skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ETA: huh, sorry, this seems to have turned into something more like a blog entry than a brief self-correction.

Obvious editing errors in the last paragraph - fixes italicized: "If Earth has an order of magnitude smaller perihelion precession ... Earth's orbit". The first fix was meant to echo the parent's wording:

"And the effect exists and is known for the other
planets now; the mass increase is proportional to
velocity-squared and the velocity difference depends
on the eccentricity of the orbit, so it's an order of
magnitude smaller for Earth, but still measurable and
now known"

With regard to that, here is a table of exactly and approximately solved perihelion advances of all eight planets and Pluto: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635960/table/t...>. [Sourced from an interesting (but as yet uncited, and weirdly published in TSWJ which let through some minor typos like "elliptik") paper in the category of "the expansion of the universe does not affect solar system orbits": <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635960/> [*]].

Worth noting that Mars's orbit is highly eccentric at 0.0934, and its eccentricity is growing (as is Mercury's). Venus's orbit is much less eccentric at 0.0068. (Greater precision and eccentricities of the other planets can be found at <https://calgary.rasc.ca/orbits.htm>).

[*] Taking the geometric mean across significantly different calculated values of the cosmological constant using their method (which I have no problem with) is to me a mathematical trick too far. That averaging does arrive at the conventional order of magnitude of \Lambda in m^-s, but I wonder if that's coincidence. The first author is essentially a mathematician <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9343-6062>, and whether the metric for the solar system must have a \Lambda term is much more a physical argument.

On that front, perhaps the authors should have cited another Iorio paper along with their [10], namely "Can solar system observations tell us something about the cosmological constant?" (2006) < https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...> although tbf Iorio cites his earlier and more popular paper in [10].
Ok, in historical context, killing and enslaving was pretty much accepted, and respected, behaviour. Back in ancient times that is, up to, I'd say, early 16th century?

Killing, depending on the contexr, still is today. Rape and enslaving isn't anymore, thank god.
I always thought that founders of Tesla were snubbed from the tesla success spotlight.

But if what you say is actually true - 1% for each $50 billion dollar increment in valuation + no salary and no compensation if stock doesn't increase - than this changes the whole thing. It's like no brainer decision for the founders and other stakeholders to allow Elon running this thing.
I think the Optimization course by Prof. Jacco is a nice start https://web.archive.org/web/20230924064410/https://www.cs.uu... (sadly the website seems to be currently down). Basically you need a mental framework to approach optimizing software (else you might just be spinning around wasting time). I recommend reading at least lecture 1 and looking at the references on the website.

As for specific optimizations, it requires context of what software are you trying to optimize and under what circumstances. A lot of the times you are going to see that the answer to asking if certain optimizations are worth the effort is going to be 'it depends'
Google Founder Sergey Brin: Gemini issue due to lack of "thorough testing"
> And this notion of separation into "undesirables" in Gulf countries is also just plain false. The UAE just granted visa-free access to Indian nationals.

This isn’t exactly a convincing argument for the claim here, which to be fair I also wouldn’t phrase in that way, but it is telling that the citizenship/naturalization laws are deeply separate for foreign workers as opposed to locals in many Gulf countries.
We could legalize all drugs so people can have access to clean drugs of a known potency.
If someone has your private key, they can act as you online.
I've been banging my head against a wall the past few days trying to work out a solution to this. I've yet to make a decision, but my discoveries / theories so far:

- Stripe Atlas accounts are treated separately to regular US Stripe accounts at the moment when it comes to address verification. My Stripe Atlas account has passed this verification fine because of this difference (maybe because Stripe auto-uses the Delaware registered agent I paid for during Stripe Atlas setup as physical address?), but a regular Stripe US account using the same Earth Class Mail address fails verification. Stripe support says this: 'The address given to you on your Stripe Atlas account will be valid as it is provided by our partner, but then for normal Stripe account, one requirement is to have a physical business address.'

- I'm wondering if the Earth Class Mail address for my Regular Stripe US account is failing specifically because it has the words 'PMB XXXX' (private mailbox) in the first line of the address. This address was given to me at random by Earth Class Mail when I created my Stripe Atlas account, and I didn't really think anything of it - but I can see how 'PMB' is an instant red-flag for not being a physical location. The exact error message I get is: 'Invalid address. Your business address must be a valid physical address from which you conduct business and cannot be a private mailbox'.

- Also stumbled across the virtual office solution. Instead of PMB's they have 'suite numbers' in an actual building. I agree it also feels hacky, and likely to come under the same verification issues, but might a short term fix for my PMB issue. A lot of the services I contacted seem a bit shady though. I even emailed one of Stripe's partners (usestable.com) with a specific question regarding if their virtual addresses still work with Stripe, and have so far got no response.

- Co-working spaces like WeWork and Regus offer a virtual office service, which seem a bit more legitimate than some of the specific virtual office services I've seen, but come with a higher price-point.

I will probably try a cheap virtual office solution first, then move onto the co-working solution if that fails. I want to try and avoid switching Stripe accounts if possible as I think it's going to cause a lot of pain with migrating subscriptions etc.

The meta-issue here is the quality of Stripe support. I have paid so much to Stripe in transaction fees, but when a problem like this threatens to shut down an account I operate, all I get from them is vague answers, pointing to documentation, and 'computer says no' responses from people who have no idea what they're talking about.
s/meet police/get shot and killed by police/g

It's reasonable for cops to investigate loud noises, but killing unarmed children is wrong every day of the year.
In 2 Days, I built a search engine using Htmx and Go
and it was the fastest and most fun web project I ever did!
So this might be true for things like increased patrols for drug crimes as an example, but this doesn't apply to shootings. Shootings get reported no matter where they are. When someone shoots a gun in a wealthy part of town, it's not going unreported... Shot spotter simply allows for an instant report instead of having to wait for a phone call. Wealthy areas aren't getting away with more shootings just because of less patrols.
Google's SRE Book (2017)
How would you prove the resulting program is functionally still the same?
Funny you mention that. One of RealPage's architects has experience in making cartels in the airline industry, and getting caught. The trick to getting caught here is to be very blatant and just pretend the law doesn't exist.

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

>A genial, self-described “numbers nerd,” Jeffrey Roper was Alaska Airlines’ director of revenue management when it and other major airlines began developing price-setting software in the 1980s.

>Competing airlines began using common software to share planned routes and prices with each other before they became public. The technology helped head off price wars that would have lowered ticket prices, the Department of Justice said.

>The department said the arrangement may have artificially inflated airfares, estimating the cost to consumers at more than a billion dollars between 1988 and 1992. The government eventually reached settlements or consent decrees for price fixing with eight airlines, including Alaska Airlines, all of which agreed to change how they used the technology.
History of Attempted Suicide as Risk Factors for Heart Disease Mortality
No, but unfortunately they're much harder to help than the former ones.
> while a gallows was erected outside

It wasn't real. It was a non-functional prop, midget size, with no hole in the platform, and the noose was a rope wrapped around a water bottle to make it look more real. Maybe you should examine the bias bubble you find yourself in.
Unexpected slowdown caused by msvcrt's allocator
That’s an oversimplification.

First of all, unless you’re completely overwhelmed and not even bothering to enforce certain laws, you’re going to find out about most of the serious crime that takes place. Law enforcement is made aware of homicides either through missing persons reports or the discovery of dead bodies. Armed robberies and grand theft are usually reported if, for no other reason, than to create a paper trail for insurance claims. People who get shot or stabbed badly enough to end up in a hospital, end up in a hospital so there’s a reporting mechanism there. It’s not normal for most major crimes to happen completely outside of the attention of law enforcement unless things have gone very very wrong (which admittedly they have in many American cities). And much of the time, you can infer where these crimes happened.

The benefit of increasing patrols and surveillance in a specific area is more about gathering evidence to solve crimes, and less about discovering those crimes to begin with. In some cases you might end up discovering more crime (especially when gangs are involved and people are intimidated into not reporting crimes) but if you monitor areas where any serious crime would already get reported in the first place, you won’t actually find more serious crime there.
"Are you suggesting that these people do not see doctors and self-diagnose? "

Ah. Yes. What is the alternative if you can't afford a doctor?

" I could see an argument that making the drugs OTC without prescription may do this population more harm than good."

Please die for the greater good. I pass.

I have no idea what other people need. Beta blocker? Metformin? For a start, I would like to have every cortisone based product (cream, tablets) OTC and antibotics too.

In some countries, you can't even buy an antibiotic cream or hydrocortisone cream OTC. In Brazil, I was damn happy that once I could get antibiotic eye drops and once an antibiotic for the ear (drops).

Hey, in many countries you can even buy Viagra OTC. A buddy asked me to bring some for him from abroad.
Matrix in Germany
Everything you say, is an attempt to make people look elsewhere, but at the obvious place.

Your point is that crime is spread in a manner, unrelated to where society think crime happens, that there is no correlation between crime and poverty of a neighborhood, and that most likely an inverse relationship between race and crime?

Oh, and according to you, one important way to arrive at your conclusion is to change our definition of crime.
Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide
Using sentiment analysis on keywords in commit messages isn't "empirical," lol.
Mostly related to adding new features to Haskell and GHC, not on compiling functional languages in general.

Now functional logic languages like Verse, that is definitely new material.
>In Denmark we have "Bopælspligt" meaning that an owner of an apartment is obligated to have someone living in the apartment.

What happens if no one is living? Can't find a tenant or simply takes a really long holiday or goes abroad to to work for a few years?

I'm under impression that Americans freak out because they tend to go full technical on laws, that is, they don't care much what the governments are trying to achieve with the laws but work within the limits of strict technicality. So a lot of Americans were freaking out here on HN when GDPR was introduced, some shutting down personal projects because were afraid to get in trouble with the EU laws and find themselves in huge and expensive lawsuits.
In the US there is advertisement for drugs. You have symptoms XYZ? You might have disease A. We can help. Talk to your doctor for medication B.

In many countries, this is forbidden.
I hope I did not give an indication that it costs more money doing it the pen-and-paper way. There is no cost involved to the patient. Is not know about the doctor but I presume it’s free issuing a prescription either way.
I thought for a second that the virtual Lou Reed was hooked on heroin.....lol
I find the pernicious belief that prices could be fixed in the market itself more dangerous than the dumbest price fixing scheme of all time. Let it play out, so we can all remember that price fixing doesnt work, and we might actually see some good come from this story.
What's the problem with false positives in this case?

I'm pretty sure, "don't bother with this technology which reports shots to the cops, because it has false positives" is a very weak argument.
Crime is one of the problems that causes the disparity.
AI, cloud computing, smartphones, EVs - an energy breakthrough is needed to power digitisation and that's why companies like Microsoft, Google and Tencent are backing nuclear moonshots.
The private key that I would hypothetically sign commits with? Then signing commits is compromised too. I’m not sure what point you’re making.

On the other hand if I don’t sign my commits then any signed commits (from my stolen private key (SSH)) look out of place. Like it’s weird that all these malicious commits are also signed, even though I have never signed commits.
It’s not a GitHub feature, it’s a git one.

The question is, how do you manage your web of trust in a distributed environment? Users set up the keys they trust for signatures using GitHub’s admin UI. GitHub exposes public keys via https://api.github.com/users/fazalmajid/keys but it doesn’t tell you which keys are access and which are signing. There is also no way to see what the list was at a specific point in time, e.g. when the commit was signed.

The second question is how do you ensure key revocation, which is a hard problem involving verified timestamps.

If you are in a closed environment like proprietary software development you can and should build their own PKI, but in an open open-source workflow the author has a point, these last-mile issues make signed commits incomplete for trust purposes.
Is wiretapping public spaces on the scale of a city even constitutional in the USA?
> If you have more police in an area, of course they’ll hear more gunshots there. That doesn’t necessarily mean there actually are more gunshots.

So let me get your point straight: your worry is that since wealthy areas have less sensors gun-crime in those areas will go under reported?

Idk about your neck of the woods but where i live if I hear a gunshot I call the police with a high probability. If i see someone brandishing weapons i do the same. And of course i call the police/emergency services if i see someone with a gunshot wound. These all create the statistical evidence independent of the sensor systems.
"Haven't heard mention of that before. What are you basing it on?"

Videos? There are many violent videos on Telegram about draft defectors.

Youtube not so much:
https://youtu.be/zog7R83hLRg?t=177

Sorry, maybe misunderstanding. Ukraine is hunting them, sometimes arresting them very violently. But not killing them.
It is an interesting idea. I can see this newsletter being of use to product managers and the like who have to do competitive analyses.

Sometimes it is hard to get feedback on B2B SaaS apps, though. A lot of them don't offer free trials, and even if they do, you are not using them at scale, so might not see their power.

A lot of times, buying decisions also don't come down to the usability of the product, but of other less apparent aspects, such as the trust and health of the company. Support contracts, implementation hand-holding, the cost of consulting time, ramp-up time, time to live for a customer, total lifetime cost, etc... all these things (and more) get factored into buying decisions and should be included in rating a B2B SaaS.

Gartner performs this kind of analysis across a range of industries, and has certain rubrics they use to analyze products, and the health of the businesses that own them.

It would be interesting to know how you intend to review and rate the products.

Maybe an idea would be to find customers of these products and interview them on their experiences?
Has chicken feed risen in price the last 4 years?
YC requires anyone with 10% or more equity to be a founder. No way this uncle should getting that for an idea.
Intellectual Tribe
The devices monitor specifically for gunshots. I find it hard to believe that gunshots in wealthy area's often go undetected, with or without those devices.
That's being fixed now. And the screenshot will automatically link there as well. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Why would more women survive than men? Leaving asside how difficult it is for for a single woman to raise children in a post-apocalyptic society
We are working on projects related with cybersecurity and compilers. A reference we look at is [1] and [2]. I think we can publish the results in the coming months.

[1] https://github.com/rohanpadhye/jqf/wiki/Fuzzing-a-Compiler

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373410
What danger does Transnistria pose to Ukraine, Moldova?
instead of fixing the reasons these shootings happen, usa as usual tries to ameliorate the consequences with more surveillance/technology
if you go abroad you most definitely rent out your owned apartment as you otherwise are fully tax liable in Denmark with a permanent dwelling.

if you are on a long holiday, you still legally live in the unit.

if you cannot rent it out you, well, lower the rent until you can. easy as that. or you put the unit up for sale, which suspends the rule.
Message delay in communication nets with storage
MIT's open course 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-172-performance-engineering-of...
Reminiscent of Machiavelli's "Prince" where he bids the devious to
always cloak themselves in the garments of religion, reason and
honour.
Lenovo thinkpad t14s AMD, gen 3.

Everything on it just works.
Large parts of the world would be untouched (Africa, South America, Middle East). You might get a nuclear winter, but many people would still survive that.
What we learned in 6 months of working on an AI Developer
The effort to search, even in good times, shouldn't be underestimated

The measure differs by the person, but I've legitimately been putting up with a job bad for my mental health for years. We can get accustomed to a lot

This only happened to get better for me in the last week because an opportunity landed in my lap. Had my network forgotten me, I would toil here for years until something broke permanently
I think the industry sounds more like Taylor Swift these days. Maybe it's the audience speaking.
Before writing compilers, I think it's best to understand computer architectures, and what needs to be generated by the compiler to yield the most efficient machine code.

Unfortunately, in my experience, computer architecture and even systems programming are domains that schools/universities appear to systematically increasingly de-prioritize, presumably because it is seen as too technical.

That knowledge however is instrumental in landing some of the best jobs in the industry.
What on earth do you mean with “good luck”? I’ve not once been fucked over by a bank ever. Quite the contrary — they’ve given me hundreds of thousands in loans for something I couldn’t afford, at a price I more than agreed to. That’s exactly what they’re for.
Specialization, how much time out of my day do I have to worry about the price, if I am dealing with the city trying to get the water fixed, or repaving the driveway, or handling customer complaints? It can be more efficient to pay a modest sum to arrive at the right result, or, more profitable to actively watch the market and adjust pricing, but that costs time/money, so itd better be worth it.
With so many promises being made about "Vision 2030", I worry that the amount of discontent that results when it turns out to be a disappointment might lead to instability
Keeping linked tickets seems like the best practice to me. Especially as organizations grow, a single reported issue could wind up being work tickets for multiple teams, and even make it into product management roadmaps for longer-term fixes.

Sometimes a bug will have a short-term fix to stop the immediate pain, but also have a long-term fix that might include re-working an entire feature.

Using Jira (or other similar app's) linking features is the easiest way to keep track of these dependencies.

To use your example, the individual customer who reported the issue wants to know the status of the ticket "Customer Y says Screenshot button isn't working", and hopefully there is a self-service way for them to get that information. Whereas, all customers will want to know (likely as part of some relase notes) that "Screenshots in Safari are now Supported."
I don't think petrochemicals necessarily mean missiles? They're chemicals derived from petroleum, I was thinking more plastics and I assume dozens of other things I know nothing about.
GDB 14.2 Released
The article says they found 18 at 3 different sites, in a region of Congo that had been dangerous for the public to visit but had recently become safer. That does not prove a healthy population but it seems a step up from “last survivor”
You're trying to put these words in the mouth of a person that has volunteered with the homeless. Isn't there a contradiction somewhere?
You’re describing a person who isn’t present in my messages (and frankly isn’t me), which leads me to believe you’re having this argument mostly in your head.

Stealing is wrong, and socialism is stealing. I like helping others and I do it all the time. I don’t want anyone forcing me to help others, though.
Who hasn't heard of the 27 club ..

Let's clear something up first, the "addiction" in the title refers to Laurie Anderson's (age 76, not dead yet) "addiction" to using the Lou Reed chatbot she created using her deceased husbands (died liver disease following cancer, aged 71) extensive archive of interviews, prose and song lyrics, etc.

She's aware it's not him, she thinks it's mostly produces silly content but is occasionally on the mark, she's been an avante guarde technologist and performance artist most of her life.

Here's the pair of them on the one track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG5tG1McLzk

Laurie Anderson - Zero And One (Home of the Brave 1985) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYEVabkoDM