skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing to understand is that the EU has changed a lot over time. You're right to observe that the UK had many opt outs of various forms, but this comes with two extremely severe caveats:

1. They were all old. When the EU was smaller and the Commission less powerful, it was more willing to compromise. As it grew and took over more powers, its appetite for compromise lessened. It started to talk about competing approaches or partial cooperation derisively ("cherry picking") and refused to contemplate looser integrations.

2. They were getting unreliable. The UK secured an opt-out when the vague collection of principles called "human rights" was translated nearly directly into law - a bad move, constitutionally, and one the UK was wise to reject. The human rights were never written to be laws and could not function properly as such, so the UK insisted on an opt-out and got it along with Poland. The relevant bit of law is as clear as can be: UK and Poland are not subject to those laws. But as often the case with the EU the written word turned out to be utterly worthless. The ECJ simply ruled later that the opt-out was void. No actual real legal justification was provided - they just annulled it by fiat, and told the UK its opt-out was gone. And because EU membership means obeying the ECJ in all matters, that was that. No more opt out.

Now comes Brexit. Enormous numbers of proposals were tried by the UK to stay with closer alignment, a free trade deal, continuing in the Horizon research programme etc. All were rejected by the EU and we ended up with a relatively "hard" Brexit.

I did vote for Brexit and still support it strongly, partly because of things like this. The EU of 1992 is not the EU of 2022. It knows many populations don't want the level of control the EU currently has, and it feels like if it gives up even an inch the whole anti-democratic project will start to fall apart. Indeed one of the primary motivations of the EU negotiators during the Brexit talks was to not do anything that might encourage other countries to re-assert independence in any area, even if they didn't want to leave.
If you have to ask, then it is a scam.
>You are honestly not allowed to put a letter in a friend/neighbour's letterbox?

Yes, that is correct. If you want to hand deliver a note to your nextdoor neighbor, their mailbox is off limits. The federal government views that mailbox as some sort of exclusive domain of the USPS. You can leave the note anywhere, other than their mailbox.

The text of the law is:

>Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title.[1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1725

(An interesting possibility would be to affix the correct USPS stamp on the note, void said stamp by crossing it out, then hand delivering the note into someone's mailbox. In that case the correct postage would have been paid, so maybe that might be legal? Not a lawyer, just pondering an interesting possibility out loud.)
This sounds a lot like Starlite[1] - Open source methods of recreating something similar with PVA glue, baking soda, and corn starch. Essentially the open source version creates a CO2 saturated carbon foam when exposed to high temperatures.

If you're interested in novel high-temperature materials, AvE once made a foundry out of carbon foam... which was originally loaves of bread, carburized in an inert atmosphere.[2]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-qOIO6IQWk
Congrats on successfully completing the internship! Looks like you made a significant contribution.

This is a well written summary as well. Reading it brought back memories from my internship at GS 3 years ago. :)

I also wrote a blog post about my experience going from an intern to FTE if you’re interested in checking it out: https://www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/transaction-banking/...

Good luck!
> As others have said, in Europe (at least in the cities where I grew up) transportation is not an issue.

Clearly you didn’t grew in Barcelona, or Paris, or London, …

Back when I had a car commute for work I could tell the day the school summer holidays begin just by how much it took me to get to work.
You are right in that caloric expenditure is going to affect the CI-CO balance, and at a deficit your expenditure will decline due to both a decrease in basal metabolism as well as decrease in spontaneous activity.. but at the end of the day a calorie deficit is by definition the only way to lose weight.

Choice of macronutrient composition directly (and indirectly through hormones) affects satiety, and many find it easier to eat less calories by restricting carbs, but for weightloss at the end of the day a calorie is still a calorie.
In Response to My first impressions of Web3
> If you keep a decent sleeping schedule

The natural shift of the sleep cycle towards later hours during puberty is exactly the topic.

I would consider myself to be the textbook example: zombiesque in school until 10am, now, 25 years later, I naturally wake up at 6am.
Year-long kiagram from sky pictures every 15 seconds
Yeah S3 has similar performance issues where accessing objects with the same prefixes has lower throughput because they get sharded onto the same server. It's very counterintuitive when you're used to how performance works on single computers where you want to optimize for cache-locality.
> can adjust over time to compensate for lowered metabolic rate

Isn't that part of CO?
Watch an Apple store get robbed in 12 seconds
> Additionally using the less cryptographically secure uuid v1 can be a performance optimization since it has implicit time based sorting.

Except the way the fields are laid out basically defeats the point: UUIDv1 lays a 60 bits timestamp starting from the lower 32 bits, so it only sorts within a 7 minutes (2*32 * 100ns) bucket.

Hence the proposal for UUIDv6, which lays the exact same timestamp in reverse order (starting from the "top" 32b), making it naturally sortable.
I remember this one! It also said something like “good morning” or “good afternoon”, depending on system time. Seemed super advanced at that time :)
Web hooks are server to server. You can't use web hooks to an app.
You're very likely what's called "hardgainer" in the fitness field. Just search for it, you'll find lots of information.

However, starting with the idea of doing things "quickly" is the worst possible approach. In the fitness, quick improvements are also lost very quickly; plus, staying fit requires permanent, lifelong changes, and in this perspective, quick or slow don't matter.
Apparently rumors were afloat on certain sites towards the middle of December.

But parent post could also just have gotten dates pushed backwards or forwards a bit.
But now the remote client has an ID of something that may or may not exist the next time they try to use it depending on whether or not it actually made its way into the database.

I've seen this kind of architecture before. It sounds nice but is loaded with consistency problems.
That's a good explanation and it looks like people do value NFTs for those reasons. But it still doesn't compare to the Mona Lisa which if I possessed it I would know that only those physical brush strokes came from Leonardo's hand. The vinyl example is better. But even then the vinyl is physically old and unique. I can take it out and know that it was pressed in 1972. The NFT is just pixels on my screen that are a copy of a copy of.. and will be destroyed when I close the viewer.
With these load times I figured to only install active games on SSD and delete/move to HDD when done. Reminds me ISA HDD/FDD multicard era somehow.
Well, some places catch fire every year, doesn't stop people trying to pretend that that's not normal.
> they are not human-readable, so one tends to store them as CHAR(36) instead

one is an idiot
Features the Original iPhone Didn't Have When First Announced
How practical is this for a 15GB Gmail account?

And any ideas how to search through it once you have the data on your home computer?
"The third Web" by Tante is a really great write-up: https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
I'm a huge fan of speeding-up the storage hierarchy.

Other goodies I have:

- (Just bought) a XT-IDE Deluxe (CF and/or IDE to ISA card for XT/PC/AT)

- CF to IDE emulator

- CF to floppy emulator (thinking about more)

- iODD 2.5" SATA to USB CD emulator

- Copy II PC Option Board (for copying copy-protected floppies. Remember: "Don't copy that floppy! (unless you have a proper floppy controller for doing so)"

I'm retro "archiving" old games to digital media formats and building several generations of retro PCs starting with a 286-12, Cx586, and ending with the fastest PCs Windows 95 and XP can handle respectively.
If you really believe that this is a market, what do you think the valuation of said market opportunity would be..
When you say that being skinny fat is bad, in what sense do you mean that, and what evidence is there for it? Are you talking about aesthetics, cardiac risk, mortality risk, quality of life, or something else? Do you mean e.g. with 5kg extra fat but no extra muscle he'd have equal risk of a heart attack?
Why should function arguments be delimited by parentheses? We don’t do that in Bash or Objective-C, for example
I looked it up and it has nothing to do with the n-word other than vaguely sounding like it.

Is it verboten too now?

How about rigger? Sound too close as well?
Whenever I've made use of hooks I made basically an /events on my side and saved all of the data that was pushed.

Only after it was saved was it processed.

Besides being able to replay, have a log, etc. that also allowed me to progressively handle more events and then retroactively process them if needed.
This is why you need a staging server and test cases. You only upgrade in the weekends after fully testing.

Also, you always need to be extra careful with payment code. We test it multiple times before deploying it.

Granted all this wouldn't had helped OP, still you need to test everything before upgrading and deploying.
For what I gather, Web3 is marketed as a 'generic ownership' ledger, i.e. not just for 'a replacement for money', which was the purpose for which cryptocurrencies were so far perceived in the mainstream public eye. How it connects to NFTs - investors putting real money into Web3 would want to hike on the supposed ability to invent assets out of thin air and sell supposed ownership on them for real money at a profit. There are many people wanting to own NFTs right now (even if many people equals to just %1 of all people and never about it).

As for the legality of it, maybe we can think of it as being a scam as much as companies selling tamagotchis [1] in the 90's are or were a scam. It was somewhat in fashion to own one back then. At one point it was quite profitable to manufacture and sell them. However, now and possibly forever the volumes at the peak of the fad would never be restored. At least right now, in 2022, perhaps the current trend of owning an NFT collection and presenting it to others is somewhat driven by vanity in a similar way. Perhaps it's the future with NFTs.

Can't say I agree with the present situation, and I'm kinda hoping people will find better things to do with their hard-owned money.

[1] - A Brief History of Tamagotchi | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine -
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/keeping-tamagotchi...
The axe looks wonderful indeed! How did such stone axes work though, is stone not too brittle? I assume it was sharper when used too, right?
Did that guy just make up a lot of what’s in the book?
base64 means the "vocabulary" used has 6 bits (2^6 = 64). Hence, to complete a full number of bytes (without using any padding), you need 4 b64-letters:

4 * 6 = 24 = 8 * 3

So, you're correct... the exact amount of bytes that it takes to represent "actual" bytes goes like this:

Actual bytes | b64 bytes required | overhead
1 | 2 | 2x
2 | 3 | 1.5x
3 | 4 | 1.33x
4 | 6 | 1.5x
5 | 7 | 1.4x
6 | 8 | 1.33x
7 | 10 | 1.43x
8 | 11 | 1.37x
9 | 12 | 1.33x

EDIT: As you can see, this averages with an overhead of between 33% (best case scenario where the encoding requires no padding, happens every 3 rows above) and something like 37%, decreasing with the number of bytes being encoded and approaching the minimum, 33% (e.g. to encode 1024 bytes, you need 1366 b64 digits, an overhead of 1.333984375x).
So anyone running a mining node could potentially be prosecuted for distributing illegal content? That definitely seems like it will be a massive issue in the future.
> SQL Server has a sequential uuid type which avoids exactly this problem.

you refer to the uuid generated by sql server?
To be fair, the average teacher in most countries is quite bad.

Like it or not, schooling was originally designed as a daycare that teaches conformity and compliance.

The idea that we can change that by improving things at the margins is IMO ludicrous.
A lot of things that we do for security or privacy are bad for performance, but I think they are still good tradeoffs.
Of course, I’m actually a Spanish citizen so I’m well aware of how it can sound at times if you’re not used to it lol.

I do think not aggravating is key, but also agree that thicker skin might be wiser since you really cannot control what other people say and do. I still use words that are considered offensive at times just by nature of it being a habit but really am trying to cut down so my son doesn’t start up with them either.
... and another map for Europe: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europ%C3%A4ische_Was...
offlineimap has also been around for a while, and I've been using it for a long time to synchronize my IMAP accounts to my local ~/.mail folder, so I can use email through mutt/neomutt/any other terminal-based local client.
python3 -m json.tool some.json
This example is not good. Hardware has a much different release cycle than software. Once you sell a car, you can't simply release a hardware update.

99.999% of internet software is built iteratively. Even programming languages and operating systems have versions. This argument about needing everything to be decentralized from the beginning is exposing bias because it's not a logical conclusion unless you're bent on antagonizing web3.

Even most DAOs start out centralized and slowly become decentralized. This is expected. You don't want to go full decentralized until everything is stable.
Yep, the link at the bottom is broken.

It should be: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.42100
Huh, you're right. I guess I gotta message an old coworker and tell them their "perf optimization" didn't work.

Lesson learned, thanks!
> and purely random (version 3)

This is a typo, v3 isn't random. It is generated deterministically from inputs.

> The only “repeated” value is the version, “4”, at the beginning of the 3rd field. All the other 124 bits are random.

And this is close but not quite correct. UUID v4 has a couple of other fixed bits, there are only 121-122 random ones. There are patterns in the text representation other than constant numbers. :)
If I were to guess how all this will end is some side effective of restrictions will read its ugly head - mental health, economic recession, or just general civil disobedience.

Then suddenly we’ll be told “trade offs need to be made” and “the vaccines provide enough protection to relax restrictions”.

The fact that we’re 2 years into it and with a population that is mostly vaccine and at a much reduced risk yet the restriction seem to be the same or worse?
Glucose can be processed by every single cell in human body. I don't think you can eat or even drink so much glucose that you overwhelm the capabilities of the entire body to cope with it. You will vomit sooner than that.

While people can and do consume excessive amounts of fat/oil, we are somewhat protected by the fact that fat has a very strong satiating effect, which makes it a little harder to completely pig out. Fructose has no satiating effect at all.

Generally, yes, anything in excess has dire consequences, but in some things those consequences manifest sooner than in others. Sweetened beverages as consumed today are very much a definition of excess: big packaging, a lot of sugar within, and their mass consumption is societally normalized.
Yeah I’m going to have to disagree completely here. Not only does your analogy not match the situation (setting it up is a one-time thing), you basically argue that… software was hard to write, it should be hard to use. I firmly believe the opposite should be the case: Most software should be accessible to everyone. This is absolutely imperative to advance mankind. Elitist thinking won’t help with that.
Backing up my gmail has been on my list for a while (as step 1 of a migration away from gmail). Does anyone haver any experience with this tool, and could compare it to offline-imap (https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/imapfw) or mbsync? For something important like email, I'd rather use something older with more battle testing. I guess beyond a backup I would hope to use the offline copy to migrate to a new provider.
I meant finely ground. But as I wrote those words I was thinking a bit and it is maybe also the quality…. But I have a third idea what it could be. The way it is ground. For example some milling would generate heat and therefore manipulate the structur of the protein(gluten). And this structur is what makes bread…..

Did some search and found this … if someone who reads this want to do a deeep dive, Please let me know the results, thanks

https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-regul...

Edit: in europe we have numbers for the flour and they have a relativ to their number a certain amount of minerals. But most european countries are have their own system. But they are mostly comparable

Edit2: did a little search and the waterfree mass of baguette flour should have 0,52-0,62% of minerals. Thats calles t55 to t65 flour. But even then those flour have different proportion of gluten … and worse gluten aint the same everywhere. As I said the milling could affect it but also the kins of wheat and how it is grown…. You see a deep dive into the world of french baguette could be hard… I am happy with beeing often in france and getting the stuff I need there.( I live in germany) … btw same problem with ground almond .. french stuff works perfekt, german stuff not… but for almonds i am sure it is how fine it is ground… because now I ground them myself and it works.

Hope it wasnt tooooo much text and i could help :)
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I agree. Wealth transfer should be considered as income and should be taxed moderately. There is no legal reason for kicking out seniors out of their homes from which the unrealized gains haven’t been harvested.

The truth is that most people don’t want to downsize. Why should anyone work 40-60 hours a week and pay a mortgage for most of their working adult life and taxes only to live in a condo when they have paid their dues and want to enjoy their retirement.

Should we be dictating to seniors that they deserve no more than a one bedroom condo just because they got older? Is that what you are suggesting?

That’s akin to discarding people and kicking them out of their homes. I don’t know any culture or country that would even suggest this except here in the United States. It’s actually truly appalling to me.
How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]
It might be, but the originally linked article is more about tech and not so much about politics on a national or global level.
The argument here is correct as far as it goes, but the “yes but”s are somewhat severe.

For a minimal MVP deployment, as a client likely you’re not going to have anything like that Kafka setup, but instead have something like a single polling worker, which means you have similar issues with potentially falling behind if that worker can’t keep up with the data. By contrast, with webhooks, you can take advantage of your existing load balancing logic since you’re doing this for incoming HTTP calls anyway.

At scale it seems like you’d need to integrate some kind of ad hoc sharding to this `/events` API, as otherwise you have no ability to scale out the reader. Hopefully a non-issue with third-party API integrations, but there are limits on both ends.
the title is demonstrative
such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter

That all sounds commercial, not dropping a note to a neighbour.
Why use a sequential UUID over integers as an id and then associating them with a random UUID?

Integers are a superior way to record sequential data.
I followed this plan and lost over 100 lbs (45 kg) in about a year and have kept it off for the last five years. Even more impressively, I did it while eating the very same junk food that made me fat, albeit in different quantities. I tried every diet you could imagine before reading the book and failed every single time. As a programmer, the approach Walker uses just clicks with me. If you're overweight and have an engineering mindset, it's absolutely worth the read. It changed my life.

I still follow the plan to this day, albeit with more sophisticated logging. I use a combinatorial optimizer web app that tells me what to eat every day so that it completely takes the element of choice (and ability to screw up) out of the equation. I've developed it for the last five years and am hoping to release it as a product and/or open source eventually. If anyone's interested, shoot me an email (link on my website) and I'll share access.
No desktop operating system meets this criteria though, at least not if you allow user-defined hardware combinations.

I remember I had to do some hackery on a driver to get my sister's printer to work with her macbook/OSX.

I've had all sorts of issues with printers/scanners/random software combinations/drivers/failed automatic update crash loops(!)/etc with Windows.

The only operating systems that might meet the criteria are on tablets and phones (which are obviously not desktops) -- and even then I've had to cross-compile a kernel module to support a wifi adapter w/ USB OTG.
If you expect the crypto system to be participated only by high-effort members you're bound for dissapointment.
I'm 38 and had the same experience - not specifically about my mother but about prioritizing spending time with my wife & children even when it seems my work needs my time & attention. Usually everything works out fine even if I occasionally leave early to pick up my kid from kindergarten in the afternoon.

I was raised to prioritize work above all and it took years and many similar discussions and texts like the above to make me realize it's not what makes me happy.
Check out Common Lisp. Many of the concepts they designed in 80s and 90s have made their way to python in some form. Also, much more efficient runtimes and a more useful type system.

Peter Norvig's book seems like a good introduction.
That’s just the “texture” view. There’s also the parts and materials view that helpful segmented the various pieces of the car.

I’m not sure why they chose to show off the “texture” view without even explaining what it is.

Also, while it may look iffy right now, it seems they’ve done the heavy lifting. A round of polish and in a couple years nobody will be laughing at this. (I’m already impressed, personally).