skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought was Loon. Or whatever X or some shenanigans by random moonshot companies.

Having said that, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if there are indeed off earth visitations by alien life forms.

It made me want to read up on ancient mythologies ..starting with Sumerian
Tick counts. It's nice to be able to do time-difference subtractions (and comparisons!) without worrying about rollover.

Heck, I use 64-bit ints on 8051 cores that make an AVR look like something out of Star Trek.
Yeah, that's a good point. DataFrames.jl starts to really shine what the cookie cutter pandas functions arent adequate for what you need to do. DataFrames.jl can certainly be slower in some cases, but you should expect a consistent level of performance no matter what you do. This is a farcry from Pandas, which tanks by large factors when you start calling Python code vs C code.

In regards to Julia's compilation problem, you can use https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl to precompile an image, allowing you to avoid paying the JIT performance penalty over and over again.
Only a matter of time before we are expected to take drugs to be better at our jobs.
Literally the wiki page for cashews mentions the compounds in the article. Your anecdotal true life experience may be an anomaly
This is what I gather as well from a bit of reading. It seems that most innovation in mathematics of the time came from Persian, but obviously this then became part of Islamic empire, and it seems under those for a time they were still friendly to people continuing to learn about and advance those pre-islamic sciences. The Madrasas might have helped fund for further people to learn about and push those sciences, so the institutions put in place during some of the Islamic empires also do seem to have helped invest in them.

> Muslims distinguished disciplines inherited from pre-Islamic civilizations, such as philosophy and medicine, which they called "sciences of the ancients" or "rational sciences", from Islamic religious sciences.[50] Sciences of the former type flourished for several centuries, and their transmission formed part of the educational framework in classical and medieval Islam.[50] In some cases, they were supported by institutions such as the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, but more often they were transmitted informally from teacher to student.

This has to be commended at least, I'm not sure all strongly religious empires supported teaching people non-religious sciences/philosophies and invested in their further study.
The genes benefit. The individual doesn't really. Dawkins wrote a book about it: 'The Selfish Gene'.
There should be a privacy policy listed I guess, but I don’t see why you would need affirmative consent, and if 3rd party sharing is illegal, the privacy policy will be short and boring: we monitor you to improve our services.
[sic] should be used in this instance.
TLP
"Elements of Poker" by Tommy Angelo

How to be better at Poker (and other parts of life) that has nothing to do with what cards you have.
My journey in philosophy began by reading Plato’s Euthyphro.

It’s a great place to start.

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html
I am also an alum. (Some of) Brown's tracking information isn't even particularly restricted. I have seen firsthand that live location information based on your device being connected to the network (I assume based on tracking MAC address as discussed in the article) gives room-level granularity, and can be accessed by students who work for the IT service center.
For me, my add has been made much better with aggressive weight training. I started doing "Starting Strength" and transitioned into the Texas method but three pretty heavy workouts a week really helps.

Normally I feel like I see the world through the narrow end of a funnel. When I get done with a big workout, somehow for the next day or so my brain is chilled out and I can concentrate again. After two days or so I start to regress a bit but another bout of lifting resets me.

I only really need medicine during periods of bad health or incredible personal stress now.
NT 4 was released for PPC, so perhaps the brakes were unapplied after.

Here's a tale (not mine) of installing it:

https://omgwtfbbq.ca/2018/07/installing-windows-nt-4-0-on-a-...
British customs used to have a simple mechanism to bind declared value to market value.

A captain could declare the value of the cargo whatever he sees fit, and pay the tax on that amount.

The customs reserved the right to buy the entire cargo at the declared price, at their discretion.

It's a bit harder to implement with large parcels of land, but should work well with home-sized lots.
This might be the third or fourth time I've been asked so I'm going to write about it on my website tomorrow and share it here once I'm done. Apologies.
> Long distance running will wear your meniscus out.

Is there any research to back that? Everything I’ve ready says that it is not a fatality and that it is possible to run, for many years (life?) without destroying your joints.

It’s my understanding that your statement is as accurate as saying “driving a car will result in you getting in a car accident”. It’s extremely possible and it has happened to many people but it doesn’t mean it _has_ to happen
There's a mention of Google telling that this was not their doing in a thread somewhere about this.
Unfortunately, a lot of people already are. Long-haul truck drivers have an underbelly of 5-hour-energy drink and barbiturate use.
> We can only examine what knowledge is after we've come to know something

This is an unhelpful nebulous statement, at its worst a circular definition and victim to the Münchhausen trilemma.

> untenable because to know what can be known presumes knowing what is to be known first

Not at all, I suggest to read Critique of Pure Reason. It is never about what is to be known, but really how one can know and in what way is one able to know. I meant "what is possible to know" in a metaphysical sense rather than a specific object of the apperception.

I'll also note that epistemology was well established by Western philosophy long before Descartes.
> The argument against it is that a vacant property imposes very little cost upon society.

A vacant property (really, any ownership of property, period) results in an opportunity cost externalized onto all other members of society. That opportunity cost is equal to the land's value. In the middle of nowhere, therefore, that opportunity cost might be low to the point of nonexistence, but in the middle of a city downtown, that opportunity cost can be and often is on the scale of tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more!) per year. That is wealth that is long overdue to be repaid back to the rest of society.
I can s this being hugely useful to bring able to generate code to read wider range of formats instead of having to include/embed dozens of 3rd party libs to read the files. Could be strong tool for commercial product dev that have legal or technical limitation on use of 3rd party code.
Pillsbury: Space Food for astronauts before launched in grocery stores (2019)
Soil is amazing. Problem is, however, we over farmed. Try planting a seed and growing a fruit or vegetable bearing plant in a non farm. The flavor will be 10x what you taste at even Whole Foods or a farmers market.
It's quite interesting that such a large company's domain eventually ended up being a web hosting affiliate spam site.
I mean, I'm tolerant of most all the public health measures that are taken out of reasonable caution by the state+county authorities, but this feels like overkill.

Is there strong evidence that outdoor eating is causing significant transmission? Enough to impose this cost on a struggling sector?

We're in the phase now where we understand enough to be more targeted aren't we?
To quote Peep Show: “hey, Corrigan, you’re management, how about 200 lattes?”
You seem to think that we shouldn’t do X because it is ripe for abuse and are abused. So we shouldn’t do politics then because it is ripe for abuse and are abused (corruption)? And we shouldn’t have CEO’s then because being a CEO is ripe for abuse and are abused? We shouldn’t have corporations in general for the same reason? Or is it only things you don’t like that we shouldn’t do for those reasons?
I am thinking the best bet for achieving this kind of backwards compatibility is to make Windows binaries and test them with Wine.
You don't need to be a race car driver to debunk a sales man trying to tell you "This is the best car in the world!".

My advice to you is to be humble, you're clearly passionate about Lisp and turn that into a positive thing. Saying Lisp is the best language in the world is a sweeping statement, something a snake oil salesman would put across.
> It requires high-capacity water, sewer, electric, and trash service. It requires specialized fire protection services including extra training and equipment to fight fires in high rise buildings.

The apartment almost certainly already pays for all of these things.

> It has a massive carbon footprint.

Which can be offset or even reduced/eliminated outright.
Whats it going to take for people to freak out and revolt, it's time. It's clearly extremely bad.
Unfortunate for the award, but sincerely think this type of open criticism is needed in science. Especially in the realm of machine learning.
If you're like me and were expecting the history of the digital.com domain, it's here:

https://digital.com/about/#section-5

Now my question is, how did they make the site so fast? Checking my Firefox dev tools I'm seeing it's not even being requested on subsequent page views, just the cached version. How'd they do that?
That’s a nice narrative, but for every one of those that died from C19 there are many that didn’t. Unlike a car accident, those that survived do contribute to the spread of the virus and expose people who are at higher risk of a far more fatal outcome. Additionally every person that contracts this has a chance of needing supplemental oxygen and an intensive care bed. These are already in short supply and the people to manage these intensive care facilities aren’t an infinite resource. It is just reckless to expose more people to this virus when we have vaccines on the way to inoculate the highest risk communities.

While people certainly have a right to be upset, they don’t have a right to willfully endanger others.
Now imagine doing that same thing for every system you're programming on. And then imagine having to do it for a million different symbols. I'm sure as hell glad you're not in charge of any of this.
Yes, this is true in the sense that investor's did actually receive returns, but I was talking about the fund as a whole not actually generating any returns.
It's heading out to asteroid 1998KY26 (ETA July 2031) after a flyby of asteroid 2001CC21 (ETA July 2026). It won't do any more sample collecting but take photos and other measurements.
Actually, evidence seems to point the other way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25314732
Nicholas Carlini's Thoughts on Instahide, Bell Labs Award
Giving a short list of recommendations feels a little silly because it's so personal and contingent what will work for you at this moment.

However, I'll make one concrete recommendation: Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot. It's about the ancient Greeks and the Stoics and the particular ways they saw thinking as bound up with living. It's a serious book but beautifully written.

It is discussed more at length in this list of 5 "life-changing" philosophy books.

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/life-changing-philosophy-bo...

fivebooks.com is a great site where they ask people to recommend five books on their area of expertise and explain why they picked each one. They have a philosophy category and it's organized by topic, including "How to Live".

https://fivebooks.com/category/philosophy/
Ever since GPT-3 was released, HN has been like this.
It would be interesting to see if microdosing LSD would lead to any ethical objections to war or violence on the part of the Marines.
The easiest way to reduce smoking is simple: each cigarette, by law, should be hot pink.
8 years vs 150 years of technology though
> I started feeling like eating crap wasn't "right" and started eating better. It's like an entire cascade of wellness.

I've noticed this effect strongly with all forms of exercise. The better shape I'm in, the more I naturally gravitate to healthier habits in my diet and elsewhere. Working out more has an awesome compounding positive effect.
Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Source of Illnesses That Hit Diplomats
Can someone explain to begin with why the university cares that you're still in town, if you declared yourself "remote"?
Maybe it’s more like this is one actionable lever that the state can pull, so they pull it. Doesn’t feel like a data-driven decision.
You've got a typo there, it's 4K at 27" with 163dpi vs 6K at 32" with 215dpi, so 1.5× vs 2× resolution. Which actually has an interesting effect when working with content, as the Pro Display XDR either has to show a letterbox around UHD content, or has to stretch it in a very blurry way with GPU upscaling which definitely isn't useful for content production workflows.

And the halo effect actually is an artifact from the backlighting which can be resolved with the backlight recalibration cycle, which the Pro Display XDR does automatically and invisibly during times with purely SDR content, while it has to be manually run and is very obtrusive on the Dell one, that much is true.
Interesting, I've recently started committing to a hard 10-minute workout each day of the week, and it's been helping me focus through my ADD a lot better too. I feel so much more alive.

I've also picked up meditating 10 minutes a day and that's been helping as well, but I don't think as much.
Wasn't "Soul of a New Machine" written about Data General?
It's also a very privileged subset of old people that get to live made-for-tv retirement in a community with lawns, golf carts and picket fences.

Indigent old people stuck recycling cans to make ends meet probably don't have this worldview.
Exactly. I find it impressive Aldous Huxley wrote it when WW2 was beginning. Before LSD, Prozac, and the Mental Health Crisis.
≈‘In spring, the roses hide the thorns they have on earth, | My rosery springs up and takes away my thorny mood’ from the Divan (Ghazal Foruzanfar-1945) maybe.
1. I agree that people need to be housed.

2. But I don’t agree that property rights ought to be snatched from owners.

3. I also don’t think we could keep on increasing the world population when we have clearly crossed carrying capacity.

They are all different issues and points. Not necessarily related.

You don’t need separate a person’s property from him just because a few million people are homeless.

You don’t need to keep on breeding homo sapiens to out breed all other species and destroying habits and environment to support the extra billions of human beings. Because the apex predator can wipe out every eco system to support itself. And at a faster rate if it outbreeds the rest of the species.

Half the planet needs to be uninhabitated and rewilded for species and habitat preservation, conservation and restoration.

As apex predators, if we don’t protect habitat and other species below us, it is like sawing off the main trunk of a tree below us while perching on the top most branch. We will become extinct as a species.

One day, I am going to be able to buy thousands and thousands of acres and let nature take it back. There is a better chance that we will survive as a species if we reduce our population rather than keep on increasing it exponentially. Because we are guaranteed to outbreed every other species upon whom we rely on for our survival.

The planet survives because of a delicate balance between the ocean’s temperature and carbon levels in our atmosphere. We really don’t understand it fully yet. It’s premature to assume that we can keep on breeding to perpetuate our species. It’s the most unscientific, irrational and illogical way to solve a problem. It certainly is a sure way to erase ourselves from the universe as we know it.
What's wrong with full dosing off hours? There's got to be a balence where you're not relying on a drug to optimize productivity.
Heh, I think you might be right.
> The idea of performance enhancing drugs making their way into the workplace arena scares me a lot.

You say that as if it hasn't already happened, Adderall has been ubiquitous for years.

At my last office job we had an intern from out of state miss work abruptly because she couldn't get her Adderall prescription filled, and, I shit you not, skipped work to fly to Nevada to fill her out of state 'script because CA pharmacies wouldn't. She claimed she couldn't get any work done without it, from what I saw she couldn't get any work done either way, but the Adderall sure helped her focus on her phone for hours on end.
Lantana invades teak plantations and turns elephants violent
I honestly think this is a myth propogated by managers to discourage negotiation

They know the game, no employee ever is going to stay if they're being paid half their market value. "Commitment" my ass lol. But more to the point in order to replace you they have to pay market value for your job. They can only find someone cheaper if your job is beneath you.

Parlaying offers is fine as long as the work they need doing is worth that money. Who are they going to replace you with? Hiring is expensive even if they find a sucker. The only risk is if your market value is higher than they need to pay to get your job done.
The living computer museum has a VAX running the original VMS, accessible over the internet. Yeah the museum is closed, but the VAX is running, I've just logged in to verify.
"Do anything because we need to do something" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It is unfortunately common.
You can buy cashew-fruit concentrate in most U.S. grocery stores with a large Latin American selection. Even in Winston-Salem, NC where I live at "Compare Foods" supermarket. It's called "Jugo de Marañón" (juice of cashew).

I got in trouble in first grade in Rio de Janeiro (Our Lady of Mercy school). I didn't understand the concept of having to "stay inside the premises". For the first few days I wandered, unknowingly, outside the lower-elementary area, outside the upper-elementary area, outside the high school area. I found the street vendor and bought a hot dog and a "refresco de caju" (cashew drink) those first several days. A nun caught my innocent act and no more hot dogs and caju for lunch.
Common Lisp really IS the best programming language in the world, though. This is a statement of fact.

We could do a better job of proving it and demonstrating it to the world, and it would be easier to do it faster with funding.
yes but that tranfer fee is the same for 100 or 1 billion in value, and lightning correctly implemented pushing that fee down to the subcent number.

One of the biggest misconceptions around Bitcoin is somehow that it was supposed to sort all this out before it bootstrapped to a large enough network, but we all know that´s impossible.
I loathe running and also still can’t manage it, but I’ve walked a tremendous amount in the past year and it’s helped my health tremendously, so I highly recommend it. In the beginning a normal walking speed would get my heart rate up, but after a while I couldn’t get my heart rate above the 90s no matter how fast I walked. So my solution was to first add a 36lb belt, which does not put weight on your back or hold in heat. Eventually I had to add a 45lb weighted vest and sometimes 20lb ankle weights on top. Even with all that it takes much less of a toll and is much easier to recover from than running. And I can still get my heart rate up to the 140s without having to run.
I basically cut my teeth on DEC minicomputers from 1978 through 1996 on PDPs and the VAX.

I have the PDP-11/70 emulated on a raspberry pi with an original DecWriter III paper terminal connected.

It’s so much fun relearning TECO, a line editor that works off of ESC sequences.

Still looking for a cheap MicroVAX or a PDP-11/93.
I remember when I paid the $0.99 after the first year a friend told me "if you uninstall the app and reinstall it, you get another year for free".
It's not ads, that's a poor translation of an article in Spanish... from a source in English, quoting a tweet.

https://wabetainfo.com/whatsapp-is-going-to-update-their-ter...

They're copying the Telegram announcements.
When you got off Ritalin, did you find yourself more emotional and “feeling” more pain? I think the fear of this keeps most people on Ritalin/Adderall/Concerta/Vyvanse, etc.
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DEC was incredibly innovative, and not just in hardware. No mention in the article of DECNet, which was the networking suite for the VMS operating system. [1] It was my first intro to inter-process communications. The libraries were easily accessible from VAX FORTRAN, another awesome DEC product.

Besides enabling processes on VAX/VMS hosts to share data easily, DECNet could also interoperate with networking on IBM operating systems like MVS. At one point DEC apparently could network IBM computers--which had wildly different architectures--better than IBM itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet
> Earlier on Saturday, the capsule was picked up by cameras as a dazzling fireball streaking over Australia's Coober Pedy region.

Pretty much why the region was selected. it's a big empty largely uninhabited area already populated with field of view overlapping fireball tracking cameras.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Woomera_Range_Complex
Really, you can now overload based on concept matching, and so tailor implementations according to the family of types passed, analogously to overloading regular functions based on actual types, and overloading templates based on partial matches.

Concepts are a fundamentally powerful tool. Haskell people will recognize them as akin to what they call type classes.

Thus, in P2187 http://wg21.link/p2187 we have conditional swap that, for any small- and simple-enough type, is swapped using CMOV instructions instead of a probably badly-predicted branch. This mechanism works in released Gcc-10 today. (Note that what goes into the Standard Library will probably differ, in details, substantially from P2187R5.)
Townsend just closed, and I'm pretty upset about it. 40 years. The waiter was there for nearly 20 - an amazing guy. They had no intent to close, I used to see the owners bringing food to people, they'd talk to me, clearly loved their jobs.

Just so sad to see it go. Restaurants make a city. They're critical to its culture and the lifestyle of those who live there.

I don't know that this is the right or wrong decision, but it's just awful that this is happening, and we need to acknowledge how fucking terribly this has been handled.
(I am author of the article that was shared.) I upgraded from a Pixel 2 XL to a Pixel 4 XL this August. I honestly felt that both were quite responsive. The Pixel 2 XL became less immediately responsive over time, and it seemed to correlate more with increased CPU load--newer, more feature-laden software. I do not perceive a responsiveness difference between the 4XL and the iPhone 12.
Should be. lockdowns should be total or none. Masks are stupid and honestly have so little evidence supporting them it's pathetic, and the lockdowns have two champion countries and everyone else is statistically insignificant when you compare with their annual expected flu response curves
Clickbait title. capsule landed as planned and transmitted location. There was no search to “locate” it as much as tracking it.