skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can We Understand the Standard Model?
If you know something about wiring you can get photocells and wire them to the paddle ports (pin 9 and 5) then move by how much light gets to the photocell. I put two in a piece of wood so I could use my hand to allow or restrict light reaching the photocell. Also fun to write a basic program to take the value and use it for the sound command. Makes some weird noise.
Depends on your definition of conscious, I suppose. Fungi can definitely move, just not via locomotion - fungi expand through mycelial networks and reproduction.

Who knows what the specific function is, maybe specific species are sensitive to the specific pressure of another species required for reproduction. In the plant example, they often use chemical signaling to repel predators (and note that plants are also "not conscious", and most are way less mobile than fungi).
Where i live you can use an email as a proof of anything at court
No Signal? Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China
Didn't I read somewhere that quantum computing basically gets you a factor of 2, like 2^(N-1)? It's a lot but at the same time it's just a bit.
My first computer had a 2MHz CPU; my current has roughly 4GHz (2000x faster).

My first computer had an 8 bit CPU; my current has 64 bits (8x, so ... could try harder :-)

My first computer had a single core; my current has 16 cores (so 16x).

My first computer had 32KB RAM; my current has 32GB RAM (so, 1,000,000x).

My first computer with a hard drive had 30MB; my current has 32TB (so, roughly 1,000,000x)

My first computer had 640x400 pixels (kinda); my current has dual 3840x2160 pixels (so ... 32x)

My first computer network was 1Mbps Ethernet; my current has 10GbE (so, 10,000x)

10x? That's nearly nothing ...
I don’t remember the lunar lander, but I do recall reading how each rocket engine on the Saturn V was one of a kind, because the engineers had to assemble each one by hand, and each acted slightly differently. So there’s no way to reproduce a specific Saturn V engine now, but there also never was back when the Saturn V was still flying.
Gyosh I want to play that game.

Also have a club sandwich and regal it’s impracticality.
The point remains: Venkman was the better debugger.

> a level of popularity that Venkman never had

You're not saying anything I don't already know.
To their defense, SEO was not as developed. The average website was not a scam like today.
Ha cool, someone beat me to posting my own post here. Curious to hear what you all think about kubernetes for non-google scale
Should potentially lethal force never be used to defend property under any circumstances?
Develop a Weather App with Flutter Using Location Kit and OpenWeatherMap API?
I must not have, I took you to be saying that my comment - and others like it - were a good example of how 'extremism' on 'both sides' was causing divides, when in fact I think my stance is pretty far from 'extremist', and definitely a far cry from what I think you're equating it with on the 'other side', if that makes sense at all.
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Can't find any results for 13" displays. But there have already been several blind tests carried out for TV's that show people can make out the difference.

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/4k-1080p-201311153442.htm

https://carltonbale.com/does-4k-resolution-matter/comment-pa...

https://www.slashcam.com/news/single/4K-vs-8K--Who-can-tell-...
I also hated steam on day 1. I just wanted to play counterstrike! But obviously Gabe was right!
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For context, Dalio’s current thesis is that bonds and any debt instruments are dangerous to own right now. Why? Because he thinks the dollar will collapse and lose its reserve status. Uncontrolled inflation is a big danger.
It sounds to me like gurus want followers, teachers want students. It gives them power over their disciples. If you can get people to believe you, you can control them. I think that is the scary part. Hallucinations and peace of mind and stuff are fine, but once you start believing your teacher "knows the Truth", you're on tilted ground. I assume all religions are more or less like that. But with meditation you can actually experience "higher powers" which gives you more reason to believe.
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Probably. Executives don’t get their bonuses if they don’t toss around phrases like synergy and economies of scale.
> Solzhenitsyn is required reading today for Russion schoolchildren

Russia is an authoritarian oligarchy and their school system presumably reflects this. I don't think this is a mark in favor of what you think it is.

> Have you read at least the first few chapters of The Gulag Archipelago?

As a teenager, yes, do you think I'm missing something crucial, specifically from the early bits?
Not certain. Many if not most munies are supported by third party insurance, such as Lloyds of London in case of default. And all are supported by the power to tax. COVID is a temporary disruption that will hopefully soon pass. We'll see...
You gotta do WYSIWYG right, though. It seems like I break MS Teams once a week and have to start formatting part of my message over again. It's like someone stopped in the middle of implementing its Markdown support. I also frequently find myself trying to get the cursor out of the end of a block of formatting and back to normal formatting. I vaguely remember hearing complaints about Slack's editor at one time, too. There has to be a better way
Lots of good ones mentioned so far, but no one got Calendly.

Instead of a dozens of emails and/or texts, phone calls etc. to find a time when someone (not in my organization, so they can’t normally see my calendar) can meet, I just email a link and they pick. It will add call info or zoom links as appropriate. Tons of control over scheduling (synced to all your calendars, or even several people’s; buffers; limits to meetings per day).

Basically it eliminates needing a secretary or recruiter or admin person to arrange meetings.
Absolutely the best outcome. BSDs has always been ( to me at least ) about getting things right, take time to get it baked before committing. The old, out of fashion style of getting things done properly and not shipping for the sake of it. Which is both a good thing and a bad thing in the modern world. But it is a trade off.

I also hope FreeBSD sort of look into why it was committed in the first place.

Hopefully this also set the tone for Scott and Netgate. Even having mild scepticism of the one sided bash to them on HN had me downvoted into oblivion.
Their picture of "emissions" is also dubious/amusing. If it's from natural gas, what you see in that photo is basically steam.

CO2 is invisible.

The smell of snake oil is pretty strong with this.
The Fed isn't part of the US government. They are a private bank with special powers granted by Congress. When they purchase USG bonds, they hold them and receive interest.
Well, if they impose such restrictions (I agree that's very unlikely), how much do you think your crypto will be worth then?
I have a hard time believing it is a good negotiation tool.

It sounds like something that would escalate things quickly.

There is a reason why the negotiators on SWAT teams are explicitly referred to as “human negotiators”, and not just “negotiators”. The qualifier “human” has been intently stated for years.
Would we do any differently today? I think we gravitated towards smaller and more numerous engines (that are easier to construct to the same exact copies), but nobody since has built anything remotely as large as the Rocketdyne F1.
ECC slows down RAM however RAM speeds are starting to become bounded by error rates. To push into the faster timings ECC actually becomes essential to keep the system from becoming unstable.

This is the reason why DDR5 is so much faster despite using ECC effectively by default.
It seems inevitable that much of the practical knowledge is lost. Look at how few old sailing ships survive, despite that being the most advanced transportation technology for centuries. The schematics of the engines will survive, but future generations who study them will struggle to understand the design choices that went into them.

I’m happy that might change in the world of software, since so much collaboration is done online, and future historians will have troves of JIRA tickets to dig through.
That's interesting.

I'm not the biggest Java fan, I can tolerate it. Recently working on a Python project I find I'm massively unproductive compared to something like Java or more specifically Scala as using Spark.

Not having strong types and limited type hinting. I have no idea what things are, is it a int, string, object etc, clicking through in an IDE to see code/docs isn't as great as it's hard for an IDE to inspect the code compared to strongly typed language.

Not having a compiler means I have to have unit tests doing what a compiler would do or finding out I have syntax errors or other errors at runtime. This massively throws of my development flow as can't lean on the compiler to find trivial errors. Rather than doing compile I have to hope I have a test case with high coverage to instrument the code to get a syntax error or I have to start / deploy it to get the error.

There's a great deal of issues with dependency management. Venv, Docker etc help with this but it's a bunch of extra stuff on top I now need to worry about and sometimes still hit errors.

The only time I find I'm relatively productive in Python is writing a short 100-200 line script to do one off tasks / sysadmin / devops type scripts.

The fact if I change an interface, rename a method I need to recompile I find a huge advantage as everything breaks and I worth through the errors one by one and once complete and no more errors I have confidence the refactor is complete and the compiler has verified it.
I'm just here with my popcorn waiting for the responses on NodeJS
Beanstalk, while great when it came out, is not a great solution now. It was also never really meant for teams who run things at scale. It also got quite complicated because it just didn't expose a lot of knobs.

I think you'd find ECS or similar as easy to work with as k8s and all of them will be faster than beanstalk.

Beanstalk is ALWAYS purposefully slow, this is by design. It mimics how amazon deploys internally, slow and steady wins the race to safety. It also has some really bad issue if from from a bad deploy back to a broken app; eg you can wedge it pretty bad.

Anyway at this point I don't think Beanstalk is a fair thing to compare to. It's good you moved off.
Google is gas-lighting people into using Chrome…

Ever used for example YouTube with an alternative browser?

It's buggy, it's slow (and that's on purpose; Google puts regularly quite some engineering effort into using web features that don't work well in the last independent competing browser). But those Google pages have a big banner saying it will work better in Chrome, and asking the users to "try".

That strategy works very efficiently as Google controls the sites most average people use the whole time.

That's one of the reasons why Google's monopolies need to be broken by regulation. Actually they're over-due for a break-up.
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> However, if 20 minutes of mindfulness a day sets you off into strange psychological territory, then u have a hard time believing that meditation was at fault

About ten years ago, I experimented doing 20 minutes in the morning and an additional 20 minutes in the early evening. I did this for about six months, and I may have overdid it, because some very, very strange things began to happen. I stopped meditating after a particularly weird and frightening experience which I will now describe:

I was entirely stone cold sober, driving my car on the highway talking to a friend in the passenger seat, when suddenly I found myself looking down at the planet, from what I can only describe as an orbital altitude of somewhere around 400 km or so, while at the same time, I continued to drive the car and have a discussion!

Part of my consciousness (or perception) seemed to momentarily bifurcate and be somewhere else, in this case, floating high above the Earth. That was the day I stopped meditating. Apparently this is a known attainment in certain circles that believe in this kind of thing (I'm still a skeptic at heart) but being in two places at once wasn't my cup of tea. I have a hard enough time as it is focusing on the road in front of me!

I wouldn't say this is the only strange thing I experienced; there's a lot of them to speak of, but that was certainly the strangest of them all. I've taken much more pleasure and satisfaction from lucid dreaming instead, which is something I still do to this day.
There's some great stuff on the JVM today, but Spring Boot is recapitulating all the problems of J2EE. Everything is extremely "decoupled" to the point that you have no idea where anything comes from or why, and just adding a new dependency to your classpath will radically change the behaviour of your application (oh, you added a dependency on a library that has a transitive dependency on the MongoDB client? Guess that must mean you want a MongoDB connection pool spun up and running).

I swear I'm going to add a bitcoin miner to my libraries and list it in spring.factories so that it autostarts whenever someone starts a Spring Boot application with my library on the classpath. There'll be an undocumented config property to turn it off or make it mine to a different address. That's standard practice with every other library that uses Spring Boot, so it's perfectly ethical, and it's not like anyone using Spring Boot would notice that their application was wasting a bunch of resources.

Maybe someone else did this already. That would explain a lot actually.
Any diet that rules out whole classes of food will have weight loss effects. You won't be able to eat a lot of things, and will be thinking more about what you do eat and why.
I liked this article, but it felt to be as much about Scala and Kotlin as about Java. A more accurate title would've been "The Modern JVM Platform".

I recently began doing a side project and, for the first time in a while, picked Java over Kotlin. I mostly did so because most books on deep details of the JVM are mostly books about the deep details of Java.

Plus: Java is moving along at a fair clip these days. Records just landed in 16, Project Loom and Project Valhalla are coming over the horizon, plus lots of other niceties that've showed up lately.
https://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2
I don't know about that, consider other tech that got superseded by new methods. It only took a couple of decades for there to be no companies manufacturing CRT TVs any more.
My wife is a chef. When she applies for a job, she goes to the restaurant for what’s called a staging. A staging is a practice shift, where you make some dishes with the other chefs you’ll be working with, and you’re evaluated by the su chef or executive chef. Is the restaurant owner in charge of hiring chefs? No. Are the investors involved in hiring? No. Is the hostess involved in hiring? No. The chef in charge of the kitchen hires kitchen staff.

Can you imagine how dysfunctional a restaurant kitchen would be if the waiters hired the chefs? Or if the manager who has no cooking experience managed the kitchen?

An engineer should be in charge of your engineering team, and they should be in charge of hiring the people working under them.
This was egregious and not cool. Please don't take HN threads into flamewar, and especially please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26481781.
That's exactly what they will do.
I can't quite follow your point. Yes, donations continue to grow. Are you trying to rebut him?
well, the book is cited 3 times in this piece, it's almost advertisement for it :)
It's a rewrite from scratch in many respects; the diff isn't meant to be meaningful.
> Gulag system sucks?

> I don't know what country you are from, but I doubt its any with experiences of death camps.

I'm sorry that I wasn't sufficiently excoratory of the gulags. What adjective do you think would make you feel I have an acceptable level of distaste for forced labor camps?

I also don't think the gulags were death camps, weren't they "reeducation" and labor camps? Unlike a death camp, the point is to produce labor (in large part this uncompensated, essentially slave, labor was a major contributor to the USSR's ability to take on a half decade's industrialization in a fifth of the time, or so I'm led to believe).

> I'm so fucking angry with apologists like you. You have no idea what people went through.

I don't think you're in a state to have a rational conversation about politics, because it sounds like you have personal or familial experience with these institutions. I know some of my close friends have very close ties to the Trail of Tears in the USA and I also avoid talking to them about the issue - not because it's taboo, but because I don't think there's a meaningful conversation to be had there. It was an atrocity, and will never be made right. What can you say to that?
I don’t like those developments. I’m living in Kazakhstan which is huge and cold in winter. People are poor and average car age is 20 years (plenty of cars with 30+ age). Everything is just opposed to electric cars use-cases. And of course we’re too small to be able to manufacture our own engines.
The Jest VSCode extension can run the tests and highlight the relevant uncovered lines and annotate failed/successful tests. Maybe helpful to look into their implementation.
It's a cell phone with propellers. It's still humans doing the negotiating.

You didn't think we send humans into armed and barricaded situations to negotiate face to face did you? That would be incredibly dangerous.
Short answer: With a very small number of exceptions, we trust FreeBSD developers to exercise good judgement in obtaining review and ensuring the quality of the code they commit. The FreeBSD project is selective in whom it gives commit bits to, and we have a mentoring process which further ensures that developers understand the norms.

This system isn't foolproof, but it generally works very well. There have been discussions about moving to a "mandatory review" model, but there is concern that this might overly slow down development in the context of a volunteer-run project.
The assumes nothing ever goes wrong. One serious illness or injury and you’re bankrupt.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to take down with birdshot.
A megaphone can smash glass too.
I present you with Flir 80×40 resolution E4, one setting away from full 320×240 E8

https://hackaday.com/2013/11/04/manufacturer-crippled-flir-e...

Oscilloscopes are another product notorious for shipping same hardware with different jumpers/variables in the firmware.

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/06/27/In-the-Lab-Tektroni...

somewhat famous DS1052E 50 to 100MHz hack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE

DS2072A 70 to 300MHz https://hackaday.io/project/8115-rigol-ds2072a-upgrade-to-ds...

MSO5000 70 to 350 MHz https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hacking-the-rigol-mso...
As far as free options go, there's def. a lot of tweaking to be done, and more than anything, the end result (IMO) rests A LOT on whether or not you use decent cab impulse responses.

Lepou is one option: http://www.grebz.com/simulator_freeamp_poulin_eng.php

As for audio interfaces - there's no free things there, but if you're only interested in recording one or two tracks, like any stringed instrument, any used $50-$100 interface from the past couple of years will do. No, it will not sound like a $xxxx setup, but good enough for recording demos and even amateur records. Obviously depends on the music you're going for, too.

Now, just for the discussion - let's say you own a guitar or bass, and a computer, and you want to record something for as cheap as humanly possible, one setup could be:

instrument -> audio/microphone input on computer using ASIO4ALL -> Reaper or Cakewalk -> Freeware plugins like LePou amp plugins -> IR loader + Free cab IRs -> built-in effects in DAW.

Obviously will not sound like pro quality, but could do the work, if money really is the pressing issue.

(Another option would be "free" plugins via pirating, but that's another discussion...though many pro-grade plugins offer free trial periods, or heavily stripped down plugins)
> A true guru is one who has attained realization him/her self.

But isn't that what all gurus say, that they are "true gurus". They would further warn you against anybody who doesn't agree with them as a "false guru"
I was thinking about my own OCD treatment as I was reading the comments here. I've been reading 'The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD' and it had one of the best suggestions and explanations about meditation that I've seen.

As others have said, 'meditation' is a really vague term but in the context of OCD I got the impression it's just about practicing shifting your attention to one thing and then shifting it gently back there when it begins to wander; as well as allowing OCD thoughts to just 'exist' and not engaging with them.

As a fellow OCD sufferer I just wanted to say good luck. A bit off-topic for this thread but 'The OCD Stories' podcast, NOCD (https://www.treatmyocd.com) and the Zoom support groups run by OCDPeers (https://ocdpeers.com/) have been life-changing for me.
It really looks like such a repack ought to be possible in a lockless incremental way. Simply take a snapshot of all the objects in the repo, repack them, and then take a new snapshot of the repo, repack the new objects, and repeat until there is nothing new.

Most repos could be done in one operation, and If bet that as long as repos stay under 10 commits per second this strategy will always terminate.
As a user of both Firebug and IE's Devtoolbar I can state this is simply not true.

While I agree that IE's devtools had more features regarding xpath integration, you'll also had the problem that it was based on libxml (yes, the reason trident was exploitable for decades, and probably still is).

IE's devtools didn't have access to the DOM and only had access to the HTML/SGML/actually XML representation _before_ it was parsed into the DOM.

This gave you hundreds of error scenarios where debugging user events was simply impossible if they caused the DOM to change, something like adding a node or debugging a parentNode was impossible in trident.

And oh how often have I seen bugs in websites that were relying on specified flow roots that behaved differently in trident. Something like an unclosed <p> in the wrong place could easily mess up everything in trident and switch it to quirks mode.

Remember IE was exploitable via a parentNode.remove(parentNode), too? The hooks for devtools was the underlying reason.

I am not sure why you claim that IE had superior devtools experience. You must have done a lot of ActiveX related development, because everything else was impossible to debug in my opinion.

The best thing MS did was to create the Edge team that tried to refactor trident, and soon realized that it's impossible and instead started over from scratch.