube is such a hard market to crack. 99% of the problem is simple information theory and getting bits from A to B. The actual software isn't that difficult.

I honestly don't think something like YouTube ever could be profitable without destroying the product that exists today. I don't believe the primary purpose of TikTok is to make money.
Amazon owns the following companies selling books:

- AbeBooks (acquired by Amazon in 2008)

- Book Depository (acquired by Amazon in 2011)

These companies don't appeared to have changed dramatically from when Amazon bought them. I wonder if these companies operate 'independently' without too much undue influence from Amazon?
If you have an integrated webcam there's a nifty package called 'zbar-tools' in debian repos that has a utilty named 'zbarcam' that identifies barcodes from your webcam and outputs them to standard output. Too little too late, I know, but nifty to have in the future.
I wasn't referring to the marginal utility for a person, but rather the economies of scale that come with focused capital-allocation.

A million people with single dollars probably can't coordinate to build a consumer product.

A Kickstarter with a million dollars may be able to generate a consumer product that improves the lives of a million people.
This is cool, and I have done this in the past, but it's worth keeping something in mind:

Make sure the QR code is NOT visible from outside via the windows in your house.
Would this be an improvement over an old Netgear R7000?
In FSX and previous editions of Flight Simulator this was true. However, MSFS uses blade element theory, the same technique X-Plane uses, and recently introduced CFD. Load into the sim, turn on developer mode and enable the aerodynamics debug options to see it in action.
Similarly, sometimes I record conversations with my family so that I can listen to it years down the road (especially in the case where someone dies - my dad died 2 years ago and I haven't brought myself to listen to most of my recordings yet). Really reminds you of the real-ness of people who may no longer be in your life.
See also "Ask HN: What's the point of life?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866558
The problem is not the AB testing, as it can be a good thing to improve the experience, the problem is poorly set, short sighted, OKRs.
The author points that in the text, as he mentions many times that the leadership never asks the right questions, mainly how it will impact the client in the long run (being NPS evolution, lifetime value, etc..)
wrote this below but worth posting here -

A lot of the conversation here is based on anecdata (interactions with uber drivers or cabs) or people projecting what its like to be a driver on uber and they are unwittingly being exploited.

I worked at a company that provided products to uber, lyft and doordash drivers, and personally interviewed well over 200 drivers, (along with having access to detailed data on a much larger dataset). The vast majority of drivers we talked to did not feel like they were being 'exploited' and generally liked the flexibility of the gig economy. Most workers were part time, working to supplement income from other jobs or in between other gigs, in fact when i was there, most drivers worked less than 6 months before stopping. I would say these people have a much better sense of whether they are being exploited than people who are not in their shoes.

There was a small but important minority (we called them 'professionals') for whom driving had become their full time profession (most were not cab drivers before) who were perpetually annoyed by uber and their main gripes tended to be the changing promotions systems, and algorithmic changes that reduced/limited profitable rides (like airport pickups) and just general loss of control.
What do you use to track this?
duplicate subject on front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070661
Ah right, good question yes it seems like it could be possible..
Heya,

(1) Thank you for implementing this in JSC!! I hope they take it, it makes it into Safari, and the tail-call proposal advances.

(2) I don't think you are exactly right about the call stack being observable via thrown exceptions. There's no formal spec for the v3 exceptions proposal yet, but in the documents and tests, there's nothing that would change in WebAssembly core to make the call stack observable. (There's no ".stack property" that would be added to Wasm itself.) It's true that the proposal amends the JS API (but only the JS API) to describe a traceStack=true option; from Wasm's perspective I understand that's just an ordinary exception that happens to include an externref value (just like any other value) to which Wasm attaches no special significance. The Web-based engines can attach an informative stack trace if they want, but there's no requirement preventing frames from having been optimized out. The non-Web engines won't have to think about this.

(3) I think the real reason that a Wasm engine can't implicitly make tail calls proper is that the spec tests forbid it, basically because they didn't want the implementation base to fragment by having some engines perform an optimization that changes the space complexity of a program, which some programs would have started to depend on. (The spec tests say: "Implementations are required to have every call consume some abstract resource towards exhausting some abstract finite limit, such that infinitely recursive test cases reliably trap in finite time. This is because otherwise applications could come to depend on it on those implementations and be incompatible with implementations that don't do it (or don't do it under the same circumstances.)")

But the issue is much weaker than "call stack is observable" -- it's more like "infinite recursion must trap eventually, but it can be nondeterministic when."

More discussion here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues/150
Functional Programming 101
EG25-G Reverse Engineering
Oleh Rybkin, UPenn, on exploration and planning with world models
Yes. That's part of my reason for supporting higher and higher defense spending. Defense and science are eternally inseparable.
Statements vs. Expressions in JavaScript
> Uber is better than the old system

You forgot to add "in some places".
You can tap the sign as much as you want, that battle was lost a long time ago. REST is just the common term people use for HTTP+JSON RPC.
Yes. By induction, if nothing matters, then they don't matter either.

It helps you relax and put things in perspective. For example, you can focus on achieving high scores just for the sake of it. Have the kids you want, have the life you want, have the things you want, knowing that it's pointless but that you want it and that's enough.
Done. thanks!
State machines can often be implemented with a set of functions that each handle a single state and then tail-call into the function for the next state.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070771 Maybe check out the image I got?
They sure do, but I'm less confident that the statements made in the interview can be uphold to standards of scientific scrutiny.
I really like the podcast model, but compared to the scale of YouTube, I'm not sure it can hold up. It's not just hosting, but search as well, for 500 hours of video per minute.
Show HN: MPL Plotter – Publication Quality Plots
Greetings stranger. Been working on this for some time and it's now mature enough I figured you might find some use in it.

Have a nice day!
Build something like this on my own, renders 4 QR codes when printing it out on your printer: https://wifi.mariouher.com/
That depends entirely on the law you're breaking and whether it actually helps society.
Multiple family/community members did comment on another community lady who went on a very strict diet.

She lost quite a bit of weight, leading to get skin looking "loose".

People were commenting on how much older she looked.
Wait, is shipping that expensive in the US? As an individual in Germany I pay 5,50€ for DHL (2kg, tracking, insurance up to 500€). As a business customer it's even cheaper.
You were lucky in this instance, but is optimising for this lottery the best use of time and effort?
IP rights are an olive branch to creators encouraging publishing, they don’t force anyone to publish their work. Taking away that incentive will result in a worsening of the situation, even though there will be a nonzero number of people who choose not to publish under both scenarios.
While that's a plausible possibility, you seem to be stating it as a definite fact, which doesn't seem justifiable on the basis of the public evidence. What do you know that isn't public?
I’m super proud of all our scientists for this work. It’s honestly one of the most astounding photos I’ve ever looked at.
It's fourwordsalluppercase, one word, all lower case. Obviously.
Nice! Did your original brainstorm doc contain more ideas about RSS than in this final article?

I just subscribed - by RSS - to your blog. I'm looking forward to read more about RSS.
It is not the norm for birthing to be 100% covered even at a place like Microsoft or Salesforce, it is the norm for it to apply towards your deductible and then coinsurance ultimately going up to your out-of-pocket maximum. If yours is covered 100% that’s great but definitely not the norm
> From the PoV of a cop with a warrant

Did this ever happen? The article makes no mention of warrants or subpoenas for live driver location data.

Even if such a warrant was issued, it would probably not be satisfied via the Uber app UI.
And the minor superpower demonstrated here by one of the executives was giving a shit about people enough to remember this, like really remember.
Thanks for sharing this. IMO: Close enough, and good enough :)
Why even bother with insurance with minimal possessions and a deductible that high? Genuinely curious.

If this is intended to cover property damage to the structure then I hope you have that $25k available - you're not going to get a crew in to fix/clean anything without paying that deductible (or estimated cost of repairs/cleanup) up front. My crews wouldn't have set foot in a house without authorization from the adjuster or cash in hand.
In the old days, bigcorps just wouldn't engage with ISVs directly at all. Instead, as an ISV, you'd engage the services of an 'integrator' or 'reseller' — a smaller-scale but still-large entity that you'd have a support contract with — where the integrator would then have a support contract with the bigcorp. If you were having an issue with the bigcorp's product, you'd complain to the reseller, and then they'd complain to the bigcorp. And because the bigcorp only had a few such resellers as clients, each reseller would actually be able to get the bigcorp on the line.

This was (and still is) the IBM model for B2B software; and it was also the industry-standard model for game developers (interacting with the platform owner through a "publisher" — essentially taking the role here of an integrator.) It's probably still the industry-standard model for musicians to engage with big record labels.

I'm honestly not sure why Google doesn't push for this model. Their focus on "scaling services as much as possible using as few human support staff as possible" means this model is essentially perfect for them. But they ignore it. Maybe because they think it'd make them look like a dinosaur?

(I know they do do it in some places — we use GCP, and apparently, to be able to switch from card-based billing to invoice-based billing, we're required to also switch from direct GCP support, to a support-contract with a GCP reseller. So we'd be paying the reseller — the invoices would be riding as accounts-receivable on the reseller's books, rather than on Google's!)
that's what I was thinking too. if it's not GPT it's at least a regular ol' content farm
I believe this is also called "playing the long game".

It's a tough game to play when you are trying to hit quarterly numbers, but it is a fun game to play over a career.
If you can forgive me for departing from the tradition established by 11 comments all talking about the card suit in the title, Agents.jl is a powerful package. I just used it to research a problem in simulated biological evolution, and it did the job wonderfully. You can define the behavior of your agents and their interaction with the environment at a high level, and Agents.jl will take care of the details, such as enforcing boundary conditions, creating ensembles, etc. And it’s fast, and visualization is easy. (I haven’t actually read the article yet.)
Only encoded characters take up more space and you don't have to escape: quotation mark, semicolon, comma, colon or backslash.

So I think the difference is small. QR codes can contain quite a bit more information than what's needed for WIFI name and password.
justwatch.com is way more effective/useful than Google.
If this was the only time in their life they'd be implicitly taking this gamble, sure, that's a reasonable question. But if you behave "impressively" in a consistent fashion, things like this are more likely to happen.
The target audience seems to be an intersection of people who are decently familiar with C and people who haven't been exposed to bitwise arithmetic.
Mobile is actually a great platform to get Hugh resolution, since you can zoom in really easily and navigate the full image.

However, after spending 10 minutes on mobile this morning, I was unable to find any high resolution images, and many images had that anti-pattern of a BS HTML gallery that severely restricts interacting with the image.
Because language is a co-operative activity, choosing to do things you know will offend others is your fault

Sorry, no. It's absurd to expect me to take responsibility for someone else's offense at my use of "master" and "slave" in a technical document. This isn't a question of semiotics. At this point it's more like a Monty Python sketch. I'm not familiar enough with the Mario franchise to grasp your analogy, unfortunately.

The way I think of it is in terms of power: if you demand the right to control and revise the language we share, you're claiming an incredible privilege, and you're doing so without consulting many who have no voice to object. (By 'demanding' I mean claiming an unearned right to the moral high ground, as was done by the people who added that paragraph to the Cisco documentation. That degree of sanctimony normally requires religious backing.)

That doesn't mean you're wrong -- there are hurtful words that have few or no benign uses, after all, and it's easy to make the case that we're better off without them. But the burden of proof is a heavy one in the general case, due to the power required to shame the rest of society into compliance. It isn't met here.
You want the site to revolve around your preferences. Not using a certain word doesn’t change the meaning and intent behind what you’re saying. A pretty shallow way of seeing things.

You appear to have a consistent attitude that you are not only always correct, but every one not like you is intellectually beneath you. You have been rude through this entire conversation putting people down.

I could have an identical conversation with any one on a Jordan Peterson thread. With every single one of those fans similarly believing in their own uniqueness and superiority. The smugness. None of them are shallow ofc either.
I thought we were supposed to to be doing things that don’t scale[1].

I know that is why I like doing what it do.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
One example would be in a parser, as various parsing functions would be invoked recursively until end of input, or until some non-matching input is encountered. In pretty much any scenario where you would use recursive functions, it is quite common to have mutual recursion between multiple functions. Not always of course, which is where the tail call elimination optimization is typically applied, but not being able to freely use mutual recursion to arbitrary depth turns out to be quite an annoying limitation.
You realize there's a worldwide pandemic going on that's causing people to be sick for days and weeks at a time, repeatedly, right? And that nearly all airports and airlines have given up the most basic mitigations like mask wearing mandates to prevent spread.
Why does valuing the journey mean you don't value other people?
> The backup human driver then “slammed the brakes at the last moment” and the car “stopped within a few feet of the pedestrian.” Had the human not intervened, Apple’s tests indicated that the car “would have almost certainly hit the jogger.”

Sounds like this contributed to Goodfellow’s departure - timing wise at least. If I were the VO overseeing the project and you are an AI expert claiming me sophisticated technology but somehow your models could not identify a regular person, I’d be very pissed.
https://www.usplastic.com/ is another "industrial" example.
yah, i can’t wait for attr() to be fully supported. it’s going to both simplify css and reduce js reliance.

i’m also really excited by :has() which i think will be the biggest improvement to css since grid. firefox has just started working on it, while safari and chrome already have an initial implementation in place.