skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too Russian since the Kremlin co-opted the last letter of the alphabet.
From their Design page, under the "Overview" subheader:

>> ThorCon is a molten salt fission reactor. Unlike all current nuclear reactors, the fuel is in liquid form. It can be moved around with a pump, and passively drained in the event of a casualty.

Casualty? Huh?
the hacker news title just isn’t precise about what part of it changed and doesn’t even link to the relevant article

https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/03/29/react-v18.html#new-stric...
Can somebody explain to me how Org Roam Notes format is any different than Markdown with some [[clever]] indexing on like... tagging + indexing certain parts of your notes to make them searchable?
Like measles? Smallpox? They are respiratory viruses too
Great read.

I think this is a good place to reference Tiny Projects [0], which to me are a manifestation of what is described here.

[0] https://tinyprojects.dev/
I don't know, work never leaves my mind even when I'm not working
I'm not sure I follow this. If Rust wanted the feature in that blog post, they could restrict it to only accessing data that is Sync. They wouldn't have to throw out the concept of Sync entirely, in fact cases like this are the reason it exists. Rust just chooses to leave this kind of feature up to libraries instead of building it into the language.

And even without unsafe, you still couldn't assume all data is Sync. Counter-examples include references to data in thread-local storage, and most data used with ffi.
sounds like vector graphics?
Actually, when I was teaching, I used to see a student strategy I called “obey the compiler”, which was to fix whatever the compiler complained about, without thinking. If the compiler said “semicolon expected at col 42”, the student would put a semicolon at column 42. If the compiler complained “undeclared identifier prnit_results”, the student would declare a name prnit_results. The strategy, when followed to extremes, could convert an almost-valid program into a string of nonsense (post-conversion was when the student came to me for help), more or less the opposite of PL/C's strategy, which I mentioned in an earlier comment. To be fair, this strategy was mostly found in first-year, and a few weaker second-year students.
It’s amazing how in-line assembly is always such a big source of miscompilations/compiler crashes. Both with C/C++ and Rust. With GCC or Clang. It doesn’t matter.
Gah, typo. That was meant to to say I’m not saying I think you’re genderless.
Given the list of animals that have, or may <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Mammals> why would it be so astounding to add a dog to that list?

(NB, I don't know where I saw it but if you look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Mammals_3> about pigs: "Pigs can use visual information seen in a mirror to find food" - someone recently found dogs doing the same; finding hidden food with mirrors with distinctly better than chance).
transphobic people transphobic people would bring up to support their ideology

No one has said anything about trans people, we were talking Gen z butchering the English language. Also, is it a disorder (“phobic”) or an ideology? Or do you not understand that distinction either?
This is awesome. Thanks a lot for taking time to create this. Since you are a software developer, has it affected your interview and interview preparation as well? e.g. doing a lot of leetcode etc.
Love your thoughts and observations!

I think for the most part I align with you regarding calling something “finished” as a project having monetization in it.

As of lately though I’ve been thinking a lot about two different definitions of “finish”, one of them being that I can use it to do some task that I want to do.
For example, I handle my finances using beancount and around that I’ve build a few projects that are finished in as much as they do what I want them to do and make managing my finances easier (import transactions from email notifications received from bank, eMacs configuration for my finances, etc.)

The second category is open source projects. I often wonder what would it take to build something that is useful to others but that doesn’t come with all the complications of a monetized products? Like, how Moodle or Drupal became Moodle and Drupal? How did they became known? Who used it first?

I want to find a tiny little problem to solve, and find a way that the people with that problem know about my solution and hopefully can benefit from it… but I don’t even know how to properly ask the question about where to start something like that… and actually finish it!
From tests I've ran, about 8-12% of our visitors have some sort of tracking, analytics, or javascript disabling or blocking. This is in an ecommerce site focused toward non-technical users. I'd expect a tech savy browsing audience to be composed of 20% or more visitors with blocking.
Hacker news comments!
> The district has 30 days to address their concerns.

Of which the parents are the sole judge of whether their concerns were adequately addressed before pursuing litigation.

> Second, giving ordinary people an actual legal channel to pursue a remedy, without bankrupting them with legal costs, is the sort of thing there should be more of.

Or, alternatively, giving nuisance litigators a way to make money if they find a plaintiff, which is what laws that provide injunctive-relief-plus-legal-costs tend to do.

> First, the teacher won't; the school district will. Nothing in the law makes teachers legally liable. All the liability is on the school district.

The teacher will absolutely face litigation and censure, which are the words I used. They won't have any monetary liability.

> Second, the teacher is not the sole judge of what's appropriate in the classroom. Parents have to have a voice.

You're free to argue that with your local school district's elected body, etc, instead of putting in place legislation which will cow all of these districts into preventing any such discussion.

It's funny how people love to move things to more local levels of government, until those bodies are not doing what they like. Then, it's time for legislative bodies to set standards for the whole state, country, etc.

> The right thing for the teacher to do in this kind of situation would be to bring the parent into the discussion themselves, so the teacher can support the student directly in that discussion, not to help the student to go behind the parent's back.

Sorry-- disagree. Students should be allowed to confide in educators and expect that those confidences will not be betrayed, unless there is an actual acute danger to the students in question. If a student wants to talk to me about not wanting to pursue the career path their parents have in mind, I'm allowed to talk to them, provide information on this, and I'm not expected to "snitch". But if the student asks me to call them "they/them", suddenly things should be super different? Spare me the pearl clutching.

Look, social mores about gender are fundamentally changing, and this is something that is going to happen. You just get to choose how much it sucks for kids in the process.
I had the same experience. My cat's first encounter with the mirror involved getting mad at the cat in the mirror and attacking it. Every other time after that, the mirror was completely ignored. They certainly did display cleverness in other contexts, such as figuring out how to open cabinets, or figuring out from the outside of the house which room we slept in so she could bang on the window to be let back in.
I'm not sure I understand. Rust is memory safe, and the memory unsafety happening here isn't in Rust itself: an IR generation bug in Rust is causing memory unsafety in LLVM, which is written in C++.

(Besides: If GitHub's stats are correct, `ponyc` seems to be >60% C and C++?)
> Actually, the figures I gave for percentages of new hospitalizations and deaths were for people 80+. (I had misread the tables thinking that that row was totals.) You are correct that the vaccination percentages for this age group are higher than for the general population, but they're still about the same as the percentages of new hospitalizations and deaths for this population.

Well, then you really screwed up, because there's a table in the report that shows for the 80+ subpopulation, the unvaccinated died at a significantly higher rate.

Or, using your table:

(23+175+1112)/1415 deaths in age 80+ had some level of vaccination = 92.57%, vs ~96% of the age 80+ bracket having some level of vaccination. If a group has ~7.4% of the deaths but is ~4% of the population, I'd say they're at excess risk!

> (or at least accurate enough that any uncertainty in the count doesn't significantly affect the rates they are showing).

It makes a massive difference for this number as the vaccination rate nears 100%. If it's 95% of the population that's vaccinated, the risk is ~50% higher. If it's 96%, the risk is ~80% higher. If it's 97%, ~150% higher. In any case, the conclusion holds up for any sane denominator here, but it's hard to have any confidence in the exact odds ratio.
Unix propagates memory-unsafe languages (c), as well as inefficient and inexpressive IPC mechanisms (pipes or shmem) which lead to monolithic programs where there is only one key to the whole kingdom.
This could be useful to reduce Disney’s bandwidth costs. Marvel and Star Wars productions are highly repetitive anyway, so maybe they could ship a preloaded Marvel neural network in the player app and design new movies to take maximum advantage of the clichés already encoded there.
> Are there contemporary instances of conservative driven cancellations?

Would teachers being fired merely for being gay count?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-teache...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/10/27/gay-...

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-teacher-i-was...

(three different ones there, there's more in the googles.)

> Teachers can say whatever they like

Except to say that they're gay, it seems.
Is there an email address that would make a spammer get in trouble? They might call the Github "police" on themselves.
I was a Ranger fan for decades, but the 4th generation only shares a nameplate with the truck I love. As others have pointed out, the footprint is huge and the cab is egregious. But also it's so ridiculously tall. The nice thing about a pickup truck is that you can load it from the sides, right? Not anymore... unless you're a pro basketball player, I guess. But what I really want is an electrified el camino.
> No. No one in their right mind wants to "craft filters".

You should strongly question this assumption because I am a living counterexample. Before I discovered this tool, I wanted to be able to write the filters so badly I even started to develop a tool that allowed this (called Infinitix) that provided only one basic thing: ability to apply filters on a single list of tickets, and then save or share that filter to other members of your org. Regardless of whether you think "you've failed" if you develop this, I'm sure photographers thought the same thing about Photoshop when it was created. (No, this product never fully materialized, luckily I didn't have to build it because I found out about the existence of Shortcut.) It would have been the simplest task management system possible, in a way.

I don't care if the autocompletions are there, what I care about is having control instead of my system administrator or manager having control, and being able to run whatever query at whatever time I want to. In other words, I want to control the tool rather than it control me, and I also want a tool (instead of TODO.txt, the anti-tool approach to task management).
I was nodding along up until this:

> The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way. The same statement can't be true when one person says it, but x-ist, and therefore false, when another person does. [2]

I think there is a ton of nuance that contradicts this. For example, a white, upper-middleclass college graduate could proclaim:

"College graduation rates are lower for black people. It must be difficult for them to finish."

And a black person with a low income background who has failed to finish college can utter the exact same words and it means something totally different.

The first might be considered subtly racist, depending on how its delivered, who it is delivered to--maybe even flagrantly racist under the right circumstances. The second might be considered exactly the opposite, alleging racism while not itself being racist.

The context and speaker matter a lot for these value judgments, not to mention tone, implication, insinuation, etc. Paul is bordering on socially crippled here.
PixelCNN++ does this, kinda. Residual blocks that use downsampled versions of the image. Though in that context, it gets used for lossless compression by entropy coding the likelihoods of each pixel.

This idea - trying to investigate behavior at different scale parameters - is also related to renormalization. But I think you can go further than this - currently you are just preserving that which remains consistent. You should also somehow store the complement of that information - the difference between the original and what you get after downscaling then upscaling the downscaled version again.

I imagine it's going to be mostly the noisy data local to certain regions of the image, some kind of high frequency details. But if you keep track of both, you can make each rescaling bijective, making your 'compression' invertible, hence lossless, in some sense. Whether you get any size savings doing that is another question altogether :^)
Given that Interlisp is available, one might even try it out today.

https://interlisp.org/

The manual entry for DWIM:

https://interlisp.org/IRM_files/content.htm#bookmark20
do the names Snowden, Assange or Manning ring a bell?

there's also this Youtuber who got a 'home visit' from the US govt. for 'anti-American sentiments' on his channel:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/k2wt7j/youtube_a...

alienation growing everywhere (parallel with increasing inquality) means capitalist realism is everywhere, so yeah, maybe the censorship and encroachment on free speech is less visible, but that's also because our imagination has been shot meaning we can't easily imagine and write about/describe alternatives. remember Thatcher's "there is no alternative" (TINA), Fukuyama's 'end of history', etc.? many in the working class now struggle to see our chains.
Putin’s War in Ukraine Shatters an Illusion in Russia
Be more ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (2021)
n the pma process, you will most likely be acquainted with the term GRBL. In this article we will learn what GRBL is, how to set it up and how to use it to control your Arduino based CNC machine.
Most works of fiction is labeled as such. I don't see anything against them in this comment.
> Routers work because ISPs require them. ISPs however aren’t fond of supporting the home server use case.

This is the obvious and simplest solution. A built-in self-hosting platform right in the router, extensible with an external USB drive if the user needs it. But ISP's are notoriously terrible at everything and certainly can't be trusted with something like this.
Better ventilation of indoor spaces, more utilisation of outdoor spaces, better sick pay provision, more WFH, etc, etc - essentially the complete mobilisation of society to defeat COVID, whatever it took.

A dress rehearsal for climate change.
Yes. That wasn't what I was thinking when I chose that word, but, come to think of it, that's exactly what I think. He's got, like, half a sentence of actual Arc critique (I'm not a fan either!).
Stream is down... looks like Amtrak has already given up.
NASA History: HAL/S, a Real-Time Language for Spaceflight
I really don't see rail expanding in the US in my lifetime for many reasons, including our national debt, the loss of the dollar's reserve status, the similar functionality provided by trucking (negative externalities like pollution, shared cost of road upkeep, and employment levels notwithstanding), the right of way vs NIMBYISM of expanding rail and running extra lines, and finally the inability to complete infrastructure projects in the US on time, in budget, and with quality. I am just not optimistic about any of this.
Burning the money she didn't earn, and she doesn't deserve, for prestige. All enabled by the misandry of divorce law.

At least Soros and the Kochs have a good track record in capital allocation.
Archive: https://archive.ph/ZPiz7

The title's subheading is a bit more descriptive: Russians long lived with an understanding: Stay away from politics, and live your life as you choose. The war in Ukraine wrecked that idea.
Probably because M and N are adjacent on most keyboards
> Humans cannot stop a contagious respiratory virus any better than they can stop a hurricane, tornado or earthquake.

Yep, and these actions of trying to stop the virus with border closings and lockdowns was 100% ideas from china and north korea, the crazy thing, as mentioned in other comments, is that the western world followed and also went on this futile insane don quijotean crusade.
I already stated in multiple ways that the "clear line" is taking deliberate care in programming for children to ensure first and foremost that it won't be likely to any significant degree to rob them of their innocence, a term which I explained further for you. My citation of the example of a child with autism was an exception for a standard of reasonableness when assessing this due diligence. Here's another one in the same vein: some kid has a finger bitten off at age 4 by a rabid dog, and now has a phobia of all dogs. Does that mean content creators are reckless if they include a cartoon dog that barks angrily at someone? Obviously you're dealing with a rare exception that perhaps could be fixed with some standard of a content index for special cases.

If you're going to continue to pretend that this is still all super subjective, I'm gonna have to assume you're not arguing in good faith anymore. There will not be any symbolically notated theorem forthcoming on this topic.

Simply put, you can have a culturally relative definition of content appropriateness and still understand this concept. To your example, premarital sex is a REALLY bad thing to get caught doing in some Arab countries. So yeah, in THOSE countries, the Danish books as you describe might be considered abusive to give to minors if they are demonstrably seen to promote sexual behavior that would harm the children's standing in those societies.
I think you're reading into this, you're making inferences that simply have no context or support. As others have pointed out, it's likely a satirical comment about under-utilization of the office space (that's also quite expensive).

That said, it could be good for Twitter to go on a diet. It's spending a lot on employing some 5.5k people [1] and it doesn't seem to be in a massive growth phase [2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272140/employees-of-twit...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-wor...
Thanks for the link, I had not heard from this endeavor yet.
Wasn't he diagnosed more than a decade before he died?
You’d have to rewrite the commit history for each of those repos and force push those changes. https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo would be a decent starting point.
I have a hard time believing alcohol has any positive health effects other than socializing. What it does to your sleep alone is highly problematic, and even one drink at happy hour affects your sleep.

Nothing is better for your health than sleep.
Where even the regional operators are at least partially owned by the states in turn.

Furthermore this is causing friction when the contract ends, and another bidder wins.

Compared with how it has been before this, when it was all state run, much hilarity ensues on all levels of operation.

Beginning with the engineers, now dispersed over different sub-contractors, not being able to assist when there is a shortage in another sub-contractor.

Leading to delays, because available ones have to be brought in by taxi from over 100+ of km away.

'Streckenkunde' == knowledge of tracks, stations and switching/marshalling/maintenance yards is degraded, because the sub-contractors don't do it all, everywhere, anymore.

Regarding maintenance, more empty movements to farther away, because not every shop can or will service everyones locos, trainsets.

For some 'unexplainable' reason, during the slightest bad weather chaos ensues, every year, again and again. No matter if cold, heat, wind, wet.

While aeons ago, they advertised with an engine plowing through the snow, caption: "Everybody is talking about the weather. We don't."

[·] https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/68er-plakate-a-946587.html...

[·] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8l2qp2N8M

[·] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGhJW5TvIuQ

This was the truth, at the time.

What we have now are a few high-speed tracks connecting the larger centers, and regional mass transportation in and around these. Outside of that it's patchwork, or doesn't exist at all. (Though it did! Once.)

In addition to that, it costs much more, and is inflexible to book.

It's FUCKED!

edit: Also 'type-ratings' for the engineers. Before pseudo-privatization and splitting in sub-groups, there was only distinction between Diesel(hydraulic) and electric locomotives, and passenger vs. freight rail. Those were about a dozen each, and they usually could drive all of them from their branch of diesel or electric. Today? Not anymore.
Same; thank you both for the insight. This is a better way to understand Graham — without having to roll your eyes and point people at the Dabblers and Blowhards essay.

edit: missing word
Specifically being able to create a deep link to a passage is a very powerful capability indeed. The friction required to look up a paper and navigate to the specific passage for a given reference can really be so high that we just end up avoiding it altogether I feel. Kudos to you for trying to solve this problem!

I personally find LaTeX a little too friction-full (is that a word?) on the input side. The output looks beautiful but the lack of feedback when writing stuff keeps me from actually adding stuff to it. Although your daily notes seems like it might help with this tendency a little bit.

This is a problem I'm currently trying to solve with my current project (https://topictrails.com/ if you're interested).
I use 33mail.com (33m.co) which does the same thing (it has a link on the email to disable the address). You can use a subdomain or custom domain. It has a generous free tier, and ridiculously cheap paid tier. (Paid is required if you want to be able to reply to inbound emails though.)
I've always thought this would be a good project for Cliff Stoll to take on.
The best thing I ever did for my hands was putting ctrl to the left of the spacebar where alt usually is. I hit it with my left thumb. I never have to contort my wrists. And it works across all programs, not just vim/emacs. Capslock is still using the pinky.

I also switched to Dvorak and put backspace on Capslock, which I think also helped but might be diminishing returns. But I still really like ctrl on alt for my single best ergonomics tweak.
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Some that I've read and enjoyed:

- Introducing Python, 2nd Edition by Bill Lubanovic (Beginner Level)

- Python Distilled, David M. Beazley (Beginner to Intermediate Level)

- Effective Python (2nd Edition), Brett Slatkin (Intermediate Level)

- Fluent Python (2nd Edition), Luciano Ramalho (Advanced Level)

- CPython Internals, Anthony Shaw (Advanced Level)

- Architecture Patterns with Python, Harry J. W. Percival & Bob Gregory (Advanced Level)
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