skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because Earth is the only planet we know of with life. In particular, the environment to support complex life long enough for an intelligent civilization to emerge. There could be other kinds of planets where this occurs, but of course we don't know about them. It could be that the conditions on Earth are a rare combination needed for intelligent civilizations. Or at least, one of the few ones.
I for one think that the code path that leads to an insert conflict should be integration/unit tested. Something needs to codify how the error is reported to the client.

So no, you don't get to wiggle out of that one.

Unit testing PL/pgSQL is nasty.
Downvoted because the blog post you linked triggered me. (Ba dum dum.) Kidding! I like the data-based approach to 2A in that article.
Another thing to try if you haven't: ask yourself if you will still be alive after not doing the thing you feel compelled to do. Focus at that moment on the version of yourself in 60 seconds or up to an hour who didn't [do compulsive thing] and the fact that they're still alive. The fact that it is physically possible to not [do compulsive thing].

I find that often helps me. It's being in the habit of reminding myself I have more than one choice when dopamine cravings would otherwise cause me to forget.
I've been to a couple of the planets in the Star Trek world. In fact, there's a portal right off a California highway that will transport you directly to one of these worlds if you can park your car.
If you are unfamiliar with font technology/design, it is hard to emphasize just how much work must have went into producing this font. Take a look at all the different variable axes Roboto Flex supports [1]. I have never seen so many axes in a variable font.

I cannot imagine how much effort went into developing and testing this font; this is incredible work by Font Bureau.

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Flex?query=roboto#t...
Yeah, this seems barely beyond Tesla's Autopilot and not even close to the FSD Beta.
I've found and fixed so many bugs that are simple to deal with using a debugger but would require hours of peppering the code with print statements to even get close to a solution. Some simple examples are deadlock bugs in multithreaded programs (easy to halt the program and see what thread is blocked on what) or uncaught exceptions from somewhere unexpected (set the debugger to break on throw).

With a debugger you can also change the behavior of a live program, e.g. modify variables or jump over a piece of code that would otherwise be executed.

Every person I've encountered professionally who either "doesn't use debuggers" or thinks "print statements are better" seems to be under the mistaken impression that all a debugger is good for is stepping through code.

Debuggers are fantastic tools. You should re-evaluate your view of debuggers and you will become a better programmer.
This is a good summary of PHP in the past and maybe the present. I think the PHP 10 years from now won’t have the craziness anymore, based on the current trend.
>to know, somewhere in the back of your mind, consciously or unconsciously, that none of this means anything.

But perhaps that is incorrect.
Looking forward to it. Hopefully it’ll be better/equal to Tesla’s FSD. I assume it won’t be, but idk the range of how good FSD is really.
I say this jokingly but if you really, really wanted to go all out, you could use an artificial head with mouth simulator, e.g. https://www.head-acoustics.com/products/artificial-head-bina... Being a very specialized test instrument, though, it costs vastly more to get such a device and the auxiliary equipment to operate it than the experience would ever be worth. Even basic mouth simulators, sans head, like https://www.bksv.com/en/transducers/simulators/ear-mouth-sim... are astonishingly expensive.
License. MenuetOS is proprietary. KolibriOS is open source.
That's news to me! Not sure cproc existed last time I looked at GCC but that was a long time ago. Thank you.
People who say "bigger cars are safer" mean "the person driving the bigger car is safer". It's an arms race to them and they want the bigger car.
This type of anti progress comment will soon be banned at free speech twitter
I'm happy to answer. I've been in visual effects for 30 years plus (including hobby-ing) and seen some shit.
The coolest instance of MILP I have encountered "in the wild" at work was a disaggregation problem where we could only receive vendor reports that contained aggregated statistics, each report aggregating the original data along a different dimension (say one by customer zip code, another by age range, etc). By lining up these aggregated reports, you could turn that into an MILP system that could be solved to unwind all of the aggregation and get back to the original data. This gave us way more flexibility in deciding how to use the vendor data.
This is less sophisticated than Tesla Autopilot (you can do lane changes with AP) which has been in use for years.

It's not anywhere close to FSD Beta.
The SETI assumption is that some alien civilizations want to make themselves known, and radio is the easiest way to do this. It would mean committing to a long term project of beaming powerful radio signals at candidate star systems. So we just need to scan radio frequencies for enough stars before we stumble across a beacon.
> Thankfully I am investing in Rust language which has stability guarantee

For 25 years? Because that’s the timeline we’re talking about for PHP. There’s cruft after 25 years that should be cleaned out. Java is doing the same (but slower, and there’s less cruft).

You seriously think Rust or any language doesn’t need to change backwards compatibility for 25 years?
Feedback: The profile is super generic, just lists your languages/repos. It's less a resume and more a condensed/flattened version of exactly your github.

TBH was hoping for some quirky GPT-3 text about what drives me and how I solve problems. Oh well.
SolveSpace – open-source parametric 3D CAD tool
Nectome MVP
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone from YC knew what kind of MVP Nectome used to demonstrate what they were trying to do with preserving consciousness? I have an idea for a similar startup, but am not sure how to build an MVP on a low budget - so just looking for some ideas. Thanks.
Third place? What are the first two?
Free Silicon Conference 2022
As I had mentioned, it may not be applicable to their situation. But there is no doubt in my mind that testosterone mediates longevity in some fashion.

The question is, at what level is that? And does it vary individually? Too much and you’re at risk for adverse cardiovascular events. Too little and your bones will snap like twigs and your muscles will waste away.
Congratulations, you got taken in by the advertisers.

One should take care when writing a law aimed at advertisers, because they will find ways to make the greatest laws look stupid; no matter how sane they were on paper. (and this law was very sane indeed, but sadly still far too nice)

I don't want to outright force them out of business, since we do still need advertisers occasionally. But laws will definitely need to be yet even more strict.
If you look more closely at the dialog, they usually break the cookies down into "necessary" and "optional" cookies. Necessary cookies are used for things like maintaining you login state. Optional cookies are used for things like advertising tracking. When you decline cookies access, you're only declining the optional cookies.
search: >books:'studio control room acoustic design'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=books:'studio control ro...>
Using a RaspberryPi as a Display Adapter
A stated assumption doesn’t require a citation, it’s an assumption, not a claim.
I'm on the same boat, but, without trying to rationalise it, I think exposure is a real thing.

HN is mostly entertainment for me, but just absorbing tidbits of information from people I believe are much better than me in my field is extremely useful. It's not much different than passively attending a conference.
I miss Terry (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS).
So here is my super simple understanding take on the long-winded article.

If the duration of treasuries, or whatever you are basing the spread on, is equal to MBSs, the spread would be constant. This is not the case because of prepayments (i.e. the option).

When interest rates rise, refinancing-related prepayments slow. Duration increases. But, it's a hot housing market, so there is an offsetting effect. Duration is decreasing due to the housing market (buyer-driven prepayment).

The option-adjusted spread would capture both these effects, but good luck with that.
The cookie law never required a prompt for cookies necessary for the website to function. Ie session cookies are fine.

What does require consent is advertising/tracking/metrics cookies.
You dislike water delivered in pipes that do not freeze? Where do you find overhead plumbing?

And, is the wiring in your house all exposed?
I recently uninstalled the social media apps on my phone and I have been noticing the number of times I reach for my phone are quite many. These are times I am just seeking stimulation of some sort, not trying to communicate or research something. Since I no longer have the apps, I just head over to settings or photos and then get so bored I just end up reading a book instead.
Are there other phenomena that have similar affects on a star? Dust clouds?

I’m not really familiar with astronomy but I did follow the story around Tabby’s Star, which dimmed over a very short period. People threw around the idea of a Dyson swarm, but, I believe the most likely source of the dimming is believed to be a passing dust cloud.
The levelling system in self-driving really needs to die.

If Autopilot is L2 at best how is the OC L3? What features does the Mercedes Drive Pilot solution have that AP does not?
For me I've found over my 27 years of browsing (I'm 53) for each decade there is less substance and more fluff. There's far more stuff out there on the Internet for sure but much I find is vapid and that seems to be attractive. Like fast food it's empty calories but satisfying.

Years ago it took effort to be on the Internet you made sure the phone was available, you started a program, a dial-up modem connected (or not), you opened up Internet application not a Web application. It took work just to get to step 1 now it's instant. More and more interactions but no substance just people trying to be witty - so much witticism, memes, echo chambers, anger.

Now I find I am to the point where most times I just use a mouse or tap on an icon very little typing and I seem to stick to the same ten websites.

I think it's basic stimulus, response, reward. Just seeing two vertical arrows one pointing up and one down has a visceral effect on me. We've conditioned ourselves to be like this. The bell rings and we salivate.
Kindly do not cite personal anecdotes as evidence.
This assumes everyone in the civilization would want to do that, including any AIs. We don't have an example for history or contemporary society where this is true. Not everyone wants to immerse themselves in digital entertainment, despite the proliferation of it. People engage in a wide range of activities, some of them which require deprivations and real danger, like climbing mountains. It would be odd if nobody from a civilization retained an interest in exploring space, with the possibility of finding something truly alien.
I take visbiome and I’m just anyone. Not every day, though. It’s expensive and not needed. Once per week is what I do but I’m no expert.
Black holes do not emit gamma rays... black holes emit nothing (aside from potentially hawking radiation). Matter around supermassive black holes can give off gamma rays but planet massed black holes are just as likely to cause gamma as planets themselves are.
If they wish to do things requiring that much energy.
Camo 1.6: Support for Safari, FaceTime and More – Reincubate
This all somehow seems unsurprising. If anyone has tried to use Heroku in easily the last year, the number of times you get failed builds over really trivial things is noticeable.
"made possible, at least for white men, by the middle-class security of the post-war period"

Typical matriarchy, always men working as a secret cabal. How is it possible to take this stuff seriously with such unsubstantiated nonsense.

For me I'll as soon a possible take myself my own and check out. Because we all have fears ,surprise surprise, and my greatest fear is this matriarchal narrative and what it means for my sons.
You used 1/2mv^2?
It is 2.64 times the energy. Squared means it is increasing exponentially
I was told recently to use some Math library for .net that was clearly a wrapper around a Fortran library. All method names were a 4 characters hex, I think the same for parameter names. I just refused.
I gotta say, if you need another tool to make your tool somewhat usable, that tool probably isn't very good in the first place? Lol
terrified? I've never seen a racoon being even slightly afraid of people. I mean yes, they may give you a way, yet it would be demonstratively very slow and with a look of total annoyance. Actually seeing racoons first time here in CA - there are a lot of them everywhere on Peninsula - that was the first time when i questioned the mantra that the humans are the top of creation as i saw that at least racoons are definitely not aware about that, and judging by the pretty contemptful look in their eyes they have a pretty different opinion about that.
You're assuming the probability for life, or at least intelligent life forming, is a lot greater than the amount of habitable places in the observable universe, such that there would be many civilizations. But we don't know what the probability is. It could be rather low, approaching the number of habitable worlds, such that we're alone or very rare, spread apart by vast distances of space and time.

Would explain the lack of evidence just as well.
No thanks. Stop forcing needless cookies down user’s throats.
Why would you even bother searching for extraterrestrial works that are not as nice as California? Nobody is going to travel 50,000 light years to get to a colder, drier Saskatchewan.
In some seriousness though, the total range of possibilities is almost endless. You have to start somewhere. Best to start with things you might actually understand.
I have a BS in Computer Engineering and MS in Electrical Engineering (ML specialty) from a top 20 public engineering school in the late 2000s and now have ~15 years in industry. I am currently enrolled at Georgia Tech for OMSCS. I was getting bored at work, my employer would pay for it and I figured why not? I enjoyed my time in real world grad program, OMSCS would be just just as fun. Plus, it's Georgia Tech! I can upgrade my MS from top 20 to top...5?

Well...it wasn't as educational or as fun as real world school. Those who claim Discord is a substitute (or even better?) for in person collaboration in an academic environment with like minded peers, uh ok...I am in those Discord channels and...100% disagree.

One thing I found out about Georgia Tech's graduate program is that it's more of a measure of grit, not a measurement of your knowledge. Their harder courses aren't necessarily hard material that one can't grasp. It's that the 40 hour projects...it's 10 hours of learning/implementation and 30 hours of a few little nuance issues that add no value to your knowledge base.

If you want to see how difficult the material are - many of the courses are on Udacity. Projects won't be listed, but maybe you can find similar ones online.

Since my employer pays for education (not just graduate, but if you don't have a BS they'll pay for it too!), I have a lot of colleagues as well as peers in industry who went the Georgia Tech route. It makes sense. Pure online, inexpensive, renown.

Everyone I know - and I mean everyone...when they have only a few classes left take the easiest ones to get it over with , i.e. Digital Marketing and whatever is ranked easy on OMSCS Central.

If someone is young in their career and wants to upgrade their piece of paper this would be an OK route. If you're older - you likely have an idea of what you want to learn. And if not, well, just watch all the Tech Udacity classes! There are plenty of online resources and communities of top professionals to surround yourself in where your time is spent more effectively.

As for me - I found myself taking Digital Marketing for my 5th class...I dropped my 6th class after getting tired of a particular bulls--- project. I will wait and see if I decide if I reenroll in the Fall. I am leaning towards a no.

IMHO if you are or want to be a software engineer, plenty of more relevant resources out there to grow your knowledge without wasting your time. If you want to be a hard core computer scientist, do an in person program so you can focus and be surrounded by peers and professors.

Tech's OMSCS is ground breaking in that it provides a quality education to everyone. But it is not a quality education for everyone and I wanted to have at least one post here with a contrarian point of view.
A Web Around the World: A Network of Networks
I would expect it would boot and work fine. Drivers is where most hobby OSes fall down. Your sound card might not work. Or your USB chipset etc. And hobby OSes like this often do a lot of things in software that are available in hardware, which ruins their performance.
> I am a software architect, not a doctor

Uh huh

> some great probiotic like Visbiome or VSL3

Sure are a lot of "you watered down the product" and false advertising lawsuits against these guys.
I don't have actual knowledge of the codebase but given the different sensor inputs and application, they're unlikely to share much in common behind shared libraries, drivers, etc.

Localization w/HD maps, actor forecasting, LiDAR based detectors, etc. are generally not present in L2 systems and are much more involved.
I've never known that "{$var}" was even allowed. All other languages using $ for string interpolation use the "${var}" pattern, often also allowing any expression ("${var / 10 + 2}") within the brackets.

Keeping "{$var}" seems like a strange decision to me. I assume the people who made the decision analysed open source projects and evaluated which option gets used most, but it doesn't feel like the most obvious decision to me.
Obesity isn’t putting others at risk in the same way. Cars endanger others. People make a special exception to norms for cars because it is hard to look past the convenience of them.
I know you mean well but boy did this come off as profoundly weird.
South Park satirized this, where Tom Brady’s stool was treated just like the Spice from Dune.
I was lucky enough to get exposed to QuickBASIC and AmigaBASIC in the latter part of the 1980s which introduced me to much more structured programming than the old style line numbered based BASIC implementations. That was quite the step forward, and really helped when I started programming in C.
Woah… this would be an amazing thing to open source
Any suggestions on a rival PaaS that has a similar engineering philosophy to the old Heroku?
Many thanks for the reply. Internet Archive Scholar—like everything else the Internet Archive does—is fantastic, and I am very grateful for all the efforts you and your colleagues make.

Just for reference for anyone else reading this, here is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent you in March 2021, after IA Scholar was first mentioned on HN:

“I contacted the people at [a large Japanese academic library]. ... I showed them your HN post [1] about the data you've already collected through J-STAGE, and, contrary to my own impression, they said you have probably already captured most of the metadata for Japanese academic journals that would be easily available. They also pointed out that J-STAGE includes a fair amount of publications from the humanities side of things, also contrary to my own impression.

“The main sticking point, they said, is journals that are published by universities or academic societies and have not been listed on J-STAGE. Many of those journals have never been digitized, they said, and those that are available in digital form are likely to be available only on those universities’ or societies’ individual websites. The library people didn’t know of any aggregators or indexes for such sites. The only way to find them, they suggested, would be for someone to hunt for the sites by hand.

“Over the years, I myself have been involved with the publication of several such journals and have set up websites for a couple, too. The ones published by departments at [a particular Japanese university] are included in [the university’s online repository] but not yet, it seems, on J-STAGE. A couple published by small academic societies are available only on those societies' websites. [Addendum: The Japanese academic societies I have been involved with—mostly in the humanities—would have difficulty getting DOIs or other persistent identifies for the papers they publish; it would take some effort even to convince them of the necessity. They are volunteer-run organizations, and just maintaining their websites is often a challenge for them.]

“Yet another impression of mine (also perhaps wrong) is that a higher percentage of academic research in Japan is published through such journals than in the U.S. It would be very valuable to have that research findable through IA Scholar, but the barriers to collecting it seem high.”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26408897
YMMV, I suppose. There's always psychos and sociopaths. But I wouldn't trust anything they say...
What has helped me immensely is intermittent fasting from the internet.

Setting a time to put away my phone and laptop every single day and sticking to it has rewired my brain and allowed me to rediscover old, slower, richer ways of thinking that I used to engage in. I cannot recommend it enough.
why is protobuf not an option to you?
It's important to distinguish the sensor range vs. the range at which your model can accurately perform detection.

There's time involved in solidifying the prediction, performing computations, and you also want a safety margin for a backup system to intervene, etc.

Lower speeds means you have more timing tolerance for all your systems.
home and work?
Write it up. Even if you can’t publish it now, you may not recall later. It’s quite likely circumstances will change such that your current employer has no interest in blocking publication so if you already have a document you’ll be able to advance human knowledge.
I agree that it's boring. I feel similarly. What else is there to do?