skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I've explicitly excluded such tasks from consideration (perhaps not clearly enough). My claim was only about tasks that don't require tacit knowledge or experience in addition to detailed enough step-by-step instructions.

With references to gardening, I meant stuff like e.g. how to correctly replant a flower. I have no first clue how to do it, but I'm confident I could do it successfully if I had a gardener guiding me through the process step by step.
Don't get me wrong - I'd expect Michelin to have done some testing to see NVH is within tolerance levels right?

Airless is really close to working for bikes. If I were commuting on a bike now I'd be comfortable going for it. The downsides - painfully hard installation, uphill resistance, ...etc. - will be worth it.
Games don't usually involve inflicting suffering on unwilling participants.
There is virtualization with vmm: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html
It’s nice to have a do-all device, but a head-mounted dental loupe is hands-free and can light up your subject.
Alerts management: reuse your existing flow and reduce onboarding cost
The important part is that you are able to look up/personally verify that you are contacting the correct people. If I lose my card I can still look up the right number on my banks website. Because you cannot confidently identify a caller it is better for the customer to reach out using more easily verified information.
All well and good, but thecountries of Africa are 't the problem. They're not the ones consuming resources disproportionately to their populations.

Is population an issue? Yes, probably. But it's (Western) (over) consumption that got us here, and continues to escalate the crisis.

The less distractions for that, the better.
Are you implying that all stoves in all kitchens are bad? At least that's what it looks like you are saying.
Self hosting GitLab = Run 1 single Docker Container. Very easy.
Yup. It's important to understand how the Power Law Curve applies to early stage investing.
Or just old people like me trying to read serial numbers on electronics hardware.
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That wouldn’t even be enough, they need to pay 30% of revenue.
That's pretty cool. In my case this was Dickinson College actually.
Assignments being expressions is frequently very useful for avoiding to write the same expressions twice, which could also be a source of errors.

You are right about the errors caused by unintended assignments, but the root cause for these errors is not the fact that assignments are expressions, but the fact that in B & C they have replaced the operators inherited by BCPL from ALGOL, ":=" for assignment and "=" for equality test with "=" and "==". With the original operators, typos would have been very unlikely.

This misguided substitution was justified by less typing, but a much better solution would have been to not change the syntax of the language but to just modify their text editor to insert ":=" when pressing ":", because deleting the "=" when not needed would have been required very seldom, as ":" in labels or "?:" is encountered much less frequently than both assignments and equality tests.
> … company colors.

So, enforcing group identity and tribalism, basically. A lot of people do think of that as the point of life. Being a part of a group and living for the benefit of the group over oneself.

The religious fervor over enforcing style guides makes more sense if it is tied to people’s world view and philosophy of life.
You mean cheap Chinese-made crap like the iPhone and Lenovo (everything)?
unfortunate because blender isn't really optimal for cad. Its a mesh based modeler which makes it great for animation and demonstrations but solid level modeling thats suppose to simulate real things isn't its intention.
If only the victim of this smear had some sort of popular media access...
> separate women and men sports

Most professional sports I know of (in the US) technically don't have separate men leagues. There are women only leagues, and leagues open to anyone. There is no rule preventing women from playing in the NFL, NHL or MLB. But in practice if you don't enforce a minimum % of women players like I've seen in some amateur mixed leagues, it makes them men only.

The Olympics does split into men-only and women-only, I think.
That's a cool site. How did you discover it? What happened to it?
Honestly, as someone who is starting to go long-sighted, this is tempting me towards getting a 13 pro (or Pixel 6 i it is similarly good).

I frequently find myself using my phone camera to zoom in on ridiculously small text on things, but my phone has always struggled with it. Good phone macro will be a feature I would use all the time.
I'm not sure Hacker News is uniquely good at philosophy. Maybe better read than the median web community.

Life doesn't have a point. All life is different and the only common purpose is to make more of itself and keep going. That isn't a "point" so much as the only behavior that can possibly be self-propagating, in the sense that any form of life that didn't prioritize it would be out-competed and driven extinct by a different form of life that did.

There is no reason that should define you, though. We're a grand cosmic accident. Make of it what you will. I try to find meaning where I can, but if you're looking for grand revelatory purpose, you probably need to find religion, which unfortunately requires a mindset you might not have. I know I don't. I'll be gone soon and it won't make any difference at that point whether I ever existed at all from my no longer continuing first-person perspective. I hope it will matter that I existed to others who outlive me, but they'll soon be gone, too. This universe will end and all information ever created will be lost forever.

Nonetheless, right now, I'm getting a chance to exist, and I'm glad for it. I will be there forever, a tiny indistinguishable speck in the four-dimensional firmament, but there, and right now, from my perspective, I'm here and it's better than not being here.
Third party iOS apps do in fact have access to background tasks. There’s even a variant dedicated to longer-running tasks, like lengthy file syncs.

The difference is that instead of having an ever-running daemon, the developer schedules tasks with the system, and system decides when to run them based on network availability, battery charge, etc as well as the app’s behavior (badly written/inefficient background tasks and frequent high intensity task requests are penalized).
OpenBSD has been the OS with the lowest amount of maintenance in my opinion.

used it as a webserver and VPN appliance for a couple of years now.

only thing in terms of maintenance is the following when a new release is released.

pkg_add -u ( i usually update extra packages every 6 months, which is mainly lets encrypt).
syspatch
sysupgrade

reboot:

after reboot

sysmerge to see if i need to do a config diff.

Has been rocksolid and very future rich in base aswell.
Countries that eschew genetic modification of foodstocks will see famine in the next century. Traditional breeding techniques to introduce favorable traits simply do not work fast enough to keep up with changing ecological conditions in a changing climate. It's often too costly to waste acreage screening for favorable phenotypes after making a cross between two species in effort to couple favorable phenotypes from both (this is the traditional method to develop new cultivars, most of what we plant today are hybrids). Genetic modification is a shortcut that ultimately saves the farmer time, money, water, and land to achieve the same end result of an elite cultivar.

What happens after with licensing and other legal issues is a fault of policymakers rather than any fault of this inherent lifesaving technology.
Sounds like you have auto save on.
I saw a post the other day claiming that, since 42 corresponds to "*" in ASCII, and "*" is often used to represent a wildcard value, the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be.
Sure, but it seems you are looking for (monocular) SLAM?
There are two or three branches with different versions of the Rust code, and the author is using the fastest one. What you believe will make the Rust code faster won't, trust me.

If you think I'm wrong, could you please submit a PR and link here?

@Cryptonic 's suggestions are laughable. Try using arrays as HashMap keys in Rust :D nope, won't even compile let alone be fast. There was a way smarter attempt here to do something *based on* arrays: https://github.com/renatoathaydes/prechelt-phone-number-enco...

The DigitBytes struct is needed because just using arrays (I guess they mean slices, as arrays are obviously wrong) is incredibly slow - it would need to consider the whole array every time instead of just the relevant bytes - far slower than `Vec`. This is indeed fast, but slower than Vec.

The other suggestion: print everything at the end?? Do we even know what the objective is here? It's not to finish first, but to show to the user the results as soon as possible. It's like people don't even read the problem proposition and still think it's ok to criticize... also, Rust is using buffered IO... ALSO, the benchmark only prints a single line at the end for the two last runs, essentially doing "print it all at the end".
The cardinality of Real numbers is 2^Aleph_Null. Continuum hypothesis is equivalent to saying that it is equal to Aleph_One. But that is debated :) [Debated in the sense that you could accept one or the other, but it is independent of ZF and there should be a good reason to accept one or the other]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number#Aleph-one
Brain draining the best of the Americas and increasing their economic infrastructure is nothing like "uncontrolled immigration". As for using those, or any free trade, as a dodge for US regulations, that seems like a larger problem that needs to get solved.

> The question is, why doesn’t America invest in itself?

What makes you think it hasn't? Manufacturing capacity has increased dramatically. It just happens to be in mostly automated factories which supply few jobs.
What is the difference
Between your experience of Existence
And that of a saint?

The saint knows
That the spiritual path
Is a sublime chess game with God

And that the Beloved
Has just made such a Fantastic Move

That the saint is now continually
Tripping over Joy
And bursting out in Laughter
And saying, "I Surrender"!

Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think
You have a thousand serious moves.

Hafiz

A common thread tying together mystically-inclined philosophers across a wide range of traditions is that one of the reasonable answers for "how then should i live" is "in praise and joy". Look around. Say thanks. Act accordingly.
Yes. There's a reason we don't nebulize them to deal with respiratory viruses, though.

https://xkcd.com/1217/
Isn't pop also gnome? You can install pop shell which is an extension. It adds tiling, which isn't for everyone.

I'm like you don't like the fact that defaul gnome is so bad that I need a bunch of extensions. But I don't like KDE either, looks so inconsistent, too much pointless blurring and animation. However, I guess other choices are worse because they would have some other flaws that you can't even find extensions to work around.
It’s probably because Actions is a fork of Azure Pipelines, which was originally designed to coordinate runners on Windows (where containers aren’t nearly as flexible or compatible as they are on Linux). Microsoft came up with some fancy internal magic to have hot pools of ephemeral VMs ready to assign in seconds, which nobody outside can really replicate (I don’t think), and then everyone sits in sadness while they try to debug why their tests run fine on “runner-1” but not on “runner-2”.
In the case of US Soccer, the women bring in significantly more revenue than the men but are paid far less. https://www.vox.com/2019/7/10/20686692/us-womens-soccer-team...
Whenever I have regrets, I remind myself that I can't know what would have happened if I had went down that other road, maybe a poor decision saved me from a worse fate.

If we had scaled up on nuclear, there's no way every reactor would have had the best engineers, best contractors, best governance -- there would certainly be some that cut corners or got built on a fault line or vulnerable to some other unpredictable disaster or terrorist attack.
That was great rabbit hole.

Someone is selling NFT pic of twit complaining about 'right-clicers' - gold
You notice Epic never picks fights with XBox and Playstation stores, which have identical costs and monopolies over their products.
Here's the map for 2020: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/mapping/2020

Looks like India and parts of Canada/Alaska experienced slightly cooler temps, as well as a decent area over water.

For 2019, large parts of interior Canada and the US, as well as parts of Oceania.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/mapping/2019

One of the other noticeable things about those maps is Siberia. Affected quite a bit by warmer temps in both years.
The Civic and 3 both have 15 ft^3 of cargo space according to the EPA.

Regardless, the Accord dwarfs it and supports the above point that the Model 3 is a heavy car, and the BMW 3 series is heavy because it was built to have a premium feel as a design priority, not because it is ICE.
If you start off with the assumption that life is suffering and any enjoyment is a temporary illusion, no amount of evidence suggesting the opposite will convince you otherwise. But simply looking around will reveal much beauty and happiness, plain for all to see amongst the (also existing) gloom and depression.

Not everyone sees life as unending torment.
While I have not looked at store eye tracking data, that from web pages will tell you the fold is a real issue.

With the fold on a web page you have to scroll and keep scrolling for something to come into the visible space. For shelves you can look at a wall and see, even if not at the focal point, other items.

In my personal experience, it's much easier to spot and look at the alternatives on store shelves than it is to navigate sites and look for comparable things.
looks at a map of the Earth

hmmmmmm...

now add in the fact that from the US POV that Russia and China are our two greatest threats. And so probably not a wise idea to make it any easier for them to move people, weapons or troops directly into a US state.
As I have grown older and some of my vim and vigor have waned, the momentum that has hustled me past obstacles and over life's hurdles has similarly decreased, and I find myself wondering the same. The objects I have collected have lost their pallor, experiences for which I have paid through the nose left me hollow, the connections I once thought complex are shallow.

Through more than one circumstance of birth I have been forced on the proverbial path less trodden and I can't say it has been amazingly fulfilling. Of course, one can look at another and suspect how wonderful or terrible their life is, but that is all you have, suspicion. Friends who are married, friends who have children, some ... seem satisfied?

And then things go on and you become closer to the end of life than the start of it, more doors are closed than are open, and you wonder what -- if anything -- lies between here and the final trainstop, and if it is indeed worthwhile. You get a distant Peggy Lee "Is That All There Is?" detachment. The philosophers will tell you to assign some kind of arbitrary value and meaning and it is a bit like being thrown off of an infinite cliff and being told that you should assign the bottom of your soles as "h = 0" in that it lacks satisfaction as an answer.

I haven't anything to offer but a nod of recognition.
The purpose isn’t to explain anything scientifically but rather to find practical solutions to a given problem.

>> However, that team of researchers was seeking solutions to their tasks rather than explanations concerning the observed phenomena. The researchers' approach could be called "technological".

>> A technological approach differs from a scientific approach in the sense that the former does not claim to develop explanations as long as there are reproducible steps that can be followed to reach a predictable result.
I hope you can find some peace, but please understand that for many other people that type of thing is extremely draining and exhausting. It's really stressful to come home after a long day of putting out fires at work just to see more inflammatory things happening online. Doubly so if people are spreading flamebait and misinformation that happens to be about you or your work. I actually completely quit online gaming because the toxicity is out of control, I couldn't seem to join a game without someone eventually tossing around insults or being casually racist/sexist. I really don't need that in my free time.
Depends on your administrator. If they allow IMAP to be turned on for your gmail account then yes. However, your email is still going through Google's servers and this is still only a partial mitigation. You get the gmail app off your phone but that's about it.

A lot of admins won't enable IMAP for security purposes though.
That's because the original micro lenses were commissioned to resolve images of microfilms iirc[1] (See under 1962), and doesn't really have anything to do with the macro/micro relationship.

[1] - https://www.nikon.com/about/corporate/history/chronology/194...
QE is just the central bank buying treasury bonds with central bank reserves. The private bank that sold its treasury bonds must still find a borrower to create money. It's the availability of solvent borrowers that is the primary driver of money creation.

The central bank's mandate nowadays is to keep inflation low. If there is a risk of permanently high inflation they are going to raise interest rates even if that means choking the economy. The reason why they aren't doing it right now is that inflation expectations aren't high enough in the bond market. It's entirely possible that tapering now wouldn't choke but kill the economy.
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Congratulations on releasing your book. I watched one of your talks about procedural generation[0] and really enjoyed it, thanks!

Mentioning this here since the tutorial linked above has a lot of procedural generation content

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLIOgWYVpI
I have to assume that WWII history is still being taught. I'm not sure if they are censoring kamikaze tactics in Japan, but they are still well documented in US WWII media.
They no longer put pure helium in those tanks for this reason.
GM crops have significantly less genetic diversity simply as a result of how their created and sold. This isn’t a new problem, but fixing it significantly slows time to market.

As to using GM to add blight resistance, that’s not always an option. Cavendish bananas for example are at massive risk from Panama disease TR4 and have been for years.
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I am someone who has owned iphones before and still think they are overpriced for what they are.

To be fair, the reality distortion field rarely works on me.
It’s good that you have enough free time to raise such questions))

But seriously, to understand why you’d never get true objective answer you need to realize something.

The question itself contains 2 critical assumptions:

1. There’s objective cause-effect relationship embedded in the nature of reality (and therefore life).

Imagine there’s no causality and all you see is just a correlation of events of different levels of certainty.

Would this question make sense at all?

And causality is nothing more than a model of the world in our human minds. A very good and practical one, but just a model.

How do you expect to get good answer to a question outside of the model scope, but which make sense only within the model.

2. We as humans somehow can know or impose some ultimate goal for the life itself as though we were the ones who invented it in the lab.

While in reality we’re just observers and a tiny piece of life we know of.

We have no real control of the process itself, and we’ll never know how it really started unless someone external will show us.

But then still we will have no reference point to know for sure if this someone is not just another form of the same life trying to fool us. Etc.

So anyway, this question (in its ultimate form) is deeply meaningful, because it implies the answer which lies outside of the system making the question possible in the first place.

Answer “there’s no point” is also wrong. For the same reasons. May be there is. May be someone created it on purpose, but again we will never know this for sure, at least with existing methods of “knowing”
This must have been very satisfying to complete.
I expect the curvature of the earth has much less effect than refraction and mirage effects in causing this phenomenon.
I dabble in ceramic arts (hand building mostly) and woodworking. Those two pursuits have a loose connection to my professional life in the sense that there are desired outcomes for a project and a lot of planning needs to go into the execution.

However, unlike my day job I use my hands to create a physical object vs digital. I find that to be _extremely_ satisfying.

I have also started creating generative art. The outputs are SVG that get plotted with an axidraw. I use various tools and frameworks for this:

* Kotlin - https://openrndr.org/

* Python - I'm writing a custom framework that suites my style

* Inkscape

* Adobe illustrator for the handful of things inkscape can't do very well
It's also important to add F# is an inspiration for an amazing MS Research effort, F* [1].

Furthermore, it is also worth checking Dafny [2] (Spec#'s successor). The relationship between Dafny and C# is equivalent to the relationship between F* and F#. Both languages try to refine their predecessors semantics and augment them with practical constructs to prove program correctness.

Some of the largest software artifacts ever verified have been implemented in Dafny [3], and F* is also looking quite promising.

[1] https://www.fstar-lang.org

[2] https://dafny-lang.github.io/dafny/

[3] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~junfeng/17sp-e6121/papers/ironf...
AJ Soprano said it best: "Life is absurd." LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt-IOGfs9PY
That might be true in the abstract, as a theory. But when it comes to point-of-life I think it’s better to judge a philosophy based on how a person has lived it. And it doesn’t seem like Watts lived as good of a life as he could.
Maybe just nitrogen? Costco inflates tyres with nitrogen. The pair of tyres on my vehicle inflated with nitrogen don’t seem to lose pressure, the other two need topping up occasionally.
I guess after GitHub and gitlab i will have to find an alternative, so long and thanks for all the fish, I'm not really sure why we need to pursue growth at all cost, a perpetual hunt for currency on daily basis, of a number we will never be able to spend
> … there's not necessarily any paper trail on how to rebuild the current state from scratch.

Yes there is!

"As you define and modify classes or methods, Smalltalk/V is logging all of these changes to the change log.

…

Every Smalltalk expression that you evaluate with either do it or show it is also logged. In addition, every time you remove a method from a class, a message is logged."

p282 "Automatic Logging of Changes"

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/SmalltalkVTutori...