skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That feels like it should be 100%.

It’s a matter of priority. During periods of revenue or user growth, reducing infrastructure cost may be a premature optimization. Now may be a time to focus on operational and logistical inefficiencies
That's because the infinite sum of F(n) x^n, also known as its generating function, is x/(1 - x - x^2). If you substitute x = 10^-1 you get 10/89, but also

F(1) 10^-1 + F(2) 10^-2 + F(3) 10^-3 + F(4) 10^4 + F(5) 10^5 + ...

1 * 0.1 + 1 * 0.01 + 2 * 0.001 + 3 * 0.0001 + 5 * 0.00001 + ...

So it's no surprise that the first digits of 1/89 contain the Fibonacci series as it's just 10/89 shifted by one decimal place.

The pattern breaks down eventually because you overflow a single digit. But you can delay how long until this occurs by substituting in smaller powers of 10. For example if we substitute x = 10^-3 we get 1000/998999 or

0.0010010020030050080130210340550891442333776109885995881...

I have also used this neat fact to make this golfed loopless/recursionless exact (no floating-point arithmetic) Python implementation of Fibonacci, by substituting in binary powers instead:

F=lambda n:(4<<n*(3+n))//((4<<2*n)-(2<<n)-1)&~-(2<<n)

If someone is not aware of generating functions it's essentially impossible to understand why this generates Fibonacci.
Lack of sleep is a big suspect when it comes to dementia accelerators.
This. However if I do not hit space in between words every time, an autocorrect function replaces at random times the word I’m typing/sliding now plus the word I typed before by some utter nonsense combination. I hate this so much, but I have not found a way to turn it off. Autocorrect is off.
The UI is completely jumbled on mobile. I can't even tell what this page is supposed to be
There's a saying that I can't quite remember, so I'll just say it in my own words: reward people based on a metric, and that metric becomes their main concern. Worse still, they will learn to game the metric.

Building a new system that doesn't have a baseline cost? If the cost saving bonus is based on a reduction in existing cost then you don't get rewarded for a new implementation. The business don't have a baseline cost yet. So what do you do? Build it to run at a higher price, run it for a few months and then cut costs.

Also, is the reverse true? Deny bonus if costs rise. Because if it is, then the engineer has to prove that the increases are directly related to increased customer activity. But what if increases aren't relative to customer spend? Etc
How the World Will Know If Russia Is Preparing to Launch a Nuke
Too bad it's all mostly junk though.
Improving the quality of the schools wouldn't necessarily lead to people volunteering to desegregate themselves.
I think anyone who ever came down with a mystery disease has their own despair inducing stories about doctors. Negligence and ignorance seem to be the default mode most doctors operate in. But who can blame them? The average doctor probably has direct contact with 100-200 patients a week. How are you supposed to keep up empathy, curiosity and energy with those numbers?
So now any wikipedia page is now worthy of a hackernews post?
You'd think there would be investors popping up left and right to improve it, because offering 500 Mbps in an area where you can only get 3 Mbps is sure to sell.

Is this where the weird dichotomy between the US being on the one side very liberal for businesses yet on the other very restrictive? (the restrictive being protectionist practices from the established companies in this case)
in a few generations, phones won't have keyboards anymore, "you don't need that, we'll show you what you need to see"
And evidently I'm not allowed to swear. "Fuck" gets unfailingly "corrected" to "duck" -- even if I spell it out.
Have you tried Soulseeek?
Possibly you could try https://files.scene.org/
I forget where I got the idea, but when I write goals, I write out a list of everything I might want to make a goal, and then having ordered and selected the ones I want to achieve, I mark the remainder as "anti-goals" -- eg, my goal is to _not_ do them. My anti-goals this year include improving my Thai, improving my squat weight, and taking on a position of responsibility in any organization...
Yeah, we were aware that it is beta (I host a private server as well.), but decided that Dendrite probably is the best way to future-proof the solution.
Most of the quirks I have seen seems to be with federation, but since we don't federate the company server, that is not an issue.

There have been some avatars missing in the contact list, notification indicator when there aren't any new notifications and other small stuff. Nothing major really, works great!
Especially since you have weekly releases with plenty of fixes.
I'll keep an eye open for bugs and drop by #dendrite!

Awesome job with the software, looking forward to the coming releases!
Hard agree. One of my biggest pet peeves is how the iPhone will correctly guess a swiped word and then change the prior word to an incorrect guess when the next word is swiped. Now you have to look at both the word that was just guessed and the word immediately preceding it.
> I’m going to look into more exercise - which is surprisingly hard to do when you always feel tired.

I've recently-ish started a regular, albeit quite light, weights routine. Strangely (or maybe not), feeling tired hasn't at all correlated with my ability to do the same number of reps and sets as when I'm feeling energised. The feeling of tiredness doesn't seem connected to actual muscle fatigue, it seems to be more mental tiredness, and therefore will power, or discipline, or mental strength seems to be more likely what's needed to get into an exercise routine.

Ie. Don't let yourself get away with saying that you're too tired, it's likely a different kind of tired than the one that will hold back exercise.

I've actually felt less tired coming out of a session than going in (endorphins, adrenaline effects etc.)

(with the disclaimer that this is very much a subjective, your-mileage-may-vary kind of situation, and also I'm speaking from entirely outside of your experience of always feeling tired)
I enjoy both 2D and 3D pinballs but your YouTube link reminds me of "Revenge of the gator" [1] on Game Boy which was one of my favorite game at the time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeoPSPm4kw
Bread is the body, the structure. Wine is the blood, the vitality and mortality. So the yeast should be in the wine, not the bread, if you don't want to mix things up.

Also, leavened bread does not stay fresh as long.
I wish I could find archives of RelayNet [1], also called RIME, a BBS network similar to FidoNet back in the 1990s. I posted a lot back then as a teen, but have absolutely no records of it, and as far as I know, nobody has ever archived much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RelayNet
Not very I'm sure; for space tech, they tried Concorde, too expensive. for electric tech, companies are working on electric airplanes but that too is still far away - despite the huge drop in the cost of battery tech for example that in part Tesla was responsible for.
Hah, got it. I use uMatrix, which spoofs the http referer header. Google apparently does not like that:

// API callback
webgoogle({
"error": {
"code": 403,
"message": "Requests from referer https://www.googleapis.com/ are blocked.",
"errors": [
{
"message": "Requests from referer https://www.googleapis.com/ are blocked.",
"domain": "global",
"reason": "forbidden"
}
],
"status": "PERMISSION_DENIED",
"details": [
{
"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
"reason": "API_KEY_HTTP_REFERRER_BLOCKED",
"domain": "googleapis.com",
"metadata": {
"service": "customsearch.googleapis.com",
"consumer": "projects/blabla"
}
}
]
}
}
);
IMO that adult isolation is a bit of a choice. What I've seen happen is other parents socialize with other parents with kids of a similar age. Two moms who both have babies visit each other and hang out, etc.
I already have one, I just don't assumed it is the same for everybody else ; )
It's not in any way morally equivalent to theft. To say so shows extreme ignorance. It's not theft to record my tv shows and skip the commercials. That argument was tried and lost. Ad block is just commerical skipping.

If you don't want to display your site to people running ad block then don't display it. Don't lie and make false equivalency.
16 minutes in and I'm hooked. Very interesting!
Does the iPhone not have an easy way to switch between keyboards? I just swipe left/right on the space bar to switch between Norwegian and English keyboards - but my phone isn't an iphone.
Eight RTX 4090s could crack most passwords in 48 minutes
Tangential, but to 1.: Isn't RCS just built upon TCP/IP and SIP? Why can't you just implement it in user space? Or does it need to send some magic packets through the modem? It is really hard to find details on the protocol.
I've used an iPhone 13 pro to try it out. I think just making the column on the right about half the width that it's right now would go a long way.
It's just there to show me that I can swipe to the right, not to actually be readable. Right now it takes up to much space as an indicator, but too little to convey information. I think that's what's bothering me.

I could probably get used to the main column being off-center pretty quickly, so it's really just the width of the right column.
No one’s arguing that Russia is a rational actor. Wouldn’t you feel more comfortable if you had a commander in chief in the US who didn’t appear half senile?
Quoting from the translation:

"""
With the new shareholders on board, Hex-Rays must evolve from an engineering company to a commercial company. “After the takeover, we want to structure the company, develop a commercial team and a management team and continue internationalization,” say Ingels and Luyten.

The intention is to transform the current commercial model of perpetual licenses into a recurring model. In the first model, customers pay a large amount at the start and then annually for updates and maintenance. The other includes an annual payment for the license and all associated services.

Hex-Rays' next growth phase will be led by a new CEO, who will take over from Guilfanov. He will eventually become chief technology officer (CTO) of the Liège company and chairman of the board of directors.
"""
Isn't PreCheck supposed to lessen that a bit?

I don't think "security" is going to be lessened in our lifetime, if anything it can only get worse. Disrupting the space would take an insane amount of money you don't have. People who have money, can fly private.
Isn't the point of C-- to be an IR, easily compileable to assembly on the target?
It's only been a year, and per your own source there's already upwards of 20% adoption. Seems rather premature to declare it to be a failure.
Nope. after this even more people would move into SF increasing the homeless population and the demand for low income housing. Or do you actually believe that the majority of homeless people in SF grew up there?
I watched one Jordn Pterson video. I had to reset my history to get them to stop showing up on my home page. Not interested doesnt' work, don't recommend channel doesn't work (there are too many jp channels).
Most in need is a superlative expression. Yet there is no analysis why these fraud victims are in fact, "most in need".

It's a poor form of rhetorical exaggeration because everyone knows it's either true tautologically or it's not strictly true and someone can nitpick an example to prove it.

The problem identified by the article is that specific state issued EBT cards don't have chips in them.

What does that have to do with why card skimming affects those most in need? That's just a method of fraud. It does affect needy people, but what are the proprtions?

You expect, based on the title that the article will examine proportions of fraud experienced by peoples of different vulnerabilities. Which is uninteresting to me. California being too lazy to issue EBT cards with chips is much more interesting.
I'm confused as to the intended audience for this. It's not a textbook. In the bits I looked at it doesn't attempt to teach the material, just banging out definitions and theorems.

Also, the table of contents doesn't have hyperlinks to the actual content, which makes navigation a massive annoyance. Similarly, there aren't hyperlinks to the references.

An impressive amount of work went into this, but why?
> until they strike it rich on a single one.

and THEN they will start a nice side business where they brag about their success and what they did to ensure it - re-emphasising the survivorship bias.
> I suppose my church chose it because they wanted to have communion with thousands of people.

I suspect the driving force behind them (especially the last couple of years) is the issue of communicable disease with a shared cup, not convenience/scale. Churches that do shared cup tend to have to suspend it during intense flu seasons, and the COVID pandemic forced extended suspension of the practice in most churches.
"Ah, it'll be a joke programming language. Someone probably made a joke about C++ and then someone with too much time on their hands actually wrote an implementation of the language."

(Reads the page.)

"Oooh. Interesting."
Goodhart's law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
In reality, good ideas are the next lifeline to survival.

It's an interesting read, but seemingly written from a privileged
perspective. My experience in business was that every good idea
counts, since one is constantly forced to adapt. You must make the
bandwidth to listen to them all, prioritise, select and filter - to
understand what informed people are trying to tell you about the
situation. Basic leadership "openness/receptive" stuff really. That
includes warnings that you think you know better about. Lot's of good
ideas are negative and one should still heed them. In the story
there's one great idea: "Never get into catering POS with table
management". That would have been a good idea to listen to early
(smugly proclaimed with hindsight - but no less true).
First class has its own levels I think, just because you spend 10k for a flight you're not going with a limo directly under the plane without any wait in the airport. Some airports do have shortcuts though, that's true.
I know about LibreELEC and Kodi/XMBC because I used them years ago. I didn't know about Emby, suggested in another reply. I'm a little wary about those systems especially if backed by a company. Maybe they'll go fully commercial or shut down and I'll have a system to rebuild and relearn. I don't see much value in those interfaces, I won't pay for one. I prefer a bare file system and VLC. They'll be available forever.
The other side is always propaganda, and our side is always the truth: got it.
Funded Curl Improvements
TypeScript-JSON: Super-fast Runtime validators and JSON.stringify() function
That's unlikely unless said media changes ownership away from those with a vested interest in preserving the legacy global financial system.
What is the friendliest place for pirate archivists now?
At least the ODROID M1 is still available around $100, including NPU, SATA, M.2 NVME and 4/8Gb RAM.
https://valep.vc.univie.ac.at/virtualarchive/public/Archive/...

Sorry, I didn't have it at the time. It should be the same as the one SPBS has posted above.
I appreciate your comment.

We sang this in 6th grade, and even then I understood the devastating lyrics (I didn't see my dad much, b/c he had to work long hours and weekends+nights as a young resident->doctor). I knew even then that this song would be my truth.

Over three decades later, I love my dad but I only see him a few times a year for a few days each, and we don't talk much on the phone much.

"But we'll get together then, son."
The Journeyman Project?
http://thejourneymanproject.com/
Thank you for sharing this; this is very useful context. I wonder if it would have reduced the outcry from their initial blog post if they'd included these examples.
You have made the thing I’ve been wanting to make for ages. Well done, and thank you!
Does it use the Google/apple push notification services under the hood? If not, how do you avoid the OS killing your background process to save power?

If you do use the Google/apple push notifications, who pays the bill for those?
Tree Search in Haskell
> still cheaper than hiring your own people to rebuild what they've already done

That's plain false. Cloud companies are charging significant markups.

> except taking much longer and usually ending up with worse service ... it's a waste of resources to build your own ... Cloud services are so commoditized

All incorrect generalizations. Plenty of companies have capable engineers running their own services for cheaper. Do the math.
You've done nothing to refute my point and so it still stands.

I pay GitHub / Microsoft to host my code, and that's all I expect them to do with it, host it, as securely as possible. It sounds like Microsoft are doing more than this so what's your actual deal...if you have one?
He does :) hope he doesn't mind me sharing from his Patreon:

> I myself don't even own any traditional watches, so the topic was very new to me. Thankfully, it was easy to understand the gist of how mechanical watches work just from watching some YouTube videos and I decided to give the topic a go.

If you subscribe -- you should subscribe!! -- you can read his "making of" posts which are also fascinating. I don't think he's a domain expert in anything he's written about, he just does a ton of research and only produces a few articles per year.
Despite my A-level in philosophy, I have no idea what the difference between those might be. Every example sentence I just thought of, I can substitute "moral" for "ethical" or vice versa without changing the meaning.

I then googled just in case I might have missed something, but it says "ethical" is "relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these", so again…
Or maybe branch-and-bound? Useful but not that mathematical.
If this has been working correctly for many years, how is it that we still lose planes? :(

Isn't such connection bulletproof for the trajectory of the plane, even if simply passively tracking?
They don't last forever... But they are still there. They still take time and energy, probably at a point in life where you can do absolutely everything but have to choose. It also has an impact on your health, because you can't live 3-4 years with short nights and not have an effect on you. It still costs money. It still takes up some of your nights to do something else.

As a non-parent, and someone who doesn't want to be, you sound like someone saying "it's not so bad". Which it probably is, but I'm still not convinced the good outweighs the bad, and I probably never will
Saw the big, hard to exit pop-up and clicked away :-(
This is an argument I’ve heard over and over again throughout my coding career, especially from JavaScript and PHP developers. Interestingly enough there was a noticable overlap between this mindset and “clever” code, comprised of endless chaining, nested statements and/or internal recursion. They also never wrote code comments – at all. The defense being: “I think this way and its easier for me!” Regarding comments: “The code IS the documentation!”

Of course, they were never around 6 months later to prove if they still understood their gobbledygook then. They never had to refactor anything.

I have very rarely encountered a piece of code that would be hard to fit into 80 characters width while being readable. In fact, if done correctly, it forces you to break stuff up into manageable pieces and simple statements, to be explicit and often verbose.

But if this runs counter to a messy, ego-centric style a developer is used to and there’s no one to reign them in, it’s what you get.
I wish all implementations would at least accept one previous generation. It sucks having to either wait for the next code or try to input before the timeout if it is close.
They probably knew to bind off the limb.
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Not Just a Big Fish, but Perhaps the Biggest Bony Fish Ever
Am I hearing you right? What's that about (I just took the site for what it was as a first-time visitor)?
[Typed on an iPhone]

I think this may be false memories. The iPhone keyboard was utterly miraculous back in 2008 and was improved upon with software revisions and larger screens.

I really think that 14 years later we’ve all forgotten how magical it is that capacitive touch keyboards work as well as they do. Now that we no longer see it as magic we have less patience for it whenever it does the wrong thing.

As far as I can tell, typing on it right now, the current keyboard seems to me as good as it has ever been.
Those traces might not be distinguishable after seven years of bone remodeling.
Put the 5 year old on your shoulders and make it twice the workout :p
Some parts were taken from their repo. Others are added like app-level authorization, a realtime engine using a c++ lib used by trading platforms, an option to sync some tables to a search database. edge functions are way down the roadmap but i plan to replace it with a js/ts one instead of a deno one.

I want it to be easily deployable to other cloud providers. Initially as monoliths which is ideal for small projects, then eventually as microservices that scale well for larger projects.
To see how silly that comment is, compare to: "So now any web page is now worthy of a hacker news post?" The answer to both comments is the same, and is in the HN guidelines.
This is the mode I am in with my kid. Got him started on making and coding at a very early age and he took to it. He's 12 now and doing some significant things with Python, 3D printing and Arduino; the latter two were new to me so I picked up a couple of cool hobbies. He's an avid reader so I keep filled a pipeline of good books for him, and I read them first which means I'm filling in gaps in my own education of books I should have read in high school. We went to home schooling when Covid hit and that has worked out very well.

But...
I am older and I retired early (tech was very good to me) so I have full time to spend with him. That doesn't work for people early in their careers.
I use fleksy keyboard. Everything is easier that way.
> I amortized servers with an average server lifetime of 3 years

That's a mistake.
>What was advanced auto supposed to do? Hire a person specifically for cleaning the parking lot?

That's for the business owner to figure out, why would OP even want to concern himself with stuff like this?
Taking off my paranoid "youtube hates my side" hat for a moment, the only mechanism by which I can imagine a neutral algorithm would end up displaying this sort of behaviour would be if it learned that users consuming conservative media are more likely to be pulled into a rabbit hole, or that conservative videos are more likely to pull users into a rabbit hole (or, of course, a combination of the two).

Having watched a good amount of videos from both political sides, this doesn't seem the least bit surprising.
The Great Levelling
And how come neither Google nor Samsung keyboards capitalize the I? Really folks, you call that ML and also put it in your CV?
Yup, same here and I'm on Android. I'm in my late-twenties and have spent most of my life on mobile devices and keyboards like most people here. Over the last couple of years I've been getting frustrated to no end by the exact things you're talking about. I always have to retype words, basic things get auto-corrected to capitalized, proper noun versions that make no sense in context, etc. I'm starting to think that the older folks that dictate their text via microphone have the right idea.
Doesn't surprise me at all that the nuclear fan-community here is playing dirty.
> Turning RCS into their own private messaging platform on Android has to be peak Google.

While at the same time pushing this "Apple is bad because green bubble" narrative because Apple doesn't support it. It's somewhat amusing in some ways. Companies (Google or Apple) are never on the consumers side, and yet we fall for it all the time.