skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes advantage of Rust's closures for convenience, generics to avoid pointer indirections and heap allocations, and Drop for automatic memory management.

The API isn't complex, so it may be possible to export a C-compatible wrapper, but due to lack of the aforementioned language features it may be less optimized and less ergonomic.
And some people just aren't bothered by wearing it, so it isn't weird to just leave it in place when you're driving.

I also don't take off my shirt, pants, and shoes the second I get in the car.
It is too bad, but it's your government. What are you doing about it? It's like the cliched response to complaints re OSS, but at least that's arguably not your and my responsibility; our government is. It's our job to care for it, make it work, and pass it to our kids in better shape than we got it.

I find the government functions very well given it's necessarily a large institution (which all are bureaucratic and inefficient, including businesses) and perpetual (it can't go out of business and be replaced, but we do replace management!). Transportation infrastructure (roads, airports, etc.), food safety, education, science (NASA, NSF, NIH), courts, military, regulation of banks, national parks, etc. etc. Think of NASA - the greatest explorers in the history of humanity, with nobody even close - is a government agency.

Government's biggest problem is the lack of participation from citizens and obstruction from the GOP. The post office delivered my mail fine for my entire life until the neo-reactionaries got hold of it and (intentionally, I think) ruined it.
Ok noted. But what’s the real point you are trying to make here? That we should be unhappy about the planet greening and having net less death due to climate change.

It is so odd to me on this topic that neither side seems to want to look at it holistically and it’s really all about the fight.
It seems like the font rendering doesn't do any antialiasing (other things are antialised, you can toggle it in backend/settings). The result is pretty painful to look at small sizes, unless you compensate with screen resolution (as apple now does).

Zooming the page to 130% gives me a quite acceptable experience.
> I think what we're seeing is a belief that the money being invested by billionaires is not doing anything useful

I mean, is it doing anything useful?

"Money Invested" is basically a number sitting in a giant key-value store at a brokerage, associated with a stock ticker or some other ownership totem. If I buy 100 shares of Walmart, it's not like Walmart suddenly has an extra $15,000 in their bank account they can suddenly use to improve the world. Those 100 shares or $15,000 are not really doing anything useful. They're ones and zeros in a database associating my name with a number and the string "WMT".
Basically, for most founders past the point where material comfort stops mattering, I think it’s power. The power to do what you want in the world. More ambitious projects, especially. Eventually that can get to extreme heights, like trying to design rockets that go to Mars, or trying to stamp out malaria.
This is a project that me and @rndmcnlly have been working on to allow people to create and share durable, delimited references to specific moments in interactive media, starting with Game Boy games.

In short, we found that you can quote any Game Boy game with just a save state and a ROM that contains only the small percentage of bytes in the ROM which are needed for the quote.
Looks pretty nice apart from the font rendering, which is terrible. It looks half decent with the default color scheme but when you switch to the dark mode it really shows.

I'm using a regular 1920x1080 27" display for reference

EDIT: the unhinted editor font looks good.
the number one concern I've had with regards to face masks, above and beyond all else, has been the cognitive development of children growing up in these times. I'm no behavioral psychologist or whatever but surely concealing the facial expressions of adults and other children isn't going to be very good for young children passively learning how to intuitively emote and show emotion in facial expressions! I realized this when I was working retail earlier this year and recognized that I could no longer smile at small children while masked. I'm afraid that a lot of decisions made in the past couple years are going to have unforeseen nth-order effects that won't become fully apparent until later on.
The fact that we have had good version control for decades and the journalism industry has not adopted it tells you their motives. It's like a godsend to someone who views themselves as a journalist, the ability to always be able to demonstrate their integrity. It almost takes more effort to not adopt it.
One possible perspective: thinking of images as a vector space, and thinking of image operations like blurring, sharpening, and even any spatial transformation as linear operators (representable as matrices).

This perspective is most straightforward with a 1-dimensional domain, like an audio signal, or the temperature along a thin rod, because there's a clear way to organize all the values in a vector, e.g. all the audio samples are just in sequence. So if that's appealing to you at all, I would recommend that first. You can do filtering (like with an "equalizer") and add effects like echo/reverb as linear operations.

I think that it is particularly fun to think of some ground-truth signal that is corrupted by an echo in a room and a microphone that attenuates some frequencies, and trying to undo that corruption.
You are putting a lot of words in my mouth and speaking with a lot of assumed authority for someone that just admitted that they don’t understand and most influential public policy in a more than a generation. It is the central economic dogma of a major political party. I find this doubly ironic because you go on to spout positions congruent with that party.

Get off Parler, or whatever and read a history book, because Reagan’s economic policies echo even today. Even without a labeled time axis, there are countless economic charts where you can easily pick out 1981.
>So maybe I should say only that the Taliban are the "non-bacha-bazi" side.

Which is meaningless. Both sides are sexually abusing children. They are just as morally repugnant.
I don't understand why the article thinks it's reasonable for someone with literally 0 experience to develop an application with multiple features and integrations with other systems from scratch, on their own. The point about space age machines notwithstanding, this is inherently complex and skilled work.

We don't expect someone who's never touched a chisel to be able to fabricate and install a full set of kitchen cabinets, either. And there's no shame in that -- they just need to spend time learning. Or they can do the "google -> stack overflow -> copy/paste" thing by going down to their local home goods store and buying some prefab particle board units and watching a YouTube video on how to hang them. (And again, no shame -- online video can be an excellent source of craft information.)
Parent comment is just a rehashing of a Fox News article. Seeing this more often on HN.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/realclearpolitics-fact-checker...
Agreed! I also think that von Neumann (and some of his contemporaries as well) were likely the last to be able to understand the entire breadth of math, physics, and computer science at the time. These days we’re all far too specialized…
Presumably NYT has a different EULA/TOS/Copyright restrictions.

It's explicitly not stealing content.
Try it? I'm not Wikipedia, first party research is allowed. Go for it
Except that they do have the legal authority to do so. See 18 U.S.C. section 2258A(a)(1)(A)(ii). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A
On the bright side we finally have a northwest passage.
I don't think replacing soft language is going to solve the complacency of the human collective.
I'd be willing to bet that there's also tons of actual illegal stuff going to and fro in those mango boxes.
> I was never a fan of this nor any other war, but 20 years is a long time, and despite all the bloodshed and suffering that has happened while the Americans (and soldiers from my own country) were there, that is 20 years where, amongst other things, many girls received an education that they would not otherwise have.

True, but the US could have made a dent in that by simply not supporting and financing the Taliban. When they help exterminate all of the secular opposition to administrations they are friendly with, the inevitable results are theocracies that are armed to the teeth.
There were also boba shortages earlier this year
For me in Rhode Island, it's been quite warm. Today @ 91 degrees is similar to trend I've seen all summer - a near uniform temperature for the whole East Coast. It's 91 today in Atlanta GA, Jackson MS, & Houston TX.

It's also 91 in Burlington VT & Bangor ME. It's been strange like that all summer.
Right-wing support for Trump and his far right policies dominates the GOP. Moderate or even conservative Republicans, who even say that the election was legitimate, are cast out and can't win primaries.
Nortel had deeper issues than some industrial espionage to deal with: accounting fraud.

That scared the market and potential investors in a spectacular fashion.
Totally agree - my general take on it is that standard Atheism and Christianity/etc (as understood & practiced by the average person) are incredibly simplistic, but most people in either ideological camp are fairly oblivious to it.
It is being demolished now. The company doing the demolition must be very proud of destroying things, because they make drone & time-lapsed videos of it:

https://johlerdemolition.com/portfolio-items/motorola-schaum...

Edit: I meant this in a positive tone, not a negative. I'm glad they take pride in their work.
asoccer or ruggers?
It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record
Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert
Argentinians do this a lot. We don't have a name for it other than "juntada" (lit. gathering). Maybe is the Italian cultural influence.

We just get together and chat, in parks, cafes, houses, wherever. We even incorporate strangers into these conversations. It's a great way to meet people.

I always assumed this was quite common in all/most cultures.
I'll have to remember this when I go back to windows one day.

I roll my own keyboard layout on Linux, and the Compose key is a nice to have. I put it where the right Alt normally lives along with the dead greek key (by using shift-RALT).
Say I want to type the copyright symbol, not something I do every day, not something worth its own key on my keyboard. I type Compose O C and it gives me: ©, Compose ~ ~ gives me ≈,

The built-in shortcuts are very easy to guess, it's great for things I don't type every day. Plus you can add or remove shortcuts so you can change your layout on the fly.

It's great in Windows, Compose is great in Linux, and it's also is a good alternative for the otherwise useless CapsLock key.
WSJ is so passe. I remember a distant friend working in early 2000-s as a system administrator in 4 jobs simultaneously. Just when "remote" became reasonably possible. Wonder how many things he could juggle today.

It's not even a thing, really. People had many jobs for ages. If something is hours-based, those hours should be filled with sense, and if they are not, they get filled with something else. My other friend, relatively recently, working as a contractor in Oracle, usually did his tasks early in a day, and even had time for short naps. Well... he's surely good with what he was doing, so it wasn't too big of a problem - just not a usual thing.
I'm seeing more of this in HN where folks hint at something that's available only if you're an employee at one of the tech giants. I feel like it used to be gauche and isn't now. (No jab at you specifically tdeck, just a trend I'm not fond of.)
Similar idea, but instead of probing the keyboard keys, it has a mechanical arm + takes a high-framerate video of the keyboard + screen to measure the latency. Not automatic like yours would, but probably wouldn't be hard to use different software (they seem to be using a game, you could write an application that instead flashes bright white/$color) and then process the video to get the start/end time of the measures.

https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/tests/latency

Edit: This seems even closer to what you were suggesting: https://thume.ca/2020/05/20/making-a-latency-tester/
Which is unfortunate because the Craigslist experience is terrible and 'Craig' doesn't want to update the site. It's chock full of spam, phone repair ads, and dozens of the same thing listed in every search. You would honestly think some employee could devise a way to detect and remove such things, but no.

I don't even care that the design of the site is 'old', I just want better listings.
My own speculation basically boils down to: Human minds are primarily meaning-seeking machines, to such a large extent that we even create meaning where there is none (apophenia).

Take pareidolia, for instance – it's likely been more evolutionary advantageous to see faces where there are none (and thus flee tot often), as opposed to not seeing faces where there are faces (and thus be eaten).

And in evolutionary terms, not everything that exists has some benefit. Some features just haven't been subject to evolutionary pressures; Not selected for, just not selected against. Vestigial features are prime examples of this.
That would be copyright infringement, but as long as its 100% clear that you are quoting or paraphrasing the NYTimes its not plagiarism. It's also not journalism or really even writing.

I would even call it stealing content. But plagiarism is about passing someone else's work off as yours.
Converting property taxes to being calculated from unimproved value [0] accomplishes the same goal, while also removing disincentives on development and improvement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
That's my approach. Autohotkey plus sequences starting with "qq", like qqdeg (degree), qq>- (right arrow), and so forth.
> I think that textbooks, math textbooks in particular, are an example where print publishing does a disservice. (I'm counting PDFs here too.) By having to lay everything out in print form, you have to clutter up your explanations with examples and footnotes that take up physical room. .

I agree with your sentiment. Although, I believe there is bit of problem of generalizing it to a wider field. Surely, you can make explorables with Linear Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Number Theory etc, but there still exists a lot of mathematical fields, where such explanation using visualization is pretty difficult. It takes a lot of time to come up good explanations, while even longer for interactive explorables.

> All in all, I'd love to see more interactive textbooks. We've got this really expressive kind of document via the web. I think we should be taking advantage of it more.

This is something I have spent the last 4 years of my life building. I designed an alternative way of writing interactive books that takes a different approach than using just explorables. It's a conversational way of learning subjects designed for auto-didacts.

You interact (converse?) with the book and learn gradually. You can of course embed explorables into it (which I am planning to for upcoming linear algebra / discrete mathematics course), but the general process can still be generalized to any field. And if you are a LaTeX fan, you are in luck as all your notes are compiled as a Tufte-Latex Notebook. The medium is called Primer, homage to the diamond age.

You can checkout Primer here https://primerlabs.io.

A comic-based guide to understand how Primer helps you learn effectively: https://primerlabs.io/comics/introducing-primer-comics/
Whether it's likely or not, I'm worried about false identification of images.

Let's also remember that malware would easily drop illegal images as a way to mess with the system and specific people.
I investigated egui early this year. It's a very good library! For me, getting used to immediate mode UI was a change from being used to DOM / React-style UI. imgui works well for a lot but it struggles with complex layouts, eg flexbox. This is acknowledged in egui's README

Couple things I built with egui:
https://artifacts.bypaulshen.com/rust-gui/code-render/
https://artifacts.bypaulshen.com/rust-gui/tictactoe/
> the world was in agreement about the Taliban and their war crimes.

This is not true. Our only accusation was that they had allowed a group of Saudis to live there.
Polestar Precept
A quick google for "karachi water cost" brought up this: https://www.samaa.tv/news/pakistan/2021/01/karachi-water-tan...

Given 2340 pakistani rupees for a 3000 gal tanker, it's about 12€ or 14$ by today's exchange rate. A tiny bit more expensive than GP claimed, but acceptably close enough.
It's really a killer utility. I find it to be slightly better than KDE's Klipper and much better than Butler as a clipboard in OS X (although it's been many years since I've used Butler)
Don’t shoot the messenger. What about the content? Did the Danish WHO director make the statement or not?

BuzzFeed was once declared not a reliable news source.
Yeah, sadly I think you're right. Ultimately this is somewhere standardization would really help. If rather than a fuelling pump there was some kind of (strong!) robotic assembly/arm that just retrieves the battery from behind the cabin, inserts it into a magazine type system at the truck stop and inserts the available charged battery from the same magazine with zero human involvement then I can't see the process exceeding 10 minutes or so.

But this is somewhere where commercial competition will resist standardization, and I think that's going to cause difficulties in electric vehicle tech more broadly.
His philosophy is that Strength is Everything, so cutting weight or limiting calorie intake for "lean gains" limits the muscle mass (and strength) you could be gaining.

It all depends on your goals.
Lets assume you are American and please humour me.

Your Midwestern state government collapses and loses the ability to defend its territory and the Feds cannot help you for whatever reason.

Two rival factions move in

- a Canadian warlord and his men: They terrorize the locals but otherwise spend time drinking light beer, listening to Steppenwolf and driving around in Pontiac Trans Ams hooting and waving guns around. They promise guts and glory to young men kicking dust in town.

- a division of the Pakistani military: they are generally professional, minus friction with the occupied population. They think fast cars, beer and stadium rock are impediments to a moral society, so they suppress these things and try to impose their values on the local population.

Do you imagine the local population would be happy with having either faction around?
Do you think that they would all gravitate towards the more professional legitimate faction vs the Canadian warband?
The iPhone changed nothing and has, infact, been holding mobile computing captive in the 2007 era. Modern hardware is more than powerful enough to run decent desktop OSes without all the crap that Apple and Google insist is necessary on a phone.
Steve Jobs in 2010:
"Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means. I’m an optimist, I believe people are smart. And some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them. Let them know precisely what you’re going to do with their data. That’s what we think."

Interesting to see the "oh you must be confused" framing pop up everywhere. It's rampant as a defense of this in online discussions, Apple's defense, and Jon Gruber's take. Is there a name for this strategy?
Those troops are under essentially no threat with the exception of Korea and that is tiny. Having troops do more than occupy space is massively expensive and dangerous for them.
>That's why we have 32 years of study on mRNA vaccines

Yes, in which they were largely viewed as non-viable and a shelfed idea at least in part due to issues like ADE. The research here was not extremely active, nor was it done on humans to the extent it is now.

>You have no basis for that.

Correct, but I have no basis to believe that some unseen risk is not present too. Given that I'm not personally at risk for COVID, I think there's wisdom in waiting a couple years (at least) to see how it unfolds. And there is a basis for ADE fears, which you ignored in favor of joking about growing a spontaneous third testicle.

>do you not think anyone has had a child since they were vaccinated?

One child would not imply it's impossible for _some_ child to have a defect.

>The data that I linked you shows otherwise?

Can you point me to where this was? The 'data' is still very immature regardless. I'm sure I could source data that comes to the opposite conclusion. It's important to view these things in aggregate, not lean on the studies you agree with. Right now, I'm finding studies that disagree often, so I think waiting for the data to mature a bit is reasonable assuming I'm not harming anyone by doing so.

>The infections from variants are still hundreds of times less severe in the vaccinated

You missed my point here - the point is that they can still get infected, not that they aren't expressing symptoms as severely.

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Birth defects were just an example, like I said I view it as unlikely. The point is that there's a potential for unseen risk here. You've devolved into being a bit rude now, and I found your lack of skepticism tiring anyway. The data is all over the map currently, yet you seem rigid in your position - that's bad practice. You keep making arguments about the vaccines being effective at symptom reduction, but that's never been the point I'm trying to engage, since I agree with that and there is pretty conclusive data there. I will say that you can find data to the contrary (see Israel's recent stats), but mostly I'm saying that a) as someone who's already _not_at_risk_, there's arguably no net benefit to society in me taking the vaccine, so long as transmission rate reduction is largely an unknown (and even in that case, I'd prefer natural immunity) and b) there's a possibility of unforeseen and unwanted side effects / repercussions due to the vaccine - this is true despite you belittling this idea.

I'm not at risk, so I don't care about minimizing it or how effective it is. There is a possibility I may be a host to transmit COVID to people at risk though, so I care about that. As of now, natural immunity looks much more enticing than vaccination for someone like me. Why are you so opposed to this? I won't be hospitalized, so you don't have to worry about me, and I presumably will spread it similarly to how vaccinated individuals will.