skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple of well-known algorithms to find the best rational approximation to a given real number. A good and short book is "Diophantine Approximations" by I. Niven. For code, you can also check out this repo of mine: https://github.com/alidasdan/best-rational-approximation .

Note that decimal numbers represented as a floating point numbers on a computer are actually rational numbers due to limited precision. So converting decimal numbers to fractions, both stored on a computer, means converting a fraction with potentially large numerator and/or denominator to a simpler fraction, say, one with a far smaller denonimator.

For example, an approximation to pi is 3.14159265358979323844, which is the same thing as 314159265358979323844/10^20 (trivial approximation). Using these algorithms we can covert this fraction to a simpler fraction under different approximation criteria such as a bound on the approximation error or a bound on the magnitude of the denominator. For this example, we then get various approximations to pi such as 22/7, 355/113, ...
Yep, these whiny mfs always complain about something. One second it's workers rights, then it's extrajudicial assassinations by the government... Complain, complain, complain!

Think Walter, if anarchism and dem socialism is really doomed to fail, why would you the government need to assassinate leaders and perform regime changes :) surely it would be cheaper (and more effective) to let them crumble?
> equity

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizelting/2022/09/22/stop-sayin...

https://www.upstate.edu/diversityinclusion/policies-and-proc...

Like... it ain't hard to read up on this.
You have a small set of people who can't do it to perform their role and a far larger cohort who can. If you need to require people to be in the office to supervise their work that's inherently in junior/senior or specific performance management.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but I think you're trying to change the nature of work in a way which favours the company over the employee, against the emerging norm. Imagine if you're recruiting and you say "we issue WFH on a case by case basis and adjust it as a reward for performance" and then think about an employees reaction "so I have no certainty, and you can judge me arbitrarily on performance issues I might not control and remove my ability to plan worklife balance.. or I could go work for this other company...."

Glassdoor would be all over this.
I think this is the post you're referring to.

https://tailscale.com/blog/more-throughput/
Your risk analysis is wrong. Your math is wrong.

What you think is a minor risk is a much larger risk than you suppose. And your analysis of the downsides of privacy improvements are wrong as well:

It takes 30 seconds to install Signal. There is no substantive benefit to Facebook's messenger not being E2EE. Privacy is not the reason why it's hard for you to get a copy of your medical records or migrate accounts across services. There is no massive substantive social benefit to advertisers tracking you across the web, and your life is not going to suddenly get worse if you install an adblocker.

This is the equivalent of putting on a bicycle helmet, getting a vaccine, wearing a seatbelt. It's not hard and it doesn't hurt you and the risks of ignoring clearly established safeguards are greater than you think. Your math is wrong.

> Stop trying to explain how your current argument isn’t what it clearly is

:D That is one way to approach a discussion, but it's not one I feel particularly obligated to take seriously or treat respectfully. I'm not really interested in having an argument about whether or not I'm lying to you when I tell you what exactly I believe. That would be a pointlessly inane, obviously unproductive waste of time.

I didn't know we were allowed to just say what the other person believes and then double down when they explain otherwise. If that kind of nonsense is allowed, then I've got to say that I think it's really weird that you've been secretly objecting to privacy on purely religious grounds the whole time :)
This is tragic! Supporting noscript was a primary design goal but I forgot to only enable the knuth/plass justification in print media. The math expressions I'm moving to build time now. So sorry.
Tangent question about WireGuard: I use the VPN at work, but the DNS does not seem to be working properly on MacOS. The VPN is configured to use an internal IP for DNS, like 192.168.10.200, but when the VPN is on, that address is not routing properly (it seems the route is not going through the VPN so nothing is found, even if the VPN config does include that IP range). Anyone knows how to get this sort of stuff fixed?
You must understand that twitter is rewarding views/conversation to 'creators' via subscription. You must have noticed an uptick of blue tick accounts who drivel lame information but packed to stroke a conversation. This way they get payouts from twitter creator program due to engagement and impressions.

The blue tick also puts them on top of conversations; this is now used by Russians to create divisions in democracies with paid and useful idiot(s) accounts. For Elon, who is living in a selfish bubble, that is free speech and he keeps reposting conspiracy theorist.

In short, the whole platform is going to the gutter. Being a champion of the Internet from the late 90's, I can't believe where we are at now and how non-scientific fervor has grabbed every aspect of discourse (anti vax, flat earth, soros/gates, Q/Pizza/MAGA, etc).
> if you are here for the technical discussions, why did you click on a thread about salaries of men vs. women?

Because maybe I would learn that certain positions or areas are better/worse paid than others? Or that managers at Google are really bad at math? Or who knows, maybe the CEO hires really expensive prostitutes and pay them with company money disguised as salaries??

Not everything needs to be political you know.
It was decided by a jury. According to the article, after they broke up, he used the security cameras installed at her mother's house in another state to spy on her, he posted her private sexy pics everywhere - on social media, distributed via public Dropbox folder, and uploaded to porn sites. He even made sure to send to her family and friends on social media. While doing this he emails her: "You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to wipe yourself off the internet"

So the jury decided to send a message, "you will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to pay off this judgement" and I bet the jury also figured a sum of one billion dollars would result in some articles with his name in them too.
They call it “micro-dosing”. Lots of people experiment with it. You can probably find out more on reddit or something. I can’t personally say.
If OP's argument is that we could have bought time had we taken action, then Svante Arrhenius was publishing results about this in the late 1800s as the industrial revolution CO2 was in full swing.

Lack of information was never the problem. Money and Liability are the only two things that the people that can make a change will speak.

Start suing start and start lobbying. It is pretty much the only thing left bar from going full eco terrorist (which I believe is entirely likely in our current timeline).
I mean, I have a bank account, of course, I just never wanted to give it to PayPal. Finally, after decades, I decided to semi-cave and open a new account just for them. Then they don't let me add it, because my phone number isn't good enough. The check becomes the only option, and then this happens.
Tinc works, but is not really stable for my use case: strange network environment thanks to my school. It frequently falls into infinite loops, dropping all packets and fully use a CPU core (on Windows, Linux looks fine). It seems stable on an all-Linux network, but the moment a Windows client is added, things can go wrong.

It also does not really have a decent mobile client.
Take your command-line utilities to the next level with these Ruby gems
Everyman's Library edition has a great introduction by Julian Symons, that covers this post and more.

Sadly I cannot find it online.
One accepted measure of actual fertility is CC50, cohort completed fertility at age 50 years. (At 50, childbearing is almost universally at an end.)

> Cohort fertility is another measure of fertility, tracing the fertility experience of women born in a particular year. It measures the average number of births that women born in a particular year have at each age from 13 to 49 years of age. Summing these age-specific rates gives the completed fertility rate by year of birth, that is, the average number of births a woman born in a particular year has had during her lifetime.[1]

1. https://www.stats.govt.nz/reports/parenting-and-fertility-tr...
This Twitter thread is two years old, posted long before Twitter’s current woes.
> I don't know anywhere else one can get a risk free return equivalent to a 10y bond.

How about equivalent risk-free return, even better yield, upside potential, optionality...and you don't need to be a federal employee to play?

It's been hiding in plain sight[1][2] for over a year now, but I'm not a financial advisor and certainly not your financial advisor...just an interwebs rando with a hobby positing food for critical thought.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=17THg

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=17THh
Show HN: A pre-built auth component for Vue, based on Supabase
>Higgins, even though he took that bait of think tank jobs/intelligence money

What do you mean by this exactly? Do you have any other sources than Elon Musk tweets that Eliot Higgins has taken "intelligence money"?
If you mean "the way things work" by Macaulay then please look at his other books. I recommend "Unbuilding" massively.
I remember seeing an iMac in a Cher video around '98 or '99. There weren't that many computers on TV in those days and this was the first time I'd see one in a music video.

I thought it looked like a bubblegum toy computer for kids so I didn't want one. I was a kid myself, but hey, all the computers I was familiar with were serious beige boxes and this didn't seem "professional" enough. But I was intrigued.

I'm also intrigued about the "Princess Bride" analogy in the article, I'm still processing that. Is SJ being compared to Cary Elwes or am I missing the joke?
I'm not familiar with this specific mitigation, but aren't they often only need in multi user environments?

Meaning if you have a dedicated machine for your database, you probably don't want to turn these on. i.e. it's good to know that this is something you probably don't want.
What relevance does this have to a tweet from 2021?
The notation goes back to Frege. It's not easy to google if you don't know what you're looking for, but this seems like a reasonable summary: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege-logic

You can see that the turnstile symbol |- was already used, and the horizontal line (which was called "Fregescher Schlussstrich", Frege's Conclusion Stroke) in my class, was apparently somehow part of the turnstile itself and only became a separated element in modern notation it seems.
From a legal perspective, it's against Mastodon's trademark policy: "Only use the Mastodon marks to accurately identify those goods or services that are built using the Mastodon software." https://joinmastodon.org/trademark
1000s of exceptional circumstances, but once added to training data, is solved forever.
try mss clamping
True, but presumably Cruise can fix this issue. Can we fix human drivers?
I very much agree, we should normalize the use of sex-based pronouns and the so-called 'misgendering' that may arise from doing so, even if it upsets some people.

Fighting back against the big lie of gender identity ideology starts with not mangling one's own language to appease those who are fervent believers.
Yeah but this ain't an iceberg, it's a leak. Gradual improvement CAN fix it as long as people don't panic or give up.
You should be able to have two peers. The only thing I see is, that you may need to explicitly define the routing.

The first peer is easy, with allowed IPs of 10.10.0.0/8. The 2nd peer will need more configs, as it should route everything else.

See this answer for an example where all ranges that are not RFC1918 are listed: https://serverfault.com/a/304791
I expect, that you need to enter those ranges as AllowedIPs for the peer that should route to the public internet.
Yup, here's their web stable diffusion repo: https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion

The input is a model (weights + runtime lib) compiled via the mlc-llm project: https://mlc.ai/mlc-llm/docs/compilation/compile_models.html
xTab extension automatically closes all but the most recent n (mine is set to 20) tabs. If I pin a tab it won't close it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xtab/amddgdnlkmoha...

If I have more open tabs than that, I likely won't be able to find them anyway.
True. But I don’t necessarily think it changes things.

It’d be nice to see a follow up incorporating what we’ve learned about the whole wfh/hybrid practices of late.

But my guess is that the same group will climb just as they would have before. If anything, I’d guess the effect will be made even more pronounced.
I used to work on big telco billing systems. All possible charges, discounts etc are configured in the billing system (otherwise you wouldn't be able to bill for them!). Doesn't take a genius to work out how easy it would be to list them...

As a European looking over the pond, lobbying and this sort of crap have gone too far in the States. I don't know why you all put up with it.
For the life of me I cannot understand anyone would use PayPal. I'd rather trust the postal system with an envelope of money. I have yet to see an area where there aren't better options.
it will be different for every usecase, the only way to find out is spinning one up..
PCs were already in that niche pretty much all over the world since Windows 95 got introduced, until the Apple recovery they were mostly an US focused company, they weren't going bankrupt for nothing.

In Portugal, nowadays there are Apple Stores all over the big cities, although people still mostly buy them on credit and cable TV deals, back in those days there was a single vendor, Interlog in Lisbon, that would sell for the whole country.

Buying Apple gear meant either traveling to Lisbon, having them coming to the company if big enough or a renowed university, or buying by catalog in the listings from computer magazines.
> equality (now verboten), where everyone gets an equal opportunity at success

I wound strongly contest that this is because, on the one side of the implementation spectrum, this turned out to impossible in a practical sense, and on the other side, it's far too easy to have the appearance of equality but not the actuality.

On the other side of things - (IMO) equity is also just a better concept - give people what they need to do reach their excellence, and you have far more people being excellent. (Although it sounds like we might have different ideas as to what "equity" even is)
You can import the CSV file instead of opening it, which lets you choose the data type for each column. It's clunky, but it does what you want (if you set the types correctly).

Excel is a known issue for many text data files. My least favorite Excel-ism is when it changes the names of genes to dates. Many genes recently changed names to avoid Excel-related issues. As an example: OCT4 became POU5F1, and SEPT1 became SEPTIN1. Otherwise, if you're looking at gene related data, you'd have to be very careful when looking at gene names that you didn't accidentally save the file with a few "dates" as opposed to gene names. (Which is even more confusing when you realize that dates are stored as integers in Excel).
Then what does 3% mean? Surely it means "given the data we have, one in every 33 will hit". Since that empirically doesn't happen, it must be that "the data we have" has a very low prior probability of being real. In other words, the measurement noise seems distributed in a way that over-represents unlikely trajectories.

Hence it seems that it would lead to more accurate predictions if the measurements and their uncertainties were fitted to a model that corrects for the prior probability of observing an asteroid on a given trajectory/making a certain observation.

This discrepancy between distribution of measurement error vs distribution of actual trajectories is what people are wondering about, because it seems interesting to know more about (e.g. "why are certain trajectories less likely?").
Steve Jobs was a huge fan of the thin-client model because he had been using it full-time at NeXT.
Easy to copy something that has been done before and knowing what you want, need and responding to expected market traffic.
The original shows is available on mixcloud for anyone who wants to hear any of the interesting commentary that went with the playlist. It looks like the It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Breakdown is up too, but I can't see the De La Soul one.

https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/
https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/publicenemy30/
Why not get it under the umbrella of either the Linux Foundation or CNCF? Things like this and Ansible should be really kept under neutral companies and not companies like Red Hat and HashiCorp that have shown that all they care about open source is the free work they get from contributors.
When I moved back to India from the US, I was pleasantly surprised how cheap and fast the internet here is (which should have been the characteristic of a developed nation like USA). I currently have a 300 Mbps home broadband, TV, Unlimited calling cellphone with 1.5 GB mobile data everyday, and an unlimited calling landline phone all in one plan in less than 21 USD a month.
There are a lot of reasons for spillover in my experience. They’re all interrelated.

First and foremost is that most product/project managers, engineering managers, “scrum masters”, etc. do not truly love doing the work of backlog refinement, ticket management, writing acceptance criteria, or other forms of planning that entail actionable results. They may love the glory of leading or assisting a team of software engineers to build great products, but I’ve seen maybe 1 or 2 who are actually qualified to be the agile/process guy/gal. Additionally, they’re frequently counter-incentivized to be meeting jockeys, PowerPoint creators, and “culture people” who simply do not do the job as it’s meant to be done.

As soon as ^^ happens, sprints are destined to fail, because the work of sizing tickets falls squarely onto engineers who would probably rather be writing code than talking about it, so they make informal agreements about value of a story point being a day’s work or not blocking tickets that don’t have defined success criteria, or what have you. As such, tickets are not properly vetted and grow to be massive, amorphous chunks of work that either allow devs to hide from the (painful/annoying) process of Scrum and just do their thing.

The last (and worst) of the reasons spillover happens is that people are burnt out, unmotivated, or unrewarded by the process. If the “customer” (also a massive rats nest of a concept in Agile) isn’t at the demo and actively interested in the product being developed, any amount of “points” will feel arbitrary and useless. There’s no faster way to lose interest in Scrum than canceling a demo and having your developers lose faith that completing that ticket actually matters to someone.
How does everyone lose?

It seems to me that people worse at negotiating are set to win in this case...
I might be becoming a greybeard but is there any reason to move away from graphviz?
I appreciate text based authoring, open source code base, composability, and the longevity of the project.
The person asked a question with curiosity and you chose not once but twice to respond rudely.
Greg KH has talked about this on multiple occasions. The sheer number of developers contributing to the Linux kernel makes anything other than a plaintext email-based workflow impossible.
Or maybe, just maybe, posting a comment that is egregiously outside the guidelines of the site means that people will see it and appropriately flag it.

Not everything is political and it’s showing that that is what you immediately jumped to.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
we are experimenting with ways to have an inclusive global conversation.

there will be many more failures
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He took National Endowment for Democracy money. I guess you can pretend that isn't intelligence money. Would you like to?

He also took a think tank job at Atlantic Council for many years. I guess you can also pretend that it isn't part of the military-intelligence complex.
Nothing like running a single threaded game on 480 cores.
Hacker News makes it to Dutch national media
Send a request to their team about it, get back a poop emoji, then go check the owner’s timeline if they mentioned anything about it in between him calling Mark Zuckerberg a cuck, going to his house to beat him and the Gen Z memes, then go back recalling a year full of absolute nonsense, including several attempts to block competitor links, threatening to delete New York Times’ account for saying they won’t buy a check, and even marking Substack as a malware domain, and banning likes, replies and retweets of their main account, step back and think if assuming more of exactly THAT isn’t the most logical prediction to make.

Your mistake is treating Musk as if he’s acting like a normal person, and believing he’s running Twitter like a normal company.
I’d like to think so too but whenever meat or fish eating comes up, either in climate change discussions or general animal welfare, you get quite a lot of hostile and cruel answers. Some directly aimed at hurting parent who comments about compassion or alternative diets. So, yeah… I’d like to have hope as well but I think the HN crowd is very similar to the rest of the population in this respect.
It runs on 10x better batteries that are also 10x lighter and charge 10x faster
It sounds like he’s preying on desperate startups trying to avoid insolvency. Desperate people tend to grab for any lifeline.
>leftist ideals are rampant

Did you have to make it into a political discussion by shouting your political position? I can't see any outcome of doing so that isn't bad for the quality of discussion.
Ilya discusses why supervised learning works (OpenAI talk)
I call myself a free speech absolutist (or advocate at least, absolutist is more of a slur). False compromises belong in the past. What X is doing isn't free speech at all and they have stated that advertisers will dictate what content will be seen, there is no commitment to freedom of speech at all.

But at least I can hold them responsible for violating their own stated values. The former Twitter leadership just hid content that didn't fit theirs or third parties sensitivities and told me they are doing me a favor.

Restricting speech is always in the interests of those that have the power to shape discussions, so limiting speech is always counter productive.
I was addicted to the radio

Make my request, and wait for it

Holdin my finger on the pause button, like "now go"

I guess that was the original download

-Atmosphere - Don't Forget
No, but also sort of. The bank can choose which debt collectors they sell the debt to, and more unscrupulous collectors may bid more.
Updated link for the live example:

https://dosyago.github.io/selector-generalization/