skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start with the Iliad and I recommend the Lattimore translation although Fagles is good too. You may want to read the first book (chapter) a few times to get the flow. You may also want the backstory, the Judgment of Paris and the Golden Apple. This kind of explains why the Achaeans are there at Troy.

BTW, watch Troy with Brad Pitt. It's got its points but it really deemphasizes the gods. It takes liberties but it's fun.

Then read the Odyssey. The Odyssey is a little stranger because it's kind of told backwards.

Then Virgil's Aeneid. Virgil is 'plagiarizing' Homer and steals a minor character Aeneas; so it helps to know the Iliad+Odyssey to get the homage. There is a really good course/podcast on the Aeneid by Susanna Braund from Stanford.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/virgils-aeneid/id38423...

There is also the Harvard class, the Ancient Greek Hero, which may help.

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/ancient-greek-her...

Thucydides The Peloponnesian War has great parallels and lessons. In the middle of the war, some idiots ( Alcibiades) decide to attack Sicily because it was going to be easy and the war will pay for itself; they get their asses kicked. You can read this as an allegory for Iraq, an expensive pointless distraction led by idiots. There's also the Siege of Melos.

Yale has a good course by Donald Kagan (Project for a New American Century Donald Kagan) that has background for all this.

https://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205
I believe it's the noise of it. A rainy(but not stormy) night has the same effect on me, also.
> Eventually

This is far from a given.
It does run in the BG.
As Retraction Watch notes, the journal is not disputing the study (they refused to respond to a request) but has no interest in publishing the study because they seem to be questioning the motives of the authors.

Either the study is valid or it isn’t. Disliking the authors should not be a factor.
Yes as long as SS couples keep it secret. Anonymous surveys are a great way to say that you have a "committed partner" without going into details.
Tragically, that's ever so true, rural country towns both in the US and Australia are now in the vanguard of the drug epidemic. It's not only ice/meth but also opioids thanks in part to the Sacklers.

Fortunately, my family seems to have escaped the illicit drug problem and I no longer live in a rural area, nevertheless sometimes I wish I had Dr Who's tardis to escape back to a much simpler time - at least for a short respite anyway. :-)
Even if you put $0 down on the FAFSA and taxes, you will still not cover tuition even at an affordable school.
Federal student loans only cover about $2000 subsidized and $2500 unsubsidized.

Housing already is an unsubsidized loan, if not more, to live in a brick room with immature kids that shouldn't be in school. Did I mention how much sleep you don't get?

Meal plans are required your freshman semester, that's $2200 at an affordable school.

Even with all the grants and student loans in the world you still have to take out private loans. Private loans you have to pay on every month.

Work study is factored into costs already, meaning to get those numbers you have to work at the University. Work study is only available to lowest of income, and those with parents are screwed out of it.

Uni's are also not close enough to most external work, so how exactly are students going to pay on those loans?

Parking is non existent at major universities. Owning a vehicle is not a real concept, and even if a student does (like I), insurance and costs are very expensive. How is that being paid for?

There are far too many students whom parents refuse to help. Parent income has no relevance to affordability of school for many students. Turns out American parents are terribly ignorant, even after their degree.

We need to federally regulate universities, fire a lot of people, remove most general requirements, shorten degrees to 2 years, and a whole lot of other things.
Twitter doesn't do a great job of displaying it, but it's actually embedded in the alt text attribute for the images! This is what it looks like from the logged-in user's perspective[1].

I originally tried to additionally add the full text as a series of replies to the image tweet, but I couldn't get those APIs to work reliably. Perhaps it's worth another try :-)

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/eSK6TY7
The entire undergraduate curriculum of St. John's College consists exclusively of reading The Great Books - the list is public and freely available: https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...
you can also do a random featured article, which is a higher standard than the "good articles" category:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles

> Featured articles are considered to be some of the best articles Wikipedia has to offer, as determined by Wikipedia's editors. They are used by editors as examples for writing other articles. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed as featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Most featured articles were previously good articles (which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of criteria). There are 6,023 featured articles out of 6,400,532 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.09% or one out of every 1,060 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured article review.
Yeah I've also seen that a few times with people I know on a smaller scale. For now I just use the lens of:

We know when people are in china to be successful publishing about china they need to apply a rose coloured filter.

And.

It's difficult/probably not a good idea to apply non-china-thinking to china.

The scale, culture and mindset is just so different, taking a Western view of almost any aspect of china is always going to be super hard and potentially a fools errand. I think that's why it often ends up feeling so extreme, because the content creator has to navigate these two things and I don't see it being anything other than very jarring to the content consumer. (I try to keep china in perspective for myself. Building a startup to over 200 was super super hard. Emerging a billion people.. hmf. I don't always agree with China, but I do believe emerging a billion people is hard)
I feel like it's been learning from urban dictionary
https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/BpmB

coffeebomb
cof·fee·bomb

a bomb which, in addition to the usual stimulants such as caffeine, turns out to be deadly if inhaled by a person having sexual intercourse
"a young man survived a blast of coffeebomb, killing two men and wounding five"
That's pretty much my conclusion as well.

I think I understand China pretty well, I don't think I could even explain it to help westerners without losing my standing in China. So there is always going to be this disconnect, and of course even that would embolden westerners to stick with their current conclusion about the place. There is just a lot of unsaid things that are still important to understand, and I think all societies have various topics that you will never get a satisfactorily honest opinion about from their people. So China just isn't different enough for me to only focus on things I don't like about China, thats my real conclusion: its just not different enough to treat them differently.

I would say skimming major events in the last 200 years of Chinese history, as well as their current constitution will help make China make a lot of sense.
Yes, the US polar programs physical qualification forms are like this, making me either use a VM or use my wife's laptop (since no supported acrobat for Linux).
there's the laws, then there's enforcement. enforcement is he harder part, and I don't see any easy wins there. you're right though - much is already "prohibited". it still happens.
React developer who also does Web3 and NFTs here. I am amassing as much as money possible from wannabe Elon Musk's before the bubble pops. None of these projects will survive because both NFTs and DeFI is a bubble and there is no real future to them but I enjoy the hype that brings me lots of jobs and money.
This is huge for places like LA. 2 hr commute or a 40 minute one where you lane split. I have never personally experienced this but my dad described getting his first bike a cb750 in LA as orgasmic. Being able to ride through traffic and not wait the hours he had to before was like nothing else he says.
I wonder if would also be able to distinguish between human eyes and the eyes of a different animal.
“Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child." - Cicero
The work involves more than talking with people. They do get the full effect out of being polite but their effectiveness is hurt by a long list of things. For example, we can always spend more money on it. People will always find a way to spend more money. I would scale the budget with how long it takes to do basic things. If those take much to long they either need funding or have to prioritize tasks. Things like interview the witness before GC kicks in. There are crappy security cameras everywhere but the free plan doesn't store the recordings for very long. etc There are countless stupid stories.
Brilliant. Let us dig in!
Indian State Shutdown Internet for Millions to prevent cheating on teachers exam
In Defence of Pet Servers
There are three commercial lisp companies that continue to exist selling CL platforms. They exist despite SBCL being faster. They even make stuff like tools to build iOS and Android apps in CL. They didn't invest the money building that that out for no reason.

The companies that use lisp don't tend to talk about it. For example, a company I worked for only talked about their Ruby/rails and javascript stuff publicly. It was only after I hired that I found out that the mission-critical core software was written in Common Lisp.
On Left-Straussianism – The Point Mag
Xournal is great for this
This is where editorial judgement comes in. It could either be highly centralized with Google or another search engine providing the curation. Or it could be farmed out using PKI, similar to how extended verification was done back in the day, except the verification is more encompassing of “human vice” and serves as a feedback signal for the search engine.
Holy cow - I didn't know about this book. Everything Gabriel puts out is awesome: this is an instant-buy for me!
Crosvm – The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
Strong Law of Small Numbers
Yes, I've done it for years myself. By "primary transportation" I mean that very few Americans own motorcycles and do not have an alternative means of transportation, often a car. Motorcycles are pleasure vehicles in the US -- you won't see a family making a Home Depot trip on the back of a Super Cub in the rain.
The Book of Crosvm – Introduction to the crosvm project
is there a cheap sbc or soc from an atleast-somewhat-reputable source that comes pre-loaded with linux ?
There is no smarter way
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The server depreciation changes affect all of Google. GCP accounts for only a portion of Google's server usage.
Code Smell 97 – Error Messages Without Empathy
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You know what's more fun? Defining real words.

Toilet - a place where toilet paper is kept and washed
I'm no expert, but isn't turn-based multiplayer a completely different animal?
Typically those getting a classics degree have to learn Greek and/or Latin. There simply is no substitute for reading in the original language. A ton is lost in translation.
Cryptographic custody of power is important to make sure power is wielded by the people designated to have power by the market. crucially this power can then be anonymous. Makes capture the flag much more difficult for rogue outsiders (outside of the market mechanism).
At this point, only Postgres SSL connections are supported.
Probably not a Merriam recognized word, but certainly a trending word a few years ago

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/85HD

pussyhat
pussy·hat

a woman's loose fitting undergarment, typically made of a soft cotton tweeden
"we ordered a pair of bright-colored polo pants and jumped at the chance to wear a bra with our favorite pussyhat"
Important context for those considering it: Bloom's book was seen as a rejection of those bringing new voices (i.e., non-white, non-male) into the 'canon'; it was popular among conservative culture warriors. That doesn't disqualify it, but understand Bloom might be injecting some politics into it.
Another data point from same website: Divorce Rate By Occupation

https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/
Lobbyboy: Create a VPS when you need one and destroy it after using it
Sublime Text Build 4121 - Apple Silicon and ARM Support
Wow, I'm glad that they opened up the documentation. I liked what I saw a few years ago, but I'm not getting behind a language where all the usable docs are proprietary.
You’ve gotten a lot of pushback on this.

Rightly so, I’d say.

As someone who has used and managed all types of Apple products all the way back to Mac OS 7, it is not just my direct experience here but also countless discussions with peers: Every major update has teething pains.

It feels like Apple engineers test only on fresh machines from the factory. The first week is the “release client” test. New OS’, new products, new components (eg: butterfly keyboard), etc. Nothing is immune.

Yes, the marketing says that every detail of every Apple product is flawless however the core DNA of Apple drives them to innovate and you cannot innovate without breaking things. Their white glove motto is “bring it in, we’ll replace it”.
Your statement that computers aren't creative is not true in general and it's especially not true for GPT-3. It can generate text that appears random at first glance but which has a structure hidden within. As I wrote above, there is no way to prove conclusively whether any given sentence generated by GPT-3 was actually written by GPT-3. But if we assume that all sentences were indeed written by GPT-3 then some of them must be very good indeed because many people find them interesting and worth reading. That means that GPT-3 has demonstrated creativity.

(a response generated by GPT-3)
you can combine steps to create a GIF effect. Check out this short Scribe for an example: https://scribehow.com/shared/Toggling-between-teams-in-Scrib...
Maker of blockchain game World of Sipheria raises $6.8m in seed round
The amount of data being collected in the world is growing much faster than the number of database engineers is.
Direct or External Loss?

Is the unique loss you identify not accounted for in the traditional ROI expression?
I copied that text from the article, and found you already posted it!

I appreciated the clear write-up of the symptoms of the problem. Causes of the problem not in the write-up: failing to shard on the ID of the paying customer, and highly questionable scripting language to run DDL, and lack of testing, and allowing non-DBAs to run DDL, and incompetent management.

On the bright side, the Node hackers can keep patting themselves on the back for recovering from their self-inflicted wounds.
A comprehensive guide to ‘go generate’
Israel is not a US client. The directive influence is the opposite of the direction that it would be were that the case, and the reason for that is exactly the thinking you articulate: “If the US drops Israel someone else will pick them up”.
A few evenings ago I went out on the deck and there was a huge owl just sitting on the railing. It looked at me like, “what are you going to do about it?”
> While professional mariners stopped using the earth’s magnetic field as their primary directional reference some 50 years ago, civil aviation did not, because at that time accurate inertial navigation systems (INS) were too heavy and bulky for aircraft use.

Ships do not sink if they get lost with no fuel.
Worrying about Chinese surveillance of Americans at this point is surreal to me. If the Chinese government doesn't control every aspect of the US Federal government at this point, I don't even know what they would be doing with the information they've got.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

I would like to suggest anyone who missed this, would read the article top to bottom and think about the consequences without wishful thinking.

Clapper said you have to hand it to them, we would've done the same.
Check out the "bang" operators on duck duck go.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

When I search, I no longer default to Google. It's great for some things & awful at others. I try & think what communities might be better to search. I read random blogs or forums & those (even the popular ones) often lead me to additional niche (but still large) communities.

I'm constantly finding new niche communities.
“We have seen some initiatives run into trouble, however, when the necessary rights have not been secured to enable their sustainability,”

I love the double-speak that these corrupt publishers use - it really highlights how mafia-esque the whole situation is. "Pay your protection fee, or we won't be able to /protect/ you". Intellectual slavery and copyright is just another tool of opression used to keep the wealthy in their positions of power.
Gold is just a rock. Why do all humans value that nonsense so much?
Do software developers work longer hours? They seem to have the least work hours out of anyone in my upper middle class American peer group.
It sounds like a really relaxing way to make a lot of money
That sounds super interesting! The results will depend upon the kind of information this database provides about each paper. We don't know yet the kind of processing each paper goes through and the quality of the "description" in the database. Assuming that it is good enough, this would be a really interesting project to work on.
Why is it never mentioned that Sam the lone genius Gross who is "interested in PyTorch training workflows" is a fulltime Facebook employee?

Not that it's bad but it should be mentioned that it's a corporate initiative.
I love the way it is directed. Finally a movie that doesn't treat the audience with contempt and just wants us to be a fly on a wall in a story bigger than life.

I had no trouble following the story and I had both never read Dune before (yeah I know) and English is not my first language. The story lets those who want to dive into it do just that, but it is never spoonfeeding the audience, which is just too common and throws me off in so many movies because instead of feeling something that has been motivated by some inner forces of the world I am watching it feels like something just done to tingle my feelings in often very predictable ways.

Just like in everyday life emotions are not a 100% explained but there is nothing arbitrary in that movie. E.g. the way Paul's mother acts is unexplained more or less, but it isn't unexplainable. By explaining this for example, the film would loose parts of what made it great to watch in my eyes. But tastes differ of course.
We're also about to discover what happens when people don't exercise their immune systems for 2 years. There's a "super cold" of some sort going around in the UK [1] which, while not COVID (and therefore is probably not vaccine-sensitive wrt vaccines designed for COVID), has similar symptoms and is a lot more severe than a normal cold.

Normally you'd get colds 2-3 times a year (there are over a billion cases per year in the US alone), sometimes without noticing. These would "boost" your immune system from time to time and afford some limited protection against severe disease. That did not happen over the past 18 months for a lot of people, especially in countries like UK/NZ/Australia which went way overboard on lockdowns, to the point where there was no "flu season" last year.

I bet US will fare better just because enforcement is relatively lax, and 190M people already had COVID [2] (probably due to not really observing any lockdowns or whatever).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-58624295

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
One Typed Page
> I don’t see this as necessarily a good thing. People buying a bunch of low quality products that are designed to be as cheap as possible and then just tossing them in the trash when they inevitably break is terrible for the environment.

The other two options are poor people go without completely, or rich people share their wealth with poor people and lower their quality of life so poor people can raise their quality of life.
That used to be the case before everything was connected to the internet: devs would agonize about making sure there were no bugs, because once it was out it was out of their hands.

Games were especially nerve-wracking because a single show-stopping bug could bankrupt the entire company, but I digress.

Now, it’s “Get enough working code out the door so that we can sell copies! We can patch it if we need to!”
By GoT style - I’m referring to time being taken to tell the story. Not necessarily in the style of GoT. I should have been more explicit there. Heck I guess I could have supplanted it with “A series of unfortunate events” style . My point was that it takes time to explore the characters and give the audience (readers or not) a chance to connect with the characters.
Sinais de que você pode estar grávida mesmo sem imaginar
The CCP believes ML/AI is the next frontier in military technology, and a field they can be first in.

They are aggregating PII from social media companies to build training sets on both internal and exernal populations. (The CCP already communicates directly with WeChat users in foreign countries, used to "repatriate" masks and other PPE from US stores in early 2020.)

One of their selling points for selling/financing Huawei telco servers in Africa is for population monitoring. (Note that foreign countries, including Europe, that install telco equipment often have China manage both the network and billing operations. The latter provides PII.)

This has been widely reported, so anybody who denies it is either on their payroll, or a useful idiot.

Foreign factories have been in a panic to relocate outside China since the CCP's corrosive practises have been disclosed (export capital controls since 2016, IP theft, kidnapping of foreigners, nation-wide organ harvesting, wolf warrior diplomacy, etc.)

It appears that the CCP believes the only thing that matters is money, but Western companies weigh other factors when deciding where to finance the next factory, including upcoming trade embargoes with the next Republican President.
Fazer um teste de gravidez é uma das maneiras mais fáceis de saber se você está grávida, mas muitos testes de gravidez não revelarão se você está grávida até dez ou mais dias após a menstruação.