skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ghost Pi – an unconventional backup solution
The analogy to pacifiers may be overly condescending (equating adults to children), but in general I have adopted the view that smartphone usage in public is essentially second-hand smoke, and that hopefully within the next 1-2 decades the public will finally begin to recognize this as widespread addiction and begin setting some limits.

I got into computers when I was in early elementary school, and that began my track toward exploration and software development. There's no doubt that my mom's worries of me being addicted to the computer were absolutely true - entire summers were spent on the computer.

What's different about computer addiction and smartphone addiction is that computer usage is more limited in where you can do it. My computer-addicted young self would not have been able to whip out a desktop computer at a restaurant, barbershop, or waiting in line to pick up an order. But with smartphones essentially being "pocket computers", people can use them anywhere - even driving.

I do believe in personal choice, so I don't want to be heavy handed, but I imagine our society will need to grapple with this problem. I see couples on dates with each other in restaurants, both on their phones nearly the entire time scrolling through endless feeds. I watch sports events where any small break in play people need to pull out their phones. There is no presence anymore, and public space (along with suburbanization) has rapidly eroded over the past 10-15 years since smartphones were invented. Now commercials for phones/5G normalize the idea that you should be able to download/stream a movie on your phone walking down a sidewalk.

There's a balance that needs to be struck here, and it's going to be difficult to reach because we're still relatively in the infancy of these fancy electronic gadgets. Particularly in the US where individualism and personal choice is so deeply part of our culture, it will be difficult to restore the public space so that we can come to expect if you go out in public, people are actually... present and there. But somehow we eventually came to the same conclusion with banning smoking in restaurants et. al.
> But it's also our window into basically the entire wealth of human knowledge

If you're consuming all of your coverage through reddit, I think you're conflating one side's propaganda with "knowledge".
It (the internet) used to be a window into a wealth of human knowledge, but at the current state of things it is merely another vector to help you mainline <insert large company's> propaganda engine and, for most that don't run ad blockers, stuff you full of advertisements.

Ten, maybe 15 years ago your statement would have been more true, but the internet has become progressively smaller and the content more curated by big money interests than any time in the past.
> we analyze the brain activity of 102 healthy adults, recorded with both fMRI and source-localized magneto-encephalography (MEG). During these two 1 h-long sessions the subjects read isolated Dutch sentences composed of 9–15 words. After quantifying the signal-to-noise ratio of the brain responses, we train a variety of deep learning algorithms, extract their responses to the very same sentences and compare their ability to linearly map onto the fMRI and MEG brain recordings. Finally, we assess how the training, the architecture, and the word-prediction performance independently explains the brain-similarity of these algorithms and localize this convergence in both space and time.

> We find that (1) a variety of deep learning algorithms linearly map onto the brain areas associated with reading, (2) the best brain-mapping are obtained from the middle layers of deep language models and, critically, we show that (3) whether an algorithm maps onto the brain primarily depends on its ability to predict words context

This is really cool research! Imagine wearing a VR like headset that records fMRI/MEG signals and then instantly transcribes the words you’re thinking of into your text editor. Neuralink may have some competition eventually if these findings generalize and can be used in a wearable fashion?

On another note, I believe masked language modeling was originally proposed in the BERT paper (Devlin et al 2019), as a way to learn contextual word embeddings using a transformer architecture (ie autoencoder with denoising reconstruction objective).

This paper seems to suggest the brain may behave somewhat like a denoising autoencoder. If these correlations can be leveraged, the implications could be staggering.
clojure has pretty good infrastructure for hosting new programming languages that can benefit from standard syntax, data structures and information model (immutability / abstract map reduce), foreign call conventions, macros, js/jvm targets. at hyperfiddle we are developing a multi-tier programming language specialized for server streamed user interfaces and hosting it with clojure lets us inherit a ton of free infrastructure, ecosystem, community and immediate commercial utility (which gets you serious use cases quickly - so important)
different banks? - Yes.

different times - No.
Physically Based Rendering was a great primer into linear algebra, statistics, sampling theory and whatnot. It's also available online for free these days: https://pbr-book.org/
> Strategically the Ukrainian border is kind of like Russia's jugular.

How true is this since circa 1950, though? There are very few plausible scenarios involving a ground invasion and most of Russia is exposed to modern weaponry so it’s not like the primary threat is a bunch of B-52s flying out of Kyiv. It’s true that distance affects reaction times but they already have similar range borders & submarine launches substantially affected that, too.
https://sliv-top.translate.goog/2022/02/26/top-sliv-vseh-voe...
Or may see a shortage in capacitors, resistors, transistors....there will always be a weak link and for most it has been chips. If we shift towards an oversupply and we will as with such lead time to lets build a fab to lets use that fab, markets change momentum. SO you get growth, then shrink back to balance out supply, then some spike via some event or demand and the pulse of industry moves on.

What will be more interested in is how the supply chain changes and will we see a more cautious approach to just in time, offloading warehousing to suppliers or will we see a more granular balance. So that will be interesting going ahead and may well see initial oversupply delayed filling up those buffers.
I really like crafting interpreters. It walks through 2 implementations of a minimal language. It's also free to read online https://craftinginterpreters.com/
I don't need to, mr. creates-strawmen-to-try-to-avoid-the-real-discussion. Many people already hold the view that certain financial activities reduce to the freedom to speak or pursue happiness. It didn't come from me. Good luck convincing anyone that you've ever experienced real threats to your human rights.
Discovery of ultrafast myosin, its amino acid sequence, and structural features
But then you need to alias every single command
Some games like blackjack, roulette, etc still have physical versions.

Obviously, a casino should never be seen as a money-making option but as an entertainment option. Walk in with a set budget you are happy to lose and don’t gamble beyond that. Most will allow you to set a limit and they won’t let you buy chips beyond that even if you tried.

Drinks are very cheap even in high cost of living places so if you can control your gambling (which is more difficult than you imagine - speaking from experience here - that’s how casinos make their money) you can get relatively cheap entertainment. They’re also open until very late (some are 24/7) which is a nice perk.
Update 3 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
> I have to say I always had mixed feelings (if not just hostility) towards the academic publishing industry, so I was actually happy my papers were available there.

You can pretty much always make your own papers available. Some journals are ok with you hosting copies on your personal website, and none of them can legally prevent you from distributing the accepted manuscript, either on your website, things like ResearchGate or repositories like Arxiv.
> "they despise systemd"

That's really not true. We just don't use it.

The reason is that GNU Shepherd is also written in Guile, so we can extend it with code that's already in Guix, e.g. for containerization of services.

Nobody can claim that the Shepherd is objectively better or more feature rich than systemd. It's not. Nor is it more "unixy" --- it most definitely is not. If systemd-haters come to Guix because they despise systemd and want something small and simple they won't be happy with the Shepherd.
Russians are just one of dozens of nationalities in Russian Federation.
I did that on my old TouchBar Mac too, life saving. As soon as they brought out one with an escape key I replaced it. And again when the new ones came out with no TouchBar at all. What a farce the TouchBar was.
this is a very shallow reading of the point

you correctly appreciate the structural way in which the argument works.

but you still do not seem to want to see the underlying subltety; that death and life are merely parts of the same larger entity and that our language (our rationalist analytical way of thinking) makes us "miss the forest for the trees", to focus on life and death as opposing rival forces when in fact they're different edges(ends, or sides) of the same larger phenomenon.
For anyone not in on the joke, this is a real crypto concept/weakness/attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-in-the-middle_attack (obviously only a joke with rot13). It's most famously the reason that 3DES is a thing, instead of just double.
There was a recent claim from the Anonymous of a similar dump... which turned out to be a fake. Is it the same ?
I’m going to go back to all the dealers that ignored me and make them beg for my business.
Right, I've seen "an LTS set of packages would be nice" as a point before, I agree that it would be good to have.. but I think the communities for this are too small to support it.

I've not used Guix, but have used Nix.

> I must be missing the point a bit

In terms of reproducing how software is built/run? At the risk of starting a flamewar, I believe one of the reasons use of Docker is so popular is how easy it made it to deploy software in a way that you've got confidence it will run the same way.

But I'd suggest a point worth considering about Nix/Guix is more that advantages like "reproducible package behaviour" or "straightforward installation rollback" etc. are easy with Guix or Nix, but difficult to get elsewhere (or even benefits you can't get with other tooling).
I don't really see how anything changed. The strategic criticality of the Ukrainian coast hasnt changed. The Russian position on NATO hasnt changed.

From day 1 of the invasion it seemed clear to me that their goal was not to occupy all of Ukraine but to "break" it and potentially to cleave off strategic pieces in negotiations and extract a promise of neutrality/demilitarization.
In the story, they tell the audience that he weaved a false narrative to the public about super computers. There's no reason not to believe that this is also a fabrication.
At least in the US, I'm of the opinion that the government leaning into "stablecoins", and letting private industry launch several different versions of these is the best path forward (and most likely path).
So now we're talking about Mexico? You specifically stated that you were in the U.S. and talking about the U.S. in your original comments. I'm starting to believe that you are in neither, or have only a tourist's experience in either.

in mexico but you can't use USD

This is completely the opposite of my experience in Mexico, which is mostly in Chihuahua and TJ. I've never had any problems using USD in Mexico, and some people actually preferred it. And while plastic was widely accepted, cash was absolutely king.

I haven't been to Mexico since just before the pandemic started, but I don't believe the situation has changed all that much in that short a time.
I have a very hard time believing that a roulette wheel could have a contingent bias such that the next outcome depended on the previous one

The funny thing about Roulette is not the hardware but the fact that the random sequence begins with a human being.

I can honestly believe that a bored roulette croupier could reproduce an outcome by consciously (or unconsciously) releasing the ball with the same velocity and direction at the same wheel speed. When you do the job for hours on end wouldn't it be plausible that there's some amount of muscle memory that takes over?

Having watched a few a work in my lifetime it sure seems like they even take it as a challenge to try and work up duplicate numbers. Maybe as a 'fuck the house' move, a cure for boredom, or perhaps a way to drum up more business when you get a streak on the tote board? Who knows.
It’s not a good look at the moment to Start off with a Russian justification of the war and then present an abnormal take on the popular among non-oil dependents green new deal, a plan that just so happens to be very inconvenient for oligarchs in old fashioned gas economies that want to continue spewing CO2 like it’s 1950 - like Russia
If they don’t have social security number (or ID) they can’t be protected by the Geneva convention
You see one now. Open your eyes :)

Willing to have an honest conversation if you don't derail it with self-aggrandizing, pre-emptive character assassination based on incredibly tenuous associations.

Right wingers love to rail against cancel culture but have yet to fully recognize that they have employed the tactic forever with exactly the deflectionary style as above.

Ready to talk when you are but I won't hold my breath. If you decide to engage please bring something other than a parrot trained on police press releases.
For anyone who doesn't recognize the story by the description, click the link and read it now.

And then read the rest of the stories on the site.

They're all both extremely technically interesting and very good short fiction.
I believe you misapprehend the crisis if you believe the outcome will be solely determined in the west’s choosing or not choosing to “let Russia.”

The west is doing much more, at significant risk of escalation, than could have been reasonably hoped.

I would not have dared hope that all Europe would brave openly shipping weapons to kill Russian soldiers. But even Germany has found this courage.
Why would they ban you for losing?
Of course, you can save yourself a ton of trouble by implementing your language on top of the GCC toolchain — the purpose for which it was invented.

Or you can write a translator which converts yourLang into existinglang, then interpret/compile the latter.

Or you can write an interpreter, which is generally less effort than a compiler.

All these are less ambitious undertakings than the full set of subtasks you enumerate.
As I recall this was part of Walt's visions and plans for Epcot and never really came anywhere because everyone thinks Disney is a nice place to visit but almost nobody would want to live there.
Well first of all this wouldn't be the cosmonauts' job to begin with. They're not in control of the GNC -- the mission control is.
It's not whataboutism - when intermittent energy sources are offline you need to have either storage or backup energy source. Fossil fuel (or biomass) sources are good at spinning up quickly, so it makes sense to assume that pushing renewables without storage is effectively pushing burner power plants.

And observed practice in Germany confirms this. Or do you have real data pointing in other direction? Say, period of low output from solar & wind which resulted in anything else than using mostly (imported) fossil-fueled electricity?

EDIT to illustrate:

https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...
- emission factor of Germany's power generation was for several days (during the selected week) far above EU average (https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/overview-...)
On the contrary your whole goal should be to avoid the exceptions.
Meta and YouTube block Russian state media from monetizing on its platforms
Python from Guix has been extended to respect the GUIX_PYTHONPATH variable. If a module you installed via Guix isn't found in your Python from Guix then that's what I'd check. Guix sets this variable (via the generated etc/profile) when you have Python installed.

One thing you shouldn't do or expect to be able to do: mix Python modules installed with your system's toolchain with those installed via Guix.
The point is either to learn some new stuff in a semi-practical environment or build an environment where you can host things that are impractical to host in the cloud. Things like home assistant or whatever.
Maybe, but it's the truth. Most events don't matter on a local or individual level and having access to global news updated every single second is a very recent development, one that seems to be contributing to an incredible amount of anxiety and stress for many people/society as a whole.

Perhaps a more reasonable approach is reading the news once a week. You stay informed, but it's not something you worry about daily.
there are no powerlines in city. everything is underground iirc. if you see any lines it's power for trams
Solution: make a shopping list and stick to it. Works in all retail selling formats.
You could try FB marketplace. I have seen MSRP floating around for quite the last few months. I haven’t purchased one really because most of my friends are either on PS4 or Xbox 1
Secretum Secretorum – The Secret Book of Secrets
I think it’s a cultural and technical thing. But still, it’s weird hearing that people leave the water on and this “navy” shower isn’t the norm. Perks of growing up in a communist country, with constant outages.
You’ll always find a reason the latest crisis is worth being scared of. But we’re just going to go from one crisis to the next so we need a way to make peace with that.

I think CS Lewis explained it well when the atomic bomb was created:

> In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”
> all face social unrest for the push toward Green New Deal, for the impoverishment off the middle class etc, a war silence such unrest and justify all issue "they are due to the war";

This is a very odd choice of words and it’s certainly not the case that these are unrelated given Russia’s heavy reliance on fossil fuel sales. It’s very easy to imagine an EU-wide campaign to stick it to Putin by electrifying your HVAC and only buying EVs, for example, or a push to electrify the remaining rail lines so the transportation grid can be powered by renewables.
Your position does not pass the test of logic. There are much simpler ways to achieve that without risking any Russian lives.
Enum Variant Types
It’s a tiny country with a very good university. I am not surprised at all.

> maybe there's some students who are randomly downloading all papers they're interested in?

You pretty much have to operate that way anyway. There is just too much stuff to do the old-fashioned “read one paper, get its references, and repeat”. It is much better to get many articles, and then sort them by degree of interest using things like abstracts, main figures, conclusions, etc, before reading them fully. It does increase the number of downloads significantly.
I had the same thought. This looks over engineered and much harder to read than explicitly passing dependencies.
Yes, but this point is kind of moot given that it was NATO membership expansion in the first place to start the tensions.

You can look up articles from 2008 and see that even Germany (Angela Merkel) was adamantly opposed to Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO, because there was no credible threat from Russia and she knew this would create instability in Europe. The fact that there was no credible Russian threat is easily confirmed if you do a Google search for "ukraine russia" before 2008: you hardly find anything noteworthy. The whole narrative only changed around 2014.

Now we're at the situation where the Ukrainian people, and also Russians and the entire Europe (at least economically), are paying huge costs because we couldn't avoid seconding foolish US foreign policy choices.
Russia and Ukraine: Grassroots Resistance to Putin’s Invasion
Did Chinese laborers on the Yangtze pay someone to whip them?
For nebula, if you run the coordination server yourself (lighthouse or moon), obviously the concern I mentioned is not applicable. It will be self hosted; the company is not even involved to be responsible for anything.

My comment applies only if Slack provides the lighthouse. I don’t know if it does; usually the company operates a default one for users and provides the option to self host it as well (Tailscale does not offer one, but there is third party code).
Such as? With respect to NATO membership it was fairly plain that everything from asking nicely all the way up to 200,000 troops deployed on the border wasnt enough to deter either NATO or Zelensky.