skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but what really ruined the Olympics for me was the sudden realization of what they are.

In essence, [modern] Olympics are a glorified parade of genetic freaks (ok, maybe not freaks, but outliers?). I don't mean this disrespectfully to the athletes, but at the same time, the reason they're able to break the top 10 in any particular sport is extreme form of selection bias.

Their lungs are just a little bit bigger than everyone else's. Or their femur/thigh ratio or whatever. Or their fingers are extra flexible.

So what we see is just a ruthless form of selecting the best people genetically, for that sport, since childhood. Yes, sure, they put in a lot of work, but so does every athlete who doesn't make it to the Olympics or WCs. And I'm sure 99+% don't make it. But you still can't overcome something like a height disadvantage in Basketball or Swimming with pure training.

As someone who struggles with poor health genetics, watching Olympics for me is rubbing salt in the wound at best. And once you realize it's just genetic freaks performing "as expected", it's really all very boring. Also once you realize the performance records mostly stagnated after the 1980s, and most of the modern record improvements are due to hyper-optimized equipment.

After all, would we be surprised that a dog is good at running or a fish is good at swimming?
The US has a similar idea of illegally obtained evidence, its a very common concept. This is different from the above suggestion, which is essentially any unrelated evidence of crimes found while executing an unrelated search warrant is void. For example, a warrant is issued to find documents related to criminal fraud, while searching someone's office for materials related to the fraud they find a pile of illegal drugs. In the above suggestion, they wouldn't be able to prosecute drug violations as they discovered the drugs during an otherwise lawful search but its unrelated to the crime the warrant was issued for. The original search wasn't illegal, just that the second crime wasn't related to the issued warrant.
My favorite one for years of sharing files.

This dev also has others cool tool. Check it out on his Github page [0]

[0] https://github.com/lrsjng
As in text completions and corrections for software docs? Have been tinkering with this exact concept: https://i.imgur.com/txhgLiy.mp4
Didn't they just report the first the first time ever user decline? Not exactly a strong negotiating position.
This is exactly what I have been looking to find for connecting a camera at my front gate to my house, which are over 1/4 mile away from each other.
"In our design users interact with a central transaction processor using digital wallets storing cryptographic keys. ... Despite using ideas from blockchain technology, we found that a distributed ledger operating under the jurisdiction of different actors was not needed to achieve our goals. Specifically, a distributed ledger does not match the trust assumptions in Project Hamilton's approach, which assumes that the platform would be administered by a central actor."
Not sure if you realize how huge the US is, but overhead wire would be a ridiculously expensive effort for not much benefit.
I had a similar experience. I only got it because getting a ps5 was impossible and I really enjoyed playing games on it but abandoned it when the release schedule started to dry up. I ended up buying a gaming PC instead. Shame, having to download games again has me missing Stadia.
Speaking of good faith arguments; as you know they can still be truckers. Just not international truckers.

There are tons of domestic trucking jobs.

And they can’t be international truckers anyways because the US won’t let them in without a vaccine.
https://archive.is/mPznY
Why do we write code ?

Code is not a goal. It's a tool. The tool can get better. But it will always be a tool and someone has to control the tool.

Writing code is super easy. It's the easiest part of our job.

The hard part of our jobs is to understand why we need to write code and right along that, what we write code for ?

Maintenance
Structuring
Domain knowledge
Refactoring

Those are hard things to do. And they are not solved by having a program writing code for you.
This is written like a death knell for stadia, but is it really?

If the tech can be white labeled and used elsewhere then it seems like the tech is less likely to be killed off, not more. Nothing about this necessitates killing the gaming service.
It's interesting how effectively the J&J PR department keeps steering these lawsuits back to talc that is contaminated with asbestos, even though they're well aware that uncontaminated talc also causes cancer.

A while back, I read that J&J has access to special uncontaminated talc mines.
Right, so that potentially 4x increase from skipping the booster takes it to 0.08% total mortality risk, which is 20% of my total overall risk.

You're saying you don't think trading vaccine side effects for a 20% lower risk of death is a good trade? I mean, this seems like a no brainer to me. Are you really saying this is a bad choice?
Have activist groups also been booted off other platforms such as Mastadon, Matrix and Gettr? Will Facebook shadow ban people for linking to competitors?
<<Firstly, stop this rubbish about getting old; with current life expectancies I wouldn't even consider someone middle aged until they are their forties. Old is probably late sixties to seventies. You still have a long way to go :-)>>

Definitely agree here. When you look at it from a "midlife" angle, let's use some round numbers. Let's say that life is really kicking into high gear as you finish college at ~20yrs old. Make another guess as to the mortality event at ~80yrs.
A 60 year diff, so 20+diff = ~50 as the midpoint. You're only halfway there and there is an infinity of experiences and things to learn out there.

As many have surmised, if you are having trouble getting out of bed to face the day, you could be clinically depressed.
Indeed.

Nevermind how vastly more expensive MOW costs are for electrified lines.
I've spent many hours looking for open-source geo data sets, but don't recall finding any that preserve the raw ECEF. Anyone know of any?
Shame on whoever thinks the salary difference goes to the education management companies behind the charter school movement. (Looking at you, Edison Schools failing the young people of Philadelphia!)
Good point about CA’s primaries, I forgot about that quirk. But that only makes her permanence worse. By 2024 she might not be alive or too tiered, she’s not young, but she’s not in danger. Shes been senator since 1992!

My SV comment is not that the proles (that includes tech workers) in San Fran care for her, but tech power in SV is allied with her from a decades long symbiotic relationship.
Spanking is when hit them repeatedly. Beating is when you hit people repeatedly.

The only difference is rituál around it.
This feels correct as a California transplant. The incumbents in a lot of verticals have taken entrenching to a new level. Prop 13 being the capstone.
It's not necessarily doing it in bulk that would make it cheap, it's basically turning it into an assembly line capable of doing a small amount of miles every year for ever cheaper cost.

American infrastructure projects tend to be super big, then don't do anything for 10+ years before you kickstart everything up again. This is a fairly poor idea if you want to keep knowledge around from the last time it was done.
You missed my point. I don't want my network to censor traffic. It is email traffic today, it could be web traffic tomorrow. If this trend holds, we would all live in walled gardens, and cede our power to the gate keepers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28139889

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736435
The federated nature of the several states is largely theoretical at this point. Truckers are certainly engaged in interstate commerce, which is explicitly federal jurisdiction, and when all else fails the magic passphrase -- "national security" -- neutralizes the effect of that pesky Constitution.
I have htmx running in production with a Django backend. It’s honestly like having a cheat code for web development. Simple, scalable code that does the job perfectly!
The United States already has below average class sizes, and spends 37% more per student than the average.

There is some evidence that large class sizes produce better results, and it would seem that whatever the US spends its education money on isn't working, because our students test much lower than our investment would predict.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd
When companies cannot innovate, they change their logo.
> She has multiple children who literally take off their clothes, flip over tables, and try to climb the fences of the school to leave every single day

All serious potential legal issues. Whatever happened to expulsion? No way I'd accept students like that. If your child is that out of control they're your problem to deal with.
A water bottle of the right size I found is much more important than it seems.
I had pretty much the same experience that you mentioned:
too big and I don't use it, too small and I can't be bothered to refill everytime.
>Also, if the game company goes down, your NFT is useless, so it's hardly a token of ownership.

That's hardly limited to gaming implementations of NFTs.
Two things I would have liked to see added to this article:

1) regarding state differences in pay, how does that compare to cost of living? California pays more than Florida, sure but its cost of living is higher also (https://www.insure.com/cost-of-living-by-state.html). Looking at how cost-of-living-adjusted pay varies between states would be more informative. California probably still pays more, but how much more? It's like comparing housing costs now and 20 years ago without adjusting for inflation.

2) how many of these teachers are leaving the profession entirely, vs. going into private or religious schools or tutoring? Knowing that would help tease out how much of the issue is due to how the public schools are administered, vs. how much they are afraid of contracting covid-19, vs. whatever else.

3) how does the labor shortage in teaching compare to the labor shortage generally? The article gives the impression that it's worse, and I could believe it, but I'd like to see some comparisons.

What the article had was a lot of quotes, and not much in the way of facts or good analysis. Which is probably because the reporter in question had 1 hour to write it, perhaps from their bedroom or their parents' basement, before they had to move on to the next article. Disclaimer: I have no facts to back up that last sentence.
It's a fact that this implementation is "useless" without correct behavior for repeated letters? Seems like most people wouldn't even notice.
Ah, so it’s like sending a satoshi known to be involved in trading drugs, to make adversary’s account linked to illegal activity?
The inability to discipline children I think has greatly contributed to the power and balance for teachers in the classroom. It means bullying, and misbehavior can just fester.
Security and Insecurity of Email
Indeed, switching is a perfect application for this technology.
Yes, when I talked about discord in the last paragraph, I actually meant "something like discord, with the same level of popularity" - which doesnt exist though. Discord itself would never implement such a feature, they are all about the lock-in effect.
Russiagate would be just one example. And of course when they said Joe Rogan was taking horse dewormer.
Total opposite experience, much better to watch the Olympics nowdays than back in the days. I can watch whatever I want. idk where you live but at least in Europe, EuroSport Player you can watch all events, no ads, and any kind of commentary or non at all. https://www.eurosportplayer.com/olympics
No offense but you and the people downvoting me don't seem to understand blockchains very well. If TPS is all that matters then there would be no need for a blockchain, just use a traditional database.

As someone who's been in the blockchain space for 8 years I've seen numerous scamcoins become popular because they lure people in with claims of high TPS. High TPS isn't actually that hard of a problem. High TPS with decentralization and security IS hard.

Case-in-point, blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum limit TPS on purpose specifically because they care about decentralization. After all, that's the whole point of a blockchain.

I would encourage you and the people downvoting to read up on a few things.
1) The blockchain trilemma.
2) Why Bitcoin and Ethereum limit transaction speed and block size.
3) Layer 2 Rollups (zkRollups) that offer an actual solution to transaction speeds without sacrificing decentralization.

In summary, my point is that judging a blockchain by the standards of a traditional database is like judging a traditional database by the standards of a filesystem. Sure they both store data and yes a filesystem might store data faster but there are other constraints that make them fundamentally different (like ACID transactions).
And don't forget the part where you have to get the majority of your neighbors to do the same.
The JuliaCon 2021 banner can be found here (https://juliacon.org/2021/). It says "JuliaCon 2021 (with JuMP-dev) was online and virtual 28th to 30th of July, 2021. Check out all the recorded talks on Youtube". A google search query for the phrase "Julia is the fastest high-level programming language" finds no hits.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Julia+is+the+fastest+high...

Please have some intellectual honesty or share some links as apparently you know where to find some things that Google does not know about.
This makes sense to me (and matches the facts I've found) -- when folks talk about private industry being "more efficient" they often mean cheaper, which also often means those near the bottom rung are the worst paid relative to work and experience. It's unnecessarily explosive and results in qualified and motivated teachers leaving the industry prematurely.
The checks and balances here is the appeals process, which fails when the cost of appealing isn't worth it. It will always be the case where a judge can calibrate a decision to be under the cost of appealing. Which is why it is important to have judges be moral and wise...who don't let their egos get in the way and restrain themselves, instead of forcing you to pay any cost to check them.
You're right, I am. At that point half the work becomes shifting around who is responsible for the error message such that you can finally figure out that some firewall wasn't configured correctly.
If it helps, these documents were not written down by the authors but by a professional scribe whose job it was to write a beautiful page, or to keep trying until it was just so.

The handwriting in historical letters, while still often beautiful, was not perfect and had errors.
Except that the next Olympics are due to be held in France, Italy, USA, Australia - and only one of those is partly an authoritarian nation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_Games_host_cit...
While it’s possible that selfishness is involved in some way, reducing it to selfishness alone is unnecessarily judgmental. Examining the source of that selfishness would be more helpful for someone like OP who wants to understand/change.

Selfishness can come from many places. The need for self preservation is not inherently bad or wrong. But when it surfaces in a context like this, it provides an opportunity for someone like the OP to understand themselves better. We’re not competing for the last scrap of food, and so these instincts don’t always serve us well.

I grew up in a traumatic environment. My self preservation instincts are highly attuned. This led to some default behaviors that some would label selfish. I’m now one of the most helpful people I know, as shared by those around me and I find great satisfaction in it.

This didn’t come naturally, and I had to cultivate the mindset. I wasn’t selfish because I didn’t want to help people, I was selfish because I was afraid of my own failure and the perceived ramifications of that failure (ultimately: loss of income and starvation).

I eventually learned that being helpful can be one the most self preserving things I can do, because it helped me built a support system that now stands strong.

Selfishness is a symptom, not necessarily the cause. It’s worth examining, but saying “stop being selfish” could be as useful as saying “stop being depressed” if the source is something deeper.
Your broader post shows that you actually care to someone soliciting feedback and I know you didn't solicit any yourself but I hope I could add some value. You're trying to give the gift of perspective but the tone is just awful to receive, their feelings are valid whether they has $5, $500k or $5M in the bank, it's just a feeling based on their own goals and perspective. You can build much better relationships and people will listen and respect you more if you lead with empathy. You can deliver a much more powerful message by saying "I know you feel inadequate today, I've felt that way too and it's really tough, but if you put things in perspective you are way ahead of your peers on things that really matter (money, life experiences, etc.)" That's what you were really saying anyway in the first 2 paragraphs.
Did you like the Qingping regular or Lite?
I opted for a low-power FM transmitter fed by the music player daemon (mpd). Zero latency, always synchronized, works with any stereo receiver I want, plenty of clients to choose from (web-based, mobile, etc.) to control the mpd.
The output is very polished and fast, I like it a lot.
Unfortunately it's not technically a single file as it depends on code downloaded from their server, therefore it can't be deployed locally without Internet connection.

From the forum:

"In terms of license, you don't need an internet connection. However, Files app loads it's own Javascript, CSS and several plugins from CDN (jsdelivr.com), and this requires internet. We already have a request to allow serving all assets locally (as an option), although in your case that might not be practical as this means Files app is essentially no longer a"single file", but multiple files that you need to be included with each installation (although you could assign a global path perhaps). In any case, for now it's not possible to load Files app without internet."
I agree completely. I'd also add that many people don't even have cable television now, so could they even watch the Olympics if the wanted to? I have not watched network television in about 10 years, I have netflix and another streaming service, and that's it. Does NBC have free online streaming? Even if they do, it's still outside most people's normal sphere of media consumption so they are probably less likely to look at it.
Ahh nice!

The thing that blew my mind when i ran into this was that the jvm had actually been NUMA aware for many years at that point but it was all turned off by default. This was jdk8 days so things are probably better now.

After i figured the root cause, I spent about a day logging results in excel as i tested various GC options, the only saving grace was i recall the Oracle documentation for GC options and their NUMA effects was pretty good. That optimisation time was really well spent though, i got meaningful improvements in both service latency and throughput.
> For ports where they are double-stacking containers onto well cars, overhead wiring would be challenging, and you still need all-new locomotives.

That's not really a big challenge; this is something done globally on a daily basis. Typically you either have an entirely unelectrified siding and shunt in/out of it, or you have only the near end of the siding electrified and propel the cars into the siding.
People getting rowdy on planes is probably due to the onerous pre-flight experience. I haven't heard about people getting rowdy on trains, but they have the same masking requirements.
Off topic rant, BUT I'm gonna...

What is this? Why is it so much faster, and mobile friendly layout than either Twitter.com or their mobile app? And why does Twitter.com spam me with an overlay telling me to use the mobile app before I can see a tweet? Why do they care so much about me using the mobile app that I get spammed everytime I click a twitter.com link, only on mobile?
Ok. I'd be interested in the following benchmark: A program that reads in a large map of key-value pairs; it then reads in a list of keys, and produces a list of values (order of the output is not important). The map can be modeled by e.g. a red/black tree.

I'd be interested in the performance in Haskell, if it was implemented using a number of worker threads (each with their own reference to the map), versus the best implementation you can think of in HVM.
How is meat eating viewed in your social group?
R reminds me a lot of matlab. Used mainly for compatibility/libraries/ecosystem but still a frustrating interpreted language at its core.
Tesla FSD beta crashes into object [video]
Ah yes, the other J&J: Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
Some years ago a met a brand manager from the Radeberger Group in the train.

That time I learned that about 50% of the worldwide breweries are from Germany. Within Germany about 50% of the breweries are based in Franconia.

You should not mixup brands and breweries. Because there a big breweries, which own a lot of different brands.

So what I see from this database a lot of data from Franconian breweries is missing and other data is just wrong.
Dog speaking mediocre English won't take my job (yet).
What are people washing that it doesn't wash off?! Or maybe it's just cheap machines that are that sensitive?

The only time things ever come out dirty for me is when the rotor is obstructed and half the dishes don't get any water (or detergent) on them, and that's on eco mode.
I don't think that having some proof is too much to ask.

Press freedom is important because it can keep in check the other branches of power. But it shouldn't be so free as to be able to publish known lies.
What does civilians owning firearms have to do with a well-trained military force taking over the seats of power?
You may want to check out substitute2 which is much easier to use.

https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/reference/substitute...
NFT Wedding
Same here, unfortunately all of my friends hated Worms growing up and begged me to play anything else when we got together. Over 13+ years of owning and playing Worms, I think I've gotten through maybe 2 rounds of the game against other people I knew. At this point it's an inside joke, if we're particularly bored I'll suggest that we boot up Worms Reloaded, and all of the sudden my friends will find better things to do.
All those Worms, Overcooked 1+2, and Moving out. Team 17 makes amazing local multiplayer games. Especially Overcooked on Switch was great to play with friends on the living room TV. I wouldn't be surprised if T17 suffers from the pandemic because for me, they are the definition of games to play with friends (and not alone).