skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU<->North America airspace was basically closed. Took a while to make-up the cargo space of cancelled passenger flights going back-and-forth.

Didn't help that people bought more and more online and would order inter-continentally if they had to (I know I did!).
Impressed the page opened (albeit after 10 seconds) for a high up HN post!
The volunteers who wrote by hand learned unfamiliar letters more quickly, and did better on some related tasks after a small number of alphabet lessons: 'naming letters, writing letters, spelling words, and reading words'. It's not very surprising that physically forming a set of symbols will get their shapes into your head quicker than simply pressing the corresponding buttons. But that doesn't tell us much about any potential benefits beyond this very early, low-level learning.

Learning higher-level features of the language (and even growing your vocabulary, once you've got past the point where letter shapes are a stumbling block) could just as easily be slowed down by handwriting, for the same reasons that it apparently helps in the complete beginner phase -- it forces you to slow down and expend more effort on the low-level task of letter formation.
We've definitely achieved progress on this sort of scale with transistor density. Not that it's at all similar, but it's interesting to observe that we do seem to be able to occasionally bring things within our grasp that would have sounded absolutely silly a lifetime ago.
I also like this one after initial fame but still before Love SHack and all that (from 1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBDlOk0V6Y
> Why do I need to?

Because you're the one making the claim. You claimed that you need "financial instruments" to "insulate" yourself. Do you have an example of this or not?

> It's well documented that the US has secondary sanctions on Cuba

1) That's about private lawsuits, not government sanctions, "secondary" or otherwise.
2) It only applies to people who directly traffic in confiscated U.S. property, not to generic trade with Cuba.
3) No one has ever successfully pressed a claim or collected any compensation under that statute.
That sounds awesome. Best of luck.

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Ask yourself who is CTO you seek?
There is a certain thing that I realized and got somewhat good at only recently: what we call a social "skill" is a bidirectional skill of performance and appreciation. It has to be, to be communicative.

Therefore, being "good" at socializing is extremely contextual. People speak of having a different personality when they speak a foreign language. This is a predictable outcome, since without total fluency, they will neither speak nor listen with identical competence.

And this also means that a group like a high school class can have a nominal social order, but it's premised on popular appreciation, which molds a certain "type" into the cool kids - the ones who actively work on appealing to a broad "teen audience" in their communication. After getting a little bit of an edge, it self-reenforces and becomes what that class knows to appreciate, at which point the cool kid's performance skills don't actually have to progress much further and they can just coast along the wave through graduation.

It's more often people who can't be appreciated in what they're doing yet(immaturity from their classmates, lack of direction from parents and teachers, unusual thought patterns etc.) who get the "outcast" label. For the most part, they are not "bad" at socialising, they're just tuned differently.

And so if you go to a gathering assuming "actually, maybe everyone is pretty bad at communicating on average" and then look for ways to fill in gaps according to their filters and preferences, the doors can open really fast. It just takes a lot of knowing oneself to succeed, since your ability to adapt style can only go so far - you're better off giving an amazing performance in the communication styles you're good at than a mediocre one in a popular, more competitive style.
I didn’t refer to sucrose. I said starches which are popular alternative carbohydrate sources to sugar. As far as sugars go, dextrose and maltose are much more easily digested than fructose.
The title of this article should really read "Handwriting may be better than typing when learning the Arabic alphabet, underpowered study with n=42 finds".

Science reporting really needs to start doing better.
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Back in 2012 I tried the QR code on business card to download a vcard bit... it did not really garner any attention which was unfortunate. Seemed brilliant at the time. Could be I just was not an interesting individual though.

Restaurant wise it definitely is annoying when there is a QR code for a menu, another for the beer menu, and another for the specials. Even better when the printed out QR code is cut off and doesn't load correctly.
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> Use `reflect.Value.Select`

Never really a good idea, and never necessary.

> create a single channel owned by the reader

Channels cannot be effectively owned by their reader(s), the contortions you have to bend the code into to make that work never really make sense. That's just a constraint of the type, but it's hardly a problem -- it makes the thing easier to model. So this isn't really an option on the table.

> a Merge function

Yes! The answer. And goroutine per channel is kind of the point of using them! Nothing inefficient about it.

> a function that takes two channels . . .

Now there's some inefficiency! ;) No reason to do this, given Merge.

--

> None of these options are particularly intuitive.

The merge option seems perfectly intuitive to me, assuming you understand channels have to be owned by a singular writer.
It doesn't guarantee that causality is protected, but it certainly seems pretty suggestive that GR creates a big infeasibility region for positive-mass objects (outside of the future-past light cone). There are ways you could still violate causality despite this restriction, but it makes it a lot harder. There's no particular reason we couldn't have a ++++ spacetime, which wouldn't have this form of causal censorship, so I count this as one more piece of evidence towards "maybe causality violation is impossible".
Come as you are. It is sold as a book about sex but it’s a (pop-) psychology book. Compassionate, practical, empowering.

Punished by rewards by Alfie Kohn. The amount of research showing that incentivizing people kills internal motivation is… staggering.
The real gem of this talk, in my opinion, is not "How Herrmann Minkowski Led Physics Astray" -- but rather the various quotes of Einstein, dug up by the Author.

These quotes, apparently written by Einstein himself, are supremely interesting -- because if they're true, they apparently contradict the popular view that Einstein stated that the speed of light is constant...

For example, at time 18:00 approximately:

https://youtu.be/TDjgQ_megMI?t=1080

We see:

"...the speed of light is no constant, but depends on position. Therefore one is forced to generalize the theory of space and time, known as relativity..."

-Albert Einstein, 1913, The Swiss writings, p. 479

That's just one example -- there are many others in this video -- which is well worth watching and re-watching in the future, in my opinion...

Also, another idea which I think is highly important is expressed in the video at approximately 22:44:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDjgQ_megMI&t=1365s

Where the Author presents the following outline:

"Elements Of Scientific Revolutions"

1. Visionary Idea

2. Revolutionary Equation

3. Elimination of one or more constants of nature

The Author goes on to show several examples in the history of physics where the above was accomplished; and, of the three, the most important would seem (to me!) to be #3, Elimination of one or more constants of nature...

Prediction: A future Physics -- will have no mathematical constants.

In that future Physics -- every single thing that was previously defined by a constant in today's Physics -- will instead be replaced by an equation; a function...
I love reading about and being reminded of these classic games!

I played Defender on an Atari 2600 in Brazil in the early 1980s and remember the ship would disappear when you fired, probably because the 2600 could only draw a limited number of objects on the screen at once.

Here is a blog post with memories of some old games compared to recent ones: https://hypertexthero.com/space-invaders-brazilian-cerrado/
Distributed processing at massive scale...used for data transformation, stateless algorithm deployment, data mining/discovery at scale. If memory serves me correctly, still used at EBay, Google and other companies for very low level work.
It’s not that simple. Sometimes the lease is a better deal if you fall into the correct mileage band or if a manufacturer over estimates residual value. This happens a lot for fast depreciation luxury cars that aren’t a as popular or low end economy cars that manufacturers are dumping.
The theory laid out in Sapiens is that Neanderthals, along with other early humans like Denisovans, lacked the ability for symbolism, and that ability is what makes humans human. Chimps and Neanderthals can communicate and make tools and maybe even discuss hunting. But only humans can tell stories of an imaginary man-bird hybrid who we must sacrifice to.
Isn’t the main reason people like Delaware because the corporate law is very well understood? There’s case law going back hundreds of years. What does Wyoming offer that trumps that?
Tesla stockholders, not Tesla owners, but yes.
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Well, in the very least our language AI bots can probably create better wordplay than this train wreck. Not especially impressive though.
Are we also willing to just start accepting lower quality code (on average) because we have AI guiding us towards it.

What's the point of striving to write better, more correct code, being a safer driver, if all we ever do is rely on the status quo to train models to be average?
As noted above, no one has ever successfully filed and collected under that statute.

Also, since 2019? What about the previous 60 years?
I honestly think this is where things are going. Man-machine partnership on creative tasks. Not only is it more amenable to current models, it’s higher leverage and less likely to be completely automated away.

I wrote a little about this shift to what I think of as “conversational programming”: https://jessmart.in/articles/copilot
My friend recently learned that cities have been banning their rodent control teams from using dry ice to attack rat nests- even though it seems very effective when spending 1/10th the price of existing rodent solutions.

They forbid the use of dry ice because it's not a registered pesticide.

The friend immediately cursed the city, saying how this is an example of corruption, and whoever sells the traditional rat bait has someone's ear, and maybe their pocket, and we're all suffering because workers can't use the cheap, more effective solution.

That of course has to be part of the story, but I always like to look beyond the easy cynical answer to this stuff, so over the following days my mind wandered to why we have a regulation that only registered pesticides can be used.

And it dawned on me that there are a lot of things (like toxic waste) that will kill (at least) rats. Companies are currently forced to pay money to dispose of their toxic waste, but with the right connections, they could instead sell the toxic waste to their buddy in the rat-poisoning business to dispose of in alleys and planters across the city.

Couldn't something like _that_ inspire the rule about registered pesticides? My friend said that I was actually the cynical one, and that my theory was beyond what was reasonably possible. But here we are, spraying the fracking fluid on the road as 'de-icer'
My cousin's wife did the same thing. She used to work in a bakery and since the bakery closed she switched to being a real estate agent. I think it's because real estate has good commission (at least in theory). But if the market is flooded with agents this'll just be another over supplied labor market niche. Then again, people are always buying/selling real estate so it does have job security in that aspect.
Ok, So your argument is that someone at a Telsa factory did shady shit, so then the company should accept any third parties fixes?

As far as the shoddy work, people keep acting like Telsa is a hivemind, and that every dept. in the company had signed off on these bad choices as a matter of corporate policy. Doesn't seem far more likely somebody working in the factory was worried about making quota, and did a very shitty job?

And as far as the "Not every repair needs to be done with perfect oem replacement parts." I agree, but that should be the owner of the car's choice, and in this case the car is owned by Telsa.
There is HDFS, which has aged better, and the old MapReduce 'query' processing system which has aged worse. (Replaced by Spark and about 10 other things.)

There is a large supply of firms that would like to dethrone HDFS, because they think customers think that paying to 3x replicate the data is too much. (The winner is Amazon S3 where you pay even more!)

Maybe the scene has changed, ceph has made some inroads, but HDFS has the amazing property of being almost as fast running in degraded mode as it is normally, thus being fast enough that it can regrade faster than it degrades.

A big cluster is going to be partially degraded a lot so it matters.
An older bmw could easily cost you 3-5k a year in repairs . Couple that with lesser but still substantial depreciation and you might find it too be a lot more expensive than you thought.
The Gen 1 Tesla Roadster was a license built Lotus Elise. The Lotus Elise had a Toyota motor, the Tesla was all electric, what other Toyota parts are you talking about? Did they also use Toyota accessories?
Faster and more fun to write it yourself.
Wow, I did not know this and am honestly a bit emotional finding this out. Those quarries were iconic and a magical way to spend an evening at a time in my life when I felt absolutely free, for better or worse.

On the bright side, Bloomington has other hidden gems (for now) that elicited similar feelings.
Ocean shipping is dirt cheap. Look at all the stuff we import from China.
They actually mention the intercept and link to their article. That's more than 9\d% of publications usually do, so I believe they deserve nothing but praise.

The article is also extremely detailed and includes lots of original material. I stopped counting at around two dozen different people the reporters called for this article.

First reporting a story doesn't create any moral or legal ownership of the facts. Otherwise, it'd be impossible for any but the largest publications to survive. And it's even more asinine to complain about a publication putting in the effort to go further and deeper as they do in this case.
Of the six languages I have studied (including Arabic as described in the article), not one of the programs have included using a keyboard, but then again I studied the last of these well over a decade ago.

I am surprised keyboards would be used, especially for a language like Arabic whose writing system is inherently "cursive" and pretty deeply tied to the language's cultural identity.

Is computer keyboard based language learning actually a significant thing these days?
Man, that reminds me of the time I cracked an oil pan in my old MB 190e. I was going to a trail head for a planned hike, and the vehicle markings were....ambiguous.

I followed some tracks between two trees, but a wheel dropped into a pothole in the dirt, bottoming out right over a big ass rock which nicked the side of the pan, cracking it wide open. It can and does happen.

Oil pans are metal and can usually handle a gopher or a 2-by-4. They are also usually guarded by a subframe to which the motor mounts attach.

I don't know that Tesla uses glycol, which is pretty darn poisonous, I was under the impression it was HOAT, which is much less so, still not good, but who knows.

I can see from the video there is a large plate that was supposed to shield this part, that the debris worked its way around, yanking on the poorly moored cooling line, cracking the coolant port. On consideration this looks a lot more like a fluke, so your point is well taken.
In the usa there is established law that a car maker cannot void the warranty just because of a repair or modification you did. They have to prove that what you did actually caused the problem. For minor issues dealers will often screw you anyway, but when facing a 16k bill you could certainly lawyer up a little
I'll add, hackers are also super fond of non-obvious, counterintuitive solutions to hard problems.
Exactly this. I have a hard time using Roam Research now that I'm on org-roam, but org-roam DOES feel slower and have more friction. One of those cumulation of little things that make it so, I suppose.
No, not "observing your own past". Instead, your past self could observe your future self. And then your future self could turn their FTL ship around and run you over, killing their past self and creating a paradox.

https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/l9sba/why_does_...
Must be a market specific model, because that one shows up for me in the .com tld but not in the regional one :-(

But from there I've started digging and they have so many different models with similar appearances... Anyone knows the difference between fx-82ES and fx-82SPXII?
I think Copilot-like tools could be excellent for the exploration phase. Marvin Minsky mused on this usage back in 1967:

> The programmer does not even have to be exact in his own ideas‑he may have a range of acceptable computer answers in mind and may be content if the computer's answers do not step out of this range. The programmer does not have to fixate the computer with particular processes. In a range of uncertainty he may ask the computer to generate new procedures, or he may recommend rules of selection and give the computer advice about which choices to make. Thus, computers do not have to be programmed with extremely clear and precise formulations of what is to be executed, or how to do it.

From: https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%2...
It's complex. 100N of thrust is really nothing. The Falcon 9's Merlin engine can produce 900,000N of thrust, for comparison.

But that specific impulse (Isp) is what's interesting. Isp is fuel efficiency, and for most trips in space fuel makes up most of your mass. A big improvement in Isp means a lot less mass to get where you're going.

Merlin has an Isp of 311s. These folks are talking about an Isp of 50,000s.
> it would have been easier to replace the pack AND then part out the old pack

That's what Tesla should have done. Charge $16k for a new pack including a $15k core charge. They aren't out the cost of the whole pack and the customer doesn't get screwed over.
>It isn't irresponsible to use turn-by-turn navigation (and I don't think GP is implying that)

They wrote:

"...intentional decision making processes that lead up to a crash (for instance, using an app to navigate..."

They straight out stated that using navigation predictably leads to crashes and must be regarded as intentional.

So I don't see any way to avoid the conclusion that they think navigation is ethically and practically the same as DUI/DWI.
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I wonder if this is a statistical bias where we intuitively over sample one group while under sampling another and then average over the sample.

The urban poor is probably a lot more numerous than the rural poor, but when thinking about the poor we tend to think about the rural communities. I don’t know how the numbers but common belief is that in the rural areas the poor make up a larger proportion of the total population then in urban areas. However the urban population is a lot larger then the rural population.

So in absolute numbers there might be more urban poor (which are forced to commute by walking/biking/public transit, etc.) then there are rural poor. So—in absolute numbers—it is not unlikely—though counter-intuitive—that rich car usage outnumbers poor car usage by a lot.

On top of that, one can be forgiven for under count the number of working class folks which work close to where they live. The lower classes hold the majority of service jobs, which are often located in the residential neighborhoods. And then majority of all neighborhoods are not gentrified and have affordable (or at least not ridiculously high) rent.
> The US threatens to sanction any country doing business with Cuba.

No, they don't. Canada, right next door, has a vast amount of trade with Cuba. No "threats" are in play.
This is a leased vehicle, meaning that “right to repair” is not associated at all unless you wish to break the lease agreement and owe BIG $$$. All leases are essentially like initial warranties. The dealer has to fix or your warranty goes invalid.

This is a mute argument.
Just downloaded and installed Scailer on a Windows 10 PC. I was able to hook my Gmail account into it without any problems at all. When I attempted to add my Yahoo account, it didn't work. I would imagine Yahoo is still quite popular but it was not listed. I had to use Other Provider, which is fine, except that it didn't work. It eventually threw the error: Cannon connect to SMTP Server. SMTP server replied with status 535: 5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad auth attempts. I tried the Manual way and all of the information pre-filled in the fields was exactly what the settings Yahoo suggests I use. Now to be fair, I had this same problem while attempting to test another email client.
To me it looks like a grip.
Luckily, I am safe, as I am using company table name :)
As someone who has a great deal of experience working on high performance cars and racing them, I feel your characterization of this fix as a “hack” is ridiculous. People do more questionable fixes and ferraris and lambos regularly.
Second graph starts with "2011", so the slightly better wrong take would be to fault President Obama for this.

Later on, we learn the law at the time was from 1975, and the Obama administration did finally succeed in 2016 to update it. Want to bet which party tried to delay and weaken it at every opportunity?
That was exactly my point. Perhaps a clearer, if much more verbose phrasing, would be: "If you've used org-roam before and then moved to Obsidian, what are the benefits you realize only after moving to Obsidian?"

I don't know these because I haven't tried Obsidian myself and I suspect if there are benefits they won't be immediately obvious without some sustained use.
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