skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The semantics of a language shape its use in practice, though.

For example: If you're in a language that primarily uses recursion as the primary iteration mechanism, if you have to iterate through every element of a tree you will just about never do a breadth-first search unless it is absolutely necessary. It's just a pain to express recursively compared to a depth-first traversal. In contrast, in an iterative language, a breadth first traversal is the same (somewhat obnoxious) complexity as any other traversal. But that's assuming both languages would be traversing a tree at all: trees are vastly more likely to be used at all in languages where recursion is the norm.

Like, sure, any iterative function of the form:

f(x) = {
state = h(x)
cond = true
while(cond) do
state = j(x,state)
cond = k(x,state)
end
post_work = l(state,x)
return post_work
}

Can be re-written as

f(x) = l(m(x,h(x)))
m(x,state) = state if k(x,state) else m(x,j(x,state))

But if your language only supports one or the other, you're going to approach the problem in fundamentally different ways. Whereas the iterative solution is likely to jump directly into the loop with a trivial h(), the functional language is far more likely to do more work in h() to offload work out of j() prior to what would likely end up being a fold operation.

Put another way: for(i=0;i<x;i++) loops are common in iterative codebases I've worked on, but it's exceedingly rare to see f(x,i) = blah return f(g(x),i++) in a functional codebase.
Well if you read that, the one attested computation is said to be mathematically equivalent to Heron's method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_ro... ). An iterative Newton's method would be pretty unlikely.
Passion isn't something that you just "have". It's something that you have for something. Your problem isn't that you don't have passion, it's that you don't have something to be passionate for.

Don't look inside yourself, trying to get the passion going. Look outside yourself for something that you care about enough to pour your heart into. (You don't have to feel that way about it on day one. But look for something that could at least grow into that.)
It's called that, but the program in question doesn't understand it. The fact that the protocol's name contains "hypertext" is irrelevant, just as using http to download a .zip file doesn't make that file a "hypertext".
Congratulations on finding the word you were looking for. The only problem is, when you use WebDAV, the payloads aren't hypertext. The acronym doesn't matter.

Tar stands for tape archive, but thankfully it works on disk drives too.
If I download a Debian .iso using HTTP, is that hypertext? How about updating my system using `apt`?
Sure you can. Absolute quality of soccer players may have changed, but relative performance probably have not. That's what makes Pelé impressive: how good he was relative to his peers. No soccer player nowadays reach that same level.
Not when it's for compatibility and talking to a machine.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)!

They're the most effective protectors of digital freedom that I know of.
Which is also exactly why it ended up being reverted.
>The author clearly has only a very superficial knowledge of python (and a large distaste for it)

I wouldn't make assumptions like that. I've worked with production Python codebases. In fact, until recently I was working as a DevOps Engineer in a hedge fund building much bigger, more complex systems than a typical CRUD backend. I worked hands on with some of the Python repositories and it was extremely painful simply because of the nature of Python.
Bingo. I look at these issues as a war between location and transportation.

Those who monopolize location are the landlords. Their value comes from location. Transportation and communication makes location less valuable. It allows people to escape from under the thumb of landlords and get their own little plot of land so that they don't need to pay rent to anyone else. Imagine a world in which you can snap your fingers and instantly be transported anywhere. What would be the value of living close to your job? Or in a specific location? There would be no premium at all. All improvements to transportation, whether it becomes cheaper, or faster, or more comfortable, is a small punch at landlords. The same for any increase or improvement in communication. The internet, VPN, portable computers -- these are all little punches at those who sell location.

Moreover while location is not produced, transportation and communication are produced goods. It does not matter whether you are talking about planes, cars, buses, trains, motorcycles, phones, cell towers, they are all made in factories by workers, whereas location is not. So tilting the scales in favor of communication and transportation takes the value that was captured by landlords, and shifts it towards productive industry. It's really a win-win.
Tesla confirms 285,000 people bought Full Self-Driving
I can't imagine how a society in a world where $DEITY would strike down anyone who tried to create a government would look like; I don't know what they'd use for coordination and whether it would be more or less vulnerable to e.g. creating correlations that defeat the disaster-prevention of the law of large numbers.

If we want to compare two situations, we should not only point out the differences in one direction. Otherwise we'd end up claiming that e.g. a society on a desert will have many fewer deaths on account of drowning being vastly less likely.
Yes, but I meant people primarily interested in making things that are readily copyable. We can just as easily say being interested in that is an obsolete mindset without also saying basic income goes hand-in-hand.
I don’t work at all closely to her life’s focus, or indeed with any significant fraction of her talent and drive, but I’m inspired by her nonetheless. RIP.
Long list of herbal teas and their reviews
We downloaded libgen sql and zlib sql and exported the necessary data from them.

Where does this "zlib sql" come from? Anna's pilimi-zlib2-index?
Right. Is this a chatGPT artifact? Maybe one can test it by testing prompts in chapGPT to see if it leads to a similar anomaly.
I don’t know where you get your news from, but I have read dozens of articles where they mention potential harm from COVID vaccines along with pointing out that overall vaccination is still recommended due to the rarity of the potential harm versus the overall benefit.

Here’s the first example I found: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/health/cdc-vaccine-heart-...
User agent strings aren't reliable for fingerprinting users or devices already. Shouldn't be using them as high fidelity IOCs. But yeah, some still do. Much better ways to fingerprint users or devices on HTTP/websites.
What's the use case of sharding on a technical key? I thought most sharding is done on business keys (e.g. per customer, region or year)?
It makes debugging and R&D really easy.

For example say I have a script:

data = slow_computation()
metrics = produce_metrics(data)

Now later I want to play with some metrics and experiment a bit I can do that in the interactive shell (running with python -i file.py will run the script as normal but leave a python interpreter open at the end with all the variables kept alive)

When I am happy with my experimentation results, say, I have found something interesting about the data and written a new function cool_metric(metrics) I can commit it to the script at the end

data = slow_computation()
metrics = produce_metrics(data)
cool_metric = cool_metric(metrics)

There's also the ability to drop in breakpoints where you can then have the full python shell available, can break out of the debugger into an interactive shell if you want, or can modify a variable and then continue the script as normal. I think you can do that with GDB for instance but it's not quite as flexible if I am not mistaken?

so if I have

def some_buggy_function(args):
data = analyse(args)
breakpoint()
new_data = further_analyse(data)

that can be quite powerful in making debugging easy
> Stop being such a lazy thinker. The world is complicated.

Please don't ad hominem and strawman instead of engaging my arguments.

> [...] relying on the reader's brain to conjure up a couple of salient instances like Iraq and Afghanistan and ignoring everything else that's happened in the entire world and outside of their cherry-picked window

Iraq and Afghanistan is just a couple of salient instances? It's literally the defining catastrophes of the 21st century, an extremely large, modern, reason for why trust in government has plummeted and there's this cynical sense of helplessness and failure with respect to practically every institution.

You're fighting some imaginary object of your contempt, the "generic libertarian". I'm arguing there's ubiquitous seemingly inevitable failures related to the unbounded scope and mission-creep of government, and you're calling that all idealistic nonsense. Well I have a right to pose my assessment of reality in an open forum of ideas, you can respond substantively but instead it seems you're tilting at windmills.
> You don't know that, there is no evidence for it

Yep, I agree.

> Babies absolutely need to learn to self soothe and that crying won't always meet attention too.

How do you know that? Where’s the evidence for it?

PS: Not the one you’re replying to.
Handy to have notes, tasks and calendar in one place. But $120/y seems a bit expensive when compared with another productivity tools.
Is there an alternative? I’ve used Pinboard forever but it’s frustratingly clunky and I’m about ready to jump elsewhere.
> license plates

That's funny, someone noticed it. License plates are a giant privacy problem. Yes, even before Snowden had to tell us, we had totalitarian bullshit like requiring ID (and the prospect of 10*X years of jail if you fake it) for hotels, receiving mail, and driving. You bring up a good point that the one you are replying to is absolutely correct, not just on a blanket statement level. There's almost no exceptions to it.
This is a no brainer.

Crying comes from emotional triggers like anger, fear,pain, hunger, loneliness etc.

When we cry as adults, it kinda helps to have a trusted person around to stand by us.

As a parent, it is obvious that you do not let your babies let it cry out.

Listen to yourself, not to youtube advice.No need to study evolution.

There are some moments where it appears they want to be left alone, but try your best to calm them down and cheer them up.

From baby to autarky, it takes 2 decades in the best case.
Well the alternatives are: to stay offline, proxy through a more powerful relay (e.g. with WireGuard, seems to be able to run on an ESP32, but that's just moving the problem around), or... convince the world that the most widely deployed encryption protocol needs radical change?
* Dorset
> Maybe the choice of language is strong but I don't think the word is being used incorrectly.

My gripe is that it's manipulative rhetoric.

The term "violence" evokes very specific meaning to the average person, physical violence, and describing non-physical actions and concepts as "violence" is an attempt to manipulate people emotionally. If someone told you they were subject to violence at the airport would you really assume anything except physical assault or intimidation?

I have seen countless examples of activists calling speech they don't like "violence", "anti-blackness", or a myriad of other buzzwords — and I am talking about mild disagreements or asking for proof, not anything near hate-speech, bigotry, or promoting violence. It's a deliberate tactic to garner sympathy and support, and I do not like how normalized its use has become.
ah, righto. thanks for specific case history example. and indeed i'm glad of this.

It's weird in this case because it's not Mozilla itself that was requiring Mozilla in the user-agent string for a site to allow or support the browser, but third-parties, who Mozilla didn't encourage or particularly want to do that, as far as I know.

But it's still probably true that it would not be enforceable under trademark for this and other reasons, okay.

I wonder if Firefox has ever considered taking "Mozilla" _out_ of their user-agent! At this point it's probably impossible. We're just stuck with this mess.
Check out his non-horror stuff: History of Violence, Eastern Promises
Software engineer charged for theft inspired by the movie 'Office Space'
Woah! Nice find! I can't say for certain if that's it, but it certainly looks similar. Same minimalist (blank white) format, at least.

That said, I never saw the site I had seen on mobile, so I don't know if it looked more like a mortar layout on a phone. And no one ever demoed that kind of chat functionality. So it might be a similar thing? Or it might just be an evolution of what I had seen. Either way, Pegg looks pretty cool. Sorry to see it didn't take off (either?).
Great use case example in the series Vikings.
Because they are Cloudflare /s
Hearing this news and letting my buddies know honestly gave me those bone shivers.

He changed everything with football. He has been sick for a while now but adds to his humility that he never was looking for attention. He was just a lover of the sport. He was the god of the sport. When you hear Pele you think; football.

He'll be missed. RIP.
What is CRI? The ultimate guide to the Color Rendering Index
For me it's a mix of:

1. News sites with book reviews. I read Vox's book critic reviews for a while, as well as my local paper's book review section. Definitely better for fiction or current events than other non-fiction.

2. Asking the people working at the bookstore. I'm consistently surprised by the breadth of book recommendations bookstore employees can give. Even asking for something incredibly specific (like "young adult fiction featuring a trans male protagonist" or "modern fantasy takes on mythologies other than Greek or Norse") usually yields a few interesting results. Again, better for fiction than technical non-fiction.

3. Friends, newsletters, and podcasts.

4. Wandering around bookstores, especially boutiques, and thumbing through the books on display. This still yields mostly new releases, but stretches me outside my comfort zone. I found both Paddling Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman (entertaining) and Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines by Jaime Lowe (well-researched non-fiction) this way.
Not sure that article says but if twitter disappears, does that mean that this "wealth" gets redistributed?
> Like, what the fuck do we think these babies are actively scheming to find ways to get soothed?

That's exactly what they do. Do you believe they're processing sophisticated ideas of love, attachment and comforting? That they're making a choice to ask their parents for soothing?

Infants are acting on basic instincts. With very limited but rapidly expanding space of possible actions, they're actively learning what behavior will lead to their basic needs being satisfied. They can and will overfit on whatever pattern they can spot.

> I swear our brains are looking for adversaries in infants now.

In operational sense, they are - they're fighting for resources for their own survival.

> Your infant child can not manipulate you. The brains barely understand action and consequence. Your infant child is trying to communicate its needs, and having it unmet with indifference is honestly hilariously sad.

Of course they can and will manipulate you. That's, like, parenthood 101. The whole set of biological and psychological changes parents undergo, the whole deal with attachment, is to make the parents vulnerable to the child. The brain of an infant may understand little at first, but it understands enough of "action and consequence" to start doing gradient descent and quickly learn how to get what it needs from its parents. Of course it helps that the parents want to fulfill their child's needs - initially, the kid isn't really learning how to get the parents to respond, but rather training the parents to respond to specific cues.

Eventually, children learn to speak, and that's when it's really clear just how devious and manipulative kids are. It's both amusing and rewarding to watch them push the boundaries of their intelligence to get you to react they way they want. Except in those cases where they succeed, and you only realize it moments later that you've been had :).
> you can decide who is the government

Not really, not in any meaningful way. We can vote for a handful of people every couple of years, but we get no say in the many thousands of people actually running the government from administration to administration, and with no oversight from the people.
I coslept with all 7 of my children.
> "Needle drugs" aren't a "conservative grievance regarding the culture war" and certainly nowhere near comparable to vaccines, which the image obviously reflects (the three boosters, then the fourth) and they also aren't intravenous..

Just for you I googled up the top conservative reddit, and scanned it for topics until I hit vaccines or drugs, and drugs came up first.
Ah wow, no pause after

As a comparison, banks' 2FA will get disabled after too many resets.
Why on earth is .horse a TLD?
It's not about the simplicity, it's about the CPU power required to keep the encrypted traffic flowing. I have a G4 TiBook for example (an insanely powerful machine, 20 years ago), and I can sense it struggle.
> Define harm.

Our common law legal system does a pretty good job of that already. For example:

> Threatening behaviour included or excluded?

See the legal definition of assault.

> "Likely to cause harm" or "intending to cause harm" included or excluded.

"Likely" is excluded in common law if that's all you have, because, as I said in response to another post upthread, actual facts trump guesses. "Intending" falls under assault if, roughly, the intent is perceived by the target.

> Is running off the road OK if no material harm?

Again, see the legal definition of assault.

> What if they have a heart attack 20min later due to stress?

How would you prove, in a legally sufficient sense, that the heart attack was due to whatever happened 20 min earlier?

I'm not proposing "caused actual harm" as the standard because I just made it up. I'm proposing it because it is the standard that our common law legal system has used for the vast majority of its history. It's only fairly recently that nanny state legislators started thinking (incorrectly, in my view) that they were smarter than centuries of common law jurisprudence.
TeX/LaTeX is so addictive to use ...

It's such a quirky and messy ecosystem. So organically grown over decades. Doing any complex layout is a struggle of trial and error and searching for advise, there's so many ways to do the same thing, you end up combining two dozens sometimes subtly incompatible packages, you end up gardening your own templates over time with meticulously embedded commentary to keep the complexity at bay, you struggle to understand what's going on under the hood to reason about what's happening, you dive into source files, etc.

But the thing is ... at the end of all that labor, it all works and the quality of the output is simply second to none. Making a beautiful doc with it makes you feel like a master carving a famous statue out of marble. Ultimately it feels like it couldn't have been done any other way, and you do love the end result dearly.

I do keep half an eye on https://sile-typesetter.org/ to see if it may become sort of a consolidated "LaTeX: The Good Parts" over time, replacing the cruft with a new baseline, but in the meantime I will keep treasuring my little zoo of .tex files.
Strange—I don’t get a paywall and I don’t even have a substack account.
Switching on airplane mode might switch off wifi, but "being in airplane mode" does not mean wifi is off, because wifi is still allowed in airplane mode.

I'm just saying this here because I thought for quite some time that airplane mode means no radio signals from the phone.
In many fields you're expected to work at some higher abstraction level above "how things really are working", in which case all the tutorials will use the primitives of that abstraction level.

In this case, if you want to understand how stuff works, you should explicitly look for things that are not labeled "tutorials" - often textbooks will be a decent example, covering the principles and theory behind these abstraction layers which you'll then use in practice.

Like, in ML there are books which work through a basic implementation of all the algorithms using just the matrix multiplication primitives of matlab or numpy, and that works well as a learning exercise, but in practice everyone would rather use a highly optimized (but thus complicated less understandable) library maintained by others.

Similarly, in cryptography, there are textbooks which will work you through an implementation of the core algorithms, but again, a tutorial teaching how to do stuff in practice would not (and definitely should not) cover making your own implementations for cryptographic operations, but rather describe how to use a properly verified library.
The only thing extra in the post is the relation between this method and the Newton-Raphson method. You can find the method here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method#Square_root
I have 7 kids and only broke 2x poverty around 2019.

I am the sole income, so I definitely needed a certain level.
Yes, that's what I see
> All this enables single chip processors with over 100 billion transistors, so, more transistors on laptop processor than neurons in your brain.

I was sceptical, but this is true! The human brain supposedly has ~86 billion neurons [0].

[0] - Table 2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/
Your point is well-argued and I mostly agree.

But this:
> Should drinking and driving be legal as long as you don't hurt anyone?

to some extent is the case in parts of Europe. In some countries 1-2 beers (or equivalent) are allowed and police cannot proactively control it. Yet if you get into an accident it can be an aggravating condition.

I don't mention the concrete countries and laws to avoid people starting to nitpick and dissect minor details.
freezing point of water/boiling point of water are pretty stable temperature checkpoints, once we learned to fix pressure and contamination....
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> ...as long as it always works.

...as long as it works for about 18 months.
I'm losing count of the number of projects I've seen recently which have build instructions which start with "you need this specific version of this particular build tool or compiler"....
Collection and processing of audio/video data has become much cheaper, especially with advances in deep learning. Hopefully we can see some larger sample-size studies taking advantage of newer tech.
You want to have a consistent designation for opposite direction runways. (9R is always the same piece of pavement as 27L)

Doing that for 4 would need one direction to be A B C D and the other to be B C D E (which is workable, but doesn't seem particularly more elegant than just using left, right, and center [and in fact is worse in some ways, since from one direction, B is the left-most and from the other, it's A])
It cuts off at "Here is how they did it." for me. Had to enter (made up) credit card details to access the rest of the post.

http://web.archive.org/web/20221229110741/https://thepalindr...