skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Maybe it's like a messaging system. When you read the message, the notification goes away.
Maybe you could read some of the original sources instead of putting out a bunch of "Just sayin'" questions into the world. Your questions are all answered in the original sources, at least once you've got enough background to read and understand their contents.

If you can't handle original sources, then the next best thing is probably to read Jeff Fleck, either one of his books such as "Science Be Dammed (How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado)" or his blog at http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/
This writing is brilliant

edit: just got to the author’s blurb at the bottom. He was an engineer on the original Miata, so it’s no surprise that he knows what he’s talking about.
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I did a podcast episode about the history of tech pranks and April fools jokes, including the April Fool's ban here on hn:
https://corecursive.com/april-fools-is-cancelled/
It probably isn't important whether the lead content is 10 ppm or 20 ppm in most cases, since neither is acceptable, so the standard of sampling involved here is far less demanding than the standard of sampling needed for analytical chemistry. You just need to avoid contaminating your sample with lead from some other source.
There is not a finite number of jobs. All the FANGs would gladly hire many more top tier engineers if they could find one.
Came to write the same comment, except mine was a '68.
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I agree with you for the purposes of colloquial speech. However, this is formal, and the formality serves a specific purpose.

Somewhat tangentially, we're talking about UK services, and you're citing American style guides. The major British style guides advise against singular "they."

Since we're talking about usability and accessibility, I'm going hammer on the point that this needs to be accessible at baseline reading comprehension levels. Singular "they" is generally not taught either in primary or ESL environments. If it does become part of standard education, we still have generations of people who have not experienced it.
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The starting rituals reminded me of my '77 Olds Cutlass with the junkyard intake and monster carbs and all sorts of other unwise additions to an already crappy and clapped out machine. Only two people could start that car, and what with the bailing wire holding the axles and frame together no one ever wanted to try towing it.
House passes bill to limit cost of insulin to $35 a month
Once your basic needs are taken care of, inflation at current levels is irrelevant. I'm by no means rich. By HN standards I have an average income. If not for the daily news stories about it, I wouldn't even know there was any inflation bubble right now. The top AI people at Meta make a substantial multiple of what I make. They might be leaving for more money, but it has absolutely nothing to do with inflation.

People at that salary level usually leave for other reasons, like not wanting to work for such a morally bankrupt company whose sole purpose is selling ads.
That true random number generator needs entropy sources: it's the client, not the server.
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That was my first thought when reading this headline: do they preserve silence? But he's absolutely right. After light pollution, noise pollution is probably the second most ignored type of pollution, and quite important imo.
All x86 CPUs sold after 2015 or so have built-in hardware random number generators [1]. They get their entropy by sampling thermal noise on the input of a meta-stable logic gate [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND

[2] https://www.electronicdesign.com/resources/article/21796238/...
Sure, I suppose that's one way to put it. It has a lot of real, practical benefits over the JVM though (locked down by default, small surface area, simpler, buy in from major platforms, compilation target for multiple major languages), and this feels like a dismissal you could put on anything that follows in the footsteps of something else. One could dismiss Rust as hipster C++, but that wouldn't really engage with the issues of compile-time memory safety or concurrency or ADTs. Or JSON as the hipster XML! These are all true in a sense, but it doesn't address the actual advantages and disadvantages (both of which exist for all of these examples).
This book, ISRS, has been "superseded" by Introduction to Modern Statistics (IMS) whose homepage is: https://www.openintro.org/book/ims/

You can read IMS online here: https://openintro-ims.netlify.app/ or get the PDF from here https://leanpub.com/imstat (pay-what-you want price, including $0). The print version is just $20 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1943450145/. The book also comes with some excellent online tutorials where you can actually try statistics procedures using R : https://openintrostat.github.io/ims-tutorials/
I get occasional mild toothaches, but when I took psychedelics the feeling was amplified 50x. I think the body is sending these kinds of signals continuously and the brain just filters them out if they're mild enough. Psychedelics seem to lower the "volume" it takes to notice something.
Fast, Permissionless, Decentralized Computation
I'm a noob with Web3 tech, but I just heard about Nillion.

https://www.nillion.com/

They claim fast computation (something blockchain isn't great at), along with the security and decentralized nature of blockchain.

What do those that know more than me about this stuff think?
Interesting! I was not aware of this, thanks for sharing. I'll have to look into it in detail to determine whether it's actually pipelining or multiplexing because pipelining is still problematic, since it's subject to head-of-line blocking (one expensive request blocks everyone from getting their responses until it's completed).
I suppose you could start at a really coarse level; it's pretty easy to have the VPN read the user's group from some central source and use that to decide what subnet(s) they get, and then you put ex. internal-use servers (say, file shares) on one subnet, customer application servers on another, and LOM consoles on a third.
Reading this description reminds me why I'm not a "car person"

Several rabbit-holes in Linux have tested my patience less than that
And is still being updated!
Unfortunately, many of these sites rely on ad revenue, and a hate watch with a dislike still provides ad revenue.
How do you conjugate "to do" in the third-person singular?
They say “-master” can be replaced with “-maker”, and they give the examples of:

shipmaster -> shipmaker

headmaster -> headmaker

I can understand wanting to coin a new gender neutral suffix to replace “-master” but why would they include a literal counterexample. Very strange.
Managing that at scale is so unbelievably hard. Network layer stuff like VPN tends to be really isolated from application access restrictions both in terms of data and operational processes, so you end up having to duplicate the access controls and it's never in sync. Ask me how I know; I've been trying for years.

Something like Google's BeyondCorp where the access restrictions are done in a proxy or other application layer is much more likely to be tied to the same access controls used within applications. That way ZTA acts as an additional security boundary but not an entirely separate authentication and authorization system that VPNs tend to be.
The design system that launched in 2018 and went 'live' in Nov 2021, is now....live? Sure ok

Still legends.
oh, this is cool!
I don't believe sshfs is safe with SQLite with concurrent use: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/204#issue-561260021
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Oh absolutely, you can write perfectly fine software just by being considerate to what you're writing and never have to even consider optimisation. This is one area where premature optimisation becomes a problem for me; I know this, and I prematurely optimise anyway (though I am working turning that down a bit).

For me, another widely held belief (although far less so than the root of all evil) is also somewhat the cause of this problem, particularly the issues you're talking about, this idea that if a library exists for something you shouldnt waste time rewriting it, which ends up with projects stacked to the brim with dependencies. Of course sometimes it is more efficient to use a library, I don't intend to rewrite perlin noise for example, but it shouldnt be your first choice I don't think.
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Why do you assume it is emotional rather then logical, because it does not feel as good as what Mearsheimer says?

Russia in fact has own writings and speeches. Putin talks about his own historical ideas. Putin talked about it for years at this point. Russian journals print their own articles expressing regrets for big Russia. The whole "Ukraine should not exist as nation" comes from what Russian leadership talks about and talked about for years. Russians, the political minority that is running away out of genuine fear (rather then economy) now were talking about all this for years.

There is also pattern in which Russian non-profits got targeted or who got assassinated. Pattern in who was getting rehabilitated and who is still criminal. Stalin is turning into capable manager and his victims are not rehabilitated unless they were actually innocent of being opposition. The non profits trying to uncover communist crimes (including KGB crimes) were the ones suppressed by Putin. The final blow happened now, but Memorial was quite clearly oppressed for years now.

You talk about Russia as one group and it is like that now, when everyone is passive. Opposition got eliminated and state security strengthened. It happened over years. And it did not happened because of NATO.

> The US was very involved in the "totally-organic-grassroots-uncoup" in Ukraine in 2014[1] - so to think that wouldn't impact Russia's geopolitical strategy is, well, illogical.

Of course, ignoring previous involvement of Russia in Ukraine. It is not like Viktor Yanukovych was not ... lets say influenced by Russia. And Ukrainine still wants to go into NATO and Eu. Desperately they want in.

> present the actual logically based outcomes of our actions

Sure. Not being in NATO and being next to Russia, makes you potential Russian target. Russia attacking non-NATO country does not prove Russia would be peaceful country had NATO not expanded. Nothing about internal Russian politics points toward them being happy and content where they are.

Even Russia stopped the whole "we are afraid of NATO" talking point. Now it is only "denacification" or "protecting Russians in Ukraine" or "Ukrainians are Russians" or "Ukrainians were commtiting genocide" or, in latest talks, "we will destroy them". This talking point existed for a whole week and when it did not flied, Russia abandoned it with no regret.
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Org-mode special announcement: Throwing in the towel & jumping on the bandwagon
No, we don't do that.
A surprisingly apt error, really, given the article.
Agree completely, but the journals do have some power here - they could stop the journalists writing bullshit. But they like the attention the media coverage brings so they don't do that (and then they blame the journos).

And of course the journals could make the scientists reframe their papers so they're not catnip for journos.
'They' is a third person singular pronoun. It has been in use to denote an singular individual of unknown gender for hundreds of years (since ~14th century).

"With an antecedent referring to an individual generically or indefinitely (e.g. someone, a person, the student), used esp. so as to make a general reference to such an individual without specifying gender"[0]

"Often used in reference to a singular noun made universal by every, any, no, etc., or applicable to one of either sex (= ‘he or she’)."[1]

[0] - https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/200700 - current OED entry

[1] - https://www.oed.com/oed2/00251026 - 2nd edition OED entry from 1989
Is this true? I thought that the UI was in OpenGL but that text rendering was done using the native platform APIs. I.e. CoreText
There's no way that car would pass an emissions test.
> vague cultural phenomena

It's not vague at all.

> Besides, there's nothing particularly wrong with cooking on a Wok.

Lol, I had to look up what a wok is. Blessings of learning English as a second language.
Not really. If my bank has problems with processing transactions resulting in me being unable to use my card that day doesn't mean I'm broke.
Agreed. The concept of a "tech FC", where someone FC's all sections independently (or sometimes in groups of sections), is well understood in the GH community. There's also the straight element of deception - star power is not a mechanic in practice mode, where tech FCs are performed (Clone Hero allows you to see the SP phrases in practice mode, but you don't gain any SP and there is no way to actually activate it). The whole point of what Schmooey did was to pass these FCs off as actual full song runs.
There's a sweet spot, around the 90s, where the cars are still running fine, and are not yet too complex to steal with a pocket knife.
I think someone deserves to have a stern talking to by GitHub or maybe even a temporary or permanent ban. Wasting other people’s time like this intentionally really is using your account for something indistinguishable from spam.
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CRT TVs are commonly only about 10 kV, while XRF needs 20–60 kV. Larger TVs were up in that range but were not handheld.

I agree that you can generate 60 kV pretty easily, though. You can do it in a smaller volume if you fill the electronics with oil, but it's not essential.
GH has brought a ton of people into actually making music, though. There is a rich history of custom, made-for-GH songs, and a good number of them have ridiculously good production value.
It's usually (but not always) viable and it's ultimately what one ends up doing. You're right about the drawbacks. One additional drawback is the setup time for opening new connections (network round-trip, re-authenticating, etc.).