skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most interesting things I ever saw sailing was a singular monarch butterfly in the middle of the gulf-stream about halfway back from bermuda. This was over 300 miles away from any land (including bermuda).

It stopped for a very brief rest (a second or two at most) and then continued flying in the opposite direction. Very unexpected and surreal but this really speaks to the sort of distances they can travel without stopping.

Does anyone know how common these kind of sightings are? Very sad to find out that these butterflies are now considered endangered.
Why is that? What was it about the Cell processor at the time that was desirable?

Afaik PS3s were sold at a loss for Sony, so it seems likely that they were very beefy computationally wise, but I am use USAF could have gotten an incredible deal with Intel, IBM or AMD, so what is it?
Personally, I’ve concluded that most housework isn’t anywhere close to proper exercise that raises heart rate a lot or stresses muscles a lot. Not that housework is useless, but it’s not going to offer the benefits of even an at home workout program.
This reads like my Cigna explanation of benefits
How about the R-Tree, used for accessing/searching spatial data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree

Maybe not so obscure if you've worked in the geospatial realm.

I actually had a job interview once that asked me to implement an R-Tree from scratch in C++ as a homework assignment - I didn't get that job :)
> This was a mutually beneficial arrangement

Admittedly, in much the same way that robbing someone at gunpoint is a mutually beneficial arrangement; because it's better for them than you just killing them and taking their money.
A Beginner’s Guide to eBPF Programming – Liz Rice
Lol, try "cancelling" a free market futures contract when the market doesn't do what you like.
Do all these, and before you start doing anything figure out some major app limiting feature that needs to get done, and present that along with a demand for a raise.

No raise, good luck, you're heading to greener pastures.
This is awesome and underscores something I've had to repeat a lot recently:

Theory of mind is a two way street. The assumption that "you're wrong because I don't get what you're saying" is always predicated on peoples assumption that the thoughts they are experiencing are factually correct. The idea that you (the autist) might know something they don't is seen as offensive and disrespectful... when in reality the autist just spent a lot of time studying something and actually is factually correct.

It's stunning, dehumanizing and depressing how many times I've had people wield a social cudgel against me because they didn't like the facts I presented. It's infuriating to be mocked as a "know it all" when you are educated and knowledgeable on a subject and incompetent people are dead set on proving you wrong and shaming you for your disobedience.
I think they might be asking about PDEs instead of ODEs in this case when they mentioned x, y, z as being multivariable.
I mean, it’s a pretty educated guess. The $100 penalty that’s already levied doesn’t go to shafted renters, so why would this larger fee?
Congrats on landing on the HN front page! Good stuff, although a table of contents could make navigation easier for readers.

EDIT: I originally read your article on mobile but viewing on a desktop, I see a ToC on the left-hand side of the page. So, scratch my earlier remark about a ToC.

I’m working on something similar, but from a different angle: marketing to developers organically. Hoping to have it published soon.
On iOS you can do this with an extension called Web Inspector. It’s quite literally what the name suggests, albeit more limited than its desktop counterparts.
It was very similar, at least based on what little I knew of Java. Most of the devs, including myself on that project were coming from classic ASP / COM background so it was a very new way to do things. The project was initially proposed to use the ASP/COM architecture and Accenture switched to .NET about a month into the project start (during the design phase). I don't know if that was planned or MS pressured them once they became aware of it. It was a high profile project at the time so I'm sure there were plenty of politics happening in the background that those of us on the dev side weren't aware of.
Disk on Key!
"USB mass storage device" is the official technical name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass_storage_device_class
I'm fully willing to believe the Xbox/PS5 is sold at a loss today, the margins are so thin that tiny changes in component prices could have enormous implications on how much money each hardware unit delivers. Neither of these consoles are iPhones, they don't have profit margins of 40% (or probably any double-digit percentage, for that matter). Transitioning from esoteric hardware has pretty much nothing to do with it, anyways: the N64, Gamecube and Wii all used non-standard architectures while being ludicrously profitable. The only truly significant advantage to using x86 in a home console is how easy it is to port/develop titles for it, not a single current-gen console uses commodity hardware besides the Nintendo Switch (since the Tegra board is commercially attainable).
Also missing is the misnomer “USB hard drive”.
It's _measurably_ worse in almost every way
I had this situation come up like twice over here in Europe. In both cases Airbnb offered to assist with an alternative place to stay (one time taken one time declined) and in both cases provided me with credit of about the worth of the original stay
At least when it happens in a city your chances of finding an alternative are hopefully better

We got cancelled on the week before Thanksgiving in a rural area...
The UK's critical minerals strategy
Cocomo II – Constructive Cost Model
So its OK when Facebook does it but bad when tiktok does it?
Do they still exist?
Yeah, for me, what I really want in a smartwatch are the following:

1. long battery life. (as in a week+)
2. Always on display.
3. Notifications. (Ability to display all notifications that make a sound/vibrate in android, ideally also providing access to notification's quick actions, and ability to dismiss notification from phone. It should also provide incoming call notification, with caller name or number and hang-up button support).
4. Media controls for phone. (I don't really care about this, but if a watch lacks it, it would be suspicious).
5. Basic watch functions, like time, date, stopwatch, timer, alarms. (Possibly synchronized with android device, but not is not a requirement).

Beyond those five, things health sensors, app support or whatever are just bonuses.

The display should probably be a reflective display with optional backlight triggered by tilt-to-view, or even a button. It probably should use something like epaper or memory lcd to be low power. Honestly color is not even critical, although would be a nice-to-have.

Pebble came somewhat close, although its notification support was somewhat more limited than I would have liked. But I've seen nothing else since then. Everybody is too focused on apps, fitness sensors, etc, and have laughable battery life, even without an always on display.
I have a sneaking suspicion that, for many business problems, ML does no better than linear regression on cleaned-up data.
The reason AirBNB will always have garbage service is because the hosts are their moneymakers, not you. The host has the property, the host sets the price, the host assumes all responsibility (even if they often do not live up to those responsibilities).

You're just one more weary traveler who will be near-instantly replaced by someone else, so fuck you.

This is also why I've never once booked with AirBNB, and why I've always booked a hotel wherever I travel. Yes, it's more expensive. It's also guaranteed. I also get someone to clean my room everyday. I also don't have to worry about walking into the kitchen and seeing an entire sink full of dirty dishes. I don't have to worry about a random teenager in the hotel taking up my bathroom for an hour. I don't have to worry about another teenage following me around and talking to me. I don't have to worry about the bathroom being dirty, and I don't have to worry about seeing a roach in the house.

What I just described was the experience of a former Marine buddy of mine who booked a 6 week stay in Plantation, FL. He was moving down here from Brooklyn, NY and needed a place to stay until his apartment with ready. The AirBNB provider he booked with labeled a SuperHost.

If that's what a SuperHost rental gets you, I'm totally uninterested in seeing what anything less gets you. I'd rather stay at a Motel 6.
You can have a 'portable' app on any *nix distro with a static compilation.

But as a person who had for an almost a decade a bunch of apps neatly stored in a folder which just worked...
To some extent probably, but I guess not completely. That’s why you don’t have everything everywhere.
Getting $1000 to put towards paying for alternative accommodations would be very helpful?
A while back I had to perform an entity resolution task on several million entities.

We arrived at a point in the algorithm where we had a long list of connected components by ids that needed to be reduced into a mutually independent set of components, e.g. ({112, 531, 25}, {25, 238, 39, 901}, {43, 111}, ...)

After much head banging about working out way to do this that wouldn't lead to an out-of-memory error, we found the Disjoint Set Forest Data Structure and our prayers were answered.

I was very grateful for it!
I've read about 1-2 per month so far this year, but I'm burnt out now and I plan on hopefully not reading any more technical books this year. Also I find I don't really remember much from them, but I don't take notes etc, I am more of the 'something will rub off on you' persuasion when I read books.
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flash drive
> They were doing everything they could for the host.

For some reason AirBnb is very protective of their hosts. I had a bad experience a few months ago with a so-called "Superhost" where the property didn't match the description or the reviews. After my stay I left a negative review (my first ever; always left very nice reviews before then).

Well... AirBnB simply removed the review, for completely bogus and irrelevant reasons.

Made me extremely suspicious of any listing; it will probably be a long time before I book again.
Nope. I’ll let you do the math.

Here’s a hint. China and India combined have 2.5 billion people
I have experienced something similar as well. I was visiting NYC, and the place we booked did not look anything like the online listing showed. Regardless, the hosts were nice and helpful, so I left them a 5 star rating on all parameters except cleanliness. This was the first time rated something on Airbnb that is not 5 stars, and I have travelled quite a bit before.

Few weeks after that I receive racist messages from the host on my personal cellphone. I am shocked Airbnb would share my personal details just like that. I reported it to Airbnb, but they were pretty clueless as this was happening outside their messaging system. I finally had to share screenshots of the text messages, and they said they will take down the hosts account. They did for sometime, but after a couple of months that host's account is still live and his place is still accepting reservations. My review has been taken down though.
I'm curious whether people truly believed that just the act of having an alternative currency would bring prosperity?
>>We probably could have placed higher with a worse application, but better presentation.

and now you know how consulting companies like Accenture stay in business ...
Former colleague of mine, a technology reporter at Computerworld, got a letter from a company about 15 years ago demanding that he not use the term "thumb drive" in his articles unless it was referring to their product. It was a generic term by then, although they may have been trying to trademark it. He basically said "F that" and we continued to use "thumb drive."

In the late 90s and early 00s we sometimes got requests from PR companies working for big tech demanding that we use certain spelling for product names. Two examples that spring to mind are "Yahoo!" and "Windows Me" ... in the later case, we had been using "Windows Millennium Edition" or "Windows ME" and the PR people did not like that.
US citizens need to start feeling embarassed that we can no longer manufacture simple objects cost efficiently. These trash cans should cost $1k max.

I wonder if this cost discrepancy is due to pork or too many middle managers.

Not even sure why the trash can needs a redesign. Will this increased cost ever give an ROI over a long enough enough time span? Or will some other bureaucrat decide they need to make a name for themselves by redesigning the trashcan in 15 years, and these will all end up in the landfill?
I wasn't actually gonna use them to solve a diff equation though to be honest :) I was just experimenting with denoising diffusion and instead of a u-net to infer the denoising step, I was thinking about using a multivariate polynomial. (Since if you express the output denoising as a linear combination of polynomials finding the denoiser just turns into linear algebra. Might be a big solve etc but inferene is way fast and it's nice to know that you have the global opimum.) I'm sitting at the code right this instant and was using x, y, xy, x^2y, xy^2, etc, but this thread inspired me to try out chebychev as a possible alternative. :)
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That is commonly what people with high functioning autism says in response to that hypothesis. My assumption is that when you develop good enough of a theory of mind later in life. You are in a situation where you can see how bad you where before and how much better you became after.
So you think you are now good at it.

It’s like a dunning Kruger effect.

It is also important to note that good does not necessarily mean correct or accurate (even if that certainly can be a part of it)it means useful for guiding proper behavior.

With that said, the hypothesis is not that bad mentalization abilities is equal to autism. It is that bad mentalization causes you to adopt/learn unconscious behavioral patterns and those patterns are what we classify as autism.
This means that even when you “fix” the bad mentalization ability. The person still has all of those behavioral patterns ingrained in them.
Exactly, a good hotel knows that location is just one part of the experience, service is the rest. Airbnb hosts can go rot in their own rent-seeking hell as far as i am concerned.
Fever yes. You shouldnt generally cancel it (except it goes over 40.5). If you do, disease lasts longer and there is also evidence it helps with cance.
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I take no issue with the study, I'm taking issue with the messaging around it.
I love Guards but would also throw in Thief of Time which is a fabulous read
Well, I don't think so and I don't? _So...
Zip disquette is the most fulfilling term
Haha, hopefully there are other good parts too! But I confess, I'm wearing a "Enjoy Code" t-shirt (like "Enjoy Coke") I picked up at a conference right now.

And, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out anyone who wants a free FusionAuth t-shirt can go to https://fusionauth.io/download , install it, and share a screenshot and we'll ship you one. Further instructions there.

Unfortunately we can only ship to the USA and Canada for this offer.
> say it was “just a joke.”

I also hear "I was being ironic." which seems to be popular but an incorrect pet peeve[0].

[0] https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/irony-sa...

> To distinguish irony from satire and sarcasm, remember that irony pertains to situations while satire and sarcasm are forms of expression. People make satire and sarcasm happen. Irony is just there.
>And there are tons of people who take ibuprofen daily.

Not me.
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Fresh blog post on how to train SegFormer on custom data with Pytorch lightning!
This sounds interesting and intriguing. Which exercise do you have for each suit? Do you also cycle through different exercise assignments (say, in different months or weeks)?
Your ideas are so bizarre that I thought it might be worth doing a bit of investigation, specifically around this one claim:

> instead of gun violence, there are frequent stabbings

According to [1], in 2020/21 there were 235 homicides involving a knife or other sharp instrument in England and Wales. Because of the ability of COVID lockdowns to influence those numbers, let's wind back to 2017/18* - incidentally the highest recorded - at 281.

By contrast, per the FBI [2], 72.6% of the 15129 recorded homicides used a firearm - that is approximately 10983.

Per Wolfram Alpha, the population of England and Wales in 2017 was 58.3 million, and the population of the USA in 2017 was 325 million - meaning the UK had approximately 18% of the US population.

Clearly, you are _VASTLY_ more likely to be murdered by gun violence in the US than by knife crime in England or Wales.

Notice this only covers gun violence and not other types of homicide - even the rate of knife crime in the US is higher than the UK, as others have subsequently pointed out.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/978830/knife-homicides-i...
[2]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

* The UK records April->March for such figures, the US seems to report calendar year. 2017 was a high water mark for both countries.
I'm a big conservationist, but I'm so disillusioned by it these days. You're onto something here. We don't seem to have much data on their population size, but all the articles start from 1997 data when the population was at a peak. You go back a few years and the numbers are lower. This is a private organization and I don't see the criteria by which they mark a species endangered. They probably just make stuff up. Most creatures go through population cycles, and just quickly looking at the data going back to the early 90's it seems monarchs have huge boom and busts. A monarch lays up to 500 eggs in a week... so if you have a good year with lots of food and low predation and 100x increase it not hard to understand. It also not hard to anticipate huge declines the following season.
TikTok appears to be eating their lunch. There was a while where the teens I know were heavy users of Snapchat, but they all seem to primarily be on TikTok now.
I call it a thumb drive, but I named it BARRY_ALLEN.
> rifles don't look fundamentally different from when they first appeared, etc etc...

I would claim that a modern rifle flies at hundreds of miles an hour, and is operated remotely.
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My 'strategy' was to take a job that needed software help, but couldn't pay well (university). My idea was to leverage the fact that the university offered free courses to employees, that I would work and backfill the formal education.

I did follow through on that partially, but I found that the hands on experience was more important for employment than the degree, so I still work without a CS degree on my wall.

As far as the leetcode stuff goes, I work for a large company, but I don't work in big tech so largely hasn't been a problem. My first job knew I had skills programming but not formal education, so they didn't grill me. After working there for a while, I had enough work experience and a few contacts that allowed me to pretty much get a written invitation to my next gig. In the companies I've wanted to work for (and I have pretty much decided not to work for MMANG companies and imitators) the emphasis has been on culture fit, experience building solutions, and references. I luckily haven't had to memorize solutions to canned problems to prove my worth.

If I changed my mind and wanted to get the MMANG money/problems, I'd just get a copy of 'cracking the coding interview' and practice up. If you can write working RTL and test benches, you already have the skills to start as a software dev. In my opinion, going back to school would be a waste of time/resources. I am still working to backfill with theory, but I do it in my free time and I know I understand (and enjoy it) more than I would cramming it into a semester class.
When I still worked in government contracting in a physical office many of my coworkers referred to them as "zip drives". As a former avid user of Zip drives and disks it made me wince.
But, is Zig really all that much simpler a language, from the viewpoint of a C alternative? And is that simplicity partially due to lack of features and youth, so that the complexity can be expected to pile on later. We are talking about a language that hasn't hit 1.0 yet, nor is not due to for some years to come.
Isn’t that all of the US currently? I was in a thread the other day where someone complained that every business in the US is turning into three scams in a trenchcoat, which I thought was an apt description of the times
That also encompasses non-small usb devices that you plug in to transfer files.
optimal among linear functions, and the noise is gaussian...

of course noise is not gaussian in many interesting applications and nothing is stopping a nonlinear function from getting better results than a matched filter, we just have no theory to discover what such a function would be

so yes, like you, i'd need to see results on actual data before spending time to learn more about it...
Not to forget about the first heart catheterization done by Werner Forstsmann on himself and awarding him the Nobel prize. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forssmann
In my country there are no shelters for men in abusive relationships. In a crisis situation Airbnb is probably the best option to find something on a short notice and little budget.
A friend of mine called me crying in the car park, that he can't find anything to stay away from home, as hosts were cancelling his reservations.
He couldn't afford to go to a hotel, but was prepared to sleep in his car.
I found him something in a different part of the city eventually, but it was stressful.
How do you solve it? Kicking off listings with a history of fraud is easy, but how do you stop new ones outside of direct inspections?
I once tried to buy 2 Windows embedded licenses for a prototype. All the official resellers in my country couldn’t even connect me with a person who could give me a quote, without first getting a certification, finishing courses, signing contracts, etc.

We rewrote our application on Linux then, it was much easier than dealing with MS licensing BS.
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It means mostly anyone can help contributing by converting part of that lawn

Native species make the most sense but there are plenty of other beneficial weeds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_weed

Like a victory garden, but war of a different nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
Given that Republican counties tend to be more faith-based [0], dare I posit that faith-based counties will have a tendency to pray to get healed rather than get medical care?

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu...