skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another long review of this book that gets a bit more into the UK's lack of a written constitution: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n07/neal-ascherson/scrib...

(May be behind a paywall.)

Contains a rebuttal to the book's central thesis that wars beget constitutions:

"It’s not hard to demonstrate that war in this period, swelling monstrously in its global extent, army numbers and killing power, could shake existing states and empires to their foundations. The cost of modern conflict – the enormous human mobilisations, the new battle fleets – emptied treasuries and laid crushing burdens of taxation on populations. The relentless search for recruits brought grief and often violence to every village. Disruption led to discontent, sometimes to revolt. But there’s no simple and direct link between warfare – and the social turmoil it provokes – and constitution-writing. Colley shows, shrewdly enough, how rulers desperate for cannon-fodder devised a connection between soldiering and the new idea of citizenship. Join the army, and you will be entitled to a vote and to the protection of new-fangled constitutional rights, all set down in writing. (This condition effectively kept women out of political life.) In that sense, warfare did sponsor some constitutions. But was it more than a single powerful factor in a bundle of upheavals, class conflicts and royal or plebeian ambitions, any combination of which could move somebody with a pen to design a new order? It would have helped to be given at least one detailed example of the way the pressures of a specific war led to a constitution. Colley cites America’s 1787 constitution, which, she argues, was not intended primarily as ‘a blueprint of a liberal democratic society’ but was a ‘grimly necessary plan for a more effective and defendable union’ in the face of military threats from Britain, Spain and even Russia. Perhaps. On the other hand, Britain in 1815 emerged emaciated and simmering with unrest after three huge wars in a generation, but developed no written constitution. The best that can be said is that people start scribbling most frequently in stormy times, when the existing state of governance no longer carries conviction with subjects, rulers or both."
A constitution is only as good as the quality of the institutions that exist to defend it. Undermine the institutions and a constitution is no more worth than the paper it’s printed on.
I remember reading "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" in third grade. I immediately adopted the enthusiasm the mouse had for riding and I've been a motorcycle-riding fool ever since. I love that lean.
Imagine you have pictures of some real-life object from many angles, and want to turn it into a virtual 3d object (for a web shop, or for use in a computer game, or whatever). Traditional methods try to reconstruct the geometry, but have a couple of problems in more complex situations. NeRFs are a quite new approach that tries to accomplish the same task by training a neural net that essentially allows you to query the color of each point in space (also accounting for the direction you are viewing from). This works great (and works from as few as two source images), but it's slow, and rendering the result was even slower.

This paper introduces a way to render NeRFs at reasonable speed. Still not stellar, but quick enough to make NeRFs useful for many use cases.
"Every airline doesn't need their own webpage. They could all provide a standard API."

That's sort of how it works in the corporate booking tool world. It is decidedly not a better experience for end users, IMO.

There's quite a lot about each airline that is different, so any unified approach is a lowest common denominator. You'll notice things like loyalty points, for example, have more rich data on the airline's website. And that some fares are ONLY on the website. Or that seat maps have more useful detailed info, etc.

And that's all shopping/booking. Departure control, flight status, upgrade/downgrade, check-in, seat upgrades, standby, etc, are for the most part only on the airline's website.
I've seen quite a few people go out like this. Back in the late 1990's I founded a head shop that later gave birth to multiple locations and had family members and friends getting rich. Lost two family members (dead), can't speak to another one (my father), I ended up arrested as a consequence of my brother's withdrawal symptoms, a business partner went off the deep end smoking crack and meth while leading an entourage of prostitutes and flipping a vehicle or two while ditching his family of twenty years, and my father was doing nearly the same shit while secreting hookers at his elderly mother's house. He ended up in jail on serious drug charges.

This isn't even about half the shit that went down.

So yeah, success and money can really trash lives if people aren't ready or they have underlying issues, but a lot of times you don't see it coming.

Before that we ran a fairly uneventful chain of video rental stores and otherwise led a bog normal and happy middle class life.
Rusts graphemes.count sounds nice.

In C land it is called ucwidth (libunistring).
Length is too arbitrary. Byte? Unicode points? Utf-8 length?
Easy. You set the water to boil on the stove. While that's going you start the roux, which is just butter and flour. That takes about two minutes to cook, then you can add your milk and salt and turn down the heat. Add your pasta to the water. Now add your cheese to the sauce. I know how much I need so I just cut off a hunk and crumble it up into pieces into the pot. Once the cheese has melted, your pasta should be done so drain it and stir it into the pot with the cheese. You are done, enjoy your mac and cheese.

The box stuff is easier because it's less steps, but doesn't take any less time to prepare.
Most likely coastal cities smart person liberal, probably followed by moderate libertarian.
His son James is one of the best songwriters of our day. I think.

--fanboi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McMurtry

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=james+mcmurtry

Choctaw Bingo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nggqe-L9ZQ8

Lights of Cheyenne
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0svFWUXeoKg

fanboi--
I'm curious how this works.

My first theory is that clay pots will actually let water evaporate. Kind of like you need to water plants in terra cotta planters more often in summer. Evaporation having a cooling effect - like humans sweating.
> there's no inherent reason "personal machine" is any less safe than "building cluster" or whatever you have around

Sure there is! I browse internet a lot on my dev machines, and this exposes me to bugs in browsers and document viewers. And if I do get compromised, my desktop is so complex and runs so many services the compromise is unlikely to be detected. So all attacker needs is one zero day, once.

Compare this to a CI with infra-as-a-code, like Github Actions. If the build process gets compromised, it only matters until the next re-build. Even if you get a supply chain attack once (for example), if this is discovered all your footholds disappear! And even if you got the developers' keys, it is not easy to persist -- you have to make commits and those can be noticed and undone.

(Of course if your "building cluster" is a bunch of traditional machines which are never reformatted and which many developers have root access to, then they are not that much more secure. But you don't have to do it that way.)
Sorting filenames by extension
My little brother was working on a dental tourism startup a couple years ago, and we stayed in Los Algodones for a few weeks scoping the place out. More than half of all storefronts in the town are dental offices. Some of them seem pretty sketchy, but the reputable ones are very modern, nice and cheap. We spoke with dozens of dental tourists down for a few days to get their work done and they universally had good things to say about the experience. If I needed major dental work done, I wouldn't hesitate to go down there and get it done with one of the reputable providers like https://sanidentalgroup.com/ .
Mirror: https://www.veoh.com/watch/v142103958tzjgSYSk
One thing that has worked for me is to just give easier coding interviews. Not fizz-buzz easy, but not totally unnecessarily hard either.

The trick from there is to be very well prepared yourself as an interviewer, and to make sure you’ve chosen a good problem. Good in this case can be anything, it should just be so thing that you know really well.

I like this approach a lot because if they’re great, then they should code the problem flawlessly in, say, 10-15 minutes. If it’s just an off day for them then there’s plenty of time to talk and see how they go about figuring out how to fix their first problem, ie they don’t know how to start. This also closely emulates how work is too. Most of what you have to do at work is actually quite easy if you really understand why you’re there everyday. If it’s not, then how do you go about fixing that? So this approach accounts for a lot of different styles.

Some people are just plain smart, and they’ll get it right away. Other people are very unassuming and just ask questions until they feel like they have the confidence to propose a plan.

Also you have a way of screening people who aren’t ready for the job. If they rush into a solution that’s bad and are defensive, then they’re not ready. Remember, this is an easy problem.

One thing I think is often left out when discussing interviewing is that it in fact is often a game, because work is often a game. You don’t get perfectly written asígnennos, delivered via email, where you just have to implement a function according to an interface. Instead, your job is to create business value for the company, while enjoying your life. I think a good interview format should actually lean into that. No, it’s not perfect, they don’t always perfectly test your coding skills, but real coding skills aren’t easy to test and are only part of what makes someone suitable. Ultimately, what matters is a.) can you recognize this is a game and b.) what trade offs do you make to win at the game, given your ability and character?

I think sort of easy, well chosen problems, based off personal experience are really the best for getting these answers from a candidate. Then again, it’s still not a silver bullet because it requires a really well prepared, interviewer who’s committed to giving the candidate a good experience and a fair shot at demonstrating what they can do.

I’ve had interviews where halfway I felt like the candidate was genuinely having fun, and others where we both knew this was the end for them. Like, the interview was so good at what it was designed for in either direction, yay or nay, both of us pretty much left agreeing with one another about how it went.
Python's zope.interface can do it. Julia's still figuring out their trait system, but some implementations allow that. I don't know Clojure but I wouldn't be surprised to hear if their Spec allows it.
> If you interested in long-term updates, the answer is simple: buy an iPhone.

I would, if apple wouldn't dictate what i can and cannot install on my phone.

Is there a smartphone that's usable as a daily driver, lets me have root and provides long term updates?
Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict
Also, wood.
Is that true? If so, why do coups or despots write new ones if they can simply ignore the old one?
> Solar must be more cost-effective in, say, the Mojave desert, than it is in Alaska.

I don't think this was your intention, but this reminded me of something I see in so many of these conversations.

In discussions about solar (and electric cars) there are always people who say "well this won't work in situation X", with an unsaid implication of "this is not the solution".

It is unlikely that we will find a single solution that will be a good fit for all situations. Instead we will have many tools in our belt and apply accordingly.

I know that you used alaska as an extreme, perhaps they will never get off fossil fuels. But alaska is a tiny population overall. Its the main population centers that we need to worry about, not the extremes that are hand picked to be difficult.
Reminds me of Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, that literally describes a world where buildings are made of fungi.
The advantage of tombstones is that it is dead simple to implement. Backshift removals can cause a lot of memory shuffling if you are removing an element from a very congested part of the hash table.
Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board
It is not unique, but it is definitely rare. Like, super rare.
'Like Magic,' Physicists Conjure Curious Quasiparticles
Fascinating how only witnesses, not legislators, are quoted on law or principle.
I try to alternate between Fiction, then Non-Fiction, then something related to my job, then repeat. I often skip the job related ones though. :/
Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible – Issue 98: Mind
https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/

He made no apologoes for Epstein or any behavior or mistreatment of women. He merely pointed out no one had any business saying Minsky sexually assaulted anyone until proof positive rolled in.
This just triggers more clickbait as they race to soak up estimated access.
There are a number of commercial solutions available which Amazon could provide for their drivers. With a little planning and training it could be kept sanitary.
I said no such thing.

Since 1938 US government is backing housing via guaranteed mortgages. These are "money supply-side" policies that boost demand.

I'm saying that just like with healthcare and higher education, since supply is fairly limited dumping more money into those markets just raises the price.

> there is always more demand than supply in SF and in many places

That doesn't mean much. The equilibrium point is what matters. If there were more supply prices would be a lot lower. Of course desirable lots/houses/apartments will be priced higher. The problem is that house prices are going up too much, the barrier to entry (to join the community) is going up, also rents are going up (the price to stay part of the community is going up).

Plus, it's not like the demand is infinite. Let's say 10 million people want to move to SF. That's a very finite number.

And I'm not saying sure, let's build HongKong2.0.

> (also - people have a right to manage their own communities as they see fit.)

I agree with the spirit of self-determination, but alas I'm not well versed enough in the ethical problems with determining which group's interest have primacy when groups' interests overlap. After all if someone commutes every day to SF they are just as part of the community, and they might like to move closer. They want density. But this obviously quickly leads to the tragedy of the anti-commons. Everybody in that "SF community" has a vested interest in living in a nice and healthy city, but they would have to agree on how to manage housing. Usually nobody wants to voluntarily give up their advantageous spot. Nobody wants a big construction and high-rise as their neighbor. The common resource (land) gets under utilized. (NIMBYism. Plus gentrification as people who want money sell their houses to exploit this situation, which then pushes up prices of local services, which puts even more people into financial peril, who then increasingly feel that selling their property and moving is their only option.)

(You might have read this recent story about newcomers and old timers in Austin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26567350 )

> If a million people try move to a village

That sounds like a disaster or a gold-rush. What's the fair way to manage this? A quota system? First-come first-serve? The current system is rich people only.
Making mac and cheese from scratch is not at all difficult, and a lot of grocery stores even sell discount cheese ends intended to be used in mac and cheese. (I use them for other stuff more often though)

However, nothing beats the incredibly addictive, comforting taste of boxed mac and cheese - yes I crave that artificial taste, it's incredible. Plus you can make it with ingredients most people have on hand literally 24/7 - only butter and milk, you don't have to plan ahead and I only need to dirty a single pan.

Plus it's CHEAP, like, really, really cheap.

Beyond that, boxed mac and cheese is more popular in Canada (where they call it "KD" - short for "Kraft Dinner") than the US - it's not exactly "har, har, americans dumb."
You don't count the length. Length specifies the size of the internal encoding.

You count the width. And there are Unicode rules how you count the width. Which do change every year.
People also prefer people of their own race, gender, age group, etc. It would be remarkable if they didn’t prefer people of the same educational and work experience.
So, how does your silly platitude explain the difference in vaccine rollout across the US vs the EU?

Thankfully, we don't live in the soundbite-driven, Rand-ian libertarian society that fools like you think would be a utopia. People like you think you're important--in reality people who cite platitudes like this are easily fooled peons who would get ground down with the rest of us peons.

At the end of the day, government exists to do things that individuals can't do for themselves.
So what did RMS do exactly? I haven't been keeping track and the man is basically a living legend.
This sounds like great crossover TV.
I've always pondered the "genetic utility" if you will of downs folks. I could imagine they play a real "symbiotic relationship" with their familial cohorts bringing lighthearted joy and other social softeners that add brightness to a group. It does come with costs however like people say with lifetime care, but the fact that these loving genetic subpopulations persist makes me wonder if they are not in fact anomalies but part of a richer fabric.
The 18% interest rates in the 70’s are frantically waving their hands as an exception.
I wrote her a fan letter when I was a boy, probably about 50 years ago. She sent back a brochure with a handwritten note. It made me feel great to get a response from a "famous person"

Rest in peace
Comment sections seem pretty right to me.
There are very few off by one errors opportunities in factorio
"It wasn't just another BSD or System V, and they rethought a lot of things."

It was also a huge PITA to get any 3rd party Unix software to compile on Domain/OS. I went to a college that had exclusively Apollo workstations and you had to get really creative with Makefiles, #ifdef, #include, and writing compatibility layers to make it play in the SunOS/Solaris/SCO world of the time.

Eventually we started getting "HP Apollo" HPUX systems, which weren't that great either, but at least they were closer to mainstream Unix.
I recently learned that only about 200,000 out of the estimated 2-5 million species of fungi have been identified.

It's such a huuggee gap of knowledge! The natural world has so much more weird stuff to offer, hope we will learn a lot from these strange non-plants non-animals
Forever Given – dating app for people stuck in the Suez Canal
Actually salt also counts as fermentation.

Most people I gather know that Sauerkraut is fermented but maybe not how that works. It's basically just cabbage, cut up and stored in salt brine. The salt in the brine makes the initial environment favourable to the bacteria that create the lactic acid and all of this together crowds out all the bad bacteria and fungi. You can actually have mold swimming on top of the Sauerkraut sometimes (though some that looks like it isn't actually mold) but the mold spores can't penetrate down into the Sauerkraut, so you can actually just get rid of it and best a bit of the top of the Sauerkraut that was very close to the surface, just in case. But the rest of the Kraut will be completely fine.
Unfortunately not. I am using one called SafeGuard on Safari I believe.
I think good starting points are https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html and http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html (note, particularly, the several links in the sentence starting "In fact," - each word is its own link). Both of those posts are from former FSF board members who have basically spent their entire professional careers working to advance free software.
I don’t know too many people who would be excited at continuing to pay off a $500k mortgage on a house worth $400k.
The threat is that they won't be able to make ends meet if so much as a month without a job happens to them. That's because the job does not pay anything near enough.

Existential threat. And job is time and energy consuming enough to make it high impossible to look for something else, much less anything else that isn't similarly exploitative.

It is a systemic problem and Amazon is one of the big parts of that system. "Just find another job" ignores the reality of situation of people actually taking this terrible job.
This question depends more on the manager’s motives than on their knowledge.
In case it ever comes up for someone, hospitals have to let you use a bathroom.
I am curious about this too, from a copyright perspective:

1) Whether it is legal for Common Crawl to collect this data in the first place? Presumably they don't have explicit permission from every site they have crawled?

and

2) Whether it is legal to use this data to train ML algorithms for commercial use (e.g. GPT-3)? They provide a bunch of examples of this on their site but the terms of use are kind of vague about this.
If you don’t exercise, I am impressed. Actually, I can do it to. But this is because I have Ehlers Danlos syndrom (hyper mobility). This guy I am referring to would actually adopt the pose when he was relaxing. It was as natural to him as folding his arms.
NoyesNo, Nvidia tried to make a doggy legally questionable workaround for license aspects,
so it's not quite the same.

Also as far as I remember (I might be wrong) the google HAL isn't a abstraction/redirection in the low level kernel module layer it lives on a higher abstraction level and was meant to make the amount of ways braking less but never planed to add abstractions on top of which you could build a graphics driver or CPU support (which doesn't only affect drivers but potential also kernel compiler time conditional compilations).
Anyone who lives in a Japanese house will attest to the awful feeling of waking up in a freezing house in even a mild winter in Tokyo. Or the murderous hot of summer that it has its own word for trying to escape it (避暑). The poor insulation means you can spend myriads of yen and never feel comfortable inside.

Incidentally, this is also a reason my colleagues wanted to go to work. Offices are often better setup than homes. (At least this was their excuse to stay at work)
Can someone advise on if a CF Pages site would be fully end to end encrypted?
Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to maintain a corporation?
End to end, from Filing entity, keeping up with franchise taxes and tax filings.

If you wanted to form an entity for the purposes of limiting your personal liability, what is the cheapest Corporation stack available to create and maintain a corporation, year over year?
It’s what the US Framers referred to as a “parchment guarantee”, nothing more than words on paper.
That is because what you call "lifestyle reasons" as if we talked about slight unimportant change in lifestyle are actually massively life changing limitations. With lifelong consequences you won't ever be able to avoid and oftentimes literally end of your life as you knew it.
>but a huge step backward in everything else (health, taste, variety, know-how, etc.)

Absolutely. And we don't need no studies for it neither. Sheer sense of taste and common sense is enough.