skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tory "Research groups" and the 1918 are influential inside the tory party, but tories always stick together.

Nothing new, Redwood challenged Major in the 90s, and Thatcher lost support of the tory party before that, but various backbenchers might arrange for PMs to leave, but they would never dream of voting against the government in a vote of confidence.

Parliament isn't important, internal politics of the conservative party are important. (And Labour, but less so as (apart from Blair), Labour don't win elections)

The government in the last few years has broken the law time and time again, but nothing happens. They did lose support of parliament, some tory members actually rebelled - including grandees like Ken Clarke. The electorate put them where they belong.

Democracy doesn't really exist in the UK, we have 40+ years of a dysfunctional opposition party that only won thanks to Blair, and the only times that parliament started to assert itself, it was massively punished.

AV wasn't perfect, but it was still far better than FPTP, and the masively rejected it. We can have a government that kills hundreds of thousands of people, flushes billions into the back pockets of tory donors, and we reward them with ever higher approval ratings.
I have been searching in vain for a Bluetooth transmitter that can transmit from my tv to 2 Bluetooth headsets and supports Dolby surround (so that I don’t have to switch my TV to PCM every single time I switch to headphones). So frustrating
Hum... The main use of government money (fresh printed or not) is internal spending. That's true basically everywhere.
That Conal Elliot paper is being my current level, and I don’t see the relation to the comment about composability in Forth. Is there a simplified explanation somewhere? (Preferable less mathematical and more verbal, but I’ll take what I can get) Thanks.
If Apple and Walmart go away, the structure of your financial hedges isn't a thing that is going to matter.
I think the opportunity costs here aren't financial capital as much as is it human capital. The amount of STEM talent that goes to work for these crypto shops or hedge funds instead of picking up a nuclear or civil engineering degree and rebuilding the power grid in Texas or California probably has some bad effects.

The UK has to increasingly rely on Chinese nuclear expertise because over the last ten to twenty years a lot of engineers have retired and you don't just stagnate but decline because there's just not enough people and also state capacity to keep that process knowledge alive.

Musk says a lot of crap but on this he was right when he talked about the real loss of knowledge in spaceflight. It takes a very long time to get an engineering culture back once you lose it.
Two Way Doors
why waste resources when people -voluntarily- give their info up? It would make no logical sense.

If the damn thing is free, you're the product :/
> Cuba has been under sanctions for over 50 years.

I'm not sure what your point here is -- the sanctions have been extremely damaging to Cuba as well and are also immoral acts of US imperialism
I think it's helpful to think of it like this:

They owe $100 but don't have $100. They find someone willing to exchange $100 for 100 Bolivars. But instead of using Bolivars the government has on hand (reserves), they print them. This devalues the Bolivars, meaning the next time they try to buy dollars, they'll have to put up more Bolivars than before.

The counterparty in this case, is anyone who thinks they can buy something with Bolivars equal to $100 worth of goods. Chances are that they can. But they have to act quickly before another devaluation.

This is overly simplified but covers the gist of it.
How do you drive the fuel into the highly compressed chamber, in case of the Diesel engine?
the shield tv's controller (2015) was wifi based, & could transit audio. it's not tiny, but it shows wifi was viable for a latency-sensitive battery-powered system five years ago. for many headsets i'd think it would be quite doable but yes i'm not sure we've scaled wifi down to earbud sized devices. and yes power consumption is afaik higher.

it feels mainly like an adoption / standardization problem. we have chromecast speakers galore & wow is it nice having devices available over the network. alas there's no standardizations, no cooperation, no system for wifi to be useful. other than the very limited controlled & closed ones.
Diamond batteries promise to power space probes for 100 years
Should it be Stanford's responsibility? At what point should it be the person's (health insurance) responsibility? Should Standford provide (free) helper dogs to blind students?
> Donut Media pioneered the "suck squeeze bang blow" descriptor of the 4 stroke engine

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I think I've heard the term "suck squeeze bang blow" way before Feb 23, 2021 and also before 2015 (creation of that Youtube channel) so I find that claim hard to believe.
I'll try. Some have done a decent job here already.

Watts = volts * current (amps). It's hard to compare words like "force" and "quantity" for volts and amps, but here's maybe a practical definition.

High voltage is dangerous because it can leap through air (arc) to form a circuit. If part of that circuit is _you_ (like, from a high-voltage wire, through you, to the ground), then you can be made dead, quite quickly. That's why high-voltage (sometimes called "high-tension") wires are carried by tall towers with the wires far apart -- if the wires were closer together, they could arc between them and short out.

Essentially, high voltage overcomes insulation -- whether the insulation is air (for high-above-ground wires) or various forms of plastic (for wires buried underground). That's what makes it dangerous, and why electrical panels have warnings that say "Danger: High Voltage".

But even very high voltage won't hurt you if the current (amps) is too low. But "low current" isn't something you typically encounter in, for example, household AC wiring because the supply of current is generally very large.

So high voltage can kill you, but only if the current (amps) is high enough. In most practical situations where you might be exposed to electricity from the grid, the current is plenty high. That's why the signs say "Danger: High Voltage" and not "Danger: High Amps" or "Danger: High Power" (watts).

But how high is "high"?

A 12-volt car battery (I wonder how long that term will be meaningful...) isn't very high voltage. You can safely put your dry fingers across the terminals of a 12v battery and not feel a thing.

On the other hand, the 120-volt (or 240-volt) electricity coming out of a wall socket is most definitely unsafe to grab with your dry fingers. I've been accidentally shocked dozens of times by 120v electricity, and it is attention-getting. It can kill you fairly easily if, for example, the alternating current of the electricity causes your muscles to contract, forcing you to hold on ever more tightly to the wires. Usually, it's your heart in the path of the current that takes the, um, beating. If you get a shock across just the one hand that you're sticking accidentally into a live electrical box, your tendency is to retract your arm. Very quickly.

But even 120 or 240 volts won't jump across very much air, like, essentially, none.

Compare that to the 100,000+ volts that are carried by the high-tension lines at the top of int[er|ra]state transmission lines -- that's enough voltage to arc across many inches of air without any trouble at all.

So why do we use high voltage at all, why can't we just use low voltage everywhere and be safer?

That's where the magic of the power equation (Power (watts) = Volts * Amps) comes in. But that's for another discussion.
Thanks. It seems that mine defaulted to 2 GB.
Posted a comment on this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26321793, then had people contact me and had very good conversations as a result.

Also, I met my co-founder on reddit/r/algotrading and it was a total game-changer for me (reddit is not HN, but similar)
$ tesseract -v

tesseract 4.1.1
leptonica-1.79.0
libgif 5.1.4 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 2.0.3) :
libpng 1.6.37 : libtiff 4.1.0 : zlib 1.2.11 :
libwebp 0.6.1 : libopenjp2 2.3.1
Found AVX2
Found AVX
Found FMA
Found SSE
Found libarchive 3.4.0
zlib/1.2.11
liblzma/5.2.4
bz2lib/1.0.8
liblz4/1.9.2
libzstd/1.4.4

(reformatted to be more friendly)

A comment on the page you reference:

> The one thing I have to add is that if I use get.images config with fast, then process the resulting tessinput.tif with fast I get a better result than best (with extra Page 1):

That matches my experience. Saving an image with get.images and then feeding that back into the program generally produces a better result, so much so that I've written a script to do that automatically.
The NSA has title 10 authorities. It's part of the DoD, with a chain of command running through SecDef. It is commanded by active-duty flag officers.
Google's new privacy policy for Chrome won't stop targeted ads
Honestly everything you say sounds like abusive insanity and not anywhere I'd want to live. I hope you don't make any decisions for other people in any capacity ever because you lack fundamental respect for other people's choices.
There is also projector and "code with me", but they still have some work to do before they reach feature parity in that regard. At least they are working on it.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226455#focus=Comme...
Fly.io is doing cool stuff! We will try out their platform to deploy Lunatic to the edge.
I've been thinking of starting a community (forum + wiki, etc) based around similar principles, but I haven't settled on what to call it yet. The core ideas are self-hosting, privacy, control of data, open source clients, etc.

The best term I've come up with so far is "data ownership". I like this, but the principles are broader than just data storage. Having control over your computation can also important.

Any suggestions for a better term?
Wow, I have to say that I think you write beautifully. I’m a native English speaker learning a second language and I can only hope to be able to write this well.
What are you talking about? Chavez and the PSUV came to power in a democratic election in 1998.
Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims
Ha yea, I missed that you used the word stink to describe the EKF. Sorry!
I started a blog last year, just trying to be regular at the moment. Nothing groundbreaking, mostly writing for myself. Trying to stick to a post per week and hoping the finesse comes with time.
I think it's fairly easy to acknowledge the the following are all true:

1. The poster was hosting malicious content from their domain (user uploaded no doubt, but still on the domain they control).

2. On one hand, it is desirable that people who are not malicious be given enough information as fast as possible to rectify their sites.

3. On the other hand, this same sort of information can make it easier for malicious users to evade detection.

That is, it seems to me like there is an inherent tension between #2 and #3 that make a simple solution difficult.

Seems to me that:

1. As the poster discovered, user content should always be hosted on a separate domain. Google should recommend this as a standard good practice.

2. Perhaps I'm missing something, but when Google blocks an entire domain, I don't see the harm in telling the site owner which subdomain is causing the flag, which could let good users identify the problem faster.
Sure it can be that way. Knowledge work tends to be a bit better but you do get death marches. A lot of that is coordinated from higher ups though so your manger might be an insulating force rather than the driving force. In academia you are directly under the advisor for basically everything. You should have a PHd committee and perhaps a dean of students. They can sometimes help but it’ll depend on how transparent the departments are. Clear communications go a long way. Ask for help.

I also think that people forget to ask for help. I certainly never did.

Some faculty are terrible managers too don’t forget that. A good manager is hard to find in general.
> For a few weeks, I am doubting if HN is another "user engagement" place like you know Reddit, FB etc.

If you cannot engage an audience, people don't crowd around to hear you.

HN is a place where people come to showcase what they create, share something that good hackers would find interesting, and comment on others' submissions.

As you may know, visitors to the site are wide-ranging in background and interests. Here I would restrict my reading to what suits my tastes since I am not a polymath and comment on topics which I am knowledgeable or want to learn more about.
It predates that channel by decades.
Sorry, it's just the first place I'd heard it. I'll edit my comment. I wasn't speaking on behalf of them.

Weird. I've been talking to people about cars for decades and I'd never heard it before them. Is it just something that people don't say anymore?

https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/28682/who-came...

I guess for whatever reason it's just not used as much, or at least not enough that I've heard it before.
The iMac Pro with it's 5K screen would make an excellent development system I would think.
Ah, a future Stanford student drumming up woke society for their personal benefit. Stanford should give him the scribe because it sounds like he’ll fit right in.
The diesel engine is found here for the record: http://animatedengines.com/diesel.html

Short answer: you need a fuel injector that can handle injection into the highly-compressed air. Longer answer: https://www.britannica.com/technology/diesel-engine/Fuel-inj...
Presumably it's a general question and they're not actually from there or they'd know whether cryptocurrencies are used as payment method there (or I misunderstood the question).
You're absolutely right: with Erlang you have to spend a great deal of effort planning for, implementing, and testing code that can work correctly across nodes with different versions of the code and/or versions of Erlang itself.

I think the open question is whether strong, _static_ type system can handle it at all.
In my opinion even showing infohash would be illegal. Anything, which provides enough information for downloading by a generic torrent client.
"a compulsory contribution to state revenue ... added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions"

A license fee, be it for a dog, cat, or television

1) Is not compulsory

2) Is not added to the cost of anything

And in the case of a UK Television license it doesn't go to the state.

I think the problem is getting hung up on the definition of tax, which itself is a rather meaningless debate. The UK government, and indeed parliament, has no say over the BBC budget or income, only the level of the license. If a million more houses decided to license a tv set, BBC income increases by £150m, if a million more houses "cut the cord" and just watch netflix, disney, etc, then BBC income decreases by £150m.

Compare with primary/secondary education, where the government decides how much money to spend on education each year. It could increase it one year, decrease it the next, it's a government funded service.

Trying to define the BBC funding model as "tax for a government department" or "not a tax to an independent company" is itself problematic, the BBC is pretty much unique in its funding model and its control. It's overseen by a board which comprises of zero members of government, although the chair and some non-executive directors are appointed by the government.

EDF, the energy company, is owned by the French state, but I don't think people consider it to be government funded.
I see what the author is getting at and it makes sense. However I'm having trouble following the logic. If I am reading this correctly "don't make dependency magnets, just make one monolithic base class that will eventually become a dependency magnet."
I think the big variable is how fast your organization is growing, and not so much the "kind" of organization.

If you are in a place where everything's growing (more funding, more revenue), all your peers will get promoted with you, and you won't have to compete (or behave in a zero-sum way) to do it. Cultures develop "politics" in different ways, but I think the unifying theme is zero-sum behavior.

The average age of tenure has gone up over the last 30 years, which suggests fewer early-career opportunities and more competition. But there are tech companies that double their employee count every year, which has a very different feel.
Not nearly as much as in a marine environment with wet salty hands.
Bought the base iMac Pro right around release time. Still does everything I need at the moment. I pretty much have it maxed out with about 19 USB cables running off of it(synthisizers, midi interfaces, external drives, software dongles, 13 port hub) they add up. I dont ever hear the fan, and it can do full 24-48 track multi track audio + Plugins with no sweat. That said, in 3 more years I suspect it will get an M1 based replacement.
Same, though looks like maybe it doesn't actually return the same results as the full site, which is really weird. All 3 front-end clients should show identical results.
This was a fantastic read! I had a couple of question about the following two passages:

>" Each word (A or B) has a drive line that passes either through a transformer (for a 1 bit) or around a transformer (for a 0 bit). "

What is actually "driving" these drive lines? What is the source?

>"In this model, different microcode was loaded from a card deck or tape to switch operating modes between System/360 and emulation of the legacy IBM 1400 series."

Was the System/360 the successor to the IBM 1400 series then? I'm guessing this was this the first big commercial "backwards compatible" instruction sets?
The point is hyperinflation is not caused by sanctions. Other problems? of course.
They're not even remotely close to outmatched. The difference is the IC and the military can't collect intelligence inside of the United States. They're perfectly well allowed to use commercial and public data, though.
IntelliJ ultimate is the main IDE. Everything else is a version of IntelliJ that has been configured for a specific language. IntelliJ should, theoretically, be able to behave like any of the sub-IDEs, but the reverse is not true.
Huge discussion on an earlier submission of the same story, although from a different source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355480
Why would that be, they can just buy it like anyone else? Buy it for today's exchange rates, hold it for how long you want, and convert then it back to pay the local bakery at any future date.

(Just like if they'd buy Euros or USD, I should add. Not as if this is a good reason for Bitcoin to continue existing.)
Hot buzz without much substance. You propose hipster driven development. Ignore lessons from the past and repeat all mistakes and deficiencies in super shiny alphabet soup of technology. Look at node.js ecosystem to see where this leads to.

IDEA is fast once it starts up. It's not supposed to be used as Notepad (or Vim).
We want to work closer with the Wasm CG in the future and help with the standardisation process and adoption of WebAssembly. I am not aware of a stack switching effort going on, could you provide a link to the discussion?
We are not lacking for the capacity to build infrastructure. We have both a plentiful supply of engineering talent and labor.

We're presently bombing Syria because Biden is a continuation of the Obama war hawk stance on toppling everything in the Middle East (which is a program that goes back decades now and fully crosses the political aisle from side to side, they're all doing the same thing when given power).

That's the kind of thing we do in the US instead of properly investing into our infrastructure. And we've been doing it across the whole of the post WW2 era. A minimum of $10-$15 trillion has been spent that way by the US just since the late 1960s. That's where our infrastructure money went.
Wear your safety glasses and other PPE before vaporizing metal coathangers this way.
If I'm on the go on my phone and there's a cool idea in the podcast I'm listening, then I take a screenshot of my locked screen as it shows my audio player (with the button shortcuts). And then later on I go back to those screenshots and I know which podcasts and which moments had important ideas.

If I'm doing active listening, i.e. listening to a podcast or watching a talk and actively taking notes, then I use https://sidenote.me

For example: https://sidenote.me/note/0gcKho/nailing-your-first-launch-ad...
Using Windows, comparing different Jetbrains products to VS Code, I personally experience for example a constant input lag in the terminal (Powershell) emulator (?) on Jetbrains IDEs.
In my experience it really depends on the individual people. When doing my master’s I had two supervisors. One I only spoke on other academic matters and the first actually wanted me to do something else. When the time came to grade my thesis the first supervisor named a grade and the second said “I haven’t read your work but I trust him.” That was it.

In the industry so far I have seen managers claiming all credits for the successes of their underlings (Old style manager) as well as very supportive, enabling, and supportive managers.

So I suppose it depends on which supervisor you end up with.
Works other way too. For me the explanation of a hydraulic ram pump[1] clicked when I realized it's essentially just like a boost converter[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter
Are you able to name the studio? Now I'm curious about what they're up to since it's exactly the kind of Frankenstein setup that appeals to me. Bitwig is an odd backup to Reaper considering it's a completely different target workflow. It's aiming at Live and made by ex-Ableton devs. Reaper is more like Pro Tools or Cubase.
From the website FAQs:

Will these sessions be recorded?

Not at this time because we often refer to a few pages of the book via screen sharing during the meeting session. I don't know the copyright implications of recording such videos and sharing them with everyone online. If you have expertise in this area, I would like to know if my concern is genuine and if there is a way to resolve it.
Wattage is simply voltage x amperage. It's the law. Watt's Law.

Watts are a measure of energy, just different units than calories or BTU.

Voltage is a measure of difference in _potential_, and amperage is a measure of current being moved. So electrical energy depends on a bit of both.

Beyond a certain voltage, it can be somewhat shocking. High enough and it can jump out at you.

And it can be badly damaging.

Also depends on how conductive you are at the time, conductance is the opposite of resistance.

Also depends on how much amperage is available from the source, if the source is fused for 1 amp maximum it would be less risky than higher amperage fuses.

Like with household wiring, if you get shocked and are conductive enough for significant amperage to be passed through your body, the total wattage could be enough of a fraction of a space heater's dissipation to roast the tissues which are involved with conducting the current.

Simply because there's enough amperage available at that voltage to get a space heater red hot, and the circuit breaker will not trip unless you are conducting more than that.

OTOH, sensitive organs can be upset by much lower amperage if it passes along lines where the organs are nearby.

For instance if you work on an electrical box and take a shock from your right hand to your right elbow, it's mainly going to hurt that one arm.

But contact the same two points, one to each elbow, and the heart is at risk much more than before, since the current has to pass through your torso to complete the circuit.