skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to Stop Ruminating
I have a pet theory on this.

I think, as a local councillor/politician, you show up to a Groundhog Day event and there are like 50 people there hoping you say it's gonna be spring soon, and so you just tell them that it will be.

However, it doesn't seem to be holding for this year, where most have said longer winter so far: https://groundhog-day.com/predictions/2023
I didn't know there were so many, and I also didn't know that so many of them aren't real groundhogs.
So what is an example then?
https://archive.ph/vlFsU
So, another article supporting implementation dependent behavior when everybody is out complaining about undefined behavior.

Of course implementation dependent behavior is a necessity. Undefined behavior too, on the very few cases that nobody complains about. This isn't one of them.
The amount of Karma you can lose per comment is capped (-4? -5? Somewhere in there), and the ability to downvote goes away after 24 hours, so no. It effectively can only go up over time.

You'd have to be intentionally trolling in multiple threads constantly to get it to go down by any significant amount. 'Cause even if you have a divisive comment, as long as it's not trolling, it will usually end up at 0 in the long run as people upvote it after the 24 hour mark.
TIL they made a sequel to Top Gun...
> [whatever] is undefined behaviour, which means the compiler is allowed to assume it never happens;

That interpretation is the root of the problem. Compilers authors use it to implement outright user hostile behavior in the name of elusive performance.

Why would you spend resources looking for zero days when you can have a few LLVM contributors plant them in every program "as an optimization"?
This is an N=1 story. There are 7-8 billion people on earth, 300 some million in the US, I forget how many in Europe (you can measure Europe, EU, NATO, and get different results and different cultures). With that many people there will always be someone doing something unbelievable stupid, and hackernews is large enough that you are likely to hear about it.

Be careful that you don't try to extrapolate a few N=1 stories into how normal people act.
Thanks! It was a fun project for sure: no ads and nobody trying to get me to make it look more conventional.
nice, you even brought my 500+ ping lag back into the mix.
Its definitely not common to find, my apartment was sheer luck: It was going to be ~$5k, but the landlord got sued for violating rent-control, and was required to re-rent it at the "historic" price, so sheer luck on my part.

Most places will be rent-controlled, if they're older buildings (so your master-bedroom situation is probably rent controlled). If the landlord can't provide an exemption certificate from the city, you can assume its rent controlled (you can also ask the city to provide the status for an address).

The best way to find under-market places are to look for for-rent signs and craigslist. Think anything cheap and easy. Again, this landlord isn't making money and doesn't want to spend money. Anecdotally, avoid anything that has changed hands recently, because that landlord just bought the property to profit (and probably has an active loan to pay off). My landlord thought he could buy a property, evict poor residents (illegally) and jack up rent - and its sheer luck someone caught it. It is explicitly illegal to evict a rent-controlled tenant with the intent of increasing rent.

Rent control doesn't determine price once it hits the open market (with some exceptions), but it limits price increases and limits the ability of the landlord to evict you to find a higher-paying tenant. This incentives staying where you are once you find a good-enough place instead of moving around a lot - the goal is to provide a way to keep long-time residents as alternative to home ownership.
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It's a pretty good joke, but I'd bet it's directly stolen.
I'm still surprised that anyone expected the acquisition of Twitter by a billionaire with a long demonstrated lack of empathy, social grace or self awareness would go at all well.

He started a fire in a movie theater and now wants to lock the doors and raise the price on whatever water and extinguishers are on hand.
> But it's possible to do long division (and other "paper" techniques) in your head if your short-term memory is good enough.

That's actually how I learned long division. I didn't want to pay attention to any of these weird methods of arithmetic that require me to write things so I just did it all in my head and this happened to be a method that worked (go figure!). Many of my K12 math teachers understandably didn't like the fact that I would write down the correct answers to things without showing how I got there.

On the topic of this article, I'm actually really glad for this trick. If anything is my hobby it is mental arithmetic.
That's a backronym. VHS originally was an abbreviation for "Video Home System".

Edit: also, the helical scan on a VHS tape can't really be said to be "vertical". A helical scan already implies a direction along the length of the helix, and "vertical helix" doesn't really make sense in the context of scanning down the length of a magnetic tape. Adding "vertical" to the actual term "helical scan" can really only be an attempt to back-fit an acronym to "VHS".
If you need to indoctrinate somebody with a certain belief from an early age, then your belief must be so poor that it cannot be used to convince adults, so how can such an action be justified?
I don't think this is at odds with HATEOAS, as long as you can embed state in the hypermedia URLs. Or you could provide a set of URLs and state data or a JWT or whatever, and the client would combine them all together in operation.
maybe then people start to go back to their lives, have real life hobbies, start a family, engage themselves in their communities...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34600863
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34605980

queue the master dang and his ban-hammer to suppress that thread also.
Accuracy data is basically impossible to get. You have to get weather data year by year for different regions of the country and then compare them to historical ranges. It will basically mean 10x the work I've done already. It's open-source though, so it could be that someone wants to collaborate with me in future :D
You're right. It's hard to teach in schools though because of standardized (often multiple-choice) tests; teachers are incentivized to teach "skills" that have objective correct answers that can be easily tested.

Then by the time students hit college, they're resistant to any sort of mathematics that doesn't have a correct answer. I've been trying to sell it as a means of error-correction, or as a sanity check. If they've gotta answer a question "Joe is 6'4" tall and, at the suggestion of an ergonomist, wants to build a desk 40% of his height. How tall should the desk be?" I urge them to not immediately go into math-brain and just think for a minute, and estimate a reasonable answer to match their calculations against. This mental workflow sticks for a few of them by the end of the class.
I don't work in a FAANG. I do have 24 years experience in my field however, and most of the people that work for me have 2-3 years.

Stop looking at the differences. Start looking at the capabilities. Trust them with things and see how they do instead of hand holding them. They don't need it or want it. Treat them like coworkers, not subjects.
I hear how much that still stings for you. The hope I pull out of
living through it all comes from Germany and Japan. They've definitely
been through a lot of introspection and soul searching since 1940s,
and I find both nations have a "wiser" and more cautious stance in the
world. The question is, will our Iraqs, Afghanistans and Vietnams ever
be something we reckon with and integrate into a better future? I'm
not a pacifist btw, just allergic to colossal misadventure based on
the flimsy lies of elite minorities able to control the message. It's
staggering that in my lifetime we repeated the mistakes of the Germans
70 years earlier, and right now the Russians are going through the
same thing. We humans are, in David Bowie's words, always crashing in
the same car.
So Generics, Traits, Abstract subclasses, etc... don't exist in static typing?

As soon as the types get complicated, the code bloat begins.
> The point is that JSON is a data structure

JSON is not a data structure. JSON is a data language. A computer program is a data structure and doesn't need comments, a programming language is a format for a human to read, write, and interact with automated tooling, whoss content is a program, but for the human uses, comments are important.

Similarly for data languages.
As a parent, I feel for them and this is definitely a situation where cops overstepped their bounds.

To play devil's advocate: I am wondering if we have created a system where the cost of being wrong is too high. Imagine what would happen if the police didn't investigate and something had gone wrong? Or look at Gabby Petito's parents who are trying to sue the Moab police.
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Yeah a lot of mass media discourse reduces to reinforcing cognitive bias. Its why everyone thinks their side is actually fighting the good fight, and just by being on said side, they too, are very good.
> money quote

;)
We played a game in high school that I called "The Root is Right!" We'd take turns coming up with crazy numbers for each other to estimate in our heads. Then we'd draw little pictures of prizes for the person closest to the real root. We all got super good at estimating roots!

We used a lazy version of Heron’s method, which was just to memorize a bunch of general number roots, and then average our guesses based on closeness to that root. It ended up being as easy as mental math around tipping at a restaurant. It definitely came in handy for engineering classes later on!
would be nice if we could have a way to navigate just in the old web...
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s deep fake company announces $20M investment
FWIW I personally think that it is indeed a right. It should be noted, though, that not even all European states have same-sex marriage (almost all have some kind of civil unions, but this just shifts the political question to "how and why is this different?").

On the other hand, from my experience with it, ChatGPT will not readily generate malware. It can be induced to do so through creative prompt engineering, but a blunt request will just give you a lecture about how it can't do bad things. And, conversely, with prompt engineering, you can get it to espouse just about any political ideology.
This sounds like a lot of work to me to address a problem that only impacts 0.1% of players, and KeyboardEvent.code looks pretty obscure.
I think this is the article they are referring to.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/04/apple-remote-wo...
Remarkable how in the 1910s and 1920s we had uninterrupted stretches of extra winters decades in a row, but now early spring dominates. Clear evidence of global warming.
I didn't say hard work and intelligence. I said choice. Where you are in life is the sum of a million choices you made.
I'm not entirely sure. Fetching attributes of related entities and pagination are really common operations, and those are natural cases where providing the client with pre-built URLs can make the client's job a lot simpler.
It converges more slowly, but you can also just binary search for the square root. This is just easier for me to remember how to do.

You can also cheat it a bit by trying to bias towards the way you intuit the answer lies.
Ask HN: How've people's experiences been with Perplexity, You, Poe?
And the other GPT powered search tools.

Perplexity, You, Phind, Poe (Quora's thing), and there's probably others I'm forgetting.

Anyone switched over from Google?
> This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism.

Nope it's just good old fashioned American police state activities. Once again people on this website love this subtle form of American Exceptionalism where they Pretend that America is not the most oppressive and destructive racist country in history.

If you were a A person of color fighting for your rights, a Communist, or any other ideological enemy of the United States you would realize that this activity from the police is nothing more than a generalization of the official policies of police towards "undesirables" in the 20th century.
In 22.04 LTS, the updater shows "Livepatch" in that menu position. Is that the same thing?
Most foster families are loving, but it's interesting to note in these situations where the parent/guardian is paid from outside the household for the children (foster or child support) we see increased rates of abuse. Correlation does not imply causation but there seems to be a heavy correlation between being paid for the child and abuse.
Sometimes I think we have romanticized civil disobedience a little too much. Not because having authoritarian laws is good, but because it seems like some people would rather be heroic resistance fighters than engage dry policy work and advocacy. It would be better to never live under bad laws at all.
Once the initial hoopla around many of these web based ‘services’ (Gmail, Netflix, Facebook, etc) has worn off, we discover that many of the business models are downright hostile to consumers.

I feel like we are seeing the cracks in the web services facade, where alleged innovation is being replaced with brazen moat keeping. When the customer is in the way of your business model, you’ve lost the script.
What are the equivalents in Python ecosystem?
Here is a thesis/thesis-question: the US has (primarily) one economic dominant culture/model, and resistance to that dominant economic culture/model is what constitutes a more hardcore/impactful/not surface/valuable (?) counter-culture.
I'm not a big crypto fan, but I would have said previously before FTX that crypto was maybe our contemporary counter-culture. Unlike the solidarity economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_economy, which I also think is a counter culture, it was more impactful/hyper-generating/getting people thinking, etc. I wish that the solidarity economy was as talked about. I think both the far left and far right (trads and LGBTQIA+) people are kind of counter-cultural in terms of their reaction to different large strains of culture in the US (I don't think there's one culture in this country, anymore, on the social and cultural level). Maybe I'm talking about being revolutionary, and not counter-cultural?
It'd be great to expose shady business, but somebody has to enforce the forced transparency and that's a LOT of power. Whoever has that power can pretty easily keep privacy for themselves and their friends, use it to blackmail others, and enforce it more harshly on their enemies.

My point is that no matter what society you look at, the privileged get the nice things (like privacy) automatically whereas the underprivileged have to get it encoded into law, and even then it's not guaranteed. It's a rigged game, and the right to privacy levels the playing field.

When humans were nomads, we didn't have human rights so the point is kind of moot, but we still had secrets (even if gossip made it harder to keep them secret) and we still had a strong social hierarchy with privileged elders.
Exactly. While it is definitely harder with a low-level language, it is absolutely doable in terms of costs with managed languages. In Java for example even data races are well-defined to a degree (and OCaml’s new multithreaded mode defines data races with even bigger guarantees)
Isn't this just Newton's method ?
Society tends to observe almost any mistake of parents as reasons to remove children.

24/7 surveillance of children is an unreasonable expectation. Yet if there is any lapse observed, no matter how minor, it's an investigative offense. There is little understanding for parents. Not many people are parents these days, and if they are frequently they only have experience with one or two children in a world where every child can be quite different.

When CFS shows up, you are mostly at the mercy of the org. I've called attorneys and they kind of throw their hands up with a "not much they can do attitude". There isn't much due process except what exists internally to the org. When they make mistakes there is effectively no recourse except going public and shaming them in the media - which is not generally effective BTW.

Which brings is to harm. Removing a child from a home can be life altering dramatic. Yet they can do it without judicial oversight. The places they put them aren't guaranteed to be superior. Even if a child experiences some abuse they may also experience love in a home. Foster homes are also actually more likely to be places of abuse - https://www.focusforhealth.org/sex-abuse-and-the-foster-care...

So the metaphor that comes to mind is you are potentially removing a child from a pan, maybe not even a hot pan, and likely throwing them into a fire. To make that step you had better make 100% certain in triplicate that you are correct. And that bar is not met by the current system.

I'm not really sure how to convey a lifetime of experience as a parent and personal dealings DCFS and what is and isn't good for children. Children are, nearly universally, better off with their actual parents if those parents want them. Even when those parents demonstrate pretty egregious failings. Unless there is really solid proof of physical danger to their life directly from the parents or sexual abuse, it should be hands off.

The foster system just isn't good enough to justify anything else.
Trivia: The guy who wrote QOI and QOA, @phoboslab, had a phone interview with facebook a decade ago where he was asked to implement sqrt() in js.

https://twitter.com/phoboslab/status/1554127643011850242
How and why were the adjectives in these lists chosen? I feel it would be easy to produce or amplify a bias by omitting certain negative or insulting adjectives.
Audiotape is - or at least, Phillips compact cassettes are - recorded linearly. The recording method you're talking about for videotape is called helical scan, because the heads trace out a helix pattern. You might be confusing that with the head azimuth, which does alternate between fields on VHS to reduce cross-talk or something.

Some other bits of jank in the VHS spec:

- Because the tape is moving while it's being written, it stretches the signal out on the tape. This is perfectly fine for normal playback. But when the tape is not moving, the signal's now too wide for the playback head, and you can only read about half the picture. That's why your VCR had bars of static whenever you paused (unless you sprung for the four-head model)

- Audio is still recorded linearly, and you can't exactly chuck a linear head in an angled, spinning drum. So you have to put the audio head further away from the tape. And that distance is fixed; changing it means your machine is now playing audio out of sync with the video.

Also, there is an extension to VHS that lets you record audio along the video in the helical area, it's called VHS Hi-Fi and it improves the audio dramatically with the trade-off that any minor video glitches will add pops to the audio. Humans are way more sensitive to gaps in audio than video, after all.
Any one of those in isolation could be crippling, but all together?

I just wanted to say kudos for finding healthy outlets to manage.
The first time I watched the news outside the US blew me away. The reporters talked about incidents, gave some facts, interviewed a few locals, then moved on. Then they did it again. And again. I felt like something was missing; I kept waiting for it, but it never came. The reporters never blamed anyone, they never made me angry, or afraid. It was weird.

This was in Taiwan in the early-2000s. I remember one story was about a school in a rural/poor area that flooded so it was shut down temporarily. The parents were upset because they wanted their kids in school. The reporters talked about the situation, interviewed a few people, then that was it. I thought to myself, "Where's the talk about racism/classism? Where's the video of parents shouting at school board officials? So, no one's gonna shove a microphone in a local politician's face and ask misleading questions?" Like I said, it felt weird, like something was missing. I didn't know the news could be like that.
How about NVDA?
This is Canonical getting their hands dirty and applying their own patches faster than the package maintainers. If the package maintainer release a patch then that is applied like normal, no Ubuntu Pro required.
Good points. And appreciated. But CGI de-aging doesn't work well without human involvement either.

I was alluding to the need for strong collaboration between AI and writer. A properly trained AI, as you point out, with a skilled human writer to shape the arc.

Credits reading: "Written and directed by <name>" with assistance from "advanced learning technology."
That law is prefaced with "No person shall solicit votes in any manner"... clearly making it more about stopping political influence at the polls by giving things away. Also it only applies within 150 feet of the building anyway.
I'm more concerned about why I can't see a list of sites that CA has authenticated, or put my own restrictions on them.

Taking the first one: AC Camerfirma S. A.

I suspect I've never authenticated anything against that CA. I'd love to know what sites it has authenticated, and maybe I'd be happy with a lot of .es sites

Wouldn't surprise me if I rarely if ever encounter 80% of the CAs that I trust. Looking through I'd be happy if some of the signed .ae, or .cn, but not .de.

If I did visit an unusual CA, I'd like to make a judgement call on that access. Sure, the big ones (letsencrypt, globalsign, etc) woul dneed to just trust completely, but having a "you are visiting youremail.com, last time you visited this was signed by Globalsign with a certificate expiry of 5 months time, today it's signed by Odd Looking CA, continue?

Sure for 90% of users would click though, and it shouldn't be an option for 90% of users, but I'm not 90% of users.

Same with importing. If I make my own certificates for my own stuff, I want to import my CA and trust if for .mydevdomain.com, but not for mybank.com, because I don't trust my own security enough to have anyone, including me, have a skeleton key to my entire communication chain for key sites.
I'm sure everyone says that about themselves. It doesn't work out like that though.
> An equivalent for the IBM PC platform, or PC DOS/MS-DOS/compatible environments has never been available

As usual - you will never know the difference until you try.
What a cool product? Hiring junior engineers by any chance?
That's what you use for managing the windows firewall, setting up tunnels/port forwarding too. Pretty nifty for a windows cli tool.
Once upon a time, NodeJS, Go and C# weren't battle tested or with support either. "Because we already have one" isn't a great reason not to do something. What this does need is a differentiator over those other languages. Vapor is nice if you already write Swift, which itself is an adopted and heavily used language. Dart isn't, and while Flutter is popular, it's "barely so" relative to the rest of the world. Someone will appreciate this, hopefully enough people to make it viable, but I remain skeptical that will happen, not because of alternatives but because of current entrenchment.
And that endpoint is powered by what, if not an LLM?
Sure there were some real gun mods in doom, but the gun sprite resolution was crap, the limitations of the engine added limitations to map design and while multi-player was possible it wasn't anything like the post-quakeworld era.