skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought capital in this context meant investment money. Not finished products.

A investor can quickly move capital from one industry to another, but the worker cannot.
In their SEC filings. Less boring version:

https://www.macworld.com/article/2130070/mac-sales-slump-rev...
Can confirm. I grew up in India and now live in the US. I regularly regress into a scarcity-oriented mindset (e.g. preventing all food wastage, avoiding spending on "nice-but-not-strictly-necessary" things, etc.).

Even though this mindset is incongruous and inefficient for my present circumstances -- and I'm aware of it -- overcoming childhood programming about it is difficult.

Old habits die hard, I guess.
Secondary school, but it's still in the revision guide so I assume they still teach it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z6r37nb/revision/6
Every waking second humans are training on what they see in their surroundings, including any copyrighted works in sight. Want to compare untrained AI fairly? Compare their artistic abilities with a newborn.
That's more or less how it is done. Thermal cycling of the molds is one of the bigger factors in determining the operational life of a mold. Moldmaking is a very advanced art, the people that do this have a formidable array of software at their disposal to model how the mold and the plastic will behave as well as a massive amount of accumulated trade knowledge. I know several, one of which is outstanding and in very high demand because he can reduce the number of trials to a minimum. Materials science is nice compared to software because you can actually learn something and build on it for a whole career instead of the next five to 10 after which you have to re-learn everything.
It's a rather subjective assessment. ALGOL 68 and PL/I were apparently considered rather "kitchen sink" by the standards of their time.
Fuck their invented social rules. If cash is a legal tender medium of exchange, one should not have to walk into a place that's designed to serve them as a customer and be forced to obey arbitrary customized rules of convenience for the place itself.
1000's would for most molds be considered a failure and very much excessive wear. You'd normally look for orders of magnitude more than that.
> Pushing into ~ $120-$150 to me doesn't make any sense. You can get 8gb/16gb N100 at that price point complete with a case.

And the power supply. Current-day SBCs aren't like the first-gen raspberry pi, where you could just recycle your old phone charger and off you went.
AoPS are among my favorite math books, but they're definitely not proof-based or particularly rigorous in terms of formalism.

They do focus on complex problem solving, which is equally important. The key value-add of AoPS are interesting, often beautiful examples and problems.

However, they don't do proofs or formalism much. They don't do applications or show what math is useful for. And they completely, totally, and universally screw up units (you'll have problems trying to equate a length with an area and similar; that's true of their classes as well, and RSM is similar).

I don't think there's a one-stop-shop for math, though, which does everything right. AoPS is at the peak of their particular game (which is right in the name: problem-solving).

That's best complemented by:

- Something which does data, applications, visualizations, and storytelling well.

- Something which does early exposure / surface learning well

- Something which is more formal and rigorous in terms of proofs and derivations

- Something which touches on a broad set of interesting topics (graph theory, oddball parts of geometry, etc.)

- In 2024, I would add something which does computational mathematics well

Nothing I know of does all those well in a one-stop-shop.
Try "Human Injection" next:
https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...
Iran has access to Persian Gulf. Houthis has access to Red Sea. Together that overseas SLOCs for about 30% of global oil and LNG, both their shipping, and with sufficiently advanced (read not very) missiles, their infra - see Yemen attacks on Saudi refineries. By acquiring theatre range missiles that can actually hit things, they created credible regional power projection capablities, and hence leverage to threaten global energy, which limits what US can do against them since much of it goes to their partners.
In theory REST doesn’t, in practice it does. The reason why is because most RESTful interfaces are built and deployed separately. You don’t throw an interface on top of a data model and presto, you’ve accidentally exposed your customer data to the internet.

The other aspect is with REST the interface is strictly defined. There’s no unknown data being disclosed, you’ve defined the resource and understand the authorization required by building it in the first place. Yes, mistakes are made by engineers who don’t understand what PII is or don’t care what the access control for the endpoint looks like, but at least you can spend time actually scoping it and defining what that looks like.

How do you threat model a constantly changing database? You could throw flags on fields and have that tie in with your GQL orchestration lib/tooling, but that’s something that very, very few organisations can get right.

Not even 1%, I’d say maybe less than 100 in the world.
And 30% to a tomato. So what?

The basics of cellular respiration are always the same on this planet.
It's only a Three-Dimensional inversion of an intricate model that requires very precise depths and must be reusable for hundreds of thousands of jobs. How hard can it be?
That's true but it's already quite impressive at that and usually when you have something working the path forward is incremental so I think over time you'll see larger and more capable units.
True, but Iraq making some non-dollar payments for oil is absolutely insignificant in international monetary flows.
Seoul police chief charged over Halloween crush that killed 159
Anyone who has to work on it in a year. The only time code stops needing changes is when it's dead.

Pascal will be a nightmare to hire for. No way a dev wants to become an expert in this lang, getting their next job will be super hard. Devs I know who can code in it, keep that bit off their CV's.
I'm sorry but this sounds just like the people who call Ukraine a pawn and that argue that it is only still there because they are supported by external players. I mean sure, but so what? Just like Ukraine they haven't just woken up and decided to start a war. And in this case, they are very vocal and clear about the reasons for why they are doing what they are doing. Maybe they do have a point and Israel should stop its own little genocide? It's just baffling since it's very obvious that the real issue is the russian-tier grozny treatment of Gaza. Who cares who they are pawns of?
If a child is old enough to be crossing the street without an adult present (holding their hand), then they're old enough to be looking both ways before crossing.

That was a kindergarten lesson, and in my experience, those kids tend to be better about it than most people are when they're older.

If they're not going to do that, what is stopping them from just wandering into a road nowhere near a traffic light anyway?
I guess the Soviets' thinking was that if the nuclear war breaks out nobody needs their favourite spy city anymore.
There are so many minor (sometimes major) differences in how even macos(zsh/bash) and linux (bash) works, let alone windows (cmd, powershell)

A layer that abstracts these differences can be very useful for buildng CLI's and just apps with javscsript.
Who wouldn't agree that difficult work should be payed more? Work that requires the acquisition of skills should be payed a bit more too, no? There should be a system in place which determines the appropriate compensation, not arbitrary compensation as determined by the market.
This article could be vastly improved by adding some sketches and diagrams.
Sounds cool. Does it understand only receipts of products available in the US ?
Anecdata: allegedly, confessing an extramarital affair (past or ongoing) during your Department of Defense Secret (relatively common level clearance) examination or renewal will result in an offer to speak with your spouse in a few days to ensure that you’ve told them. An unadmitted affair would set off far more alarm bells.

I was a carefree recent college grad and sheepishly admitted to smoking weed a couple of times, having been assured by older friends that admitting to some past experimentation was a lot better than hiding it. “Is there anyone you don’t want to find out about this?” was the agent’s response.

“Nah, my parents know…”

Later, a friend who had assiduously avoided even being around weed took ages to get his clearance. We theorized that the holdup was DIA being suspicious that he didn’t admit to such minor drug use, and wondered what else he might be hiding.

Habitual gambling still gets the side-eye for the same reason general financial problems do: higher susceptibility to the temptation of a few thousand dollars to let something slip or to look the other way.
And where both the material and the mold shrink at different rates and it would be nice if the product released from the mold after the injection phase. At most a weekend's work ;)
This reminds me of people who have 9999 tabs open instead of using bookmarks.
When I was a cyclist, at least when there were multiple lanes, I'd hop to the left of cars turning right.

When there is one lane, you do sort of have to pay attention to blinkers.

Well designed bike lanes, where they exist, typically already follow this pattern. If you're going straight it's pretty silly to be to the right of traffic that is turning right.
You may have said it, but you should be aware that it isn't true.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/word-re...

> The weakest evidence in support of word shape is that lowercase text is read faster than uppercase text. This is entirely a practice effect. Most readers spend the bulk of their time reading lowercase text and are therefore more proficient at it. When readers are forced to read large quantities of uppercase text, their reading speed will eventually increase to the rate of lowercase text.

> Haber & Schindler (1981) found that readers were twice as likely to fail to notice a misspelling in a proofreading task when the misspelling was consistent with word shape (tesf, 13% missed) than when it is inconsistent with word shape (tesc, 7% missed). This is seemingly a convincing result until you realize that word shape and letter shape are confounded. The study compared errors that were consistent both in word and letter shape to errors that are inconsistent both in word and letter shape. Paap, Newsome, & Noel (1984) determined the relative contribution of word shape and letter shape and found that the entire effect is driven by letter shape.

Word shape is not relevant to anything.
This is a damn good book. I always recommend it to colleagues.
It's not worrying and tragic, it's entirely logical. The news media have utterly debased themselves recently by publishing ridiculous levels of gaslighting and fake news.

When you see _anything_ on the internet these days your first instinct should be to ask 'did any of this actually happen?'
> Speakers of different languages express laugh differently in English too.
>
> Native English speakers write "hahaha" or "ha-ha-ha", but speakers of many Slavic languages write "ahahaha" or "a-ha-ha-ha", with leading "a".
>
> Native English speakers write ":)", but speakers of many Slavic languages write just ")", because ":" is reused on keyboard for additional Cyrillic letters (like Ж) and they don't use it even when typing in English.

Of course there's difference between eastern and western slavic languages, because western ones use latin. In those, I've mostly seen "haha", both when talking in english and in $SLAVIC. At the same time, they can easily write ":)".
I worked with Delphi for 3 years. It was trapped in the job. No-one would look at my CV, past the Delphi. I ended up spending a year working late on open source just to get out from under the language.

Recruiters would say "Oh.. okay" and then ghost me.

Learning Rails and JS, and head hunters are calling me. (back in 2010's)

Delphi is a career death sentence, I assume Pascal would be the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden_University -- Coventry
There really ought to be more resources for 3d collision detection, and in general 3d computational geometry. Existing resources usually suffer from one or more of the following:

- only 2d is considered

- edge cases are handwaved/not treated/rest-of-the-fucking-owl'ed

- edge cases are not even mentioned

- abstract mathematical operation is used, whose implementation (which isn't always obvious) is not given or described

- ok, hit or no hit... but then how to get the actual collision manifold? In which direction should the objects be separated and by how much?

- numerical accuracy is not regarded

- unnecessary muddying of the concepts by using OOP - just use (math) vectors and matrices please
Fair ‘nuff. Time will tell.

But I never found Mac servers particularly compelling. We used to have a couple of XServes (and the overpriced RAID disks), for years in our rack, where I worked. We never bothered using distributed builds, which was probably the only unique service they offered.
> If you collect email addresses, do not promote the main product after at least 3-4 product email updates of that free tool.

I would generalize to: if you collect email addresses, do not use them for anything other than the original stated intent. For example, if the collection form said "enter email to get notified when this launches", use the collected addresses for the launch announcement, and then get rid of them.
> Trading electricity between Europe gives us lower prices overall,

For some definition of us.
I think this is kind of face saving bullshit. The police chief is responsible? Surely a host of other factors contribute: zoning regulations, event regulations, cultural attitudes including those around personal space, long-term issues in unclear responsibility for public behavior: is it federal Justice, Health or Interior ministries, or Seoul local government or prefectural councils, or even local businesses or kkangpae, or just people regulating themselves for how they should behave, or even public education?

If it was really a police crowd control issue solely, I think it never would have be permitted to get so far askew as to lead to the crazy side-street crush that happened. This is an unmitigated tragedy but I think one which is not solved by Korean society blaming it on police and washing their hands. Deep reflection can be the only cure for future tragedies, I think.
Ask HN: Equivalent of James Gleicks Isaac Newton – For Leibniz
I'm a massive fan of James Gleick and really enjoyed his biography of Isaac Newton, though it's a fair few years since I read it.

Recently I've been interested in the influence of Leibniz, particularly as I'm working with calculus so much more than I used to!

Does anyone know of an authoritative or at least engaging biography of this "last universal genius" (as the wikipedia article puts it, quoting an online article)?

I'm a big fan of reading offline when I can so am looking for a book, rather than lots of online materials. ;)

Thanks HN (figured this would be the best place to ask...)
I think many cold water tank system in Britain have been removed in the last 20 years or so, as people install more efficient central heating / hot water systems.

No idea about Ireland.

(Here in Denmark there are switches on sockets. I find it useful on the rice cooker, which doesn't have its own switch and would otherwise need to be unplugged. The other sockets are generally left with the switch "on".)
I guess it means that the open() syscall will require the O_APPEND flag. If the file is opened without that flag it will error out.
Could you provide links to these things for those who are stuck in the past and want to learn more?
> They are both rigged and designed to bankrupt you

They're not much worse than in what goes on in England[1], it would appear. Anyway, I said as much myself, but I was pointing out your ridiculous hyperbole. I'll say it again—a defamation lawsuit, however heavy the penalty, is nowhere close to a death sentence.

This is all the more confusing, since Singapore actually has the capital penalty for certain crimes. Funny you choose to call out defamation lawsuits, of all things.

> I lived there. I was there for the riots and I was there for the bus drivers strike where the police violently brutalized the foreign strikers for having the temerity to object to racial pay scales

There is so much wrong with this statement I don't even know where to start. Firstly, I'm guessing you did not 'live there': you lived in an expat bubble taking home six-plus digits with your family taken care of, chauffeured between work and your Holland Village/Bukit Timah/River Valley condo in a taxi or car that your expat package paid for.

Next, the bus riots started because of drunk and disorderly behaviour. The police never brutalised anyone, and there was widespread commentary amongst locals about just how many policemen were needed to control the situation, and how meek they were (which makes sense, given the civil defence and the police in Singapore are largely conscripts aged 19 – 22).

Finally, nothing 'brutal' happened even in the bus strikes the year before. They were arrested, and deported. Full stop.

It exasperates me to no end when foreigners nitpick on some so-called affront to freedom in Singapore (that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things), when there are more serious and insidious issues that deeply affect the local (and even migrant populace) like male-only conscription, the skyrocketing cost of living, the car-first urban planning despite Singapore's government supposedly despising cars, and the classism and racism going on. Notice both you and someone else who pointed this out in this thread, which I upvoted—because it is fact, and not rage-baiting hyperbole.

I am inclined to take anyone less seriously if they complain about 'police brutality' in Singapore. The Singapore police are amongst the meekest and friendliest lot I've ever seen.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/01/britains-scariest-...
If it's really pedestrian fatalities we're concerned about, we should be implementing red right-facing arrows, which are on when the walk light is on.

Right on red, unless that arrow is on. Perhaps a blinking yellow arrow for when it isn't, just to avoid the ambiguity.

Or, when you're walking into the road, maybe make sure that drivers nearby see you. I played Ingress and Pokemon Go for years, in the city, at night, for years. Perhaps it's that I knew it put me at heightened risk so I paid more attention, but I really have a hard time understanding why people think that drivers are the only ones who need to pay attention when they're in the street.
Make USB-C Work (Connector, Cable, PD, Data Transfer, Devices) [video]
You can also fly out of the window, but especially you will hurt whoever is in front of you. See for example https://youtu.be/9_Af8w2SAT4
I checked https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/14202892?sjid=152... and I don't have a "linked Google services" section, what gives?

I'm from the EU.
hahaha: "Problem sovled!" [sic]
The opposite. Try to push a weed in a windy wall at 30 m high

If they use vertical farming to breed lattice they are just doing it wrong. There are much better uses for that.

Sun and rain are not so necessary as it seems. Many plants love shadow, and every building has a system to move water up and let it fall later. Green walls could gladly act as a first filter to help recycle part of the liquid human waste produced on a skyscrapper. We are yet diluting it before, so... why not modernize it adding a mesh of capillary roots in the way down?

Putting this walls in special areas out of the way, even shadowed areas, is totally doable even in desertic areas. Just a matter of design. This walls would store water, boost biodiversity and generate a local climate.
International order (includingg most US parnters) would rather eat single digit % increase in diverted shipping costs and MENA fuel costs AND have Houthis embargo Israel access to resources in red sea than deal with alternative of Houthis hitting Saudi energy infra and have energy prices spike double digits. There's a reason only USN + UK (who imports excess energy demands from US) are committing most of the hardware and doing all the interceptions and attacks, no one else - especially the international order - wants the stir the pot more for Israel. Of course US still has unilateral power to strike as please, but don't be surprised if Yemen missiles hit Saudi refineries if things escalate.
Taught? Of course. Do it? lol.

America is the land of "the rules are all there for someone else to follow."

See how we feel about genocide, presently.
You're not making a serious attempt to engage with anything I've said so far, so I don't want to keep arguing with you.
I use a similar trick but even dirtier

Whenever I'm satisfied with a pretty long command, I add a comment at the end that explain what it does (#blablabla). Makes searching sort of easier.
If someone close to me said that they fear an authoritarian government because the length of their showers might be curtailed, or the power draw of their shed might be outlawed, I'd be genuinely worried about their mental health.
Does it support unicode in filenames yet? I ditched it for FreeCommander for that reason.
Yes that I am aware about, and it actually happened earlier. So cars had three point belts when I grew up, but they were not mandatory to use in the rear seat. (Actually, I think they did not have three point belts in the rear when I think about it, but they had in the front)
The Bank of Canada retools its economic forecasting
I don’t think it’s unfair, there are applications that still are ok with Ceph latencies: I bet it’s good enough for a ton of things.

But not all things.
> so unless your robot mower is running at nigh

Some people do in fact run their robot mower after dark.
That doesn't make any sense at all.

Doesn't matter how many languages or accents there are. The problem is that there was an established, large subset of those that it once understood and could comprehend, and now, that allegedly same technology - with several years of opportunities to mature and improve - is now struggling to understand those same people that it once could.

That as nothing to do with accents.

Now, while I acknowledge and agree that Siri, Alexa, and the other pre-AI voice activated assistance have declined in apparent comprehension, I'm not convinced it's entirely a degradation of the tech itself, but a significant increase in expectations and a subsequent decrease in articulation and diction thanks to VoiceGPT being able to handle it. As a result, we talk more naturally, with "uh"s, "um"s, pauses, bad grammar, slang, etc. Let's also acknowledge there's probably a statistically significant number of people (if for no other reason than them aging up into being able to afford/have said devices) that never used that "old" tech "Back in the day" of 2-3 years ago, who's only experience with it is using VoiceGPT first, then trying Siri or what have you and coming to the conclusion that the other voice assistant sucks. That's obviously not a "Fair" comparison, but it's one that gets made in the real all the time regardless when it comes to the court of public opinion, and informs pubic perception at large anyway.

Truthfully I think it's both, but regardless, it's failing to perform in an area where it once did. How much of that is the people changing, and how much of that is the technology, I'm not sure. But I doubt the cause is because we all suddenly switched accents on it.