skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that the scooter parks have been carved out of the footway; the local authority is licensing the use of the footway for things other than pedestrians.

I try to avoid brushing past people on the pavement/footway/sidewalk; these obstructions make the footway one-way, so I just have to wait until the path is clear. This becomes insane if there's also a bus stop - the bus queue takes up all the space that's left after the scooter parks and signboards have taken their bite. I have to step into the carriageway.
> Russell was a commie - Stalin's Russia impressed him

Do you have evidence for that? Links? I don't remember hearing either part of that claim before. He lived to age 97, did you mean his whole life or at a particular time? He met with Lenin and was appalled by his character.

edit: Youtube audio (2mins) of Russell talking about meeting Lenin in 1920!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TK9c-caEcw
Most Milky Way companion galaxies are newcomers to our corner of space
> What does a fuse in the cable buy you? It can't reliably protect the device, because the user might replace the cable or replace a blown fuse with one with a different rating.

Ehh. While I see the logic in the rest of your argument, I don't see how being able to change the fuse means the device on the end of the fuse can not be reliably protected. If anything, being able to adjust the fuse to the needs of the device is even better, e.g. if you go from a high-load bulb to something like an LED. I'm not saying anyone runs around the house checking every fuse in every wire, but this does seem like a consideration you've not really made.

> It can't protect wires because it's after the house wiring

I don't see how it can't protect the wires, could you give an example? If a device with a 13A fuse is drawing over 3120W, the fuse will blow to protect the device itself and the house wiring. Could you elaborate on this, please?

> so you put the entire flat or even house on one circuit with one fuse.

Yeah, and we still use that system today. In most residential houses in Britain, we have a main fuse coming into the house. The rating of the fuse depends on what the house can take, e.g. 60A, 80A, or 100A. The main high amperage circuit in most homes in the UK would be the shower, which needs more than 3000W. Mine is a 6.5kW shower with 32A wiring (and the respective RCD).

I personally think fuses in plugs also serve as a common sense mechanism: if your computer monitor is drawing 13A, there's obviously something wrong. That's where the fuse comes in. It's just another protection.
Denormalized doesn't mean it's not relational.
Quite so, Parkinson's Law - thanks for the correction.
Most of the tools you listed are hosted services, not products you buy once. Gmail, Trello, Slack, Figma, and Jira are all closed source components on a hosted platform. Their core features are that you can use them and collaborate on them without taking care of running the actual software itself.

You can switch to alternative you host yourself. RocketChat or Element instead of Slack, Gitlab instead of Github, you name it. There are tons of open source and closed source alternative to all the cool hosted platforms if you dare look outside what everyone else is using.

This strategy incurs the cost of maintenance and management, which is why in many cases the hosted services are usually cheaper. Getting Gitlab on a $10 VPS isn't a problem, but getting regular backups, failovers, etc. is incredible difficult.

My personal developer burn rate is less than $50 per month. The company I work for doesn't even need pay for Docker's fancy account with higher limits because there's no need to, even if you run containers all day. You don't have to use all these expensive online services if you're willing to run some software in-house, but don't underestimate the cost of paying someone to set up all those cost-saving services.
A great project in which can help a lot of end-users find images. How long did you finish this project?
That is probably the most insightful thing I've read all year. I wonder if there are any subtle implications.
Looks like you need to grind through an elementary calculus book. With the exercises, you may think you build intuition by reading just the definitions, but half of the understanding is tacit and you get through the exercises.

If you're trying to get into signal processing, it'll involve calculus in complex numbers, and knowledge of that is often gained through plodding through proofs and exercises over and over.
I'm just saying "D" because I can't immediately type the symbol here and it was easier just to use that. Not least, I didn't know if that was the formula you meant.

But as I say, immediately above the formula it says:

"For a pulse of width ∆t, the critical time ..."

So that really is saying exactly what that cluster of symbols means. There will be things like this everywhere as you read stuff. Things are rarely completely undefined, but you are expected to be reading along.

And you need to work. I just typed this into DDG:

"What does ∆t mean?"

The very first hit is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_%28letter%29

That gives you a lot of context for what the symbol means, and this is the sort of thing you'll need to do. You need to stop, look at the thing you don't understand, read around in the nearby text, then type a question (or two, or three) into a search engine.
> By your definition, every human that exists and have ever existed is/was a slave.

Not every human has or had to work in order to have their needs met. The elites have always existed and it seems they will continue to exist.
> Here in the states we do not step 240v down to 120v. Typically a home has 240v split-phase service with 240v available L1 to L2 and 120v by using L1 or L2 to neutral.

Ahh, thank you! I should have checked that point more thoroughly.
To take this a step further, we cannot control the regulation of our neurotransmitters to the degree of giving a person with autism social skills. That's just not how things work, so in a way it IS a bit fixed. We are fixed to the range of what we are born with, unless we use some sort of pharmacological intervention.

When it comes to autism and social skills, some interesting treatments may come from mu-opioid receptor agonists and antagonists
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We value different things.

I would rather be a serf, or even a golden retriever.
JIT compilation certainly isn't fluff or bloat.
Dystopian times in utopian buildings – how Covid tested Modernist ideals
7. Have a backup strategy

7.5 Test your backup strategy every now and then (nothing is more painful than data loss and dysfunctional backups)

8. "All users lie, there is no exception". Sad but true, get used to it.

9. Automate your infrastructure. If something goes down, just recreate it with Chef/Ansible/Terraform/etc.

[edit: added no.9]
I feel you're coming at this without appreciating your body of prior knowledge. Intended or not, your statment "But that can't be it, because just two lines above it we have..." assumes a whole lot of knowledge.

You and I both know that it reads as one term, but for someone unfamiliar with calculus but exposed to algebra they are drilled to understand separate graphemes as separate items, because the algebraic 'multiply' is so often implied, e.g. 3x = 3 * x as two individual 'things'.

I think there's merit in explaining the concept of delta representing change, because it's not obvious. For example, when I was taught the concept in school, my teacher explicitly started with doing a finite change with numbers, then representing it in terms of 'x' and 'y', then merged them into the delta symbol. That's a substantial intuitive stepping stone and I think it's pretty reasonable that someone may not find this immediately apparent.
I enjoy this kind of idiotic humor, especially after spending hours hunting down something that can be fixed by changing a single byte.. But the reason I think they're funny is not because they're true, but because they're not, because even though it FEELS like you're an idiot some times, especially when you've found the solution, you know that it took a great deal of skill

But I've seen it cause real damage as well, in those who are truly incompetent, they don't recognize that these memes are supposed to be ironic or sarcastic, and take them at face value for "nobody else knows what they're doing either!", this leads them to never recognize just how far they are from being useful, then they start blaming everything else instead.
This is hilarious

Though, i think it all boils down to fee Chinese being proficient in Polish, or any foreign languages to begin with https://external-preview.redd.it/Axh-na6HlrKEKyLjRONPMrQZQNn...
Two programs that do just that are JabRef (https://www.jabref.org/) and Emacs’ BibTeX mode (http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html). Both are excellent. Which one to use depends on whether you prefer a GUI or the programmability and text interface of Emacs.
Just to add a note:

Mu-opioid receptor activity is one piece of the regulation for how rewarding tasks are, this includes the reward for socialization
That might be down to a mix of both the service (HBO Max, in this case) and the OS distributor (LG). As a personal anecdote, I remember when the YouTube app ceased to work on old Sony Bravia TV's. YouTube printed a message to the screen explaining how the service would be cut soon.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Not op but for fwiw, in my university you only needed about as much calculus for ComSci as you would learn in IB/AP High school courses with a good prof anyway. Maybe a bit more but it was mostly a repeat.

(I recall one day in 3rd year calculus course realizing "wait a second... I don't need to be here!". I just kept signing up for calculus every year since 11th grade and suddenly realized I don't need, don't want, and don't like the class nor the prof I was in, and that was one pain less I could instill upon myself :)
Isn't most real world art buying also about social signaling and the scarcity and uniqueness associated with it?
OK, but what does that mean? They use that Israeli spying tool against her?
By the same definition, the European electrical system is not 240V, it’s 380V.
base rate fallacy argument
> An external Roku-like device would be the best option.

Does something like this exist? A webOS box, so to speak? I would be very interested if so. It would be nice to hear of webOS outside of the context of TV's.

> WebOS itself is pretty good, especially considering it's open source. But I would neither trust LG to provide a safe or decent implementation

Me neither. It would be nice to have something I can trust is fully open-source. Would also be nice to use webOS like Kodi, though that is a truly crazy idea.
This looks really bad, are there any articles verifying these stillbirth numbers that allegedly happened in Canada and Scotland among vaccinated women?
I still have a writeup from my January 2000 build of a BP6-based Linux box. https://www.neilvandyke.org/cheap-pc-2000/
And if you wanted to make the ceiling light flash, you had to manually and laboriously flick the switch until a parent yelled at you that it was bad for light bulbs.

Kids these days!
Is "it takes more time" a fundamental reason why we could not scale traditional banking to 8b people? I am not convinced.
Birthdays are counted from zero. When you “turn” one, you’ve completed that year.
Bonus points for infinite scrolling where results that aren't on screen are removed from the DOM, making ctrl-f entirely useless. Looking at you, Twitter.
Oh I remember it was popular during the lockdown, people were doing "remixes" with different celebrities, politicians etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYv9A170XE

They used this platform:

https://memy.ai/

Edit: This one is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLSGbzF6CY

- they got all popular (=hated) Polish politicians and even the late Polish pope.
Deflation is good, you want prices to fall. See electronics for a quick counter example.

If everyone stashed money in mattresses (as if), then all the banks would be forced to start enticing would be depositors with “store your money with us we will pay N% interest!”. This would bring out the savings from mattresses to be used.

Social Security is just one form of retiree income, to which I’ll tell you because they are the ones that pay and the gov dictates the “official” CPI, they are heavily incentivized to downplay inflation.

For an example of this, see how many times they have changed the CPI formula. Just recently the FED put out a tweet essentially saying:

“ Thanksgiving dinner serving of poultry costs $1.42. A soybean-based dinner serving with the same amount of calories costs 66 cents and provides almost twice as much protein”

This tells you how they think and how they fudge with the numbers.

Last but most importantly, not any single group of humans or much less gov bureaucrats can set and perfectly dictate a market. Its too complicated. Every time they or someone meddles, they make it worse.
Most mathematicians use log to mean either natural log, or sometimes log in the relevant base (e.g. 2 if you are talking about information theory).

In school (and engineering or physics I guess) you often are made to use ln for natural log and you are taught a way to pronounce that name (somewhere between lun and l’n)

It feels like the point is “this person had not been exposed to university style mathematics”.
Anyone remember home intercoms? They seemed to be incredibly popular in new home construction for awhile in the late 80s and early 90s where I live. They were very useful. They seemed to disappear without really being replaced by anything.

I’m considering getting a bunch of HomePod Minis to try out the intercom function.
In case you missed this:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Mathematical_Universe
Still someone has to borrow the money for it to be “printed”/created so technically it’s correct.
Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat
Back-in-the-day (2006-era), that was how Microsoft would interview people for their Premier Field Engineer (PFE) role within the Support division. For customers where telephone/remote support couldn't resolve the issue, PFE's would be sent on-site to troubleshoot. (As well as do advisory and training engagements).

Also - typically, no matter where the potential job would be physically located, there would be at least one interview where you had to get on a plane and travel to complete - it weeded-out anyone who wasn't willing to actually travel for a role that required 70%+ time on-the-road.

If you accepted the position, there was a multi-week bootcamp - that would also include a week of paired shadowing telephone support calls.
A Chinese company stole a Polish song, put it into kids toys and is selling them in the U.S, without the marketplace realizing it (though the last part is hard to believe)

All serious issues aside, that is true globalization, lol. Copyright issues, quality control issues, ignorance (willful?) ...
That looks very different:

>Zehmer wrote on the back of the restaurant's receipt stating, "We hereby agree to sell to W. O. Lucy the Ferguson Farm complete for $50,000.00, title satisfactory to buyer". The note was signed by Zehmer and his wife.
Watch the main pivotal bearing on those, they need frequent inspection, cleaning and greasing up. Once they go it can really wreck your day and they are hard to replace, maintenance is key there. The easiest way to work on those I've found is to put the bike on blocks on it's side while supporting the rear frame separately. If you flip it completely it is harder to work on because the bearing will be under pressure again so it gets harder to check for slop and to tighten it up.
I hear they have a miraculous new AI tool that magically determines your sexual desires then uses lasers to induce those feelings through your eyeballs with no contact necessary! Coincidentally demonstrated at this very same URL!

Even then, I don't think I'd care enough to fight through the layers of bullshit here.
The execution challenge for Remix is how to navigate the tension where FOSS and commercial forces pull them in opposite directions. So far, they've been stressing "interoperability", "no lock-in", "run it anywhere", etc. To live up to this goal, they'll need to maximize how portable Remix is, which will minimize the value of their specialized runtime service. Meanwhile, players like Vercel always positioned their products+services as a natural pairing, where the best stuff is inside the walled garden.
Yeah, that's a totally awesome idea. I'm not exactly sure how it interacts with the realities of copyright though. NFTs currently don't give consumer any rights. They're also completely useless for enforcing artificial scarcity: you can always just download the art instead.
I'm an independent creator running a deal (50% off the 1st year, and there's a generous free tier too):

https://www.checkbot.io/

> Checkbot is a Chrome extension that finds website SEO, speed and security problems before your users do. Test 100s of pages at a time including local development sites to stop critical issues going live.
Does this eat Big Commerce’s lunch?
It looks like they are trying to perpetuate an economically unsustainable situation which could be better handled by a large corporation.
They are ignoring the LAI (Leaf Area Index) data. You would have to ask them why they do that. While you are at it, ask them why they always start at 1850, like that wiki article. And ask geologists what is significant about that year.

I will give you a clue. It is an anagram of LAI.
I choose the dishwasher over a TV.

I like because its better at washing than me and I can keep the kitchen top clean
> they'll only do it if the US government allows them to.

This is a warning that someone is trying to gain unauthorized access to your account. If the US government wants access it probably has better methods than brute force, such as ordering Apple to hand over your stuff.
Linux is indeed an OS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

Ubuntu is not an OS, it's a Linux distribution.
> (I remade the file so the timestamp is different)

That's why you should always use "gzip -n". Having the file name and timestamp in the compressed file header was IMO a mistake, and newer single-file compressors (bzip2, xz, zstd) AFAIK don't even have these fields in their native file format.
God, maybe I'm dumb despite my beliefs to the contrary, but what is this guy trying to say? Ctrl-F for "temporal":

> web4ᵗʰ aka "the temporal web": user interactions across screen space and time of an immutable conversation

> What do we have?

> * The temporal web with conversation-first interfaces, leveraging decentralized communication protocols.

> * Forcing developers to really think at the isolated-component level, while reducing the surface of worry (remember mobile-first, constraints are a blessing).

> * Making their life simpler (even though they don't want it because… money, you know)

> * And most importantly making users' lives simpler: catering better for their intents and adding outstanding build-in support

That's a lot of bullshit bingo points...

Is it basically a chatbot as a UI?

To misuse his term, I thought "temporal web" was the recognition that the internet you're looking at now is different from yesterday's, because content get added, deleted and changed all the time. A web where you can rewind to "Version from $DATE" would be interesting...
This is clearly an idealistic approach. A materialistic view is better explained in Fernand Braudel's "Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century".
Not only shipping things faster but testing faster, scaffolding faster, debugging faster ... the tooling for PHP is much more mature than it was 6-years ago and there are so many GOOD packages out there that haven't been forked and copied 20x over.

Really happy to be working with it again, even if on the side for now.
That's how it's done in Civilization game series :D Which shows that they're basically almost a parody of the actual civilizations.
Some people are both at the same time. You can be in a social group yet feel bitterly alone at the same time. That's essentially what I used to feel like.
> If everyone stashed money in mattresses (as if), then all the banks would be forced to start enticing would be depositors with “store your money with us we will pay N% interest!”. This would bring out the savings from mattresses to be used.

No, banks would not be forced to do that. First, banks don't need deposits and some big banks - investment banks - refuse to even accept deposits. Banks make money by borrowing from money markets at one rate and then lending at a higher rate. Their value is credit analysis and credit intermediation.

E.g. if you are a household, then you would like to borrow for a mortgage. Well, the Smith Family does not have access to the bond markets. But Big Bank does. Big Bank makes loans to thousands of families like the Smith family, it does all the credit analysis checking their work history, etc, and then it either sells bonds to raise the money for the mortgages, keeping the mortgage on its own books, or it packages up the mortgages and sells them off as mortgage backed securities.

It is the fact that you can't borrow from the money markets but banks can that explain the existence and profitability of banks, as they sit between you and the capital markets. If you kept your money under a mattress, the banks would still sit between you and the capital markets. If everyone emptied their bank accounts overnight, the bank would need to sell some assets for reserves, and then buy paper money with the reserves, and then give you the paper money. The Central Bank would then purchase assets creating enough replacement reserves and the system would continue as before, just with a lot of money stuffed in mattresses. In fact this isn't even theoretical, as there is a lot of drug money in the form of cash hiding in Latin America. It's not in mattresses but it has left the U.S. economy and no one cares as we just print more.

Whether or not banks want to get into the deposit game is a function of whether they think the deposit fees and customer relationships created will be of sufficient value to offset the costs of providing those services. For many banks, getting depositors establishes a relationship in which you will turn to that bank when you need a loan, etc.

Moreover the interest charged to banks is not subject to manipulation by households that refuse to deposit their money in banks, first because banks don't lend deposits, but second because the bank's cost of funding is determined by the Central Bank's overnight interest rate plus a premium for the credit-worthiness of the bank itself. Whether the bank does or does not provide deposit services is irrelevant. Deposit services are purely sales channels and fee generation channels.
Fierce competition in this space is a good thing, we sorely need faster matrix multiplication for everything from graphics processing to the grammar checker in [insert name of your word-processing software]. So yes, more transistors please.
But why do you need an NFT for user 53245 has unique item xyz? Isn’t that just…software?
Doing 3 minimum wage jobs throughout school taught me a lot. Worth a shot.
> Was surprised to have that learning moment in the middle of the exam and not prior…

I sat my first exam for a university course I was teaching last year. I thought I needed to introduce some new ideas, so the students wouldn't be bored doing it.
From the evaluations, not all students agreed...