skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I had the opportunity to travel to the island of South Georgia this February. This island lies around 55° S and 36° W in the middle of the Southern Atlantic Ocean. It’s biggest “village”, Grytviken, is home of the most southern post office of Great Britain, with an official letter box and daily emptying hours. […] Together with Postcrossing, I was able to post the first 20 official postcrossing cards with a GS-code to people scattered all over the world.

Fun fact: you don't have visit the South Pole to mail a postcard from the South Pole. (But it's probably more fun if you do!) This ties in to a postcard story I told here about ten years ago.

I had missed my sister's 30th birthday and wanted to surprise her with something out of the ordinary. I learned that you can roundtrip a postcard through any US post-office, and used this to send her 30 postcards from 30 states.

I started with a list of USPS POs and looked for 30 that were in interestingly named or out-of-the-way towns. I then used Zazzle to custom print postcards, each with a picture on one side that I found on the Internet of the town or PO.

On the message side of each postcard was printed a single large letter. Once my sister received all 30 cards the large letters would spell out a message. I hand wrote a tidbit about each place after the large letter to disguise the large letter's purpose.

The cards were all addressed to my sister in FL. I stamped each card with a stamp of the state it was from, using one of the USPS's 50 state stamp collections. (The collection I used was from many years ago, but I found a sheet on eBay.)

I wanted each postcard to be hand canceled from the town it was supposed to be from. I also wanted the postcard to show up at my sister's in pristine condition. So I placed each postcard into an envelope addressed to the postmaster in that town’s PO. The envelope also included a second stamped envelope addressed to my sister, and a letter to the postmaster asking them to hand cancel the card, then mail it on to my sister in the second envelope.

Then I dropped all thirty envelopes in the mail in NC. I had no idea if this would work, but after about 3 weeks my sister received them all in FL. The envelope which traveled the farthest was round-tripped through Barrow, AK. I also sent her cards via HI and ME.

Some of the cards went through towns so small that the last name of the postmaster hasn't changed in that town for generations (the USPS website lets you look up current and former postmasters).

This was a neat project. I learned a bit of trivia about all these small towns. I learned some people collect postmarks. And tying back to my intro, I learned that you can roundtrip postcards through the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station post office[1], but it takes about a year.

Here's what the cards looked like after she received them:

https://imgur.com/a/99bipee

https://imgur.com/f1MidVF

[1]: https://www.jeffreydonenfeld.com/blog/2012/12/the-worlds-sou...
You just described it?

The problem, as usual, being that you are trying to describe something with a term where the common usage is just plain bad faith.

Unfairly attacked?

Harassed?

There’s lots of words…the common usage of cancelling is none of them nor what you described. The common usage is what no one in this thread seems to want to admit. And it’s why the same people who cry about cancel culture want to use it’s supposed existence as a reason to actually restrict others free speech.
His attitude in assuming anyone not on the left is uneducated and living hand to mouth is the whole reason the Democratic Party keeps losing votes.
Still making shit up: A HVDC transmission line has no "grid frequency".
> ±0.1 meters.

Nit pick as I use RTK. It's ±0.01 meters. Unless some miscreant moves the base station.
How many seasons are you counting?

It's an American outlet, they use four. Summer starts at the solstice in late June in the Northern hemisphere.
How does that have anything to do with wokeness?

It'd pretty obvious Netflix is woke by their original content. It also tends to be boring now.
Web3Auth uses a WebAuthn + Social login approach to store the credentials. https://web3auth.io/

Disclaimer: I work there.
I think that it is the first time that I see a post with only one top level comment on its first page
> Imagine you favorite band is playing live, they don't visit your town. You can put on a VR headset join in on the event and experience it like you are there. You friends can come along without any of you guys being in the same country.

That just sounds so contrived. You’d be paying money for that too… and it wouldn’t be much cheaper than going to see them live.

Contrived and just dystopian, really.

I don’t know…
I assume the very indignant lady so angry at Brown and Jeff fully understands how mixed methods model work, and has found a flaw in the peer reviewed design. A flaw that Nielson missed, as well as the editorial process of this longstanding journal. Maybe, in addition to Brown firing a PhD advisor, we should get Nielson our of NN, revoke the charter of Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, and disband the ACM.

Or, possibly, we might trust peer review, and not angry internet randos?

Sacrilege, I know...
> Because progress will be driven by individual volunteers or corporate stewardship.

Works well in theory! In reality the incentives of open-source contributions are complicated and don't always pan out. This is especially true for complex applications, as they're generally harder to contribute to than small libraries/plugins...
Many people are very worried about Elon censoring others. He has already done that before.
That’s interesting. I’ve always figured it’s the opposite, since a public company is beholden to fiduciary duty. Would you like to elaborate?
The fact that it is possible to jump from MLE to a research role in Deep Learning means that this pathway is accessible to anyone who is a decent SWE and has some math skills. But there are much fewer research positions. So there is an element of luck and being at the right place at the right time.

Today, the competition for research positions in a "sexy" STEM field (think quantum computing, black holes, DL, RL) is quite high. DL just happens to be a field where it is possible to get into research without investing too much time while also making a lot of money, so this is a dream job for many.
I rather like the idea of a bunch of flat–earthers taking a flight over the south pole.
Sorry, he’s not a candidate. He’s an elected rep who has been thoroughly hung out to dry for making shit up. There is no evidence from reliable sources besides this tweet that donors faced any consequences or had their accounts frozen. There is sworn testimony indicating that didn’t happen. Marjory Taylor Greene is an elected rep too, but many would agree that she’s not someone to cite.

You seem to be seeing this through the lens of “two sides”. There are more than two major political parties in Canada. And the East/West/French divide is as important as the left/right divide.

I’m seeing this through the lens of government quelling illegal protest, regardless of what is being protested. I see what happened in Ottawa as a restrained response that I wish was used more, rather than the violent response that is so common.

At the time temporary asset freezes we’re used, military force was authorized by the legislature. They could have dragged the trucks out using military recovery equipment, instead they made it so they couldn’t buy diesel and propane with money from unknown sources.

> Try to imagine a carbon copy of yourself who fell into the other echo chamber and has similarly low opinions of your politics. There will be no shortage of justifications for why you must be punished.

If I fall down some conspiracy rabbit hole, protest by unlawfully shutting down a city for a month, ignore an injunction, and encourage others to do the same while ignoring warnings about the consequences, I sure as hell expect that the government will come after me.

There was no “pandoras box” opened. The legislature authorized the PM to act in a limited way to end an unlawful protest. Those powers have expired, and could have been rescinded at any time.

The people weren’t “punished”. Organizers had money frozen for about a week until it could be seen that it wouldn’t be used to support more activity deemed to be an emergency.

The dangerous precedent isn’t the seizure of money. It’s using foreign bankrolls to pay for a destabilizing protest movement to use industrial equipment to shut down major infrastructure and cities while ignoring the rule of law.
>to force people to use dense housing

After seeing how pandemics work in densely populated areas, nope. Never. That has ship has sailed.
~~I landed at a different base but all that happened was I got a welcome message.~~ I guess I just wasn't landing precisely enough on the target. I set down on the glowing lights and got the welcome message, so I assumed I had done it correctly, but if I land very exactly on the shape in the center of the lights then I get taken in for refueling.
> He’s concurrently framed the entire purchase of Twitter under some nebulous vision of free speech.

On the contrary, it is the most concrete vision of free speech I can imagine. Elon said explicitly that he wants Twitter to support any legal speech. The United States has by far the most caselaw in the world detailing the use and restriction of speech.
This is absolutely true. But if cleaning your data takes barely any compute and only fails less than 1% of the time, it’s splitting hairs.

The way I think about it is, how would I write it if performance didn’t matter? And then from that point I think about what compromises I can make that improve performance at the expense of something else (readability, etc)

Disclaimer: I’m not trying to argue that my preference is _better_.
> long term positive effect is cosmetic surgery

Any links? It isn't clear whether you are talking about cosmetic surgery to mitigate an obvious issue (for example, correcting a hair lip or removing a disfiguring facial birthmark), as compared to cosmetic beauty enhancements (nose job or tummy tuck). I would guess "enhancements" have a very strong sampling bias, because of a strong correlations with disposable income, belonging to certain social groups, and the type of person that prioritises surgery over other expenses. Adjusting to remove bias would be problematic?

I also suspect that there would be an inherent bias in reported studies, because the cosmetic surgery industry will fund and publish results that benefit the industry?
They have fiduciary obligation to take Elon Musk offer otherwise they can get sued by their Shareholders. Listen to this episode of the all in podcast to understand more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Suaj_0wKV0
Domain Driven Design Reference (2015) [pdf]
Part of that legitimate discussion would necessarily include whether people are using abusing the term.

The fact that real things happen doesn’t make using the same term to describe not real things happening acceptable.

I can’t call out of work because there was a blizzard if there wasn’t a blizzard recently where I actually live
I'm going based on what my friends in northern India say, who are sitting there sweating and telling me it's the middle of summer.

It's okay, this is another stupid article and I'm trying to stop kneejerk commenting on them because the stream of hucksters, self-congratulators, and general idiocy is endless :)
I'm just using shell scripts and the SQLite CLI. I dump/restore files to the same FS so I can mv into place when ready.

Checkout the PRAGMA user_version, I just modify on schema change, so app knows where stuff is.

https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html
The title of the article was and is "Speeding up Prettier locally and on your CI with dprint". If you use the Rust-based plugins instead of Prettier it will be much faster as noted at the end of the article.

To add another advantage of using dprint not mentioned, is that since it's pluggable you can use Prettier and other formatters all from the same formatting CLI. The main dprint repo does this in its dprint.json (https://github.com/dprint/dprint/blob/3d822a48133358ec4e2d5b...)
God, and it's such a snooze-fest.

Writing TFX code at Google is like having your soul-sucked through your rear-end! Imagine TF1 with all the broken APIs, but now it's all distributed! Fun.
> quarterly YoY growth MAU/DAU metrics, and more focus on improving society and moderation

Leverage increases focus on financial metrics. Twitter is being taken private by way of an LBO. Maybe focussing less on Silicon Valley metrics in favor of Wall Street ones will make Twitter a better company? (That would be ironic.)
If you control the algorithm, you don't necessarily need to censor explicitly.
The plethora of successful Apache projects is evidence that the model works for all sorts of software, from relatively simple (apache Guacamole) to complex (Kafka and ZooKeeper).
“Shopify's core monolith has over 2.8 million lines of Ruby code and 500,000 commits.”
Almost like buying energy and funding the defense of a democracy from an invasion aren't exactly the same situation.
> In my experience when right wingers complain about censorship this is what they most want to be able to do.

Like Taylor Lorenz, the New York Times, and CNN?
> I have no interest in using Linux as desktop

It sounds like you're not the target audience then?
The West is effectively at war with Russia. I wouldn't be surprised if the US was actually the one behind the recent explosions and fires inside Russia and not Ukranian agents/military. When you're at war, cyber-warfare is to be expected(and hopefully prepared for).
TIL
https://www.javatpoint.com/seasons-in-india
1. How does that look for a random TWTR holder far away from SV? One day his broker just informs him that there are no longer securities on his account, but that account has received some cash?

2. Why is it even allowed (by the government) to decide the share price at the board meeting? These shares don't belong to them, somebody has purchased them already. And these people have decided what the shares are worth, that's kinda the definition of "market price". The board didn't decide that, market did. If they want to get these shares back it sounds only fair that they should have to pay what the new owners consider the fair price, whatever it is.
Eh, there are literally thousands of manuals on being a good manager. Still I hope people find your contribution helpful!
I have family members on Medicaid and help them with their care. Medicaid covers 100% of everything, from doctors visits to specialists, ER care, surgery, dental, vision, medications, etc at no cost to the beneficiary. By law, Medicaid has to pay for everything, so patients don't get pushed around by providers or insurers about billing or additional costs. The headache surrounding billing and paying for care just doesn't exist. Policyholders can confidently see doctors and buy prescriptions they need without worrying about being sent mystery bills several months down the line, or being unable to fill medication, including brand name medication.

On the private insurer side, if you're prescribed an on-patent medication that has no generics, every insurer I've had has fought me every step of the way for coverage, and some plans just don't cover brand name medication at all. Even when you work with your doctor and insurer to get coverage for specific medications, insurers will decide 4 months later that they don't want to cover it anymore and you have to jump through those hoops all over again.

My "favorite" experience was having to cycle through several medications that I had been prescribed in the past that weren't effective in order to make my insurer happy so that they'd cover the medication that does work. Apparently the private insurer knows how to treat patients better than doctors do. Then I moved and had to switch insurers, and the insurer wanted me to go through the process of taking drugs that don't work all over again. I gave up and just pay for the actually-efficacious prescription out of pocket, and none of those costs go towards my deductible. I now pay $18 per pill for something that costs $34 total for a 30-day supply, which is about a dollar per pill, in other first world countries.

If it was possible, I'd drop my own coverage instantly for Medicaid. Doing so would make my life immeasurably better.

> Doesn't seem like the rest of the world's universal healthcare did any better than ours?

On every metric, other countries' healthcare systems outperform the healthcare system in the US, resulting in higher quality care and patient outcomes, all for much less than the US spends[1].

[1] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
Surfing the Internet (1992)
‘Unusual’ deep-sea jellyfish discovered off California coast
How was that about open sourcing Netscape?
See, this is the kind of anti-LGBTQ stuff that is not censored on Twitter today.

You have used the common trope of the pretty much fictional extreme - there are definitely people who abuse terms like “triggered”, etc for stuff that by clinical definition isn’t - but what you’re attempting to do is take a large group of real humans, and reduce them to a caricature so that you can then treat them as non-people.

This is a standard step, taken by many groups, many times, targeting many groups to justify discrimination, persecution, and worse.

This kind of trivialization and dehumanization was and is used by people justifying sexism, slavery, apartheid, segregation, homophobia, transphobia, anti-semitism, anti-Palestinian, anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism, manifest destiny, by the japanese vs Chinese or POWs, Koreans vs Philippines, British vs Italian immigrants, etc, etc

Persecuting people is not something that seems specific to any single group, history is replete with one group trivializing another.

I would just like you to recognize that your reflexive response to my calling out what censorship is being targeted, and that it is not a “free speech for everyone” action as is being claimed, was to immediately attempt to trivialize the identity of another group of humans. It’s not materially different from people in the south creating uppity black stereotypes, crooked nose Jews around every corner, the gay people preying on innocent straight people.

You could be totally fine with that, the problem people seem to have is more often being called out on it, than actually doing it.

I’ve encountered plenty of liberals that will happily do or say racist or phobic things (phobia is super common in the “liberal” democrats), but get upset if you call them out on it.

It’s the same thing with “dog whistles”: people treat saying certain specific words as bad, but instead of stopping the statements they simply change the words used. So a variety of words and phrases became “urban youth”, “Jews” became “globalists”, etc

To me it seems a lot of the “anti-censorship” complaints are more people being upset that they’re behavior is getting called out.
I think the online discourse will look ugly but having them butt heads instead of sit in an echo chamber dulls them. I don't think people appreciate the degree to which the Right has radicalized from people joining echo chambers after being banned from places like Twitter.
Bloomberg wrote Elon asked the CCP to censor posts about Tesla in China at some point. In the US, Elon is vehemently against activist short sellers.

Elon strikes me as an insecure man and opportunistic free speech champion. I don't think accounts like TESLAcharts would survive on the new Twitter. Stonks are supposed to go up, so your speech is definitely free to help that.

Once people like that get rid of inconvenient to them speech limitations, they inevitably end up with new ones, overt or hidden. There is never unconditional free speech in any society.
If you’re on mobile and can’t block it, a trick I’ve discovered is: click “log in”, then the X in the top left. The overlay goes away and doesn’t come back for that session.
You and Taleb are both right.
I'm all for wind energy and Ukraine but the connection to Russia seems flimsy. The article mentions the timing of the attacks (right after the war began) as proof of Russia's involvement. Just in December 2021 Uptime Wind Energy Podcast was talking about [1] a cyber attack on Vestas. So it's not like it was unprecedented before the war. I get that 1 of the attacks was by a group that publicly supports Russia. And I get that Russia has huge vested interests against wind energy.

[1] https://weatherguardwind.com/cyber-resilience-byron-martin/
Right, the FDA is what's wrong with American healthcare. Not the insurance agencies or the for profit hospitals making as much money as possible. The lack of single payer healthcare is one of America's greatest failings on that end.
> You don't do row level permissions on your database. You keep it all on the application layer.

You say this as some sort of objective truth. Keeping security about data at the data layer can often be a really good idea and just as appropriate as GRANT/REVOKE at the table and column levels.
It seems you might be missing the larger point and getting hung up in pedantry. Try taking a deep breath and a step back to consider the bigger picture.
Last author is the same guy who did the "Glanceable Fonts" stuff at MIT
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/glanceable-fonts/
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Hatred isn't there in a vacuum. Maybe you just don't have the mental/emotional bandwidth to summon the energy up. And maybe you can't see a way to de-stress enough to get that bandwidth. It's possible that the partner is simply not trying either and that's a very heavy burden to carry alone. The hater may have quite literally run out of steam and can't summon the energy to choose differently.

You could replace an entire set of marriage counseling/books with this single paragraph, and your message would still be worth a ton more than the lot of them... for anyone really paying attention to what you are saying.

Kudos for your eloquence & deep understanding.
The first goal is hidden behind a "More info" button:

> We would provide all of the source code for GoldWave Infinity under an open source license (GPL or MIT). To do that, we would need to raise two million dollars.
I don't think many machine learning folks working for FAANG are worrying about such things.
Is this a phishing attack? Why does everyone trust OP? @dang this should probably be removed
> West is effectively at war with Russia

In a contest. Not at war.

Decades of fighting guerrillas has left us loose with words. Tanks rolling past Kyiv should remind us of the bright line between annoying and engaging an enemy.
Sure within reason. Don’t give yourself a title you can’t back up but more descriptive is fine.
Not likely.

This is a strange kind of town square.

First of all, it has to protect wealthy elites, emperors, and so on, in a society with appalling wealth inequality. All people who would be unable to enter a town square without elite soldiers / praetorian guard / varangian guard to protect them.

Secondly, this town square is not a public space, it's the wholly owned private property of a collection of ultra-wealthy people and institutions (or a single wealthy individual, who may as well be Caligula at this point).

Finally, the town square already isn't a great model: there were town squares during the reign of Caligula, the entire institution of serfdom, during slavery in the American colonies, during Jim Crow. What was discussed there? Whose "free speech" was protected there?
> That battery, by far the largest ever shoehorned into an EV, also contributes 1,315 kilograms to the Hummer’s gargantuan 4,082-kg curb weight.

Wow. 4 tonnes. The battery weighs more than a VW Golf 8 1.5 eTSI.

These things are going to wreck havoc in the road infrastructure. 4 tonnes in 3 seconds to 60… good bye tarmac.

At least we won’t see many of those in Europe. Standard B license in Europe has a limit of 3500 kg.
as someone with limited understanding of how corporations work, i had a hard time understanding who was factually correct in the exchange.