skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It they stopped overnight it would be a disaster, but if they gradually reduced output over time then alternatives would come online. They would seem expensive, but demand would also adjust and life would change to adapt quite comfortably, I think. There would be some bumps, I'm sure, but I prefer that road to the scorched earth path.
Basically the operators disabled the "emergency break" because it would ocasionally cause the cable car to stop and they couldn't afford to lose a day of work.
3 people charged with manslaughter
I think there is being unaware the British were coming, and being "unaware". It was pretty inevitable they would be invaded due to the strategic position
"a true friend would help you hide a body" <- if both of you are criminals, perhaps.
The Penis Poster That Rubbed People the Wrong Way (2018)
> They go as far as asking to validate the email with a code

You can receive email in temporary email inboxes :)

> That plus the fact that they do send data to their servers for some reason...

But the temporary email inbox is some random `sdsfi39324@oduhuf.fru.xy` inbox you find on the internet (not some inbox you create by your own)... so zero data about you is sent (if any).
I kinda like that `defer` is very visible. Although I haven't worked on large Zig codebases so I don't know how that scales.
Windows 10 21H1 available now, improves document load times
Yes, 'deprecated' in RFC6648 (2012):
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648

`X-AMZN-something` at least though probably predates that; a mix of `X-AMZN` and `AMZN` would be annoying. (Although I suppose they could say 'We've deprecated `X-`, it'll be stripped and still work, but please don't use it in new code' applying to all of them, old and new.)
They do it because convenience sells and because marketing has indoctrinated us to constantly desire Fresh! New! Pristine! Shiny! products.

Using plastic is the cheapest way for them to do it, since they don't care about the externalities and don't have to pay for the long-term damage they cause.

The solution is regulation. Make the manufacturers bear the costs of responsibly handling every bit of waste they produce, every bit of plastic. Make them responsible for taking back their waste, perhaps with a deposit system like on empty bottles. This will make them reduce their use of plastic packaging, in favor of better designed and actually biodegradable/reusable packaging.

And follow up hard to make sure they actually meet their promises, and don't just ship it all to a third-world country, because they will do that, given the chance.
"without bothering to look through Galileo Galilei’s telescope, philosophers overwhelmingly agreed on the incorrect notion that the sun moves around the Earth"—this is ridiculous, as if a look through Galileo's (not very powerful, by later century's standards) could tell you that the Earth circles around the sun. What it does show you is that the moon has mountains and is not a flat disk but a sphere (the latter already deducible from its shadows), that there are tiny specks that circle Jupiter, and that Saturn has handlebars (Galileo, for lack of his telescope's resolution, couldn't tell those were rings).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software Try some of these first before coming up with yet another wiki software.
When I wrote that once MS gets GH it will turn onto another spying service and I got rained with downvotes.
Looks like it's finally time to use something else.
Shame the tech community is okay with such dystopian development.
As the old joke goes, experienced electricians touch even their wife's breasts with only one hand, just in case.
> I wonder what kind of community you were hoping to find in Reddit if you think lack of free speech is the problem.

It doesn't have to be /b/ but in reddit's current form lack of free speech is a problem too. Power tripping mods are banning people for commenting at all in certain other subreddits. Politically inconvenient subs are getting qurantined if not outright banned. Similarly hateful but politically fashionable subreddits have been allowed to stay for years now. Politics permeates almost everything and if you don't share the ingroup opinion then it's not worth commenting. Granted a lot of this has to do with shitty mods and not reddit directly, but they aren't working to fix this either.
Right wing computer scientists always keep talking about collisions. Why can't they write better papers? If they did, the papers would be accepted for sure
It doesn't even need to be philosophical. Has China gotten more repressive over time, or less repressive? The first step in a discussion about "beating China at Not-Being-A-Repressive-Dystopia" would be determining which way China is trending, and if there was evidence that will continue or reverse (whether that means more or less repressive).

The other half is which we "we" (whoever we are, there's an international audience, but it's probably safe to say either the U.S. or the west) are trending? We're unlikely to beat China at that no matter what we do if we only focus on them and not ourselves as well.

And to tie it all together, part of not becoming a repressive dystopia ourselves is not trusting the narrative put out about other countries by our government without evidence and looking for reasons why that narrative may be beneficial to put forth other than the truth. Put another way, the first step in protecting your right to question things is to actually question things.
What about Ireland? How did Ireland's stance during the war, shape its policies post war?
Thanks, I learned something very valuable today
My city did at least one of those last year! There is some hope. There is a national park corridor that cuts from the mountains, right through suburbia, and down to the coast. It was disparate nature reserves that are now connected into a fully fledged national park thanks to some land purchases. Not a little sliver between the highways either, pretty decent size land portions!
I've been thinking of delegating mandatory crapware like zoom to my mobile phone. Needing to run stuff like that a few times a year is probably not worth preventing me from using an OS.
The macOS system volume behaviour is ridiculous. I ... had a really bad time once with puredata. I...it's really unpleasant to remember. I also generally amn't entitled with open source software, but reporting this as an issue to the people at puredata (dsp software), recommending that they put in their own software cap in the pipeline was met with the response that I could always do that myself in my scripts as I'm writing them if I cared about it. For me (as someone who's made audio software), user's physical safety of this avoidable kind must be high priority, and it's more or less unconscionable to leave things like this to chance.
The more accurate scenario is one where they drop everything and rapidly switched to synthetic fuels and chemicals from solar, which initially would be prohibitively expensive. Would they do that, they wouldn't sell anything as they would bankrupt their customers, lest they ate some of the costs themselves until their customers had time to adjust. That scenario, while still being hyperbolic, is in essence what we need to see. Big Oil needs to shrink; their prices need to cover the cost to society, their products need to be used less and they need to spend a whole lot of money on cleaning up their mess.
> Yes. Will it happen? Almost certainly not, though I would like nothing better than to be proven wrong about this.

Of course it did, was Clojure not released? — “And then there's Clojure, which has become what I always kinda thought Common Lisp should've tried to become.”.

I can't help but think that this is purely a game of names, not of existence and features.
The thing with the Shell decision is that even if the decision stands, all Shell has to do is put their emission producing refineries into a different company, they can wash their hands off it then. CO2 emissions? We only sell petrol which we buy from this other company.

Or other paperwork trickery, either way, they'll get away with things. Of course, by 2030 the market will have shifted towards electric vehicles by a lot already.
This Nigerian healthtech startup just closed $2.6m seed round for product growth
the dog deserves 1000 upvotes
It used to be half of the Bay Area, but because of the growth in and around Sac, and because its a college town with a pretty well regarded college and mellow attitude (think Berkeley if it was not trying so hard to be so extra; like the show Northern Exposure. but warm).

And Haberdasher is my hood, as is its neighbor Petiscos (I painted the wall mural in there) and Cafe Stritch...great area.
Same reasons as Yahoo Answers I guess (what siddheshL wrote)
"A number was burned into every citizen’s brain: six million. Over the course of the Second World War, that’s how many Jews the Nazis had executed. Some had managed to flee, many of them to the British-controlled territory, Mandatory Palestine, and they were now fighting for a Jewish homeland in the Levant."

As per estimates Nazis executed more Slavs than Jews, yet it seemed etched in narratives like this as a Jewish tragedy, whereas in actuality it was a broader holocaust, including massive numbers of Slavs and political opponents like Communists.
I actually can, because (1) freenode mostly had good anti spam software since a while and (2) rasengan and his staff clarified it’s about people moving.
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I like it a lot, it's bright and bold and has good contrast.

More sites and apps need to ditch the ridiculous dark mode fad and go bright and vivid, and I'm guessing most people who complain (and probably most dark mode adherents) have their display brightness set way too high.

(Open a new text document or anything else bright white, and hold a piece of new white paper up beside it. The white on your screen should be the same brightness and color temperature as the paper. If it's noticeably brighter, you need to turn down the brightness on your monitor and/or increase the amount of lighting in your room. Basic ergonomics.)
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Thanks for the reference. I agree that the solution to getting I action is to model the disturbance, and augment the state. The system certainly becomes uncontrollable in the augmented state space.

I've run into a conceptual problem when using this approach with [infinite-horizon] LQR to try to recover what looks like a PID controller, which IIRC is due to the control u not necessarily converging to 0. This is expected, to counteract a constant disturbance, but it means that the sum doesn't converge.

I only skimmed the reference, but I did not find a discussion of this issue.
Anyone can check the fact checkers, the same as the fact checkers didn't ask for permission from others to do fact checkers. Most people are too lazy to do simple fact checking, that's why fact checker exists. In fact, fact checkers would also check other fact checkers since there are multiple of them. All I can say is let's have everyone to be a fact checker.
Sorry. I wrote GBps when I should Gbps and I got myself fooled in the process. We can somewhat mitigate the latencies with good caches. The overall machine will suffer from a bad case of NUMA ,but would still behave better than a cluster.
To add to the resources here, I also ran into this issue a long time ago myself and wrote this little test tool for it some five years ago[1]:

https://daiz.github.io/yuv-to-rgb-in-html5-video/

Sad to see that even today the results don't line up with the expected... and in different ways than before, even?

Something the article doesn't touch upon is that colorspace assumptions can also vary between different video formats across browsers (at least back when I made this test), which adds another unfortunate dimension into the color accuracy mess.

Anyway, good to see more attention brought on the subject once again, though unlike the article, I would personally say that if we're going to make assumptions in the absence of concrete colorspace information, I think we should rather consistently assume BT.709 rather than BT.601, for the simple reason that we can reasonably expect that basically any camera in existence today would likely record in BT.709 by default, and I'd expect most editing software with their HD presets and whatnot to default to BT.709 as well.

[1] A related comment I wrote on HN about it back in the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12022163
I heard these sorts of designs could have been used for fishing, or other types of hunting / farming.

Basically the fish are herded and funneled into some pattern where they are caught, maybe when the tide recedes or when they enter a choke point. Or maybe it's irrigation channels that somehow got cooked into the landscape permanently.

Thar desert is relatively flat, and close to the coast and rivers, so it's not inconceivable that it could have born more water in the past.
Only half way through and while it's a good read, the author does seem to neglect to mention that Iceland eagerly deported fleeing Jewish refugees back to Nazi occupied countries, and demanded that America stop sending over black servicemen. Icelanders may not have been up to the mythical standards of purity envisaged by the Nazis, but that doesn't mean there wasn't an overlap with their sense of racial superiority.
The chip shortage claims another victim...
IF is a ridiculous measure in the first place. It says nothing about quality. It once was an interesting number from a purely observational point of view, but once journals are actually rated by it, it has no meaning any more.
They did, in 2007 on the original iPhone. A lot has happened since then to perhaps make PWAs a much more viable option.
Macro expansion is done in the host environment, not the target environment. You can compile the macro definition to a function taking a form and an environment. This would be something you arrange for within your compiler.

CLTL2 specifies a function `parse-macro ` which is available in most implementations. Portably you can call it using the `trivial-cltl2` package:

https://github.com/Zulu-Inuoe/trivial-cltl2

Robert Strandh has written both papers and code for handling environments:

http://metamodular.com/SICL/environments.pdf
http://metamodular.com/clostrum.pdf
I can one-up that. Entire Google Workspace domain.

Google sent emails direct to spam, and then wiped the whole thing. All data. All accounts. Everything.
This whole back and forth in this subthread is ridiculous. People are comparing command syntax (not even a proper PL) with natural language syntax. First one is used to define actions first and foremost, and the second one to describe them.

How we formulate our actions in our head/speech to describe them is mostly irrelevant here.
Vim's documentation is complete and very well-written. I've been using the editor for over 10 years and I still learn new things when perusing :help.
Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?
Hello community,
I am looking to connect with HNers who have successfully started a research institute / campus or were among the first joiners.
I am seeking to offer housing and a stipend to researchers, as I am currently acquiring some real estate that I want to put to good use in Germany. I will myself take time off from regular work and focus on research in a vein similar to Steve Grand's investigations into artificial life (not expecting to reach his level, but one needs a quest with lofty goals).

Not seeking a particular piece of advice, more looking for somebody to have a conversation with regarding experiences, what worked really well, how to get the ball rolling, essential infrastructure required...

End goal as of now: assemble a few great minds, give them the space to work rent-free in a region with good academic infrastructure, ideally let them collaborate, watch the beauty of it.

If relevant, an LLC-like structure is available for making this happen, but not 100% sold on how to approach this from a legal perspective.
Indeed, and I also think it's important to note that it's a picture from the 70's, an era known for relaxed sexual morals, and particularly in Sweden.

The Lenna picture is not something I care deeply about, but the overall trend of post-hoc censoring cultural expressions because some people MAY find them distasteful is letting the bullies win.
https://www.reddit.com/r/accidentallyliberian/
The code is C++ code, It could be ported to an MCU if there is a fairly recent C* compiler (C11+). But the algorithms are quite expensive, there are multiple matrix inversions, the size of the matrices been as large as the data you put in into the tool. typically between 500 and 10000 data points.
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The problem with brute forcing is it requires data from the future.

Physics can be solved with statistics, but only from God's POV.

The future, absent information about it, is too open to solve by merely constraining models by past example cases.
>Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, computers today provide much better situational awareness than was possible in 1970.

You sure about that?

https://twitter.com/hatr/status/1361756449802768387?s=20

>Waymo runs self driving cars today in very specific locations

Ernst Dickmann had autonomous cars on the road in very specific locations in the 1980s

https://youtu.be/_HbVWm7wdmE
It sort of makes sense culturally and historically to define Europe as the part that falls in the sphere of influence of the Catholic Church and its protestant spinoffs. After all, Ukraine is not thought to mean 'borderland' for nothing.

I still prefer the geographic definition, but this is a close second.
This is what the UK REF system does effectively. You get evaluated on at most your top 5 papers.
Doesn't TV shows and movies also contain diverse cast and help us relate to people with different backgrounds, race, sexual orientation, etc.?
For example, i think Hollywood movies depicting homosexuality have large impact on people watching them from conservative countries.
> messing around with hardware vs software.

Back when I was doing some hands-on practical training in electric engineering school, we had to design a control circuit on some breadboard, the kind that in high school would lit a couple of leds, and maybe make a light fade, but here it was driving a big-ass train engine boxed in a 1.5m x 1.5m x 3m steel cage, right next to the bench where we pieced the control device together, barely arms length away.

While conceptually the same, "theory" vs "practice" and "command" vs "power" suddenly takes a whole new meaning where you're suddenly pushing several orders of magnitude more power than a puny 9V battery could. The buzzing of a hundred amps ready to flow inches away was chillingly ominous. You get a strange urge to triple check, quad check even, design and calculations before flicking the switch.

As we all successfully started up our bench, the rumbling of a dozen of these bare protomachines revving up in a hangar was eerie. The thought of them sucking in such an amount of overall power from the grid dizzying. I rarely get cold-sweat and goose bumps, but this was one of these days.
this is when developing audio I have several precautions in place:

1) system volume level pretty down (usually 30%)
2) headphones volume in the middle
3) when testing something really broken I have my headphones not on the ears but on the neck
Yes. They also didn't need to spend 90% of their time chasing grant money and publishing papers.

As it is, if our researchers are spending almost all their time thinking about and doing things other than research, what do we expect?

On a tangent, software industry has a bit of similar problem, with the best developers being forced to enter management roles[0] instead of solving technical problems. That is, a developer progresses from doing shoddy work to doing mediocre work and then, just as they start doing high-quality work, they get told to manage a new cohort of juniors doing shoddy work instead. I wonder if that's why so much software is hot garbage these days.

--

[0] - Whether proper ones on management path, or "fake" ones like principal developer, where you get all the managerial responsibilities with none of the authority.
The trick is that, even though the augmented state is uncontrollable, you still use it in the predictions, so the MPC algorithm can still compensate for it. Take a look at the before-last graph in the paper, see how that technique improves predictions after learning the real-time disturbances.
good timing as well. Twitter is under pressure to start following laws in India
In 2002 I wrote a paper on audio recording for my grammer school graduation and maybe once flipped through it since then.

When seeing the graphic of the wav file header I immediately recognized the same graphic I used in that paper.

Sometimes it's funny how memory works :)

Also interesting for how long content can stick around.
I mean, this is all totally unrelated to the topic.

> I understood what the fascist where doing five years ago, and pushed anarchists friends from my youth to do the same on their side, and they did.

I mean, my view is: I was against this when the right did it; I haven't stopped being against it when the left started doing it. It's not like I tolerated it from the right any more when they tried - or try - to do it to spaces I hang out in. But socially, I just don't have much overlap with the right wing. As a result, I tend to mostly worry about the left doing it, because the left doing it is what actually impacts me.

edit: And honestly, I thought we had an agreement about this? In the US, the left is even called the "liberals". Like, I thought there was a broad agreement that the left wing wasn't going to be doing this sort of thoughtcrime, othering, bad opinions = bad people, exclusion instead of argument bullshit. But apparently any weapon that's good enough for the right is fine for the left? We cannot allow a cancel gap, I guess. Bah. Used to be I thought the left was better.
I prefer a diagram on a company wiki that contains only text boxes and connections. Accessible and editable by anyone in the browser (we use draw.io plugin for confluence).

I accept that these diagrams will always be out-of-date and therefore try to keep text and details to a minimum. I think of it more as a pointer for where to "dig up" a piece of the system or who to ask, to use your metaphor.
Wikidata is the most important project of the Wikimedia foundation
I also found the series lacking humour, but maybe that's because I've only mostly watched Mock The Week and Have I Got News for You for the last few years.
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After-party ;)
Ahah what. All my tenured professors had constant time pressures.
That would be https://mkdocstrings.github.io/ except it currently doesn't have implementations for any of those languages.
How https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624879 (Map of Reddit) has less upvotes?

Huge props @thisissidhant - amazing work though
The Shell decision didn't seem to have a noticable effect on the stock price which I guess means it's already factored in, or investors don't believe it will have much effect in the near term.
"Don't use MS Windows"

I still use Windows for games, and coding for fun.

Ouch... :)
We can move this discussion here : https://github.com/pidtuner/pidtuner.github.io/issues/11
So much for curiosity. I still believe it must have been worth it though :)
> You had to be curious about your subject and smart back then.

And being landed gentry probably went a long way as well.