skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each skull contains a brain subdivided. One part of it counts. One part of it beats the heart. One part of it speaks. One part of it writes. One part of it listens. Communication between the parts is ... limited.

Each sub-brain loves its its own way.

How can you understand what you cannot articulate?

And how can you articulate ... feelings ... for a part of the brain that has no words?

When you talk about colors we can point and compare, decide to agree on what a word means, then use that word-meaning-a-certain-color to share other concepts. This is impossible ... well, this is very difficult when speaking about love.

We cannot point at an emotion and debate if what I feel is what you feel.

Love has different meanings in different contexts, different times, different ages, different parts of the brain. Even when we do communicate, seven-eighths of our message impinges on sub-brains to which words are meaningless.

OK, I'm answering the wrong question. "Can you UNDERSTAND the power of love?"

No.

I can appreciate its power. Understand? No.
Ah, I get it now :) I was originally confused especially much by the line where you said you saw him in store windows. But when you now said that he is typing as you type, I understand. Thanks for explaining and expanding on what you were originally saying.
Do you have a source for the 7x figure? Haven’t heard something that precise before.
MeiliSearch also work a 4 day week which is pretty cool

https://4dayweek.io/company/meilisearch/jobs
>>Which data am I dismissing? Can you provide it?

Sure - here's just one citation about COVID-19 being in the top-10 causes of deaths for children. [1] Note that this was in 2020, BEFORE the Delta variant existed. With Delta being far more contagious and causing deeper infection levels, especially different profiles in the young, this will not get better with Delta.

Sure, getting a jab and a mask is mildly inconvenient, and might impose a bit on your expectation of a fully smooth and privileged life.

But make no mistake, the fact that you are making those arguments in the way you make them shows that it is from every perspective,both current and historical, you are massively priveleged.

The fact is that throughout history the demands of actual survival have, with only rare exceptions, imposed themselves on our lives. Full "self-actualization" is a luxury, not some basic right, and it is only available AFTER survival needs are met.

This is a survival need. People far more expert, and with far more skin in the game are imploring us to take a few simple measures. Yet jokers like you endlessly whine, bitch, and moan about imagined harms that might come to you because it is a bit inconvenient.

Get over yourself, contribute a bit to the general welfare, and you might find things get better. If you don't want your kids to wear a mask, keep them home. Stop imposing your idiocy on everyone else.

In short, YOU are part of the problem, part of the reason we are having a massive spike, while, for example, Germany is not. Stop it.

[1] https://www.wbrc.com/2021/05/23/covid-is-one-top-causes-deat...
An honest answer, perhaps? Why is an honest answer not sayable?

And why tell a lie that will soon be disproven so spectacularly?

(To be clear, I'm not arguing whether he lied or really believed what he said. I'm responding to "even if he is relatively confident of an eventual Taliban victory")
This is awesome, you seem to be in touch with what your users want and then work to deliver it (whereas with many side projects I see it's more the developer building exactly what they want). I wish you much success!
Not to be glib but this is the kind of thing that happens all the time in regions where power is unstable. We have a few recent examples of countries (especially the U.S.) rat holding onto one particular power steucture. But more often, governments and business are eager to start wheeling and dealing with whoever it looks like is really holding the keys.
The first issue is that you have to make a trade-off between power and producing nitrogen oxides if you're using air. You can get around that with a cat, but then you're back to using expensive catalysts. The engines also can't be as reliable long term as conventional ICEs because hydrogen embrittles and corrodes all metals given enough time. The best you can do is delay things a bit with good alloys and engine design. Knocking/predetonation is also a much difficult problem to solve.
Odd statement, Afghanistan was a pseuo-state at the best of times, Taiwan is a nation with incredible air, naval and ground defenses for its size that doesn’t bleed America financially dry. Embarrassing photos of one of its ‘allies’ losing aside, America leaving Afghanistan makes America financially stronger and more militarily flexible.
So we’re going back for a cycle of US-trained and armed people joining an extremist group that will turn on the US?

I hope history doesn’t repeat itself completely :(
What actually happens is that apple is forced to drop its fees, some of its restrictions to be competitive to stop the bleeding. No third party app store ends up on greater than 50-60% of phones and apps that want maximum coverage still end up on the official app store.

People like yourself who only have the official app store have little issue save maybe with fortnight.
Great little documentary. The color palette and soundscape of the balloon release reminded me a bit of Starro in the recent Suicide Squad, and there’s a non-zero chance Gunn has seen this footage.
That was years of not being raped and being given an opportunity to succeed. You are a horrible person
It's a sad reality that there are some answers that the people are not ready to hear, even if they are true. If people rewarded politicians for being truthful, they would be more truthful. They are just responding to incentives, like everyone else. I wish it were different, but that doesn't mean I think it ever will be.
Maybe you are following the wrong people on Twitter? Switch it to "latest tweets" rather than the default of "top tweets" and then you'll only see the people you follow.

I see plenty of creative, funny, and thoughtful content. I've learned a ton. There's some that I like that I'd call "useful outrage"; some of the things going on in world need that. I see very little "rage and hate".
You beat repressive regimes with blue jeans and rock music. The older generation of Taliban can never resist these weapons of mass destruction.
Has there been an explanation as to why there was so little resistance by Afghan forces to fight the Taliban? (Genuinely curious.)
I find it very easy to tune my YouTube recommendations. If I open my homepage I see quality content on machining, optical physics, ML, jazz theory, battery tech, chip fab, interior/exterior design, rocket nozzles, etc… and not a single contorted face.
Did Netflix’s Streaming Model Fail It with the Irishman?
Artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size
Does that include groundwater usage?
When Saigon began to fall on April 29, 1975, they signaled the start of the US evacuation by playing White Christmas (as sung by Bing Crosby) on AFRN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon#Operation_Frequ...

I guess these days, it'd be done by a smartphone app (some sort of secure Telegram group or emergency broadcast type message).
I still remember from the late 1970s eating sopaipillas as a kid and then going around to the little grottos where you could get little toys from people in costume (like witches etc). It's burned in my memory. Amazingly, I've never seen the SP episode.
The title is a bit clickbaity, but it's clear that she's turning on a firehose of donated cash with little public insight (as is her right!).

It is really the extra resources of all those non-profits that will be "reshaping" their communities. We'll have to wait and see in a few years what the effects are.
The CEO does not operate in a vacuum -- they, too, can be the victim of the circumstances they find themselves in. By saying "person X screwed up" you're making it impossible for yourself to learn important things that could prevent the same problem from occurring again. This is true regardless of the level of the person you're blaming.

The people who truly improve systems are, in my experience, the ones that do consider multiple causes of failure. The ones who latch onto narrow chains tend to fix symptoms and then think they're done.
> meaning it can fly up to 370 minutes (over 6 hours) on a single engine

It can fly almost indefinitely† on one engine. Performance is reduced, but it can even still climb. That ETOPS rating means this plane is allowed to fly routes planned at up to 370 minutes over water with two engines in the expectation that when sooner or later it experiences an engine failure the one remaining engine can get them to safety so often that regulators are willing to accept the residual risk.

If you call up the regulators and say "OK, I have an A350 here, but one of the engines doesn't work, can I fly that over an ocean to get it fixed?" they're not going to issue you a ferry exemption justified by ETOPS, they're going to say "No". ETOPS is about what you can do with two engines knowing what will happen if one fails.

† Obviously it will eventually run out of fuel. And engines can fail, although that's rare, the core idea of ETOPS is that so long as these failures are rare enough we don't need three engines.
Haven’t clicked the link or even played Genshin but I believe the novelty is it’s:

1) a proper singleplayer JRPG style game,

2) in “App” format with gacha mechanic.

Previously 1) and 2) didn’t occur in a same title. If it’s an App, it would have extremely simplistic gameplay with gacha, or if it’s a JRPG, there were at most DLCs and certainly not gacha. But they just made it no longer the case.
Yes, map makers have a long history of creating fake map features to catch copycats...

https://gizmodo.com/the-fake-places-that-only-exist-to-catch...
I play it.

Besides the main story and occasional events, there isn't much to do in this single player game.

Login every week and do some exploring and fighting, like Black Desert and other games, pretty much. Or just wait for some event, which usually has some entertaining story or game mode (there's a tower defense thing going on now). Other than that, there ain't much to do.

Think of it more like an unfinished, constantly updating version of the old Fire Emblem GBA games.

Others here said it "can't be enjoyed without paying" - no, it actually can't be enjoyed much at all. I.e. if you don't like it in the first hour, you won't like it no matter how much you spend.

Whether you pay or not, it's literally the same experience, but fewer characters (they're all the same basic types, so who cares).

People who spend on games with gacha elements are very interesting as I fail to see the point of it.
Have you never opened packs of baseball or Pokémon cards hoping for a specific high value card? Have you never been to an arcade with token/coin pushers? That just replacing the gambling machine’s quarters with tokens. Ticket and prize redemption games at Chuck-E-Cheese are 100% modeled after casinos.
I think it's tough as a maintainer to manage backlogs like this. A lot of people, especially new maintainers, really hate the idea of bugs just lingering unfixed when a lot of them are obviously fixable. Each bug is only a little bit of work, how hard can it be to keep on top of them?

I feel like most complex-enough projects are not in a situation where there's the time, resources, or motivation to fix everything. I can't think of any real examples where this isn't the case.

If it's a commercial company resources are the concern because achieving perfection doesn't really pay the bills or justify the staffing. In open source, motivation is really the currency and the people who are motivated to fix tens or hundreds of bugs are rare and at high risk of burning out if they attempt to fix everything that comes in.

I just think the upshot is that there's usually a significant number of bugs (or usability issues, quirks, whatever) that are not going to be fixed unless something major changes in the project. Directly acknowledging that seems good, whether closing them or otherwise marking them. Keeping it all open seems like the equivalent of keeping a basement full of junk in the off chance you need each bit in the future.

I'm not sure what the alternative is. Shutting down the project?
> One of the things that has puzzled me for a long time is how little thought we have applied over time towards designing and building better homes.

We have thought a lot, but the reality is that the market, which we rely on to drive how things like houses are built, has shown that regardless of what they say, people ultimately value a 5th bathroom more than they value energy or water efficiency.

The only way to ensure broad efficiency is by raising building codes - which has happened a bit - but raising them to a level that actually can help mitigate climate change faces stiff resistance from the mass production building industry, whose business model is based on building disposable, inefficient housing, and the homebuyers who want both cheap and large homes.
I think it’s more intuitive to edit SVG than to edit Gcode for many people.

One of the big reasons people like SVG is the support for multiple layers representing multiple pen colors, and most tools dealing with SVG support this. In Gcode that would require two separate files and running each separately. Axidraw will pause between layers to allow a pen swap then continue plotting.

SVG also has groups which allows for the path optimization to only optimize within groups so the group is plotted at the same time.

SVG is easy to export from Processing and other libraries. Not sure how easy Gcode is to create and export comparatively.

I’m just getting started on this path so that’s all I know of. I tried the Gcode route with an Eleksmaker A3 before getting an Axidraw and comparatively the AxiDraw and the tooling Just Works whereas it felt like I was fighting the Eleksmaker to do what I wanted.
Not just western. The soviets and the Chinese have suffered similar problems throughout history. And the Indians, Persians, etc… basically, no one is really good at conquering unless they simply colonize what they conquer (eg the normans in England, or the Europeans in America).
Yup. Or even just build a canal from the Pacific Northwest - which gets so much water they can’t use almost any of it, even damming everything they can - down south.

California has always gone through droughts, and the issue isn’t an actual lack of water (from a support of the population, or even support of agriculture in general). It’s the economics of it, what
is cost effective where, and prioritization of what makes sense and what doesn’t- which is hard, and there are a lot
of incumbents with iffy models (cities, counties, and farmers) that don’t want to adjust or be honest about any of this.
Just because financial firms provide legitimately important services, doesn't mean the value they capture is commensurate with that value creation.

So yes, it's a leap of abstraction for most people to grasp that 'market making' etc. is an important function, and that there's legit value created.

... but the amount of surplus capture is gigantic and that's the problem.

Fouquet became Louis IX 'CFO' and somehow at the same time amassed massive wealth possibly illegitimately and so he lost his head very quickly.

It's always the people closest to the piles of Gold that end up with all of the Gold. There are a million ways they justify it, and in free markets where information and relations are 'the power', well, they have it all.

Usually it's 'generally very talented' people involved, of that I have no doubt, but that again doesn't justify necessarily the surplus capture.
People aren't good at hydration, at least I wasn't, so at the risk of self promotion I have an iphone app called Max Hydrate - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/max-hydrate/id1575744883#?plat... - that calculates how much you should drink to stay hydrated. It's based on research and the most important parts are free.

I had thought about it mostly for working out and athletes, but perhaps in warmer temps it has more general applicability. I've learned older people often suffer from dehydration without realizing it.

It has a WUT test to test for dehydration and uses your sweat profile to suggest hydration products. There are a lot of options these days beyond Gatorade and Pedialyte.

Most people don't get enough salt, so that's something to watch out for, especially if you are a salty sweater.
Attitude Determines Your Success
Audi’s Latest Concept Is an Electric Car That Expands and Contracts
> I wish it were different

Be the change you wish to see. If you think Biden was lying here, don't defend him for it.

Even in terms of realpolitik this was clearly a mistake. He obviously didn't think his words would be disproven so quickly; it would be foolish to lie about what's going to happen almost immediately.
If you don’t know front end development Flutter can get you a very long way very quickly.
I didn't downvote, but maybe the "many consider" weasel-words? It's one of those ways to make a fuzzy and unprovable claim that you're advancing but not quite saying you think it. (Plus, I've not seen that claim actually made, though I've not gone hunting for it.)

It'd be sort of weird to compare those games at that level, anyway, since although there's some superficial systems similarities (Genshin thoroughly copied BotW's open world traversal mechanics), they play incredibly differently. It's like saying "tennis is a better game than chess", or in video games "Doom is a better game than Tetris" -- the genre difference is so great that I don't know if you can meaningfully compare them.
Chinese apps and games dominating the West makes me feel like a Soviet citizen in 1991 watching Coca-Cola and McDonald's ads pop up everywhere.

We are truly in China's century.
Brilliant. I tried searching for titles I consider good, and see how it would perhaps recommend good related titles since its so good at recommending junk related titles to the junk on the front page, then I figured what's going on. Amazing. Should replace the Netflix home page since it would make no difference anyway.
Are you a newbie? Want to profit?
The Oroville dam was so full it was at risk of overtopping just a few years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam
What are the major agricultural commodities for which California is the breadbasket, and how many of those commodities could be sustainably grown elsewhere in the US and/or imported from abroad? Besides maybe almonds (which can presumably be easily imported), nothing springs to mind as predominately californian.
Yes, I had the same experience. Now I contribute some changes, but still call experts when I don't know what I'm doing.

OSM is an incredibly cool project with great maintainers.
>The question then is whether it was functional programming that actually made the difference, or the people who had enough perseverance and skill to actually learn Scala in the first place running the project.

Oof, it may indeed be the second, but what do they get out of the deal?

A lot of FP programmers refuse to go back, simply because it feels nicer.

It's a hell of a lot easier to "persevere" on a project when your language doesn't make you want to dig your eyes out with a spoon.
Do masks work? A review of the evidence
It can be done, but...

if you have a router with VLAN support (Mikrotik, Ubiquiti, OpenWrt, many others), use VLANs. Isolate your VMs in their own subnet and configure your router what is allowed or not allowed for hosts in that subnet.
> and lives as a 35 MB binary when installed ... it's made up of 7,600 lines of Rust

Wow; how on earth can this blow up to 35 MB? For comparison: the Crossline stand-allone exe (http://software.rochus-keller.info/CrossLine_win32.zip) with built-in https://github.com/rochus-keller/Fts and Sqlite (all written in C/C++) is less than 7 MB. Where do the other ~30 MB come from?
It's literally the same process and it still uses webpacker...
>Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :)

As someone who was in the midst of it here in Denmark, I can tell you that, as a teenager who was used to anything cool always coming from the US, I assumed that there were much cooler demos being made in the states that we simply didn't have access to.
Yes. The strength of the Taliban was attrition. In an all out frontal assault on cities, the ANA on paper should have easily dealt the Taliban a huge defeat, but they just didn’t fight.
Why would you deny the people what they want. It's there country not yours you poor troubled soul
That seems like a bit of an overstatement to me. I've been playing for free for a while now. I'm at adventure rank 25, and my characters are all at levels 40-50. I've unlocked all the maps that are accessible at this level. There's a long list of quests and challenges that I have yet to get to. There's plenty of fun to be had without spending money, and in fact I'd recommend it as a good free open world RPG.
Why? How does putting a date on a calendar change anything? If the military had ooened up the mystery box and pulled out on oh say the random date of July 2nd or September 23rd this would still be hapoening.

At the end of the day there just are the factions of a country which are better organized, better funded or more popular and they arw going to rise to power once external involvement has ceased to be the driving power.
would the 'graveyard of dynasties' befall upon China also? how differently / innovatively would China deal with Afghanistan and avoid the risk of Taliban/Islamic blowback ?

it is quite unbelievable how they made Taliban say "we've no problems with the Uighur situation"
Rad, thanks
I agree with everything you wrote. Software development is a mess.

To git specifically, git is hard for everyone, anyone that says otherwise is either lying or doesn't know what they don't know. I said as much at the software carpentry classes I helped with. The lead scientist trainer didn't really like me saying that, but it is the truth.

Humans have a fixed decision budget, we can only handle so much complexity before our brain turns off. Do we want to spend that solving domain problems or on huge software stacks?

I guess this is where the folks like us could do a better job to make simple, obvious ways to do things. There is a lot of value in standardization and a reduced amount of choice. Hobgoblins and all.

I knew there was a lot of complexity in our tech stacks, trying to bootstrap smart people from basically nothing made it even more apparent. But I don't think the answer is to get scientists out of writing code. Code is the mirror to science as science is the mirror to our understanding. It rigorously and formally, when used correctly, closes the loop.

For all the problems that Python notebooks have, I think they make an excellent way to convey ideas, but they need history and a way to make them reproducible.

Apologies for the mistaken identity, I thought you were a different seagull.
How can one have a great game that is harmful to the players? To me that sounds like: "This food is truly excellent so let's honor the chef. Whether it's full of rat poop and heavy metals is a totally separate issue."
Thanks adrianvincent! Did you see https://docs.meilisearch.com/reference/features/filtering.ht...?
Wouldn't that cost be easy to pass along to the customers though? Assuming the authorities aren't discriminating against a single ISP, then all the ISP's can just raise their price at the same time.

Or have I been living with Canadian ISPs too long and that sort of thing doesn't happen in the rest of the world?
There's a good sci fi novel by Bob Shaw that has this trade off.

"One Million Tomorrows"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1025074.One_Million_Tomo...
You would need misters on a timer to up your relative humidity throughout the day. Drip irrigation can’t correct an oppressive VPD.