skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind Youtube making a profile of me and recommending similar things. But then again I use youtube to watch channels I'm subscribed to and maybe once a week I watch the recommended stuff.
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An irony is that this symbol coexists in Hindu temples with that other symbol known in the West as the "Star of David" -- which is not, actually, a specifically Jewish symbol.

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That this also appears in American indigenous cultures is extremely interesting, because it points either to very old origins (before people crossed the Bering Strait), or to co-evolution (almost like the "discovery" of mathematical abstractions).

Related, there is some evidence that some American indigenous myths, related to the constellations, share a common structure with myths from ancient Greece and elsewhere. Again, this may point to very old origins before the human diaspora across the continents.

I wonder how much culture is shared, dating back to the neolithic.

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This then is a second irony: That symbols from closer to the root of the linguistic and phylogenetic tree -- symbols that are more in common to us -- are used to divide.
IMO it's simply because it gets clicks. People love to see the issues they care about being featured, and this is a issue that is important to a lot of people.
Humor is cyclical. When a joke is completely forgotten it is no longer outdated :)
I realized the other day "stor" brings up Photos as the first result. I'm dumbfounded.
Even that link was 5 pages in (on my phone) before it deigned to mention:

> It is a Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT)

What happened to the idea of defining all non-universally-recognised acronyms the first time you use the term? With people making up new terms exponentially faster than ever before, it’s now more important than ever.
Venus needs a lot of work that Mars doesn’t. I think the main problem is the rotation period. The amount of energy required to speed up the day of planet is unthinkable.
"US military persons." Not necessarily an official military-backed campaign, but certainly could be.
It drives me absolutely nuts to the point where I run a UserScript to disable it.
> ... makes me sad.

Sad face emoji? Geez, the use of emojis, in this serious context, makes me think I'm reading a 6 year old's response.
At least for the first few years, Apple kept changing the Safari extension tech enough that it wasn't worth keeping up with it. Has it finally stabilized to the point where you can build anything non-trivial and have it work for a few years?
Meuh - google does this with youtube. Load video: video centered. Oh there's a side bar, let's shift the video. Oh the contents needs a smaller dimension, let's shift again. Rather annoying if you're used to watching videos at more than default speed - the control for that shifts 2-3 times.
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Another reason to never rebase.
But most of all it doesn’t seem to be deterministic. Very often I get a different behavior on the second attempt.

Search in windows puzzles me. Like I don’t get why it takes so long to search files in explorer, while traversing the same folder structure programmatically takes milliseconds. Hard computer science problem!
"I think that if you took a Unix user from the early 1990s and dropped them into a 2022 Unix system via SSH, they wouldn't find much that was majorly different in the experience."

I agree. In fact, since there's fewer actively used unix variants, the same job would seem simpler in many ways. I think the fragmentation of tech above the OS would be much more intimidating. So many more languages, build+deploy systems, frameworks, things like api gateways, caching platforms, load balancers, and so on. In the 1990's an admin could maintain a decent amount of personal knowledge about what a developer might be doing on the platform.
It sucked in Russia, Cuba, China (until Deng made it capitalism).

Australia, Sweden, Norway have been much better examples. Though their secret has been to not call it Communism/Socialism but instead something like "liberal democracy" or "democratic socialism".

Agree there is propaganda war that has been waged to ensure communism looks bad... which is why it's potentially a good parallel for crypto, as I think (potentially even literally not just metaphorically) the same vested interests are against it.
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> It always surprises me how a tech/startup oriented forum like HN is so negative towards crypto.

Maybe because people here are more likely to understand it?

Edit: added a missing quote
Would it be possible on the rendering engine side to detect if an item re-flowed and discard the user event if it happened within some time e.g. ~200ms ago? Something sites could opt out of for HTML games or things where it is intended behaviour. It's probably a bad idea, but it might help.

Side note about the first example, I wonder if Lyft is having chats about "Users really want to set up group rides, but always back out of the funnel - we have to make it easier for them!"
> No ads as in no sponsor ads either. You cant replicate that with an adblocker.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
Further to this, could some conditions that lead to neurodiversity be the result variations of miRNA expression mechanisms?
Try getting around without a real toothbrush. Or toilet paper. That's probably 80% of Rockefeller's life.
The video is data from just a single receiver?
Losing 1kg a week is not "about appropriate", it's pretty much the maximum.

And water weight, fecal residues, etc vary so much day by day. Were yours so constant insofar to be able to track it accurately to the grams?
Even systemd will run in Docker on macOS. Can you clarify what makes macOS unacceptable for emulating Linux?
> I propose that C++ initialize all stack variables to zero, preventing ~10% of CVEs.

This can be done by compilers without any change to the language standard.
Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China before widespread protests
Following the same theme of liminal UI areas, another thing that peeves me is touch screens like my local supermarket self-checkout which respond with a beep (indicating they know I hit the button) but do nothing, because apparently the beep-region and action-region and not the same. Or maybe I dragged my finger, in which case, please don't beep.
Not really, no.

Re (a), the mysteries that Woit says are not worth understanding are the ones described in the parenthesis at the end of the first paragraph. (As far as I can tell from reading the actual paper Woit links to, he is being nice about how off base the paper actually is.) As he notes in the second paragraph, the actual story--i.e., how spin actually works in QM--is worth understanding.

Re (b), Woit is not saying electrons have spin classically, he's saying electrons (and other quantum particles) have spin in non-relativistic QM, or more precisely that spin can be modeled in non-relativistic QM, so the claim made by Sebens and Carroll that QFT is needed to understand spin is wrong. (AFAIK the key contribution QFT makes is the spin statistics connection, which is a different issue that is not discussed in the article.)

The equations Woit posts are a basic presentation of how spin can be modeled in non-relativistic QM.
As someone who likely has opposing political views to yours I think the following outcomes were vital to a well-functioning public square for inclusive and civil discourse:

* taking the company private, and off the stock market, so decisions are no longer made with short term valuation / stock price movements in mind

* sacking the vast majority of bureaucratic staff, who have shown themselves to be politically biased. Suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story would NEVER have happened on an impartial social network

* trying out new ideas. Twitter was haemorrhaging money and was technically stuck in a rut

* sacking the board and C-suite (for the gross failures described above)

A lot of people will have their noses put out of joint by Musk’s moves so far. But there are tens, possibly hundreds, of millions of ordinary people out there who will feel they can trust the network again, since Musk’s changes. These people are not extremists, or racists, or bigots - they are just people who have right-of-centre views and who value fairness and freedom of expression.
Literally caging people in their apartments makes people mad.
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You should still have (oblique) views of the constellation above 55°N, partly due to the large altitude of the GPS satellites. But you're not guaranteed to have 12 satellites in view, so your solution may not be as accurate. There are polar regions where you probably do lose service. It's interesting (though not surprising!) that GLONASS has a slightly higher inclination.
YouTube.com doesn't require an account either. What exactly is this buying us that you don't get from just opening the site in incognito mode?
I agree capitalism sucks in a lot of ways, but the reduction in global poverty is at least correlatively linked with the spread of capitalism. Not sure what "hells cape" you mean, but it feels like hyperbole.

(Also just to point out, Communism isn't an "alternative" to capitalism, but actually the conclusion to it... on paper) - That is, even if you're right, Capitalism is required to achieve communism... so it seems "hellscape" is the only way.
I'm using a private [1] Invidious [2] instance on all platforms to gain access to Youtube content without feeding the beast more than needed. The advantage of something like Invidious is that it allows you to access subscriptions anywhere you can access the 'net instead of just on those platforms where you installed something like Freetube or Newpipe or any of the other alternative clients.

[1] private for now since my instance ended up being very popular in Japan for some reason, this being rather odd given that I live in Sweden. I'll keep it private for a few months and open it up again to see whether traffic remains within reasonable bounds.

[2] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
“And so it was that men themselves conjured The Unreal, without hint of irony or foreshadowing, but rather out of boredom on a pretty standard Sunday afternoon.”
Rob Pike’s talk “Systems Software Research is Irrelevant” (given 22 years ago!) provides some nice color here - we kinda just settled on “good enough” in a lot of ways: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html
This talk covers some of the design decisions that lead to the design of the uxn stack machine.

https://vimeo.com/771406693#t=85m30s

C source code of the VM, 100 lines.

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn/tree/main/item/src/uxn.c

An example assembly file for that stack machine

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn/tree/main/item/projects/examp...

Another stack machine designed to target FPGA with an elegant design, mentioned in the talk above.

https://excamera.com/sphinx/article-j1a-swapforth.html
I've had a series of CEOs who've said unnecessary, polarising things. The kind of thing that 10-50% of the employees would really object to - examples like yours or politics. It seems like an uncharacteristic risk with negligible payoff (he's a real person just like me!) but considerable downsides (he thinks my vote was stupid) that I don't see from middle management.

Maybe it's survivorship bias? The kind of people who manage to become CEOs are the ones who have strong opinions but haven't suffered backlash for them. If they had experienced half their orgchart hating them, they wouldn't have made the cut?
That'll be why it's all people half my age (I'm about 50) who are terrified of driving at night because they can't see properly, and I (and people my age) can read the number the guy in the car in front is calling on his phone, then.
Even the blank spaces in jira can cause things to happen!

Accidentally click on some white space? Well too bad, we’ve closed whatever you’re looking at, even though you’re not in a modal. Oh and also, you’ll need to wait 30-seconds for this new page to load, and you can’t just bail out and go back a page, because your browser can’t hold the previous page in cache/memory properly because it’s some overly-complicated JS app.
Also, I don't quite understand what the program QQ is.

Q is a program that takes one input P.

But then you said "QQ is a program which executes Q with itself as input".

So in the program QQ, the first Q uses the second Q as input, but what does the second Q use as input?
> Programs that adhere to these tenets should in theory be far more optimizable than what would be possible in a procedural language, as the compiler is essentially given the entire evaluation graph for the program up front and can completely reschedule evaluations in whatever order is most efficient. They should also be more amenable to formal TLA-type proofs since their computation model is much closer to what TLA+ expects.

This sounds a lot like graph computation but on an extremely granular level.
Twitter does this too on the algorithm timeline, open the mobile app, try to tap a tweet and it gets replaced after network update.
Yes, it seems to be random order. Not even "most recently used" or "most used", or anything.

Just completely random - "fuck you, user - hunt though this random list".

It boggles the mind who would ever think that would be a good idea.
Thank for your response. That's actually hugely insightful.

> We are well aware that most of our students are not majoring in maths and will not go on to teach it. Most of them at my university will go on to be engineers, so we teach for that in their courses, light on proofs and derivations and focused on grounded practical knowledge and techniques.

One important part of why I have this opinion, mathematics is poorly taught to the lower 95th percentile, is historical.

Historically, pre 1950 & the GI Bill only the wealthiest students (who sat at the back of the class, partied, and generally focused on Latin not the hard sciences), and the most able students, went to university.

The reason I find that's incredibly relevant is this Hackernews post. Easily my favourite of all time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32974959

In my mind, the consequence of all that is teaching the 5% is a well worn, highly polished process.

Hundreds of years of effort has been invested in the 5%.

For the 95th, barely a few decades. And even then, many academics I find take the elitist point of view.

In my experience, your department's point of view is very much the exception. A majority of academics I find follow one of two options:

-> The lazy option.

-> Train my future graduate students, bugger the rest.

IMO, the methodologies for training that lowest 95% are not at all developed.

Arguably for example, one theory I have is proof based mathematics should be introduced in Grade 7.

Proof based mathematics is the simplest, quickest, easiest way for an engineer to learn a new piece of mathematics.

A proof is a quicker, and more time efficient, teaching tool than 5 exercises. Is my theory.

And yet, the status quo is only pure mathematicians need to know proofs.
Scoped threads definitely help, yeah. Before that you'd want to use a scoped thread crate or rayon.
Sorry I read this like 10 years ago.

The other person he talks with is Andreas Gal and they talk about trace trees and method vs tracing jits.
Why developers? In most cases I know this is responsibility of product people who explicitly want that.
Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone say anything like that, let alone agree it.

That said, it’s unclear why either view would be seen as ‘selfish’.
Ask HN: Sites like Hacker News but in other languages
I've been learning Spanish on Duolingo and it occurred to me that a good way to practice and extend my vocabulary would be to visit a site similar to HN but in Spanish. I was wondering if anyone here is aware of any such site? If not are you aware of any other similar sites in languages other than English?
Would you rather be a person at your current level of wealth in 100 years or Elon Musk? Assuming you get to take your friends and family with you.

100 years for me is probably a yes - just on the chance to indulge my curiosity and also because at Musk-like levels of wealth I think you're past what I'd be interested in doing with money and gotten to the "more money more problems" stage.

200+ years is a no brainer.
Apple was forced to disable this feature by an authoritarian government.

The same can be said about encrypted iOS backups, and maybe we’ll see forced CSAM scanning return.

Why is anyone expecting a corporation to be an activist and not obey the laws of the countries they operate in?
I think as developers we have to be careful that we don't overstep logical boundaries. Youtube provides a free service that hosts immense volumes of video and creates an ecosystem allowing creators to earn a living. It's selfish to use the services of YouTube while removing their main source of revenue. If you have a problem with YouTube's tracking, simply don't use it
I disagree. What's that one about how power corrupts? Power converges and consolidates into fewer and fewer hands if left be. Money begets power and that leads to lobbying which leads to regulatory capture and monopolistic abuses of power like exclusivity agreements. There may be some platonic idea where greed doesn't corrupt, but those examples seem to be few and far between.
“Euclideon”

https://www.euclideon.com/
I don't know. The main hurdle for me is the $99 / year fee that's required
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The real pro-tip is not to use tape at all. Instead use pipe dope or joint compound, it's cheap, easy, and better in every possible way. If you only have two do one or two very low importance joints, like a showerhead then tape is fine. But for anything serious use the joint compound. If you are doing a lot of work it's absolutely a game changer.
My spouse and I have talked about if one of us dies after we empty the nest, we want to Golden Girls setup with fellow retiree roommates. Wonder why that died out?
Thanks for the interest! It’s designed for use in schools, but let me see if there’s something reasonable we can do. I’ll reply back here.
Neat thanks.
I switched to 3 days weeks almost 2 years ago. (Mostly, I remain in a company chatroom on other days for people to ask me questions, and if there's a massive disaster I'll help if I'm available).

What I've found is that I spend the 4 days I'm not "working" organizing my thoughts and plans as a background task and this means most of my 3 days is spent executing. Whereas at my previous job I would spend several days a week on thinking and organizing and another couple on being blocked or bored.
You're arguing against a claim which I never made. I didn't say that decriminalizing drugs would "mitigate retail theft", just that criminalizing drugs doesn't do anything to prevent drug abuse and addiction.
On one hand: If a tool is being constantly and egregiously misused at large scale, might it not be reasonable to assign a degree of blame to the tool (e.g. tool has a “pit of success” that encourages/permits misuse.

On the other hand: marketing and execs could misuse and abuse an empty room if they do desired, so I wonder why we bother giving them tools in the first place.
I love NewPipe and use it heavily on my phone and Shield TV.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
I think it wants cthulhu browsers.
What are you talking about? I put that it is a scam literally in the title hoping to attract any attention to shut it down.
Thanks! Those are made by a close partner, the Desmos Public Benefit Corp, which split off from the curriculum to focus on keeping the calculators free and widely available. But much of their DNA is in the curriculum :)
You seem to be under the misapprehensions that:

- Anyone can re/claim any symbol
- No other symbols have been banned

You may not like or agree with it, but symbols do have owners and they do matter. Look at today's news around the USA football team and the Iranian flag today for an example.
Yep it's 100% then. I lost my "entrepreneurial spirit" after being burned more than once by management that wanted me to work my ass off for just a salary and the promise of something nice someday.

Granted I got mine in the end of the last job like that, but it came through pure leverage and nobody's happy about it, myself included.
Except that seems risky as hell. Much better to have everything aboard ahead of time instead of hoping everything goes right with a en-route logistics chain.
The private entrepreneurship must be rentable, government projects don't. That's why it's harder for private companies to develop large projects without lots of government money.
I went back and forth on this.

Using / has one major disadvantage. You can’t name macros w/stdin, w/stdout, w/file, etc.

It’s short for “with-“. It’s only a few characters, but it adds up.

Admittedly it’s more important in arc, where brevity is a feature, not a bug.

On the other hand, having a full separator for the namespace is worthwhile. One idea I toyed with is:

my-func@pkg

So the namespace is on the right, not the left.

But I decided this is even worse, even if it does match e.g. how we ssh into things.

Ultimately it’s hard to beat a global namespace with prefixing conventions.
AppleNews on the iPad is like this. I literally can’t touch anything on the screen when reading news on it or I’ll accidentally “subscribe” to something, or open a new article, or worse, put an article into some weird 1/3rd size window that can’t be gotten rid of and sticks to the side of the screen. It’s fucking maddening.
Very cool! The tech did have some device that could measure the distance to the fault when tied into wire upstream, but I'm not sure if it was a TDR, I think he was making more rule of thumb calculations based on the characteristics of the wire. I would say though that between his voltage box, amp box, and general test tools he had the coolest tech on the jobsite in general.
Risk. Yes there are laws preventing or at least discouraging western companies from investment, but these are also inherently risky loans. China seems to have a larger appetite for risk. Higher risk, higher reward, but it can also backfire suddenly and spectacularly.
This is how I feel about all the bold circumvention of paywalls. It’s a legally fuzzy area in some cases, but to me at least, it is basically people saying, “here, let me help you steal!”
Do you live in the EU?

If yes, they are required by law to delete the unwanted account due to the GDPR.
You can even stream twitch.

For example, I've used:

$ yt-dlp -o - <twitch channel> | vlc -
French: https://www.journalduhacker.net/
The kid who shouted “the emperor is naked” was not exactly an expert in clothing matters.
I really like the idea of decompiling ones' own code with Ghidra to see different ways the logic can be represented. Using `-Wextra` adds a warning about the signed\unsigned comparison, but Ghidra's `(ulong)(uint)` casts make that a bit clearer.
Array of struct tends to only be better when there's high temporal locality of using nearly all the fields.

This code, as written, makes left node accesses temporally correlated with other left node accesses (and by symmetry must do the same for right nodes), allowing the caches at all levels to have a higher hit rate. Whether that higher rate is actually attained depends on the architecture, compiler, other running code, linker, and all sorts of other garbage, but it has a lot higher chance of better behavior anyway.