skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the real straw man. Have you ever heard of a generalization? Of course we can and do use adherence to the laws of the land as an indicator of general moral character.

The irony of claiming that the fundamental principle of my argument is a straw man and then presenting a new straw man directly after. Who said anything about morals? We're talking about ethics. Do you know the difference? Society does not have moral demands, it has one or more ethical consensus. Please learn the difference between the two before trying to argue with authority on them.

> in our country dissidents are almost never murdered like this

What are you talking about? I was talking about domestic smear and ruination campaigns on a slew of political dissidents from the past such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Timothy Leary, etc... COINTELPRO?

> There is no equivalence between walking up to someone unprovoked and shooting them dead versus making necessary financial decisions that might give people vaguely worse health care

This sentence does a lot of hand-waving. Vaguely, indeed. I think, if you look for it, you will find the quantification you're looking for. The difference is one act of direct violence vs tens of millions of every day acts of indirect violence, in a system where the class perpetrating the latter acts of violence continually gain the upper hand incrementally over time, like a political ratchet. Our forefathers would have revolted over much, much less than we put up with today.
i certainly used this trick back in my college days, prompted by a similar technique for "seeing" 3d stereoscopes on a computer monitor. I feel like i learned it somewhere on Eric Weisstein's Mathworld because the 3d objects viwer app let you split the image into two stereo images. Unfortunately java applets have been banished from the internet landscape.
Which apps doesn’t it work with that you think it should?

I am looking through my apps and most of them are clients for server side functionality or productivity apps that use iCloud Drive, OneDrive or Google Drive.

Google Photos would take care of videos and photos and Contacts and calendars use standard syncing protocols.
"It shouldn't be. There shouldn't be a global language."

That is like claiming there should be no global Internet or no global trade.

People like to interact with one another, for various reasons: business, science, mere curiosity. Having the globe split into several mutually non-communicating regions would be weird, especially if all it takes is a few clicks on a computer to get "somewhere else". And in absence of hard barriers in North Korean style, one dominant way of communication is likely to emerge.
Not sure about Ruby in general, but Rails is an excellent candidate for LLM assistance. It’s very much convention over configuration, been around since forever and there isn’t a question somebody hasn’t already asked on Stack Overflow.
The definition of racism changed at some point to some people to have connotations about racial superiority

Before that, it simply meant judging a person by their race or skin colour, which having a hiring quota based on race clearly is

You can have an argument that in some cases racist DEI policies are beneficial to counter even worse racism, and that's not necessarily untrue, but it's dishonest to try and claim it's not racist
meh, you see this is where I disagree. We know how slighted Walter feels about leaving Gray Matter. A company that only succeeded due to his ideas. He wanted something himself to control, the cancer was just a catalyst. If it wasn't that it would have been something else.
I remember when the plans for starlink originally came out, the two main complaints about it were 1) clogging up the atmosphere with space junk, and 2) the satellites clogging up terrestrial bandwidth.

I haven't heard anyone complain about either of these things lately, I'm not sure if it's because they were never legitimate complaints, or it's because once the system was launched it became clear that complaining about it was pointless....
It's become silly. I go to Starbucks and buy a pre-packaged item. I walk to the counter. I put the item in front of the scanner. The operator pushes a button and the total appears. I put my credit card atop the credit card reader. The credit card system asks for a 15% tip.

This is too much.
There are over three hundred million people in the USA. If you search - or are in a suitable bubble - there are ‘a lot of anecdotes on X’ about most anything imaginable.
I wonder if that's why weaponizing language was key plotpoint of mgsv.

PRC is consuming more PRC content (i.e. HK/TW use to be sinosphere media power houses).

There's also consideration that documentation from science to technical papers are in Chinese now, less need for people to need English for variety of tasks.
@OP "Model our domain as a graph of attributes and relationships" and "generate resolvers". I'm curious what your model looks like so that you are able to "generate resolvers"? I had looked into using Malli as the model, but curious what route you took.
Not mine but some pictures here:

- https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tipping-self-checkout-machi...

- https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/182csd2/i_go...
Yes, my point is you should be putting your friend with a terminal condition at ease so that they can skip wasting any energy on regretting their healthcare situation thinking they would have lived 'if only...', and you should help them enjoy/process/maximize their remaining time.

I get what you want and why you are here, I do. Been there done that for friends and family. I lost my mom, don't think I didn't try to find every treatment, and for me she did them all no matter the pain/loss in quality of life it inflicted on her. In the end watching Joel Olsteen gave my hippie/anti christian progressive mom comfort so guess what, anti-organized religion me sat and watched Joel friggen Olsteen with her as she accepted and processed her situation, while inside I screamed 'noooooooo, we can't accept this! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Mom no, I can't lose you, and our final time can't be spent watching Joel friggen Olsteen!'. And on that final day, when she was suffering in worse pain than I can Imagine, I put on a brave face and told here it was OK mom, she can go now, she can have peace now, while inside I screamed 'you can not goooo! The world will end if you go!!!! You can't leave me, ever'.

Do you really think anyone is saying 'you can go now' inside when they tell someone it's OK to go? Do you really think everyone thinks their local medical care is the absolutely best in the world when they say 'man, good thing you got Doctor X, good thing we have this facility'?
It’s extra effort and embarrassing to select lower or no tip when the cashier and other customers are looking.
(~2018) In India, women represent 45% of total computer science enrollment in universities, almost three times the rate in the United States, where it is 18%.
Yeah... this is about how well every OTel migration goes, from what I've seen.

Docs are an absolute monstrosity that rival Bazel's for utility, but are far less complete. Implementations are extremely widely varied in support for basics. Getting X to work with OTel often requires exactly what they did here: reverse-engineering X to figure out where it does something slightly abnormal... which is normal, almost every library does something similar, because it's so hard to push custom data through these systems in a type-safe way, and many decent systems want type safety and will spend a lot of effort to get it.

It feels kinda like OAuth 2 tbh. Lots of promise, obvious desirable goals, but completely failing at everything involving consistent and standardized implementation.
You can also use this to display 3-D images. You have a stereographic projection of your image (like those kids' view-masters) and then just cross the eyes and look at the middle image. Only since the 2 images are slightly different, you can have the middle image be 3-D. It takes a bit of practice though and causes eye strain (at least for me)

It's not a great way of showing the image, but it'll do in a pinch.
Well I interpreted it the way you're saying and I still don't understand the real world need of that role in most companies. Why not simply hire the most qualified/best people for the job? If it ends up being diverse, great. If not well thats not really a big issue either as long as the hiring is fair.

What does that role provide outside of forced diversity i.e. racism. If it helps I am not a white male myself, but Mexican.
Ooh prize money, D3 those are fun, where you can map a million things/zoom into it
2 more things that can break/go wrong/stop working resulting in mission failure.
You can edit up to 2 hours after you write your comment.
"bamboo ceiling" is not a statistic.
Why, specifically? It's commonly described as strongly typed and I'm not aware of an argument against that.
He has total control on Meta thanks to the double class share structure.

He's not hurting for money, why humiliate yourself in such a manner? Facebook will be around long after Trump term is up, matter of fact long after Trump is long gone.

Such organization should be lead with a 10-15 years forward looking mind
I'm not sure that's entirely what's to blame when the countries with the least gender discrimination (Scandinavia) tend to be about 20% female in tech. I think that when people are free to choose their fields based purely on personal inclination, without major financial incentive, tech lands at about 20% female and early childhood education ends up being the opposite.

Now of course, a lot of software in the US is below 20% female and we easily end up with spirals where departments end up lower than that and develop a toxic environment that pushes each new woman out. I personally ended up majoring in math instead of cs because of that process at my college.
In fact, Uno exists because one family liked playing Crazy Eights but got tired arguing about the rules, so they started writing the rules on the cards and eventually made new cards: https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/uno/
> There is a value, we just don't know what it is (yet).

In all my years, I've never used null for that. If I don't have a value yet then generally I'm not writing any part of the record. I only ever use nulls for the absence of a value. Creating a new table for every potential optional column is the "academic relational way" and also insane. :)
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
I spent weeks doing this, looking at stereoscopic (?) images of protein structures, while a grad student in molecular biophysics. I got so that I could see the overlapped images pretty much instantly. But I'm having a hard time getting it now, even on the easy one.
It is unlikely that they test a sample of the entire population. They likely test students of certain age only, and three years of Covid lockdowns (China held on to Zero Covid for a long time!) probably messed with the current cohort.
Dangerous bacterial biofilms have a natural enemy
Under the "it's not corporate greed causing inflation" topic, Patreon and other creator platforms have been on an aggressive campaign to push users to raise their prices.

Some are sending weekly email reminders that "they noticed you haven't raised your prices, and in this time of rapid inflation, you should seriously consider adjusting to the expected market rate".

So yes, percentage agreements on transactions net payment providers more from tips.
>it looks like they're hinting towards offering a 'self-hosted' model

That makes sense. Datadog has been pure SaaS the whole time, which is unusual. Buying a good db engine like Quickwit would be a smart head-start into the on-prem segment which is a natural expansion opportunity.

I've previously made the prediction that Datadog is the new Cisco - can expect lots of acquisitions to be made going forward.
Dousing flames with low-frequency sound waves
Before you get too exited, this needs 2 A100 or H100's minimum.
according to that 'adults participating in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions' .. It also says foreign born is 1% vs native at 1.7% - so they are both 'a tiny fraction'

Whether or not a large percentage, or a large number or small number of immigrants are homeless or not,

one must assume that if 11 million people left the US next month, the price of rent in many places may go down a bit, and some currently unhoused people might be able to afford a cheaper place.

Of course another side is that wages in some industries will rise, and that may put more people into a position where they can afford an apartment.

What I'd like to see is how inexpensive optional housing can be made.
>You can avoid any magic and stick to a subset...

... if (and only if) all the libraries you use also stick to that subset, yea. That is overwhelmingly not true in my experience. And the article shows a nice concrete example of why.

For green-field projects which use nothing but otel and no non-otel frameworks, yea. I can believe it's nice. But I definitely do not live in that world yet.
Clears throat the precise wiki page you're looking for is the Semipredicate Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipredicate_problem
I've taught dozens of people to play Magic, although not in the past 10 years.

First, if at all possible, teach only one person at a time. Teaching multiple people a new game all at once is incredibly difficult for everyone.

Second, they need to understand the basic turn structure or play pattern if the game has one. If you can, print it out and use it as a play-aid.

Third, play several games open-handed with pre-constructed decks. Do not introduce the deckbuilding aspects of the game right away. Make the decks simple and basic. Ideally, create one deck for each "faction" in the game.

In Magic, Wizards made 30-card beginning decks in each of the five colors that were meant for teaching the game. This was 15 years ago or more; I doubt they still do it since Arena exists. They were all common, so nothing complicated. They were like... $10 a set or something. So you'd do the above and play a couple of games with different colors and let the new player find one they like. Then, once they feel experienced and played a game close-handed or with only one of us playing close-handed, I'd ask them which two decks they liked the best, and I'd pick two others. Then we'd each shuffle the two chosen decks together and play again. And watching a person's mind expand into what the game really was during that game was incredibly satisfying. Ideally, at the end, I'd just give them all five decks to keep.
That's related to something I would like which is to be able to set the number of elements in an incomplete struct.

struct foo
{
size_t elements;
int data[];
};

foo foo123 = {.elements = array_size(data), .data = {1, 2, 3}};

or
struct str
{
size_t sz;
char str[];
};

str s123 = {.sz = strlen(.str), .str = "123"};
Low earth orbit is a range from "pretty much everything down here will naturally deorbit in a few months" to "it'll take decades to naturally deorbit from up here and it'll have to not hit the majority of satellites ever launched on the way..."
They destroy it.
It helps to have a winter.
Actually writing Python is reasonably nice in that case.

But dealing with Python infrastructure is so awful as to make the whole experience just bad.

uv fixes a lot of that, but I think it will be some time before it's used everywhere, and I have zero hope that the Python devs will ever do the right thing and officially replace Pip with uv.
I think this is their terminology for exposure time. The sensor is integrating charge from incident photons during this period. Of course the image could be stacked also!

Edit: the sensor is integrating CURRENT. Charge is the integral!
Because -1 is not equal to -2. They will fall into the same bucket of the hash map, but the hash collisions are expected and must be accounted for.
All JavaScript Keyboard Shortcut Libraries Are Broken
I bought a premium account on X and the ads went away.

I bought a premium Prime account on Amazon, and yet some of their shows still have embedded commercials. grrrr.
Did you? you linked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve

already
That gives the worst case complexity right at the top.

> 2^16

[1] 65536

> n<-2^32

> exp(((64/9)^(1/3)+1)(log(n)^(1/3))(log(log(n))^(2/3)))

[1] 38178499

> 38178499/65536

[1] 582
2^16 -> 2^32 ~ x 2^9

> n<-2^64

> exp(((64/9)^(1/3)+1)(log(n)^(1/3))(log(log(n))^(2/3)))

[1] 84794674511

> 84794674511/38178499

[1] 2221

2^32-> 2^64 ~ x 2^11

> n<-2^128

> exp(((64/9)^(1/3)+1)(log(n)^(1/3))(log(log(n))^(2/3)))

[1] 2.507616e+15

> 2.507616e+15/84794674511

[1] 29572

2^64 -> 2^128 ~ x 2^15

So in GNFS 2^32 -> 2^64 complexity doesn't increase 4294967296 times, worst case it increases 2221 times

_In practice_ the cost grows closer to (nbits)^2 mostly because as an "embarrassingly parallel" algorithm you get significant benefits from cached results (quickly discard entire number fields that were previously calculated).

if
O(x) = 8
then
O(x)^2 = 8^2

I did miss a x2 earlier
because e.g. 128 bits is 128^2 (16384 rather than 29572) harder than 64 bits, not 64^2

So its
(2xO(x))^2 = (2 x 8)^2 = $256
Tell HN: I'm a programmer who bought a typewriter
I have been programming for the last 7 years professionally. I like computers from my early age. My father bought me Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ when I was in the first grade. Since then, computers were part of my life, significantly. I stare at my screen almost whole day. One day there was some voice in me saying "Buy a typewriter". I listened to the voice and bought Smith Corona Silent from 1946. It was the most profound experience I ever had with some kind of machine. I was not so happy when I got my first cell phone, and later smartphone nor computer. This is something different, probably because the basics are the same, I'm still typing.

Suddenly I found myself writing a diary, and a novel. I never wrote anything other than blog posts (many of them since I had website similar to The Verge) - which I sold later.

I now have 3 typewriters, 2x Smith Corona Silent (1946 and 1956), and Olympia Monica (I think it's from '70).

What I found very interesting is that writing on a typewriter is perfectly synchronized with how fast my mind is working. Time slows down! I read that on the web somewhere, and it is slowing the time when you type on a typewriter! I can confess that!

My fingers are too fast on computer keyboard, and I even don't want to talk about distractions like auto correct and other stuff that always pops up. This is something what really makes me feel good. I can write a story, poem, diary, or a letter to a friend.

It's truly something we should have on our desk somewhere in the room, and just put our thoughts on a paper.
https://www.silentflyer.tech/
Where I live, the minimum wage is >$20/hr. An issue is that the necessary price increases to support this minimum wage is causing revenues to drop significantly. Tips are a percentage of revenue, so people who are paid this way are empirically experiencing a net loss of income each time they increase the minimum wage.

This is exacerbated by the closure of businesses due to an unsustainable drop in revenues, which means employment opportunities are becoming more limited.

Tipping provides a degree of useful economic elasticity to many service businesses and workers that simply mandating high wages does provide. The structure of compensation matters more in outcomes than people tend to think.
The request was to “consider people you normally wouldn’t for this role”

I normally wouldn’t consider a 14y/o for a senior position. I wouldn’t consider a child to run our armed forces either.

It is you who put women and other minorities into that group with this comment of yours. You are the one to compare being underage and in middle school to being on the same level of a woman.
Thanks! I found it and just listened the podcast. It's pretty interesting albeit a bit short.

I'll read the second link too tonight.

Thanks again for sharing.
In my teenage years I worked as a busboy, and part of my wage was a share of the wait staff's tips.

I also worked McDonald's, including the register, and it never occurred to me that anyone would ever tip me there. (Not that at 20 cents per hamburger or regular fries a tip would amount to much.)

And this perhaps is why I have always tipped 20% for table service, and begrudge tips at the counter.
> Will it be possible for Starlink to ever be better than proper fibre though?

i doubt it, the speed of light is only so fast. Latency up to LEO, down to earth, back to LEO, down to you will always be more than to your local telco CO and back.
I don't see any porn in my feed. Some of it is salacious, but not porn.
With labels describing the surface features: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/Mercury_s_...
okay, this is so cool. thank you for the new superpower!
> At what point does an organization say "DEI mission accomplished?"

I feel like this mindset is the same as CEOs reducing the IT budget because “We’ve recovered from our last critical outage and our systems are working fine now.”

I think there’s a valid place for a DEI-like group within HR ensuring a company’s hiring and promoting policies are fair in an ongoing manner.
It’s definitely cultural. I’ve been to every major city in the US and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a homeless Indian. Some groups have broken familial cultures that does not churn out good citizens. Did the US in the past play a major role in breaking down those groups and surrounding them with abject poverty that makes it hard to escape from? Absolutely.
If hashmaps only looked at hash(k1) == hash(k2) and not also k1 == k2 they would be quite useless as maps.
I would like to through our project in the ring. We use ColQwen2 over a ColPali implementation. Basically, search & extract pipeline: https://docs.colivara.com/guide/markdown
People oppose efforts to make changes at the other end of the funnel too. This is the most popular post about Girls Who Code (the first organization that comes to mind, why I searched it): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6980431

You get similar complaints there.
Sounds like you want Bluetooth
3 seconds? That's crazy

"Huuhhhhhhhhhhh"

I wonder what their "fox jump" sentence is
Also, OUR idea of ownership, at least legally, is based on the idea of usage and access. You may own a piece of land, but not the mineral rights. You can't prevent an aircraft from flying over your property etc. Ownership is a bundle of rights and exclusions. The idea of ownership meaning "who is allowed to hunt on this land" would fit right into our legal framework of ownership.
We've transitioned from the Information Age to the Disinformation Age.
>This does not benefit US citizens.

And? Yes, we know it doesn't benefit US citizens. How many citizens filter for products made by American workers when making purchasing decisions? People want cheap shit, except when it comes to their own jobs.
Per Reuters, the judge blocked the financial accounts of Starlink, meaning that Brazilian companies were barred from conducting financial transactions with it. https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazil-judge-blocks-starl... https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/29/brazil-judge-blo...
I don't think so. This is true for people writing cpython. But if you implement custom `__hash__` method, you should be fine.
If I let playing the lottery change how I interact with the world/prevent me from dealing with my situation, because I hope I will win, that 'hope' is a negative impact on my life.

If I encourage my friend who is down on their luck to buy lottery tickets so they can have hope, am I helping them, am I being kind?
I know what you mean, its the same reason I do not have a kindle or buy e-books in general: With a physical book I take the time to sit down and read what is written, but on a screen I find myself skimming through to get the key points.

Sometimes, efficiency is the least important thing.