skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be great if we are at the point where as long as the plug fits, things will at worst cause no damage and at best work as expected.

As a contrived example, is it fine to plug a Thinkpad USB-C charger into a MacBook power supply? Or perhaps a random 5V USB-C charger with a 20V one (yes I am familiar with diodes)? It doesn't make sense obviously, but the plug fits and someone, somewhere with particularly bad cable management will do this. Does the USB-C standard ensure that sparks will never fly or is this responsibility of the end user?
I am pointing out a) that some people doing fine is not proof that no one need be concerned, and b) there is separate reason for concern. If the pandemic had not initially been treated as a political problem but as a public health problem a lot of suffering would have been spared. And to call making these points "fear mongering bullshit" is to continue treating it as a political problem.
I haven't flagged this article, I just wanted to add some reasoning why others might have done so.

There might also be some kind of fatigue wrt. pandemic news.
IIRC the author is from and lives in Vietnam.
Flying low does not mean "scraping trees" but for example Glass G airspace (uncontrolled basically) is everything under 1200' not near airports etc. For a lighter than air craft 1000 feet off the ground is quite a big margin of error actually.

And I doubt one would be flying something like this in bad weather anyway. One would just wait for the next weather window.

And one could easily take the ship into 4000' or something like that and still have minimal amount of other aircraft around once outside of airports (proper commercial jets fly at 40k feet or so).
Maybe not originaly, but as of today it very much seems like it. Related: maybe we will be done with covid, by the time the vaccines patents run out.
The problem would require turning the entire global IP & supporting legal systems on their head. WTO, nation-specific laws, etc.

Technology seems to move a lot faster than paradigm shifts in government.
“ Parapsychologists are able to produce experimental evidence for psychic phenomena about as easily as normal scientists are able to produce such evidence for normal, non-psychic phenomena.”

Therefore psychic phenomena exist? I don’t see the problem.
Yeah, a good manager can fix that in 30 seconds (by giving you explicit permission to learn), but a surprising portion don’t think too.
I’m curious - in what other contexts do you apply this "logic" ?

If the guy who robbed your house and cleared out your bank account bribed the judge to go free, would you then feel that the robber played the system well?

Would you be arguing that he doesn’t need to go to jail, only the judge? Because "democracy"??

... I fucking doubt it.

And I imagine you'd feel even worse when you find out that the burglar and the judge have worked together to clear out entire neighborhoods.

So why excuse theft on a national (even international) scale?
Or, you check. Elided copy is very rarely UB, something that cannot be said of uses of reinterpret_cast.
In my humble opinion, I think 4-5 glasses of wine per month, even if you have them all in one sitting, is effectively the same as not drinking at all. From a biological perspective.

I was having two to three strong IPAs every single evening for about the last 10 years. This would give me a nice buzz but nothing close to getting drunk. I stopped completely six months ago. Since then, I've had no noticeable mental benefits to speak of, but I also wasn't experiencing any noticable negative effects beforehand. I have never had elevated liver enzymes. I am physically active and keep a healthy diet.

I decided to stop less for the health reasons but more because I was definitel psychologically super addicted. At this point in my life, I want to begin a new phase without any substances having a hold on me. Pot was a much more serious issue for me, but alcohol is objectively worse for the body so I figured I might as well let go of it too.

Overall, stopping was surprisingly easy. No withdrawals or anything like that. After two weeks I started having emotional cravings for IPAs, cause they are just so damn tasty. That, and kicking back after work with my wife and a few beers had become a very ingrained ritual. Another month from there that went away, along with any thoughts of wanting to drink, period. Going food shopping is about the only time I'm reminded that alcohol exists.

I did make the conscious choice to have a 9% 20oz IPA after about 4 months off. I was very curious about what kind of effect that would have after such a long break. It was strange. I barely felt any effect from the alcohol and got a nasty hangover the next day that lasted into the early evening. I suspected this had something to do with the hops so two weeks ago I repeated the experiment with 24 oz. of 10% Belguian sour. No hangover but still a very subdued effect from the alcohol. I guess even though my enzymes weren't elevated, there is some other mechanism that was making my liver less efficient at processing the booze when I was drinking.

Anyway, my main point is it's all a matter of habit. Unless you're well into the physical addiction phase of alcoholism, it's 100% emotional. Things were a bit easier for me in that I don't like going to bars one bit. House parties were a lot of fun in college but as an adult my social drinking would almost always involve a few friends hanging out at someone's house. Quality time with good friends if they are drinking and you're not is just as good. For those who are into the bar scene, ummm, maybe try pot? But overall, I'd say that if alcohol makes a boring activity tolerable, it obviously makes sense to do something that you actually enjoy instead.

For all of you wanting to stop drinking, just give it a go. It may take a month or two to delete the habit, but it will happen.
> * If you show symptoms or come in contact with someone who tests positive quarantine for two weeks.

Wouldn't that apply to boostered people as well, since they catch and spread Omicron at similar rates?

But then, how realistic is it to quarantine for two weeks if almost everyone was in contact with someone who tested positive?

And for added difficulty: the rapid tests have really high false-negative rates for Omicron. I had 6 negative RTs (two manufacturers) after symptoms before my positive PCR test.
Google Apps for Your Domain is available without cost (2006)
Not what you're searching for but this one is weird as hell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS45_L8fLLc
Nothing happens to the data -- it's still intact when the host comes back up. Happy to clarify further though if that's not what you meant.
It might be opinionated but it's no less accurate.

Data science is many researchers first foray into programming in any language and, speaking from my own path, was a relatively self-directed discipline in the early days.

I often longed for a 'standard approach' but many of the projects that suggested them were packed full of boilerplate that made code even harder to read and write, especially if your background wasn't heavily into OOP.
Ants are dumb. I would never get caught in something like this.

Checks HN

Checks YouTube

Checks Insta
Sharp Memory LCDs are close. They are active, but so close to being zero power you could keep them running with a stern glare. They have absurd contrast, can be updated at tens of hertz or faster, and are high resolution. They’re never made in large sizes, but you will see them on things like the Play Date.
We celebrate by beginning the next sprint. I don't get excited about a release until users get excited.
Basically any activity-appropriate clothing (per social, not practical, rules). In most cases I can’t be bothered figuring out what clothes to wear. I mean sure, a wedding or a funeral I know, but otherwise? A fancy restaurant? Lawyer meeting? Giving a talk? Who cares?

I go to board meetings in my normal clothes, and with my dog, and until my kid said something it didn’t even occur to me to do otherwise.

I do remember buying a car years ago and my wife commenting, “At home [europe] they wouldn’t even let you in the door”. In the Vally they just want to do business.
It's not enough to merely be better than the previous languages, but you must be so much better that it outweighs the cost of adopting a new language (which is steep).

It's why we are still on QWERTY despite DVORAK being a tiny bit better. For most typists it doesn't matter, they will never make up the time spent learning DVORAK with the time saved typing DVORAK.

The same with programming languages. Most new programming languages aren't that much better than the old ones. Maybe they fix one or two problems, but at the same time, they're less mature and critically, who knows if they will be around in 20-30 years. C will be around in 30 years, C++ too, PHP will, Java certainly. Rust, honestly, I dunno. Could go either way, and it's not because people aren't adopting it fast enough that I'm hesitating. When Rust has been around longer, I will be more confident that it will stay around, and then I may consider using it.
Can we start now
To stop systemic waves of this kind society needs resource buffers right ?
This is real
This is really nice. I once got a hold of an old Pentium when I had just started work and wanted to get Linux to work on it. It had 3.5" drives and no CD drive. I used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuLinux and got a basic system working without much hassle. I believe it even had a minimal X server running with twm or something. Enough to work on.

I still maintain that after hardware ages a little, Linux (and perhaps other free operating systems and distros) are the only way to give a soul to the machine.
For real, I just want e ink to flourish (I want a high powered, super fast kindle) instead of rent seek. I'd even pay way more for it.
Mirasol is very dead tech at this point. https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and...

I think they tried to ramp things up before it was ready, and nobody was interested by the time they got it to work.
Apparently, aahed is the past tense of aah. [webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aahed)

Edit: typo
Becoming a Centaur
Judging by recent Afghanistan experience this means Russian attack on Sunday or early Monday.
Talk to BMW

“BMW’s color-changing concept vehicle”
https://news.yahoo.com/bmw-color-changing-concept-vehicle-16...
To me it looks like attempts to axiomatize natural numbers with first order logic.

You can assure there's a "zero" and an infinite chain of successors starting from it but you cannot assure there are no cycles disconnected from the chain.
My relatives have an year-old i7 and it can't go for more than 40 minutes on the same type of flooring. Usually less, closer to 30 min.
On the flip side the huge number of new hires will drag down the performance bar. They can’t give bad ratings to too many people at once.

The other thing is that for many people, getting a normal Meets All rating is totally fine. You don’t need to push yourself to Exceeds level.
It does not. However, most people install ROMs that have them preinstalled.
Well, arguably believing that something doesn't exist and not believing that something exists are two different things.
Two things:

1) being a fixed percentage of a median, any variation in the median will change the “poverty rate” without it necessarily meaning anything. If the minimum wage increases by 100 euros, the poverty rate will actually increase because the median income will go up and more people will come under X% of it

2) you can’t really compare income across countries. 1000 euros a month means you will receive social housing or subsidies for private rental. It means neither yourself nor your children will pay for any state services (school, school meals, health, swimming pool etc, public transport etc). I’d far far prefer to be on 1k in France than 2k in the US
i don’t think it’s that you’re dumb, i think it’s that you’re missing background knowledge the author expects, so it will take more time for you to understand.

I feel like I understand CS concepts and programming language theory well. But I’m having a hard time learning machine learning. Most of my experience is in software development and discrete math, where it looks like ML requires more calculus, linear algebra, and statistics. The formulas which use vector and matrix multiplication go over my head because i haven’t really internalized matrix algebra yet, these formulas are supposed to be trivial and intuitive but to me they’re not.
Hello it's me Glench, from the note.

I think you reading into the workings of Dynamicland from my note is a little misguided. I made that note to talk about my own personal needs, not about how the lab worked.

Even though my personal interest no longer lies in pursuing it, Dynamicland to me remains the most visionary, furthest-thinking research on human-computer interaction that exists today. It really is a research project with a 100+ year vision.
Ah for fucks sake
Lol, I thought it meant you could access the Linux system without jailbreaking.

I had no idea they didn't even allow you to load on your own books previously.

I'm pretty happy with my strategy of rooting a device I own, installing something like Syncthing and KOReader and not having to care whatever bullshit the manufacturer is trying to pull. This also works well for Kindles, which allow loading on your own files by default, but, hilariously, don't support the standard format for e-books in their default reader.
Getting close with https://www.onward.ly/. A course + journal for getting clearer on yourself. Helps form mental models and habits around being present, leaning into what you want, and saying no to the rest. Basically show up as yourself not what other people expect you to be.
That’s just Apple reusing the physical factory not the tech. Qualcomm completely abandoned the technology and couldn’t find anyone to license it.
To give sime flavor for this, here's the The "week 1 hello world" assignment:

> On ITP’s laser printer, print your first generated Rune.js sketch. A few rules about your code: You can only use black (0) and white (255). You are only allowed to use triangle(), rect() and ellipse() once each, and no other drawing functions are allowed (no beginShape or images). Bring to class a design of an ice cream cone. Yes, an ice cream cone.

Definitely imterested in doing some of the readings here. Good food for thought, I expect. Strong relation to the procedural & generative systems worlds. I was expecting a bit more focus on code architectures, on patterns of developmemt, from the title, which sounded fascinating, but I do love some procedural & generative systems stuff too, especially with some mind expanding reads thrown in.
> a major problem we are seeing unfold in real time is that some influential, very high-IQ people often have limited awareness of exactly where their circle of competence ends.
Edit: Looks like OpenCL in WSL2 is still very much TBD -- https://github.com/microsoft/OpenCLOn12/issues/32

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Interesting, thanks:

* OpenCL 1.2 -> DX12 coverage seems to be passing the repo's tests

* Unclear what's left for either a manual build or an automatic/upstreamed mesa install (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/). We saw the priority examples for the project during announce was ARM/mobile (2020), so still curious...
Except that they’re not driving to work, they’re not eating at the cantine/restaurant at lunchtime, they’re not going on holiday, they’re not going out in the evening…
> Because that preparation, by and large, is not related to the actual job.

TBH, depends on the job.

I think the problem is hiring people with these skills to do jobs that don't require them. That's bad for both parties. The employer is going to be paying for a skill it is not required, and the employee will get bored and switch jobs, costing everyone time and money.
So HOLD! Specially if you are young,
Or just a refresh rate that isn't what feels like several seconds.
I grew up with that sort of trust in authority too. Somewhere along the line — I’m not sure exactly where — that trust evaporated.
If your company's value proposition can be replicated by an intern in a weekend, you have a much bigger problem than interns.

Companies' enthusiasm for hiring developers worries me not even a little. Of much greater moment, IStM, is the character, or lack of, demonstrated by company officers. That CEO's final e-mail lays him all out. I will certainly not be applying to work at Replit.
Thanks for sharing this... How did your paying customers became aware of you?
David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs has a good analysis of this. Standard capitalist theory is that people are lazy and will not work unless force to do so by threat of immiseration. But in reality people HATE bullshit jobs where you spend the day playing solitaire or whatever. People don’t want to burn themselves out but they do want to feel helpful. Good management is about helping people realize their natural desire to help out.
Every time I read in an article (or more typically in a headline) how some guy X "eviscerated" / "destroyed" some other guy Y and their argument, 9 times out of 10 it just means some guy X had a different opinion.

Very occasionally their opinion may be backed by an actual counterargument, but this is quite rare, and even then the counterarguments tend to be of varying quality.

Rarely is there an actual "evisceration" at play (a term I would have otherwise reserved for someone pointing out basic logical flaws in an argument, which cause it to collapse as completely invalid).

I've seen this kind of language used as clickbait more than anything else so many times by now, that by this point whenever I hear "X destroys Y", my knee jerk reaction is that, despite the usually present controversy surrounding the kind of opinions that attract this kind of reaponses, for Y to merit such a vacuous attack in the first place means they're probably right.
Terrorism isn’t the reason you can’t use cell networks during a flight. Early on it was ostensibly interference concerns but those are not a real problem (if they were they wouldn’t let you carry cell phones onto a plane).

At this point it’s an explicit request from the cell phone companies to not have a plane with 200 people ripping through their cell networks with association attempts that are most likely going to fail and then immediately become stale.
buys NFT because other humans did
The order of letters in the guess word may also be relevant, to give you as much information as possible (green is better than yellow; there may be branches in the search tree where twice the same letter in a word is advantageous).
I've searched long and hard for a fast and gpu-accelerated image viewer for Windows and settled on Pictureflect Photo Viewer last summer. Not open source, but it has both free and paid versions (with not much difference, mainly thumbnails and video playback) and it's available both on Windows Store and from their website.
I feel like better code visualization would solve a lot of my problems. Or at least highlight them.
I understand where you're coming from, but the alternative to getting a divorce might be even worse, two adults constantly abusing each other within the household and the child in close proximity to it with no escape.

We don't really know the situation and everyone's is different.
I have been ruminating on this very thought for some time...
"I started out mocking NPM for the left-pad debacle, but over time I've actually grown more sympathetic to left-pad. The problem isn't that somebody wrote a library for left-pad. It is that even something as trivial as left-pad has triggered our division-of-labor instincts. A library like left-pad is just begging to be saved into projects that use it so users have one less moving part to worry about at deployment time. Turning it into a first-class dependency also ensured that a lot less people looked inside it to understand its five lines of code or whatever."

I think we should be extracting code from libraries until we need the whole thing. Dragging around black box dependencies as binaries has a lot of serious drawbacks. If people had extracted the parts they needed from log4j they wouldn't have even had to think about the exploits.
Extracting Tables from Plain Text Files Statistically with NumPy (2018)
It’s only a problem if you have strong priors telling you that they don’t exist, because that indicates a lot of other scientific fields are in trouble.
The problem is that for an average Joe on the street programming often equates to rocket science. I'm not trying to downplay the industry and say that the dev jobs are easy, but unless someone tries to really look into it, understand what it actually entails, they would think that it's extremely super complicated and is beyond their capabilities. In the past,I did offer quite a few colleagues a chance to learn with full support and very likely a job at the end with a substantial pay rise. Nobody ever took it.
> How utterly childish and naive that was.

It's not childish. It's a totally reasonable expectation of how the world should work. Don't pass that off as childish, instead ask why the government is failing to meet its most basic obligations.

It's only naive because the government has totally failed the people. There's no reason (other than a system designed to protect the interests of the wealthy instead of the needy) that it works this way. We should forge a world where such expectations aren't naive.
I’m a big fan of decentralizing my code (even within a single process) so that as much as possible a function works on localized state.

This ant situation is a good example of the value of a few global variables.
…that you like.
I have done exactly this in the past. I made a webpage explaining the benefits of the enterprise license (individual contracts, assistance with vendor security assessments, etc.), and asked customers politely if they wanted to upgrade to an enterprise license.

Not a single company (out of maybe a dozen companies that I made the offer to) actually took me up on my offer. When they find out that the vendor assessment would cost them money, they suddenly find a way to use my software without the vendor assessment.
No, it's reasonable to phrase it as a belief that the phenomenon doesn't exist. That's a positive belief of the negative. The alternative of lack of belief in existence is a more neutral stance.
ReMarkable allows root access to the system.

> that isn't a 7" screen running basic Android in a crappy case

Boox devices run Android, but in relatively recent versions and the system isn't that bad. And you can install any Android App (even the Play Store, but why bother when there are F-Droid and Aurora).
Thanks, but that is allmost equally disappointing as it hints there were major problems with the technology.
The USB-C standard does guarantee that there will never be any damage - any voltage over 5V normally has to be requested by the device. As long as the devices are standards compliant, nothing bad will happen.

The issue is devices that don't follow the standard, which can indeed be damaged, but what can you do about that.
Anything similar for R?
The (build) supply side of the housing market is complicated.

Remember that even when you aren't hampered by lack of space and/or zoning, most build starts are still 'investments'. I knew a whole lot of folks who did homebuilding in the first decade of the century. Housing starts were all over the place, partially because the investors were sure that with prices rising, it was a sure thing, right?

But then the market glut happened. Housing starts stopped. All of those folks left homebuilding and few if any ever went back to it.

I think nowadays Investors are back to preferring smaller buildouts, potentially in more phases. The supply/labor issues from covid haven't helped things lately though.
Credit scores are based on how good you are at paying off your debits, and how consistent your paycheck is. They care about the numbers, not the names.