skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I felt this movie was truly awful. Vacillating between a comedy and a serious movie. As a leftist I felt offended at the leftist pandering and idiotic portrayal of conservatives in the film.

They were more of a blend of left and right than you might appreciate. The president's smoking habit was a clear reference to Barack Obama, and all of the photographs of her with celebrities was a reference to Hillary Clinton. Unqualified children working as advisors was a reference to Donald Trump.

I would argue that what you see in the characters is more of a reflection of your political leanings.
It seems to me like IPv6 is a good candidate for legislation.
> You're mixing function programming and pure functional programming.

I am glad you said "function programming", as in, programming with functions. That's what you're doing. Don't confuse it with Functional Programming!
Shorter phrases, shorter words and imperative sentences feel more powerful.
I have seen people spend (waste) an incredible amount of time readjusting page breaks because they modify something at the start of a document and all the manual empty paragraphs they put here or there don't do what they want anymore. In fact it then becomes an infinite task because every little change breaks everything else.

But yes, sure, most Excel users also have no clue you can import data using SQL or that you can set calculation to manual and calculate with F9.
It’s a very solid, albeit opinionated choice. Obviously, you’ll have haters criticizing its speed (e.g., “wHy NoT uSe Go”), but you’ll learn from a large community of devs that share great conventions (often making things much easier to maintain or change).

It’s also an amazing choice for launching an MVP because it handles, well, near everything.

For a novice developer, it’s one of my top recommendations for getting experience across the full gamut of web development.
Yes, if combined with html and if you "move" the tape by clicking elements
> The "gateway drug" argument is that any amount of cannabis is sufficient for becoming a skin-popping fentanyl junkie

That's an extreme, and not representative of what most people mean when they say "gateway drug".

My understanding of the gateway drug argument is this: someone who starts with a seemingly-innocuous mind-altering substance is more likely to end up wanting more and going for harder stuff than someone who has never used any drugs at all. By normalizing the light drug, some percentage of the new users will end up addicted to hard drugs that wouldn't have otherwise.

I'm not familiar enough with the evidence to have an opinion on the accuracy of this argument, but it's not helpful to take the most idiotic framing of it and attack it, even if it is the framing with the greatest meme value.
After reading the problems again, well, I might have to take my words back. When I said basic biology, it's not high-school biology, but college-level biology. There are five main topics: molecular cell biology, anatomy and physiology of animals, anatomy and physiology of plants, genetics, and ecology. If you want to get a medal in the international competition, then, you probably need to read the text book material for each topic to get the basic concepts.

For example, for molecular cell biology, you need to know about electrophoresis. My point was, in the exam, you won't be asked about what is electrophoresis. They will give you an example of an experiment/published paper, give you the background of that experiment, give you the experiment results (including electrophoresis results), and then ask you about the conclusion of the experiment.

I don't understand why they protect the past exams with a password[0], but here's one sample question from my archive: https://i.imgur.com/nMW7g9b.jpg

Feel free to reach out to me via email if you want to discuss more.

[0] https://www.ibo-info.org/en/info/papers.html
Used to use Notepad++ a lot, but these days I mostly use VS Code.

One of the things that really frustrates me about Notepad++ is the way it does updates, even though the app's auto-updater initiated the installer, I still have to click through all the steps of the installer as if it's the first time it's being installed, quite tedious.

I would ideally like it to be done silently in the background, but I would still be very happy if after clicking a confirmation dialog in the app to do the update, the installer would just run unattended and re-launch the program automatically.
As an MSFT employee, you also have a better chance of getting things fixed.

If everyone there (except the designers) complains, maybe the management might listen?
Proportions and to some extent symmetry play a role in the feeling of beauty. I theorize that as our ability to "engineer" things has increased, the various natural constraints of materials are falling away.

Over thousands of years, those natural constraints developed into our sense of proper proportions, and a feeling that if certain things are not symmetrical then something is wrong with it.

We don't have to do that anymore. We can get "more" out of our buildings, or conversely we can get the "same" but with less material or lower cost. The consequence is that such things do not really feel beautiful.
> Accordingly all this companies (Peloton, Robinhood,..) will suffer now that the pandemic & WFH is finishing.

Meh. Amateur investment into stocks and option plays certainly won't be gone even if WFH ends - that trend was already present way before the virus was discovered. RH just burned large parts of their user base and inspired countless memes by their despicable acts in the $GME affair.
anecdotally, I feel like I know many more regular smokers than regular drinkers.

That said, this could also be selection bias.

I am currently living clean, but have had multiple periods of being stoned basically 24/7 beforehand, whilst always having a very healthy relationship to alcohol (a few drinks socially, once per week or less). It's possible that the people I attract into my life tend to be similar to me.
This is all true, but it’s also true that most job postings that list “proficient with Microsoft Word” don’t usually require using any of these features.
In general, programs should never operate on the same file name more than once. If there's more than one thing you need to do with a file, open it and then operate on the FD instead.
Yes, this is called "selection bias". Only one person I've ever met has ever done anything like this, let alone regularly.
You can't use the (false) premise that "nobody ever complains about jets polluting our atmosphere" to justify hindering the detection of near-earth asteroids, which is guaranteed to eventually threaten the safety of people in this planet, possibly in a country that is not opting in to this situation. This is why legality cannot be the sole basis of right/wrong. Just because countries do not (yet!) have jurisdiction over space doesn't mean that you can just do anything with it--and especially if the said countries without jurisdiction may be the collateral damage of such actions.
> the Bay Area is still a very desirable place to live, and has been so long before Silicon Valley was a thing

Not that desirable. The South Bay was just a place to grow fruit before Silicon Valley.
Argh! English language strikes again!
"prions are also responsible for 'mad cow disease', Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) as well as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease" ...

and scrapie in sheep, and Chronic Wasting Disease in deer and other wild Cervidae in North America. The latter is increasingly common in the US, although its wide spread is recent enough that little is known as to whether it is being transmitted back to humans through hunting and processing of deer.
Tree Survey Using Machine Learning
I have one or two personal domains on legacy usage.

I moved or created all the family members’ personal domains onto Office365. Probably time to migrate those remaining domains.
This is assuming that the satellites all remain in one piece, the idea behind Kessler Syndrome is that one impact will generate loads of fragments in unpredictable orbits and cause a chain reaction.

That being said I don't know what the probability of such an event is, I assume it's fairly small. I could look it up but I've got to fix an omelette.
> I doubt you could stay within the first ISO C standard and write a modern operating system.

Do you take that view because of some intrinsic deficiency in the language, or the difficulty of memory safety, or something else?
> anything using the Linux Kernel === Linux....

Android === Linux

Perseverance === Linux

My house === Linux

The Earth === Linux

The Universe === Linux

So basically everything is equal to everything and Linux is literally a meaningless word. Yeah, that all makes sense.

They level of disingenuity you’re displaying here is pretty high. You’ll note that you did not say “Perseverance is Linux”, because that sounds like nonsense. You’re clearly capable of understanding the problem with your assertion.
Do you think people understand Rust?
At issue is not whether analogies and metaphors are a type of morally equating. At issue is whether it is appropriate to use a particularly severe term in a decidedly less severe manner.

"Kill" is used in many less severe circumstances. We kill plants and mold and bacteria. "Kill" does not nearly universally refer a specific severe act with a real human victim. Notice we don't murder programs.

Regardless of historical usage (words do not have some innate meaning which persists through all time), the current usage of the word is almost exclusively limited to a very particular crime. A better comparison would be "genocide". We should ask ourselves how we would feel about a company transitioning from cross-platform to a single OS being described as committing a genocide of other OS users. Or even better, we should ask actual survivors of genocide how they would feel.

And in this case, survivors are already telling us how they feel. For example: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-saying-rape-out-of-conte...

There are terms which because of their specificity and severity (in modern usage) cannot be used metaphorically without calling to mind the non-metaphorical meaning. This is quite distinct from more standard metaphors which we barely recognize as metaphors at all (no one thinks of a sprinter when we ask them to run a program).

Regardless of what decision we end up making on what terms we are comfortable using, we can recognize that not all violent terms are equal in how concretely they call to mind their violent meaning when used metaphorically and that victims of violence are speaking out about the usage of certain terms. How we should respond to that is a judgment call we all have to make.
Except not the vision part, which is what they were discussing. Also, I don't see any way to run the examples as the code is missing those files: https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/data2v...

The code is what we're interested in here, not "hold onto your papers" talk that tells us how to be excited about it.
Most positive anecdotes are not nearly as extreme as this one, but there's certainly skepticism for even mild positive statements.

You can look in the comment section for this very article for multiple examples - I replied to someone who indicated that another person must have "depressing" nights because they stated that they sometimes enjoy having a night with friends listening to music while high, for example. Subjective opinions of how to enjoy an evening are greeted with being told they're wrong - a bit beyond even skepticism, even!

If us potheads start posting anecdotes about how smoking took us from being unsuccessful and contemplating suicide to successful and having wonderful personal happiness and contentment - basically the reverse of the original post in this thread - I'm sure we'd see similar levels of skepticism. As it is, the positive anecdotes are basically "It's fun and helps me relax", "I feel more creative while high", "It sometimes helps me approach things from a different perspective" and similar.
The benefits are similar to when you consolidate tasks with a lot of similarities. Advancements in one area can be immediately applied to another area. You can consolidate your effort into a single point. Training a network is increasingly cost prohibitive, into the millions of dollars, and this would allow you to consolidate these expenses. EDIT: Looks like they still need to train for each modality so no benefit from that here.

I'd imagine on the flip side the potential problems would be when gains in one modality are offset by a decrease in performance in another or you are prevented from trying new things because of the choices made to support a unified architecture.
my experience with Win 11 is that it's very buggy and slow. I don't know how you can ship such an awful product.
18v and 20v"max" tool batteries are two names for the same thing: a 5 series configuration of li-on cells rated for 3.7v nominal/4.2v max charge.

To my knowledge none of these companies are manufacturing cells directly, and the only thing that is different between them is the shape of the connector, and the design/firmware of the battery management system. And the connectors are mostly not all that different, just variations on a theme designed to explicitly prevent cross compatibility.

I don't see a compelling reason these couldn't be standardized, nor why this wouldn't lead to more innovation as manufacturers will have to compete on merit, rather than vendor lock in.

Batteries are getting so good nowadays. Imagine if instead of everything needing its own special battery you just had a few quality packs that were interoperable with all your tools/devices/ebike/etc.

*Edit: grammar
Somewhat related to the long HN discussion [0] on Google at last ending the legacy free custom domain accounts (Apps For Domains > G Suite > Google Workspace now). This doesn't help the people with lots of purchases, "Sign In With Google" usage and so on who are the most legitimately screwed by all this, and personally I'm moving to a different service entirely since I primarily used it for email. But for those who mostly want to stay within the Google ecosystem this might be another useful alternative.

It's unfortunate Google didn't make this a one-button downgrade/convert option internally and have a blessed more straightforward migration path along with the shutdown, but at least there is some option for some continued use I guess. Would be nice if the law mandated the ability to transfer purchases between accounts within the same service as a basic minimum, that at least is not a unique Google problem in the slightest. Seems more the rule than the exception for digital software stores of all kinds. Going between services is reasonably more complicated, but within the same one shouldn't be impossible.

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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432

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Edit: From Ars @mrsilver:

I notice that the author recommends using the Check mail from other accounts functionality, which uses POP3 to import your emails from the Legacy GSuite into the new Gmail account.

When I did this (which, I admit, was about four years ago), it removed all my labels and stars, marked every email as unread, dumped a load of emails into spam and silently deleted a small number of emails. There's nothing worse than seeing that your new account has less emails than your old account - with no easy way of knowing what the missing ones are.

Things may have changed in four years, but I would recommend some caution with this approach.

As an alternative, I ended up using Thunderbird instead. There I connected both GMail accounts to it and then dragged and dropped emails across between the "All Mail" folders. I still lost the labels - but stars and read status were kept.

I've seen some people on forums recommend http://gmvault.org as a method to migrate your email from Legacy GSuite to GMail whilst preserving labels, status and stars. I've never used it, but it might be worth a try.
My first thought was to take the book "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" from my shelf.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2103727.Blue_and_Yellow_...

You can't subtractively mix all colors from three practical 'primaries'

If you mix Cadmium Yellow and Ultramarine Blue you get something yucky and greyish. With Hansa Yellow and Cerulean Blue on the other hand you can get a good green but that blue won't make a good violet when mixed with Cadmium Red Light.

The color mixing rules taught in elementary school don't really work and you need roughly 12 primaries to mix any arbitrary color.
So they've even managed to break their own weak definition of cross-platform/run-anywhere, by forking into two incompatible versions? The more I learn about Docker, the more I'm astounded by the sheer scale of anti-patterns being built into the bizzaro-world they're constructing.
Are there new discoveries happening at an insane rate? I feel that due to the knowledge circle always expanding in radius, we effectively have a continuously increasing surface area to learn about, slowing it down significantly.

Also, I fail to be that optimistic given how wealth imbalance is greater then ever, and the looming climate change we do jackshit about. The people being connected to information suck up bullshit conspiracy theories like they were nothing (and those kind little FAANG companies help them in that). And this anti-intellectualism is even scarier than climate change, might I say.
While that does increase the angular resolution, it does nothing for weak signals — only area can boost that.
That, and the fact that it asks you immediately on program start (which is probably the worst time for an interruption!) and there is no easy way to come back to the update option if you answer "no".
All software has an expiration date. Because realistically, you can’t run software bought for Windows XP, because Windows XP is at end of life.

Some software require APIs that cost money to run. Like collaboration features or some number crunching things.

Most software must be updated continuously, because that is the expectation of some users, some platform owners (App Store, the OS, …).

In reality, most software has an expiration date and you can calculate the yearly fee from the expected time till EOL.

Now, the subscription fee can be higher than a one time fee, or not. Depending on your usage.
Right, which is yet another explanation of why companies moved into subscription-based models: unless you are willing to be frozen in time with all your software tools, you will be in the update treadmill one way or another. Bitrot exists, and someone needs to pay for it. A license you paid 15 years ago does not (and should not) cover that.
Got a link? That beats the prices I've gotten.
> and yet if a lock could be picked, you don't get to exchange it for another one that couldn't be! Analogies breakdown when compared too carefully.

There are no locks that can't be picked. If it unlocks itself all the time you bet your ass that I'll get to exchange it for a new one. Maybe you should be more careful when making analogies.
Shrug, my birth certificate was folded and fits in a normal letter envelope, so does my grandfather's from another country.
That's bonkers. Why wouldn't you write telememary to an on machine log/queue that can trickle out as needed and not impact the performance of the system.
A contractor billed us for some work. He opened the laptop, filled in item prices and item counts as we requested. All of this in a very nice excel template.

Then he took his cellphone calculator app, multiplied counts with prices, filling in the subtotals in the excel sheet. Another round of the calculator summed these to a grand total, and a final round calculated taxes. Both were dutifully typed in at the bottom of the excel sheet.

I died a little that day.
I'm not sure how it's in USA, but at least where I'm from, faking medical results goes beyond merely providing shitty service (where you'd have a civil case to recoup losses and pay penalties) straight into a felony. In any case, some of the acts described are straightforward felony fraud.

The article states that a lawsuit was filed against the company, but what I'm interested in is whether there's a criminal investigation against the management.
Now make it accessible
Minimum Viable Dose is how I look at it. I like blasting off to the moon once in a while, but a 1-gram dispensary preroll is often enough to knock me out and put me to sleep if I'm not careful.

I keep a weed vape, as well as different sized pipes. The big, fancy one is great for extended/shared sessions, but the smallest one (called a bat, I think. It looks like a straight glass tube, with a small 'pinch' near one end) is my idea of a perfect single serving. It takes a bit of practice, but gives me between 3 to 5 light hits.
Mesos, but it seemed like Kubernetes ate it’s lunch since most use cases are handled with a single controller.
Expect more of these stories if BTC price continues to drop. I am not saying this is an inside job but imagine there are a number of embezzlers that have been dipping into the cookie jar and are about to get caught if prices don't recover soon.

Either that or a bunch of people might end up dead in India soon.
Yeesh, no! I've edited to show the rate inclusive of delivery charges, taxes, and fees.
> There are now legitimate competitors with slick UI

Like?
In theory the difference between undefined behaviour and implementation defined behaviour is that ID behaviour must be documented. In practice good luck finding that documentation for each CPU and compiler combination. In fact good luck just finding it for LLVM and x64.
He became a heroin addict after his suicide attempt, after he crashed out of band camp, after he smoked his ambition to be a goos drummer away.
Depleted carbon isotope compositions observed at Gale crater, Mars
As someone in the trades, I really disagree. Most applications that require a hammer could not be accomplished with a nail gun. Nail guns are great for attaching thin materials over thicker materials, like putting MDX onto a frame or attaching roofing materials. You don't generally frame with a nail gun because you want to use larger and heavier nails driven a lot deeper. For very light or precision work on finished surfaces you go back to the hammer because it reduces the chance of scuffing or marking on the surface.

"Binding wood" is much more nuanced than you make it seem.
> A protein can misfold in countless ways, and there are countless of proteins to misfold.

They are countable, but yes there are many ways, but that alone doesn't mean it's capable of meaningfully evolving. It's a search space multiple orders of magnitude smaller than a piece of DNA, so it's easy to see how a different successfully propagating misfold will be significantly less likely when starting from an existing propagating misfold.

If you are suggesting one propagating misfolded protein can, by chance, misfold into another propagating misfolded protein at a rate fast enough to become adaptive... then it's qualitatively the same as a virus, but I don't see this as likely given the significantly smaller search space.
It's not just miners, you also have people using your free or even cheap tiers for DDOS/PortScan/SSH Bruteforce. These ones burn your IP address so it's better to prevent it than to try to catch it later. A credit card check goes a long way as a barrier to entry.
I always confuse Notepad++ with Notepad2.

Both nice, but I prefer Notepad2 on the rare occasion I land on windows and need to quickly download a proper editor to quickly edit something.

Occasionally I install ++ by accident and then go "augh, I meant the other one".
If I remember correctly, in that conversation, the 2 researchers say that taking 10,000 IU is a bad idea. Your body immediately bounces back down as soon as you stop taking it, they say. Instead they recommend taking more moderate doses to gradually raise your level.