skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don’t have to struggle, they just have to lease the land to someone else. They’re in Knox county, they have 880 acres. This map from 2020 has the non-irrigated farmland rent in Knox county at $198/acre. [0] 880 times $198 is $174240. Even half of that is $87120, subtract $15,000 in property taxes and you’re left with $72,000.

They don’t have to sell the farm, they just need to lease it to someone with a more efficient operation. Oh no, the ‘poor’ rural people who could earn 6 figures in land rent a year, who will help them?

[0] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Nebraska/Publi...
Wouldn't that be pretty bad for backwards compatibility?
But that is the Euler–Mascheroni constant which is normally denoted by gamma.

There is a footnote on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterlike_Symbols that says:

> It's unknown which constant this is supposed to be. Xerox standard XCCS 353/046 just says 'Euler's'.

See also this discussion on math stackexchange: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3123704
https://godrejsparkretreat.in/
https://www.wevideo.com/hub#media/ci/2461109068
The project is surrounded by well-established precincts aided with excellent connectivity and commute facilities.
Why not indeed? Quite a lot of people do exactly that. The "run commute" is increasing in popularity here, or at least it was until covid.

At least for me personally, the reason I don't is that I'm not fit enough and it would hurt my hypermobile knees, but quite a few of my colleagues do run to work and to fetch lunch. I often jog to the offie or train station though.
I agree with the importance of avoiding a fixed mindset, but, recognizing that some people are born with a skill and you are not does not mean that you can't become adapt at said skill (I went through something similar with math, although I still feel like I lost my fear of math rather than becoming really good at it)... Or find your own "way of the ninja" (sorry too much Naruto, thinking of Rock Lee ;) [0])

[0] https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Rock_Lee
I'm using it on my laptop (Thinkpad X270) and it's great.

I don't think there's much credibility to saying it's not "meant to be used" as a desktop; since the packages available suggest to me there's clearly a bunch of people doing just that.

What you can expect is more manual setup (compared to say, OpenBSD, where things work really well out-of-the-box on this hardware). But I took this opportunity to set up an encrypted disk. This is with no "desktop environment", just a window manager and X.

I thought BusyBox would be a pain, but the GNU tools can be automatically installed. Same with musl, which was much less of a big deal than I thought. I can even suggest things feel faster with it, but it does mean staying within packages from the Alpine ecosystem.

I'd be interested if anyone is doing a glibc fork of Alpine (or a way to run the 'full fat' glibc seamlessly, like it does with the GNU tools). Also worth experimenting with Alpine's glibc emulation; I was amazed how good it was, as it runs almost all of a closed-source music production tool that I use.
Which just so happens to be the one power of a number that helps the most if you want to do any actual, decimal calculations with a number without any other decimal expansions of it at hand.
No? I mean, I've been implementing user interfaces since Visual Basic (+/-) 5.0? What does that have to do with anything? I'm not going to argue with you guys, sorry. I'm talking meta - the way you talk between yourselves makes me want to scream and escape. Whether you're right or not really doesn't matter at all here.

EDIT: And obviously, I know I can just ignore you and move on, which is what I did. Notice that I didn't reply to your or your adversary posts, but to another person. That's mainly because I get nervous around delinquents - which is how you two sound to me...
Dang is the traffic cop + mom + cool older cousin + prison warden that HN needs, and I think that's what's allowed this place to stay so great.
It's just about applying the existing communication technology and having policies that support mentorship or these other things that are supposedly impossible to do without being in person.

I believe that most of these supposedly intractable problems can be solved with a Discord/Matrix/IRC whatever and just enforcing policies about communication. Have a bi-weekly required five minute voice chat and at least one hour of time per day where people need to have the chat open. If juniors are not asking questions or seniors are not replying within X hours or whatever follow-up sessions from the five minute intro discussions is appropriate, then they get warned, and if the lack of communication effort continues, fired. And you make that policy clear.

You can also look into various types of 'multiplayer' virtual presence. Several different browser based or 2d or 3d (even VR) options for this.

I feel like people just stop trying to communicate more than a weekly meeting or something a lot of times when they are remote. That in no way proves that different types of communication or mentorship or whatever require face-to-face. People just need to show up online to communicate.
Black mirror or not, I like this, and can see the enjoyment in this too :D

When I was a kid, when I didn't show up within 5 minutes of being called for dinner, I wasn't allowed to sit down at the table anymore. I then had to wait until everybody else was done, and enjoy a usually cold meal afterwards, and any dessert was usually gone by that time too. And I had to do the cleanup. Suffice it to say, we kids weren't late a lot of times.
Average is 3-5% last I heard.
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/wh...

Reality is, most non-profits' (church & non-church like NPR) budgets are funded by a small handful of very wealthy/generous donors. Not even 80%/20% rule, more like 80% of donations/sponsorships are from ~5% of the people giving money, the other 95% people giving's total is a small % of budget.

That's why in all non-profits, the leadership has to 'report' to a small number or rich donors. Piss off a couple of the rich, your non-profit will fold.
Best: darcs
As I recall Intel was none too happy with Abit for unlocking multiprocessing capability in Celerons. I don't recall that Abit lasted very long after the BP6. i wonder if Abit was punished by Intel?
Heard of Clubhouse?: The Audio Base Social Media App
Pakistan orders Monday closure of schools and offices in Lahore to cut smog
The SaaS pricing of these tools is getting out of hand. €108/year for this. Another hundred for retool, another hundred for Postman, mmhmm / camera apps, Notion, Gmail, Trello/Jira, Github/Gitlab, Slack, an image resizing service, some load testing tool, Figma.. now every developer has a $1000+ monthly burn rate (!).

Can we go back to buying plain software licenses?
It's because most exams and curriculums in the UK are so strictly defined that all questions are almost guaranteed to follow one of a small set of structures.

And schools have figured out that rather than teaching the subject from first principles, it's easier to get students to get high grades by teaching them each of the structures. Eg. "Whenever there is a question about differentiating x^7, just put 7x^6 as the answer." They then get the students to try a few examples (x^3 becomes 3x^2, x^77 becomes 77x^76, etc), and thats the way every science-y subject is taught.

I often think it leads to students who do well in exams, but can't solve many real world problems.

It could be solved by having a part of every exam paper be never-seen-before applied problems. For example, for differentiation, one might ask "A road's height in meters as a function of the horizontal distance along the road in kilometers is defined as sin(x)cos(x)tan(x). At what points are the steepest uphills? Would you describe the slope of the road as 'very hilly', and why?"
>Other pro-tips are to test any changes to remote access (SSH most importantly) before you close the session that you made the changes in.

To add to this.... Don't change things like routing tables or server network device / firewall configurations without physically being on site with the thing you're changing.
> I kind of wish we had a holiday of some kind to appreciate either Euler himself or even a month to discuss the historical contributions to knowledge by philosophers and scientists alike.

My math teacher from high school, who I still keep in touch with, sends out a reminder every April 15th.
Blue state “book ban”: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/school-system...

Nobody thinks the book causes that sexualization. The point is that it’s an implicit sanction from parental and teacher authority.
We do indeed create full blown classes for data objects. However, it is made easier with PHP 8.0 and 8.1 (released today).

Typed properties, constructor properties, and Read-only properties can significantly reduce the code bloat.

- https://php.watch/versions/8.0/constructor-property-promotio...

- https://php.watch/versions/8.1/readonly
I think the problem is that there is no authoritative text, that I know of, and as ColinWright says, the same ideas can be notated differently by different fields or sometimes by different authors in the same field (though often they converge if they are in the same community).

Wikipedia has been helpful sometimes but otherwise I have found reading a lot of papers on the same topic has been useful. However, this is kind of an "organic" and slow way of learning notation common to a specific field.
Having used PHP since version 4 (20 years ago), I can say with confidence that its had its peak. Everything new added since 7.4 is just fluff or bloat. Fixing long standing bugs and performance improvements is fine, of course. But everything new they introduce adds to the pile of warts that's PHP. I highly regard those that try to improve it, but with the current direction it'll remain the colloquial example of how not to design a programming language.
You should come to Stockholm, Sweden, during the week at the beginning of December when the Nobel prizes are awarded. While it is not an entire month of celebrations in the name of science, at least it is one full week: https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremonies/nobel-week-2021/
99% of the time it's not needed in software.
30% discount – UI Copy design plugin
Is Black Friday still a thing? While I‘m not much in favour of heavilly discounted deals, a little nice touch of 30% off for this period would do no harm.
My .bib files are a mess. This is partly because I tried to order the file by year then author (manually), which of course resulted in some errors. And also because I write some free text in between entries which talk about the papers and have some keywords that I'm able to search for entries in.

I'd really like some sort of citation manager that uses a .bib file as the data format.
>talking about nihilism is pointless

No.

It is by Talking and Thinking about it that we are forced to face Reality. This leads to true "Enlightenment" and allows us to develop our own unique path to a "Philosophy of Life". I think of Nihilism as the backdrop against which we paint our chosen "Schools of Philosophy". One needs to be very aware of this important difference. IMO, it is better to live with Unpleasant Reality than Pleasant Fancy.

The following passage from The Sea-Wolf by Jack London nicely illustrates this dichotomy;

===

As he went on his voice again grew soft, and a confiding note came into it. “Do you know, I sometimes catch myself wishing that I, too, were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight, living is a worthless act. To labour at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me.”

He shook his head slowly, pondering.

“I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you.”

He stopped abruptly, and then on his lips formed one of his strange quizzical smiles, as he added:

“It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart. My reason dictates it. The envy is an intellectual product. I am like a sober man looking upon drunken men, and, greatly weary, wishing he, too, were drunk.”

“Or like a wise man looking upon fools and wishing he, too, were a fool,” I laughed.

“Quite so,” he said. “You are a blessed, bankrupt pair of fools. You have no facts in your pocketbook.”

“Yet we spend as freely as you,” was Maud Brewster’s contribution.

“More freely, because it costs you nothing.”

“And because we draw upon eternity,” she retorted.

“Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.”

===

PS: You might find the book Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality by James Tartaglia interesting.
Plus, no reason that the major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Eth) won't become stable over time as things become more mature.

Secondly, many of these articles seem not to mention that the major crytpocurrencies are a way out of government money printing. That's a huge plus for some of us. We now have a proper deflationary currency that is not affected by interest backed debt (which is a major sin in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, that's over 50% of the world's population), and that the government is not able to devalue by printing more money at a whim.
In case someone is wondering, "default" is very common password. e.g. in Nordpass list it is on spot 58.
https://nordpass.com/json-data/top-worst-passwords/pdfs/wors...
Social skills have a large component of body language/reading the room <-- these can definitely be learned.
The social problem with your hobby of watching AI videos and programming is that it will not result in anecdotes or stories to relate to others. Telling people about what you've been up to and/or what you are excited about is the bread and butter of social interaction -- but if all your time is spent in super deep quiet hobbies like AI, chess, go... these won't result in good anecdotes. The two hobbies you should take up are cooking and fitness, since you're going to need them anyway and they are highly relatable to others, and it will get you out of the house to the farmer's market, the gym, a new restaurant, etc.
Personally, I don't see how the NFTs of today will have any long term value. Maybe a few, simply for the history/novelty.

The blockchain itself has no legal authority. It's just a transaction log. You could buy a link to an image that seller doesn't own. Then what? Now the transaction log assigns ownership to someone with no rights to it. If it ever came to it, the courts would override it. Then what happens to the block chain "asserting" that ownership?

I think it's possible that the NFTs of today will be the progenitor of something that does make sense longer term. But even for that, I'm a bit skeptical.
Could it be that you are trying to read things that are a bit too advanced? Maybe look for some first year university lecture notes? In general, if you cannot follow something, try to find some other materials on the same subject, preferably more basic ones.
Oh good, they depict the NEMA family in the correct orientation. >95% of installations depict the "face orientation", which is partially responsible for USA outlet's bad rap.

Cons:

- plugs are more likely to fall out or come loose

- flat things can fall on the blades

Pros:

- it looks like a face! D=

Orienting the ground pin up helps keep the plug secured (think about the moment of rotation of the plug) and if it does come loose, the ground pin prevents something from falling and bridging the hot pins.

NEMA-5-15 gets a bad rap for being "loose" for a few reasons:

- the incorrect orientation (see above)

- the abysmal 1-15 outlet (no ground, even less retention, especially with wall warts)

- travelers staying in hotels with wallowed out receptacles that see daily use and need replacing. It doesn't help that they use the cheap ones with low spring force to begin with

Those infernal bedside lamp outlets are the trifecta of terrible: every hotel seems to have them, they are all cheap 1-15s that were loose when new and only deteriorated over time.

Properly installed NEMA-5-15R outlets of middling-to-good-quality never fall out on their own and feel very secure, even years later.

There's one feature I wish the NEMA non-locking series had: partially insulated contacts. Even just a few mm would help.
"Which machine did you think they have been raging against? The washing machine?"
> Why do you need to be wined and dined when buying groceries?

Where did you get that idea? I simply want the experience that used to be the bare minimum just some 10 years ago. Aldi (and other stores with a similar model) fails to deliver that and usually isn't cheaper enough to justify it. If you only care about price and have the time and energy to deal with them, feel free, but for me, unless they have something I need on sale, I see no reason to. Most other stores are faster, less rushed and the quality is better for at most a few % higher price.
To me, it seems like the lockdowns were an amazing opportunity to 'wake up' and reevaluate things - what we want, what motivates us, what is meaningful. Feeling uncomfortable seems like the first step in that process - just like when you sit down to meditate for the first time. In fact, there seem to be a lot of parallels between meditation and lockdowns - getting rid of distractions, and just sitting with yourself, your feelings, thoughts, perceptions.

Unfortunately, and shockingly, it seems like this unique opportunity has been squandered by our societies, and we mostly just rebuilt our lives exactly the same way as they were before, learning nothing.
I am not aware of any long term studies. I have reported it as a side effect to the health agency.
I was trying to grasp some of the papers linked in the Valhalla DSP block, for example this one: http://www2.ece.rochester.edu/courses/ECE472/resources/Paper...

There is a formula with a triangle and I don't get what's that about, for example.
NFTs will be awesome if they get some legal backing. Would be awesome if buying a book, music, movie or game NFT entitled me to legally consume that content in any device or format I wanted. Until that happens there's no point since we don't really own anything.
An little off-topic discussion: I sometimes think use of English is a bit too silo-ed.

This is talking about transformers of a mathematical nature. The same term can describe an electrical component. The word itself "trans-form-er" seems to mean "A thing that changes (the shape of?) something" - this is a very vague semantic, maybe appropriate for an abstract mathematical notion, but silly for any specific thing.

It reminds me of all the vague nouns used to name OOP objects: FooManager, FooHandler, FooController, BarContext, BarInfo, BazAdapter, BazConvertor, BazTransformer; etc etc etc.
I've seen pretty bright seeming UK university applicants able to do whatever you ask them but then completely shit the bed when you ask them to differentiate e^y with respect to y rather than e^x with respect to x.
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"But the trust that a bitcoin transaction is final isn't enough trust to make an exchange!"

Correct. Who said it was?

"How do we go about making that exchange happen if we assume that either party is self-interested, and not interested in actually completing the deal?"

We don't make that exchange in that case. Or like you mentioned we both acknowledge that we don't trust each other and get a trusted third party involved who we both trust more that the each other. No payment method is immune to this. Notice though that regardless of how much trust that we have or don't have for each other we can both trust that if you do send me $5 of Bitcoin I will receive it. Provided I've taken the necessary steps the transaction will not be reversed. Also note that if I wish I can also be certain that no one can erase whatever I rightfully claim is mine from the ledger or transfer it to another address once I have received it. This cannot be said for any non crypto digital payment system currently.

Bitcoin is a shared digital ledger hosted on a transaction network that is not controlled by a single trusted third party. The thing that keeps the ledger in check with reality is the correctness that it guarantees to those who are using the network to send and receive payments.

If you say you are going to send me a 1700 sats to post a postcard to you and I deliver as promised but in reality you don't perform your part of the deal the ledger is still correct. You still owe me 1700 sats according the deal we made and I can confirm this by checking the ledger. The ledger itself does not know about the deal we made but we both know we made a deal and according to that deal you still owe me 1700 sats. Now with a traditional bank what happens if you claim you sent it and the bank says you didn't. How can I verify that the transaction took place? I can't. I have to trust what you or the bank tell me and I don't know who is telling the truth. Maybe the transaction got lost. Maybe you didn't send it. There is no way to discover the reality of the situation without having to make an uninformed choice about who I trust.

At present Bitcoin is still clunky and has many issues both technical and non-technical to overcome. It is unknown whether these issues can or will be overcome. It has a far way to go if it is to realise the creators vision in a meaningful way by gaining mainstream adoption and use as "digital cash".
Only tangentially related, but I've done this and it might interest someone else on this thread :)

https://github.com/tpapastylianou/A-tidy-LaTeX-project-templ...
The point being made is that the _function_ is different than the _constant_ producing that function through exponentiation. I think that's kind of fair.

Take this headline: The function exp(x) = 1 + x + x^2/2 + x^3/6 + ... is the most beautiful function in mathematics. It is its own derivative, has "product linearity", i.e. exp(x+y) = exp(x) exp(y), and is related to trig functions through complex numbers.

The number e isn't doing the heavy lifting, it is the function. The number e comes from the function, not the other way around. Even the famous equation with pi and e is a consequence of the function. And the Taylor series is the easiest way to see the relationship with trig functions.

To be fair, there might be a difference in dispensation at play. Those who prefer a more causal or "active" feel to mathematics would prefer the function framing while those who prefer a more platonic or "mystical" feel would prefer the constant framing.