skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first step to recovery is to leave the denial phase and admit there’s a problem and it should be addressed. Many American cities and many exurban/rural towns (right-wing country!) have massive issues. They are filthy, violent, drug addicted, and mismanaged.

Let me put it to you this way. In the USA and much of Europe (less so in Europe) there are large swaths of cities in particular where you wouldn’t go. Because it’s too dangerous.

This doesn’t really exist in Singapore, etc. We just assume this is normal and unavoidable but it’s not. You don’t have to “know where you are”.

Would you be fine with me picking any place in Chicago or SF and drop you off in it?
After finding this guide I was able to play the game for the first time since my childhood. The nostalgia!

I know one of the key programmers behind The Sims 1, Don Hopkins, is a regular on HN. I hope he knows how much joy his work brought kids like me.

Here’s a video where Don demos an early build of the game: https://youtu.be/zC52jE60KjY
“You're not a wartime consigliere, Tom. Things may get rough with the move we're trying.” --Michael Corleone, The Godfather

Said to Tom Hagen when firing him.
Not sure – I would say 85%+ of the time it is available to me to use. If not, I just try again in 15-20 mins if I must use it. Sometimes there are network errors with generating large responses, but I find that if I just reload the site and try again it works. I'm in the Pacific timezone.
Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250k years
Computers ARE state machines and the primary purpose of a programming language is to help humans manage all this state.
It just seems like they wasted their lead, margin and talent.

Bell Labs produced a lot of interesting stuff with their monopoly profits.
Apple R&D seems to come up with lots of interesting new product lines.

GOOG bought Nest and managed to become an also-ran in home automation.

GOOG other bets might produce something with Waymo, but when.. all this autonomous car stuff is continuously 5 more years, every year. That's about the closest they've come so far, no?
> the reformation had nothing to do with canon

Canonical issues were debated during the "reformation", including canonicity of certain New Testament works (there are famous Luther quotes that often get brought out).
Both have an application. This can be employed at bulk.

Say for example they still wanted to find bin laden, they can do a mass look for people 6ft 4 type search which would narrow things down significantly. Then have a more detailed look with custom radar or other of worth while.

Maybe a poor off the cuff example but that kinda of bulk information collection.
The federal judiciary has a sort-of mandatory retirement [1]. After age 65, you fall out of the random case assignment pool and can only be appointed to a case for special reasons, such as case overload or special prosecutions. Most judges cannot handle this change to relative obscurity and irrelevance, and fully retire. Only the most dedicated continue.

[1] https://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges#faq-What-is-a-s...?

> Senior judges, who essentially provide volunteer service to the courts, typically handle about 15 percent of the federal courts' workload annually.
that seems pretty antithetical to the concept of 'all powerful'. It doesn't seem like god is too concerned with free will anyway, at least according to the bible. If you read the story of pharoah and moses, it is clear that god tramps all over pharoah's free will. The story goes that after every plague, "and god hardened pharoah's heart"... which means pharaoh didn't have the free will to let the Israelites go, instead destined to suffer more carnage from the next plague. Even Babel shows that. God stopped the progress of a peaceful people who were learning, developing and progressing technologically, socially etc. It is probably one of the few examples from the bible where people were actually getting along. God put a stop to that.
I can't find a grocery chain that isn't run like crap in my area anymore.

I may start going to farmers' markets this year.
After a semester of a senior math seminar with one student always bringing up "but you assumed the axiom of choice!" (mostly non-seriously), the gradstudent teaching it decided for his, and last, presentation to show this theorem. It was pretty wild as I had never heard of it before (being a physics-math person). Very cool.

(The seminar was on knot theory but I had more fun with Banach-Tarski).
Hacking Postgres Core: Waklkthrough of modifying B-Tree code, from source to CI
I feel state machines might be better represented as validations happening behind the scenes, e.g. if my coffee machine's state would go from COFFEE_READY to CUP_PLACED then allow it, if it would go straight to COFFEE_POURING with no cup then throw an error. I'm not convinced you need explicit events, and think most of the value is in preventing nonsensical transitions between states.
I always use state machines when writing a game. It's natural and simple. But I've never used a state machine for any other type of software.
Can anyone explain to me what possible relation the parent has to the GP? It looks like it's someone who veered off onto their particular hobby horse, even though it has no relation to the topic at hand.

Am I missing something, or is the parent really as off-topic as it appears?
>"You can apparently cool better using this device than traditional fans and heatsinks"

Traditional fans and heatsinks have no problem dissipating 100's of watts. Wake me up when this contraption will do the same.

>"high velocity air hitting the cooling surface vertically at high speed is much more efficient at removing heat than low speed blowers"

Except that traditional blowers operate on immense surface are hence dwarf the efficiency of this gizmo. Anyways we do not have to agree. The future will tell. Wake me up in a year.
During my childhood, I moved around frequently, and one of my valuable experiences this taught me that a significant portion of a culture's understanding of the world is largely arbitrary. From my point of view, concepts like souls fall firmly in this category.
And yet there are fairly high-level Google employees who came in with acquisitions and don't even have college degrees.
Is there a source for the UK then? In the UK in 2021 there were 84.4 overdose deaths per million compared to 105 suicides per million that’s across all age groups. Not sure what the 18-45 demo looks like but it would be much closer, if not flipped
No, now they just appear to be sending the same hashes that they'd cryptographically match against a database to some server of their to do with whatever they please (or with they're ordered at gunpoint to do).
Considering the heat generated by lighting, the relatively low sensitivity of film stocks, and the relatively small aperture, uncoated lenses available at the time (1926) 24 fps was standardized, I suspect exposure requirements may have also played a role in preferring one of the lowest feasible frame rates.

It may or may not have been a coincidence that 24 divides 120, potentially simplifying the design of electrical devices (lighting, motors) powered by 60 Hz AC; I don't know enough about the technologies involved to say.
I couldn't agree with this more, but it is mostly relevant to criminal cases and I think that almost all of the commenters here are thinking about civil cases.
American moment: “but it’s silly to consider that something could be more important than income”.
I’d strongly recommend Statesman instead: https://gocardless.com/blog/statesman/

I’m unaffiliated, just have used a lot of Ruby SM libraries.
>In the former case, the individual in question refused on multiple instances to return classified information when asked, and even after a search warrant, filed a lawsuit to demand the classified information back

You are selectively leaving out the part where Trump claims he declassified the documents. If he did, then the raid was unquestionably wrong.
Kind of offtopic, but how did you find these posts so quickly (5 minutes)? Do you have them as bookmarks, as HN favorites or how do you save them to have them so easily available?
This is all I'm typically looking for to fully grok a system:

-Working (or whatever is close) application I can play with (sandbox ideally)

-Readme with where all the docs are

-State Diagram, Flowchart, UML, (show me how & where data flows)

-Repo links (Maybe a cloned VM of a dev environment)
Why can't each city have a government provided indoor marketplace with shelf space folks could lease, otherwise fill it with other goods without any profit margin?

I think the government should provide most services everyone uses at cost, and have folks innovate/compete on top of that. Otherwise the services devolve into middlemen skimming off the top without adding value.

If something can turn into rent seeking, have the government provide it too.
Bezos didn’t come from the same wealth as the other examples but he did accept $300,000 in start up capital from his parents to get Amazon going. That’s not something available to the average joe.
I own a real locksmith business in Albany, NY. The legit companies here are getting killed with bot farm reviews. I get multiple daily. They are going to town. I believe it is a scammer company here paying for it. Said scammer company also turns out to be the Google Guaranteed company lol. Can’t make this stuff up. Like a dozen fake negative reviews a week. Its taken me years to build a good reputation and now its being completely destroyed with fake reviews that go so low as to insult my manhood.
I think you're looking for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZxqVC_tBdc

Note, however, that the state, in this story, that has underfunding problems and cannot figure out how to adequately supervise the civil engineering contracts is not California, it's Texas. Y'know, for all those who like to take sides on California vs Texas.
Or websites all start requiring some form of real life identification. That's a possibility too.
> LA is packed full of traffic and the story would have taken a very different (and interesting) angle if it reckoned with the fact that getting through the traffic is it's own game.

You might like “To Live and Die in LA”
> Unless your retirement plan consists of hoarding canned food and ammo, or perhaps drifting out to sea when you can no longer work, you’re going to be depending on the children of the people who did the work of raising kids. And until we have robots that can wipe old people’s asses, that’s going to be an inescapable fact of society.

All of these "outlandish" alternatives are seriously entertained by at least some members of the class of people who frequent HN.
Yucca mountain is, in fact, not an "approved and operating permanent nuclear waste storage facility in the US with all the waste waiting in temporary holding facilities having been placed there". It is not even "approved and operating".
>That was started during Trump's administration, just so you're aware. All of the dates in your own source document are in 2020, when Trump was still president.

The whole argument of "reactionary conservatives" is that these agencies operate according to their own agenda, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office. According to this argument, if the President's agenda aligns with that of career civil servants, they cooperate. If not, rogue civil servants a.k.a. the "Deep State" will make their own decisions, take their own actions, and define their own administrative policies under the concealment of secrecy laws and White House inattention. It doesn't help when the New York Times publishes op-eds like this one, while at the same time browbeating those who believe in the Deep State "conspiracy theory:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Part_of_the_Resistance_In...

I don't fully buy into the Deep State argument. That said, at least a few non-political employees at FBI, CIA, etc. have been caught expressing strong partisan sentiment in their official capacity. In my personal judgement and experience, college-educated upper middle-class Americans (i.e. agency employees in leadership roles) tend to be more susceptible to the sort of media bubble that might compel one to break the law, lie to the public, risk institutional trust, and so on if that's what it takes to "save democracy." Whether democracy is/was actually at risk, or whether the scale of the risk justified burning the FBI, CIA, IRS, DOJ, etc.'s institutional credibility, is another matter.
https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

> The list, Lisp's native data structure, is largely responsible for such growth of utility. The simple structure and natural applicability of lists are reflected in functions that are amazingly nonidiosyncratic. In Pascal the plethora of declarable data structures induces a specialization within functions that inhibits and penalizes casual cooperation. It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. As a result the pyramid must stand unchanged for a millennium; the organism must evolve or perish.

I love programming with typeclasses based on mathematical abstractions. I guess it's because they actually have a chance of standing unchanged for a millennium.
Citi also offers unlimited virtual card numbers for credit cards, and it is a bit easier than Eno since you can manage directly from the website without needing to install anything.
So, Banach-Tarski says you can split a sphere of volume S into a finite number of pieces and reassemble the pieces into two spheres of volume S.

Is the proof constructive? As in: does the proof actually show how to build the pieces?

If yes, is the boundary of the pieces of measurable surface?

Can the pieces be rendered in 3D?

Or is it just another one of those "proofs" where if the set of pieces doesn't exist we land on a contraction?
In 2018 I started making a browser interface you could put in an iframe to let you create web scraping scripts from any device. The web scraping part is still a WIP, but the remote browser interface became a product in its own right that pays for everything else. I fleshed it out during the pandemic and responded to customer requests to improve things like streaming and audio. I grew it well beyond Ramen possible without ever spending a dollar on advertising or marketing. Now that the feature set is pretty stable I want to focus on marketing for this year. Sales are up 224% since last year but I think I can do much better: I still never snagged those big government or huge enterprise customers that I really want. I just think that would be cool.

If you don’t know what remote browser isolation is, it’s basically a security product to keep browser. Content executing on a remote computer away from your local device and Netwerk but turns out people use it for a lot more than that: an embedded multiplayer browser for live streaming educational lessons; a human in the loop intervention console to investigate and unstick stalled web automation tasks; as well as the more traditional security or reverse proxy use cases. A large part of my nontraditional marketing came through my source available GitHub version, which is now languishing well behind the paid pro version in terms of features and quality: https://GitHub.com/dosyago/BrowserBox
Been nostalgic for this game recently and will report success or failures getting this working here. Thank you for sharing this!
Do you run your own MX? Primarily SORBS and spamhaus.
They didn't "just stop writing it" in some contexts. They started registering trademarks that explicitly didn't include it, and then they went back.

The trademark for "OS X" on its own was approved in November 2011, and then Apple started using it on its own. Their other trademark registrations (e.g. USPTO TM SN 86097345 OS X Mavericks) continued in that form, until their registration for "macOS" was approved and they changed back (e.g. USPTO TM SN 87534929 macOS High Sierra).

You can have your etymology and your opinion, but as far as Apple and the government are concerned, the fact is that the official name was just "OS X". Wikipedia is correct, and this was also the understanding among Apple fans at the time.
That's the beauty of it!
As Wheeler considered, you need only one electron.
I was saying this early in the pandemic when lockdowns started to be proposed, and being aggressively shot down for it, even here on HN. I think once we have a more full accounting of the true cost of the lockdowns, there will be no controversy about this.

Missed medical screenings & care, delayed "non-urgent" medical procedures, higher rates of alcoholism & other substance abuse, less community cohesion and myriad other effects are surely far worse for society as a whole in countries that chose lockdowns than the direct impact of COVID was in countries that didn't.
Re investments: Don't be discouraged by lack of investment. Most businesses are bootstrapped. There is absolutely nothing wrong in that. Reading technology news might give you the mistaken idea that all and sundry are VC funded. That is not true.

Finding a job (or a consulting role) is essentially a sales and marketing function. If you treat it that way, you'll find the results much more effective. Consistently market your services, follow up on interesting leads. It takes time. However, carefully analyze every failed lead to see if you can learn something from the failure. And modify the pattern. Don't personalise a lead that does not close. You'll become depressed. I know it's hard to do that. But if it helps think of selling your services as selling a product.

It helps to be extremely curious about people and see if you can help.

Finding a job is a full time job. It's a sales and marketing function. You can get good at it.
They aren’t mandatory, no? Thus must, or especially “MUST” is misleading.
It has helped me a lot at times too, even helping a little with long covid/post-viral symptoms, sample size of 1 but it really doesn’t hurt to try
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Please don't hesitate to reach out to people and organizations who can help with these thoughts.
This is clearly bot work (or made in a state of delirium). Why is it not removed I have no idea.
Ipse dixit
> Over the decades I have come to dislike templates and various architecture formats, I seem to always waste time catering to the tool and format and not enough time communicating what’s important.

This is interesting, because I often find the opposite; that without a template or format, I spend too much time worrying about how to structure what I am creating instead of getting out the content.
Things like this have been known for a while, and for some reason now being talked about in mainstream.

Talking about / showing things as an early "adopter" (ECHELON, Snowden stuff pre-Snowden, etc.) tends to get people angry and you slandered with vitriolic things like "conspiracy theorist" so the juice is not worth the squeeze.
Can’t you still just model A and B, and have your transitioning logic compute and wait for whatever is necessary to make the full transition? If you keep the ephemeral stuff in aux memory, you can have keep your number of states more manageable.
> An interesting use case is if you want to need to apply graph algorithms to a problem where edges multiply instead of adding. Just take the log of the multiplier and now your multiplication problem is addition.

I don't see what this has to add over just using the weights as they are. Dijkstra's algorithm tracks the distance from a source node to a target node. There's nothing about the algorithm that says that distance must be the sum of all the edge weights along a path; if it's the product, the algorithm will work without any changes.[1] The only requirement on the distance function is that you know how to calculate d(s,t) from the two values d(s, t') and d(t', t).

[1] You'll still have problems [with Dijkstra's algorithm] if some weights are greater than 1 and some aren't, which is the exact analog of the problems that occur when distance is additive and some weights differ in sign. But that has no bearing on whether you can use multiplication directly or you need to convert it to addition.
The first BASIC I used (1976?) was designed to run in a machine with 4K of memory (a 16-bit minicomputer). There was no operating system, nor no disk. You installed the program using a paper tape reader.

At this time, the best "full screen" editor we could find was actually a very expensive CRT terminal that did all of the editing in the terminal's memory. It required an operating system and a disk. The program read 1K of data into terminal memory, and using keys built into the terminal, you could move the cursor around and cut and paste. When done, it write the memory into a file, and read the next 1K of data.

The computer it was attached to had an editor like TECO (DEC), NSPEED (Data General), or EX (AT&T Unix). These were editors designed to be used on dumb terminals or even hard copy terminals (Like a TeleType ASR33, Silent 700, or DECWriter).

A full screen editor would need an operating system with support for files (Floppy or the outrageously expensive hard disk), and enough memory to support a program on top of the operating system, on top of the program you are editing.
I don’t think it’s worth paying a premium as long as you regularly checksum important data and look for changes over time, keep redundant backups, and regularly check for integrity failures. You should see the inconsistencies as an early warning sign. Just don’t set up your workflows so it’s too late by the time you see them.

That said, I’ve seen a not insignificant number of computers in the wild that couldn’t calculate valid sha256 checksums when utilizing vector optimized implementations. Who knows how bad other hardware issues could be. You just wouldn’t know. I would pay a little extra for ECC memory given the choice.

In fact, I have two Dell Precision T7810 workstations at home with 144 GB of ECC memory and dual Xeons totaling 36 cores on each machine as my two primary personal computers.
Hey, that's super useful. Thanks dang.
This doesn’t make any sense at all to me. If the video itself is a problem, it shouldn’t matter if it was recommended by a human with human intents or by an algorithm designed with capitalistic intent.

It would be hard to convince me that the intent of the system that recommended the video should be heavily considered. At least in the US we have a highly consequentialist legal system.
Its amazing how much people thinks economics and the capitalist elite are just supposed to magically align with their phantasmic vision of an ethnic monoculture purged of all otherness
In questioning by police the goldfish responded, “I don’t recall.”
It’s hard to sit there and bare yourself to yourself.
This delicious fruit is just begging to be sued.
Truly an amazing project. One person implementing the entire C++ standard, and then countless new, useful features on top of it. Circle did the interpreted, compile-time pass idea before any of the other new systems languages.

Carbon and C++Next both seem very directly "inspired" by Circle, but neither of those efforts seem to have actually produced anything yet.

Ideally, Circle it would be open source. But I understand wanting to hold out for some amount of corporate sponsorship first.