skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really, Manhattan is just a terrible place to drive. A horribly congested island with limited ways in and out ...

Manhattan is a wonderful place to drive, my favorite place to drive by far; it's how I instinctively drive but can't everywhere else. It's the most sophisticated driving, not the lowest common denominator; people have to focus on what they are doing - don't start texting. Like the rest of the island - more people is more life, more energy. That's why people have loved NYC for centuries. (Sorry to get corny, but there are plenty of songs about it.)

> Not a morning goes by without a report of "45 minutes/1 hour to the Holland Tunnel."

If you stop thinking about NYC driving distances as physical, but in terms of time, that's just how 'long' the Holland Tunnel is.
I feel bad for all the Hong Kongers and Taiwanese who fear their future while the west keeps pumping money into this fascist dictatorship which openly tortures people in Xinjiang.

How's is supporting China(CCP) different than supporting Nazi Germany burning jewish people during WW 2?
You can just purchase a 5 year or 10 year warranty when you purchase directly from EVGA.

Here's their pricing and info -- https://eu.evga.com/warranty/extended/
The pandemic was hard for me. I had a lot of anxiety, something completely new for me (I'm 40). Now I'm recovered, and my life is much better than before the pandemic. One of my improvements has been to (mostly) stop listening to podcasts. Now I crave silence. When I cook, I cook. When I eat, I eat. When I'm with family, I'm with family. Some podcasts are great, but my experience is that they fill your head with noise, and this is not good at all. Some podcasts are truly informative, but most of them just seem informative. It's like Twitter. At the beginning, we all had the feeling Twitter was all insider information. Now we know that Twitter is mostly noise (with some exceptions). The same for most podcasts. And even if they conveyed true and useful information, without noise, we need silence to digest the experiences of the day, and we need silence in order to focus on what we are doing.
That’s an interesting What If? question!

One cost-reduction approach would be that the beams could be mass-produced for efficiencies of scale. The top panels could be simply plastic sheeting.
Like many in the thread, I also had this experience of going all-in on podcasts during my passive time, and then after a couple of years realizing that I had stopped doing any thinking of my own.

For me personally, podcasts are great while grocery shopping, washing clothes or other chores that engage me too little to be interesting, but too much to let my mind wander into critical thinking mode. I'm sure this threshold is different for different people.

But for intentionally passive time, like walking or running, I've stopped listening to podcasts. I may or may not listen to music.

Especially for running, I'll intentionally choose a topic beforehand to think about, and then actively think about that topic. I've found that extremely stimulating.
Its correct, that moving "within" the system, changes are not possible.

You could create a one-purpose-party, which has a updated "constitution" as proposal with a feature freeze on the proposal, that fixes the flaws. Then gather the votes and fix it.

The eldest democracy we have right now is 300 years old, changes are possible - and patch is welcome.
No. I am saying he is disgusting.

Your perception on my argument is incorrect.
Patat (https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat) supports any Pandoc input including Markdown, plus it allows embedding snippets with execution result and even images in supported terminals.
No, you don't need to double buffer the clients if the clients are properly designed and flush the request queue cautiously rather than willy-nilly, and the server takes a minimum of care rather than just stupidly processing requests one by one. None of the clients I use give flickering or noticeable redraw.

There may certainly be cases where it'd be harder to avoid, but realistically this hasn't been a problem for most X users for decades. Of course I'm not doubting that it is a problem for some, but it's not for me and haven't been since the 90's.
> He has constantly pushed the idea that transgenderism is taking over

You have no idea, haha. I used to laugh when "right wingers" complained about LGQBT stuff being shoved down their throat. And it was funny, until things made a big change a few years back, and then we had a child attending a "liberal" school district.
Key take from the article:

> At the very small scales used here, the process was pretty slow. Over the course of a day, with seven hours of useful sunlight, the setup produced 32 milliliters of methanol, which was mixed in with water as a major contaminant.

And also:

> Then there's a matter of scale. To fuel a daily round-trip flight between New York City and London, the researchers estimate, it would take 10 mirror farms directing sunlight at reaction chambers in an area that gets strong and consistent sunlight. That translates to covering around 3.8 square kilometers of the desert with mirrors. (For context, that's about a quarter of the size of California's Ivanpah solar facility.)

The article also mentions possible nickel-and-dime optimizations, but even though the experiment proved thag it is possible and allowed for a nice headline it doesn't seem to have any possibility to scale at all.
Most VPNs are a scam, sure, but things like ProtonMail have demonstrable value when it comes to privacy. Re. ProtonMail, their protocol has been verified to be E2EE and their clients are far better than what we had before in terms of usability, especially for beginners.
What you can also read on that linked page is that the only thing you cannot do when using the Timescale license is basically pull an AWS move and sell TimescaleDB as a service. So when you say "closed source" and "proprietary" that's just really not a good description of TImescaleDB imo. (on the other hand you can grab the Apache version and sell it as a DBaaS etc)
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In this case you should be able to issue a chargeback by showing that it's stolen goods and the credit card company will try to get its money back from the merchant.
That's too cold an approach for me

I'd rather try to connect emotionally and see who's responding. I grew up the way you think and I'm tired of it. If someone doesn't like me (or doesn't like me anymore), no problem, then I'll find other people, all I want is honesty.

That said, I've encountered the post rationalizing lying kind just too many times.. :)
A flashing sign that says 'SELF-DRIVING CAR' will help. OTOH, other drivers might see deep pockets for a lawsuit.
> In Seattle

Well that was a dumb thing to say.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/its-daylight-savin...

If I remember right this change has something like 71% approval amongst the population up here. It's overwhelmingly supported and popular. We can't get rid of DST fast enough.
The PR is the article submitted in this thread, https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/46266
"That mountain had it comin'" replied the driver of the submarine...
In the grand scheme of things it does make sense to focus on one or the other. However, they better execute this with precision because they risk interrupting big business in both products
I don't understand your analogy. If a smelter is using something in a bad or inefficient way and a smith is capable of explaining it to them, then that would be beneficial to do so. People do not have to do exactly the same job in the exact same way in order to discuss how a specific tool works.

Like you, I went through a period where I tried pretty much every tiling window manager I could find. And I can say with confidence: they are all broken and awful, in part because the very concept of tiling doesn't really work. The design is flawed. It's like you are making a comparison between every jigsaw on the shelf and picking out the best one but are missing that you could get a miter saw and that would work even better for your use case. Does that explain it?
Who’d have thought this could happen either during the day, during the night, or during both? We definitely need the best buzzwords to gain such profound insight. I look forward to the follow-up with blockchain in it.
I joined the BAML grad scheme 10 or so years ago. We had a presentation from one of the Quartz guys and someone asked how they’d manage upgrading the version of Python. They were using something like 2.6.5. The whole move to 3.x was a thing. The Quartz guy just flat out said they wouldn’t upgrade.

Seemed crazy to a new grad back then, but now I wouldn’t want to consider it either.

Thanks for your contribution! It was amazing that even in my role where I didn’t use Quartz, I could see and search all the code. Felt quite novel back then.
1. There is no single design for “tiling window manager”. Some uses lists, trees, manual tiling… All can be inadequate.
2. The “tiling” part is no longer the only feature, most have floating modes, automation interfaces, …
3. Bugs happen everywhere.
Multilingual Sentence Transformers
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"These claims are backed by eyewitnesses (expats living in China) as well as research."

Inland Chinese call these government agents "Little pinkies"

If they were Russian, those agents would be called spies.
If I understand correct, you're wondering how you might match "a bro do" with "a brown dog" or "a brown door", etc. Similar to what Google does. I've done this before. It's not a single data structure, but a process.

First, you normalize your strings to index (convert to lower case, throw out stop words such as "a", "the", "is", etc.) then you generate prefixes (or n-grams, I suppose). Say you want to do musicians and you have "Bob Dylan" as an entry. That would become "bob dylan" which would generate the prefixes "bo", "bob", "bob d", etc. You include spaces but once you hit a space, you start generating new prefixes. So you would also start doing "dy", "dyl", "dyla", and "dylan". The max length of the prefixes depends on how much memory you're willing to use.

Lets say Bob Dylan is mapped to some musician table in your DB and he has id 1000. I've done this with Redis, but you can use a trie as well. You'd store every prefix in the trie and the data on the node would be an array of musician ids. Now the magic: if you search "bo dyl" you would look up the prefix "bo", grab all the ids and then look up the prefix "dyl" and grab the ids (you would also try the full "bo dyl" first, but let's just assume nothing is there). Once you have those two arrays, you would take the intersection of them. Which, in our case, would leave an array containing id = 1000 along with any others that matched both.

That's, in general, how a simple autocomplete works. But you're better off using Redis or Elasticsearch if your data set is large. And if it's not, well... a simple hashmap is probably competitive and easier than tries.
> hierarchical consensus protocol papers

do you have any examples handy? would like to explore that direction.
It is quite likely that the street food contains ingredients that also come from industrial farming. Only the poorest countries haven't industrialized their farming completely.
That's not anger, that's just how New Yorkers talk. Get the ideas and emotions out front, no time for a chit-chat warmup. I love NY. (Truly, I don't hear anger when I read it.)
Language is The Scaffold of The Mind (2019)
I have zero background in neuropsychology, however, I think I'm still entitled to share my opinion and make predictions on the future.

I'm not suggesting this will happen in 5 or 10 years. However, I would be very surprised if a few hundred years pass and we don't have a more efficient means of transferring data into our brain, and we're still slowly reading books and spending decades of our life receiving an education.

Or, maybe you're right, and this will never happen. We'll forever be reading, writing, and using speech as our primary means of data transfer with our brain, and that'll be the peak of efficiency until the end of time.

However, given that I can play billiards with someone on the other side of the world, in real-time, in virtual reality, I don't think it's too crazy to imagine a future where I can get a Wikipedia article into my brain faster than reading.
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for (let character...

Please use const. Everything should be const until there is a proven need otherwise.
I agree. I notice even at big corps, they don’t even pay for a Postman license which is used daily
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093959
Or some american writes the date somewhere.

edit: /s we love you american colleagues,
How do you lose weight without exercise?
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I was terrified of an eyeball injection
The moment you see another leader with higher epoch you cecede and become a follower. This should be part of message recieve logic and has highest priority. Any actions you might take are moot anyway because higher epoch leader always the source of truth
Still in use, probably less common than it used to.

Parents do not want their juvenile or young adult daughters to be a rape target or even have consensual romantic or sexual relationships without parental consent, so they take away a part of their sexuality by making them unattractive or passing them off as male with clothing, hair-style, (lack of) jewellery and make-up, mannerisms.
The security concept behind credit cards is insane. Who thinks that a number which you hand over to everyone you buy from is a secret?

Shouldn't this be fixed at the root by handling payments via PayPal or Crypto?
Thank you so much for letting me know, I will check this right away!

Quick question if you are still around: does it happen consistently?
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The legislation just says products must last a reasonable amount of time. As you can imagine, retailers and consumers usually have different ideas about how long something should reasonably last. I've never had much luck getting products repaired or replaced once the manufacturers one-year warranty runs out.
I think Nigeria may be an extremely poor nation in the coming decades
The New Forest is also largely grassland and heathland.
StartTree – A terminal-style home page replicating the tree command
And what happens when they refuse that support? Or turn it into a drug den? I've lived in SF, and in Seattle for a combined 22 years. I've seen what the ravaging horde of homeless due to the cities there. They turn away housing, and they won't go to shelters. Not because the shelters are degrading, but because they won't let them do drugs there.

These people are mentally insane, and unfit for society.

Would giving them housing stop them from raping? or defecating inside cars they broke into?

It's time to stop pandering to the 0.1% and focus on the 99.9% of us that do participate in society.
Hmmm ... have you ever driven (or directly observed traffic) in NYC? It's unlike other cities, especially in the US.
> Screenwriters would seem to be critically important, but writing is hard, often slow and converts much less recognition than other roles in the industry

I can name Levinson and Link. Ronald D. Moore also seemed pretty great. Some writers are talented enough that they can transcend the obscurity granted by their profession, and achieve "cult status" within a small niche who cares about these things.

But frankly, it seems many writers are simply not good. Most TV show nowadays consist of central characters doing dumb things, and needing an episode or two to dig themselves out, acting as filler. Episodic formats tend to promote lazy writing and overreliance on tropes. And it seems to me that most writers watch more TV shows than they read books, given how homogeneous the average popular TV show can be.
> Yeah no...

That is only a valid stance to take while you're developing most of the "regular" software out there, but once you start dealing with finance data in an industry that's highly concerned with compliance and security you might get more demands forced upon you in regards to what you can or cannot do.

That's not to say that there exists a better auditing mechanism, short of allotting a large amount of your time to building all of your dependencies from source and checking all of their changes manually, which almost no one actually does in practice - it is indeed easier to lie about compliance and just shrug your shoulders when you get caught.

I do not, however, condone any of it. I believe that the industry is largely headed in the wrong direction - there are entire Linux distros that weigh in at less than 289 MB and that not a single codebase out there needs that much code to actually run. I briefly touched upon it in my blog article, "Never update anything" (the title is not to be taken at face value), which explored the nature of updates in our industry: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything

Of course, sadly that doesn't actually help a person who is stuck with such a codebase and needs a solution now. I don't think there is one. And in regards to starting new projects, large amounts of dependencies can definitely creep up on you! It would be interesting to have a CLI tool that warns you about the amount or size of dependencies in your project, to get something like: "CI build aborted, the project exceeds your configured amount of dependencies: 30 libraries (10 MB total size). Please reconsider what you're importing in your own project. Here's a dependency graph: ..."
The more I hear about Norway the more it seems to be a country that really has its act together.
Edge AI accelerators are just sand without future-ready software
I love that TypeScript never stops pushing type safety.
That is what I was thinking. But does that mean you just pepper your command processing logic with guards that you are still actually the leader?

I think one mistake I made is trying to run the different parts of the protocol in parallel, i.e. processing a message, accepting messages, sending heartbeats etc. It probably makes more sense for the raft part to basically be single threaded.
> Unless you explicitly give the vector space an inner product, it doesn’t have one.

Well, no, not at all.

The inner product is still there. It's still an inner product. The space in which your vectors exist is still an inner product space. You may not care about the inner product, but it doesn't cease to exist when you stop looking at it.
You should ask for the original receipt when buying. Otherwise I would assume it's like with any stolen goods like bikes, you'll get no compensation/lose the product unless the seller can be reached and held responsible.
I really like the command line approach to 'start a program' and 'tell the computer what to do' and sometimes i teach my daughter to 'pipe' one program's output into another's input

She knows a bit of python (here is the log https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids) and wants to talk about programming for her school report and I thought it will be great to print some small programs (is_prime or something similar) to give to the kids to type on their own, but it is practially impossible to give code to another person so they can type it, unless I make a webpage where they have to do it.

Just imagine how much is needed to setup python3 on mac or windows, go to security settings to run unsigned programs, deal with paths, or install brew or whatever, there is no chance anyone can do that unsupervised.

We are now working on making commodore like experience computer for her with pizero2 and good mechanical keyboard and 7" display, with mini linux that just inits into an editor. F2 saves the code, F3 loads from the file, F5 runs the code, it has direct access to /dev/fb0 and it just draws on the screen on top of the editor.

She enjoyed making the 6x3 font, pixel by pixel so much..

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

I think modern platforms take, or are on the way to take, absolutely all agency from the user. From phones to game consoles to macbooks to cars, everything is just "get this approved app from the cloud" which gets disabled if you do something wrong or you dont want to update.
For js libraries, I generally prefer something that offers a prebuilt package. If I need to use NPM just to include a Javascript file on a webpage, I generally look elsewhere. Same with CSS themes.

For command line tools and packages that require Node, again I generally look elsewhere. Dealing with a rest API on a command line shouldn't require so much bloat.

If a tool requires Node as part of a build script, I avoid it like the plague.

In other cases, I use a VM to build the JS package, but I honestly dread this workflow. Whenever a README/INSTALL contains, "Just npm our package..." or "first install node, then npm our helper utilities..." I start looking for alternatives.

Maybe I'm becoming a curmudgeon and maybe my dislike of Node is irrational, but this is how I'm coping.
For 1, all of them are inadequate in the same way, because tiling is just not adequate for most use cases. Most desktop apps are not designed for tiling, and the few that work well with it, also work just fine with another system.

For 2, if you have to use all those other features, I think that defeats the purpose of it. I can't count the number of configurations I've seen that float the majority of windows. What is the point? I ask people about this and they know it's bad but they just keep on going with it, it's like nobody wants to actually admit it's a problem. I'm sorry if I'm getting worked up about this but it's really frustrating to keep having this same type of conversation over and over again where nobody actually wants to fix any problems.

For 3, See above, there are specific bugs here that don't need to exist and could actually be fixed, quite easily I might add, but are purposefully being ignored because people expect it to be that way as part of the design. To me, that's pretty inefficient, and if it can be improved, I'm going to keep calling it out because I think people deserve the help. Maybe that's my character flaw, I don't know.
Crypto morons at it again
Ua-parser-JS and Malicious NPM Packages
I didn’t say you don’t know what you’re talking about. I said you’re conflating opinion with fact.
Ahh, ISO.

"you can cover only small department fitted in one room" - this is the most important part to remember when someone comes in waving their ISO certification and has beautiful badge on their website. You can certify your secretary, her cat and her desk in whatever fancy ISO certification you want. Funnily enough it does not really cost that much, there are consulting companies that gladly organize this for a few thousand dollars. This works like this for all ISO certifications.

Another thing, introduction of ISO in the company means only that there is some process to do X within the company. This process can be totally nuts and useless, but ISO certification holds as the process is there.

In general ISO makes a lot of sense for production line environment (like cars production, etc.) - the process is everything there, having someone to review this process is important and valuable, many other ISO certs are just marketing tool that does not really tell much without going into details what processes are covered by ISO.
I implemented them several times in Excel. Beats most lookups in terms of fun and speed.
This is no more a preference than literacy. Kids need to know how to deal with computers and information, and your kids are lucky if you know how to code. Schools will take a bit longer before they figure out how this new literacy is almost as important as reading, writing, and math, but they get there soon.
Scrip is probably a typo of Script, an abbreviation for Prescription. Script is a common word in the medical profession. Scrip I've never heard