skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, China is a nation that bans thing and censors things, something that in America we at least used to pretend was un-American. Are you taking them for a role model? Or just pointing out the hypocrisy? Either way, I do not intend to learn lessons on governance from the CCP.
But did staircases going into basements go clockwise?
I love me some history information, documentaries, and etc. But yeah I get strongly allergic to stuff where suddenly I wonder "Wait did you just logic that out in your head? Like there's no basis for that other than you observing how the thing / situation is?"

I'm sure it has been an issue forever but online especially it seems painful how much of that information there is.
I do! I used to pay by check, then "manual" bill pay for a while, then finally I just did auto payment. I pay off my credit cards in full every month. I have zero debt. Believe me, my finances are more than under control. I could FIRE tomorrow if I wanted to.
It's not quite a single sentence, but IMO the best example of the prosecutors fallacy is the lottery: The chance of winning the powerball lottery is 300 million to 1, so clearly anybody who wins _must_ have cheated since 300 million to 1 is practically impossible.

Obviously that's not true, people legitimately win the powerball all the time despite the odds. The issue with this logic is judging the odds from the position of a _particular_ person winning vs. the odds of _anybody_ winning. Your individual odds are 1 in 300 million, but since the powerball gets many 100s of millions of entries clearly it's likely that eventually someone will win.

Effectively, the prosecutors fallacy is presenting a very low probability as though that indicates something couldn't have happened. A probability alone is useless without the size of the population that probability is picking from, "low probability" events like winning the lottery happen all the time when your population is large enough.
My biggest gripe against autopay is when the vendor provides a discount if you provide your autopay details.

That's on top of penalties for paying late or penalties for declined payments.
>Does it ever make sense to do graduate school just to get by?

most people who do them are coerced -- i made about as much as my pizza delivery driver. i attempted it because it seemed a way to become financially independent. instead, when i tried to leave with a masters i was forced to eventually return to my homeland and be subjected to the same things that drove me from it.
I went back to requesting paper statements.

When you get an email with your statement you have to click on the button (or navigate to the website), put in username and password, wait for the text to arrive (because half of the banks I use don't support YubiKeys), navigate to the PDF, wait for that to load.

And then it's on my computer, a tool that is supposed to be there to make me more productive, but instead, Microsoft has elected to show me popups that I might want new TikTok templates.

Now, when I go get the mail, I walk there. I'm outside. Give my eyes some rest. No texts. Say hi to the neighbor. Stare angrily at the other neighbor who is using their leafblower on a high-smog day.

Walk back inside, open the mail. Look at the physical statement in my hands. No popups. No Slack calls appearing.

It all looks good? Great, shred and trash.

If it doesn't... well, then I'll need to sign in, wait for the text, and file a dispute. If I don't get distracted.
I have the Gen8 microserver from your second link and what I really like about it (besides the 4 bays) is that is has ILO. Whenever there is a boot issue or I need to reinstall I don't have to drag it out of my server closet onto my desk, find a monitor and keyboard to hook it up to (now that I think about it, I don't even have a VGA monitor anymore) just do basic BIOS or GRUB stuff. It can all be handled via the web interface and the HTML5 terminal works great. Biggest downside of this machine is the power draw, even at idle.

I couldn't find anything in the Zimaboard docs about it, but my guess is I'd have to find a mini displayport compatible monitor if I ever need to do disaster recovery of the OS. This especially becomes an issue with the eMMC, as you cannot swap it out easily like an SD on a raspberry pi.
Turing wasn't nearly as well known as he is now. The cryptoanalysis of the Enigma remained classified until the early 1970s, long after the Turing award was established (the first award was given in 1966).
If any of what you mention is illegal, and Tiktok is doing it, then we already have enough to stop them and we don't a new law targeting Tiktok, right? If those actions aren't illegal, but we want Tiktok to stop doing them, then why are we crafting a law specifically to allow Facebook to continue to do them?
There's enough detail in my prior comments for people who know me to figure out that it's me. Also, any government who wanted to could probably figure it out too. I've never thought about it, but I suppose some might think that I'm somehow associated with "Anonymous" (the hacker group), but I'm not.
Just another boring "thanks for your fantastic blog posts!" post. Love the personalities in them too :-)
Venezuelan in Argentina here. I also agree with everything.

Massa knows he'll lose the election. This is a measure to destroy the economy even further, so the next government gets delivered a mess. Massa is playing a longer game here as he aims to get elected not this time, but in years later in a Messianic way ("I told you so" victory).

If Bullrich wins, she'll not be competent enough to fix the mess. If Milei wins, he'll appear as tyrant when new economic measures are put in place.

I'm not defending either side, I'm just providing my experienced viewpoint in populism.
I think the confusion is between "full balance" and "statement balance." The statement balance will generally be lower than the full balance, since the due date is typically weeks after the statement closes.
It's a good thing the US has a strong, incorruptible democracy and fair criminal justice system to counterbalance that propaganda!

/s
Spousal Relative Income and Male Psychological Distress
Show HN: If ChatGPT is WhatsApp, we created its Telegram version. Privacy First
Oxygen is obtained from hemoglobin all the time (obviously). Is it that hard to recreate what the body does?
> I'm typing on a phone

But you have an uncontrollable urge to write here? Someone's holding a gun to your head?

> You are not disagreeing with me when you make that claim, you're disagreeing with one of the world's foremost experts on C++.

I guess that settles everything then. Never mind that you're misquoting him.

Look, if you hadn't written the last two paragraphs, I'd have replied to your points, but they strongly indicate it would fall into deaf ears. You're clearly more interested in entertaining the peanut gallery more than actual discussion.
Archived version: https://sci-hub.se/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Wait... where's plain "long"? I know, you probably know, but that is why you use explicit sizes where you can.
Notions of what's "tiny" or "lightweight" have clearly shifted... :-(

Interesting & informative article though.
iOS VoiceOver is better than Google TalkBack on Android. Although I've heard recently that Android is catching up fast.

I mean it's amazing that blind people can use such a portable device; but I don't quite like that there are only so few gestures that can be made using touch screen. That's the reason they had to invent rotor, I personally find it inconenient compared to using a full size keyboard; but given touch screen rotor is probably the best you can get out of it.

But also I need to mention again my complaints about bugs that never get fixed. Just in case someone from Apple is reading this:

* In some apps the focus jumps about 1 second after opening a new screen. This is especially bad in YouTube app, but also can be rreproduced in other apps albeit with lower delay.

* Back in the days when iPhones had a physical home button, tripple press was supposed to toggle VoiceOver. But the problem is that in more than half iPhones (mine and friends') it stops working after a few weeks of usage. Yeah it can be argued that it's hard to reproduce, but this bug was so well-known and infamous in blind community that shame on Apple for not fixing this.

In general I'd think that a smart decision would be to make both iOS and MacOS VoiceOvers open-source, so that blind people themselves can fix all the bugs. Until then we're left with the situation that a bunch of disinterested sighted devs work on VoiceOvers, and as I already mentioned they are more interested in implementing some shiny new features instead of fixing decade old bugs. And as far as I know being an accessibility engineer is kind of considered one of the worst in the pecking order of engineers, so only those people who couldn't find a better career become accessiblity engs. engs.
> It's hard to fault modern historians too much if they're simply trusting the old records to be accurate.

Basically the entire job of a historian is to determine the credibility of old sources, so they can interpret all the data and come to the most accurate conclusion about what happened.
The heavily mathematical part is the proof that goes with the justification for the bidding system. Explaining the merits of the auction or explaining what the fraud is is pretty easy.
As I understand it, your credit score isn't dinged per-se, but it doesn't increase as much as it would if you carried a balance.

Remember that credit scores try to score your credit worthiness: are you capable of paying off a balance. How can that be measured if you never have a balance? Instead it simply appears that you have a lot of available credit without ever using it.
The middle option they are discussing is between never buying anything you don’t currently have the money for (what the parent commenter claimed), and buying more than you will be able to afford by the time the payment is due.

You can pay your rent bill on August 1st, even if you don’t have the money for it until your paycheck on the 12th, and then once you get your paycheck, you can allocate the money appropriately so that you can pay off the bill at the end of the month worry-free.
I don't think it is just about TikTok being capable of spying on foreign users; my opinion is that it is more about TikTok's propaganda potential, i.e. how it can be used to manipulate narratives in the most subtle way against U.S.'s national interest.

Imagine the case where the U.S. government would like the (western) world to form certain sentiments on the current regional conflicts that are aligned with its own interests, and then imagine how TikTok's recommendations could be deliberately designed to compromise such alignment...
I don't mind making the android 3d-ish, but I sure hope that those animated versions never show up anywhere.
> Free RAM is wasted RAM!

ZFS will take care of that for you.
It seems like the main problem, for implementers of languages significantly different to C and C-like languages, is that LLVM doesn't offer direct access to hardware registers or the stack, and it has built-in calling conventions. (Although, that's kind of the point of LLVM IR. GHC implementers wanted certain values to be always kept in registers, from what I understood of it.)

This was a problem in writing an LLVM backend for both the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and the Standard ML of New Jersey Compiler. It seems like it was easier for the GHC implementers, because they were already able to compile their semantic IR (the spineless tagless G-machine) into C--/Cmm, which conceptually isn't that different from LLVM IR. The SML implementers compiled to the continuation passing style, which is harder to map to LLVM IR. However, the GHC implementers still had to extend LLVM with a custom calling convention, so it was still challenging.

Paper on the LLVM backend for GHC Haskell: https://llvm.org/pubs/2010-09-HASKELLSYM-LLVM-GHC.pdf

Paper on the LLVM backend for SML/NJ: https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/2020/ifl-smlnj-ll...
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>* Assuming you're not a 911 dispatcher or other on-duty call-center type of employee.

Or a programmer, or working on technical projects with some sort of scrum-like workflow in, in which case I believe an urgent issue is an issue that is important.

I believe a lot of people on HN fall into one of those two groups.

Sure theoretically you can still come up with issues that are urgent but not as important as less urgent issues but not in a way that really fits how the terms are used in a lot of our works.

It's important that we transition off the platform in a year or we will pay 50 thousand dollars a month in fines, but it's urgent we solve the login issue.

Yeah sure but we're going to work on the urgent issue because right now, in this moment in time, the urgent issue is more important than the issue that has a year to be fixed.
Ask HN: Are there any resources that can give information on failed startups?
I don't want to sound weird

Suggest me some resources that will give information on failed startups.

Or tell me what were you learnings if you had one
I think it's fine to incarcerate all Japanese first and ask questions later. If we find out later they aren't really spies and we shouldn't have done it we'll just release them. /s

I think it's fine to incarcerate suspected terrorists first and ask questions later. Since the courts most definitely won't allow that on American soil, we'll incarcerate them in Guantanamo. If we find out later they aren't terrorists we'll just release them. /s
>This will impact the effectiveness and accuracy of outbound traffic filtering

Can you prove this is bad? Not trolling, sincerely concerned we're renavigating discussions that date back to when Ethereal became Wireshark and folks got grumpy they'd have to plug a PSK in to look at things -- often because they were looking at things they had no warrant or cause to examine, paired with inept analysts who'd be stymied by something as simple as Asking Jeeves how to plug said password in to view the traffic as if it was clear.
If you want to fight big tech stop feeding it data.
Surely you just give an example of an expected payment and then the price Google asked? Show it was 15% (give it take a cent) over.

Google earned £150B pa (say?) and so a pecuniary fine of £39B per year should be levied (twice the extra).
> Krugman is free-market-if-only-but-we-need-regulation so not really as left as you portray

A Liberal and Keynesian. I'd say firmly on the left side of the spectrum, this is only contested by the more zealous Twitter leftists who'd frame the lot of them as right-wing/neo-liberals.

> I think you live in a bubble if you think Varoufakis and his ideas are well-known to the public.

None of their ideas are well-known to the public, just their political affiliation. Granted Varoufakis, it having been years since the Greek crisis, is receiving less attention now.

> We could also talk about Banerjee and Sachs,

I can already hear the collective "who?"

On the right I guess Sowell is still alive, over 90 years old.
Youtube policy is actually pretty lenient compared to most IP rights law. "Fair Use"/"Fair Dealing" actually has a pretty well-litigated definition in most jurisdictions. YouTubers just dislike the definition.

If YouTube exposed you to the full force of most jurisdiction's IP law, you would be getting C+Ds and summonses from scary people in suits who work for Viacom. "Fair use" isn't a magic incantation to ward off evil lawyers, it's a defence with definitions and restrictions used during a dispute.

The copyright strikes are a pretty good compromise to shelter individual creators from the outside world that's used to Big Company 1 dealing with Big Company 2.
> Your complaint is basically "you cannot write C++ in Python". Duh.

Maybe it is a complaint, but it's still a fact of life: your code is not reusable without wrapping it in C.

The reality is that C++ is not as reusable as C is: ever wonder why there are so few reused libraries written in C++, while they are so many in C?

Look on your system now - it's filled with C libraries, while the C++ libraries are probably a rounding error.
Like how Twitter was used?
I first saw this article in 'The Daily Mail / UK' [0] a few days ago. I thought it was dark pattern advertising for a weight loss drug...

The DM article had pictures of a couple of attractive older women (skinny, the AFTER shot). Perhaps older women who feel overweight being the main target audience. Plus a picture of a (surprisingly) thin Elon Musk (ie; you too can be successful!)

Many of the comments on that page where people saying that buying less was the result of inflation. Something that makes far more sense. Maybe I'm just being cynical because a search just now [1] shows a few other sites parroting the same.

Or maybe Walmart has a vested interest in this drug because it feels like an odd thing to announce (a baseless claim?).

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597849/Walmart-sa...

[1] https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=Ozempic+Is+Making+People+Buy...
I've just recently been reading Project Hail Mary, and enjoyed so much I'm on my 2nd re-read!

The Martian is also great.
Bare-metal Rust in Android
"Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics 2001-2015 dataset (6,035 households, 19,688 observations), this study takes a new approach to investigating the relationship between wife’s relative income and husband’s psychological distress, and finds it to be significantly U-shaped. Controlling for total household income, predicted male psychological distress reaches a minimum at a point where wives make 40% of total household income and proceeds to increase, to reach highest level when men are entirely economically dependent on their wives. These results reflect the stress associated with being the sole breadwinner, and more significantly, with gender norm deviance due to husbands being outearned by their wives. Interestingly, the relationship between wife’s relative income and husband’s psychological distress is not found among couples where wives outearned husbands at the beginning of their marriage pointing to importance of marital selection. Finally, patterns reported by wives are not as pronouncedly U-shaped as those reported by husbands".
I live in the district where M-A is located. Some teachers wrote an articulate defense of reinstating honors classes and not clumping all kids together regardless of ability level. [1] Unfortunately the administration wants to push through this "detracking" effort and is unswayed by logic, facts, or common sense.

It's worth noting that the "report" the district released does not establish causation, just correlations. At the time they implemented these changes, many other changes were put in place as well. And of course, COVID happened. So much confounding, so little time.

1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFmFJvfkKBOw6XFhyjFV2yO2...
Uh? Are you sure you've actually used Excel? The CSV import is highly configurable and leads you immediately into Power Query where you can massage the data any way you want.
this is true, but I'm like 80% sure there's significant astroturfing on HN. look at any post that mentions relations with China. flooded with comments in similar formats to the ones here. I thought China was ..., but then ... and now I'm not so sure"
I'm really curious about how a society would look like when kids are properly shielded from harmful resources until they're adults, so:

- no social networks

- no uncurated wikis or online forums

- no AI

That's quite a crash when they enter adult life and have to adapt to all of that basically on their own.
Unless you managed to somehow change the intellectual characteristics of the labor pool in the span of less than a year, this is impossible on an industry-wide basis. At best, one company gains and another loses, but even if it evens out, the deadweight loss of unemployment payouts, time spent applying and interviewing, onboarding and offboarding, relationship upheavals, all make this a net negative activity socially.
Skepticism is good!

15.9 million square kilometers was the recorded antarctic sea ice coverage in August 1966.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20140017193/downloads/20...
Clockwise upward staircases do actually have one advantage (in certain locales). Going upwards your forward travel distance is less than going downwards. This is assuming people generally walk on the right hand side. It just feels easier to traverse stairs as close to the inside as possible.
Yes we call ourselves Algolians within the company.
Point still stands, data is very welcome
Of course it's a variation on that. Quite explicitly.

The interesting part is that it's allegedly a trick to get people to stop conflating the two, or cheating.
I never use a debit card because of their relative lack of fraud protection. Even where fraud protection policies are similar, the money is still missing from your cash account during a dispute. Things may have changed, but this was the case when my habit was formed, and now I just don't use them at all, except for cash from ATMs.
My favorite version of the logic it out:

"People asked me if this tribe was originally from this area or if they migrated here.

I always say: clearly they were from here. The weather is so bad around these parts, who would choose to move here from somewhere else?"

- German historian
Out of curiosity, what reason would you give if they asked why escrow requires a more expensive plan?
When the Red One was released in 2007 it started at $17500. Arri's Alexa started closer to $65000 at the time.

What they're doing with pricing today, I have no idea, but when Red hit the scene in 2007, not only did the price get a lot of attention, but it motivated the entire industry to take 4k digital video seriously. Every major manufacturer of professional cinema cameras would soon release their own competitive cameras with similar features to the Red One.
In what way?

Stuff like backup generators are not just for show. They're supposed to work properly in an emergency. I fully accept that nuclear can be a very safe technology. This is only so when the rules are followed and the backup plans actually work, though.

But nuclear is dead anyway, due to being economically and politically non-competitive.
uint32_t isn't that long, and is quite clear what type it means.
I used to live on a street like this in Seattle: three blocks from its northern end, the numbering scheme resets and begins counting back up. Seven houses in the northern section therefore share their numbers with houses twelve blocks south. Mine was not one of them, but I got many calls from confused delivery drivers all the same, looking on the wrong section of the street for my seemingly-nonexistent house.
No, that's because WSL (until v2/very recently) didn't properly release memory back to windows. This actually would cause docker to effectively leak memory really quickly.
I think there is some conflict between the disk cache running inside WSL and the memory management outside. I tried turning up memory pressure in WSL but it didn't help. This does work but I have to run it manually from time to time:

# sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>> If applications want more memory, they just take it back from the disk cache.
Q: If there is no swap configured, will a malloc() then take away clean page-cache pages ? Or does that happen only on page-in ?