skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily Adams popped the “defund the police” bubble pretty decisively: https://nypost.com/2021/07/10/eric-adams-win-in-high-crime-a...

> In the 75th Precinct of Brooklyn’s East New York, which has seen nine murders and 34 shootings in 2021, Adams clobbered all others with up to 77.9 percent of the vote. He also took up to 60 percent in the Southwest Bronx’s 44th Precinct where there were eight murders and 44 shootings so far this year.

Folks paying attention might also have noticed that Black mayors serving primarily Black constituencies, such as in Baltimore and Atlanta, quickly rejected defund rhetoric.

The scary thing about all this to me, as a person of color, is that we have very little way to control the narrative around our own identities. After the Atlanta message spa murders, I saw all these “Asian Studies” professors and activists on CNN and other outlets purporting to present the Asian viewpoint. All I could think of is “my Asian parents would never have let me study a social science—what insight can this person really offer?” Along with “I wonder if you can get tenure at Columbia University writing from the perspective of my mom and aunts?”

I mean, imagine CNN hosting some Columbia University professor to weigh in on Italian American or Irish American issues. Nobody would take that seriously, right?

It’s really disempowering. Not only for our ability to independently assert our own political interests. But also for our ability to socialize our children in our values.
Yeah but it’s a dry heat
I think even the apolitical stuff causes a different flavor of the same anxiety though on some deeper level based on the comparing-your-insides-to-other-peoples-outsides phenomena. What I cant figure out is why so many of my artist friends are on there so willingly with seemingly no conscious awareness of any toxic effects. I seriously feel like my partner and I are the only artists who find IG toxic but we have to be on there because its essentially required for anyone in the arts...
The Zune was the best hardware by far
> Using a black skin that's part of the game is not cheating if you ask me. Editing a skin to have a bright pink that didn't exist in the game however is cheating.

The entirely black skin was 3rd-party content, not an artifact from the official game. But yeah, no big deal either way.
Roberts has been associated with Epstein (like Gates), so how is that "bizarre"?

FYI: all of the election lawsuits had a kernel of truth, but I would agree about "incompetent" - the problem is that lawyers often are not election experts or voting machine experts. Also they were pressed for time on filing.
How is dairy, a food that was almost unobtainable before agriculture (that 60% of the world is intolerant to) a part of the food pyramid most people NEED two-three servings a day of?
They don't install the apps for the purpose of seeing advertising, and there's no way to opt out of the ads, so I don't think that is a good assessment.
Where can I find a science-based food pyramid chart?
Yes, as well as for the window titles and panel bars for system status and other things. The resolution I'm mostly using right now is 1366x768.

When I decided on that font I was using a netbook though, so the screen was quite smaller. The 5px font[1] allowed me to have terminals side-by-side on a tiling WM and still get 75 columns. Without it, I probably would have had to stick to seeing just one window at a time.

I've since stopped using a netbook, but I still like maxing out my screen/terminal real-state with it. Right now on the resolution I said it's letting me have 3 terminals of 75 columns side-by-side. Although, I normally just stick to 2 terminals of 113 columns for those times when lines go over 80.

Anyway, I find the font so crisp and readable that I've never felt a desire to change it. I'm getting a bit tempted by the font of this post, though.

[1] It's actually one of the 6px-wide ones, the 6x9 version, but that includes the space to separate characters. I said 5px to compare with the HN title which says 4px despite that not including the spacing.
I am trying to get out of a solar lease for the new house we bought and Tesla is saying the fair market value for 9 year old 4kW solar panels is $15k which is double the price of an 8kW system. I hate Tesla with a passion.
This is a “withholding rate” (how much tax your employer will deduct from your paycheck) not an actual tax rate that you will owe
TL;DR: It isn't. And that is a big contributor to expressions of wrong.
There are some day jobs in OSS btw:

https://www.fossjobs.net/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources
Life's complexity constantly increases, but our available time is fixed... we need a community-run automated-- and user-reported addon analysis and checking service, provided though another addon, which notifies you when one of your installed (or currently page open) addons "goes to the darkside"... sigh
Same thing with factories. They flex demand based on electricity pricing.
On the way down from some ketamine I fell asleep in my VR headset while virtually inside someone else's room (high Res photogrammetry), that was spooky - took me a while to work out why I couldn't see my arms.
what else was it supposed to be? An educational website?
And civil servants [Yes Minister]
If you're interested in a more structured approach to Lego robots, you should check out FIRST Lego League! [0]

It's a competition where kids learn not just how to program the robot, but important critical thinking skills, how to appropriately attack a problem, and how to make a measurable impact in their communities.

FIRST makes it easy for parents to start a team for a small group of kids in your neighborhood, and provides structure, mentorship, and the competition format at the end of the season.

Disclosure: I occasionally judge FLL events. These kids are some of the most amazing and inspiring children I've encountered, and I recommend it simply because I think it's a fantastic program.

[0]: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/fll
Conformally symmetric critical systems are often, though not always, studied by modeling them by conformal field theories, which do involve an action obeying a conformal symmetry. A good reference about conformal field theories is any book or paper by John Cardy who is exceptionally clear. Here is a good one where he shows an action of a CFT at the beginning of section 3.0.1: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3472

For some reason the Wikipedia page on CFT’s says they are quantum which can be true but is certainly not necessarily the case, and a huge amount of the beautiful mathematics of CFTs was worked out for purely classical systems (classical statistical mechanics). The whole subject is a triumph of the 20th century and deserves to be better known.

I’m pretty sure Noether’s theorem does apply to CFTs and is used quite heavily to analyze them. See for example these notes:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/tracingcurves.wordpress.com/201...
I think an issue here is that I know what NN outputs look like and have some folk intuition as to what psychedelics to do my brain, so I end up seeing what I want to see.
Iran faces its driest summer in fifty years
I'm running one and it makes no difference.
Even viewing the situation charitably, the ostensible reformers here jumped behind a slogan that literally sounds like “eliminate police funding.” It’s like getting behind a “shut down immigration” slogan then claiming you really mean to shut down family based immigration in favor of a point system.

It’s not just bad messaging. Police reformers got behind an inflammatory and extreme slogan and realized after the fact that they had overplayed their hand and overestimated support for the extreme position.
My nearest pharmacy doesn't sell many homeopathics, and I live in the USA - land of the hucksters and home of the deregulators.

It's got aisles for fungii, ears and eyes, cuts and bruises, stomach stuff, cold/flu/allergies, prophylactics, etc etc. But the closest thing to unapproved cure-alls are the stronger sort of cough drops.

There are plenty of stores that sell sketchy supplements, but they usually don't have prescription pickup counters with pharmacists.
Top Selling Mobile Phones (1992 – 2021 Q1)
In today video, we'll look at which phone brand sold the most from 1992 - 2021 Q1 all time sales!

Note: The years represent when the phones were released into the market, not the number sold in that particular year. The number sold represents how many units were sold throughout its whole lifetime. The first cell phone was produced by Motorola. Since then there had been produced around 17.37 billion mobile phones as of 2015

The best-selling mobile devices are the Nokia 1100 and Nokia 1110, two bar phones released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Both have sold over 250 million units. The best-selling touchscreen phones are the Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, both released in 2014. Together, they have sold over 220 million units.
There are different kind of online game players.

There is an old write-up[1] about MUDs, the ancestors of modern MMORPGs. Players are categorized into 4 archetypes: hearts, clubs, diamonds, and spades, also called socializers, killers, achievers and explorers respectively.

Socializers and killers are the extroverts. They play the game for the multiplayer aspect, socializers see the game as a communication platform while killers see it as a way to get attention. Achievers and explorers are the introverts, and for them, the multiplayer aspect is not really important.

I have a few friends in the first category. They are very far from being socially isolated, even if they spend thousands of hours gaming.

[1] https://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm
musk hired a pi after making defamatory claims

the absolute STATE of musk apologists jfc
I saw about `hck` recently on twitter, was impressed to see support for compressed files. From the current todo list, I hope complement is implemented for sure.

I see Negative index is currently "unlikely". I'm writing a similar tool [0], but with bash+awk. I solved the negative index support with a `-n` option, which changes the range syntax to `:` instead of `-` character.

My biggest trouble came with literal field separator [1], because FS can only be specified as a string in awk and backslash is a metacharacter for both string and regexp.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/regexp-cut

[1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/escaping-madness-awk-litera...
Doing a piece on 'fiendishly difficult games' without mention "I wanna be the guy" is like doing a piece on the 'sci-fi horror movies' without mentioning 'Alien'.
I think the article is better this way, especially since the author didn't really tie the previous info to their experience.
If you're not going to use the default RpiOS GUI (which honestly is actually very good), you can start with RpiOS Lite and then just add whatever desktop you want.
You will eliminate certain products, which probably includes airpods. Serviceability can have a real cost. And if you are on the cutting edge it cannot simply be added.

Not that I think that's a problem. I would be happy with companies being forced to engineer for serviceability.
We're at the point where residential solar is expensive not because it's solar, but just because hiring a contractor to do anything in any growing metro area is unreasonably expensive.
'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memories like 25-year-olds
Pretty much thanks to Tesla.

Electric cars wouldn't be anywhere near where they are today without him - whatever we may think of his personality, the advancements in tech and environmental impacts for generations to come are real.
I saw a segment 15 years ago about "biodynamic" hydroponics. Not sure if that's a real term or whether I'm even remembering it right, but as I recall the concept was that your grow is more or less a completely closed system that involved fish circulating nutrients through the system. As you say, you don't add nutrients from far off places. The fish feed the plants and the plants feed the fish. In that segment, the fish were tilapia. It seemed perfect and has captured my imagination this whole time.
I built a rpi for games and it was OK but never got any use. One thing I ended up using it for was taking to the office and plugging it into my work monitor. With a BT keyboard and phone hotspot for internet.
good call, I'll work on it
It must take a lot of coal to make steel. The mine I used to work for shipped 3-4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal to Japan every year.
Trane has a PDF that mentions University of Arizona saving a little under half a million dollars a year using off peak energy prices and ice cooling for storage.

https://www.trane.com/Commercial/Uploads/PDF/ContinuingEduca...
Can you show me a snuggle ad with a disabled person in it
One benefit with genetic algorithms is the fact that it can handle multiple objectives, like the NSGA-II algorithm. I used it to evolve a neural net in my master thesis.
After two or three years at my previous job (first out of college), I felt like I had learned all I could there. They promoted me to senior, but the pay was pretty low (Another company had offered me more at a mid-level position). I jumped after a few weeks for a startup and now I'm not bored and work completely remotely. If I could do it again, I would have left sooner. If you're bored, you need to leave. Sometimes there isn't more for you to learn at certain places.
Here's `tac` in rust, with simd optimizations (in the simd branch, I haven't gotten around to releasing it although the only thing missing is dynamically detecting simd support instead of doing it at compile time):

https://github.com/neosmart/tac

and `rewrite`, which I've been told is akin to gnu sponge, "rewritten" in rust:

https://github.com/neosmart/rewrite
That explains the couple of emails I received from random people asking if I want to sell my extension. Very enlightening.
> No research is going to replace the carbon in steel with something clean

Is that what you meant to say? How is carbon in steel not "clean"?
To your first question, probably not any time soon. The main quantum algorithm for breaking (certain types of) cryptography is Shor’s algorithm, and will probably need error-corrected quantum computers with at least hundreds of logical qubits to beat classical methods. That translates into thousands of physical qubits of very high quality with exquisite control over them and interconnectivity.

If my answer makes it sound like the prospect of quantum computers is overhyped that’s because it most definitely is.

A somewhat smaller version of this quantum simulator from Harvard has been studied a lot in the past and given high enough quality results on various benchmark tests that the community is convinced the author’s claims about it are legit.
that sounds like email, with more steps and slack integration.
All that's gonna mean is that instead of some middle-class IT worker who has saved up a deposit for a second home buying it themselves, they'll put that money into an investment fund and they will buy the home.
Kind of like reddit or YouTube when you're not singed in. The amount of garbage takes your breath away. Neither is not great anyway but then you find it can be worse.
And to bring this all full-circle, part of the reason why Acorn was broken up was that Apple specifically was interested in using ARM2 as a low-power chip for the Newton. ARM Holdings was originally an Acorn/VLSI/Apple joint venture.
My response was the same. Those divers are very high quality humans.

I feel good people like that walk among us.
Why is clicking ads a function from the space of ads to the space of ads?

Why is it a metric space? Why is it a contraction?
Oh, so what? It's totally normal to make up baseless accusations, abuse accuse some guy of some specified sexual crime and try to destroy their life and reputation. This is normal, and good. The shining example of one of the greatest things our beautiful culture has given us. The ability to sidestep our ageing legal system and hang men who deserve it anyway for stuff we choose to accuse them of. Thank you to 3rd wave feminism and metoo for normalizing this long overdue vigilantism against the evil patriarchy that's been the only thing blocking and destroying women from their potential forever. So what if some "Innocents" get caught up in the cross fire? Who cares if Musk wields the same axe? The more important thing is that we have a chance to do it to them for once. We have to destroy male confidence and get them running scared, that's the only power we have over that pernicious make privilege and false sexual entitlement to women's bodies. We need to use this scalpel to remake evil traditional male sexuality to not be toxic to modern women, that's the only thing that matters, whatever the cost. How is that not obvious?
Are you able to plot multiple routes yet?
Thousands of Sea Creatures Found Boiled Alive After Canada's Deadly Heatwave
> From what I've read, the frequency of the grid is closely monitored at all times, and a lot of effort goes into keeping it at or near the target.

Can confirm, did some work in a power station. The frequency is displayed in very large font front and centre of the control room. It's really a leading indicator of the health of the network, so any fluctuations are monitored very closely and the operators would sometimes jump on the phone with nearby generators if it starts doing something unexpected.

Another interesting fact, in the control room there was also an indicator showing the frequency adjusted clock time. Older clocks (like many of those bedside alarms) used the 50/60Hz as a clock rather than using a built-in crystal, so it was important to make sure that over time the frequency did average out to 50/60Hz to keep clocks in sync.
I was watching this and wondering if a simplified version of this could be used for mushrooms. Then I saw the very first comment to his YouTube video linking an unlisted video showing a timelapse of oyster mushrooms fruiting. Nice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVYh4hm-wJ4
Perfect for the new pray to the government, pray to the science generation.
That's odd, I'm on iOS 15 and don't see it yet.
Try the current rage here: Karaage no Tensai (Fried Chicken Genius). It's a greasy mess of fatty bits. I could barely finish a serving. I suppose there's always a line due to the massive portions.

There's good and bad, just like everywhere else -- excluding South Korea. Korean fried chicken is simply next level.
> “Boreout is chronic boredom. That sums it up,”

Bored at work is a problem? And in a cubicle? You have the internet in your pocket and bluetooth headphones in your ears, no work to do, you're getting paid, and people are complaining about this?

I seriously hope this article is part of some shadowy PR campaign to make people work harder or justify austerity or something. It's hard to believe this is BBC.

People work for money. Money can be exchanged for goods and services. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81DYZh6KaQ

> What happens more often, she says, is that people will just show up at their desks and spend time shopping online, cyberloafing, chatting with colleagues or planning other activities. She says that these people aren’t lazy, but are using these behaviours as “coping mechanisms”.

Shopping online, talking to friends, and planning other activities are all things everyone needs to do. They're not coping mechanisms, this is just people getting all their stuff done at work so they have more time to do things important to them.

> Harju describes boreout as “kind of a signature syndrome” of the pandemic; our ennui fueled by too much time in Zoom meetings, surrounded by the same four walls.

Does Harju understand that the organization has made the decision to pay people to attend them?

How anyone can see a job as anything other than a way to sell time for money is beyond me.

Being bored at work would be wonderful. Being bored remote is even better. If I could just get the paycheck and benefits and have absolutely 0 obligations to the company, that would be optimal.
Intriguing take.

Priorities. Our world could be very different given a reconsideration of what is worth what.

And some of us live more in that world, lucky to have agency, fellowship, resources to make it work.

Humanity is partitioned. Not all sets makes sense.
Often one is not really interested in solving Ax=b for all possible b but just one particular b. In that case one can iteratively solve for x by algorithms like conjugate gradient which only require multiplying A times the current best guess for x, which can be very fast and avoids numerical instability issues in many cases.
UDNRP seems to apply quite readily to this situation.
I don't know anything about solar panel recycling, but it's worth noting that other means of power generation via solar energy exist [1][2][3], most of which depend on mirror-concentrated heat and don't necessarily involve toxic chemicals or rare earth mineral extraction.

Photovoltaics have largely left these technologies in the dust, but if the long tail of solar panel production becomes a significant environmental concern, alternatives do exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-powered_Stirling_engine

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-concentrating...

[3] https://www.seia.org/initiatives/concentrating-solar-power
Americans from Both Parties Want Weed to Be Legal. Why Doesn’t the Government
Why obsess with extreme financial goals? Or why set a ludicrous and say it's only aspirational?

The only possibly interesting reason to become a billionaire is to be able to donate money to various worthwhile causes. But done right that would be exhausting, and time-consuming, so I'm not interested.
My reaction to this is "Oh, I guess the freenode guy really is the bad guy in this drama after all." I'd chalked up all the drama as ego + misunderstanding, but this makes it easier to take sides!

So, thanks freenode guy for simplifying my life a little bit!
Can you show me any ad with a disabled person in it?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur Clarke

Having said that, While it may be possible that Aliens exist somewhere, I don't believe that it's very likely at all that they can come here.

Life in the Universe is isolated by long-distance, just like the divergent animals on desert islands in the vastness of the ocean.
unfortunately true
I'd take a salary cut for a cube any day.
There's likely not much illegal that they've done, and domain squatting isn't always illegal (and is very rarely fought over).
You have a brand new account with no comment history other than this post, yet you’ve taken the time to host screen shots and write multiple disparaging comments with baseless accusations to this post.

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Crikey. The only 6502/x86 mashup I was hitherto aware of was the curious BBC Master 512: http://www.cowsarenotpurple.co.uk/bbccomputer/master512/inde...
Let's see if he comes here trying to defend this as he did a couple of months ago.
That’s not true. It forces reels on you now (maybe feature flagged?), all kinds of random people you don’t follow. Instagram has become a hot mess.
And people have not forgotten.