skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
instantly - a couple hours of hostile manipulation designed to screw you over

It took me 2.5 hours to buy my truck where the price had been determined before I walked in and I had a check in hand. That's after the research to get a price upon walk-in ($6000 less than on the sticker). The process of walking in and looking at prices that everyone knows aren't real and negotiating with someone who is lying to you is beyond tiresome.
2018 statistics (for completeness' sake):
~80 % on books; a bit more than a half on e-books; often used for university textbooks
~9 % on concerts
~7 % on cinemas
1.6 % on music
1 % theatre and dance
0.3 % museums
0.3 % cultural events

-- https://www.ilpost.it/2018/06/20/bonus-cultura-editoria-ital...
>Can't get into muck.

Huh? The shorter/narrower wheel base is better in any off-roading situation.
> Tailwind is basically a cleaner way to do everything as inline styles.

I'd say that's underselling it. For one thing it keeps you within a design system. By default you're given spacing that works in increments of 0.25rem, a handful of colors, etc to work with (which can be replaced/extended) so you have to go out of your way to break the design system that's in place.

Also inline styles don't allow for hover, focus, @media, etc. Which were always a pain in the ass with normal CSS anyway. Using Tailwind was the first time I didn't find writing a responsive UI to be a giant hassle. You just design for mobile and then for anything that needs to change on bigger screens you put a sm: or lg: or whatever breakpoint style and you're done.
No one said this measure prevents them. What I'm saying is that the work climate in France, which the government could influence, doesn't allow for excellence. A proof of this is the obvious lack of high tech companies from France. There is also no startup scene, there are no FAANGs, no unicorns that were sold for billions of dollars/euros, nothing like that. On the other hand there are a lot of french engineers outside France doing wonderful work.
I think the cash theft is analogous to the dev time the researchers wasted.
Maybe, maybe not. SUVs are either trucks without a bed, and so what is the difference, or not really rated to tow anything.
Several of the candidates qualifying for the exam have appeared multiple times for the exam. Very often the students have been studying for more than 2 years.
Besides discussing what happened, I wonder what IS going to happen. Right now every staffer introduced by rasengan isn't known by much, seems to be very new to freenode (and even at some times, struggling with managing the services). Some of the new staffers seems to be previous operators of Rizon[1], also known as the 4chan of IRC, which is a dubious move. One of them also seems to have been fired from it[2].

On "Freenode is FOSS"[3] post, there's a paragraph about decentralization. This essentially seems to be another Lee's project, "Tower of Chats"[4][5], which is like a sort of super-network with multiple more-or-less independent servers.

Is Lee's plan to merge Freenode and ToC ? Or merge Snoonet/IRC.com with Freenode ? Or merge them all together onto ToC ?

[1]: https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1395347865271246853

[2]: https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1395667119778500611

[3]: https://freenode.net/news/freenode-is-foss

[4]: https://letstoc.com

[5]: irc.imperialfamily.com

(edited to fix links)
The sort of reaction an emperor has upon finding their shiny new clothes don't actually exist. It's bad the tailors sold fake clothes, but it's also bad the emperor and co. didn't notice sooner.

Here we saw the emperor go on a full war path against the entire place of origin of a couple of misguided individuals. Not a proportionate response.
Couldn't agree more. I'd hazard a guess that 90% of car users aren't wedded to using gas. There are enthusiasts, but they are a small minority.
Is this a managerial / professional union?

Those normally negotiate the banding and the COL increases and also know what the rates are.

Unions in the entertainment industries do :-) underpay or stiff workers and you get put on the "call first list" this is the PC name for another type of list.
Indeed. 1/3 vehicles here are pickups, 1/3 comparably large SUVs & minivans & Jeep Wranglers, 1/3 sedans. Contrast NY having 3/4 sedans.

Considering vehicle sizes & speeds here, wife doesn’t feel safe in anything smaller than an older Ford Explorer SUV.
How to Do Data Democratization with Flexible Data Modeling
After accessing the program, one has two years to spend the money, so up to 2022 for people who got it in 2020.
Not really. Everyone knows this flaw exists, the interesting part is how to fix it. Did you read the "suggestions" the researchers made in their paper[1]? They're clueless

Fair enough. The kernel maintainers are probably much more aware of this than the average open source project. Maybe for some projects it would change their mindset from knowing that this could be happening, to knowing that this will be happening.

Maybe it's a pipe dream, but I have a feeling it could lead to discussions of "what could we have done to catch this automatically," which in turn would lead to better static analysis tools.

Edit: It would be about as useful as pen testing that includes social engineering. That is to say, everyone knows there are dishonest people, but they may not be aware of some of the techniques they use.
Heat an athlete up to minimize inflammation and depression
if you're adding those, you need to add the emissions when actually processing crude oil into gasoline.
Hey, nothing wrong with that. Just trying to see where you both stand. Sorry if it sounded snarky.
Thanks, this is great feedback.

We actually tried making some hypothetical Journeys (for example a fundraising deck for Webvan!) but then people got confused at the content.

But yes we are investing heavily in examples! https://journey.io/success as a start.
Oftentimes when I'm working on a problem I lie on the floor face down and think about it for hours.

In terms of what you might call "mentally detoxifying contemplation", physical work on my house and yard and whatnot is great. I think the mentally salubrious effects of hard work are the real deal and too much overlooked these days.
The Hadopi bullshit was under an entirely different government, you can't really use it as an argument to fuck the current one.

What they're doit here is good and a net positive. And local authorities are that, local, so not really the same guys.
Lonely introvert... as an introvert myself I find this to be an oxymoron
Edge Detection in Opencv 4.0
Betting it's because it's a Fast RUby version Manager?
You should call Xfinity about that. Up until my recent switch to fiber, I've had Xfinity/AT&T BI/@Home for ~20 years, and 7+ years at work, and it's been pretty reliable. The times I've had reliability issues have all been due to signal issues. Some have been damaged cable that got water into it, and would come and go based on rain or humidity. Some were bad splitters, or marginal cable that removed/replaced splitters had resolved.
Backup cameras do not require giant screens.
Much of the hate is for modern trucks. Trucks from 40 years ago were much more practical than the modern truck -- 8 foot beds, sides you could reach over, et cetera. The massive height of current trucks just makes them more dangerous, less fuel efficient, less practical.
Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1)
When the RAF Buzzed over Germany to Drown Out Nazi Broadcasts
It's a bit of both, and it began in the 1960s.

In Western societies, violent crime increased, poverty and its effects began to increase. One of the few common denominators was the constant narrative drum-beat that "the system is rigged." We even teach it to primary school children now.

It's a message designed to foment violent revolution, mostly with the hopes of creating a communist dictatorship as a successor to Western democracy. It's also a message that's been useful for creating mobs. You know, right out of Rules for Radicals and Engels' writings.

In the 1940s, Britain had unattended newsstands. People would select a newspaper or periodical, and leave their money in a cup, making correct change. In New York, there were "cafeterias" that did essentially the same where diners selected their food from an open buffet, totaled up their tab, and informed the cashier what they should pay. Both in Britain, and in the U.S. these things disappeared out of necessity in the 1960s.

When you make a concerted effort to educate people to think that imposition of Law and a civil society is a "rigged system" designed to "keep them down" the natural reaction will be to disregard social norms for moral behavior. And this is what we've seen.

It's just gotten to a fever pitch and become pervasive now.
Replace “hot particles” with “moving electrons” on a sheet of graphemes and replace “door” with “diode” and the experiment has already been proven in reality to generate charge and extract work out of the environment.
I’m very passionate about pedestrian deaths in cities (SF specifically), but based on all the incidents I can remember I don’t think pickup trucks are causing a disproportionate number. Pedestrian deaths are mostly caused by normal cars going at high speeds through red lights or crosswalks. A truck sold with automatic braking would likely be much safer than a car from the past in terms of pedestrian safety.
How else were they supposed to get that much exposure for their tier 2 CS program?
a wasm fallback for a format is a perverse yet interesting idea. Seems like the main hurdle for new formats (at least patent unencumbered ones) is safari. webp finally made it in, av1, there's a pull request but we'll see what happens
H.264 level 4.0 seems to have similar behaviors and works on a very wide variety of platforms in my experience.

Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Android, and iOS. That covers most of what we want, right? It fails on say... a 2009 era netbook or Android Gingerbread, but we gotta draw the line somewhere.

Even if you do care about Android Gingerbread: H264 3.0 Baseline profile IIRC worked on that (though its been a decade, so maybe I'm getting version numbers mixed up...). Going back to H.264 3.0 Baseline would reduce your compression-efficiency (more distortion / noise at same filesize, or larger filesize for same levels of distortion), but greatly improve your compatibility with decade-old devices if you cared.

Even H.264 3.0 Baseline is a far superior format compared to GIF though.

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Lol audio is a mess though. But video-only is actually way better than most people expect.
You have a link to that gif?
Nvidia 470 Series to Be the Last Supporting GTX 600/700 Series Kepler
Saves the trouble of having to follow your target down a deserted road with your high beams on trying to run them off the road.
Unless I’m focused on something very specific, almost always. I enjoy it.
> I suspect the world has lost its mind.

Not a recent phenomenon.
I can just barely do that in my Mazda 3. Dimensional lumber is much easier since you can angle it more.
The X-axis is complexity. Please go back and re-read the context of my comment.
The problem isn't the ISPs, it's the regulation and the arcane onion of overlapping jurisdictions. Places where infrastructure owners are legally bound to share with third party network operators don't have that problem.
Yeah, I moved out to the country(ish) recently after living in SF and swore off ever getting a truck. Within a year of being out here, finally caved and got one and haven't looked back. I still have the smaller honda for longer trips, but the truck has opened up an entire world (getting plywood sheets/siding/lumber, dump runs, towing, etc). So much of the stuff I used to think "I can't do that myself" now just takes a weekend or two. Re-siding? Sure. Retaining wall? Done. The list keeps going, and I couldn't do it without the truck.

Having a truck in a big city if you're a in tech or some other desk job is probably kind of pointless. But if you're not in the city and plan on saving thousands and thousands of dollars doing some of the work on your property yourself, you can't really live without it. Seriously, the thing has paid for itself already (bought it used) and haven't even had it a year.
> In reviewing resumes basically ignore titles from any company I'm not very familiar with, and rely on their description of what they have done.

That's the correct approach. Same holds for job descriptions: what have others at this level band shipped and what were their contributions.
Stem cells self-organize into a mini model of a beating heart
I don’t know about your state, but here in WA you can rent a “commercial” big box truck from UHaul, Penske and others with no CDL. I rented a 26 feet box truck for my move and drove it around town just fine. They do care about damage, but they don’t consider scratches to be damage.
Commercials for my tax software tells me it makes people using it feel ecstatic. It doesn't really - it's used by people just trying to get their taxes done and they don't feel anything about it.
Apparently! But to be clear, the reason I don't see this is because very few senior devs opt to move in to management (even less in to PM, scrum master, etc), not because there are so many management jobs available. And the converse (a senior dev complaining, "I feel like the business keeps pushing me towards roles with more leadership/meetings and less coding") is very common IME.
It's great to see such low-level efforts happening in the Ruby community and sponsored by some of the large companies using Ruby.
> Many modern pickups have a high front grill that is dangerous for pedestrians and designed to be intimidating

I get what you are trying to say, but had to mention that all front grills of vehicles are dangerous to pedestrians.

It's just a bit of a strawman argument to say "Well when I hit people with my car it will be worse if I own a truck, so I'm going to own a Prius so that the pedestrians roll right off".
That's... very basic. Not an awful lot of useful information about the hardware environment.

The challenge for things like EC2 is more in that most cloud hypervisors, for security/performance/complexity reasons, have stopped emulating the older hardware a lot of "basic osdev projects" rely on. So you're stuck with a very modern set of hardware for interrupt controllers, disk IO, etc. I was hoping to see something more along those lines here, not just how to make and upload a disk image.
>The downsides are that I have trouble sleeping unassisted, as I'll just lay in bed thinking til the sun comes up, and also have trouble staying focused on movies or even conversation, as my mind will be elsewhere.

I'm the exact same way. Podcasts are a godsend. The trick is finding one that's just interesting enough to keep your attention, while simultaneously being just boring enough to fall asleep to. I find that really dry, technical historical lectures work great.
An FM/AM antenna is a wireless receiver. Not a transceiver (though CB is and is still common in long-haul trucking), but still, it's always been possible for someone to hijack the channel and send an unwanted signal into your speakers. That's how pirate radio worked for a century. If all an attacker can do is send sound into your cabin, that isn't a meaningful vulnerability. They could do that with a megaphone.

If car makers are actually hooking the bluetooth chip up to anything except the sound system, that's the problem. Although, assuming a class 2 device, it only has a 10 meter range. If an attacker is that close and wants to shut down your car, they can use a nail strip.

The real problem here is hooking up WWAN to control software.
There's a lot of things you can move with a car that are simply easier and less hassle with a truck.

And I say this as someone who owns a fleet of station wagons.
Again: there's nothing about DNS in the meeting minutes that you just cited upthread.

I'm also a little confused. The PIA/Freenode announcement says "There will be few noticeable changes in terms of day-to-day operations, the freenode project will continue to operate with much the same structure and volunteer base as it does now." Why would you be involved operationally in any way with Freenode's administration? What would any reorganization have mattered to you? Wasn't the point of the structure you claim you had that Freenode's operators had self-determination?

These are still more instances of this PDF you've produced not really clarifying your position here.
Does anyone have a Wayback Machine link showing what exactly this looked like?
10-ish hrs a week.

Methods:

* Long conversations with a fellow contemplator
* Long replies to certain intriguing ideas on internet forums with fellow contemplators
* Also digesting as a subconscious activity all the time
You must have missed the fine print that said it was only to haul lumber from that Home Depot to your house.

As long as nothing goes wrong they don't care, but if something does go wrong the lawyers will jump on that.
Inflation and Vibrators: What’s All the Buzz About?
1) There are three Home Depots near me. None of them offer diesels for rent

2) The $20 is for the first 75 minutes. I guess I'm wrong, but I couldn't imagine a use-case where you're only going to need the truck for 75 minutes.

3) Use restrictions. Home Depot greatly restricts what you can use the truck for, including no towing.

4) Availability. At the three HD's near me, good luck getting any rental truck let a lone a diesel (mentioned above). They're always checked out, sometimes weeks in advance.
Yeah like the original Subaru Baja, or even better, the iconic El-Camino.
Knowledge of complex numbers are required to solve quadratics too (when the discriminant is negative).
Airflow 2.1 has been released
I love me my Sublime.

I like an editor that's fast enough, isn't bloated and isn't Vim.

Don't always need the IDE.

And although I can use Vim, I'm just not as efficient with it to use it 100% of the time. I learned a little to be able to work on remote servers but that's all I need. I can use a GUI editor like Sublime for the rest.

Sublime is versatile.
Journalling twice a day: post waking up and pre-sleeping. Meditation: once a day for 15 mins. Whenever I am stuck on a problem, idea or try to digest a paper.

So overall 10-20 hrs a week, with the third outlet consuming the maximum time
My mistake then. I read a response post to the new vehicle that claimed it would come in at 5000lbs. Can't find anything authoritative, but everyone seems to be speculating more around 6500 as you said.
Right.

Any vaguely rigorous derivation of the cubic formula requires dipping into complex numbers, because the discriminant of the cubic can be negative. You can just choose to ignore that case and focus only on nonnegative discriminants, but that's no fun, is it? :-) Although, that is how it was "classically" done.

If you want to find the complex roots, but don't want to deal with them in the derivation, you can just take the real root and multiply it by (-1 ± i √3)/2. Knowing that all you have to do is this, of course involves some much heavier algebra than would have been available classically, but, at least it's easy for students to understand (if they have the proper group theory and/or Galois theory background), or, at least to understand a plausibility argument.

After looking at Wikipedia, I found that Lagrange had an interesting method[0] I didn't know about, in which he considers the discrete Fourier transform of the roots rather than the roots themselves. That approach makes some sense, because the whole power of the Fourier transform is to turn gnarly multiplication problems into simple addition problems.

I also like this method, because it's honest about needing to dip into the complex numbers to find all roots. Also, it's kind of a cool historical note, because he was trying to solve the general problem of finding all roots of a polynomial, and hoped this method might generalize.

Edit: here's a lesson plan from Stanford that walks through all the necessary algebra in 5 class periods: https://web.stanford.edu/~aaronlan/assets/symmetries-and-pol...

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_equation#Lagrange's_meth...
So what should happen to someone who doesn't support gay marriage? Can they be a leader?
Life became incredibly more depressing for me during covid.

Still, I don't think it will result in an increased number of suicides - because there is hope that things will be over soon.

When things reopen and the economy collapse / the recession hits / the bubble burst, I think we'll see more suicides.
If you take for granted that a classic military force (threatening, and sometimes engaged in a war of aggression) is always necessary, then a way to suppress one of its mission is useless.

If you read some pretty authorized authors about it, let's say Smedley D. Butler ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket ), then having one and only one mission for the army (self-defense) may be a better way.
> I don't know the state of the charger system on the highways we use

I totally understand your situation, but sorry, that had me laughing: Yeah sure, there is nothing to be done about that :)
seems like you are like that guy from that movie life of Walter Mitty.
Could it be that you‘ve already been using the new GPU rendering in SublimeMerge but not ST3?

That would explain the visual corruption issues I sometimes have with Merge but not ST3. In Merge some actions, sometimes (mostly in the settings) corrupt the application window (sometimes also after minimizing and sleep) on my MacBook. To me it looked like a rendering/GPU issue. It looks like blocks of pixels having different colors, lines shifted, etc.
Key takeaways

- asymmetric broadband (high download speeds, low upload speeds) won't work in a world where people are doing real work "in a world of Zoom conferences, we need something that is more symmetric in download and upload — or at least upload speeds need to be a lot faster than they were when it was mostly Netflix and HBO Max"

- rural/urban divide is real and a severe problem "for the most part, cities have done reasonably well, and rural areas have done reasonably badly. So this divide is really economic and population density"

- the free market has few, if any, incentives, to build out to rural and low-density areas "If you are running a wire, whether it be cable or fiber, it costs the same amount per mile pretty much no matter where you put it. So if you can put it someplace where you can service 100,000 people, it’s a lot more economically advantageous than if you’re going to be serving 20"

- there isn't any real free market anyway, since most locales have a single provider, maybe two "while there may be multiple internet providers, there are very few internet providers at any single place. So we essentially have, at least in regions, de facto monopolies that have very little reason to increase their offerings, at least from the sense of competition.

- jobs will not be completely unconnected to location "It’s still going to matter that you are in the same area so that on occasion, you can come into the office and meet physically together. But I think there’s going to be much less of the five days a week on campus sort of work. People will be able to work two to three days a week at home, without any loss of productivity or loss of culture within their group."
Everyone who did not get this likely would have liked to, that's not informative criticism. That nineteen year olds had it rough last year has basically nothing to do with the article.
>Traditionally, it has always been the best to buy a vehicle at the end of the year

This is still fairly true with the Tesla. They change more often but they still do larger changes that seem to sync up with the calendar year. At least the Model 3 interior refresh did.

Although the best time to buy a Tesla is when Elon needs to hit an earnings goal.