skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly!

> one of the brakes for a return to normality

I hate how so many have simply defined "normal" as "exactly the way we all lived in November 2019" and then just assume that we must get back to precisely that. As if that moment in time represents some objective Normal Right Way to live. Framing that moment of time as "normal" is preventing us from moving forward to a new normal, with things like more opportunities for remote work and better in-office health-and-safety.
honestly it's pretty awesome to see this prototyped.. i dont know how it will be received and sold but it's super useful

I also thought we should have cushioned sports area for 60+

places you can just try shit and never fear shocks
I have shooting cannons from post 2000 (New Zealand)
Reading this surprised me …

How much is soy worth per acre?
I assume the demand/payoff must be sizable to justify the cost of converting forest to agricultural land?
If you don't know how many health/insur tech startups are in Columbus, catch up
Are you personally upset about the clear intelligence failures and extrfiltration of protected information?

I've grown up watching this unfold and I'm shocked that the power groups seem to be so ineffectual at times that it's laughable(but that may be by design...)
well, yes - let's say I kept thinking _while_ writing. I started out with that sentiment then I questioned it ;)
I didn't say it can't work, I said it was harder to be the only remote person.

I've seen all-remote, all-local, and mixed environments. I just don't have faith that mixed environments work well, but every situation is different.
It's surprising but true that shoes come out top! A breakdown is hard to come by because supply chains are proprietary information but see this article: https://medium.com/trase/european-and-us-companies-need-defo...
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Some nurse friends of mine say a bad flu season will strain the capacity of ICU's. Something people that want to 'live with covid' don't seem to consider.
Bring back fat-shaming!
IMO this is why good developers are so in demand. They are those rare people who are good at both. People who are great at both are the fabled 10X or 100X programmers.

Writing code is writing foremost for communication. If you are not good at writing you aren't good at programming. There is really no way around that.
It's small wonder how any education takes place when everything is a minefield.

It is always either bad intentions or motive vs. misunderstandings, and today it seems there are a whole lot of misunderstandings going on. It's very easy to sort out the evil or bad intentions. We can deal with those properly. We need to be less reactive, and seek to communicate better, on the misunderstandings on both sides of any argument. That is the only way out of this divisiveness that has everyone reacting without much thought.
Mathematics is arguably (besides perhaps logic) one of the most pure, unbiased sciences one could imagine. Unless perhaps you take issue with the fact that notation borrows a lot of Greek symbols. It’s a difficult subject that requires struggle. Hand holding and dumbing it down is literally the worst thing you could do to make people better at mathematics. You must struggle or you will fail. Don’t think so? Let’s talk again when you hit real analysis.
This is super cool technology that will probably work given enough time, but I struggle to see the world in which it would be more economical than other terrestrial launch options. The tech could really shine in bulk material shipments outside of the atmosphere. Given the vacuum requirement it is already mostly designed to support that. The unfortunate part is that number of existing ventures it could be applied off-world is precisely zero at the moment.

Why outside of atmosphere? Launching from Earth poses some pretty hardcore requirements:

* Total system needs to achieve at least 7.2km/s.

* 7.2km/s initial velocity is not practical because of extreme atmospheric friction, heating, and vibration. You would need 9+km/s to escape atmosphere anyhow because of drag.

* You need a second stage which is heavy compared to payloads you want to launch, making the device capable to spinning a heavy second stage is challenging.

* Ideally you want your second stage to be as light as possible, which means less delta-V, which requires high `first-stage` spin speeds, which requires the launch device to be operated in the vacuum and second stage capable of withstanding lots of G forces.

Looking at off world applications, such as bulk launching materials from Moon, Mars, or asteroid belt, all of the above hard requirements are not there anymore. Escape velocity much lower, second stage is replaced with comparatively tiny terminal guidance stage or is significantly less massive, you have vacuum so no seals or atmospheric drag heating...

To summarize, I believe terrestrial economics will be quite iffy, but off world bulk material launches could workout (if the company survives till the point when the capability is needed).
Actually I believe the Captain Yajima one is made in blender.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted for this, I can't find any comment from the creator, but it's widely talked about in the CG community how impressive it is how they managed to mimic the stop motion style so closely.

Even little details like occasionally showing fake strings to make them seem like puppets.

https://twitter.com/catsuka/status/1389289376031588352?lang=...
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I agree the hero's journey is too simplistic, but the hero's journey as a concept was popularized by Joseph Campbell who applied it to all those epics. It is pretty easy to google and find people applying the hero's journey to those epics - for example the Ramayana https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=joseph+ca... lots of people making arguments as to how it applies.
> I don't care about being productive while working for others.

Curious, what do you care about or what priorities keep you focused during an average workday?
Thank you for this. I'd also like to add a point somebody else made - contracts being replaced by code might sound cool in a vague "wow future" way, but if you have enough experience with code, it's actually terrifying.

Code can almost always be exploited and broken in a way actual contracts can't. Giant corporations spend tons of money on various security features, only for them to be broken by some 15 year old that wants to play pirated games on his console.

Why would I possibly want to add that risk to my financial life?
The irony here being that this is comment is itself a perfect example of condescension.
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I mean, that was true before COVID as much as it is today. I don't need a private room with view, but open floor plan has never been good for anything.
Is this by design or an aspect of the design? As a user of Lego since forever I know that there have been previous flaws that made things very difficult to disassemble.
This is a classic tactic. How many trees do you need to make a forest? How many pebbles make a dam?
Great commentary. The US is hopefully looking into why these employees are using iPhones + local SIM. And if that has been approved in the past, maybe re-think that
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It's an absolute shitshow from top to bottom. The people who know what they're doing in intelligence/counter-intelligence agency infosec/netsec (and within major DoS and DoD contractors) have been fully aware and ringing the alarm bells for years. The technologically unsophisticated politicians have been mostly ignoring it.
I think the point is to teach people that apparently obvious things are not always actually true. This is extremely important in math as you move on, as i'm sure you know. Many "obviously true" things are not actually true when you get really serious about formalization. Teaching kids that "seems true to me" isn't good enough is a critical step along that path.
Free speech in Germany exists only in theory. Just try opposing official government measures in public and you quickly get cancelled.
Make it 3 days once a quarter and you've got a deal.

Leaving my wife home alone for a week every month to take care of the household by herself is not really feasible, I'd need to live close enough to commute if I were going to do that, so that kind of eliminates the chance to live far away when it's cheaper.
Infections are natural and cool? OK! Help yourself to HIV, smallpox, polio, hantavirus, covid, measles, MERS, and Ebola. Can you feel that healthy natural immunity building now or what?
The “initial duration X free” I mentioned solves all these problems without producing very onerous complications.
Even if it didn’t, a small creator could get immediate cash infusions simply by pricing his newly created characters at a large multiple of what he thinks he could make off them—that way, Disney’s buyout is a providential windfall instead of legal thievery.

I think you’re undercounting the benefits and overcounting the side effects of incentive compatible mechanisms!
Same agenda from two different organizations. Effectively implementing the reforms will lead to a system where advanced math courses are taken by students in k-12 whose parents have money.
Died at 57 :/ Sad to hear, that's pretty young still.
re: the seal. It looks like it's just a big flat disk with a destructible seal over the exit tube for the projectile. I don't doubt that the bigness is a challenge, but the concept seems pretty simple.
Really like the gamification, reverse presentation/adversarial mode of thinking.

I now generally avoid concurrency mechanisms that don't compose but this could have been useful for learning and communicating issues that aren't otherwise easy to illustrate to someone who doesn't already 'get it'.
Parents are a bit younger (late 60s), but the biggest thing I keep watch for is their mobility and anything that affects it. My relatives that passed away all had one great correlation in their decline -- the loss of mobility, which really caused everything else to spiral out of control.

Body movement affects a lot of how the entire system works, and also gives them a lot more options to the outside world. Make exercise as fun and frictionless as possible. My parents joined an all-ages ping pong club, a gardening club, and a hiking group... so it covers both physical upkeep to an extent + social/mental one.
It’s the goal.
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I feel like a lot of people are comparing their old Intel machines to brand new M1s with fresh batteries. Of course there will be a drastic difference. Every time I get a new laptop, the battery life is incredible, and then after a few years goes to shit. I'm sure the M1 is generally more efficient, but the difference might not be as big if you compared new vs new.
So different people look different. Why is that an important principle of biology that needs to be developed in a textbook? How does it help us to understand anything?

And I persist: if you can’t measure it, and tell me what someone’s “race” is in a way that biologists in general would agree with, the concept is too wobbly to be of any scientific interest. Finding definitions merely shows that the word exists. It doesn’t support the idea that it’s a meaningful or useful categorization.
Hi all - I’m one of the founders at Privacy. I’d like to provide more context on why we’re asking customers to reissue cards.

In an attempt to stay current with changes in card network and bank requirements, we spent the better part of this year investigating product adjustments and determined that changing our cards from prepaid debit to charge cards is the best option to preserve the customer experience. I recognize reissuing cards can be a pretty big inconvenience - this isn’t a decision we took lightly. The silver lining is that this should improve merchant acceptance and provide a better overall customer experience.

Functionally, cards will continue to operate exactly as they always have - no fees, no interest, no selling of your data, and no impact to your credit score.
It's not just the assumption of a blank slate -- it's the assumption that because everyone is a blank slate, differences between people must be the result of oppression or racism of some kind, and that the primary purpose of education is not to teach, but rather to fight that oppression.

Even mathematics education is now being twisted by this -- it's now seen as more important for math classes to pursue equality/equity than it is to teach math.

One outcome of this is a levelling effect -- an equal outcome for all students, in which they all possess average mathematical skills, is preferred to a situation in which some students perform above average.
what if automerge added a generalization of the 'Text' object's features like 'insertAt' etc which reflect the set of operations a programmer does in changing an AST during development?
Very true that it's focused on just a few companies. Mostly JBS: they are massive.

However while these companies take the lion's share of the profit it is poor people who are doing the deforestation to improve their standard of living, often hired by those companies via various intermediaries to hide their links to deforestation.
I'm not convinced microkernels are the answwr but we do have QubesOS.
> I shouldn't need to move because upcoming generations doesn't enjoy office life.

From what I've seen it's the younger people who mostly really want to get back into offices for the social aspect. Those of us who own houses in the country or suburbs are mostly fine with not driving into offices, not that I did it much pre-pandemic.

And I totally get the social aspect. With some trade events spinning back up I've really appreciated the opportunity to reconnect with people in person.
Yeah and I have a one bedroom apartment. I don't like being in the same place for 16 hours of the day.
I just started using blender this month - this tutorial series is great! The donut tutorial is a fantastic foundation for getting into blender. Make a surprisingly good looking render of a donut in an evening or two (including your own pausing and fiddling)!

I'm interested it for making 3d printing models, so it wasn't all relevant to my goals, but it gave me enough familiarity to know where things are well enough that I can get by pretty well through googling the rest. Lots more tutorial videos to dig into, but already feel like I have superpowers.

(I've been applying sculpting and textures to objects I modeled in OpenSCAD, super cool to be able to leave the high-tolerance surfaces alone and add rounding and interesting detail to everything else!)
That still doesn't mean they knew about this. How would they even know it were American phones? Its very possible it were some IPhone with a Ugandan sim card. How do you know who's using it - do the Ugandans tell you? It's a very real possibility NSO servers simply show some Ugandan number.
I have no more knowledge on this than anyone here but I don't find it realistic NSO would take this chance.
I got similar advise from a graphic designer with a background in printing when I wanted to design my own business card.

Don't tint your black, black is one of the most amazing colors you can choose, there's a reason why it's such a classic.
I'm not aware of any memory safety that works in Zig, other than maybe Boehm GC. The GeneralPurposeAllocator quarantines memory forever, which is too wasteful to work in practice as one allocation is sufficient to keep an entire 4kB page alive.
Charles Proxy captures the traffic just fine.
Calen doesn't really violate #6 (it's short for calendar), but definitely violates #1 and #2. I took me a while to see the calendar connection because it looked like "Kay-len" to me. Also, 40k seems a bit steep for an early-stage company.

I would add uniqueness as a good criteria because it helps with SEO and branding and because unique names are often easier-to-remember (#3) than generic names.

What I would recommend if you want to go the calendar-based route is start with "cal", "calen", or "calend" and find a random syllable to complete the word in a unique and phonetically-obvious way. You probably can find something suitable for under $10k.
If we can build a catapult then I bet we can also just make a ladder and climb to space.
But vaccines ARE the miraculouse cure, at least in my country the high case load is because of unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated people.

If about 80% of the population took it, we wouldn't have any problem.

Of course previous health issues matter when you get sick and of course we should encourage healthier living, but we won't change this in the next 6 Months, for that we have a vaccine.
If foreign governments can have a discernible effect on America because of a dislike button - removing it wouldn’t make a difference.

Removing the ability to _comment_ would be something different…
Yes totally optional, I don't think it would be nice to force people back in.
There is a dev who specifically works in that area, can’t think of his name right now, but he works on terrains. There is already a free add on for Godot 3.
there was once a kind of obituary for a super-famous carmaker (Ferdinand Piëch, grandson of Porsche) by a renowned engine-engineer (Friedrich Indra) which boiled down to the fact that

"… Piëch was complicated and also explained everything in a complicated way. The art of the engineer is to make things as simple as possible. But if you explain something simply to a person and he understands it immediately, you are just a normal engineer. Someone who exudes this aura of ideas you don't understand, on the other hand, must be something special. …"
Regarding the picture of the messages on the door: All of the pieces of paper are the same, all of the tape used is the same, and it looks like the same marker might have been used on those signs. I can't go back to look at the hardwriting because of the paywall. Theory: one person made multiple signs.

Regardless of the signs:

At what point should a group of people dictate things for other people? Is it via # of people, % of people, position of people, the differentiating possibilities are endless. Should a line be drawn, if so, how do we determine where the line should be drawn, how do we determine if something crosses that line?
Except cardholders are not the same thing as customers. AmEx makes most of its money from merchants not cardholders. AmEx attracts cardholders with low fees and perks, and leverages the resultant large base of cardholders to force its customers (the merchants) to pay higher transaction fees.
I took geometry more than 50 years ago. From my perspective, it was useless then as well. As far as I can tell, its goal was to illustrate the importance of mathematical proofs. Perhaps they are important to mathematicians, and I suppose they would be important if lots of high-school and college mathematics were potentially incorrect, so we needed a proof to reassure ourselves, but for most of us, even those who actively use mathematics, proofs are a waste of time. It would be better for students to become more comfortable with abstractions beyond multiplication.
You also cook it to a temperature that causes it to pasteurize, thicken but not scramble. Or add starch which prevents it from scrambling for the ones cooked to a higher temperature. You stir while cooking very slowly until it reaches a specific temperature.
Yep, the "wrong" velocity is what you suggest: the horizontal velocity is missing. Keep in mind the horizontal velocity is the critical detail that distinguishes "orbits" from "crash landings."

There is no conversion to linear momentum. The projectile is rotating once per turn of the centrifuge. Nothing they do eliminates that angular momentum. That's why in the linked video the projectile is, on close examination, rotating wildly. It's also why the projectile's nose exits the apparatus at a very different location than the tail.
Since you have eyesight considerations, I'm curious: what about white on black (#fff on #000)? Is there any noticeable impact, positive or negative, over black-on-white?
Did you read the article? She's been a vocal Holocaust denier since the end of the war. She's not a random person doubting the Holocaust and stupidly saying it in public. She was the wife of one of the higher ups in the Nazi party.
Maybe it's because you have your funding source as your bank account, but I was never asked to provide my SSN with a debit card funding source.
I think you need to clarify "around those temps." From what I understand, if you stay below 142F, it won't coagulate. Are you just saying that sous vide is precise enough that you can do your own pasteurization? Or are you suggesting 142F isn't quite a hard cutoff? Either way, that's good to know.
If anybody is interested in learning more about this issue check out the documentary "Grazing the Amazon"
Got any sage advice? That's a rare amount of time to have done WFH in 2021
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Is this rolling out slowly, or did I join after this was already implemented for new cards? I see no cards on privacy.com/reissue and haven't gotten any notifications. I signed up in October.
I don't really believe that luxury cars or jewelry are inherently evil and won't defend those claims. I gave those as examples of (obvious) reasons people might object to those things.

>Clearly some ppl buy expensive things to show off, but I dont think it follows that their intention is to demean.

I don't think it matters what the intention is. Our society universally denigrates the poor and elevates wealth to a virtue. Anything that contributes to that has got to go.
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Why did you feel the need for the edit? I would agree with the blanket use of social media. Twitter is no better. Do we know enough about the inner working of TikTok to know they aren't doing similar?
Got it, took me a sec
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He's not mentioned anywhere on the AppleScript wikipedia page except in the citations section. Seems like a bit of an oversight.
The USS Liberty incident happened 52 years ago.

>because they didn't like that we were watching them

That is the American conspiracy theorist interpretation of the incident that (understandably) also gained traction among a few of the survivors. The Israelis disagree.

It was most likely a case of mistaken identity. Just like friendly fire incidents. Friendly fire incidents happen all the time, including between US forces in the recent Iraq and Afghanistan conflict.
I agree, Biden is regularly downvoted heavily. I would think primarily by Americans.
In past exploits were used for jailbreaking. Now they can be sold for 6 figures. The incentive to report vulnerabilities or even use them casually for jailbreaking has gone way down. I think the only way would be for Apple to offer 6 figure pay outs for the exploits. Maybe they could get a tax write off.
Anything by Adam Wathan is a great way to start.
All I was saying is I want to go back. I don't agree that forcing everyone to go back in is the right approach.