skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have almost a mirror issue. After years of working with it I still find Python incredibly hard to read. I had always chalked it up to just differences between people.
> It’s 400.

I don’t understand how this argues against my premise. This is decisive evidence that they want strict ideological adherence.
A pool/snooker trick shot of epic proportions
Could be that someone is using a Cloud Provider in Germany, for example Hetzner
Thank you for this reply! I'm really just getting into the design side of things now and started with some basic around-the-house stuff I could clobber together in tinkercad. I'll keep this in mind and try not to get bogged down on the 'what to start with' as much :-)
The math here is interesting on its own, but don’t miss the discussion of the animation creator’s reason for doubling the animation being so it can be seen in “stereo” as 3d if you defocus a bit.
Like, great job, but you completely missed the point of the post by addressing the anecdotes. My point was western media prints uniformly negative stories about them and treats them like an enemy. The stories may be true, or not, or fair, or not. It's immaterial. They represent the battle for the hearts and minds of North America.
Not a pixel perfect representation of the past.

Claiming pixel perfect is wrong when the original experience had the channels making up the pixel colour arranged differently. Most gaming in those days were PC CRT's or TV screens.

Exhbit A: https://www.oled-a.org/uploads/9/6/8/6/96867108/published/al...

To be fair they do explictly say:

"That said, CRT emulation isn’t really the goal here—we just want a display that is able to display these low resolutions without any scaling."

in the article.
You will hear "shch" in St. Petersburg, and a softened "sh" in Moscow. AFAICT more regional variations exist, e.g. sounding like "sht".

Interestingly, you will also hear "shch" in Bulgaria.
Radical, but the alternative is to honor all the currency paper China now holds. As someone who had no say over any of this, I don't see why I should play this game if I must join the losing side.
Just to clarify, continuations don't have a snapshot of the whole heap, and they can be thought of as being a snapshot of just the interpreter state for a particular execution thread (roughly the call stack and source position). If heap objects are modified between creating a continuation and calling it, then the continuation will see the modified versions of all those objects. When it comes to garbage collection, continuations keep any objects referred to in their saved call stack alive. This is similar to any other closure, but instead of keeping things alive according to lexical scope, this is more of a dynamic scope thing (it's based on whatever functions happened to call this one).

Persisting a continuation seems like it's similarly as challenging as persisting an arbitrary closure. Like usual there are things you can't really persist, for example in your call stack you might have some unwind handlers for closing files -- how do you persist file handles?
I just read on Al-Jazeera that Putin is back in control, that's why :)
They care.
They still get their share from the sales, so they care to keep it like it is now.
The much simpler explanation is that elon lied again.
With regards to 1, I think these companies are the wrong ones to target. Oil companies are not the ones who are emitting CO2, they just bring the hydrocarbons to the surface and put it in containers. It's the big buyers of those containers that make the decision to burn the hydrocarbons. Targets of these lawsuits should be energy companies, trucking, shipping, flying, transporting companies.

As to 2 it certainly seems like a hard one, but not entirely without merit. Wouldn't it be negligence if you sell a product knowing that your customers are going to use that product to hurt the environment? It's not like a hazardous chemical where you can assume the buyer has processes in place to deal with the results. These companies did the research and they know their product negatively affects the environment when burned, they know the government is not enforcing any checks and balances and still they sell the product to customers who 100% are going to burn the product. In my opinion it's for sure the government and the customers themselves who bear the greatest blame, there's some negligence there.

I'm not sure why you're going back on your own argument in 3. I'm sure you could find people whose belief that their buying of oil doesn't affect the climate was cemented by the deceit of those companies. And if someone would start suing companies for negligent burning of hydrocarbons, I'm sure there would be CEO's that would happily point their fingers at the oil companies in accusation of deceit.

The trespass one seems ridiculous, I guess because a judge isn't supposed to let frivolous things affect their judgement it's a freebie to throw in?

Anyway, 2 and 3 seem to at least have some merit to my untrained eyes. Maybe it's more about sending a message than actually winning a lawsuit? If a judge takes the suit seriously and the oil companies are forced to publicly weasel out of these charges, wouldn't that be some sort of a win for the movement?
People do get kicked out of ETH, the selection is after admission, not before (as opposed to e.g. most US universities), at least when you enter right after high school. So it's not comparable. Granted it's still easier to "get into", but that won't get you much if you can't graduate.

Another thing to consider is that the pool of applicants might be different between universities. 1% admission rate tells you a very different story whether 100% or 10% were decent applicants in the first place.
Should also mention that on YT the situation is unbearable. I use pihole but was unable to use it properly for YT ads.

I have kids that sometimes get to watch something on YT. I can control what they watch but there were way too many bad surprises of gross or scary content in the ads (often by proxy, e.g. the ad of a cable TV company would showcase their explicit or horror offerings..). Using YT kids made no difference, really.

I have YT premium now, at least for the time being.
not in the way china builds for export

i can comment on the road projects in Nigeria and Zambia which i have personally seen

over 3-5 years after completion many fell into disrepair and now arent much better than unpaved tracks that they replace ,while the nations gained no road building expertise and are stuck with large loans
Or let's take another perspective:

Free VPNs are easily understood and accessed by minors, except now their browsing history is exposed to spurious, unverified, and foreign companies and actors that aren't held to the privacy standards of internet providers and mobile carriers.

This is "ten foot wall and eleven foot ladder" territory and we should be very wary of who is selling the ladder.
> it would be extremely unethical and illegal for academics to do

Nothing illegal about it.
People who read the article will note that he already had a contract that the Mets owed $6MM on and were trying to get out of.
I think the major issue in this situation is that the loaned money effectively circulates back into Chinese hands, and all that the local economy gets in return is infrastructure that they will in a few years not be able to maintain or develop due to a lack of skill or resources.

So not only are none of the locals profiting from these projects, but more importantly no one is learning and developing the skills to construct and maintain the new infrastructure and services in the region.

This play by China (even if unintentional) is extremely predatory as it only makes the country more dependant on China.

In an ideal circumstance China would manage these projects while training and developing local talent to help develop the local industries. Only then do I believe would these deals be beneficial for Africa in the long run.

So you might believe these project are improving the local regions at the present, but I would be really interested to hear if you still believe so in 10 years.
I don’t normally, but I can if I’m trying to print clearly. I basically make the shoulder and descender of the a, then come back up the ascender and make the loop, connecting the loop in such a way as to leave the tail. That said, I normally just do a D’Nealian lowercase print a.

Edit: thanks to the other commenter who shared a link to this. Much easier to show than to tell! http://sketchtoy.com/71138762
do you believe these numbers?
NATO or Ukraine are not invading any European country.
> 36 mil was worth a lot more in 1999 than it is now, and even more than it will be in 2035

I’m assuming you are referring to inflation, so $36M in 1999 is about $67M today, so nearly double. It’s fairly easily possibly that it’ll be in over 3x by 2035.
Ragde is an excellent CS prof. I really enjoyed the functional approach Waterloo takes in first year CS, especially in the optional more advanced version of the course where they go a lot deeper into the math connections and interpreters
No excuse for that censorship honestly.
Help run an ArchiveTeam Warrior VM pointed to the URLTeam project. They’re archiving all URL shorteners.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam
SMT here refers to

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

not

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

and not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-mount_technology

in case anyone else was sitting there wondering for too long like I was.
Most of the US is currently blanketed with wildfire smoke. Are you sure CO2 is the problem? Are you testing for PM2.5, PM10, VOCs, humidity, etc?
There is no actual evidence of any of that though.
Usable energy is different than total energy. If energy isn’t concentrated (say something like gasoline) it’s not usable
Sure, if you're just churning out the same shit week-in-week-out (new button, new field, new view, new table, new query, etc), then measuring "complexity" becomes a matter of looking up the task in a list. But if you're doing real software engineering, then you won't be able to make a consistent, unbiased measure.
I don't normally write the double-storey `a', but when I choose to do it (such as when hand-lettering something very neatly with lowercase), it's (1) the top-to-tail stroke, (2) reposition pen, (3) stroke the remainder from top to bottom.

I could skip the pen reposition, by reversing direction at end of the tail, but the options I've thought of for that don't have the aesthetic I'm going for when using double-storey `a' at all.
It was 8% for over a decade growing (doubling like you said), then they paid off ~1.2 a year off in principal and interest (not lump sum) over the following 24 years.
Again, I am not making a counter argument. I am pointing out Zeihan has explicit incentive to show a specific narrative - it's perhaps the single largest and oldest tentpole of his career.

Is the data the whole story? Are there mitigating factors? Does it need mitigating factors to begin with? I don't know. I even explicitly mentioned he could be totally right on this specific point.

I'm simply stating that there is a caveat around the source of those graphs that interested parties should take note of, for the same reasons we ask scientists, journalists, etc., to disclaim any potential conflicts of interest they have.
The mystery of the blend file format (2009)
I’d push back a bit on the claim that atproto features, particularly decoupling identity from the topology of federation, could have been done as extensions to ActivityPub. It’s a fundamental part of the way information flows in ActivityPub vs atproto.

I tried Mastodon for a bit and like the community there, but I found they were very deliberately trying to build a place that wasn’t like twitter: building federated search is frowned-upon; no quote-tweets; extremely low threshold for content warnings.

They’re building something different and that’s great, but it’s no surprise that people fleeing twitter want to go to the more twitter-like app.
That language has outlasted terrible governments so many times. It's pretty hard to say when Russia did not have a government that's patently terrible in one way or another.
Asciidoc is the best option if you need a bit more than Markdown.
As they can survive a long time even without food, it may not be a solution even in theory.
Funnily enough, it seems like someone already attempted to do this around 20 years ago - search for "Umlwin32"
> Why can't GCC and clang have this?

Because UNIX culture sucks at inline Assembly.

D's approach was widely used across PC, Amiga and Atari ST compilers.

Besides D, that is what Delphi, C++ Builder and Visual C++ still use nowadays, for the targets that still support inline Assembly. For 64 bit targets, they use intrinsics, which are still preferable to UNIX's approach.
This only happens to good leaders, not all leaders. Bad leaders systematically stop this behaviour through various forms of discouragement.
This appears.. naive at best.

But it appears to get distracted by the performance of the random number generation approach it's going to use - which, for the quality of random numbers they would need for this, shouldn't be a problem at all as far as I can tell.
I have already written how most compression functions used in a Merkle–Damgård hash function are made to be non-invertible, by taking an invertible function and summing the input with the output (using the input means using the identity function of the input, which is the simplest invertible function).

Only with such methods it is possible to guarantee adequate mathematical properties for the compression function. Otherwise, if non-invertible functions are composed, the properties of the compound function are unpredictable, especially after the very large number of rounds (i.e. of function compositions) that are used in a practical hash function.

For anyone who might want to design a custom hash function it is critical to understand the importance of invertible functions, which is based on the fact that if you compose two invertible functions you get a function that is also invertible. Only this property allows predictions about the statistical characteristics of the result that is obtained after tens or hundreds of function compositions.

You can take the compression function of e.g. SHA-256, remove the final step that converts the invertible function into a non-invertible function, and you get a decent (invertible) block cipher function.
> Please, do not ruin this option

I don't believe that I'm the one that ruined this option for you. Small web hosts simply don't have the capacity, budget, or patience to deal with the 95% garbage originating from these IP addresses. Tragedy of the commons, I guess.
Living in an unregulated capitalist society doesn't mean we should reward people or companies that are racing to the bottom putting values and customers aside, once their market has been "cornered" (these companies bet on the unlikelihood of users being incensed enough to dethrone their monopoly).
HR math: adding a new data point above the mean doesn’t change the average number lol
It would be nice if it could estimate GPT usage costs with a dry-run.
Tackling America's weirdly short life expectancy should be a priority
Welcome to the ridiculous existence of dangerous multi-million dollar joyrides.

I wonder if you can pilot that plane with a Logitech joystick. /s

--

Maybe its only because I am not a billionaire, that I think I have more rewarding [more enjoyable, safer, more productive] ways to use that money.

But I suspect that - as much as we regular folk dream otherwise - just like it sucks to be dirt poor, it probably is not fun to be too rich.
And do tell us, what value would thar data actually have ?

I mean apart from maybe training a model to run influence operations on failing twitter?

In which world is the ‘data’ from twitter actually of any real world value with Chinchilla law pushing us from quantity to quality?
> It mirrors this map:

I dunno if you've even looked at both maps they look nothing like each other.

The support for the resolution for Russia to leave Ukraine has far more support then the invasion of Iraq and even has large amounts of support amongst people with didn't support the invasion of Iraq.

> Although the UN vote was presented as an unequivocal condemnation of Ukraine invasion, the condemnation of the invasion actually came from countries representing just over 40% of the world's population.

Yeah and what percentage of the population voted against it?, im gonna guess without even really googling that is <3% of world population.
Democracy is not immune to the post-truth attacks. Part of it is the existence of Western helpful fools who launder the Russian propaganda.
> If I disagree with the book, sometimes it takes a long time to read the books because I’m writing so much in the margin

I guess Bill Gates doesn't have to worry about resale value.
I think you're missing the last week of that chart. The huge influx happened very recently, not months ago.
People continue to parrot this point, but API use is not used to train models.[1]

Don’t trust OpenAI? Use Microsoft.

Don’t trust Microsoft? Run TII Falcon locally.

1: https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies
My 4 is not listed. I start at the top, go diagonally down left, do a almost horizontal bar right, and then vertically down. Looks almost like a lightning.
I used such a succinct AST structure to implement a JavaScript parser and interpreter for a severely memory constrained environment (embedded): V7 (https://github.com/cesanta/v7)

We later switched to a ast->bytecode compilation step but for a while the implicit AST was directly traversed during interpretation.
Most of his videos are GOOD, come on!
XiaoMiTool V2 project: Modding of Xiaomi devices made easy for everyone
Yes, Picopad runs DOOM
Picopad is an open-source gaming console based on Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040).
Good article, but I'll mention two gotchas:

1. Storing nodes in a resizable array means as the input program grows the compiler will need a larger and larger block of contiguous memory (which may or may not be available). You could work around this by allocating page-sized blocks to pool from.

2. Care needs to be taken with how AST nodes are represented in code. For example, using a union type to store nodes is self-defeating as a union type is as large as its largest member and since not all AST nodes are equal size, this means small AST nodes will be pointlessly padded to account for the size of the largest AST node.
> including some tolerance for terminal failure.

On the other hand, you cannot survive as a corporate software dev without this ability because 80% of the failure will be completely unrelated to anything you do.

I keep thinking about these two massive projects we were working on with literally 50 people only to find out after completion that nobody had asked the client if they actually wanted anything like it. All that work down the drain...
When I was watching the video I was thinking this deserves to be posted on HN and yup, someone already has.
One more nice crypto book https://joyofcryptography.com

It goes more in depth of understanding mathematics behind but less in scope — there are no elliptic curves, for example.
Hugely depends on the country. Don't assume the law you know, to apply here
Glassdoor is going to be in trouble if this is adopted. Glassdoor sells good reviews to companies as a pr tool.
I learn best by breaking things. Here are a couple good books on cryptanalysis

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56242724-codebreaking

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17994.The_Code_Book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98610.Colossus
Ask HN: My Company Is Falsely Accused – Seeking Advice
Greetings HN community, I am reaching out today from a throwaway account, seeking advice, solidarity, or simply a listening ear. This thread is a recreation of a previous one that was mislabeled.

My company, which was a subcontractor in a national research grant, is falsely accused. This has taken a toll not only on the financial stability of the company but also my mental health.

The project we were part of started off well, but over time, the lead party began inexplicably obstructing the project's progress and withholding payments to personnel. Despite these hurdles, we poured our heart and soul into this initiative, often working after hours and even funding the project from our personal resources. To our surprise and dismay, upon project completion, the grantor flagged some irregularities and demanded a return of the funds, accusing us among other parties involved. Despite presenting our side of the story and even having an official protocol accepted stating that everything was properly concluded, we were under the impression that everything was resolved and that we could finally move forward.

Several months after we thought the matter was settled, we received a letter from the police, citing serious allegations against us. In my country, such accusations often result in a pre-trial arrest, which adds another layer of stress and anxiety to an already difficult situation.

The uncertainty and gravity of the situation have led to sleepless nights and panic attacks. While I have been seeking professional help from lawyers and psychologists, I find that their advice offers little solace. The waiting and not knowing have been agonizing.

I am reaching out to ask if anyone else has been through something similar? Any advice or shared experiences would be highly appreciated.
At the risk of getting downvoted to hell. I'm getting nauseated with all this "writing this...", "writing that..." and overall note-taking related topics. It is kinda worse than AI, because at least with AI I can read people getting fed up with it. With writing, nobody dares to say anything negative about it. Only praise. I really wish someone takes the time to write the negatives of "Writing as a form thinking...". Something like "Write as a form a wasting time" or better "Writing as a form of deluding oneself in being productive". It might be me, but I think writing is overrated, moreover in HN. The people around me, mostly don't care about writing other than code. If writing helps you, fine do it. I'm not against it.
It's unclear to me what you're meant to do about this besides never post anything, which is depressing. Hence I don't even try.
Wow, that's odd.