skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great solution. But it’s a rough one for people to comprehend.

I live in a small town with a lake and a popular local swimming beach. During the summer parking is $25/car. When the geese end up closing the beach due to their excrement raising harmful bacteria levels, the town loses that revenue. In addition, the park by the lake hosts after school programs and the amount of goose feces on the ground can become biblical in scale.

Being an engineer and scientist I ran the numbers. The town could purchase a pair of swans for $1200 each weekend and come out ahead. Eventually a pair would stick around, right? I still find it amusing that a few people think the geese are pretty or that we should do things to attract them.

Nope. Just very angry birds that are over populated and a health risk.
> treatment are forced into a hospice because they are not allowed to choose euthanasia.

Killing babies is OK and now so is euthanasia? But suicide is used as ammunition to remove access to guns?
It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, how much more portable do you want it to be?
fitness coaches/influencers hiding a key driver of the "success" they're selling (usually some combination of money, PEDs, or unhealthy dieting habits). tale as old as time, made much worse by tiktok, snap and ig
Very cool! Thanks for the explanation. And making my mind explode. ;-)
.NET is pretty portable. It can run on most popular platforms.

Where would you be running this where you’re also blocked by net support?
I think you're overestimating the amount of energy released in a single fusion event and underestimating the machinery needed to generate and focus the laser pulses on the hohlraum. Remember there is no fusion chain reaction, the thing would need to keep on pumping pellets into the "primer" while firing laser pulses to keep the energy flowing. Compared to a 'simple' fission primer with a neutron reflector I don't really see the gain in a laser-primed fusion weapon, at least not one in the line of current fusion bombs.
Other typos: Bbackend; missing math formula in "(for a frontend task m, this is )" — should be ⎣m/L⎦ I guess. Proofreading at ACM seems to be lacking.
Ah, ok that makes a lot of sense. But in the use case of the article I assumed we were under the constraint that output space would be exactly the size of input space as we have a non-sparse file on disk.
> Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. Note taking app? SaaS. Image editor or office suite? SaaS (thanks Adobe...)

All your examples are things with free alternatives.

Or just come with the OS sometimes in the case of a note taking app (that is why it's called Notepad on Windows).
Racist Doctors and Organ Thieves
Windows has a hard time "getting out of the way" and this extends all the way down to core numerical routines. Have you ever tried installing CUDA drivers on Windows without WSL?
Bravo ian! That's pretty much exactly how we all do it anyway! The humor here is extraordinary. Now all you have to do is fananagle the others to write the proofs... bravo!
4chan doesn't like Elon LOL
yes! same with me :). Funny effect.
When it’s my time to go, I want to go. All of this trauma caused to family members isn’t worth it. This seems like a desperate attempt to save something that will end regardless of your actions. Property goes to the immediate next of kin in the absence of a will. A will is almost next to useless.
I feel like this comment was written by the head of monetization from Mythic Quest. It's clearly very biased against the consumer.

> a yearly subscription is cheaper than buying outright

That depends on how often you buy. If you bought every update for full price, maybe you're right. If not, the consumer has much more freedom to decide on their course of action, consider alternatives or just save money while sticking to the old version. Consumers are completely deprived of choice with the subscription model.

> in some cases I no longer need the software, or now prefer to switch to a competitor

Have you met Adobe? Those guys are great. They let you pre purchase an entire year of their subscription with no other options. Oh and you can't cancel in the middle, or rather you can, but don't expect a refund. It's so great they have this business model that allows them to rake in money while basically handcuffing their customers to their plans! The shareholders are ecstatic.

> the idea of "owning" software feels positively archaic to me, as strange as "owning" a music album.

This is starting to feel like a generational gap. I don't know how old you are, but perhaps being accustomed to subscriptions from a young age will make you more tolerant towards this business model. I think that anyone who owned their own music, and software, having total liberty and no dependencies on when you and how you can access your stuff, will find letting go of this liberty a difficult prospect.
People who wants to create their bubble chamber shouldn’t be in open social networks, IMO. Sure, you can say that it’s personal preference. Block feature is like a knife and should be used responsibly when someone has malintent and harassment. It should not be used to suppress opposing argument in respectful debates. To add insult to injury, Lex continues to deceive the public that he is all about loving everyone and respects all sides of arguments. At least, this behavior is damaging if a person is influencer and can impact public policies. It definitely isn’t acceptable behavior from future Twitter CEO.
> if you want improved performance, you still need more data

Not true. See figure 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15556.pdf#page=5

The loss decreases with greater model size at the same compute budget (i.e. stopping sooner regarding training data). Also some rehearsal/multi-epoch training improves the forgetting rate (thereby improving performance substantially), which hasn't been taken into account by Chinchilla et al. because they train <1 epoch.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12393
How the UAE got a spacecraft to Mars – on the first try
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> In the same time, the US has invaded three times

Like at least four, and if we use the same counting logic you did for Russia, it would be at least 20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...

> naked territorial aggression

Well, that depends on what you consider to be worse: pushing neo-colonial policies by installing puppet governments through war and staged coups on the other part of the world, or resolving local conflicts created by dissolution of the SU along the administrative (instead of historical, ethnical, or national) borders, while granting citizenships, providing social infrastructure, or at least allowing states to gain sovereignty (if Kosovo can be independent under UN's self-determination principle, why can't Ossetia, who had been at odds with Georgia for ages and was only territorially related to it, because at some point the Soviet Union decided that budgeting that way is easier?)

Besides, considering the US geography, it's kinda hard for it to have territorial disputes, even if it really wanted to. On the other hand, you can ask Mexicans what they think of US law enforcement openly operating in Mexico.
Not mentioned: the pen used for the handwriting sequences is the Papermate Flair, a common choice for "on-screen writing" in the standard definition era because of its heavy and clean line. The design is still sold today.
oblig. advice to wipe / on every boot: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
I think you're missing the bigger picture. While they're both EM but they're significantly different i.e. photon are much more desirable than electron.

For starter, for electron you have contention in the form of collision but there's no collision for photon. Imagine you have vehicles that can go pass through each other without any collision, they will be exponentially faster than the one's without this capability.
> Chlorinated and fluorinated compounds, and other similarly constructed organic compounds are DNAPL - dense non aqueous phase liquids. They sink. They hit the water table, and keep sinking, not only below the water table, but further. Finding cracks in the bedrock and they keep sinking. It is almost impossible to get at them to clean them all up . Some small fraction of the DNAPL pollutants may be transported with the ground water, the rest stays and goes deeper. And you can't get at them.

This sounds like a self-solving problem: pollutants sinking deep, well past water table, near-impossible to get at, never to be seen again (and presumably recycled by Earth's geology in a hundred thousand years). What am I missing?
Had no idea who he was and googled him and what a rabbithole I've entered.
Because everything is connected to the internet and what was once working is now a security liability not just to your machine but to other connected machines.
I made a resolution to just close my eyes instead of going on Reddit/HN. Went well for about 20 mins...
I have found Leechblock useful in Firefox - it allows blocking or a delay before showing a page with a reminder this is a time waster site....
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...
Evernote is lost.
Just a reminder: Proofs are usually stuff for a master course.

I think these short outburst of calculations are helpful and fun. I for example host a private website for sub/add/mult/div tasks and consider them as same sort of casual gaming, solving these "math problems" in the shortest time possible.

Author's great repo inspired me to add more stuff. I like it.
It's much more of a political tool than a technical one.

Every benefit (minus atomic commits*) can be had immediately on micro-repos with a for-loop to do the monorepo-thing in each one. If bazel is what you want, great, use bazel! In microrepos! Want consistent dependencies? Enforce them! HEAD must build? Wonderful, nothing's stopping you from doing that! It's all solvable, and quite easily.

What you actually want is reliability and consistency. A monorepo gives you one political entity, with a clear adoption path, to argue with when enforcing those kinds of requirements. So they're much more likely to actually be achieved. In a big company, that may be worthwhile... but oh boy are the downsides large, and the only way to deal with them is massive eng effort and money.

* Atomic commits are a completely false promise. Your code on multiple machines doesn't change execution atomically, and being able to split a breaking change is a good thing, and massively harder to support in monorepos - it lets you adopt changes gradually, rather than forcing it on everything at once. You know, the same thing that every safe-change-practice handbook says you should do. Except in monorepos apparently.
Thing is, the site was lost and this was a terrible thing, but the music exists on many disks across the planet!
The conversation has some good stuff.
I never demeaned racing drivers. I just don't think they are a fair comparison to physical sportsmen who turn and jink and sprint in an open physical space and the effect this has on their bodies.

Going past an opposition player in basketball, football or rugby is very similar. Sprinting to the line to keep a ball in play is something tennis players, footballers and cricketers all do.

Driving is entirely different, and not really comparable.
Are you still using Linux as daily driver? I'm just curious.
the ironic thing about this is that lifting when you're young is the best time to start, as that is when your T is at its peak and your body is growing and changing like crazy anyway

the people that look really good in their 30s, 40s and beyond usually started in their teens and kept the results.
I love your Repo. It is fun to solve these tasks and to have an abundance of these is even more compelling.

I love Math and this is sort of casual gaming.
Almost everything in your comment is highly likely to be wrong, simply because of one fundamental difference between WaPo/WSJ and Twitter: Twitter contributors are not employees.

Stating unilaterally that Bezos & Murdoch exert no influence over the content of their publications can't be grounded in any fact because any potential influence they might exert would never be public knowledge. It's falsifiable (as many commenters have done with Murdoch) but it's not provable. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence Bezos does too: it will probably remain circumstantial since he is in a position to keep it that way.

Twitter content being crowdsourced means that Musk as owner has far less direct influence. All he can really do is censor, which is exactly what we've seen play out.
That sounds like a really interesting article ;) Seriously, what you've done is interesting enough, you don't need to spice it up with a misleading title.
One benefit I had from learning Ada was that it treats encapsulation, implementation hiding, inheritance, subclassing, message passing, etc. as separate mechanisms that you can opt into individually.

This is a huge difference compared to something like Java or Python where "everything is a class and a class is everything", and if you desire implementation hiding you sort of automatically also opt into get encapsulation and subclassing and the rest of it.

When you learn the mechanisms individually, object-oriented programming starts to make a lot more sense! Ada is worth looking at just for that experience alone! Then the other things are a bonus.
Twitter is bought as a Us elections influence play. The majority of international employees have been laid off and it will be defaulting on its legal obligations in those countries as a result. None of this squares with his proclaimed mission.

People need to stop taking Elon at face value and instead look at the actions. He’s just plagiarizing the Trump playbook and got ahead of the biggest flaw Trump had, not having his own platform to continue operating once he got tried his coup.
It started doing that only a few months ago. Apparently it worked in the half updated state before then but of course the implementation and the update process could have changed.
There seems to be an error in the first paragraph.
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should the word "productive" be unproductive?
Ask HN: How many HN users are moving to Mastodon from Twitter?
Firstly, I used to love Twitter!

However, I will move to Mastodon due to the recent spate of haphazard rule changes, bugs, and unstable systems. I have noticed many problems, especially with the Android Twitter app.

What is the take of the HN community on moving to Mastodon, especially after Paul G was banned?
We actually have this in Europe, at least in Germany landlords need to provide the energy pass when renting or selling a property. Has an easy to understand A-G rating and details on heating and hot water energy use. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Musterausweis.jpg
Well also, the Spectrum was pulling roughly 44kB of data at 1800bps and the PS4 is pulling in something mental like 24GB ;-)
I got a bridge to sell to you too.

He’s 1:1 replaying the Trump playbook and there will be no salvaging, only escalation.
Concise infix notation with combinators.
Balls to the wall means completely opening the throttles on a plane.
Surprised Prolog isn't mentioned. It greatly influenced Erlang (the first version was written in Prolog)
IMO, the only thing Musk is a genius at is using money to create a rabid cult of personality. He's very good at that.
> Since every bytecode handler needs an entry in the dispatch table, and I have 7--yes 7!--dispatch tables, I'd like to make their entries 2 bytes. So instead of taking 1KB each, they would take only 512B each. But alas.

Hmm. If the upper half of the handler addresses are the same, then why not store just the lower 2-bytes of each handler address in the dispatch table. If you're on x86, there's no add needed if the upper bytes of the register you're loading into already contain the upper half of the address, for example:

mov eax, HANDLER_BASE
mov ax, [edi + ebx]
Maybe it takes an outsider's view to appreciate jugaad. I'm fully aware that in a resource constrained setting, jugaad is not a choice. But it's either the jugaad way or no way at all. Mature delivery organisations sometimes get lost in their own process optimisation... I worked (more than once) for orgs where we simply wouldn't do anything that took less than a day because the planning, approval and billing processes would take another day.
2022 in Review from an Indie iOS Developer
Please see my reply to your sibling.

> would destroy most athletes from other sports

This is pretty hyperbolic, I wonder if you might like to reconsider it.
25 years of intentionally slowing down digitalization to protect local SMEs (which make 70-80% of the economy) against US tech companies leveraging economies of scale.

Yes there’s plenty corruption and disastrous bets (ISDN…), but let’s not pretend the situation isn’t intentionally created.
Phosphorus – we are sleepwalking into a global food crisis
The are brilliant YouTube documentaries about both. After a car accident a few years ago, I became very interested in stories of being trapped, I think as some way of dealing with my own experience. I'd sit up late at night and watch these stories in horror, being so thankful I'd been freed successfully.
This is why the only real way to keep copies of media for future viewing is to have them in a completely DRM-free format that can be viewed using any open-source player software. Don't settle for anything less.
>since most tech workers spend 8 hours behind an active display each day.

Exactly. I try to get off active displays at least 2 hours before going to sleep, which is also when I like to read.
Probably the only private schools worth it are the most famous ivy league schools where you can network with some of the richest people in the world (from the point of view of someone not from that 0.01% of wealth)
I'm actually more curious about the ones they comply with at a higher rate (paper paywalled).
Unless you would create a elevator that takes it down to the sea floor..
Same as with Trump, time to self contradiction is shortening rapidly.
Things like fire extinguishing foam are probably some unavoidable evil. But realistically how many of us are buying rainproof stuff when all we needed was something water-resistant?

Recently I was looking for a tweed winter jacket only to realize that those are now also being treated with water resistant coatings!

Most use-cases people are out in the rain for stretches of 20min and run inside for shelter shortly after. Unless you work outdors or are on a day long hike/cycle there is no need to have this much 100% waterproof stuff. Waxed/greased materials or just wool do a good enough job for most mortals and have served us well for thousands of years.
Video of women cleaning floor 11 windows without harnesses shocks online
That hasn't been my experience. Windows 11 has more features any any version before it, and same goes for Office.
Ryujinx is using C#, which is kind of neat, given that on computing it seems one needs to prove a point to make it clear for others.
> Every time someone mentions this I ask for examples, and generally all I ever receive in reply are examples of people disagreeing with them

Then you haven't been watching harassment on trans and other LGBT people, being told to die in horrible ways (I'm sure you can point to other high-profile people getting that kind of threats, but this one gets such abuse merely for existing).

Fully agree that having public forums gatekeeped by centralized actors deciding what you can communicate is worrisome; we should get distributed ways to announce the existence of your personal publications to people that may be interested in its subject - like like the Usenet newsgroups of old (which are still in operation, but are not known to the general public).
Gas prices are the last thing I worry about when travelling around in a foreign country, especially in Japan which has a great train network. Gas prices also have a bad correlation story with overall prices of living (accommodation and food, mainly), especially so when comparing across countries.
StableDiffusion+img2img may beg to differ :)
Thank you, makes a lot of sense. I was working on a structure aware fuzzer, and needed to know if there are even projects out there that don't use some form of grammar to produce output.
But so does the local supermarket.. I think we can learn to live with that.
Ask HN: Do you see any of the 'alternative social media' going mainstream?
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are all losing mindshare. TikTok is a Trojan horse. The others are big in tech circles and the reddit-savvy crowd, barely registering in most people's lives.
> in table 3

Figure 3 is an (arbitrary) example of round-robin sunsetting with randomized sunset ordering. The point is to demonstrate how bad backend churn is with this algorithm, by inspecting a normal example of the decisions this algorithm makes.

> The "same frontend task" as what? [...] what does this mean?

It's not phrased great, but it's also tricky to communicate. My read is this: given backend shuffles [9, 1, 3, 0, 8, 6, 5, 7, 2, 4], [7, 2, 0, 8, 9, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6], if you combine these shuffles to choose a backend assignment, you end up with subsets {9, 1, 3, 0}, {8, 6, 5, 7}, {2, 4, 7, 2}, {0, 8, 9, 1}, {4, 5, 3, 6}. That third subset means the third frontend only has a subset of three backends, even though you want it to have four.

The rest is reductio ad absurdum- reasoning through the ways you might fix this, and explaining why they in turn don't work. (I believe there's also an implicit assumption about the requirement that the final algorithm require no dynamic/runtime coordination, only static before-the-fact coordination amongst the front ends, i.e. agreement on a hash seed for a given subset, and say which hashing strategy the front ends would use).
Was this ORGT at Georgia Tech? I have very fond memories of their caving group!
Sounds like an AA meeting with powerpoints. Avoiding research of which natives disapprove, collecting data, or digging up bones and artifacts is an easy way to make a living, but not something to subsidize with grants or taxpayer funds. Quit paying academics not to do anthropology; at worst you'll get the same results for free.
Or you know we could make sure that public schools stick to a budget instead of draining students like vampires. Limit student loans to something reasonable and make them deal with it. If they don't become "world class research centers", who cares, students are there to become adults and get an education. They probably don't need "world class sports and entertainment" facilities. Bunking with someone in a cheap dorm room with basic almost prison like accouterments was one of the happiest times of my life lol. I could make enough money to pay for tuition and room/board over a summer or semester. This was at a middle of the road state university. Now it would be almost impossible.
> you will be required to have a RealID to board a fight.

Which law says that?

It is possible to fly domestic without ID. I did it twice and TSA had me sign a form which basically self-declared that I am not a problem.

The ID check is to make it difficult to resell frequent flier award travel. So the TSA ID-checkers are the airline's revenue helpers.

Last summer I put a bunch of transparent tape over the picture on my passport to see what would happen with TSA. The TSA lady asked me to peel it off. That was going slowly so she called a supervisor who quickly waved me through.
Wow. Screw wars over oil we need wars over phosphorus...(/S but only just, right? serious)