skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same way you know that what anyone is telling you is true and not something they just made up that you'd agree more strongly with. As in, the trust is there until such a time as it has been violated and you have to revisit your priors to reconcile your new world view. My sample size is limited to three, so I cannot claim to be an authority on this. But of those three, one has graduated and the other two are well on their way to do more than that and I've had no reason to suspect they are harboring some secret desires based on things they learned on the internet that they have been patiently waiting for years to put into action. Honestly if they can deceive me for years while watching meaningless TikTok videos that are supposed to corrupt their mind, they are clearly way more prepared for existence in a capitalist society than I ever was.
To be honest, outside of Wikipedia, this is probably one of the most useful websites on the internet.
I've seen a recent trend where people who ask for recommended physicians specify that the physician must not shame patients for being obese. I find this troubling that physicians who are well-educated on the risks, and maintain licenses and certifications in good standing, should remain silent and not inform their patients about the best options for their own self-care and health. Modern medicine is a lie and a sham, and this latest is only proving it for the skeptical.
two things. first, the more you try to convince me about the best thing after sliced bread, the more I doubt it's even a bread. second, anything related to crypto currency should be held in doubt (in the highest order) until proven otherwise.

even if I ignore two things above, I don't want to use any new comm. protocols. to me, what we have now is good enough™.
The point of the post I replied to was that kids are attracted to tech because they see the parents absorbed in it. I don't think this is the main reason.

The way the commodore 64 was so addictive even while not being designed to do so helps prove that point. Most of our parents thought we were wasting our time and should read a book or watch TV depending on the parent in question. Of course we didn't. In fact those other things were more time wasting IMO. We were learning to create.

That this obsession turned into great careers and changed the world (sadly not always for the better as you describe!) was overlooked back then.

But kids just love tech just like they love rockets and dinosaurs, they don't need their parents setting the example.
> It is an ostrich reaction to deny that sentiment toward Americans even among our closer allies in the West has been eroding.

I'm not American, but I'm white and speak English. When I was backpacking Europe and Asia almost 20 years ago, I would often get insulted just for being assumed to be American. Of course that was when Bush was in power which probably had something to do with it.
When I was a kid, The Brave Little Toaster was easy to find and watch. Now it seems to be in some kind of void, where no streaming service has the rights and few places have physical copies. In my opinion, it’s an amazing piece of work that deserves better. And it is an early work from some very famous animators. If that can be lost to time in just a few decades, there must be a lot of work that is disappearing.
I came to know Brady Haran not through Numberphile but via the Hello Internet podcast with CGP Grey. Unfortunately it seems to have died off in 2020.

http://www.hellointernet.fm/
+1 here. Would love to see how to set this up.
Unfortunately visiting cyc.com, I only see a bunch of business BS and the "Documention" page shows nothing without logging in.
I couldn't find anything on this online. Why would you need to change the theme of a chat application as a kid in the United States?

Sorry if I am missing something painfully obvious here.
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Couldn't someone pretty easily merge it with something more informal?

For instance, Reddit data dump (https://academictorrents.com/details/7c0645c94321311bb05bd87...), filter for Wikipedia links, include a context of the thread, combine that with the contents of the article
In my experience it largely depends on the field within Software Engineering, and where it blurs into subfields of Applied Math / Engineering.

Machine Learning needs some things (mainly "easy" things like matrix multiplication and convolution with the occasional truncated SVD), Modeling of Physical Systems needs other things (PDE solvers), Computer graphics different stuff (mainly focusing on small rotation/transformation matrices applied to many many points), Nonlinear Optimization yet another subset (solution of large sparse systems), and that's before you get to signal processing and statistics.

The main commonality is once you have the basic terminology down and understand that if you're explicitly inverting a matrix you're probably doing it wrong, you should just use the existing highly tuned libraries for your use area (at least until you decide it would be cool to try and beat them). Once you need to go beyond that you're more into the realms of matrix analysis and structure exploitation, and firmly have at least one foot in the math camp.
The dryer heat should, but realize that the surface of the machines like the handles are separate.
I wonder if whole thing is bought SaaS. So it is up to provider to get it to work.
There are definitely people who want to pay, including me. Storing things forever isn't just about paying up, at the moment.
It looks great. I guess it is also possible to construct expressions in python directly without parsing a prolog string.
div.comment * {
color: #000000 !important;
}
.noshow {
display: block !important;
}
.ind {
background: url(file:///var/www/img_1C/bg1.png);
}

The file bg1.png has been converted from the XPM file containing:

! XPM2
40 2 2 1
. c none
# c #888888
...................#....................
........................................
> designed for good programmers

What does that mean?
IMHO the spyware angle was overblown. they added telemetry to the dev builds. the real thing I took issue with was adding a CLA after the fact
Japanese telcos eventually implemented a conversion server for emojis from other telcos (before emojis in Unicode were formally accepted). It was just a matter of time.
> new standards ... added as the situation warrants

Never ending madness.

> impose such on the world

The imposing is inflicted by the Unicode standard on everyone in the world who have no use for never ending new invented encodings for the same thing.
Mercedes CLA concept to bring new look and 466-mile range
Csound is... "interesting" and not necessarily in the good way. If you want to play with something similar, but more modern, have a look at https://supercollider.github.io/ instead.
First thing I did when becoming a US Citizen was apply for my passport.

None of my US friends have one. It's so strange to me.
Without looking at which company that was it's safe to say we probably should forget as the Falcon 9 has been the most reliable rocket ever built.
Yes but they collaborate with Amazon. For example during the pandemic they turned it all off for a few months because Amazon wanted it.

They're still around because Amazon lets them be around.
Without awareness we are just untagged data in a sea of uncompressed noise.
That’s a very good question.
Every year september / october FTC compliance push happens - and your product will get randomly flagged and disabled by AI.

This year, there’s gonna be even fewer humans to correct the madness. Not having FB login is a mercy, not a mistake.
The site assumes some of the Americans who travel may be gun or Trump supporters, which for them those questions maybe be difficult if they want to avoid a fight. But to generalize, supports of those things are not looking to avoid fights and also are less likely to travel anyway.
Is the movie any good?
Micro Machines? Slicks n slide?
I'd gladly not waste time by not replying to bait comments spreading debunked claims.

Can these bait comments/threads just be removed to keep HN clean?
Nearly all business bank accounts are connected to standard industry codes and other descriptions.
> you just might find your soul by choosing to put your next 2000 hours of free time to a different purpose.

Like mindlessly browsing forums and shitting on things you don’t care about?
They hate them. So much that there have been multiple attempts to curb the future Emoji growth, including one based on WikiData QIDs by the president of the Unicode consortium [1]. Emojis persist because the current growth doesn't burden the consortium or vendors too much and no better solution was found.

> 26 phonetic letters

And I'm genuinely offended by this particular phrase. You can't even correctly spell my name in those 26 "phonetic" letters. (My preferred convention is a mere approximation.)

[1] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19082r-qid-emoji.pdf
What's your way of providing laptops to your employees? For simplicity, let's assume everyone is located in the same country.
Our software swapped [1] for [2] because [2] is listed as the canonical URL in [1].

Which article is better? They both seem pretty good and I'm unclear on the difference.
If they have physical access as per this scenario, they can just install a hardware keylogger and get access with your login credentials.
protests are meaningless if they don't disturb.
Why?

As someone who's lived here for more than 20 years, I really don't know what you mean.
What's the alternative? Dorm rooms aren't going to get individual laundry machines if they don't even have individual toilets.

Most apartments aren't getting individual laundry equipment either.

And you can't wash your clothes down at the river anymore.
0n mm mmm nnmmnmnnnnn NMT mmkmkm..mkmmm km km mm kmmmm m ummmmmmnm NMT kmm mmummmmm mm mm.........ummmmmmmmmmmkmm mm u mmm mmmmmmmm NMT m..mm
That still doesn't do anything about the propaganda farms.
kudos to aws team pulling off the migration. Also its nice to see a CTO of such a big company trying out the tech and doing hands on work.
Velcro in OpenScad
Live Launch of PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Solar Mission [video]
They’ve had around 220 successful launches since then, giving the Falcon 9 a success rate of 99.21%, and that number improves every other week or so as they continue to launch. There are reasons to not launch SpaceX but lack of reliability isn’t among them.
How big is the school, if you don't mind me asking? And was it something pushed by the parents or the school itself? Would you mind sharing the papers/mails regarding justification & such?
Related:

Csound: A sound and music computing system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787566 - April 2020 (90 comments)

CSound for Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10794944 - Dec 2015 (12 comments)
Oh, it hasn't taken any effort on my part. I've just always been fortunate enough to have:
-Always lived in a house with a phone
-Always worked at a business with a phone
-Never been important enough that anyone needed to reach me when I wasn't at home or at work
sorry to say, it doesn't convince me at all. to a certain extent, all I can read is the creator's words about how great it is. to be honest, even if he's the second coming of jesus, I just can't take it seriously without a concrete thing to poke and stab.
We got hit with a good bit of the postgres iceberg this week.

VACUUM by default runs with the TRUNCATE option. This will, if possible and valuable, truncate the heap and return those pages to the operating system. This operation takes an AccessExclusive lock, which blocks reads and writes. It is written to be very deferential and only runs if nothing else is trying to take a competing lock.

AccessExclusive is a unique lock in that it is replicated to standbys. When the writer holds the lock, reads on the standbys will be blocked. However, the writer doesn't know about them, so its conservative approach of only acquiring the lock if there's no contention is completely thwarted.

Finally, if vacuum truncate is interrupted by lock contention it must repeat a scan of the heap to ensure the blocks are still empty before proceeding with the truncation.

All of these details combined meant our writer got stuck in a "grab lock, scan, be interrupted, release lock, grab lock, restart scan, be interrupted, release lock... etc" loop. The replication of this lock to the reader seemed to have batched together, so the readers never got to run in between the loop iterations. The vacuum never actually succeeded because it kept re-scanning. We had to intervene manually to disable autovacuum and cancel the in-progress jobs.

We've hit plenty of weird postgres issues, but this was a new one for us.

Edit: of note is the somewhat rare lack of clarity in the postgres docs. "VACUUM (without FULL)" is documented as only requiring ShareUpdateExclusive, which is why autovacuum is considered safe to run. Turns out that's not true.
Please don't do regional flamewar or ideological flamewar (or any other flamewar) on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
So this is why the Oakland team is called the Raiders.
My 9 year old nephew has a phone, but without cell service (so it's more like a wifi-only tablet) and he doesn't have access to it all day -- I can't remember what the schedule is, but he gets like a hour a day of use on school nights and more time on weekends. He mostly plays video games and watches video game walkthroughs on youtube with the phone. For schoolwork he uses the family computer in the livingroom.

There's some kind of content filter on it to help keep him from the worst of the internet.
I feel like this is the kind of advice that fits perfect when everything is going swimmingly but becomes much more complicated when other negative influencing factors come in to play.

When they are blind to something that you can plainly see is a net-negative for their life it seems like it would be much harder to not intervene.

I'm not speaking as someone who has lived this but I have observed a close family member who very much has the relationships and parenting style you're describing and I've watched this parent go through incredibly challenging situation after situation as her kids have grown into teenagehood (covid really did a number on kids coming of age). It's not that her kids are bad either, a tad naive perhaps, but genuinely good kids.
Many databases including PostgreSQL have a second reason “serial” sequences may have missing numbers. It’s too inefficient to write to the disk every time you get a new value from the sequence, so sequence transactions use up a batch of consecutive values, not just one. The set of values in the batch is then maintained in memory. If (when) the database crashes, the leftovers can’t be restored to the sequence (since there’s no finer-grained log of them). So on average the sequence will permanently skip half of the batch size on each crash.
Maybe when I have some time we'll have to go back to a practical and sane 16bit Unicode, at least for programming. Not for archeology.

Only the common scripts, proper identifiers (without the bugs unfixed for decades), forbidden mark combinations for which a single symbol exists. Of course without emoji, but also without all the silly supplementary planes.
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Today I'm [one of the lucky 10,000][1] finding out that there are generalizations of derivatives and integrals for fractional orders.

These are non-local.

[1]:https://xkcd.com/1053/
Here are some driving factors for this change:

- tenants have asked for it because they never seem to have the right amount of change

- banks are declining to accept unrolled coins

- better accounting between owners and property managers
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and if you keep it up we're going to have to ban you.

(No, this is not because we don't like your views. We don't care or know what they are, and it would be just the same if you flipped the high bit on all of them.)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Thank for your analyse. It seems it's a corner case, benchmarking a base64 encoded random file is not a typical case.
igzip has no more advantage above libdeflate. It has only fast compression at the levels 0,1,2 but with mediocre compression ratio.
> It's understandable from arm to do this, unfortunately.

You had it right the first time. There's no excuse for this kind of behavior. Even if they do feel their trademarks are threatened, there are better ways to deal with it. Don't defend them.
It seems to me that the FBI can break into iPhones now, but they want to pretend that they can’t. The FBI strategy appears to be to fake the lack of capability to break in now, in order to be able to claim that there is a crisis and get law or legal precedent in place to allow much broader access, against potentially much better future technological challenges to break-in.

I believe that, from a technical perspective, my argument is supported by this article [0] that I found posted on the ACLU website. This was a reaction to the FBI’s highly-publicized case against Apple in 2015 where the FBI, I believe, pretended that they could not break into the iPhone that had belonged to one of the shooters in the December 2015 San Bernardino attack.

The article I have linked describes a specific technical workaround for avoiding permanent deletion of data, namely, avoiding deletion in “Effaceable Storage” of a key that encrypts some filesystem data. This may or may not continue to be relevant today. A pop-up on an Apple page explaining iPhone privacy [1] specifically states that Effaceable Storage “doesn’t provide protection if an attacker has physical possession of a device”, but I don’t claim to actually understand the security implications of the statements made on that page.

0. https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/one-fbis-major-...

1. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-protection-sec...
That is your opinion. We will see what the courts say to Meta and Amazon.
It's organized crime. It's obviously organized crime. I don't know what homelessness has to do with organized crime other than be a scapegoat.
Yup, downside is people who have had others make mistakes, never see their mail.
Communal childcare in kibbutzim is not related to economic success - I know people who grew up like that, they gave up on it because the results for the kids were seen as negative. Even in rich kibbutzim with plenty of resources they've phased out communal childcare and children live with their parents.
No, we don't do that and the community wouldn't support it.
Yeah the QR crap was understandable during the pandemic (though a bit stupid because surface spread was discredited very soon).

But I don't understand why so many restaurants still hang on to it.

It used to be impolite to mess with your phone in a restaurant. Now it's mandatory. Luckily it's not so common anymore now in Spain, only the Asian restaurants still do it. And McDonald's are trying to force their app by removing ever more ordering screens.
My kids are two years old and find them fascinating. Not sure when they'll be getting phones if their own. About the only thing I've decided is that I'll be blocking access to the Meta and CCP apps when they do.
The old passenger lines you reference:

- don't solve intracity travel.

- likely are not optimised for the flow of people today.

- likely are not constructed for the high speeds which make intercity travel attractive via rail.
On iPhones iMessages are blue, but text messages (from non-ios devices) are green and lack some of the features of iMessages, so being green is looked down upon
During lockdowns my country required phone, to get permit to leave house. If I followed rules, I would not be able to buy food, and would starve to death!
"America, love it or leave it" was tired even in the 1970s.

If you are ashamed of something, you should be free to fix it, not obliged to leave.

According to one survey, French, Germans, and Brits are more proud and less embarrassed about their country than the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/05/05/5-national-pri...

Bear in mind how England and Germany also have a history of national pride connected with imperialism and the killing and subjugation of other peoples. Unfortunately, in the present-day the ones who voice their national pride most loudly tend to connected it to historic supremacy, as with far-right English nationalists using the English flag.

This makes it hard for people who do feel pride for the modern country to express that pride.
Contents of the canonical URL appears to change over time by showing the latest blog post, which is currently this[1] that was just published today, not what was originally submitted.

[1] https://isc.sans.edu/diary/What+is+the+origin+of+passwords+s...
so you're saying we're not allowed to look at the rest of the universe so that we can solely focus on the low frequency of times an object collides with Jupiter? that seems like not a good use of all of the observation ability we have
> Semantics: there's a code point for the letter 'a' and another code point for the mathematical symbol 'a', although the glyphs are identical. Unicode points should not have semantic meaning - semantic meaning comes from the context in which the points are used.

Just the opposite. A codepoint looks different in different fonts, and so things that are "identical" in one font won't be "identical" in another font. Only the semantics are the same.

Printed "A" and cursive "A" are both, semantically, "latin capital A". Those semantics are very concrete and specific: they include its sort order, its conversion re: case-conversion, its joining/splitting behavior, its categoric matching in regexps, etc.

But the codepoint "latin capital A" expresses no preference over whether it should be rendered as a printed/roman A or a cursive A. Codepoints don't define glyphs; they only define semantics! The glyphs associated with codepoints are conventional, following the codepoint's description!

Further, codepoints tell accessibility technologies and other machine-agents what a codepoint "is." Greek letter π is text-to-speech'ed as a letter, and together with other greek letters, as a greek word. Mathematical symbol 𝜋 is text-to-speech'ed as the word "pi."