skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to think he doesn't know the facts, but I suspect that he does. He just doesn't care about facts or truth. He is the sort of person who likes to win debates and get hits on people he dislikes. So trying to correct him on these points is a waste of your time. I say this from experience with him.

I've tried talking to him before. I shared about something I find so very fascinating - that approximation via abstraction is provably better than perfection in many learning situations because of its relationship with computational complexity. He asked for proof; I provided it. I won't repeat the proof here, but know that this isn't an obscure and unknown result - here is Peter Norvig in Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach discussing related ideas:

> Page 172. "One way to deal with this huge number is with abstraction: i.e. by treating similar hands as identical. For example, it is very important which aces and kings are in a hand, but whether hand has a 4 or a 5 is not as important, and can be abstracted away."
> Page 173. "Because calculating optimal decisions in complex games is intractable, all algorithms must make some assumptions and approximations."

I earnestly engaged with random314 on this topic. He ultimately concluded that he had won the argument, taught me something, and condescended that I ought to have known better than to have talked with him. Along the way he compared me with people he found foolish, claimed I was incoherent in order to avoid addressing my points, gaslit with regard to the thread topic, accused me of jargon, and even made the absurdist point that when I said that not all numbers were computable that because some numbers were computable it followed that I didn't understand what computable numbers are.

One might suspect that he merely misunderstood the point I was making. The thing is - I have strong reason to reject the notion that he did not understand. Initially, I think he didn't. He entered into the conversation under the presumption of my idiocy because my point was counterintuitive - it tricked him into thinking I was wrong. How he handled himself afterward showed me that he knew I wasn't. When I thought deeply about his choice to make the absurdist argument with regard to computable numbers it occurred to me to be the sort of thing one would only choose to do if they understood that not all numbers were computable - understood the thrust of the proof - and wanted to deny it rather than to accept the obvious truth. It was an attempt at sophistry. By making my point with regard to not all numbers being computable seem in error, he hoped to obscure that I was correct.

Simon, I strongly suspect that the reason he doesn't seem to know pertinent facts is not because he doesn't know those facts, but rather because he finds them inconvenient and because the rhetorical appeal of fanboyism is better setup by being wrong, but in a popular way.
The Daily Mail should not be considered a reliable source. Best to disregard anything from there. IIRC, Wikipedia takes this approach.
Given that many managers/executives are horrid when it comes to people, I think the Peter Principle explains that a lot better: People who can do (and won't get promoted because their productivity is needed where they are). People who can't will get promoted out of the way.
Does being a democracy make the US a better country than the others? If it's the voters, and not a guy, who decides to invade and take over your country, then is it OK?

And while none of those countries may be involved in a military conflict right now, they've been in the past. Recently.

So given there is no good country selling gas right now, I prefer to get the cheapest one. Thanks.
Constant temperature testing ? Good luck.
Where i live the difference in temperature between night and day can reach 20 C.
A lot of things perform well at constant temperature.
As a counterpoint. I don't find using my old phones and tablets fun. They are all worse than I remember and extremely laggy. Imagine trying to play Apex on a computer from 1980. There's no way you are going to have fun playing that.
Base16 Project Lives On (soon to be renamed)
It's truly remarkable how badly the whole energy sector was managed in the past 16 years of Angela Merkel and her conservative-lead coalitions. It's not about nuclear or no nuclear really, Germany started out with a strong wind and solar industry and has lost all of it to China over the past decade. New wind turbines and (importantly) new power lines connecting the wind-heavy north to the power hungry south have been continuously delayed by nimby politics, also mostly pushed by conservative parties. Meanwhile the coal and nuclear industry got huge compensation payments and issuing new debt to finance investments was basically made unconstitutional by the horrible "Schuldenbremse" legislation. How bad can you fuck up country and still be seen mostly positive in the world??
This, especially compared to the Octo Finissimo they “out-done”.
I get what you're saying, but...

Why are we letting FB off the hook? Why are we letting any of the platforms that harvest data off the hook? FB tweaked their algos to literally see if they could fuck with people's moods. They know the power they hold, and they constantly refine it to keep people's attention. At some point if FB promoted via algo something that riles up a group of people against another group of people to the point of violence, how is that any less bad? Especially, since that's what has happened?
Sounds like there's a lot of violent crime happening there in collaboration with the local police, according to the ramblings of some random drunk dude on the street. Right...
Thanks. All of these humorless responses were starting to get me questioning my own attitude, which matches yours. Hopefully OP can find the right tone and join us in the perspective club. :)
None of the configuration was about the wifi interface not working out of the box, but about setting up an access point and a network bridge. If OP had just wanted to use the interface as a normal wifi client I suspect installing NetworkManager was all he had to do(installed and started by default on most user-friendly distros) and the experience would have been equivalent to Windows, Android or iOS. At least that has been my experience the last 5-10 years.
I transferred from my “do everything” community college to a college that only offered one major and zero electives.

Every student took exactly the same classes.

The level of support was amazing!

All of the students were able to help each other, because they all had the same courses,

By the time I started a class, I’d heard a dozen stories about what we learn and do.

And then when I was in my senior year, I spent lots of time mentoring the incoming students on what to expect.

I don’t think you can realistically do so many things. Not well anyway.

We need more specialized schools.
This pattern goes back to Napoleon: the idea being that the democratic states created by the invading armies were more legitimate/self-determined than the existing monarchal states. However the idea didn't work: monarchal rule returned, and returned in a stronger and more powerful form. There's at least 200 years of experience to suggest that liberal/democratic imperialism is not viable as a strategy, and in fact, provokes more reaction.
Fair point, but slamming into large, stationary vehicles seems to be a recurring theme for the autopilot incidents. I'd put my money on this being autopilot.
I had a series of WD drives that failed, and I managed to get them all replaced under warranty since they died within 3-5 years. I don't buy WD drives anymore but it wasn't the end of the world since I had spares while I waited for the replacement drives to be shipped.

Anecdotally, I haven't had issues with Seagate but I'm sure it really boils down to which exact drives you're using and what batch they were in.
I'd want a refund
ReBoot
I do the same. Ages ago I once had to build a server at work and picked three vendors for the raid 5. Got funny looks drom coworkers, apparently they found the idea super strange. One drive (Seagate of course) failed after a year, and since we had a matching size WD lying around, used that. Now there were two WDs in the setup. Some years later the PSU blew up and killed both WDs, the Toshiba survived.
Yeah that should be two Chinese people, an Indian and then white male and female if it needs to match my anecdata at university.
Definitely bookmarking this! Thanks for releasing the course.
Note that there are two projects:

1. https://oisinmoran.com/typewaiter (the HN submission points to it), here the cursor moves on its own, and

2. https://oisinmoran.com/typewriter (linked in the HN submission's description) and here the cursor doesn't move.

I originally skimmed the post's description, clicked the final link and I didn't understand why I'm seeing something different. I guess there is a lesson about phishing here somewhere.
I understand lot of Elon fans here , who think he’s Jesus… but even 1 death or accident due to a bad design or bug should have already forced Tesla into bankruptcy… you cannot beta test with peoples life .. proclaim its autopilot and safest system and then when someone dies because of it just explain it away what if comparison.. I have a Tesla and this exact scenario happened with me instead of being on the freeway it just took parallel exit road and was almost going to crash but I took over control very last second and avoided a horrible crash … I also reported it in NHTSA… so I have very little tolerance to anyone who wants to suck off Elon.. tell me one car company which had faulty software/hardware which are still running and are not forced to recall or fix the parts.. so stop will bullshit comparison of every car being pulled off road … Elon has been playing fast and loose with laws and I hope it catches up to him
Actually, Tesla's got Electrolytes, quite literally
> It isn't just POSIX library calls; it's also the shell and standard utilities and files that are in known locations and standard capabilities and various other things.

POSIX has standardized the shell and utilities since before 1990. Of course, not all of them. As far as locations go, you have to rely on PATH; systems do not agree on what exactly is in /bin, /usr/bin and /sbin.

> A 'Unix' without a useful $HOME environment variable and /tmp may be specification compliant (I haven't checked POSIX) but it's not useful, in that many programs that people want generally won't run on it.

Hits for the HOME variable in POSIX:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/cgi/susv4search.cgi?KEYWORDS=HOME...

Under the Shell Command Language it is documented that HOME is "[t]he pathname of the user's home directory. The contents of HOME are used in tilde expansion (see Tilde Expansion)."

/tmp is a de facto standard. POSIX encourages applications to check for the existence of a variable called TMPDIR, but doesn't require implementations to provide that.

There are functions which abstract creating a temporary file or directory. Some of them need a template, some don't. It is possible to write a program which uses /tmp for temporary files, yet doesn't refer to "/tmp".
Surging supply and softening demand weigh on chipmakers
I feel like you’ve probably never used tiktok
Is it Russia stopping exports to the EU or the EU deciding to stop buying gas from Russia? To me it seems like they are simply taking decisions against their citizens best interests.
When I was young, I thought headhunter was the coolest job title ever. Now my wife is a recruiter, and I think of her as a headhunter. My mental picture of her day is a lot more violent than reality.
This is the second time I see you mentioning drugs in this thread [1], I genuinely don't understand the correlation or the argument you're trying to make?

Comment by ClumsyPilot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048240
> China and Russia are the biggest geopolitical threats to the world.
It is surprisingly that simple.

And people wonder why we’re so divided
And realistically we are at point where having a degree doesn't make you an "elite" anymore. Not necessarily even having PhD... The value of degrees has also inflated.
He says spotify give 75% of the revenue back but it goes to labels and labels choose to only pay artists 10-15%. That’s incredibly self-serving and disingenuous and I think factually untrue in the case of small artists in particular.

Firstly Spotify have huge market power which they could easily use to benefit artists if they cared about it. They could bake in to their deals with labels a minimum cut for artists and labels would have no option but to pay this. They don’t do this even though there would be basically no downside to them which suggests they don’t care about it.

Secondly in the cases I know about directly (which are small artists on independent labels often that they own themselves) the amount spotify pays per stream is derisory. They own the label so are getting 100% of the cut from spotify, but the actual amount is just tiny. Spotify could easily rebalance the scale such that small artists are supported. Again this wouldn’t hurt them but they don’t do it.

The real reason that artists get paid so little is that sharks like spotify (and the labels too) feel they can get away with it, which largely and very sadly appears to be true.
This is from 1988, where the incredible upgrade cycle was about to start. Standards for consumer HW went in 4-6 years from 8086s to 486s, from Hercules/CGA to SVGA, from 5 1/4" 360 kb floppies to 400mb harddisks. I think the comment just about predates this incredible upgrade cycle.

I mean, that comment predates the "Andy & Bill law" [1]: what Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
There was no need to upgrade stuff back then.

In that context, not a very weird comment - especially for someone whose job it is to sell these machines.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
Hexagons Are the Bestagons [video] (2020)
I dabble in image recognition. I could understand the signage on the back of the truck looked like an overhead sign much further away. This is the sort of whoops, sorry accidents ML will make. I'd still like to see a deaths by people driving normal cars/normal cars on the road vs. deaths in automatic cars/automatic cars on the road, by the hour on the road. If it's less than real drivers then I say charge on.
I couldn’t find the original data either. Numerator offers snapshots of customer distribution [2] that go beyond just a median or mode, but does not share it publicly for Costco.

[2]: https://www.numerator.com/snapshots
I'd love to see more follow up questions of the sort "Excellent answer, if I had asked about X (e.g. who to blame for high taxes), but instead, my question was Y (what are your plans regarding tax policy?)".

It seems that Scottish interviewer Andrew Neil has a reputation for this kind of implacable questioning. Any others?
Those are just… stalagmites. There’s nothing to signify it was made by Neanderthals and that article mentions nothing about the structures.
The Chips for America Act
Weird Al's "Fat" did not mock Michael Jackson. The "Fat" song was a parody which continued on the theme established with "Eat It". Mockery is quite different to parody.
Netherlands Poised to Make Work-from-Home a Legal Right
And here is where the number 3 lane splits into two lanes. Definitely looks like the lane follow assist decided to keep right which put them in the exit lane for the rest stop.

https://goo.gl/maps/txcPoS9HB8HbfPFS8
I have just finished reading "the end of the world is just the beginning" by Peter Zeihan, which was released just as Russia invaded Ukraine.

In it, the author argues that the end of global trade and energy has arrived, and that the endless economical growth of the past ~ 70 years will never return.

It's scary how much the war in Ukraine seems to be triggering exactly those phenomena the book talks about. Energy crisis, food crisis, economical downturns.

Observing how the world changes with this war (and also how covid completely fucked our globalized supply chain) it's clear to me how brittle globalization and capitalism actually is.

The coming 10-20 years will be hella interesting.
China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back
> to make sure un-audited+un-reviewed access is not possible?

No. They must have a system in place to follow local, state and federal laws, to comply with industry regulations, and to allow discovery for lawsuits. Doing otherwise is illegal.

> effort to get a list of people seeking transportation to certain types of healthcare?

Don't collect that data in the first place. Have retention policies to delete data when it's no longer useful (so long as it's legally permissible), so you can demonstrate to the authorities or judge that it wasn't an attempt to evade or obstruct justice.

> I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a company storing mountains of user data which does not have a lockout plan like this that they will be willing to use against law enforcement in certain scenarios or by default.

This is tampering with evidence, which is a crime. Your view appears to be that nearly all such companies have policies to commit a crime.

Moroever, quoting https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/delete-at-...

] However, a number of courts have issued rulings imposing a duty to preserve before litigation begins if a party knows of the existence of a potential claim and can identify relevant evidence. See, e.g., Silvestri v. General Motors Corp., 271 F.3d 583, 590 (4th Cir. 2001) (upholding sanctions for failure to preserve a car involved in an accident, which plaintiff reasonably should have known would be material evidence in anticipated litigation against auto manufacturer). Therefore, as a practical matter, it is our general advice that you should instruct your colleagues and subordinates to retain records of any business activities for which litigation is anticipated, especially when it becomes apparent (through a demand letter or other saber-rattling) that a business relationship is "going south" and may be headed to court.
Why is this? Is their journalism just that bad?
There have been other huge bone boards found in Saudi Arabia and those have been attributed to multi generation bone dumping grounds by hyena.
Yeah, Backblaze and DigitalOcean both talk about it a bunch in their sysops stuff.
In my country, we keep teaching the 200 age old part of sphysics or mathematics in high school.
Do they use SSD on space missions aswell?
there is koreader for android. That even got a sync with calibre server feature or access web library feature if I remember right.

I prefer it on my android phone, because it is one of the few that does true black as standard.
Emacs: DWIM shell command (multi-language)
Calibre does its job so well it's downright essential for anyone thinking about dealing with ebooks. Glad to hear that full text search is added in this version, using it with a bunch of reference books saved will be so useful. It might be worth splitting out the fiction books I have to clean up the results. Maybe it works with tag filtering, I'll have to check.
And it's pretty bad. It works half decently on English, because the English grammar is rather inflexible, but for languages with more variation in word order the Office grammar checkers were laughably bad. They could only spot a few errors, and those were not even relevant to bad writers.

I'm not blaming anyone, the constraints made it nearly impossible, and at the time there wasn't enough properly tagged corpus material to work with, not even for English.
It is Russia ramping down exports for about a year already. Which shows how the war was a long planned operation. The European gas storage was ramped down and then the delivery slowly cut. This is the perfect example of "boiling a frog".

The EU did not reduce their attempts of buying gas from Russia.
There’s a much simpler and more effective way. I met someone who had done that work for a chess company, done some ML to detect cheats, and they were surprised how easy it was to detect changes.I’m not going to post the solution but you might be able to guess if you think through the feature space. It’s obvious in retrospect.
This is a strange question. A BA from a 2nd or 3rd tier state school is sufficient to apply to a wide variety of white collar jobs, all of which require degrees.
I think you made a much better point than the article - it's being tested on everyone, not just people who opted in.
Given that there are 8 billion people, a video that is watched by everyone on this planet once will make $8000 then. Not sure any self-respecting actor or professional athlete would work for that kind of money. Djokovic had a much smaller audience this Sunday, and he made £2000000. I don't see him switching to TikTok.
Hey, loved it. How much time it took to develop this?
Why would it be? You can’t let a small handful of deaths grind progress to a halt especially when the alternative is the hundreds of thousands of deaths we see on the roads today. Take precautions, learn from mistakes but don’t shut everything down.
My First Board – Elbayt – Papaly
Does the C64 does this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6qGP1xP1EA

So, no, it wasn't the best
My point is that risk is central to systems management. If you look at earlier standard texts on the subject, e.g., Nemeth or Frisch, the concept of risk is all but entirely missing. I've numberous disagreements with Google, but one place where I agree is that the term SRE, systems reliability engineer, puts the notion of managing for stability front and centre, and inherently acknowledges the principle of risk. I've since heard from others that this is in fact how the practice is presented and taught there.

Quibbling over whether the proper term is risk management or risk reduction rather spectacularly misses the forest for the trees.
Currently, Russia delivers less gas than expected, due to "technical issues". Repairs, that ought to be finished 21st of July.
This is most likely not true and just a pressure point for Russia. If the repairs "fail" then Russia could switch of all of the gas. "Oops something broke"...

The german government is not deciding against the people in this case. (i believe... a german).
German people are highly against nuclear and think that renewables could immediately solve our problems. This is just a lack of information and a ton of ignorance on the peoples side.

Apart from that our politicians are really "soft" in my eyes and i don't believe they will help the situation much in relation to Russia.

edit: Don't know about the rest of EU. That's why i state "my" countries perspective more.
Interestingly when one uses SQLite (or virtually any embedded/serverless[1] database engine), the code is always executed within the application process, regardless of being written in pure SQL of by the hosting language, making the dichotomy irrelevant.

Not having support for stored procedures can be used by some as an argument against SQLite, but the fact is that store procedures conceptually make no sense in embedded databases if you can extend the query language with the host code.

One big issue I've seen on SQLite is that if you add an index or view on an expression which uses code from the host process, no other application will be able to read data from the database file, unless you have such code in an extension that can be read by such applications.

[1] https://www3.sqlite.org/matrix/serverless.html
Oh wow! This clears up the whole quantum entanglement thing for me, which I never understood, nor looked into it.

So it's like syncing up the state of of two PRNGs!
They appear to have a navigable database here: https://crashviewer.nhtsa.dot.gov/

At a glance I see there's a non-trivial number into Honda's crash avoidance systems, for example.
Hmm, you know corporations can run prisons, and they can fight in wars with mercenaries.
because at least in molecular biology, there are no basic rules, how can we know any "rule' if the only example is p53? but it is useful, so this is now condition.