skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really isn't. Most of my work is done in R and I need to be able to compile packages for both my own work and sometimes to use the latest features of other packages. Pretty much every big R and macOS release has resulted in SOMETHING breaking. It was Apple's choice to disable openMP in clang on macOS, Apple's choice to to enable hardened runtime forcing me to manually install R binaries that aren't notarized so I can actually debug my crap, Apple's choice to move the C++ headers again, etc. Apple's choice to require GDB to be signed to do anything with it. It just ate up tremendous amounts of my time for Apple's reasons.

Then you have other poor choices to deal with like being the only OS with no support for MTP out of the box, and most mind bogglingly can't even adjust volume of HDMI/DP devices.
I said that the hate is overblown and unwarranted. That's not the same as saying it shouldn't exist; rather I was hoping to hear some good counterpoints to help me understand why some people dislike them to the point of hatred.
Very true, but things get messy when one wants to dim/control say power at an mVA level and still do so at domestic mains voltage (in my example, the feed to the building is 3 mVA). At that power vacuum tubes require many kV anode voltage which isn't helpful when running loads that have to run at domestic mains voltage for safety reasons. Also with dimmer circuits one often has hundreds of channels, until solid state came along using vacuum tubes would have made the electronics very complicated not to mention highly inefficient.

Another reason for using magnetic amplifiers is their utter reliability - they just don't fail (being so simple). In fact, they're still used in some industrial applications specifically for that reason (unlike the Alexanderson alternator which was a
monster to operate and keep reliable - but then they each served different purposes).

BTW, I'm not anti vacuum tube as for part of my career I worked with FM and TV transmitters. Even today, replacing, say, a 4CX10000D vacuum tube with a solid state equivalent is certainly no easy feat.
>but the actual quote is "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination."

False - "Kendi is an open advocate for race-based discrimination, arguing that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” https://nypost.com/2021/07/22/ibram-x-kendi-is-the-false-pro...

>Their claim is that we're already living in a discriminatory system in which the only way to achieve equity is discrimination against that existing bias in the system.

You can't discriminate against bias. You're right that they support the concept of using discrimination to achieve equity though. That is literally the whole point.
Money is a representation of someones debt, for without debt money could not exist. "Modern money is debt and debt is money".
As a freshman EE I suggested this as a potential source of power. Got bad marks on the assignment.

There's nobody to give this research group bad marks.
That's the point; VW puts out the "VW Golf", not the "Bugatti Golf", for a reason.
I found Bernstein’s Against The Gods shallow and blasphemous.
> Dave knows to stay off the channel (otherwise he will cause interference)

What would be the Bob-Alice-Dave equivalent to replacing the network hub with a switch?
the James Herriot series is a good, light-hearted (if not outdated) intro to the veterinary industry.
What is your point? My point is that if, at some point in the last 40 years, the phrase "being disappeared" became synonymous with the Dirty War in Argentina, most Americans did not get that memo. Whether or not I myself was ignorant of the connection is a moot point, the post I replied to claimed that the article's author should have been aware of the connection - to which I say, if that's the hill you choose to die on, be my guest, but I can assuredly say I'm not alone neither is the article's OP in being ignorant of such a connection.
Graphical quadratic formula solver from 1915 (nomogram)
Yes, no-code solutions are mostly templates, including websites and webapps.

15 years ago you could buy thousands of Flash® templates. Today we are far from that offering. Not to mention, all of them needed learning only one platform.

Also, those sites can compete with current ones and win by a lot. For example:
https://twitter.com/efortis/status/1489618709920505856
I randomly picked Code off a library shelf when I was a child, not sure the exact age but probably 13 or earlier, and it drew me into programming.
> Kind of like how we don’t use Fedwire transfers to buy coffee, bitcoin base layer transactions are not well-suited to buying coffee. Visa transactions that run on top of Fedwire, or lightning transactions that run on top of bitcoin, can be used to efficiently buy coffee.

That is in interesting perspective. I always wondered how can BTC scale if the average folks cant use it to make instant payments.
It's much worse in perl, because it changes based on how you're using it. E.g. an array vs an element of an array.
Sounds like those properties are ripe for some squatters then
> Both contain exactly the same amount of information.

I would think erased data would have higher entropy, assuming it's relative to the interpreter which would contextualize the meaning of erased or valid data. "Erased" would mean the action of raising the entropy on some arrangement of matter.
The housing market won't cool until the political class is barred from owning multiple homes and speculating.

Why would they act not in their interest?
> Try to find the ones that aren't 100% social, but maybe 25% social and 75% achieving some goal, whether it be putting on a musical or raising livestock or volunteering at a nursing home.

Or, you know, studying. Which is ostensibly the thing why you're there in the first place...

(Obviously university is also a great time to explore and experiment, and you should do that. But especially if you're in the hard sciences, surrounding yourself with people who actually want to learn will do wonders.)
Sure, property is at least a million bucks and $10 per cucumber
RT didn't block Youtube. The Russian government did. And up until the minute it did, RT continued to make money from advertising on it.

The reason one would be okay and the other wouldn't be is, to the extent that RT is a "private" enterprise, it's their right to determine what content is on their own platform, just as it's Youtube's right to determine what content is on theirs. It is not the government's right (in a free society) to determine what sites citizens can or cannot access.

RT's actual website with videos is still available in America.
Yes. They could release the specs if they wanted to. They choose not to so they're, at the very least, letting it die.

I'm not offering judgment on whether they ought or ought not to, I'm merely observing that they have power and are exercising it as they choose.
This book seems the bible of distributed systems, but I'm still looking for a MOOC that covers Distributed Systems.
This has to be a major city right?
Well, very large codes like RS(150000, 50000) might be a bit expensive computationally, but computers today are really really fast lol.

I think codes of that size are some kind of low density parity check or something these days. Not something I understand, but RS codes are a big matrix multiplication: O(N^3) so maybe not practical lol.

Don't mind me, I'm basically talking out of my ass on this one.

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EDIT: I'm remembering college a bit more. Code interleaving and 2 dimensional codes are used for CD ROMs. Reed Solomon works best if errors are spread out over many frames, so there are patterns you can do to make this sort of 2D printing more resilient vs 2 dimensional burst errors (ex: spilled coffee, or page tears, streaking printers)
I have basically the opposite opinion of this article. I often hold up Rocket League as an example of a great free-to-play game. 1) You 100% can unlock a lot of cosmetic items through free play. 2) The items that you buy have absolutely no impact on gameplay and are just visuals.

For the same reason that people wear nice clothes in real life, why are you surprised that some people want to look cool in a video game? Are you surprised that people don’t just wear monochrome black shirts in real life? Likewise, you can resell RL items, there’s a market for that. Are you surprised when you can’t resell a shirt you wore for a year at the same price as when you bought it?

That’s not to say that games where progression is locked behind time gates where you need to buy 1000 Realm Warp Crystals or whatever just to actually play the game aren’t a toxic hell. But that doesn’t seem to be what the article is pushing against.
I would say Geoff Rayner-Canham's "Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry". It is obviously a university level teaching book, but I find it very appealing and not really hard to grasp. It made me fall in love with chemical processes and some material science concepts.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/dont-h...

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/king-county-murder-rates-br...
Rates rising limit supply initially. Why sell your house if you just refinanced and locked in a much lower rate than you'd get on a new place.
Came here to say this. It's maybe starting to feel a bit out-of-date, but it's still got the hook.
"Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Typography Works" - Spent at least a decade now doing design work to some degree (graphic design manager now) and while I read this one recently it's hands down the most easily accessible, no bullshit, funny design book with meaty tips and thoughts. Heartily recommend to basically anyone.
If you keep building at some point it becomes unprofitable to invest in housing.

And what is more likely is we see housing prices drop, a massive pullback and an oversupply.
It’s starting to cool in Vegas where I’m seeing multiple properties that OpenDoor attempted to flip sit on the market for weeks on end with multiple rounds of price cuts.
Anything that can be run concurrently, we just push off onto worker queues.
Quick Google search finds the concept being used in medical sensors. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220301205420.h...

When correctly shaped, graphene can harvest energy from motion, such as human body movements, and store it as electrical energy in micro-supercapacitors.
Nobdy wants to lose money leaving their real estate investment empty. Vacancy rates are low.

If we had "enough" homes it wouldn't be profitable to speculate. Most peope agree we're in a housing crisis. We need to be focusing on making it legal to build more housing rather than worrying about if people are making money owning homes.
i basically ignore all the recommendations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I fear we can only play the game of nuclear chicken for so long, and one day -- either deliberately or accidentally -- there'll be a nuclear exchange and we'll be in uncharted waters, with the existence of the world at stake.

Einstein felt our only hope rested in a world government with total control of all nuclear weapons, which would be tasked with preventing war between any nation.

Given the failure of the EU to maintain unity, of an America ready to tear itself apart, and civil wars of all kinds, such a world government is probably too optimistic. But I'm not sure what else is going to work. Total nuclear disarmament seems highly unlikely, given how distrustful countries are of each other, and even non-nuclear weapons are both getting more powerful all the time and getting easier and easier to use by non-state actors, never mind states which are ever more eager to use them.

The human race most likely has a very dark future.
Art of War is 25 centuries old. It's pretty basic by today's standards, similar to the Pythagorean Theorem. It's mostly popular because it covers things like intel and psychology, which were not so intuitive at the time.

I would recommend Greene's 33 Strategies of War as a high level book. But Art of War is short, so read both.
The Riskiest Bets in the Stock Market Are the Most Popular
Bitcoiners have been banging that drum for a long time, since the block size war and the inception of the Lightning Network. Takes a long time for the message to spread outside the Bitcoin bubble because Bitcoiners are largely ignored by the wider community.
Worse still are those auto generated spam sites that have an FAQ index on the top of the page looking like a Wiki but are actually just empty content pulled in from multiple sources.
This book is awesome. I wish they made something similar for other languages (actually French has a video series, French in Action, that is similar but not quite as effective as LLPSI).
> They are more akin to shopping centers were the teenagers use to hang out in than public spaces.

That is literally a public space and you can protest there depending on the district (New York for instance). The better analogy would be banning a store from a state. Sure people can move to a new state, but you’re still banning discourse in the region everyone lives in. Then banning any advertisements, and you’ll actively take the wealth and infrastructure from the other state, if you can.

> Just because you want Twitter or YouTube or Reddit to be a public square doesn't make it so.

It’s devoid from any of our opinions. The question is where can I conduct commerce on the internet? The answer is one of these companies is almost certainly required to make a profit. That makes it the public square. It’s where commerce and information is shared. I can’t go to an alternative, I can’t build an alternative.
Maybe I can build that bookcase now....
If you wanted to add a learning switch to the example, you'd also need to add the concept of multiple channels. Once a switch learns which channel the recipient is on, it would only send to that channel instead of broadcasting to everyone. It still starts to break down unless you torture the analogy a bit more.
You don’t need to listen to all The Beach Boys albums that went before. All you need to do is listen to the top 40 at the time Pet Sounds came out. Other than the Beatles, it was pretty shlocky.
Only in the US (or whole NANP?)

Mobile numbers are non-geographic everywhere else that I know of.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be doing those things (making it easier to build new houses). I'm just saying it seems naive to think that that /only/ doing that will make houses affordable.
Seems it's in Mariupol. While this loss is regrettable, Mariupol is very likely a huge kill zone, judging by the footage from there. The fact is that most of us are desensitized to that scale of tragedy and suffering.
After spending more than a decade and a half in the field of software development/computer science I’ve come to realise some fields simply are not attractive to many/most people of other fields. Not at all.

Hell, CS is not attractive to a lot of people working in the field. They work because it pays the bills.

So no, at the risk of sounding like I’m full of myself, I’d say there’s simply ZERO such books at least for computer science.

It’s a very specific field that many people get zero exposure to from school till the end. Unlike fields like history, arts, even medicine/diseases etc.
That’s not what I’m talking about. And since number portability and mobile devices became possible, area codes are mostly irrelevant. For example, I’ve lived 2000 miles from the area code of my phone number for probably 10 years now.
Why butcher language like this? Your videos were deleted, you were censored. I get that it’s cute to say you’re ‘adulting’ and got ‘disappeared’ but please stop.
>Do you feel like the Internet is harder to navigate every year, and even hostile at times? You are not alone.

uBlock Origin is a popular browser extension to filter out ads, trackers and annoyances.

Thanks to communities like EasyList and AdGuard maintaining high-quality filter lists, we can enjoy a less cluttered and distracting Internet.

But uBlock Origin is more than an ad-blocker:

it is a high-performance, general-purpose content blocker that can remove all sort of low-quality or distracting content.

Unfortunately, it is not simple to harness its power:

Because everyone has their own definition of “low-quality content”, a single common list cannot work

There is a steep learning curve to writing custom rules, and website updates can break them regularly

Unless you use browser profile synchronisation, keeping your custom rules in sync is time-consuming

github gorhill uBlock/releases : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

>*1.41.9rc1 Pre-release

Notable commits without an entry in the issue tracker:

Add letsblock.it as valid location for subscription links (by @xvello)*
Even when you turn 18, the nightmare doesn't end.

I'm exceptionally lucky in that when I got my first apartment at 19 years old, you could still find an apartment in LA for $600. Now you're just screwed, I've met tons of people who are essentially trapped in extremely abusive homes well into their twenties and beyond.

I've seen this happen to people from practically every background, with a good chunk of my Asian friends experiencing something like that. One lived in a homeless shelter for a while just to get away from his parents.

Getting rid of the current FASA system which assumes harmonious families, would do so much to help young people get started. If I had a magic wand, I'd ban affirmative action completely, and in its place give everyone financial aid even if they don't have a relationship with their parents.
Not on mine. My preferred terminal window size is 115 characters wide, by 55 characters high.

80 x 24 is like 'keyhole surgery' in my view, not much better than 40 x 12.
I think that a non-open source, native desktop, sane license, competitor for Solidworks/Inventor/Fusion would do well too. Solidworks is on a path to subscription-only / in the browser where Fusion and Inventor already are. Jetbrains?
Is Alan related to famed silversmith Paul?
> How do these cases not result in mass prosecutions?

In Luzerne County, PA, judges were paid off by local juvenile detention centers to sentence kids there. Over years, they sentenced many, many kids, in court, for absurdities (e.g., I think one kid was sentenced for throwing a sandwich at their teacher). Much of the court system and local legal community had to know; nobody put a stop to it. Judicial conduct boards and the PA Supreme Court were appealed to; they didn't act.

I forget how it finally came to light, but it got into the hands of federal rather than local state prosecutors. That's often how local corruption is stopped: the feds aren't tied to the local political system. The defendants, the Luzerne County judges, were clearly guilty of heinus crimes, ruining the lives of all these kids who spent high school in juvinile jail (imagine how your life would turn out). The federal prosecutors gave the defendants a sweetheart plea deal. Thankfully, the federal judge rejected the settlement and they were convicted and given long sentences.

(The Kids For Cash documentary tells the story.)

How does it not result in mass prosecutions? Look in the mirror. Me too. What corruption is going on in our communities? How about the IT community?
you're offering a false equivalence that isnt required for my argument to be true, so I'm going to say 'i never said that, you did,and you never managed to make a logical argument out of it yet'.
I read numbers like that and I think, "Sure glad I'm not the one who'll be holding the bag on that." But then...I might be. I'm not sure. Someone's going to be making good on the money that disappears when the greater fool mails his keys back to the bank. Will it be the standard idiots Fannie, Freddy, Deutsche Bank, and whoever pulls the short straw at the NY Fed annual picnic?
Except that most builders are investors in the SFR space. In the end, we’re expanding rental availability, not first-time home owners.
This is an important point: not only the Acme community doesn't want to implement features, they also don't want to share the way things can be automated. This article is a good example: the author spends 90% of the time explaining why things shouldn't be done, instead of explaining how exactly he does it. This is not a great way to create a community.
>which was invented in the late 1970s specifically in reference to the Dirty War in Argentina.

It was not invented, that was the first time the euphemism was correlated. Having knowledge of the history of "to be disappeared" and having knowledge of what "being disappeared" brings to mind, are two very different things.
What about after? Google?
Sounds like the rich kid version of me.

Parents students and teachers treated me like shit throughout elementary school, went to a new school and decided I wasn't gonna take it anymore.

Started misbehaving and getting suspended literally all the time, had over 400 disciplinary actions on my school recorded, got expelled from a few schools then expelled from the whole district, as in they just wouldn't let me go to that high school at all...

Turned myself around after choking my sister when I was 15 and damn near got arrested for it.

As in, I was sitting in the back of a cop car, not handcuffed but they patted me down, bawling my eyes out.

Thankfully my sister didn't say a word to the cop and that's when I decided I had to change.
It looks like that yellow (3-day) spot is a bit of land with no assigned zipcode, per this site:
https://zipmap.net/Wyoming.htm
Should "easy" and "kubernetes" ever really be in the same sentance?

Not being snarky, just realistic - I feel like cloud providers sell "kubernetes" as the only way to properly develop apps, because you can be cloud-agnostic, without lock-in, you have full control over your infrastructure.

Without realising, that for most projects, running a kubernetes stack requires a person just for tuning and maintainance. Kubernetes is great - when you hit massive problems of scalability, but most people aren't going to be facing the problems kubernetes solves.
Extracting power from no gradient is definitively a perpetual motion machine. This concept fails at a high level even before diving into the weeds. No authority is needed. Closing the feedback loop would help separate the wheat (science) from the chuff (pseudoscience).

https://youtu.be/rckrnYw5sOA
Motion is one thing, thermal motion is another.

Clocks that wind themselves up from being jostled around are centuries old. But thermal energy is supposed to be maximally disordered and thus unable to be converted to a more ordered form like electricity.
I assume they mean to cap it so that we don't see that fierce competition. We may be zoning to reduce the increase in housing, but there aren't any limits on number of jobs in that locale (which is largely what draws people in the first place, for many cities). Ie, zoning addresses a symptom and not a cause. Redistributing the jobs to cities where populations have shrunk could be a more efficient system (as mentioned, politically untenable).
Wouldn't taxing uninhabited homes be more realistic and effective than banning people from owning things? If the tax hurts enough, then the prices drop so that uninhabited homes get people living in them.
Yeah I’m seeing $20 sandwiches in NYC now.