skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure how one could enable others to contribute easily but just making the code open source as is would be interesting. Those with a passing interest in search engines can browse the code of a capable engine and pick up some knowledge. While those who really want to help out will find a way to run it and contribute (in the process helping document and maybe making it easier).

My philosophy to open source is just do my personal projects in the open even if it’s not “accessible” and if someone comes along and likes it they can contribute or fork it and modify to their liking. Or they might just browse the code and pick up something in passing.
I admit a bit of concern for those who are going to try this, because a lot of them may not understand that they will probably need to actively do something with/about the sensory and emotional noise if not outright abuse they are absorbing while being party to conversations with people behaving this way.

They will likely need to find a way to process and vent for therapeutic recovery after the fact, in addition to using the technique itself in the moment.

Great to see new techniques though, or known-to-some techniques getting more traction.
Is it any wonder that $70 webcam gets out performed by $1200 camera (and that is without a lens!)

My Covid solution was a GoPro 9. Which was like $500, so still way more expensive than the $70 webcam in question, but still way cheaper than any kind of "proper" camera. Sadly the GoPro as a Webcam can only output 1080p even though solo it can record 4K, but since it usually record very wide fish-eye in the webcame mode you can crop to a more sensible "narrow" view that mimics traditional lenses (and since we are cropping 1080 out of 4K the image is still crisp).

Of course I can't recommend buying a GoPro to just be a webcam, but if you are not into traditional photographing as a hobby (I think my iPhone does the job well enough that I can't justify spending thousands on DSLR and lenses) GoPro is a neat gimmick camera you can attach to various other hobby projects and it still works as decent webcam.
At work I'm on Creative Cloud with the latest M1 Max MBP. At I home I've switched to Manjaro after 17 years of macOS use.

I just started looking into Krita for bitmap editing. It has adjustment layers (which I can't do without). Switching from Lightroom to darktable was quite dramatic, but I actually prefer darktable now. Took me two years of on and off fiddling to finally get to that point.
I see two obvious explanations at least: housing and education. Housing includes the cost of raising kids: few can afford this in places like CA. Education includes the ideology push that parents are fed up with.
These are users who have a very competitive alternative and have no incentive to whip up the fix themselves. Usually the way it goes is an open source advocate asks why a user doesn’t use gimp, and the user has reasons xyz, then the advocate makes noise on the user’s behalf. It’s not like the real users are pining for these features, they just go somewhere else.
I know this is not always intended but I read all lowercase as being passive aggressive in tone.

Much like all capitals is seen as shouting.

It’s a way of saying, you are not worth talking to properly.
Eh, those wanting the feature pay for Photoshop instead. Most are probably not freeloaders moaning, but people with problems they want to solve now.
You should feel guilty! You sounded extremely entitled there. How do you feel when someone asks you -- goads you really, into working for "exposure" instead of your usual rates? It's more than a little insulting!

If you want Free Software to be different, change it. If you don't know how now, like with anything else, you can learn how, or you can pay someone who has already spent the time to learn. The gimp project has a page where you can easily reach out to developers working on Gimp and fund them directly. If you think this feature is important, you should reach out and find out how you can help make it happen.

Now I don't work on gimp, but I do make Free Software, and I think most of us who program Free Software aren't working for "exposure". We aren't excited to be "used" by "users", and so of course we do not do anything "user driven". We do stuff because we want to, and when we don't want to, we may want-to for money. Like everybody else.
Lots of things that aren't countries have flags. Every US state has a flag. Every gender identity and sexuality has a flag. McDonald's has a flag. You don't need to be a country to have a flag.
> At the same time, some families are leaving their local public schools not because they are abandoning the system altogether but because they have moved to other parts of the country that are more affordable.

> Rendered homeless in late 2020, [three children] had struggled for months to keep up academically, shuffling for almost a year between motels, relatives and Ms. Parish’s 1997 Honda before they quietly stopped attending school entirely.
California public school system is so atrociously bad that everyone with the means to do so should consider alternatives. You are doing a tremendous disservice to your kids otherwise. I took my kids and left the state years ago and there hasn’t been a single day where I don’t feel certain I made the right decision.
Because some androgenes (including testosterone) are performance enchancing drugs that increase your competitiveness and risk tolerance in a wide variety of activities but takes a toll on your body in the long run. Castrated men live longer and I think similar lifespans compared to women.

This probably has evolutionary roots, as men have a much higher variability in the number of offsprings they can have, therefore great 'wins' have greater payoffs for them.
I have to agree with a bunch of what kxrm said. Email can be hard and I think paying for an MTA probably wouldn't work for a site that allows third-party users to send messages. Paid MTAs don't generally want to be sending mail that you're relaying on behalf of untrusted (or only semi-trusted) users.

I think Discourse might be something to look at (https://www.discourse.org). I don't know enough to really offer a great recommendation here, but they offer hosted/paid plans with a pretty good email limits. I think it would allow your users the ability to customize how they received emails and you can reply by email so it can keep the mailing-list-style feeling going. Plus, it's open-source so you could always self-host if you wanted. I think Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), Sam Saffron, and Robin Ward are all pretty well-respected in the community.

Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. seems to be a company looking to make something nice in the world (rather than take it over). They make their money as a hosting company and what they host is open source. A lot of people are using Discourse so it wouldn't be blazing new trails. I don't know what your budget is or how many people you have on your mailing list and how much email volume there is, but their hosted prices seem pretty reasonable and they seem to be trying to create a nice business.

kxrm noted Google Groups, but one thing I'd bring up is whether Google Groups is accessible in China. It might be, but you did say "globally accessible" and it seems like there could be a decent likelihood that Google Groups could get blocked in China in the future (even if it's accessible today). I guess you also noted that not everyone has access to Google.

Discourse seems like something they could host, you could use your own subdomain, and could always choose to host it yourself. For some, they might enjoy the web interface. Others can probably just interact over email (again, I don't have a huge amount of experience with Discourse so you'd want to verify it works how you want it to). It seems like it would offer a nice blend of modernity while still offering and email-based flow for those that want that.
Typical California. The problem is excessive regulation and zoning laws preventing private developers from building. And California proposes more government... This only works in Singapore because it has the world's most competent and least corrupt civil service.
Using GPT-3 is cheating, but it could be argued it's not "plagiarism" per se.

Plagiarism is copying someone else's work; using AI (or an essay farm manned by humans) is outsourcing the creation of a new thing.
Now, consider if a foreign government did this with a custom malware that isn't picked up by ordinary antrivirus.

Hell, they could even buy the best smartcard vendor and spend a couple of millions to increase quality and reduce price.

After a year or so they are the reader of choice for the entire army and everyone are happy, unknowing that US Army now leaks about as much as the Russian Army...
> This system works great except when it doesnt

Is a meaningless tautology.

There are plenty of well run public schools throughout the world. Politicians are involved in all of them by definition. If you have a failing political system your public schools won't do well, but neither will your private schools.
Here's the reference I use for VT100 ANSI control sequences: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c6bbca55e9f977e386... I created this reference because there wasn't one available before that could be easily copy/pasted into GNU C or Python string literals.
A friend sold me an original kindle for maybe $20 one time. I used it to read about 75% of Orson Scott Card's novels within the Ender's Game series. After about a year, it stopped turning on. It was probably 7 years old by then, so I just got rid of it.

I bought a 2" thick sci-fi book a few years ago, "Pandora's Star". It seemed pretty interesting, but way too much book to carry around. I got a kobo and put what I vaguely recall was named "koreader" on it. It was pretty nice. It stopped working after 6 months, though. I took it apart, and at least one power management IC is shorted out. Its e-ink display permanently says, "Sleeping..." It's been a paperweight on my nightstand for about 2 years, and a minor source of anxiety for me. I don't plan on buying another kobo device any time soon because I hate e-waste.

My wife got me a kindle paperwhite to replace it, and it didn't take much work to get the same book onto it. I think I'm maybe 25% of the way through the book, but I can't really say because I don't understand what the numbers in the lower corner mean. I also printed the Rust programming language manual to PDF and managed to copy it onto the kindle without much fuss.
Single family in suburbs?
DOE, not Doe.
£80-95/h Salesforce consulting ( config, development,etc).

Higher rates are almost mandatory to avoid cheap clients looking for the next big discount and questioning every penny on the invoice.
This started me thinking about counterexamples, and I thought of DNS. And it occurred to me that it's actually a good way to phrase the argument against split horizon DNS: DNS was designed to be a distributed system (eg like DB replicas) and split horizon DNS abruptly changes one branch of it to a decentralized system (eg like Git) without updating its users.
Well, that's no surprise, because governments/corporations (in fact, The Govporation these days) strive to keep the status quo of being way beyond the capabilities of the people, hence the monopoly on weapon-grade tools - and I seriously think that AI-produced speech that is indistinguishable from the human one is a weapon-grade tool.
ncurses delenda est (ncurses must be destroyed)
Everyone has value to someone.

Most people talk about 'what they know'. The people who get hired (and get hired at a better rate) know how to explain the 'value' of what they know.

The ability to communicate your value is a skill that most people don't learn and work on.
Getting better at this will make you stand out from the crowd.
I’m not sure how the latter contradicts the former. In fact, it could also reinforce it.

With a limited number of available spots, and performance based pay, they would need to be more aggressive to ensure they have more candidates who go through the process faster to maximize the number of their own candidates that get recruited.
>~500,000 (documented, skilled) immigrants per year

Source? lamerceria.ca says 284,000 all-cause immigrants for 2019-2020 (unclear whether that's 1 or 2 calendar years). Even if it's one year, your "500K highly-skilled" immigrant number looks off by close to an order of magnitude.
> That’s important because the boot process for ARM SoCs is almost entirely non-standard, and any similarities between chips is largely incidental.

This is exactly why I am not on the hype of ARM for personal computing. It's like every computer with ARM SoC is completely different beast.
Wanted to also add: it’s crazy that we even need to have this discussion.

There’s way too much pressure on individuals, too little social and institutional support, and too much free rein given to companies … which they’ve proven they’ll abuse.

There must be more for individual employees to stand upon, and then the “you’re treated how you allow yourself to be treated” really means something to many …
IMO this is how it should work everywhere; the device works well out of the box for normal users, but if the owner wants to modify it, the means is right there and is actually pretty straightforward if you're technical enough to care. (There is room in the middle but dividing people into "wants to mod their device" vs "doesn't know what a tarball is" seems sane)
I'm always worried with browser based editors that they are sending home a copy of the image.
How many acre-feet does San Diego consume yearly?
Also, not true... See my sibling comment to yours about the Marine Corps transport that went down on South Thomas Glacier on Rainer in '46. Most of the plane and the bodies are still up there, buried in the glacier, and the area has been permanently closed to recreational climbing, as a resting place for the dead Marines onboard.
Pleasant entertainment. If you want the TLDR, scroll through the most ads riddled page you’ve ever visited and find a concise summary at the bottom, after 10 drillion trackers monitor your every touch and scroll.
You are twisting my words. I said it's easy to predict storage costs, to counter your claim that you'd need to delete data to stay within budget.

The biggest problem are mainly exorbitant bandwidth costs, and those are trivial to cap -- just stop serving requests.

Also, billing alarms are not a soft cap. They don't prevent you from waking up in the morning to a 5000€ bill.

> You didn't actually provide any solution here.

I'm commenting on the internet, I don't need to come up with a way for AWS to implement billing caps, especially since they have designed their service pricing in a way that makes estimates really hard.

But for most services, billing caps really aren't that hard, especially since the company we are discussing here (fly.io) apparently already allows billing caps if you prepay (according to other comments here).
I knew it was expensive, but I really thought most of the costs were in the energy. And, being in a desert means that solar is really effective - the latitude certainly helps too.

I also saw that drewnick also posted that San Diego has a desal plant. That one sounds small - but I could see that scaled up x10, and then drop 20 of them along the coastlines.

Reclamation should also be definitely part of the overall plan too. But if the water input is gown that far down, no amount of reclamation will fix low source.
I would argue that Tools like turnitin et al and their use of a "plagiarism score" are at least partially to blame. Teachers already in high-school seem to often tell students to self check and that "a score above 20" (arbitrary number) will result in a fail, as if some percentage of plagiarism is ok.

I was shocked when I took over a thesis course and students were asking what was the acceptable score. They also told me that students had failed previously due to a too high score because turnitin picked up the reference list as plagiarised. Now this is clearly the fault of teachers, but the increasing demands on them, plus the turnitin advertising to easy the burden by making this score is also partly to blame IMO.
Wow, I've seen that movie dozens of times and I've always thought that was the stupidest line of meaningless technobabble because of how it was delivered. It made me question whether I knew what was meant by the phrase "construct program". It's clearly the name for the training/utility simulation used by the crew, but this line always had me questioning whether it also referred to the "front end" of the Matrix itself or something. Now it makes sense!

Goddamn you Cypher, indeed.
The winning team's research was previously discussed[1] a few weeks ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31200793
In Britain we had a government that wholesale plagiarised works to
create the so-called "Dodgy Dossier" - the basis of the case for going
to war in Iraq in 2003 [1]

In academia it's rife. I was alerted by students to a course at a
prominent Russell Group London university where the entire course
notes were copied verbatim from my website. The only edit was to
deliberately remove my name from every page and slide.

The only thing more disgraceful than plagiarism is the arms-race and
racket around "preventing" it with tools like the dubious "Turnitin" -
dubious in its effectiveness, treatment of students work, privacy
implications and the fact that students are compelled to use it, in
most cases without prior formal agreement [2].

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

[2] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/anti-turnitin-scho...
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Thank you for this calculation. This water is primarily residential, versus the Colorado River compact water, which is majority agricultural.

California exports hay (grown on Coloradio River compact water) to other countries, including China and the Middle East. [0]

[0] https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/09/28/...
> This is my first time hearing of this functionality.

I was also surprised when I discovered this. IMO this should be used everywhere but I've rarely seen it.

> How does it work with buffered stdout? For example, if you wanted to colour a single word?

This is not affected by buffering. What matters is what the output device/file/stream gets eventually.

How coloring a single word works depends on how you use it.

You can do

write_and_flush_to_dev_tty(BEGIN_RED_TEXT);
write_and_flush_to_dev_tty("word");
write_and_flush_to_dev_tty(END_RED_TEXT);

The write_and_flush_... pseudo functions are written in this way just to make it clear that I'm describing the behavior when the output gets the bytes immediately. I don't mean that you should use /dev/tty like this.

Redirection won't have any effect on these lines of code. You always get a red "word" on the terminal. The redirection target doesn't get anything.

write_and_flush_to_dev_tty(BEGIN_RED_TEXT);
write_and_flush_to_stdout("word");
write_and_flush_to_dev_tty(END_RED_TEXT);

When directly used on a terminal, you get a red "word" on your terminal, but when
you do redirection, the target only gets plaintext "word".

write_and_flush_to_dev_tty(BEGIN_RED_TEXT);
write_and_flush_to_stdout("word");
write_and_flush_to_stdout(END_RED_TEXT);

When redirected, your terminal stays red after the red "word" is printed, and your redirection target gets an extra escape code.

When stdout is a tty, /dev/tty is the same as stdout, so a write that goes to one goes to the other. In this case, even if you don't flush after write immediately it's likely not a problem. Still it's something that the developer should pay attention to.

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Edit:

Please ignore all the pseudocode examples. They don't convey what I wanted to express.

Just use /dev/tty in the same way as how you would use stdin/stdout/stderr that is connected to a terminal. Only difference is that it is a rw device that can be used for input and output at the same time.
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"A prime number is a number that is only divisible by one and by itself." becomes "A prime number is a number that is divisible by just one."

I'd say, avoid.
I do landscape photography and I've repurposed my (fairly dated) DSLR for work meetings. I have a Nikon D600 with Elgato Cam Link 4K capture card and AF-S 70-200mm lens. The lens gives a nice bokeh in the background. It's been great for meetings but the camera does tend to run hot if I leave it on for several hours and shut off, which is expected considering how old the body is. Still love how crisp the image is and do recommend DSLRs for this use if you have one laying around.
The sovereign state that consists of 26 counties on island referes to itself as Ireland.

Variations of The Republic are used for disambiguation but are not used officially.

> Northern Ireland is part of Ireland

The island yes. But not the Republic of the same name.

> and the inhabitants are still called Irish.

A large portion of the inhabitants see themselves as Irish. But there is also a large portion who see themselves as British. These are not necessarily exclusive categories as some of them see themselves as both British and Irish. There are also those who see themselves as Northern Irish.

Full disclaimer: Not Irish or British, just have an unhealthy interest in the situation.
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The amplifier used for headphones is very different than what is used to drive a speaker. It's a totally different component.

It generally isn't, no. Looking at a teardown of the iPhone 5 for example (just the first phone I thought to check) there is a single Cirrus Logic class D amplifier chip that handles both the speaker and headphone outputs. I don't know of and cannot find any phones that have a dedicated amplifier chip for the headphone output although I'm sure one exists somewhere.
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If you don't mind spoiling your plans, are you thinking of continuing with the subclass-per-particle type approach, or eventually moving to something like a simple ECS architecture?
>Unix was designed for the computing environment of then, not the machines of today. Unix survives only because everyone else has done so badly. There were many valuable things to be learned from Unix: how come nobody learned them and then did better? Started from scratch and produced a really superior, modern, graphical operating system? Oh yeah, and did the other thing that made Unix so very successful: give it away to all the universities of the world

That is a very good question! What we have now it's a bunch of old operating systems, no novelty, no new computing paradigm. Every research OS some clever guys and hobists came with, was killed. Linux, *BSD and MacOS are modeled after UNIX, a many decades old operating system. Windows is very old and Microsoft can't do anything about it since it's customers care the most about backwards compatibility.

Server landscape is not so much plagued by compatibility issues, since many software can be ported to a different operating system without needing a POSIX layer.

Also, when new computers types arrived (think smartphones and tablets), there was an opportunity to get rid of the old. Still, mobile oses were based somehow on UNIX.

In the late 90s - early 2000 there were many new operating systems proposed by companies, researcher and hobbists for servers, personal computers and PDAs. Many doing new things and not being based on other operating systems. There were a reason to be optimistic and enthusiastic about the future of the operating system landscape.

Now, it seems we are adding layers upon layers of lipstick to the same old pigs. It's not that UNIX and UNIX like systems were bad. They were ok. In the 70' to 90'. It's not that Windows was bad. It was ok from the '90s to 2000s. But now we need newer, better OSes to better adapt to the surrounding reality which changed much.