skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you really going off just on the words "European slave trade?". How did the slaves get to Haiti? Who steered the boat? Who profited from their transportation? It's the European slave trade because it was Europeans who bought slaves in Africa and sold them in America. Yes, Africans participated in the slave trade. Yes, Africans did terrible things. No, not all Europeans participated in the slave trade directly. In fact the vast majority didn't. There were also (and terrifying still are) lots of other forms of slavery. I never said anything different from that, neither does the article. The evils of one group of people doesn't lessen the evils of another group of people. We aren't having an argument about morals here, we're having an argument about discourse. If every time you talked about slavery, you had to include all of the sins of all of the individuals involved in that trade, discourse would become so burdensome as to be impossible. The post I was replying was setting this as a standard that must be met without thought about the implications of such a requirement.

The only possible outcome of advocating such a position is that destruction of our ability to discuss the issue at all. The only type of person that would want that outcome is an apologist who simply wants the topic dropped, even when talked about tangentially, such as occurs in this article.
What's the plan for if you get hit by a car and can't work anymore?
I'm a fan of writing things in my own words. Don't just copy and paste chunks of text verbatim.

Andy Matuschak has written about his techniques for keeping notes.
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

Molecular notes is another take on keeping notes
https://reasonabledeviations.com/2022/04/18/molecular-notes-...
Good, this seems reasonable and proportionate.
SE US checking in. It's routinely 75% humidity or above almost year round here. And yes, it makes both the hot and the cold worse.
You _can_ do this as a mixed integer linear program. Whether it's a good idea, is another question.
Dropbox explained itself pretty well.

A simple one paragraph why at the top of this project's README wouldnt be amiss.
A format for archives, that is contractually built to last, has an impressive test suite, is easily browseable, where blobs can be retrieved individually if needed and is already known everywhere ?

Sounds like SQlite, yet again: https://www2.sqlite.org/sqlar.html
His fixation with amputating his leg started at four years old, it has an admitted sexual element, and now he has a permanent life-altering disability - all this for the want of proper psychological treatment.
Agreed. Teams that are any bigger than that inevitably run into communication problems. Small teams are good for close cooperation. Big teams are good for wasting time.
I like the idea. What surprised me was the custom network protocol. I expected it using ssh to work with the remote instance.
Yes, very much so. Although I wonder if those involved are aware of this.
I do not understand what you are disagreeing with. Not every project is aimed at power users and tinkerers. You seem to be suggesting that they all should be, that is not realistic. If you feel talked down to, please consider that you may not be the target of discussion.

>Would you argue that we should have no shell aliases? No BIOS and boot order? No desktop wallpaper? No ability to set homepages in the web browser?

Those could be nice to have. I can say I do not actually need any of those things when I use my computer to write documents in a word processor. Do you see where I am going with this? Any "control" you want to have is completely up to what you are trying to do, if all I am trying to do is write my novel then all those other things can get in the way.
I wish I could post the meme with spongebob telling netflix to get in the coffin.
That would be 40%
Cheap housing is either substandard (see the phrase "Tofu dreg project" used in China [0]), or located in places that aren't very attractive (you can buy a whole house in a semi-abandoned Italian village for 1 euro [1]), or available during a certain time-limited period when some place started to grow rapidly (say, the Silicon Valley in the early 1980s), but not everyone realized it yet, so there is a window of opportunity there. People who bought property in San Francisco of the 19th century definitely bought them cheaply.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project

[1] https://1eurohouses.com/
Piracy slowly but surely making its way back on the menu.
It seems that DirectInput is generally deprecated nowadays.

Sorry, it has been a long time since I last read on windows input methods, the docs says your right about DirectInput!

use a polling based approach for message retrieval... Windows already providing the machinery to accurately sequence user inputs

I'd like to know about those api ! Because as far as I know, if you go low level enough (but stay in userland) it appears that polling is the only way to get the input event in a Windows application. If a framework offers you some callback mechanism, it is an abstraction over the event loop[0] or the polling of the gamepad state.

Also the link I had in my bookmarks for win32 assembly programming has semi rotted, I found another working link[1]

While the tutorial I suggested are old and in x86 assembly, the concept presented are still relevant and the instructions and registers are still available in x64 ASM.

I don't suggested that you stay in assembly (nor autoit ;) ) to write complex applications but that knowledge will make you a better system programmer without giving you bad habits like C or a C like language would. So when your done with the first few tutorial I linked, you could learn a highlevel language like nim[2] and a system language like rust[3].

0) https://github.com/glfw/glfw/blob/97da62a027794d9ff0f4512268...

1) http://www.website.masmforum.com/tutorials/index.htm

2) https://nim-lang.org/

3) https://www.rust-lang.org/
A follow-up question, not easily answered using Xaos: The dual numbers can be pictured as lines in the Euclidean plane instead of points (details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguerre_transformations). What would the above "dual number burning ship" look like?
I think their goal is to remove non-paying customers which is reasonable thing to do from their business perspective.

I'm not sure how exactly this would affect 99% of their paying customers. People who travel all the time would probably watch it on their laptops/tablets anyway so it won't affect them.
This has been going on for years.

eg: https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch... (2017)
Yeah I think you're right mike_hock.

On top of that I think that locations on (or near) the boundary, tend to stay on the boundary (and stay in the center of the image too) when zooming out.

While purely zooming (not translating) to a known boundary (or near) point, you won't ever see a move to another section-of-boundary, so if there are both 'inside' and 'outside' regions, corresponding to attractors at 0 and infinity, (the 2 main ones in these types of fractals) in the most-zoomed in state, then there will always be regions of both states contained in the final image when zoomed out (until you get to the 'top').

Maybe it would be possible for there to be formulae that don't hold to this? If the fractal had an incredibly sparse structure, say? To be honest I'm more interested in the opposite myself: Structures where the boundary (between N regions or behaviors) is so wiggly, it's almost 2 dimensional itself!. (If anyone wants to read more, I've called one particular interesting example of this: 'mandelfield' on UltraIterator)
Traditionally people point to 2 Peter 3:8 and Hebrews 13:8 as implying this idea.

There are a few other passages that seem to hint at it as well.

I'd describe it as a model of God that fits well with the Bible but which the Bible itself does not explicitly present.
Every orange juice I’ve seen here in the US lists a serving size of 8oz or 237ml, which I wouldn’t consider “much less” than 250ml.
As I said in my own comment: Their goal is to remove non-paying customers from their platform.
What looks like a virus that isn’t a virus? Why does this debris in multiple samples look similar if they’re random collections of other matter?

Why is it so hard to believe viruses exist?
> You can spend $200k on Bentley and still have nowhere to park it at your destination.

If you can't bring yourself to solve your parking situation after spending 200k on a Bentley, you spent too much on the Bentley.

To this day, I've never seen a Valet Full sign.
If Spartacus wouldn't have been enslaved there is a good chance that he might have ended up with Slaves on his own at one point or another in his life.
Is there any reason to think that the benchmarks, once improved to more accurately capture what the Apple Silicon chips do, will show it performing worse than they do now?

'Cause if they're only likely to give better results later on, that just supports TFA's thesis even more...
You're treating this as a system which changes states instantly. It does not. You can progressively build housing and expand a city such that you can keep prices stable, at least in theory, and 'affordable' (not a well defined word). In that sense 'overpopulation' is a deficient state which would not exist if not for heavy intervention against the natural response which would be to build at, more or less, the rate at which new residents are wanting to come. I'm not sure if there's a known limit to this, although I admit populations might oscillate a bit if SF with 100 million people is too unpleasant...

That's not to say it's always bad to keep prices higher. Basic regulations do that (e.g. safety) and place a floor on the extent to which housing can truly be affordable without governments just forcing rent control and denying others the chance to live in a particular place entirely.
For example

> Its trivial to set up and operate kvass across multiple devices

> remember the file we stored earlier? Let's get a shareable url for it!
tibia?
I expected to learn something from it - especially when it's popped on the front page of HN. Am I expecting too much of HN?

My train of thought when I saw the link "a key-value store": what data-structure are they using? A hashmap? How are they resolving conflicts? Is it in memory? How are they persisting data? Do they support multiple instances? What about concurrency? etc.

Of course I might be a bit disappointed when the project is just 4 web APIs on top of sqlite table.
Mostly the "remote" command as seen in the README.
It’s not like the entire country worked weekends to pay this off.

The debt skimmed the cream from the country, and the political maneuvering by various parties introduced pliant, corrupt leadership. Haiti has been a failed state for a long time.
Benin wasn't a political entity at this point, so the only possible reading is they are talking about the location, not the polity.
That's not what kenshoen meant. For example for the Mandelbrot set we have a function f(z) = z^2 + c for complex z,c and each pixel in the image represents c_x,c_y in c = c_x + i*c_y and then you iterate f(0), f(f(0))... On the other hand, if you have c constant and each pixel represents z_x, z_y in z=z_x + i*z_y instead, then iterating f(z),f(f(z))... gives you a Julia set.

But you can think of f as a function of two complex arguments f(z,c)=z^2 + c and iterate it on the whole domain (two complex = four real dimensions) and then have a picture being a slice through any 2D or (even 3D, which is what parent is talking about) plane you like. In other words, the famous Mandelbrot fractal picture is a slice of f(z,c) through a plane z=0, and Julia set pictures are slices through planes c=constant but there is no reason one cannot make other pictures of f(z,c) (just be careful what you meant by iterating a function f: C^2 -> C).

The burning ship fractal in the article is the same but the function f(z,c) is a bit weirder
That's not entirely true here. Short term rental apartments can be a lot cheaper than a hotel because if you are doing it right, you can provide the same service with less staff.

Hotels can become cheaper by removing some of the services that cost more than they are worth.

It is also worth noting that larger groups might prefer an apartment where they can all stay over multiple hotel rooms.

There are also larger families and people who want to cook.
This was excessive deforestation due to the pressures of the debt. Which led to desertification. This excessive deforestation didn't happen in the Dominican Republic, which explains the difference. If you visit Haiti and the Dominican Republic you would be able to tell the difference in climate and soil.

"To the west of the island of Hispaniola is Haiti, only 3% of which now has forest coverage. Although the
Dominican Republic that makes up the east of the island still has 23%. At least 90% of Haiti’s soils have been
severely degraded by deforestation and inappropriate cultivation as compared to 40% for the Dominican Republic." [1]

[1] - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269670285_A_Case_St...
-- one is in relation to a subject - one an object - I bought this cake for you and I would be incorrect - you and I however - would attend the concert - if you'd like --
Tokyo. It requires building way, way more units in more compact ways than Americans would currently be comfortable with.
Google products are usually loss leaders, so as a user they feel much better to use than dedicated services that are more clearly monetized e.g. Yelp allowing businesses to remove reviews compared to Google Maps reviews, Google Docs being free and decent compared to Microsoft's Office suite.
Which looney anti-vax stuff? Polio or COVID, as there’s a huge difference
The infrastructure needed to create a power grid for people to charge electric vehicles at home would be double-bonkers.

Upgrading fueling stations seems much easier than mining all of the copper needed to add all of the extra lines for EV charging, and then upgrading the whole national grid.

Supposedly one company has claimed 95% efficiency on creating hydrogen from electrolysis:

https://newatlas.com/energy/hysata-efficient-hydrogen-electr...

Power that by nuclear energy, and it's a green & clean winner.
Yes, I think it would. Anthropology.

Way too late in life I discovered what anthropologists actually do
after stumbling upon Alan McFarlane's lectures about "The origins of
Modernity" [1]. Nobody ever made history seem so interesting and clear
why What's Past Is Prologue. A big shout-out to all anthropologists!

https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/07/anthropology-empire-...
How do they know where a home is? Are they going to require Location permissions? Are they going to do silly geoIP things which are worse than useless?
About as good a name as the password manager which I'm unable to read in any other way than keep ass.

(Just in case you are unaware, kvas/kvass is a traditional north-eastern europe drink.)
Its not simpler when you consider that ssh needs an open port on your router.
Frankly, once I saw the prices rise $10/month -> $20/month I cancelled.

Plus, seeing shows like friends and breaking bad being replaced by big mouth and other Netflix content I find just gross (and not replacing it with content I enjoy). I cancelled. I was enjoying ozarks, and the comedy specials, but not at $180-$240/year and most of the comedy specials have become increasingly less interesting (when they came out at all — thanks lockdowns).

I think at lower prices they could honestly cover more niches because people were willing to pay for their interest (maybe 5% of the content). As the price increases more people don’t think that 5% is good enough for the price. And everyone has a different percent of content they like.

Imo this makes Netflix much more prone to lose customers when rising prices.

This is even more obnoxious because a lot of people who watch Netflix are younger. They travel, they go to school, etc.
The point is that if you are programming in a C dialect or a C++ dialect you will be told this again and again.

Ask a question on Stackoverflow about code that requires nonstandard flags or uses UB. You will be told your program is not really in C/C++ and that your question makes no sense. You will be lectured on nasal demons for the nth time.

File a bug against a compiler asking the optimizers to back off using UB to subvert the intentions of the programmer and you will be told there's no way to even know the intentions of the programmer given that the standards don't apply.

So we can all move to a nomenclature where C is used loosely to indicate a family of languages, once of which happens to be standardized. I'd be happy to do that.

But let's not bait and switch, using standards pedantry to dismiss feature requests and bug reports, but then turning around and saying C/C++ is suitable for implementing runtimes of other languages when nothing can really be achieved in that space without going beyond the language spec.

And really in 2022 runtimes, JITs, GCs should be the primary use of C/C++. Many other uses (systems software, compilers, desktop apps, phone apps) are not suited for C/C++ due to security, stability, ease of development and newer languages that make more sense for these domains.
This is only a feasible plan for people without any children or committed relationships though. Telling your spouse that you'll skip the vacation because work is more important than them will not go over well, for obvious reasons.
Genuine question to commenters that are poopooing this: why? Price hikes are annoying, and the content quality has been decaying recently, but those are separate issues.

Why shouldn’t Netflix seek to clamp down on account sharing? This seems to strike a nice balance that makes it easy to continue sharing, and not disrupt existing profiles, etc whilst charging a small premium for the privilege.
Yeah but is your filesystem endorsed by a fun & quirky children's cartoon beaver? Can it do QR codes? Didn't think so.
Story my dad told of McDonald Douglass merger was that they intentionally hired a drunk incompetent ceo to scare away all of their business. So that the merger with Boeing could be approved.

He had many stories to tell of engineering non sense there. Supposedly they just trained whomever to be an engineer. They offered to make my dad one since they liked him.
Yes, that argument is also true, and you haven't really addressed either.
Question: Do fractals have projective duals? In the projective plane RP^2, the dual of a point is a line, and vice versa. Do fractals like "Burning Ship" and "Mandelbrot" have projective duals, where each point in the set is replaced with a line? What would these look like?
No they didn't learn about the iteration. Actually they learned, that the populism cannot be sustained (the plan should be named 90 euro ticket 1 euro/day, but for populism they "removed one zero"), again, they borrowed our money to be able to follow a populist agenda, but the Federal government said already that they won't be able to keep up with that: with a ridiculous excuse: "It is not a federal issue, but the federal states are responsible for that" https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/nachfolgemodell-neun-euro-t...

The results until now: 3/4 of the people still driving their cars: https://www.focus.de/auto/news/ergebnis-ueberrascht-umfrage-....

So 2.5 billion euros (actually much more, see https://www.stern.de/panorama/-9-euro-ticket-macht-krank----...) is the most expensive "almost free" train ticket in the world...
Ideas about a new programming language for games (2014)
A lot of that might just be internal payments from Google search to Android for Android user ad income? What other revenue sources does Android have? Google Play Store?
> A format for archives, that is contractually built to last

Who would you be contracting to build a file format?
I think they have managed to get advertising down to the mid 80% of total revenues. Wall st street would obviously prefer a bit more diversity of sources.

In general the company appears to have been drifting around rudderless for the past decade at least. Perhaps this is part of a recognition that they need to reboot a lot of process, but based on past performance I doubt it.
Perhaps try googling “Haiti deforestation” at a bare minimum.

tl;dr, they needed cash crops, the forests were cut down to grow coffee.
They are asking because they have been asked themselves. To me it seems like a chain of incompetence from top to bottom, from bottom to top. Everyone is stretched beyond their abilities. The whole company is a house of cards. But yet it keeps on working and often it delivers results that keep everything else up and running. I don't understand why it works this way but it does.
And why is that? Actually?
My favorite theory about Space and time is the one from Don Hoffman. To summarize, space and time are parts of our interface to interact with other conscious agents , just like our senses of smell, vision, sound. But it is just that, an interface, created by millions years of evolution, and does not shows the true nature of reality, which could be completely incomprehensible to us. Like electricity is incomprehensible to a cat, evolution, which is very power thrifty, provided cats just enough effectives ways to survive and reproduce the way cats do. Same for us.

this is very summarized, his ideas goes much farther, for him the base of true reality could be consciousness :

https://youtu.be/oadgHhdgRkI

and

https://youtu.be/ds-7sMfJDUw
The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. Netflix can’t increase subs anymore as who would subscribe have already and luxuries are first to go in a depressed economy. So you look for the next low hanging fruit to launder.
The study deals with this though. The people that have BIID do go through psychological treatment, seek therapy, medication etc which don't seem to blunt the issue.

But ultimately the end result seems to be that they will eventually, one way or another, find a way to get the surgery they desire. I don't know what your solution would be in that scenario other than to criminalize it and even then, there's reports of people doing home made amputations by sitting on rail tracks or whatever else you can think of.
Amazon recently lost a lawsuit on counterfeit products in the US.

https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/maglula-beats-...
For internet, these are the 2 choices I have. Internet in Germany is a pretty terrible oligopoly.
I do not believe NixOS or Guix are shipping these packages with a sandbox that uses the portals, but I could be wrong. I am not sure of anything about Snap, I have never used it.

In Flatpak, all the config files are saved to ~/.var/app/. The portal should be able to handle exposing a file from the host, but the app has to be built to use the portal correctly. You can have themes but you must install the flatpak package for them, pulling themes from the host environment is a security issue because technically themes are equivalent to doing code injection.
If MBAs weren't economically efficient, the market wouldn't make so many of them and companies wouldn't pay them so much.
I don't think showing misleading numbers supports anything. It's not like there were no benchmarks comparing Intel and M1. There were plenty of those and it's pretty easy to find them. So we should have a sense of what these "broken benchmarks" indicate.

Showing a flawed misleading comparison for every laptop that comes out is redundant and misleading regardless of the direction.
Most journeys (80%+) are under 15 miles.
What happens if this gets reported to cbp.gov? They get very involved for other misrepresentations.
> Maybe many more then you would think. First of all of there are others with regrets they are most likely also found there. Second to warn others. Thirdly to vent.

And how would you find those posts after they were banned and deleted?