skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're never played System's Twilight before you can get a taste for it via in-browser emulation on the Internet Archive[1]. Note that the emulator doesn't support color or sound and the animations don't run at full speed, so if you enjoy what you see there you should install a better-featured emulator like Basilisk II to experience the game as it was intended.

If you have previously played System's Twilight and want a new game along the same lines, check out System Syzygy[2] which is directly inspired by System's Twilight (and similar games from the same era like 3 in Three and The Fool's Errand). It's also written in Rust(!) and fully open source(!!)[3] in case you want to get a peak under the hood (or cheat a bit).

[1] https://archive.org/details/SystemsTwilight

[2] https://mdsteele.games/syzygy/

[3] https://github.com/mdsteele/syzygy
Developing the recovery process has given them the chance to examine multiple fairings after they landed in the ocean. I'm sure they took the opportunity to see what refurbishing them would take, and perhaps that's what informed this decision.
I had used Data Studio to provide visualizations of data I had in BQ. I wasn't able to create anything useful without creating a bunch of custom views in BQ. Data Studio seemed to refresh the data a few times a day, which queried the BQ views . It ended up being annoying enough from a pricing perspective that I stopped using Data Studio.
This article VERY clearly states that the patient REFUSED, and then was forced to let it happen under threat of force:

The actual quote: "her husband was alarmed when the doctor suggested ECT. But he acquiesced when told that if he resisted, the hospital would seek a court order to overrule him." (note: author is talking about herself in the third person)

So I really do not "feel" force is mischaracterized. The threat was explicitly made AFTER the patient "was alarmed" (which means refused, let's get real). And threats are use of force, of course. (if I threatened to shoot you unless you did X, you would certainly call that force regardless of whether I actually shoot you, not even if I say "please". You would strongly disagree with me calling that "informed consent", rightly so)

And it's not just force. This is forcing a treatment that does permanent cognitive damage to the patient against their will. This was done knowing full well that given enough time, odds are pretty high it will disappear by itself (most suicidal patients "recover", very few actually commit suicide. I did a quick Google search and we're talking 4% apparently. Unfortunately, public opinion REALLY punishes any hospital where it happens. But that doesn't change that there was a 96% chance this patient would get cured without any action, never mind permanently crippling them)

Let's not pretend this is a moral grey area. It's not. This is far over the line.

How do you even know that this article isn't positive because the patient fears being readmitted (again with force) into the psychiatric facility and/or resumption of convulsive "therapy" ? (where she would be locked up in dismal conditions).
No. Absolutely not. They are totally different things.
> Or you installed a hidden camera, in which case the data was clearly stolen

I think this is more analogous to the present situation. Facebook has a public 'camera' - they record you every time you're on their site. It's up to them if they want to share what you did on their site - that data belongs to both of you.

But their camera is also on every site that you visit that pulls in FB resources - I would consider this a hidden camera.

When FB shares this data, they're sharing the composite recording of their one public and many, many hidden cameras.
I recall taking a look at NuttX when I was shopping for an RTOS for a project a while back. Ended up choosing Zephyr (https://www.zephyrproject.org/) but I'm curious if anyone here has experience with both and can contrast them a bit.
What was amazing about it? Tell us the story.
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That is idiotic
There was a sibling comment which mentioned some kind of anti-salt-water treatment, I guess that was Plan B and crossed the finish line while Plan A was still struggling?
Yup! Somehow everyone is content to have 1 in 68 Americans on the Autism spectrum, without any genuine, serious discussion of what causes it.

Amazing how many people delude themselves that they’re “thinking different” while actually engaging in mass groupthink.

Plenty of other topics are similarly taboo, but I won’t list them here — I’ll probably get plenty of downvotes just for this post!!
Does Go just warp people's view of what's possible in programming languages? This is a trivial problem to solve for arrays on any data type, but the author can only think about solving it with strings and for whatever bizarre reason can't write out the name "hash set" for the simplest, most general and performant solution?
You know better than that. He was referring to information security, not legislative compliance.
>> a pipe segment had been replaced with PVC instead of copper

Which is why when you do that you are supposed to always install a wire to jump over the now non-conductive section of pipe.
Just FYI, "jip" or "gyp" is an ethnic slur against the Roma people, and I would encourage you to phrase things differently in the future.
Ugh.

Depression is different from sadness. If your father died/girlfriend left you/job laid you off, you should be sad about events like those, and frankly, it would be concerning if you weren't.

The patients who are candidates for ECT aren't just upset. Some are actively trying to kill themselves. Others have such lassitude that they can't work up the energy[0] to eat, drink, or bathe, let alone live a normal life.

I take your point that the US tends to 'medicalize' conditions, and we might be better off with fewer drugs and a more caring society, but these patients aren't going to be helped by a box of tissues and a soft shoulder to cry on. It is an illness

[0] The suicide bit is not as contradictory as it sounds. Depression is associated with very decreased activity levels. Some depressed people make plans to self-harm, but lack the energy to actually go through with it. As they recover, the energy often comes back first, so they get into a regime where they are still considering self-harm but have also recovered enough to actually go through with it. As an analogy, think about the 'danger zone' in food preparation. Frozen or cooked food is relatively safe from bacteria, but during thawing, food is warm enough for bacteria to thrive, but not hot enough to eliminate them.
Not OP either, but Square cash debit card lets you get a “boost” (aka discount) at some stores. Some of them are 10% off.
Looking at the transcripts behind the indictment, Assange gave assistance to Manning to log in as a different user to protect his identity as a source.

It's standard for journalists to give material support to their sources in whistleblower circumstances in order to help protect their identity.
It's worth noting that depending on the amount of Data you capture in GA, each date table could be anywhere from 1s to 10s of GBs, and it can get pretty pricey to query from those tables.
> Ada, D, Swift, .NET Native, OCaml, Haskell, Oberon-2, Modula-3, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Sing#, System C#, Eiffel, Java (AOT compiled), Common Lisp, Swift.

None of those are as fast as Rust, at least not in all cases [1]. Sure, they're within the same order of magnitude performance-wise, but software engineering is probably the only technical discipline which dismisses a factor of 2 as irrelevant – compare the automotive, aerospace, or energy generation industries, which fight for single-digit percent efficiency gains.

[1] I'm talking about idiomatic code, not turning-Haskell-into-an-even-uglier-version-of-C or similar.
I have quite a few extrovert traits but I am also shy and socially awkward. Mixing shy and introvert into one category leads to a lot of confusion.
Not an article, but there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-YZbeajeY
Microbes in the human body swap genes, even across tissue boundaries
Exactly what I did. I’m not sure the original homeowner knew that it mattered.

I first noticed the issue with a stepper motor project I was working on. It was very interesting to hear the reduction in audible noise from the motors when the grounding was fixed.
One could use a tree-based set, which would only require being comparable, but that would get us back to average-case O(n log n).
A better comparison would be if you watched 8 second clips of various TV shows from around the world without knowing the title and without having control over which ones you watched.

Whether you consider that “actually watching” is a matter of opinion, but your ability to process and take action on any of the clips is certainly diminished.
> I don't think that's the case, only "popular" fetishes / sexual preferences would be discussed, and "weird" fetishes / sexual preferences would be seen as degenerate.

This is not unique to sexual preferences. Anything at all has an overton window and even permissive societies shun views that fall outside that.

There's this whole pop culture theme of 'be brave and be yourself' going around, and it's bullshit, because what it really means is 'be yourself as long as you're typical'. People who dare to be themselves and expose uncommon views or preferences are shunned every day.
Grounding rods are generally copper clad steel. In the US, proper ones are 8ft. $13 at Home Depot. An electrician can either measure the actual impedance or put in two rods with some spacing, so they're often just used in pairs.

Back when Radio Shack was closing I put the damper on some guy who was going to buy all the grounding rods thinking he'd scrap the copper. I did him the favor of disappointing him before he spent his money.
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It doesn't fire all three engines down to the deck. The landing burn starts with one engine (in order to have more control authority when the two outboard engines start up), then two more engines get lit, then they shut down shortly before the actual landing (reducing the TWR makes the landing a bit easier).
No he didn’t stop becoming a journalist. Journalists don’t get a pass to break the law.
It's the other way around unfortunately, people underestimate it: The effect of air travel on global warming is much higher, due to emissions effects in the upper atmosphere. Eg WP says 'Emissions weighting factor (EWFs) i.e., the factor by which aviation CO2 emissions should be multiplied to get the CO2-equivalent emissions for annual fleet average conditions is in the range 1.3–2.9'

And air travel is growing at a steep rate because air travel has gotten so cheap and big populations in developing countries take up air travel.
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Put that stuff in a Wiki. Or pull requests.
Most things were improved, and I suspect the remaining things improved over time. Sometime well after I moved on (after talking with the client's manager about what further development work would make them happy before I left, and delivering that), maybe at the end of the year, I got a surprise big check in the mail from the contracting company. There'd never been any talk of bonuses, and I'd declined the "hazard pay" one of the partners had offered when I first identified one of the problems, since I was just doing my job, but surprise money in the mail was nice. :)
I had the video issue, but I disabled by selecting this option: Settings ~> Video ~> Turn off my video when joining meeting. I can still manually enable video if it's needed.
It's important to remember how BigQuery actually stores it's data, with a columnar base datastore called Capacitor[0]. While you write data as a row, BigQuery does a certain amount of preprocessing on that data to turn it into column-oriented data. Writing a single new row is non-trivial, so it tends to write data in batches (though there is some other magic going on here I probably don't understand).

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/inside-capacitor-...
LLVM supports old platforms: some CI bots are targeting stable Debian, or Ubuntu 14.04.

LLVM is currently moving to C++14, which is a pain for some users like TensorFlow for instance which supports Ubuntu 14.04: the c++ standard library is too old.
There are technical solutions for everything but for a component like LLVM, not pressuring its users into convoluted workflow is important.

Of course the LLVM developpers would love to just use the latest version of the standard all the time. For the library part of the standard, it is worked around by having its own: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/llvm/includ... (and others in the same directory)
Source for any of this? 90% is a number you should be getting from somewhere, and it sounds unbelievably high.
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Interesting data point. Doesn't match my experience from Atlanta and D.C., but maybe I'm not looking for cyclists in the right places.
I worked at the BBC when this account requirement was rolled out. The idea behind it is honestly about improving the user experience. If you're logged in, they can keep your progress saved across devices (so for iPlayer that means across platforms like Computer, Phone, Xbox etc), and they can learn more about you to promote recommendations on what to watch. People broadly speaking really like this, it's one of the best features of Netflix as an example.
Nobody really documents things because that's not "agile."
Agile is do it now, break it later, fix it in the next sprint.
I don't think you're in a position to speak for all of humanity.
Sure. But the devices don’t do that.
When I took my MacBook to France I noticed this too. It was enough to make me really nervous. Never noticed the tingly feeling in the US.
Right, but the charges of particle-antiparticle pairs do cancel out, so there is no net energy produced.

Quick thought experiment: two particle-antiparticle pairs get created:

p1-ap1, p2-ap2

In regular space, after a very short amount of time p1 annihilates with ap1 and p2 with ap2. Net result is zero additional matter and energy, otherwise we'd just be creating random matter and/or energy everywhere.

If the same happens at the event horizon of a black hole and let's assume purely by chance, p1 and ap2 fall in and p2 and ap1 do not. After a short while, p1 and ap2 annihilate inside and p2 and ap1 outside. The result should be effectively the same as in the previous case, thus zero net energy and/or matter on either side. Thus, also no radiation and mass loss.

It'd be nice if an actual physicist chimed in at this point and told me where I went wrong :)
In 1997 at OOPSLA Alan Kay said "every object on the internet should have a URL". The response at that time (and many years afterward) could be generally described as smugnorant mockery. A bunch of smart-asses decided that "it doesn't work", mostly by sharing gossip about CORBA failures, rather than looking into relevant research and experiments.

20+ years later we get the same idea presented as some groundbreaking revelation, except it's made orders of magnitude more complicated by the virtue of being an ad-hoc accretion of "hip" technologies. All created with zero overarching vision by people who clearly aren't even aware of past research or ideas. The crowds applaud - themselves.

This is depressing.
I've seen a falcon launch (not the falcon heavy). It is indeed amazing
there are multiple derivations. my guess is he used the simpler of the two that does not require the field equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
Glad you like the subject. I obviously think it's an underrated yet fascinating and rewarding area to focus one's attention, otherwise I wouldn't be writing these things.

Pick up without the stink is a mantra for the blog. I got the idea from a blog post with a catchy title on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RZrw9wpEWEwWRTzLk/more-art-l...
It’s like a checking account except your balance is subject to the whims of the Chinese mafia. I’ll take two!
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> it feels like you are doing something productive when you're using Slack, but the majority of time you're actually not

That's been my main complaint about GitHub throughout its meteoric rise. Its public contribution graphs and user profiles littered with hundreds of dead forks certainly encourage this behavior.

And I say this not as a person who has an unreasonable disdain for things like business processes and engineering tools (such as bugtrackers); I tend to favor (good) process more than other people—I've had personal projects where I'm the only contributor and user, and yet if you peek into the bugtracker you'll see hundreds of comments from me explaining exactly what's going on wrt the root cause and any fixes, and all known issues at any given time have an appropriate bug on-file.

But when I use GitHub, it's like every interaction ends up getting sidetracked either due to input from users trying to feel productive by leaving comments that are ultimately value-negative, or some weirdo contributor responding to my bug report as if I'm filing a support request and who then tries to "help" me by explaining how I can work around it (I have no problems working around it—in fact, by the time you're hearing from me, that's old news. But this is a bugtracker! For, you know, tracking bugs!), or the peanut gallery using the bugtracker like it's a phpBB forum dedicated to general chatter and expressions of gratitude related to the project (instead of, you know, tracking bugs!).

The worst is when somebody is showing off a project, I take a look, find something like a simple typo, and let the person know, and then they ask me to file a PR. First, I'm probably not even interested in your project even as a leeching user. Secondly, if you can't be bothered to do anything about this thing in your own project that you already understand that that you probably already have opened in your IDE right now, do you really expect me to clone the repo, poke around until I understand the busted directory structure you're using to organize the code, locate the appropriate source file, commit it, and then use GitHub's needlessly convoluted pull request workflow that involves pushing those changes to a third fork and asking you to review them? Do you understand that all this is happening on top of the assumption that I even have a GitHub account in the first place? Why don't you just Alt-Tab over there and help yourself instead of offloading work onto some random stranger who has no vested interest in your project but who decided to spend a little effort typing out a message that would be of interest to the person currently pimping out their project?

... and then every time I mention this, someone comes around, totally misses the point, and leaves an obnoxious comment that "You don't have to clone the repo! You can make minor fixes like that from the GitHub web UI!"

It's like nobody knows how to distinguish between busy work vs things that are actually necessary to the process and/or indicators of real, forward motion.
Mildly off-topic: is "earthed" a European-ism? I've only ever heard "grounded" until reading through this article and thread.
Zero knowledge about this, but I'd absolutely love to know more if you can suggest any sources. Or is it one of those unsaid things that one comes to know?
Which single digits? Single digit seconds? :-) Milliseconds? Microseconds? Just wondering... Looks like my local gigE at work is 0.3ms machine-to-machine, for comparison. And at my data center, pinging google.com is 0.6ms. :-) At home I have nothing close to that though.

Anyway: This is a fascinating idea. I had looked a year or two ago and the options didn't seem as good. What adapter are you using? I'm seeing mostly an Actiontec for around $90 each. I need to check my head end, but this might just be plug-and-play to reach 2 of my hardest to cable locations. I started thinking about just running some fiber along the CATV runs (along the outside of the house), but that'd be more of a pain. Especially getting the terminated ends through the wall. I'd want to run fiber since it'd be exposed to possible lightning, but I guess the CATV cable is similarly exposed. Hell, maybe I should just run some shielded cat6...

Anyway, I might just try this MoCA 2.0, thanks for that pointer.
Daniel Shiffman is the creator of The Coding Train, which is one of the most wonderful places to learn programming using the Processing JavaScript library P5.js

You can see his extensive catalogue of lessons here[0].

[0] https://thecodingtrain.com/CodingChallenges/
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It's not just an issue for humans. I often have the problem that touching my single board computer (ODROID-UX4) or plugging another mains powered device into it like a screen zaps it and causes it to fault and reset.

I wonder if this is because it has a Chinese wall wort power supply with a UK adapter. Particularly, the Chinese two prong plug is symmetrical and fits the UK adapter in two orientations, so live and neutral are not differentiated.
That's a good workaround, but Polycoms are still much better than mobiles/computers (a bit obviously, since they're purpose-built for speaking). I'll definitely try your advice now that we use Zoom, though, thank you!
Between a "log in to sync your progress" and a "log in to to hear anything at all", the latter seems like worse UX.
This isn't about the laws of electricity but about how the power supply is designed. I was surprised recently when my Mac-using colleague needed a three-pronged extension cord. I don't carry those around in my backpack because everything I need is two-pronged. I thought it was silly that Apple would force this on their users. With a regular transformer/diode bridge/capacitor power supply this isn't needed.

The traditional use of a ground-plug in these situations is to protected the user against electric shock should "hot" a wire get loose and touch the metal case. But when the voltage is dropped to non-lethal amounts (or if you have a plastic case) this is unnecessary. In fact, most "third wires" don't even make it to the device- they terminate in the transformer box. So the Mac plug was truly a bit perplexing.

But now I know why.
That would be marginally better than memorizing ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Is there anything inherent about the letter A that makes it get sorted in front of the letter Z?
For a while...reapply as needed.

That said, NYT is one of my top news sites and I feel it's worth subscribing to support their traditional journalism model.
> It's standard for journalists to give material support to their sources in whistleblower circumstances in order to help protect their identity.

I don't think it's standard for journalists to give material support for the criminal acts of their sources. For instance: what if Assange had assisted Manning by giving him a gun so he could kill someone who'd discovered that he had blown the whistle, in order to help protect his identity?

I think the key question is, did Assange help Manning commit any crimes, or did he merely report the information resulted from Manning's un-assisted crimes?
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Be very careful about this. Grounding isn't always as easy as hammering in a spike. Some soils don't conduct properly, something that can change throughout the year as water tables move.

A few US soldiers in Iraq were wounded in showers because while the electrical system was not properly ground, the shower drains were.
It's certainly British English.
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