skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Simulated Annealing to help a Telecom plan a mobile & fibre network by connecting existing fibres & pipes.

There were tricky parameters - Simulated annealing was better/faster than a human for a small area - e.g. a few suburbs. For a larger area like a metropolitan area we haven't got the algorithm to compete well versus human network planner (yet?).
There's an old saying: if you're so smart, why are you so poor?

This sound like a call to bring back aristocracy. Meritocracy rewards actual contribution as opposed to potential contribution. Even if your IQ is 160, if what you contribute to society has minimal tangible benefit, maybe you shouldn't be given a mansion and butler.

Not to mention the practical problems of who decides who and what constitutes genius and who pays for the patronage.

Just a thought.
DNS, short for Domain Name System, is the internet’s phonebook. If you need the address of a shop, you can look into your phonebook and find the address by the shop’s name. A DNS does the same thing on the internet. It links domain names to IP addresses. If you are into online gaming, you need to know that a DNS server is a must-have for online gamers. In this blog post, I will walk you through what a DNS server is, why gamers need one, and also the best DNS servers for gaming.
> Techno genre warrior from Greece
The truth about hydrogen [DW]
Couldn’t they just have a bit of “wiggle-room” in the clamp to allow for slight deformation? How tight is the tolerance on gauge?
Trafficked boxer denied his shot at Olympic glory by Home Office
From context, I assume an incident involving someone crossing state lines or not to recruit Union members, which has relevant implications for which laws and legal jurisdictions are applicable.
Funny, I would classify what we do today as synchronous, asynchronous has barely been researched compared to synchronous.
cmg is on the editorial board of a pro-Russian propaganda operation. It probably makes sense to not trust anything they say.

cmg is directly involved in pushing disgusting lies like “Is Russia’s Bombing of the Mall in Kremanchuk Another False Atrocity Story Being Used to Justify Ongoing Military Intervention in Ukraine?” (https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/07/01/is-russias-bombi...)

As a member of the EB, cmg apparently approves of interesting stories like “ Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression” (https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/22/calls-by-western...)

cmg has also been involved in stories such as “Remember the Maine: The Alleged Russian Atrocity at Bucha Looks Like Another in a Long Line of False Pretexts for War” (https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/13/remember-the-mai...)

From reading these articles, it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than that cmg is actively working to support the genocide in Ukraine. Perhaps you should treat his words like as if they were coming from William Joyce.
It’s hardware logic so there is no compiler. It’s kinda like a single purpose computational device.
The "ceiling fan vandal" has always been one of my favourites, although it seems he has stopped now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Davi...

Habitual behavior
- He inserts random images of ceiling fans into any articles.
- He links to YouTube videos of ceiling fans.
- He engages in random thanking to certain users.

Other notes
Based on his edits, he seems to have an interest in ceiling fans.
Not for me, either.
> He also was bipolar, and refused to take his meds. He didn't like the side effects.

Most psychiatric medicines have horrible side effects. The problem is we don't invest anywhere near enough money into researching how our brain actually functions, what is wired wrong in people with more severe diseases or how to minimize adverse effects. Hell, most of "getting a person on meds" isn't based on science, it's "cycle through medications and dosages and find out what doesn't make the problem worse".

Not to mention getting access to psychologists, psychiatrics and other mental health care is a hellish experience on its own because supply doesn't even come close to demand and insurance to cover for that is an utter PITA even here in Europe.

We as societies fail people with mental health issues immensely. Instead, we waste our best brains on advertising, penis enlargements and iterating on insulin and epi-pens to continuously bleed people and insurances dry.
Fyi I think you got the terms synchronous/asynchronous mixed up here. Synchronous logic is the commonly used technology.
> Do you really believe that’s what drives people?

I've seen plenty examples of entrenched prejudice in people against others that can't possibly have any negative effect on their own existence.

And in many cases it's very hard not to see it as irrational "hatred" where, as per GP's point, even just pretending the objects of their hatred simply don't exist would surely be a better response.

Presumably hatred for entire classes of people had some evolutionary advantage in the past (perhaps it helped with tribal unity/identification, or conferred success in waging war against other groups who were competing for the same resources) but it's pretty obviously now a dangerous maladaption in the modern highly populated/connected world.

BTW, I'm pretty sure most people (on HN at least) can distinguish between those that object to immigration on racist grounds vs those who have genuine concerns about how to integrate others from different cultures or with difficult backgrounds. For a start even just a single such immigrant is usually one too many for the first group. And the latter spend their time researching/implementing solutions, or personally doing what they can to help newcomers settle in while trying to remain realistic about the rate that can be successfully sustained.
At face value I thought the costume design looked like low budget cosplay, and the direction gave the vibe of a student film. Everyone looked ridiculous and the choreography sucked. It was sorely missing the style and charm of the anime.

Watch the mariachi trilogy and think about what a good interpretation of bebop could have looked like.
I think this is some great advice. Educate rather than restrict

I also grew up on the early internet and my sentiments are the same, education and awareness is required but once you know how to interact, things are safer
Analog computers simply are computers that use a sliding scale between whatever counts as zero and one. You define relationships between inputs and outputs and just like with digital computers you have to deal with underflow and overflow. If it works it works well enough, but the big killer is noise. In digital you have this step twice: quantization on input and the reverse on output leading to everything being off by a little. But in the analog domain the noise increases with every step and there is no way to correct for it. So if at any point in time you are dealing with very small values the output of your analog computer will trend to become more and more noisy, until the output is unusable.

This is why digital computers won out over analog computers: they are deterministic, whereas analog computers would like to be and sometimes are deterministic but the nature of the device works against you all the time.

The kind of abstractions that we can achieve in the digital domain would be impossible in the analog domain.
This is How Civilisations Collapse
The article mentions Erlang, a functional language - which gives an interesting contrast - it is a functional language which are all about mapping out all behavior so that no undefined behavior can exist, and basically force you to consider every possibility (of course that doesn't account for stuff like network errors).

Wouldn't the same scheme be better suited for a procedural language, with deliberately dirty code full of gotchas?

I write a ton of hacky scripts, like last time I needed to rewrite 1000s of xml-s I wrote a crude regex replace for it. It worked 99% of the time, and I fixed up the rest manually. This sort of thinking - that a subprocess might fail due to whatever reason, including sloppy code - but the whole process will keep trucking on would be perfect for the this paradigm.

Additionally this would open the path for stuff like trivial hot code replacement - since in this system, a subprocess that crashes every time - like an invalid program would be handled by the system.
Great stuff, this is a different approach than the FORTH books provide, and I suspect it may open other doors.
Yeah, I've been stung more than once by the `Fn/FnOnce` distinction
Offtocpic, but are you the person behind the blackle dark google search ui?
> Speaking of telephones, I really miss the times when the phones did not have all this latency. It feels like speaking in a walkie-talkie some times.

Amen to that. The number of times that I've gotten into 'we both start talking at the same time' deadlocks on the phone (and video conferencing, for that matter) in the last couple of years has reached high levels of irritation.
Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone
That sounds like it might have been carbon monoxide poisoning.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/carbon-monoxi...

Though symptoms are quite similar to those of CO2 poisoning:

https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilderness_carbon_dioxide_to...

One of the symptoms of CO poisoning I've heard mentioned is of a sense of doom or dread.
I have friends with children in the age of 12-14, one of which excessively monitors his son's online behavior.

He's shown me results of his monitoring and it pretty much ended the debate. Weird old guys contacting his son, excessive cyberbullying, swearing (fine by me, but still), being drawn to the wrong kind of "friends", hate speech, general addiction and obsession with games and in-game items, the list goes on.

Doesn't mean one should intervene all the time, but you should know. I'm not a parent so I don't know at what age you should back off, but I'd say don't do it too early. Your trust is misplaced.
A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination
Why are manufactured homes not more popular in American cities with very inflated housing prices? I read that they are unpopular because the cost per square foot is actually more than stick-built, but that is for the average cost around the country. In an inflated market, I would expect buying a vacant lot and putting a really nice manufactured home on it would be vastly cheaper than buying an existing house, and much quicker than waiting for a contractor to have a schedule opening.
Again: no they aren't, except in a narrow and strategically irrelevant "well it's still a missile you can launch".

If you're executing a first strike, then your goal has to be to take out your opponents ability to retaliate...or you're trying to pull off a limited first strike.

In both cases, submarines add no strategic value if used: in the limited strike scenario you give away a submarines location, and in the first-strike scenario you are not going to have enough missiles, with up to date enough targeting data, in order to hit targets any quicker then land-launched ICBMs are.

The time you waste trying to maneuver your submarines close enough to your target to launch, the fact that it's entirely possible they get taken out before they launch their entire payload (US and Russian subs shadow each other as a matter of course to track their movements), and the inherent communications problems coordinating with submarines all make them irrelevant as first-strike weapons.

The point of a nuclear ballistic missile submarine is a guaranteed second-strike capability. Your opponent might surprise you take out your bombers. They might surprise you can take out your land-based ICBMs. But there's no way they can ever be sure they got every boomer sub, and boomer subs don't target military targets: they target cities, capitals and command bunkers. They exist to ensure no useful advantage is ever gained from first-strike.
They call them y’all qaeda for a reason.
If the sense lifts immediately (within seconds to a minute or so) after opening a door or window, I'd tend to suspect the atmosphere.
That tweet is just linking to the submission article, what am I missing?
You should consider this interaction as an opportunity to also revisit your ageism. I'm all for encouraging young people, and OP seems a really bright 13 years old person, for sure. But try to keep condescension out of the way. As anybody with children can tell you, we all learn from them all the time. It's not something surprising.
Sure, but even if dangerous it is a space that is concretely theirs in the sense that in the absence of any women in public it can’t be a red light district. Contrast with a museum, which could ban all women from entry and still be a museum.

But while I get how this space would grant the women inside some freedom they could not otherwise have, I wonder how much its existence mattered for the women outside its walls.
So make capital gains taxes scale from 100% to 30% with the log of time you held the asset for.

Saves wasting 20% of the labour force and gigawatts of electricity on hfc and other fintech too.
The Trident II Submarine Ballistic Missile has a range of more than 7500 miles (12000km). The exact capability is still classified, but you could easily hit places like Moscow or Beijing from a submarine in the great lakes.
I've had three jabs within the last 12 months and while eligible for a 4th, tend to feel it's worth waiting for a shot that's better tailored for protection against current variants, and I'm sure there are others. But it's not people like me that explain how many people haven't even bothered with a 2nd or 3rd jab at all (which have been available here for 9+ months).
I know you're asking for hands on, but if you want reading material:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/System-Design-Interview-insiders-gu...

and

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applicatio...

are great
In college undersigned a CPU that was initially register based but I figured out I could write a nice stack-based ISA for it and use registers for storage. It was very FORTH-like to program. It had a “verb” bit that told it whether that word was data (to be stacked) or an operation, to be done.
Some people seem to be able to do it - I couldn't.
Here are a few things I learned experimenting with Bubble:
1. The learning curve is not that bad, and the support forums are useful.
2. The sticker price is misleading, in that very quickly you'll likely realize you need additional, paid components.
3. The minute you need any out-of-the box functionality, you start running into trouble. And because each app ultimately tries to do something a bit differently, the bar for out-of-the box is very low.

Having experimented with it for a few months (2-3?) I made two decisions. One, this was not the way to go for us. Two, I was going to bite the bullet and learn front-end web development. I did a Udemy bootcamp followed by a MERN course and that allowed me to comfortably build anything I needed to build for an early version (not yet an MVP). This made our team think very hard about what exactly we're building and spec it out.

I've come to believe the long way is the short way. Even if you end up hiring someone else to build your app, you want to be able to understand what they're doing and read their code.
Yeah, fidelity will be just right with a knob, barring incompetence. Not to mention how much easier it is to implement on a hardware and software level, just read the value from the knob.
#1 Recommendation is no Roblox. It destroys kids. Not to mention, exploration by the game itself, and pedos. Kids who play are unable to do anything else. Maybe your kid will be able to regulate, but I’d guess not. Ask an elementary school teacher about it.

#2 is no devices in their own bedroom.

Edit: Exploitation not exploration
/r/quant

/r/algotrading

https://github.com/wilsonfreitas/awesome-quant
How would power compare?
Traditionally analog computer programming has been done through manual hardware reconfiguration, like manually plugging in wires. It should be possible to build a programmable hybrid digital-analog computer with the digital component executing the program and essentially treating the analog components as peripherals. So the connections between analog components could be dynamically changed. This would require a completely different programming paradigm.
I know a handful of women, they do sex work out of there free will. Some work just one day a week, some full time. The only thing they have in common, none of these work on the street. Some even are married for a long time.

In know, this is not the norm, but it does exist.
Two decades even; he left in 2002. He was involved from 2000 until 2002.
GML is an ECMAscript dialect. It’s not the best, buts it’s a lot more powerful than dragging boxes around, and IMO a step above bash too.
One thing the article misses is the reason why we loom down on self-promotion: it's not because it seems easy, but because it's value neutral. Promotion does not care if you actually did any work or are just shilling a bunch of words void of any idea. The visceral reaction to self promotion is in part due to hard won experience that those that talk loudest about their achievements are often lacking in actual value to offer.

That doesn't mean the rest of the article is wrong: promotion is a necessity for most artists ( and many others), but nonetheless there are quite a few people that need to be told to do less self promotion and more actual ( creative, for artists) work.
I like systemd's service units and its subsystem, and related units like sockets. I dislike pretty much everything else about it.
> Changing the prototype for Number doesn't work so I assume there's something slightly different going on there.

The answer is that addition first checks if either operand has a "primitive value" which is string-typed, if so it's a string concatenation, otherwise it's a numerical addition, at which point it converts both operands to numbers and adds them.

The primitive value of a `Number` is a `number`, so changing `Number.prototype.toString` has no effect (it's not even called). However if you set `Number.prototype[Symbol.toPrimitive]` then you can influence the rest of the process. Still won't affect an addition of primitive `number` values but:

> Number.prototype[Symbol.toPrimitive] = function(hint) { return String(this.valueOf()) }
> new Number(4) + 2
< "42"
> 4 + new Number(2)
< "42"

[numeric binops]: https://262.ecma-international.org/13.0/#sec-applystringornu...

[numeric conversion]: https://262.ecma-international.org/13.0/#sec-tonumeric
The Politics of Bitcoin
PC Magazine was very focused on PCs. You wouldn’t read about Suns, or NeXTs, Amigas, or even Macs. Byte did a nice review of the Archimedes, the first ARM-based desktop. The ecosystem was a lot more diverse back then than other publications would make you think.
Analog never has really gone away. We need a lot of analog in a lot of products. Recent “comeback” of analog is analog-digital ratio increasing.
Interesting that even after its EOL, we're still not sure if IE was a joke or not
> the sandboxing capabilities are great

I find the sandboxing to be very subpar. It works for the most basic use-cases but for anything with slightly more complicated requirements you're better off scripting your way through cgroups and namespaces.
The pros still vastly outweigh the cons. I hadn't been getting one largely out of laziness and slight needle phobia in previous years. I changed only once it became a requirement for visiting aged care homes, and even though they don't enforce it, have continued getting my annual jabs. Flu vaccines do actually generally provide quite good protection against infection of the most common strains.
depends on the definition of want.. if I am on my way to surgery to remove a tumor, I probably really do not want this.. if i get a letter saying to appear in two weeks, where I have plenty of time to schedule it, I might not want to have to do it, but at the same time want to do it to help justice.
He bought it on 2017-10-27, binance was launched on 2017-07-14 (and for example binance.com was registered on 2017-04-01).

I think it's fairly reasonable to assume that he bought it because of the binance launch considering the timeline, his interest in crypto and that the term binance has basically 0 mentions on for example google trends before 2017.
Might as well call for homeless people to be thrown into a ditch if you think your comment is advocating for anything other than simply getting them out of your sight.
Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem
I am using price in the economic sense of price, where the supply and demand curve meet. Such as the price of a good when you go to a market and haggle with various vendors.

It does not depend on who pays for it.

I did not intend to comment on who should or should not be liable for paying this price, simply that $500 seems like a reasonable price for an ambulance service.
> Is it possible to “program” an analog computer as one does with a digital computer?

Yes. You design a circuit; you're program is a diagram. Here is a simple one[1]. Believe it or not when you get good you can suss the basic function of such a thing pretty fast, much like a decent programmer can grasp the structure of code they've just encountered. There are a lot of idioms to learn, and you need to be able to approximate logarithmic functions in your head.

The 'op' part of op-amp (those big triangles) means 'operation,' as in mathematical operation. Their output is some mathematical function of their inputs (the + - terminals). That circuit multiplies two numbers and divides that product by a third number.

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/325472/how-d...
Comments are for why code is written the way it is, commits are for why the code is written in the first place.

You _could_ tag every line of code with

// JIRA-123 The PM wants this to be blue

but if you did it would become unreadable and wouldn't be kept up to date.