skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% .. I love google trips but it can be improved by a lot. I'm afraid of giving my email access to anybody else apart from Google (only because they already have my mail). Ability to collaborate and add other events etc on google trips would be great.
I do too. But not with promotions. With the ability to job hop. But it’s not to “help the company”.
The article cited from Wikipedia that notes his death links to a documentary film about his work (including interviews with him):

Christopher Alexander - Life in Buildings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKO3vYjZbcs
The amazing thing to me is: They removed the headphone jack 6 years ago and people are still complaining about it. I have a feeling, 20 years from now, some of these people will be sitting in their old-folks homes, not remembering who their kids are, but will still be complaining about Apple getting rid of their headphone jacks. I've never seen such attachment to a feature.
How much money did this cost everyone else?
> Is there a zotero discussion forum where I'd have a chance of getting questions like this answered from experts?

Yep, post to the Zotero Forums at https://forums.zotero.org with any questions.
so open a vege garden. If everyone does their part to grow more and buy less, no shortage, no problem. Even if you have an apartment, you can grow some simple things in pots if you have a window
I'm praying they start supporting h266 soon because mankind progress matters more than politics.
This looks cool!
One thing that gave me pause was, when granting permissions what is the "act on my behalf" that ByteLegend needs?
The problem with "free software" definitely exists as well but the intended meaning is still a plain English meaning of the word "free" but not the first one that comes to mind. Making it easier to correct "Free as in freedom, not as in beer." than "Please read the OSI definition of what 'open source' means." or still a bit confusingly "It's actually about the licensing of the source code and not the source code itself."

I agree it is still a problem - which is why "gratis" and "libre" see use to prevent the confusion and why I prefer the term "FLOSS".
EASA publishes a warn of intermittent GNSS outages near Ukraine conflict areas
> Topic 3 is ambivalent, how do you identify an contract?

It is not ambivalent. Most places have an account number. (It is needed because you might have more than one contract with the same company)
Not down, UK
Panasonic's tiny glasses-sized SteamVR goggles are coming this spring
This is really fast and cool. Looking for music-related pages, I've already found some interesting websites, like Wall of Ambient, which caters to ambient labels (https://wallofambient.com/#)

I noticed that if a term can't be found, there will be a random number of results that it says were found, but nothing is actually displayed. Eg: https://www.alexandria.org/?c=&r=&q=moonmusiq

I'll keep trying this out. It seems really promising
Agreed, NYT is a corporate puppet, and certainly not a left-wing actor.
This is all great, but I do not see any incentive for companies to roll out a broader solution. They will simply enable a workaround for their German customers and continue to abuse the rest of the world.
They do the same sort of thing on Audible, where I'm an on-again/off-again subscriber. In one of my temporary departures I went through those options too fast and only realized I hadn't actually cancelled when I received the following month's CC charge.
> I'm really not sure what studies you're referring to (?)

We did multiple usability studies over years for a company I worked at that built a very popular mobile app. The tests were standard usability test format, where we'd ask a user to complete a task and then just say "go" and figure it out. Times where the user had to find something in the hamburger menu, when we replaced the 3 lines with words like "MENU" or "MORE" always tested better.

Designers pretty much universally hated the text version, and I do appreciate the localization challenges, but the results weren't ambiguous.
I see so many comments about how pay is half of what it is in the US, London is just as expensive, and there is a shortage of engineers in London.

So what dark economic magic is causing this?
I think people should expand what "desirable" means to them. There's a ton of suitable houses all over the country. Everyone seems to need to own a SFH in a trendy part of a trendy city.
Thank you!

I had personally not used stores a lot before, but realized how powerful they were in the project. I would try to abstract away as much as possible of the Firebase stuff and having your components talk to the store as data source. This makes it a lot easier for real-time stuff to work right (but also auth, you want to make sure to update state across the page once users log in or out).
I like it when it's done well (maybe in an underhanded manner) but that was facile.
Yes you're right! Thanks for the clarification. Scott does address this in his blog/article.

It's been almost 5 months since I read the article.

Scott does attribute numerous references to the original postulators after looking again.

Via Scott's article plus numerous links:

" As several doctors and researchers have pointed out (h/t especially Avi Bitterman and David Boulware)"

* https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

* https://twitter.com/AviBittMD/status/1461076939192602628
> an invented fact that these were the Navy's "top pilots"

I don't think it is an invented fact. Top is ambiguous and has to refer to >50 percentile at a minimum. A commander of a squadron of f18s in the navy that graduated the navy's top gun program is most definitely above the 50th percentile (I would argue he would be in a very elite group of pilots that is much better than just half of others).

I definitely don't support condescending comments, but you too were dismissive.

There are multiple plausible hypothesis to explain these things, just dismissing the whole conversation as not worth discussing or being impossible seems very unscientific.
I've got Ansible playbooks that allow me to keep all my systems tools synchronized, rsync to keep my files backed-up and copied across systems and a friend's script to keep all my dot-files aligned.
For applications that are performance limited by memory bandwidth,
the M1 Ultra should perform at 85% of a 3090 given their respective
bandwidth of 800 GB/s versus 936.2 GB/s.

People using such applications where additionally power efficiency is paramount, such as memory hard proof-of-work, should be very keen in seeing whether the M1 Ultra lives up to its promise...
I think I mostly agree with you, but I definitely have a set of apps that I install for only trips.

I had a trip back in November with 6 people in total, and plenty of sub-groups going off to do stuff, along with full-group reservations with fixed times. It would have been helpful to have something like this instead of having to search a text thread repeatedly to work out when dinner reservations are and on which days.

One specific idea - There's apps like this where if I could pay a sort of "rental" fee to create a calendar for one event instead of a full time subscription, that would be great. I don't do big group trips that need something like this all the time, but I'd maybe pay $10 or such for access for 2 months for 4-8 people.

One really important feature for me would be some good time-zone support as well, both for trips that may span different time zones, and for converting from local to remote trip times.
Life imitates art – specifically the Las Vegas-based surreal pseudo-mega-market "Omega Mart", which offers "Americanized Beef" in red, white, & blue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROOGLYvQdDs
The False Promise of Arming Insurgents: US' Spotty Record Warrants Caution in UA
Also voice controls, although these days you should be able to do that on the device.
Also be extremely skeptical of people who lump together lawyers, financiers, doctors, and executives; they are all very different types of jobs with very different pay structures and hourly/daily/weekly schedules. It's just as inane as lumping in restaurant servers with longshoremen.

And be even more extremely of people who lump in upper-middle-class white-collar wage earners with the "super rich". It's just as inane as lumping in people living on welfare checks and people who work a blue collar job on a union salary.

Given the cost of living nowadays in major US metro areas where those professions are concentrated, only a rarefied tiny fraction of people in those professions can make enough money to be richer than "comfortably upper-middle-class" anyway. Things of course are different in areas where houses cost $300k and not $1.3m, but they make comparatively less in those areas anyway.

Finally, lawyers, doctors, and (some) financiers do absolutely work 50-80+ hour weeks. Maybe not every week, but certainly more than a few weeks out of the year. And rarely do they have a "down" week. And not all of those hours are "billable". These people are paid not just for their expertise but their ability to grind through hours and hours of tedious and tiring knowledge work.

Perhaps they are overpaid in relation to people who work with their hands, but that is a completely separate discussion.

The point is that it's insulting and fallacious to claim that people in these careers do not work long hours, and therefore it's insulting and fallacious to conclude that susceptibility to burnout in these careers is exaggerated.
This is definitely a lesson to me to include sources in footnotes - I think my source here was googling "energy usage ethereum transaction" and using the info card at the top of the search page, which appears to be from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/bitcoin-consume-more-... and... is an outdated and not great source.

Noted that my numbers for Ethereum are almost certainly not correct, but I think the point still stands that "the carbon footprint of crypto and blockchains depends hugely on which blockchain you're talking about"
Hopefully it will turn out to be a very shortsighted strategy.

I for one am not going to sign up again.

Still, there should be a rule that cancelling must be at least as easy as signing up.
Bosch is not a public company, probably helps against short-term thinking.
The Zestimate history for a condo I used to own is hilarious. There have been several sales of this property over 5 years, all at about the same price.

If you follow the Zestimate through time, it climbs rapidly until there is a sale, then it goes "oh shit" and plummets down to the sale price, which is barely different from the last time it was sold. This cycle repeats each time the property is sold.

Zillow is absolutely certain that this property should be rapidly increasing in value, no matter how many times it sells at about the same price it sold for last time.

When we sold the property, the agent told us it was in an awkward spot: too expensive for single people, not quite big enough for high-earning families. So it's stuck in price limbo as all the neighboring condos skyrocket.

Based on this experience, I remain convinced that there are micro-structural factors the fancy data science pricing models just can't seem to capture yet.
Trưng Sisters
If I can give any home buying tip from my experience of buying two houses it's been to look at places that are in "the middle". Both homes I've bought in SoCal have had some god-awful photos online, and the finish is new-ish, but done by someone in the 70s so it's new but tacky in a little-old-lady way.

This ends up pricing the house too expensive to flippers, and not nice enough to sell compared to other houses because it doesn't have the farmhouse sink and looks exactly like a grandma took out a home equity line and renovated (which is what happened).
-1 * -1 = 1

-1 * x =
-1 * x + 0 =
-1 * x + -x + 1*x =
(-1 + 1)*x + -x =
-x
Not a book but:

https://realpython.com/python-data-classes/
Almost the same for me using Brave, but the website pops in after ~30 seconds.
The types are usually ignored, but not entirely erased- Pydantic uses type hints to do validation at runtime, so if you construct a Pydantic object with invalid data it will throw an error, so eg

foo=PydanticFoo(**request.json())

Will try and validate a json request against the implied schema provided by the type hints on PydanticFoo while constructing it and will throw if it fails.
Exactly. It's ridiculous to jump to the assumption that judges are being paid off when they correctly interpreted the law as written.

The law needs to be changed, of course. But that's not up to the judges.
I am confused by this. When Pocket first appeared, I simply set my new tab to blank and haven't thought about it since unless I read the extreme vitriol. Is there something I am missing?
I think this is Buffet's first rule is "don't lose money" and his second rule is "don't forget the first rule."
$114/site though?
I was at Zillow for many years and left in 2020. On the tech side the pivot into iBuying was absolutely bonkers. The message from senior leadership was basically: I have no idea what your teams should be working on but it’s definitely not what they are currently working on so stop that and figure something else out.

This has nothing directly to do with their market failure but they probably are driven by the same leadership problems.
I love them, they make life easy and make great software. Why not pay a little for super usable software?
Kinda like https://carrd.co/ or https://about.me/ or https://linktr.ee/ ?
How's that "lobbying"? Isn't that just Big Meat paying for lawyers and winning a court-case? (Along with a brain-dead judge)
Because geopolitics cannot be explained by some "clash of values" or good vs. evil conflict. That stuff only happens in fiction.
Thank you for the kind words! I was thinking the same thing, I didn't really find a good solution for group trips and also wanted something where I can send a link after the trip to friends that wanted to go to the same place. If you recall the issues with the other sites, do let me know! I am interested to hear.
My family had an Electrolux vacuum cleaner through the 1970's and 80's and that thing was a tank.
I'll try to dig up the slide where they demonstrated it, but basically faster at equal quality than any software decoder of any codec.

Which is cool, but if you have hardware decode then you may not care, though software decode gets used in all sorts of weird places that you might not expect.
I am 100% sure I will never be asking for that.

Now, figuring out how to get a containerization platform running in there might be a different matter...
Voice memos. I feel like an old timey PI or wanna be author so it all works out.
The C-level distinction is irrelevant.

The question is business owner or not. While some CEOs are also business owners, many are not, particularly for publicly traded companies.

If you are the owner of a startup, constancy, or plumbing company you put in the hours you want to maximize company profit. It is your profit!

If you are an employee, (CEO or otherwise), you put the hours you want to maximize your compensation. If putting in 80 hours vs 40 hours has no impact on your pay stub, don't do it. you don't keep the extra profit...
Thunderbird is a separate and entirely voluntary project that Mozilla don't manage.

But even apart from Mozilla's lack of involvement, it's also a wildly different - and so incomparable - product (local email in a webmail dominated world, compared to a browser in a browser dominated world).

Thunderbird would absolutely be worse off if they didn't have that (great, well organised) facility.
You dont need a copy to Play openra
Maybe he meant "Cheap" compared to the extra cost of an M1 over a similarly performing AMD/Intel laptop?

What's the break-even point where your savings from electricity offsets the extra cost of an M1? A year? Two years?
yeah my mechanical keyboard doesn't improve my performance at all. But I think it feels better to type on and I like the clicky sound. If you use something all day might-as-well enjoy that thing
Are there jobs near those houses? Specialist doctors? Good schools?

I WFH so I could probably buy one of those houses, but most of my friends in my age bracket are expected to show up to an office 5 days a week, so those suitable houses are no good for them.
I'm still too much of a noob to comment on what the core selling points of blockchains are, but in my experience the core selling points vary a lot from person to person and decentralization is not always the most important concern.

(For example, one key selling point is that you can leverage all of the existing financialization tools that exist for that blockchain, even if your allocation of those tokens is centralized.)
Dual EC DRBG is the known backdoored curve. You have the links to the high level story in a sibling comment.

I would also like to add, however, that the possibility of a backdoor was patented by Scott Vanstone I think, and raised in NIST standardization process (and I suspect standardized under pressure from the NSA more than anything). Other negative facts that were raised include the fact that it sucks badly, i.e. compared to just about any other RNG, it performs very poorly. So the process isn't as bad as it looks.

DualEC was a backdoor, but not a very good one. People noticed the possibility and it sucks compared to literally anything else. The only people who used it appear to be customers of RSA Inc.

I would also like to add that Elliptic (not Elliptical, these are not the equations of ellipses) Curves, even the NIST ones, are not known to be backdoored and there's no evidence they contain any weaknesses at present. There are plenty of non-American cryptographers who are unlikely to keep any analysis a secret if they found such evidence, and I would say quite a few American ones who would also publish.
Reminds me of an old guy in knew back in the early 90's. His (quite nice) house was on a lot shaped like "well, that was the leftovers, after we gave all the other houses reasonable lots". Every year, the City tried to raise his property's assessed value by ~10% more than the neighborhood's average increase. And every time that his house sold (he had decades of records, to support his appeals of their over-assessments), it sold for ~50% of what the City wanted it to be worth. Now if he could have gotten the City to buy him out, for what their Assessment rulebook said his house was worth...

Edit: Added seemed-obvious final sentence.
> I'm imagining a scenario where two iBuyer companies try to outbid each other algorithmically, driving the prices further and further out of reach of people who are looking for a primary home.

But iBuyers are always low-balling. They are bidding under the asking price with an all-cash offer that they hope will make up in speed and ease what it lacks in price.

> It's not that uncommon to see nearly entire neighborhoods converted to short term rentals now in some areas where they're still legal. Hearing that really depressed me.

I lived in Lake Tahoe for ten years before AirBnB was a thing and three out of four homes there were absentee owners that only used them a few weeks a year. It made it a very hard place for small businesses to stay afloat. Most visitors stayed at big hotels or paid huge premiums for ad hoc "cabin rentals" through local realtors. The most depressing part was Halloween - kids hiking up and down steep hills to mostly empty houses. :)
+1 GP is top 2% of their generation but not necessarily top 2% of the area they're looking into. Sounds fairer when put that way.
Sounds like a good sci-fi story... Rebellion against the AI landlords.
Nim is a systems programming language [1] just with very decent ergonomics. Interfacing to C/C++ is trivial (just a declaration) and to others (e.g. Rust) is possible. E.g., there is code that interfaces to a custom Linux kernel module for fast file tree walking. [2] { That same github account has several other "systems programming in Nim projects" - low overhead syslogd, color ps/color top, ls, fast symspell/edit distances, a prototype search engine, an alternative to on-disk protobuffers with online random access, etc. There are also a lot over at https://github.com/treeform and surely many others. }

You can also export Nim impls to Python easily, though I very much agree Python's time in the sun is over (and I say this having been a user since ~1993). It now seems more a generator of problems/complexity than of simplifying solutions. Nim can also compile to Javascript letting you do both front- & back-ends in Nim.

Science is an almost unbounded fractal set of human investigations. Nim is usable for science (e.g. ask questions here [3]), but the ecosystem is undeniably much smaller than Julia or Python's. (Julia's is much smaller than Python's, and for some things R can be much bigger, actually.) So, a "depends what you need" caveat just has a much stronger "caveat force" here.

What "large, multi-dev" needs is honestly harder to say/more subjective/maybe manager-subjective. If it is "cheap, just out of school programmers with which to replace expensive, departing mess-makers", I think Java may have always had more plentiful options than Python. ;-) This is closer to a human-organization-complete kind of concern and almost intrinsically "very dependent upon circumstances/context". I just didn't want to ignore it. At least Stefan Salewski [4] thinks Nim is suitable or teaching people introductory programming, though.

[1] https://nim-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/cligen/dents.n...

[3] https://app.element.io/#/room/#nim-science:envs.net

[4] https://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html
Intel did make GPU recently, I think? I though they have at least improved from "Just don't play games on this" to "Plays if it isn't power hungry". Consider they are not really doing anything about gaming in the past 10(?) years. It is a decent improvement.
> But then I also spent 10 years not making much music because of that.

Because of the songs being locked away, or because of having to learn an entirely new software stack?

> I also work with artists who keep old 10.6 Macs around in case they'd have to perform one of their past songs.

Thanks to the various guild orgs from the early 2000s, many commercial filters from that time period were GPL time-bombed. Regardless, it was likely registered and is still held in the Trust's archive. Contact your local maker rep-- you may be able to make a commons release request and obtain the abandonware key from them.

Oops, wrong timeline...

glorp
We already have an MMORPG for learning programming, it's called Stack Overflow
It is great opportunity for local food shops growing and supermarket stagnation. Well... Same like it was before corpo food chains. Just notice how pictures show empty supermarkets, not small shops.

Those catastrophic news are quite annoying. No water, hot and fire everywhere, plagues, nuclear threats, war, no food... Give me a break, please. We are clever enough to deal with any problems that eventually come. Just do not give me simple soulutions for living.
Just because the energy consumption of Bitcoin increases doesn't mean that it becomes more secure.

If an entity owning 48% of the hashrate increases its computing power then would Bitcoin become more or less secure?
Also, where is the cannon/trebuchet attachment!

Hot Pockets are aerodynamically designed to be delivered directly to the mouth for most destructive effect. Short (napalm like cheese), medium (gaseous effect), and long term (myocardial infarction) impacts are improved at higher ordinance deliver rates.