skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard this several times about ham radio, and to me as an outsider the idea of shared access to the medium is a bit off-putting to me.

Is it possible to have two-way links "in the clear" but otherwise encoded or ciphered? Is there a regulation that says all transmissions must be in English, for example, or can I transmit in Esperanto/Navajo/hex?
Amazing stuff, keep it up :)
And you completely overlooked the beginning of the paragraph, regarding food stamps

Scenario A (Mom+ 2 kids): 15k + 5.2k(FS benefits) -> 20.2k for mom on her own, plus whatever unmarried dad provides on the side. I can tell you as someone with kids if mom doesn't work, the cost of children go to damn near zero especially if mom can garden and willing to find free entertainment for children.

Scenario B (Mom + Dad + 2 kids): 30k + 0(FS benefits) -> 15k/adult.

>This is much more than the 11000$ a year the mother would get on her own. I hardly see how this example makes any sense

Only if you consider section 8 benefits in a vacuum and not the other massive difference in benefits between one mom with no income and a a family with a working father making 20k, such as aforementioned foodstamps.

I'm not aware of any distinction made between having been previously married vs never married in these section 8 or foodstamp benefits
Yes. Org mode is fantastic.

However, some limitations/ drawbacks.

- org-agenda is slow and completely unusable if you have hundreds of org files.

- despite multiple half-baked efforts there is still no easy-to-use parser and pretty printer for the lanuguage. I'm not even asking for 100% of the syntax, 20% capability of t he built-in org-element API with good documentatiom will accomplish 80% of the requirements.

- no easy way to integrate calendars and org-agenda with something like a calDav server.
And if you do, why not just use Google Forms?
By the way, is playing chess online or against a local AI regarded as a video game or is there an exemption for traditional games? For sure Chinese professional weiqi (go) players played a lot of games online when they were younger than 18.
Consider EteSync as a solution. FOSS, can be self-hosted, available on multiple platforms, etc:

https://www.etesync.com/
The lead doesn't stay there, I guess:

FTA: lead can be found throughout everyone’s daily lives in the form of batteries and the new generation of solar panels that deteriorate over time and release their toxicity into the air and the soil from which crops are grown

Really though, the exact nature of the link is secondary to the research. What it shows is that historically, lead production was closely correlated with lead exposure across the entire population, for whatever reason. That this correlation holds so well across cultures indicates that it's not one single mechanism that drives it, such as Roman lead piping, but more a general tendency for whatever lead there is around to migrate into our bodies somehow.
I get a ton of calls in what I assume is Mandarin (maybe Cantonese?) and I have no clue why. My best guess is non-targeted spam or extortion attempts.
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If anyone is interested, you can browse the machines on Pinball Map:

https://pinballmap.com/map?utf8=%E2%9C%93&address=mclean%2C+...
The generous interpretation here would be that having huge amounts of ram that you can't access quickly enough wouldn't be that useful.

I'm curious though, apart from huge NNs and raytracing scenes, what use cases call for so much RAM. I mean, apart from content lookup tables?
And a small update from last week on how they discovered some rare "white band" copies of the original magazine at a high school named for Hersey: https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery...

"The white band had originally been added as a bit of an afterthought. The editors knew that Hersey’s report was shocking, and they quickly realized that the cover they’d chosen for the issue—a vibrant, bucolic scene of children and families frolicking in a park—might not give readers enough warning about the devastating nature of its contents. (New Yorker covers rarely have a connection with the contents of an issue, but, in this particular case, the dissonance was marked.) “My God, how would a guy feel, buying the magazine intending to sit in a barber’s chair and read it!” one editor was said to have thought, during a meeting at the time. So the white band was hastily added to about forty thousand newsstand copies in New York. (It was not included in the national run.) Very few copies of the edition with the original band exist today, which is why, as Blume noted, it’s considered one of the “white whales” of the antiquarian-magazine world."
This isn't the answer to your question, but perhaps an additional point to consider.

One way humans are rational is when they "reason on paper". We write down most of the initial conditions and then use an algorithm (that's also written down) on them to get to the next step. We write down the result we got. Then we use an algorithm again on this result to get to the next step etc. This is how mathematics and science works. Obviously this is cultural - we learn to do this by learning to write, to do mathematics etc. It's not something ingrained to us.

I think humans can do something similar in their head, but it is greatly limited. The limiting factor is memory - an even remotely complex algorithm will eat up all your memory and you will forget about the results you had already got.

Eg adding 419875 + 87458284 uses the same algorithm as 356 + 472. We can easily do both on paper, but the former is difficult to do in your head, whereas the latter is fairly easy. You give someone an external memory (eg notes) and they both become easy again.

An external memory keeps our reasoning rational.
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Curious, is "more badly" here an intentional joke? Or did he mean "want it badly" in the sense of really wanting something?
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Video games gave me the motivation to learn English, about machining, CAD, PCB design, economics and programming. Anyone who is against leisure is falling into the existential trap of capitalism. What is the meaning of doing productive work inside a video game? Since productive work is now leisure you actually run into the existential problem all the time. The video game runs into deflation all the time. People are highly productive, reducing the need of other players to be productive.

In fact, the very thing we beg for is an increase in the money supply. We are hoping for inflation. Meanwhile in the real world everyone is scared of that inflation thing. My latest project is literally pumping NPC vendors with basic resources to create money out of thin air to generate inflation. The paradox of creating money is that it makes people work and end up doing more "productive" work.
I didn't find the photos necessarily bad or easy to replicate at all. Taking pictures of people is intimate and challenging thing to do, especially if you don't know them well.

I'm also not one to critique photos from a technical perspective, and tend to go by feel in my own and others photos.
I live in the state of Georgia where most of the state belives in the "smaller the government the better". Alcohol sales can't happen during certain hours on Sundays...all because of...wait for it...religion. LOL.

Why should the government tell stores & restaurants when they can or cannot sell alcohol? How can the government tell me when I can, or cannot buy/consume alcohol. How is that a benefit to society? Why is it in a country codified for separation of religion and government are they allowed to have this in law?
That sounds like the beta of Windows 3.1 and the AARD code, which is most definitely in the “dirty tricks” column for Microsoft.
> I can’t remember the last time an employer asked for LinkedIn

Employers do that? I've never once had an employer or potential employer ask me for my LinkedIn account.
Aside from challenges regarding per inference latency, any other unique challenges you guys faced when deploying nlp models to web? It's pretty cool to see ml being applied more actively in day-to-day web browsing.
"Contract work (without benefits) is not an option for a large number of developers."

It might happen, but every long-term contract gig via a contracting house has offered approximately equivalent benefits to some regular W2 employer. Those sorts of engagements typically have you as W2, just with the contracting house, not the end company. I've worked a handful (6mo, 12mo), and known people who stay in those situations for years - they accrue PTO and get 401k matching, just all through the contract agency. I suppose there are some agencies that don't offer that, but you'd likely get a higher rate.

But... this is all from a US perspective. I've done all 3 - direct W2 employee, independent consultant/contractor, and 'contracted to large company to resell my time to someone else'. In the last case, W2 or 'corp to corp' was an option as well (though not always).

Also had that "can choose not to renew it" - worked out 6 month contract, didn't renew.

I guess I'm not sure what the reply was for...? I quoted "contract work (without benefits) is not an option" and you're telling me "Contract...is a full-time position with all the benefits therein".

I think there's some talking past each other going on here...
As another commenter mentioned, a lot of people in the US learned to play Spades in the military.
> I learnt English thru video games

To be honest I don't find this argument particularly convincing.
> Very few firms want to hire juniors, while nearly all firms desire senior-level talent.

Or many firms want to hire senior-level talent at junior-level prices.
Is it just me? I've always hated phone calls, even back in the 80's when that was literally the only way to talk to somebody who wasn't physically in the same room as you. Voice calls combine the worst of real-time interactions with the worst of remote interactions.
Actually the Chinese government is cracking down on excessive homework and after-school tutoring programs since they create an overly competitive academic environment and prevent kids from participating in activities like sports. So they are getting involved there. https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/chinas-private-tutor-ban-kills...
Because it also silences all other notifications too. It’s pretty weird that anyone can just interrupt your life with a call.
You can also use Org Mode files with Logseq (Roam-style outliner), which is the only client for it I know that doesn’t suck for my usage.

https://logseq.com/
In this current internet age, there's a lot of trends of fashion. There was even a trend called normcore (https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/what-is-normcore/) that rejected typical fashion trends at that time.
Hi, I'm one of the author of Lasso and the current maintainer, still working at Entr'ouvert. Ask me anything :)
May I suggest "Unofficial elementaryOS Tweaks"?

I think it would solve the problem (basically impossible to believe it is official), and would be legal, at least where I live in the US (falls under "nominative use").
I can never get Siri to play things on Spotify for me. So without an Apple Music subscription, it always tries to play radios from Tune-In instead. :/
Props for allowing to try out the UI without login. Seems like a nice small step up from Google Forms. Are you trying to turn this into something that makes money?
I like phone calls to discuss lengthy topics.

Typing everything out sucks, especially if it's on my phone.
Depends on if countries will actual come to the aid of Taiwan militarily.
Add email and contacts to the list while you're at it.
I'm probably mad but i like claws mail. I also use it for caldav meeting mails and as an rss feed reader.
Swift as well: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-new-aws-sd...
The order of operations doesn't change because the equation is written out in English versus mathematical notation.
>user was downvoted because a "sarcastic couple of sentences"

I read the rules. Looks like you didn't: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [0]

Conspicuously absent from document [0] is the word "sarcasm."

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well they were decently lit and in focus...
I would extend this by saying that most of the people in the US earning mid 6 figures as developers are doing even less good for society than those managers. The market set those salaries high because the negligible marginal cost of reproduction in the software industry is a lure for capital, not because it produces things we actually need.
Cold water dey good for body? See wetin Science tok
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Agreed, this is crazy. What are users of Primephone supposed to do for the next 6 months? Listen to hip-hop? And that’s just a tentative timeline.
thanks for scaring the shit out of me
> http://%CA%9E.cc/irl/term.html

Link is broken (malformed); should be (I think) http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html.
I think you have it backwards. In the last year, vaccines passports (in other words, immunization records) went from an obvious and necessary measure to a crazy wight wing conspiracy theory.
Was D-day really deemed a success? Yes we succeeded in establishing a beachhead but wasn't the human cost much higher than anticipated?

I'm honestly curious and don't know, would love to read more on that topic if anyone has more info.
I'm the opposite, I love the death of phone calls. Phone calls being synchronous and forcing you to pay attention to them immediately is incredibly annoying. Just let it go to voicemail? Sure, but then just text me.
I'm in semiconductor design not software but my goal is always "I've got way too much work, is this person good enough that after a few months of training they will be able to do some of my work so I can get more sleep?"

If the person is smarter than me even better! Instead of spending time teaching them maybe I can learn from them and get into their network so that if I ever need a job in the future they can help me out.
Well, I took a look, they are just bad photos to me. I could not find any redeeming quality.
The short of it is that he uses a screen reader. The thing reads out what is shown on the screen. Things like application title when you alt-tab, page contents on websites, field and button labels/names in forms when you tab through it, etc. I see that u/grendelt already gave some software examples; for mobile I might add that you could try Talkback (built into Android).
I think I will use this opportunity to say thank you!

I've loved KDE since I was an almost broke student 17 or so years ago.

I also use NextCloud now to sync Joplin, and I contribute to other projects (mostly donations, some code).
Compared to the desktop version Outlook for web is pure heaven.
> Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished alternatively through other radio services.

I guess this was the bit I had in mind. It means that one can’t use amateur radio for what a cell phone is normally used for, doesn’t it? Like calling your ham friends to make arrangements for poker night. Or is that the wrong interpretation?
Third party services are totally capable of this. Google Calendar has a "subscribe to calendar" feature that puts every event in somebody else's calendar into yours. I know of several clubs and fandoms that use this feature to track public events, and at least one music venue near me uses it as well.
When I'm job hunting or expecting to deal with banks, the govt, or other unavoidable gargantuan institutions, I answer my phone. Otherwise it's on silent all the time and I am not notified about voicemails. My family and friends know how to contact me.

Maybe people will start answering phonecalls again if SHAKEN/STIR makes caller ID accurate and users can systematically block telemarketers ublock style, but I am not optimistic on that front.
>If developers are prohibited from writing native SQL, they will be limited by HQL, writing slower queries or needing multiple queries from their application for one task.

We use a similar framework, but we create custom views when we need performant retrieval, or the hydration of a big object graph is being done and not needed (like a grid).

>If the exact language, framework, libraries are prescribed in every detail, developers sometimes need to bend these tools to solve their requirements instead of using the right tool for their problem. If the layered architecture is to be zealously followed, 50% of your code will be the mappers between the layers.

We use automapper, which does exactly what it says. We manually map one-offs. In fact, that's the basic philosophy of this design. Have the framework build everything from the entities, then one-off what you need.

Our design is generic so every table has an entity, then we use a generic service layer with your normal CRUD + search functions, then our controllers are auto-generated using the same thing. We do custom work only for one-off stuff that either is more complex than CRUD, or requires higher performance. It's cut our development time significantly, since for normal crud work, it's auto-generated based on the entity itself. You create the entity and dto's and the repository, service layer and controller are all auto-constructed using generic code. If you need something special, you create a custom controller/service. We tend to leave the repositories generic. Note this is just for the WebAPIs, front end is a different monster.
As far as I know, the standard tool for this is rdfind. This new tool claims to be "blazingly fast", so it should provide something to show it. Ideally a comparison with rdfind, but even a basic benchmark would make it less dubious. https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind

But the main problem is not the suspicious performance, it's the lack of explanation. The tool is supposed to "find duplicate files (photos, videos, music, documents)". Does it mean it is restricted to some file types? Does it find identical photos with different metadata to be duplicates? Compare this with rdfind which clearly describes what it does, provides a summary of its algorithm, and even mentions alternatives.

Overall, it may be a fine toy/hobby project (3 commits only, 3 months ago), I didn't read the code (except for finding the command-line options). I don't get why it got so much attention.
I've been getting Amazon recruitment emails (and a couple of phone calls) a lot lately, too. I wonder what's up.

I find it a bit annoying because Amazon is one of the companies that I would never willingly work for.
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Ah ok. I thought that the techniques of dealing with shadow issues aren't always requiring new API capabilities, so it seemed strange that something would be blocked on Vulkan.
The band Yacht used AI to write an album called Chain Tripping that's really good IMO. They transcribed their old music to MIDI, fed it to an AI, had it generate short snippets of new MIDI, and then cut and paste those bits to get a score, which they performed.

I suspect the drums and bass are human-written, as they seem more coherent and "whole song-aware" than the other parts, but I have no way to confirm that.

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-br...
Really could’ve used this during my time in school, good work. What’s the GTM, and who are the ideal users your building for here?
More importantly than their presence in Eastern Europe, said battle-hardened troops had advanced into Manchuria and Korea. History would have looked quite different indeed if they had proceeded to invade Japan.
Chinese citizens: "What pandemic?"

The Chinese government was able to control the pandemic because they are authoritarian. Meanwhile Florida just received 14 portable morgues.

Before I get the "Fake News" crowd coming at me...I was on a video conference call last week with my Chinese counterparts in my company (my first meeting) and I was taken aback when everyone in the conference room didn't have masks...then I remember their spread is basically nill.
Would it be legal though considering their brand name is still being used as part of the name?
Reading code is harder than writing code, right? And handing code over to some one else is inherently handing it over to some one who does not have the experience or knowledge you gained writing it. If you want that person to be successful then there is pressure to make that code simple. The author thinks that pressure causes the code to also be poorly or naively engineered. I don't think the idea is that handing over code is bad, but that a team should maintain responsibility for a product over time (because they can take advantage of their domain knowledge) instead of handing it over (like it was a finished product, when it isnt).
Realistically, how will this be enforced?
There is, sort of; it's called Roon, and IIRC its interface can do exactly what you're describing. Back when I was a subscriber, its equivalent of a "daily discovery" list would frequently come up with things like "Highlighted Performer: Drums McDrumface" and create a playlist of every song in my library McDrumface played drums on.

https://roonlabs.com

The downside with Roon is that it's not actually a standalone music service; it's sort of like a software-only version of Sonos or Bluesound, letting you aggregate your personal library and (extremely) select streaming services and send sound to any Roon client device (a computer or mobile device running Roon software or, in some cases, directly to hardware that supports Roon's transport protocol). And, it's still a subscription service -- so you're paying $10/month for great metadata, that multidevice playback system, and an "audiophile" music player. I subscribed for a couple years, but decided I really couldn't justify it.
I guess I'm expecting lies of omission here. My guess is that content on Microsoft's blogs, especially about this period is cleared with legal before anything goes up.
Facebook doesn't get unseated, it splinters, losing potency gradually (assuming regulators keep them from buying the competition).

Facebook will still be the dominate global social network 10-20 years from now. What will change is that there will be more niche social networks with approaches/audiences/subjects-of-focus that Facebook couldn't cater to well enough (which is why Pinterest, Snap, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Imgur exist).
My partner set my phone to a silent ring tone, then a different one for people in my contact list.

This is great, but can cause issues when waiting for calls from businesses (which sometimes have multiple outgoing numbers.) Waiting for the Vet to call back with test results and missing the first one wasn't fun.
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That's a reason why many language learning apps or methods recommend a period of "immersion" (i.e., just watching shows or listening to music) and no speaking. Just listen and get used to the sounds before trying to produce it awkwardly yourself. This is popular in the https://refold.la language learning community where they don't even recommend to speak until you can fully understand an entire TV show without subtitles (which sounds a bit extreme to me). https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com is commonly used.

I'm going to shamelessly plug my project in case it might be useful for anyone here. A webapp to learn a language if you're in a relationship and learning it because you have a partner or spouse that speaks that language. It's still early, but I've been learning a third language as an adult for a while, and it helps to make use of a native speaker who is around you all the time. They can help train the ear as well. https://learncoupling.com
I'm similar. Critiquing a photo from a technical perspective is the low-effort way to do it. Getting a technically good photo is probably the easiest thing to do.

When I was more serious into photography back in the day, getting a photo that can express what I wanted it to feel or the story I wanted to convey was much harder.