skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this happens for the same reason they win their Nobel in the first place: to just go wherever their curiosity takes them, without having a pre-conceived notion about whether that is good or bad. If you open fifty thousand ugly oysters you're sure to find some gems, maybe even a priceless one. But you're also going to find a lot of junk. So you are likely on to something there, and the lack of a filter is definitely an issue.

You see this in other fields as well: at some point having an opinion is about name recognition. If you are some unknown person and you have a bullshit opinion about something the world will ignore you. But if you're a Nobel prize winner, and actor or media personality, a well known athlete, a business person or a venture capitalist with a lot of money then people will pay attention to what you say and will treat it with both more weight than they would otherwise and they will burn you down far worse than would ever happen compared to an unknown person.

The Dutch have a proverb about this (we have proverbs for everything, so this should be no surprise), that roughly translates as 'tall trees catch a lot of wind'.
I just did a test on my production WordPress site with a dozen plugins and dozens of images on the home page. I got 97 performance, oh and I'm 9000 miles away from the server and tethered to my phone

To be fair I'm using Cloudflare and the static assets were all probably cached at the edge but the initial HTML page itself is always fetched from the server (I'd have to pay for their APO product to do that which I tested out and it works well but introduces the usual cache issues)
I don't really understand your point; the fact that preppers have gold and gold didn't help against zombies seems easily explainable by preppers not actually preparing for zombies, but instead far more realistic events including short term social unrest.
A common talking point in tech anti-trust: Big Tech Acquisitions
Indeed there will be. In North America, batteryhookup.com has A123, Headway and CATL cells at a pretty okay price. The CATL cells still aren't worth it IMO, but the Headway LiFePO4 cells can push a ridiculous amount of current, something like 200A from a single cell.
Yes:

3.1.3(c) Enterprise Services: If your app is only sold directly by you to organizations or groups for their employees or students (for example professional databases and classroom management tools), you may allow enterprise users to access previously-purchased content or subscriptions. Consumer, single user, or family sales must use in-app purchase.
> Atari 8 bit computers, NES and SMS game consoles on your TV with nothing more than a ESP32 and a sense of nostalgia

https://github.com/rossumur/esp_8_bit
Of course, having the most famous album cover ever helps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6U1JB7z-I8

A personal favorite of mine is The Trolley Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pCM8jzvtw

which is the same song as the one Judy Garland made famous, but Alpert's version is heavenly.

Before the intertoobs and CDs, I searched everywhere for that album (Herb Alpert's Ninth) for years, and finally found a brand new mint one in the cutout bin with the slot sliced in it. For $1. I couldn't believe my prize!

P.S. The yootoob version has poor sound quality. To hear how good Herb is with the trumpet, ya gotta get the CD.
It’s trivial to buy gold in the US without id, in cash. More than a million or two might require something, but less than that very doable.
IIRC, during that Spectrum spat, they were giving channel codes to people who either could prove, or would attest, that they had the channel installed before the date that it was removed. I myself got the channel reinstalled after doing some research by trying different variants of the codes that were reported by others. Then, it became moot when they reached an agreement and began making the channel available again.
You're thinking of Li-Po, not LiFePO4.
It's not my opinion, it's a fact that;

Mandates are coercive by definition, that's the entire point of them, putting whatever magical word in front of them you like doesn't change that.

The medication to which the "Vaccine mandates" refer is not the same as traditional inactivated virus vaccines, and before this whole fiasco started, was always referred to as what it actually is which is gene therapy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817894/

It doesn't matter how great or how well tested these things are, or how reasonable it is to take them, and that I will acknowledge goes into the realm of opinion and given how polluted that discussion is with political barracking yeah I'm not interested in having it at all, the simple underlying fact that they are actually coercive experimental gene therapy is exactly that, pure fact, not opinion at all.
Literally enslaved? What do you mean by enslaved?
No: it goes Just 20 → Just 10 → Just 5 → Nothing, because 5/2 can’t be represented as an integer.
Hyperinflation and concerning political instability worth relocating over can happen without quite reaching the level of a zombie apocalypse.
The only stuff with that kind of spread are 100oz silver bars or 1oz gold coins, all of which are well outside of feasible for $20/wk folks (unless they are willing and able to save for 2 yrs per coin anyway)
I would say you do machine learning if you're doing optimization on bespoke models. These worlds blend together once you get into the weeds. It doesn't have to be gradient descent (via AD or otherwise) to be machine learning.

By "light to moderate amount" do you mean that you haven't catalogued the menagerie of statistical models that are commonly taught in machine learning / deep learning courses? Because that to me is secondary to having the underlying principles (optimization theory, measure theory, etc.) down pat. Recognizing the fundamentals in the theory which describes how machine learning proceeds is invaluable for comprehension.

If you wanted a flashier name for your role I might suggest "Solutions Architect" or even "Machine Learning Engineer" based on what roles you want to aim for. Because honestly you're doing a lot of what is already entailed by those titles. "Data Scientist" also fits for sure, being such a broad title nowadays.

I interpreted what you said more glibly(?) than it seems you intended, and apparently I expressed my surprise snarkier than I intended.
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This is an interesting insight in the matter.

Tangentially, the phenomenon of scientific pioneer jingoism is a fascinating topic. I grew up with Soviet books. The heroes of modern technology were Popov, Mozhaysky and Tsiolkovsky. Marconi, the Wright brothers or Goddard? Eccentric footnotes with no impact in the real world.
This uses Xapian. Some of the Linux mailing lists, like linux-netdev, use Xapian.

I use Xapian on the desktop but I only store text documents so I have no need for Recoll. It is refreshing to use search that is not tuned for "popularity" and selling online ad services. If search is too easy, then IMO it is not really search. Search should require some skill. It should not be a game where a commercial entity Hoovering up user data and selling ad services runs the search and tries to guess what the searcher is searching for.

I never tried it, but this looks somewhat similar to Recoll:

https://github.com/kendling/pinot-search
Since the article talks a lot about replacing small plastic utensils, it seems plausible that they're not targeting structural applications at the moment, so the point about glue could be moot.

But will we see a wooden laptop?
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How exactly would you go about that? And how are you going to make sure you are buying gold and not gold-plated lead?
Not mentioned is Cunningham's Law. It works really well:

"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#"Cunningham's_..."
i highly recommend "the c programming language", the k&r book.

some may claim it's old but i don't know if there is a good "modern" c book. you can pick up the modern part quite easily. now that i am typing this, it would be amazing if BWK were to write a modern c book.

sicp is good, if you wanna get all meta.
I’d been interested to know your thoughts on pykrete! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
That’s wild. When I was a teller (15 years ago maybe) we would routinely keep around 7-10k in our drawers, and another 40k as ready money in the day safe.

Granted, we were a drive up branch that dealt with commercial/retail so a lot of customers would routinely be dealing with 5k worth of cash. Other branches had similar amounts of cash though.

Strange world
> It certainly seems like charging 2x the price for the hardware removes a lot of the incentive to do all the scammy stuff Ruku is involved in; though I guess I can't know for sure, or know the future.

Software services (i.e. updating iOS/Roku's OS) require on-going maintenance. Apple makes this by charging developers who in turn typically charge the consumers. Roku doesn't do this and hence why it can be hostile to the consumer. It's model is generally to use an ad model instead.

Now people know why there is a (arguably high) tax on subscriptions derived from iOS.
The German A-4 Rocket
Regarding 3, server means waiter in English as well. It's so named because both are similar; much as you would ask a restaurant server to bring you stuff, so too do you ask the computing server to bring you stuff, and it does.
Very neat, and nice to have a fairly high voltage setup like that, mine is only 36V nominal so it needs pretty fat wiring to not lose a bunch of power on the way to the motor (that was the first thing I fixed, the difference was noticable, both in range and in power).

35 Kg is doable, as long as that battery doesn't run dry!

Mine really isn't pleasant if you end up without assist, it's doable but I really hate it, especially uphill. Can't wait until I have that pack ready, but I'm not going to hurry it, I'd hate for it to fail halfway or so, and that's a lot of tinkering to be done still (and a lot of welds...). But the batteries are already here, the balancer as well, I have a BMS from a scrapped pack and a good idea of what the housing should look like, if my test pack works I'm off to the races, then it is mostly straight up assembly and otherwise I'll need to re-think the way the BMS is hooked up.
A British film documenting theory and operation of the V2 rocket.
One thing that's also benign but not mentioned by the grandparent is that any economy which has considerable foreign travelers passing through will likely end up losing some cash. I have two pint glasses sitting on my desk, one for coins, the other for bills, they are literally packed full of money from my various travels. Last time I checked, I had almost 300 euros in there and I haven't been in the Eurozone in quite some time (pandemic notwithstanding). I'm not sure if others are like me, but usually I just get cash from an ATM and pay the conversion fee but I refuse to convert back because the money changers at the train stations and airports rip you even harder than the ATM does. It just rubs me the wrong way to take it both coming and going on the conversion. So I keep the bills, and at worst case they're souvenirs.
The New Fear and Greed
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in this stuff, just a 3rd party client developer who is interested in the topic.

AFAIK, there are two ways to validate a new device in Matrix.

It sounds like you're describing the interactive device validation procedure. After that, your two devices trust each other, and the old device can "cross sign" the public key of your new device, so others can trust it too.

Personally for me, even with cross-signing, I was still getting a significant number of messages that failed to decrypt. Usually I think the problem was that one of my devices wasn't around to receive the original version of some key. And for whatever reason, even with cross-signing, it wasn't getting the keys from my other devices. For example, maybe my other devices were offline at the time.

The fix for me was to go the passphrase route. Now, regardless of what device I'm on, the passphrase gets me access to all of my secrets via the encrypted blob on the server.
I remember setting those 7-segment LEDs up on my first PC build.

On the motherboard there was a jumper which took the input from the turbo switch.

To provide feedback to the user, some cases ran a wire from the turbo switch to a bi-color LED on the front of the case as well as to the motherboard to control the turbo state.

On fancier cases they had multiple seven-segment LEDs which had a multi-state jumper for each segment, which decided to light that segment depending if the switch was on or off (example: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/led_speed_display/LED%20disp...), so you could display either the two different clock frequencies, or a "HI"/"LO" message, or anything you wanted. And connecting that switch input to the motherboard wasn't necessary for the LED to change, so I guess that is how your father's was setup :)
> Lately, the Chromecast has become substantially worse, with many more ads and of course a stupid update nobody asked for showing kind of a tablet UI when you're in "idle" mode with the phone connected to the TV (idk how you're supposed to operate it, but I don't care, ofc it's a clickbait showcase screen).

Are you sure you're using a Chromecast? Not only has my Chromecast never once shown me an ad, but I have no idea what screen you're talking about and I use mine every day.
I get that - it’s not like traditional payment processors never shut anyone off. Reality is all in the squishy gray area, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a meaningful difference between what it’s like selling a service on a website vs. with an app.
Don't worry about it. Just reserve your Canadian EV6 and be happy:

https://www.kia.ca/ev6comingsoon
Article is paywalled (and sci-hub doesn't work), but the Brinell hardness of 31 while certainly higher than normal hardwoods, is extremely soft compared to metal - softer than even wrought iron without a heat treat. I'm sure it could be made "sharper" than cheap cutlery, but that doesn't mean it will hold an edge well. I'd also be curious how recyclable the material remains after the chemical treatment required to densify it - I would suspect it's like e.g. MDF / plywood which is very bad environmentally due to the glues.
At the risk of shilling my own project:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

It does a few things differently ;-)

Feedback welcome!
Do you not have the leanback launcher/LauncherX which has integrated ads?

They put this on my Shield TV and Chromecast Ultra. I now own an Apple TV.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5google.com/2020/10/01/googl...
Using reputable dealers that deliver orders placed online. Strange as it sounds, it is, IMO, one of the better and safer (definitely low commission) ways to get gold. BD Bullion, APMEX are good ones. I did not check very recently, but when I did the difference with spot price were under 1% (slightly higher for APMEX, slightly lower for BD). A friend in Australia mentioned the same ballpark, 1-1.5% spread (combined, not each way). 10-20% is a highway robbery!!

An important caveat: this only applies to reasonably large orders, 1 oz or larger. You cannot buy $100 of gold with 1% spread.
The max is actually 4.8 lbs, not 4.7lbs. Not sure if that was factored in. But seeing as how I use my laptop to work in weird places portability and weight are actually important factors for me. I could manage the 16” size but the previous gen 16 inch was already pushing it for weight, especially if there are other things in the backpack. But seeing how this thing needs a big 140 watt supply means i can’t and even use the ultra compact 60 watt charger I have. So we’re looking at 5-6 extra lbs on my back!
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As far as I understand, there is no “expected behavior of main without a return” under ANSI; it’s undefined behavior as (according to this version of the C standard) a function with an int return type must return an int. The fact that it happens to return the result of last function call is more-or-less a coincidence because the compiler doesn’t bother to clear out or reuse the return value register.

If this seems unintuitive, consider a more general example:

int foo(int x) {
if (x >= 0) return 123;
if (x < 0) return 456;
}

What’s the “expected” return value if neither of the if-statements match? That seems like a nonsensical question because the conditions are clearly mutually exclusive, but if you’re a dumb enough compiler (or the conditions are more complex) you might not be able to prove that. So should it return zero? Should the compiler insert code to save and remember the result of the last function call? According to the C standard, the compiler doesn’t have to handle this situation; it is free to assume that the branches are indeed mutually exclusive, and it will most likely do whatever produces the easiest/fastest code in that case.

In the OP’s example, it seemingly just decides to return void (leaving whatever garbage was previously in the return value register for the caller to discover). But it could also have assumed that main must infinitely loop (since there’s no return statement), and omitted the return instruction altogether causing execution to “fall off” the end of the function into whatever happened to be next in memory.
The original applications that were effected were written without knowing there would be IBM PCs (no less clones) that ran at a different clock speed!
Fastmail currently down/under attack
Would that make almost any exchange between two people theft on one side? Very rarely is there complete equivalent balance.
Frankston here. Feel free to email me. I’ve been thinking of starting a group for Peninsula/south-east hackers/founders, so, please hit me up If interested.
We may be low on aluminum for a while.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-14/aluminum-...
My 486 had one.

At the time I had no idea what it was and...not sure I do now.
> The situation is complex. If requests are malformed, it is natural that security products wouldn’t consider them valid SQL, thus making them unnecessary to block.

what?! "this doesn't look like valid sql, so let it pass and have the potentially vulnerable sql server with all the data and creds and tunnels on it parse and reject" sounds ridiculous to me!

isn't the whole point of having a security proxy to check if requests are well-formed, and if they're not, block those requests so that the more complicated implementation in the actual server on the production host is protected from malformed requests that are potentially malicious?

i get it, building a parser and validator that is independent of the one that is in the actual database server, yet implements the same language is hard... but in my mind, the whole point of using some sort of firewall is that it looks for quasi-valid things and blocks them! (where the parser in the database server, and the parser in the firewall, are two independently hardened pieces of software developed from the language spec that provide redundancy.)

edit: ok, i think i see the complexity now. forgot that sql injections are not complete queries, but rather fragments of sql, so they're harder to detect since sql fragments can look so general. (ie; a strict parser for finding them is required otherwise all sorts of reasonable things would get blocked)

isn't this why we have pre-tokenized sql queries? they've been around a long, long time.
Start buying. When is the best time to plant a tree? 20 years ago. When’s the next best time? Today. It is still early.
It seems hard to get much more rigorous than a peer reviewed scientific article in the European Journal of Epidemiology.
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FYI, you’re looking for “sticky wicket.”
Oh you're bringing back memories of childhood.

When I wrote in GW-Basic, I only used gotos. Most of the example code that I had access to used gotos.

I was 11 years old at the time.

> There are plenty of real useful production langauges where your stack will run out before 1000 frames of depth

That wouldn't surprise me in an embedded environment. But if that's the case for a run of the mill general purpose programming language that's running a typical web application, I'd be shocked.
Arduino, one of the most popular starter embedded systems, uses C++ for its programming.

The main issue in embedded systems is the lack of RAM and the hard real-time requirements that make using garbage collected languages sometimes problematic.

When you get down to really small systems, you're writing in assembler to try to fit code in the N bytes available. I once crammed code into a 512 byte space, when I was done, I had added features requested by the customer, and had 1 byte left over. Whew!

Thankfully those days are pretty much over, unless you're programming a 3 cent microcontroller.
I think he also has a way of writing that makes him look like he doesn't know how to. Will look forward to that post. For now I'll just go back to the second or maybe third reading of his post.
Ah, that makes sense. I guess it's kind of arbitrary (I mean, you could just call 80% full "100%" if that's all you'd use in practice) but it does seem quite useful if the "full" voltage is generally agreed to be in a narrow range and not have a wide range of maximum values depending on whether you care more about absolute capacity or longevity.
Can you give me an example of one community in the entire US with a postal service but not a bank?

Not to mention neobanks. All you need is a $100 smartphone for that.
This is not used for tea sourcing. The document explicitly states its purpose as being for the preparation of tea for sensory tests. It has nothing to do with brewing tea for enjoyment.
Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)
SNOBOL, the non-numerical computing counterpart to FORTRAN, also uses GOTOs, exclusively.

I still run spitbol. Regardless of its assembly-like control flow, I think the pattern matching beats PCRE, and Lua's implementation of LPeg.