skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't get why people use Twitter as a blog or think it's a good content platform. It's uncomfortable to read and scroll through. It's not even clear if you reached the end as for some reason a different list of tweets started and I had to click "Show this thread" (which I already opened via this permalink?) to read the rest.
If no one or to few talk about the problem, the problem will not be solved either. So both is needed, the talk and the doing. That means the talk is legitimate as well.
Not a bad read, probably the most succinctly worded self-help piece regarding time management that I've seen so far. I'm still not convinced I have to live like that. The site is ironically called sovereign-individual, yet the author seems to have every minute of their life bound by a schedule. Is that our ultimate purpose as humans?
I wish I was ballsy enough to criticize my employer and workplace like this.
Great tool, definitely will come in handy
It’s https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font. It’s a terminal font based on 70’s IBM terminals. It’s been used in art projects and on the cover of a magazine, and it’s offered packaged in the Debian and Ubuntu repos.
I don't know if it qualifies as a "mathematical coincidence" or not, but I find it amusing to demonstrate to kids that you can multiply 142,857 by 1, 2, 3, etc., and the result is always a number with the same digits but in a different order:

2 × 142,857 = 285,714

3 × 142,587 = 428,571

4 × 142,587 = 571,428

Etc. But then, suddenly:

7 × 142,857 = 999,999
For ongoing monitoring various US crops over the growing season,

https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/cj82k7...

Weekly weather and crop bulletin from the USDA.

For continual improvement over time in US corn yield, see

https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/YieldTren...

For continual improvement over time in US soybean yield, see

https://www.farmprogress.com/soybean/what-s-really-driving-h...

For current and forecasted global ag production, see

http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ca8861en

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2020-2029

https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/world-agricultural-production

Reading Gizmodo for ag is like reading AgWeb for the latest zero-day. It might be fine (the Gizmodo content on this year’s wheat crop mirrors the USDA reports cited above) but there are other sources for which it is their full time job.

For global ag, you might want to start with USDA or FAO for a fuller picture before putting a lot of faith on a single study saying anything definitive about global ag, especially purporting 20% differences over the entirety of world agricultural production.
That's not a conditioned response! I also once believed the same as you, and I have friends that are endlessly bootstrapping and spending 60+ hours a week on their startups. They are renters, that don't have much money or a family or relationship, and they pump every freelancing job they do into their new ideas.

There's no law that says this will pay off. They might end up in their mid forties with very little wealth or they might end up very rich.

These aren't conditioned responses. Grit isn't enough here. You need to make the right choice for your self depending on your own dreams and the likelihood of attaining them.

My point is, if you decide you want a family, you will need to stop pouring all of your money into your projects, as it will be difficult for everybody if you're in one bedroom of a shared house...
The disconnect is you have an opinion and I'm trying to inform you the effects of nationwide economic policy is a legitimate discipline of study.

This isn't about personal gumption and rugged individualism or some self-help personal bootstrap story. It's an economic policy question

Here's an example.
Let's say there's a formula for success rate, here we'll define it as generating more revenue than cost for the state over the lifetime of an individual.

A policy proposal, say your rugged individualism, has a given success rate, return on aggregate investment, confounding variables that can affect its outcome, etc. You can typify the classes of failures and bucket them into categories that can be characterized by cost, which is up for definition. It could include a loss of potential economic output for instance.

That's what we're talking about here. It's not story time, it's math, data collection and stats time.

The minimum wage question is "should it be legal to compensate a full time worker at a rate where their wages cannot cover some definition of sustination? And if so, how will the remaining slack be accounted for?" not whether someone can visualize their success and follow some 12 rules for life or whatever. It's not relevant

Quantitative economics used to be big in the US, kinda made it a world power. If you read newspapers from the 1930s it becomes obvious fast. How it got replaced with policy based on quite literally narrative fiction is for another conversation. It wasn't a good move, folklore is a terrible substitute for science.
You're exclusively focusing on the first generation of remote workers, which had already responded to an existing non-remote setup. A second or third generation of reliable remote work would play an entirely different strategy which would create a much different ecosystem.

Either way, it is irrelevant. The gravity of "work here"ism is much higher than the agency of the workers.

> If anything, tech's resistance of remote work is the struggle to preserve America's last community: the workplace.

That's overly charitable on several accounts. Tech, or any mega corp, can't have such an intention while being a machine that merely responds to a single ultimate parameter that is profit, in some shape or form. The fact that people could have a simulation of a community in the workplace is an externality they will tolerate, as long as HR is happy.

> Friendships born in the workplace are a staple of urban life, it's one of the few places left where you can regularly and guaranteedly meet with people.

How many of your workplace friends do you think would let you stay over for months should you find yourself homeless? Lend you $20K if need hits? Take care of you while sick? Be at your funeral? And vice versa?

Most of those folks we can make at a workplace are affiliates, acquaintances, not friends.
The OP is explicitly talking about an honest assessment of shortcomings. They're saying it's necessary. They said nothing about it being sufficient.

Presumably, the implicit message the OP tried to get across is to also work within the system to improve it.
Sorry if it's not thread related, but a while ago someone posted some kind of "comic" where the author tried to explain all the elements a good project visual/war room should have. If someone has a link I would really appreciate it.
Cryptocurrency is pretty damn close to the libertarian ideal and a lot of the community embraces that. I wouldn't call it "right wing" in the context of the USA left/right though.
An Approach to Teaching to Write Safe and Correct Imperative Programs in C* [pdf]
It was way ahead of IE for Windows.

http://tantek.com/log/2004/06.html
So I checked my Ads setting on Android. I have 'opt out of ads personalisation' set to on. So does this mean I am not sharing my maid with anyone via apps install? (I did just reset maid now for the heck of it)
Tether: The former plastic surgeon behind the crypto reserve currency
I get your point but there is definitely a difference between creating a platform where everybody is the same and a platform where engagement algorithms and recommendations push certain messages (or hashtags) to the top to be seen by millions.
Thanks! Immediately sent to my friends who are learning SQL!
South Africa Militias fill lawless vacuum after worst violence since Apartheid
It's statistical. They could genotype a subset of genetic markers. As long as the N of their sample is high enough (tens, hundreds), this would give sufficient precision to make a statement about in- vs out- group variability. These estimates have held up.
Here in the UK I worked for a small company in 2001. Each person recorded time spent on projects on one spreadsheet on a shared drive, a nightmare. I had a free website with uklinux (now no more) and in my spare time quickly knocked together a web based solution. Over a year or two I enhanced it, in my own time, and everyone liked it. But the company started losing money and one day the finance director came up to me and said my contract said that the system belonged to the company and I should hand it over. Well it was on my web site - I said no. Next day people complained they couldn't log in. I sent them to the finance director! Oh, and I had explained to the systems guys how to do a daily download of their data, so that was OK wasn't it? Next day finance director changed his mind.

The company did go bust, and only then did I open it up as a paid service. I ran it as a side project, but got a steady profit from it. Closed it when I retired.
For a reason unknown to me, Google (and other big tech firms), has to pick a political camp and strictly follow their agenda, key points of which you've just enumerated. I don't really know what would happen if Google said "we support strong borders and military from now on", perhaps an antitrust suit?
It's too late to edit it now, but that last link should be a [4] and so should the reference number by the last quote.
I don't like Twitter but I suspect the effects of Twitter are often exaggerated because everything is public by default, whereas in other networks a lot of stuff happens in groups/channels by default, where it is not immediately visible, so it is simply less amenable to OSINT, scraping and media analysis.

In any case, between Twitter and Google it is quite obvious who is doing more harm to more people in more places and more ways. Twitter may still be a net-negative overall (in fact I believe it is) - a lot of stuff is.
> Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, in which citizens are manipulated into an intelligence-based social hierarchy.

This is by far the WORST one line summary I've ever seen about that novel.
Yes, I seriously believe that Parler was shut down because of of big tech collusion and not because the users voluntarily abandoned it, disgusted by the content cultivated there. I can tell you why I believe it - because Parler was shut down by the collusion of big tech companies, while many many users (millions) were willing to go there and tolerate the type of content that you obviously don't like. It's something that is called "fact". After Parler was able to overcome the hostile actions of the big tech, they still have millions of users. You may not be one of them, and that's ok - you are free to use whatever networks you like, and if the content on Parler disgusts you, you're free to avoid it and join the network you like. What you're not entitled to do is to invent your own facts.

BTW, another fact - most of the planning for US Capitol protest that is known about actually happened on Facebook, and livestreaming the even also happened on Facebook and Youtube. Of course, nobody shut them down for that.
You probably mean steamed to death. if you blanch them, they mostly taste really good. of course, don't blanch potatos or something like that - but broccoli is a good example. Most people cook them until they are soft, but a short blanch is usually enough.
Twitter didn’t just make a simple communication platform, they made a platform and wrote algorithms that (intended or not) elevate extremist and divisive voices.

If they just made a simple chat app your metaphor would hold but they are directly responsible because they choose which content is shown and which isn’t.
This might be one of the best example of Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle talk [0]. I wish there are a lot of tutorial or course with the same quality as this one.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFc.

Original link on Vimeo is dead: https://vimeo.com/36579366.
LLVM was done much later in 2003 at the University of Illinois. More importantly LLVM has its own IR, LLVM IR, which is SSA-based. SSA was proposed in 1988 and Chow's work is from 1983.
Sure thing! Send me DM on Twitter (same as username).
If you feel any need to do that, you should probably consider looking for some different job. There's a karmic burden for making a living in an immoral way.
That is some nice cherry picking. Similar to how the Texas blizzard worked, the Greenland surface conditions are a result of the heat dome. From your own source[1]. I will be the first to admit that claiming the Texas Blizzard and the Heat dome were both directly due to climate change is a little disingenuous. But these things are definitely not normal, and one impact of climate change is that we will be getting a lot more chaos similar to these recent events.

And regrading your concerns about the modeling. I agree, the uncertainty is real and quite frankly that should scare you and everyone else. There is simply no way for humans to fully understand all of the different mechanisms at play. We are entering uncharted territory. We might get lucky and some dampening feedback emerges that we did not account for that moderates the climate impacts. Or we might get very unlucky and kick off a mechanism that results in our oceans boiling off killing all life. Most likely, we will end up somewhere in the middle of those two extremes and it will take quite a while before we get there. But once again, the uncertainty is massive. So we are essentially rolling the dice on the future of humanity all so a handful of fossil fuel executives can continue to line their pockets.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/14112805173166...
Agreed. I have no problem with that alignment as a political philosophy. But calling it "right wing" in US context implies the typical left/right divisive/alienating politicization. The entire thread is very delusional.
very useful - immediate feedback indicates a fresh approach to an old problem!
> Sugar isn't "objectively bad" in moderation

Can't the same be said of heroin, which in the UK is prescribed as a medication under the name diamorphine? Both of these substances can be safe in limited quantities, and both of them exploit vulnerabilities in human physiology or psychology that results in over-consumption being a very common outcome. One of them is strictly regulated when not banned outright, but the other is freely given to any kid who has spare pocket change, no questions asked.
I think the problem is exaggerated. Even with three ball joints, the action space is not that large since there are constraints on the velocity of the joints. They have to move gradually. So the actual action space is a lot smaller. A lot RL problem has similar continuity constraints, cuz in real world we are dealing with time series signals. I am not a expert in the RL domain yet, so I open myself to any opinion.
There's actual plenty of interesting (usually old) content that's obviously not an official project hosted at this kind of URLs. It's a bummer you can't use Google the search engine to discover them.

http://google.com/googledance2004
http://google.com/moon
http://google.com/googlegulp
http://google.com/heart
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In Romanian, they are called "căpițe de fân" (in english, in some abstract translation, means "heads of hay").
A certain public American company I used to work for reached 20 million users. They stayed at 20 million users for years. Sometimes they gained some from the competition, sometimes they lost. The net average was 20 million with no real way to grow.

The problem was, every quarter they had to show growth or their stock price would tank. This was a profitable company with lots of cash in reserve. The only way to grow was to merge with a larger company and essentially disappear from existence, transferring customers to a new rebranded service, which is exactly the same service but more expensive.

That expected quarterly growth is the bane of any company. And is why Netflix will jump into video games when it has no business doing so.
Calling Taiwan the real China isn't really accurate. I suspect had they managed to crush the Red army the nationalists would have done very similar things to keep control of the region given the instability after they tried to westernise
> although these days they have the courtesy to tell any poor fool looking at the documentation that Requests exists

Added up with "And when your project scales, Replace asyncio with uvloop, Coroutine with gevent, http.server with gunicorn and everything else with a cython based alternative".

Or personally I just say 'Use go instead' to someone who's just getting into programming for developing a project which could potentially scale.
> I think there's a good chance that interfaces with contrast, depth and well defined separation between elements are generally better suited to our eyes and brains.

Obviously. IRL everything has depth and many things have well-defined boundaries. Shadows are also a natural phenomenon that our brains have learned to interpret as a signal for depth.

In my own UIs, I still always use shadows and/or borders.
For perspective:

The GNU toolkit (gcc and coreutils at least) has been continuously developed for over thirty years of unbroken project history. Linux itself, if you are willing to do a bit of repository surgery[1], has a continuous commit history dating back to 1991. The X Window System was created in 1984, and you can still run GUI applications from that period[2] on a modern system. Even KDE is over twenty years old.

[1] https://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux

[2] http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2013/12/a-testament-to-x11...
I am very familiar with the lightning network. It only exists in toy form. What currently exists can not scale, and nobody know how to make it scale.

As it exists, it does not work beyond the toy levels of usage it is seeing today.
Don't you mean to say coverage, not capacity?

Capacity would be aggregate bandwidth, which is determined by the satellite's communications technology (number of transponders, spectrum allocated, modulation used, etc) rather than directly by which orbit it is in.

Comparing constellation sizes does make sense in determining total capacity (aggregate bandwidth of the constellation) assuming that Starlink and Kuiper use similar capacity satellites. I think that is a reasonable assumption, but we have limited info on what Kuiper are planning. Current Starlink satellites have on average 20 GBps capacity each. I can't find any public info on the planned capacity of Kuiper's satellites. Even if Kuiper has higher bandwidth satellites, they'd need a fourfold advantage in bandwidth to overcome Starlink's fourfold advantage in satellite count. And SpaceX is likely to increase the capacity of Starlink in future iterations, so even if Kuiper did have such a bandwidth advantage, it might not last.
Actually look for the real factors beyond "ethnicity".
It's amazing that a government can treat its citizens like chattel, and we have politicians here in the west that want to import that. It's disgusting
I just finished reading it yesterday and I don’t think that is too bad at all.

“Bred then manipulated” may be better.
https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/

i guess they were able to still sleep at night because it was possible to switch out the underlying realm sandbox implementation with a different js vm implementation.
Well sure, but he also pushed for the 20th Anniversary Mac. So it's not an entirely unfair assessment.
Quite unsubstantiated opinion piece, but if sticking the diversity/class oppression narrative is what we need to get the zeitgeist to recognize the harmfulness of centralized surveillance, I'm all for it.

Singling-out of smartwatches is a bit moot when smartphones are universally adopted though. Poor or rich, everyone has a telescreen, it's even worse than 1984.
What are you trying to say?

- Business and work in general makes rich people richer. Remember that rich is very relative. You are a very wealthy person compared to a random person in some countryside in China.

- Considering the previous point, are you saying that people who have some money should not do anything to make more money? Should they stay the same, or should they become poorer? What do you advocate to do this? Prevent them from working? Take money from them forcefully?

All I hear from people in the crypto world is that you SHOULDN'T invest if you don't have money you're willing to lose. Crypto investment is a dream only for delusional people who want to get rich quick. If you do that then lose your money, you don't get to complain. You're free to choose, if you choose wrong, lose, and then not take responsibility for your choice and blame others, then you're truly a loser.
So chineese are putting them to camps now, by the book, next will come extermination phase. I be prepared for very very deep concerns about it...
That doesn't really make sense to me. Isn't it better to be a hypocrite and be evil only some of the time, rather than be consistently evil all of the time?

I don't believe that Twitter has worked out how to act accordingly to the bad side of their platform. There's still a ton of misinformation, it's still incredibly polarizing, and IMO it has a worse overall impact than Google.
Firefox mobile has ublock too.
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You have actually just demonstrated that you have no idea how chicken reproduction works. None of the eggs you can buy at the store are fertilised. It is rather obvious when they are. You cannot develop a chick embryo in unfertilised eggs.
You just get rotten eggs if they lie around for too long and get warm.
old but gold
Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, lupus, multiple sclerosis; a whole grab-bag of fun.

These are also difficult diseases to treat – often involving biologics (large molecules administered by injection or IV). T1D is insulin, obviously, but the first big blockbuster medications in the space were Humira and Remicade, monoclonal antibodies, which are powerful immune-system suppressants but more selective (and therefore, relatively speaking, safer long-term) than systemic steroids like prednisone.
> but I'll be surprised if the backup software properly handles the potential errors well.

YMMV but I've found rsync to handle this kind of fuckery well.
My favorite book for learning SQL is “The Art of PostgreSQL”. https://theartofpostgresql.com/

I found the combination of real-world problems, general SQL advice, and the broad range of topics to be a really good book. It took my SQL from “the database is not much more than a place to persist application data” to “the application is not much more than a way to match commands to the database”. It’s amazing how much bespoke code is doing a job the database can do for you in a couple of lines.
I'm gonna guess the "kit" is a jumper, and a piece of paper telling you where to plug it, and the code has the payout-tracking mechanism gated with a conditional checking voltage on a pin that's bridged by that jumper.
You can't make land. By the way this goes both ways. Forcibly lowering the price of land doesn't make it disappear so the usual supply and demand arguments don't apply to private land ownership. e.g. heavy land value taxes discourage the production of land or make land move overseas
This is about as silly as the Soviet Union banning the study of genetics as a "bourgeois pseudoscience", dismissing it as "anti-Marxist".
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I’m all for not putting pitchforks down until senior politicians either have to divest (use index funds or similar) or put their assets under neutral management.

The idea that congressmen can invest in the companies they regulate is absurd. I can’t get how there is majority support for it.