skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more efficient way to search possible fractions close to π is via continued fraction. Then you can have a sequence that has increasing larger denominator where all are approximately π.
Each of the fraction there would be closest to π in the nearby region (nearby in the sense that if you change the size of denominator slightly, and at the same time the numerator accordingly.)
So this is close to what your getting at, just not with exhaustive search and an artificial constraint (say 10000)
Just report these bad apps to google playstore, and get them taken down for D.O.S.ing your website.

Google playstore will remove them.

Trust in the process.
There is some overlap here with a recent article in The Atlantic article that makes the case for delaying the start of school for boys:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/boys-de...
I completely agree with you on the overworked part, though it's a delicate situation if you're their direct manager and have to rely on them to report how much work they are doing. It happens (a lot more than we're willing to accept I think), and it becomes more a discussion on management than on the employee per se.

On the other parts, it might be a cultural difference: I'd expect all of those to be handled by HR.

For instance, specific work time adjustments, additional rest time due to a physical or psychological condition, family issues etc. are delicate and potentially private matter that go beyond the manager's supervision. The manager needs to be notified of the resulting discussions, but I wouldn't expect them to get all the details directly from the employee for instance.

That's also where the abuse of sick leave becomes a delicate issue to address at the manager level: companies have policies on how you justify the sick leave (doctor notes, medical bills etc.) or they let it open to the employee's judgement call. The former is clear cut, and abusing it means faking papers, so it's straight in HR territory. The later is more tricky, but I'd hate to be in a position where I have to hear the employee's story and decide if it's fake or not, potentially putting a the target on my back if the employee gets punished for actual issues I underestimated. It feels like a real shitty position to be in, I'd probably not bother confronting the employee except if they have literally dozens of sick leave days available.
Virtually nobody has a problem with individualized genetic treatment. We already have gene therapy, even customized gene therapy. Treating a hearing disorder, even before birth, is not particularly controversial (at least, no more controversial than any hearing treatments).

That’s discrete from eugenics as popularly understood, which involves large-scale engineering of the gene pool across generations. There’s general scientific consensus that the latter doesn’t even work, and near universal consensus that it’s unethical.
At least it’s not stuck at just 2X like YouTube. I wish there was a universal playback speed control as a device setting.
Personal attacks; that’s not very common here. However, enlighten me to this perceived misunderstanding?
I assume that doing this technique with a computer and a camera could achieve really good accuracy - you really just need a zoomed image showing the horizon and some stars in a few directions, and by averaging across hundreds of stars you ought to be able to achieve perhaps 1/100th of a pixel of precision, which works out to 1.8 meters of position accuracy. Modern tech can see stars even in daylight too.

I wonder why that technique isn't used instead of GPS - back in the 70's before GPS was deployed, it surely must have been an attractive option.

Even today, in warzones with GPS blocked, it seems like a good option.
It'll just chip away at the roles, it's not realistic to replace them for the reasons you've listed. However the point being made is that the expensive jobs are a more attractive target.

That said I think AI/automation will still be involved, instead I imagine it'll be like what we already see with support/call centers:

All the routine easy to manage items get sent to automation, while the complicated issues actually go through to a human.
Some people just talk too much and say little. That also kills the train of thought of everyone else.

The private school culture only works in the artificial setting of a school or another formal setting and is the equivalent of written comment threads, like this one
And the consequences of that are what precisely? For that matter, what would the consequences be if it wasn't true?
> Put me in physics class, technical drawing, cooking, math, I focused and did really well. Every other class was boring and non stimulating and so I acted up.

Being able to focus (sometimes to self-destructive levels) on things we enjoy are as much a part of ADD as being chronically unable to focus on things we find boring.
This is a very vague response. I’m not really sure what it’s supposed to say — of course scientists are affected by the cultures they live in. But eugenics is not even good science, much less a popular social opinion. I believe that’s true just about everywhere.
In practice the EU has already got rid of this rule in almost every area, for that exact reason. However, it means that the arguments for leaving the EU get stronger. It used to be that a good answer to opposition to the EU was "but they can't force us to do anything because there's a veto". Now it's very far from that.

It's that exact trend that led to Brexit in the first place - your comment shows why it's problematic perfectly. EU supporters see it as a way to force left wing politics onto populations that otherwise would reject it.
Underrated comment. I’m all for precisely modeling domain and I/O errors. But for “this is a bug” type of exceptions, what good do all those tiny variations (and the resulting philosophical debates about when to use which one) do, if all that changes in practice is the text of log message? You’ll never catch that one specifically or treat it any differently than an ArgumentNullException — or any other of the zillion already existing ones.
Everything worth having in life involves some risk - you could have a heart attack or a stroke the next minute, your wife/husband could cheat on you/leave you, the company you work for could implode and go bankrupt, and so on.

What about the risk of forever regretting that you didn't even try? Everyone has to decide for themselves what level of risk they are ok with (I'm not going to do base jumping, for instance :D), but if you want a "safe" life, you have to stay indoors, live like a hermit, and forego all human contact ;)
I think I've never had a burn-out. I would say it's important to strictly manage your boundaries. Make sure you control what gets onto your plate. Make sure the load on your plate is within your comfort zone.
Nuclear reactors become preferred targets during military conflict and, over the past three decades, have been repeatedly attacked during military air strikes, occupations, invasions and campaigns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability_of_nuclear_plant...

So yes, power plants are probable targets in war.
I prefer wait style, but I don't mind occasional interruptions so long as they are very brief and immediately yield control back to the original talker. Like:

---

A: We just got a new shipment of XYZs, we need to --

B: Woa woa sorry, what's a XYZ again?

A: It's a type of ABC.

B: Right, okay.

A: Anyway, we need to ...

---

In that exchange, it's still implicitly A's turn even when B is speaking; B is just "borrowing" the turn and has to give it back quickly. I wouldn't find this rude; B just did it so he wouldn't be bamboozled by the unfamiliar term in the rest of the conversation. But if B had interrupted and started off down on his own topic, like how in his opinion it's a bad idea to buy XYZs and we should make our own instead, that would be rude. That's stealing A's turn, not borrowing.
Tesla Drops as Musk Says Demand ‘A Little Harder’ to Come By
How is the sun going to be in the same place at 4am and 4pm.
You just drew the connection: like Lysenkoism, eugenics is not good science. It’s reactionary sociology and political ideology wrapped in the language of genetics.

Because it isn’t good science, it isn’t clear what the Chinese have to benefit from it. That’s their mistake to make, not unlike the Soviets with Lysenkoism. But that doesn’t suggest that we should blindly copy their mistake.
Web content is for consumption by people.
Maybe instead of wasting energy to mine crypto, one could waste human potential instead.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221020095951/https://www.nytim...
The damage done is far greater than the gain to the thief.
IBM’s AI Accelerator: This Had Better Not Be Just a Science Project
Astronomers searched for microlensing events from black holes or similar dark objects, but did not see so many.
One of the problem is the constant use of the word "eugenics". Whatever will emerge as a result of current and future biological research, is not going to resemble old school eugenics from times when even the DNA wasn't understood.

You have a lot of results that are used in practice already today. Embryos in IVF are genetically screened to weed out serious issues, and so are often developing foetuses in natural pregnancies. Certain countries have genetic counseling to reduce frequency of locally important diseases such as Tay-Sachs.

Aren't these methods of preventing human suffering valuable?
doesn't look too out of the ordinary to me. Sometimes there's just randomly waves of them.
I'm 100% in interrupt culture. When I interact with people from wait culture it's pretty bad experience for me because not being interrupted feels for me like not being listened, understood or like nobody cares what I'm saying. Occasionally it seems even cruel when I'm mistaken at the beginning of my thread but they silently let me go on with stating my erroneous conclusions from false premise. Only then to hear that all my input was sheer garbage.

The only two people from wait culture I've met were from management (they were just my friends, I had no professional relationship with them).

I think wait style must have been pretty natural for them because they are used to nobody saying anything to them while they are talking and maybe even untill explicitly asked. And since they are nice people they mirrored that in their behavior.
Averaging two rational approximations whose errors have opposite signs always yields an approximation with lower error and a bigger denominator than either "parent", making good approximations easy to find.
If someone is explaining a process and uses a term that I'm not sure I understand (eg. 'upsetting' in blacksmithing or 'sparging' in brewing) they are quite literally wasting their breath and our time. That information is not going to get integrated in my mind unless I am able to guess a close approximation.

This is number 1 and I completely agree with the grandparent comment. If someone gets irritated about me interrupting just to ask for clarification then I'll have to ask them to explain the term then repeat themselves or just pretend that I understood what they said.
> Still, a circle would have been better because you could have trains going both directions

In this case couldn't you just walk across the street and take the opposite direction train? I may be misinterpreting the idea in my mind, but it seems like it could be treated as an extremely long, skinny ellipses (this sentence begs for a math nerd to comment with the correct terms.)

You could even have multiple (or 60 each way, oil tycoon style) trains if utilizing tunnels and overhangs for people to 'walk through' the lines of running trains.
> why does lisp persist with its horrible user-unfriendly syntax?

why persists lisp if user-unfriendly else horrible syntax?

sounds more like python :)
How do you instruct BLOOM? Does it need fine-tuning?
Sure, when government and big tech cooperate, especially off the books, all bets are off. But if one is comparing what a tech company can do with your data versus a government obviously a tech company is less of a threat even in the specific case of it giving your data to a government. It's still the government that's going to send the goon squad after you.
I remember from a long time ago something about an image that was corrupted, and did some self referral internally so you could crash applications through out of memory issues even though the image was only a couple of kilobytes. I might have to find it again to serve to hotlinkers!
> There’s general scientific consensus that the latter doesn’t even work

This is completely false to such an extent that I've read it several times to see if I've misunderstood.

Humans have been breeding new varieties of plants and animals for millenia. Compare modern bananas to their ancient ancestors[1] or the modern chihuahua to its wolf ancestors. Heck, you can have substantial changes in just a dozen generations if your selective pressure is strong (or even one, if you sterilize every single light skinned person the next generation will be much darker skinned).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_type#/media/File%3AInsi...
Wafer Cleaning Becomes Key Challenge in Manufacturing 3D Structures
How I make my rugs
Analyzing 4.6M mentions of climate change on Reddit using DuckDB
In Java, usually an Error like AssertionError is used for those cases.

By example, for a switch on an enum, the compiler inserts a "throw new ...Error()" automatically when the default case is not specified.
> With jupyter and spyder I have been bitten by lingering obsolete state from re-running cells or code blocks various time. I find the program much easier to debug if it runs on a clean slate and builds all the state from scratch.

Hm, reading this just made my brain connect the reasons I don't like Jupyter with the reason I am baffled by people who like Smalltalk. An image that you can't fully restart just... doesn't seem like a pleasant development environment.
I've had interest in trying this dev flow out, but I haven't been able to determine how it would work for multiple projects that work in concert.

For example, a web dashboard project with its own backend that also communicates with an API, which is a separate project.

Does Gitpod (or Codespaces) support projects (repositories) that work together?
I merely pointed out that the "don't reinvent the wheel" knee-jerk reflex that some people are exhibiting in a broad range of situations is an absurd absolute. Negating something and then stating it as an absurd absolute does not prove nor contradict the original proposition.

Sometimes it's more economical to reinvent some wheel than not to, sometimes it's not.

Sometimes reinventing a wheel leads to a net-improvement in the state of the art of engineering, sometimes it doesn't.

That sort of relativism makes for boring reading, but it also happens to be the truth.
I think this post is simplistic. Chess does not have anything to do with what most middle-managers do and I don't see AI manage humans with more depth, it has to become sentient first essentially. I think for AI to replace most middle managers it has to get really smart, understand problems instantly and assess their consequences. This is something we can't do and I think we will rather see better robots first since their environment is more constrained.

But for "humans as resources" we are already seeing this. If the task is repetitive, clearly defined then we have something like gig-economy where some middle managers are absent. Nobody dispatches uber-drivers, it's all automated.
Honestly I have never experienced anything political officially from the Arch Linux team and I have been using it for five years. They have always been pretty pragmatic as they say, and technical choices are not political in the sense we are talking about (or could be in some cases like licenses, but Arch Linux lets you do pretty much whatever you want).
Why 50K DAUs is a more accurate number of users in Decentraland metaverse
One lesson I guess many people (I for one) learned over the years: never ever serve anything directly on your domain, always use a subdomain. You never know which part you'll want to move off of your server...
Most genocides in history didn't rely on any data (Caesar or Genghis Khan certainly didn't run any population analysis before putting entire cities to the sword) and most databases have never been used for a genocide. The correlation is weak.

What actually prevents genocides is good institutions, not deliberate ignorance.
Can still possibly be healthcare. Even on a floor with 20+ patients, you only need one RN and one CNA on the floor (I’ve seen skeleton crews like that).

Those facilities didn’t even stock up on face masks before Covid, so believe me when I say they know how to run a tight budget.
The, this brings up a very, very interesting question, people have stolen code or leaked it into public repositories, and Microsoft are building a product that references that code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33272560
Just blackhole every request originating from India. After a while the developers will ask why their users are mad that they get ads all the time.

You then give them the finger, tell them to get their lists elsewhere, or pay for access due to their incompetency.

They will just have to do the needful.
The Morning Brew #3568
The influencers are lying to us
Cloud that we have today makes sense for companies and businesses and is quite mature. But we are in the early days of the _Personal_ Cloud. For personal apps (Instagram, Photoshop, Health apps, Notes etc), a new kind of cloud needs to emerge - which should look a bit like solidproject.org, IPFS, Dropbox and OneDrive.

Why not iCloud and OneDrive as they exist today? The problem is that sharing is very primitive and basic on those systems. There's no way for someone to build an Instagram or FaceBook on iCloud.
Bringing Occam's razor into the mix, it may not not be a Bootcamped Windows install running Mac in a VM running Windows, which is running a browser-based MacOS emulator.
Oh if something /ever/ begged to be goatse'd
Am I understanding correctly that the concern is syntax based? If so, why not build a wrapper over the existing shell language? If not, can you please clarify?
Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff have researched and written about possible quantum processes in the brain's microtubules.
wow. mind=blown
Same thing as looking at a picture of a mountain range vs actually being there. A 2d array of backlit pixels doesn't really convey much of the magic. Watching a box match (or any sport) on TV vs being there, attending a concert vs spotify. Real life will always provide more
If you have to repeatedly modify "predictive" theory to match observation, then it was not predictive in first place. The situation with MOND appears much worse than for example Planck's theory for blackbody radiation. He revised it once and that was it.

Generally I don't get this splitting hairs. Things that we can only observe but can't reproduce in lab are not a science then?
Future Cryptoeconomics Magazine #1 PDF download
Here is the download link for the PDF version of "Future Cryptoeconomics" with the permission of RIAT Institute (the publishers). Content is under CC license.

* Fork the Institutions (Matthias Tarasiewicz)
* Seize your rights with the force of crypto (interview with Andreas A. Antonopoulos)
* Disassembling the truth machine (Jaya Klara Brekke)
* Rules enforced by cryptography (interview with Josh Stark)
* How to talk about serious matters of complexity with models as agents (Shintaro Miyazaki)
* Cryptoeconomics and experiments in token sales (interview with Vitalik Buterin)
* The advent of digital persons (Ozan Polat & Benedikt Schuppli)
* Paralelni Polis (interview with Jan Hubik)

https://riat.at/future-cryptoeconomics/
It went even further north. Finland is the true successor state of the Holy Roman Empire

https://i.imgur.com/tolQ9ih.png

(As this is the internet I have to mention that this is indeed a joke and not even a very good one)
Well, if you believe that life is worth being experienced as it's pretty unique as far as experiences goes, it's normal to expect to be okay with giving that to your child isn't it? I think most people think of life as a net positive.

There's a song where I'm from with a funny line about that - Life is short, but it's long in small stretches.
We’re talking about humans, not bananas. Similarly, the implication with eugenics is that we can somehow improve general human intelligence or other desirable traits, not fruit bearing capacity. The scientific consensus is that we don’t even know what general intelligence is, much less which complex of genes produce it.

Edit: and, to be clear: the reason we can successfully breed bananas (or dogs) with desirable traits is because we aggressively cull the undesirable traits. I assume you understand what this would imply in human beings, and why this is unacceptable.
> Matter just isn't there yet, and doesn't mandate local only

I was under the impression that it does make ability to do only mandatory?
Well, eyes are actually very useful for doing science, I think.
There's enough light to see without street lights.
i checked the link and it said "enable" meaning i had installed it sometime ago and disabled it and i don't remember doing either. strange
A C&D not coming from either a law firm or at least a big company is likely to go straight to the trash.
Too much work. Just blackhole all requests originating from India in the firewall, as a start.
Pretty simple to put 1B people into the same drawer, for a few bad apples. Think about what that would mean if the world applied that to (say) the US...
I do let my IDE register NotImplementedExceptions as TODOs, which is not really desired for things that should not be reachable.
Same, I have no love for the Saudis but will cheer on anyone trying bold new projects, watching the usual tired old negativity from experts who clamour out of the woodwork to say something will never work only makes me want it to succeed more. I remember when everyone on earth knew for sure how SpaceX would fail.

Terrorist affiliated tribesmen who the Jordanian government ban tourists from visiting out of safety fears are a strange bedfellow for western world moralisers desperate to make other people hate this thing.
"There’s general scientific consensus that the latter doesn’t even work"

Genetic counseling such as "when two people have the same recessive gene coding for a serious disease, they shouldn't have kids together" works very well and is used in many countries to suppress prevalence of various diseases.

The first country to introduce a program to suppress Tay-Sachs this way was actually Israel, the home country of Holocaust survivors. If they can tolerate it, so can the rest of the world.
Exactly. How are you supposed to code review something that lives in RAM?
>as not they were entertainment paid to be there by Defcon organizers

You sound worryingly paranoid. I've become friends with several of them and I assure you they are real people and not some paid actors. As if DC, which relies on volunteers to load and unload workshop equipment, could afford such nonsense. Also met a couple ex-Dark Matter employees who told me crazy stories about the crash and burn lifestyle they afforded ex-NSA guys in the UAE.
There are three different approaches to sending emails from SQL Server. We explain how each of them works with screenshots and code samples.
How to Search a Kanji Online
“Voice biomarker” tech analyzes your voice for signs of depression
In your case, for the `main` element. Note that I was referring to desktop browsers gestures (Chromium), but that might help with mobile ones as well.
Funding has nothing to do with the schools. A single disruptive student can shut down a class.

Within a school district, teachers are assigned. They rarely get the school they want. So for any given school, an entire district has the same pool of teachers. And yet some schools are much worse than others.