skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Occam's razor would lead to this summary: person finds out that the apartment was built on a former toxic waste site, gives themselves a panic attack.

Of course, there is always the possibility that her unit was somehow special, but it's incredibly unlikely. Statements like "how would they know I was looking into it" and " and "why would they offer me to break the lease with no penalty" further strengthen the mental health angle.

This isn't to make fun or diminish the author's concerns. It's just that one root cause is much much more likely and really should be investigated first. I hope she has someone caring in her life to look into that angle.

Edit: happy to burn some karma on this in case this helps someone get help for a loved one. Mental health issues are excruciatingly hard to deal with and I have first hand experience. It sucks when you realize that to help someone you have to go against their wishes.

This one seems pretty clear cut. The landlord wishing that she would go away is a conspiracy? She talked about this for weeks and is surprised someone thought she may have looked at the environmental reports? And lastly, everyone in the neighboring units is totally fine.

And by the way, I am not saying "she is crazy". I am saying "look into both possibilities". I am happy to see that the comment at the top with the most votes is saying the exact same thing.
To put it better, I meant to write that C++ character literals have type `char`, which in turn maps to either `signed char` or `unsigned char`.
The problem is hyperbole. "Handsome" or "highly-readable" would be more apt.
I'm hoping for a bit of a swing back. If not rejoining, perhaps being able to ship a lump of cheese to the EU without a £200 health certificate.
It might be a legit complaint, but one that has nothing to do with the EU. The EU simply doesn't make safety standards for playgrounds.
Why would they be sued for libel?

https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/20191004143251/https://...

And sued by who? By Murdoch publications, the champions of lying from the top of their lungs in front of millions of people? :-)
My most successful side project - by traffic volume and by usage - is a viral site idea which consistently generates over 1 million users in July of every year, those users generate about 20k in revenue yearly. It solves a problem I had in high school, and lots of other students have too. The project revolves around seeing location locked test scores up to 2 days early.

I think the important aspect that keeps the project useful is by using the same metrics that you would use to evaluate any business. I’m able to run this company completely in my spare time, and it’s reached a point where only a week of work is needed per year to keep it stable. Traditional metrics, front end analytics and some anonymized data collection, as well as social media sentiment review show extremely positive user feedback. As well as continued growth every year.

It’s important to remember that it’s your baby and your idea still has to follow traditional success metrics. And also, for a side project, success metrics don’t have to exclusively be “billion dollar company with VC funding in 3 months that is my full time job that I’ve invested my whole life into.”
I agree. Seems like what Feynman really wants to say here is “this isn’t a question I’m personally interested in”, but frames it as “it’s dumb to be interested in this question”.

We are only experiencing the end result of what our senses sample and our brain processes. That’s clearly true. How much that end result diverges from the real thing is difficult to answer, but in a straight forward way you can look at an optical illusion to see that there is some divergence.
Linux distros without systemd:

1. Devuan (https://www.devuan.org/)

2. Alpine Linux (https://alpinelinux.org/)

3. Artixlinux (https://artixlinux.org/)

4. Void (https://voidlinux.org/)

5. Slackware (http://www.slackware.com/)

6. Funtoo (and Gentoo) (https://www.funtoo.org/Welcome) (https://www.gentoo.org/)

7. GUIX (https://guix.gnu.org/)

8. Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/)

Also (user-submitted):

- antiX (https://antixlinux.com/)

- CRUX (https://crux.nu/)

- PCLinuxOS (https://www.pclinuxos.com/)

- Adélie Linux (https://www.adelielinux.org/)

- Obarun (https://web.obarun.org/)

- KISS Linux (https://k1sslinux.org/)

- LiGurOS (https://liguros.gitlab.io/)
I doubt whether this kind of AI can fully understand human languages. If the answer is no, will we create a new genre of languages serving them specifically? Imagine in the near future, programmers are not eliminated by AI, instead they code with a language looks like spoken language, but it is unnatural for human, designed for AI like this.
My belief is that we will forever be a backward race until we decide that our ultimate goal as a society should be to ensure as much as possible that every single person be able to pass peacefully, without suffering or abuse (accidents and other sudden deaths notwithstanding, since not all such things could be prevented). I believe external factors have much more of an effect on the in-the-moment experience of death than anyone realizes (many people place that squarely in the realm of religion, which I find a shame, as it prevents people properly talking about death because they see such discussions as challenges on their religious belief).
Literally the only things the Tory Party are good at is misrepresenting the truth for PR purposes, and using the misrepresentation to promote a toxic self-harming bubble of nationalism which they can ride to power.

Like most nationalists, they need three things - a flag, an enemy, and a compliant media machine.

Given those they can keep themselves in power almost indefinitely, while providing nothing of real national value.

Which is unfortunate, because the UK has a very strong talent base - which it's currently squandering in favour of corruption and nationalist authoritarian nonsense.
could you post it again? the pastebin page got deleted
Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed this write-up. (And thank you for sharing a non-Medium link too).
Actually it kind of is.

Many seem to be unaware that Object Pascal started at Apple offices, not Borland.

Not only that, it was developed by Apple in collaboration with Niklaus Wirth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal
Service to eat something new today
Gives nutritional recommendations to the user at a specific point in time, informs about the consumed amino acids, minerals and vitamins in a playful way. Shows the nearest shops, cafes and restaurants, being an accelerator of food delivery.
Sorry Windows will always be fighting with its own legacy, it cannot move forward.

I don't know why people insist on using Windows.

It's not good on desktop, not good on servers but good for games.
They didn't say that capitalism caused the problems, they said that capitalism allowed the shirking of responsibility.
How could you miss QuickLook for 7 years!?

Maybe you're missing more.
> and captained the Aida IV when it became the first vessel to navigate the newly-expanded Suez Canal in 2015. At the time, she was the youngest and first female Egyptian captain to cross the waterway.

It's a bit confusing. From another linked article[0]

> “One has to spend many years at sea, studying and taking exams before reaching this level.

> I graduated in 2013 and got an MBA, then I was promoted from second officer to first officer, and now I am a captain,” she added.

Still, I think this is... minutiae compared to the larger issue of smear campaign targeting oppressed classes of people. Perhaps she can be acting captain before getting the official rank?

[0] https://www.arabnews.com/node/1833276/media
You don't see any problem with someone selectively quoting from what they claim is "UC Berkeley's official position", while not pointing to an actual source of that "official position" in UC Berkeley itself, or the entire conversation?

How are we to know that Yngve Hoiseth did not make up the entire conversation, or that they didn't simply choose the passages of the email exchange that support their view, only?

If this is an "official" exchange, why the lack of transparency?

The lack of transparency "suggests an effort to misrpresent".
In comparison, Russia's (and world's) coldest permanently inhabitated town Oymyakon has a record of -71 Celsius.

It's cold, but survivable.
> Can the legal system help?

> I reached out to environmental attorneys. It quickly became an issue that my lease agreement included litigation and class action waivers.

This bullshit needs to stop.
AI Physicist, a paradigm with algorithms for learning theories from data
My point was that running `apt-get upgrade` is used in the process of installing packages besides tmux. For example some random postgres extension for something I'm working on, plus its respective dependencies. That process often needs a blanket `apt-get upgrade`, and very occasionally that installs a new version of tmux which isn't compatible with the old version's configuration file, breaking it in ugly ways.

So then I have to fix tmux instead of whatever it was I was doing the original upgrade for. As a daily linux user, your original point doesn't make much sense in this light, since upgrading is a part of work.
Again, I don't care to find them excuses. "Somebody called me a loser so I decided to spew bullshit online" is what losers do.

I'd much rather empathize with this captain who was targeted solely because she's a woman. That seems like a much better use of my time than caring about keyboard warriors on twitter or 4chan.
Sputnik V vaccine-neutralization escape by SARS-CoV-2 Spike variants
Java's lack of unsigned int is widely (but not universally) seen as a deficiency. This is especially true when Java is compared to C#, a very similar language at its core but which does have uint types. Anyway, I have a separate article arguing why Java should not have uint, and many ideas from there can be adapted to C/C++ too: https://www.nayuki.io/page/unsigned-int-considered-harmful-f...
From this article, the fake article was shared "dozens" of times? This news story about the fake news story is doing more damage than the story.

More manufactured outrage..m How's that working out for you?
The paper's argument appears to be:

1) There is a fifty percent chance that the sort of word-simulations postulated by the simulation argument are not possible, and thus we live in reality not a simulation.
2) Even if such simulations are possible, there is a small but non-zero chance that we still happen to live in base reality.

By adding these two together, the paper concludes that we are slightly more likely to live in reality then a simulation.

The author attempts to justify the 50% assumption on the basis of the principle of indifference.
I think GNU Common LISP was OK in 1994 if you had a 486 or other 32-bit computer.

The std library of Python is remarkably similar to that of CL and the issues compiling it much like those in Python. JIT compilers can beat the 'microcoded' system to deal with cases like

x = y + z

where y and z are 'always' doubles so you can remove dynamism and even keep calm and carry on when the assumption is broken.

If you ask 'whatever happened to CL?' it is Python, Erlang, Clojure, Java, Javascript and all ripped off most of the good ideas from CL.
Downvoted as this is pure gaslighting. There is plenty of objective evidence.
Considering how boring and involved the decision process in Brussels is, probably a tiny fraction. Definitely not worth making the fuss they're making about it in the press.

European decision making is consensus based so almost everyone needs to agree. EU decision making is based on proposal from member states governments, so it's usually pre-vetted by the member states governments. On top of that, it usually needs some sort of industry-wide agreement in many cases.

What I'm saying is, it's super unlikely for absurd stuff to make it through. The whole process is super slow (which is annoying), but crazy stuff rarely ends up at the other end. If it seems crazy to you personally, it's probably because you don't have intimate knowledge of the domains affected.
If you mean bare metal Modula-2, I am afraid it is all gone by now, given its surviving compilers.

However what about Ada tasks?
Intuitively, it seems correct that in aggregate, women kill less people on the road. From personal experience, most people can drive well enough regardless of who or what they are, but if someone's driving extremely riskily then it's almost always youngish males. But also, if someone's exceptionally incompetent then it's usually old people or women.

The distribution skews at the extremes and that's where the common perception that women can't drive comes from (and probably also the fact that men kill more people in aggregate). Actual data is not going to dissolve this perception because you see it every time you get outside.
Funnily enough the reason unusual email addresses were blocked in a lot of early CGI scripts was precisely to stop the wacky relaying and routing that the author points out could possibly happen given a sufficiently ancient mail setup.

See e.g (PDF warning): http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/websrv/formmail-advisory... "Creative Recipient Addressing"

People forget what a big problem spam used to be. And the utter insanity that ensued when you combined Perl CGI scripts with poorly configured Sendmail on dodgy hosts.

I think "^[A-Z0-9+_.-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+$" or similar got enshrined as "best practice" sometime back then and has survived to the present day by framework inertia and copy/paste transmission from sites with 10+ year old answers to "how to validate an email address".

Now we've gotten to the point where it's probably OK to try to send to an "emoji cat face" or "<dog=cat>"a%b@c!d.e@foo.com but nobody really expects those to be reliably deliverable or usable for signup anymore. It's just a UX thing now.

My observation is that if you use the dumb obvious regex but just give people the "+" in the local part, nobody will complain. Certainly not by email, anyway...
The banner also shows Perseverance in the background of the shot.

The full video is at https://mars.nasa.gov/layout/helicopter/images/Helicopter_ta... - the part I'm refer to is 5 seconds in.
Wouaf wouaf !
But hashes are numbers, not strings, so is it really only YAML at fault ?
That's precisely the point I'm making. I'm presenting the "intuitive" Celsius scale in response to the claim that Fahrenheit is intuitive because my point is that we have the intuition regardless of the exact system of measurement that surrounds us and just tie it to values that feel right and then say the fact these feelings align with those values are evidence that the system is intuitive when there's nothing in those values itself making them more or less intuitive.

E.g. to be pedantic, room temperature is usually given as 19°C (66.2°F) and many prefer 21°C (69.8°F) or even 22°C (71.6°F) and I could have also stated my cut-off for unpleasant warmth as around 27°C (80.6°F). Your intuitive scale likely doesn't perfectly line up with either of the two systems but you project it onto whichever you are used to.
Capitalism has nothing to do with it.

What most people fail to understand is that inequality is a constant. There will always be inequality of some kind.

Historically, all major civilizations have reset inequality in either one of two ways.

1) forced wealth redistribution (war)

2) voluntary wealth redistribution (taxation, public education, free healthcare, food, etc).

I recommend reading Will & Ariel Durant, Thomas Sowell & Jared Diamond though there are other authors who have wrote on the subjects of inequality.

- https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-History-Will-Durant/dp/143914...

- https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Poverty-Politics-Thomas-Sowell...

- https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/about/jared.html
You still don't understand. The initial regulations were almost always directly derived from the individual regulations of the member countries and bilateral treaties from them. If they banned e.g. a certain form of trade, then that's because some member countries vigorously opposed to these kind of trades and e.g. block with a veto.

Of course, you can always lament that certain countries blocked certain trades - acting on their national interests instead of the interests of the trade union as a whole.

What you cannot claim is that a system with bilateral treaties between 28 would in any way offer an advantage in terms of the complexity of the regulations. This claim is just nonsense. You can look almost anywhere you like and will find that the EU regulations have simplified trade tremendously over the years. Unfortunately, writing articles about how simpler trade among member states has become is less popular than writing another article about the ridiculous initial regulations which were derived from the existing trade regulations of the member countries.
I can’t downvote yet since not enough karma, but upvoted you.
Objective analysis..

https://medium.com/0xmachina/the-nano-diamond-battery-ndb-to...

It is just a concept now, no prototypes. Announcement could be for creating noise before fund raising
Check my other reply to the sibling of my original post for a little more detailed story. I need to check out IndyHacker. B2C products have a longer growth cycle if you’re not full time, as prices are lower but the markets are bigger. My main recommendation is to follow a lot of the advice given for B2B - just involve users in more of the process. I think B2C is traditionally harder for devs because it’s a lot more personal and human than B2C, and requires usually a lot more of the BS work that others have diminished in the comments here: finding and becoming active in relevant communities to your product, creating content and perfecting SEO to use Google to drive natural growth, etc.
ISPs don’t because they don’t care. Until there’s a legal or monetary reason to do so ISP providers will do the bare minimum. My spouse worked for a large American ISP for would hear all the time that apartment complexes would not be able to access certain services because one user did something that got the IP blocked and nobody cared because it wasn’t their problem.
The Strange Case of the Illegal Instruction
It is complicated. Some journals have a decent quality, some are just publication-cliques nests, others will publish almost anything as long as you pay. Also MDPI never took position relative to their president verbal diarrhea on mailing lists. Definitively not an ethical publisher, but how many ethical publishers are out there?
How well does JSON deals with hexadecimal numbers ?
> Former trench digger as a sub for the Telekom here. It is extremely expensive to build out fibre trenches - rural areas simply because of the vast distances and the comparatively few users and urban areas because the underground area is filled meaning you can't use excavators below 20cm depth and have to do everything by hand.

If Romania can do it, with much of the same restrictions in place, but a lot less money available, Germany for sure could do it.
My assessment is that invoking the principle of indifference here is dubious. The appropriate priors are debatable, but we have lots of information on the plausibility of building world-simulations.
What about getting more men in traditional female jobs like teaching and nursing and midwifery?
Agree with you at least about those organizations I have some knowledge and experience with:

* The Mozilla foundation has an atrocious code of conduct, which allows for people to be ousted through secret trials based on secret complaints. And of course, is vague enough to be interpreted so as to disallow almost any oppositionary conduct. (Due disclosure: I was subjected to such measures as a Thunderbird contributor)

* Wikipedia: Shady elements in management and ownership, see: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-...

* StackExchange: It's complicated, but basically the company owning the network has exhibited autocratic tendencies, and instead of anyone answering for their unjustifiable acts, there's been a bunch of gaslighting and diversion. Some very partial amends have been made. For the state of affairs at the heat of the crisis, see: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333965/196834 for example.
Figma Tutorial: Create a Post Page for a Social Media App – Part 1/3
I’m assuming you didn’t read the article. At the time she applied, women were not legally allowed to enter the merchant marines in Egypt. No less than Hosni Mubarak had to review and approve her application to join.
The problem is that Occam’s Razor will always point to panic attacks in cases where the underlying issue doesn’t immediately show up on imaging/blood work. In this case, though, her neighbor allegedly found lead in the water.
No - I don't really to be honest... could you elaborate?
I think there will be a secondhand market offering battery upgrades for older EVs. So they just won't install the exact same battery, but a bigger one or a smaller one (lighter, but same capacity).

10 years of R&D on batteries by some of the biggest corporations in the world should provide some new innovations.
It's so unnavigable that I'll either use the search function in some cases I have to Google or bust out powershell.

At this point the linux desktops have become more useable.
It is odd that more people didn't have symptoms, but given that the symptoms preceded discovering that her apartment was next to the toxic waste it's more likely than not that this is legitimate.
Fine the real-estate billionaire owner until he fixes the problem in his apartments or is no longer a billionaire, and use the fines to clean it up and build new property.

We desperately need a proper wealth tax and anti-NIMBY laws. Make more housing construction and super high-rise high-end apartments for all part of our infrastructure spending. It’s time.
They might be, but that‘s not the reason why there are less male teachers. It is not harder to become a teacher, when you are male. They are just less interested in becoming one (on average). As are women to drive container ships. Although I don’t think that there is just one woman, who wants to do it.
Furthermore, size_t bears no relationship with int; it could be wider/equal/narrower. If size_t is narrower than int, then doing any arithmetic on size_t variables will result in automatic promotion to signed int, which can lead to dangerous signed overflow. C/C++ are full of footguns.
The comment section on HN would become much easier to read if that was applied!
A couple of years ago one of five highly modern frigates in the Norwegian Navy collided with a barely moving oil tanker[1] in a well monitored area. The collision turned out to be fatal to the ship, which is now on its way to become scrap metal.

When it came to light that four out of five of the navigators on board were female, the results were fairly predictable[2][3].

Will be interesting to read the final accident report once it's released.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS_Helge_Ingstad_(F313)

[2]: https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/kvinner-henges-ut-etter-hel...

[3]: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/11/22/gender-pol...
First time I hear about it, noticed the accuracy drops off significantly if the last number is >1?

51F ~ 15C

52F ~ 25C

59F ~ 95C?

Subtract 30, divide by 2 works well enough heh
How does one leverage this excellent carbon storage technology ? Plant fast-growing trees/crops, cut them upon maturity and bury them underground ?
> If you don't think women are unfit to be captain (or at least "intrinsically less fit" or whatever) the punchline doesn't work.

You seem to have a rather linear view of humor. People laugh at (and enjoy) comedians they disagree with all the time - a well crafted joke can be considered well crafted and funny by many people, regardless of the target or the listener’s personal beliefs.