skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpick: they likely are highly correlated, but hard woods do not have to have high density.

Looking at https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/top-ten-heaviest..., the entire top 10 is heavier than water (#10 is almost 20% heavier; #1 over 35%)
I agree. Check out the voting patterns in this thread, or the way this thread has not been flagged the every other similar thread has.
I've been doing a little wood turning lately, and have developed a deep love of exotic hardwoods. Such a guilty pleasure... Really good ebony is an amazing material to work with.

Wood Database is a godsend for getting quality information on interesting woods, but trying to verify a vendor's claims about the identity and source of any given wood is hard!
I sent away for the demo cd. it's probably still in a stack someplace. very sad this didn't take off more.
Would also love to know if it will support JRuby.
Me too. It seems way "cleaner" that way, not mixing semantics
Sparse matricies are represented as a sort of 2d linked list
Thanks, I found this as well. It's perfect for my needs.
The concept of "fake" news is a slippery slope. Anyone that's in the business of gathering and presenting news has a number of vested interests. Sensationalism. Fabrication. Fear mongering. Persuasion. Ingratiation. Language itself is mostly a tool for some shade of lying and/or intimidation, with the occasional fringe use of conveying factual information or for enabling cooperation between peers.
Musicologists have been asking this question from a phenomenological angle for some time. It's quite interesting how listening and perception in the English language have almost no distinction from each other. Our ears listen always, but our brain perceives is about as far as we get. In French musicology and music psychology, there is much more desperation between modes of listening and they all have their own definitions.
Interesting, I stand corrected. It is the first time I've heard the term used in my language like that.
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My thought experiment for considering the moral limits of capitalism: If producing Soylent Green were legal and profitable, would there be actors willing to produce and sell it?

If you answer no, see: Philip Morris, Lockheed, Beretta, etc.
I still miss that keyboard. I had an X201 until it was practically in pieces. The power jack (mobo side) died, and I replaced it once. Replaced the cooling fan. Ran it on a cooling pad to supplement the airflow. Finally, the spacebar and track pad started going out. After about 4 years, I finally broke down and got an X1 carbon. I sorely miss having a non-chiclet keyboard.
The idea that "free speech" == "only protection from state censorship" is an americanism, and not some universally accepted dictum.

Historically it wasn't even always the state that suppressed free speech - it was often some church, mobs of "concerned citizens", the private interests owning the press, the profits of cinema studios concerned with citizens boycotting lewd movies and thus self-submitting to things like the Hays code (which was self-imposed by the "motion picture industry", and so on.

If "free speech" is good, there's nothing wrong for asking for less or no censorship in the media, in social media, in the workplace, in arts, and other places...
Hi everyone, I have been working on Nominal the past year and am hoping I could get some feedback/critique on the product, especially the design and business side of things as those aren't my strengths.

This is a solo project, a side hustle / lifestyle business. I originally built it to solve my own problem and have decided to open it up to the public. I intend to keep it alive as long as my (currently low) hosting costs are covered.

Nominal is a progressive web app, accessed through the web but available on mobile through Add to Homescreen with "native-like" features (currently only using service worker cache and push notifications).

This is the first paid SaaS that I have ever built on my own. There are a lot of options in this space, but I feel there might be a small niche of users like myself interested in a small paid for app that respects user privacy and data ownership.

Thanks for your time!
I agree. This doesn't seem to be a very clean API. It's extremely "stringy".
That's almost a tautology. Everyone find their own values good, and other people's values less good (if not downright bad).

In any case, you might have gained some understanding of why other people get upset, when _your_ values are imposed on them.
Any recommendations of Thinkpad model to buy in 2018 ? I can wait if anything promising is coming in 2019.
Worse than the badges is that the more points you have, the more features you get on SO.

Which could be a positive (it certainly makes sense that the most engaged people should be the community moderators), but when combined with how points are earned, it would naturally lead to weirdness like the swaths of downvoting, reporting and totally unnecessary grammar edits.
So, category theory is the abstraction of abstractions? Is that what it's saying?
Honestly, some of those fake articles could have legitimately been written by the original Mirror. It's slightly amusing to me how they pretend like they're the beacon of truth and journalism in that article; I'd be completely sympathetic if it was the BBC, but it's not. I'm not saying they deserved this, but I'll be lying if I said I don't feel a small amount of schadenfreude. The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Mirror are so unreliable and clickbaity.
Interesting. We have a different ironwood in northern Mexico, Olneya tesota. They are tiny in comparison, only used for little wood carvings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olneya
Please do not take a harsh tone towards other participants, and especially don't make personal attacks against them. Go out of your way to show that you are criticizing a statement, not a person.

Please avoid statements about the presumed typical desires, capabilities or actions of some demographic group. They can offend people in that group, and they are always off-topic in GNU Project discussions.
Having a code of conduct isn't about creating rules, it's about making a public commitment to enforce them.

Now that they've shown us that they clearly don't care about a code of conduct, I wouldn't trust them to ever handle any actual conduct issues in a reasonable way. Maybe they'd just send me a joke instead.
They've been replaced a few times under the hood. Message signalled interrupts exist, and even regular interrupts on PCI-E and HyperTransport look more like network packets or rdma read/writes than a true electrical signal.

DPDK turns off interrupts and manually polls the card in a loop AFAIK.

But for most cases, the underlying semantics though are useful enough that the abstraction isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I actually ordered a Portal device for each of my family households (parents, grand parents, siblings and in-laws) for Christmas.

I think it’s a great product and can’t wait to have mine at home.

All the fuss about tracking is non-sense. Ads are a great way to monetize products that you want to make available to a large audience. And obviously as a user you want meaningful ads and not just a bunch of garbage. To do that tracking is necessary...seems like a straightforward value exchange!

I also want to note that I buy stuff frequently from ads...some of my most loved items found me through ads! It’s frankly a great way to discover great stuff.

Do I sometimes see ads that are not relevant? Sure, just as I see post from friends/family that are not relevant...I just scroll by, easy as that!
> So if they don't bring it up on their own I'll ask questions about emotional state and emotional reactions to situations

This! All too often management thinks the "Tell me what's on your mind" covers them with the ol' "Well I asked and they didn't say anything" excuse. It absolutely does not.

As a newer hire on my team, sure I feel able to discuss deeper things with my manager. But for better or worse, that doesn't mean I always will. It's leadership's job to get the ball running with these types of deeper questions, rather than just asking "Tell me what's on your mind". Just asking for someone to tell you whatever is on your mind is much too ambiguous and needs to be narrowed in scope.
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I wish I could see the API docs w/out signing up. Like what endpoints are available, etc.
Wouldnt that be a T470? :)
Sarcastic?
> In particular, by writing that codes of conduct are "punitive spirit", RMS shows a misunderstanding of how these texts came into existence.

I'll not argue over why they came into existence as the idea seems good enough (and if you'd asked me a few years ago I'd even said it was a good idea), but now I'll ask:

Over the years I've heard a number of times where a CoC has been used to make a lot of trouble in projects that where originally more or less healthy.

I read my it and open source news from Ars Technica, HN and from time to time Slashdot though, so I might be heavily biased.

Can anyone point me to one ore more projects where CoCs have actually improved open source/free software projects or communities?

As I already mentioned I guess originally I would have thought it was a good idea, but over the last few years I've heard either nothing or problems from projects that adopted a CoC.
The self-fulfilling prophecy part. If you define exercise as enhancing fitness and health, overtraining isn’t exercise anymore, and exercise by definition becomes good for you.
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...something, something, ..., could have a negative effect on the career,... something...
The problem with this article: pictures with text on it.
> For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity

That's a backhanded way of cementing the validity of the concept of "gender expression" throughout the GNU project.

I would have been perfectly on board with a guideline that simply said not to police people's gender expressions, the question being rather off-topic and disruptive in the given context. That would do the job regardless of what your political opinions on the gender question are.
Assuming they use the same amount of material for each (it's hard to guess, on one hand modern houses are bigger and have more features, on the other hand older houses generally use much more substantial lumber) here are some ideas:

- I imagine the modern kits come with a lot more detail work already done.
- Raw lumber was very cheap back in the day while they were still cutting down virgin forests.
- The market of self-made homes was much bigger and allowed for larger economies of scale and competition.
SpaceX will be fine without Elon if that ever has to happen. Gwynne Shotwell is very capable of leading it.
ohhh, you are my new best friend!

i love the serendipity of this topic coming up just days after that post you found when i have not looked into it for a few years after trying for a few days to get that original squeak terminal to run in pharo.

greetings, eMBee.
Let's say fund of size X divided by N companies = Z amount invested per startup. 0.1% of them will return 5X.

So while you might disqualify some poor companies in the 99%, what are the odds you don't just get another poor company? The odds that the money you didn't spend will now go to a successful company doesn't really change since the hyped companies would already have the money and the rest are a complete crapshoot.

Meanwhile, how much does that diligence cost? If it's more than Z across your portfolio then you're actually down a shot and have lowered odds for the whole fund. If 99% are going to fail anyway, why spend more money just investing in a different 99%? Remember the entire fund has to be invested, you can't return or rollover the money so this is actually the optimal strategy. It's strange math but it works.
I think my point was poorly phrased, so the replies all (understandably) missed my point, which was roughly: there are lots of "academics" whose "research" is purely political/ideological activism and they're eroding the public trust in the academy generally. I'm specifically thinking of the folks who push climate change denialism or basically anyone in the grievance studies departments. In modern times, activist/academics more often than not seem to be these sorts of imposters (maybe I'm biased by relatively few 'squeaky wheels' and there are lots of legit academics/activists?).

Others have rightly pointed out that there have been many examples of academics who were also activists, and you're pointing out that Lessig is an academic on paper (as are the "academics" I referenced in the previous paragraph, although Lessig may be legitimate). Both of these are valid, correct observations, but they miss my point (which isn't to say that my point is good; only that it survives these observations! :) ).
do reports, in general, want 1 on 1s? i certainly don't. They hold no value to me. They are largely constructed to inform managers as to what's going on, which is something I already know.
I believe most of the community would be totally fine with a CoC that banned things commonly agreed as bad (sexual harassment, trolling, etc) with no ulterior motive.

As you said, that's not what happened here. As the writer of the "Contributors Covenant" has made clear, there is an ulterior motive. She has a political agenda.

I think if Linus chose any other CoC, there would be no uproar.
It also has the most authoritative answer about parsing HTML with regular expressions in a question that isn't about parsing HTML in any general way.
The Test Calls page (https://developer.marvel.com/docs) shows a list of end points.
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What I meant was I know people who have PBA/FOP cards, have tried to use them, and have gotten a tongue lashing in response in conjunction with no leniency at all. The only ones I've heard of ever working as intended are the courtesy cards for immediate family, and the general consensus is that dealing with your State Trooper father that night is as bad or worse than a $300 speeding ticket.
> Do you think that Ts'o just needed you to step in and explain how domestic sexual abuse is rape and that he's just being insufficiently awesome[0]?

Am I missing the back story here? The poster explicitly says he is not trying to diminish the awfulness of rape, just concerned that some cited statistics are inaccurate about its frequency.

I'm not sure how this topic comes up in a software project, but, is this really an example of rape apology to you? Surely everybody wants to discuss issues honestly, using the best possible data.
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> Please avoid statements about the presumed typical desires, capabilities or actions of some demographic group. They can offend people in that group

You can tell a programmer's writing by how closely that rule dodges recursing upon itself.
It's available in the test calls section: https://developer.marvel.com/docs
Basically, you're right, but thinking thinking in terms of "money" is missing a more general point. A loan doesn't have to involve money at all. There are various reasons why the price of credit isn't zero.

One reason is that most humans have a "preference for the present", i.e. given the choice they would rather have something now that the same thing at some point in the future. As a result, most people are not willing to give something away now, unless they have an expectation that they will get something more valuable in the future.

Another reason is that there is always risk involved in lending. The borrower might not be able to fulfil their obligations, whereas the lender might find a better use for whatever it is they're lending. Therefore, it generally is better to keep something, than to lend it at an interest rate of zero.
Yes, there are commercial products.

They also get used for industrial automation and data collection.
Maybe he wants the NSA and FBI to take note as well.
> but that is more about clientele.

Yeah, absolutely agreed.
Most 'traditional cuisines' tend to be fairly healthy.
My pet theory on this is along the lines of an evolutionary standpoint.. if it wasn't healthy, the people eating it would have been more likely to die off.

Unfortunately North American's got all the delicious foods from all the cultures that immigrated :)
I don't think construction is the applicable industry.The kit itself would be a manufactured good - you are adding the construction yourself.
3D might have been a solution to limited pixel space. Now, pixels are cheap and abundant, so you can lay everything out and switch back and forth with a flick of your eyes.
completely agree. 1 on 1s in my experience (25 years with lots of managers) is they have no value for me.
I think many people would be fans of CoCs.

The problem is THIS CoC has an explicit agenda, which can lead to it being "weaponized, misused, abused".

If the community all came together and chose a non-biased CoC, there would be no uproar.
X280, T480, T480s, 25, and X1 Carbon are all good. I’m not familiar with their workstation laptops.
tl;dr: An integrated workspace and window manager, emphasizing zooming and panning.

Might be helpful in current, resolution-limited, VR.
Lol. This wasn't dreaming. This was posturing. It was America puffing themselves up to look big when confronted with the threat of the USSR. You have to dig deep to find the dreamers, you can sometimes find thier writing on the subway walls or the tenement halls. Or see them standing by lone sea breakers and desolate streams. Don't worry a new tune will be along soon. No one knows where from, thats part of the charm. Wait for the next dream, the OP posted a dream that is dying.
Interesting article. Thanks for sharing it. On a complete tangent I just decided I can no longer abide publishers who litter their content with inline advertisements. I couldn’t finish and I am avoiding The NY Times going forward. It’s just too distracting.
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Please do not take a harsh tone towards other participants, and especially don't make personal attacks against them. Go out of your way to show that you are criticizing a statement, not a person.
$75K and "a bump every rerun" in 2017 was due to Shark Tank. That is neither sustainable nor repeatable.
> (A) the maximum sustainable work week is 40 hours

I wonder about this. If by "work" we define coding and code-related activities (code reviews, learning new tech etc.), then I don't think I can sustainably pull anything close to 40 hours per week. 25 (or mayyybe 30) sounds like a more realistic number.

Judging by what happens in the companies I've worked at, i.e. people slacking off for significant portions of the day, or sitting in meetings (which is usualy not nearly as tiring as coding), I think that's probably the norm. What we're missing is the companies acknowledging this fact instead of insiting on the arbitrary number of 40 hours per week. Few things are more frustrating than having to occupy a chair at work when you know you're already spent for the day, and could be already at home recharging for the next day.
Most software just provides some screens to enter and view data.

That is a dangerously naive view of software. Even apps that look like simple CRUD end up riddled with specialized business logic. Apps which truly are a few screens of simple CRUD end up as spreadsheets or Microsoft Access. We've gotten pretty good at not reinventing wheels.

Say what you will about the challenge of it, doctoring is fundamentally procedural and repetitive. Patients don't really show up with whole new undiscovered diseases anymore.
because software development has become a professional enterprise, and with that people develop standards on how to interact with each other in large and small organisations, rather than just winging it in a garage.

Anyway, "we didn't need X then, why do we need X now" is an absolutely atrocious argument. Because demands and communities change obviously, and with them how we conduct and organise our communities and organisations.
> "the drop that filled the glass"

Honestly, this feels like an extremely optimistic take. Journalists are regularly killed around the world, yes. But how many people even heard about it when Daphne Galizia was murdered? It's hard for a string of atrocities to add up when most of them don't even register with people.

The nastier take here is that this is some combination of a regional spat (Turkey suddenly has a stick to hit Saudi Arabia with) and nationalistic/journalistic self interest (when Russian and Maltese journalists are killed, they're honored, but when journalists with US papers are killed, it's time to do something).

I'd really like to think this is the culmination of building outrage, but every time I see somebody post about the death of a journalist who was "a US resident working with a US newspaper!" I become a little more convinced that it's mostly a nationalistic sentiment that these things don't happen to us.
That kind of behavior is endemic in our community. So... yes, I guess we do.
I'd just like to know how you come to the conclusion that evening out the demographics in the free software community could in any way improve the quality of projects. I guess you're looking for better harmony in the community? Still, please explain how setting quotas would improve anything, rather than stirring up more strife.
In all things housing, the mantra to repeat is, "houses are cheap; it's land that's (sometimes) expensive."

By the way, if these prices surprise you, then you should have a look at the housing market in the vast majority of the U.S. that isn't near an ocean. The country is full of perfectly-fine housing in working-class neighborhoods for $150k or less.
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I suppose the question at the root of it is: can you determine someone's "entrepreneurialness" completely by looking at their total profit (or maybe total revenue)? Or is there more to it than that?

For instance, Tesla's ideas were used extensively by others to make money. Is the fact that he personally didn't capture that revenue with is own account take away from his "entrepreneurialness" score?
Not to mention disorienting. I loved the Descent [1] series but damn was it ever difficult to wrap your head around, at least at the beginning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(1995_video_game)
the 1 on 1 IS the disruption.
Just the opposite: you need the CoC to make sure they do get kicked out. Because for example if the writer of that comment is friends with the moderators of the forum, they might get a slap on the wrist and allowed to continue. Having a written CoC lets people know that the mods can be held accountable to the document. Another example making the same point, this time of actual harassment being ignored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxLENeCf3OA
Right now nothing. I used to work with HPUX with "Real time Extensions". One of the things we could do is shut off interrupts for certain processes.

There was a subset of systems calls we could use while in this realtime mode (A lot of unix system call really rely on interrupts, and the whole OS is built on them..).

I think interrupts started from hardware signals, but were expanded to include software.