skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several good seminars by Alain Aspect on YouTube as well, ranging from highly technical to accessible vulgarisation.
Phased array ultrasonics[0] and Multibeam echo sounding[1] has been around for decades[2]. This project in particular is an example of what's called an air coupled ultrasonic phased array. It's an interesting project, but it's not first. Congrats on making it happen though, and thanks for the write up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array_ultrasonics

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5675552
what’s the pun? Never knew there is one (non-native English speaker here)
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Very few things don't have a social, political, or ecological cost to others. How that money was earned to being with, purchasing choices, etc.
I feel the same pain. In my opinion, it may happen a lot because "many programmers" just code whatever they (we) are paid for to code. The progress here would probably be in starting taking full responsibility for even tiny parts of what we produce, with no excuses.
Hmm, I agree that having different interests is cool, but I don't know if I agree that this isn't the confirmation of a stereotype. In fact the subjects here are surprisingly predictable. Music? Jazz, piano, rock.
Other hobbies? Woodworking, cooking, gaming, watching anime. Misc knowledge? Physics, animal behavior, Atlas Obscura. Philosophy? Stoicism, existentialism, analytical philosophy, random best-seller self-help gurus. Health? Life extension, gut microbiome, depression, mindfulness, neuroscience, magic mushrooms.

I'm not necessarily judging this, there's only so much one can focus on and I also find most of these subjects fascinating, but it's pretty clear a tiny subset of what's out there is what consistently gets to the frontpage.
I'm not comparing Linux project to Amazon. I'm saying you can be highly successful and toxic at the same time and provide Amazon as an example.

> they'll accept just about anything that contributes positively to the final artifact

That is simply not true. See my example a few comments up.
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Right, because confiscating wealth from those that earned it, has worked so well across the civilizations and societies that tried it.
Your point about the commonality is "the act of creating something" is really touching. I really value the character to being "brave" to get creative, and also knowing that you can do/make/change things to the way you want / make it better.

I can see how it relates to various "creation" activities like cooking, painting, electronics/arduino,film-making, or even open-discussion/forum in general (creating community through participation).
60 is a better base than 12. Even 30 would be better.

And we should drop the stupid Earth-centric metric system and go to some kind of Planck units.
There was a TV show a long time ago that was basically 3D demo reels. This reminded me of that. I can't remember the name. It might have been part of another show.

edit: It was Eye Drops on TechTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlM2LFPjS5k
Every year, I look forward to the comments here of that page. Tauday, like the SR-71 ground check story, I’ll happily read the comments every time it’s posted.
Do you think the same applies to other products too or just software?
If the task at hand is something which can be solved with a regex, then any other solution (e.g manual string scanning) would be far more complex.
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This is something the article does not make clear. Why can’t prions be transmitted through eating non-human animals like cows?
>At the very least the writing could have mentioned this discrepancy.

The original meaning of 'regular expression' is very specific, and has some significant implications which are lost with the now-common and less well-defined usage. Therefore, if anything needed having this discrepancy mentioned, it was your original statement "it is patently false that regular expressions cannot be recursive", as this is an issue where the distinction is crucial. It is good to see that you have now done so, though the way you have done so suggests there is nothing of practical interest in the formal definition, which, I suggest, would be patently false.
One of my best friends is a die-hard female 40k player (late 30s) who plays Sisters and Necrons. Her armies are even painted. But you’re right, she’s said she’s usually the only woman at any of the gatherings she goes to and she has to deal with gross boys slobbering over her (she’s cute and dorky). But she’s also made friends with plenty of guys who respect that she’s in a relationship because in your 30s most adults are mature enough to have platonic opposite-sex relationships.

But I think what you’re talking about. I went through a similar transition, when hobbies went from a way to occupy time to a way to meet people. Once you hit 30, people’s lives diverge to such a degree you actually have to put yourself out in the world if you want to have friends. If you don’t have kids you have to seek out other child-free people (no knock on parents; it’s just not for me). I got back into video games over the pandemic because the situation called for occupying time in solitude, but totally leaving that all behind now that gatherings are a thing again.

Personally I think it’s a bit of a mid-life crisis: the term has a negative meaning in the west as a stereotype where someone will go out and buy a sports car and get a younger boyfriend/girlfriend, but for many people it’s just a bit of feeling your own mortality and carving out a life that makes you happy now that you’re old enough to understand what drives you.
SQL is commonly pronounced as "sequel" or "S-Q-L". Is one really more correct at this point?
Probably New vs Gnu. (Pronounced identically.)
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I've been mostly ignoring and periodically checking back on Matrix to see when they get real decentralized identity and the ability to run with only RasPi grade hardware.... Hasn't happened yet but I'm still hopeful!

Applications are definitely the big problem with mesh. No point in using mesh if the only applications either don't support it well at all, or are such bandwidth hogs you wouldn't want to use them on anything but fiber.

I have wikis and notetaking mostly working in a Yggdrasil aware manner in my HardlineP2P app(Only on the github version for now), eventually I am hoping to add chat and social media.
It gets TeX just as wrong. Interestingly enough, GNU and SCSI get reasonable "featured snippets" instead.
Thank you. That is actually well-covered in the article.

The article states this:

"The epidemic likely started when one person in a Fore village developed sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a degenerative neurological disorder similar to kuru."

And this:

"People have developed variant CJD after eating the meat of cattle infected with mad cow disease. Dr. Ermias Belay, a prion disease researcher with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says that's the only scenario in which there is "definitive evidence" that humans can develop a prion disease after eating the infected meat of another species."
Do you call certain tall woody growths something else, then?

The birds bit is an analogy. It's not about looking identical, it's about looks (tall woody thing) and shared name (tree) not corresponding to phylogenetics.
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I suspect the biggest hurdle in this discussion is agreeing upon what we mean by a programming language for end users, or even what qualifies as a programming language.

Some examples that I can think of: Automator, AppleScript, Swift Playgrounds are all intended to be accessible to end users. Spreadsheets typically provide programming-like constructs (without resorting to lower level scripting). There are versions of BASIC for most platforms (including Android and the Nintendo Switch). The last time I looked into it Smalltalk (via Squeak) was still being maintained for computers and it looks like there are Smalltalk implementations available for Android.

While it can legitimately be pointed out that most of these options have to be sought out, they are a subset of what is available. While I agree that people not realizing that their devices can be programmed is a hurdle, a large number of people do realize that it is actually software that controls the operation of their devices yet have very little interest in writing their own programs.
Replacing led bulbs under warranty is sometimes too complex and costly versus buying new ones: you need the receipt, you need to go to the store, they will exchange it with one that is as bad as the original and it will burn again.
A good example of a product with impossible name is the 1726 book "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships". Everyone just calls it Gulliver's Travels.
> If it’s lowercase in title font, it should be lowercase everywhere.

The section titles are in sentence case, not title case. You would not expect it to be capitalised unless it were the first word of the title. The inconsistency in that paragraph is in the first sentence.
> it isn’t possible to compete with Amazon on ”online” features.

I'm not sure that's a true statement. I've completely ceased buying computing equipment from Amazon because their search is so goddamned useless. Newegg's power search actually works and lets me find what I'm looking for.
I’ve always pronounced it like that. Do some people pronounce it differently?
They very correctly mix it to show that it does not matter. Better make some plots then bikeshed this to death.
You could have the mindset that your wealth helps everyone and not just those who happen to be your offspring.
Do you mean the name Fore?
Obviously the only correct pronunciation is "squirrel"
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Is there a tool out there that allows me to download a git version of a google doc? There is a richness to the development of a text, yet when I download a document as a word file, I lose that richness.

Is there maybe another collaborative word processing solution that supports this feature, that I've yet to find?
I am a thankful user of Gnuplot. As some before me mentioned, the naming history was complex. What is more important is that the developers provided - and still support - an excellent program that we may freely use under a very reasonable license.
Yes, this breaks Newton's third law that every force should have an equal and opposite reaction force, and thus the sum of all forces are zero at all times.
Musk's law is the observation that Tesla is always two years away from full autonomous driving.
I do hope the LaTeX folks remember to always spell Yahoo! with an “!” !
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> Sounds like a good project for a comic book villain

Or a little story in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, describing how a civilization collapsed, not with weapons but by binding all their resources in a recursive speculative bubble.
The article mentions several times that this does happen.
Visualizing particles in an easy way is HARD.

To the point, I've founded a startup precisely for that: https://quantumflytrap.com/
Sure, but the point remains: If you fight the operating system you WILL lose. Varnish doesn’t solve the same problem as Squid does, the author have said as much in talks when Varnish was first released. Still that doesn’t excuse an outdated programming model in Squid.
> the hard landing of AI and symbolics

This is a topic I find myself periodically doing casual research on, and I agree -- I think it would be an interesting topic for a book. A friend's mother-in-law worked for Symbolics (or maybe Lisp Machines Inc) doing marketing. I've chatted with her a little bit about it, and it sounds like a neat era, worthy of more attention.
Replied to your personal address.
What about parasites?
You mean like with mad cow disease? They can.
https://www.cowin.gov.in/home
I was mashing H for help! Thank you.
> One appealing thing to me about math is how egalitarian it is.

I simply cannot believe anyone could read this article and come to this conclusion. Do you think the same flood of unduly harsh criticism would have resulted from the same column written by Maury von Savant instead of Mary?
(Sunday X-files OT) Q: 'Would you want to play a role in a world where you have to do marketing for that choice?' (-:

A: And so one of the best developed ways to choose is lying and to short and badmouth motives, you are exposed to?

Hint: Other consumers who considered this did... 'There is no reason to wait, not now, there must be a way to choose!'

(-;
Is there even a pattern behind what gets downvoted here?
I should have clarified in my original comment, the torrents that say scimag down at the bottom of the page are at risk torrents containing papers from SciHub.
Wikipedia often rejects corporate case styling and uses the sane "first letter upper case, others lowercase" for some brands. For example Wikipedia writes Nvidia instead of NVIDIA, although the company always capitalizes its name without exception.
I've mostly only heard Pee-En-Gee
The correct pronunciation hardly matters for the marketability of the product. — it is usually understandable.

In Linux' case, Linus Torvalds has said that he doesn't really care and admits that he instinctively pronounces it differently depending on the language that he's speaking.
>Entanglement isn't like how it's described in the post at all. Entangled particles are correlated across spacetime in a way that goes beyond "instantly knowing there is red in one envelope when blue is in the other".

When I watched this on YouTube yesterday, I knew that as soon as she used the sock example that someone would get salty about it without listening to the rest of what she says. She addresses this right towards the end:

"Yes, that explains the case for the socks. But in quantum mechanics, that explanation does not work. If you think that really it was decided already which spin went into which direction when they were emitted, that will not create sufficiently strong correlations. It’s just incompatible with observations."

>So I imagine Einstein meant both

I think her view is that when Einstein said "spooky action at a distance" he was referring SPECIFICALLY to the instantaneous effect of measurement on the wave function. Entanglement, then, is just an example of this where we can increase the distance in the lab to experimentally confirm the implication.
pee-enn-gee?
>Cryptocurrencies now equal the value of U.S. dollars in circulation.

NO, the market cap is not the value of something real. If the author doesn't know that hes already disqualified to make any useful comment on the matter.

Market cap simple explained: https://coil.com/p/XRPFax/Understanding-the-Crypto-Market-Ca...
I’ve always wondered if gravity could be seen as like a flux, and measured by bounds vs time.

So if any physicist here could shoot this down, I’d be most happy:

Let’s say I ran between opposite ends of a basketball court. Back and forth, back and forth... what would happen if I started increasing my speed, slowly all the way to the speed of light?

So my thinking is as you become significantly faster, you become heavier, but to yourself, you don’t see any change - so it’s not me who’s getting heavier as I start to run faster and faster to the speed of light, but the enclosed box of me between opposite ends of the court - i.e gravity is the flux of a moving object bound between a distance measured over some time period? i.e some sort of integral of moving matters between a distance, with respect to time.

Sorry for my incorrect science... I was just curious how relevant my thinking is
I don't think that's what they meant exactly, but rather that the amounts of omega-3 and 6 you consume should be in a specific ratio (or rather within a range of ratios), and the ratio in canned sardines is tilted towards the unhealthy side. There are other pairs of nutrients that follow this pattern as well. I highly recommend reading about them on Examine.com, but I suppose even Healthline will do.
Ah yeah, I went to skim the Pitowsky reference. I forgot that people call (what I was taught as) Bonferroni inequalities Boole's inequalities.

I'm still not sure what probability distribution (or measure) you want to be defined in that paper. Experimentalists generally don't assume any probability distribution in advance, I am not sure why they would need to in this case.
That's what it looks like. Scalable, though. Might be good for burst-like processing.
For some context: gnuplot was first released in 1986; the GPL v1 was in 1989.
S-Q-L is a lame normie version, if you are really a leet haxor you know about the obscure information that it's sequel.

I hate that I always have to look these things up to not look out of place. For example nginx is engine-ex not en-jinks. They often seem intentionally hard or ambiguous to pronounce.
Names should be written as they were created, grammar regarding them only comes into question in case of suffixes or the like.
Author here, the title is a bit misleading. In the article, I specify that it's the first 3d ultrasonic scanner (of my knowledge) that works in the air.
Relevant Manual of Style entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trad...
I don't find that this type of test provides any value. It's a hollow reflection of the code. At best it provides some sort of confidence that the code you intended to write was indeed the code you wrote.

End to end tests do provide a lot of value, though, both in validating that your fix was correct and preventing regressions. They require a lot of up front investment in tooling, however.
this is how a narrative replaces unbiased journalism. the underlying email chain shows this conversation is regarding the full self driving "beta" that Tesla is slowly releasing. while it is clear that the regulators are concerned about customer confusion, they are more concerned that Tesla is releasing capabilities beyond what was explained to regulators (I.e. level 2). the reporter is able to twist this into a whistleblower like headline and use language that completely distorts the nature of the underlying conversation. readers can then opine on how they like or dislike Tesla/elon and ignore relevant facts.

Tesla has shown that it is taking increasing steps to ensure people are using fsd responsibly. while autopilot used used simplistic sensors to gauge operator attentiveness, fsd uses cameras to watch to driver. as elon has said, with autopilot, the company has data that proves that it reduces the risk of accident. he has said there is a moral argument that it is immoral to wait until it is "complete" before making it widely available. this evidence is regularly ignored by people talking about the dangers of Tesla/elon automation claims.
It’s easy if you keep it simple, your data is regular, and you don’t handle the multitude of corner cases. Doing it properly is about as difficult as processing Unicode correctly, which is to say quite bloody hard.
The entire point of the company is to do those things you describe as difficult. That doesn't seem to support any notion that the executives should be paid like high-flying CEOs of startup companies.

In fact, the old Grandpa that started it took a nominal salary. When he died, the grandkids all took post in the company and raised their salaries by 10X to 50X.

I can put my money lots of places. This isn't one.
In the course of say a quarter or two I work on average 5-7 hours a day. Some weeks there is more work to be done than others depending on the phase of the project at hand. I tend to not start too many things at the same time (start working on a bug, documentation, new feature etc), basically limiting the amount of WIP. Projects still get delivered on time or with slight delays that is not detrimental to the success of the project or the morale of the team, while still learning a ton. so going “the extra mile” anything beyond that is asking for trouble (stress that would eventually lead to burnouts).
Im lucky that my direct manager and peers are more or less the same way too.
The older i get the more interests i have in things outside of my profession so i try to make the time for it.
WTF. There's probably a lot of things in the world for which most users have talked to someone who has read the manual. But did the authors expect PNG to belong in this league?
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1. determine size of XHTML input

2. build regex that works up to the size determined in step 1.

3. apply regex
Alternatively, unit tests are simply a poor fit when context is so critical for Linux kernel bugs. In much the way unit tests are really hard to write for concurrency issues.

In theory they should still be useful, but in practice perhaps not.
Interesting and damning claim! Do you have a source for it? Ive googled around and found no mention of race in the articles I've read
Where is the mailing list thread discussing the fix? I'd need more context. It does sound like Intel admitted that they need to update the firmware to resolve this. Are you loading the Intel microcode?

I found a related patch here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/29/178
It’s a lot easier when the waves are propagating in mostly liquid. Like a sonar.
Well, to me, there is one very, very big difference between a company and feudalism, which makes this analogy break down.

As a worker, I have the choice of becoming a serf to the owner of company A, or I may set up my own company B and compete with A.

Or anything else in between, like starting as a serf and then quitting and deciding that I'm going to do my thing. Or even decide that I've amassed enough money as a serf and don't need to work anymore (see the early retirement folks).

All this is not possible with feudalism, if only because joining another master would have me move to a possible distant land and cut me from my family.

Of course, I realize that depending at least on circumstance, some people may not actually have that much of a choice. But then, the question becomes, how much does the owner of the company owe to the workers? Why would they strive to improve the company if they can't reap the benefits? Only from the goodness of their heart? Not sure how well that works out in practice.

The issue, in the end, is of who's entitled to the fruit of one person's labor. It's not clear to me that the workers should have a bigger share than the owner. Of course, this devolves back to the classic "the owner can't build the company without the workers / the workers can't build the company without the owner" which doesn't have a clear-cut answer.

> For similar reasons, I believe, we should reject hereditary ownership of corporations in favor of, say, worker coops.

Genuine question: why don't we see more coops? I know in France there are some, mostly around agriculture. But they seem more an exception than a rule.

Would you argue this is a situation where the local optimum (the hereditary corporation) is better than the global optimum (the coop)? Which would explain why people, given the choice, will set up a corporation instead of a coop, like a tragedy of commons of sorts?
I’m on the S-Q-L side of saying that both is correct, and the accepted answer below agrees with both of us.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7231/how-is-sql-...
It's only a game. I don't know why you have to be mad.
FWIW, It's OK to eat the bones in canned sardines.
>SEC etc all claim they want to make things safe for retail investors

Completely wrong. There is no "safe", risk/reward is always balanced.
The SEC is supposed to prevent people form being mislead, tricked, scammed whatever you wanna call it. That's absolutely not the same as making it "safe".

If you buy crypto today you are either uninformed or you know the risk exactly. Both ways its your fault and not the SECs task to prevent you from buying stuff.