skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Squatting is about occupying uninhabited places. It should be welcomed or at least tolerated.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but The Guardian is run by the upper class. It would be strange to assume they speak for other classes.
Others mentioned it, but I think a big chunk of it was it "just worked" thanks to their flash-based video player. Everyone already had flash installed, so when they went to youtube video worked. Google video needed some other plugin installed before it would work.

It's always struck me as a classic early example of someone coming up with a solution that I'm sure they thought was technically better, but users don't care about that.
What short number did it sent the message to, and what did it send exactly?
Your reminder that if you own cats that don't go outdoors they are not a risk factor for toxoplasmosis. Only outdoor and stray cats get the parasite. Most cases of toxoplasmosis come from eating undercooked meat in any case.

More info here if you want it https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118145/
> Majority of the research at universities is powered by graduate students, most of whom are in turn internationals. [...]

My understanding was the discussion is about undergraduate study ("second-year chemical engineering student").
Bundle web files into an image and extract them via ServiceWorker at runtime
Dutch and Deutsch? I mean it's the same language separated by hundreds of years.
Yes, but what do you or those people mean by “it will become endemic”. If Malaria became endemic in every country that would be a catastrophe. There’s nothing gentle about the word.

The common cold is endemic and so is dengue. So: are you describing a scenario that is:

1. Business as usual (once we get enough immunity medium/long run)

2. A small bit worse than 2019

3. Quite a bit worse than 2019

4. Substantially worse than 2019

?

My point is the word endemic doesn’t mean anything other than “disease is present”. But people say it as if the word includes severity. When people say that I take them to indicate belief in scenario 1, or possibly scenario 2.

I think it probably will be endemic but we’re minimum scenario 3. I don’t think that is what endemicity proponents believe however.
Didn't downvote you because I presume you are arguing in good faith, but I have very different opinion about the ? operator, it is one of the best syntactic things in Rust. In my experience, many Rustaceans agree. It's a minimal nuisance, while still being explicit in a good way.

Also, being able to call unsafe code inside unsafe functions is now considered a design mistake, and there is ongoing work to revert the default – requiring unsafe blocks even in unsafe functions: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2585-unsafe-block-in-unsafe...
Sorry mate it's just an easy message parser built on discord.py, pretty bodgy code and no intention to OS

Messages look like

&out soba shop
Soba 800
Beer 700

Or

&p #custom:category payee
Item (int cost)
Item (int cost)
Because I know a large % of the supply will never be unlocked and I can own the remaining available supply at a reasonable price.

This is not a hypothetical, I will buy the remaining supply given a steep enough discount. At $1 BTC, the total supply would only cost $21M (not a lot of money). I can think of at least 5 peers that would do the same.
The irony is the large swaths of unvaccinated patients who will go without care because of unvaccinated nurses (doctor vaccination compliance rates are ~90-95%).
Go look at how their manufacturing line works. They don't to do stupid work. They need to control a highly complex chemical manufacturing plant and likely battery recycling plant.

Researching is not the only work that requires more then manual labor.

Go look at Nevada, after the Gigafactory there are now a number of battery companies located there.
Cat ownership doesn't even come up as a major sources of infection when studies are done. Wild cats can have it but the source of infection is the dirt they've used, which means house cats are unrelated and no risk.

"A total of 252 women with toxoplasmosis, along with 748 controls from Naples, Lausanne, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, and Milan, were interviewed by telephone or in person. Overall, eating raw or undercooked beef, lamb, or other meats; contact with soil; and travel outside the country were major sources of infection."

Cats don't even make the list of major sources of infection. Further,

"The association of cats and human toxoplasmosis is difficult to assess by epidemiological surveys because soil, not the cats, is the main culprit. Oocysts are not found on cat fur and are often buried in soil along with cat faeces.11 Therefore, direct contact with cats is irrelevant with respect to T gondii transmission, and soil contact is universal and difficult to avoid."
What would the legal process look like if the app were made by anonymous unaffiliated Russian developers and merely recommended by Navalny?

Perhaps Google would be required to hand over the personal information associated with the developer account, because presumably a judge could be "convinced" to issue a warrant for this information based on the theory that the developers were secretly working for Navalny's organization.

If the developers were actually based outside of Russia, then no doubt the app would be deemed to be foreign interference, so perhaps it would not be exculpatory for Google to say that the developers always used Tor exit nodes.

In such situations, I wonder if someone brave would volunteer to have their personal information given to Google. If the app doesn't need any updates, then I suppose the developers could give the details of a recently deceased person. I'm assuming that Google would let the real developer lie, which might be risky if the Russian government can catch them conspiring like that.
Cat ownership doesn't even come up as a major sources of toxoplasmosis infection when studies are done. Wild cats can have it but the source of infection is the dirt they've used, which means house cats are unrelated and no risk.

"A total of 252 women with toxoplasmosis, along with 748 controls from Naples, Lausanne, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, and Milan, were interviewed by telephone or in person. Overall, eating raw or undercooked beef, lamb, or other meats; contact with soil; and travel outside the country were major sources of infection."

Cats don't even make the list of major sources of infection. Further,

"The association of cats and human toxoplasmosis is difficult to assess by epidemiological surveys because soil, not the cats, is the main culprit. Oocysts are not found on cat fur and are often buried in soil along with cat faeces.11 Therefore, direct contact with cats is irrelevant with respect to T gondii transmission, and soil contact is universal and difficult to avoid."
>People are perfectly happy to come and drop hundreds of millions on developing apartment complexes in the CBD for some reason

The amount of real estate investment in New Orleans is incredibly low compared to other cities. They build more buildings in Atlanta in one year than they have in the last 30 years in New Orleans.
I recall once upon a time there was a GitHub project wherein the owner would just immediately merge any PRs that were opened -- I believe it was a social experiment, and I don't recall the exact nature of the repo in order to know if that kind of thing is ludicrous here. But I do think it'd be good fun to take this lull and find out the outcome of a hypothetical github.com/open-terraform/open-terraform which just ran a github action that merged PRs that had more than a 5(10?) differential of :+1: to :-1: reactions on it. Build failures would instantly close the PR, and test failures would be exempt from auto-merge

If that worked sufficiently well, I'd initially mirror every repo from https://github.com/terraform-providers into that same GitHub organization and continue that exercise. IMHO the providers suffer from bitrot a lot more than formal terraform does

I think of that hypothesis as a "open source optimist" versus "open source pessimist:" are people who go out of their way to open PRs trying to improve the common good, or trying to drain the life out of maintainers?
On the anxiolytic side - a warning for those susceptible to such things, when I was taking melatonin it caused me horrible anxiety, something I’d never experienced before. It stopped not long after I discontinued it.
I started to gradually notice some tossing and turning throughout the night in my mid 30s. I began taking one 100mg capsule of magnesium citrate right before I attempt to go to sleep. Has worked exceptionally well for about seven years now. Knocks me out, with no negative reaction to the magnesium (some people apparently have a negative stomach and or bowel reaction to magnesium supplements; I haven't attempted high doses). If I don't take it, I go right back to not sleeping soundly. The sleep feels high quality as well, I'm never groggy in the morning. And it's inexpensive, sub $2 per month. For something in the realm of more mild or typical restful sleep problems, definitely try it.
How severe is it? Montreal had more days under lockdown in 2020/21, and basically no days with zero virus circulating.

There was the initial lockdown of 60-80 days or so, then a lockdown from october-may, including curfew from january-may.

We’re on track for needing restrictions again this winter.
Fixed total supply vs unfixed (perishable) total supply. There is no legitimate comparison to be made as far as 'collectibles' are concerned.
Grotesque erotic nonsense, and the give and take of censorship
I love watching human dog behavior from a distance. The moment when a human steps on a dog and then turns around to address the dog and provide comfort is like predictable poetry.

It isn't just that dogs know when it was a mistake or not, they do, they also want the apology. Apologies are always key, even if predictable.
The compiler does have a lint to force being explicit about unsafe in the way you describe. It is an allow by default lint called `unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn`.
13-year-old becomes youngest student on Georgia Tech’s campus
I usually read it as being a electricity generator, not a power generator, in that a 'diesel generator' does not make diesel, but electricity from diesel.
A bit clickbaity headline, since the linked page clearly says:

"4,000+ Free Movies Online ..."
Yes, I agree; without looking at how it works in great detail I can imagine how I'd approach the problem. There needs to be a clock component that outputs the 4 digits of the current time, and a digit-writer which runs through the x/y movements necessary to write a given digit. The repetition is probably in the latter part; other comments hear suggest a series of cams being used to encode the motion for each digit. This also needs to be combined with an offset mechanism to write each of the 4 digits. Finally, a set of cams to write the colon and a sequencer to run the whole sequence of actions.
I take ~6mg Melatonin regularly 1hour before I decide to sleep. It also has another important use, i.e. reducing inflammation in the body. Helps with autoimmune along with Vitamin D3.
Remember there was this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/09/16/satoshi-...
I'm not assuming anything, I'm just enjoying the frankness.

"I support corporations against the governments I don't like" is a really refreshing piece of honesty, and not what most people would be brave enough to say.

I'm trying to become less principled and more pragmatic myself when it comes to politics.
Ok. But people still need money. The people who were working fast food jobs a couple years ago and are now choosing not to work… how are they paying rent and eating?

Government handouts are the one thing that has changed for those folks.
Could yo elaborate on why you don't use PostGIS? I've always assumed its C algorithms are high-performance.
I find early 2010ish PCs still meet my needs just fine. Desktop PCs of that era you can practically get for free.
So you think the chain will be attacked and all the devs with trillions invested (at that point in the future) will be completely blindsided and not defend the network by soft/hardforking/etc? I completely disagree.
> > New Colonies may be either agricultural or mining colonies; rarely, resort colonies

> Maybe resort colonies are not fun to write about. Actually... Star Trek TNG has a bunch of episodes about Risa, which is a whole fricking fully climate-controlled resort planet.

I think one was more about the fact that entire planets are "just" colonies: farming, mining, or resort. It's far more likely that it's a planet with lots of different things going on.

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More generally, I think each item can be categorised by what type of shortcut is being taken by authors of huge universes.

- This physical problem will be easily solved by technology

- Yes this system is complex, let's not worry about the details

- It's easier to treat an entire planet like a single town, as our protaginist's journey becomes easily relatable to other story forms we are familiar with

I think audiences are ok with shortcuts a lot of the time, and often the really glaring holes in a world aren't even obvious unless pointed out (like his example where there is no law enforcement, but also no one underage in the bar).

Some things are just not believeable at all, and by reaching for a shortcut to make the story relatable introduces huge conceptual issues. So for example, it's fine to think that there may be some technological advancement that means spaceships don't have to worry about orbital mechanics, but if there is then that technology would be used everywhere as it's essentially vast amounts of energy or gravity generation.

Scifi in the near future gets to borrow the complexity of our world. So things like black mirror can ask "what would happen if we had a social credit score" and explore that in a very complex environment that it gets mostly for free.

The more alien your setting the less you can borrow from your audience's own experience. If you introduce some 'magic' (cryosleep, faster than light travel, fast travel between planets, etc) it is your responsibility to explain why it is only used for the one specific plot device you want it used for. This is one of the reasons why world building is hard, and even worse when you have hundreds of worlds to build. It's easier to just pretend the universe is made up of little towns that correspond directly to stereotypes from whatever culture you are from.
As was clarified upthread, Wood pumps are not wooden pumps.
This is ridiculous. Excluding the laptops, only masochists or those with minimal requirements would use any of the devices listed.
My experience has been that the first-order ROI of community PRs is negative. PRs which do more than just fix a typo that you can just go "thanks" and merge are extremely rare. Most external PRs take more work to get into a good state than it would have been for us to fix the problem ourselves.

The main reason to accept community PRs is because it helps you get passionate users, not because they're free labor.
This is mostly nonsense. Tesla is not spending a multiple billions more for a very complex, very expensive factory (far larger then just the battery factory), heir and train 1000s of employs, developing local supply lines only to move the whole factory.

Specially because they specifically located the factory there to serve the local market.

You are turning the exceptional case and pretending it is the usual case.
Oh, it's absolutely not a good look for Hashicorp because their company culture is the problem. They grew too fast and hired too many middle managers who brought in a brogrammer culture. It drove everyone with better options away (at least per friends who formerly worked on Terraform at Hashi). And from the resumes I see come across my desk it feels like they've been bleeding talent at all levels for a while.
You might like Coltrane? e.g. his solo from Mr PC, Stockholm 1963. After a minute the piano and bass drops out, just Coltrane and Elvin Jones. They used to do that for 1/2 hr on gigs apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t16CX4hGkwY

He played with Miles Davis from 1955-1960, developing his...fast, angry, chaotic sound. I love everything they did together.

Coltrane died in 1967, from about 1965 he played atonal, 'free', totally chaotic music. I rarely listen to it, mostly sounds like a lot of people playing random stuff, very fast, angry and totally out there.

I listen to a lot of Miles... Rated X (1972) is extremely intense! Miles on organ. Psycho-indian-funk or something. No solos, just 7 minutes of extreme craziness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrjFtbGKqFk

His Live-Evil (1971) is mostly pretty crazy, funky jazz-rock, I've loved it for decades. e.g. a John McLaughlin solo with the band going nuts https://youtu.be/RhOYTUjBukU?t=2692

Tony Williams' (first) Lifetime band was a very fast, chaotic, very loud band featuring McLaughlin e.g. Sangria for Three https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTUV3Lh-Q1E

McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra mostly played fast, chaotic, angry, super-loud stuff. A 1972 concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD36-Zn2bA4

Or there's stuff I've had flatmates love that was way too fast, chaotic, crazy and angry for me.. like John Zorn, or Ornette Coleman's Song X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d66Ytt2g7ns
I've always found CAP theorem to be better described as:

Given the need for Partitions, you must choose between prioritizing Consistency or Availability.
it's literally killing the metaphorical golden goose
We took these actions to stop unauthorized scraping and protect people's privacy

It's not really unauthorized if people installed the pluggin for the express purpose of providing the researchers with data about the ads they received and how their personal information may have gotten them targeted for those ads. Given IRB requirements, that would have to have been made clear to users as well. Not like the click-wrap "I agree" buttons Facebook and other use to keep knowledge what users are giving to them opaque.
> So you associated the physicality of the console with it's operation and made new designs based on that.

Yes exactly this. I can also say it’s weird that the things I most focused on in those ideas have somewhat become a reality! I was obsessed with multi-screen possibilities, and the idea of games that could be portable and played on a TV. I think my younger vision of multi-screen looked less like the DS style game and more like choose your own angle in adult media. But it’s weird how much physical world shaped how I think about technology so early on.
What's the point of plowing money into maintaining technological supremacy when they can walk into our servers every five years and take everything we invented?
Something interesting about this is that it's a borderline case, where under a hardcore military dictatorship, the concept of "prior restraint" could still be negotiable - because nonrestrictive speech was profitable. It points to a way out of the Orwellian trap.
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> That's part of the reasons why the Italian minister for ecological transition, Cingolani, few days ago talked about rethinking the ban strategy on ICE engines, using the supercar market as an example of an European industry that would suffer from it.

Because Italy has lost most of the other car market and is the only country in Europe that makes real money with supercars. Literally no other country outside of Italy would have this opinion.

> Draghi could become the new strong political leader of Europe

Yeah, sorry Italy will not take that position.
They do https://protonmail.com/tor
why are you glad that online classes were removed? Seems like a great option.
Oh, the technology absolutely exists and it wouldn't be terribly hard to build one, but whether it's worthwhile to do so with all the headaches caused by microwaving birds, satellites, and airplanes is a different question.
Immigration procedures are the same for both undergrad and grad international students.
I was a paying customer. I just cancelled.

I can't understand what just happened. I truly believed it's all save and secure.
So what exactly did the activists do which required an interpol notice?
Your baseline assumption should be that everything is misinformation, if we define misinformation as “not telling the entire truth precisely in order to push a certain agenda or worldview.” This is simply the nature of communication technology.

The default legacy media is especially guilty here, as they pretend to be neutral but never are. Whereas much of the “alternate media” wears its bias on its sleeve.

The only solution is to read a variety of sources and come to your own conclusions.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was excited to give barril a test because I am a regular user of pint. I'm going to be a bit negative about barril below, but I'm doing it in case other people are looking an interested in a comparison.

First off, you can definitely do conversions between different dimensionless quantities:

from pint import Quantity
a = Quantity(3, 'm^3/m^3')
a.to('cm^3/m^3')

does what you'd expect. There's no problem with converting between different "dimensionless" units.

I don't really understand what the "category" is, though, so maybe I'm missing the point? I notice that some units can be in multiple categories, e.g. "J" can be a "moment of force" or an "energy", but I can still do:

a = Scalar(5.0, 'J', 'moment of force')
b = Scalar(10.0, 'J', 'energy')
c = a / b
c.category
>>> ''
d = a + b
d.category
>>> 'moment of force'

That seems a bit inscrutable. What is a category and why am I keeping track of it? I think this might be the core of why barril is useful to some people but I don't understand it.

The biggest thing I found playing with barril is that while I can multiply 3 lengths together to get a volume; if I multiply a density by a volume and ask for a mass it throws an exception. Like they've just special-cased some specific conversions rather than doing dimensional analysis? This seems like the core functionality of a units library so I'm a bit confused again if I've missed something.
Anyone up for creating a competing service? We could host the service in a country with proper privacy laws like Iceland.
The implications for university research aren't.
For what it’s worth, I experienced far more violence from my peers because I’m neurodivergent than because I’m interested in tech stuff. Even as I grew up through the 80s/90s, there was already a macho bro presence in the nerd world.

Not dismissing your experience at all, but I want to make sure mine is represented accurately.

Most of the harmful attitudes I experienced towards nerds were very socially insular, in my family and among friends.
A passport is largely useless if you don't have the means to travel.

The issue is that a great many people act/treat others like _only_ the problem is the lack of literacy.
Let me know if you manage to actually find a lawyer willing to file an ADA lawsuit over a website. I tried, most bar associations don't even have anyone to refer you to.
Yes, Tesla would have build the plant there anyway most likely but saying 'it happens anyway' in a broader context is not clear, EU has made a strategic choice that battery are a high priority and that why they want to make it happen both faster, and broader.

I'm not a fan of subsides like this, but if you are gone subsidies something then batteries are one of the best things.

> Tesla (which is not even a German or EU company)

The exact reason the EU lets other companies apply is because they want to have international investment in the EU from companies not from the EU.

> which has other EU states help reinforce their already dominant industrial position.

Every country that is spending in this program gets some return. The countries that got granted money are all over Europe.