skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to say this again and take the downvotes but it's comments like this that generally come from people who don't get git.

git is not the same as those other pieces of software mentioned.

git's default workflow encourages lots of parallel work and making tons of branches (which because of bad naming are confusing because git branches are not what other software calls branches)
.

it's a fundamental difference and has increased my productivity and changed my work style for the positive in ways what would never have happened with CVS, svn, p4, hg, etc... all of which I used in the past for large projects.

If you're using git and your mental model is still one of those other systems you're doing it wrong or rather you still don't get it and are missing out.

I'm not suggesting the UX couldn't be better but when you finally get it you'll at least understand what it's doing and why the UXs for those other systems are not sufficient.
I think almost as a rule reddit has a really shallow level of expertise in any subreddit topic. I get really skeptical if someone recommends a subreddit as an authoritative community.
cool i will check it out then .
The trench is about 4 inches wide. It's under the eaves. You can also do it on the inside of the building if you have a crawl space. Dig 10 ft of trench. Pour 5 gallons water in trench mixed with something like 1 oz neonicotinoid. Then backfill the trench. The neonicotinoid bonds with the soil and remains active for about a decade, stopping termites from entering the building. Any house meeting building codes is going to have a roof and eaves that prevent large amounts of rain from entering this area. The area has non-neonicotonoid soil on top of it so there's no casual run off. You'd have to have leeching through the soil to whatever watershed you have. This is impossible because the neonicotonoids bond with the soil and do not move once set.

With fruit trees it also has long lasting action, bonding with the very bark of the tree and remaining for many years. This is a problem since honey bees come to the tree and get microdoses which appear to mess with their navigation. But the interesting part is other pollinators don't show these effects. Which is perhaps because honey bees have the food they store (honey) harvested by their "keepers" and are then given commercial corn syrup mix (grown with pesticides and including residue) as their only food. The simplistic nutrition of this substance compared to real honey weakens these fellows, compounding the disorienting effects of the neonicotonoids.

In OP's Japanese study they are mass applying neonicotonoids directly to the surface of a watershed, which resulted in huge problems to the down stream aquaculture. This use of neonicotonoids is a terrible idea and the adverse effects were not surprising. I'm quite surprised that mass application of neonicotonoids to a watershed isn't considered a criminal act.
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I hope he stays away from Twitter and only lets a PR team tweet his stuff. Twitter is a very toxic place.
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I see only two references. Do you see more than that?
What Is Blue Light?
Transkernel: Bridging Monolithic Kernels to Peripheral Cores [pdf]
Carrier-based tanker aircraft aren't a new concept - the US Navy had dedicated tanker aircraft starting in 1967 with the KA-3B[1], and later the KA-6D[2], and finally the S-3[3] (initially an ASW aircraft, but used mostly for the tanker mission by the end of its service life).

The lack of a dedicated carrier-based tanker aircraft is an unusual anomaly that's being worked around at great cost by pressing FA/18E/F aircraft into service as part-time tankers.

At its core, this will fix a regression in capability vs. unlocking significant new capability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-3_Skywarrior#Variant...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_A-6_Intruder#KA-6D

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_S-3_Viking
The Oura ring especially for 2. and 5. https://ouraring.com

Oura focuses on the night-time measurements, such as HR, HRV, temperature and sleep quality. It also tracks your daily activity and inactivity level. It summarizes all this to your ”readiness”.

Especially temperature is a game changer that no other popular wearable has.
This is an intel ad. I can overclock to get higher per-core frequencies with an AMD CPU that will cost me, as an end user, approximately $300 less than using an intel processor.

Post 'cost per FPS' analysis next, lol.
if you are running esxi or hyperv you can get an OpenVPN Access Server appliance, its pretty easy to setup and I'm sure you can find a youtube vidya or two to walk you through setting it up. It comes stock with a webui to admin it. 2 simultaneous connections with the free license.
Which is fine too, since not all communication needs to be secure (even on the internet).

These numbers are meaningless without a proper context and can potentially create a "security theater".
That's not true at all. All you need ist a diff tool and an email address.
I'm looking forward to 20 years from now when all QR codes have to be digitally signed to be valid, and the digital signature must be authorized by a certificate authority in your phone.
> "Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the researcher's reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the researcher's fees, a client who was satisfied with the answer could also leave a tip of up to $100." [0]

I'm quickly understanding why I've never heard of Google Answers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
Great summary. Feel free to share your work here? :)
I expected a ton of comments regarding record/replay automation being worse than programmatic, but--speaking from one of my past hats as UI Automation lead--this kind of tool can be really useful. It's super-quick to get something going that works today. Just don't expect the tests to live a long time.

That makes it really great for popping up some end-to-end "scaffolding" tests during incubation or primary development that you delete or reimplement later with "real" programmatic tests for stabilizing ongoing or incremental development. You don't really want to design the longer-lasting tests until UI flows have gelled, but this sort of quick-and-dirty you can do anytime.

There was also a really intriguing talk a number of GTACs ago that asserted that often the cost of just having to scrap and re-record a replay-based test when it breaks is lower than maintaining an equivalent programmatic one.

I'm not sure I believe that will frequently be true with proper UI automation design (page objects or some other kind of UI map, driving development of test hooks, etc). But I do suspect there's truth there vs. improper UI automation design.

If UI Auto isn't anyone's field on the team or a company doesn't want to sink significant resources into it, it's probably more likely you get the improper than proper designs by scripting, then they turn into maintenance sinkholes over time. At that point maybe record/replay is actually better.
Since first seeing the Ulam spiral on Numberphile, it wasn't surprising to me that lines like that would appear. Being that prime numbers are all the combinations by which you cannot stack a two dimensional area of pixels in a fully filled rectangle.

e.g.

...
...
...

9 is not prime, because you can fill all rows evenly.

...
..
..

7 is, because you can't fill all the rows evenly. So the gaps make lines...

Or to put it another way, the lines in the Ulam spiral are the pixels next to the corner pixels that make full rectangles that can't be made full rectangles another way.
...which is how the majority of software in the world is deployed, outside of the HN bubble. There are many statistics on this.
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Oh yes, we sent that. The existence of past threads doesn't make a repost off topic! Reposts are fine after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

"It didn't get traction originally" was referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20660889, not to the links above.
I mean, lots of nukes with 30 min travel time and 20-30 mile kill radius. Lots of new cruise missiles with mid flight trajectory correction. Dont need to hit a carrier if you can airburst a 1MT nuke 10 miles away to get a kill.
"for minorities, sometimes they (we?) must deal being talked about in nothing but soft articles"

Rather than "deal", they could take it upon themselves to improve those articles. Who should be responsible for doing that? You yourself, upon seeing such a "soft" article, could try to improve it. Or send a shout out to the feminist mathematicians reddit group that undoubtedly exists.

Also, comparing your links, the entry for Geiringer appears to be much longer and more detailed. I can not discern from the Remak article what exactly he worked on, either. It mentions "embeddings" and "CM-fields" - how is that better than "Fourier series" and "plasticity"? Maybe you view those articles in a biased way?

Also, "unicorn law"? What the serious fuck? They now count it as oppression that they get invited to talk about "women in open source"?
Since I have drawn such unexpected interest in the subject and power of analogies (and the broader class of mappings they belong to, metaphors), might I suggest Surfaces & Essences by Douglas Hofstadter (of Godel, Escher, Bach fame) and Emmanuel Sander. It is a very insightful, powerful, and amusingly self-referential cinderblock-sized tome on how the ability to draw inferences, create and manipulate metaphors, and have a sense for where they do and don’t apply is a central issue for “general artificial intelligence” (you know, the MIT-cantered, Marvin Minsky-fuelled, LISP-encoded “symbolic AI” that eventually plunged into ‘winter’ only to emerge, phoenix-like but neutered, in our ‘modern’ statistics-based Machine/Deep Learning guises).

Analogies are certainly useful. I recall reading that Hawking first had the idea of his eponymous radiation ‘emanating’ from black holes by way of a calculation performed by a Russian physicist (whose name escapes me at the moment) that argued that a sphere of ferromagnetic material should ‘emit’ tiny but theoretically detectable amounts of electromagnetic radiation. I forget the details. But apparently Hawking’s brain drew the analogue between the inverse square laws at play, the virtual particles, and the non-permeability of the objects and set out on his quest for what eventually made him world-famous.

I myself am a prolific, if somewhat irreverent, manufacturer of analogies, metaphors, and euphemisms. I remember the general horror of my family members when I asked great-grandma why she had been moved to “the launch-pad ward”. In my defence, I was six.
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It doesn't take much to forge Pollock. It's like an author taking the output of monkeys pounding on typewriters and publishing it. Not hard to forge compared to JRRT.

Modern art is a sham. I only appreciate art that I recognize takes skill above my own to create. Anyone can come up with random novel "art". For example, I could buy a SpaceX rocket and launch a piece of feces into low earth orbit. "Poop in Orbit" would be extremely novel and random piece of modern "art".

Michaelangelo blows my mind. Pollock makes me roll my eyes.
Have you seen a doctor about it? Doctors are usually useless about sleep issues, but a sudden change is more likely to have a cause that can be pinpointed (e.g. pituitary issues as mentioned elsewhere, maybe adrenal issue). Also, seizures that only happen at night are apparently somewhat common and can disrupt sleep. Even narcolepsy of all things can appear as sleep disruption. If you did try to see a doctor and got brushed off, maybe try again.

In my experience phenibut is the strongest medication easily available for staying asleep at night, although I switched to 10mg baclofen that is somewhat less effective than 600mg phenibut for me but I feel more confident about the safety and it is less addictive. At one point I took 600mg phenibut one day, 10mg baclofen the next, and nothing the third then repeat and that seems to work well for at least a month (I also recently tried taking baclofen for a few weeks at a time and while it didn't do much after a few days I'm fairly sure it did still do something, although I worry about using anticholinergic medication so frequently). Magnesium (600mg before bed) helps me as much as phenibut but wipes me out even more than usual the next day. I also use 150mg uridine monophosphate sublingually a few hours before bed, which doesn't help much with staying asleep but helps me feel more rested (nootropics depot is the highest quality source of the powder I have been able to find). That works best taking a few days off every month and a few weeks off every year. But I think in your case trying to figure out the cause is likely to be the most effective thing to try at this point.
Not much with modern processors. And it's worth it, you can't put a price on privacy and rights to it.
> Many fields are not baffling to people without specialized education.

And many fields are. I feel like at this point you're nitpicking their phrasing ("any" instead of "many") instead of addressing their point.

> Your description of Pollock’s mural reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/915/

Note that comic doesn't claim that those differences aren't real, just that they're not visible or interesting to most people, which is pretty close to what the parent comment said.
Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5M students in the US
Are you talking about lobste.rs or are you talking about this font? https://www.dafont.com/lobster.font

Where is it used?
Modern agricultural systems are built on the mass usage of systemic insecticide treatments (whether necessary or not). Neonicotinoids are almost certainly better than what came before them, although they have a limited useful life as insects inevitably develop resistance.

Phasing these chemicals out requires a new sustainable approach to pest management - more buy-in from farmers for IPM approaches that don't involve routine use of toxic chemicals. Assistance and training programs need to be put in place to achieve this before regulatory restrictions should be applied.
"Then, in 1909, German chemist Fritz Haber successfully fixed atmospheric nitrogen in a laboratory.[6][7] This success had extremely attractive military, industrial and agricultural applications. In 1913, barely five years later, a research team from BASF, led by Carl Bosch, developed the first industrial-scale application of the Haber process, sometimes called the Haber-Bosch process.[8][9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Haber_process

First extraction was 110 years ago, then it was industrialized 106 years ago.

That means they are out for

"anybody in the last hundred years" just barely.

It's amazing to think of how much change they enabled in the last 103 years.

Roughly as I understand it Haber-Bosh process enabled us to get to the billions (e.g. 1B & 2B). Norm Borlaug, & the green revolution which he helped start, built on top of fertilizer & enabled the next couple billions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

Norm Borlaug is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation & famine.
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The GitHub site says: please visit website, but has no link??? What's up guys...
The problem there is that the USB standard requires the initial power transfer to be low amperage, and only switches to the high amperage mode on request, with the request being delivered over the data pins.
There's a livestream of the burger and fries courtesy of the museum: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547
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