skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have a range of “happiness” - in other words they can look at X and say “I think I could be happy doing that” and hold that the person truly is happy.

But if it is outside their range they will adamantly refuse to believe the person could truly be happy.
If you don't at least pretend you want a promotion, you might be fired. It almost happened to me.
Even if I wanted to use real programming language for that, Pulumi seems to be better choice.
Slightly off topic. I really like the step by step animation they have on the site. Can anyone tell me how I can build something like that. I'm learning WebGL and Three.js, not sure if that's what its uses.
I write Kotlin all day and almost exclusively use immutable types. What difficulties with using them are are you referring to?
Well, my reaction to this one is suspicion that it sounds a little too perfect and either the farmer is idealizing his life or the journalist has taken editorial liberties.. so, maybe?
I'm a software engineer at Recursion, and Imran is telling the truth. I was on my way to posting a comment just like this when I saw this.

If you're exploring the world of AI for drug discovery, IMO, it's important not to fall for the trap of companies that just do "AI on public available data". That's just the same "the fundamental problem of software is a lack of ideas" phenomenon the article was talking about. You want to meld software and data science skills with the fundamental work of whatever industry you want to be the vanguard of.

Seriously, if you're in the market, check out Recursion. My contact is in my bio also, and I'll answer any questions Imran can't (or won't :p).
>it's not everyone else's responsibility to divine that you are the magical case.

The irony here is that the only divining happening is assuming that I should be doing Y when I specifically asked for a solution to X.

What you're proposing also requires me to divine all the ways that people will say "Don't do X, do Y." and explicitly state how I don't wish to do Y but really just want to accomplish X.

"I'd like to accomplish X. No I can't do Y1 since E1, no I can't do Y2 since E2, ..., Y_N since E_N. Please just stick to X."

It would be better if people just stuck to X in the first place, instead of doing all this divining. It also makes it really frustrating for others who share problem X and search for solutions to problem X, only to get people solving problem Y.
Fiber seems to be the main thing he's missing (typical for a British diet). Other than that, he's eating a pretty well balanced meal. Between the fish, bread, and fruit, you end up with most nutrients you need.
If you haven't read it, I highly recommend David Graeber's 'The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy'

This article is just another typical example of the parasitic administrator class devaluing the people that do real work.
A britishism I've never come across—does anybody know what "sandwiches with paste" are?
Darius the Great (Darayavush) actually commissioned the invention of a cuneiform script for inscribing imperial monuments in Old Persian.

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

The Achaemenids kings (Ha-Khaa-Manesh in Persian) were however eminently practical as far as imperial governance was concerned, and as you noted, continued the use of Aramaic, but never in monuments. Sogdians were an Iranian people, so it's likely that Aramaic script made its way into Mongolia via the vector of Persian empire's penetration of Transoxiana and subsequently the Sogdians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogdia#Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugut_inscription
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Well, my experience is that the way it's being taught is the sort of an optimized version of teaching math given the culture/desires/abilities of those students that hover around the median. I've tried all sorts of things to motivate students and to teach them the why and purpose of the topics. You know what most of them want? What formula/method is used for which problem type.
Tailored Fats for Food Applications
The Babylonian Talmud is written in Aramaic, so it is not quite correct to equate Aramic with helenizing influence; also it would rather have been a neobabylonian/sasanian influence. Also all of the elite of Judae came back from babylonian captivity, and part of the Book of Ezra is written in Aramaic, just for a start.
Thanks for your comment. It sounds like you have learned these lessons through a lot of experience - do you have any suggestions on a book to read to get the very basics of teaching?

> When they train you to teach...

I started a job as a professor this year and never got any of that basic training. Before this I was a postdoc reading papers and writing code all day. In job interviews my lack of teaching experience wasn't seen as an issue. The faculty would say, "oh teaching isn't so hard, you'll figure it out quick enough." So far I have been muddling along ok, but I have this anxious feeling that there are a lot of aspects to this that I don't know that I don't know, and don't know where to get started on finding out about them.
My mum spent a couple of years in the UK and refers to peanut butter as peanut paste. Could be a term for ‘spread’.
I don't see the point; you're not testing code that depends on Point, as it's local, so `x to y` (i.e. `Pair(x, y)`) would work just as well.

If there's a particular language feature records enable that Kotlin doesn't with ordinary data classes in this case, I'd love to see it.
Why Hasn’t Apple Pay Replicated Alipay’s Success? (2020)
1. Seems like you’d have extra cache contention?

2. How would coroutines/threads handle this? Switch two stack pointers?
I know of people who do not eat veggies an have lived into their 70s before they have a stroke. The are also people who have strokes or other problems before 70 even if they eat their veggies. I fully expect that my high stress and sedentary life of a software developer will kill me long before 70. Such are the trade offs of a well paying profession.
I'm disappointed at the lack of a Knoppix mention, myself.

First time I tried Knoppix, booting to a desktop from CD without having to install anything with almost all of my hardware being functional...

...was probably the last time anything I did on a PC actually felt like magic.

And we still can't do that with Windows today. It took Microsoft nearly 20 years to even give us a USB installer option.

Yeah. It's still magic.
You’re (likely) seriously overreacting. I’ve lived in Portland. Live in Midwest now. I would’ve been hiking non stop in pandemic times should I be in PDX area.
Journalists love to craft articles around some narrative theme.

Edit: I’m talking about consistency within the article and a “focus on the subject” stance. If the author wants to present the farmers happiness, that’s what they’re going to frame the whole piece on.
Probably meat paste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_(food)
How to teach anything? You teach first to learn.

In my opinion learning is not an obvious thing, it is not obvious why things need to be presented as problems for example, and many students rebel against them as it leads to an empty feeling every time they even attempt to solve a textbook math problem. Curiosity is innate, but learning has to be taught.

So the clash occurs because they begin by teaching math to people that do not know how to learn, or why to learn.
This is because of the difficulty of killing people in South Carolina in other ways. FTA:

"The southern state has not held an execution since 2011.

The legislation passed by the South Carolina House of Representatives aims to restart executions by bypassing the difficulties states face in procuring the drugs for a lethal injection cocktail."
Can't think of anything that semi-reasonable would do that would make me less happy.
How can you do inertial navigation for a car inside a tunnel? afaik the only info you have is the speed and distance covered, from the wheels, but that info can't be shared unless you hook up with the car through obd2 or maybe android auto, the phone itself can't do it, right?
The Welsh live a different way of life. This guy's attitude is far from unique. A bunch of people live in the same town, with the same job their great great great grandparents worked, that rarely travel more than 10 miles away.

Don't knock it, though, there's something to be said about this level of extreme stability. It simplifies a lot of life's worries.
Things are a lot harder to fix nowadays.
HyperCard is only like that at its most primitive. HyperCard, back in the day, was all about code and functionality. I remember using a HyperCard stack that could record and play back music, interactive character sheets for D&D, and tons of games.

Instead of using HyperCard to track information, like Obsidian, you might instead use it to create an information system like Obisidian.
What about when competing services launch, as they will if this is successful? What are the total numbers going to look like if EU, Russia, China, Japan, and India all launch starlink services?
Anywhere in the world due to covid the related fear/concern.
No because he can leave if he wanted to. He stresses that- if someone gave him $2 million he would stay.
Despite the fact that Koine ("common") Greek and Roman roads were used to spread Christianity, most converts didn't view themselves as "Hellenizing factions" or transmission vectors of Hellenistic culture anymore than they viewed themselves as Judaizers. But some did - it was a topic of much debate. The relationship (and philosophical differences) between Christianity, Hellenism, and Judaism is often discussed the in the letters of Paul:

"Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not — to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him."
Replacing Jupyter Notebook with Org Mode
This is similar to Sven Yrvind's philosophy on eating at sea.

>I will eat twice a day, breakfast and lunch four hours later.

>...

>I say, “Cows only eat grass and wolfs only eat meat”

>Modern society is so boring and there is so much food that we have to be stimulated by spices and chefs and different foods to eat. At sea in a small boat its different. Life itself out there is so interesting that I do not need stimulants.

>My breakfast consists of one can of sardines, one slice of dense dark rye bread and muesli.

>...

>My lunch is the same as breakfast but no sardines.

https://www.yrvind.com/provisioning/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Yrvind
I'm curious why you avoided using mdx-prism in favor of re-implementing much of it yourself. If only because I just used it in my own project and spent time patching a minor Firefox-specific bug, and now I have FOMO because I like your implementation here :) Were your features impossible without huge changes?

I do like that you use the `line=1-3` syntax for highlighting instead of mdx-prism's `lang{1-3}`. Do you have any appetite for upstreaming that change?
Sure, we can divide people up into groups in any random way.

But there's nothing fair about requiring people or groups to equalize their emissions, in general.

If you drive a semi tractor trailer, and I drive a car, then we both may need to reduce our CO2 emissions, but equalizing them makes no sense if you in fact need to transport a lot more stuff than me. The whole reason you drive a truck that gets lousy mileage is because it's more efficient per pound of goods transported than if they were loaded into passenger cars.

If we want to reduce global CO2 emissions, then the only rational and reasonable way to do it is to treat every kg of CO2 equally, and not get sidetracked into other notions of fairness.

I'm aware that carbon taxes, cap and trade, etc. may have a lot of problems, it's just that the practical problems of doing the right thing don't change what the right thing is.

Like the saying about looking for your keys under the streetlight when they aren't there.
Us UK people call peanut butter "peanut butter" - it's what's written on the jar.
The USSR was vast, which part of it were you born and raised in?
CEO didn't set about fixing anything. Just lowered prices long enough to get a captive audience, and then just set about increasing prices like everyone else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12076900

Its fair to change prices but you need to be transparent about your plans to your customers.

Giving customers less than 60 days notice, prior to start charging them huge fees to customers deciding to their business elsewhere, seems particularly sleazy.
Smithy structure definitions don't have field indexes like in protobuf or thrift. It also has required fields, where proto3 intentionally did away with them.

How do these differences impact backwards-compatibility-safety of Smithy schema changes?
Cheap is a whole lot different than cost efficient.
I call it “an acquired taste.” (Many things in life are.)
A sextant requires a flat level horizon, and sky clear enough to see the sun, or stars at night, and a compass that indicates true north (with correction for magnetic declination). In an urban environment, there is usually not a clear shot at a flat horizon, nor an area free from metal structures for far enough to get an accurate magnetic north.
What negsibe health effects? Plenty of people live isolated lives and enjoy it.
It seems weirder to me that someone in a country like the UK would do this then someone in a country with less availability of foods but I don't see that as an issue of enlightenment or brainwashing.
So, HyperCard’s 1bpp limitation is fairly ingrained, but the resolution can be anything you want.
One problem you see a lot in biotech, is that "bio" and "tech" tend to form separate poles of the company, and there is little cross-contamination between the two. I[0] think being on site is an important counterweight to that phenomenon. I think it's what has made us successful so far.

We've been doing a lot of remote work during covid and I have definitely noticed the decline of water-cooler solidarity. We still do hire remote engineers and data scientists, but only in cases where they are the literal top of their field.

[0] Standard disclaimers: I work at Recursion, have drunk the Kool-Aid, etc etc
One of my best friends is a CS prof in Sweden and loves it there and he finds the academic culture less stressful and cut throat than here.
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If it’s mentally taxing why not create some sort of automated firing squad? First version could just be a line of guns manually aimed and then set to fire simultaneously off some timer.

More advanced versions could eventually feature face recognition for auto aiming and arbitrary placement of the gun turrets.
It's an inspiring article, but it left me wondering what is his exit plan. He's got nobody to pass the farm on to, and his sister is dependent upon his care. At 72 and with his medical history, he will not be able to continue much longer.
I did quite a bit of testing of alacritty, kitty, iTerm2, and default macos terminal.
Kitty shown best results even using test that alacritty is using (tree /)
vim is faster in kitty (by perception), both when ran without multiplexor and inside tmux session
> She has two carers who come in four times a day, and they are wonderful.

My dad arranged something similar for my mom in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. It is nearly impossible in the US, I don’t even know if you can still do it without being wealthy. It required long term care insurance prepaid for years, and it was still a nightmare of weekly paperwork to manage all the claims. The care for his sister, and treatment and recovery for multiple strokes - out of reach for many farmers around the world. This man is very lucky indeed.
The bits within the bytes have no order because they are not addressable on most hardware. You can imagine them going whichever way you like, even in a different dimension. On an architecture without bit pointers, a byte is a number from 0 to 255, not a sequence of bits.

(x86 does indeed have the bt family of instructions that sort of address bits. I would argue that the existence of memory-operand bit accessors like this that accept larger-than-bits-per-word offsets is bizarre, but the instructions are not backwards. On a big endian system, these instructions would have different behavior depending on word size, which would be odd.)
> While IIRC GLONASS, Beidu and Galileo have less than full-planet coverage [...]

Full coverage either (a) already exists for all of these systems, or (b) is planned for all of these systems.

> suggest there are a reasonable range of frequencies in use.

Not really. The frequencies bands reserved for GNSS are between 1164 and 1300 MHz, and 1559 and 1610 MHz:

* https://www.orolia.com/resources/blog/lisa-perdue/2019/gnss-...

However there are specific frequencies that things are focused on. If you actually look at where each service has each of its frequencies, especially visually, they're all quite close together:

* https://www.tallysman.com/gnss-constellations-radio-frequenc...

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/GNSS_signal

L1/E1/B1 are all stacked on top of each other, with G1 being 25 MHz of to their side; L2 and G2 are on their own; L5/E5A/B2A are all stacked as are G3/E5b/B2; and so are L7/E6 with B3 overlapping a whole bunch.

Also remember that a lot of the signals are at quite a low power, so localized jamming is not that difficult.

None of your suggestions are robust enough for the stated needs, especially when it comes to timing. A reliable source of UTC is needed in a whole bunch of things (e.g., electrical grids), and "sensor-fusion" will not cut it. It will not even cut if for navigation.

The US DOT released a study that what will probably be needed is multiple systems at various frequencies:

> In a long-anticipated report issued last week, the Department of Transportation (DOT) outlined the results of its GPS Backup Technology Demonstration project.[1] As officials had previously projected, it called for a system-of-systems approach using multiple complementary technologies.

* https://rntfnd.org/2021/01/20/dot-report-l-band-uhf-lf-and-f...

> The demonstration indicates that there are suitable, mature and commercially available technologies to backup or complement the timing services provided by GPS. However, the demonstration also indicates that none of the systems can universally backup the positioning and navigations capabilities provided by GPS and its augmentations. The critical infrastructure positioning and navigation requirements are so varied that function, application, and end-user specific positioning and navigation solutions are needed. This necessitates a diverse universe of positioning and navigation technologies.

* PDF: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2021-01/F...

At the very least they probably have to resurrect (e)Loran, or something less in the low- to medium-frequency (<2MHz) range.
I think a (robotics) startup to process garbage to reclaim as much reusable material as possible while sorting the remainder for recycling and disposal could be a lot of fun.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/food-cupboard/jam...
> I just don't think that a classroom can possibly match the free-form, consequential education that comes from serious one-on-one time with a skilled, productive adult performing a consequential task.

While true, I just don't think a one-on-one education, however skilled the tutor might be, could possibly match the social development that comes as consequence of classroom education.
Here (in the UK at least) you can buy little jars of paste, often made from some kind of meat or seafood. It seems the intended use case is to spread it on bread. I personally have never tried it nor plan to but see for yourself via James May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVdodVA3qTk
All the more reasons to use something digital, isn't it? Would make it much easier to figure out the horizon without actually seeing it.
I don't know that a journalist was involved in this. An editor may have been but this just appears to be a letter-to-the-editor or commentary submission
No, it isn't framed as all or nothing.

Principally because "the framing" isn't some well-defined objective thing, it's all a matter of perception, which means it's always possible to read whatever narrative you like into the facts.

Like this:

> the narrative around racism being the sole and primary cause of failure.

This perception is yours, not the facts on the ground.
I used to work in a government org that tangentially supported the USAF GPS Directorate sometimes. When I left, the military was working on maybe a half-dozen serious GPS "alternatives"/"augmentations"/"backups"/"compliments", and maybe a dozen or so other highly experimental systems to provide similar capabilities.

The issue, as they saw it, was that up until relatively recently, GPS was the only option. Not only did the US military and civilians use it, but foreign forces probably used it as well... maybe even potential adversaries. In a conflict, they wouldn't attempt to disrupt GPS because doing so could actually hurt their own operations. That assumption changed once GLONASS, Galileo, and Beidou (plus the other regional networks) started coming online, all at slightly different frequencies. And, just like the US gives military-grade GPS equipment to its allies, the operators of those systems were probably doing the same, making it more likely that in a conflict someone somewhere will be disrupting GPS because they have another option for themselves.

From a civilian perspective, I'm not all that worried about GPS jamming. Yes, it's disruptive, but most organizations and systems that rely on GPS for navigation or timing (GPS is just clocks in space) should have training or failsafe fallbacks by now, to at least provide a temporary alternative. What does worry me is GPS spoofing. This is why the military has encrypted signals for its own and allied use.

I'm sure the Economist article mentioned all or some of this, but I don't have a subscription.

Edit: Typo fix
Dilution is generally the point when a specific threshold must be breached to succumb to infection. You can always where a mask, like a serious gas mask. People wi think you're weird, but fuck them.
I live in Charleston, South Carolina. Moved here in September because LA was so locked down. I go out pretty much anywhere I want here all the time, and nothing is locked down whatsoever. Could not have been happier to move to somewhere where they don't chain up the swings and let nobody into the parks except the homeless.
>As I am not a radio guy, in terms of countermeasures, then, would using multiple GNSS systems in places where their constellations are visible frustrate jamming, since standard ICs now support all systems?

So rather than buying one jammer, the bad guys will just buy several jammers?
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