skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a dynamic set of strings, I recommend checking the StringHashTable in ClickHouse.

The basic idea is: to use a bunch of hash tables with fixed-size keys but split the strings into power-of-two size-classes.

This basic idea originated in a chat and led to a PhD thesis by my friend: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339879042_SAHA_A_St...
"Miracle of Chile" is a phrase of Milton Friedman to refer glowingly to the military junta of Chile - specifically to the many years of privatization and economic liberalizations at the direction of the Chicago school of economics where the rights of property became more important than the rights of people and if you thought otherwise a firing line awaited you - because you know, that's proof you're part of the vast communist conspiracy.

He still has a lot of fans claiming he's a miracle worker: https://www.conservapedia.com/Augusto_Pinochet

It's pretty funny. They'll love Calvin Coolidge for instance but ignore his support of Mussolini and Miklós Horthy (even hosting the latter at the Whitehouse) and instead just call him "silent cal" (because he becomes pretty quiet after you scrub him clean) and gush about him.

Alright, cool.
> If only Mathematica was free, I think it would become the defacto language for scientists.

Of course. It’s one of the few languages that I think are worth it.

I’ve been waiting for Wolfram to open source it for 10 years as I can’t afford it, or really justify why my org should use it.
You Will Forget, You Have Forgotten
This was a decade ago. Perhaps the replacement concrete is wearing away now.
He can say whatever he wants about his own politics, it is abundantly clear from his political statements and activities that he is not left in the slightest bit.
Very cool!

The muses occasionally speak to me, e.g. when I was making funny songs to entertain my daughter, but the next day the muses stay away, and I can't remember the parts that made it fun.
"paw" means "hand without functional fingers". Monkeys can type.

And as HN shows, being able to type doesn't make someone smarter than someone who can manipulate visual objects.

Does Thread OP "paw" at a Rubik's cube or LEGO?
Without valid research in any direction, we should fall back on our prior, which is that ignoring crying infants at night is no less detrimental than ignoring crying during the day.
Allow me to single out the metric pound, which is defined as precisely a billionth of the weight the local road surface can withstand. Noteworthy for being one of the few units that work for both mass and weight because the local gravity is conveniently factored in.
I almost always prefer to read nested loops and conditionals than list comprehensions.

I find the syntax of list comprehensions ugly and inscrutable.
They use tochkas only near the front line I believe. Not enough range to hit main targets deeper inside Ukraine. They also claim that there is no tochkas in use in russian army, despite plenty of evidence.
Pope is a friendly title (means something like Papa) but the Bishop of Rome has a dozen others. Always seems a little strange to read Pope because I think of the Orthodox Church Patriarch, sometimes termed the Pope.
German speech policies are absolutely not without critics in the United States. I take no position on whether these criticisms are correct; just supplying information.

https://reason.com/2022/09/23/germanys-criminalization-of-on...

As a practical matter I'd guess that even civil-libertarian Americans don't spend a lot of time criticizing Germany and France for several reasons:

1) They're allies.
2) Some of us don't know where they are.
3) For the most part, they're obviously free countries. There's simply going to be cultural variation on some things - free speech, the death penalty, etc. - for historical and cultural reasons.
Yes of course. Generally, for a project with a small team, doing the backend for logins yourself is a good way to get yourself hacked or having your customers data leaked at some point. It is difficult to do this type of validation and security testing well. The most likely outcome is that you overlooked something and later pay the price. On a small website I would default to using Google/FB/etc for logins and let them handle the security.
End of the year is a great time to opt out!

The GitHub source: https://github.com/troy/simpleoptout
> Unfortunately the unfiltered internet is not a fit place for a 7 year old.

I wholeheartedly agree. 6 and 9-y-old here. Apps and websites are approve-only, and no YouTube/YTkids.

Something bad happened a few years ago which gave us a big scare.
> The most important feature of Mathematica is that it is functional and not object-oriented.

Python has object-oriented features but there is nothing that requires you to use them; you certainly don't have to express every Python program in terms of classes and methods, the way you do in Java. Doing functional programming in Python is common. Is there a particular aspect of doing functional programming in Python that you find to be a roadblock?
TIL people without families aren't allowed to adopt kids alone as that'd violate the human right to extended family!
Thank you very much @dang
Most developers need to have at least two languages at their fingertips, so none of them needs to be perfect. What is important is to a spanning set for all the use cases that are relevant to you.

I think if we switch from endless arguments about best languages to the optimal pairs of languages we'd book huge gains (and less online noise :-)
But Thread OP specifically created a command-line consumption environment for his kid.
Some discussion of the dataset and issues - this link claims it was removed in June 2020 https://fairlearn.org/main/user_guide/datasets/boston_housin...
Thanks god. Most boring dataset ever. The reason why I never got past the first chapter of any ML book I tried to read.
Sorry, but Python list comprehensions are not very good compared to other languages.
I was only saying that m-w.com definition 2b is from Covid (look at the first example sentence).

I was saying that M-W definition 2a and the dictionary.com definition from 2017 apply to a specific place.

Sorry, I must have brushed off the NYT link because its hard to read with their javascript plus nagwall. My state is on there, highlighted, and described as having an "order", yet it was not an order with the force of law.

I started going through their list of states and links to orders/coverage. I made it through "N", for a total of 30 states on the list (out of 34 states whose names start with N or below). My definition of a bona fide stay at home order is something that encompasses all individual behavior in general, and then may carve out exceptions - as contrasted with something that only prohibits explicit activities. Thus, I'm still counting states with an exception for outdoor recreation as having an order. There are a few states with some pretty wide exceptions that would seem to make the order basically unenforceable, but I'll count that as having an order, both philosophically and practically (I don't want to go back and re-analyze each order).

Of those 30, 17 have orders stated with the force of law, 6 are mere suggestions and not orders, and 7 were indeterminate by my quick scan (the link to official decree rotted with time).

Bona fide legal orders are much more prevalent than I had thought, and apparently I didn't realize how sensibly my own state handled things. I heard people in my own state commonly refer to the (nonexistent) stay at home order, and figured it was mostly similar elsewhere despite the media's narrative (eg extrapolate from that NYT page being incorrect for my state).

I still question how long these orders were actually in effect, and the general tendency to label everything as a "lockdown" when most of what people are referring to is closing specific businesses and venues for specific reasons.

But I do concede the point it was more than a few counties in California.
Are you speeding while looking out for cops through binoculars?
It is. Etymologically, they are synonymous. Differentiating them is just BS.
In America? The Ford F150 and the F-series.
I haven't described anything that can't already be done (well, reading a license plate in an eyeball was mostly an exaggeration). It just can't be done affordably in real time on a home computer. And it's just the first few out of many examples to come to mind.

I think people fall into the trap of conflating "this is what I do with my computer" with "this is what my computer is for." Obviously if computers are only for doing the things you can already do with them, then they won't benefit much from improvements.
It's not fully general, but crashing and letting the outer system handle the restart can make sense for servers. The system needs to handle restarts anyway.

It usually works okay unless there's a "query of death" causing repeated restarts.

Similarly for command line apps.
What i would have wanted from my father was a hug, him to say he was proud of me, and buy me a sweet car. In the absence of a car taking me out for dinner to tell me he was proud of me would have sufficed.
That sounds interesting. I took a brief look to find out what information is available to the custom algorithm but didn't find too many details, so I will just ask the question here:

If I want to write an algorithm to sort articles in HackerNews by upvotes and time, is the upvotes information available to Gnus? Assume the RSS feed has a customized field called <RSSBrain:upvotes> for each of the article, does the algorithm have access to that data?

And does Gnus need to get all the articles in a folder/feed and run the sorting algorithm on the fly? If so it seems to be a performance concern. Would love to know how it works in real life.
My approach to buying a car (from a dealer), has always been to get the price over the phone, and say that you’ll be coming with a bank/cashiers cheque for that exact amount and not bringing any other means of payment with you. If they try to add any fees you walk out: you have no means to pay them.
Obviously the binoculars are for the passenger, I don't think you'd be able to continue driving for very long otherwise.
Woah, didn't know these existed. Thanks!
What's the point of such an incendiary comment? No, you aren't understanding it right. At worst you are offering a deliberately misleading interpretation. Here's what the link says:

The Boston housing prices dataset has an ethical problem: as
investigated in [1], the authors of this dataset engineered a
non-invertible variable "B" assuming that racial self-segregation had a
positive impact on house prices [2]. Furthermore the goal of the
research that led to the creation of this dataset was to study the
impact of air quality but it did not give adequate demonstration of the
validity of this assumption.
The scikit-learn maintainers therefore strongly discourage the use of
this dataset unless the purpose of the code is to study and educate
about ethical issues in data science and machine learning.
I’m assuming this was posted in the context of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34179426
Not sure what "western world" means. Does it include Latin America? Does it include Eastern Europe? Does it include Northern Africa? There are a lot of pretty conservative countries in those regions. Or is it just the Anglosphere + West Europe + North Europe?
No. That's not even remotely possible. In theory, the closest you could get is if you could design a virus that only really harmed people with some rare genetic variant, and that variant happened to be one that a person you wanted to target had. That's still pretty far out in terms of actual practice, but it's not so far out that it's crazy. Designer viruses that target one, single person is just crazy talk.
maybe, but seeing as ChaptGPT already has a habit of making shitup when it doens't know that looks plausible but is wrong I would be worried that it would start sending bad responses make situations worse and not have a obvious way to escalate to a human as its decided it has a 'solved' the problem.
There’s an interesting blog post about the UK’s unloved and out of fashion concrete Motorways here: https://www.roads.org.uk/blog/diamond-rough which notes that the US seems to occasionally grind the surface of concrete roads, whilst in the UK [INSERT WHATEVER THE HIGHWAYS AGENCY IS CALLED THIS WEEK][1] don’t (barring recent trials) leading to people driving on rough decades old surfaces. Although ISTR it was the expansion joints that were the real annoyance? But I haven’t personally encountered concrete roads in the UK in decades, it’s more of a thing from when I was a kid.

[1] Or local / devolved authorities etc.
>"We've never had this before where a living pope will help bury a dead pope," Catholic historian John McGreevy said.

A living pope digging up a dead pope, on the other hand...[0]

[0] https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pop...
I’m willing to admit that perhaps I’m a victim of the Availability Heuristic, but for any Enterprise application I’ve worked on in the past 20ish years, an ORM has almost always been used and in my opinion they has reduced the a lot of the tedium. I wasn’t intending to debate whole ORM vs. SQL thing, but my point is that I don’t agree that using an ORM necessarily incurs technical debt. I also take issue with author’s assertion that ORMs are used because the developers don’t know SQL, as if to say that the SQL-only approach is the valid one, or that developers who use an ORM don’t really know SQL. See also: TypeScript vs. JavaScript, SCSS vs. CSS, etc.
While I'll stick with QuiteRSS (maybe eventually switch to RSS Guard if I manage to unbroke the UI), I am tremendously happy for every new instance of anything related to RSS. I really don't want this tech gone, because without it I'm lost on the modern web.
Social Freedia
http://192.241.136.237

http://192.241.136.237/leunte

http://192.241.136.237/::ffff:73.253.171.157
Additionally I find that it's easier to add complexity to the loops; once you want to start doing nontrivial things in a list comprehension, you often need to rewrite it into a loop first anyway.
sent you an email. thanks again.
They're not worth it at all. I have a 3080 for 4k/60fps gaming without issues and I got it for $500 used. If a game struggles to hold a consistent framerate it's usually an issue with the game or certain settings, tweaking settings is free so throwing hardware at it doesn't make sense.

Unless you're willing to spend $1000+ the real world performance differences aren't even that large: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Your experience of the
mainstream is very different than mine. Before having kids, the voices we heard were overwhelmingly saying "immediately respond to every cry or you are a terrible parent", which is exactly how your first comment reads. That's why it took us so long to try letting him cry: we'd listened to voices like yours.

The parents you describe are a tiny minority if they exist at all, and guilt-tripping them in a public forum just hurts the millions of new parents who are at an extremely vulnerable time of life and trying to do the right thing. It's not your place to lecture on how loving parents should be treating a baby you've never laid eyes on.
ah cool that is a good description. The line between de & centralized is a bit blurry.
Musk is in my face is all.
In theory, Go is the same way, but Go does a lot less to prevent panics, limit them to very specific circumstances, mitigate their effects, or limit unexpected failure modes.
.. with AI
Note that this is a corporation not releasing funds, not the government so the constitution doesn’t apply. In this case it would be the terms of service which likely calls out this as a possibility.
I suspect that the people buying this coffee are either:

1. Taking the "loss" to support a small business

2. Normies who feel like they are getting a deal on "Specialty coffee" that they normally wouldn't buy. Some people can't pass up a deal (esp a feel good one!)
Scientists exhumed Gregor Mendel to study his DNA
"Being able to solve every programming problem" is not a necessary prerequisite for consistency. If that were true, SQL would be inconsistent because it cannot interface with libgl in order to render 3D graphics. That is clearly nonsense.
Xfce Panel

right click the menu bar > Panel > Add New Items...
Launcher > click Add
click Close

right click the Launcher icon in the menu bar > Properties
Delete the currently selected items
Add a new hyperlink
type the *One Thing* as the Name
type in the URL
click Create
click the Advanced tab
click Show label instead of icon
click Close
> The Cold War might not have taken the forms it did if we had known what the other people were really doing instead of acting on the basis of our own worst fears. And I've become convinced that our government is not a government in which things should be done in secret, for better or for worse. If that's a limitation, it's a limitation that comes from the nature of our society. — GFK

(Linebarger also has some sorrow concerning over-secrecy in his Psychological Warfare)

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also an interesting discussion of the role of money ("the golden rule") in US politics, ca. 1950s

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> I don't see quite the same number of really great and revered older scholars that seemed to be around when I first came [to IAS]. Of course, we owed a lot of those
to Hitler and to Stalin who pushed them out into our society. They were really great European scholars. There are not so many of those, it seems to me, in this country. — GFK
More precisely, modern CPUs are so much faster than network or file I/O that if your program has to wait on I/O, the CPU is going to sit idle most of the time anyway, so trying to optimize CPU time is pointless. The GP's use case is an example: he's capturing HTTP headers, so the bottleneck is network I/O, not CPU. So Python for his use case is, as he says, plenty fast.

For use cases where CPU is the bottleneck, such as numeric simulations, Python users reach for something like numpy, where all the CPU intensive stuff is being done in C extensions, not Python bytecode.
Sounds like an amusing homebrew for shadowrun: Heist, grift, or socially engineer your way to customer support.
Linus Torvalds is a U.S. citizen and Americans (or at least American companies) appear to contribute disproportionately to their population and even national GDP to at least the kernel (I realize the kernel isn't the OS, but I can't think of a better proxy value).

https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
Jose has been working with some PhDs to attempt to implement static typing

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixi...

In the meantime I don’t know what people have against using @spec. It’s a far more powerful type specification than the majority of static-typed languages out there
Sorry, I did think you were not doing a good faith argument. But if you are, then let me ask you: if you believe that reaching expert's opinion is not evidence of reasoning then what are medical students doing for 6 years at college?
I mean, it's not unreasonable. If employees can't do it, why can Andy?
I think that's a take in the category of 'you don't want types, you want better names'.

Static types are very useful for compilers but looking at a function and seeing int -> int -> int -> string -> bool -> int, says very little about the semantics of a program. It's always the names and documentations that tell human beings how to make sense of a program.

When we put things in record types, the sense-making value isn't in the static analysis but in the fact that our vague collection of parameters now has a proper name that indicates what it's all about.
> Note that this is a corporation not releasing funds, not the government so the constitution doesn’t apply.

You'd be right if corporations decided to do that on their own, but the anti-money-laundering law says that corporations have to do that.
My point is that although a lot of people want him to be because it fits the narrative, he is a remarkably poorly martyr for science.
It runs Linux using our custom VR Linux distro. The core of this distro is our VR window manager (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula). It comes with 16GB-32GB of RAM and an Intel 12th Gen i7 processor. RE URLs:

- Hacker News discussion[1]
- More detailed spec overview [2]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=simulavr.com
[2] https://simulavr.com/blog/why-is-the-simula-one-so-expensive...
What is "magic" about any of those? React components are functions, so `styled` would be a function that returns a function. The "special props" are just arguments to those functions. If these are all documented, where's the magic?
I marvel that there are people who thought donating to the richest man in the world (or one of the richest men at the time) would result in something other than him just taking your money.
Because those examples are medical and industrial devices.

The insurance issues that a manufacturer gets when people are provided the software to modify it becomes much more complicated.

It becomes much more difficult to insure a facility that has an industrial refrigeration unit where it is possible for people to change how it runs.

Note that this is an issue with industrial and medical systems - the insurance for these is such that the manufacture is liable unless they have taken every possible precaution to prevent misuse. From an insurance perspective, that includes keeping the source code closed.

This is a very different issue from consumer devices. An open source device driver tinkering causes the computer to overheat? "No warranty" is enough to disclaim that for consumer systems - not so with industrial devices where the tinkering person can kill someone and the company making the device is liable because this was a precaution they could have taken.
Cuz they’re so friggin expensive maybe. Though to be fair a 5 year old chipset will run modern games at 1k, 2k pretty well.
Python interpreter in SQL - the reverse of what was done - would've been really impressive. Terrible idea of course but impressive nonetheless.
Clearly you thought that those returns hadn't been published. Why did you think so? What made you assume that?
You might take a look at Nim.
Deprivation of access to property is not quite the same as deprivation of property.

And there is plenty of legal precedent (and justification) for freezing funds in advance of charging.

This line of argument is a dead end.
Reminds me of the war stories Arne Toman tells about his Cannonball Runs[0] from NYC to LA. Apparently, the front-seat passenger ("spotter") is constantly (for hours!) on the lookout for cops using binoculars.

Toman is this guy:

> In May 2020, Arne Toman, Doug Tabbutt, and spotter Dunadel Daryoush set the new cannonball record of 25 hours and 39 minutes in a modified 2016 Audi S6 disguised to look like a Ford Taurus police interceptor. Police-evasion modifications included brake light kill-switches, radar detectors, laser diffusers, CB-radio, and a roof-mounted thermal camera. Performance modifications included a trunk-mounted 67-gallon auxiliary fuel cell sourced from the car used in Toman and Tabbutt's 2019 cannonball run, modified turbochargers, an upgraded heat-exchanger, and custom ECU tuning that allowed for engine-mapping to be changed on-demand to suit either 91 or 93-octane fuel; allowing the car to generate an estimated 600 horsepower. The run achieved an overall average speed of 110 miles per hour (180 km/h) for the entire run, with average speeds upwards of 125 miles per hour (201 km/h) across some states, and which at no time exceeded 175 miles per hour (282 km/h).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge
back in 2010-ish we had social bookmarks like delicio.us, which was actually pretty cool and useful, I still wonder if a kind of search engine could be built on top of that kind of thing, basically a recommendation system for websites weighted more for quality than search term matching.