skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting. Are you far from Gitlab.com integration?
I feel like sanity is being restored. Maybe I’m lazy, but yeah I use PostgreSQL for everything I can. Zookeeper is great, but I’ve used PostgreSQL for distributed locking & queueing. Sometimes it’s quicker for me to write a 10–20 line algorithm than install a new piece of infrastructure.
Not really, not if the CSV contains quoted newlines.
And also not every non-westerner is a Muslim, and not every Muslim is religious/cares about someone drawing Muhammad.
> If inflation increases effective demand by consumers (that is, increases effective income and wealth of the poorest sector of society)

Monetary inflation does not do that. In fact it does the opposite: it reduces effective income and wealth of the poorest sectors of society (and the middle class as well). A sudden unexpected increase in the rate of inflation does temporarily increase quantity demanded because more money is around, and this can create a little additional additional economic activity. But this is a very temporary effect, and when the rate of inflation comes back down, the reverse happens.

I think I mostly agree with your take on debt. Something has to give.

> Seigniorage is gain on minting money, not inflation.

Minting money (ie monetary inflation) leads to price inflation. So they go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. The seigniorage gained by banks is worth a lot more than the devaluation of their bonds.
I hear Restic is great. Alternatives I've heard of (providing open-source incremental encrypted backups) include Borg, SparkleShare, SyncThing, Kup, Areca, and rdedup. I'd be really interested to hear how these compare; SyncThing and SparkleShare, for example, are not really intended for backups, but they make backups as a sort of side effect. Are all of these still live projects? Has anyone tried more than one of them?
We must have very different definitions of "counterproductive". Sure, if you have mental space to remember the commands to generate the base64 via a terminal then more power to you. For the rest of us that would rather store a bookmark and/or might not always have access to a *nix environment for running shell commands this seems like a great solution. Either way it is far from "counterproductive".
> The sensitive data was comprised of driver license numbers in more than 95% of cases. A small number of records included additional data like dates of birth, Social Security numbers and account numbers.

Wow so only that. My gosh, why is that information in a 3rd party vendor's db at all?!
The legality of the action is not the only difference between those two locales. A right turn on red is significantly more dangerous in the UK than in the US.
Isn't it amazing how they can make such confident recommendations about these dietary issues without having the data (real data, not some bs study) to back it up? They end up reversing themselves over and over, utterly destroying societal trust in the field of dietary medicine.
A service i made to track my working time
https://time-tracker.ivarlovlie.no
Are you familiar with the term "right of way"?

The complaint isn't about a friendly wave. The complaint is that it's someone's turn to go, and instead of going they wave at someone else to insist the other person go out of turn.

The wave is an insistence of "you go first", not a greeting or a thanks.
https://archive.is/MzBm5
Ahhhh. Tricky units!
Your understanding of tech work in the US is basically wrong in every way, and sounds like you're parroting BBC propaganda on why everywhere is terrible but the UK.

I suggest living in the US for a year or two to see if it's the dystopian hellscape you think it is - you can always fly home to the glorious NHS if you stub your toe.
Lack of cruft is a feature on Linux boxes, where people care about running a lean machine. My Mac is a slow, hulking trash box that runs Telegram and slurps bandwidth through a swizzle-straw. I frankly don't care about how little cruft my WM has when my system idles at 4 gigs of memory usage.

Apple needs a few things to make their WM competitive out of the box: 4/6 corner tiling would probably be a good place to start: split-screen is useless. Hopefully they would have an auto-tile functionality like Yabai, Pop Shell or i3-gaps, since I've come to expect that on my high-res devices too. They should also copy Microsoft's FancyZones, which let you quickly draft window presets to keep your screen divided the way you like it. Any of these would be welcome additions, because currently it feels like my Retina display is being put to waste with only two or three apps all fighting for attention.
Metformin does have some long term issues. After 10 years it can cause serious lower back pain. Not in everyone, but it's something to be aware of.
> And that was the problem – the branch predictor would sometimes cause xdcbt instructions to be speculatively executed and that was just as bad as really executing them. One of my coworkers (thanks Tracy!) suggested a clever test to verify this – replace every xdcbt in the game with a breakpoint. This achieved two things:
>
> 1. The breakpoints were not hit, thus proving that the game was not executing xdcbt instructions.
> 2. The crashes went away.

I love the simplicity and the genius behind this idea.
Well, there's a bit more variety there than cooking oil - I think the "healthy fat" category usually includes nuts, avocados, olive oil, salmon, etc. I don't think chicken (including the skin) is supposed to be bad either. [1]

From my understanding of the available evidence, these fats are supposed to be more healthy than other animal fats / butter (saturated fat). [2] Whether saturated fats are bad or not depends on what you compare them to - they seem less healthy than say, olive oil, but might win out over refined carbs. And the most clearly bad one is trans fat which has the strongest evidence against it.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2012/06/21/ask-...

[2] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
If you're a missile seeker, all you have as input is a two-dimensional forward view of where in your forward cone the target is - either deflection and azimuth, or x and y offset - it's like a dot on a scope. Let's assume cartesian x and y input for simplicity.

So as you track, you can measure where it is, and how fast it's apparently moving in those two degrees of freedom - so you know x, y, dx and dy (and I guess you know higher degree deltas too).

To hit it (assuming it's in front of you) all you need to do is make control inputs to bring dx and dy to zero - you don't care what x and y are. If dx and dy are zero, if you're faster than the thing you're tracking, you're going to hit it - that's constant bearing, decreasing range.

Making control inputs to bring x and y to zero as well as dx and dy is a harder problem! You need to control four degrees of freedom to do that.

And making control inputs just to try to bring x and y to zero without controlling dx and dy is a good way to miss the target completely - obviously if you get x and y to 0 but dx and dy are nonzero, the target is going to move away from zero, requiring more control input, which might increase dx or dy, causing you to need even stronger control input...

So the upshot is: you don't have to back out the target's absolute trajectory, figure out its true velocity and your own relative velocity, determine range to target and offset where you're pointing to compensate for time of flight - just get it to stay on the same bearing from your perspective, and you're done.
I was thinking of creating this very thing on several occasions being in an elevator. The logic of elevators is very intriguing and more complicated than people realize.
I feel like you are dancing around the issue, which is: why do you care if the migrants are "non-western" rather than of they are educated or have an in demand profession? Correct me if I'm wrong but are you saying you'd prefer blocking a Syrian doctor from immigrating than a French unskilled worker?
What if only the part of the speed of ftl remote galaxies is due to expansion and part (lower than c but arbitratily close to c for distant galaxies) is due to kinetic energy?

Their sum might easily be faster than light and they still might have insane kinetic energy.
Dynamical systems and chaos theory (especially for neural networks), information theory (especially for the paper linked), probability theory (especially the more foundational and axiomatic work)
You have just described international diplomacy. For a slightly dumbed down version with working shown: Eurovision Song Contest.

Actually, when I say dumbed down, I'm not too sure! If I was you, I'd embrace the added dimensions that go outside the official rules. Get your Machiavelli on. Get him so pissed he can't see and his alliance with the missus might break down.

Be careful and get some lines that shall not be crossed worked out first if you are going to play Extreme Risk.
I think only if you're using the Google Chrome browser...
Not anymore. https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-removes-feature-that-all...
Letter.wiki: a platform for public, written conversation and debate
> just say, "We don't really know."

That is what OP says.

What we open see is that "we don't know" is often equated with "does not work".

(I guess that also very frequently how it works out)
I opened the link and I saw the organisation hosting it is the same one associated with the interviewed person, which is the owner of the URL as well.

That sounds too… Suspicious. Thus, I decided to search the internet for the interviewed person, and first link is the "colourful" Wikipedia entry [1].

Judge it for yourself, but I am disappointed to see this kind of links in here. Luckily, it is already flagged.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kory
Do you have it public somewhere?
Not many realize this, but having the green card process drag out long has a detrimental effect on the whole job market, not just for the specific immigrant.
TIL about the implicit exec.

Details are hard. Thanks for pointing out the way it works!
You might want to look at something like SWF or Temporal
The rise of US 'Zoom towns'
I remember seeing this done all the time, back in the 90's on Usenet. It was very common.
At least rxvt can run in daemon mode so you don't pay a full penalty for each instance, but it's still a bit OTT. Why not tmux for your ad-hoc terminals. Less likely to forget about them and they're easily managed.
Brandon Sanderson, my favorite writer, keeps some progress bars in his website to let the fan know what he's working on. Unfortunately, those progress bars aren't visible in mobile devices. So I made a website for myself to keep tabs on them. And also for the other fans. Link: https://bransan.vercel.app
Ah, I think I may see the missed connection! It's like a jigsaw puzzle because archaeologists really do assemble fragments of old scripts. Sometimes the translation efforts can only give you probabilistic answers that in turn influence where you're likely to place a fragment.

A family member of mine works in the space academically, and they really have giant catalogues with pictures of fragments, and they experiment with different arrangements and what they would mean to their translation efforts. Unfortunately I don't have a link. :/

EDIT: a random CS paper that talks about automated solutions to the pure assembly part of this (without the text translation): https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10553
Related: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/06/25/red-hat-enterp...

> This article focuses on one specific performance improvement in the python38 package. As we'll explain, Python 3.8 is built with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)'s -fno-semantic-interposition flag. Enabling this flag disables semantic interposition, which can increase run speed by as much as 30%.

(not logged in to FB, so maybe TFA is a reference to this one?)
I read it without signing in. The "Not now" link is greyed out and 4 points smaller and not a button. But it's there.
Oh ... ye well lets pretend I wrote "turn left at red lights in UK" shall we?
Ah disk scheduling algorithms :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_algorithm
That's where your mind went. In this article, it would be just as easy for them to have had consensual sex beforehand.

The feelings of the family is not a factor in investigating and prosecuting the right people.
The parties may not have much space at the policy level but membership in a minority party does not require the same doctrinal commitment as joining the dominant party.
And barrier is a fork of synergy before it went quasi-open source that actually works!

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
> in rats

So we're deriving that an entire class of foods aren't "good for you", because of a specific outcome in a study conducted on rats?

edit

Also, the effect produced on the rats was weight gain. Is all weight gain bad? Oils aren't "good for you" because "weight gain"? So, if a person's goal was to gain weight, would oils be "good for them"? And if yes, isn't this just way too broad a statement ("oils aren't good for you") to have any value?
Likely, but it doesn't work with all applications.
I’m a cofounder. At a surface level this is a running joke between me and my team: they won’t unionize no matter how many times I insist they do.

More fundamentally I come from a strong Union family. My father is a professor, my grandfather worked for petrochemical companies after the war, his father came from West Virginia and so on. I think that the high salaries and plentiful amenities gloss over the need for a real strong union presence in software. It’s exactly when workers have the power that they ought to capitalize to entrench that power. All we have to do is look at how companies like Amazon churn through H1B workers to see how brutal dev work _can_ be. While development skills are still a relatively scarce commodity we owe it to the next generation of bit pushers to create a strong voice for the rights of labor. Our power as a workforce can then be better leveraged to improve conditions for workers everywhere.

Unions are not — and have never been — perfect, but that shouldn’t be a reason not to fight for fair labor practices in every industry.
I'm not sure if this is true. I think all elevators I've encountered followed the elevator/SCAN algorithm:

> the elevator continues to travel in its current direction (up or down) until empty, stopping only to let individuals off or to pick up new individuals heading in the same direction.

with the elevator staying on its last location if there are no new requests and there being no buffering time after a request, first come first served

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_algorithm
Skyscraper, my scraping and restructuring framework: https://github.com/nathell/skyscraper

I’ve used it to build datasets for various research purposes, and also an archive tool for the now-extinct soup.io: https://github.com/nathell/soupscraper
Water drips out of a faucet, and makes a sink wet. If you are nature, and have no internal mind, and can interact on extreme limits such as exists/non-exist, you can drip dryness from the sink, up through the faucet, through the pipes and into the water tower. Nature always takes the easiest route. If that route includes changing "drip wet down" or "drip dry up" it will take it.

Electricity works with positive and negative. At very high temperatures in very precise regions, a third pole leads to better calculations. Better calculations led to better applications, such as plasma, measuring and manipulating the Sun, quantum biology where the molecules of genes are abandoned for a much higher resolution in the subatomic particle interactions, or giving your nervous system a therapeutic sunburn with a positron emitter.
No. Not always.
>Not only don't the "tabs" look like tabs anymore, it's also very difficult to tell which one is actually selected, which can be very annoying depending on how you use tabs.

I couldn't even tell which tabs were selected before this update, which is really frustrating if you have over 400+ tabs open. I realise it is excessive, and would appreciate a solution other than Tree style, Session management, Tab suspender add-ons/options to manage everything 'smarter' and also limit the fingerprinting at the same time.

Anyways, from my limited usage of the new version, I am glad that the container accents are now shown at the top, and tabs playing audio have more focus.
> what would happen if such spending was not financed through deficits but was funded instead by direct money creation

Theoretically it would be better because you wouldn't need to pay a fee (interest) to middle men (banks). However, it would also be potentially a lot more abusable if congress could just create as much money as they want. Arguably the Fed now is abusing this ability anyway, so maybe it would be at least no worse if the government could do it directly.

> how would that change the inflation dynamic?

Well, devaluation would still happen, so the market distortion that incentivizes bad investments and removes an avenue for saving would still exist. If banks continue to lend out more money than they have, then we'd still have a debt cycle of booms and busts. However, the taxpayers would save money. The people gaining from Seigniorage wouldn't change much - whoever the government gives funding to would be gaining from seigniorage, with the same wealth sapping effects from the rest of the population. It might be a reasonable improvement.
I'm seeing "You must log in to continue," with no "not now" option.
My mother died from a combination of metformin and colchicine. She had renal insufficiency, the FDA had warned not to prescribe metformin to people with renal insufficiency, and it made her kidneys worse. She had been taking daily low dose colchicine for gout, but the worsened kidney function caused a poisonous level of colchicine to build up. She vomited so much, she lost a too much electrolytes and ended up in the hospital delirious. The hospital thought it was a stroke and tested for that, eventually ruling it out, but the time wasted on thinking it was a stroke, obscured a growing instability in her kidneys, liver, thanks to the insufficiency, colchicine, and bad electrolyte levels.

When they infused electrolytes, it swung the pendulum too far in the other direction, and she suffered wild swings in blood levels of potassium, etc. Eventually her kidneys and liver failed at the same time, multiple organ failure, usually for someone in their 60s is not survival. I watched her die slowly over a few days as everything came crashing down.

Afterwards, I tried to get the hospital to conduct an autopsy to show overdose of colchicine levels, but the pathology department somehow "wasn't set up for that" and they said I'd have to send her body to some specialist lab. I didn't want to cause anymore pain with the family, so I opted to just bury her. But I definitely see this as medical malpractice.

And it's a clear warning to not ignore FDA contraindication warnings, even if your doctor apparently doesn't read up on the latest research or alerts.
To my knowledge, magic mushrooms weren't really known to Westerners until this article[1] was published in Life in 1957. And it wasn't until the 1960's that Timothy Leary and others helped make them a part of popular culture.

If he did consume them, then the music he composed before those dates probably wasn't influenced by them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeking_the_magic_mushroom
This is an incredibly weird reply. "Very counterproductive"?

You hit ctrl+v and click a button using the app, that is roughly equally, if not more, convenient than switching to a terminal and entering a command.
There are many things I don't know. However, here's one thing I know to be true: individual experiments do not make for population-level generalizations. Additionally, dieting by reducing or even excluding a single well-known food category when there are many more left appears as less radical than taking a pill that will rebalance your whole metabolism, don't you think?

Regarding the "we really don't know" part: one can observe that people here are basing their own shamanic medicine on what they read in scientific papers, suddenly pretending that those papers can be trusted while they'll disparage the theories of clinical practitioners as being old-fashioned and manipulative. Well, it happens that many of those theories are based upon lots and lots of research and certainly more so that the "fad of the day" is. And yes, those theories are often refuted after years of clinical application, which does not bode well for experiments based on "few papers shamanic medicine".
There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that starlink isn’t ready for prime time. If you have trees, forget about it.
I think the analysis is deeply flawed because classic Risk 3:2 odds favor the attacker see http://diceroll.stritar.net/risk.html

Attacker wins: 2890 (37.17%)

Tie: 2611 (33.58%)

Defender wins: 2275 (29.26%)

out of a total of 7776 for 5 dice rolled (3 on 2)

On average defender loses 1.08 armies and attacker loses .92 for a 0.16 defender deficit per attack. When two large groups face each other (e.g. 20 on 20 or more) it's much better to be the attacker.
Was just told the other day I should get a better car. I 'deserve' it, as my Ford Focus... "that's a car for college kids... you deserve better". (I'm mid 40s, fwiw). My wife and I have lived mostly at or below our means for a while now. Years ago I got in to some bad debt and it took years to work out of. Kept working out of it, and now have... a lot (relatively speaking).

I'm burned out, and I need some time 'off'. My wife injured herself about 18 months ago and can't work anymore (well, nowhere near what she could, so she's effectively 'retired' at this point). I feel like I can't really be 'off', but realistically speaking, we have... probably 2-3 years of 'runway' of regular monthly expenses available, plus moderately adequate savings. This shouldn't be a problem. Forcing myself to do it is the problem.

But yeah, I have got the joking/mocking (good natured, usually), but the savings are real. I actually feel guilty at this point that I could just take off some months and coast (even though I don't) because I know there's people that can't. And I used to be one of them. It's hard to adjust to 'enough' when you spent a long time without enough.
Almost trivial, but I built a little jig out of sheet metal that came with breadboard to cut hookup wire exactly the length I needed it. Saves tons of time.
I wish we had a world where the discernment between science, axiom and ideology was a real thing ironed into the public muscle memory as much as ideology itself. Idealism.
Actually, your quoted text applies to when SO_LINGER option is used and the semantics are exactly the same for both platforms for this option.

Matching the semantics of Unix for most things was a goal of Winsock. In those days the NT TCP stack was new (compared to Berkeley TCP) and so there was a lot of effort spent to get it to match behavior so that applications did not get unexpected glitches.
Put All Your Eggs in One Basket, and Then Watch That Basket
The gender gap in education is observed all around the world, including in virtually all countries in Europe where university is free or subsidised to the point of being free-ish and there's no real scholarship culture to speak of.
I feel like I've spent half by career telling people this.

My general recommendation is to engineer for only 1 order of magnitude greater than you need today, but even that stops applying eventually.
Quake1 ran on my 486 for sure, I think I also tried Q3. I think I was running either slackware or mandriva. All games required a GPU, so you probably mean DirectX or OpenGL acceleration.

Yes, so given the existence of OpenGL acceleration on chip would this rust version be significantly more performant than the c++ version?