skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are using the concept of Pareto front (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front) not Pareto distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution) but it's true they are both named after the same Pareto!
I love this. I used to make video games when you would have to support a bunch of different video cards and even -- gasp -- software rendering! I still have a soft spot for the Matrox G200 that I was the only person on my team to have. It wasn't the best 3d accelerator but worked and it looked good to me. It's all weird nostalgia now but I am glad I bought that NVIDIA stock back in the day.
Japanese Cowboy by Ween. Listen to the song in it's entirety before visiting the wiki page :)

https://youtu.be/-WJ7NMQyK2E

https://www.ween.wiki/wiki/Japanese_Cowboy
I prefer --info=progress2 over --progress - rarely do I care about the progress of individual files but I want an idea of how much longer the whole transfer is going to take.

Also --delay-updates is useful to minimize disruption when copying into a live directory read by a webserver or other program where you want to have a consisten state.
Or the Samsung s23
"fiat currency is a grand scheme to undermine our savings"

imagine writing this as ironic mockery during an ongoing inflation crisis.
Worth noting, if calling UK abortion law "the most permissive", that it is actually still technically illegal to choose to have an abortion just because you don't wish to give birth. You need a medical reason to get one, luckily most doctors agree with the logic of "my mental health will be harmed if I can't have an abortion" so generally speaking it's effectively legal...

But there are still stories of women getting arrested and prosecuted for having abortions, eg https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-women-in-uk-face-...
> In what way was the plastic bags sensible?

In the way that the number of trees I've seen covered in plastic bags has dropped > 99%. Seeing 5 or 6 plastic bags at once blowing in the wind, down > 99%. In the way that microplastics is a bad thing, and reducing the amount of them is good.

> We replaced recycled and sugar cane bags with awful cotton bags

What proportion of those plastic bags we banned were "recycled and sugar cane bags"?

And that's not what your initial argument was. I'd have liked to see them replaced with hemp, myself, but I'd rather see a cotton bag degrading peacefully than a plastic bag leeching random nasty shit everywhere.

>The sale of imported plastic bags skyrocketed.

Did it "skyrocket" to more than the number of bags we were producing before? No, not anywhere. In South Australia, for example, 400 million fewer plastic bags were used.
Stop embarassing yourself in public.
Roku is the best in my experience. I have Samsung, Google (Sony), and Roku devices between my primary home and a rental. The Roku devices are reliable, responsive, and continue to receive updates. In comparison the Samsung UI is laggy though usable.

Google TV is unusable for 10-30s of refresh depending on how long it has been since you’ve used the TV. It’s the worst part of an otherwise high end TV. The multiple user UX is odd across Google products. You can haplessly sign in to your account for YouTube TV on another family member’s Google (TV) account without it bringing up an account switcher. About five minutes into you wondering why your settings are off (or being annoyed because you realized what happened) you get Google’s suggestion to press the right combination of buttons on the remote to do so. Then you switch accounts and sit through the 30s of account refresh. It’s death by a thousand cuts.

Roku is great. It does what you ask. Settings are remembered. The Roku Ultra 4K upscaler produces a great image. I used it to replace the Samsung experience on one of their first Gen OLED TVs that still produces a great image in spite of its slowly failing software stack.

Samsung seems to simply give up on updating the software on the TV at some point. Things start failing over time as services move on past your TV’s software stack. My newer Frame TV is on the newest software stack (for now) and everything works fine in comparison. Probably my biggest annoyance is the laggy UI and that they try really hard to direct you to their free TV channel. You were watching YouTube the last time you watched the TV, but nevermind that. Samsung wants to show you a loud TV show from the 50s on their classic TV channel. Or KPop. Or Hells Kitchen. Not sure why but that is what my Samsung TVs cycle through.
Why wouldn't people do this? Employees are there to:

- Collect a paycheck

- Enjoy their job as much as the employer will let them

- Progress in their career

In 2023, there is usually zero loyalty in either direction. Much of management is about how you get people who fundamentally don't care about you (beyond the above) to do something in your interest.

This goes all the way up to most CEOs, so "your interest" means the CEO's interest (while not being fired by the Board).
whats practical about your wealth being stolen from you?
Valve Index, Steamdeck, continual dominance of PC gaming both in long tale and new releases. I see enormous creative and financial success, and apparently an engaging and productive place to work. What deadlock? Game releases? That hasn't been their focus for a long time - yet when they do release a new game, like Halflife Alex, its usually critically lauded and commercially successful. Meanwhile much of the PC gaming space is suffering from enormous problems - early broken releases, bad ports, stutter struggle etc. Valve seem like a rare bright light of ethical business and technological innovation.
I remember learning a bit of the theory from this MS paint comic: https://web.archive.org/web/20150403055841/http://loldongs.o... .

I do respect the authors journey of learning DNS, and it was definitely a lot harder to understand and learn in the late 90s and early 00s when virtualisation/containerisation was scarce / non-existent and the resources were a lot less gentle (BIND books, RFCs), and also, what I consider, gatekeeping.

However, I think in 202x you're going to have a much easier time, and infact a lot of the information can be spoonfed to you.
In the Netflix web interface there's a per profile setting to turn off that behaviour so you can watch the credits in peace.
You must not have any smoke alarms at all, then. Every smoke alarm in every place I’ve ever lived has had false alarms. I hate smoke detectors so much. The manufacturers are too scared of liability to consider that smoke alarms only work if they’re plugged in and the alarms can be trusted. If you unplug the smoke alarms due to false alarms, then all the liability is on you, not the manufacturer.

I’d happily pay a premium for smoke alarms less prone to false alarms, but none such exist as far as I can tell.
The same police that had the chief say "oh they weren't supposed to, he he he" when people were arrested for quietly holding A4-sized signs a few months ago on this topic.

They're fascists. That used to be hyperbole, but now they're actually arresting people for their peaceful opinions on the government.
Gold is not deflationary from monetary perspective. More gold is mined constantly. Due to its high stock-to-flow ratio, the monetary inflation is very low.

From the perspective of CPI (consumer price index), gold would be "deflationary", because prices would get cheaper. However, this is not a property of gold; it's the property of a capitalist economy, where companies compete to offer better products at cheaper prices.

There's no good reason for diluting the currency to keep prices increasing, other than corruption and greed of those who control the money supply. Inflationary currency means that someone is profiting by creating money, and that profit is paid in the increasing price of products.
> 3) Arguably a subset of 2) but Apocalypse Enthusiast. "When civilization crumbles, the obvious trade unit won't be something like grain, alcohol, or bullets, but my bags full of low-grade silver dimes! I'll be King of the Wasteland!"

Yes, direct trade may definitely be grains, alcohol or bullets - but as soon as economies more complex than a self sufficient farm village crop up, eventually some form of token will be required.

For that, historically gold and silver have been the established tokens of choice for millennia, and even today's currencies are backed by insane amounts of gold in central bank vaults - it's not a bad assumption per se to think that gold and silver will outlast even our modern civilization. Come to think of it, most of the world's currencies sans the Swiss Franc and the US dollars are barely decades old.

We're already seeing a switch from the US dollar as the universally accepted international reserve and trading currency - only 60% of reserves and 40% of trades are valued in dollars, mostly towards the Euro and, in smaller amounts, yen, yuan and a bit of Francs. Think forward a few decades... what humans create can vanish in a very short time.
Sure, just like how you and I will eventually die of old age. That doesn't imply that we should end ourselves now to skip the queue.
i think you're on to something about cantonese, but it's also true of mandarin. segmentation of words in chinese in general seems inherently messier than segmentation in english.
also look at stuff like abbreviations: is 北大 one word? is it an abbreviation for 北京大学 the same way Caltech is an abbreviation for california institute of technology? is it just two single character words, each of which is an abbreviation? i think its much less clear than english
So, a chronically contrarian larper.
The majority of us don't dislike them. That's a right wing narrative that ties to conspiracy theories. (Speaking as someone who doesn't have a block on my road, but have had to adjust my driving habits when visiting local family).
We're at the embrace stage right now, that's why you see it getting integrated.

And if you run WSL, you usually end up with a special kernel, it's not just the upstream one without changes.

Both my Arch and Ubuntu WSL is on kernel `Linux desktop 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2` rather the ones the distributions ship with by default if installed normally. This is the one they ship via Windows Update which you end up using on WSL: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

Watch them slowly make it different than the upstream one, without contributing patches upstream.
> The presence of the cameras is a marker for what's going wrong with government and society. That the state is imposing the surveillance on us.

I'll point out that the vast, vast majority of the UK's CCTV cameras are privately owned and installed, not connected together, but having worked in retail positions, an awful lot of them aren't even working or turned on and used soley for deterrance.

Like, going by this: https://clarionuk.com/resources/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-in... (which may or may not be accurate, looks like they did their work on it), cameras controlled by the Metropolitan Police, local councils and TfL come to less than 10% of the total.

Blame insurance companies, not the state.
How does an HR person saying something isn’t a lie make it not a lie? If you’re saying something happened which didn’t happen, that’s a lie. A HR person saying it’s okay might indicate that it’s not a lie people would look askance at, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t a lie.

As others have said, the correct thing to do here is to just not even list the job on the resume in the first place. No reasonable person expects every single short stint be listed on a resume. I’ve heard three and six months suggested as guidelines for the minimum lengths of jobs one should list. Anything shorter than that probably isn’t worth going into, as you’re still onboarding at that point. Also, people get sick, have sudden illnesses in the family, or otherwise can’t work for a couple months for loads of reasons.
Pantone doesn't get its money from copyrighted nuance names. They get it from putting together and selling all the processes and chemicals which deliver you the exact same color over all thinkable media. How would this translate in the musical world?
They do it indirectly via the board of directors, they are the representatives of the shareholders (akin to a representative democracy). It is a common scenario for the shareholders to vote in a new board to replace the existing management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_fight
'Toy models' of metabolism and exercise don't work. Something else is going on.

You’ll have often heard the ‘cure’ for obesity is a twofold, easy to implement, behavioural change: just ‘(i) eat less; (ii) exercise more’.

This ‘cure’ is based on a toy model of our energy use: bring the energy you consume in food plus the energy burned through exercise into a negative balance (less food + more activity), and obesity will be ‘cured’ - because you’ll be burning more calories through activity than you take in through eating.
every mxn for themselves
captcha wont let me in.
The war against the American working class I think is something that was waged by Capital against the majority American working class starting centuries ago.. Capital was always been opposed to the majority of the working class in America because there's always been a conflict between Capital versus labor over the use of cheap labor.. the war waged by Capital extended to propaganda war, and all things associated with the culture of the European American working class came under attack by capital.. including Columbus
What's wrong with slavery? We're no further away from outright slavery than we were in the 1800's.

The idea of mechanical equality, where all are masters, is absurdism.
When Apple bought NeXT I was surprised when they dropped Open Transport. They had been touting The move from sockets to streams as the future and had finally migrated to Open Transport. I specifically remember hearing from Avie that Streams maybe technically better but sockets are so foundational that the new OS would use sockets. He felt streams just weren't an option.
One which is using npm for package management and the other using nuget. And guess who owns both?
I disagree, from a UK government perspective, its a excellent law, implemented perfectly.

Yeah, there was a little backlash this time. The police have issued an apology, maybe a few front line officers will be disciplined (somewhat unlikely), then it'll all be forgotten and next time it will barely make the news, and after that its just an everyday occurrence.

The opposition (Labour) party is refusing to say they will repeal the legislation if they win the next election, they haven't said they won't, that's not the politicians way, but what they did say was “We can’t come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it” [0].

make no mistake this isn't a law our government wants, its a law our parliament wants, both sides of the house, and it is here to stay, whether we the people want it or not.

It's almost like people that want power and control become politicians to enact laws that give them power and control... Maybe we need some kind of checks and balances on the power of parliament, or maybe, the desire to be a politician should make you ineligible for the role.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/08/labour-urge...
> A massive problem with political issues in the UK is that the US constantly tries to export their bullshit to us.

How does the US try to export their bullshit to the UK?
being on HN I sort of feel like the chances are pretty good any linked XKCD is one of about 6. Maybe should figure out the stats on that.
Teen dies after getting trapped under several feet of sand, “the seashore said.”
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence."

The sound of silence - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
lol what? Seriously? Where is all that gold gonna come from? How are they going to back it?

When 1 TexanGoldUnit eventualy devalues to 1000 TGU, does that mean my gold becomes dust too?
Right? Like trying to teach a baby to run, because it's a faster way of getting around.
Some people packaged this rather intuitive idea, named it Hyde (Hypothetical Document Embeddings) and wrote a paper about it —

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496

Summary —

HyDE is a new method for creating effective zero-shot dense retrieval systems that generates hypothetical documents based on queries and encodes them using an unsupervised contrastively learned encoder to identify relevant documents. It outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised dense retrievers and performs strongly compared to fine-tuned retrievers across various tasks and languages.
Well, you can make almost any subject interesting if you do it right. In my experience it's mostly the teachers fault if students are bored.

That said, some students cannot be activated whatever your do. We're all people.
Cable ties, luggage straps or string should be of no concern. They're very easily cut by the police, even if the person is uncooperative.

"Lock on" protesters have used things like bicycle locks and handcuffs to shackle themselves to railings or each other. These are difficult to cut without injuring the person, especially if they're not cooperating.

Here's the Public Order Act, rushed through and taking effect from 3 May, with the coronation on 6 May: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/15/enacted

I'd argue cable ties, straps and string aren't capable of causing "serious disruption", and I assume the police/prosecutor agree. It's very concerning that the police made the arrests anyway.

(I also disagree with the law, but I'm more concerned that the police abused it.)
>>Any tie that could be used to secure the pole on a placard to something could obviously be used by protestors to lock their own body to the same thing

Nonsense, all you need to tie a sign to a pole is a piece of string that wouldn't hold a human body. If they want to keep that legislation in it should be specific - things like handcuffs, heavy chains with padlocks.....even that I think is an overreach, but it would be better than whatever the law says now.
There is a genuinely held belief among many educators that if, instead of making children do boring repetetive things like decoding and chanting syllables (or learning times tables), teachers just took a step back and let childrens' magical inner light shine, they would pick up the skills they need as they go along and be much happier on top of that. For more details on this, and the people and companies involved in the phonics situation specifically, I can recommend the free podcast "sold a story" [1] (or its transcript, if you learnt to read back when phonics were in fashion).

The tragedy here is that people were genuinely trying to do good, followed an approach that felt compassionate and humane, and there were even a couple of small studies backing them up. And there are a minority of children (more often than not from well-to-do households) who do indeed pick up reading without any formal instruction in phonics; trying to replicate their experience for everyone else too seems like a virtuous project. The problem is that, according to a lot of substantial scientific research, this no-phonics approach simply does not work for a majority of children, and leaves them functionally illiterate - that or your parents, if they notice and afford it, hire a private reading tutor so the effect of no-phonics reading instruction in schools is actually to widen rather than narrow demographic gaps in reading.

[1] https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
They're not something you really notice.

It got pretty ridiculous at one point where one restaurant I knew of was told to put up 5 CCTV cameras by the police as a condition of their alcohol licence.

This wasn't a pack 'em and feed 'em booze restaurant, just a perfectly normal couples style restaurant.

Afaik the local council eventually reined the police in, but the police just don't seem to view any of it as a massive invasion of privacy, or consider the cost to the businesses involved.

There's only upsides for the police requesting more, no downsides as they don't bear the cost.
That must be why DNS is hard, it's completely made up of the difficult stuff.
Yes, if the public didn't accept it, then the insurance companies would not be able to get away with imposing it on us.

Maybe the state was the first to introduce the cameras, once the public got accustomed to them, then private actors were able to get away with it afterwards?

We also have the TfL London Underground and National Rail cameras, which are very likely to be linked to Police systems. Public transit is where people's movements can be tracked very effectively.

And we now have services such as Facewatch where these private cameras are networked. And the Ring doorbell cameras. No idea what intelligence agencies might be doing with that data? Running facial recognition on every video stream? Just as they did with people's webcam images (from the Snowden leaks).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webca...
Anybody paying money for these boxed big brothers deserves to be failed by the corpos, as much and as often as possible.
Paper is saying that not only do cultural aspects shape same-generation brain development, it is then also selected for, amplifying the sexual dimorphism in the next generation

I hope people are more willing to acknowledge the society selective forces that perpetuate every behavior we disagree with.
You can even use Google Translate's text to speech API in whatever learning program you build for yourself:

GET https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=zh_CN&client=tw-ob&q=<url encoded text>

This returns an audio/mpeg (mp3) response. Change the language code as appropriate.

It's not the most natural sounding TTS engine, but it's free, unauthenticated and trivial to use.
Even among “Old Order” Amish, various communities may reject individuals and households possessing certain kinds of technology, but a community as a whole might, for example, share a cellphone that members can use for specific purposes (and with the knowledge of others in the community). Some of them also modify modern electrical (but not electronic) sewing machines to work with foot treadles - the Bernina 1200 is a currently produced model that this is possible for.

Also, I remember reading about a type of jaundice that is common among Old Order Amish in some areas due in part to a lack of genetic diversity, and those families are allowed to have electricity to their homes to run the therapeutic lights those children are prescribed.

There’s a lot about that culture that I don’t think is great, but cautious reflection before bringing new technology into the home, and especially around kids, is a practice worth borrowing.
""> Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low.
> We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration."

If only they had this much zest and conviction for actual, troubling issues, dangerous issues. While I agree that disrupting a ceremony now is in poor taste, there are much bigger issues at play in the UK that deserve hands-on policing.
ROPfuscator: ROP Obfuscator
Just because people ask for it, doesn't mean that it should be implemented. I didn't know that Mob-Rule was how democracy/republic was defined.
I know people get teased for admitting this, but DFW is the best stuff I've ever read. If anyone has suggestions along the same line I'd love to hear it.
Wasn't it based on Konfabulator?

Have you tried searching for that?

And I'm with you, it was great! :-)
I’m surprised Munroe hasn’t made a meta xkcd about this phenomenon. I expect the top linked ones are: this, the single package holding up the internet, when to automate, git commands, and ???
For those who don't click through - they seem to be saying that gender inequality causes physical difference, not the other way around.
"The Dice Man" for the modern times