skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d like you to consider the problems with giving executive branch (FBI) power to monitor legislative (congressional members) without a warrant.

Our intelligence agencies have vast power now, and have been largely enabled by sympathetic tech companies. I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out the FBI has a record of every SMS conversation that happened at the capitol.
Email.

https://20somethingfinance.com/how-to-send-text-messages-sms...
I’ve heard this complaint before, but couldn’t you just put an HTTPS to HTTP proxy somewhere with good bandwidth to cut out the latency without hurting the security of people with good bandwidth/devices? Sure, a proxy costs money, but it’s not much compared to other infrastructure costs and it could be shared.
M.2 drives are small and usually don't require a cable and a bay.

It is important in compact builds.

Funnily enough, recent AMD CPUs for the consumer segment support ECC out of the box. But you need a right motherboard, of course. This is a welcome streak of sanity in the world where consumer PCs have 32GB RAM.
That's my favorite episode, personally!
that does make sense but still surprising that it holds up in the sustained benchmark as well - that must be a big cache and I don't see any capacitors on the pcb
I'm not sure how it looked when you saw it, but the current iteration reads like a beat poem. I'd hardly call it trollish, and would reach for satire before sarcasm.
Living in MA, inside Rt 128 in a fairly urban city; there are foxes in my neighborhood nightly (as seen on my Ring doorbell), Deer and Coyotes in the woods. It's a pretty wild place for 5 miles outside a major east coast city.

In the metro area, we've also have bears and even a "moose on the loose":

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/05/16/bear-in-newton-massac...

https://www.boston.com/news/animals/2016/06/01/moose-on-the-...

Not to mention a mountain lion:

https://patch.com/massachusetts/winchester/winchester-mounta...
> I love Emacs, but I think it’s safe to say that it’s a lot harder to use than Visual Studio Code

I actually find the opposite. As much as I dislike the clumsy GUI, I just keep coming back to Emacs for some things, for the sole reason that it's easier in Emacs. I find Emacs to be the easiest way to customize my text editor, and that's what makes it easy to get my work done. I've tried VS Code many times and I just don't see what's special about it.
Glacial was one of the entries for the 2018 RISC-V SoftCPU Contest, but I think it wasn't ready by the deadline.
If you look at the winners there was another 8-bit CPU with a RISC-V interpreter, SERV, VexRiscv but also Reindeer which seems like a more balanced implementation:
https://riscv.org/blog/2018/12/risc-v-softcpu-contest-highli...
interesting that the article doesnt mention the Zollverein/German customs union of 1833; Wasn't that the role model for EU integration, where they argued that political union would follow an integrated economy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein

also asking 'was X inevitable?' can be rephrased as 'what are the objective reasons that would make X a likely outcome?', that sounds better to me.
Where this fail (and I don’t see the article addressing this concern) is if you want to do pagination. Say you are retrieving page 17 of 8000. Will the UNION still be performant then? After all, it will require a stable sort order that may depend on one of the branches. You certainly can’t pagination without doing a whole lot of logic in your application if you use two separate queries. My typical solution to this is to do a query not employee IDs, another one of customer IDs and then do an IN clause. Or you could do an intermediate ID of some kind that will collapse your diamond branch into a single IN.
How many of those are old enough that they can't download firefox?

(I realize this sounds snobby. I'm mostly just actually curious how much that is a viable option)
Anyone who has seen the capitol knows it is bigger than 30 meters.
The problem with this is that the intelligence agencies don’t spy on congress in order to persecute people. They do it for leverage, and this is not hypothetical: they did this going into the Iran deal in order to gain information to help the deal go through:

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-i...

And in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence...

> The report by the agency’s inspector general also found that C.I.A. officers read the emails of the Senate investigators and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department based on false information

When the people with guns start collecting leverage on the people who make laws, things will get ugly fast.
Evidently contemporary baits aren't Warfarin based - that was the active ingredient I recall when growing up - it acts as a blood thinner, and rodents would haemorrhage internally whenever they bumped into something. A fairly unpleasant death.

I'm not sure on the current commercial baits ingredients, but in any case, a good number of the rodents you're seeing in those photos will have been poisoned rather than trapped & drowned, so you definitely don't want your pets eating them.

Having said that, a neighbour told me recently his dog had eaten some baits -- it was a bit slow for a few days, and 'shat green for a week', but seemed to weather it okay.
Thanks for the link, it's nice to see such results from 256GB SATA drives (No drive dying before 600TBW, and the 840 PRO going up to 2.4PBW, I have a 850 PRO in a laptop myself), but it would still be interesting to see similar tests for NVMe drives.
? not how it works behind the scenes at all
Perhaps, but every time I see that tired saying trotted out, the context is in groups that have not earned, or worse, have a history of malice that does not justify the benefit of the doubt
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I vaguely had the impression that the original boards tended to fail over the years due to the capacitors.

I'm wondering, if this replacement board doesn't have them, how was that done?
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My original point was that cargo culting is a trap, but following in the footsteps of someone else is not. I don't think that disagrees with what you're saying.
It's not an unmodified kernel.
Fair enough, but the authors of this article vent most of their ire on policies of isolation and containment, which are scientifically respectable, demonstrably effective when employed effectively, and in conformance with your principle of caution.
Can you explain what modifications you believe it has that typical installations of Linux don't?
Quillette? Really?
If a language is missing Bloom filters or epoll_wait(2), anyone can offer that in a fairly self-contained library. But if a language is missing something like lambdas, pattern matching, exception handling, move semantics, or coroutines, that’s a lot harder to add in a usable and efficient way without actually extending the grammar and the code generator. Those are the things that make a language harder to learn at first but then replace a lot of boilerplate that should (usually) be beneath our notice.
I paid $2,000 for a haircut once. It was meant to be $10 but the hairdresser didn't know how the machine worked (it was new) and entered the '00' for the cents. Two transactions in a row.

Five minutes later my credit card had reversed the charges.

I still had to pay $10 for the haircut.
I was assumung it was working like this all way along.
It really sucks for them no doubt. Both windows and Mac have incredibly easy ways to do backups to an external hard drive. Literally just plug in the hard drive and not think about it.

If it wasn’t this issue it would have been something else, like getting up at the coffee shop and having your laptop stolen.
UK has lots of great beers that an imperial pint of leaves you in good shape for returning to work.
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It was https://same.energy/ :D

I did an image search for `ai "same vibe"` and immediately found a news article for it.

Did _not_ expect it to be that, er, quick to solve.

TIL this is a thing. Wow. This is kind of something I've wanted for ages!

What were you interested in pursuing/working on? Now I'm really curious...
Interesting, I know many 50+ year old men from outside of the US and none of them share these ideals :/
The missing piece is often the solution book which can be difficult to come by.

like leetcode and other problem assesors, you learn a lot by trying, failing, and getting an explanation of where it went wrong.

Would be pretty useful to have an online platform for worked textbook problems from arbitrary textbooks.
All queries could technically be expressed as a cartesian product but that is not necessary and not what happens in practice. Both of the above might produce the same plan because they are both treated as joins. One is expressed as an explicit join, the other as an implicit join, but neither requires the query engine to produce a cartesian product on execution. If it did, queries I run in seconds would require more storage or RAM than probably exists in my entire workplace, and I'm not using anything that would usually be considered "big data".
I first used emacs 25ish years before VSCode existed and VSCode was pretty much immediately easier to use and customize; to be fair, it's not like I was using Emacs heavily in the intervening quarter century, but I was using it fairly regularly.

OTOH, I have no problem believing someone using Emacs as a daily driver for years would find it easier (but I think most developers, and particularly newer developers—where the JS to Lisp familiarity ratio is much higher than for, say, those who got into coding in the 1980s or earlier—are going to more productive more quickly with VS Code.)
At least in my discipline (statistics) the Emacs extensions for R and latex seem to be better than Vim, VSCode, etc.

Sample size = 1.
And that Veyron engine won’t be too happy running at 80+% of its rated power level for more than a few minutes at a time.

This is the part that a lot of people are unware of when it comes to engine power ratings --- aviation engines are designed to run at their rated power continuously, while most passenger car engines aren't. Even comparing a truck engine with the latter has people confused at why the power numbers seem so small both absolutely and relative to displacement. A 9L engine in a truck used for pulling semitrailers may make "only" 330HP, but it can do that continuously, and indeed will spend the majority of its life at or close to full throttle.
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Cats are not ideal - they destroy native wildlife, and carry disease. Preferable (natives) would be snakes and raptors.

But the problem in any of those cases are the rate of population change. As per TFA, mice are fertile at 6 weeks old. What they don't mention is that their gestation period is 3 weeks, females give birth to up to a dozen pups, and can mate immediately after birth.

So in perfectly suited environments like we have here in Australia now, you're looking at a potential order of magnitude growth every 3-4 weeks.

Cats, snakes, raptors, etc have a near-flat population growth, regardless of the amount of additional food around for them.
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Thanks for the recommendation, this game has taken over my life for the last 24 hours.
Optanes future is looking even more uncertain now, Micron was the only manufacturer of Optane memory and they just announced they're abandoning the technology

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16558/micron-abandons-3d-xpoi...

Intel will need to bring Optane production in-house or get another partner on board if they're going to continue with it
By using a CISC instead of RISC. But this time instead of designing it for easy human assembly programming like the VAX use instructions that drastically improve memory density, make the life of the branch predictor easier and promote memory locality. Also introduce branchless instructions like cmov.
Neat product! Really like this idea and can definitely see it utilized in the Enterprise space for collaboration on vendor management.
Physics and EE have a lot of overlap and exposure to analog circuits in undergrad is pretty shallow. There will typically be a class that covers RLC and switched circuits in time and frequency domain and the basic uses of amplifiers and filters. After that it's theory applied from Fourier analysis and control theory and then they'll have a class on semiconductor physics and another that covers basic amplifier design. These days a lot of focus is on integrated chip design instead of board design. As far as most board level design these days, someone coming from a physics background will pick it up just fine on the job or in the lab as long as you have solid fundamentals.

More advanced stuff that you probably lack vs a practicing EE or an EE graduate education is going to be edge cases, advanced stability analysis, translinear logic and exposure to all the different types of component design. There are tons of different types of say amplifiers used in specific applications whereas most people working in a lab just slap opAmps on everything. A lot of advanced analog design is just applied control theory. Also keep in mind that these days Digital, RF, and Analog all blur a lot in a cutting edge design environment.

Quick Edit: A lot of the more traditional EE design companies will consider someone with a physics degree to be equivalent to someone with an EE degree unless they are looking for a very specific niche.
Perhaps, but I don't think it was much of a realistic concern for any who held it in the UK government.

Whereas Germans, East and West alike, had largely thought of themselves as Germans in varying senses since Bismark (and both the DDR and BRD claimed to be legitimate successors to the same historical state), the peoples who lived (and live) in Northern Ireland didn't all think of themselves in the same way. Some thought of themselves as British, some as Irish, and many as some mix of both. A big reason why historians mark the Good Friday Agreement as the end of The Troubles is that it recognized the right of each person in Northern Ireland to identify with the nationality they chose (self-determination), in a way that both the British and Irish governments cooperated to recognize in administrative affairs where nationality mattered.

There wasn't a separate ethnoreligious East German identity. There were (and are) conflicting identities in Northern Ireland with ethnic, religious, national, and historical dimensions. The two situations on-the-ground were extremely different.
can't wait for mine
3d printing pasta.. possible?
It doesn't need capacitors for the data written out to the SLC cache (storing one pit per NAND flash memory cell rather than three), which is the only cache that's actually multiple GB in size. The volatile RAM caches on consumer drives tend to be pretty small, and data is resident in them just long enough to batch together enough writes to provide good throughput.
How accurately does Blind reveal the id of Silicon Valley?
I wanted to name it "what's the deal with Blind" but thought it would be flagged.

Is it mostly trolls, or are they for real?

I'm not in SV but accepting a FAANG offer shortly. SV is supposedly filled with geniuses, but 1) lots of the people there are deeply clueless about relationships, they're 2) very greedy, and 3) completely ignorant about everything outside of "TC" and office politics.

I'm not trying to criticize Silicon Valley or anything like that, so try not to get defensive. I'm just wondering... are most of those "smart" people only technically smart? Is that how people really are when they're not putting up a front?

Or are they a bunch of bored engineers cosplaying as horrible people?
Well duh... rule #1 if you are going to attend an insurrection might be leave your phone behind. Dumb hillbillies.
If it needs to be debunked, why haven't you done so? You're spouting angry moralistic judgements but since you know this must be debunked and yet haven't done so, you're morally complicit. Until you can thoroughly debunk this, you are as much of the problem as anyone else. So come on, show us your data.
It would have ruined the cool story bro.
The idea that parents should be responsible for the education costs of their adult children is an idea that should have died about 20 years ago.
Sorry, if I was hand-wavy.
I was trying to give other people a simple framework that I use myself (Big O calculated as a number of rows in each table).
ALthough I dont know how many rows you have in each table, Big O frameworks still works, because cartesian of tables is being dominated by two huge different datasets (customers's orders being joined to employees' orders). The Union simply calcualtes them separately, rather than doing cartesian of two completely different datasets that represent different entities.

Well written predicates and indexes can help, as well as poorly written predicates make it worse. So there is balance. This is not a shortcut or a silver bullet, it is a trade-off being made. More indexes->faster selects and slower updates/inserts. One bad index=>failed insert and possible losing customer data (happened to me once)

I agree with you that "SQL performance is a complex topic." and one should definitely study query Execution Plan to understand the bottlenecks and make optimization decisions
I never look at the timings, I just taste at regular intervals after the pasta starts feeling "right" under the fork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_Australia

"Feral cats are one of the major invasive species in Australia"

"In 2016, 29% of Australian households had a domesticated cat"

"Cats in Australia have no natural predators except dingoes and wedge-tailed eagles, and as a result, they are apex predators where neither the dingo nor the eagle exists"

Based on the given figure of 2 million or more feral cats in Australia, each killing 740 wild animals a year, that's 1.5 billion total.

So, given all that, I wonder why the mice are a problem at the moment.
I'm using an early 2008 MBP with Debian Buster with 6GB of RAM and SSD. The nvidia-340 driver is still supported so Youtube works nicely. With mbpfan it does not overheat. Touchpad and suspend are working pretty well. The Amazon website with Firefox is where I get warnings about a script taking too long.
Is AdGuard/Lockown the same as PiHole or do they do different things?
Except in highway driving, the amount of weird stuff that can happen is very, very limited, compared to city driving. It's predictable, and you learn what your car can handle, and what it can't handle.

I assume from your comment that you haven't actually spent a lot of time in a car with these features, but the best way to describe is that it's like driving in grooves. You're driving, but you don't have to actively work to keep your distance to the car in front of you, stay below the speed limit, or to keep your car centered in your lane. Just like with an automatic gearbox you don't have to actively work to keep your car in the right gear, the car does it for you. Same principle here.
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Vaccine production facilities all over the world have had similar difficulties. Some of the UK-based facilities also had some setbacks early on, but the UK was faster than the EU in getting its vaccination programme going and those problems have largely been solved by now, while some EU-based facilities are still working them out. The UK isn't completely isolated from these risks even today: its government has just announced it's anticipating a reduction in supply over the next few weeks due to a delayed shipment from India. None of this is entirely unexpected, because these manufacturing facilities are being asked to work much faster than they normally would due to the urgent need for this particular set of vaccines.

Contractually, the EU-AZ deal appears to be a mess, going by the (partially redacted) public documentation. It's not clear that AZ actually did make the commitment to the EU that the EU thinks it did, while AZ's contractual obligations to the UK don't seem to be in dispute. Certain EU leaders have also claimed that the UK has restricted vaccine exports, but the UK government has absolutely denied this; it's seen as a contractual matter between AZ and its customers, not a matter of the UK government imposing export controls (unlike several other places, including within the EU).
Hm, there's nethack-mode, but that's not what you mean, is it? You want a framework for building roguelikes, not for playing a particular one?
North Koreans are very nationalistic and would never accept a Chinese annexation, and South Korea would very likely join the conflict against China annexing ethnically Korean populations and lands. Nothing like identity politics to rile up the population and topple some politicians.

It's far more likely that SK eventually ejects US military bases from their country and SK and NK work towards a loosening of borders and increased economic ties with Chinese acknowledgement but still wary of Chinese interference in the process. Especially considering the shifting power balance in Asia, having US military bases will eventually be more of a liability than a benefit for SK.
But reading one book is just one dumbasses opinion. Read the comments.
> Don't wash your pasta after cooking

Does anyone do that...? Why would you wash something you just boiled?
What's your source that more educated people are more prone to buying into Qanon?
Token Australian reference for those unaware: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
> try not to get defensive

> horrible people

I don't know what Blind is and have no ability to answer your question, but I think your reference to "horrible people" is at cross purposes with your aspiration of not making people defensive!
> But thankfully we are making progress on decentralized platforms.

Are we? Curious what progress you see.
The hand-wringing is because people realise that humanity is not in control of a crucial variable which will affect our long-term future, namely the global fertility rate.

Just because that number is set to transition from above replacement level to below replacement level doesn't mean we're now able to set it to whatever we want.
Ha ha, no way there is only a 9 credit difference. I’m an EE, and had 6 specific physics courses in undergrad.

Engineering Physics 1 & 2
EM 1 & 2
Thermo
Modern Physics

That in no way takes me near a physics BA, in the same way it takes a physics BA a BSEE.
Emacs is an elisp execution environment that by default executes some elisp that is useful for editing text.

Vim is... a text editor.
To me, the strange thing about talk of "real world generalization" is that the characteristics of this world aren't described. In fact, nothing really delineates what it is - not that we humans don't have an immediate understanding of it but still.

Overall, one idea is experiments on data sets that have structures but where neural network don't generalize well. Or data sets where neural generalize even better than "the real world".
Rpm * air density * displacement = power :)

Metallurgy probably played a large part there too. The engine displaced 46L with 18 cylinders. Those where heavy cylinders with long rods. That engine probably can’t rev much higher

Also, the engine was probably a pushrod That’s a long pushrod to rev higher!
Yep. Look up one of the many libraries that let you use your Android as an SMS gateway.

e.g. https://pypi.org/project/asms/