skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel guilty stealing a used bar of soap from the hotel.

I would punish myself for decades if I stole a mattress.
> Yet another book which spends more than 1/3 of its pages on parsing.

Yup, lexing and parsing are, by far, the easiest part of a compiler. Like about 0.1% of the work.
A simple fever and the sketch of a thermometer
There is causation, just not directly from ice cream to vapor lock. It's a diagram with three entities, ice cream -> time to cool -> vapor lock
I somehow misread your post as saying you had "in-ear, bone conduction" noise cancelling headphones. What a sight those would be.
At this point I’m pretty much done with smartphone apps.

Just give me xterm and bash, even with a touchscreen that would be better than dealing with everyone trying to reinvent the wheel every year.
So for the high volume issue specifically, mynoise.net is a great website that allows you to adjust the volume of differing frequency ranges. I particularly enjoy the white rain noise. I'll put in my headphones and turn every frequency up until it overtakes the ambient conversation or music, from high frequency to low. This allows the noise to cover up sounds but not be too loud by only being turned up where it needs to be. Essential for math in the university library.
Right, so you use the free fruits of people's hard work.

And then you complain about them and their left-leaning ideology fueling technology monopolies.
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Statement and Utility Bill Printing and Mailing Services
Hmm, I just checked myself, and I was able to read comment threads perfectly fine without being logged in, on both a desktop computer and a smartphone.

Obviously old.reddit.com doesn't have these issues, but I'm pretty sure the session on smartphone used the new site, and that let me keep reading without any interruptions too.

Either way, if Reddit does this, that's it. Not returning to the site. The internet doesn't need all these walled gardens, and it's worrying how this is going to affect how info is preserved for future generations.
The performance problem is hard, but we have lots of active experiments that I'm optimistic about. Implementations in Golang and Rust, a handful of great database experiments (even simple stuff like Sqlite), and a bunch of people who are actively using SSB on low-resource devices daily. The Manyverse app in particular runs on Android devices, which are going to be very resource-constrained when compared to most computers.

The NIH problem is hard, but I think we're moving in the right direction.
I was on a consulting trip to Seattle's Eastside in 1990, during the Goodwill Games. I had to stay at the Bellevue Hyatt because of corporate partnerships.

Unfortunately, it turned out that my room happened to be on a floor where two countries who were not friendly with each other had happened to be assigned rooms on that same floor. There was a virtual riot in the hallway in the middle of the night -- I could see only bits and pieces through my peephole, I tried calling security and the front desj multiple times before I could get hold of anybody. Eventually, things were stable enough such that I could be walked out of the room and off the floor into an open room on another floor... at 5:30 in the morning.

Among other things, it meant I got no sleep that night. Fast forward to the next morning -- my first morning at the client site. While casually talking about my experience with the receptionist, she mentioned that there was a great little hotel right there in Bothell and that they got a great corporate right there. So, I transferred. Turns out that it was a great, modern, quiet property that was much closer to the client... at half the price.

But boy, that lack of security was scary.
No worries, FTA: "We also designed Xbox Series X to support both vertical and horizontal orientation."
Yes, listing alternatives is a really good thing. Another alternative (not from me, just an user):
https://github.com/NoraCodes/charpicker

It's just shell and rofi, and from an IDE can easily be hooked to a key combination. As it's shell, it's also easy to tweak if needed.

For those using X11, I found that xdotool used by charpicker has some limitation. From the xdotool man page: "Typing unusual symbols under non-us keybindings is known to occasionally send the wrong character.", and I've seen it happens with unicode characters. Instead, one can paste to the X11 clipboard:

echo -n "$selected_symbol" | xclip -i

And then fake a middle click to insert in the current application:

xdotool click 2

It's still using xdotool but just to send a click not process the inserted character. That's never failed for me so far.
Remember that his experience is just an anecdote. You should not base your reasoning upon someone else's experience. You should research and keep in mind that yes, bad trips exist and also that we're talking about banned compounds and as such their purity varies. God knows what he took. The only way to know for sure is to order from a (legal) EU lab, which makes a similar compound or something. With that said, my personal opinion is that it doesn't make sense to take something under researched, artificially isolated. As such, imo, you're better off growing your spores, again, ordered from and consumed in a legal place, such as, Holland. There was a thread about them both those things here on HN, with some great comments. You might wanna use HN search and sift thru the comments. But as far as spores, I think it's pretty accurate to say that what you'll experience is a dissociation from your ego, which, is a totally abstract concept, and quite unimaginable. Mhh, I'd say what happens is you see everything from the outside, you realize everything is a mental construction and feel like everything is connected. I recommend reading a piece on Santa Claus and the spores. Gives much more context than anything for what their use should be, and was, imo. Don't expect to turn an apple into a Macintosh.
Sorry, but that's complete nonsense in every aspect.

No competent manager will skimp on tools when they're paying today's developer salaries because those are the far bigger cost. You can buy plenty of expensive tools from the hourly rate equivalent of an engineer spending hours every week dealing with the shortcomings of crappy tools.

Conversely, a manager whose incompetence manifests as skimping on tools will just choose the cheapest commercial tool when there are no open source tools available, and that is almost guaranteed to be worse.

In fact, it's common for dysfunctional companies to insist on using commercial tools that are both very expensive and much more painful to use than readily available open source tools.

Edit:

> why is noone focusing on the fact that they are using software for free and profiting out of the product?

Because it is much better than having no free software and personal projects, self-study, and bootstrapped startups being only possible for the rich. I mean, there are Copyleft licenses that aim to prevent commercial use of free software, but isn't that exactly the "left leaning ideology" you didn't seem to like much above?
I'm sorry, rshnotsecure but until you come up with those 5k words you promised about ProtonMail, CreditKarma and a huge list of others being fronts for spy agencies[1] your posts will only ever be titillating scuttlebutt for me.

Last we heard you had the lounge room covered in butcher's paper, plotting it all out and gave your literal word that you'd post that "report" within 96 hours. That was 42 days ago.

I have no idea if what you say about FB's server in Vietnam is true and I'm not here to argue with you. The pity is that you post about interesting things.

But if making big claims with unshakeable evidence "to come" which never actually arrives is something that we deplore in our politicians and mainstream media, why let it creep in here?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21412052
I suppose in theory that there might be some non-sub-Saharan people that don’t have Neanderthal DNA just by chance, but it is unlikely.
There are also people that have far more than the average (2-3%) - for every person like your friend there are other with way more.
Why wouldn't you be able to?

The legislator legislates, the court rules. Since the regulator is not one of those two, why can't it be sued? The law applies equally to everyone. There are exceptions, but why should there be an exception for someone who's neither court nor legislature? What's the justification for having another exception?
No one expressed any opinion or judgement, so please don't impose your prejudice on others. The point is that the first step to fix a problem is to correctly identify it. If you misrepresent the problem them obviously you cannot succeed at fixing it.
I saw a similarly titled article in the New Yorker[1] twice before seeing this link. For some reason that author saw fit to only use words (outside of a drawing at the top of the article) to describe the effect which did nothing for me. Kudos to this author who actually included pictures.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-o...
A PhD. simply is recognition from an accredited institution for research work you have done. It used to be quite common for people to get one towards the end of their careers: you'd work your entire life as e.g. a teacher and then write a dissertation on your learnings.

Albert Einstein was not even working for a university when he developed his general theory of relativity. That only happened after he published some ground breaking papers while working as a patent examiner (1905). The university where he studied a few years earlier wasted no time awarding him a Ph. D. for that.

The point is that a Ph. D. does not have to be a prep school for wannabe researchers where after a few years some committee decides that you've done at least the bare minimum but an acknowledgement that somebody is a researcher by their peers for work they've done. Many universities have honory doctorates for this but focus too much on nurturing their own students to a PhD. instead of reaching out to their former students and looking at what they have done.

E.g John Carmack dropped out of college but his work in 3D algorithms and moving that field forward technically is undeniable and I can't really think of many people more capable of speaking on that topic authoritatively. I could imagine that being worthy of a PhD. Likewise there are many others that busy themselves with OSS work, standardization, ground breaking algorithms, etc. that are producing lots of written work, patents, standards, etc. that are recognized authorities in their fields that don't have PhDs.

I happen to have done a PhD. the more conventional way (i.e. straight after my Msc.). Since getting my PhD. 16 years ago, I've gradually moved away from doing research. At this point, I've not published anything in ten years and would definitely not call myself a researcher. I can't deny a certain level of impostors syndrome. I'm certainly no Albert Einstein.
Yep. I actually ran the numbers on this (in a spreadsheet) and even ordered a weather balloon to try and built a DIY survey balloon that might also work on Mars. Got bogged down by the hardware side though, and abandoned the project. :D
The demo in the official video is mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NJtV9Jvp0
I wonder when we will see full movies unrecognizable from real ones made from deep learning.
Another similar material is earthbags: http://goodearthglobal.org/faq

This page mentions $15/sq-ft, and declining, so a 500 sq ft home would be $7500. Or 100 months of average income in this part of Mexico.
Why does the sensor not last forever, but only two weeks?
> Anything you learn in school, you can in principle learn on your own, but it can take significantly more time and there's no guarantee of consistency (compared to someone learning with a teacher).

So, honest question, did you guys really learn anything directly from a teacher? I've gone through high school (obviously) and university but everything I've learned has been at home by reading about it (or simply practicing to become fast enough). The lectures tended to only touch the absolute basic concepts, and the actual learning you had to do at home. Maybe it had to do with the lectures being in giant halls with little to no interaction with the prof in most cases, and that probably changes if you're doing a PhD (or just go to a different university), but even during high school I pretty much never learned anything of note directly from a teacher. So if anything, it would have been significantly faster and more efficient for me to just get a list of topics to learn instead of sitting in class.

As for consistency, my friends from a different university learned in some cases completely different things. If we compare strictly what was discussed in class or required to pass tests, there would be surprisingly little overlap. (And neither overlapped very much with actual programming.) Even courses with essentially the same topic would often differ greatly in content, as the professor usually decided which particular things to focus on. Which is completely fine I mean you can't go in-depth into everything, but this notion of consistency is kind of funny to me when the same degree from different universities (sometimes even the same university just a few years apart with different professors) can mean completely different skill sets. And then of course if your have a CS degree and want to work as a developer, from my experience you have to learn the actual programming pretty much 95% on your own anyway, as most courses focus on purely theoretical topics, and programming simply requires a lot of practice.
I contribute as much as I can, but I don't usually have much time that I can use at work so 99% of it is done in my own time. Right now I'm maintaining a small project for converting markdown into pdf's[0], and I've picked up maintaining the StatsD project[1].

I do it for two reasons, first the enjoyment. I really like working on problems of a smaller scope, without a full business around it. I love being able to think of something and knock out some code for it and share it, rather than the code coming last.

The second reason I try and contribute is because I generally believe it contributes positively to the world. I'm sure those who've read my code might disagree, but on the whole I think offering free tools to tackle common problems helps everyone. Even if it's not "exactly" how you want it to work, it's at least prior art to inspire new solutions.

[0] https://github.com/bluehatbrit/mdpdf

[1] https://github.com/statsd/statsd
Law may well be the same. However, the question everyone has to answer is not about law per se, but:

"How much justice can you afford?"
Impossible. DNA has an estimated half life of only 521 years [1]. It's a fairly reactive molecule due to the number of reactions it has to undergo to fulfill its purpose.

I believe the T-Rex soft tissue [2,3] that has been discovered contained short polypeptide sequences. You can infer the codons from this information, but that elides promotor, signaling, non-coding, etc regions that will be of massive importance. Not to mention you won't get much data in the first place.

Hundreds of years from now, any dinosaurs we recreate will be the result of creative genetic engineering and imagination.

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.1...

[2] https://m.phys.org/news/2019-11-mechanisms-soft-tissue-prote...

[3] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-shock...
Xbox Series X: Microsoft Reveals New Console at Game Awards
It is a zero resistance environment. It gives the opportunity of the small to grow without any costs, but it also doesn't limit how big the big ones can get.
Open Source Sharding
AR facetune will save them.
<insert trendy silicon valley upstart here>
For most CSS and JavaScript incompatibility issues, the way to check doesn't require UA sniffing at all. You merely check if the browser supports said feature by looking for whether the supports media query runs or if the new method is available at all.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@supports
https://www.helathlktip.club/2019/12/how-to-weight-loss.html...
I've been experiencing it either way on my phone this week. As I'm quite judicious about using "private" sessions for everything I suspect its been under a/b test.

As you say, its not present on ud. or old.
Open Problems with Generating Text by GPT-2
I'd say both points are complimentary rather than contradictory. Yes, cars do require more responsibility, however they are not exclusively responsible for road safety.

For example cyclists have caused serious harm and even kills pedestrians before. Also pedestrians and cyclists have caused serious accidents to motorists when causing car drivers to react suddenly, to swerve or break harshly which has resulted in those drivers colliding with other motorists.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying the level of responsibility between pedestrians, cyclists and motorists are equal; clearly they're not. But there is still some shared responsibility when talking about road safety.
The one comment that stuck out to me in this article was the coworker who said she felt anxious whenever she saw the author of this article. Personally I am not someone who likes to wear a full face of makeup on a daily basis but the pressure to do so feels more present every day. A lot of this is because you never know when you will be photographed and end up on any social media platform. Even simple tasks like heading to the grocery store seem to require at least some mascara and eyebrows drawn on.
It may be hard to recall but before the internet people shared stories, and the really good ones would spread quickly across the entire population. There were people back then too who would try to come up with things that would spread, maybe not with the same intent (or profits) as now, but still the overall effect was the same
All good and well, but as far as I know, certain laws are in place that prevent insurance companies from actually using indicators that are "closer to the chain of causality". E.g. poor, elderly (an now recently, male/female). It's then no surprise that they're then actually trying to find other means of determining risk factors for individuals.
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> This time, AMD may have stepped up with a steel pipe. We'll see how well they can use it...

:-))))
Isn't tihs exactly the other way around in serverless vs container-based backends? Services like Fargate, GCE Cloud Run, App Engine, Heroku etc are good at "just running" your code and keeping it running. Serverless systems like Lambda, Azure Functions, etc need so much plumbing, devops, ci etc overhead around them that they are full time work for someone in a project.
> Losing the ability to play these games because someone has decided that ABI compatibility is kinda hard is ridiculous, and would definitely not fly for a consumer OS.

Old games have a tendancy to break reasons even without ABI breaks..

I think it's ridiculous that games are still primarily closed source binary blobs that cannot be easily fixed and patched by the users to keep them running fine for decades.
The question is, why ever use a unique user agent?
For me all of that counts. Even a bug report is a contribution.
By that definition Windows is freely changing ABI too, since the only defined interfaces are libraries like the KernelBase.dll or netapi32.dll.

But that only shifts the maintenance burden. Anytime Windows changes its inner working that means that every existing library has to be changed to expose the same interface to old code, including being bug-compatible and supporting all the abuses of undocumented features (or at least those used in software used by relevant clients).
The animation is a bit strange. I think it's meant to show which numbers will eventually end the cycle at 1.
Having the numbers appear in the reverse order compared to what the rules are does not help, in my opinion.

Take 16 and 5. While 16 is shown first and 5 after, the meaning is actually that you can get from 5 to 16 by applying the odd rule (3*x+1) and from 10 to 5 by applying the even rule (x/2).
Direct image link for the no-js crowd?
I assume that the characterisation of the problem as 'dangerous', 'alluring', tempting', etc. to mathematicians is accurate.
But surely this can happen? It's clear social media marketing teams were used to go after the uneducated with slurs and memes in order to benefit the rich.
wow just realized pidgin seems instagram-capable
https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-instagram
> But I bet they're more than willing to accept what is essentially a free vacation on company time.

As someone who was sent to a lot of these trips, they're not that great most of the time. I can't comment on Netflix, but it's usually a short stay at a fancy place with all the nice amenities, but the time spent travelling and listening to the sales pitches isn't worth it.

I pity the journo that would be bought that easily.
You probably said that tongue in cheek, but that's probably where we're headed. People value their social media intensely, and the combination of the two will naturally happen as a consequence of VR/AR becoming ubiquitous in our lives.
Yes exactly. This seems to be replacing the part that was never a problem (building walls) with something high-tech and surely expensive.

The nozzle that deposits that concrete is just guaranteed to be much more fussy about quality control than the guys shoving it into moulds to make blocks. So it'll need high-quality materials transported from somewhere, not whatever is lying around.
My favourite story on this is Feynman's use of PDEs in the Connection Machine design.

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Target the NES or SNES. Emulators are tiny and work on all platforms. Bundle one.
I've always used the NetRW plugin for file management. NERDTree was too sluggish for me (but that was 6 years ago...)
NetRW does all I need to: tree view, open file (same buffer, same side-buffer, new buffer, new tab), create file, delete file. And it comes with vim's distribution.

Anything else I need I use a real file manager, like Midnight Commander (usually inside a vim's tab) of vifm (a very vi-like file manager).
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Firefox is only blocking the 3rd party cookie GA tries to set. That doesn't break the GA functionality. It still records the visit and all the data. https://www.upbuild.io/blog/firefox-google-analytics-data/
> Some people want freedom of expression, some people want protection from objectionable material.

You make things sound far too benign. Where do death threads fall in this classification, are they "free speech" or "objectionable material"? Where do disinformation bot armies fall? There's a lot more to content moderation than just "that person doesn't want to see boobies or the f-word".