skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m with you on this 100%. Had a latex mattress for four years and loved it. Adopted a barely-used memory foam mattress from a friend when I moved out west and now I’m struggling with thoracic kyphosis and neck pain. I have a large frame and have been bodybuilding for almost a decade, so I really need a mattress that pushes back. Saving up for my next latex mattress but maybe I should build my own?
I found it instructive to do 8-bit floating point. Keep it simple, 1 bit for sign, 3 bits for exponent, 4 for mantissa, and don't worry about the 'free' extra bit you get on the mantissa. Just compute - exactly! - the values those 256 patterns represent. Now, what pattern of the values emerges? How do the numbers around zero work, vs numbers on the extremes? Are there applications to use your 8-bit floats instead of, say, fixed-point 8-bit representations? Bonus: why do some graphics processors have 16-bit floats?
This is nothing new - if you ever worked with computers, in a retail setting This is normal everyday life.

It's computer archaeology in a way, but the article would've been better if it covered the source code/discovery of e-waste lately for video game consoles.
I think the "spirit of the law" is that the app you submit must "be an iOS app." If you implement the whole thing in Swift, then it's definitely an iOS app. But if your app is a "repackaged website" (which the rules explicitly forbid), then your app is not a "real" iOS app.

Furthermore, I think the motivating assumption behind the rule is that "repackaged websites" are different than (and worse than) "real" iOS apps. Thus, if your iOS app is a repackaged website, then it's not good enough for the App Store.

But I just don't share that belief. It turns out that websites can be pretty good nowadays! A "repackaged website" can just as good as an iOS app implemented in Swift.

Still, good luck convincing an App Store reviewer of any of that! As long as your app is, literally, a repackaged website, I really can't imagine how you'd argue your way out of a rejection.

In the long run, you're guaranteed to be rejected at some point if you're repackaging a website, and at that point, you're basically screwed.
Which customs?
And there may be a number of other incentives for publishing the data, including being a publicly traded company that needs to explain blips on a quarterly report. Not to mention there's always a way to spin it: "experimentation with our channel priorities resulted in a temporary decline that validated our channel focus, blah, blah, blah".

Likewise, several years ago a few large companies (IIRC, GM was one), announced that they were suspending millions of dollars of ad spend on FB because they weren't certain it was effective. I don't know what the net outcome of that was, but it seems not very different to admit, "we were spending millions, possibly with no results" than it is to admit a reduction in ad spend resulted in revenue losses.

Point being, companies talk about this stuff all the time.
If I'm not wrong it's feminine in Ukrainian (dytyna). Not sure what it is for all Slavic languages (I think it's neutral in Croatian). Also not sure what is the history for the Ukrainian version.

Just adding some info maybe others can comment.
If there is no coherent notion of physical or material, there is no notion of immaterial either. Chomsky talks about this at length in "The Machine, The Ghost and the Limits of Understanding" (previously discussed on HN here [1]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448901
Depends if you're in BC or not! haha
Agreed, I often agree with EFF and I love what IA does typically but this was a terrible terrible decision. IMO even in a world with improved copyright laws the extent of what they did shouldnt even be allowed.
I have, and have had, numerous thriving houseplants. My largest plants right now are about five feet tall. I also have three orchids that do wonderfully, a selection of cacti, etc. I do still kill plants from time to time but it's rare. In any case, I don't really agree with much of the advice in this thread. In order, the most important things IMHO are:

1) Caring: you actually have to care about the plants. This requires that you notice how they are doing and if they aren't "happy", taking action to try and improve their environment.

2) Light: if the light is bad, you're screwed. People keep talking about overwatering but not providing plants with enough light is just as bad and probably worse. Plants indoor get far less light than they do outdoors. If you have a very sunny room, in most cases the only way plants will do poorly is by totally neglecting to water them.

3) Water: not particularly difficult. With most plants you only need to water when the soil is completely dry. What I would especially suggest you do if you are starting out with houseplants is to purchase plants that show, by virtue of their foliage drooping, if they don't have enough water. The leaves of a peace lily will droop. The leaves of devil's ivy will start looking floppy. I've noticed that my spider plant's leaves seem to become paler. Some plants (e.g. ones that look like palm trees) will lose their foliage, starting at the bottom.

In any case, if you have a plant like this, it is visibly telling you it needs water, so it's not hard to comply. It can also serve as a sort of canary in the coal mine for your other plants.

That's honestly about it. I repot the occasional plant, and sometimes I do a little light fertilizing. But if you have a plant that is doing poorly, my advice in almost all cases is simple: ensure it gets more light, and don't water it until it's totally dried out.
How do you write an article like this and not mention the climate crisis?
It sounds like they figured out how to build a fusion bomb without the need for an atomic bomb primary. This would be a weapon with no radioactive signature, capable of 15 megatons of yield, a proliferation nightmare, at best.
It seems like they have chosen to abstain from capitalism and have been allowed to exist because they don’t represent a threat to the capitalist order.

Also, by definition, if collective choices are being made about the use of technology, then it’s not capitalism.
The biggest companies and most performance sensitive application would still be built native. My biggest concern is how a CRUD app from a small company has no way to release a proper PWA on iOS with its handicapped support.

With one of my current contract, we have 2 people coding and ended up having to create a separate iOS app because there is no Notification support. We abandoned our proof-of-concept PWA because we had like 10% Android users and putting in the maintenance effort was not worth it. Without Android support, after a few months all Android users decided to ‘upgrade’ their phones to iOS devices.

Is the the future we want? Do we want to be forced into walled gardens and implicitly guiding users into it? If your team is small should you be forced into one specific platform or should your mostly-CRUD app be viably built for a cross-platform solution like PWAs which covers the major platforms and the niche ones like Linux phones.
Thanks for the explanation, I'd assumed execs have access to the material and can tell what they have on their hands as it comes along (further assuming that this is the whole point of their job aside from telling if a screenplay is any good).
got to remember small ferries do not have long stops to top off batteries. river crossing ferries night only load 4 cars in 2 minutes and then swap sides
This is the paradox of tolerance. Absolute tolerance of the intolerant leads to dictatorship and no rights at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The problem frankly is with your assumption (presumption?) that government is meant to be efficient. I'm not being facetious. A democracy is not supposed to be 'efficient'. If all parties cannot agree, then something does not pass as law. That is the point of democracy. Democracy is not a business. Look at Switzerland, what a mess of inefficiency that is as a government, yet what a democracy.
at first I was like, duh... But then it dawned on me. Duh me!!
If it has no meaning, then the comparison should have an unspecified result, not true. Otherwise it has a meaning: the meaning of producing true! However, it is a poorly considered meaning which requires a thing to be different from itself.

Since NaN values are valid representations which play a role in the system, and can be used in operations (such as comparing a NaN to a number, which is false), each of them must compare equal to itself.

If the bits on the left are the same as the bits on the right, the comparison is true. Distinct NaN bit patterns are unequal. Simple as that.

Whatever I would do, I would make sure that a comparison observes the Law of Identity.

(I'd rather not have Inf and NaN at all; operations should just generate an exception if they can't come up with a number.)
As a potential ADHD sufferer (hopefully to be diagnosed soon) - if you do, I'd very much be interested in reading about your experience(s).
I think it’s because we all played MS Flight Simulator as kids

(Disclaimer: I don’t have a PFL, but my boss does… and his own Cessna)
Seems surprising that it would cause 24+ hours of downtime. My guess is they're recovering data from backup.
What lead is coming from a highway?
Just look at the pediatric hospitalization/ICU and death rate over the pandemic. These are all unvaccinated kids. We know the same vaccine formulations at higher doses reduce hospitalization/death in older populations. It's not hard to see the benefit.
Of course not ... If you were you'd be called governors ;)
Copyright Regulator Eases Restrictions on Research, Education, and Repair
Honestly don't worry about it. If your plants are growing and seem healthy, they are fine. Just ensure your plants have a pot that is appropriate to their size. Off the top of my head and based on my current plants, I'd say a plant that's 1 to 2 feet tall needs a pot around 6 inches in diameter and maybe 8 inches tall. 2 to 3 feet, 10 inches and similar height. 4 to 5 feet, 12 inches and 12 to 16 inches tall. Past that, and you don't need any advice on plants.
Legally yes.

There’s a tax treaty so you’ll get credit for any taxes paid in another country and only have to pay the difference.
>If advertising drives sales then you will see a decline really quickly if you cut spending. You’ll likely see this decline within hours. In order to restore sales the first thing you’ll do is restore spending.

True for digital, but not for TV, podcast, and OOH. On those channels, it’s common to see a multi-week long tail of performance even after spend stops. Very annoying for testing.
Well, in particular, the NPGSQL EF driver is pretty buggy. We frequently exhaust our connection pool and we don't even have a large database. Given the design of EF, it's difficult to see how we could possibly do anything different that would avoid exhaustion. It's a pretty vanilla setup.
Yes, I did. The quote you gave supports what I said: that the black leaders pushed for War on Drugs, precisely to counteract the destructive effects of drugs on their communities. Rev. Herbert Daughtry might believe today that they were wrong to do so, and he might well be correct. This is not what I’m arguing against. I’m arguing against a blatant falsehood, that War on Drugs was purely a mean to disenfranchise black Americans, and that social decay related to drug use was an effect, not a cause of the War on Drugs. These claims are very much false, and this is obvious to anyone who lived through these times, or who spends even minimal amount of effort to look at primary sources.
The atmosphere is going to deal with a bunch of little rocks a hell of a lot better than one big one.
There was even a “barn find” ceramic 6502 — https://www.cpushack.com/2020/01/14/barn-find-mos-mcs6502-a-...
Trans rights are human rights, and entirely relevant to and tied in with civil liberties.

Why do you have a problem with people identifying as what feels right to them? Who cares? It doesn't harm anyone. Oh no, that person identifies as "she/her"?! I'm _offended_!! Come on, that's just embarrassing. If it's not relevant to you and you're not going to bother trying to understand it or empathize with it, scroll past. The fight for everyone to live their life without prejudice and discrimination is a just one.
…how is that legal? I thought flight corridors had to be far away from residential areas. You can’t even legally fly a drone in most cities…
I think flying is especially attractive to people in tech because it is cognitively demanding (flight planning, comms, instrument work) but also requires a lot of physical coordination and prediction (landing, stall recovery, maneuvers) that working in front of a computer doesn’t help you develop.

It also requires you to develop a certain level of personal responsibility and good decision making to fly safely. This positively impacts the management of a team/company.
More curious as to why this is making news again now. Renergen and their 12% find has been know for a while. Like two years maybe? Recall toying with the idea of investing
> a DOS porn text adventure

It's not porn if it's text. It was interesting explaining the English vocabulary in a Chinese class that covered how to refer to porn.

黄色的电影 ["yellow movie"]: "dirty movie"

黄色的图片 ["yellow picture"]: "dirty picture"

黄色的杂志 ["yellow magazine"]: "dirty magazine"

黄色的书 ["yellow book"]: "romance novel"

There's a double standard in English, where pornographic books can't actually be porn because women don't consume porn.

The other interesting aspects of that lesson were that I wouldn't really have expected a module in a class formally offered through a Chinese university to focus on this topic, and that -- in the textbook's opinion -- the correct English vocabulary should have been "blue movie", "blue picture", "blue magazine", and "blue book".

(The module also covered phone sex! But for whatever reason, that isn't "yellow" in Chinese; it's "pink".)
Unless I’m missing something this is exactly what I was saying? I’m open to the possibility I’m missing something, but my understanding is that Actor boundaries are messenger boundaries and they can be remote, or local processes, or event loop routines, or plain local functions with no real concurrency. The abstraction/model only enforces that communication between them is consistent no matter the actor’s environment.
Though I think it's fishy he's trying to get VC funding for a privacy product that does similar stuff to current FOSS projects. How on Earth do you expect to make profit for investors on a privacy product?
There is no honor in war. It's a dirty, nasty, painful business that leaves even the 'winners' as badly-damaged people.

Unfortunately, the world's leaders become more and more ignorant of that fact the longer a period of 'peace' lasts.

Most people in the world today have no personal knowledge of war, so they aren't too fussed when somebody says 'Let's go to war with <some entity or other>'.

That's why really bad wars seem to break out every 100 years or so. All the guys who have personal knowledge of how bad wars really are have died out, leaving the 'gung-ho' ones to start the next major conflict.

We're coming up to the next really big one 'Real Soon Now'. If you're under about 40, you'd better start getting fit, and don't neglect to make out your Will.
I don't, but it seems to cache the fingerprint so a normal refresh doesn't regenerate. If I use their 'start over' control or just shift-refresh, I do get a different fingerprint every time.

Firefox, Ubuntu, and a handful of common plugins.
We have a webview-wrapped-spa on Google Play without fuss. But haven't tried to push to App Store because of 4.2.2

If it looks like a native app, and feels close to a native app.. it sounds like Apple lets it slide? Has anybody had experience publishing a b2b webview-wrapped-spa on the app store?
It’s been decades at this point. If we can’t find unleaded fuels that work safely for these engine designs, the correct thing to do at this point is to ban the engines.
According to leonardo, we are circles
Yeah I also avoid anything that smells foul. Not very interesting.
The status page acknowledges there is an incident, that it's pretty bad — everything is marked as down, and it's in red! What more could you want? (/s)

Compare to Azure: most incidents never see the status page. Hell, getting support to acknowledge that an incident exists even once your internal investigation has reached certainty on "oh, yeah, it was them" is hard. There was an AAD outage earlier this year (?; IDK — I've lost track of the passage of time in the pandemic…) and the status page was down, and even once you managed to get the status page (IIRC you could hit the IP if you knew it magically which the Twitterverse did) … most services were still green, even if completely offline as far as one could tell by issuing queries to the service…

And I'm comparing a kid's game with a "major" cloud PaaS…

I'm definitely suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
3 years ago.
Like I said before, that's not how economies of scale work in the long run. Following your recommendations will reduce green energy prices in the short run and promote CO2 emissions in the long run.

The negative externalities of CO2 are long term and not short term. So your complaints are counter productive.
Santa Clara County did a study, found there was not much of a difference: https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-airport-lead-levels-ar...
OpenWorm
People want to see government taking action. That is populist democracy.
Yes, but someone thinking in terms of the Bohr model would not ask is the orbits are (described by) spherical harmonics.
> Should the police be able to access the Signal messages of someone they apprehended at a murder scene wherein other suspects fled the scene, and are therefore likely the suspects accomplices?

> Likely yes. Or at le[a]st, most people would agree with it both in the pragmatic sense, and also the Constitutional sense.

Sure, but that is not the question. The question is: should Signal be forced to implement its software in a way that allows the police to access its messages?

Likewise, everyone also agrees that in person surveillance is in general legitimate, but that doesn't mean that we all agree that the government should be able dictate burdensome measures on third parties to make it easier to perform this surveillance: say require that the friends of the suspect keep notes on his whereabouts. Changing its architecture would cost Signal a lot of money and good will, and the suspect would probably not be very happy that his friends ratted him out as well.
Why It’s Time for NYC Restaurants to Return to Paper Menus
AFAIK the same has worked in Halo: MCC for as long as that's been available on PC. I've certainly been cross-playing my replay of the campaigns, rotating between PC, Xbox One, and XSX based on whatever I'm in front of at the time.

It is nice that Microsoft finally acknowledged a few years ago that their consoles are Windows devices that have USB ports and stopped disabling keyboard/mouse support. The idea that console users were banned from better FPS input for years was just nonsensical.

Now if only we could get them to mandate keyboard/mouse support instead of making it optional. There's no good reason to force console players to not be able to aim properly.
Generally speaking, if you get a W-2, you should pay taxes to the US, and if you get a T4, you should pay taxes to Canada.

If you're living long term in Canada, your employer should have a tax entity in Canada and issue a T4. If you're working in a US resident capacity as a Canadian (i.e. TN or H1B visa), US and Canada have a tax treaty so that you should not be double-taxed, but that assumes you live in US (and all visa-related fine print applies).

If you're getting a W-2 and plan to live in Canada for more than 183 days in a year, then you'll probably want to talk to a tax lawyer and an immigration lawyer (preferably together w/ your employer) beforehand to avoid getting yourself and your company into trouble. What this scenario boils down to is that you cannot legally take an american job without proper work authorization as a foreigner, or you might run into issues with USCIS (e.g. being barred from entry into the US in the future). IIRC visas have even more restrictions on where you can work and how long you can live elsewhere, so I'd say if you plan to live in Canada longer than 30 days, you probably should figure this stuff out beforehand.
The Hutter prize for improved compression algorithms is explicitly about the relationship between compression and intelligence. http://prize.hutter1.net/
Are there short and long term benefits as far as memory and what not?
What part of that are you questioning?
A whole month? Kid me would stage a coup on the spot.
Ancient gold burial mask found to be painted with human blood
Please correct if I am wrong but schools can start to require them similar to immunizations. Won’t help now but years later we have basically everyone vaccinated.
Its not like climate change is new. Why would it be mentioned ?
From my experience agencies around 200 employees that specialize seem to be the best. “Full service” means shitty at everything. Too small of an agency and you don’t get experts (or the experts leave), too big and you’re stuck in bureaucracy, huge margins, occasion very under skilled employees who go unnoticed, etc.

I’m also starting to see more often the game brands play if switching vendors constantly so that each vendor operates at a loss to try and win the clients business. But the client always leaves by design.
It can be made illegal to be an operator and to use those incentives in the sanctioned marketplace.
I remember being confronted with an HP calculator for the first time in college. I understood RPN just fine and knew that I wanted to do, e.g., 6 7 ×, but turning that into actual keystrokes on the calculator was not immediately obvious. I think I ended up doing something like 6 ⎆ 7 ⎆ × ⎆ instead of 6 ⎆ 7 × and got the understandable garbage result. I ended up doing a big chunk of my freshman physics homework doing the math by hand because I didn't own a suitable calculator.
That's a bit of an odd argument, as no kids are vaccinated to compare, and especially no kids are vaccinated a year ago to see how well VE holds over time.

The point is the Pfizer's own trials failed to prove vaccine health benefits in kids, mainly because covid in kids is a minor health risk, and the trial was too small to capture any severe case. Odd that the FDA went with it, no wonder that some FDA officials are choosing to resign than to partake in the charade.
In my dorm (in Germany), we had singles I'd guess roughly 2x to 4x the size of the rooms in the plan.

Additionally, a neighboring dorm had a small conference hall in the basement, which could be used for activities.

I think a dorm should absolutely have large common areas, however they should be separated from the apartments so you can choose when to spend time there.
Users do not always click yes reflexively. I filled in a form recently that asked "Do you consent for us to send you marketing emails" (default unchecked), and I laughed because I could not imagine why they expended engineering effort to ask that question and store the answer when almost nobody will check it.

It depends how the question is framed and presented. If the permission prompt is modal and
the user believes that they will be prevented from accessing the application unless they click Yes, then they will always click Yes.

But if the website loads first and then they are asked for permission to load some additional feature, they are much less likely to reflexively click Yes rather than to press X to close the non-modal.
Adding “architecture astronaut “ to my dictionary, such a nice term! Unfortunately, Carmack’s explanation of why this is a concern for Meta is unclear to me.
Capital One actually allows you to open several checking accounts with no additional fees. I use them as separate “buckets”.