skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft famously called that process “infinite defects methodology”, and decided it was a bad idea in 1989. "In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix."

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
In East Asia, Japan in particular, most "old" buildings are reconstructed fairly often. They might reuse a lot of the old supplies, but many are very much a Ship of Theseus. Roman structures are, for the most part, preserved as they were--not fully disassembled and rebuilt.

One thing is that most places with extremely old structures have them far and few between. A 2000 year old building that wasn't rebuilt from the ground up is often a symbol of national pride for a country and seen as somewhat of a miracle that it's still standing. What makes Rome unique is the city alone is full of such structures, and it's a living, active city. In other countries that had a Roman presence, many of their oldest structures are remains built by Romans.

Most Egyptian structures were buried under sand for millennia and well-preserved as a consequence of that. I have to wonder how they'd hold up if they were in a different climate and with humans bustling about constantly into the modern era.

Either way, Romans were clearly doing something special.
We are worried about bringing back the mammoth (of course, while still killing everything else off) but I cant help but think a saddled up car-sized millipede could get you around town like nothing else.
Anything with case insensitivity, like domain names and email addresses, require knowledge of strings as strings.

Case sensitivity, ordering, and case changing rules, are reasons not only to have strings, but extensive culture support built into them. String types also let you compare utf16 bytes to utf8 bytes, for example.

To think that strings are opaque bytes is massively naive. It presumes one encoding exists, the input is always valid, in addition to what is said above.

An example of what you're setting yourself up for, is an exploit based around differences in handling invalid utf8.
For professions that requires formal education, certainly. There were manuals/“handbooks” for doctors and philosophers.

Plinys “Natural History” contained detailed geographic information, but was considered a work of history (surprise, surprise).
That won’t capture the system audio.
Will that capture audio though?
Culture can and does change, and not on evolutionary timescales but within decades - in Australia drink driving was absolutely rampant in the 60's-80's, but now it's really quite taboo.

"Drink drive, bloody idiot" is a slogan every Australian knows.
I get the point about the Arizona study -- but I can't help having a "meh" response to the overall argument he's making. Which seems to go about like this:

(1) At least one study that attempts to put a number on the risk factor of allowing children to go to school unmasked has been shown to be flawed (understandable, being as it's almost impossible to do controlled studies on this sort of thing). Further, the price risk differential it gives us (3.5) may be way too high.

(2) So we don't know the precise risk differential. It could be anywhere between 1 and 3.5.

(3) Therefore (shrug) just let them come to school unmasked.

I just don't buy the logic he's bringing to the table here. Yes, there are other factors to consider -- the fact that up until a certain age, we don't know which precisely, children don't seem to be able to reliably wear masks at all; and potential negative affects on their psychological development.

But by itself, considering the overall risk profile of the situation (children come home and infect their parents and perhaps their grandparents after all), the logic here just doesn't add up.
TDBC: Tcl Database Connectivity
> The laws of physics were there before people started studying physics. Didn't make it less interesting for those who were interested.

But they're interesting because they are laws - because there's some structure there, because the same causes consistently have the same effects. Superdeterminism denies all that.

> If you don't have free will, then how can you change smth?

I'd say that if you're an inherent part of the causal chain that makes something happen then it's fair to say that you changed it. You don't have to assume free will to acknowledge that we affect our environment.

> What part of a computer "learns" during gradient descent?

I don't know or particularly care, but the learning happens - you can't understand the behaviour of the system otherwise.
This is cool. Will have to compare it with the rogue amoeba software. If you are looking for a commercial alternative they have audio hijack and loopback which are excellent and latency free.
I was convinced by a therapist (who first convinced my parents) that I have aspergers after talking to them for like 20 minutes and taking an IQ test. At first, it seemed pointless to care one way or another, but for a brief time I bought into it and started viewing myself as disabled or special and it started influencing my behavior and relationships. Then I came to my senses and swore off of it and have been so much better off since.
But what are those reasons?
I'm not sure gay marriage was one of those issues, Abortion is, there are others that are, where there is alot of smoke, but no fire. As in, lots of noise, but no constituency.
Which had nothing to do with the UN.
I have a multi-monitor setup. I have three monitors, acquired over the years, of different manufacturers and sizes, and all have buttons on the bottom or back of the frame. I have to hit the buttons by feel. Usually it’s to switch inputs, but I think it’d be just as annoying to constantly turn them on and off via button.

The pursuit of aesthetics, in this case, is at the expense of usability.
>""Even if it did come down to Earth, as soon as it rained it would be gone, it would dissolve into a little puddle of mud," he said."

No wonder they're so rare!

When you have hydroxyl (-OH) containing rocks like this, is that 'H' something you could plausibly extract for rocket fuel?
Not asking for legal advice, but generally speaking, if insurance pays for app based therapy then it must be HIPPA compliant?
What???

> the spec does not tell you to decode any strings

Which "spec" is that? My user ask for csv, see csv, upload csv, do SEARCH on CSV, transform them, etc. Even do some scripting on them.

Nowhere, EVER "opaque encoded bytes" is on the spec of the users!
It might be nicer if the formatter automatically commented out unused stuff, instead of removing it. (As long as it isn’t checked in.)
I wonder how automatable this is, such that you could train an NLP model to respond like how the creator is, and skip the ghost writers?
Bertrand's Paradox (With 3blue1brown) [video]
>In 2010 This would have been handled.

it wasnt handled in 1992 leading to public taking matters into their own hands

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/roof-koreans
> admitting that as part of a premeditated scheme, Garcia recruited victims to appear in sex videos for the websites by promising them that these videos would never be posted online, that the videos would never be released in the United States, and that no one who knew the women would ever find out about the videos.

> Throughout the scheme, Garcia knew these representations were false

> Garcia and Pratt created Craigslist advertisements, along with fake websites and email addresses consistent with the websites to cause their victims to believe that they were applying to work asclothed models.

> When victims expressed hesitation, Garcia directed other young women to contact the victims and falsely reassure them that the videos would not be posted online and that none of the victims’ friends, families, colleagues or classmates would find out.

> Garcia knew that most of the young women they were recruiting would have never agreed to appear in a video if they knew that videos of their explicit sexual activity would be posted on the internet and marketed to their friends and family.

> If one of the victims agreed to act in the pornographic video, Garcia and his co-conspirators promptly booked flights to San Diego within a day or two to limit the chances that the victim would change her mind.

> After the victim arrived at the hotel or short-term rental unit, Garcia would continue to falsely assure them that the videos would not be posted online and that no one who knew the victims would see

> Garcia and others would at times coerce victims into completing the videos once they were underway. Garcia and other co-conspirators threatened to sue the victims, cancel flights home, and post the videos online, if the victims did not complete the sex videos.

> The sex for the video shoots was rough and caused many victims pain, and in some cases bleeding. Some victims asked to stop filming. In response, Garcia and others told the victims that they had to continue and finish the videos. Victims were also often paid significantly less than originally promised

So, after all that, do you really think GDP and OnlyFans are comparable?
Will pass your info along to the eng team, thanks!
Sure, but the fact that some monuments have held that well is impressive.

It might have been a happy accident, it most likely was, but the valuable insight here is that we know that there is a recipe for concrete that lasts for thousands of years in real world conditions. We probably can do better today, we have a much better understanding of chemistry and computer simulations, but what we can't do is conduct a thousand year long experiment, and that's the Roman empire have done to us.
Quebec shuts down schools, bars, gyms and more
California sues Walmart over disposal of hazardous waste
I don't know, and a theory with a good answer to that may well supersede QM in the long run. But personally I don't find the idea of a standard model + spin-2 graviton so offensively complex the way some people apparently do, so I don't feel a lot of pressure to find a more unified theory of quantum gravity.
> When I first joined BetterHelp, I started to see targeted ads with words that I had used on the app to describe my personal experiences

Selling data from therapy sessions to advertisers is downright abusive!

Personally, after an initial good experience with BetterHelp, and then a hiatus, I had to stop using them because all of their therapists became evangelists for Critical Theory and were literally telling me that I ought to feel guilty for my race and gender, and work to atone for it. To be fair, I think this is a bigger probelm with the APA and not BetterHelp specifically. But a therapist who cannot abstain from judgement should not be a therapist.
Do you mean passive third-party requests I could block on my end, or something built into their backend that exposes their entire registration list? I thought it was only the former.
You can get height if you can find the shadow, and find the time that the photo was taken, because at any given time and date, you can compute sun position, and you know the precise lat/lng of the shadow. The shadow would need to be in the same photo, though. (actually, it's a bit to the northwest, just found it).

If you can find a vertical structure, like an antenna mast, you can measure shadow length and direction and if you know the height of the antenna, you have enough information for some trigonometry.

Speed is harder. You'd need to know the difference between exposures.
I can't quite beat this scrolling thing. This is ridiculous, but I'm currently building a second desk so that my computer won't be in front of me all the time. If that doesn't work... I don't know. Tell them I tried.
Isn't it fascinating how many of the problems managers deal with are side-effects of a lack of good management?

People have babies, people change jobs, new hires don't work out. All of these things are known. You identified them as risks and planned accordingly, right?

> some random high-visibility initiative with no owner and outside your area of expertise gets assigned to you

Oh, I see.
Hard to know if their culture was different, it could easily be a case of survival bias. Those obsessed with creating a legacy for themselves were more likely to create a legacy that lasted.

Think about all your contemporaries, unless they're incredibly famous their story will be lost in time.
>but in that case it seems like HIPAA would apply to these

Not necessarily, HIPAA applies only to "covered entities"

https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-...

>Providers who submit HIPAA transactions, like claims, electronically are covered.

If you aren't doing any sort of "transactions" (ie not submitting insurance claims) then you don't have to comply with HIPAA - even if you are providing health services and are storing and processing health information.

The "I" in HIPAA stands for "insurance," as a general rule, if an insurance company is never involved HIPAA probably doesn't apply.

HIPAA is extremely misunderstood, people think it is a general medical privacy law, but it is not, it's a law that regulates insurance companies.
Stockholm syndrome maybe? Any chance you grew up on a diet of processed foods, so switching to the MRE wasn't that big of a switch?
OP is trying to say you might have some tendencies that aren't problematic, but once you find a group who normalizes or somehow inadvertently encourages (i.e. via searching for profits) those behaviors that it turns into a real problem.

Whether that set of behaviors is just a behavioral problem or a diagnosable disease, I'll leave that to the experts.
Interest is not reflected in the balance sheet, but in the income and cashflow statements.
The question isn't whether people need it, question is whether people were going to use it as a reason for upgrading anyways
Military spending isn’t measurable in a reliable way.

Military spending has many other dependencies beyond accumulating destructive force, eg jobs, petrodollar concerns.

Disarmament treaties have a clear game theoretic rationale for the most powerful countries. This proposal does not, in fact it disadvantages the biggest militaries.
I am not claiming I haven't heard that argument before or that I don't understand it: I am claiming that I don't think this is what the person I was replying to meant when they said they pay taxes to help themselves and not other people, particularly given the explicit explanation "don't tax people in one country to help another".
Thank you for posting this. As a Maryland resident I found this really enlightening. I wasn't aware of this and I'm pretty curious now what's going on. It makes me wonder how or if I can help, as an ordinary citizen.

I read through those procurement requests. The reasons they cite in the remarks are interesting.

Sept 2021, Splunk:

> The staff providing the Splunk support services resigned as of March 31, 2021, and the contractor has been unable to replace them. The Department requested these support services through another contract vehicle, but that contractor was unable to source qualified and competent candidates in the appropriate labor categories and with the rates provided in the contract.

Dec 2021, Palo Alto Firewalls:

> Although the Department has two contract vehicles available to staff this need, neither contractor has been successful in staffing the role. One contractor who once provided the services lost three of their four resources in the past 12 months. The other contractor has been unable to source a candidate with the requisite skills and experience in the appropriate labor categories and rates provided in the contract.

So people are quitting, and they can't find replacements. Wow, that makes me think we're seeing effects from the "Great Resignation". I wonder what the "rates provided in the contract" are.
In Alberta there's dedicated bottle depots that accept all recyclables that have a deposit on them. Seems a bit simpler
You are stating your personal opinion as fact. There are many and varied views on the EU among Europeans, from euroscepticism all the way up to and including eurofederalism.

> I dont want to move to another country in Europe and learn their language.

Nobody is forcing you to.
That’s a form of insurance that covers me
You can see here [2] what entities HIPPA applies to. A app would probably fall under the rightmost "clearinghouse" column. But, that is only if the app receives data from another cover entity. If the app uses data provided voluntarily from and by the user to the app, the app is not a covered entity. [1]

[1] https://blog.focal-point.com/when-does-hipaa-apply-to-health...
[2] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
Onhub does not even have a browser accessible interface like every router has

I know some people who didn't jump onto Airports because of this. If this is important to you, avoid Amazon's eero line, as well.
That's not accurate, at least in the United States. Product warranties are issued by manufacturers, and Google's pages for TP-Link[1] and Asus[2] confirm this.

The manufacturer warranty is 2 years for both the TP-Link[3] and Asus[4] OnHub models.

If there were a class action, it would be against TP-Link and Asus. These manufacturers would then take the losses into consideration before collaborating with Google in the future.

[1] https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/6279...

[2] https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/6314...

[3] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tp-link-google-onhub-ac1900-dua...

[4] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-onhub-wireless-ac-router-w...
There’s no need to check.
How does JACK handle audio devices linked in a cycle?
For the "why":

- The namespace is small. Appropriating it for a specific command might well prove inconvenient later.

- Critical commands in a single character could lead to ... undesired consequences. There's already sufficient risk with two- and three-letter commands.

- Many commands are short, though 2--4 characters rather than 1.

And finally: there are more single-letter commands than your one-liner would suggest.

I think 'a' was the assembler on some systems.

'R' is a statistical application. It is the successor to 'S'

'X' is the X11 windowing system. It is the successor to 'W'. Not to be confused with 'w'.

There are the A, B, C, and D programming languages, at a minimum. As others have noted, searching for them specifically (amongst other commands) is ... something of a pain.
Lemon pound cakes were the best. Loved eating those as a kid, as well as the spicy cheese paste.

Another fun thing as a kid was lighting the gas on fire that was emitted by the chemical heaters.
Disagree with this. The people paying the tax for the most part aren't choosing to pay the tax. They just have no practical choice.

Taxes have massively increased over the last hundred years everywhere in the West. As the poster above said, there are large network effects and switching costs (border control and visas as well as actual relocation costs and language/culture barrier and losing family and friends) which practically prevent moving for most people, even if hypothetically they'd prefer to move to a lower tax location. This, coupled with the small number of countries, makes for a dire situation for international competition between countries to lower tax burdens.

It's the same reason crypto exchanges can get away with exorbitant fees. Nobody wants fees but the network effects are too sticky. So everyone pays the fees.
One cannot be too careful there. Lindows was sued into oblivion, and so would “Freendows” or “FreeNT” or anything in that vein…
Both versions of the kit use all discrete components.

The difference is that the kit GP linked has surface-mount components, while the one you linked has through-hole components.

I built the through-hole version a few years ago, and it was great fun to try some classic 555 circuits.

If anyone is unsure of their soldering skills, the through-hole kit would likely be the easier one to start with.

Evil Mad Scientist makes some awesome stuff.
I find After Effects to be one of the most impressive pieces of creative software ever made. An entire industry had been built around it. That said, there is plenty to improve upon.
I think one detail that is not covered often in pro/against in-office or remote work is nature of work has changed quite a bit for typical IT worker. It is vastly more standardized and in-person discussions are not more insightful than webex/zoom calls. All this seems to have happened over last decade so it is not a pandemic thing.

In my case a lot of good technical work I have seen/done during 2005-2015 is now replaced with commercial/OSS assembly which requires a lot less design/architecture work. Now for businesses it maybe absolutely delightful or reasonable change. But for me this new model where every little thing is broken into 50 JIRA tickets, office now seems extraneous. So WFH saves me few hours per day, help me take care of my unwell kid and avoid general dreariness of office environment.

All good things that I remember from past about office like great discussions, watercooler talks, discussions with managers about upcoming projects and so on does not happen nowadays. Work flows through project management tools. By the time it reaches me interesting parts are taken care of and all that is left if marking JIRA complete and filling timesheets against it.
Grouphub compiles group chats on various platforms: Discord, Groupme, WhatsApp
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Because the data is given by the user, to the app. For example, MyFitnessPal can share the weights you give in check-ins to advertisers or whomever. But if you had a app from a health provider or health insurance company that you logged exercises with, then HIPPA would be applicable because both of those two are covered entities.

An app could be considered a health info clearinghouse if it receives data from a covered entity, in which case HIPPA would be applicable. But as far as I have seen, these mental health apps are paywalled audio snippets about different mental issues.
Based on a quick scan through the code, there are a lot of mutexes there, e.g. for reference counts, that could be replaced with atomics.
The clickbait headline belies the content of the article: researchers still don’t know exactly what triggers lightning.

Personally I find the leading hypothesis a bit absurd or at least unbelievable. The idea that colliding ice crystals shed electrons and form ionized air in masses great enough to trigger the most energetic phenomenon on the plant seems … like a Newtonian hammer looking for a nail.

It’s well known that the sun emits a powerful electric field which causes the “northern lights” to appear at the poles of the planet. And it’s well known that solar activity is correlated with large scale weather patterns and atmospheric thermodynamics.

How is the Sun not a viable explanation for the origin of lightning? Cosmic rays initiating an electron cascade is interesting, but I would expect the sun to play a bigger role than that.
None of them had firearms you mean. The claim that they weren't armed is a transparent lie. There is a lot of video showing them carrying and using weapons of various sorts.
The Rust zealots I've noticed tend to have just very recently encountered the language. The developers who use it in production systems and in non-trivial applications tend to have a more mellow opinion lacking hype or whatever.

I use it during the work week and it solves a lot of problems and the ecosystem is maturing very quickly. Serde is by far the biggest boon of the language. It is truly state of the art as far as serialisation goes. I also agree with the writer about it not being hard. It's hard in the same way Erlang is hard, it just doesn't operate the way C-like languages conventionally do, though there are some similarities. The borrow checker is pretty easy to wrap your head around once you program more with it.

Overall its a good language. Not perfect, and I'm sure in the future we'll see some better languages, but for what it presents, it's as good of a tool as you'll get in some domains.