skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I am not sure there are any good ones, a tangential point.

I agree, but it's not tangential at all. In fact, it is the whole point. As Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

There are plenty of things which are not perfect, but are preferable to the other options. You might consider what position Singapore or the Philippines would be in without the US Navy sailing regularly through the South China Sea. Most likely they would be territories or dependencies of China. If Chinese Communist Party values are something you prefer to American values, then feel free to enumerate which, exactly, make it a system you would prefer to live under. (And note that this is a freedom you wouldn't have if you were posting on a Chinese message board).

Other countries can, and do, influence US policy as well as culture, in positive ways. This is also for the good. It is precisely why there is a powerful Pacific Fleet composed of people from over 100 nationalities under the US flag. When and if the Han empire begins to utilize the full capabilities of all its citizens by granting them freedom of thought, speech and movement, perhaps it will outcompete the US - other ethno-nationalist states with wise leaders have done so in the past. Even Singapore has done a fairly remarkable job of balancing speech and numerous ethnicities. Certainly better than the larger, equally strategic and yet doomed UAE.

But which values exactly do you wish to see imposed on the US which actually are practiced somewhere, and where are they practiced? That's a more interesting and fertile ground for discussion than simply "you're the bad guys"... and again, the bad guys in world history don't normally ask or care, whereas this is an intense and open topic of public debate in the US.
Apple will not have to pay ARM for licensing
What I took it as was “the first protects Green’s right to republish on GitHub [from government censorship].” Of course the first does not compel GitHub to allow him to do anything on their servers, but it does protect what both parties consented to do from government censorship.
are you a dog ;)
Unless there’s something else really compelling about the job, it seems like the last year-and-a-half would have been a good time to take some initiative and find your own raise.

You might consider that management and / or hr see you as a mark.
57 > 43.

And this is talking about removing an incumbent. Incumbents almost alway have a political edge. No one wants to throw out an incumbent until things are really bad.

That’s a -14 rating.
Honest question, if I have PostgreSQL containerized in docker such that it's trivially easy to spin up a new database, what then is the use-case for SQLite? I frequently hear people talk about it with such rosy tone, but I just don't see the reason to actually set it up when the alternatives today are so easy to use, what am I missing?
> where a "perfect" solution (camel)

What? Never heard that one. But I have heard a horse built by committee is a camel; if not obvious, this is highly critical of committees. Also, O'Reilly uses the camel to symbolize Perl because...

Perl is kind of ugly. This is true. O’Reilly’s symbol for Perl is the camel, the animal on the cover of the venerable Camel book (also known as Programming Perl), a cousin of this Llama (and her sister, the Alpaca). Camels are kind of ugly, too. But they work hard, even in tough conditions. Camels get the job done despite all difficulties even when they look bad and smell worse and sometimes spit at you. Perl is a little like that.[1]

Google just informed me that a camel can be symbolic of travel and journeys, wisdom, endurance, survival, service, self-sufficiency, conservation, and, of course, stamina. Camels are also sometimes crude in odor and behavior, but their value far outweighs their lack of etiquette.

But I have never heard of referring to a perfect solution as a camel. Did you just invent this, or is it a common symbol in programming for a perfect solution?

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-perl-fourth/05...
Really insightful answer, thank you!
Interesting that you would claim I’m lying while I provide links to prove by numbers while you don’t.

The best you have is 2013 numbers to make claims about a 2020+ situation. I don’t think I need to say anything else to prove your lies.

What a joke. What reasonable person would point to 2013 numbers to justify their claims about a 2022 election.
The corrosion issue is part of what drove Moltex to their rather interesting design (sterile coolant salt is a fluoride; fuel salt in tubes is chloride; this is a fast reactor.) The absence of uranium in the fluoride allows it to be operated at a redox potential where chromium does not dissolve.
Once again, exactly right.

I deeply appreciate you helping to steer this little tire fire of a comment thread I seem to have created off the rocks, I meant well but it seems to have ended up as an advertisement for insane defaults.

With that said, the parent seems pretty committed. And for all I know, is actually doing sub-microsecond software HFT or hard-realtime signal processing.

Thread: listen to this person ^.
Paywall. Any alternatives?
Seems viable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ might pay
I'm not dismissing the prognostication that Macs would ultimately run on ARM (though to be honest that was obvious a long time ago). I'm dismissing the breathless way in which the author announced that somewhere, somehow, a Mac was already running ARM in the bowels of Apple in 2014. Of course it was. It was doing that a decade prior.
Re studying only women: it's a problem when you are making a claim about all cause mortality but failing to mention that it's all cause mortality "in women", you can't generalize.

"Are you saying that the authors didn't control for them (then why collect data on them and include it?), or that they did so badly (why do you think that), or something else"

Yes, I addressed this above, see my comment on residual confounding, amongst my many other criticisms.
What made NeXT (and then OS X) so portable? NeXT never sold a whole lot, but I would like to see a breakdown of sales by CPU. And if certain platforms were missing things, etc.

I've heard many answers over the years:

Mach is a microkernel, they are easier to port

NeXT never made their own hardware so they designed it that way from the start

It contained 'very little assembly'
> Small code changes lead to hour long unit test runs since most of the unit tests need to be rerun for every change.

You're writing unit tests wrong if they are taking that long. Unit tests should be quick.

> It's impossible to update the Python version since all the Python code needs to be updated at the same time.

I've done it, so, objectively not impossible.

> Long check-in times for changes running MyPy over 100k lines of code.

TFA addresses this. It can be greatly sped up with use of caching in CI.

> Maintainability issues since code can't be updated without knock on effects all over the codebase.

That's exactly why static types are better - automatic refactors.

> On average MyPy type checking will catch 1 bug per developer per year, which wouldn't of being caught normally.

I catch several per day, simply from IDE highlighting, in real time, and fix them immediately, which only works because of the type system. (maybe it's wrong to call these bugs at this point, it's more like proto-bugs which never even get checked in cause there is immediate feedback)

> It makes people who previously coded in statically typed languages feel more familar with the code.

I came from a fully-dynamic-everything python world, and types were a breath of fresh air.

You've clearly been burned by (a) bad codebase(s), but I think you are drawing all the wrong conclusions. All the benefits of narrow interfaces, easy refactors, high maintainability, can be had with static typed python. I will admit it's much more challenging to be really competent at it than it ought to be, but this has been improving rapidly.
https://archive.ph/PHy3e
I can only recommend NotePlan instead
I’m so sick of dealing with these snake oil salesmen products. CrowdStrike, Trend Micro Deep Shit, McAfee, SentinelOne, BlackBerry Cylance, etc. They are all pushing their users to install proprietary kernel modules and low quality effort solutions. They market this crap as low on resource usage that just hums along.. if you want to introduce random performance issues and crashes, then I would recommend using one of these trash solutions.
EV shipping is set to blow internal combustion engines out of the water
That's more to do with the legal and cultural status of cocaine than its chemical properties. Illicit drug users tend to have difficulties to begin with, and the legal and financial consequences of using illegal drugs tend to worsen them. Also, crack tends to be cheaper than freebase, so a specific comparison is also being confounded by socioeconomic disparity.
Some more speculation. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplicatio...

Egyption multiplication was (implicitly) based on powers of two. In some sense weirdly similar to modern bit-twiddling.

Note that 4/3 in binary is 1.0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101...

So that suggests the following algorithm, expressed in modern day Python:

def mul4_3(x):
table = []
while x > 0:
table.append(x)
x //= 4
return sum(table)

I deliberately used a 'table', because that's what a scribe would do.

Repeat this function four times, and you will have multiplied by 256/81.

I have no clue whether they would have done anything resembling this procedure; this is just to show that it's plausible given how their multiplication worked.

I don't know how this relates to 'Egyption fractions'.

P.S. Just for fun the same thing for 22/7:

def f22_7(x):
y = (x << 1) + x
while x > 0:
x >>= 3
y += x
return y

Not actually harder to execute by hand, I'd say, but perhaps harder to come up with?
We were talking about the NHS being underfunded, and you said that funding has increased in absolute terms. Both of these things can be true simultaneously.
Great Q: maybe?
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-MAR-M247Nb-coupon-b-Al...
If the system time isn't accurate most of the problems would still apply.
I don't think there's any for-profit argument by the Treasury against Tornado Cash. But for what it's worth, the smart contract is still live on the Ethereum mainnet. Given that it is immutable, it is not possible to take it down. It's also trivial to fork and I imagine several forks already exist on mainnet and across various EVM forks by now.
Autosummarized HN
The 90’s were rife with problems all over the world.

Just not as much for the nerds and curious professionals from “the West” that were playfully developing the internet like a quirky little collaborative art gallery.

The demographics of the internet were just very different then. I don’t think it’s so much a change in the character of the world that makes it different now, so much as that nearly the whole breadth of the world are staking claims in it, and thus a lot of the contention and animosity that has always existed in the real world now finally shows up here too.
Convicted Stanford Rapist Brock Turner is now going by his middle name in Ohio: Allen
Tantalum capsules. Molten plutonium is darn corrosive.
So does metal. Welding is just melting two parts together.
No it doesn't. "400%" gives you no indication that the upper bound is 800%.

And failing to communicate that the heat comes from elsewhere is condescending and leads to misunderstandings. It also fails to communicate that it's harder to move the heat when it is colder.

We have a perfectly valid term that does what yoh want without lying and without anti-education in the name of making it 'easier' which is coefficient of performance. You could even give it a different name to `void the scary word if you want, just don't call it efficiency because it's not.
It's hard to imagine paying to give up 40 miles per charge AND get charged every new tire.
The current demo version of the app uses heavily cached 1 Gb data files at the limits of the instance's memory, so, unfortunately, it crashes a lot.

I've been waiting to update until I had UI for exercises implemented. They will be something like flashcards, including SRS for scheduling.

Well, two things mentioned in your reply are things that need to be implemented.

* Consuming and parsing the Oxford Dictionary's API and transforming that into Parsnip's data models is one thing.

* Building statistics pages showing a user's progress/knowledge. Instead of an information firehose, I'm leaning towards only showing conjugations in the user's library. That way, the user can immediately see usage examples for those forms.
Do the gas turbines use the brayton cycle? As I understand gas turbines are around 64% efficient with various tricks. I recall a LFTR presentation talking about how they could use the Brayton cycle because of... ?high temps I think?.

Is the closed cycle gas turbine also using a superior cycle like the Brayton? Oh it's in the third sentence, CTRL-F failed me.
Yes, it's inevitable. Some parts of this process are harder than than others, though. I think I've handled the hardest part, which is making catchy melodies (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFwkumE578Y...). Live music is already over 50% of music industry revenue, so the transition could be a bit easier for musicians than for visual artists.
> raise KeyError(key)

This would be flagged as unreachable I believe.

mypy/pyright also supports exhaustive checking with unions

def get_activation(key: Literal['sigmoid', 'tanh']) -> nn.Module:
match key:
case 'sigmoid': return nn.Sigmoid()
case 'tanh': return nn.tanh()

There are limits to mypy/pyright's exhaustive checker.. it will fail if the union is in CNF, you will need to convert it to DNF.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_normal_form
Do you truly believe those situations are equivalent?
> You could teach how to build a bomb or how to cook meth…

Professionals legally create explosives (military, demolition, mining etc) and literally “cook” meth (the brand name for legal prescription methamphetamine is Desoxyn in the US). These necessary and legitimate jobs require educated individuals.
> The "silent majority" is no longer a majority

Maybe, but they were never silent.
Given that the month after Sumarauki is named Heyannir which literally means busy season during haying, which I’ve heard from farmers is their busiest time of the year, perhaps you are right.
I like it and have used a similar homegrown solution for years.

I’d love to switch to a better supported one, but please: work in progress is obviously […]

Not ... but the actual … character which takes the same horizontal space as X on monospaced fonts.

Maybe use it as a second option?

Nice work, thanks for sharing.
It’s a trade off. YC is second to none for someone who is just an engineer (or even entry level) to be able to get very real funding and a couple of years to give their dream a shot.

If that doesn’t fit where you’re at in your career that’s understandable but all systems of decent scale will have horror stories.
The most hilarious thing is that a conspiracy theory that Imran Khan created days before he was ousted with absolutely no evidence at all is supposed to be given any value because he lost a no confidence vote. Like every other predecessor in the history of the country.

The reality is that Imran Khan had been anti-USA for years before that. If the U.S. was so worried about Pakistan they would maybe have done something in the year prior where he was eating against the US for his political support.

That whar he’s been doing for half a decade. It makes literally no sense at all.
The problem wasn't the safety, the problem was they couldn't deliver a cheap solution. And recently when they tried to come back they completely fucked it up.
Does everything we do need to be productive? What's wrong with just kicking back and relaxing every so often? What's wrong with not working or thinking about work or escaping the always be grinding brainwashing for a few hours?
>Nethack. A dungeon-exploration game to which even non-Dungeons and Dragons fanatics can become addicted. Every adventure game has monsters and magic items, but Nethack has so many monsters, magic items, puzzling situations, and amazing secrets that you'll completely forget about the ASCII graphics. It's the most complex and thought-intensive adventure you'll experience on the Net (to access Nethack, FTP to linc.cis.upenn.edu /pub/NH3.1/binaries; also read rec.games.roguelike.nethack).

I still play it today, but under Slashem.

A crazy thing: Nethack 3.4.3 was released in 2003 and it was for long THE latest release of Nethack until the 3.6.x banch. Thus, that release was ported to anything capable, from Amigas to Ataris, Windows, DOS, PowerPC Macs, M68k Macs, Solaris boxes, the PSP, Android, iOS... everything.

Oh, and the lack of releases until Nethack 3.6.x helped Slashem to develop a lot.

>The Internet Chess Server. Always near to bursting with activity, you're guaranteed to find a chess mate of your skill level. Brush the cobwebs off your game or challenge a grandmaster. I personally keep a physical chess board handy so I can better visualize the game (to access, telnet to ics.onenet.net 5000).

telnet freechess.org 5000. Same spirit. Use XBoard if you want some GUI.

>Software that handles virtually all network functions via one seamless interface will emerge and begin to dominate the commercial Internet marketplace.

Netscape and Mozilla Suite. Now Chrome it's almost an OS.

For the rest: http://theoldnet.com
> The unimproved value of the land (I.e. the basis of taxation in a Georgist scheme) is definitionally exclusive of things that happen on the land.

Ah yes, "let's define away the problem."

> Of course some portion of the taxes go to Disney. Who do you think pays for the air travel system that brings people to Orlando or LA? Who pays for the freeway system that brings in the food?

The typical argument is that Disney doesn't pay enough for those things. No one thinks that such things are "money going to Disney", which just goes to show the absurdities that you have to accept when trying to paper-over the problems with Georgism.

> I am very curious to hear your examples of improvements/activities on land that become part of the unimproved value of land at a fast enough rate to matter?

Who said that "improvements/activities" are the only way for the unimproved value to change rapidly? The land around Disneyland is a counter-example.

As to your suggestion that there aren't examples that fit your absurd restriction, I'll point you to the super-fund sites where SV fabs used to be.

As I hinted earlier, having a cute equation is no substitute for critical thinking.

> Obviously the unimproved land has a market price $X and then the land + structures on it have a different price $Y.

The question is not whether they have prices, it's whether they can be determined.

It's reasonably easy to determine the market price for their sum. How, exactly, do you separate them?

BTW, you're probably assuming that improvements necessarily have non-negative value. That's actually wrong.
Hatch chilies really are the best. I’m sure part of it is the limited seasonal availability though.
Can confirm, we have a bunch of $10 switches lying around our million dollar lab because nobody thought to check if the 40Gbit switches can do 100Mbit to talk to Raspberry Pis. Not sure if we're ever pushing 40Gbit but I know we use the hell out of the RPis. Go figure...
I want to take the same public dollars that are funneled directly the monopolistic, corrupt, badly run system and instead give the money directly to parents to use as a voucher. If they like their current public school, wonderful, they can give them the voucher. If they want to go someplace else, the money is there for them.
> I highly doubt such a thing exists, more likely you are used to a certain level of bad code and don't understand it can be better.

Ohhh trust me, I know bad code. And I know good code. My unit of measurement is how fried I feel at the end of the day. Dynamic loosy-goosy python? Brain fried, constant debugging, little confidence in deploys. Static types, pydantic, pycharm, mypy, DI? I'm in the zone all day.

I don't think you are the arbiter of all code, so I'm not sure what grounds you have to tell me what my taste in code is.

Additionally, you would be better served by writing comments with less presumption in them. It makes the discourse more adversarial than it needs to be.
Military drone swarms and how to combat them
Did they finish building it?
List of Nostr Projects and Resources
Btw, which jurisdiction forbids for-profits from accepting donations anyway?
You do know that the oppression and subjugation of women and minorities was often brought by colonizers, right? Singapore's anti-homosexual laws, for example, were promulgated by the British. They didn't always bring enlightenment.
Extract parameter types from string literal types with TypeScript
Not entirely true, people watching and in the field knew. Back in 2015 I made a massive bet on AMD because people on HN working in the field explained the arch shift. Similar with this move by Apple. There are people in those rooms, making the decisions, sharpening their ideas on HN — if we care to listen.
Uh, well, yeah?

I'm obviously missing something important in the argument you're making.
Nice, that's a cool example. But that's not fundamental to the concept of flow typing, it's just a mypy limitation.
Monero doesn't need to be AML/KYC compliant, the exchange does. And even if Monero did need to be compliant, view keys exist.
Single file
Easy to embed
No ports, no sockets
Easy to back up
I owned the first gen white MacBook and the presence of that off ramp was a critical selling point for me. It turned out I never ended up using Boot Camp, and it wasn't until years later that I even installed Parallels. But knowing that I could if I needed to was key.
The "horn instrument" being reused in every song is a giveaway that they're using the same generator, without even changing the parameters of the instruments.

It's like they're basically using a fancy "arpeggiator" to generate these songs.
> If you enforce them then you can't do duck typing, this means adding lots of boilerplate code to your code base, increasing the amount of bugs, since bugs are proportional to the total number of lines of code in the project.

You can still do duck typing. Python's Protocol and TypedDict do that for objects and dicts, respectively. Python also has sum types. I've added type annotations to thousands of lines of legacy code and rarely have I had to change any logic to accommodate.

> Typing related bugs that aren't caught in unit testing are very rare.

Not true at all. Unless you're writing unit tests that cover every possible code path, your unit tests will miss stuff. And I'd argue that 100% test coverage is a Herculean effort to write and maintain, and isn't worth it. Static analysis gives you tons of checking for free. The biggest benefit is forcing you to properly handle function arguments that could be None. Are you always checking that values aren't None before using them?
> Clearly Apple execs have data that productivity/creativity/whatever they measure on has decreased. Thus, they want people back in the office.

How about the Apple ML Director?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/16/apple-tel...

The petition was created by actual Apple employees, not by random armchair HN posters.
What percentage of German homes use resistive heating? If they switch to heat pumps with a COP of at least 4, every heat pump will free up enough electricity to run 3 more heat pumps. The problem is importing enough heat pumps and having the government subsidize the purchase and installation for those who can't afford it. Perhaps NATO countries would sell their stocks of heat pumps to Germany if manufacturers don't have enough of them.