skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pretty place, about a 20 minutes ride from my home/office. Why is it on HN at all?
This thread is full of native English speakers using "loan" to mean "lend", so "borrow" isn't any worse.
The ToS doesn't mention that "the most connected angel investor" can fix your account but apparently that works. Apple doesn't follow their own ToS; they use realpolitik like everyone else. If you can flip their perception so that the cost of banning you (e.g. due to the threat of a lawsuit) is higher than the cost of unbanning you... they will unban you.
Yes, I agree. Everyone deserves another chance, several of them even.

I'm reasonably sure there had been at least Slack bans before though; this wasn't the first ban (I thought I mentioned this before, but looks like I forgot).
One of my banks says:

> The FICO® Score pulled on [date] is the FICO® Score 8 based on Experian data, and is the same score that [name of institution] uses, along with other information, to manage your account.

Another says:

> The score provided here is FICO® Score 8, which is based on TransUnion® data and may differ from other FICO® Scores. Variations may also occur when your score is based on data from another consumer reporting agency or calculated at a different time. [name of institution] and other lenders may use different scores and other information in credit decisions.

I'm not going to intentionally interact with Experian directly, unless I have to, so not going to compare there. From what I recall, when I last opened a loan and they disclosed the scores, they were within spitting distance of what I was seeing from my banks at the time.

Now maybe FICO 8 score means something different than FICO Score 8; these guys like to be deceiving, and maybe some banks give the VantageScore, but mine seem to give a FICO Score 8.
A few years ago I built some tools https://github.com/tf318/tamtools to store alignments against two different reference assemblies in an efficient way (taking advantage of the fact that the majority of each alignment to different assemblies would in fact be the same, just shifted in position).

The intent was to enhance this to store alignments against multiple references as new references are published, and probably to rewrite in Rust or C rather than the initial Python version.

In retrospect I would be interested to know whether this domain-specific compression effort, with zstd to the resulting "hybrid" alignment, would be more efficient than just letting zstd do its own thing with a full set of individual alignments against the different references.
The GP is unclear as to whether the loan happened before or after the friend obtained a job offer. Loaning moving expenses money to someone who just got a high-paying job offer and needs the moving money to start the job does not sound that risky.
please god no; I appreciate the anti Google crowd's concern but hCaptcha can die in a fire
I didn't say Facebook shouldn't do what they need to reduce their own network traffic. They don't belong in our file systems and our gene sequencing standards and our non-Facebook web services.
Germany on the other hand is drowning in their own dirty coal and subducts to green party/terrorists
Belarus not even WTO member and never was
When you say it like that I can't help but factor in inflation. Even though McGee paid the loan back, the value of it will be significantly lower today than when he borrowed it.
I think the idea for the metaphor is that, if you see lightning hit a tree, you shouldn't think it is so rare that it wouldn't hit the tree a second time (as some people then think "lightning never strikes the same place twice")... it is, in fact, so rare to have hit anything at all, that it having hit that tree in the first place is maybe an indication that that tree is acting as some kind of preferential local lightning rod and it is actually likely to hit the same tree again.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/amp/news/article/can-li...

> Believe it or not, this long-held myth is far from the truth. While the odds of being struck by lightning are low, the chances of lightning striking the same place twice are high. Lightning can, and often will, hit the same spot multiple times.
I personally liked it, but the lack of multiline tabs support (when you have a lot of them opened) is what made me switch back until they implement it.
I know. DI is solved easily without a framework. Idk why there's even a word for DI; never occurred to me how else you're supposed to code (globals?).
Rate-limiting is one.
This is true - I own three or four and at least one is stainless steel as well. The Bodum is the best all-around of mine, but the $9 ikea has been pretty good for many years up until the plastic push knob started to break. The stainless steel is a Starbucks, which in some ways I don’t like because I can’t see the color of the coffee as it is brewing and the knob is wooden - pretty, but not wise for a product that gets wet.
So now instead of you spending a few minutes putting together a minimal email with just the required info that takes me only a little time to read and understand, you will generate a blob of whatever content and length, and basically force me to either ignore your email, or waste a bunch of time reading it to try and tease out useful info.

Doesn't that mean you are basically offloading work to me?
Oh wow, I have a special hatred for them. I bought one thing from them and then spent years trying to get off their email lists. It took me something like 12 separate email requests (plus who knows how many times clicking on unsubscribe links). As a company they are dead to me.
It should be no surprise that Facebook works on projects that benefit Facebook. By making it free software, it also happens to benefit the wider world at the same time. Win-win.

Is your problem with the idea that developers are getting paid at all, or just that this instance is at Facebook?
correct but nobody would spell it German's chocolate cake if it was from Germany.
Being in America, we added the American innovation of putting sugar in everything.

Although I don't think the originator of the trend actually changed the recipe very much. I just mean it's popular because he made it popular.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.

In cases where I feel I need to, I clarify it's a gift and if they really feel the need to repay later, they can pay it forward or gift back. The key is removing the guilt which is what kills friendship.
NICE. So two of those are just opinion pieces quoting Western cut-outs/think tank hacks, and the Guardian piece is relying entirely on the statements of NATO's chief. Funny how low the barrier of proof is when you're "the good guys."

"He declined to give details of those operations, saying: “That is my interpretation.”" LMAO
Myths and Legends in High-Performance Computing
Petty perhaps, but I'm really annoyed that he didn't follow the celebrated command line tool tradition of compress, gzip, xz, lzip, bzip2, etc. I always have to remember that zstd behaves differently and you have to take extra steps to achieve the same thing.
Thing is, Deere's entire business model is built around trying to be the most repairable brand around. Hell, they even own A&I Products, the leading aftermarket farm equipment part supplier. If you didn't want people to repair equipment, being in the business of selling aftermarket parts targeted at the self-repair market would be a strange one to be in.

The contention, of course, is around their software systems that have paid upgrades. If they supply tools and manuals you'll be able to enable paid features for free and that's what they want to avoid. Same as every other software business, frankly. Not even HN gives you the ability to fix problems with this forum because they're afraid of what you'd be able to enable if they gave you access.
And people still sue even if a warning was present. And nobody is saying "ha, darwin". They're saying stuff like "why weren't you supervising your 1 year old" or "how could we anticipate that someone would get [object] stuck in their butt".
I have to admit, I'd love to be able to modify the software in my microwave to disable the incessant reminder beep. But I'm not sure I agree in general that it companies shouldn't be able to copyright their own software, or put measures in place that make it impractical or impossible for me to modify it. Presumably I'm aware of that when I buy it, and I have options. But I think that's different from being able to repair it.
"The general agreement in the scientific literature, holds that solar cycle 25 will be weaker than average. However, observations from 2020 to 2022, the first three years of the cycle, significantly exceed predicted values."
Chinese state media admit ‘different views’ on zero-Covid
My view on this always been that if it did not happen to this specific character, we (the audience) wouldn't have learn about their story.
This looks very cool, and I'll definitely use it in a side project sometime soon!
Ask HN: What book(s) had a profound impact on your life and why?
I have recently read "Dopamine Addiction" and I came to realize I have severe video gaming addiction, which sadly has been causing issues in my life for the last 15 years. I somehow was completely blind to the severity of the problem. I have lost friends, relationships, performed poorly in high school.

Programming in college and competitiveness of it kept me interested enough to do extremely well and graduate.

I somewhat knew it was a problem a year or two back when I started having feelings of being a complete failure after long gaming sessions. I felt worthless. Frankly, during this time I have been working, earning a good income and delivering good work.

This book really opened my eyes that addiction has many forms and explained why I find boring tasks difficult to complete. This year I'm attempting to stop gaming, minimize social media use to HN/Niche subreddits, and focus on reading more books, refreshing CS knowledge and working on side projects.

Is there anything you have read which had a profound impact on your life?
So, the context of this specific thread of discussion is "If $7k destroys a friendship, it's not really that close of a friendship."

Which is bogus in my opinion - this is all discussion on why it's bogus. It's not a comment on the original post by alach11.
As long as your users are reasonably tech-saavy this is ok. But long URLs can be problematic when sent in email for many possible reasons, such as the email client wrapping the URL and then creating a link out of just part of the original URL. The user sometimes doesn't realize this and gets unpredictable results when trying to use the URL they "saved" in the email.

Perhaps instead, assuming the user is online, hash the json state data, then send the json+hash to the server and update the URL to URL?hash. Then the user has a much shorter URL, and the server can lookup the json state from the provided hash to resume the app at that state. As a bonus you then have versions of the data over time (either posted automatically in the background or on-demand when the user clicks Save).
I think the disconnect here is that first few books/season of A Song of Ice and Fire set up the reader/viewer to expect a downer ending. They are engaging specifically because they break conventions by killing off so many of the protagonists.

In a traditional story a happy ending is satisfying because it fulfils expectations, but in A Song of Ice and Fire the 'happy' ending manages to leave the viewer hanging because it breaks the implicit promise of the first few seasons. I fully expected (and wanted) the series to end with the last human dying as the dragons face off against the White Walkers.
You are a howling jay! How can you go tomorrow and get back again today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEkm__55ik
If you are interested in seeing Uranium news from around the world every day and there is a lot happening in the space follow @quakes99 on twitter.
I agree

I also can’t stand: “You’re doing logging wrong” / “you’ve been doing logging wrong”

But then again as an industry we seem to like confident bullshitters
Maddox is a huge ass but his site is still updated from time to time

http://maddox.xmission.com/

He has posts from 1998 to 2020 but I'd say he still actively posts. He's just run out of things to say. lol
> more respectful of privacy than Google
>
> Two milliseconds on Google

can't tell if is satire or not
I'm so sad the editor chose not to publish Jaynes' C snippets because "they were too cryptic." They would've helped clarify the ideas greatly.

It's a good book, but I don't know how it's related to ML. My own answer would be "Just do it." Find an ML project you like and start tinkering around. But everyone learns differently, so maybe there's a book that can replace experience.
For an alternate implementation, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stalacpipe_Organ
Note on 2: I haven't seen this get a lot of use (or maybe I just haven't noticed it), but the Storage API also provides a `sessionStorage` object [1] with some interesting properties. Not only are values persisted across same-tab refreshes, but if you duplicate the tab, the session values are copied over as well (but they don't remain linked like `localStorage`). An interesting use case for this, IMO, is for tracking dynamic layout values (like if you have resizable panels, scroll areas, etc). If you keep this kind of thing in sessionStorage, you can refresh or duplicate the working tab and that ephemeral state will carry over, but since it's copied (not shared) the tabs won't step on each other.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/sess...
So you are Russia.

You have a powerful misinformation team that can sway global opinion.

Out of all objectives that further Russian power, you have decided on the squashing new nuclear plants.

Why this and not some other objective? Why can't they sway the global opinion on Ukraine? Surely they are trying.
Management of the Nile River with climate and socio-economic uncertainties
I'm a Facebook hater too, but I can't think of any even theoretical concerns around zstd. It's freely licensed, no patent concerns, it's straight up free software. You're not giving them money or supporting their ad model by using it. It's not like Chrome where Google has an interest in making web browsing suck.

What theoretical path to harm is there to adopting it more widely?
I think it's important to note poor planning, unawareness, and frankly stupid, naive, or ignorant decisions can make nearly any environment or activity dangerous.

As an example I once got in a car with people I'd just met. After driving a few blocks one of them held a gun to my head. The driver then drove us out to the middle of nowhere... I was convinced I was going to be killed. I couldn't say how long the drive was but it felt like hours. They "just" robbed me and left me there. Frankly, dealing with the police after this was just as traumatizing as the initial experience - after I described the perpetrators (yes, including race) and the overall situation they assumed it was a drug deal gone bad (even though I've never had anything to do with drugs) and more or less dismissed me. They actually took it a step further and started mocking me. Essentially, they heard the race of the suspects and assumed I was initially in that situation because of something criminal (I'm white). It was awful.

I was pretty traumatized for a while but in the years since I'm much more aware of my surroundings at all times. I certainly don't trust people I don't know well and put myself in situations even remotely similar to that. I definitely have some PTSD but it doesn't impact my life much on a daily basis. In telling this story people frequently respond with "that was stupid". I can't say I disagree but it's also been eye-opening to observe a lot of casual and overt racism in response.

Point being, I essentially "victim blame" myself to some extent. I don't know if that's psychologically good or bad but what I do know is factoring everything in the chances of anything like that ever happening to me again are much lower. I'm not an outdoors type person but I imagine that (as the article describes) similar factors can easily and rapidly assemble to lead to more-or-less near death experiences.
Pleas do not take this Post to serious. It was just a User Test for the page "Hacker News". Sadly i cant delete so it is still here
There are none anymore. We now know that throwing a bunch of bits into the linear algebra meat grinder gets you endless high quality art and decent linguistic functionality. The architecture of these systems takes maybe a week to deeply understand, or maybe a month for a beginner. That's really it. Everything else is obsolete or no longer applicable unless you're interested in theoretical research on alternatives to the current paradigm.
Another one would be passing ipfs hash in the url
Yes, that's true. And that evacuation was based on irrational fear-mongering, completely unnecessary.
How do you read the tweet? It seems pretty clear that he knew that getting paid back wasn't very highly probable, and he learned about how recipients handle that.
I learned (fortunately) early that loaning money to friends and family is a recipe for disappointment / conflict. I never loan money anymore. I will, however, gift money when I feel it is worthwhile (this is also a good litmus test). That way I cannot be disappointed when it is not paid back, only satisfied that I've seen it go to a cause I was comfortable giving to.
I don't think that depending on CI for deployments is the worst thing you can do. You get two good signals; 1) this compiled on my machine, and it compiles on some other random machine, so it's looking likely that this binary will start up on the prod servers ok. 2) there is some proof that the test suite passed before you ship your thing to production.

I'm really pretty OK with "if CI is down, and there's a prod emergency, and the test suite is broken", not everyone on the team can fix that. Escalate to someone who can, the 0.5 times this happens a year; the rest of the time, everyone clicks "merge" on their pull request and the code filters out into production quickly and efficiently. They don't want to think about it, but the customer gets their features as soon as possible. Not the worst thing. Way better than "our release person is on vacation, we'll restore your outage next week".
Google en passant.
Thanks for looking it up, I remembered "something ten thousand" but wasn't sure if it was just under or just over or just something with a ten :)
Ireland’s rental market is broken
In a comparison to the Crystal Skulls, the SW prequels were much better. That doesn't make the prequels good.

In the SW series, the recent versions were not as good as the original trilogy but still better than the prequels.
I was a technically a loan shark at school, in my early teens.

So I had a fairly small allowance which I mostly saved. Other kids were spending their afternoons at the malls shopping, buying cigarettes and eating fast food.

So the richer kids eventually had their allowances lowered by their parents because of some sort of misbehavior, and it turned out this wasn't very effective as they started asking around to borrow money to keep up their habits.

So I gave small sums of money and since I was a very distrustful teenager I had the following terms - if you don't pay me back by Friday I'm gonna round up the sum or increase it to some other arbitrary point. Usually what happened is they would obnoxiously blow me off, but I would get a concession about increasing the interest further. I didn't want to argue over small sums so I just increased them, giving them a way out of the impasse

In a few weeks the debt would simply balloon and I would start to get angry by the way they were treating me. I learned that I wouldn't get my money by cornering them alone someplace and they would make up credible payment arrangements as soon as possible. I ended up collecting everything with several hundred percent of profit. I learned later that interest rates are calculated yearly and these terms were absolutely insane.

Even though the profits were big the sums were in fact quite small for the trouble, so I just stopped lending out the next year and honestly my market was saturated by then.

My clients probably learned much more than me. At a later time in my life I read 'Poor Economics' and worked with fintechs in an IT capacity. What my teenage self was practicing was fairly common in poor developing countries with next payday or next week loans financing many lively hoods.

I have also never taken a loan, and I'm not planning to.
Why Italians Don't Drink a Cappuccino After 11am
Spawn, grow, sow: how coral seeding could boost recovery
(I can't wait until the myth that you need linear algebra and calculus to do ML finally dies. It's like saying that you need to understand assembly to do programming. It helps, but it's far from a requirement.)
Not sure if you meant it like this but "even higher" sounds like you think that's high. Your source also gives the following numbers:

On-shore wind: 11 g/kWh

Hydropower: 24 g/kWh

Utility solar PV: 48 g/kWh

Biomass: 230 g/kWh

Natural gas: 490 g/kWh

Of course this is from the World Nuclear Association but they link a source at the IPCC, and after doing a little googling it looks like other sources agree.
> While also lamenting the long history of exclusionary practices of the places these things exist.

Can you go into more detail as to these exclusionary practices? All organizations, all things really, are defined by both what they include and what they exclude. Nothing is fully inclusive, else that thing would have no meaning!

To be more concrete, How, were churches more exclusionary than other private or civic organizations of their times? When we judge the history of something, we really need to judge it in proper context, including by comparing to the society at large within the same time frame. On the whole, Christianity can be argued to be one of the most inclusive religions ever. It would have to be, else it couldn't have spread across the world like it did!

> The world isn't perfect, and as strong as the desire is to reduce things to a "good" or a "bad" the real world comes with confusing good and bad points that we don't have to average out into a final score.

I'm not sure what this sentence is supposed to be conveying, really. It's point is far too banal to be a nugget of wisdom. It's more like a clump of dirt of wisdom! The world isn't perfect? Thanks for the reminder! But we all have a choice as to how we interpret our world, and I'm suggesting that the primary emotion or feeling an organist should have towards churches is one of gratitude, at least while we're staying on topic and talking about organs.
I'm trying so hard not to buy a steam deck because I'm trying to save money but every day that passes it's getting harder.
I'm glad you have positive feelings towards Wild Wild Country. I though it showed a lot of restraint in presenting the bulk of Osha's followers as decent people. The "villains" are the attempted murderers and the local townspeople who lost their minds when some non-Christians showed up.