skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is misleading: The reason that iron fillings form lines instead of just spreading evenly is that nearby fillings interact magnetically with each other, rather than anything to do with the field of the large magnet having "lines". Magnetic fields are continuous over space.
Just want to reiterate this. Tyson, in no uncertain terms, was a pure physical phenom. He in no way satisfies the nature vs nature debate (more or less makes it undebatable in his case, as it’s pure nature at work there).
Many people don't realize both are regulated to limit the potential to exploit their markets. Odds are set on games of chance (slots) and with regards to insurance most have a set maximum percentage they can have profit with rest having to be refunded (this may not be true in all states but is in mine).
Because the likelihood that I get a PDF designed to exploit a bug in XPDF (or other image viewer) after being converted to PS and back by Ghostscript is relatively low (e.g. this would seem to indicate that I'm being targetted personally, or I have a common setup)? But, in general, I'm not saying "use ghostscript", I'm saying "perhaps roundtripping incoming PDFs through some other file format will produce a PDF that is safer to view than viewing untrusted PDFs directly"
Big Government. They love it.
That's not true.

Magnetic field is a vector field, not scalar field.

Magnetic field line is visualization of the direction of the field, not related to the strength. The strength shows in the density of the field lines.
Critically, forgiveness follows repentance.
I've watched OSs come and go. They all make about the same mistakes - including a file system as part of the OS (instead of just another service). Organizing it around directory-parent directory-file.

I'm just an old guy, moaning about how little OS technology has changed or grown in 30 years.
Was this tested against the new variant?
In addition to that many of the largest insurance companies are also “mutual”. So they’re owned by the policy holders and any profits they accrue are distributed across the insurance pool.
and cannot be demanded by the offender.

We can reach easily to Isaiah to see what repentance looks like, too:

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
This sort of language seems a bit uncalled for to me

> gee, look - a 3rd contender for a scripting integration ...
and the 2nd from you, heh. i guess you're retracting #4136 then?

> how does this compare in size with moofie's lua stuff? that's what the integration question mostly hinges on, i think.

> according to trac's diff view, the indentation in the patch is somewhat random. how did you even manage to do that ...? :}

>> Am I doing something wrong?

> yes - not doing enough meditation. :D
no, seriously, you need patience. a lot of it.
It's no longer necessary with tools like create-react-app and next-js. Gulp used to make sense before Webpack and React. You needed to process files, build your project, and have a functioning web server (BrowserSync) that refreshes the browser when you make changes.

The reality is that nextjs and create-react-app are way superior, have TypeScript and Webpack configurations out of the box, and they have their own build process. No reason to use Gulp anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=169zQ1g-Ul0. Certified crazy.
> (Of course, it is dubious as to whether this actually helps much.)

Unsurprising, since the paper seems to be written by someone with no actual knowledge of x86 in the first place. Eg, in Alternate Code Generation, they recommend rewriting:

48 89 C3 mov rbx, rax
# as
48 87 D8 xchg rax, rbx
48 89 D8 mov rax, rbx
48 87 D8 xchg rax, rbx
# when they should simply be writing
48 8B D8 mov rbx, rax $ note that this is *literally the same instruction* at the assembly level

And even when the xchg's are actually needed (eg for mod/rm /0 and /1 opcode groups), they should be encoded properly:

48 C1 C3 04 rol rbx, 4
# to
48 93 xchg rax, rbx # we have dedicated instructions for this for a reason
48 C1 C0 04 rol rax, byte 42
48 93 xchg rax, rbx # I think we *do* need the 48 on these, unfortunately; blame AMD

The former (that is, the policy of assembling register-to-register mod/rm instructions between a ax/cx and a bx/dx with the former in the effective address (not "destination") slot) eliminates upwards of three quarters of mod/rm-ret gadgets (including in hand-coded inline assembly!) at zero cost, and should have been the first option, before even thinking about register allocation.
If you want to get really deep into this, you can read the book Linkers and Loaders by John Levine. It's useful if you're writing either a compiler or an OS, or if you really want to understand the subtleties of how executables are loaded and executed. It may not help you solve your immediate linking or loading problem, but it'll at least help you understand how you got there and what they computer is trying to do.
> The Mini-14 has also been used in mass shootings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_Mini-14#Criminal_use

Not in the United States since 1986 according to that list.

Tactical maneuverability when discharging rounds at a rapid rate can come from maintaining the stock in-line with the bore of the rifle as-with a pistol grip, which allows for better control of rapid fire. It is also easier to pull the rifle into the shoulder quickly, which allows you to re-sight more quickly when firing rapidly, and transitioning from running to a shooting position. If you look at a standard, factory wood or synthetic-stock Mini-14 (not a side-folder), the bore is elevated over the stock. The fractions of a second needed to re-sight the rifle would create a disadvantage when rapidly discharging a weapon in close quarters. This is especially important for someone who has not received extensive training in handling weapons in these situations, such as the people who go postal in schools and nightclubs and such.

> At that range, the AR-15's greater difference between bore axis and line-of-sight becomes a disadvantage compared to the Mini-14.

This seems like a weird example, since I don't believe any modern, well-funded urban combat operations team uses the factory Mini-14, or any similarly-configured rifle with a more horizontal-grip stock. The prototypical close-combat rifle, the MP5, most definitely uses a pistol-grip, and SWAT teams in the United States seem rather fond of the AR-15-style platform.

Although I do not have evidence to support this, I would also make the argument that a pistol-grip offers advantages in quickly swapping mags in a high-pressure situation, as the mag release button is nicely situated with the wrist in a neutral position, and the ability to bring the rifle back-up to shoulder using the pistol-grip as a lever following a mag swap would be easier, especially for someone who is inexperienced, moving quickly, and prone to fumbling.

Plus, people are tired of seeing mass shootings on TV, and just don't want to have to worry about lunatics running around with these types of weapons. The definition of 'these types of weapons' will evolve, and typically correlate with what people see being used in mass shootings on the news.

I don't know that people's negative reaction to these weapons is particularly unreasonable in this context.
Most homicide victims are men and men are on average stronger than women so I seriously doubt that.
To be fair, I wasn't logged in. But it's pretty soul destroying whenever I see the home page. It's a bunch of people "reacting" to things (meaning that they have their mouths wide open in the thumbnail), or worse ("I bought everything at X store"). Just excruciating. That's before you get to the fact that like 80% of front page stuff is compilation videos (i.e. content stolen from users on other sites).
Data Structures Implemented with SQLite
PDF.js has solved most of my pdf needs.
It is like the VLC of pdf.
Just sort of works.
thank you very much Sir for the information, I usually see the profile but I don't see anything.
> One of the repeating motifs of recruiting in the software industry are mantras of “talent”: “We recruit the best talent”, “talent attracts talent”, “we value talent” and so on.

As far as I can tell, it's using the word 'talent' because it's flattering and presumably effective. Really, it mostly means skilled.

The better employers and their recruiters look for applicants that are highly skilled in something related, and shows an ability and eagerness to learn. The depth to which they've achieve success would be my proxy for their talent. Whether innate or learned doesn't factor much into it. The only thing to watch for is if they spent their entire career doing one thing, even done well might show a lack of flexibility or interest in new things.
Calories per acre.

"That means corn averages roughly 15 million calories per acre" "wheat comes in at about 4 million calories per acre, soy at 6 million" "Other vegetables, while much more nutritious than corn, wheat or potatoes, are far less energy-dense. Broccoli yields about 2.5 million calories per acre, and spinach is under 2 million"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-defense-of-...
Canadian MPs call to relocate 2022 Winter Olympics over China’s abuse of Uighurs
The article points out that for visible abdominals one needs to maintain less than 10%, typically 8%, and that doctors recommend between 15% and 20%

10% is at the outskirts of what is generally considered acceptable, it is not a disaster such as the 3% that some body builders go for, but gaining more is definitely better and to achieve 10% one must in general consciously malnutitrion and avoid eating food that the body can use to synthesize fat.
I used to believe in the thesis that "all are almost equal, only nurturing accounts for differences in talents". After reading various cases in the works of the late Dr. Oliver Sacks, nature (parents/genetics) also matters.

However, this belief that nature matters can bring in negative consequences for many people who look for ordinary jobs. For instance, not every programming job doesn't need a genius; not every well-paid job doesn't need a genius. Once companies start looking for geniuses in the name of tough interviews for average well-paid jobs, it can create problems for the majority of non-geniuses.
Oh wow, this is perfect timing. I do hacking on homemade from-scratch 2d game engines in C++ just for fun (and because it's about as far away from what I do at work as I can get). My projects never get super polished because they're more about learning experiences for me than making anything for sale/consumption. Anyways, my most recent project was a traditional roguelike (holy shit, GUI programming with only SDL for comfort is a challenge), so for my next one I'm wanting to do a top-down action game just for something different. I had decided that I thought making it online multiplayer would be a good focus for a challenge learning objective, but I've been a little hesitant because networking at that level is far outside my comfort zone, and it doesn't seem like something I could just hack my way through like I could for simple sprite rendering/movement physics/etc.

So basically you've lit a spark under me now. Thanks! And I'm now realizing oddly this is the 2nd thing I have of yours on my to-read list, I just saw the post here about computer graphics from scratch a few days ago. I (and I'm sure many others) appreciate your willingness to knowledge-share.
I can think of a few simple (maybe simplistic) reasons for the dichotomy:

* We imagine theoretical "people"/beings to be good, but are confronted with the complicated reality of our neighbors. Non-human entities remain strictly theoretical, untainted by the same reality.

* We see spacefaring beings as advanced beyond ourselves, and aspirationally believe that goodness accrues with advancement. Or at the very least, that our trivial little human problems are beneath the concerns of sufficiently-advanced societies.

* We believe that much human conflict is driven by resource scarcity, and that a spacefaring culture surely does not lack for resources.

The opposite conclusion can be drawn from one of the other major drivers of human conflict: religious/etc ideology.

We humans have no (widespread) ideology that is so nihilistic as to advocate for the elimination of all humans, but we are pretty good about constructing ideologies that would eliminate large percentages of other humans.

If we made contact with another civilization (or were made contact with), I would be shocked if some major religion didn't declare the aliens to be apostate/devilspawn/etc -- because how else could a non-Earth-based civilization fit into the mythology?
The phrase that sticks out to me is “right-to-be-offended is rampant”. Because people do have that right — and complaining about them exercising it sure makes it sound like you’d like to express your opinions without worrying about others responding in kind.
China’s treatment of Uighur minority under scrutiny
Thanks for the feedback! I get what you're saying. What is the 1 or 2 features that you think are the most valuable?
Robert Lewandowski is very fit and strong from top to bottom. I'm surprised Polish clubs aren't encouraging their players to imitate him.
> what assurance do you have that those differences are explained biologically/genetically rather than resulting from different mental representations of the sport and training process?

Dude, don't do this. "Mental representations" have nothing to do with how fast we can run or how high we can jump.
I’ll give a slightly different take, but I think your general anecdote and life experience is on point.

Talent measures your intuition level regarding something. So, in your example, Kevin could always reach competence, but Kevin’s afterburner capacity is set to 0% (capped). Some of us have 0-100% intuition on things, on a spectrum.

But as far as what it takes to make it in this world? Competence. Your afterburners can boost depending on it’s capacity, but you can’t run on that unless you are born with a god like afterburner tank (genius, your Einsteins). We are all limited, even the talented.
What's the greater evil - the risk that checks and balances fail and an evil person takes over, or that a federated system is unable to reach consensus and address existential threats like climate change or even significant but not quite existential threats like overfishing, pollution, war, and nonrenewable resources?
I read the trilogy in Chinese but only the first book in English.

The original Dark Forest is perfectly fine. Many people suggested it has the best storytelling among the three.

1. Ken Liu is generally considered (by people who have read the trilogy in both languages) a better translator

2. the Dark Forest's structure does feel a little "literary" to me, which might make you felt "the chapters were strangely broken up".

3. I heard that they made many changes in the English version to meet "the political correctness of the western world", which might be another contributing factor of your painful read.

(Liu Cixin on Joel Martinsen, 2015-04-19, https://m.newsmth.net/article/SF/370834):
--- here comes my blunt translation ---

"Very reliable, Joel Martinsen's Chinese is very good, his Mandarin is better than mine, and he works hard and is very dedicated. There are more than 1000 modifications made in the English version of Dark Forest.

The only problem is: he only goes to vegetarian restaurants.

BTW, the modifications of Dark Forest have been just completed. There are more modifications compared to the first book, deleted everything related to Ball Lightning, one of the Wallfacer's strategy has been completely changed. Besides that, the editor of TOR is a Feminist and is very strict, sexual discriminations are recognized here and there. Example 1, when words such as "purity" and "angelic" used too often it becomes sexual discrimination, so their usage needs to be limited. Example 2, the secretary-general of the United Nations is a beauty is considered as sexual discrimination. Example 3, all Wallfacers are male is considered as sexual discrimination (but this hasn't been changed, I argued that all American presidents are male, though the editor argued that they will have a female president soon). These changes are a huge workload for me and Joel, very exhausting, but finally completed."

--- translation ends ---

Some context:
- "Chinese" refers to the Chinese written language, which is universal across China, "Mandarin" refers to the official spoken language of China. Many people, including Liu Cixin, have accent when speaking Mandarin. That's why he said "Joel Martinsen's Chinese is very good, his Mandarin is better than mine".

- the vegetarian part is just kidding

- Ball Lightning is another popular science fiction from Liu Cixin
Let's assume that be the case.

The politicians allow this nonsensical, pseudoscientific self-regulation instead of demanding that they switch to b.f.p., because they know well that it would outlaw body builders, which they do not want, despite their being as unhealthy.

The industry came up with this method, of course, to allow bodybuilders to continue, and only having to cull the the hyperthin.

It's a nice unspoken understanding between them that enables both to place the blame on the other.

If the industry had found such a clever way to allow the hyperthin to still continue, one could be certain of that the politicians would step in to order a halt to it.
Edit: xspdf.com is the evil site I mentioned earlier, not xpdfreader.

Xpdf tools have been a lifesaver for ages. Thank you Derek et all!
In the reference section they made mention of that project that was discussed four days ago as one of their sources of inspiration.
Still is. I saw it on a poster in a shop in North Mitrovica, Kosovo a few years ago.
I remember play SolDat In highschools with friends.
Letting people choose their own video sample picture definitely has lead to a huge increase in videos with highly sexualized cover photos. Some topics are more prone to it than others. I've definitely noticed a huge increase in the number of videos with scantily clad women as the cover photo. Sometimes even on videos that have much tamer actual content.

I do agree that there's good content on YouTube, but if I watch any garbage at all, the recommendation engine will only recommend that. I wonder if someone has a script that will reset my YouTube history every day. Might be interesting for the algorithm to have a fresh take on me every day to show me what I'm into that day.
There is play, which does not have clearly defined rules. Then there are games, which is play but with rules, but need not be competitive. If it's competitive play with rules, then it's a sport.
Try Ubuntu studio or another audio distro. I actually have the opposite problem, where Linux is the only one where latency is decent and reliable.
I wanted to do something similar a long time ago, and couldn't find anything useful. Is there any reason an "integrate-everything-statically" tool isn't provided with binutils?
This was an interesting read. To me it points to asymptomatic variants winning the day in more lock down heavy locations since any kind of symptom would have you at home. Only the most mild would send you back to work or to attend a friends BBQ.

Either way it’s an interesting perspective into virus evolution where the more gentle versions tend to do the best.
How do I navigate to the same directory which is opened in the other panel or to a root of a particular device (a USB drive or a hard drive partition) quickly? These are the 2 things I use heavily in all the "commanders" but couldn't find in MC. Lack of these makes it useless for me as I hate manually crawling the global file system every time I want to switch a drive.
The parenthetical (em-dash-ical?) quip about the internet serves to educate the least knowledgeable, while all other usage of the word suggests no such thing. In fact, the first usage is a link to a page clearly attributing the word to Dawkins.
game theory coordination dilemmas are killing us now
cough;

Hey ho, what does mean generic...

hmmm, gcc's -march=? -mtune=? -O?

glibc's minimal supported ABI?, hmmmm

Well OFC without the skill/knowledge you wont compile any generic stuff, that's the point ...

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Which still is very useful in a DosBox.
What word starting with r is apparently so offensive it can’t even be written out?

This isn’t a joke or a troll I’m seriously asking.
No need to worry, I don't plan on aiming for that level by a long shot. I'd be happy to hit 4 plates on my squat and would probably go into maintenance mode at that point, although not sure if I'll ever even hit that. Sounds basic but the comment I replied to is exactly my issues, consistency and staying injury free - college years consistency was a problem with homework/sleep, post college years I seem to be injury prone in my non-lifting athletic activities (I'm convinced my knees hate me), and obviously this past year I've also lost a ton of progress with no access to weights. Hoping to come back with a vengeance once gyms reopen.
It didn't used to be that way.

A major reason why that shift happened was because if there was a pro-gun Democrat and a pro-gun Republican facing off against each other in a tight race, the NRA would back the pro-gun Republican and claim that the Democrat was going to take your guns away. The net result is that it is always a losing position for a Democrat to be pro-gun.

So over the past 20 years the pro-gun Democrats have almost entirely died off. The NRA is probably the single most significant driver of this shift.
Awesome but buggy. I tried using it (I mean on Linux) and it crashed quickly.
Author implicitly redefines "talent" to mean "workplace efficacy," which of
course is a composite and altogether different metric from what we generally
mean by "talent," which is raw mathematical, artistic, or athletic capacity,
something that's all too real for us untalented folk.
What's your preferred setup?
The ban you linked works the other way around: Such rifles are legal until the AG/SecT specifically bans them. It's the functional definition + irrelevant stuff formula I object to as irrational. If the ban you linked worked as you describe, I'd object to it as bad public policy, but I'd be hard-pressed to call it irrational.

And I'm not sure how licensure comes into this. Neither the 1994 FAWB nor the proposal you linked license the possession of "tactical rifles." They ban them with grandfathering. And for what it's worth, I don't think licensure regimes necessarily are irrational.
What are you regretting? Never figuring out how to have relationships with women?
> And CMake will take care of transitive dependencies for static libraries for you.

This assumes that everything is correctly expressed as part of the CMake system. If you stick everything in one build system, of course it’s going to be fine.

> Users can replace a .so with a variant that does something you don't expect. For statically linked apps, it is much easier to ensure your code has not been tampered with.

If your users are able to replace libraries, it’s reasonable to assume that they can mess with the code inside your application too. It is generally hard to ensure your code hasn’t been tampered with, unless you’re in control of the hardware.
In my country, prank videos are dominating
Yes, but after buying and reading this paper, you will be able to determine that you have bought it.
Let me know if it's still giving you trouble...contact info is in my profile.