skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that was going to be my major driver for getting a VR rig. I used to do Arnis/Escrima (stick fighting martial art), so this appeals to me greatly.

Then Facebook bought them. So, all plans for getting a VR rig have been permanently shelved. :(
They have been buying up corporate bonds, which is not the same as printing money and spending it. They simply have to slow down and eventually stop buying bonds and as they are paid back, that money goes back of the ledger. I.e. it's destroyed.
How to Migrate to from PostHog Self-Hosted to PostHog Cloud
That introduces a "mode"? In fact load-balancers / traffic-shaping themselves can misoperate often resulting in catastrophic consequences.

See chapters 19 to 22: https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-frontend/
I guess that's what might be the difficulty for newcomers: having an idea of what exactly I could use Emacs for that justifies the high upfront investment compared to other tools with a more familiar UI.

Doom Emacs and other distros are great because they allow to just dive in with minimal configuration effort and sensible defaults. Without it, I certainly wouldn't have started using org-mode.

It shouldn't be necessary to learn a programming language and spend hours with the Emacs documentation just to be able to use some of the great packages like org or magit.
Man in my 30s here, vaccinated, still alive, for the record.
I wish somebody had taught me like Leo is being. seems so much fun
I have a Hotwire post cooking too - stay tuned ;)
No. I am saying that the IQ of academics is higher in the first place. Not in general, but in that group for certain.
Put on some music you like and work for as long as it takes to drink two beers. Work with joy.
Anyone know what logging/printing library exploit.py is using in that first embedded video?
The best part is how each of the 18650 cells are swappable & not one soldered pack. This is something which could have been more widespread across devices like headphones, portable speakers & in slim laptops towards the hinge.
> I personally have a quite different ideology when it comes to these matters, but I'm not the one in charge

Ok fine. Then if that is the case, then you should have no problem saying "Yes, I completely and totally agree with you, that the people who want to invade Taiwan, are extremely evil, should be condemned, and the people and individuals who support that, are morally equivalent to the obvious extremely evil ideologies, that come to mind, and should be treated as such by society."

If you agree with that statement, then great. In that situation, you reject that other ideology, entirely, and agree that such people, including individuals, can and should be treated the same as any other horrible evil political group, with all of the implications that this implies.

> If you want to raise money and hop on a plane to fight the Chinese over Taiwan

Whoa, I have already given other options. Such as for example, continuing doing what we are currently doing, which is to arm Taiwan, as much as possible, so that if a war breaks out, a whole lot of damage is caused to china.

Such an action, would likely disincentive china from invading in the first place, which would be the goal. Arming the opposition, and economic and political sanctions and measures, are likely more than enough to prevent an invasion, without a war.

> Is it better for China to quickly take Taiwan or for us to enable a war that could kill millions

Or, instead of that, we could give them the ability to cause as much damage as possible, without us needing to be directly involved.

Such a situation, would provide strong disincentives, that would likely cause china to not start the war in the first place.
Wow that's awesome, I knew GDS had a design system but didn't realise there was a Ruby implementation.

Quick link for others: https://github.com/DFE-Digital/govuk-components

I'm going to take a look through the repo as I'm sure there's some patterns you've found given you're at a much bigger scale. Any hot tips?
Japan finds more contaminated Moderna vaccines
I am looking for a device that will recognise a specific cat and spray the water towards it. There is a aggressive stray cat in the area and is constantly attacking mine.
Equivalent for Django?
We might, but Relatively makes it counterintuitive.

In the past/future you find all the stuff within the corresponding light cone. The stuff outside the cones can flip between being what seems (non-Relativistically) like it should be past and future, can be either depending on your motion relative to it, so an extra tense for spacelike separation is something I can imagine a sufficiently advanced civilisation using.
Right. But even the whole "maintenance exceeds the value of your car" thing is a bit murky. Taking a car worth $2k and paying $4k to have the power train replaced with a new one isn’t going to make it worth $6k, sure. But if that means your car will last another 200k miles and you aren’t bothered by driving a vehicle that old, you’re still coming out on top. I think that mostly comes from advice saying "look, if you’re like most other people, you’ll get bored of the car before what you’re replacing fails. So you’re just throwing money into the fire if you sell it in the next few years".
I entirely agree with your analysis, the "new car efficiency" pitch is outright propaganda from the industry, pretty much like in the PC world where running old machines is usually (unless running 24/7 at full power) much more energy-efficient (and cheaper) than buying a new one.

Just wanted to point out "mpg" and other american-centric units left me confused and i had to look it up. Spelling it out would have helped me understand, coming from Europe where we used standard decimal units. For anecdote, the domain where Europe doesn't use a decimal system is time. A decimal calendar was introduced during the French revolution, but shortly removed from history (like many other progresses of that era): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
> It's deliberately so [confusing]

This is not true. Public schools pre-date modern state schools and what made them "public", by the original definition, was that they were open to any child - provided that their parents could afford the fees.

Other private schools at the time were open only to the children of parents who met certain criteria, and hence were not "public".
My self-help guide to making sense of a confusing world (2020)
you won the bet...by using a power source? :)
Android app for zettelkasten method with webdav sync
Reminds me of the story from five years ago, about the CPA that created his own “quiet car”: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-commuter-hero-who-created-...
I'm sure I read somewhere (either on viewcomponent.org or on their GitHub) that their end goal is to merge upstream into Rails core.
The relevancy is obvious. Someone wondered if we will need new words for different nuances of tense, and this comment described that Turkish has some of those already.
There are many, many corporations that rely on this (Many “cost plus” government contractors, for example).

A common pattern, is a deliberate underbid, in order to lock in the contract, then a series of additional charges, as the project progresses. A contractor tried this recently, on a friend of mine. Luckily, he consulted me, and I was able to help him to steer clear of that tar pit.

The 419 scam works the same way.
https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Cofftea
That’s fair.

I had written it out initially, but it ended up appearing enough times it felt redundant. I should still have know better though, considering I work with a bunch of European expats who constantly poke at me for it. I then have to remind them that Fahrenheit was a Polish born German living in the Netherlands at the time he came up with the unit :)
Wow. That must’ve one of the longest gaps between releases.
Anecdotally, I've seen many COVID patients experience re-infection after months on a COVID survival support groups on Facebook. ( assuming that people would not have any incentives to spread fake news on these kind of group ).

This is quite contradictory to the study. I'll guess we will have to wait for the peer-review process.
Nope. Does the sidecar create a folder for each component?
ISPs – The Human Side of ISPs
A saw a really obvious instance of this recently, with an old lady trying to use a self checkout.

The machine asked which payment option you wanted: cash, credit card, voucher, etc. She selected cash. That brought you to a screen with a button in the middle allowing you to switch quickly to pay with card (to pay the remaining balance after you'd part paid with cash). The button text was "pay with card". The problem is, because it wasn't obvious that it was a button, she thought she had accidentally chosen the wrong option at the previous screen. She chose the "back" button at bottom and then selected "cash" again, but had the same problem. I saw her go through this cycle several times before asking for help.

A really obvious button style could well have avoided the problem.
There's no guarantee that the stock market will continue to be a free ride of growth above and beyond inflation, especially given the ease of access today compared to the 90s and earlier. Capital flows in to public markets are unparalleled these days.
New Zealand had a Radio Hauraki, also pirates at sea.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/radio-hauraki-rules-waves%3A-...
Operation chokepoint
Sorry, I was comparing that to the like China, India, and also many SEA countries.
If you are comparing to the USA, everyone is deeply fooked.
When i found that i was so happy.

PrivateerGeminiGold, Might and Magic 6, The Raven and Gabriel Knight3 are probably the only games i played in the last 3 years :)
I learned SML. At the time the CS department here had the philosophy that the introductory programming course should be in a language students were very unlikely to already know, thus putting the self-taught programmers on a somewhat level playing field with those who've never programmed a computer before.

They did have to stream that intro course anyway, because irrespective of familiar syntax some people "get it" and some don't. I remember the bottom stream were named "Strugglers" but I don't remember what the stream for people it comes as second nature to is called, most people move up and down a bunch e.g. maybe they were fine right up until currying, and they go all the way from "Attend one lecture a week, complete the assigned work in ten minutes, hand in and we're done" to "I need both classes and the extra one-on-one tutorial to even understand the assignment, let alone try to do it" overnight.

Today I believe they teach Java, or possibly Python, bowing to industry pressure to churn out people who can cut code on day one, as if that's the purpose of a three year degree. Interestingly the same university's IT department just hired me based on the rationale that although I don't actually know most of the technologies they're using, I clearly can just acquire everything needed as I go. So they don't believe this bullshit, but many people hiring their graduates do, and 18 year olds pick institutions with the best hiring rates.
As worthy a consideration as this sounds, one would trust that problems would either be fixed through development - allowing your poor civilians on the plane in the first place; Or be so thoroughly instrumental in meddling with development that the aircraft couldn't be completed at all.
Electric unicycles came first already in 1970's. It had a mechanical gyro from airplane and analog circuitry. The Segway was totally lame concept and doomed by those who knew things.

One plan was to add some lateral correction to the unicycle to aid learning and safety. But it never happened for some reason.
As they say, "I love games, my favorite it the multiplayer text adventure called Unix."
Ah i understand. You still have the option of buying a non-Facebook rig such as a VIVE or Index and not buying any DLC (there is an extremely active modding scene). If you really don’t want to give Facebook any money, nobody will judge you for acquiring the game itself via other means, either.

As a fellow player, it’s worth it. I have TWO VR rigs and both of them only have beat saber on them.
> The curtain finally came up on the Segway personal transporter in December 2001, just under a year after the proposal leaked—when Kamen, in his jeans and work boots, went on Good Morning America. “It’s sort of like putting on a pair of magic sneakers,” he told Diane Sawyer. “You think forward, you go forward.”

To me, this marketing strategy is what killed the Segway. Every news station in my area described it as if it were controlled by human thoughts. I suppose you could argue that it's technically true, since your thoughts are what cause you to lean forward, but it's such a scummy sales tactic that I could never take it seriously after that.
> Or the cost of maintenance will exceed the value of the car.

How do you measure the value of the used car? In all cases, it's very unlikely that the cost of maintenance will ever exceed the value of a brand new car. If it ever does, it sure is a demonstration of planned obsolescence (voluntary bad engineering to push sales).

> If gas prices are high when the time comes for you to replace your car, then you're more likely to take fuel consumption into consideration and buy a hybrid (or EV).

Not sure about that. Manufacturing cars, whether electric or gasoline-based, takes considerable amounts of fuel from extraction of materials to assembly to distribution. Higher fuel prices means higher parts prices overall, and the reason we have cheap electronics is because they're manufactured in China where energy is cheap and local governments mostly don't care about pollution. I have yet to see a study comparing the amount of fossil fuel necessary to produce electric vs ignition cars, but in the "renewable" energy world the picture isn't as clear cut as you suggest. As much as i dislike the director, "Planet of the humans" documentary has interesting overview of that topic.
Or just use "find -maxdepth 1" or "ls -f"

What makes "ls" appear slow on large directories is that it loads the entire directory to sort the contents. "-f" turns off that behaviour (it also changes some other switches; EDIT: another relevant change might be that ls by default also outputs columns that needs to know length of filenames), and "find" does not sort.

(Don't want to fault OP for writing something to do this - it's not obvious if you've suddenly had to deal with a huge directory and aren't quite familiar with trying find a way to list their contents faster - I remember my frustration over how slow that could be myself until I learned of those options, especially on ext2fs where it was really awful)
Because it was shit at launch. The nice stable OS we remember is the XP after its service packs.
> I completely and totally agree with you, that the people who want to invade Taiwan, are extremely evil, should be condemned

Yes, I would condemn it. I think any group of people who want to be independent should be able to be independent. Also I assume the system in China is more the cause of evil, as opposed to all the people, so many of whom are along for the ride.

But that doesn't mean I'd be in favor of going to war with China over Taiwan.

> Whoa, I have already given other options. Such as for example, continuing doing what we are currently doing

The main article that we are commenting on, and the start of this thread, was about defending Taiwan if China invades. I thought that was what we were talking about.

Any chance of you answering any of those questions I asked? Or maybe this is one of those emotional things that are difficult to reason about?
Yep. It's "experimental" but stable. It creates the .rb file at the root and then you can put the template, CSS & JS in a subfolder.

`bin/rails g component Button --sidecar`
I strongly suspect that the buffer size is largely irrelevant. The article linked from readme estimates the amount of syscalls needed with the default buffer size as 16K. That’s peanuts, can do it in under a second, considering just syscall overhead.

The likely culprit is stat - dentry doesn’t have all the attributes inline, so a stat call is needed for EVERY file. That’s a lot of syscalls. Even worse, in a large directory the information won’t be in a cache, so every single stat hits the disk, dominating the time spent.
How things should be done:

Value (to the customer) > Price (sale price) > Cost (to the seller).

What's needed is value (which is subjective), not necessarily cost.
Come on. The two are not mutually exclusive, and you're making the archivist up to be some obsessed madman.
1. In the older versions of Ada standard, functions can't have side effects, in a sense that they are not allowed to return more than one value (by setting the function's parameter's mode to out). Procedures always allowed to have side effects.

2. Functions can be expression functions which can be set in the code specification or used in expressions. Procedures can be written only in packages' bodies.

3. Procedures can be set to no-return state: that kind of procedure doesn't end in the normal way, but, for example, only by raising an exception.

4. Procedures can be null procedures, empty. That not the same as abstract subprograms from other programming languages.

Also, the difference is, in my opinion, more visible in the safe subset of Ada, SPARK, where still exists the rule which forbids side effects on functions.
It’s easy to see the irrationality of the sunken cost fallacy when all the inputs and outputs can be quantified exactly and completely.

Real life is often not as clear. We don’t know whether our costs are sunk or not.

Has the athlete who trained 7 years to get to elite status wasted her time, or is she on the brink of a series of pb’s that will rocket her into contention for gold, two months out from the olympics? It’s hard to tell.

Should Vincent Van Gogh have stopped painting and studied a trade or a profession that would at least pay a living wage? Should his brother Theo have kept supporting him? It depends on when you do the reckoning. In Van Gogh’s case, the Art was never worth anything during his whole lifetime.

How much did Steve Jobs blow on NeXT? On Pixar? On the Newton? It depends on when you do the reckoning, and it depends on what’s coming around the corner.

The only thing we know for sure is that quitters don’t win the long games.
Just because they don't know better, or it's a mistake. I'm not suggesting they knowingly thought 'but that doesn't matter here we want a specific technically wrong answer'.
> examples: Tesla

I am curious how electric car batteries will fare in the long run. Lithium batteries in the computing world (eg. smartphone batteries) are well known to lose charge after a few years. Considering battery is a considerable cost in manufacture/maintenance of an electric car, i'm not sure how that would play out. I guess we'll have to wait another decade to find out whether that's a disaster or not.
I'm not arguing with this, though you can end up in a situation where you get a cat after having a plant for a long time, or someone not aware offers you a plant, and depending on your house or apartment, it's often not easy to find a place for your plant that your cat can't reach.

And yes, you should look up your plants for cat toxicity and the solution is often to give your plant to someone else…
Chalmers University in Sweden used Ada as its intro language for a while as well (late 90s).
I know it's a joke but it means nearby universe as distinct from distant universe, if anyone is actually confused.
Doesn't the Linux "find" command stream directory contents like that?

Btw: many tools choke on directories with a large number of files. E.g. Bash autocomplete and Vim autocomplete. And there typically seems to be no way to abort these operations with Escape or Ctrl-C or Ctrl-\. Perhaps these tools could benefit from the approach taken here.
Because it wasn't developed for those platforms? The code itself will probably mostly be portable but there's tons of libraries that also need to be pulled in. Some programs were developed for Windows,
some were developed for macOS, and this was developed for Linux, simple as that.

Windows should be able to run it with WSL2 with some extra setup. If you can get all the other dependencies in place, macOS might also be able to run it, I don't know how compatible the macOS windowing system is with the Linux ones. Same goes for the *BSDs.
I am not there yet, but I am trying to make education loan-free and based on equity. The details of the project are written here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org
I can't wait for the fundamentalist-muslim alliance
Was just going to say that we should perhaps start with using the term “speed of time” instead of “speed of light” to get in the right frame of mind.

But then I started to think about it and it doesn’t seem exactly right either. Causality kind of implies interaction, and interaction implies mass (no?), so causality as such must necessarily be strictly slower than C. That is, the speed of the propagation of the wave function between causally connects to events is C but causality as such are the interesting things happening at those events.
"maybe you can point to an example that demonstrates what you or miscellaneous Marines would consider a well executed withdrawal"

You dont seem to get it.

1) Thats not for me to say and with the actual combat experts who are vocal this is a matter of what not to do rather than pointlessly devising optimal plans if we had a do-over at the current state. But certainly some low hanging fruit has been mentioned like giving up Bagram, giving lists of names to the Taliban, not evacuating sensitive equipment, etc. The fact that Biden said the Afghan govt would not collapse just weeks ago and then they did in days and we are scrambling with clear repercussions shows things could have been planned differently.

2) You seem to put unnamed armchair "experts" ahead of on the ground combat professionals. Would be nice to know who those people are.

3) "now rushing to blame Biden for their own failures" When an operation is a clear cut blunder the excuses stop at the top. So yes, he is getting blamed. Few are blaming Biden for a 20 year war at this stage, hes being blamed for the current shit show. Though maybe he should be since he voted for it and his 50 year political career overlooked the entirety of it. You're criticizing legacy personnel having to do with the war while at the same time there is no better example than Biden.
Sounds like we need "just one more rule" to enforce record-keeping.
"ls" without additional options just does getdents() on Linux (confirmed with strace to be sure). But "ls" without additional options loads the entire directory into memory and sorts the content (EDIT: It also tries columnar output, which probably also would make it read everything first). Give "-f" to "ls" on a large directory and it starts producing output right away. The total runtime probably won't be all that different, but in practice what people tend to get annoyed with when dealing with a large directory tends to be waiting for the initial output.

You're right that the moment you give an option to ls that requires stat calls, though, the stat calls tends to dominate.
The immediate failure here is of orderly pullout. They should have been arranging for the escape of allies months ago, instead of waiting until after collapse.
I'm fine with them serving jihadis so long as they serve the counter-jihadis!
I agree just went on to check couple of posts:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/03/emoji/

This one stands out as "you are all dumb and I am so smart".

Then also that person does not understand that one should keep hers "edgy" stuff for group of her besties. Or at least understand that other people might not be in the same context.

So for the original story posted - well I don't trust the narration. It just seems there was lack of communication.