skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a Flaw in the logic!!

I had a captcha value "ex0888" and the answer for the chess puzzle was Rd8+. Now I can not statisfy the Rule "digit sum adds up to number 25" cause total of all the digits in password was exceeding the 25. Can't go ahead of this!

But It was fun playing and keeping up all the rules!
If this is ELI5, we hang around very different kinds of five year olds :-)

Joking aside, thank you for the deeper explanation. The idea that spacetime isn’t fundamental is a very non-intuitive concept given how we’ve evolved to interact with the world. Any suggested reading on this topic for laypeople?
[ -t 0 ] instead checks whether stdin (fd 0) is a tty.
I know lots of people like awk, but I pretend it doesn't exist. Why? Here's my comment on this from 6 years ago[0],

>I used awk until I learned Python (long ago). For me, awk was yet another example of the "worse is better" approach to things so common in unix. For example, if you make a syntax error, you might get a message like "glob: exec error," rather than an informative message. "Worse is better" is probably a good strategy in business and for getting things done, but still, mediocrity and the sense of entitlement that so often goes with carelessness, sickens me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457265

Long live the Unix Hater's Handbook! (Unix is fine, and so are the criticisms herein. Some of these criticisms have been eclipsed by ongoing development.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
Not loading for me at all, but status page shows green across the board.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - One of the world's most
common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a
possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health
body, according to two sources with knowledge of the
process, pitting it against the food industry and
regulators.

[…13 paragraphs later…]

The IARC's decisions have also faced criticism for
sparking needless alarm over hard to avoid substances or
situations. It has four different levels of
classification - carcinogenic, probably carcinogenic,
possibly carcinogenic and not classifiable. The levels
are based on the strength of the evidence, rather than
how dangerous a substance is.

Using a term with a technical definition that isn't remotely close to the plain english meaning of the composing words, in a headline—and not explaining the gag in the first paragraph—is terrible reporting
Only until tracking hardware is a requirement to have insurance.
After my Pebble I switched to a $5 Casio that was on sale at Wal-Mart and has a "10 year battery"

Less is more.
> Your general point is still right in that an O(n*log(n)) algorithm is not necessarily slower than an O(n) algorithm in practice.

Sounds reasonable

> for a small N of 10000

Ah, now that is not what I would call a small N
Or are engineers trying to destroy the livelihood of millions of artists, and lawyers are protecting it?
Good points. But I'm trying to understand why do they even fund startups even without a well defined moat? I've heard that VCs will fund (even seed round) only if the startup has a chance to make atleast $100M in ARR. Then why do they bet even on startups who just copy and without a proper moat?
Easy, the civil rights act is great.

The supreme court is picking and choosing how they want to follow their textualism/originalism (as are the defenders of this opinion). There's no originalist argument for striking down AA. That makes them political activists (my original claim).

But if you want my personal opinion on AA, it's that it's a net good even though it's not perfect. We do need to deal with the fact that PoC have been discriminated against and that discrimination shows itself in generational poverty.

There is a mountain [1] of evidence that poverty has detrimental effects on education. We've spent decades forcing black people into poverty through red lining, racist loans, and even firebombing them when they became too prosperous [2]. So, of course, the offspring of these actions are going to have a much harder time succeeding.

Black americans have had higher rights of poverty for as long as we've tracked that statistic [3].

So should we "discriminate" against white people by making it easier for PoC to get admitted? Absolutely. The racism of the past has ripple effects that still haven't been fully addressed.

Now, to be frank, I'd rather that discrimination be based on income. Which would STILL result in black people getting a leg up (see poverty stats). But, you can't just say "well let's just be color blind now" and think everything is hunky dory.

I also support government reparations. Which could also be argued to be "discriminatory" since they'd primarily go to black people. Well, guess what, we discriminated based on race. The only way to heal that is helping the race that was discriminated against.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C38&q=pov...

[2] https://www.neh.gov/article/1921-tulsa-massacre

[3] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/poverty-rates...
It's really weird that we've normalized consuming huge amounts of what's effectively an exceptionally-sweet dessert drink with most non-fancy restaurant or fast-food meals. Shit made a lot more sense when standard serving size was like 7oz and free soda refills weren't a common thing (so: the 1950s or whenever, for the former, and before some time in the '90s, for the latter). 20+oz glasses (and 32oz "medium-size" to-go cups—JFC) and free refills pushed by servers are just nuts. That's so very much sugar.

Imagine consuming a pile of 37 Pixy Stix (sugar equivalent of 24oz of Coca Cola) to accompany a hamburger. WTF. That's plainly nasty as hell, and anyone doing that in public would rightly feel ashamed. And that's not even a large serving of soda, by modern standards.
Humans take in inputs and transform what they learn into distinct outputs. Training data is essentially just a machine doing the same thing. Knowingly scraping pirated material would be one thing, but essentially having the machine view publicly-available material is not clearly at odds with existing IP law.
We use MS365 at work.
Outlook for the web is ok until you try to use the 'groups' feature. I need to hold a 10 minute tutorial on the backwards UI for the group view within outlook.

The 'groups' functionality is decent.. so sad they hide buttons and kinda just stopped working on it.
You're dealing with a lot more pressure at these depths. You get to 1 atmosphere of additional pressure for every ~30ft when diving. That means 13k feet = 433 atmospheres of pressure.
>Why do you think the country is richer because of slavery?

There are plenty of books on this subject, I think "Capitalism and Slavery" goes into this well, but it's pretty well documented. Slavery was a huge part of the southern economy, it wasn't just a few individual slaveholders getting rich; it was embedded in the very way of life in the south. It's akin to saying "America isn't rich because of Apple, there's just a few wealthy executives at Apple" - it totally ignores how embedded Apple is in our economy - from the app store, to digital payments, to the entire businesses that live on that platform. It's not controversial at all to say the country was made richer because of slavery.

It's not to say that every plantation owner was massively wealthy, or America was a super power due to slavery, but America's implementation of chattel slavery was incredibly vast and was one of its major economies until the industrial revolution.
In Quebec we had an investigation into widespread corruption in construction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbonneau_Commission ) during which the major government witness made the very strong case that thanks to the lowest-bidder-at-lowest-bid-price auction process used by municipalities you either have to be corrupt or you will go out of business. I couldn't help thinking he should have cited Vickrey at the time (unlikely that he would be aware), and the province should have move to second price auctions for dishing out government contracts, but you would have the small challenge of persuading the populous that paying an amount which isn't actually the lowest bid is actually in the long term interest of everyone, especially if the short term beneficiaries have a track record of organised crime.
Yeah, I feel like my Google Pixel Watch is a step back from my Fitbit Versa, because it's loaded with a million features that I will never use, and have no desire to use.

The big problem is all the menus are cluttered with buttons for features that I will never use. I'm sure every feature has someone who will use it; but I certainly won't.

(It's not like it's 1995 and half the fun of a brand new computer is figuring out how to use it.)

Probably the best way to solve the problem is to make it easier to disable (or ignore) most of the features.
Generally, the displaced threshold is not because of the load of touching down, but because of clearance of obstacles. When landing, where you are aiming to land, and a standard glideslope, puts you over obstacles at a certain height. In some cases if you landed on the very end of he the runway, that would cause you to collide with (or have too low a margin of safety) over obstacles before the runway. The displaced threshold moves the glideslope further forward, allowing for better clearance over obstacles.

Source: Advisory Circular 150/5300-13B Airport Design, 3.5.3 (https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...)

When it is impractical to locate a threshold at the beginning of the runway, it may be
necessary to apply a displaced threshold. A displaced threshold reduces runway length
available for landings in one direction. The portion of the runway prior to the displaced
threshold typically remains available for takeoffs. Depending on the circumstances
surrounding the displacement, operations from the opposite runway end may or may not
be affected. Refer to Appendix H for related information on declared distances.
Generally, a runway threshold displacement provides:
1. A means for obtaining additional RSA prior to the threshold.
2. A means for obtaining additional ROFA prior to the threshold.
3. A means for locating the RPZ to mitigate incompatible land uses.
4. A means for obstacle clearance prior to the threshold.
5. Increased arrival capacity with certain parallel runway approach procedures. See
FAA Order 7110.308, Simultaneous Dependent Approaches to Closely Spaced
Parallel Runways

Glossary:

RSA: Runway Safety Area
ROFA: Runway Object Free Area
RPZ: Runway Protection Zone

Note that all of the given reasons are for clearance of obstacles or various other mandatory safety areas based on clearance from taxiways or other runway traffic, not for durability of the runway.
Amazon's retail arm isn't the grounds of anti-trust action.

Their ownership of AWS, Twitch, MGM, Gaming studios, windfarms, lenders are problems. If they want to be an retail giant, that's fine, but they shouldn't be producing and selling games & movies as well. They need to pick a lane and spin off unrelated entities that only exist because of Amazon's dominance in retail.

Their expansion into all of these market segments make sense in isolation. Amazon builds a better service internally, then begins to offer it for sale to others. But at some point, they've crossed over into abusing their monopoly in one area to expand into another.
'We Have Built a Giant Treadmill That We Can't Get Off': Ted Chiang on AI
> but I hear stuff like Netflix will not work (which I don't care for)

This is Widevine DRM, most devices with the Magisk workarounds will get at least L3, which gives you standard definition netflix. Need L1 for HD and only a few phones unlock bootloader reliably and keep it (my Oneplus 8T does, 9 pro does not)
it is not loading for me, so confirmed? Or unconfirmed? Not really sure.
Apple is just going to move manufacturing from China to India; in fact, they already are. Mac Pro can be assembled in the US because it’s a low volume high margin product. Manufacturing MacBooks, let alone iPhones in the US would still need to be bootstrapped from scratch, because the scale of Mac Pro production relative to the scale of other Apple production basically is scratch.
Not much diet coke, but (JFYI) ...

https://uranus.chrysocome.net/coke.htm
You're not the only one. Getting an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT in my browser
In my experience, it is very difficult to get a commitment for the effort to remove deadcode.

The problem is essentially invisible to everyone except maybe the dev who is dealing with a high noise-to-signal ratio as a result.

If it was a woodworking shop instead of a code repository, management would constantly see what a mess the shop is due to never being cleaned up properly.

They would never tolerate this because of the way it looks. The woodshop looks sloppy, half-assed and almost sure to be an inefficient place to do work, if it does not get cleaned up on a regular basis.

Because they cannot see deadcode in the repository in a similar manner, it is especially challenging to get them to care.
Yup. Totally down, happened right as I opened a PR.
Also having issues pushing...
Wow, I can't even load the status page. It looks like the whole web presence is down as well, I can't remember the last time it was all down like this.
can't push a commit
https://archive.ph/pLrI0
Just learning c++, curious how reserve works. I thought map would allocate memory exponentially automatically, so an early reserve at best saves you a few reallocation
The social justice movement presumes to "make things right", but often it's hard or impossible to do so, and trying can have the opposite effect.

Case in point: a black family whose great-great-grandparents 200 years ago were slaves, versus an Asian family that immigrated from a nation impoverished by colonialism last year. The child of the former will heavily benefit from Affirmative Action, while the child of the latter will be heavily penalized.

Why?

Who is to say that the child whose ancestors lived in a rich country for the past 200 years, is more "disadvantaged" then the child whose entire ancestry as far back as the records go always lived in a dirt-poor nation, further impoverished by colonialism?
Kotaku have proven themselves to be a garbage tabloid in their reporting of NFTs. I would never bother to read anything they had to post.
@dang - I wanted to submit this as a link to github.com but couldn't figure out how to avoid the dupe filter. Can you change the link to https://github.com?
You dont need to go back in time or define who is and isnt to blame. A few simple tax based measures (ex: free college for black people for 200 years) and genuine atonement (ex: replace civil war relics that downplay southern role in slavery and its associated atrocities) and wed be light years ahead of where we are today.

Staple an endpoint on it then move on. The trick is doing SOMETHING meaningful and country wide is whats missing.
I understand your perspective, but it's essential to consider the historical context and systemic impact of discriminatory practices such as redlining. While affirmative action aims to address the long-standing inequalities faced by marginalized communities, it's not about "robbing Peter to pay Paul."

Redlining, a discriminatory practice prevalent in the mid-1900s, systematically denied access to housing loans and opportunities to minority communities based on race. As a result, neighborhoods predominantly inhabited by minorities were deprived of investment, economic growth, and wealth accumulation. This created a cycle of limited opportunities and limited access to resources that persists today.

Over time, this has led to a significant wealth gap between racial groups. Affirmative action seeks to address this imbalance by providing opportunities for marginalized individuals to overcome historical disadvantages and achieve upward mobility.
Spend more time figuring out how to translate requirements into working code.

Spend more time figuring out how to find problems in code.

Spend more time figuring out how to learn new things in the ways most effective for you.

That time will be repaid in your professional career.

Spend less time worrying about each year's obsessive fad. If it has positive value, it will be easier and safer to use in the future.
It was brand new and the cost to fix was less than the car and was covered. Totaled usually enters the picture if it is more to fix than the car is worth.
> Also from a store perspective, any game where shortcuts like this are used tend to be shit games. They don't want spam games to be pumped. There's already enough indie trash platformers that nobody wants.

I find this hard to agree with. A game engine is a "shortcut" too, I can imagine people saying at some point anything developed with Unity would "tend to be shit games".

Associating quality with visual fidelity anyway is wrong, look at Terraria, I'm pretty sure anyone semi competent with AI generation could produce better assets, but it wouldn't help them produce a better game.

People will use gen AI art in good games, and people will use gen AI art in terrible games.
The first series of courses in my CS program introduced us to building a pascal interpreter using scheme. It all depends on the pedagogical needs, I suppose.
Larger companies are sophisticated enough to handle accommodation requests. Smaller companies use them as a way of answering the implicit question of "Is this potential employee going to be litigious?"

My advice, if the company is smaller, open up to asking about accommodation after gaining employment and showing that you're an asset.
Can you take the smallest slice, "people who are literally exactly you" and find no preferences that can't be attributed to discriminatory experiences?
>>What is your view on the liability of Spencer Composites?

Yikes!

(good question)

I read elsewhere that they were given six weeks to design and build the cylindrical hull. And that he OceanGate CEO had sourced a bunch of out-of-date prepreg carbon fiber from Boeing, getting a great deal, and said that 'those aerospace guys may need those dates but we don't'.

The right answer to both of those is: "Those ideas are too insane or too stupid to work with us. Either let us help you with a better idea, or come back when you have one".

Six weeks is an insanely short time to even make a few test coupons and a single full-thickness panel and maybe a 50% scale short tube section to test things like curing rates, production methods, compaction/void rates, actual yielded properties, and so forth, plus, whether the epoxy in that out-of-date material was even still any good. At least if you want to have a clue of what you are doing.

Six months is an insanely short time to do development on the titanium endcaps, the surface on the composite tube to which they will mate, the adhesive, the process, etc.

The few snippets of video I saw and the CompositesWorld article [0] indicate that they likely did a decent job with the resources they had.

But, damn, there was a LOT missing.

They said that they worked with NASA, but listening to Sarah Cox, the director of composites at NASA[1], she talks at length about the need for extensive testing at every stage from test coupons (small panels), sub-assemblies, full parts, and in and after operation.

Just the video of the bonding process gave me the creeps. It would be fine for something like an art show piece, or maybe even on a test mule automobile. But there was nothing but a person using a manual straight-edge Bondo applicator (flexible plastic rectangle) trying to spread an even thickness. There was zero protection from any warehouse/shop debris, no evidence that pressure would be applied after the mating, and no vacuum to eliminate entrapped air. I guarantee there were voids, air pockets, unbonded sections under that titanium ring.

The key thing is that undersea does not require less caution than space flight, it requires MORE, a lot more, because the pressures are insane.

As for Spencer Composites' liability, I'm no lawyer, but I'd be worried even if they made the Oceangate CEO sign in blood that the craft was experimental, not their design, only a best effort, and definitely not fit for the intended purpose.

The only thing that might save them is that there were a few dozen dives on the hull before it imploded, so they could say "it worked when we gave it to them, how they abused it, maintained it, monitored it, etc. is not in our control, so not our problem.".

But those sorts of issues are for the lawyers, judges, and juries to sort out. I expect they'll all have more fun than they wanted.

[0] https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/composite-submersib...

[1] https://www.compositesworld.com/podcast/episode/episode-40-s...
This is an unnecessarily cynical point of view.

There has been 1 pulsar-timing experiment looking for gravitational waves and it produced this positive, 1-in-1000 result. Seems extremely promising.
Sounds like it, and I've seen it ventured that it was an intentional, but deniable, leak - to help scuttle a studio acquisition by showing the massive market impact.
> It would involve a chain of attribution per fraction of a pixel through all it's past iterations.

Which wouldn't be sufficient since, as stated many times before, the diffusion process most text-to-image AIs use is not collaging.
Can't reach github.com to see the status of github.com..
If your definition of IDE is that everything has to be done using menus and that it needs to be super slow, you are right. If you look at actual functionality then VSCode is as much of an IDE as Eclipse.
ChatGPT to the rescue!

let's think about space like a giant, invisible playground. Normally, it's flat like your bedroom floor, where you can measure how far your toys are from each other with a ruler straight across. That's like when there's no gravity in space.

But guess what happens when something really heavy, like a big bowling ball (that's like a star or planet) comes into your playground? It makes everything around it bend and curve. So, the distance between your toys is no longer a straight line. It's like when you throw a ball, it doesn't go straight, it goes in a curve.

This bending is what a really smart guy named Einstein explained in a thing called General Relativity. He came up with a way to measure how space bends around heavy stuff.

And you know what else? There's this really weird stuff called Dark Energy that's everywhere but we can't see it. It makes space grow bigger and bigger, not because of heavy stuff, but because there's a lot of empty room. Scientists are still trying to understand this, but it's like blowing up a balloon: even though there's no heavy stuff inside, the balloon still gets bigger!
I wonder if gay people would agree. honest question
https://www.githubstatus.com/ is still all green at the moment...
I can't even load the status page.
Business user here.

I remember how much work I could get done in Outlook 2007 using a 1024x768 monitor on a crap workstation with 1GB RAM. I admit that this performance was often chilled by the many pitfalls of on-premise Exchange setups, lack of interop with non-Exchange services, and lack of standards-compatible email formats. Today's Outlook is less buggy, but slower.

This new version gives me the chills.

I can understand the platform change. I can begrudgingly learn to live with oversized UI elements, fat content spacing, etc.

I shuddered when finding that from an efficiency and automation standpoint it's a real downgrade. Things I experienced in one day of "Try the new Outlook":

- Keyboard shortcuts (some changed, some missing entirely)
- Context menu key did not work
- No single key operations in context menu (e.g. right click, d for Delete, a for Archive, etc)
- Limited view customization
- Janky UI reaction speed
- Window and component refresh lag / jank
- Reduced rule functionality
- There were a few more, but the traumatic experience wiped them out of my memory
I can't push from my desktop, and https://github.com/ spins in the browser