skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need distributed, uncensorable social media - full stop. And we need it now. We already have the White House admitting that they are telling Facebook which posts they should delete. We now have Google deciding what is and isn't misleading content.

This kind of behavior has historically had disastrous results. See World War II.
Spruiking another channel on YouTube (but more on the memeish side of things), Matthias modifies old pianos in amusing ways.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEgm-3RvRn4nCR-fGGVsfdQ

Most recently, he replaced the hammers on the piano with real hammers, with interesting results.

In the past he also replaced the piano strings with bass guitar strings.
As a reference, my laptop is a Ryzen 4800H and I only hear the fans... Well, never. I even have the laptop set to "agressive cooling" which turns an LED red indicating I am not being green.

I was using the laptop to mine verium during this past winter in the US south to keep my hands and arms warm in lieu of running HVAC more. I never bothered to switch it back to normal or "quiet" mode.

I take my first statement back, running blender benchmarks or some other benchmark that tries to tap out the GPU tends to make a bit of noise, but normal gaming and stuff like handbrake or whatever I can't hear anything.
I don’t think that is true. It was fussy religious types writing the records while it was probably the common illiterate people who thought it was funny that maintained it.
Once my PHP app became mildly popular, I quickly learned the limits of shared hosting. At that point I was forced to learn all of the things that people avoid by deploying apps on someone else’s PHP server.
I’d feel a lot more comfortable with this line of reasoning if somebody could put numbers on it. This rhetoric makes sense, but is it rooted in reality?

What’s the expected rate of variant emergence under different scenarios? Can we get it down to near-zero, or are we talking like 30,000 escape variants to 30? Since it only takes one, clearly in the latter case further restrictions and mandates would be futile.

Somebody should be able to run simulations and come up with reasonable estimates.
> There are a few places in the electrical grid where you woud like to have a big capacitor between the center of the transformer delta and ground.

How big should these capacitors be? How does this compare to what's typical right now?

You sound like you know something about how big power systems work - how quickly can a grid be disconnected from the transformers in an emergency situation? It seems like we would have at least some warning if a big CME was heading our way.
I may be speaking from 7-8 years ago when we were still in the dawn of TAVIs but the cardiothoracic surgeons I worked with generally put tissue valves in <50, as TAVIs last less. So tou could do tissue valve, plan for a TAVI later, then probably something new will be there next time they need one
I hated blue christmas lights because of this. Also, I couldn't read the time on the stove from any reasonable distance since it used blue LEDs.

After LASEK, though, I can see blue LEDs nearly as clearly as everything else. My eye surgery gave me nearly 20/10 vision and the greatest thing I got from it was the ability to read the stove clock from across the room. Lol.
Except true criminals also like to talk.

For example, before Covid I did at lot of Couch Surfing and related stuff. [1] One of my hosts illegally sold MJ for extra cash. He was very careful how he communicated with his supplier and not to flaunt this income. But he basically told me all these things on the first day I met him.

https://www.cycleblaze.com/profile/nicroets/
Paint it? I think I vaguely know what you're getting at, but please explain.
My estimation was based on a value that is a fraction of the smallest brushless automotive water pump that I work with, which is smaller than a heart and barely suits a go kart.
>such as some of the blue LEDs used in Xmas tree lights, and the old blue lights that were on police call boxes. Both of those are very hard for me to focus on

This happens to me as well and I though I was becoming blind (to blue light) because of my heavy use of monitors/"white" light, etc...
Hey, I didn't mean to come across as rude but when I reread it, it was. I wasn't expressing myself well, I apologize.

I've been a Go mentor for years, and see how people take concepts they are used to and try to shoehorn them in, and complain they are ugly.

In this case, when I first saw your examples, my thought was 'youre doing it wrong'. But not wrong as in incorrect, but now how the language was designed.

If you truly care we can go through scenarios and I can tell you how I'd approach it. But in my past experience, when people find a paradigm they like, they tend to not listen.
You'd also want your household appliances etc. to not have been fried from some anomalous power surge.
I don't think they are listening.
C's supposed simplicity is wholly a mirage. "Limited" would be the accurate description.

Everyone's chief exposure to complexity is the code written in the language, where the complexity comes from the problem domain and everything it takes to wrangle that complexity with what the language has to offer. By that measure, C's sharp limits mean that your exposure to complexity is much greater in a C program than in a C++ program.
Just like 2008. An individual defaulting on a mortgage is moral hazard. A corporation defaulting on a bond payment is a business decision.
It never worked out and it was only a rally cry for internet folk. We are not Russia.

> "Iraq's sector has remained state-owned and state-guided, and US companies have been forced to compete in open licensing rounds. Various efforts by US Administrations (including the current Trump Administration) to engineer bilateral negotiations and to promote US company interests have come to naught."

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...
They may not find a better seller and move to another store.
Yeah, agree. Was in reaction to not wanting to install any filters.
The effects on the telegraph system were because they were made up of miles long conductors, so when the CME hit it induced current in these wires.

Some operators reported being able to send messages without their batteries connected. The telegraph system typically used milliamps of power (at a few hundred volts), so it's pretty much nothing compared to the electrical system in your home. That and the shorter wires, I doubt you'd even notice it.
They last 10 years ‘or so…’ some up to 17-20, so there’s a variability there, but they fail gracefully so you can monitor which is nice (as another commenter pointed out).

Tou can replace with transcutaneous valve replacement (like a stent, through a blood vessel) or open operation
I think the same approach as with spam is best.

If you can determine that a particular piece of information belongs to some unpleasant or dangerous category, mark it as that, like a spam filter does, or vaguely how FB does with posts. Importantly, do not remove it unless the law forces you to.

Then let users switch between the filtered and unfiltered view, or look at the analog of the "Spam" folder.

This allows to study pieces of information that are deemed "controversial" or even "malevolent" and make your own opinion, if you're so inclined.

Even more, it could apply several different cultural filters, like "content likely offensive for X", where X is a major religious or cultural group, much the same way as many providers currently mark content as inappropriate for children.
It's not quite a lie, though. The games are 100% playable offline; some optional features are not.
Fastchan, a new conda mini-distribution
Looking forward to this on the new Steam Deck.
Mirrors on the ceiling / The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
And in the master's chambers / They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember / I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax," said the night man / "We are programmed to receive
You can check-out any time you like / But you can never leave!"

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B00DAKW7Q2?trackAsin=B00DAKW...
Can't we already predict Carrington-like events by watching for massive solar flares? I thought even at the time astronomers saw it coming in advance.

Perhaps this is just a more precise measurer; a space-weather bouy in our backyard.
Hey team!

This is a B2B marketplace for finding manufacturing in the USA and US-based suppliers. Think of it like "Alibaba for the USA".

During covid, demand for US-made goods spiked by +1,250%, and has stayed consistently higher since. Reshoring or onshoring is happening over the next decade due to supply chain risk and higher costs overseas.

From talking to buyers and suppliers, we know that currently no great platforms for US-based suppliers exist, and most buyers search first their vertical-specific trade magazines and then end up searching page 5+ of Google.
Do you remember when consumer drives had three year warranties?

The good ol' days. I haven't lost a spindle since I started using UPS to prevent voltage sags. Power outages make drive heads retract very fast, but a series of brown outs or 70VAC being put down the line used to cause me so much grief.
Right, and with fly.io it is easier to move our chunky, chocked full of latency code closer to the user than remove the internal latency. It is kind of an Amdahl's Law of planet scale serving. I get 100ms for free and I don't have to touch my code.
> What happened to having specialized agencies regulate and inspect industries?

Government agencies tend get packed with appointees whose political interests undermine the agency's original charter.
The highest-paid programming jobs are all C++, and will be for a long, long time.

But job boards are not the place to look for those.
Yeah, leaf vapes are alright but make me cough a lot more for some reason.
The point is, if you are conducting shady business, and your potential customer immediately begins spouting off about all the crimes they have done and how you are now assisting them with their crimes by transacting, you should run away!
A Billing Gotcha with AWS Workspaces and Directory Service
Well and there is also the old Bart tunnel and more modern Central Subway. And then there are the subway tunnels they have built/building in Los Angeles.

Snippets I've read over the years seem to say that subway tunnels and deep foundations don't tend to fail in earthquakes because they to move with the ground around them. And because they are already structurally strong.

Basically the lack of mass transit to support higher density is because of lack of willingness to pay for it. Unwillingness to pay for public infrastructure is due American economic ideology. Not anything specific to San Francisco.
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* > You don't think that giving the government (or entities even less accountable) complete control over online information, discussion, and commerce, plus an almost perfect 24/7 surveillance system, might weaken liberal democracy? *

The government doesn't have this control, nor do any of the FAANG companies. I know quite a lot of people who are online without the use of any of FAANG equipment or resources. If you granted these entities this power then you did so of your own choosing. Whether that was wise or not is an entirely different question. Whether it might weaken liberal democracy, I argue no. Liberal democracy is being attacked by our long-term enemies. They're using new tools and our ignorance to have us rot from within but it's a mistake to blame technology for what was done by the hands of our enemy. Lenin turned out to be correct, the capitalists really did sell them the rope they would hang us with. Perhaps I see this in a different perspective due to my being a cold war kid.
Xiaomi high end phones (mi branded ones) are also decent quality and lasts 5+years. They are one of the few that provides regular SW updates for couple of years.

At the low end they brand it as redmi and while the hardware lasts long, the newer android versions run slower and you end up purchasing new phones every few years.
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Wow this is amazing. May be you should add MergeQueue to your list :)

- Yeh we define our own pre-conditions because some developers also use it for non-protected branches. The default picks up the Github build-in preconditions and allows you overwrite.
- Can you clarify your fixup commit suggestion? So there's typically an option to squash and merge when merging the PR, but sounds like you want to maintain some of those commits and squash the rest?
- Just read up the AzDO's semi-linear rebase.Yeh MQ should be able to do that as well. You can specify different config for rebasing the branch and for merging the PR.

Curious since you have done this much research - have you built or used any of the merge queues in your company? Would love to chat more. ankit[at]mergequeue[dot]com
Historically, negative feedback in electronics was developed to stabilize and linearize the response of circuits.

None of the characteristic curves of vacuum tubes and transistors would make you think that there was anything linear about them. However, passive components such as resistors and capacitors are quite linear and stable. So the trick with feedback is that the feedback network defines the response of the circuit despite using potentially nonlinear and unstable gain elements. This was of vital importance for making important circuits, like amplifiers for telephony, predictable, reliable, and reproducible.

If you design something like a basic analog filter using op amps, and model its behavior under the assumption of linearity, the actual behavior of the circuit will resemble the model behavior to an uncanny degree.

But naturally, terminology is not precise. For instance the term "linear" is used to describe things like power supplies and voltage regulators, in contrast to "switchmode" circuits. A "linear power supply" means a particular thing that has little to do with linearity.
Not quite sure how TPM and secure boot have gotten the reputation of screwing users over... I utilize both on my thinkpad running linux. Personally I like knowing if you steal my laptop you just got yourself a very slick paperweight as the entire boot stack is locked to my keys and if you try to boot my drive outside of my system or with a different kernel TPM is going to stiffle both of those attempts.

I think that reputation stems from both TPM and secure boot being a bit difficult to grok and I would agree about screwing users over if there was no end-user access/cryptographically locked by the vendor but both are fully accessible.
Here is another web application made with http://pharojs.org which runs on Pharo https://covid.cs.ryerson.ca/compare/
That's most certainly the display sequentially flashing red, green and blue sequentially in time to approximate shades and hues. When you stare right at it, your eye averages the photons with a time constant of 1/30th of a second or so, and so you don't perceive the flicker. When you move your eye or blink, though, individual portions of your eye are exposed to only relatively narrow time slices, and so re only exposed to the red, green or blue photons.

Cheaper DLP projectors use a single light source and mechanically spin a color wheel with alternating red, green and blue filters. They look great when staring at it, but if you move your head or wave your hand in front of it, you can easily see the three color channels.

Perhaps those stadium displays are DLP projectors based, or maybe they're RGB LED and are simply PWMed at a relatively slow rate. Most LEDs can be switched very fast, at say 10Khz, but maybe there's electrical limitations of building such a large high brightness display. If it's only PWMing at 100-200Hz, you'd see similar effects. In particular, each color channel will be on for different duty cycle durations, and LEDs are very fast to turn on and off. So, when you move your eyes or blink, you'll once again get separation of the channels in your vision.

You can do a similar trick with your smartphone camera. Record video, and point it at the display then wiggle the phone up and down and side to side. The phone most certainly has a "rolling shutter" which means it captures an image sequentially in lines either horizontally or vertically. It does it quickly, but slow enough that different lines should be able to pick up colors. You may not even need to shake the camera up and down to see a funky image. It's the same reason why CRT monitors and TVs look funky on video but not film.
They generate the same type of syntax diagram, but are otherwise...quite different. If you read the product page it should hit the high points.
That seems to be exceptional, there's hundreds of inexpensive devices listed on Amazon with greater capacity than you'd have got for $100 in 2011.
> coding standards

Coding standards for NASA certainly isn’t bike shedding, especially if they focus on reliability or security
Have your read “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” by R. A. Lafferty?
As other comments note, this is not the definition of a linear system. However, it is the definition of a time-invariant system, which is probably why it's coming to mind here.

Systems that are both linear and time-invariant, sometimes abbreviated to LTI systems, are the most common sort of thing (i.e., model) that one actually analyzes. When time-dependence is present, it is always modelled explicitly and usually modelled as a complication of a time-invariant system.
I don't think the Ethereum community cares about conflicts of interest.
That's not what "right to work" means. "Right to work" laws prevent unions and employers from forming a contract where the employer agrees to only employ members of the union.
> the only real way to store large amounts of money safely is in the banking system

Pretty sure everyone in the Cannabis Space would disagree with that.
Wait what.

So basically no more NTVDM now, forevermore? :(
I think we simply don't have as much patience as when we were kids.
Better that misguided individuals be free to speak, than misguided self-appointed “fact checkers” silence truth.
I have mostly brown eyes, so no?
Are you worried about market size of developer productivity tools in general or just about MQ? We intend to expand into other dev productivity capabilities adjacent to MQ. Our exploration into Flaky test management is also a step in that direction.
How money like does something have to be for it to be 'laundering'? Do stores need to not sell anything to someone they know does illegal things because they could sell those things on as a form of money laundering? The implications seems pretty broad for all sorts of businesses if they sell anything to a criminal.
Explain the joke?
Wouldn't go that far:

https://old.reddit.com/r/grandrapids/comments/lvqr6k/geek_gr...
Count the frames on the Control gameplay, the game Valve decided to plaster in every single shot on the website and in the IGN "hands on". Its running at 30fps with drops all the way down to 10.
A really good book (fiction) on this topic, very entertaining and thought provoking this is:
48 Hours, by William Forstchen.
One small trap: current never (in normal cases; yes, I know about the antiparallel diodes and how to deal with/avoid them...) actually flows between the input terminals, it flows to the rails. So you will not, except by sheer luck, get 10nA into the (+) terminal and 10nA out of the (-) terminal. You will get 10nA into the (+) terminal and 4nA into the (-) terminal, both returned to VEE.
My favourite dialog from Full Throttle comes when Ben wakes up on a table in Maureen's ramshackle hut after wrecking his bike on the highway:

Ben: Is this an authorized Corley service centre?
Maureen: Well, it's a Corley service centre, but I don't
have the official paperwork.
Ben: Ah, an *illegitimate* Corley operation.
Maureen (stiffly): I prefer to call it a *renegade*
Corley operation.

In the original context, the joke is the distance between the scrappy environment and the official-sounding language. On the second playthrough, however, it has additional context.

When I read the article, at first I was incredulous that the author would say bad things about Full Throttle, but as he listed his reasons I was like "oh yeah, that sucked, and that was terrible too, I didn't enjoy that bit at all". It's a testament to the game's thematic strength (and perhaps the power of human nostalgia) that I remember it so fondly today.
More people have flown safely on Crew Dragon than on New Shepard.
What happens is the government makes things worse.
The article mentions Tim Schaefer having to tell people repeatedly that the game's setting isn't actually post-apocalyptic. I bet that song is the single reason why people assumed it was (it certainly was for me).
The GP made it sound like you can't just have a side project that's completely separate from your job; that side projects are Google's by default unless you go out of your way to get permission to separate it out
Crime doesn’t “proliferate” around housing projects in Bed Stuy, it exists just as it does everywhere. Bed Stuy and NYC as a whole rank as one of the safest cities, especially large cities.

Linking the housing projects to crime without rigorously accounting for all other factors is irresponsible. Perhaps housing projects are more heavily policed so more crime is recorded. What factors (ie poverty and low political capitol) led the housing project to be placed where it was.

Housing instability is a critical issue and increasing density and available housing stock is an urgent need.
Looks like Google wants you to enter someone's email explicitly to share something with if you don't want this policy to kick in. I suppose even in theory there isn't a way to know the intent behind whether something is meant to be shared with just a few people or publicly if "share with anyone that has the link" option is used.
It has a whole lot to do with our eyes having far fewer blue receptors.
I tried to use it since I desperately needed a standalone renderer in C++ that is better than my hand-rolled one.

Turns out that it only supports Clang and not GCC (it depends on libc++ instead of libstdc++, which generates tons of ABI issues when integrating with existing projects and libraries).

In short, if you need to use other libraries (such as libtorch) that don’t support libc++, then don’t use it, it’s going to be a big waste of time.
I’m only lightly following these announcements, but wasn’t the upfront purchase needed because that decided if certain hardware was installed or not? I must be mistaken.
Code formatting, quality metrics, and style guide/standards are all different things.
Israeli Firm Helped Governments Target Journalists, Activists
Well there's counts 18-27 of the indictment which are all structuring transactions to avoid mandatory reporting which certainly look like they knew things weren't entirely above board. Then there's 28 where Boden tried solicit an undercover cop into extorting repayment of a debt from "C.J."