skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how you got it that violence and suicide is all because of socioeconomic inequality.

Suicide is a direct function of depressive issues and circumstances that peaks on you at the same time you get that one too many "it's gonna be a bad day" piece of news. I'm a suicide survivor (I say survivor because I didn't attempt anything. I succeeded.) whose only alive because my bulldog lead my youngest brother to where I was outside as he had dropped by to see me. A lethal dose of methadone is 50mg. I took 500mg and washed it down with Jim Beam. I was legally dead three times (once in the ambulance and twice in the ICU). I'm not going to say it doesn't happen....giving someone with depression all kinds government reform will do exactly nothing to cure that depression. More affordable opportunity to seek mental health, sure...I'm with you. But even that is maybe 10% chance to prevent if they're down on a day when something happens. I had divorced as well as having my middle brother pass away within weeks of each other.

As far as violence? If you made everyone a millionaire today, there'd still be violence crime, hence violence to retaliate to that, tomorrow. Because people are never satisfied. And unless every physical asset was a cookie cutter model of every other item like it, people are going to be jealous of what someone else has. The best way to cure a lot of the violence is for people to leave each other alone and show some decency to each other.
"Litter the code with aborts and test the ever-loving hell out of it" is more or less the strategy we use with flight software.
I am also a bit concerned with the project's stance on similar ones like Calyx, with GrapheneOS people claiming they are being harassed by them, while not providing evidence. Meanwhile, there are numerous logs that show the exact opposite occuring.

Still, I am a happy GrapheneOS user, I just hope the OS doesn't suffer from this situation. Also, those Pine64 offerings are becoming more attractive with every update.
Also, this is a pet peeve of mine, we used until 2017 a DOS program (think invoicing) that could fit ALL needed fields in a single 80x25 screen (navigated via TAB and ENTER or SHIFT TAB/ENTER to go back).

The new windows program, on a decent screen resolution, opens instead a small window where the same fields are scattered on three or four tabs.

Even if within the same window fields can be navigated via TAB, you need to switch to the other tabs/windows and it slows down the input, as you never have a "whole" view of the data, so you have to go back through each tab to check whether you missed a field or mistyped inside a field.
And the least generous seat pitch and the slowest journey times on trunk routes.
The obvious solution (along with many other problems) is to prevent or disincentivise short term ownership of stocks. If you have to commit to owning them for four years you're going to be a lot more careful about which ones you buy.
Tbf the Canadians would probably be more pleasant about the whole ordeal.
Oh that sucks, much good luck!

As an aside: I wonder if there is anybody that used Forth but that never implemented it.
Realistic 3D avatar faces created using multiple phones and tablets
Ciarcia's the stuff of legend. Between him and the library I learned more about computers than from any other source until I actually got my hands on one.
You can lose weight only eating garbage, but our body weights seem to be much more complicated than simply calories in / calories out. Lots of things affect metabolism efficiency, so eating healthy does seem to matter, from what I’ve seen.
Reading this, inherent in self-promotion, or at least the examples provided, there is a strong undercurrent of self-promotion implying a relinquishing bi-directional social relationships and replacing them with transactional and parasocial relationships.

If that's truly inherent, it seems rather facile to chalk up people's discomfort as being primarily due to lack of skill.
Based on the topics I’d bet a lot of these are Joe Rogan listeners
Are you missing a 'not' or are you indeed "totally against [all] suicide"? The 'but' immediately after makes it seem likely.

I'm glad it helped you turn around how you felt and come back from the metaphorical ledge. But can you be sure that there are more people for whom religions helped persuade them to find solutions rather than commit suicide, than people who never found release from their suffering and ensured many years more of it than they would otherwise had they not felt guilt forcing them to stay alive?

I've never believed in any religion so hard for me to put myself in that mindset, but I suppose it wouldn't make much of a difference to my understanding if I did since my point is that individual anecdotes can go either way. I do at least hope that more people are helped than hurt by religious pressure to stay alive (and indeed by religion generally).
If it means that I only have to convince someone to give up a tiktok account they don't have rather than tiktok and pinterest amd facebook and whatsapp (and subsequently the ability to communicate with any of the local community groups) and the local covid app that allows you to leave the house and their university app and any kind of paid media, then yes.

A phone that my partner owns that I can actually realistically ask her to use is better than one that is secure against an attack that isn't even in my threat model and is a complete non starter.
I think its just a title referring to whoever was the current king of Kongo
Interesting that they have a public webpage like that, with real names, locations, IP addresses, and other data that clearly falls under gdpr protection.
What about mechanically advancing wax rods? The question isn’t whether the unit price of a super-pen is less than that of a consumer-waxpencil, but rather the R&D cost of the super-pen vs that of a supposed super-waxpencil.
Respectfully, I didn't reply to you.
How is it different than ANTLR? Like one could quite trivially add an XML serializer to it and get a functionally equivalent program, right?
Presumably you’re linking in a large GC etc?
> which IIRC is how it works in javascript.

Yes, when objects are involved it's internally translated to:

([]).toString() + 1

This can be shown by changing the default implementation:

> Array.prototype.toString = function() { return 'Boo!'; }
> [] + 1;
"Boo!1"

Changing the prototype for Number doesn't work so I assume there's something slightly different going on there.
I once looked into this and it seems like the programming component of it is fairly simple, i.e. and event loop that receives price changes from the market and decided to either buy/sell/hold.

Those can be learned with not too much difficulty on a platform like https://www.quantconnect.com/

But the secret “sauce”, or alpha that allows whatever quant strategy to be profitable is kept very secret, not just because people would rather make money than share but because if the strategy becomes well known, or just known enough that other people start using it it loses all its value.

There’s a book called “Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business” which I found kind of interesting in giving a good basics about the language, tools and methodologies used by quants, specifically individuals instead of institutional, like how to come up with ideas and how to evaluate them and avoid common mistakes.

Also there’s the Elite Trader forum section on algo trading as well as the algo trading subreddit, but it’s up to you to filter what’s useful from those.

I have a friend who does day trading for a living and has his own profitable strategy and been working with him to see if it could be “quantified” and made into an algorithm and honestly is a fascinating field.

Good luck on your research!
Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together
For those working in tech/software development teams - do you also find that there's a lot of tension between developers and designers?

They need to work together but it always seems like a challenge. From the tools they prefer (Figma vs. Github) to the pace/workflow to the language and communication.

What are the biggest pain points you've seen?

What are some great tips for bridging the gaps during a typical workflow?

Thanks!
Analog has a limited dynamic range, in addition to its well-known problems with noise, sensitivity to random variation within devices or the in surrounding environment, etc. Most AI systems are using floating point compute because of its much greater dynamic range compared to fixed point, even though the latter is way more efficient.
"Selling out" wasn't about signing contracts, selling records, and getting paid. Those were and still are the primary goals of even the punkest bands. When $BAND signs with $INDIE_LABEL no one accuses them of "selling out": friends and fans are happy for them and everyone knows that their first album will be a cleaner version of their second demo and everyone is perfectly OK with all that because it means more gigs, more tours, and more fun for everyone. The punk goes on.

"Selling out" was about abandoning whatever the band or the scene was supposed to be about. It really was more of a moral thing. Of course it meant signing contracts but who they are signed with and what the consequences are for the artistic integrity of $BAND and $SCENE are very important in this case.
> So, how do you get large energy conglomerates and oligopolies from neglecting this infrastructure?

This isn't unique to private sector - public infrastructure suffers from underinvestment too.

The same way that you get GCHP, coal, wind and solar infrastructure, or roads and rail infrastructure supported - long term backing from governments.

> The proponents of nuclear fission often forget that greed and neglect runs rampant.

And the opposers will point at the failures and ignore the huge successes of decades of low cost, low carbon electricity globally around the world.

Looking at the UK (where I live, purely because I'm familiar with the situation here) the newest currently operating nuclear plant here was built in 1995, meanwhile the oldest gas plant in the country was built in 1993. The operating lifespan of the majority of these power stations has been 50 years, meanwhile we're still building them and struggling to build _one_ nuclear plant here in the last 30 years.

So to answer your original question - stop having them build gas power plants and have them invest in nuclear plants instead.
It's just propaganda. The terrorist organisation is the CCP themselves, they're the ones who ordered the terrorization, imprisonment and torture of Falun Gong practitioners and allowed the proliferation of organ harvesting. They're probably doing the same with Uyghurs.
Probably not related to English being Germanic; Old and Middle English nouns weren't capitalized, so some other influence had to have sprung up later.
I think there's a lot to unpack in this article. I really struggle with self-promotion[1] - or, as my Mother still insists on calling it, "boasting" (with all the negative baggage associated with that word) - but, as the article says, there really isn't any alternative to it if you want to get your product/work noticed. The internet has super-saturated the marketplaces for ideas, opinions and all the art/code/writing that accompanies the need to be heard/respected by peers/etc.

In my view the Gold Standard for promotion is not self-promotion or paid promotion. It's the elusive word-of-mouth promotion done on your/the work's behalf by complete strangers telling their friends about you/it and encouraging them to go check it out. My evidence for this is based on the number of downloads of my books from Apple Books, Google Play and similar online venues over the past 10 years.

I gave up trying to self-promote my writing many, many years ago. Being rejected hurts; being ignored hurts more. Still, over the past 10 years people have downloaded my books over 40,000 times. The only plausible explanations have to be word-of-mouth, and trickery.

Trickery? Yes. One book in particular[3] gets downloaded far more often than the others - it accounts for around 70% of total downloads. Why? When I first published it I gave it a title that turned out to be pure clickbait. A happy accident! The book does its own self-promotion without any need need for my help.

[1] - Most of my contributions/comments on HN centre around my attempts to self-promote my work in ways that try not to look like marketing spam[2]. I'm sure if I work hard enough at developing this skill I will, eventually, get better at it.

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rikroots

[3] - You can read and/or download the book for free, with no added tracking, from my website: https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/book/poems-to-quote-to-yo...
Add extra flotation - exercise left for reader to solve.
From my own writer's experience, finding good images with reasonable licensing is hard. Unless you want to pay significant royalties (which may sink your writing activity to unsustainably deep red numbers) or risk being target of a copyright troll company, you are stuck with free and libre images, which often do not cover exactly what you want to.
I've heard this expressed as "write brittle code", and I'm a strong advocate for it. Looking up a user by id, and get no results? Rather than either passing null up the stack, or wrapping null with an optional.empty, throw an exception! It's the client code's problem if it somehow got hold of an id that doesn't exist. (Yes, ymmv depending on the system, e.g. if you're dealing with eventual consistency then maybe do something different.)

As the article says, this of course doesn't mean that you shouldn't handle user errors, or even known system errors.
It's pretty ironic that a Ponzi scheme centered on bank loans and private land ownership has become an epidemic in a Communist nation.
Veritasium had an interesting presentation about analog computers a while back

https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg
PHP has a strict mode.
Twitter vs. Musk: Defendants' Opposition to Motion to Expedite Proceedings
It’s silly because maybe 5% were mistreated, everyone including the homeless are subjected to a life of squalor. We put up with so much mistreatment by the police, we really should develop some thick skin around this as well.
The weakest link is the actual application of a discovery in real life.

Brilliant scientists can be apolitical and so isolated from the rest of the society that they don't even realize what's going on. Notably, the Soviet Union produced a lot of excellent results in mathematics and physics.

But when it comes to designing and selling actual products based on the theoretical discoveries, the inefficiency, stupidity and mendacity inherent in the authoritarian systems really comes to the fore and can't be dodged.
If doing a first strike, submarine launched missiles could easily be useful simultaneously with land based launches.
A 16 bit signal already represents an almost 100dB signal to noise ratio, which is extremely difficult to do operations on. I think 8 bits would be more realistic, but it would still suffer from the problems mentioned by the other reply.
> Only when it comes to primates and closer that our DNA actively tries to stop us

Interesting. Do you have evidence for this?
A few years back a popular claim was that Musk is personally programming features into the Tesla codebase.

Whether that actually happened or not isn't that important but the fact that people thought it was a good thing always struck me as odd. It's really bad if the boss of a multinational company focuses on such minute details and hints at major management failures.

All signs point to him being a very talented businessman and organizer who manages to get a lot of people producing innovative and popular products. It seems like people underestimate just how much of a challenge that is and feel the need to "give" him some more tangible skills.

He has good understanding of the broad strokes of their technology and carries the vision forward but an Engineer-CEO he isn't and shouldn't be.
I've heard this dangerous narrative down playing dangers of nuclear war from people who have never experienced a total war before & are leaning into narratives spread by the military-industrial complex.

However many failures the Russian military may have, all it takes is 1 missile hitting a major city and you'll see more deaths in the US than have been seen in all the wars it fought combined.
I mean,im in canada, and the non vaccinated take a lot of tax dollars when they end up in hospitals, so in terms of interventions it definitely makes sense from an ecconomic perspective.
That’s an empty speculation, and the analogy is flawed. Other runtimes aren’t tokio’s imposed replacement.

Runtimes create self reinforcing network effect, so it’s more likely that all other contenders will die out completely.
Look at the arrests numbers and homicide numbers for all of the big cities pre and post George Floyd. Arrests are down, homicides are up.
Meme stocks are kinda interesting. The amounts invested by individual investors really shouldn't matter too much, but in some cases they really do. Ofc, with some stocks institutional investors are on the ride and can use other tactics to manipulate the price.

One has to wonder are there some fund managers there who actually are affected by the meme stocks. Or follow those as investment reasons. Which feels kinda worrying in bigger scheme of things...
Thanks for writing about this!

This is a performance regression in the v0.8.0 release it seems, where the outer LIMIT clause doesn't correctly short-circuit evaluation.

Overall, for a `LIMIT 10` query, it should basically be instantaneous (and is, with v0.7.3). Will fix this asap.

That said, DuckDB will *definitely* be much faster for processing Parquet files, that's for sure.
See also: Pokemon test[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pok%C3%A9mon_test
Protesting is within the legal framework of the country. In France, i have the right to protest under certain conditions (organisers have to receive an authorisation from the police on the route the protest will take, things have to be kept civil, e.g. no running around burning cars). I do not not have the right to start an independence movement and/or rebellion in Brittany.

So it's not the perspective, it's the legality of goals and methods. For instance in Russia, you can't protest the war in Ukraine, so going on the streets about it isn't "just protesting", one is willingly breaking the law for the cause.
I have Long Covid and did 27 HBOT sessions. While I experienced an improvement in brain fog it is just a slight improvement and very far from being a cure.
It does however point to blood circulation problems (maybe cause by neurotransmitter autoantibodies) at the core of LC.
Automa: A Friendlier Alternative to Selenium
I think there is great value in being able to write symbols with your own hand. It’s more powerful to us subconsciously to use extra muscles and see something which is distinctly recognisable as our own making. We are losing a lot of enactive cognition by being on screens in chairs; to societal detriment I would wager.
Decline in counterfeit cherries after digital fingerprinting
"Or with his idea to make the whole rocket reusable, until SpaceX accepted reality and pivoted to at least partial reusability?"

What do you dislike about this particular idea? It is not inherently wrong, it is "only" very technically challenging.

What SpaceX did was not a pivot, rather introduction of an intermediate step because full reusability proved too hard at that point. But they never gave up on the ultimate goal of full reusability and the Starship rocket that is now under development is intended to be fully reusable.
> Catalonia's current situation was created by an authoritarian, fascist government

No, significantly more authority was devolved to the region from the democratic governments following Franco. However there was no point in history where Catalonia breaking away was an explicitly allowed option (of course).
Yep, I’m an OpenBSD.Amsterdam customer myself, couldn’t be happier.
Have there been many thorough studies of the efficacy of these hotlines?
Hey I know the PA Semi people are ballers. 5-wide dispatch on the M1? Ambitious and they pulled it off. Hot shit.

Having the best transistors always doesnt hurt.
Sorry, you're right, monthly
I was listening to interview with Brian May and he recounted a story of how they lost fidelity when using analogue tape due to a faulty machine [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/mgkvU5eCaYo&t=32m13s
Thanks, I should have googled before spouting armchair wisdom. Looks like noun capitalisation was ad hoc until things became more standardised with the onset of dictionaries. It was inspired by German typography but much later on
it is without sustainable energy usage. Far better for Dubai to have retained its 1970s size and have say Karachi grow instead, same economic activity with less energy use.
So then you make a pure function `throw_exception` and now you can throw from impure code.
I'm all in for making this kind behaviour illegal by big corporations which is used by large population.
Climate change signs: Afrotropical dragonflies are colonizing Europe [pdf]
I'll bet you $100 those SWAT deployment figures are so low because they aren't counting all the warrants they have them serve as deployments. Departments use them constantly for that kind of stuff. They love to hut hut around and play soldier.

Side note....did you read about those 150 Americans they chose randomly, and then stripped them of their right to vote as well as their right to firearms? It's funny how I could spread that fake story and people would lose their minds talking about a government not long to stand. Yet, if I say that 150 unarmed Americans were murdered by agents of the state who were violating their civil liberties under color of authority you'll cite the national population and say that shows great professionalism. Oh....the FBI is about to stop tracking those stats since only 57% of total LEO reported to them for the 2021 numbers. Just 44% reported the year prior.

This entire bizzaro world of where it's patriotic to support a group of revenue generators for the state being able to murder someone because, "Well....he took a breath faster then the previous one and I was sure he had a SAW system in your pocket....so me and Fred shot him 37 times. Well....we shot at him 37 times. But a few hit him. Some random house of someone in that area luckily took all the wayward rounds for us!", meaning it takes a true patriot to understand that our rights are all based on supporting someone who will allow you to die or end you themselves if they even see a shadow that makes them think that you mean him harm and are planning his demise.
and current situation in HK has what you are saying should be a requirement for a law (let alone an act of force ) : the "without the consent of the governed," you are citing..
Because medium was a blogging platform just like all of the others that didnt add much over what writers on the platform wrote and relied on link aggregators to drive traffic.

Surprise surprise subscriptions added to much friction and people stopped linking so the conversation moved elsewhere.
Well, SpaceX is quite notable for how swiftly it alters its designs and abandons semi-finished work if a better idea comes along. Few technical corporations avoid the sunk cost fallacy as efficiently as them. They seem to be absolutely willing to throw away an expensive prototype and innovate again if it makes technical sense.

Musk has a lot of negatives and comes off as arrogant sometimes, but I never heard a story about him forcing the SpaceX engineers to keep some design flaw there because it was his precious idea and thus can't be wrong.

IDK about Tesla, I am not that interested in cars.
Yes, this kind of tricks by corporations.
Trading firms are paying $500k a year to people who just graduated from college?
Consequence of religion mixing with government leading to polarization and loss of respect for diversity.