skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of the population changes the republicans also seem to be gaining popular support for their progressive agenda. Their positions on issues like marriage equality and women's rights make them more aligned with younger voters than the unionists.

For those who are not familiar, in the Irish context republicans are republican in the sense that they want to reunify the Republic of Ireland, unlike the US GOP they are largely democratic socialist.
I'm wondering if hotline services should also offer volunteer options. Could be an issue with liability though (what if the the volunteer is a crazy person who's less of a help, to put it mildly).
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Brilliant synthesis of thoughts on logic, reasoning, programming, artificial intelligence,…
I struggled with loneliness and depression for almost a decade. Im now married have a beautiful son, and a great social life, I can tell you the secret and its easy: excercise.

Thats all there is to it.

Dont sign up for a gym membership and show up there confused and intimidated. join some sort of excercise class; crossfit, spinning,jiu jitsu, yoga.

I promise, it wont be overnight, but it will be FAST. you will feel better, youll make friends without even trying. Its impossible to go through an hour of physical suffering every day with the same people and not end up gradually talking more and getting to know each other.

OR, you could sit at your computer with the curtains shut, feeling like shit while you wait for friends to appear out of thin air.
I've never ever used GoDaddy, what is the most secure email provider that HN uses for company email or a new startup?
But who writes the words that go on the ballots? Ballots are not like Ouija boards. Someone has to make a proposal for others to vote on. The person who writes that will be an ethicist, if not by title, then by the fact that they wrote the text of a proposal to ban something unethical.
I do remember the "name your price" thing, but it seems I've completely forgotten it was unannounced release!

Therefore, there was virtually no hype...
Machine teachers who work on machine teaching. The current models don't learn on their own, they have to be force fed tasks with tons of data, so teaching fits better than learning.
Generally the term “baby monitor” refers to a microphone or camera watching the child’s crib, and a way to listen to or watch what your child is doing when they’re supposed to be asleep. Maybe somebody somewhere uses it to mean a screen for the baby to watch, but that would have to be some very non-standard usage.
She might have not known how to react, so tried to be empathetic by communicating what on her mind, was her own struggle - "kids being noisy", childrearing is not easy.

She might have been unconsciously signaling: "everyone is struggling some way or another, let me share mine so we can relate somehow..."
Synergetics by Buckminster Fuller. An amazing and inspiring example of truly original and deep thinking.
If they are aware of it, they probably don't consider it significant. The art world favors social critique and social impact over mere demonstration of technical prowess. At least since Bob Ross democratized landscape painting and put it within easy reach, it's not a significant artistic achievement to merely be good at painting landscapes. One must challenge the audience's preconceived notions and explore the relationship between land, space, society, race, class, and gender in order to be a successful landscape painter.

For this reason, the demoscene matters less than a footnote in the realm of high art, especially when compared with a masterpiece like Bolognini's Sealed Computers. (An art installation that consisted of several AT-class computers, all wired up and powered, running programs that display randomly-generated lines -- except the display ports are all sealed with wax, meaning that no one ever actually sees what they are displaying.)
Impressive and only in 102-lines of python code;
https://github.com/standupmaths/xmastree2020/blob/main/xmasl...
Who ever pays the politicians the most money.
Show HN: Number of Possible Mod Pizza Recipes
The realization about the landlord class rapaciously capturing almost all wealth and then getting whiny when their victims say enough is something.
No, it was six different chips.
Ask HN: How can I disable the christmas theme on HN?
I remember there being a setting to disable it but I can't manage to find it. I am aware that I could just visit the hn subreddit and wait until this problem passes over, but I would like to remain on this site if possible.

Thank you for your time.
That's been my job title for two or three decades. It wasn't a title that I chose for myself. Now, though, I use it for myself because that's the way others describe my role.
You should check out Obsidian.md. It’s been great, and open source.
Wasn't it the other way around? That cow fitted into a shark body shows shape being the key aspect.

https://chriswolfvision.medium.com/cow-sharks-exploring-the-...
Source? Sounds like bullshit or terrible engineering. Transmitting data via audio would come up in a 10m brainstorm about possible communication channels.
There is a plug-in for revisions [0], but it may be too simple for your needs?

[0] http://j.d.revisions.tiddlyspot.com/
I know the model. And I have read the documentation, as well as the git book, and now a fair number of Stack Overflow (and similar websites) pages. I actually use git fairly often, and for day-to-day use it’s fine.

The problem is for more complex manipulations I do maybe every 6 months. The logic behind difference between commands and options is really not obvious, and some commands are very asymmetric (doing something can be simple and take one command; undoing it might take a completely different command with several options and complex references).

The concept is great and it works very well; the UI is terrible.
How English sounds to foreigners.

https://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY
Fundamental needs being guaranteed through taxes is relying on the goodwill of others. Those paying the taxes can decide at any moment to exert political force to have the taxes eliminated or reduced.
Indian storage service DigiBoxx launches with 2TB storage at Rs30/month(USD 0.4)
More that the political system is completely dysfunctional I think. The fact that Brexit was even conceived as a solution to anything. Many, many more problems beside Brexit, with Brexit only being a symptom of other deeper issues.
I have no special knowledge about SF, but in NYC and other places I’ve lived that spending is through a patchwork of disjointed services. Along the way a lot of the money is lost in overhead and captured by contractors.
> it doesn’t seem like non-conscious entities would be able to accurately predict the behavior of conscious entities

Or the consciousness is just an observer and doesn't control anything, the control part is just an illusion where it feels like it made choices.

> It would never mourn the dead. It would never commit suicide. It would never sacrifice its life for love, or for an ideal, because it would have neither.

All of those can be explained by optimizing the curve for other cases. Mourning the dead happens since there is a conflict between quickly killing feelings for things and to keep the feelings for important things. Self sacrifice happens for any p zombie that values something else higher than itself. Love is just highly valuing something combined with momentum making it hard to stop valuing it, hate is the same but the opposite direction.

Now maybe there is consciousness with effects etc, but it isn't necessarily needed.
You’re right, but missing the point. I know what commits and refs are. Every time someone says that the syntax is unnecessarily complicated, a lot of well-intentioned people react as if we did not know a thing about git. Some commands and manipulations are just very unintuitive and cumbersome.
with all due respect, the masses used democratic process to come to a decision. im not a uk citizen and far from an expert on brexit but is it not disingenuous to call that decision "stupid" when there is not yet any proof as to whether or not it is lacking intelligence?

if one is so quick to cast judgment on something which is not yet provably good/bad, will one also be just as quick to retract that judgment in the future if it ends up being of a different result?
My experience exactly.
Maybe we're all Ongo Gablogian.
Tldr version: Bay Areas's shitty governance continues to be shitty during the pandemic.
The Washington Post: Russian hackers compromised Microsoft cloud customers
It’s not a superior system when Americans’ votes carry an unequal weight or are outright suppressed. That is not a properly functioning democracy, and what you described above can be exploited to the extreme in such a case.

Ultimately, we got lucky this past election, as in “unicorn levels”. What is going on in America is far from over and is going to ultimately be a generational struggle.
I am actually hoping it is some person who has discovered an energy density breakthrough and is testing it out.

Such a discovery could kick off a new industrial revolution.
It's not nearly as clear as you purport, and thus, the link is funny and appropriate - there's nothing on that page to suggest its _not_ the best for all use cases - the sum total of its argument is its better in every case.

However, the data isn't 100% there if you work in the spaces, i.e. I'd want to understand more how the CAM16 gradients were generated (CAM16 has two correlates for lightness and another three for 'color', saturation, colorfulness, and hue. CAM16UCS 'only' has colorfulness. How could the CAM16UCS gradient get 'saturated' more quickly?)
I realize it’s probably a minimal change for the HN admins, but I appreciate holiday design tweaks. I remember when The Iconfactory would change out it’s site theme — text included — for Halloween. I wish more sites did fun things like this.
I hope unicorns are real so we can eat them.
Merry Christmas!

Feliz Navidad!
Tiddlywiki is an incredible tool/framework, and the community is very active and supportive [0]. To get an idea of how flexible it is, see the unofficial list of examples and plug-ins (featuring hundreds of categorized entries): https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki
Working on relaxing because this year has been hard :)
That’s the first documentary I have ever seen on Amazon with more 1-star reviews than 5-star... is it any good?
Nope, just conic sections. Like a proper mathematician.
That seems overly simplistic. There are a lot of factors that could affect what the optimal ratio would be.
Is Zimbabwe's poverty because they have a bad "attitude towards income inequality"? How unequal was California when Ronald Regan was governor and before his 1986 amnesty?
Even if you only use Photoshop as a raster editor, it can be very hard to find a replacement, depending on your workflow.

Even the latest versions of GIMP and Krita are nowhere near capable of doing the things that I did in Photoshop 2.5 back in the early 1990s. I am not sure what the priorities are of the GIMP devs, but it seems like they aren’t at all serious about making a Photoshop alternative.
I feel like I might have ended up in your position if I hadn't been inoculated against it early.

I'd like to tell you how even objectively bad circumstances do not demand subjective suffering, that there exist treatments and substances that can genuinely help, to try to point you in the direction of Standard Official Resources, and that the future can be better and so on, but I also know that all of that can sound empty or even annoying.

So instead, I'm going to try something that might be unwise. I've only seen it work once.

You're not alone, in the worst possible sense of the phrase. Extreme suffering is common and nearly ignored. Through what can only be reasonably termed negligence, more people die each year to trivially preventable causes than at the peak of the holocaust. Unanswered prayers and extinguished hopes are the sum of experience for a number of people so large that we can't have a proportional emotional response to it.

You have a blessedly uncommon insight in this. Even if your experience isn't the same as all the others, you have an understanding that reality has no safety net.

So now we come to the part that I've always hesitated suggesting to anyone else:

Please help. Please take upon yourself the completely ridiculous and unreasonable burden of doing what is within your physical power, even when it means exposing yourself to even more suffering indefinitely, even when doing anything is already asking too much. It's not a matter of obligation or moral expectation, there's just the brute fact that people constantly suffer and die for no reason, and they could be saved. Just actions and consequences.

I won't tell you that this will help you. It may. I am alive right now. Therapists might suggest 'crying yourself to sleep for a year' and 'having recurring dreams composed solely of uncontrollable sobbing' are not an ideal recovery from severe depression, but if all else fails, turning yourself into a robot that tries to guide others away from the sharper edges is still better than the alternative.

Please stick around and help, because no one else will replace you.
For me Factorio is a way to safely confront my feelings about ever increasing complexity and mess and somehow get past them to find strength to improve things.
I think few even look at or understand the "moving stars" (planets). Also it feels few understand how seasons work. Every solstice and equinox prompts a news article or two explaining what the terms mean. Four times a year. So for them "Sun moves around the earth" is actually just as good as "Earth goes around the Sun."

When I was a kid I carefully recorded the position of the sun for a year, and plotted the sun's "motion around the earth". Then I flipped it around and had the earth's orbit. (I also plotted Venus and Mars, as much as I could see them, and they plotted fine, once I switched to heliocentric.

I seem to remember that this was how Kepler came up with equal angles in equal time; I am sure I read it in a book and followed what it said, but that was many decades ago.

So the reasons are readily available without any tool but a pen and paper, but I don't think they are even meaningful to most people. I can't really blame them.
Investor sues video game studio over buggy 'Cyberpunk 2077'
Yeah, I just hope they do catch up, instead of bailing like AMD and leaving TSMC the only advanced node player in town.

(Yes, I'm aware of Samsung.)
Good support for text and text effects! It’s amazing how far behind all the FOSS editors are compared to AE on this seemingly trivial issue.
Trusting a VPN provider is an entirely different thing than trusting AWS et al though.

VPN providers are far more likely than AWS to do the kind of shady things that might matter to your relatives, like selling their personal data.
Not possible!
While I haven't used any of the books myself, it seems that there are many results when I search Google for "java book pdf" or "javascript book pdf", though many of the Java books seem to be older. There's also WikiBooks, which has simpler/shorter books, though it seems that their printable and PDF versions of books aren't updated as frequently as the wiki contents.

One idea might be to load up a flash drive/memory card with a bunch of different PDF books as well as Node.JS, Visual Studio Code, Java JDKs, Java IDEs, etc. and let her try them and see what works best for her.
Main features of electric sterilizer machine for fruit juice
Electric sterilizer machine for fruit juice utilizes hot water circulation to sterilize, warm water to pre-cool, and cold water to cool. The sterilizing temperature and time are adjustable. It is applicable to pasteurize various pop-cans, PET bottles, glasses, and so on. When the containers through the tunnel, they have been sprinkled by water which in different temperature, they are preheated stage, heating-up stage (sterilizing stage), and cooling stage. There is the front-end of sterilization which is the heating regular stage and the back-end stage is the cooling regular stage. Both of them are very important. From that, it can avoid changing the original taste when it is too hot, and also can prevent to brake the bottles when the container suffers the heat stress changes suddenly. In the tunnel pasteurizing machine, our company ordinary adopted the spray mouth system (Installing a larger spray mouth), the hot water through the spray mouth spouts to the containers).
Nonetheless, the question in the twitter poll wasn't "how would you design the definition of even?" It was, essentially, "how did mathematicians, who may have made the decision hundreds of years ago for reasons you have not considered, define even-ness?" The first could be called an exercise in reasoning, the second is a call for memory.
Don't forget Slash.
Great show. My two favorite scenes are probably the death of Prop Joe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ca4WeMd2MQ) and the death of Wallace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hor_gOBU_GU).
“No activity logs” is impossible to verify, and “hides your device’s activity” is basically untrue unless you do some gymnastics with the definitions of words.
Julia is apparently gaining steam in scientific computing.
I first realized what they were doing when talking to Blathers. The hoots in his speech were easy to pick out in the audio which then led to hearing that the rest of the text was being spoken. After noticing it, it's been much easier to hear it happening for all characters.
I don't see any christmas theme, just different color topbar when logged off. If you are talking about topbar, you can change color in your profile under "topcolor".
Just to be clear, I agree with you, but I'm half convinced the culture came first. Charity, being on an individual basis, is quicker moving than governmental action. It fills the gaps, so to speak, and will (and should) always have a place, but the gaps of income inequality (among many other problems) are so deep and our society so incapable of moving to solve them, that we are left to rely on charity and helplessly pray to our Carnegie- or Apple- like demigods (I'm exaggerating a bit here). This problem seems to have a nasty feedback loop with the concentrating of wealth in that more wealth in fewer hands lessens the scope that those with wealth to give can see and increases the damage an actor can do (accidentally, intentionally, or through inaction).

I question I have for some people who might read this: I suspect some people slightly more libertarian than I would argue that our society should have a greater emphasis on charity vs taxes, but I have no idea how that would be workable when starting with a huge disparity. UBI with automatic triggers like the Sahm rule, maybe? I don't know. I'm not well read here.
It's mostly about moderating, but maybe it will be helpful to you/someone:

https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/a-pragmatic-appr...
It's unfair for people to get help from people willing to help, but it's not unfair for people to get help from people against their will?
An Old and Fishy Tale
Was going to also suggest obsidian, it’s been the closest I’ve come to a Notion alternative, aside from the database aspect.
My post didn't mention the agreement. It was about leaving. The advantages of leaving are in the post you're replying to.
I think Nim it’s a great language and deserves more attention from scientific computing.
Good to know that I haven't missed much without CarpPlay :-)

Agree, especially the standard 3 year warranty, useless. Combined with the basic service package (around 1500~2000 AUD covering 5 years with tricky T&Cs), the car would certainly start to have all sort of problems once reaching the 5 year old mark.

1M Coupe is hell of a car, I admit that I regret not buying one when I had the change (for A$65k - today it still worth that much, even more...). However, 1M Coupe in its stock form is way too firm for Sydney road condition (the manual will also be a pain getting stuck on traffic - if it's a weekend fun car, no prob at all), I felt a bit neck / back discomfort after 30 mins driving my ex-colleagues car, let alone the ride quality (passenger PoV), interior does not live up to its hype either (manual seat adjustment sucks). I am happy that I got the OG F87 M2 with all options as standard that I care (prefer OG M2's look in LLB and its interior - still poor for an entry ///M car at that price).

Z3 M is a classic (unfortunately not available in AUDM), worth keeping. E86 Z4 M coupe was on my list when hunting for my next toy car (still A$52k+ now), love the S54B32 engine.
On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak.

At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Alex Chilton" or whatever in mind, but now that I think about it there's a dark undercurrent to plenty of the songs in the core Replacements canon: "Hold my Life", "Unsatisified", "I Will Dare", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", etc. - not to mention of a handful of slow tempo tracks with obviously dark themes.

I don't normally associate the Replacements with mopey music but in retrospect I'm not sure why. It's kinda all over the place, under a very thin veneer of drunken cynicism.
I find it unfair that people who have been born with talents and opportunities take for granted the basic needs that 99% of the world cannot afford - just because they were born at the right place and time.

Privilege comes with responsibility toward others... spend some time with the 99% to gain perspective.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/2019-repo...
Every communication method is point to point at some layer.

If wg is a low layer that only attempts to do the tunneling job and leaves the routing and directory jobs to others, that seems just fine to me.

I prefer seperation of concernes.
Even with switch res x, the most I can push vertically is 1080 with the same aspect ratio. I have pushed a standard 16:9 4K before.

In particular, my MacBook is the 2015 model, 15 inch.

My solution is switch res x with two outputs, 2K each, and picture by picture mode.
However it has problems. Like you can’t zoom cast a window that overlaps the center.
It's possible, but I'm skeptical.

Giving someone a nice office doesn't take all that much. Unpaid "visiting scientist" or "research affiliate" positions aren't actually very hard to come by. It doesn't take more than one decision maker. I've had similar positions at several schools, mostly as a convenience, and all it takes is one prof to send an email or fill out a one-pager form (depending on the school). Office space is largely a matter of availability. If it's scarce in a lab, you're not getting it. If it's plentiful, well, I've had random offices at universities too.

I know plenty of people with such positions at MIT with minimal academic backgrounds. The general arrangement was that a professor wanted something done. Someone was willing to do it for free, usually because it was interesting and fun. Professor signed a form. In one case, this was a random person more-or-less off-the-street (at MIT).

Harvard is also broken up into silos; it's more like a loose confederation of schools than a unified university. That makes things like this even easier, since only one place needs to agree.

Most of Harvard seems to take their motto of veritas pretty seriously, still. That doesn't mean they don't keep secrets -- they do -- but I haven't seen them openly lie much. Their corruption is different; it's more about building out a political power base.

As far as I know -- although this is really quite third hand -- Larry Summers was an explicit, planned takedown. Harvard politics are... complex.