skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When someone issues a correction and that correction is absolutely wrong, they are actively causing harm. They went out of their way to be wrong.

Even the word "meditation" comes from a phrase that can mean either quiet reflection on a topic, such as reading, or a deep intense self focus (how we tend to use it).

Exercise absolutely can be a form of meditative practice and there are still monks who do this practice today!

Reading a text and meditating on it, especially in a religious context, is thousands of years old and goes back to the earliest books and book like things we have (eg clay tablets).

This idea that meditation is where you sit and listen to an app and have self awareness is a very modern interpretation. It's not wrong - if that is useful for you, then do it - but to pretend anything that isn't vibing in a darkened room isn't meditation is plain wrong.

> GP is just saying that cardio and reading is not really equivalent to mediation

Both you and GP are incorrect on the most basic of levels. If you insist on correcting others at the very least read the rather good wikipedia page on the topic.
Plus addressing is not unique to gmail nor it was invented by google.

For example, to enable plus addressing in postfix is only a matter of defining:

recipient_delimiter = +
Oh god, I just tried. That move note UI is awful, to say the least. Would it have hurt them to leave the button visible, at least?
Fun fact: Anyone who spams my private, other private, or business email address is going to find their domain name and IP range submitted to the various spam blackhole lists.

Let's call this "Github roulette".
Yes, I meant we as human beings, but in some places, the pronouns really points to us on HN who appreciate the value of science and technologies.

About coming to an agreement on the global stage, I admit this is almost impossible. However, the 2015 "Paris Agreement" was signed by a very large numbers of countries ; Trump decided to get the USA out. In all cases, only a handful of small countries have kept to their word. Not one country of the EU respected it, not even France, the organizer of that conference. Appalling.

My point was more ethical than practical. My opinion is that spending money to put humans in space is henceforth a waste of money. The ISS, the international space station, has cost 140 billions with very little scientific yield. Except one: how the humans do in space. And the result is crystal clear: they don't do well. My father was a space engineer with a Phd in orbital control and a close friend of the family has been and still is today one the MDs in charge of European astronauts' health.

Many space programs result from international cooperation, sometimes quite large like the ISS. Those countries could decide that climate dereliction and massive loss of biodiversity are more urgent matters than a base on the Moon to replace the ISS (on the verge of being retired).

So the countries concurring to these space programs could as well work together to enlarge our knowledge of the oceans. As mentioned, I wonder if that is such a good idea.
An A10 could certainly wreck havoc on a convoy such as this, but it would itself be highly exposed against modern anti air and air superiority/multirole fighters.
The New Deal electrified America.
Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.
Smart, cheap, cost-effective thinking.

Canon lenses were always very good.
What topics are acceptable for teachers to hold views on?
> You can avoid the whole thing by just not participating.

No you can't. If someone records you saying something heretical, they can share it on social media and the cancel mob will get you fired from your job, even if you don't have social media yourself.
Or, as the saying goes,

Snitches get stitches
What Is the Strongest Material?
It is a bit Poe's law really. There are plenty of companies with dumb software policies and practices, cargo culting legitimate approaches by treating them as axioms.
Question related to the Chinchilla paper[0], which says that optimal amount of training data for ~500B, 1T, and 10T param models are 11T, 21.2T, 216.2T tokens, respectively. The PaLM paper[1] says it made use of 700B tokens.

How many tokens of training data have humans produced across the entire internet, all our written works, etc? Is there such a thing as a 216 trillion token set?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311
FORTRAN 77 (approved in 1978-04) has appeared after Intel 8080 (1974) and Zilog Z80 (1976).

It would have made very little sense for a company willing to make a FORTRAN 77 compiler to target already obsolete microprocessors, instead of targetting the state-of-the-art Intel 8086/8088 or Motorola MC68000.

The Microsoft F80 compiler would have indeed been useless for anyone having unlimited access to a CPU more powerful than a Z80.

Nevertheless there were many who had to be content with an 8080/8085/Z80. For them, there was nothing better than Microsoft F80 for serious numeric computation.

FORTRAN IV was the language in which a huge amount of high quality numeric computation libraries were easily available. No library was available in Fortran 77 at that time.

The language implemented by F80 was pretty standard. It lacked many extensions frequently provided by other compilers, but that did not matter much, because the libraries that you would want to use were written to use only strictly standard features, and not vendor extensions.

Before using MS F80, I had used IBM mainframes and DEC PDP-11 minicomputers. I do not remember any special difficulty in porting the IBM/DEC Fortran programs to MS F80.

Obviously, an 8080/Z80, when doing floating-point computations, was between 10 times and 1000 times slower than an IBM or DEC computer with hardware FPU.

Even so, for me, passing to MS F80, where I had exclusive access to the computer 24/7, was a huge progress in comparison to using a shared mainframe or minicomputer, and I could be much more productive, despite the slow computer.
> compound assignment operators are reversed, they are =+, =*

Personally I always thought that made more sense than the (now) standard way because when you read it aloud it reads like the operation you’re performing:

N equals N plus five

N =+ 5

I still find myself occasionally writing those operators that way around even after decades of using C and similar languages.
Oh, lol, I guess I get that achievement too. Custom target spec json with incompatible MIPS cpu and abi options was what did it. That was a few years back, but post 1.0 at least.
So it's a card equal to the performance of the 2016 Nvidia cards (1060/70)
So, how do you balance between small projects that bring joy vs projects that can make tons of money?
No lights when the ambient light is below the "typical lights threshold" = software fail. No matter how it's driving, it has to conform to people's expectations of "a car in motion": headlights, turn signals, tail lights, brake lights, ... It can skip the high-beams, which is nice. Otherwise, it might be seen as a parked car or a car with broken lights.
Re NZ, I take your point - that is a possible way of reading the data. I personally read it as 4 separate readings being shown. Ie that the ratio 20-25x ratios had been accounted for in the plotting on the graph - or alternatively, that the number of cases each group had been standardised in order to provide a straightforward comparison. Its not clear from the provided info what we are seeing though.

More broadly, its hard to say what is being stated without the raw data. We can certainly say that the data is not being provided in a straightforward, accessible way to the public. Instead, what is a health issue, has become highly politicised. As well as the lack of available date, we also have unknowns around the data collection (eg no distinction between deaths 'with' or 'from' covid, that people are not considered fully vaccinated until 2 weeks after their 2nd jab).

This itself is a huge cause for concern. We should have open access to all this info - with all hands to the pump and all voices and interpretations - and try to let the statistics speak for themselves.

> And the linked-to sources even say "Comparing case rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection. Vaccine effectiveness has been formally estimated from a number of different sources and is summarised on pages 4 to 14 in this report."

but then when I look at those pages, I see:

"Large clinical trials have been undertaken for each of the COVID-19 vaccines approved in the
UK which found that they are highly efficacious at preventing symptomatic disease in the
populations that were studied. The clinical trials have been designed to be able to assess the
efficacy of the vaccine against laboratory confirmed symptomatic disease with a relatively short
follow up period so that effective vaccines can be introduced as rapidly as possible.

Post implementation real world vaccine effectiveness studies are needed to understand vaccine
effectiveness against different outcomes (such as severe disease and onwards transmission),
effectiveness in different subgroups of the population and against different variants as well as to
understand the duration of protection.Vaccine effectiveness is estimated by comparing rates of
disease in vaccinated individuals to rates in unvaccinated individuals. Below we outline the
latest real-world evidence on vaccine effectiveness from studies in UK populations. Where
available we focus on data related to the Omicron variant which is currently dominant in the UK."

I read that as saying that they are highly efficacious at preventing symptoms. They also say they are comparing vaccinated to the unvaccinated, but the only reference I see to the unvaccinated is on page 14, and it doesn't have any numbers!
> No one throws away a resume in a public meeting declaring she’s too old, queer, brown, and Muslim.

I was a recruiter for 9 years. Discrimination at an individual level is rampant, but the type of discrimination varies.

One hiring manager told me a woman was the best he’d interviewed, but he heard kids in the background & wouldn’t hire her because he didn’t want to risk her going out on maternity leave.

A manager told me he threw out all resumes with names sounding like they’d be from a specific country because he thought they all had poor communication skills.

It’s really common for hiring managers to insist on 3 to 5 years of experience because they’re likely to be young and willing to work a lot of unpaid overtime.
How large is ETH overhead? I expect it to be atrociously massive.
I could be wrong because I never used them myself, but isn't that Spaces feature supposed to address this at least in part?
I think it's a problem even in urban areas. A friend of mine is working on something called Flume: https://www.flumeinternet.com/ Their funding model (at least right now) is basically to serve customers where the government will pay for it. Many of their customers are getting home broadband for the first time in their life. (They remark that it's fun when their friends come over and they can give them the wifi password.) This is all happening in New York City; some people are getting Internet access for the first time in their lives, in the largest city in the richest country in the world.

I can only imagine how fucked rural America is.
UN resolution 678 granted the liberation of Kuwait. That has been achieved in February 1991. It did not grant the invasion of Iraq as it has happened in 2003.
Capital markets compete on a level field.
> This is a completely reasonable response.

Lol, no, you specifically called out the response that referenced AI, but now you're saying you didn't understand any of them? Sounds like you need to take a breath, relax, and stop shit-posting. Even your excuses are incoherent.
They would probably say, on average, that it works out for the best overall for society? I disagree with them but they have a very different way of looking at things from me. I prefer to think about where others are coming from rather than just condemn them.
Pretty literal IMO. Alcohol poisoning kills thousands of people every year.
My quote was directly from the article.
>Reservoirs have a surface.

Are you suggesting floating solar panels? Surely you jest?

>It costs no more to site solar in pasture than in desert. It can be cheaper; you don't need to buy the land if it remains equally useful for its current use

You have to stop using it during construction. That's a cost. Nobody is actively using the desert. But more relevant to the original point, there are no areas of large, flat pasture in Appalachia.
I like it, isnt tech savy at all works well, I search walpapers for my smartphones,ideas for posters and desing for websites, isn't for thech savy people, and the results feels more curated than Google images
At an extreme, refraining from arsenic and salmonella is better for your health than sleep. I have a hard time believing there's nothing reasonable in between that's also better than sleep.
As they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Why So Many Covid Predictions Were Wrong
Given the preference I’d rather not carry around an additional phone or hw token. But I fully understand those who don’t appreciate it.

You can possibly force bespoke token apps into google Authenticator or the ms variant if they use standard Totp or hotp (ms auth on AAD does not by default but you can force it to provide one during the workflow).
We can compare different flood myths and see there's no universal similarity between them except "there was a flood."

And we can see all sorts of other similarities between different cultures, like the presence of gods and supernatural forces, and not draw the conclusion that gods and supernatural forces existed.

We can look at Australian Aboriginal flood myths, which have the strongest evidence for being the result of sea-level rise from 7,000 years ago, and see that your 'simpler explanation' doesn't fit the data.

And I can see that your statement about the "universal interpretation of the Pleiades as seven sisters" is not correct.
I regularly buy a lot of books and go through periods where I read a lot or don't read much at all. Like most ADHD folks I think it's related to hyper-fixation most of the time, but sometimes it's just plain old motivation. One thing that helped in the past was buying an AlphaSmart on Ebay and just taking notes in Markdown on that. If I have the ebook I usually do a side-by-side with Ulysses or emacs open to take notes since it's a pain to deal with the AlphaSmart and an ebook reader, but for physical books it's quite easy to just cover up the page I'm not using as a stand. I generally keep technical notes organized by larger topic, then sub-topic, and then a separate file for each specific thing.

I tend to prefer physical books for long-form reading that isn't really focused on having you write code and ebooks for when it's more of a tutorial/project-based thing, and I think the multi-tasking aspect of taking notes or writing code while reading helps me from getting distracted, as I notice I tend to get bored quicker when I'm focused on one task for took long versus having a passive task to keep me busy. Lately I've decided to try doing something different, and instead of taking notes I am just highlighting stuff. I used to hate highlighting and marking up books, but once I got over it I found it's almost as effective as taking notes with the added bonus of being able to just sit outside or going somewhere quite with just the book and highlighter.
Why not ? Free (for instance) went pretty far in this direction 11 years ago (v6) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox
If I see an ‘accept cookies’ banner on a website, I close it immediately
Well, it's a type of capital punishment drawn from the tech business. In addition to gas, firing squad, hanging, electrocution, ... we now have dismantling!
> I would be really curious what an A10 pilot's take on this would be.

An Su-25 pilot’s take would be more relevant, but I don't think Ukraine's Su-25 are flying a lot of sorties right now. (And even Russia’s, which seem to be flying more, aren’t having a great time.)

Neither side is able to suppress the others air defenses (airborne or ground based) enough for tank-killer jets to be used at anything like full effectiveness.
This is not correct. Go to https://appleid.apple.com/account/manage and you will see that you can add multiple trusted phone numbers under Account Security.
The mrna vaccines have an impact on transmission / infection of omicron for about 4-6 months (there is longer-lasting protection against severe illness etc).

This leads to very confusing debates, the "headline" stats used to sell the vaccine demonstrate high effectiveness (they tend to use data from the 4-6 month window where they know it will look good).

The metastudies / long-term studies tell a more nuanced story.
Of course people are backing up their cloud data like they should be right?

So no drama /s
I've been quite surprised by the reliability of Popcorn Time (relatively bad, but torrents have not been designed with this in mind, have they?), and especially PeerTube (how is that even possible ?!).
Lay it out to your users straight up. If theres a level of funding that lets you keep running, you might consider a fundraiser; but "I have to shut down for a while and we'll come back next fall we hope" doesn't sound that bad. You don't seem to have an obligation to your users other than joy in the community, which is wonderful but life comes first.
I've been happily using fastmail for years and I think I'm going to be forced to stop. My outbound emails are constantly getting caught in spam and it recently cost me a job offer.
The guy is still alive.
Amplenote, OneNote, Mem, GoodNotes, Nimbus Note, Notejoy
As a practical matter, though, I'd much rather the compiler segfault, than miscompile my code so it does something incorrect at runtime.

But agreed that seeing a compiler segfault doesn't inspire confidence!
I’m not sure who you are responding to, but none of that is germane to my post about the correct use of “null hypothesis“ that it is attached to.
This all reminds me of Stephen Colbert having a field day with "truthiness" already 17 (!) years ago. And "wikiality", when the population of elephants suddenly tripled thanks to his Wikipedia-editing efforts. (And much later, "Trumpiness".)
When I open the web version of the calendar picker, it's showing Monday as the irst day of the week?

Btw, I didn't realize vast majority of the world outside Americas have week starting on Monday.
Art forgers reveal secrets of paintings that fooled experts
A very honest account by Adam that captures the anxiety of addiction,
especially those moments of panic that cause us to fall back into
smartphone dependency or use "just this last one time".

This article will resonate with everyone working to take back tech in
their lives, but succumbing to the (false but emotionally very real)
sense of isolation and disconnection from the so-called "expectations
of society".

In Digital Vegan [1] I tried to re-word and make more accessible ideas
from a book that I found life changing. It is called "Missing Out" by
Adam Phillips [2]. It is written in quite dense, psychotherapeutic
language that gives me pause to recommend it.

If there's just one idea I'd love to get across it is within the
subtitle "In Praise of the Unlived Life", which is not about Stoicism,
abstinence as a virtue or any shallow "self-help" themes. It's deeper
and darker, and about dealing with the loss that comes with being a
real (true to yourself) person.

People talk about FOMO, a "fear of missing out". And of a fear of
being "left behind". But if the person next to you has their head
blown off by a bullet, or everyone else is swept away by a tsunami
wave, being the one who "missed out" or was "left behind" feels like
survivor guilt. It means dealing with a kind of grief about the life
you so nearly had, or chose to walk away from. The fact that you got
the better deal, even though you know that to be profoundly true,
sometimes still doesn't feel like enough. Cult escapees feel this too.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13369538-missing-out

[2] https://digitalvegan.net
I would think yeah, briefly. Thinking as I type this, one could easily consider proper management as perpetual edge cases - and ML/AI isn't too good at that right now. I don't see management as "do more work!", "do good work!" or waving blunt objects about as in the Jetsons.
Here we're in Vietnam, where there's no real tech unicorn at all. The issue is in the quality of architect/tech leader.

One must be really open minded to continuous learning, learn your weakness, fix your mistakes consistently with this in mind: There's no easy problem, all depends on context of problem.

That's why it's a real issue with old programmer here, as most of companies tend to "go fast and break thing".
I for one use simplenote.com
Except when they don't.

I had dice as a kid that did not follow this rule.
A theory: When declarative IaaS gets to a certain point, we can distribute the cloud hosting version of a one-click install. Then use federated auth so people can choose any instance of the app to host their identity.
https://archive.ph/zUVTp is one of many, they work by making it more difficult to vote if you are working class, and usually urban in a state with a high percentage of minority residents. These laws, in practice, disenfranchise mostly minority voters.

It's not dead due to work by the Roberts Court to gut the voting rights act, which was the law that prevented this kind of shenanigans.
I use eReader Pretigio (android) for this. As of this writing they let you use installed tts engine.
I wish they'd let users decide what they want to use as additional factors. I would like to ban phone calls, emails, SMS, and TOTP entirely from all my accounts, especially those that hold credentials for other services, and use only WebAuthn.

I'd love to use Apple's keychain for credentials for convenience but it can quickly become the weakest link, when it should be the strongest.
Don't get discouraged by this. The features being added may sound academic and obscure, but they make the language simpler to use.

This pattern has already been repeated a few times:

Before: "Uuugh, I want to do X, but the compiler says I can't! Why can't I do this simple thing!??"

After: It works.

For example, Rust used to have an embarrassing problem with cloning arrays larger than 32 elements, for silly obscure reasons. Since then it has added a "const generics" feature, and cloning and iteration over arrays works just as you'd expect it to always work.

The current issue is that traits (which are a bit like interfaces in Java) don't quite support async functions, for silly obscure reasons. Currently if you want to have an interface that is both abstract and async, you need to manually implement workarounds that add complexity and overhead. Rust is removing this problem by adding language-level plumbing that was preventing it from having traits just work for any type of function.

Rust's evolution isn't adding bells and whistles, but filling in holes.
And? Minorities are racist just like everybody else. Why do we have to triangulate this stuff? Trump was obviously a pretty racist guy.

The sneaky lawyer trick in what you wrote is "they called Trump racist for saying things minorities agreed with". That's true, they did. But they also called him racist for a bunch of other reasons!
Will somebody do something about all the train hijackings?