skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it also sophomoric to not drink because of some superstition originated by a guy 1400 years ago that a being in the sky will burn you for all eternity because of it?
> that the Congress is empowered to do something doesn't mean using that power isn't a violation of general principles of the law

"Lack of elegance" or "violation of social norms" or similar would (IMO) be a better wording. I see the fact that a united congress is all powerful (can freely amend the constitution, remake the government, etc) as being perfectly in line with (even essential to) the general principles of US law - that the will of the people should rule.
This seems nice, I'm down with that. Still would have been nicer if poetry had it.

https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/337#issuecomm...
My comment was specifically directed at the mistaken notion that governments now have less information about individuals than they did before, not about the repressive acts they're willing to perform on any individual of interest to them. I agree,virtually no modern citizen of a western nation is at anywhere near the same risk of being beaten, tortured or murdered by his or her government as was a jew living in Nazi Germany, but I argue that yes, this modern individual has more of their daily life under passive surveillance and with the data being gathered up than the average German or even Jew had known about their daily life in the 1930's and early 40's. I don't see how you could argue against this idea given all the revelations of the last few years.

That most of today's most advanced governments don't use their data collection capabilities to brutally repress their people as Nazi Germany was always willing to do is only a question of time, place and social politics, not of technical capability.

If any currently more or less liberal government should change into a repressive dictatorship, the mechanisms for surveillance already in place would let them do a lot of repressing without even having to hire the neighbor or friend to be a secret agent.
Almost 2 decades ago my daily driver was a Toshiba Portege running redhat. My first post college laptop. Despite the effort of required to get it running, it served me well and had great design for its day.
We're 70+, we created our own version of P2 (H2, react front-end) and have at about 50 instances (split by theme/project).

At this point though, I think Notion may present a better solution going forward.
Particulate matter might not come entirely from the rubber of the tyre.

Parts of the road surface are also broken up into fine dust and sent airborne. Tar from asphalt doesn't sound great to have in lungs, nor does sillica dust from aggregate/concrete.

Looking how quickly potholes form, I could totally imagine 5 grams of loss of road surface per kilometre.
Just switched from android to iOS and the major issue is it tries to correct things that are not real words. Somehow the android one was able to detect better when something is a typo of a common word or just something it doesn't know.
Atlassian undoubtedly has very smart people working there, but the absolute cluster mess of JIRA and their other flagships indicates deep management incompetence that favors shiny new feature over cleaning up the mountains of jQuery debt.
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The Decline Of Western Civilization
Occasionally he'll fawn over a movie that I like, or despise a movie I dislike, which is nice. Most of the time he'll take a perfectly good film and twist it, give some uncharitable socio-political reading (inevitably invoking Brecht, Godard or Marx), and complain that someone else did it better. That being said I do respect his opinions in the same way I respect Kael's. They may be abrasive, unfair and inconsistent, but hey, at least it's their own unique view. It gets old reading the same positive review of Parasite (even though I loved it).
It's still done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka6DZ34MAf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIuuDPn7QU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBho7jDKx2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_uffWKjS0

I don't know if it's less frequent today or if cities are more discrete about it considering modern paranoia. Growing up in the 90s in Florida I remember the trucks driving by on occasion, usually around dusk. If they did it late at night I'd be asleep and would be less likely to notice, so I couldn't say with any certainty how frequently they sprayed.

Also, looking at those videos, the method seems to be different and less noticeable. I remember huge, dense fogs that would envelope the whole neighborhood. In the above videos the spray disappears almost instantly.
That's... besides the point? The argument isn't that SCTP is a bad protocol.
I think being sober around drunk people is like going to a naked beach with your clothes on. It just doesn't feel right, and if you don't want to drug yourself up then you shouldn't want to be around people who are.
Abandoning Android: A Series, Part 11.2 – The Health and Fitness Edition
If anyone doubts the strength of the social pressure to drink alcohol, it's pretty telling that even in societies that stigmatise addiction, it can be easier to hint at alcoholism than to simply say you don't like to drink.
I like the list! It's very "physics person" oriented. Unfortunately, I have faced an insane amount of frustration trying to learn from the same sources because they "skip" on mathematical detail, often leading to more confusion down the line. I personally enjoyed the books I write down below to learn "rigorous physics":

- Classical mehhanics by VI Arnold: We first abstract define what "space" is, analyze its properties, then move on to build Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms. Is a great book to understand formally (i) what we mean by "observer" in classical mechanics, (ii) variational problems, (iii) the precise relationships between the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian

- Wald + Misner Thorne Wheeler for general relativity. MTW is the "bible", with great pictorial explanations for everything. Wald prefers to write everything in terms of differential geometric language which makes for an entertaining read. For example, he does not write "the particle is at rest". Rather, he writes "the particle is invariant under time-translational symmetry". It was eye-opening to learn how to "think like a geometer" about these sorts of ideas.

There is also Leonard Susskind's video lectures called as "the theoretical minimum" where he explains, rigorously, classical/quantum/GR/QM/stat-mech: https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses. I've personally watched the GR lectures and found them very informative.

Finally, there is Landau and and Lipschitz: These are dense, terse, often difficult, but honestly, written with extreme clarity. This was the only undergrad stat-mech book I could find which actually formally defines the phase space, the averaging procedure we use, etc.
Andrej Karpathy – AI for Full-Self Driving [video]
I just use my nextcloud server which has 3TB free. Works decent but doesn't integrate with the OS as well, still keeps my photos backed up which is the main thing.
What's the advantage over pipenv?
This also happens to me on Android. Working in ML, this is something to point to when people hype it up. We've come a long way, but we still got a long way to go.

As for specific errors, does rock capitalize when "the" is before it? (The Rock) The models learn from how users write. But when you think about it, it is actually fairly difficult to predict what words are going to be, you can test it with your friends. Have them create a sentence and feed you one word at a time. The better you know the person the better you'll do, but I'm guessing you still won't be that good.
It's called the Netherlands
"Also, in most cultures it’s considered bad form to shock the heads of new acquaintances with huge magnets".
The other people on the street might very well be better off. Driving a car is a very sedentary activity. Most other forms of transport are at least contributing a little to your health too.

(And at least cycling -- for any amount of time -- is a net positive in terms of health everywhere but the few most polluted cities. But even in the most polluted city, brief cycling is a net positive.)
There are 6 vaccines undergoing phase 3 trials at the moment. There are no results yet because this is the final stage.
I think when you have more torque under your control, you're more tempted to use it, and even a tiny amount of tyre skidding makes a lot of dust.

Also, EV's are heavier so will break up the road surface much faster - various studies have shown doubling the weight on a wheel far more than doubles road wear.
You talk about these things like they are the future. But western cities are already much much cleaner than 40 years ago. The move to electric cars and more livable cities is just the continuation of a fight that has been going on at least since the industrial revolution and adoption of hygiene.
What's the Difference Between Being Rich and Being Wealthy?
Another way in which the poor are disproportionately affected.

Driving a beater with no AC in the summer? All windows down.
The usual thing in Russia for doing business. Easy to spot an idiot when he is drunk.
Someone who is not drinking is perceived as someone who has an issue to hide.
Thanks for making it. great resource. Two things:

1. Show dates in results.

2. Are results better than searching on Google with "site:news.ycombinator.com"
It's certainly more functional for drivers to have large streets with room for lots of cars, but should our cities be designed around cars or humans?
Yeah I recently moved to Menlo Park and for some reason after I type “Menlo” (which it correctly capitalized automatically), it always suggests random words like “this” or “it”.

Sure, some people would say “I went to Menlo for lunch today”, but it should always have the option of “Park” (which when I type it, it always knows to capitalize).
Shopify vs. Amazon's Fulfillment Service
How is this at all related to discussing Apple’s position in AI/ML?
I think for most people defund sounds like “take away all funding for” which would be tantamount to abolishing.
What you describe is only circumstantially the case for the time being. These technologies are only becoming more affordable to a wider range of governments that previously wouldn't have dreamed of the resources necessary for them.

But, just as almost all computing becomes cheaper per unit of data processed or any other basic measure, so too does the apparatus for widespread digital surveillance.

What China and only a few others can do now is something that more countries will be able to do in the coming decades unless some major technological or social shift occurs. That's an idea that bears much closer consideration

The above works institutionally in the same way that you as an average person can today use a tiny device that's affordable to billions of people and fits in your pocket for doing things that 30 to 40 years ago would have been available only to very wealthy individuals and organizations.
Seems like the focus should be on not poisoning the air in the first place.
Stop signs are a pretty bad solution for traffic calming, though. The key to effective traffic calming is to shape drivers’ natural behaviors, not authoritatively demand it.

A stop sign that serves no purpose than to slow people down will piss off drivers more than anything, and lead to people speeding between signs or running them. It will make your street noisier as impatient people aggressively obey the signs.

A typical neighborhood would be much better off if traffic was calmed by adding kerb extensions or narrowing the lanes.

I think the above commenter might share my frustration that local politics is often full of people unknowingly demanding the wrong solution to their problem.
Was it written by gpt3?
On the flip side, where my friend lives (Maryland) they not only outlawed public schools but banned parents from creating their own “learning pods” because it is unfair for families that can’t afford them. Better to let no child learn than even one child get an education, right?
"In Time" - okayish film but led me to start thinking about the time value of what I'm doing at any one moment.
Just for anybody wondering, the corresponding shortcuts on Linux (and probably on Windows) are:

- home/end: start/end of line

- Ctrl + home/end: start/end of file

- Ctrl + Shift + home/end: corresponding selection

- Ctrl + left/right arrows: word movement

- Ctrl + Shift + left/right arrows: corresponding word selection

- Ctrl + a: select all

- Alt + 1/2/3/...: switch between tabs in Chrome and VSCode where I tested it, don't know if it is working in ALL apps, for example it does not work on alacritty+tmux (where I spend most of my time) for obvious reasons.

I don't know about the consistency, but some of these make more sense semantically, like Alt+1/2/3 - "alternate to a different tab".
I think it indexes the content of articles referenced on hachernews which makes it different from Google with "site:news.ycombinator.com".
This is really useful! You might want to consider hiding the “More”-button if the current page isn’t filled up, so as to not just have an empty page when clicking it.

For some reason I couldn’t find my own blog post[0], even when searching for the embarrassing typo I made in the title - acommodating.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23426951
I just switched from a pixel 2 to an iphone 11. For me it seems that iOS and Android are pretty level quality wise, they both have minor things that they do better but the number one thing that makes the iphone better to me is they are able to do all the awesome stuff android does without sending your data away for processing. Having image recognition without the privacy loss is worth the price tag to me.
Cars do very few deliveries, and hard as it might be to imagine in a US city designed around cars, they're simply unnecessary in a dense city, in fact they negatively impact everyone else. Diesel trucks do not belong in cities IMO.

Yes, people are going to wonder why it was ok to kill others with pollution by driving through cities with combustion engines.
Are there any advantages with pupenv at all? Pipenv definitely takes the crown in my list of Package managers that are plain stupid.
As others have mentioned, personal automobiles are the problem, not the fuel they run on. Modern engines run rather cleanly. Noise, safety, rubbers and other particulates are also ruining the local environment.
I experienced something similar, when I stopped drinking alcohol for health reasons and still noticing mental impairment when staying at parties until morning.
During my 20s, I routinely gave up drinking for Lent. My friends were all drinkers though, and going our for drinks was very much part of our routine.

What worked for me was just to get my own drinks at the bar, and always order non-alcoholic stuff. When folks were buying rounds of drinks, I'd just say "Nah, I'm good for now". No need to mention that I wasn't drinking, and no need to explain why. It's easy to time your drink orders so that you're out-of-phase by few minutes. Then you're ordering at the bar, and you have total control over it.

That way, I've got something in my hand to drink along with everybody else. Maybe it's a soda-water with lime, or maybe it's a near-beer poured into a pint glass. But I was taking part in the social aspect, and that's what mattered. I never lied if asked what I was drinking, but I wouldn't go out of my way to bring it up/make it visible either.

Anybody who's had some good nights at the bar will tell you - there's nothing wrong with being a non-drinker, as long as you're not an asshole about it. Nobody likes to feel judged (even implicitly) for their life-choices. But if you can avoid giving off that vibe, nobody will care at all what's in your glass.

In my observation, the social pressure isn't to drink _alcohol_ per-se. It's to drink _something_. Something that you bought at the bar, and something you're drinking along with everybody else. Soda-water is fine as long as you're pacing your drinks with the people around you, so that you're being part of the group.
I'm happy for you to make that sacrifice to your health, I'm not happy for you to impose the health consequences on your poorer neighbours (as happens driving a car in a city).
Poetry is awesome, it has its quirks but really simplified our work at https://www.colour-science.org/. We have dropped Conda entirely as it solved all our previous Pip dependency hell that ended up with the adoption of Conda.

As I'm writing that we are coincidentally and unfortunately plagued by random CI failures occurring when Poetry resolves the dependencies: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1343
The US is gradually coming around (heh) to roundabouts.
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This is a really dumb comparison.

GTA V literally has a hardware requirement that more than exceeds the requirement for a browser.

It loads code from the local disk, and takes way more RAM than a single website ever would.

It's written in lower level languages with manual garbage collection, meanwhile for web dev we rely on JS as its the only language for providing interactivity in websites, which tbh, has come a long way thanks to V8 RT.

GTA V takes up like 100gigs of space. I shouldn't even have to bring up the websites part of the comparison here.

Bottomline - saying if games can do complex 3D renders 60 times in a second, then why are sites slow af, is a really really meaningless comparison.
Nice to hear that - I was about to rep Germany as well ;).

Though it's surprising how badly this can go even in close countries such as Switzerland.

I once left feedback such as "this 3h on how to use Powerpoint should only be 30min. It doesn't have a lot of content, and the teacher clearly isn't interested" on a company course (where it was explicitly requested).

I was summarily called into an HR meeting to explain that such direct language was not appropriate.

I did not make it much longer at that company.
I always use 64x drivers for my windows 10. I don't use open source drivers but only proper ones from the manufacturers. I don't think this would expose me to more air pollution.
I’m extremely lucky not to have you as a coworker. I encourage you to realize that other people are real, with minds and emotions much like your own.
Apple’s chips are way better so whether they’re doing more locally or not they have the headroom to do a lot more.

I would agree with that characterization of Google. They have a very small handful of successes and an enormous pile of failures that they’ve discarded. They give every impression of not really knowing what to do.

I think Giannandrea was also referring specifically to the kinds of experiences Apple can provide on the iOS and iPadOS platform because of their high end hardware and deep software integration. Google has yet to replicate that, and even seem to be bored with Android recently: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/05/wear-os-music
I don't think the idea is full headless automation but rather some way of coordinating which set of new documents should be retrieved by each volunteer (until either their free limit or willingness to donate time runs out). Maximizing efficiency in this way would presumably increase overall coverage.
"Don't be Evil" -> "Don't appear Evil"?
I think certain people are desperate to create an identity because they rejected their past identity (became atheist for example). I don't really understand why people are so militant about these things either. I don't drink normally but I'll drink on occasion (with my colleagues for example). Because of this I never get questioned if I decide to stick with water on a particular occasion. My colleagues don't feel like it isn't perfectly valid and it requires none of the (perceived) virtue signalling on my part.
As a Belgian I can confirm. The Dutch are considered very blunt. We Flemisch people are more subtle and diplomatic. But in a working environment, it's actually pretty good to just be brutally honest about stuff, even when you step on other peoples toes.
Physical activity makes you breath more polluted air though.
Why do people who are remote need to stick with 9-5 hours? Plenty of people hate those times, and would rather work later/earlier, which could well lead to more congruent schedules.
> don’t try to turn your workplace into your social life

I think this advice is too absolute. So many people, in my experience, make positive and long-lasting friendships at work that I just can’t see your advice as being generally good. If anything, in some work cultures I think this kind of aloofness could be very negative - you could end up an outsider: unprotected, uninformed, and alone. I think you could also struggle to build the kinds of networks that can get you into the next job, or open doors in the future.

At the end of the day it’s obviously a personal choice about how you want to treat your work life. YMMV, etc...
If DNA is like software, can we just fix the code?
https://www.thelocal.se/20200806/its-a-bad-sign-sweden-sees-...
Maybe I'm not getting it but I don't see how (as a user not a dev) any ad acceptable to me can be acceptable to an advertiser.

You can't know my wants if you don't build a profile of me. To do that you need to track me and my browsing behaviour. That is unacceptable. But if you don't you'll be throwing a lot of things with none of them sticking. So how can this work?

Edit: this is what they say (https://www.ethicalads.io/advertisers.html>

"When you run a campaign with us, your ad only appears on developer and technical websites. This drives your business results and respects our audience without having to resort to programmatic ad buys"

Well, good luck lads, I hope you succeed. If I can offer a small hint, never try to get my attention with any kind of animation. Images from your entire domain will be blocked instantly (whether it be ethicalads.io or if they're self-hosted on pqrs.com, then pqrs.com. I repeat - don't try to draw my attention).
No it wouldn't. It would be like taking a picture of a dropped wallet on the street.

Regardless, under what moral framework are we operating such that obvious guilt is prescribed to anyone who might pick up a wallet in the street, anyway? Of what crime are they guilty?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, you're dead on.

I just finished routing an LPDDR4 bus (high speed + low voltage => worst case signal integrity) between two BGAs with signals routed on only 3 layers. The catch is that you need each high speed bus to be comfortably sandwiched between solid copper planes. Layers dedicated to reference planes start to add up quite quickly when you've got RAM, eMMC, ethernet, wifi, camera input, display output, SD card, etc all crossing over and through each other.