skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key here is that, if time travel is possible, you would experience the events like this :

1. You start your day normally

2. You meet yourself from the future and discuss some niceties.

3. Many years later, you enter a time machine, and you arrive back at time 2, where you have that conversation with yourself that you remember.

The past has already happened, so it can't change. So, if you haven't met a time traveler so far, that is proof that no one will ever time travel to the moment and place where you just were, even if time travel becomes possible in the future.

Now, you may ask, 'what happens if at step 3 I decide to shoot myself, or not have that conversation?'. Here the answer is simple : that question makes no sense. You have already done our not fine these things, there is no power of decision that could influence this. It's like asking "what if I now decide that yesterday I didn't go to the store". The fact that the event at time 2 happened is fixed both in the past and the future. It was in fact fixed at the time of the universe's creation.

Now, you may not accept determinism, or you may believe in free will, and there are good reasons for both (quantum indeterminism, subjective experience, etc.). In either case, I don't think you can believe in time travel, since all of the paradoxes reappear. But if you believe the past and the future are already set in stone, there is no paradox if the two cross each other in certain ways. But it doesn't make sense about what you 'will decide to do', because this is as fixed as what you ate yesterday.
I agree with this, but I would make one important tweak: make the new behavior opt-out, instead of opt-in, with a configuration file option for switching the default.

You're still breaking code by default this way, but no one would have trouble updating.

My concern is that, if you don't make the preferred behavior clear, a lot of people would simply never adopt it. I don't think that Python's userbase in particular is going to spend time reading documentation on best practices.
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Google Cloud Run works well with database files up to a couple of GBs. Beyond that the best solution at the moment is to run a VPS - I've had good results with DigitalOcean droplets.
Why is this downvoted? It's completely true.
It fooled me I guess. Since 'wif' is gender-neutral I thought it meant 'partner'. Sometimes it's used that way (in old writing) but not often.
> The kind of software projects that make the world go round continue past the lives of their original authors and can easily span decades

The name on the software might remain unchanged for decades. That doesn't mean that the software remains identical for that time.
It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with. It’s no longer just about sanity and protecting attention, but now also about security, as we’ve heard more and more about malware running rampart from ad distribution servers.
I hear the latter from plenty of YIMBY organizations. Even in so-called urban cores, there are often strict restrictions on what you can build, and demand exists for bland modern apartment tower blocks but they just can't be built. There are often rules on maximum height, mandatory parking (pointed out in the article), design / "character" requirements, etc. Getting rid of zoning and review processes and letting the market take care of things is exactly what folks are calling for.

But more generally I don't understand your complaint. You're saying that people should not advocate for changing how the suburbs work, because if people wanted to change how the suburbs work, they would advocate for it?

Like, I'm sorry you feel that a claim of fact comes with an attitude, but it's a testable, refutable claim. Do you think the claim is wrong? Or do you just not like it?
> pv is the tool I want to use for things like copying images to SD cards but I can never remember the exact syntax needed to get it to show me the percentage

You're in luck: the "syntax needed" is to literally not use any options:

pv your.img > /dev/sdb
I guess I'll have to get a dummy display connector for my current video card. I'm still wondering how Duet Display is able to do so without it.
I had this, now much improved:

* have an early dinner. I eat at 4 or 5 pm. This is extreme, but earlier will probably help if possible. No snacks after dinner

* Get light exposure as early as possible after waking. A morning walk is good

* Exercise close to waking. In practice I do a 7 min workout, eat and walk

* blue light blocking glasses help

* A sleep mask can help. I use a manta mask + their glasses. I don’t actually sleep with the mask as I side sleep, but I wear it for 10 min or so while laying in bed and I fall asleep, then shift to my side to continue. (For whatever reason I can’t sleep on my back)

* Fewer household lights in evening. Lamps are good.

* Decide to get ready for bed even if you’re not sleepy. If you start a wind down routine by dimming lights, brushing teeth, reading, whatever you do before bed, you’ll start to get sleepier. It sounds dumb, but if you are, say, staring at your phone for three hours waiting to get tired you won’t get tired.

* Keep a log. You may identify changes or factors specific to you that help improve things
I would argue that Japan very definitely did not “allow” foreign culture in because the country was “opened” under threat of force by Matthew Perry. Unless you mean earlier entries of culture like firearms and Christianity in the 16th century but I’m not sure that entry can be attributed to Japan as a country that far back.
I think that argument is just recapitulating what a paradox is. It doesn't address "what if you try to do something that didn't happen", which is the root question.
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If cheap Eastern European competition was the cause of the decrease in pay, the kind of treaty shouldn't matter much. The competition is gone, the companies will now be forced to pay a solid British wage.
The last samurai isnt tom cruise it's the dude he meets after being injured by the japanese government, when he begins to appreciate the shogun via his interactions with the last samurai. Comments on the movie tend to give the impression that cruise is playing an asian man rather than an injured western soldier.
I tried and I couldn't.
Have you considered working with the Internet Archive on this across their corpus? They are open to such work being done. And if some of the material you need isn’t in the archive, let’s get it in there.
For the project I'm currently working on, the customer mandates that we must use SonarQube, Fortify and Nexus IQ.

Not once has any of them found any kind of security issue. In fact every single thing they have raised has been a false positive, or just plain time wasting (e.g. forcing some arbitrary level of branch coverage). Also, they can be so slow - more time is spent in the build pipeline on these tools than is spent in actual build, test and deployment combined (even including integration tests)! Fortify is particularly slow (up to 10 minutes!), and provides no value whatsoever.

I've used SonarQube on several other projects too; it seems to be very popular in enterprise circles in particular. Never once have I seen it raise a security issue. On occasion it points out the odd accessibility issue, but that's it.
Thanks for the tip, that's definitely something I'll try out.
I get the name makes sense for what it does but I long for the days that products weren’t simple English words - searching “Hush” on the App Store found many results - none of which looked like this.

Which brings me to the annoyance of “go here search this”: a regressing to AOL keywords when URLs exist is madness.
Lol, this is exactly the strategy of the business I’m running. We started in March, have a team of 10, and are remote first in our DNA. It’s so much easier to hire that you can build a team of top performers fairly easily and evaluate them based on output.
Goodbye, Michael Jones, the man who gave the power of maps in our hands
I think most evil people are 'well meaning' by their definitions of 'well meaning'.

But I can agree that Bill Gates wants to do good. He just has some wrong ideas of what good is, and waay too much money.

I can only hope that good things he does despite his believes will outweigh the bad.

Bad things he did and still does can be clearly traced to his wrong believes.

Like this thing https://www.iatp.org/blog/202010/agricultural-revolution-gat...
anyways purpose of Brexit was not "sovereignity" or whatever other lies were told, the purpose was to distract from decades of mismanagement by political elites

No, that's missing the point too. The purpose of Brexit was very much sovereignty for the political elites. The entire point of Brexit was that the policital elites were ceding too much power to Brussels and they explicitly campaigned to "take back control". The Monarchy doesn't enter into it, they'd ceded their political power to the elites centuries ago.
Here’s why I think it won’t: commercial real estate and what happens of that industry crashes and the retirement and pension funds that are heavily invested in Comm RE are decimated.
Yes and my argument would be that in 99% of cases where this is used in the real world in a genderless context, there is no gendered evocation or connotation with the word. It simply means a group of people, and there is no harmful effect of using this term.

I believe you have to dig really deep and go through some mental gymnastics to find evidence of harm here. I don't fault the authors of these papers for exploring the potential issues with the term, but I believe this is a case where the academic reading is out of step with the reality of the situation.
I had been working remotely for a startup based in the bay area for a couple of years prior to the pandemic and living in a low COL area for a year of that experience.

I promise you it is much harder to find remote work than otherwise; even during a pandemic. I ended up relocating back to a high COL area because of this difficulty(among a few other things).

Once you realize you have to take a 50% pay cut to work anywhere else(or find another high paying remote job- good luck, everyone else wants one too!) remote work becomes a very tight, and scary leash.
You can set up accessibility features to help with this. Make it larger or configure it so shaking it makes it much larger for a short time.
can i still "buy" one?

and how much would it be ?
I love this tip! I always get sweaty armpits whenever I'm using dd and I check the of parameter several times just to be sure. This will save me from a lot of pit stains.
I’ll never be sure, but I may have had this to a high degree. I got hit on the ehad by a frisbee two years back, was diagnosed with a concussion, and had post concussive symptoms for about nine months until I found a therapist who did vestibular and visual rehab.

Funny thing was, I had some of the symptoms to a lesser degree before the blow. So was it brain damage, or did the blow merely worsen my visual and vestibular systems and cause more fatigue? I’ll never know.

But a key thing is that in the two years prior to the blow I had some burnout, seasonal cashflow issues in my business (thankfully resolved), and worse sleep. I fixed those and I have my old energy back. But for months leading up to the blow I hardly felt able to go to the gym, and old tasks felt tiring. Fatigue, some headaches, etc
Fwiw, the python3 version didn't run at all for me in Python 3.9.0 on Mac.

"UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udc80' in position 0: surrogates not allowed
The deal is not finished. It has explicit condition covering disapproval.

Nvidia buys ARM only if the deal gets regulatory approvals approvals. If not, the deal is off.

>The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals for the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place in approximately 18 months.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for...
How big is the market for premium WordPress plugins?
You mean the same 'artists' who want copying criminalised? Maybe they should take themselves down a few pegs and rely on something more useful to society if they want to make money, otherwise they should be happy with what they're getting.
Don't get me wrong, I love art, art is great, but a lot of artists are far too entitled and arrogant in the face of their actual contribution to society.
So, let's say after COVID, people start getting back to their cubicles and continue to crank out office hours just as before. Except you, you continue working from home (after some convincing arguments to your boss/management that you are just as effective WFH). How long will you last? Do you coworkers get jealous (although that could have done the same).
Probably a mixup with distutils, which has just been deprecated.
> Why not just have casual conversations instead?

Scheduling it daily is how you have these casual conversations.
I grew up in such a neighborhood, built to absorb the baby boom. It took me a long time to figure out that the houses were identical except for being oriented in different directions, having different facade, and so forth. One day I realized that I knew my way around David's house because I knew my way around Kevin's house.
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Future is infinite so there is no limit on borrowing from the future....
I do believe that such a trivial change would indeed be fine. If one can go to the effort of installing the new version, one can add one line in a configuration file to depend upon old behavior.
That's interesting, thanks for the calculation!
It’s true that Wordpress is very good at letting you modify content easily. That is, as you say, a major reason to use it.

However. That assumes you are only needing to edit text with basic formatting (bold, underline, etc...) As soon as you get into anything more complex you pretty much have to understand HTML and CSS.

I just ran into this with three different Wordpress installs. Two use Divi and the third uses WP Bakery. Those are really nice plugins and in 100% of the cases, the person using the site told me they don’t understand what’s going on and kept making a mess of something.

I’m guessing that for The Whitehouse site they will mostly be doing minimal content editing. Then again, they have the resources to have a person who understands HTML and CSS manage the site when things get tricky.

I’m not saying Wordpress is bad but it very quickly can become not as easy to use as most people make it out to be.
> The virus didn’t magically halt economic activity

This is the opposite of true. Most businesses cannot survive on half of their normal traffic and when it became known that it wasn’t safe to linger indoors many people voluntarily restricted their activities to essentials. Groceries count, mall chocolates do not.

The right-wing counter factual you’re spreading is an attempt to distract from the damage caused by certain bad calls made early on to prevent the normal public health response for political reasons.

Consider how massive the government response was in Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, etc. - and how that has supported a more normal economy along with saving many thousands of lives.
I had never read the supposed rationalist bastion that is Slate Star Codex. But this is total first-order thinking rubbish.

Shall we talk incentives? If billionaries cannot launder their reputations through philanthropy, maybe that would be more careful of their reputation during the wealth-accumulation phase.

This reasoning is the equivalent of "well, the sharecropper better keep on paying the man, because no field means starvation which is worse".
The other thing with universities, comping from the perspective of someone involved with a fairly small corporate research department (which has close ties to a big one)--is that they can be very divorced from the practical/commercial. And it's not necessarily a good thing to be too ivory tower. In fact one of the reasons universities want to work with us (other than the fact we provide internships and jobs for their students) is that we help them to work on things that people actually care about.

Not that fundamental research is a bad thing but there's often a happy medium between near-term product development and totally blue sky research.
Sounds similar to why many watch these types of videos: [0]

I can attest to it being very effective at inducing sleepiness. Here's a representative type that seems to work very well at making me fall asleep: [1]

As a sibling comment mentions, the old Joy of Painting videos by Bob Ross were early forms of this. He's kind of the unofficial godfather of ASMR

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASMR

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jomUOcwqchA
People with extreme views have trouble thinking about their own thinking (2018)
And despite that, Tegra isn’t all that great compared to Qualcomm and Apple.

Why can’t NVIDIA make their own M1 competitor as it is right now?
I am sure it was rushed a bit and reused things.

The contrast and typo sliding menu was present on the bidenharris and or joebidden.com websites.
> NYC and SF are emptying

As an NYC renter who's been spending a lot of time looking at sales listings in the NYC housing market recently: This is not true. You are repeating a lie.

If it were true, I and my other renter friends would at least be able to keep our rents steady. My rent went up during covid, as did others'. And we're in perfectly generic apartments.

A couple of loud rich people are posting thinkpieces about leaving. A couple of folks who hate NYC and SF are aggressively retweeting those posts. And, perhaps, growth is slowing down. But the city is not "emptying."

But if it helps you feel more oppressed and backs up your identity politics, believe whatever you want.
I get that it's frustrating but I don't understand what the real issue here is, or how this relates to anti-trust as some other comments are suggesting. They are under no obligation to offer any further explanation for why they won't operate a free service forever. It's a business, you can safely assume the explanation is always "because money."
You can also just use cp, and then you don't need to worry about the block size. Really only need dd if you have to limit how much data is read.
Atmospheric water collection will have contamination problems with volatiles and aerosols. Unusable in polluted cities. Unless you filter and clean, but you're back to the initial problem...
DUPE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25873661
Actually out of curiosity, I'd love to hear a Japanese or Korean persons take on this claim. Im from the Middle East so Syria and France seem pretty different for me, but maybe if you're from the country/region being compared it's a lot easier to see the differences.
What I do to find out which is which is use lsscsi:

$ lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA ST2000DX001-1NS1 CC41 /dev/sda
[3:0:0:0] cd/dvd ASUS SH-224FB 1.00 /dev/sr0
[4:0:0:0] disk Generic- Multiple Reader 1.11 /dev/sdb
I was the de facto maintainer of JNA (https://github.com/java-native-access/jna) win32 bindings for years. The API metadata is welcome - we have always based all work on header files in the visual studio / windows SDK. Now there’s a change to generate that code - someone might want to try to replace hand crafted mappings in JNA with generated ones - there’s a huge test suite to work with.
I haven't read any detailed treatment of the subject but the book described here sounds like it would give you a very good overview of the issues and regulatory consequences
[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
I have no idea, but the article mentions people distressed because they have lost their pictures. ("if you should find your account disabled [...] you won’t be able to get your photos back"). Now in the EU there is the GDPR that forces anyone who has your personal data to provide it on request- but I'm not sure it would prevent FB from deleting it right after the ban.
What are the best alternatives these days to WordPress for non-technical people? I know of Squarespace and Webflow. Any others?
To be fair, National Rail seems distinctly worse compared to DB, SNCF, RENFE, etc. Greater London is an exception, but London has it's own problems with affordability near rail stations.
Hm. While work-from-home can be very productive, there's a bias when you mix work-at-office and work-from-home. The remote folks are left out of things happening in the office. Folks not aware of this, and thus doing nothing to mitigate it, will quickly conclude the remote workers must come back to the office. Rather than work on a hybrid model. Because that's easier.
I tend to run both. The second screen let's me have source/editor on one and reference material on the other. My daily driver is a three screen setup( laptop display and two external monitors). There's usually some combination of logs, app ui, source, and refence material across all three so I can switch between them without having to think about which virtual display they are on. In support situations, I'll have a screen share running on one, chat on another, and likely reference material on a third. You could do it with a single huge display, but it would need to be huge and have a way to subdivide it into reasonable slices for easy window snapping. Plus, you aren't going to get that in anything that can be used as a laptop ...
I'm confused. I haven't actually brought up any issues except those raised in the link I provided, where IRV has some serious issues. So allow me to remedy it by providing specifics.

Your link clearly says, in heading: "RCV for Single-Winner Offices (also known as Instant Runoff Voting / IRV)". So unless they are not actually using IRV, then the link I supplied is relevant. It's specifically this part which is broken, quoted from your link:

The candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and voters who picked that candidate as ‘number 1’ will have their votes count for their next choice.

So unless a candidate gets a good-enough first-vote showing to not be last, they have zero chance of winning. Even if 100% of the population picks them as their second candidate, and the remaining first-pick votes are spread over 100 other candidates, it doesn't matter they will lose without first-pick votes. And that's what results in graphs like the "square" graph in my link, where a centrist population ends up with a candidate that doesn't make sense.

The heart of the matter is that part of the vote information is ignored until other events happen. But by the time that triggering event happens, the information may no longer be used. In my example, the fact that 100% of people pick a candidate as their second choice is flat-out ignored until candidates start being eliminated. By the time that second choice is looked at, the relevant candidate is no longer in the running.

I have not seen similar multi-candidate simulations, but STV seems to have the same issue regarding ignoring information. Unpopular first vote candidates will be eliminated, even if they're extremely popular second vote candidates.

For single-winner elections, approval voting is both simpler to administer (because there's no ranking) and has better outcomes (because all information is taken into account at the beginning). However, a more complicated method would need to be used for multi-candidate races if "fairness" of representation is a target.