skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important and sometimes forgotten thing about democracy is that it isn't as simple as the majority rules. It's the majority rules while taking minorities into account. In a well functioning representational democracy this is kept in mind my career politicians. In a hybrid between representational and direct like in Switzerland, the population can overrule and just go with majority rule.

For example, the Swiss pension system is similar to others in Europe, where the current working population pay taxes almost directly towards pensions of the retired. Since this system will break down if taxes aren't increased like crazy or pensions lowered, politicians have been trying to change the system. But there are too many people soon to be retired or already retired that care less about their country's youth and future than their own pension, so they keep blocking changes. So every democratic system has its tradeoffs...

I learned this from a young Swiss when I was visiting Switzerland and praising their way of democracy. It was a few years ago though, so maybe this info is no longer accurate. And I didn't fact check, it was just an example brought up in casual conversation.
Here is a paper from the same group which includes actual results of an algorithm running on the neuromorphic chip: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11443
> To work with current Windows versions, the team would have to replace the whole microscope. The marginal potential gains aren’t yet worth the US$400,000 expense, Cherr reasons.

Unfortunately there is not much information given on this particular example, but that definitely sounds like throwing the baby out with the bathwater? If the Windows XP computers are just interfacing with the microscope, surely it would be cheaper to just reimplement this interface (of course, the alternative of leaving everything as it is is even cheaper, until you get a ransomware infestation)? Or are they talking about Windows XP Embedded directly controlling the microscope?
Is PHP a Dead Programming Language?
True, we have a lot of the infrastructure in place. But most of the brands that think they will switch all production to EVs are luxury brands.

A. Estimates are almost always too optimistic.

B. Most cars sold in the world are not luxury cars.

I think EVs will snowball, especially with features that ICEs can't match such as:

1. frunks

2. flat floors and more interior space overall

3. wheels that can be placed closer to the corners of the car (better maneuverability, so easier turning, easier parking, better stability, etc)

4. reverse charging that can even be used to power up entire homes, etc.

Unfortunately inertia is a powerful force, that's why I think critical mass will happen around 2030 and 2035 would be where I see sales of ICEs and EVs becoming equal. And then we need to replace the cars in use, keeping in mind that it takes 10+ years on average for cars to be retired. More like 20+ years in developing countries.
I use Bowers & Wilkins P5 (series 1) headphones after having tested every other pair in the shop and found these to sound nicest. Really like the sound, but the discoloring is pretty bad (I got the white ones).

(Could have something to do with the shop being a somewhat noisy environment and these being the only headphones without active noise cancelling that still shut out most noise, so YMMV.)
Do you think they will never exist?

edit I found that Microsoft did the smart thing like Sony did with the original PS3 and allowed people to run their own code (but not XBox games) on their consoles, removing a large incentive for people hacking the console.

That doesn’t automatically make the security watertight though.
> Europe for an hour and ask them after which differ more, I would bet serious money they will always pick the two European countries.

Only because of superficial things like language. When it comes to politics and the role of government, Europe is pretty consistent. Barring language and architecture, this makes cities all effectively the same pattern (high density, trains, buses, expensive per sq foot).

The gulf between life in the sprawl of Dallas and the density of NYC is far greater than the difference between Paris and Rome.
Hmm. Machine is gone so I cannot check again, but pretty sure if I'd go to the Windows Update window it would say the standard 'updates are available' or similar and have a clickable 'Download and install'.
It's a puritanical east-coast thing. Every job I worked required it.

West coast employers never cared.
I thought calling them llamas was an error or misunderstanding by the author, but then noticed the descriptions against "car" and "cdr" and saw it was very much deliberate.
You see the trap you're setting yourself up for, right? Getting back in shape is a lot harder to do then just keeping in shape and it doesn't get easy when you get older. I just don't think that one naturally drinks less when they get older, and things just balance out in the end. You may be in a world of hurt. I am a little jaded as I've seen family members die of alcoholism that no one - not even in their immediate family, were aware they had. Their decline was surprisingly swift and sudden. I'm not drink free, but it seems you drink more in one week than I do in a year. I couldn't imagine writing off even half a day (anymore) because I drank too much the night before. Life is not that long. Anyways, off my soap box.
Can you (or anyone) point me to the files where this `comparable` logic is implemented in elm compiler? I'll try my hand at least making Bool and Record types Comparable. Or maybe implement comparable Enumerated Type in elm which behaves mostly like custom Union Type.
i have my chromecasts and computers on two different vlans and works just fine, but there are a few things you need to do, ensure MDNS works between then and open up a half dozen or so ports.
Use Linux and ddrescue, gddrescue or similar instead of that crap.
I could make same headline about Czechia - COVID deaths plunge after less than 40% adults vaccinated and warm weather came

from 200+ deaths per day we are at <20 deaths
They're talking about Windows XP, client, directly controlling the microscope -- usually through a 16-bit driver. Vista redid the driver stack and broke compatibility with these. The driver is provided by the device manufacturer, who has little interest in providing new software for old hardware.
Does the brown paper bag magically fixes this situation?
> There is absolutely no reason or excuse to use docker compose in anything resembling production.

I work at a university where I make an app meant for maybe a couple of concurrent researchers. Am I seriously supposed to set up Docker Swarm for this or is it OK with you if I run my little setup using Docker-compose on the tiny server that the university has provisioned for me?

Seriously, why do so many people on HN have to act like the entire world of software developers is busy making the next Facebook? I'm sure many (most?) people are making tiny things meant for tiny audiences.
I mean, there's nothing inaccurate about what I said. Don't clutch those pearls too hard.
it's not where i live
That cutaway drawing is very nice. Is there a site where all such 60s-70s cutaway drawings are listed?
>Will the Python program last any longer? Maybe not, but at least its source code is in text format.

TCL and Expect would be much better for that than Python.
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I've wall-mounted an ancient Ipad & I I'd like to use it as a dashbord: world clock, calendar + appts, tasks (ideally from Things.app), etc - all the better if it's easily extensible. Any recommendations? It's too slow to use for Yam/AirDisplay & the like. Thanks!
but 90% of the road can be traveled with just
basic, but good components IMHO.

Amen. No expert here but I've been in the hobby for a while and have demo'd some high end stuff at audio shows.

I strongly believe a really good "90% of the way there" system can be put together for well under $500 retail, or even less if going DIY or used.
Something like this?

https://1dollarscan.com/sp/
The main issue is the Nintendo Switch is locked down

So the only people who would even go to this site were already investing effort in breaking the security on their devices to pirate

It's true there've been much more unjust cases than this, but even something like just the profits (not revenue) of the "premium" subscription would have been fair, and honestly still incredibly hard on someone unemployed...

I'd love a world where a guy doing this gets sentenced to community service and maybe Nintendo gets to take over the domain and make their case for not pirating or something.
> Is Amazon even vaguely related to Weed?

> The e-commerce company
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"Never" is a strong word, but given that they're already previous generation devices and haven't been properly compromised yet, it wouldn't surprise me.
I guess the idea is to minimize the amount of slurry per square meter.

"Nitrate exceeds the limit value of 25 mg/l in groundwater at almost 15 % of the monitoring sites across Switzerland. In areas where arable farming is predominant, concentrations are above the limit at more than 40% of the monitoring sites."
Interesting how the embedded XML syntax resembles today's JSX, I wonder if it took inspiration from it.
Reentry is not that unpredictable. There are some ways to steer a craft during reentry but it is not like an aircraft that could just turn on a whim. A Soyuz landing in the Kazakh steppe for example incurs most of the deviation from the targeted landing site while hanging from its parachutes and being blown around by the wind.
Besides the sibling comment, here in Germany it is common to have electricity certifications on equiment done by external companies.

If managed to bring through securty some stuff that you plug into the office network, isn't certified and something goes wrong, short circuit or whatever, it is on you to deal with whatever might happen including dealing with the insurance company.
Someone I went to uni with got a job at an engineering firm. One of his projects was unmounting nuclear reactors for decomissioning, which were sufficiently secret that he was told to treat them as a black box. He was given a procedure, including specific drill and cut locations which would safely detach the reactor, but no detail about what was inside the shell.

One day he was on holiday in France and went to a museum that had displays about nuclear technology. One of the information boards was an exploded view of the same reactor technologies he was working with.

Who knows if there were subtle differences, but it's fascinating how different decisions about redaction are made given knowledge that the information is public.
Rubber Duck Debugging but for Documentation
You can use your userchrome.css to apply a background-color selectively to individual context-menu options. I do it for "view background image" and "copy link location," both of which I turn a deep purple. I've found this makes misclicks on these options (which are pretty much the only two I ever use) next to zero.
Really misleading title, as the first line in the article says, this isn't a ban from sports, but from biological males who have transitioned (in one form or another) from participating in female sports at public schools.

Florida has become the latest US state this year to ban transgender girls and women from participating in female sports at public schools.
Interesting. I see a lot in NA and Asia.
Among friends and family, it's mainly 2× yes.
You see a lot of banners in the cities for the initiative, but I don't know how good an indicator that is (political banners seem to have boomed in the last 3 years: each campaign now has its own that people rush to hang on their balconies, etc).
As you said, in the countryside, you almost only ever see the 2× no ads.

I don't really know how to probe for the general sentiment: you can look at what the different political parties recommend on their websites (that's my usual lazy voting strategy: if the green, socialists and far left agree on a choice, I'll usually go with it), look for polls and/or read the press (probably swissinfo.ch is a good starting point?).
Typically in this case, the socialists and green agree on the 2×yes, and since the socialists are pretty tame, I guess it's a good indicator that I can safely vote that.

EDIT: Correction, the tendency among my entourage might be tilting to a "no" to the drinking water initiative!
I think “swapping in some strings” sounds deceptively simple. You need the strings to be designed with localisability in mind. In particular there may be several variants of the same string in one language, but just one in another, depending on factors such as number or gender…
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My comment is not about giving the most nuanced picture of the US, but about the caricatures that seem to exist within, sometimes in stark contrast to one another.

"USA USA USA" chants, american flag on the lawn, big pickup trucks, the possession of firearms, monster trucks, american football, people who attend WWE events, "Trump voters" and MAGA hats (let's throw it in there, because it's tied into that), there's a certain stereotype there, and it's not exactly tied to those people being the cultural or intellectual elite of the country.
> For example `01/02/2021` and `1.000` mean very different things in certain parts of the world than they do in the en locale.

The date means different things between the various English locales. In most of them, it means 1st February. In the USA, January 2nd.

Unfortunately, the very unusual US format is the default locale in many systems.
I think they're just shadowbanned.
There are step between development laptop and production you know, smarty pants?

Like, a staging cluster? A pre-prod cluster?
I decided long ago that for me to be fully self employed, I would either need to make 3x my current salary or have no other immediate options. Currently the only consulting I do is via retainers to mid-sized businesses, where I average 5 hours of work a month, get paid for 10, and occasionally go over when necessary. I am not immediately on call for anything and my clients are aware that I have a day job that takes precedent. My rate for any additional clients is also much higher than my rate for existing clients. It's what my extra free time is worth to me.
200k USD in Bangalore is like 1.5 Crore INR!

Really curious which companies in Bangalore pay that much for a Senior Engineers. Seems a lot for me to be true.
This is one of the coolest features!

Different users run different containers, and no user can see other user's containers.
Is it really that easy just to overwrite the secure boot key database? I set up recently secure boot on a Lenovo laptop according to these instructions https://nwildner.com/posts/2020-07-04-secure-your-boot-proce...

...and deploying the keys involves setting UEFI in the Setup mode, which is protected by the firmware setup password.

Granted, I didn't verify where the keys are stored and in which format once deployed. But it would be pretty disappointing if they were just copied to another place without any encryption or signing authorized by the password.
if this was doing for tile what find my did for airtags i don't think there would be such an uproar - this is open internet for whatever the device and manufacturer want to do not an encrypted "hey katbyte your airtag is here" that only the user at the other end can read - i trust apple, and maybe i trust amazon, but i don't; trust the flood of rando devices that will use and abuse this
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Arduino runtime library is C++, and you can go as modern C++ as you feel like it, provided it fits into the memory.

And there is plenty of modern C++ one can even put inside an obsolete C64, let alone an Arduino.
One experience I was lucky to have as a graduate student was bumping into a set of four old SGI Indy O2s running SGI Irix and driving an old (~£5m) MRI scanner. As a child of the 80s, SGI Irix was the missing OS that I hadn't actually used: Mac-like in GUI but with solid unix underpinnings. It was -- in my mind, at least -- the "Mac OS 9" version of OS X.†

Actually driving the things was a slightly different experience. The software was horrible to program in, old, klunky, but feature rich and very hackable. It made me question my gnu/BSD knowledge every time I typed, e.g. 'ps auxw' and got a usage statement; `vi` was ancient and definitely not vim running in a compatibility mode; and the `del` key issued kill (or maybe SIGHUP -- can't remember) signals. I learnt a lot.

That machine was finally replaced when a professor nearby moved on, his former department didn't want his old machine, and I commandeered the department of physics's official (and excellent) Man and Van to help replace it with another microimaging system that I built using a mix of old hardware and open-source software [1], for which I am lucky enough to have lots of electronic schematics to go with and the relevant firmware. It's still going now, several years later. My old PI is still trying to get the money to replace it with a modern Bruker instrument -- which will be far less hackable, far more locked down, and come with a hardware DRM dongle; but doesn't require a postdoc (like me!) to (re)build and maintain.

† Yes, I realise that was NeXT, but I've still never actually seen a NeXT machine in the flesh. I'd love to!

[1] https://openvnmrj.org/
"Rejection sensitivity" is a term that has been around for decades within the psychiatric community. It used to be one of the main symptoms used to distinguish typical depression from "atypical" or neurotic depression, and patients who suffer severely from it usually do bettrr on older medications like MAOIs instead of modern SSRIs.

Interestingly, severe social anxiety will often only be helped by MAOIs.
Does Vim have support for multiple cursors? It's a feature I cannot live without and I think it'd be awkward to do without a mouse.
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If you're a mouse user you can drag and drop the selection to the address bar.

If you're a keyboard user you can do: ctrl-c ctrl-t ctrl-v enter
As an MD, I would be extremely interested in such a book! I'm a big fan of yours :-)

I'm still working on my adaptation of MiniKanren for unification over multidimensional array terms, BTW. I hope to get it really working, someday.

Cheers!
Yes, but it covers that - out of all the possible times to make the video, this one is more probable because the population is higher and there are more professors of statistics with free time on their hands.

I find the other corollary worrying - we're more likely to be existing at a point in time when we are a higher population than any other. In other words, this is likely to be a high point in human population over time, and our future contains less people than now.
> For instance: "you are more likely to have attended a school with more pupils than most other schools"

Isn't this statement still true in your example? (Assuming some small variance among the small schools just so it's still possible to order them by size.)

If one school has 1,000,000 students and a million schools had about 9 to 11 students, the median school would have about 10 students. No matter what (ignoring exact ties), 500,000 schools are going have more students than the median school, even if most of those schools just have 10 or 11 students. Sure, most people in your example come from the ~10 person schools, but more students come from the more populated half of those ~10 person schools. There's at least a 54% chance that you "attended a school with more pupils than most other schools" (6 of 11 million students).

(It's fair to ignore exact ties because it's unlikely that many planets have the exact same population.)

Your distribution makes it likely that there is one school with a much larger population than your own, but not that most schools have a larger population.
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