skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been using Thonny with my students which has some basic feedback about errors and possible solutions, which isn’t bad (as well as variable inspection, although that gets a bit tedious with larger programs).
> DNS over HTTPS will prevent clients in your network from using the default local DNS services.

Relevant: Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21562295
It helps that due to a mix of incompetence and lack of support from the governor‘s office that there is no direct train link through Boston that a train from Maine might use to get to NYC.
As a general thought, depending on your git hosting needs Gitea may be suitable instead of GitLab.

It doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of integrations, but if you just need something with a decent web interface (github like) and using the same fork/branch/PR/merge model, it'll work.

It's system requirements are much smaller than GitLab, and it's trivial to just leave running for months at a time with having to actively SysAdmin it. GitLab is more of an "enterprise" system with all the bells and whistles, requiring a correspondingly higher amount of resources and ongoing maintenance.
No, I made that up as a complete non-specialist. Just knock out the genes for androgen receptors to how they are in CAIS.
Cannibalising you're own sales is an issue too - high street bakeries in UK won't sell off for cheaper at the end of the day, they throw it out; otherwise they're lose full price sales because poor people would come and buy the goods at the end of the day.
I blame Hangouts.
This is 45 image segments encoded into a single 8k signal. I have a smaller one, and it's amazing, but its 4k image input results in approximately 800x600 equivalent for each rendered angle.
It used to be very popular. For quite a while Pidgin was my main or only chat application.

I think it started to die when Google decided the XMPP spec was not good enough for them and deviated from it, eventually abandoning it completely. Then, came Facebook and almost everybody people knew was there so it was convenient.

I wish it would come back though. OTR encryption was fairly easy to setup and under my control.
> It’s common for car seats to be attached to a seat belt which adds some play.

Proper installation with a seatbelt involves engaging the retractor so it has basically no play at all.

It's true that improper installation is quite common, though.

> The LATCH system is seems to be bolted on, but not always used. It’s still going to bounce in a crash as the seat cushion has a lot of give under these forces.

A forward-facing seat using LATCH should usually be installed with three point LATCH (the third is over the seat back), so without much play in any direction, certainly not forward.

Two point LATCH can move up-down and side-to-side a bit, but still not forward.
Sure. I wouldn't mandate it. There would be no incentive to mandate it, when the owner remains in legal, practical control all the time, even in court.

I think most of us would still use it. To record our lives so you can review or share the good parts or prove something you said, heard or seen. It's already happening with phones (they just don't record all the time but that's mostly to technical limitations) and I think people today would love to be able to get easy, legal access to footage containing them from other sources.
Yes! I requested an invite and reached out to Suhail on Twitter (I actually interviewed at Mixpanel ~ 18 months ago before I knew anything about MP or MA) about a technical question about MA that I got to thinking about from my experience building BG but didn't hear back from them.

Mixpanel was a cool interview. I remember the question was about data structure for a rank system (it was a heap). The office in SF is beautiful, and the lunchtime catered food, was great.

I guess I'd have more to say about MA if I knew more about it! I did not try it yet and I don't know how they make Chrome faster in the cloud and deliver a seamless broadcast of the screen to the user, but with enough smart people, I'm sure it's possible.

As I said in a previous comment, I definitely think the future is mreo 'app virtualization' in the cloud, in some sense perhaps MA is starting at the beginning of that curve.
The "Asian font" link doesn't work anymore - here's an updated link: http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/search?q=asian+font

looks like a lot of people got their "initials" tattooed.
I learned German in Austria and I was taught a handful of words which we use a different article here as compared to in Germany. My recollection is that most of these words either were commercial, like Nutella, or loan words coming from other languages (e.g. not every loan word is neutral).

But while I did eventually get my C1, my German isn't great so I don't want to claim any expertise.
I'm not at all trying to pull this into the 'think of the children' domain, I'm just pointing out that what you think is going on is probably not nearly as bad as what is really going on. It goes a lot further than just child pornography, think snuff movies involving children made to order and other 'creative' idiocy.

I'm all for people having access to encryption, I'm also for stamping out these criminals. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Aha, thanks. I guess I'm not clear as to why an actor would care about the egress time of a message (unless it were waiting for a response)
In that case it would make no difference.

Depreciation works like this: When you spend a million on equipment, you get to claim a certain percentage of its cost against taxes every year until you reach 100% and the equipment is projected to require replacement.

For equipment with a projected lifetime of five years the percentage is 20%. For equipment that will be replaced next year the percentage is 100%, and this rule would makes no difference.

Effectively, FedEx got to make claims in one year that it would otherwise have to spread over n future years.
Awesome. Thanks for the detailed answer.

I dig your dedication! You well earned to be on the front page!

Who do you see as the main target audience? And do you have a business model in mind?
Inca – Message Tracing and Loss Detection for Streaming Data
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There was a whole potential trading block of nations with similar government systems that could trade with Cuba, but none of them had much to trade until they embraced some form of capitalism.
The standard argument is that some words with different meanings (and pronunciations!) can only be distinguished by ss/ß in writing, e.g. "Masse" (mass) vs. "Maße" (measures). The first one has a short "a" sound, the second one has a long "a" sound.
They mention farming applications... but is there any chance of this actually becoming available for farmers?
Many of these old railroad routes are not neatly followed with highways, so such a replacement service may take much, much longer.
You are right. I meant George Orwell!
It doesn‘t connect every rural area, the same way that EAS doesn‘t.
Compared to "impossible", this is incredibly simple.
Yes, parts of the app are in Chinese. It's a Chinese app. But the tourpass part is in perfect English.

If you've not been to China and experienced life without payments, the above might seem like too much effort or anti patterns, which is all true.
It is technically correct, but might not be the easiest way to understand it intuitively (this will be different for everyone, but I didn't quite get the explanations in the thread).

I'll try to make it simple: for now, let's admit impedance is resistance. It is just a way to express how much the medium will slow a propagation down.

This works with multiple fields: thermal resistance, soundwaves, lightwaves (refraction index is c/v), or you can just imagine yourself going trough different mediums: when diving, you encounter some resistance where the medium starts slowing you more. You lose energy there. If instead the resistance was the same all the way (if you were already swimming), there would be no interface to lose energy at. Diving championships use bubblers to soften the water, that's adapting impedance, in a sense.

Of course, this analogy is a bit extreme at our scale, due to the high absorption and terminal velocity differences between the two mediums. But you have the same with soundwaves: a wall will reflect your speech because sound has a lot higher speed in concrete. Some surfaces will do it better than others. And to avoid that kind of parasite reflection during ultrasound imaging, a gel is employed to match impedance between the emitter and the body [1] (avoiding a thin air layer in between).

OK, now for real (actually complex) impedance, you have to take into account that the speed inside the medium varies based on frequency. That's called dispersion in optics and acoustics, and is sometimes compensated by employing mediums with an inverted dispersion relationship [2].

OK, I'll admit that propagation speed isn't strictly what impedance is, but it is pretty close, and they probably have an intimate relationship (which I can't reflect on right now, but feel free to elaborate below, if you feel like it).

This actually sent me down a small rabbit hole in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_analogy

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_(optics)#Dispersion...
[2]: http://www.m2optics.com/blog/bid/61431/Chromatic-Dispersion-...
Our booster seats were just seat-shaped Polystyrene blocks with a cloth cover. Worked perfectly fine.
Done, thanks for pointing it out!
Well, some of them. It's not great, but it's better than where Firefox is now.
> No, but you can order physical abuse over the internet

Is this actually taking place at a non-negligible scale?
If you need to evacuate everyone at once, sure. But they would evacuate gradually over many days from ~4 days to ~2 weeks from the attack, basically as soon as they will become desperate running out of drinkable water (something a house with a heater tank in the attic is also a good thing for).

No public infrastructure will work for that - bus drivers will quickly die of radiation sickness or just refuse to do their work, but for one, one-way trip to save your own ass it's okay.

Essentially, this is why suburbanisation come to being: war planners realized exactly the thing you are pointing out: that evacuating people in a crisis - while the Soviet bombers will be flying (it was before ICBMs) was an impractical idea, it will kill more people than it will save; but what works instead, is to evacuate people in advance: just make them live far from city centers which can be attacked. And redline the city centers: let only people you don't care about surviving, live there.

In 1950s Soviet Union, "workers and peasants" lived in villages and suburbs, these were replaceable anyway and killing them had little benefit. Difficult to replace cadres - engineers, most qualified workers, high ranking military, Party officials and such - lived in posh Stalinist apartments in city centers, and would perish inevitably. In 1950s U.S., it was already other way around. Soviet Union could do nothing about that: they simply couldn't afford an individual house, and thus inevitably, individual car, for everyone - they still can't. It was a clear win and moved a balance in the Cold War a great lot in U.S. favor.

One thing to realize here, it will best of all work if U.S. attacked first - then they choose the timing and attack in late evening in the U.S. when everyone is at home already, are warned, and don't leave their houses in the morning to avoid being caught in road panic, and have some hours to prepare for the Commie attack such as letting go of any combustibles, covering car so it doesn't suck fallout particles in, and stocking water and if possible, food.
Nutella is a pathological example. It's a running gag among German speakers that they cannot figure out its gender. The discussion usually ends when someone suggests something like "das Nutellaglas" ("the jar of Nutella"), i.e. building a compound word so that the other part of the word imposes its gender.

EDIT: This may be interesting for you though. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:German_nouns_which_h...
Humans are comfortable with accelerations of maybe 1 m/s/s. So to accelerate comfortably to a plane-like speed of say 300 m/s, your railgun would have to be 600m long - comparable to the tallest skyscraper in the world - and likely pointing at 45 degrees up.

On the way down the vehicle would be going the same speed it went up at - so you're talking about plummeting ballistically towards the ground at 300 m/s. Even assuming you can steer perfectly, what happens if something goes wrong with the receiving railgun? You've got no way to abort and go around, and no time to do... well, anything, really.

Parachutes for vehicles the size of a passenger aeroplane are not practical. A few very small planes have emergency whole-aeroplane parachutes, but they're not to be relied upon. The German army experimented with parachuting a light buggy with two soldiers in and gave up after several failures. And even if you had a working parachute, it still requires a skilled operator and a safe landing zone - what if you hit power lines, or trees, or buildings?
I’m glad to see open-source alternatives for this! Without judging how good or bad this technically is, I’m happy to see the devs made it visually appealing. Good job.

My only complaint is the docs page. If I use Safari on iOS I can only see this [1] and nothing is clickable besides the menu, which offers a link to the same place.

[1] https://imgur.com/aD1bJh3
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What about Document.getElementById(“app”)?
Every time somebody tries to exploit the children protection narrative to justify a privacy/freedom withdrawal it's a huge red flag.

E.g. at the time when the government was introducing the websites blocking system in Russia they spoke about blocking underage porn but as soon as the system was deployed they started to block whatever sites they dislike (for political reasons or for money) every day.
Its not been forced, driving is just more flexible and convenient and practical. This is especially true when get kids.
Thanks! That confirms what I saw in the logs. I've added a warning message to catch that error and mention admin access is required. Thanks for catching that.
The damage on a bike helmet that has hit the road or metal in an accident will be very obvious in even the most cursory visual inspection.
Darn... I'm working on almost exactly the same project. The big challenge is getting access to server hardware that is actually meant for webbrowsing. Not only are AWS et al expensive, they primarily offer "webservers" which are optimized for very light not very CPU intensive workloads and needless to say they also don't offer hardware accelerated video decoding.
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I like to run (only one) docker container on a very small hardware device (e.g. TP-LINK TL-MR 3020 or something similar)

Any suggestions for me? Thanks in advance
> First, because you still need to implement all these supervisors yourself anyway so the complexity is still there.

Have you implemented an erlang/elixir supervisor? It's not hard. It would probably take me about 60 seconds.

> Besides, Erlang doesn't have the monopoly on "let it crash": plenty of languages have better ways to catch and recover from errors, either through exceptions or algebraic data types that allow the compiler to make sure you have covered all the error cases.

Simply handling the error is not the primary reason for "let it crash". The reason for let it crash is to have the remainder of the system continue to make forward progress and with minimal disruption.

I think if anything the greatest thing about let it crash is that I can have a relatively green junior put something into prod without worrying that an uncaught error will bring down the whole system.
I'll be the one to bring about the usual naming nitpick.

With several different vi(m)-implementations around, like neovim, my immediate assumption was that this was another vim editor-fork.

Another name might help emphasize that this is a chat-related product/service?
> and understand some of the things

[off topic] I'd go with "read" :). I'd very much prefer if an author called their own work "excellent" rather than admitting they understood some of the things they wrote about, after rereading their own work.

[on topic] This kind of articles makes me think how (in)adequate we are to decipher an alien transmission and language. We'll probably have to rely on "their" vastly superior intellect to make the language understandable for us. We still struggle to understand languages spoken by other humans basically identical to us, whose language evolved in conditions perfectly familiar to us (planet, environment, common concepts, etc.), and lived a mere 3500 years ago.
I don't. But based on their other prices and the complete lack of any competition here I'd guess about $40-80K.
There is a huge part of the public that does not understand the implications of encryption, but they are moved by any mention of fighting against evil (and pedophilia is a scare for most) and these people have the right to vote. With enough propaganda, they would vote happily on anything, so this particular one is an easy one.
I didn't find it hard, I just found it boring. With some truly terrible design choices because it was trying too hard to be oldskool. It seemed to be pretty easy if you min-maxed your characters.

I remember getting to the 2nd map (Los Angles?) and the first mission was this huge map which was hardly used. Massive waste of my time baby sitting and watching people walk.

And that was when I had enough of the game designers wasting my time so much and stopped.
https://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/why-sprawl-was-cause...
Probably drag from the air will be too high on high speeds so you won't glide that far? Maybe it can work on Mars? :)
However, many projects have resources (e.g PNG or JPG images) which are larger than 100kB. These will be lost...
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No, but given that Common Lisp macro capabilities trump what Rust is capable of, that would be easily achievable.

Or now that I think of it, Template Haskell.
Sigh. They use child sexual abuse as a scapegoat again.
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In English language, yes.
But this is not even Greek, or Ancient Greek. Also I am not sure if the "icons" are letters (a, b, c, α, β, γ...) or ideograms.

Good luck decyphering this without any kno

I will assume that some contect is needed to start translating the text. E.g. if the tablets are found in a temple, you can start with a vocabulary of 1000 words and then expand the search. There could (?) be a "mixed" approach (technology, history, linguistics) rather than "scan and let the machine combine".
The 2 point LATCH system is attached below not behind the car seat’s center of gravity, so under heavy acceleration it depresses the car’s seat cushion and rotates forward then bounces up and back. Minimizing this is the reasoning behind the 3rd attachment point.
You can't bootstrap having a nice walking environment at above-ground level that way. Who's going to open the first cafe where there's no foot traffic? Why will anyone spend a lot of money on entrances that no-one's going to walk to? What pedestrian is going to want to keep walking up and down stairs while the network is partially complete. The City of London tried to do what you're suggesting and it was a total failure, because while it might have worked if it could have magically all been done in one go, there's no way to get to there from here.
It’s been validated countless times, basically the media, being large corporations themselves, favour power and are against certain ideas, which are never mentioned. It’s evident all over. For example if you read FAIR you will see many examples of this.
Yes, one we’ve never even visited! Makes sense
One derail away from mass nuclear accident.
Well we haven’t even taken a human to Mars, do you realise how much resources it will take to just achieve that, and for what purpose? It’s a vanity project.
They go much faster than 1 tree every 15 minutes. It will of course vary based on the terrain and size of the trees, but watch how modern operations work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLx9HtKJI_0
Actually you can't really say this: https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/8527/wer-sagt-die... See the map in this thread.

It's basically different in any county and different counties can be right next to each other.
If nobody had any freedom at all there would be absolutely no "crime". If everyone was locked in their own individual cells 24/7 there would be no "predators". Fortunately, for now, most people (unlike you) reject the idea of giving up our freedom so that all of our actions can be controlled and monitored by the police state just because an infinitely tiny percentage of the people do bad things.
I am losing my hearing and I have found that this effects my understanding of German, which I learned late in life, far more than English, my native language. In fact I'm convinced that many native speakers of German simply do not enunciate articles or adjective endings and native listeners simply subconsciously understand what they expect to hear because that's what is correct. Likewise I'm sure that native speakers of English do similar things but because it's all subconscious I can't give exact examples.
You are manipulating: if there is a problem and the solution that is proposed is excessive, rejecting the proposed solutions does not move the burden of finding a solutions on the people rejecting it. For example, I propose to stop everyone from breathing, it will stop pedophiles; if you don't agree, you have to provide a solution for pedophilia. Not a logically sound argument, is it?
Also quicken - current use is "to make faster" but older form is "to come alive"
Hi, author of Movim there. Do not hesitate to ask me questions about the project or XMPP :)
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Shadowrun: I can only recommend using mods to play returns in HK or DF (iirc you need the game files of returns). While it’s a somewhat linear story, the story itself is still amazing and feels more Shadowrun to me than the others. Playing it as a mod ensures you get the QoL improvements of the later games.

DoS 1/2: Never had any crash in either game and played both from release on.
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I haven't experienced this - I don't suppose you're using uBlock origin or some similar ad/track blocker?
Yes I agree with you. But at the same time, I don’t feel comfortable knowing what is going on and just accepting that it is a cost of liberty. We are talking about the worst, most harmful most exploitative human behaviour that destroys lives. If we can’t introduce some nuance and proportionality here then well I think we are doomed.

Guns aren’t a good example... I mean guns are regulated? There isn’t total liberty there.
Imagine being an astronomer in a society living on a planet orbiting an intergalactic star like that: no proper stars in the sky, just smudges of distant galaxies. It might be difficult to discover the "Copernican principle" in such circumstances.
It also has the side effect of making the user experience on competing browsers significantly worse.
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Not as stupid as you say. This type of idea has been considered for satellites, to get them most of the way to where they need to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun
Divinity Original Sin 2 was one of the best game experiences of my life. Replayed it co-op, had even more fun.

No need to play the first.
Any info on how it works?
Haskell? Data generics isn't really nothing new. We had this technology for years.