skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the statistics can also be deceiving if presented like that, just like you said if people don’t stop and think about which specific birds they kill.

For example let’s say windmills kill 100,000 birds a year and let’s say that is 0.1% of all birds. That looks acceptable. Well 90,000 of those might be seagulls and represent perhaps 1% of seagulls and 9,000 might be eagles representing perhaps 50% of all eagles.

I pulled these numbers out of a hat but all that to say we shouldn’t lump rare birds together with abundant ones.
I've always loved brainstorming sessions but I have also noticed they often don't produce much in the way of results. I attribute this to the fact that nobody else (except me) would prepare for the sessions. Ideally the session would be announced a week or a month in advance, and people would be told to think about the problem and come up with some possible ideas or interesting aspects of the problem. Then at the actual session there is something to discuss. Too often people felt overwhelmed with meetings and would just show up and try to come up with ideas on the spot, which never worked well. Retreats are closer to my ideal and they seem to work better than brainstorming sessions. Weekly brainstorming sessions when you have months to come up with new ideas can work well also since they tend to start building on the best ideas that come up.
One single nuke at high altitude can cause a big EMP without any land damage:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse
Maybe some other network will take over one day, but it doesn’t seem to be on the horizon, and until then Facebook’s network effect is a helluva moat.
No, Android is perfect for Googles monetization. This is why Apple wasn't able to fsck them like they did Meta.

Building their own platforms was a brilliant idea that made Google resilient against competition owning their Ad delivery platforms.

This has nothing to so with the side hobby that's Play Store.
350B evaporated from a single company in just under a year. Whew.
I think that was always the plan. Eyeballs in the short term, profits in the long term.
That is true. But Chromium is not in the realm in which the compiled vs. interpreted debate is relevant. It is slow to compile, but it would also be very slow to run if it was written in Python.

(Unless a hypothetical Node.js rewrite would be comparable on speed. I wonder how it would do on memory.)
Sure, they are short, that doesn't make them slogans. For example, you have the right to your life. That means you have a right to not be murdered by others or the state. How is that difficult to understand?

> most modern libertarians value most

That's an invention on your part.

> property

Yes, I know the original wording was "pursuit of property". Property rights have turned out to be a very fundamental right. Not being allowed to own anything has proved disastrous again and again and again.
I do not, sorry. I'm sure some Go developer can chime in.
> not sure if that holds up properly, like from a true physics point of view

Thrust efficiency from ducting is real [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducted_fan#Duct
>But paper authorship in undergrad has NO correlation with your actual scientific skills!

This seems like a bad take because the goal of PhDs in the US is to produce people who can publish a lot of papers, whether that's a good ideal or not. So having produced papers as an undergrad gives you a powerful signal that you are such a person.

>Here’s the kicker - every institution explicitly said they will NOT consider these scores as part of admission process.

I know in my field, Physics, the subject GRE was very important for admissions and outside of the recent changes due to Covid I believe every top program explicitly requires the Physics GRE for admissions and its not until you get to much lower ranked programs that it becomes optional or not used at all.
> > "they're willing to do great evil for even less personal benefit."

> " And where do you work?"

This is not an appropriate response.

> The recognition that labor is frequently if not generally in a compromised position is kind of the point when people are talking about "unrestrained late capitalism".

Some jobs are much, much worse than others. Finding corporate tax loopholes is hugely evil, if hugely banal. That those people do it for a *relatively* meager salary does absolutely nothing to change the fact that it's evil.

It is wildly destructive to society to spend all day working to funnel money from social services to the yachting class. While it's very weird that they aren't seen as the hugely banal, hugely evil jobs that they are, once it's pointed out you might start thinking about it more.
I get the desire to do stuff like this but the numbers never work out. Wrapping a large diameter drain pipe with copper is hella expensive and a terrible heat exchanger. It would take a century to recover the cost of the copper plus installation. Also It's best not to screw around with waste water. You want that stuff to get to where it needs to go. There are enough problems with it even when you're not messing around and even one backup during the its lifetime would easily cause enough damage to offer the entire thing.
Show HN: Medical Image Segmentation Using K-Means Clustering Using GPU/OMP/MPI
This is the implementation for Image segmentation using k-means clustering and subtractive clustering algorithms. There are various implementations for OMP/MPI/GPU
Yah on the one hand people are probably more willing to hand over money if they get something tangible/physical in return. That said, if you find the right niche, pure bits are easier to scale. Almost 0 marginal cost to adding more podcast viewers but building (and shipping!) wooden furniture doesn’t scale the same way. ;)
Hi! I was under the impression that Graal reused OpenJDK’s GC implementations - or was it only in the Graal as JIT compiler mode?

Also, may I ask how do you know so much about the topic? I would really like to one day work on OpenJDK/Graal, but I just don’t see the road ahead me.. — I’ve just started my master in CS, but I don’t feel it closing the gap at all. Surely I can read up more and more on the topic in small steps, but I would be very grateful for any guidance/pointer.
Ask HN: Examples of successful waterfall-style projects?
I'm curious if there's anecdotes from people who worked at highly successful waterfall projects, that is, structured, planned projects that achieved their objectives. I'd like to know what things you thought made the project successful, how the bureaucracy helped or didn't help, and any other thoughts you might have. A project that comes to my mind is the Apollo rocket project, which made many innovations and put together tends of thousands of people together and achieved its goal.
That makes sense, it not only gets the tail out of the way but also pushes it down, making it much more unlikely to hit it as he gets sucked out.
That is most definitely untrue for the vast majority of Texas wind farms - I've been following those Ercot graphs ever since Winter Storm Uri.
Frontend means can you take WASM code and feed it into Graal as input. Backend means can you get Graal to produce WASM code as output.
Don’t be anxious about the context switching. That translates to it being a dynamic environment due to being as startup and having to get involved in many different things. It will be harder but much more rewarding and much better for your career. The startup is already demonstrating a more modern way of working with wfh. Reading between the lines I think you e already chosen the startup - so go for it!
The refi is an unknown and incurs closing costs again. That's a big gamble, and if it were guaranteed to work out, everyone would get an ARM. I view those statements as a "put your money where your mouth is, get an ARM", but few do.

I agree with you if the lower downpayment is proportional to the cost difference incurred between 7 and 3%. It hasn't been so far, not even close. I've run the numbers for my own purchase and 7% over 30 years is completely insane compared to 3. I highly doubt at 7% with minimum down you can beat the interest payment by investing in the market. Even if not, there's risk that you won't gain off whichever investment is chosen. While paying off a home early (no matter the interest rate) is guaranteed to pay off financially. From both the reduced interest payments and freeing up your income sooner.
It is very common to list Linux among the UNIXes, and Linux is similar, will operate the same with nearly all of the higher layers and applications, but it is different enough underneath and fundamentally so that while a UNIX administrator can rapidly and fluidly go from NetBSD to OpenSolaris and Illumos to AIX to FreeBSD and OpenBSD without much pain, they will experience pain when first exposed to Linux, and similarly, a Linux administrator or developer that is only well-experienced in RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE and/or Debian will experience pain when first exposed to AIX or Solarises or BSDs.

For whatever reason, Linus or the distributions themselves arbitrarily deviated from the ways common in all UNIX, in directory structure and tools and other details, that in one sense they are still similar, brothers even, but in another they are entirely different, and distant cousins removed several times, and, again, I believe these deviations were entirely arbitrary, and as such, unnecessary.

/rant, nothing personal, everyone considers Linux as UNIX, and they're not entirely wrong, but the differences are neither minor nor pedantic, and I, for one, wish it had been different and Linus or GNU or distros had not made these unnecessary deviations from standard UNIX and continued to do so, as the advantages of the deviations, if there are any, are negligible. To me they seem different for the sake of being different, unnecessarily adding complexity to an already complex matter.

And I acknowledge that Linus may be entirely innocent and the problem may have always been with GNU, I'm just not certain who the culprits are, but they seem to have made the mistake of changing the architecture without being aware of what came before, falling into the tragedy of reinventing wheels.
if someone wants and demands it, it's the nice people at cia and nsa
Spring Modulith
I don't think I really understand your objection. Live reload, at least as I've got it set up, doesn't really work that way: it won't interrupt an in-progress debugging session, and the application state is retained (at least if one sets everything up correctly). Besides, type checking in my editor doesn't normally require me to save the file, so I usually know whether the code is valid or not before the build starts. So I don't have the problem you describe in the first place. Moreover, as I pointed out, I find it useful to be able to occasionally run code that doesn't type check, so there's a very real downside to waiting for the type checker to finish before building.

I suspect we're just used to building code in very different ways. If you've not tried approaching typescript as a linter rather than "just" a compiler, I really recommend giving it a proper go - it feels very freeing, and I think is one of the biggest advantages of typescript as a tool/concept. (It obviously has its own disadvantages compared to how, say, a traditional AOT compiler would work, namely that tsc can never really take advantage of types at all during the compilation, but it gives you a lot of flexibility during development - essentially the best of both worlds for dynamic and static type systems.)

That said, if you've already tried it and know it's not for you, then fair enough - ultimately all of these tools are just ways for us to write code, so if you write code best in this way, then I don't want to try and force you to do it some other way!
python support seems fairly experimental right now:

https://www.graalvm.org/22.3/reference-manual/python/

or is that something different?
How many PhD students have you mentored? Do you run a lab at a major University?
"Rust the least-painful language"

" I’ve been using Rust for a couple of years now and I still don’t really understand lifetimes"

Seems like a major pain point.
Even a 2x faster Python still makes a terribly slow language.

Improvements look amazing relative to old Python. But compare it to PHP, Javascript, Lua. Ok, it might be better than Ruby sometimes.
I understand it isn't ideal that a new homeowner would have the price if their house collapse after purchasing, but if you never intend to sell, what possible harm could that do to you?

For instance- I could afford 3 of my current mortgages currently, so if I have to move but would get wreck on the price if I sold currently, all I have to do is go back to renting and rent my house out.

So what harm could this do to me?
If I grab the LineageOS sources right now and build an image for my phone, my phone will get about a year of ignored security updates and removes at least a dozen shady apps trying to talk to different Chinese cloud providers.

In terms of practical security, custom ROMs are often safer than the forgotten and obsolete software left on a device when updates stop rolling out. Sandbox escapes and exploits to get root access are more realistic threats than airport security flashing a different OS through your phone recovery or some kind of conspiracy to stuff malware into an open source repository.

As long as you take care to only install software from reliable sources (i.e. download.lineageos.org, F-Droid.org) I don't see the problem.
> What if I told you the villains are the ones writing the insanely complex tax codes with endless exclusions, not the ones using them?

How do you figure? Every dollar a corporate tax accountant saves Walmart gets redirected from food stamps and building public transport to the yacht class.

> Why is it ok for me to write off some tax breaks the government gave me, but the corporate tax lawyer is evil?

Scale and intent.
Senate has gone a full year without voting on Biden FCC nominee Gigi Sohn
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in
Most people I know in the Swedish countryside still don't look any of their doors.
Yes, I can do everything via the website. But I must use a secure key dongle pinpad thing to log in.
Ideally, people who understood numerics wrote the code in the 1970s and it has gotten heavy use since then so if there are problems with numerical instability they've been detected and solved.

Today somebody who doesn't know numerics frequently codes something up for the wrong reasons (e.g. to learn a new language, because they think the 1970s FORTRAN code is obsolete, ...) and never did the testing to know that the code they wrote is numerically stable or not.

That is, you might think it is pretty easy to code something numerical up, and sometimes it is, but frequently you write something that's a little bit wrong and sometimes you write something that's terribly wrong, sometimes it isn't even wrong.

It's not that FORTRAN is necessarily more accurate than another language, but that you can trust a code that has been around for 40 years and codes that have been around 40 years have been written in FORTRAN.

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As for the memory model I think about it the most when I write embedded programs for my Arduino.

It drives me nuts that C diddles the stack pointer around meaninglessly when for most of the programs I write there are a small number of parameters that decide the size of all the arrays (like an old FORTRAN program) and local variables, recursion and all that are a source of problems and not solutions.

The only reason I write C for that thing at all is that some of the programs I write are performance sensitive and I could get a bigger boost running the C code on an ARM or ESP32 than I could get writing AVR8 assembly and eliminating meaningless loads, stores and other activity that C does "just because".
> Version 6 is generally associated with failure in the world of dynamic languages. PHP 6 was a failure; Perl 6 was a failure. It's actually associated with failure also outside the dynamic language world - MySQL 6 also existed but never released.

TIL MySQL 6

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6
Not sure if it was the same one but I've read you also want to avoid water (since it doesn't compress). Go for dirt/grass if possible.
Is it “tourism” if you live there for 10 years?
have a untimed version too. also, typing // all the time is annoying, make it by default
I'd like something like this to work, but it seems to attract the worst elements of hacktober, security beg bounties, payout negotiation conflicts, and the inconvenience of dealing with cryptocurrency. Given that we have bountysource and gitcoin already, I don't have high hopes for mte. Mostly from the social side.
Or their profit plummeted because they grew their headcount
The former president threatened the fed chair to keep rates low. This president begs for “L”s over norms that no longer exist.
Looks a bit like Mac OS X to me, only upside down: menu bar, app bar, status bar.
> if people don't like it they can do business elsewhere

in a pedantic sense sure, but in the real world no product that ignores the (affluent) 50% of mobile phone users has a chance in hell of surviving.
Stack Overflow was developed as (and is still operated as) a for-profit/profit-motivated Corporation (Stack Exchange Inc.). No one considers it a DAO in any form, especially not the "autonomous" part. Unless you mean the gamified community elements, but you can't really call that an "organization" either because it's entirely disorganized (and sometimes highly dysfunctional) beyond the game mechanics and more importantly extremely centralized to Stack Overflow's servers.

Wikipedia is run as a not-for-profit Foundation (Wikimedia Foundation). It doesn't seem anything like DAO either. Again, unless you mean the community of contributors to Wikipedia, and that also is extremely centralized to Wikipedia servers and doesn't have anything resembling "autonomous", not even something resembling Stack Overflow's game mechanics.

The "autonomous" in DAO still only means "smart contracts" and no one is using DAO as a term for traditional corporate structures other than those intentionally confused by or wishing to confuse what "autonomous" means in the acronym.
Also if you’ve got enough attention then forget about direct monetisation and go straight for political power.
Yeah that act didn't really do a lot though, can can still get this stuff on the clear net with very little risk of getting caught, and if you get caught? Little risk of prosecution
Could be anything (redis pub/sub with a channel for each shard, sqs with separate queues for each shard, separate partitions in kafka, etc)...

haven't committed to using one particular technology. queues that support retries could be useful in the event that a disconnect happens messages wouldn't be necessarily lost. Something custom built on top of Redis could accomplish the same perhaps.
In 2010, I was a PhD student inspired by Herb Simon, Goldhaber, and others, and decided to focus my dissertation on this topic: https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation.html

This was the first approach to measure the Economics of Attention, quantitatively. To do so, we define a new type of utility function, that can be measured with a new type of experiment that you can run via large-scale A/B tests, and lets you say things like "The new UI for Facebook is 6¢ per second worse than the old one!"
Hah, not quite nowadays but I, too, was dealing with one from around '97-2000'ish. What a pain in the ass. That was just one network in the building, I also had to deal with 10base-t, which was also a nightmare. shudder
is this an inside joke that I'm too cool to understand?
I'm fed up with advertising personally, I know there is 'so much money to be made' but I'm tired of having stuff rammed down my throat no matter what I do, I don't do well with sensory distraction, I want to live my life and do what I want to do, without being bombarded to buy something every time I try to do something
Counter argument: For every trainable NN, there exists an equivalent, sparser [edit] trained NN.

https://numenta.com/blog/2019/08/30/case-for-sparsity-in-neu...

https://web.archive.org/web/20211130211241/https://www.bhaut...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635
Fed chair’s job was threatened and the norm was broken (for Rs).
Copper oxide is definitely doable as a science fair project. Though I haven't done it, as I understand it, typical efficiencies are around 1%. That's probably still plenty for electrolytic metal reduction to be easier than small-scale smelting.
So investors can count on Google to ax a product that's underperforming, but can't count on them to make competitive products, lasting brands or keeping loyal customers.
Yeah, I don't know why I wrote that...
Spreading deadly pathogens under the disguise of popular music
A centimillionaire would be on about $10k (hundredth). You want "hectomillionaire".

Oddly, that's the second time I've used that word today: talking about Rishi Sunak earlier.
Feds say Ukrainian man running malware service amassed 50M unique credentials
Ford, VW-backed Argo AI is shutting down
Well, Reddit is increasingly user hostile and their mobile experience gets worse every quarter. They'll end up killing themselves before they can IPO.
There are websites and large scale software. Google uses Python for a lot of its products.

It would seem sensible that since Facebook poured a lot of resources in optimizing PHP, Google would have done the same for Python.

Also, Python is the first or second most popular language.
Basically none of us hackers out there saving 10-20% on this and that is going to make a difference whatsoever. It might make us feel good I guess.

What would help is higher regulatory energy standards and better enforcement. I’d settle for making sure builders actually use insulation and don’t leave obvious thermal bypass/bridging across it.

My 20 year old new build property leaks heat due to it being a “plasterboard tent” (thermal bypass due to missing sealing around dot-and-dab drywall). If a building inspector had actually checked this before signing it off, it’d have been rejected.