skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You would need to pay to read.

Now you're talking about a paywall.

Many news organizations are going in that direction but with subscriptions.

Doing it where you pay for each article is also psychologically hard. Since you are actually spending some money, the choice requires some mental effort. But since you haven't read the article, it's a choice whose value is very hard to estimate.

Choices where:

1. The value is hard to predict.

2. The cost is low.

3. The perceived maximum value is also likely low.

Are also sort of a worst case for the heuristics our brains have evolved to apply. It's difficult to get our brains to even put the mental effort into making the choice whether or not to buy the article.
I think you're getting the impression that my stance is "floats are usable for all problem domains" when it's really "floating point arithmetic is not the same as approximate calculations."

Nearly all mathematical calculations cause the result to be outside the range of integers. You can't do much else other than subtract without accounting for edge cases. No matter what tool you use you must work with your chosen representation and around its limitations and make sure your domain can be modeled exactly. For example Python's base random function chooses a floating point uniformly in the range [0, 1) but it achieves this by requiring that the result be a multiple of 2^-52 which is exactly representable so rounding doesn't introduce bias.

> If you don't have control of your inputs

Well you clearly do to some degree because you're sure you can model anything you might might receive with fixed sized fixed precision integers. I'm not saying this means you can just switch to floats but that you're doing the same thing, mapping the real life problem domain exactly to a subset of the reals that is closed under the operations you want to perform.
I think you've misunderstood the intent of why someone commented on the museum director being amused. I think the understanding is that if the person who commissioned the work was "happy" with the result, then the artist had fulfilled his contract by supplying work that the commissioner was "happy with", despite it not being as they thought they were getting.

However, as it now turns out the money was only "lent" to the artist, so it wasn't his to retain. THAT is the reason that the reaction of the director isn't relevant.
1-2 active. that also means 1-2 in repair, reserve, training, mothballed, etc.

and the Great Lakes are Great -- bigger than you'd think, and highly traversed.
Do you think there was a list in the document neatly titled “NSA_BACKDOORS_DONT_SHARE” or something?
More discussion earlier over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37562225
While I do not doubt that your spouse, this is besides the point, the point is that Min Nan pronounces the first phoneme of the word for “tea” with a dental stop, other chinese variants/languages realize the same phoneme with a dental affricate.

I do not know if the article author/cartographer ever studied linguistics or phonetics, but this is the main takeaway from the map for me, a linguist, the pattern is the message, not the somewhat imprecise data points.
The physical process that powers a new type of generative AI
The war in Iraq was quick and decisive. The occupation afterwards was a mess in every way possible, but the organized war between states went exactly as planned.
> I have a hard time imagining a person who would willingly choose homelessness because they're just that committed to a given area.

Then you have not met many homeless. In my experience the vast majority of homeless in big cities would say no if offered a place to live in kansas.
My problem with the OP's comment is that a couple of different things are stated as universal truths, even though they definitely aren't.
Yep. The lab fell apart a few years later (albeit with some help from other power struggles happening within the university at the time). UK universities are/were(?) chock full of European talent all speaking the lingua academia (English). Easy to integrate and write papers at the same time. Huge cultural and academic win.

That same experience in Germany? It's there, sure, but the effort to integrate is doubled.
Whenever I input my tax data on forms, it always rounded to the nearest dollar. It was strange that accuracy didn't seem to be a big priority.
This is a little picky, but the explanation of Chinese names given is Han-centric: there’s definitely other kinds of Chinese names too, like Tibetan and Uyghur.
Original source from march 2022 : https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/197416841/20220325... page 71, thanks to wikipedia
"All right, so when the subroutine compounds the interest, it uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing and we just... we round them all down and just drop the remainder... into an account that we opened."
I was never impressed with Nouveau, mostly because I pretty quickly ran into this system-crashing bug that I've had open for six years. It's "high critical" importance, plenty of reproductions, log submissions, etc... no developer ever looked at it. Nouveau was unusable. I gave it another try recently, and found it still crashing far too frequently to be acceptable.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100567
Agree. One can only interpret this as ham-fisted virtue signaling by YouTube management and perhaps with staff support.

If they are continuing to host and serve the Brand videos, they are defacto saying, "content by this person doesn't hurt our platform in a material way, but we've decided this person is bad and we want to show ourselves punishing him." And the best part is they are tangibly rewarded in this by not having to pay the creator's share of the revenue. No matter what Brand may or may not be guilty of... continuing to stream his content without paying for it is despicable and immoral.

Properly thought about, moral judgement of what YouTube is doing is completely independent of anything Brand had done.
Lessig is a hero of mine, but he's wrong here.

> Lessig believes the most effective form of regulation online is through architecture, “[online,] code is law” (pg 5).

I build internet architecture, and vastly different online regulation is performed on the same architectures. What actually regulates the online world is Terms of Use, which are in turn influenced and regulated by Law, such as Section 230. Every online service, resource, and community defines its own social, functional and technological regulations. But those regulations only hold as long as the Law allows it. Doesn't matter what the technical architecture is, the corporate interest that governs the terms of use is what defines how humans can interact with it (and each other).

> Because of the legal power code holds, Lessig cautions against the commercialization of code, which he believes will lead to the privatization of law and increased governmental control. [..] He also argues in favor of open-source code which, like the laws governing the natural world, can be examined by everyone.

We have seen many times now that just because the Source is Available does not mean that the Terms of Use do not impose their own regulations, often counter to those of the Open Source ethos. Yes, you can see the code. But you can't see what the moderators are/aren't doing behind the scenes to the users subjected to that code. In fact, the commercialization (or not) of code has had no effect on privatization and governmental control. The government still seeks to impose its will on the code, whether it's open or not. Companies commercialize Open Source code as a marketing buzzword now.

The code is just a building block, like a brick. Corporations and government will happily build a weapons factory out of transparent bricks, and then paint over the outside. If you want code to have an impact on society, the license must include ethics requirements.
> It is said to prove a point about the globalization of tea: words for tea that sound like chai reflect a historical spread via overland routes, the argument goes, while words like tea are a legacy of maritime trade. A 2018 viral article by the data journalist Nikhil Sonad in Quartz first put this idea on the world’s radar.

This “idea” was on wikipedia since at least 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etymology_of_tea&...
Leave tech world and look at what people have. Most iPhone users have Windows machines.
The reason I prefer web apps (running in the browser, not in Electron) is because companies push for native apps so aggressively that it's extremely obvious that native apps make it easier to mine my private data for profit, including on mobile.
No I didn't. And complaining about votes is against hn guidelines.
That's an impressive level of carbrain. Roadside trees is completely standard all over the world, and Nukuʻalofa certainly has them: https://www.google.fr/maps/@-21.1406571,-175.2050866,3a,75y,...

> it's so that business signage is not blocked by foliage

That's patent nonsense (https://www.google.fr/maps/@52.3653572,4.8753188,3a,75y,95.4...) but even if it were not, why would it matter? Making the environment at large better should be the foremost guiding principle, businesses can adapt their signage habits.

> and so that police can scan areas more quickly while on patrol.

If roadside trees prevent your police from doing their job, you really need better police. Then again, we know the US needs better police.
Yes, it is the same. I agree, it is not ACME's fault, ACME just makes it simpler due to the automation.
It's explained if you look at the proposals: They wanted to avoid any and all risks of backwards compatibility with any existing templating tool in the Java ecosystem. Every sensible syntax was covered by one of those, so the core language is stuck with the least bad one available.
This seems like a great accomplishment; a design so good that others are inspired to implement it.
And my entire point being that that was dumb. It doesn't make him tough. It makes him an egomaniacal idiot to have not sought treatment.
Some options for those who prefer to avoid the Oracle minefield:

https://adoptium.net

https://aws.amazon.com/corretto

https://www.azul.com/downloads

https://bell-sw.com/pages/downloads

Sadly, no-one has managed to package it yet, but we should get something in the next couple of days. Since 21 is an "LTS" release, major Linux distributions will provide a runtime pretty soon. Ubuntu backports them to old releases too.
Where's Java primarily used these days?
I suspect when a trove of documents is big enough, newspaper readers lose interest before you run out of documents. I mean, even on this tech forum hardly anyone knows who Cavium are, let alone your average Washington Post reader.
If it has the data to know that the answer is greater than 80, why not be more exact?
I'd love to see them implement a good liquid democracy system that would offer a better "middle ground between 'take every vote' and 'let Blackrock decide'."
How is that odd? Technology can be bad, and most cryptocurrency is really bad on purpose. Also, people are more reacting to the abusive usage of this technology, and the mindset of people in that space, not so much to the technology itself.
I can't wait to see if/how tools like Reactor and Kotlin Coroutines adapt with Virtual Threads, and if they extend the tooling, or provide a migration path.

I've written a tonne of code on both Reactor and Coroutines, and would love something simpler, but dread the idea of migration.
>What consequences? He has to move to a different streaming platform?

Are you asking me what the consequences are for an entertainer to get removed from globally dominant distribution channels?

>Can I sell porn in your driveway?

This is getting silly. I'm not saying that every company has to publish everything. Google had a mutually profitable business relationship with Brand. They were more than happy to publish his content before these allegations were made.
It would be if by choice rather than mandate.
Happy jq user as well.

But is jq interactive?
> they have an obligation to treat video creators with a greater degree of fairness and formal process

There isn't really a way to enforce this that doesn't violate a private company's rights. Protected classes are the closest thing, but I think you'll have a tough time getting "person accused of being a jerk" to be declared a protected class.

> perhaps they are simply too big and should be broken up

This, however, there's tons of precedent for. It's the right solution, and we should absolutely be breaking all of the big tech companies up. The current FTC & DOJ are heading in that direction[1,2]. If you like that direction, it's something to consider when you're filling out the ballot each November.

[1] The first stab from the FTC is at Amazon: "if the FTC succeeds in court, it could result in a forced breakup or restructuring of Amazon" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/amazons-final-ta...

[2] And DOJ is taking a stab at Google: "[The DOJ] might even become emboldened to break up some of the biggest tech companies" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/heres-exactly-wh...
Pretty neat use case. I like it
Because the high price for name-brand clothes isn't necessarily for the quality, you are paying for the name.
Germany had notes and stamps in the trillions Marks in 1924 - nothing new there
Exactly. I think many people start overthinking things in banking.
Most accounting/finance departments are ok with rounding pennies every month.

I run a Commercial Real Estate Servicing platform, where we are accruing interest on large balances daily. Our method is to not do the rounding daily, but add up all the numbers for a given period, say a month, and then round to the penny and create a single adjustment rounding transaction along with it. Accounting departments love us for it.

If we rounded daily before storing the amount, the adjustment for accounting is usually a few pennies at least every month they have to make. Our method, it's roughly $0.01 per year with monthly periods, adjusted usually at the very end. Which on a $20MM loan, is very well within the bounds of acceptable.
Not reading "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h..." considered harmful.
"Thank" God COVID happened and most of the real consequences of Brexit could be attached to COVID, and then "thank" Russia for invading Ukraine so we can attach the problems of printing trillions of $/€/£ on the war.
The real trickle down
Anything on thepiratebay[1] that's rated arrrrr...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37568732
The agreement with the NSA is more likely like this: "if you don't comply, you will get arrested / fined for whatever reason (crypto exports issues or failure to comply with the law), maybe even by another authority, or journalists may discover your little things about X.

If you comply we may help you with some tips occasionally to make sure our partnership is working well, or just not reveal your trade secrets to your competitors"
Highly recommend the short story "Baxter's Procrustes" by Charles Chesnutt.

https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Chesnutt_Baxt...
NY bars bosses from accessing private social media of workers, job applicants
I think at this point it's pretty safe to assume that all of the well-known network hardware is compromised.
Not necessarily with the economic system but any pattern in a large group can be explained as a group problem, yes. Then you propose the group-level fixes.

Imagine a personal development coach who said that “personal responsibility doesn't exist”. That's pretty absurd. Then imagine a sociologist that says that “group-level problems don't exist”. Equally absurd.
Hahahahah. Quite the knee slapper.

I’m sure getting advertisers a better ROI is the goal. I’m glad someone is doing something about the bots. Jack et all didn’t give two shits and lied to investors and advertisers. This is a welcome change.

If you want a platform full of bots, build your own. Simple as.
Musk was never a free speech absolutist. He claimed he supported 'legal speech'. Which turned out to be a big fat old lie. The guy is a state actor. People like that are never for free speech and lie all the time.

Also, to be fair, there was time before musk ( like 10 years ago ) when twitter and much of social media had some semblance of free speech. I don't think that era is ever coming back.
> It's too many zeros for people to work with on a daily basis. I think what will happen is that, at regular intervals, the old hyper-inflated currency will be replaced with a new currency that's, say, 2^32 times less than the original one.

I lived through hyperinflation (in Brazil). What happened was that, at regular intervals, the old hyper-inflated currency was replaced with a new currency that's 10^3 times less than the original one. Cutting decimal zeros is better for humans, and three is convenient because it matches the usual three-digit grouping (that is, 123.450,00 becomes 123,45). This had to be done because, otherwise, calculators would become useless (most common pocket calculators had only eight digits).
> The internet is "sovereign" in the only way that matters: it's hard to enforce regulations.

The internet is not sovereign in the only way that matters: it has no army.

As far as it being "hard" to control information flows, what do you think the international efforts to tie ID to internet access ("for the children") are for? It is porn today, and banks and Amazon tomorrow, and then you need burner accounts (or someone else's...) to do anything online without it being to your identity. And suddenly, information doesn't really feel like being so free anymore.
There's not infinite land within commuting distance to the job centers. In the large metro areas almost all available land has been turned into single family homes. If we want to expand housing some people will need to live in multifamily.
Governor signing announcement: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-legis...

Senate Bill: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S2518/amendm...

Assembly Bill: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A836
All fun and games until the differential or electrics break down, as is the case with modern bmws. Then you’re stuck in an ultimate coffin.
>It doesn't make him tough.

I guess your definition and mine are incompatible. The forensic evidence is quite clear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Political_ad...
Yes, C++'s duck typing approach is one solution to this.

It takes the solution out of the type system, which keeps the type system simpler.

But it effectively turns your compiler into an interpreter, and an interpreter which may fail.

One way to think of C++'s notoriously huge, incomprehensible template compile time errors is that they are effectively stack traces of the template expansion interpreter running at compile time. When you see one of those errors, you have to figure out which chain of compile-time execution led to it.

Everything that's frustrating about dynamically typed errors that makes users reach for static types is exactly true of C++'s template system as well. (And, conversely, everything that's powerful and simple about dynamic types is true of C++'s template system.)

It's actually even worse in C++ because of SFINAE. The "interpreter" running at compile time in C++ doesn't just abort on the first error. It's like an interpreter for a dynamically typed language that also supports overloading. Any time a function has an error, the interpreter backtracks and tries the next overload. If all overloads fail, then it keeps unwinding.

So what you get isn't just a call stack on a template expansion error, it's a call tree of every place it tried to get to that failed.
To be fair (and balanced) Tonga does have a hot and humid (tropical rainforest) climate. The "cold" season means "it rarely gets over 27C (80F)", and humidity only dips a bit below 75% during the "dry" season.
Yea, people forget we literally have a secret kangaroo FISA court being abused to issue "national security letters" with rubber stamp that demanded compliance and threatened to throw you in jail for resisting and/or talking about it. The Patriot Act largely was responsible for it, but even now they've wiggled to other avenues since the Patriot Act expired.
more like "Wifi can read big metal Home Depot sign letters through walls from reasonably close"

good proof of concept tho, and a cool video
Disney, Challenged Elsewhere, Plans to Spend $60B on Parks and Cruises
Yes, I've updated my comment.
A new human species? Mystery surrounds 300k-year-old fossil
Level designers use tools, not really contributing at the game engine level. Long before I built Shadowvane I built a map editor in Three.js that anybody could use. If the game became profitable, in-house tooling would sophisticate and the team would be the ones shaping it. But yes if for some reason my first hire was a level designer, they could add value day 1.
You forgot to mention that McKinsey gets involved.
Wait, planing authorities don’t plan roads?
> Only a minority are able to cross industries successfully, the majority fail miserably.

Now analyze that a little deeper: How do we know they were successful before they tried to cross industries? Solely because the company they were CEO of did well while they were CEO?

Absent a fairly egregious set of drastic changes (eg, Musk's Twitter), the success or failure of a company is both much more complicated than the contributions of any one person, including the CEO, and a trailing indicator. It is very easy for a CEO to make changes that will not be fully felt—for better or for worse—for years after they "step down to spend more time with their families".

We do not have good metrics for successful leadership. We just don't. And despite this, we have whole subcultures that have grown up around the idea that these people, who are often actively detrimental to the organizations they manage, are geniuses singularly responsible for the company's many-million-dollar (or even many-billion-dollar) profits.
Maybe the moral of the story is that future snowdens should leak to selected law firms instead of selected journalists? If there's one organization designed to comb through large documents for details and understand the impacts to potential parties, it is law organizations. Put 2-3 in time competition to make cases out of the documents and it will be a scramble race for justice.
Agreed, but we don't know anything about the engine and formats used in that database. Given the age I would guess something from Borland or Microsoft, but could be encrypted in a way that only their software can access to it. Hard to know without examining the CD.
er...what? why do you think any of that has happened?

we already saw this happen in public once with Qwest: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...
> Have you already completely forgotten the launch of the Wii U

Didn't everyone?
Yes, you can. As long as you have a valid visa with TRV stamp on the passport and original Permit with expiry more than 3 months away, you do not need any reason to enter in Canada.

check here https://ircc.canada.ca/english/visit/visas.asp

VISA = Stamp on passport for entry

Permit = Permit to work, study, do business etc

P.S. You cannot have VISA without Permit, VISA expiry does not matter if Permit expiry is less than associated VISA, so in your case, check both expiry.
Yup.

It might be OK if the drivers could also spy on Tesla's development, or at least the internals of it's cars, but Musk would certainly go into a rage against that...

On avoiding anything built by Musk, agree that is a hard NOPE. And I've defended Musk's accomplishments on here multiple times, but before he revealed his technical cluelessness and authoritarian sympathies. Sad, really.