skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, I am sure there are more muslims in the USA than there are LGBTs

No, and it's not even close. An estimated 20 million Americans identify as LGBT [1], compared to ~3.5M Muslims [2].

I wonder what might make someone underestimate the number of LGBT people in the US. Maybe... a lack of representation in popular media?

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs... — earliest internet mention (AFAIK), citing Carlin Vieri who coined the term (with this meaning).

https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ — a good example (and where I first saw it), which actually involves shaving a yak.
Not much gas will get stolen. This campaign says they'll stop their direct debit arrangements. They'll still owe the money and most people will pay eventually. It may squeeze the utility companies a bit in the short term though, and I wonder if they have insurance for this kind of thing.
I think Russia doesn't care much about narrative war in Western countries, they are not going to "win" in that theater anyway. Their propaganda is more focused on their own citizens and third world/non-aligned nations. However, it serves certain political groups to exaggerate how much Russian propaganda there is in the West (in order to justify censorship).

As for who is spreading pro-Ukrainian propaganda, I would guess either Ukraine (most obvious motive) or USA or UK (have the intelligence agencies/know-how). Possibly also a countries like Saudi Arabia or Azerbaijan that benefit economically from the war?
How so? I legitimately don't understand. With BTC, it's the same for everyone. Everyone can run a node. No ones node is special. Best wealth can do is buy miners to mine more coins. But that doesnt grant you more power, just more wealth. In PoS ETH, you need 32 Eth to participate. Thats 50k USD just to participate in validation.

BTC is free and you don't need any money to run a node. For ETH, you need 50k USD to do the same thing, no?

Genuinely curious here.
Has a corporate engineering blog made you want to join the company?
I fully agree. We need a full decoupling from the US. We must protect our economy and our interests, through out every single American soldier from European soil and make sure that those brain-washing machinery Hollywood/Netflix are being banned and replaced.

We are in this mess because of the US. Let us not forget that they are not our friends, but our enemy.
Which details?

In Canada, all I get is Your Amazon Order #foobar. No product name, no product image. No CC info (even last 4). The address only lists the city name; no street name or street number. There's a full price in the email. There's a guaranteed delivery date. There's a button View Order Details which, when clicked, shows the product info on amazon.ca, full address, last 4 of CC, etc
>100 times faster than 30 years ago is an incredibly low hurdle to clear.

"today’s state-of-the-art space computers" is not the same computer as "Our current spaceflight computers were developed almost 30 years ago".
County court judgement for anyone wondering
And ... further thought.

(Which, I'll note, is because I'm trying to sort my own thinking on this, not to pick on your own explanation, which I find interesting...)

The opposite of poverty is typically considered to be wealth. And that also has at least historical and etymological roots connoting health and well-being.

Again, from dict.org, wealth: "Weal; welfare; prosperity; good."

<http://dict.org/bin/Dict>

Weal, a somewhat archaic term which I feel deserves revival: "A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare."

<http://dict.org/bin/Dict>

The etymology of wealth:

"mid-13c., "happiness," also "prosperity in abundance of possessions or riches," from Middle English wele "well-being" (see weal (n.1)) on analogy of health."

<https://www.etymonline.com/word/wealth>

Which again suggests that the argument for a purely social connotation ... at the least goes against historical usage.
Nike ‘Forward’ is a new non-woven, non-stitched sustainable fabric
> toxicity and a community full of people who are not welcoming to newcomers

What the article actually says:

"a wall of text of replies asking the user to fix their style before they can consider helping"

because they wrote their code like this or what have you:

(defun foo (arg)
(setq var (+ arg 1))
(let ((z (bar var)))
...
)
)

a common problem is some misplaced parenthesis which you can see easily if you use an editor which auto-indents the code. Encouraging newcomers to format code and learn how to have it done is good advice; it's the first survival skill.
...I think you just answered your own question, no?
Champions league is on and the beautiful game has a lot to offer
Should gas and oil companies also receive special tax rebates in years when their profits are low? And how would you propose to make gas and oil companies based in foreign countries pay?
If you read data to an arbitrary position in a file, you first need to figure out in which block(s) that data is located.

If the file is fragmented, this may require more reads than if it's contiguous and uses an extent.

Exact scheme is filesystem-specific.
Only one showing prior to sale, no floor plan listed, tenants still in residence. Tough market!
Only 10?! It should be until they get a completely new (democratic) governmental system, and this should apply to EVERYTHING! We talk about being beholden to the CCP and yet won't even do the minimal to stop the expansion of it that we do have power over!

The "market" and it's "logic" are not and never going to look out for even our most basic interests. Time to join reality!
... to be clear: I've been adopting bracketed links of late, largely as that's what I'm already doing on Markdown-based sites and documents. This is the first time I've found that it actually confers a practical advantage.
Either hydrocarbons or nuclear if renewables aren't an option.
Maybe not cut off, but it's how you end up on a pre-pay meter rather than monthly billing.

There are ways around this for the energy companies.
What?! Following this logic then, the bread riots in the French Revolution[0] would not have happened because “they don’t have the money but they have time to start riots to demand a cap on the price of the good”?

By the way, I’m not commenting on whether this is the right approach to the issue, just commenting the current situation considering what’s happening now.

[0]: https://revolution.chnm.org/items/show/491
This kind of campaign would not be possible in the US because the provider can simply turn your service off with no questions asked, where from their FAQ it sounds like turning it off is heavily regulated in the UK.

That might be true, but if enough customers organise to refuse to pay the company will collapse. You can't carry on trading if you cut off some relatively large percentage of your revenue stream. There's no reason to belive customers are powerless in the US.
> wind both die down in the UK in the winter.

I don’t know wether the UK has some vastly different wind patterns but in Germany wind is strongest in the winter and night
Wait, is that actually verbatim what she wrote? Not a uncharitable paraphrasing?
Sounds like a cool system, would love to break it! :-D

Actually, you talked about that every note doesn't need to be categorized – I think differently, however I think that it should work on a "tags" basis. If I grep a tag, i.e. #school over all the notes, I should find only those that are related to schoolwork.
You speak as if this is a bad thing. If the U.S. funded research that caused the covid outbreak, the international community should lose trust in us, especially since public officials dismissed (perhaps unfairly) theories that would have put the U.S. at fault. Obviously, this goes doubly for China.

Increasing safeguards relies on us knowing what the vectors of outbreak are. It matters if this was caused by an underpaid lab assistant selling animals that were meant to be contained, or a random person catching animals to sell, or a researcher that didn't quarantine after being bit. The safeguards should be different.
You don't just magically know what the next block is.
There are people genetically predisposed to gain weight or have heart disease. Cancer can be Russian roulette, as is your immune system picking up random autoimmune disorders. Accidents happen.

There are too many stakeholders with too many backgrounds and conditions for anything like your proposed system to work. Everyone would be angry.
All you have to do is start a new country called Http, convince ICANN to adopt it as a new TLD (will need a lot of persuasion) and serve “http” as a dotless domain. But, you know, anything for a beer… (fyi: the host name is the part after @ and before the port number indicated by “:”)
And the question I asked someone else was —

What would you accept as evidence of "no lab involvement"?
Agile? Not agile?
Anyone who thinks that now is the appropriate time to discuss the lab leak conclusion rather than two years ago when it was still actionable is ipso facto incompetent to do so.
I'm unsure what distinction you make here. Are you saying it would be totally fine if Amazon used Middle Earth, Elrond, Galadriel, Sauron etc. for a story as long as they didn't call it a prequel to Lord of the Rings?
What should he have had been talking about defragging?

I don’t remember ever defragging anything but my hard drive.
Europe is sitting on the needle of russian gas/oil. Where is US here?
Waze has it. Google could have added a feature for this a long time ago, but for some reason chose not to.
The current problems of only half the nuclear power plants in France working and gas shortage can hardly be blamed on current leadership.
No Mac? No interested.
They're apparently working on one, in-house[0]. It's apparently called Ascalon, and there's some information starting at around 8 minutes into the video.

0. https://youtu.be/KOHQQyAKY14
Sounds good. Where will those solar panels come from?
Drinks like iced teas or watered down fruit drink or 'vitamin water' around that level were common in australia, but one by one are going from being the less cloyingly sweet options to being the most via other sweeteners. Usually one ariund the 5% sugar range will get extremely popular because it is actually slightly different, then get bought out or price dumped out of existence by coca cola followed by being focuse grouped into being exactly the same as all the others and falling into obscurity.

There's usually one or two items on the muesli/nut/cake bar shelf, but you have to read the nutrition info for half of them every time to find it.
2015-6 or so was the magical era for me. Intelligent enough to suggest you related content before you knew you needed but still early enough to not have to suffer through endless repetitive video spam for ad views.
Hard drives do not have this metadata, the filesystem does.

People use the same filesystems on HDD and SSD drives.

Fragmented files still require more blocks to say where the various parts are.
...and even if they did, most likely it'll be so fragmented that it won't have an impact. UK has population of around 67 million. 180k of pledges right now doesn't even make it 0.025%. It's probably not enough to turn off energy in one apartment per apartment building.
Isn't it pretty bad to be a zebra in general though? Certainly there isn't any place where zebras have it better than horses.
The English Players Saga at Manchester United
> Finally, I am legally obligated to inform you that I used GNU Parallel to scan all the wheels

FWIW, this is tangential to this awesome article, but if the author is here or anyone else who cares: that statement isn’t true, you are not legally obligated to mention GNU Parallel. It is nice to do though! The link even says this explicitly, and also separately mentions the citation notice is only asking for scientific paper citations, not blog citations. I love parallel, but boy has that citation notice thing caused a lot of confusion over the years.
It’s not about the cognitive elite. The mass-education public school system is designed for an average with very little deviation that doesn’t actually fit that many pupils - it’s not a single int stat like in d&d, kids have different capabilities & interests and aiming for some sort of generalized lowest common denominator is going to be a bad experience for pretty much everyone.

The only solution IMO is the expensive one - more individualized curricula, smaller classes, more personal attention from the teacher to the pupil and less focus on standardized tests and grades.
I think that's a reasonable take for a usecase like ML. In most code, >99% of your bugs will be the one you write yourself, and debugging the few bugs from Julia itself is really not much harder than debugging your own, in my experience.

Of course it's annoying that Julia itself is this buggy, but the problem is sometimes framed as if it causes some fundamental uncertainty and doubt about your program because the compiler can't possibly be debugged, whereas is my experience, when you see a Julia bug, it's just another bug, usually in some bog-standard stdlib function which you can easily inspect using code introspection.

And again, I've maybe seen 20 Julia bugs in 4 years of coding it daily, compared to probably 20,000 of my own bugs.
There are all kinds of anomalies. For example: one of the top Environmental Law schools ranks at 89th overall. I've seen someone at a similarly ranked school get a solid biglaw job, then be the one to choose which Ivy/Chicago applicants make the cut for a quarter-size associate class in a downturn.

I saw a 'success' story, a young NYC couple where one worked at Wachtell, the other at Latham. They were often at work outside of sleeping hours. They had two nannies that worked on two different shifts to take care of their two toddlers. I don't think they liked the situation, but they knew that if they just hung in there long enough, they'd have a huge opportunity. Plenty of people break before that comes, though.
And that is itself a subtype of a more general syndrome, which depending on how you approach it is either "go there ism" or "been there ism."

And it amounts to this: "I've been somewhere you haven't been, ( over some domain in which we both have a reputational interest), and therefore I am the default authority in this domain. Since I've been there and you haven't this authority can't be challenged."

The "go there ism' version is the same model applied prescriptively, " I'm capable of going to, and withstanding the strain of, a place of such extraordinary suffering/bravery/ compassion/violence, that you cannot go without my help/'teaching'/strength etc."

Trying to challenge the validity of either of these positions inevitably leads to accusations of trying to attack the person personally, which then goes to somewhere between "I'm tired of having this conversation" and a gunshot, depending on who you're dealing with.

It's how people who actively disavow social hierarchies establish social hierarchies.
> tl;dr: don't homeschool. take it from a former homeschooled kid. send the kid to a good public school, please.

This is a bit of a false dichotomy. Wealthy people can send their kids to good public/private schools because they can afford to live places with access. But less-wealthy people may not have the option.

The social interaction piece is interesting, and may be addressed by the fact that there is massive growth in homeschooling right now. It's also easier to connect/coordinate with other families (remote or local, based on interests/age). Not a bad idea for a startup, actually!
I understand that point of view. However, the non-cheating, conscientious students are often very angry with professors and administrators that take this approach. Your best customers feel like their earned credentials are devalued. They are competing with the cheaters for their first job after graduation. Maybe their investment will pay off in the long run, but they are pissed off right now.

Suppressing cheating is work on behalf of the good faith students. Miserable work it is.
It's true speaking about long term leadership. German french and uk leaders (together with most others in west and central europe) were long nurturing russia and agreeing to be sit on the needle of its energy supplies. Now we have consequenses. Hangover so to say...
There are numerous problems with that. First – why on earth i need to believe that the source hosted on Github is actually used to build burnernote.com bundle? The bundle is highly minified and obfuscated and the only way to check that is to build the same bundle on your machine and checksum. Did anyone ever did that? Another big issue is since it open-source – it relies on 1000 open-source dependencies, any one of them can be compromised, and the changes to them happening quicker than you can audit them all
What is a y equivalent gram of sweetener?

A cursory look says a 12oz Coke Cola has 39grams of sugar while a Diet Coke has 0.2 grams of aspartame. How would you like it to be labelled?
Well I supposed authn landing in Safari this fall is good timing (for us) as a backup option
The USA was famously founded on a tax that didn't reduce use of the thing being taxed, nor was it actually designed to. Tax isn't magic, and the devil is always in the details.
No, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1

"5" and "1" are not the number of floors, they are the construction type, 5 being (primarily) built of dimensional lumber and drywall, 1 being reinforced concrete. The type for heavy timber is "4".

This, a building with CLT would never be 5-over-1. It might be 4-over-1, but I bet it's sufficiently inherently fire-resistant that most designs will be solely type 4.
"It is made by connecting multiple thin layers using a needle-punching process that entangles them to create a textile"

Kind of cool, but I wanted to know what it's made of. All the announcement articles lift language from the ad copy and are totally uncurious about the textile. I then discovered, after extensive digging, buried in the additional information on the products' store pages themselves and not advertised on a single other page, that it's just 100% polyester.

Boo. At least it's recycled, I guess.
I've idly followed the work of HKRITA on textile recycling and it's starting to sound pretty promising. I wonder if this is where the plastic Nike is using came from, or whether they're using plastic from cheaper recycling waste streams.

https://hmfoundation.com/project/recycling-the-green-machine...
I agree, with one caveat: Spotify's algorithm seems less shitty than most. I've discovered a decent amount of fantastically good, fairly obscure music.
This is SF (and a major US city) we are talking about.. A whole shitload of those "requirements" are meant to keep prop values up and exert total control over who and what gets built and when.
I'm not defending Algorithms but manual curation doesn't scale. There's hundreds of content-hours uploaded every minute on YouTube. YouTube would need tens of thousands of coolhunters constantly watching video all day constantly updating recommendation lists. If a user's feed was just a simple chronological list it would just constantly scroll all day. No one would have any time to watch videos as they'd just be scrolling through the list of videos.

That's not to say YouTube's recommendation algorithms are good or that everything needs to be an algorithmic feed.
How is mathematics categorized in the humanities when it's literally the M in STEM?
Does anyone have more on "Being a Leader Means Never Saying “That’s Not My Problem”"?
The problem isn't the algorithm. The problem is Monetization and the incentives it creates. Been saying this for a decade.
Ask HN: Is it okay to just bootstrap it, even when VCs are knocking?
I run a small, bootstrapped SaaS making 15K MRR or so. It's the most money I've ever made, in a domain I'm passionate about. I don't come from means or have a prestigious background; I feel like much of my success has just been luck and grit. I'm not a great business person, but I care deeply about product, development, and my customers.

I am sometimes contacted by eager megacorp M&A departments and VC funds, but... Is it weird that I don't want to do any of that?

I'm enjoying the lifestyle of "solve client's problem, client pays me money, innovate, iterate". It probably won't last forever, but it's simple and it feels authentic. The megacorps and VCs I've spoken to want to turn up the heat and take the business to the moon, planet-scale growth or self-destruct---I don't think that's what I want. I'm sure my potential acquirers or VC-funded competitors will build it with or without me eventually but... I don't think I give a shit.

Am I being a weirdo? Some of my more "Silicon Valley"-type friends think I'm nuts.
Sorry, you seem to hint at knowing this already. But, to clarify,

* Hooks - `setState` reruns the full code for your component.

* Signals - only the dependent effects/computed/JSX is run.
Simula, from history, is considered the first object-oriented programming (OOP)
I think that it's not true that govt are not a big influence on energy pricing.

For example; UK energy costs are currently higher than EU because the govt decommissioned most of our long term gas storage meaning our usage is tied to the current price (hence we've had price shock a lot quicker than the EU).

Also government's control the system of marginal pricing which generally was a good system for fair pricing - but with gas costs rocketing is skewing energy costs unduly.
> I'm not really sure though that energy prices can be controlled by govts.

They cannot set the price, but they can set the market mechanism which produces the prices. The auction mechanism used in UK and the order in which producers with higher CO2 output get switched off first means that electricity price is set by gas powered electricity producers. Govt can and is looking at updating that auction mechanism to decouple electricity prices from gas prices.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
China's internet censors have a blindspot: Cantonese
This article doesn't describe the problem very directly. I found this op-ed by a student to be more informative.

https://www.dailycal.org/2022/04/08/a-personal-view-of-uc-be...

Ten years ago, the department graduated roughly 400 students with Bachelor’s degrees in EECS or computer science. This year, the number will probably be 1400, or roughly 15%, of all undergraduates. Almost all of that growth is in the College of Letters and Science CS major.

and more specifically:

The campus provides departments $50 per student-credit per hour to pay for both lecturers and TAs. A student in a 4-unit class contributes roughly $200 out of the student’s overall tuition for these expenses. Yet the actual cost to a department is more than $350 per student for that 4-unit class, forcing departments to find additional funds to cover the upward of $150 per student gap. [...] The EECS department is running an annual deficit of nearly $5 million.

At a high level, this problem is "growing pains" rather than "falling backwards". Computer science is booming at Berkeley, and they can't hire enough TAs to keep up when they are paying so badly. I hope they simply start paying CS TAs better.
How many times have people been ridiculed to the point of suicide by their peers on Facebook, Twitter, etc? Should those sites be taken offline too?
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> Today, YouTube is known for its powerful recommendation algorithm: a system criticized for driving people to radical beliefs, conspiracies, and online echo chambers.

It's been trying to radicalize me into playing Minecraft and listening to K-Pop. I have no idea why.