skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that there was an apparent real opportunity to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict in April 2022, via diplomatic negotiations, but UK's Boris Johnson reportedly disrupted those talks by threatening to withdraw UK/US support for Zelensky if he proceeded with negotiations. If the war had been resolved and sanctions on Russian export of gas to Europe had been lifted, this would have lowered gas prices across the entire region, including for Britain. These energy costs are the main driving factor behind the skyrocketing inflation in the UK:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-energy-costs-inflation-1.65...

However, the steep rise in the value of oil & gas stocks, as well as defense contractor stocks, has no doubt enriched a certain strata of British society, much as it has done in the USA. War is quite profitable if you position yourself correctly...

https://www.investopedia.com/top-defense-stocks-5079150

> "Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine beginning in February sparked a rally in selected large defense stocks, including Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., and Raytheon Technologies Corp."

https://www.investopedia.com/investing/oil-stocks/

> "Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February has significantly disrupted the global oil market. European Union leaders moved to ban most Russian crude oil imports in May a oil prices spiked in March. The Biden administration has released record volumes of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve...The oil and gas industry is best represented by the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE). The exchange-traded fund produced a total return of 59.8% over the past year, dramatically outperforming the Russell 1000’s -12.9% total return."
> radian is not an arbitrary unit but a dimensionless one

This is by convention, but has been and is still being debated because calling it dimensionless causes some problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian#Dimensional_analysis

Furthermore, the whole reason to treat radians as dimensionless, the problem, is with angles, not with radians specifically. Degrees are also considered dimensionless. So, a turn could be treated as dimensionless too, with a conversion constant to radians & degrees, just like between degrees and radians.

Of course, the declared dimensionlessness of angles like radians isn’t something generally discussed in pre-college trig courses, that’s a subtle subject that matters more in physics. In my high school trig, we all understood radians to be a unit of angle and never pondered whether angles had dimension.

Also subtle point, but dimensionless doesn’t mean unitless. It’s another separate convention to drop the units when working with radians.
Thank you! This works great as well for my purposes:

> a = new Uint16Array(1)
Uint16Array(1) [ 0 ]
> a[0]
0
> a[0] = a[0] + 65537
65537
> a[0]
1
It mostly has nothing to do with any technical issues. It is about recapturing a feeling for days gone by and part of being able to recapture the feeling for them is only using period manufactured hardware.
yeah mental arithmetic and running out of swap space is such a relevant / good example of the phenomenon, might add that into the article
Brexit is a good example of that sort of policy, but it's far from the only one. Even in that case, it's not the decision itself that's the issue but the cavalier implementation of it – stuff like introducing lots of red tape for exports, hand-waving away the idea that exports will be affected, and then being shocked when exports collapse.

In this specific case it's not really a "strong dollar/energy crisis" story – the proximate cause is a massive overnight shift in UK government fiscal policy to "let's cut taxes and not spending, and it will all work out" that's obviously spooked everyone.
This is definitely true. The snowball effect and the networking of information helps a lot.

I'm trying to look at the problem with a wider lens, however. For example, if learning that language is actually something we want to do in opposition to all the things you could be doing. In the context of public education, since this is the theme the author focuses on, we don't just study certain topics, we study a certain spin on some topics that is determined by a range of government officials.

In other words, you have to deal with severely limited energy and interest compared to all that is available in life so cutting chaff is probably even more important than boosting your ability to remember. In fact, selecting what to learn is life, just like a sculptor removes the parts of the marble that aren't in the end result.
"We're doing 20% worse than Europe"

While your core conclusion may not change, you shouldn't do that; strength of currency is not a straight number you can use to measure the strength of an economy like that. GDP change would be better and I still think that one stinks too. Despite the use of the word "strong" it is definitely not the case that economies want their currencies to just be as "strong" as possible as you might think from the connotations of the word "strong".
That’s the thing, my timing comprises of curious but separate set of phenomenon:

- I felt the gradual rise of my hair-ends before the lumination period of lighting strike. This is most commonly documented.

- the unexplained violent rise of my hair ends at the nape of my neck rose shortly after the lumination period like within 300 meter/sec (speed of sound? or radiating electrical transference through humid air? ground-based? or pyschological? speed of nerve cells?). There are many excerpts to this account but its not common and little in the way of white papers on this.

- the rushing oncoming grass undulation is like 14 meter/second. obviously the “grasses” takes longest to transfer these electric charges. Barely any excerpts to this aspect (I seen more excerpts and photos of people being literally charred by lightning while sitting on toilet than this part).

EDIT: I have since learned that “water/air-based electron drift velocity” or “multi-phase Fermi velocity” may best describes this. arguably the moisture of each grass stalk doing electric charge transfer en masse between dew droplets or maybe even its own internal grass stalk moisture?

Liken it to a group transference of electric charges going from many cycles of water to air to water to air?

This remains a fascinating topic but in 1978 we did not have the words to this phenomenon until now.

https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2014/02/19/what-is-t...
The company is paying like $150k/mo in salaries (conservative ballpark based on 20 employees). $1k/mo at that point is a rounding error, and if in total that spend actually does move the needle on productivity in any significant way, its easily worth it.
Don't chase fads if you want stability (for that matter, chasing fads is bad if you want to be a rockstar too - its like going to the goldrush after everyone has already flocked).

Anyways, as a php dev, i can assure you im not working on whatever the popular trend is right now.
For reference: Speed cameras have an annual operating cost of ~$30,000/year.[1]

[1]: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...
I have been having real problems trying to do Google takeout with my Google Photos. I keep getting an error emailed to me saying "However, we were unable to create a copy of all your files. You can still download your files until September 25, 2022, but please be aware that there will be data missing."

Apparently I am not the only one[1][2]. Other people have a mix of errors[3]. It is not the reliable data extraction I was expecting for something as valuable as my family photos. Google is losing a lot of trust from me based on this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591630
[2]: https://sysc.org/what-is-google-takeout/
[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlephotos/comments/khited/google...
Great feedback!

The FB/Instagram channels are a pain to manage (even for us) due to the app review cycle. This is a common problem in the community. Recently we have seen many rejections in Instagram API reviews without a specific reason. Some of the alternatives the Meta developer review team suggests are also not working. We are trying to make this flow better using a hosted app or something. Open to ideas here.

We are aware of the issues with the mobile app. It is getting a revamp now, hope most of the issues are resolved by it.
Satelite.

I have 16hours allowance per day. Doesn’t load YT but loads TT with some patience.

Before that, like a year ago, we had 250MB allowance per month(!). God bless whatsapp and sites like HN.
I'm glad to see this opinion, I completely agree. People here seem to hate their commute but if you can just bike or take the metro to work it's much nicer to have a bunch of people around to hang out with!
NASA to test redirecting an asteroid to prepare for future defense
> When have you ever used the Taylor series of sine and cosine for anything (outside school) ?

I've used them a few times, mostly in the embedded space, and mostly in conjunction with lookup tables and/or Newton's method, but yes I've absolutely used them outside school (years ago, I forget the exact details).

- implementing my own trig functions for embedded applications where I wanted fine control over the computation-vs-precision tradeoff

- implementing my own functions for hypercomplex numbers (quaternions, duals, dual quaternions, and friends).

- automatic differentiation

Does the Taylor series form survive to the final application? Usually not, usually it gets optimized to something else, but "start with Taylor series and get back to basics to get a slow but accurate function" has gotten me out of several pickles. And the final form usually has some chunks of the Taylor series.
For server monitoring, Have a look at Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix
It does seem like a recipe for high inflation. But I want to understand why they chose this combination? Why play such a big gamble? There has to be some logic behind making this choice. But what is it?

Were there other safer alternatives that they could have gone with? What could be the reasons for choosing this combination over those safer alternatives?
Cracks me up that the argument now is “we’re in the same boat as Europe” when the argument for Brexit was that the EU was an anchor holding back Great Britain’s unique potential for greatness.
Ask HN: Which functional language should a newbie start with?
Hi!

As far as functional programming goes I'm a newbie. But I'm willing to put some energy there to change that.

Which language would you suggest me to start with? Specifics follow.

* Been on this line of work for about 15 years now - so not newbie in general. I can pick things up fast.

* Mostly doing systems work atm but have ventured to enterprise here and there. Just to be on the practical side I'd like a performant (low latency) language with easy concurrency primitives. (Is really anyone using fun. prog. in systems/embedded?)

* There must be (job) market value in it. So, obscure (but maybe nice) languages that have little or no market value are out of the question.

So far it seems the answer is leaning towards clojure but I can't imagine it being used to replace C in low latency projects.
I share your sentiment. Adopting each of these tools also implies adopting their roadmaps. It's a bet that your needs and their roadmaps align well in the future. Does anyone even look at that anymore when selecting vendors?
The Haas milling machine is a good example, this is an interlock for nearly ideally controlled conditions and the costs are still sizeable. Imagine for a completely uncontrolled outdoor environment, such as the entrance of a beehive, how much more expensive it would have to be.
What would be pretty cool if having housing and office space in one building.

So I could go to level 2 for work and live on level 14 for the views and hit the gym in the basement.

The office on level 2 might be my be my own personal office but yeah :)
Borges is perfect at format.

And should have gotten a Nobel prize, but didn't get it strictly because he stood by the military dictatorship in Argentina. Not the only Latin American writer who likes the military, Diego Maquieira, my godfather, who I featured on this site when he let me put one of his poems online, wrote an epic poem called Los sea harrier, based on military technology of the 80's in the Falklands War, particularly its namesake airplane the Sea Harrier and mothership aircraft carriers. The military, which believe it or not wasn't completely devoted to persecution, and further which did produce culture at the time, I've seen many military men playing in orchestras, even saw a Dongelspiel at the very end of one. They wanted to take him to Antartica, the Chilean military has a strong presence and is very dominant in Antartica. There's other right-wing intellectuals, not so much into the money as into the military aspect, like there's a 90-year-old Mussolinist who will not apologize for his fascism even in his epitaph--but check this out, he didn't buy into the racial laws, and once he saw what War was when losing saw it wasn't all that glamorous. Roman. Black-shirt youth.

But great artist, so Borges was a great writer, and in fact I would say nowadays the internet is increasingly a Borgesian library. All the way, you follow links, follow links, follow links, read some shit, decide what link is next, follow links, boom you see a list of social security numbers, and you're on it, and it has codes--who can explain the 3 digit numbers next to them? Who printed this, where does it come from? Like how can you interpret it to continue believing you're not being persecuted, it's not happening? That's when I talk my medicine from when I was considered schizophrenic, which I still get, it's a loophole. Instantly turns down the temperature. But you? What would you do, in a Borgesian library?

The Borgesian library is a reflection of yourself, there's no objectivity to it, en este mundo en que nada es verdad y nada es mentira, todo depende del color del cristal por el que uno lo mira.
In just 24 hours, HN has redefined the units of time [1] and space. Move fast, break things indeed.

What are we disrupting next? I hear the Euro is facing some stability issues.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173
Show HN: Minimal private visual search using 5B LAION images
Most of these wars do not happen in core Europe, but they come dangerously close to it: Cyprus, Bosnia, now Ukraine.

Meanwhile, East Asia or Americas just don't see that amount of action. Africa does, but that's another story.

It's like someone is throwing wars towards Europe.
> Nobody feels bad for some millionaire's private jet getting tracked

This might quickly change. Now people are somewhat routinely tracking millionaire's private jets and shaming them for what they perceive as inappropriate use. Given how the law correlates much more with the interests of the types of people owning private jets than with the interests of the average citizen, we might see attempts to get that outlawed.
And banning the use of dash cams also results in good drivers subsidizing bad drivers.
I didn't say we were did I? Sorry if I am being obtuse, I meant that a pound buys 20% fewer euros today than it did back then...
Can the same be done with hosts file (block crashlytics/sentry?) for those of us unable to use pi-holes at work?

edit: it looks like it is working, but unknown if there are any negative side-effects at this point.

└─[$] <> ping sentry.io
PING sentry.io (0.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
^C
--- sentry.io ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
is there anything ffmpeg CAN’T do?
How much power do you need to be continuously running video/snapshots, OCR software, and comms? How expensive a solar panel is needed to generate that power, will it work overnight and through the winter, and will it also be theft-resistant? What's the cost of petrol for driving 4+ hours per day? How will you get coverage in parts of the country that aren't near your home/office?
I use gh workflow cli. it works without pushing workflow to default branch. https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_workflow_run
the contracts are a yellow flag (did they not get full time employment because they lacked chops?)

I've seen this idea before but it seems like a very odd prejudice to me. Is it a particularly US-centric thing or something? Here in the UK a lot of good people in tech do independent work at some stage in their careers. Salaries for permanent employees tend to hit a ceiling. Contractors and freelancers can potentially price based on value and charge significantly more if they're worth it.
Oh! But then how do you know what it would be if we'd stayed in?
I really wish that someone would review CPUs at similar power levels, rather than TDP when there is a big difference between the two models.

Also, there is no idle power comparison, something that may also differ significantly and affect Linux.
It depends how the comp statement is written.

"Salary: $180k. RSUs: $80k (100 shares)"

VS

"Salary: $180k. RSUs: $80k"

With the former, I can easily spot check the share price and make sure it's correct. With the latter, I cannot, and take it at face value.
No, I don't have such list.

The source of the claim is from here (in Chinese) -

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2445527-1-4.html

chiphell is the largest computer parts review site in China, and that nApoleon guy posting this two batches of review story is the owner of the site.

In a more recent thread, he confirmed again that his site has completed their own review and he had read it, yet they are not allowed to post it until tomorrow.

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2446331-1-1.html

In a separate thread he posted today, he mentioned that based on their tests, the temp of the zen4 chip is always 95 degrees celsius - no matter whether you use a shitty cheap cooler or a fancy kick ass one.

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2446302-1-1.html
Learning is as much forgetting as remembering.

When I study something, I go for awhile, but eventually it becomes difficult, confusing, hard to see the forest for the trees. Particularly with technical information and skills like programming (or natural) languages.

When I come back a little bit later, I find that I only remember the things that made sense; my confusions are forgotten, and there is fresh mental space and energy to master a bit more of the terrain before I need another break.
Verizon is a bad example as they were CDMA and always more locked down
As a tech veteran, I can only say I'm surprised the list is as short as it is. You don't have a CRM? I think the way a product like Hubspot gets it's mitts into so many startups is because it offers free tiers of a lot of marketing tools (CRM, analytics, email marketing, forms).
I would point you to two different motivating examples:

* Childhood development. A child who has had early childhood adverse experiences mind is effected. A fMRI or chemical detection can see physical differences in the brain. But the brain is plastic (it can change) over time. Works on this subject have been published by Dr. Dan Siegel https://drdansiegel.com/books among others. The key insight here is that academic learning is not significantly different at a core aspect then behavioral learning.

* Physical sports/martial arts depend on a reaction time much smaller then what is afforded by going through the full frontal cortex. "muscle-memory" isn't real (it isn't "memory" as you think of it). What you have in these cases are "short-circuits" (this implies structural changes) that are able to act before you are consciously aware of what is going on. The same applies to math facts and other fundamentals, you move things away from memory that needs to be retrieved and into reaction. Reading C-syntax for programmers or signing your name is something that has been turned into structure that doesn't need "memory".

I think your initial premise is correct. We have limited memory. How do we overcome that? We write. Writing is important because with it we can overcome our natural memory limitations. You cannot think about complexities (well or clearly) if you cannot write.

The danger of writing is that you can produce something that is both irrational and nearly impenetrable to the casual reader. For example:

> Foucault's use of the concept is descriptive, that is, analytical and explanatory, and at the same time normative and critical: he describes the grip biopolitics have on individuals through technologies of power in a way that makes manifest the repression at work in these biopolitical processes.

The above, taken directly from an "academic" published journal, could be said to have meaning. Unfortunately, each one of these words has an alternate meaning that is not normative to English, making the entire (actual) meaning opaque. "contecpt" "analytical", "explanatory", "normative", "critical", "biopolitics", "individuals", "technologies", "power", "manifest", "repression", "processes" are all defined differently then a standard English dictionary. So even if you can get past the convoluted sentence structure, the intended meaning will still elude you.

But the answer to memory limitations is clear writing using common definitions of words. I bring this up because as you extend your memory beyond what it innately has, the more likely you are to fool yourself (and others) with sophistry.
Um, there’s like 300(0) years of research on this, and, really, it isn’t anything like this simple. For “recent” science you can start on volume 1 of the jep journal of learning and memory, which is like 50+ years of continuous monthly publication.
This is the worst possible example.

Learning basic QM is 90% complex differential equations and 10% physical intuition.

There is a reason why you generally don't get to introductory quantum mechanics until second year after (or while) you're doing calculus, differential equations and linear algebra.

To quote a lecture I once saw: the deepest point of any state is a mine shaft somewhere. You don't find that shaft by gradient descent.
I'm personally curious about AVX512 support in pyTorch and numpy. Numpy depends on BLAS libraries for performance, and I don't know how much dev resources are behind openBLAS (i.e. how soon I can expect performance increases), especially given that AMD is a much smaller company and doesn't spend as much as Intel on software.
A key point here is that our brains don't work like computer hard drives. Our brains are a lot closer to how, in biology, a single cell stores the entire DNA "data" that's needed to replicate but just using a few base pairs.

We likely store information more in some type of loose graph structure, where we recall / "remember" something by re-creating links to that piece of information. There seems to be very very little "storage cost" for the billions of pieces of information we keep in our brains.
How does this data connection work in practice? Sounds like you have to become an MVNO, no?
A physical SIM card is a smartcard, and in many ways is exactly like a yubikey. A yubikey even presents as a USB smartcard.

The attacks on SIM cards are not on the SIM itself, but by the carrier binding your identity to a different card. A function they must perform at least sometimes! If you lost your yubikey, I'm sure you want your replacement to be able to activate your cell phone.
If the government can't be blamed for results who can lol
You don’t think DIY or ‘scrape by without a solution’ represents a significant dependency?

Sunk cost (amongst other factors) is a gravitational force on orgs that try to get things done without the right tool for the job.

What’s an example of a thriving tech company with home grown UX tooling?
in my first exposure to emacs I had used it in high school with “C Shape Edit” as an interface to alpha_1 CAD software at the Utah CS department. Just executing lines in the buffer, and waiting for a rerender on the ultrasparc

https://www.cs.utah.edu/gdc/projects/alpha1/
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