skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of Native Americans used Jan 1 for their birth date when signing up for WW2 service.

Many service members during the drafts would add or subtract a few years with the help of local authorities.

My grandfather didn't know his birth year and lied to make himself seem younger when it suited him.

I have great-grandparents without any documentation that we suspect were fleeing wars or had been shanghaied

I have at least one 3x great-grandparent with only a first name before her marriage. We know nothing else about her.

There have been a lot of threads of 'Things Programmers Believe About Time' that are worth looking into. The exceptions to 'computer time' and reality are fun and tough to deal with. Same things apply to names. Suffice to say, Elon's crack team hasn't really thought of the reality of life and the messiness of it.

But that's not the point and we all know it.
But how many orgs need that scale?
It's not just the prices, its the quality.
You pay unbelievable sums to TR/Refinitiv/whatever they are called now and they ship you a HD/point you at an S3 bucket which contains a mix of valid/incomplete/corrupt/blank files which you then spend months checking. Oops, here's a new bucket for that. Oh oops, sorry again, we just found those files. Ooops, our parser had an error try again!

BMLL seems to be trying to disrupt this space, wishing them well.
Norton's Dome is only non-deterministic because it assumes perfect spheres exist.

One does not need to go to atomic theory for this assumption to be wrong in reality.
Yes, it's similar now to career coaching or those HIIT gym training videos. They have certifications, leadership courses, etc.
Which is hugely damaging socially as it makes markets non-competitive. Its wrong in principle.

> If a bank app happens to be okay with F-Droid, it's not because they look out for the needs of F-Droid, it's simply by happenstance

Not true. They they have to make a deliberate choice to write an app that refuses to run if you have installed non-Google apps. It needs code written to run checks. It even lists the apps I have.

> Many websites are giving up Firefox support, and Firefox adoption is much higher than F-Droid.

Not hat I have noticed.
China will. They’ll keep exporting clean energy systems (renewables, batteries, EVs) to the world. The transition is inevitable, but young people need to stay motivated as older folks with power keep aging out every year.
It is valid. I’m running 8.4 and with autoloading etc it all works as expected. Maybe the language you’re arguing against isn’t the same language anymore.
I went back and wanted to include the link but couldn't quite find it. I suspect it was a subtopic within an episode and so I can't find it in the title unfortunately.

They also have been increasing the rate of episode releases so there was a lot to scroll thru! I find it I will add it!
No offense, but this sounds a lot like a comment made by someone who a/ doesn’t understand blockchain, b/ doesn’t understand high traffic websites. I don’t understand the former but have a fair understanding of the latter, but even then not at the scale of Reddit.

Blockchain is “great” for distributed data. How many people do you know would want to run a node that hosts a few TB of data and requires equally copious amounts of bandwidth?

If you meant that you think we should have federated services that interact with each other using an open protocol, I’ve got great news for you! Mastodon uses ActivityPub to federate and is a Twitter replacement. Lemmy and KBin both implement ActivityPub as well and are more geared towards forum-style use like Reddit.

Regardless of the underlying technology that’s chosen, I think the real issue is that everything ends up being centralised. That gives individuals/companies too much power. If every community has its own subreddit, then each reddit policy change is going to offend/infuriate some part of the user base.

If a community forum decides they want to ban $content, it only affects that community and nobody else cares.

Every forum doesn’t need to be connected with everything else. There’s very little benefit from a scuba diving forum to see posts about tennis or sneakers. The only reason Reddit is popular is because instead of having aggregating clients that show a bunch of different topics from different interest groups, we let the servers be the aggregators.

I guess what I’m describing is usenet, where your usenet client just shows you the things you were subscribed to. Gah I’m old.
edit: I mistook soapboxing for sincere interest in discussion. Please disregard.
Too gentrified for Python
React was literally first created in ML out of the author's dislike of MVC, who preferred functional programming and immutability[0]. For a long time, react aspired for its future to be in ReasonML.

Hooks came as no surprise to anyone who paid attention, as the recommended way to write components since at least 2016 was in the stateless functional style whenever possible, and many of us used recompose[1] to simulate hooks long before their introduction.

[0] https://github.com/reactiflux/q-and-a/blob/master/jordan-wal...

[1] https://github.com/acdlite/recompose
Increasing rat numbers in cities are linked to climate warming, urbanization
Here’s an explainer video about Norton’s Dome: https://youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?si=VJB5VA1LrvPWMZxz

Also, major shout out to the “Big Picture” book referenced in the question. It is one of my favorite books bar none.
To be fair, they had demand and were lacking supply at the point that they made their first large purchase. It was a bit risky, but probably not near as bad as an ordinary startup's chance of failure.
Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
The reason people invest here is because our government doesn't try as hard to steal all their money as other countries in the world. It's not the fault of any business that this country misspent all the tax money up to now and got into debt. If businesses are taxed too severely, the small amount of production that happens here will be further reduced, and our downfall will be guaranteed.
For me, the best visualation of temperature change over the last 170 years was the graphic in this article[1]

Going by that graphic, I doubt very much that it was an anomaly.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-10/temporary-ove...
This is very interesting - I like how you get access to both formats too.
I think you need to specify what you mean by "without a runtime". Do you mean "without a garbage collector"? "Without memory allocation"? Even C has a runtime, just a very small one.
Trump has thrown a wrench into a national EV charging program
That's just not true. It's not JS. Composer will install exactly one version of every package. If your dependencies have incompatible dependencies themselves, then Composer will refuse to install the package. And this fact has led to PHP packages actually being maintained and kept compatible with each other. Of course, sometimes you run into dependency issues, but it's worth it because you'll always have quite clean, flat and small vendor directory. Compared to the node_modules horror it's great for maintenance.
>The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) is a British think tank that studies the relationships between world cities in the context of globalization. It is based in the geography department of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, United Kingdom

I had to wonder why London would rated be above Tokyo and I had my answer immediately.
Yeah, I think it should be emphasized that the framebuffer (in this sense) is actually an outdated abstraction and not the "low-level" or "raw" access to the hardware that one might naively expect it to be.
Paper has limited information. If you failed to acquire a map with the relevant useful information you have a problem. Not every map contains enough information for every possible need. If you planned on going by car then improvised and took a bus you might not even have bus stops marked on it.

> I can't imagine being so dependent on a phone which can be accidentally dropped, misplaced, or simply run out of battery charge that I would be lost without it.

Same way you deal with anything else: what if you have a car problem? So you plan ahead. Get the car checked before a trip, fill the tank, figure out what to do if it does break.

Phones are easier. I've got a stack of old ones that are still functional, easy to bring an extra one. I have an external battery. You can charge in many cafes and similar, just find a Starbucks or something. You can go to a shop and buy a battery or the cheapest phone they have if it comes to that.
There are many other posts like this, I struggle to see what this one brings to the table. To understand how Rust manages memory, one should refer to the rust book instead - it will be a richer explanation originating closer to the source.
These are all areas of contention, i.e. Malvinas/Falklands. This, otoh, is not, so we do (or did, anyway) agree on the name. It has been universally referred to as the Gulf of Mexico as long as I remember. I'd literally never heard of Gulf of America or have seen it referred to as such on any map until Trump did this. Like Denali/Mt. McKinley, it is being done to belittle or disparage some despised population.
nice - thank you!
True, there are multiple complexities I did not even touch on. The child benefit clawback, and the reduction to the personal allowance and a lot more.

I only really trying to illustrate the complexity of the relatively simple and very common case of an employer paying a typical employee.
Obviously this is no replacement for a high quality therapist. Good luck finding one.

There are a lot of low quality therapists that cause harm to patients through incompetence. AI has a fit in the market somewhere.
This is the first time I'm encountering Norton's dome, and I'm not particularly academic, just really like learning about math -- so I'm hoping a friendly HNer can help me out here.

Is norton's dome essentially describing a saddle point? Is the only reason it's nondeterministic because at that point things go to infinity? If we're in the world of mechanics, wouldn't it be up to the machine to determine what to do at that point? Implementation defined, one might say?
why can't there be a separate emulated/psuedo layer over kernel that allows freezing the requested files in place specifically for the provided application?
> and now 20 years later we are still stuck with the same garbage.

and it hasn't been an issue ever. because all userland code lives in its own namespaces.
Agreed, but this is hardly limited to AI benchmarks. All benchmarks suffer from this. It’s almost cute the researchers have discovered that AI is not some wildly different thing.
Sure, you can email me at contact at langturbo dot com, or you can post the podcast names here as a comment.
I'm with you and would hope pickleball continues to have its essence as a game, rather than a sport. It's much more interesting played for fun.
An opinionated guide for getting started with Spark
Hello, author here.
I help companies build and scale machine learning and analytics applications, with Spark being a core part of our data processing toolkit. While Python is generally the go-to language for data processing, libraries like Pandas & NumPy come with a LOT of sharp edges. This is especially true if you're trying to read someone else's code.

IMO Spark has an edge over other data processing tools for a few reasons: it reads more like SQL, it's well-supported across cloud platforms, and it's simple to scale to handle nearly any size data you need to throw at it.

I wanted to create a resource that anyone with basic Python and SQL knowledge can use to get up and running quickly with Spark (you can probably learn 80% of what you need in a day or two). I also wanted to include some suggestions around code conventions to help with readability and avoiding gotchas that trip a lot of folks up.

Appreciate any feedback!
The question is about classical (newtonian) physics, which is a mathematical model, rather than the real world. The question is asking when is there non-determinism in the newton mathematical model.

In the model, you have perfect spheres...
If you attach a pendulum to a pendulum to a pendulum. You will get chaotic behavior. There's videos out there. Because my lamen thinking is that if each pendulum is just spinning in one direction (dimension). which is predictable. Then why does adding more dimensions causes the chaos. Don't get it.
> it will be a bit or more warmer on average then now

Averages don't matter as much as extremes for agriculture and infrastructure. The changes in extremes, particularly in winter, will completely upend the way of life for 10s of million of people. Parts of Norway will drop 20C.

https://theconversation.com/atlantic-ocean-is-headed-for-a-t...
> Do you think the US would have been willing to absorb similar levels of casualties if Mexico decided to join a military alliance with Russia or China?

No, certainly not. Russian losses are totally insane. The US lost 107 903 killed in action and 208 333 wounded in the entire Pacific theater of WWII, over four years that saw massive aerial and naval battles, unrestricted submarine warfare, large-scale amphibious operations, and savage fighting in the jungles across Southeast Asia.

Mediazona, which tracks Russian losses through open sources like obituaries in newspapers, has identified over 90 000 dead Russians by name and estimates the true number of deaths to be in the range of 138 500 to 200 000. Each death is accompanied by several wounded and permanently disabled cases, so as unbelievable as the Ukrainian estimates initially seemed to everyone, they appear to be roughly correct.

The consensus among military analysts is that after the initial months of 2022, Russia has seen only tactical-level successes, at best operational victories. There have been no strategic gains. For this, Russia has paid a higher price than the US did for fighting its way across the Pacific to Japan and forcing its surrender.
I mean, maybe? Media stations are the first target in most coups... Cutting off alternative voices limits opposition, which is probably why Musk, Ellison, and whatever Saudi princes bought Twitter; and why TikTok was neutered.

What I'm really 'implying' (ie, saying explicitly) is that we have a billionaire problem. They're strip-mining our future, and using every tool money can buy to do so. This includes the tools in the media and political class. It's blatant and in our face now, after years of being behind the scenes.
The article mentions that satire can dehumanize and then continues on to say it can be damaging to fictitious people. That kind of bizarre statement of somehow dehumanizing a fictitious person is why people distrust science. Because I'm not sure if that is actually a statement from the study or it is the supreme ignorance of the science communicator and the AI they use to write the article but it makes the entire article and utter joke. It certainly reads like a fever dream of an AI.
Newtonian theory has no assumptions or requirements for perfect spheres.
No, I have always emphatically felt that it is often just being a dick, and this particular rapidly disappearing form of "nettiquettte" will not be missed by me.

I, for one, am perfectly willing to grant strangers the courtesy of answering a little question and not essentially tell them "figure it out lazybones".

It's telling that nobody behaves like that IRL, where you can actually see another person's face.
Norton's Dome isn't spherical, so it's a bit more sophisticated than you imply. In classical physics, you could roll a ball up the dome so that it comes to a rest at the apex in finite time. Thus, due to time symmetry, it's also theoretically possible for a ball at rest on the apex to suddenly roll down the hill in a non-deterministic way. This is certainly unrealistic, as you say, but that's what classical physics predicts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome
Yeah it is.

Tackling climate change would've required people to potentially change their lives, possibly drastically and in doing so likely have a lower standard of living.

And they didn't want to.

They don't want to drive less, they don't want to fly less, they don't want smaller houses, they may say they want to do something about climate change but only so long as it doesn't actually meaningfully effect them.
https://archive.ph/QxWHG
> Every single so-called “AI company” … should read this blog post.

And their prospective users even more so. They should know what they are getting themselves into.
But multicultural. So I don't mind.
Open source lists of proxy IP addresses used by bots
Also: those on pickleball courts tend to talk the whole time. It’s hard trying to play tennis adjacent to shared courts with pickleball.
if designed correctly could this work, say preventing sending out excessive network calls or notifying user if system is being monitored along with ability to exit it?
A Guide to Japanese Listening Bars
It was never as simple as configuring an environment variable.
I've enjoyed playing this.

The basic strategy that works for me:

1. If I have an obvious skew in the distribution of cards I've been dealt, I can assume the common suit and hence the goal suit and try to buy the cards of that suit.

2. If the distribution of cards I have is more or less even, then I just save that round and try to make back the base cost.

The hard part has been trying to understand how to update my beliefs based on the trades being made. If you assume everyone is making the rational choice, you might be able to come up with some strategy, but if its against humans who might be trying to bluff, I have no idea. Although, they say its a win-win game, so maybe theres a way there too.
Yet they're both conceptually the same old thing: tagged unions.

In C++ everything is just more awkward since everything is bolted on as an afterthought in the stdlib but then lacking language syntax sugar to make its usage convenient.

E.g. the (somewhat weird looking) equivalent to Rust's match is called 'visit' in C++:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit2
> The first has a broad range of valid answers, the second is something that everyone ignored until DOGE

They cared plenty before, and there's no real indication to me of a difference with DOGE.

Both pre- and post-DOGE, it's all about weird anecdotes like "this wrench cost $20,000! This toilet seat cost $600!"[0], which, even at their current rate of work, would only amount to a rounding error compared to the $2 trillion they talk about cutting.

Which is probably for the best, because the $2 trillion goal — about the combined total of the entire US social security system plus all military pensions — is so large that "success" will cause a huge recession.

[0] https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/378125...
Interesting perspective. Where I live we appreciate police but we do not see them as line that holds society from chaos. Is US this fragile?
Sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
I’m sure he’d love to be a dictator, but he isn’t. At least not yet.

I’m not sure Russia can be allied with America and China at the same time. I don’t see America and China being allies, even if they had the same political system. And I don’t see what Russia would get by dumping China for America? Meanwhile, China at this point is more reliable.

But a thaw in relations? Yeah, sure, already happening.
It's not a billionaire problem. It's an America problem.

The symbolic moment when humanity lost the fight against climate change was July 25, 1997. US Senate passed the Byrd–Hagel Resolution 95–0, effectively saying that it would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Because the only superpower did not take the lead in the fight, it was doomed to fail.
I think the worst part of Reddit is the moderation/censorship. I think anything allowed by the First Amendment should be allowed on Reddit. I think disenfranchising bigots, racists, et al. does more harm by driving them to a true echo chamber like Truth Social.

Other than that, there have been MANY times over the years I wrote out a useful comment (eg tech support type stuff) only for it to hit me with “this thread has been locked” or one of those automod things where I don’t have enough history in that particular subreddit or I didn’t flair or whatever else.
And this is why modular sofas are so popular now. Whether it be lovesac or another company, sofas these days are coming in multiple boxes and making you do all the work unless you get costco white glove delivery service ;)
> What's the unique angle on this that puts it in the same genre as the worries over new technology intersecting with ancient human ills that have vexed philosophers since the introduction of writing?

So you've responded and not addressed any of the concern outlined, instead providing personal justification and musings but not engaging in the actual question. The cherry on top is your personal exchange at the end. Awesome.
> about a widespread measles outbreak

A quick search and got this[1]:

> At least 49 cases have been confirmed. Health officials — who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable outbreak — suspect 200 to 300 people may be infected.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-...
Padel is great, and I do wish it would make it over to the northeast US somewhat. Paddle tennis has some presence, but Padel is basically nonexistent still
To be really pedantic, there is no such concept in calculus, it's just a (second) derivative
Er what?? You're so far off base. I've lived in the Czech republic for 6 years, Finland for 3 years before that. I'm catholic and my family are Spanish on one side. On the other, well let's say if I was American I would call myself Irish American but I'm not Irish in fact. Ireland has its own culture and of course there's not the continuity with other EU states (Bavarian culture bleeds into Bohemian, the Nordic countries have their shared history, etc). You might argue that they have some cultural similarities with the Brits (but Irish people I know don't think much of that idea). The phenomenon you mention, US corporations using/abusing Irish tax law, is an assault on Irish people and culture not caused by them.

To point to a specific example, Spain and Ireland recognised Palestine in a joint statement.
You've got it backwards. Newtonian theory does not rule out perfect spheres (or any other mathematically perfect shape), hence the possibility of non-determinism.
I like politeness. If the USA were going to be uninhabitable anyways, might as well drop nukes on us to keep what they've got?
Lessons from David Lynch: A Software Developer's Perspective
Grand Theft Auto 3 (Liberty City Stories) running on the handheld... mind blown.
Now have a man write this article about AI girlfriends and watch the author have a seething meltdown.
Anti-cheat needs to have a view into all other processes on the system. Many of these will detect if certain debugging-style software is running, or if a virtual machine is running, for example.
Why Commercial Kitchen Rentals Are a Game-Changer for Food Entrepreneurs
Text to video for ads. That's horrible. I love all these generated videos and stuff coming out, but I can see how in a couple of years we're going to be inundated with AI generated garbage everywhere trying to sell us stuff. It's already messing up YouTube. Maybe it'll be good for people who make quality stuff and have Patreon accounts because people will be forced to pay for media if they want quality.
> but the difference is that it's way simpler to catch bugs in current days

Well, Microsoft are not able to do this. There are bugs which go unfixed for months or years.
O1 Reasoning. You know, the feature you used to have to pay $200/mo for.
Too complicated for the casual user. Doesn't work.
Apple's chips are dramatically faster than any other kind. If you are single thread perf constrained and have the money, running workloads on Apple silicon can actually make sense.