skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because since 9/11 the US has ridden a wave of fear into a police state where the police steal more than thieves (https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff..., https://www.nemannlawoffices.com/blog/law-enforcement-seized...) because it's legal for them to just take your stuff without ever convicting you of a crime or even charging you with one (https://www.aclupa.org/en/issues/criminal-justice-reform/civ...), there are geographical areas where your constitutional rights simply do not apply and police can search your house or car without a warrant or your permission (https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone#:~:text=Th....), the police can legally violate your civil rights unless you can prove that they knew they were doing it and decided to do it intentionally (essentially, ignorance of the law is an excuse to ignore the law, and it's next to impossible to prove someone did know something if they claim they didn't, so unless the cop murdering you says "I am doing this racistly" he can just say later that he doesn't know what the law is and instead of disqualifying him that fact will protect him, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity), we train police to feel like an occupying army in a territory where everyone is hostile, down to and including telling them to use pictures of their wives and children as targets to reduce hesitation to kill innocent people and teaching them that the sex they have after killing someone will be the best sex of their lives and that that's a perk of the job (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-clas...), we very purposely do not make police track or publish figures on how many people they kill, and we also have this weird cultural tension we refuse to address where everyone has the right to carry a gun and a lot of people make it a huge part of their identity but also the police can legally kill you if they suspect that you could potentially have a gun, as is your right.
sure; my daughter went to a top-30 school for $0 on a full-ride scholarship

What I was talking about what you expect to pay if 1) you don't have scholarships, and 2) you're not low income enough to qualify for a lot of financial aid (Pell Grant and matching grants from state schools)
It is now a private company, with an owner who openly campaigned for a particular candidate and is now expected to take a role in that candidate's administration.

You can see the difference, right?
While price per token is going down, price per answer is going up
I adopted the title of one of the news articles that were also submitted about this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42204632 for why.
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But it _all_ triples?

> I sketch how the stereographic projection of the Stern–Brocot tree forms an ordered binary tree of Pythagorean triples, which can be used to compute best approximations of turn angles of points on the circle and finally trigonometric functions

The permutation and stack problem in the page seem to indicate this is a potential method for approximations, but insufficient for _all_

That said I am reading this on mobile and may have missed something.
Try using xonsh: https://xon.sh/ I write all my shell scripts in it (well, at least the ones I don't need to share with coworkers).
WebkitGTK has notoriously lagged behind Webkit on other platforms.
If you ever have a problem, just call the police and then you'll have two problems.
I'd assume the financial impact is from increased costs for traffic. For Hetzner's customers traffic is somewhere between free and $1/TB, compared to AWS's $90/TB. Hence Hetzner hosts a lot of high traffic websites, and their margins on traffic have to be pretty slim. And with the cheap low-latency connection between the DCs some customers are bound to run a lot of traffic between servers in different Hetzner DCs.

Now I don't know what their peering agreements look like, but it seems like they normally route everything through Frankfurt's internet exchange and now have to take some different routes.
Bro genetics is what determines the neural network in the human brain. You ARE a neural network.
Guns also fail frequently, in ways that are much deadlier to innocent and unprepared bystanders, as seen in the article. Perhaps tasers per se are not the answer, but there most certainly needs to be a range of nonlethal interventions available to police officers. The current system appears to be "turn up and make a snap decision who to murder to make the problem stop", which is - dare I say - a bad system. It is not even unreasonable to argue against giving government officials the power to simply end people on a whim at all.
Why would you assume single digit extra calls? If the list is N million, then you would do a constant multiple of iterations of that. That’s a non trivial overhead in production applications.
Your site doesn't appear to have waypoints? As an avid cyclist, I couldn't imagine just using some calculated route between two points. I ride for fun, not transportation.
I mean, it will definitely cost someone money to go fix the cables. I know that in the US, our insurance explicitly does not cover acts of war (1) so I would be curious as to how insurance covers this.

I suspect that the costs of moving extra bits through other cables is not large. I would assume that Hetzner (and the other companies that own parts of these cables) have peering agreements with other companies and that most of them will not try and take advantage of the cut cables to renegotiate their peering agreements (2). So whatever rates they paid before will still be paid.

1: Because a war creates a problem for the risk pool, it is one of the things that actually can destroy huge amounts of property simultaneously, so it is a risk explicitly separated out and basically impossible to insure against, at least in the US commercial market.

2: Too risky to start renegotiating when your cable can be cut just as easily the next time.
Hah. Debian will happily keep shipping libraries years out of date. Then complain that you’re holding them back when they finally wake up and update sid to a bleeding edge release.
Clojure manages to do improvement to the language, without breaking the users.

Most of improvements are "additions", it is never a "change" or "re-do something better"

It is an awesome experience be able to upgrade the language anytime with no fear or pain.
Yep. It's like someone chain-smoking cigarettes while working with gasoline. There's a "yo, WTF?" humor to how reckless it is.

Off-primary use of a mundane hand tool being the only thing preventing a minor nuclear disaster is simply funny. Like God forming man from mud not with the fine tools of a master clay-worker, but a child's play-doh plastic carving tools and a couple toothpicks.
"MIT’s endowment — made up of generous gifts made by individual alumni and friends — allows the Institute to provide this level of financial aid, both now and into the future."

This 'free education' is a great argument for MIT to persuade Wealthy Lefties to donate/leave them their inheritence. And do the senior people get any bonuses related to number of applicants/places?

But regardless, the increase to the current thresholds are great!
Maybe because their customers don’t feel abused in the slightest.
It is naught but crypto-fascism the proposition that there is a choice between exercising empathy and being an immoral character. It is moral authoritarianism, the gaslighting of others, trying to make them believe that free will exists in the service of neo-conservative morality's dialectic of good judgement and evil judgement being a problem to consider at all in the first place. The reality is that morality lives way beyond what the rhetoric of neoliberal initiatives try to seductively present to vulnerable intellects and hearts.

Advertising empathy as being better than a slice of bread is just fascism and a strain of neo-colonial desire in a clever (but not clever enough) disguise. The global threats to capitalism's productivity goals aren't fooling anyone. The Devil's idle hands and economic regression will have to retreat back to the drawing board and find a new military tactic that would be more effective than trying to disguise morality as something cool looking (when in reality it looks ugly and unappealing as an asset).
> There's also TCP/IP (Internet) via HAM radio (packet radio)

I get the idea and the spirit behind using ham radio to evade censorship, but...

- you're not allowed to run encrypted content over ham packet radio, at least by regulations, plain HTTP is fine but anything SSL is not... don't be a dick and ruin the fun for everyone else.

- ham radio comms is, outside of emergencies such as widespread blackouts or natural disasters, supposed to only be between ham radio operators themselves - no message-passing for others.

- at least in the long-range bands that you'd actually use for cross-country communications, bandwidth is scarce - and you may disturb a lot of people by doing that, or by just blasting around with huge transmitters... Monday late evening in Germany, try to listen in on 80m, there's so damn many Russians on there with extremely powerful transmitters.

Ham radio frequencies are scarce enough as it is and politicians, particularly in authoritarian countries, already aren't happy about it (in North Korea, for example, it's banned and it's one of the rarest countries to DX with). Please don't make life for hams more complex than it already is by abusing what it stands for.
You get a huge variability if you consider the absolute extreme outliers. Most people should be able to reach a level of competence where they can understand mathematical concepts abstractly and apply that same reasoning to other areas, and not feel a visceral rejection at the mere idea. I think that's a modest enough standard that a good portion of any given population should be able to reach, and yet education is failing at achieving that.
As a Minnesotan, I'm both surprised and not surprised that Minnesota has some of the highest quality roads. The roads take a beating but MNDot is pretty high tech in their road quality monitoring. Our company makes a tool that automates road quality assessments using computer vision and machine learning straight from a smart phone camera. It's pretty mind blowing and hopefullyis somethingmore municipalities will adopt. If you are curious, check it out, xweather.com/roadai.
The Role of Dumb Luck, Wrong-Turns and Oops in Science Progress
Since we are being pedantic, your statement may be true but it is unsupported by the data you presented. To make it simple, let's talk about the imaginary basketball league with four players, of unit less heights of 4, 4, 4, and 1. The average height is 3.25, yet 3/4 the players are taller than average.

A paid promotion of International Median is not Average Association.
The government of Germany clearly prefer to side with Israel on any matter related to Palestine (or Lebanon for that matter), but in fairness it has taken this long for the ICC's prosecutor to bring a case. The real tests will begin if, for instance, Netanyahu visits Germany, because that will trigger an obligation for Germany to arrest him. There may of course already be domestic German laws which arms sales to Israel may be breaking, but as far as I'm aware Germany has only had a duty to cooperate with the ICC since the warrant was issued earlier today.
DC isn't even close to the top of the list of cities where commuters walk.

https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2019.B08006?t=Commuting...

In the summer most people do not want to show up to work reeking like the Anacostia. I get it. In the evenings you walk from your apartment to Madam's Organ to pay $20 for a beer.
Drive by language design tips

Stop caring about syntax and start caring about semantics. For example

> if (a == (10 || 20 || 30) || b == a) && c { }

I get what you're after, but don't optimize syntax for bad code. `a in [10, 20, 30, b] and c` makes a lot more sense to me conceptually than trying to parse nested binary operators, especially when you consider the impact on type checking those expressions.

> async function will be called from no async function but no async/await keyword. If you want to block main thread then block_main() function will be used. block_main() /* operations */ unblock_main()

Think very carefully about the concurrency model of your language before thinking about how the programmer is going to express it. In particular, this model leaves a footgun to leave a program in invalid state.

> What are the features you found or you need in a programming language?

The biggest misdesigns I see in languages are a result of PL designers pushing off uninteresting but critical work so they can explore interesting language semantics. Like the compile/link/load model and module resolution semantics have far more impact over the success and usability of any new language (because they empower package management, code reuse, etc) and the details are hairy enough that taking shortcuts or pushing it off until later will kneecap your design.
Thanks for also going the ridiculous route. Everyone else seemed to want to trick the LLM into revealing the answer but I immediately tried to take my pants off and murder Fitzpatrick.

What is the point of having an infinitely flexible guide to these text adventures if you cant force it to respond to ludicrous scenarios? I guess I just want like a text-based GTA with the added thrill of ruining the built in storyline.
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According to Sachs, Israel has masterfully manipulated US influence to extend its global reach, primarily through AIPAC's incredibly efficient lobbying - spending just hundreds of millions to secure billions in aid and trillions in military spending. Netanyahu's strategy has been particularly clever, pushing the US to overthrow Middle Eastern governments that oppose Israeli policies, as seen with Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Through campaign financing, Israel has basically bought out Congress for surprisingly little money, ensuring the US consistently backs them internationally - like vetoing UN resolutions that favor Palestinians. This US shield is so strong that when the UN voted on Palestinian self-determination, only the US, Israel, and a couple other countries opposed it. Even when Biden sets boundaries for Israeli actions, they just ignore them without consequences. The whole system's genius lies in how Israel's managed to maintain its policies despite global opposition, though Sachs thinks this might backfire by making Israel too isolated and blocking any chance of a two-state solution.
Food in general in the Netherlands is fine. If we're talking about Dutch cuisine, even us Dutch people complain about how terrible it is.
At least these artists had actually seen a cow. There are some hilarious medieval artworks of lions where the artist had clearly never seen a lion.
https://www.sadanduseless.com/medieval-lion-art/
Show HN: Publish your writing effortlessly from your inbox
I built Pagecord as a way for people to publish their writing online with the lowest barrier to entry possible: email.

I launched it earlier this year as a proof of concept that took a few days. I then made it paid-only, which was a bad move!

Since then I've added a bunch of features, open-sourced the code (https://github.com/lylo/pagecord) and today I've made it freemium once again.

My plan is to build a community around it as an open source, not-for-profit community-owned product that has build-in longevity. First though, I'll need to get more people using it!

Check it out at https://pagecord.com. I'd love to get some proper feedback on it (the video isn't great, I know – will fix that at some point!).

ps. I wrote a post in a bit more details if you're particularly curious!

https://pagecord.com/pagecord/a-free-and-open-future-5b76fa7...
Show HN: ApplyEngine: AI-automated autofill, resume and cover letter
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> It amazes me that some of them have never even heard of the existence of tools like that

I'm not a recent grad by any means. I have heard of those tools and even used them on occasion. The problem is "on occasion". There's no way I want to keep relearning awk every time it might be useful.

These days, though, LLMs are a saving grace. It's rare that I ask it to provide me with a command line to solve a problem and it gets it wrong. I still have the burden of verifying, but it's a happy medium between your expertise and my writing everything in Python.
As a cyclist, I would never plan routes on a tiny phone screen with a crappy UI. I would always plan on a computer and then use the phone to keep me on track.
This is wrong. They are still reporting daily deaths counts, that counts have been going up. The Grauniad is good about collecting the reports (but bad about other unrelated things).
I'm a fan of open bodybuilding, so I've been following the Ozempic usage trend for a while now. Given the findings on this study, I can see how it may become an essential drug on bodybuilders stacks.

Hunger reduction + supraphysiological muscle gain from steroids and growth hormone - (heart) muscle reduction = win/win?

Heart problems are one (of many) of the main problems these guys face, so I won't be surprised if Ozempic is used to kind of "balance" the effects of other drugs.
what would be the best way to reach out to college communities? assuming the product is most useful to them.
I don’t get why Israel waged war on Gaza instead of just going for the guy who ordered the attack. Any thoughts?
Doesn't follow. Bell curve in, shifted bell curve out. Ideally this also tweaks the variance a bit.

In other words: Some students flourish despite their teachers, some flourish because of them.
While those are big numbers, determining if a company has a monopoly requires looking at the numbers and market share of competing companies as well.
This is sort of what the Strava "heatmap" map
is when you switch it to cycling mode: https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=Ride&style=....
Can you explain to us how (beyond ubiquity and POSIX compliance) bash scripting is superior to the following:

1. fish
2. xonsh
3. nushell

I often find people making such claims simply don't know much about other shells.
I see what you mean, but I'm not sure that's such an easy question?

Imagine if Israel, the US and UK hadn't funded and spread ISIS and Al-Qaeda throughout the region. Look back at how Iran was before the West decided a pliable dictator would be preferable. Look at how Syria was before the west decided they wanted that oil. Look at what Gaddafi was trying to achieve in Libya before the west decided they didn't want that. Lebanon somehow remains quite western.

My point is that a lot of the Middle East is the way it is because of the West and our destructive behaviours.
Why would it be preferred or not? Israel is not an ICC member.
This video is relevant.

US President Joe Biden: “If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZs-v0PR44
> it's not necessarily a conspiracy to build exclusive brands

except that it is about branding and ranking; these top unis have the money and the capability to double their undergrad student size; they have no problem attracting top talent as far as professors are concerned

I didn't just make this up[0]

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w29309
You made 2 comments in 9 months, both pimping this cert reseller. Don't astroturf.
> Or let's try other topics, e.g. music. Conservatory students study quite hard, but some are better than others, and a select few really shine. "Everyone is capable of playing Rachmaninov"? I don't think so.

Bad example, it's much more likely to create a musical prodigy by providing early and appropriate guidance. Of course this is not easy as it assumes already ideal teaching methods and adequate motivation to the youngling, but even those with some learning difficulties have the potential to excel. The subtypes of intellect required to play complex music and absord advanced abstract math subjects are quite different, former requiring strong short-term memory (sightreading) the latter fluid intelligence -I think almost everyone is familiar with these terms by now and knows that one can score high/low on certain subtypes of an IQ test affecting the total score-.

BTW IDK if the Rachmaninoff choice was deliberate to imply that even the most capable who lack the hand size won't be able to perform his works well yeah, but there are like 1000s of others composers accessible that the audiences appreciate even more. Attempting to equate music with sports in such manner is heavily Americanized and therefore completely absurd. Tons of great pianists who didn't have the hand size to interpret his most majestic works and of others. Tons of others who could but never bothered. There have been winners of large competitions who barely played any of his works during all stages of audition or generally music requiring immense bodily advantage. Besides, it's almost 100% not a hand size issue when there are 5 year old kids playing La Campanella with remarkable fluidity.

And even in this case this isn't even the point. Most conservatory alumni today are 100x skilled than the pianists of previous generations... yet they all sound the exact same, their playing lacks character/variability, deepness, elegance to the point where the composers ideas end up distorted. And those can be very skilled but just have poor understanding of the art, which is what music is, not the fast trills/runs, clean arpeggios, very strict metronomic pulse.

> So no, unless you've placed the bar for "mathetical skill" pretty low, or can show me proper evidence, I'm not going to believe it. "Everyone is capable of..." reeks of bullshit.

Well the vast majority of people in the Soviet Union were very math literate, regardless of what they ended up working as (although indeed most became engineers) and in quite advanced subjects. This is obviously a product of the extensive focus of primary and secondary education on the sciences back then.

So the point isn't to make everyone have PhD level math background and I heavily dislike the dork undertones/culture that everyone should love doing abstract math on their freetime or have to have some mathematical temperament' . But let's not go the other way and claim that those not coming close to achieving the knowledge those in the top % of the fields possess, they are chumps.
EU foreign policy chief said the court's decision should be implemented. Ireland also indicated they would comply with the warrant.
I don't necessarily think you're wrong, but drawing any conclusions from random people on Twitter seems like a mistake. They might not be human, they might not be Israeli, and they might not be representative of Israel's 9 million people. I wouldn't want anybody to judge me based on how English-speaking Twitter accounts behave.
Musk has always been right-wing. He didn't start Tesla because he was an environmentalist, he started it because he believed in the nonsensical Peak Oil theory.

He certainly has become more right wing over time.
What's with this expectation of "thrilling", "damn impressive", etc...? This was just a dude saying it's neat how LLMs provide a new interactive way to learn dense historical information. That's all.

HN really loses the plot quickly sometimes.
Do people still use rails?