skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sitting here looking at a 50-line Fortran routine in our codebase that says

! MARK 1 RELEASE. NAG COPYRIGHT 1971.

It has been revised since then to use free form, structured programming, MODULEs, KINDs, INTENTs and IMPLICIT NONE.

If we can do it, everybody can. I have already mentioned some reasons that people don't do it. None of the reasons I have heard are "Fortran is too old and clunky".
Presumably a bunch of people could book sessions in one simulator at the same time and simulate multiple simulators inside the simulation, massively increasing the capacity of the top-level simulator.
If one only trains the model to correctly identify a disease (e.g. maximising the correct identification and minimising the error), then there is no space for the model to be "racist". I don't question that there is a signal inside the images, but someone has to change the model and training to then maliciously use that information.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who works like this. I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me.

I use Safari on MacOS as my daily driver and find the search history functionality really handy
> The google translated version says nothing about banning genetically engineered corn, just banning glyphosate?

That's a question, right? The answer is no: articles 5 and 6 do talk about banning genetically modified corn.
My scooter was stolen. I was able to use the Apple Find My and UWB to recover it
so cringe, always find this guy so cringe, does no one else feel that?
I assume you mean the sugar beet?

Cane sugar is cheaper than beet sugar.

Alas, the sugar beet industry is also just another creature of tariffs and subsidies.

See eg https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-spends-4-billion-a-... for the US. The situation in Europe was similar when I last looked, but that was at least a decade ago.
The definition of zero-cost abstractions, as introduced in C++, was that "it can't be slower that code than the equivalent hand-written code" (e.g. code not using the abstraction).

In that regard, exceptions are interesting as if you're on the happy path (which should be 99.999% of the time - a normal program that uses exceptions as error handling method should not encounter any exception if you do a `catch throw` on an average run of the software), they can cost less than return-value-based error handling (https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2017/01/measuring-execution-...). If you're on a "sad path", though, they will cost more.

What is pretty sure is that since compilers learned to put the "sad" path in .cold section, the code size issue has become a 100% non-issue, the "sad" path won't bloat the hot, exception-less path ; in my experience, exceptions are in cases that matter a negative-cost abstraction.
Sorry if I misunderstood, but you wrote

> Oxygen leaks out when rocks are eroded and weathered..

which is what I reinforced.

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Summary of the semantics of inline in C and C++
Having sleep pods and such isn't silly if the travel time really is many years.
What do you use to visualize these tabs? Just the tab bar?

I also like to open a lot of tabs, but sometimes find it hard to manage them. I use Tree Style Tab, in a sidebar, wich collapsible groups. I like that a lot but am always wondering what others use.
But why comment at all, if they are agreeing?
Too many tabs is a problem of browser UX, I have fixed it for myself by using Tree Style Tab extension with vimium.
This only makes sense for non-CSAM data and/or premptive surveillance/policing. Proper criminals/terrorists will evade this by either ... uhm ... disabling this, network filtering this, using Android or no phone at all for their criminal activities... at the very least once you put this pressure on the "market" for a while.

Few people have access to the databases. I would bet quite a bit, this will be used for marking possible offenders of all sorts of crimes and "crimes", e.g. having ISIS propaganda material on your phone, or leaked data.
Sometimes you may not even know files to be on your phone. Try exploring Telegram's nearby groups with image autodownload for groups activated and see what happens to your "share recent files" dialoge... It's all porn and nazi memes now!

Overall, I am happy Apple admitted this ultimately, because I was conflicted about buying into the ecosystem for the recent hardware appeal. Not conflicted anymore. Not at all. It's Linux/ASOP or ~~die~~ get stressed out. No M1 benchmark or fancy watch health features can make up for the chronic knot in my stomach using Apple's products; die Schere im Kopf . Hope I find a low latency pen input tablet runnig FOSS Android or Linux, too, as I feel uneasy about journaling or drawing on my iPad now. Thanks Apple, I truly hate you too <3
Maybe on the US level it makes sense, but I live in a small country and I hear this argument a lot and it makes 0 sense :

a) our agricultural sector isn't diverse or strong enough anyway, if we get cut off from imports we are fucked even with subsidies

b) ramping up basic agriculture doesn't seem that hard, as in that's an easier crisis scenario to handle

c) on the market if global food prices jumped (has happened in the past) the subsidized farmers were quick to export to richer markets at a higher price, I believe US also saw similar price jump effects when China was affected by pork shortages IIRC

Best case scenario is government just increases the emergency supplies they already have to cover the period it would take the production to ramp up
That might sound appealing, but economics isn't with you here.

In addition, the farmland in eg the US isn't going away, just because you drop subsidies and tariffs from corn. People will just grow something else there, when corn isn't as profitable anymore.

(Or the land might drop in value.)
Sure, with the comfortable acceleration of g during the first half of the journey and decelerating during the rest of it, I could arrive to, say, Andromeda galaxy in a few dozen years. The biggest question, though, for me is: OK, I’m here, now what? (Having a vivid imagination, as a child I once imagined myself standing on the Moon’s surface, looking at the distant Earth shining just above the horizon and the eerie landscape below. The first and the only thought I had at that moment was: “What the hell am I doing here?”)
Not just privileged extraction, but likely high IQ. The Russian brain teasers are to get smart students excelling. The American system is set up to get the weak student stumbling to the finish line. The American school system isn’t designed to produce high achievers which is why the high achievers are produced by the parents and not by the schools.
Cruise ships are absolutely massive. They're floating cities, housing and feeding thousands of people. The new materials would have to be very light indeed to scale from 50 to 5000 passengers.
I think it's interesting and worth mentioning when an author inserts an opinion disguised as a fact. I almost read right past it myself. If I hadn't posted my comment, others might've read the same article and internalized the author's opinon as historical truth.
Quite a few people are going to be wondering what on earth A levels are.
TikTok named as the most downloaded app of 2020
> [...] but the free market tends to plan for supply shocks poorly, [...]

Well, when you ban people from raising prices when they prepared for an emergency better than others, that tends to disincentives preparing for emergencies.

(And, yes, the US and many state ban raising prices whenever they declare emergencies.)
Have you seen the modern editions? They certainly have.
Oh wow, thanks for the post, this is really insightful.

Do you know why students have to resort to cheat and corruption for passing tests and going trough the K-10 system? Is it some external factor for the students, is it just lack of good teachers, or a combination? Thanks.
As an Australian that has just returned after 15 years away, it baffles me there are Australians who will iterate the differences between "Extraordinarily mind-bendingly bad" and regular old "horribly bad" like it makes a difference.

"Clean Coal" is actually a joke and I'm genuinely shocked people fell for it. Murdoch has A LOT of control here.
the symbols compose in both directions and are aware of tacit parameters, so I don't really think your summary is even remotely correct
Respect for teachers is a huge part of it. People want status as much as they want money. If culturally America venerated teachers the way it venerates soldiers we’d have fewer wars and smarter people.
This is a type of FOMO. You start collecting Absolutely Essential Reading in tabs, stuff that you'll for sure read later, no joke, seriously.

You never will.

But you can't close the tab or you can't find the content again and bookmarking is mostly useless if you use multiple computers and browsers daily.

I got over my tab-itis with Pinboard[0]. If stuff seems to sit in my tabs for too long, I can send the link easily to Pinboard, slap on a few tags if it's an unique one or grab a few of the suggested ones if it's a common bookmark.

With the Archiving feature it'll even mirror the content for me so it doesn't get lost in the tides of time.

I'll never look at most of the stuff I pin, but my mind is at ease because the precious stuff is stored =)

[0] https://pinboard.in/
Hmm not sure it is that simple. This is how it started also with Google or Ads. First technical people complained.

But then you know when you talk with a friend that is not technical and they just ask: what do you think about the new iPhone/new Apple launch?

Well so far the answer was: yeah, great you will have privacy.

But from this on the answer might be: oh, be carefull they are scanning your phone. If this goes into a kind of self-repeting meme, then the details will be lost, but the key phrase that Apple is looking into personal photos will remain.

This could, potentially, do a lot of brand damage on the long run.
So here's a blend that is 13% surfactant:

https://labelsds.com/images/user_uploads/Roundup%20Pro%20Con...

Apparently there's blends intended for use in water that are more or less just diluted with water, but they aren't the usual mix either.

https://alligare.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/glyphosate-5...
> Relativistic speeds are a plot point in Andy Weir's recent book "The Hail Mary Project". You might know him from the Martian a few years ago.

Just read the book and can highly recommend it. One of the good thing about it is that the main protagonists are nice, curious and friendly. No backstabbing, suprise turns of evilness to create suspense. A pleasant read.
Maybe it has grown steadily since the 80s but the latest spike is related to the pandemic. Have a look at the chart in the article - there's a huge increase from 2019 to 2020.

> The sharp rise in top grades at A-level means that the proportion getting top A* and A grades has risen by almost 75% since the last time conventional exams were taken in 2019.
> please let me know your experience

You can run Linux as a host, macOS as a guest[1] under QEMU, buy a second GPU that is supported by Apple (e.g., Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Pulse 4GB) and pass that GPU in its entirety to the guest macOS. The same for one of the USB controllers on your motherboard. Effectively, you get native macOS performance under Linux. A bonus: you can use the iptables firewall with the FORWARD ruleset to control guest macOS network access. The overall setup process is involving, but nothing that an intermediate Linux user would not be able to handle. Please note that it might be actually illegal (?) in some (?) countries to run macOS software on non-Apple hardware.

[1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
I don't think it brutalizes anyone. Capable kids must be challenged, or they get bored. Kids that coulndt keep up went to a different track.

at the very minimum, pressure during oral exams taught to work against the clock, develop conviction and do your best to defend your position.
No, I see it as refusal to learn how to use bookmarks.

I fail to see how what is so hard regarding organizing information in folders per subject, when in doubt choose the more generic one.

Firefox also allows me to easily search for bookmarks, and has a quite nice bookmark manager.

Using bookmarks since 1995 across different kinds of browsers, always migrating them along.
This said, using alternative pesticides like copper sulfate used by some of the "organic" food production can be as bad if not worse for the environment and humans.
"Their" being the "Glyphosate Renewal Group", which requested the renewal and had to present studies that covered its safety. To sum those 11,000 pages up: the GRG investigated itself and found no problems, the EU trusts that these findings are accurate.
Thanks. 'Your choices' doesn't seem to give any 'disagree'/opt-out choices? Nor does it claim they're only using required, functional cookies & data.
Good point, I updated the title to generalize
Yeah I think the web extension approach is the best one. Shame they ruled it out. Extension background scripts can push data wherever you want. You can sideload the extension and talk to localhost ports or anyone on the internet. Use ajax or native events to talk to a local process. There's even an event system that tells you when tabs are opened, closed, activated, deactivated, etc.
Ethnic question is not really a thing in Belarus. There is no obsession with race/nationality like it is in a lot of places.
Opposition loves to shout 3%, but really it looks like there is around 15% of real support. Mostly aging population, military and state workers.
https://archive.org/details/mir-titles has a vast selection. The books by Irodov are generally well regarded in particular.
As if the farmland would just go away, if the subsidies would go away?

> The staple native grain of Europe is wheat, rice in Asia, and corn in the Americas.

Not sure what you mean by native? The predecessor of wheat was native to some parts of the Middle East, but until recently you couldn't even grow that stuff well in eg most parts of Germany. (Hence Germany's enduring love affair with rye bread.)

Rice only grows in some parts of Asia. (Eg Northern China relies on other grains.)

All those crops are human interventions in their wide spread, they aren't native to entire continents.
It seems to me that the article is suggesting that the last 2 years were exceptionally different.

What I'm wondering is what the factors truly are here and what to do with this data.

In my opinion these grades are there to differentiate the skill levels of the people, "short-term-memory" being the major skill here (another topic for another day).
But if nearly half of the people are the same elite... this system of skill-measuring is getting useless.

Maybe there should be a better alternative?
Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
New above ground swimming pool
I got this Intex swimming pool and I love it. My whole review could be read by following link. Just can say, this pool is enough for 2x adults and 2x children to enjoy three weeks with pump running 2-3h per day and Chlorine tablet floating continuously ...
TIL, thank you so much. I'm going to try this today for our project setup.
Eventually, grades are used to quickly stack rank people in various admissions.

If everybody gets the same grade, other, potentially less “fair” methods will emerge.
Apple is doing the right thing. About 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys experience child sexual abuse in the US at some point in childhood (underreported) [1].

What's more important? Your right to "privacy" (which you can still invoke by simply not using iCloud) or their right to a normal life?

And yes, their CSAM detection has lots of false-positives, but it will evolve. It will be doubleplusgood.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast...
#2 relies on understanding how numbers "work", i.e. on having spent time on playing with them.

#5a is a factorization exercise.

In general, Russian approach to the math includes exposing kids to the toolset as well as the theory. This particular case is solved this way, that is solved that way, etc. Keep on it for a while and it tends to develop an intuition for knowing right away which problem is solved with which approach. So, yeah, if there are shortcuts, you use them. If there aren't any, you brute-force it.
Pico: Pragmatic Image Compression for Human-in-the-Loop Decision-Making
Slightly related:

I just discovered Andymon.

A 1982 sci-fi novel, where a interstellar spaceship reaches the destination star, after travelling a very long, but unknown time (part of the plot).

I do not want to spoiler too much, but it was written by a academic physics/philosopher and his wife a mathematician. Deep shit.
Should be standard read in schools.
If grades are saturating, then perhaps we need something like high dynamic range (HDR) for grades.
So a toy OS like Android. You need linux to compile it. An it says nothing about the goals, what is different compared to other OSs, why would i want to use it.
Who would they buy it from?

Sovereign countries don't trade territory for money any more. The days of the Alaska Purchase are over.
Programming language syntax is very much like the human languages themselves: it (re-)shapes your thinking.

I want to learn things that shape my thinking in a way that makes me more efficient, and in a way that makes it easier to express ideas.

If your language isn't giving me that then it's bye bye.

I get the appeal but squinting your eyes at a string of single-character symbols is taking it too far. The whole thing has to be somewhat ergonomic as well.
Wouldn't it make more sense to grade all students on a curve, if what you're trying to do is effectively rank students for university admissions?
Or, simply move your frame of reference.
This analysis falls short if you apply three body orbital mechanics. Going barely faster or slower than the Earth in close proximity to Earth will slowly cause Earth's gravity to pull the spacecraft back in. This can mean all sorts of funny shaped trajectories (horseshoe asteroids etc).

You need about 11-12 km/s to relative to the Earth to escape Earth's gravitational pull from LEO (only a bit more than it takes to reach the moon). Earth itself is orbiting the sun at about 30 km/s. To not get re-captured, the spacecraft needs to be far enough in distance or the difference in velocity needs to be large enough. How much is "enough" depends on the time scale, but for spacecraft we're talking several km/s.
For a bit of political context, last year there was a lot of controversy about people getting poor grades based on estimates, which reflected badly on the government. I suspect there was a lot of politics at play here to ensure that everyone was happy with their inflated grades.

It’s ridiculous that students couldn’t just sit their exams as usual this year.
I think the impact is that some students are going to get placements that they otherwise would not have gotten, and will struggle accordingly because the level of study required at Uni will be that much greater. Outside of gaining entry into a university, A-levels are fairly meaningless.
I was raised that A and B were the only acceptable grades, C means you need to study more. But then I ended up dropping out of college so that wasn’t too helpful.
I'm using "Genius Scan". Seems it has the same functionality but costs only 7,99€ once.
The ‘specific impulse’ of a rocket engine is one measure of its ability to convert the energy in its fuel into forward thrust. Its unit is ‘seconds’, and its measure could be interpreted as ‘how long could one pound of fuel produce one pound of thrust’.

If your rocket starts off 2/3rds fuel by mass, this will result in an average acceleration of 1g as the mass of the fuel is consumed.

The most efficient chemical rockets we have today have a specific impulse in the ~470 second range. The highest specific impulse thrusters of any sort that we have in wide use today are ‘ion thrusters’, which have specific impulses in the 50,000 second range (but can’t generate much thrust at all).

So 10-12 hours at 1g is about as much as we can do with existing hardware.
At least one explanation for use of social media etc. is that people do it because they enjoy it. Maybe there's just a certain level of enjoyment that flips a switch that tells us to stop? Could there be a set of "things people feel bad about enjoying because they're simply too stimulating and fulfilling that we can't help but conclude that they're bad?

Think chocolate (sin!), masturbation (sin!), sleeping late (lazy!), staying up late etc.
American singer Elvis Presley explored this theme in 1968.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Skrq8unUlE
the italics are working as scare quotes here
Soon: everyone is a genius
> Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken?

In some ways, I agree. My own solution was to develop reading lists storage (https://github.com/domovikapp/domovik-server/), i.e. an intermediate storage space between “saved for the years to come” of the bookmarks and the “in my face” pinned tabs. They are then displayed on my new tab page, so I can remember to read them whenever I open a new page.
This is a non-story because this year and last year, exams were cancelled and teachers effectively set the grades. These two years cannot be compared to previous ones.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28124942
... and still check which processor is running on and disable optimisations.
With regards to Lacan, Heidegger, and Derrida— each in their own way, they hold off philosophical decision. Lacan stylistically (he sucks, but is pretty structural and emphatic about his registers, sexual distinctions, mirror stage, etc) and Heidegger and Lacan through their interrelated development of the problematic of closure and archi-writing, right? But Heidegger doesn't consign himself to closure, he very emphatically sees a way out in death, the condition of possibility for the authenticity of being. Derrida does not take a way out, but also does not write or reason arbitrarily, his process rests on the simultaneous articulation of a straightforward and historically oriented commentary, and a counterpoint exposed through the repetition of the language of the commentary back at itself until underlying confusions are revealed. This is the basic knowledge I assume you have after 10 years. If you are not familiar, I recommend Simon Critchley's 'Black Socrates', and 'The Ethics of Deconstruction' in addition to the Seminars, Being and Time, and Violence and Metaphysics obviously.

The way it reckons with your question, is that these points of tension, even when they are not fully resolved, allow us to come to a place of improved understanding about the systematic and historical functionality of the language and culture that produced them. This is really nothing new: we do not need to come to the same conclusion about any other subject, anthropological, historical, even hard-scientific, to deploy our provisional understanding. A concrete example of this is talking about moral reasoning- considering similarly non-philosophical work by Levinas, I have come to the conclusion that many of the ethical dilemmas I struggle with in my health care work are not neatly decidable, and are frequently more a question of how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice for my clients... or how much I can hold back for myself in good conscience, rather than a logically and arithmetically guaranteed minimum or maximum fair ratio. This is why deconstruction + pragmatism is such an interesting subject for people like Brandom and Rorty, I imagine.