skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right triggers have already been known forever. Look at the history of recycling campaigns in Texas.

Bet you didn't know "don't mess with Texas" is about recycling.

Unfortunately, toxic machismo is likely not going to work, especially nation wide, for things based purely in science. Seems pretty incompatible.
My town in MA has a turkey farm with a couple barns in basically a residential area. But then it's historically a fairly rural farm town.
You can but it is both costly and a hack (the resulting embedding will not be as good as the one you would have gotten restarting from scratch). So I would not recommend using it in an inference pipeline.
So groups would be just named commit ranges? I'm not sure I see the appeal if it's already possible.

The article also seems to imply that there's one "right" way to merge branches and that teams should stick to one approach. I disagree. I use all 3 approaches whenever it makes sense: merge commits for large PRs with more than 1 commit where you want to preserve the history of the changes, squash+merge when the history is messy (usually after code review) but the change itself should be atomic, and rebase when the history is clean, though I mostly reserve rebasing for smaller single-commit PRs where a merge commit would just add clutter.

I also disagree that Git is this flawless piece of software we can't improve upon. It regularly fails to do fairly trivial merges automatically, forcing me to manually fix conflicts, or use `rerere`. Ideally my code versioning tool would understand language semantics and be as maintenance-free as possible. Git is nowhere near this and requires quite a lot of familiarity and hand holding to work as the user intended. The amount of time and effort spent understanding and using it properly is difficult to quantify, and it's still a tall hurdle for new developers.
If you always create a merge commit, you can see the group as you traverse the history via the two parent commits. One will walk the group and the other will go directly to the state before the group.
It’s not people, it’s corporations that are the problem. Polling shows that >70% of people support legislation to combat climate change.
This is an interesting study, but I wouldn't yet draw any conclusions about the potential effect of a future atmosphere on human physiology based on the mouse model.
The article is about Indo-European languages, that includes 'indic, iranian, and slavic'. You can write a blog about Samskruta.
Please if you know where to find the optimal 64-way sorting network) or even better, selecting network, I'm yugely interested.
This is kind of how I felt when originally using Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.; sure they have dozens of “privacy settings” but (1) I did not really want to spend hours checking all the boxes a certain way, (2) they could change at any time, e.g. some awful new setting would invariably appear, naturally with an equally-awful default value (from the user’s point of view), and (3) there is no guarantee these things are coded correctly.

For (3), there’s a pretty good chance just from code rot that your “settings” may not always work. Certainly not if some company’s entire business model seems to depend on the more anti-consumer values for “settings”, you can bet they will not heavily invest in testing their accuracy.

And the real problem for privacy-related settings is that if they ever fail to protect you, even being buggy for just a short period of time, your information is then out there. Leaked. Gone. Even if you close the barn door, the animals have left. It is the type of software that has to be working 100% of the time to really protect data.

So I don’t really want privacy “settings”, I want privacy, period. That should be the default and only behavior, where the user has the only keys.
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The proximity fuze, one of the technological secrets which helped win WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze
Again, you seem to trust the Chinese administration to their word. I bet during Chernobyl we should have trusted the USSR for information too. And since this famous Chinese investigator said "oh no it wasn't romantic our lab" we should stop digging for the origin of the most catastrophic event since WW2
While this is interesting research, the effect of posting it here is to smuggle a political argument onto HN (and of course, attempt to freeze out disagreement/create an echo chamber), and I cannot endorse that by engaging.
If this is interesting to you, you may also enjoy this ted talk on Indigenous languages, personally I found it very interesting:

A history of Indigenous languages -- and how to revitalize them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoRXbjGJrI0
I agree, but all the more glory if someone does solve it then. And the field is still new enough that I don't want to be cited for decades like the iPod release "no wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." slashdot comment.
Noise is good, but it means you have to have a great filter, because trolls exist and will enjoy torturing this woman and her supporters with malicious statements. It's not a matter of if, but when, this happens.

In fact, there's a type of trolling that's become endemic in the US which allows that you are responsible for your situation, and if your situation is good you must deserve it (prosperity gospel), and if it's bad, you must deserve it too (prosperity gospel's evil twin).

But the noise will attract the trolls as well as supporters, and she's got to be prepared for it. And it sounds like she's not psychologically well (as one would expect) so its a serious downside to making noise.
There's a big difference between "always" versus being a deliberate distraction response.

No matter when a UFO story comes out, you could always point to some recent event that powers don't want to talk about. But that makes it a non-falsifiable argument, just as much a conspiracy theory as any other UFO explanation.
Different sheep make different sounds today. Mostly it’s just yelling. I think our perception of it insists on a leading consonant that just isn’t there.
Exactly. The only thing I used my system for that was really begging for more CPU was console emulation, and that depends more on single core performance than anything else.
You can't really generalize Ancient Greek, since in Attic, beta kept the /b/ sound the longest, whereas in many non-Attic languages it had already been /v/ for a long time.
Lots of places in Europe allow it in restricted areas. There is a children park in the middle of Paris known for being almost exclusively used by drug addicts and dealers.

They know the drugs will be sold anyways so the logic is to restrain it to a specific place. In Berlin one of them is Gorlitzer Park, the police is circling the park all the time to avoid crimes (other than selling drugs)

It's not really a problem these days since you can order all kind of drugs (anything from weed to coke) from signal/telegram groups and get them delivered to your door, sometimes faster than food deliveries
My reading of the generator diagram (figure 6) isn't that it is generating waveforms, but that it is generating phoneme probabilities.

You can train a similar system to produce audio on the output of wav2vec, though it probably won't sound similar to the input audio (accent/voice) unless you expose more features of the input than phonemes.
Samskruta is an Indo-European language.
Yeah, double the occupant density of the city is only going to double the congestion on the (already heavily congested) freeways.

There needs to be a serious re-think on public transportation.
Totally correct, fixed now! I omitted the var by design since I was just trying to elucidate the difference between hoisted and err (the var keyword breaks that flow a bit).
And/or the people already in them are trying to keep them secret lest they gain all the problems people are fleeing from in the first place.
There's a beautiful visualization of prime factorization using UMAP: https://johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/index.md.html. I recommend watching the video!
> you just simply design the software so that doesn't happen.

How do you go about doing that? disregard security service clicks based on IP address blacklists, user agent sniffing, etc?
I've seen businesses in the US use these things during power outages. https://www.possupply.com/model-4850-flatbed-credit-card-imp...
If that was the case, why not advertise it as having no GPL licensed userland components? They way it's worded sounds more like they have something against the GNU organization.

And the linux kernel itself is licensed as GPLv2, so they aren't avoiding the GPL completely.
They should just largely remove these kinds of zoning laws, raise the height restriction to at least 6 stories and maybe require a commercial ground floor for buildings over a certain footprint and/or on arterials. Allow builders to combine lots. Get rid of the parking and driveway requirements as well. At least do this in strips down arterials so that entire blocks could be converted to high density mixed residential/commercial.

Of course there goes your rents and home prices, but now if you actually lived in the surrounding area you'd be able to easier walk to shops and with rents being less that'd wind up eventually as lower prices and lower cost of living.

Its not surprising that the half-measures they're taking almost seems designed to not have a lot of actual uptake.
The "everything is organised for you and we're all a team" aspect of the military is something that a lot of people say. It seems to work well for them.

But. And I'm not directing this at you, but it jumped out at me ..

> On the bigger FOBs, the jet engines ran constantly in idle

.. using a considerable quantity of fuel, every drop of which had be trucked from Karachi through unfriendly territory. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11463490 Of course it was comfortable, the kind of comfort only the incredible profligacy of the war machine can offer.

Total cost: https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-afghanistan-middle-e... $800bn over 20 years. Let's say $40bn a year.

Peak troop numbers: ~100k. So at least $400,000 per troop per year.

No wonder it was so great, I'd be disappointed if you didn't enjoy it if it cost that much. It's all the Americans grinding away in the home system that made it possible for you. $120/year/American.

Did anyone ever say "we can't do that, we don't have the budget"?
Not really forever, no.

There's been a concerted effort to put signs up in the last 12 months.

There've been quite a few more robberies/shootings at Twin Peaks in the last 24 months, I live nearby and visit it regularly. A few months ago I found used needles, that was a first for me up there and I've been regularly biking to the top there for at least 10 years.
The companies and individuals who are attacked? Would you be okay with this happening to you or your work's computers?
Anecdotally I have two friends who have the same. One got so bad they were hospitalized for quite awhile and had to take close to a year off of work while lingering in a very precarious state of recovery. Both in their 30s.
Generally what is done is that “int 1 != $0.01” rather it’s “int 100 = $0.01”, as in the base of the integer is 1/100th a cent. That doesn’t perfectly solve your example case perfectly though admittedly.
> I don’t think he could have done that alone.

There's a dire wolf skeleton in the La Brea Tar Pits Museum that shows a healed broken leg. The assumption is the other wolves must have cared for it.
I believe it's claimed to be originally designed/used by a music sharing community (etree.org) where artists explicitly gave permission.
I use squash merge and make sure each PR is small enough to justify being just one commit. Big things which are too big to fit in a single PR can be tracked in other ways, such as mentioning a Github issue number or project management issue ID in the commits.

Individual commits on a PR/feature branch are useful to check what's changed since the last review (I silently despise developers who force-push their rebased commits when fixing things, making it basically impossible to re-review).

I just wish it was easier to detect locally whether my development branch has been squash-merged so I could script the deletion of them.
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In a tool I wrote zstd is used for essentially all data exchange (inside an SSH connection; SSH itself does compression, but that doesn't support zstd [yet], and connection-level compression is not necessarily a good idea in the first place). It's pretty phenomenal. For stuff like backend JSON API calls I regularly see compression ratios of around 25-30x (for 20-50 MB of JSON) and for bulk data transfers it often exceeds line-rate by quite a bit.

gzip in comparison delivered very-nice but only half as good ratios of around 15x. For the "bulk transfer" case gzip went fairly slowly, it couldn't nearly reach gigabit rates - it still transferred less data, but it took significantly longer than uncompressed and still longer than compressed.

gzip slows down a lot on incompressible data (not as bad as LZMA though), so it's not a good choice as an "always-on" compression. zstd on the other hand handles incompressible data very well. Unless the I/O is quite a bit faster than 100 MB/s, using zstd will very likely only improve things.
For what it's worth, I've been overseeing the development of https://thoughtliner.com

Perhaps the most developed demonstration is at https://thoughtliner.com/thought/11 (click on the button to show responses to see more).

The site is maybe 50% of what I would consider MVP, but work on it has been mostly dormant for the last several months. A more serious effort might resume in 2022.

I started working on it because I thought it could help me organize my own thoughts. It could be a useful resource for people, but I also think the interested audience would be fairly niche. As you dig into various arguments, the topics can easily become fairly esoteric or technical.

If you have interest in it (e.g. you have ideas to contribute or just want to be informed of a "launch"), you should be able to reach me at support@ the domain.
There are two groups working on recalling the DA, that should actually help TBH.
Chesa really needs to be recalled.
It's probably easier to concentrate oxygen/nitrogen and add them, rather than scrubbing CO2. It's a lot harder to remove a gas than it is to dilute it by adding other gases.

A home oxygen concentrator can be had for <$1k. The most difficult thing might be reliably monitoring the gas levels to make sure an unsafe imbalance isn't created.
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It doesn’t track co2. You can have 0 pm2.5 and still be in a stuffy room with too much carbon dioxide (which is quite common in Poland in Winter for example. Air cleaners remove pm2.5, people keep windows shut to keep pollution and cold air from getting in, and they get crazy amounts of co2 indoors).
Long term water supply definitely influenced my decision on where I wanted to live.
CO2 is a gas, stool isn’t.

More specifically, the CO2 has to get out of your blood to make way for the next load of oxygen, and that happens in your lungs not via your digestive tract.
The tourist parts of most cities are high crime. Singapore is probably OK.
I don't really see how this hand-wavy dismissal invalidates anything about the study. Both groups of mice were in the same room, and while they would be exposed to somewhat different levels of noise due to relative distance to the fans, the difference would be negligible. Same for the toxin buildup, the very reason the fans were present was to circulate the air, which was constantly both monitored and regulated. This was a core part of the whole setup and the main focus of the study.

Unless you find it more likely that the small background noise difference had a starker effect on the lungs than the mixture of gases going through the lungs constantly, I don't really see how any of the criticisms hold.
> I am familiar with the various other things that are hosted on the GNU website. I'm referring to the actual authoritative legal text that gets copied alongside all the source code that you use, not any other essays on the subject.

you know that in case of actual litigation, judges will not only look at the actual text, but also at the intent surrounding it, right ?
I think it was around 80% of the carbon in food that ended up exhaled the last time I did the math.
Judging from this and other benchmarks, Zstd does seem to achieve that aim pretty well. Although the library API is IMO a bit weird in some aspects.

I actually did a simple SquashFS benchmark myself a while back[1][2] (including Zstd vs plain zlib, which SquashFS calls "gzip") and came to the same conclusion as the article: Zstd turned out to compress somewhat faster, decompress more than twice as fast and achieved a higher data density. It would be interesting how much the better optimized zlib mentioned in the article could gain on Zstd at least in terms of speed.

Interestingly, in addition to zlib, in my benchmark Zstd also clearly beats LZO in terms of speed and size.

[1] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/...

[2] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/...
Just a friendly reminder that walkability is not the only metric for quality of life.
> So the exposure group were in a semi-sealed chamber where other toxins might have accumulated, and were subjected to continuous fan noise. Whereas the control group were not in a chamber and were not subjected to fan noise.

It's fine to be critical of methodology, but if they are testing for lung function and tissue compliance, then I am struggling to find a reason for fan noise to be a lurking variable in this case.
California voters approved such a law, 1963 Prop 14, but the supreme court struck it down.

But don't lose hope for direct democracy yet! A few years later Prop 13, which is arguably worse on minorities https://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/..., passed by a wide margin and continues to see strong support from voting demographics today.
I'm not even a huge government-run-healthcare supporter, but if you look at the health outcomes of Americans + the percent of the GDP which goes into healthcare, it should be fairly clear that corruption is already rampant. I'd honestly be impressed if the government could grift more than the private healthcare industry already has.
I lived in SF for 15 years. The worst area was near the tenderloin. The strangest day was street sweeping day. All the cars would be moved by 7am so you had a clear view down bush street. You could look down bush street and see 3-4 piles of glass on the ground from the previous night. Without street sweeping you would see just a few people crying by their hole in the window.

Smash and grabs are truly the perfect crime in SF. The odds of finding a laptop in the trunk are quite high due to the techies. I, like most residents, cannot hear a car alarm anymore - at this point they help me sleep. It is impossible to get caught - even if you were - the odds of the DA prosecuting you are low. In someways I agree: what is the point of processing a person with a misdemeanor and letting them out in 2 hours without followup.

Ironically, without smash and grabs things would be much worse. I would fear criminals would start hitting apartments. My apartment neighbor was violently assaulted and had her apartment ransacked (for a LAPTOP!). Every office I worked in SF was robbed at least once - no one was ever caught despite clear video. Thankfully, the DA does care about home invasions [I had detective interviews]. So my unpopular opinion is: if they are going to let the city decay into a crime ridden dystopia - leave smash and grabs alone. Let them break into cars. Insurance will cover the window - you can buy a new macbook pro. The next step of home invasions is much more terrifying. AND! With each smash and grab the victim will start voting correctly.
This reminds me of the "I Will Kill You & Birth You" DEFCON presentation by Chris Rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs
The future might be going towards affordable jailed devices to the general public, and expensive general-purpose devices for specialists. Definitely most people just want consumption devices.
>(physically occupy them if necessary)

This sounds like a mealy mouthed way of advocating for violence
Yes and they should do so before anyone draws any conclusions from this.
Not the parent.

I have noticed there are two kinds of trust relationships. The first is pure office politics. You have long term creditability, therefore everyone knows not to try their manipulative tactics on you, engage with you professionally, and therefore you have a trust relationship. This is akin to being a made man.

The second kind of trust relationship I have encountered are with very religious devout people who believe they are doing God’s will to help others and with people who have sense of humor that builds people up not take them down. They don’t take themselves too seriously and just want do a good job and get along with everyone.
Have you actually listened to the interviews with the pilots? The debunking videos offered do not explain what they saw or experienced. Choosing the debunking guys explanation means that you basically have to believe in a conspiracy involving the pilots. So you're back to square one.
Most of my cards aren't embossed at this point. They'd have to write the information by hand.
always thougt this to be an attempt to tap into a wider market, but maybe this is the next step after making the main target less attractive for attackers
Nice this does the job, probably could be done more efficiently, but I like that its not a kitchen-sink library. Unfortunate that the data generator is certainly not "clean C"... perl, ruby, and julia, all to generate character width table? Ugh. Otherwise this lib does a pretty good job. Thanks for the reference!

edit* Yikes https://github.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc/blob/master/utf8pro...
Still this is a good template to maybe cut a (safter) state-based iterator out of their logic...
> The only way to bring prices of individual dwelling units down in this case is to build more dense housing, and that involves a lot of politics.

That has never occurred here. Increased availability results in higher prices. The only exception was the housing crash of 2008 when banks found themselves holding tremendous quantities of properties they didn’t want.

This isn’t the west coast. Geography for new construction is nearly unlimited. If the price of construction is too high in one area then nobody will build there when instead they can build everywhere else.

If you want to decrease housing prices here you stop allowing construction, both residential and commercial, which redirects growth to other areas, but that only works if exclusivity does not set in.

Perhaps it’s the inability of people on the west coast to tell the difference between pricing and availability that allows prices to run away to astronomical numbers.
Any sources? Happy Zoho customer here.
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It's not my framing, it's the opinion of the electorate. You don't need to convince me, you need to convince them.

My framing would be that if you look at the consensus opinion of scientists on the effects of climate change, it's going to cost a few percentage points of GDP by 2100 over what we would otherwise have. Which is nothing to get hysterical about, but it would be worth doing something about it to lessen the risks of worst case scenarios. That something would be a carbon tax with the proceeds used to scrub CO2 and to do similar actions to mitigate the effects of climate change.

But a carbon tax has a 0.0% chance of being enacted. It has no political support, and if it costs the public more than a few dollars a month, they vote no.
I don't understand you. Humans are objectively the smartest animals, and the iPhone and SQL are proof of that.