skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would the `mineblock` packet not be clamped to at least the render distance or more realistic the chunk the sender is in and the 8 adjacent chunks. I know i'm learning about this in hindsight and it's obvious.
How successful are Lisp OSs?
It depends on if you’re defining “mainstream” as “that which is found to be the case commonly among the people” or “that which is popularized most loudly.”
also "The Spark in the machine", as well as the Tufts University video showing how electricity forms the frog embryo
Oh god. That's awesome. That's my childhood right there.
About 90 volts. (48v is the nominal on-hook voltage; Wikipedia tells me that the official ring voltage spec is 60 to 105 volts RMS at 20 HZ.) This page has a circuit for generating the appropriate signal given a 12 volt input: http://techlib.com/electronics/telephone.html (plus a small extra circuit for using a lower voltage for control signals).
How accurate a map did you end up with?
Most fossil fuel deposits formed during the carboniferous period which would have been quite ancient even to the dinosaurs. One of the clues that an intelligent civilization never arose before us is that those deposits are still here for us.
I’m working on it :) https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy

(Ok it’s 5-10k lines rather than a million, but it’s non-trivial enough that the differences between languages are noticable)
If you add up the cpu/memory requirements for redis, rabbitmq, mysql etc., that itself adds up to a beefy machine. Then the network traffic from the users.

Better to package/run these as docker components on 2 beefy VM's w/ a LB from a provider like DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode or Hetzner. You can pick up AWS etc, but be mindful of all the costs that add up.

Kubernetes is a no-no unless you have some level of proficiency in kubernetes, or are willing to invest the time.
You've just described a team that has naturally organized itself as a hierarchy.
SPY vs. UPRO
> exposing extreme incompetence in the navy

When did the navy make a big deal about the shape? I thought it was Jeremy Corbell.
My claim is that people are responsible for their own actions. Kindly stop defending ISIS. Thanks.
If the Confederate monuments were actually built not too long after the war for the purpose of remembering those who died in the war, I could see a case for keeping them.

But that is not when or why most were built. Most were build in the 1900-1920 timeframe, when in response to increasing pushes for equality for blacks states were enacting Jim Crow laws to try to limit that. They were built to intimidate blacks, to send a message that the town does not support equality.

There was a similar but smaller boom in putting them up in the '50s and '60s, again to send a message that the civil right movement was not welcome.

There's a graph showing how many were built each year (and also schools names after Confederate leaders) in this article [1]. Here's another interesting article on this [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues...

[2] https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confede...
JavaScript is the new Java. But Google holds Chromium, the One True Runtime. Microsoft, scared of that, focused on owning the entire ecosystem around it: npm, TypeScript, GitHub, VS Code, Electron are all are in Microsoft's hands. It's very clever.
It does have c interop so you could just use libarchive. Though writing c in swift is a bit less magical.
There are some really nice gyms out there that are almost like spas. You don’t have to go and work out like an animal every day. Sometimes I’ll go and do a light workout, maybe swim, and then soak in a hot tub.

Some days I’ll run in the woods near my home but that’s not so enjoyable in the winter.
> Well, yes, it's a model for the physical world. Refusing to accept that the state vector is the real world we inhabit is tantamount to rejecting the existence of an objective universe, in which case any discussion is moot

Some physicists consider the wave function to be ontologically inadequate to explain the physical world. See the discussion of "bohmian mechanics being many worlds in denial" for some details and references:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/#ObjeResp
We don't even need to travel to it. We can just wait a few billion years for it to come to us.
The "How to contribute" section at the very top in bold tells you how to contribute.
So the CDC lied and now that lie is coming back to bite them when people doubt what they say going forward?

And please, Delta was starting to circulate before the vaccine was widely available outside the US and Europe.

But that’s exactly what I’m talking about. The unvaccinated make a good scapegoat for the failure to properly message.
Couldn't the old magicjacks ring the phone? I seem to remember making Linux 'firmware' for one years ago to do this for kicks..
Control Plane is awesome and as a former SRE I recommend it whole-heartedly.
What upsets me is that used books are now out of sight, I believe because every used book that's out of print can be priced extortionately for the one person in the world who needs it most.

I bought a book in the 1990s that is a classic reference on a certain technical topic, and I could not find equivalent information by Googling, but additionally, a copy of the physical book is priced at hundreds of dollars.

So I'm lucky I did buy it long ago and was able to find it.

Economic theory says this increases collective welfare, but I still feel like it's another dystopian thing from my personal perspective, where technology != progress.
I think their point is that governments are not interested in holding China accountable. What the WTA did was admirable in standing up for their player but they are only the governing body of a sport, not the government of any country.
Unfortunately, so few people think with logic, even on HN.
Dilution can happen when investors put money into the company, increasing the value of shares. Does it matter if you own 1% of a million dollar valuation company? Or 0.1% of a 10 million dollar one?

Separately, I haven’t seen an equity grant in terms of percentage of the company, so on paper one never agrees to a percentage ownership anyways.
I did this too! I picked up the wrong wire - I was installing a phone extension for my Nan - and stuck the wire in my mouth to strip it, as you always do as a kid. I was sitting cross-legged on the floor and got "blown" backwards across the room just like in a movie. I'd been shocked a dozen times from the 240V mains due to prior misadventures, but that was the worst shock I'd ever had. I couldn't taste anything for four days afterwards.
All coal was produced during a 50 million year window when the earth lacked a decomposition process that could breakdown lignite. Once that evolved the formation of coal around the planet halted abruptly.

There’s a possibility humans might consume that resource dooming all subsequent civilizations to what you point out.
>No, the trace levels of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is very unlikely to change by gathering more diverse range of cohorts.

Black Americans? Broad pronouncements like this square... strangely... with the ginger whiskers I see every time I look in the mirror.

What is the value of slightly more Neanderthal DNA, anyway?
There what, 1 or 2 by now?

I'm not convinced that any measures of cognitive performance are going to be useful that early
yeah ok

> And one last thing: I am sure no one who reads VDARE has watched any pornography of late, but if anyone would care to, they would find that the only class of women that rivals busty blondes in disproportionate numbers in American pornography is East Asian females. Unlike brunette European females, Asian females don't look particularly impressive when blonded in my opinion, and the fact that few Asian females in these films bleach their hair like their European counterparts seems to confirm that most porn viewers share my impression. In other words, Asian females (whether it be for cultural or biological reasons) are in some cases competitive with blondes. (From personal experience in a region of the country where there are many Eurasians- due to the fact that the area is 95%+ white and the non-white marriage pool somewhat limited - I can attest that many Eurasian men prefer Asian females for the same reasons as some European men do).
I have and sometimes use a 1935 Western Electric phone and it's associated "subscriber set" with my Google Voice account. The phone itself is completely unaltered, as is the subscriber set. Just a plug for a typical phone jack.

I once had a teenager say it was "complicated" to use; dial 9 for and outside line and the number.
Why would someone post an article to HN that requires disabling JS?
How long is never? I have some cuts with nerve damage that slowly improved (or was it my brain gradually learned that the different feeling is not foreign?) over many many years, like more than 10. No serious ones on my finger tips though.
With over 300mm Americans, there is no one treatment plan for the entire country.

Not every physician is recommending every single one of their patients get this or any other vaccine. There are public policy implications for serving those people.
There isn’t much good news, or at least not great news. It seems likely that it’s not _worse_ than delta, and there’s some early evidence that it might be slightly better (eg the 30% lower hospitalisation thing). And it seems like existing vaccines and prior infections are probably at least somewhat protective against severe disease. That’s all good in that it’s not as bad as it could have been; the very worst case scenarios seem to have been all but ruled out. But it’s certainly not good enough for anyone to be feeling particularly optimistic now.
> I think we stopped talking about it because most people realized that it's not a proper application of the word addiction. Adapting to the changing times doesn't make people ignorant.

Isn't that a bit like saying if everyone takes drugs, nobody is a drug addict? "Adapting to the changing times where everybody is on heroin doesn't make people junkies" -- but yes, that's exactly what it makes them.
That's crazy. I did that too, once. I thought I was the only one stupid enough to accidently strip a live telephone wire with his teeth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621055
The issue with notes is when the solution changes because of an update. Using Google and grabbing recent solutions gets you updated answers if and when things change.
Had one done, received the packet and they had everything going back to my internships. I think many large employers voluntarily report the info to an employment verification service for mutual benefit.
There's was a method of email obfuscation here. It's not literally firstname.lastname@gmail.com . That's just a template.
Taichi: A Beginner’s Guide to High Performance Computing in Python
They may be elected by the people in their state (which is simply the way the states have chosen to appoint them), but they still represent the state.
Hey Razib! I was wondering if you ever had a chance to revisit this old piece of yours and if the views expressed in it still hold up:

https://vdare.com/letters/vdare-khan-letter-and-sailer-reply...
"fast" seems to be another such word, especially when not accompanied with benchmarks.
Try AppCode from intelli-j, it's also cross platform
It was initially an extension of a relationship I had while in academia. Several regular employment stints came afterwards, just from talking to people.

There are a few contract engagements I don't put on my resume: adding stuff to a few WordPress sites for friends; setting up a small Beowulf Linux cluster; debugging a Microsoft Access application for a small business. The main reason I don't list those (and a few others) is that I don't want to do them ever again. The secondary reason is that I don't want a full-time employer to know that I am/was working on the side.

More recently, a old classmate from grad school - with whom I worked recently - recalled that I was/am a specialist at running and interpreting the results of a clunky piece of software.

Presently I am not working and am starting a contract as a GIS data scientist for a telecom company in January. That one I got from a recruiter who needed someone with my skill set.

Note I have updated my contact information on my HN profile, from which you can infer what my LinkedIn profile is and have a look.
Similar to my own story, cut 3/4mm from the side of my thumb. Panicked and tried to reattach it, but later I read about the regeneration so, I removed the tip (ripped it) and just moved to wait and see. A few weeks passed and I saw how every layer of skin, grew back. Leaving a hole at the center first, and progressively all of it., was filled. I have pictures of it. You can’t tell know, pretty impressive I was 42 ATM
> If I want to build a community of people who upstream patches for a project, copyleft does it better than saying patches are not required

I'm confident that you can't back that up with any facts. MIT/BSD projects are doing just fine at community and patches.
My first reaction was the it was DOD skunks works running penetration testing in the field, probably to see how a ship and it's crew responds to an unusual surprise attack of this kind. Better to do it yourself rather than an adversary. The worst that could happen is some drones get destroyed. I wonder how the crew and the ship's tech handled it?
Intelligence evolving before humans doesn't refute or contradict anything about this article unless it evolved independently on a different branch from humans.
To extend that: non-technical has various degrees of bad.

Ask any engineer whether Marketing or Accounting should have product ownership.
I had a device to do just this for old phones. I was always needing this feature for stage productions set in the past; they almost always have a phone that rings at some point and it's much more authentic to have the phone ring than to use the speaker system of the theatre.
From what I have read here, it diesnt look loke anyone dislikes exa. The only thing I'd change is the messaging.

Instead of saying modern replacement to ls, I'd rather we be more specific and say "a modern replacement to ls for some interactive workloads" or something like that. This makes it clear that the ask is not that we remove the ls binary and put exa alias.
You can, but then you have to transport the product to the farm to use it.

And, of course, practically all the Haber-Bosch equipment is not on renewables, and will not be for a long time. It is better for now to displace it until carbon taxes can be used to force conversion.

Solar power gathering above cropland also increases yield by reducing water and heat stress. So even after they convert, you will still be better off with this.
> Why should I care

You don't need to. But the person is asking why Google is or is not doing a particular thing. So it is their interests that are relevant to the current discussion, not yours.
If they promote very cautious behavior (keep sheltering in place, wear masks) people will throw the catch phrase of "Trust the science!" back at them and demand why the vaccine has not solved the pandemic. If they loosen up on recommendations and something bad happens and they have to take a step back people say they are being capricious.
even worse, most readers would think 50 billion is expensive. for the world.
Assuming you mean Kansas City, Kansas the state may be red, but the city…blue.
You can, and it is done. Just not much yet.
This device claims to drive up to 2 phones with mechanical bells from +3.3V to +5V: https://silvertel.com/images/datasheets/Ag1171-datasheet-Low...
That's... quite the statement to make with a straight face.
It's not that the Communist Party ties itself to unifying China. It's the culture. It's because that the only way to claiming yourself a legitimate Chinese government is to become the conquerer of all China. All dynasties who did not have reign over every parts of China, like Jin and Song, are considered shames in history by the Chinese people.

There is nothing to do with the Communist ideology or any particular party or people. If it were KMT on the mainland and Communist Party on Taiwan, they would do the same.
These reasons, plus there is little to be gained by an adversary revealing capabilities so closely.

One possibility is that this is intended to reveal to the Chinese that the US has drones capable of intercepting naval vessels, in order to dampen adventurism in the South China Sea.

By doing it this way, they avoid the risk of a drone being captured and the capability being properly evaluated. This would create maximum uncertainty. It also reduces the justification for posturing and overt escalation.
As an accident-prone home chef myself, I highly recommend a pair of kevlar "cut gloves" for anything involving a mandolin, peeler, or grater. They're just a few bucks and can save you a lot of tears.
I tried it but the tooling was not great. No IDE support last time I used it and it only compiles to JS.
LOL, so did I. That does not stop a 9-year-old child from putting a paper clip there, I can promise you. The 9-year-old brain is ideally-developed for defeating this type of precaution.

Eventually I just found it easier to attach wires to a plug, put the plug in the socket and then just short the wires together.
Even as an artifact of a lack of knowledge, probabilities can do many things - correlate, interfere...
I went through a good bit of the Rust Embedded book, and your assessment is right on the money.

As a long time C programmer who occasionally makes mistakes, I find the type safety of svd2rust-generated APIs incredibly gratifying. When the embedded documentation is inscrutable, the type-safe Rust API prevents you from making whole classes of nasty errors. Especially since the embedded device will probably either fail silently or misbehave in bizarre ways if you mess up.

There may be more elegant ways to design the type-safe API but even having to deal with the verbose syntax it was way easier than stumbling around in C.
Have to agree with this. It’s not just this year’s comp to worry about. If they think your best alternative competes against $45K, what’s the prospect for your future raises? And stock grants?
> there wasn't really meant to be any practical use for this project.

I immediately thought of a (sort of) practical use for the project, syncing the time on a 20th century electric master/slave clock system. If you don't know, slave clocks ran off a master pendulum clock which sent them an electric pulse once every minute to advance their hands and keep them all in perfect sync. I built a master clock replacement out of an ESP32 dev board that keeps all my slave clocks correct using NTP, but I still have to manually adjust if they get out of sync due to a power outage. If the master clock could see them and read the dials, it could sync them without any intervention.

Additionally, I've got an idea for a automatic time setting system for an 18th century grandfather clock that would be a lot easier if it could visually read the hands.
You’re always going to miss out on something. That’s life. You can’t know everything, focus on everything, and be everywhere.

The danger is consuming without intention. It’s useful to ask yourself why you’re reading the news. Is it what you really want to be doing? Or is it a mindless habit of filling time?
The problem is what happens when there are niggling small problems. Do you do the work to handle the problem? If so dev gets a free pass to write unreliable code again. Next what about monitoring? Is it the same as dev environment or all stuff you wrote? How do you test it? So much duplication and overlap.
Are you running your application on a UNIX system? (You probably are). Do you know your octal file permissions? Your various FS choices? Your reserved ports? Your inode limits? Your uid mapping? Your SSL root trust location? Your free-space limits? Your TCP handshake? Your TLS 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 handshake? Your HTTP verbs? Firewall rules? NAT configurations? Load Balancer health checks? JVM -~XmX values? Swap size? Database connection pools? LibC implementations? GNU vs BSD command arguments? cgroups? jails? eBPF? retpolines?

You're probably a developer, and these are concerns of a lower level. They are different skill sets, and pretending otherwise is marketing bullshit.
I've heard that these water tanks are often diseased fish or contain antibiotics. Is this true?
I wasn't aware that booleans could be instantiated with a constructor. What would be a reason for using the constructor instead of the literals "true" and "false"?
Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way)
There are ways. How about: arrest ClearView top brass on their next visit to Europe? Remember the Huawei heir who got sent to jail on a trip to Canada. Do the ClearView head honchos really want to be confined to travelling within the US? So while it might be difficult to go after ClearView in the US, France (and the rest of the EU, the UK, Canada, Australia) would become no-go zones for ClearView staff. Not to mention that these countries could also seize assets owned by ClearView leadership, as long as these are within their jurisdiction. In an interconnected world, it is exceedingly difficult to avoid such scenario.

The question is rather: would the US step up and put pressure on the French if events would unfold in this way?
There were lots of ideas that I had but making the phone work as a real phone wasn't one of them!
Now someone needs to code an emulator for it.
It is bunch of network devices, servers, oses, services and softwares running by (dev)ops
Java 1.1. (JDK 1.1) (the first true full featured java) was released in 97. It was meant for applications such as midlets, but it was such a good language that took over in the web, and forced the hand of MSFT to create .Net.

By 2001, in just 5-6 years Java became the de-facto language of the Web Services (php, and python were relegated to smaller web pages).

What has Swift realized in 7 years? It failed in the web, and also in AI/ML framework. It is being used because you have to use it. While both Java and Python flourished everywhere because people wanted to use them as they were good languages.
I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_g...

tl;dr it has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages

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Edit: I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8

Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs
I've done 433 google searches in the past week with about 70-80% of them being coding related.

One of the things that suprised my bootcamp students when I was doing a live demo was how messy actual development looked.
If I've done something before, I'll jump to that bit of code. Copy paste if it's not worth doing a refactoring / it's in a different system.

Straight to google if it's something I don't know.

If I want to check params etc I'll jump into the source with cmd b in pycharm.

If I'm doing too many things that I already know how to do I would be wondering if I'm using my time efficiently.
Sky-High Lumber Prices Are Back
Do you know of any other elected officials who are elected by popular vote who are said to not represent the people that elected them? At any rate, let’s not quibble on this minor semantic issue and ignore what was wrong with your original post. Also, the Constitution dictates how senators are elected. The states themselves have no choice in this matter. See the 17th Amendment.
I paid for some more and uploaded them to PACER. I've burned up my $30 free account though. I'll try and get another one.
Infrared antenna-like structures in mammalian fur