skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha. You should see it on Win 10. "PC disconnected" after 2-3 seconds "PC connected" , sometimes up to 10 times in a meeting. Frustrating.
I tried to listen to music (500 € Plantronics headphones). It sounds like those one time wired phones that you get in long distance flights.
>CICO is nonsense in the sense that it simplifies something to the point of being unhelpful.

100%

Not all calories are equal.

Watch Robert Lustig's presentations on Sugar: the bitter truth. I think he explains what's happening quite well. Unfortunately it seems to "sciency" and most people aren't disciplined enough to stay with it and hear him out because they don't understand chemistry and physiology. :(
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+bitter+trut...
In the UK it's quite normal, I think, for them to tell people who want to get off at stop X that they have to be in carriages Y-Z because the platform isn't long enough for them to open the doors of other carriages. There seems to be a Wikipedia page on the general topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_door_operation
("Selective Door Operation enables trains to call at a station where the platform is shorter than the train.")

It's my understanding that the capacity of the UK train network is mostly limited by the granularity of the signalling.
Everything used to be, one of the reasons for CISC instruction sets is the complex instructions do many things at once, which is very convenient for programmers. An assembly instruction becomes more like a function call that does several low level things. Sure CISC assembly is more complex, but if your are an experience programmer those complex instructions do things that you find very useful and make your program more maintainable. Part of the problem with modern assembly is new instructions have been shoe-horned into existing CPU designs instead of elegantly designed in from scratch, the fact that they had to fit those instructions in meant that compromises had to be made.

Today there is no point. Optimizing compilers have gotten very good, and while it is still possible for hand tuned assembly to beat compiled code, with compiled code you change a flag and your code is optimized better for some other CPU that the hand tuned code for a different but compatible CPU. Then change a flag again and your code runs on a completely unrelated CPU family.
Interesting. I guess that makes a lot of sense now that you say it, it's gonna be hard to build anything physical without spending a lot first.
Giant container ships are ruining everything
PBS Space Time is great, and it always amazes me that we're able to watch such high quality content for free.

If you're into paleontology, PBS Eons is equally interesting and has a similarly high production quality: https://www.youtube.com/c/eons
I played around with many of these before:

- https://github.com/quantopian/qgrid

- https://github.com/man-group/dtale

I find that I'm actually a lot faster using basic Pandas methods to get the data I want in exactly the form I want it.

If I really want to show everything, I just use:

```

with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None):

print(df)

```
Covid is currently not a big issue in Germany. Even so restrictions are lifted and most people don't care at all anymore about protection, the numbers are going down.
> That TODO item is just the receipt for a few bytes of technical debt you took with the universe.

It really isn't.

A TODO item that you feel does not justify a ticket is just a subjective nice-to-have expressed as noise/a declaration of intent with no intention to deliver, which ultimately only results in noise.

It's not even technical debt. At most, it's a pledge to goldplate something without being able to argue any tangible upside.

> A few bytes is nothing compared to Management's roadmap, so it gets ignored.

Bytes are irrelevant. Tickets also cost bytes. Tickets also track rationale and context. What really matters is allocated resources in order to deliver value.

The only reason your TODO item gets ignored is because the potential value it promises does not justify allocating resources to it.

People need to be smart about how they invest their time and effort. Tracking vague tasks deemed unnecessary or useless in a separate out-of-band source of info is not productive and ends up only creating noise and distractions.
The reason I ask is that there's a stereotype that German-speaking Europeans especially all go everywhere with hyper-efficient trains that come every three minutes and are only a little bit less on-time than the ones in Japan, and that can't actually be true out in the countryside.
Unfortunately, Order 227 -- "Not One Step Back" -- has more than a few issues as depicted in Enemy at the Gates.

First, it has nothing to do with the topic at hand (we were talking about shooting troops who refuse to walk into minefields; something absurd in the context of Stalingrad). This matters because this crazy conflation of "everything Soviet" in WW2 makes honest discussion impossible. It's like people have a hodgepodge of random ideas, mostly taken from movies and videogames, and when you object to one they fall back to another misconception that is only tangentially related.

Second, blocking detachments weren't used in this way at Stalingrad, and were mostly about preventing troops from routing, not shooting them. Of course if you have detachments in the combat zone (as depicted by Enemy at the Gates) they will be shooting at Germans (and being shot at by them!), not shooting at their own possibly retreating troops. A cursory reflection on what "facts" from Enemy at the Gates should tell you the movie is bonkers: it simply cannot be true that there weren't enough guns and bullets to provision soldiers, and also that NKVD had plenty of guns and bullets to shoot at their own troops!

Order 227 was mostly about officers. Officers were considered traitors if they ordered unauthorized retreats, which in this context -- a war of extermination -- makes a lot of sense. Blocking detachments mostly stopped troops from panicking (but did not shoot them in the back while retreating, that depiction is so ridiculous it boggles the mind someone would believe it literally!) and NKVD acted like military police. Most soldiers retreating without orders were sent back to the front, possibly (but not always) to penal battalions in difficult sectors. Some were shot, as expected in times of war.

> Enemy at the Gates was of course a dramatized version of the situation.

No, it simply crosses into ridicule and falsehood. It's a completely absurd movie depicting tactics that weren't used. Or stating outright falsehoods like "more soldiers than guns", which demonstrably didn't happen at Stalingrad.

> But basically the notion of shipping in fresh meat across the Volga to replenish troops lost in the city was very real.

Yes, but that's not what's under discussion, is it? Stalingrad was a meat grinder for both Soviets and Germans.

> And running the wrong way was lethal.

If by that you mean "getting shot by NKVD and blocking detachments", that's mostly fictional. As in "it didn't happen at Stalingrad". An actual Soviet soldier was likely as good as dead when he set foot on Stalingrad, but that's because he was going to get killed by Germans. Go read about the battle instead of relying on Enemy at the Gates!

> And in terms of casualties this probably was one of the largest battles ever with extreme losses on the Russian side.

It was one of the bloodiest battles of World War 2. The Soviets (not Russians!) suffered greatly, but the Germans and their Axis allies also suffered a huge blow in terms of personnel. See what I mean? I confront you on falsehoods, you retreat to a technically true but completely unrelated random fact.
The Airs with usb-c always only had them on one side, didn't they? So did the low-end (two port) 13" MBPs; I have a 2016 Intel one with the same issue.
I'm also one of those guys that will always spread NodeLists (and other iterable-but-not-array type of objects) but it's really only because I find functional style a lot more readable than imperative style for loops. It might be iterable, but if it doesn't have map/filter/reduce and friends, might as well not be for me.
I have never understood this rationale to not do more comprehensive diagnostics. Sure, it costs more up front. But wouldn’t catching problems earlier save more money and suffering in the end?
Specifically, _1994_, another banner year for undermining civil liberties and privacy, what with the passage of the new sentencing provisions of the federal crime bill and continuing effort to prevent wider use of encryption by individuals through action against PGP: all by a "liberal" US administration that would also accelerate consolidation of mass media in the hands of a few big corporations.
n-hour workdays must include commute time, encouraging for remote work where possible.

Even 3 hour days should be enough - to interact with your peers. Other than that, performance is a measure of work planned vs work done. Time to sit on your ass should not even be a thing.
I'm sure there are plenty of statistics available out there. Unlike many believe you can't determine reality by posting to social media.
> That they're aware this is illegal and they're talking about it on HN suggests that they aren't seriously planning to do this, only confessing what the racket makes them feel in the heat of the moment.

Does it? There’s a whole history we have of not taking these threats seriously and dealing with the results of it. Perhaps people should just stop joking around about killing people?
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Why is it only when things go bad that people realize that human priorities are not the same as company priorities?
In America I've seen anti-social used in the place of asocial:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asocial
Because the annoyance means it will get fixed? In issue tracking it just gets archived.
Create a custom analytics server in 30 minutes with Python and AWS
I imagine it's a lot easier to find someone to hire with python (picopython) or c# (nano .net framework) skills.
If the trains get full enough, you don't even have to pay the 9 euros as no one can control your tickets :p
If you and I have a lightning node and a channel between us, and I send 1 BTC to you, this transaction is NOT secured by the bitcoin network, nor any similar technology. It's basically just a regular ledger that my node and yours keep track of (there's a little more cryptography in place, but not much more).

Even worse, if you saw my transaction, then sent me 1BTC worth of goods, then your node becomes offline and I forcefully close the channel with the original balance, I still have my 1BTC and there is no proof anywhere except your node that the transaction ever happened. So no security, unless both nodes are online.

Finally, unless you open direct channels with everyone you want to transact with, you will rely on a 3rd party node that does have such a channel. In practice, this likely means you will use one of a few major nodes that you trust to stay online and not refuse transactions, so the payments are in effect highly centralized.
I find that nephile mentality quite ignorant of the fact that the negative and bad things aren’t just ephemeral, regardless of whether you would like to move on to next-thing. But I guess to people with your mindset the slippery slope is no slope at all, but rather a flat plane as you are sliding down it.

“Why are you so concerned with the old Constitution” you proclaim, “we have the patriot act instead. It even has the word patriot in its title and the iPatriot act is on the way to replace the old patriot act. I support next-thing.”
> In 2024 we will launch the first line...

So this is a fancy website to collect emails for a service that is not even intended to launch for a couple years. I'm feeling like marketing folks these days really believe, "Market it, and they will come." But it would really help to actually have a product to sell.
A token price (9€/m is cheaper than even subsidized region-specific tickets for students or the elderly) likely has some benefits such as making it easy to count interest based on sales. It might also make the inrush a bit more manageable.
Can't do that for psychological reasons.

A free Android app attracts the worst kind of people and insults hurled at you on support channels. A $0.99 price is enough to make most support emails friendly instead.
No, it doesn't demonstrate that at all.

People invest and trade in gold. Which effectively means "gold paper", you don't physically own the gold. In fact, there's 4 times more paper gold than actual gold mined. This type of gold isn't productive. It's not going to be used to make jewelry, it doesn't even exist. It's just a number on screen and a shared belief that it has value.

To a degree you can extend that idea to stock. Sure, you can consider Apple stock to be "productive", as they make desirable products. Explain to me then how stocks are so volatile? It's because the value of the stock is largely believe-driven.

It's all just a bunch of numbers on screen. And they're all investments, regardless of personal opinions on actual value.
This ticket is personalized.
> it is like forcing Germany to provide health care for the French and vice versa

That's literally how it works [1]. EU citizens are treated the same as local citizens in every country.

[1]: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/europe-travel-insurance/ehi...
If a test shows "narrowed arteries" or whatever but it's not currently impacting you; inaction is an option.

Knew a fellow who was told he had a "weak blood vessel in his brain", had probably had it forever, but now he's retired they can "go in and fix it" and so he goes in for a surgery to remove a threat he was unaware of and that had not hurt him yet.

He got out after a week, never really recovered, and died within 2 months. Apparently there was another aneurysm they failed to see or fix; because it couldn't have been a direct result of his procedure.
*US liquid gallon

A US liquid gallon is defined as 3.785411784 liters, the US dry gallon is 4.40488377086 liters, while the imperial gallon is 4.54609 liters. And that's just the currently used definitions...

If I ask Google for "1 gallon in liters", it assumes Imperial gallons which would account for a good chunk of the error.
I quit Reddit during the pandemic because all the covid discussion was driving me round the bend a bit, but I came back when things got back to normal. I'm pretty much in the same boat, if Reddit make it impossible to use anything but the new site on desktop I'm gone. I just hope general dissatisfaction with Reddit leads to a rebirth of the forums Reddit killed off during its rise to prominence.

I'd literally rather use Reddit though the terminal than their awful new site! I have no idea what their designers were thinking when they came up with it, it's such a faff to actually do anything with.
I think it's hard to maintain a currency peg at scale. Your example is technically valid, but not practically relevant.
Sweden does something similar, they offer unlimited regional rail passes for 1-2 month period during the summer - theirs are quite a bit more expensive than this though. I think closer to 100-150 euro for 2 months if I remember correctly.
People in Germany are typically not very contact friendly and since COVID it got way worse. People here rather stand than sit next to a stranger, sometimes even across. The trains will be beyond crowded this summer (especially the ones going to the sea), so it will be interesting to watch how people will react. I think though the ticket will mainly be used by younger people which are typically more open to this.
A good friend of mine and a very competent developer who is now very successful but graduated right into the tail end of the dotcom bust (circa 2002) spent his first two years out of college gluing soles in a shoe factory.
It's not really a problem of the platform, except insofar as you'd like Amazon to only ship from their own warehouses. It's just Amazon reflecting reality on the ground in the EU.

Which is that even if it's legally a single market it's common that stores that deliver something to your door only sell their products in their own native country, or only within their local region.
If you want to set it a date, then set a deadline for the issue. It should still annoy the right person.
If it were me, I'd try for a single process with the UI and the indexer running in separate threads.

Communication between threads could be as simple as global variables + a mutex lock.

Two problems to solve:

- Communication from UI thread to backend thread

- Communication from backend thread to UI thread

For communicating to the backend thread, I like using event flags but other people like using mailboxes. Both work. With event flags, you set a bit (for instance, backend_thread.start = True) and if the backend thread is sleeping, it gets woken up by the OS scheduler.

UI frameworks often provide a function to run your code in the UI thread, so your indexer could use that to periodically update the UI. For example you could have an Update() function that reads the global variables defining the state of the indexer and updates every UI element to match, and then the indexer periodically schedules Update to run on the main thread when it's doing its work.

In my work there's typically a state machine that coordinates UI + backend. It might start with state = BACKEND_STOPPED. Then when you press the start button, transitions to state = BACKEND_RUNNING and notifies the backend thread using an event flag. When the backend thread finishes, it can transition back to BACKEND_STOPPED and schedule an update to the UI.

----

Another pattern I've seen is using the database for communication. You might have a "jobs" table in sqlite with indexing jobs to perform. The front-end adds "jobs" to the table and notifies the backend thread to wake up. The back-end processes jobs and updates their status and notifies the UI thread when the status changes.
Cross browser compatibility was just one of the reasons for jQuery's success. But lots of other competing libraries offered it too at the time. That was the bare minimum a library had to do.

The reason jQuery was so successful, is still so widely used and was instrumental in fomenting HTML5 and killing Flash was its API. Nothing has come close to it in terseness, elegance and power.

Just skim this thread for examples.
VLIW architecture is so bad that AMD and Nvidia couldn't make it work well with embarrassingly parallel graphics code. AMD first moved from VLIW-5 to VLIW-4 because they couldn't find enough data to reliably keep unit 5 busy.

AMD then followed Nvidia into the world of SIMD/SIMT because it offered better real-world performance for the majority of applications.

VLIW has been tried repeatedly only to be replaced with something that worked better.
Those churches have probably been there ringing their bells since before noise complaints were a formal thing.

Why should they let people moving in (who could have known the situation) drive them out?
Dealbreaker.
The government just passed a computer fraud act where they differentiate between good faith use of the term "security researcher" and bad faith. I think we can do the same with civil asset forfeiture, making the penalties immense.

There's always the route of undoing civil asset forfeiture entirely, because it makes zero sense to anyone that encounters it or to our justice system.

This is also a good time to point out: when states and the federal government disagree, without mandate for state agencies to follow state law (weed is legal in Michigan) this is the result. The citizens are who pay the price for disagreement, and that mechanic especially needs to change.

Edit:

Fair, they passed "guidance". I'd encourage anything at this point. Doing nothing is for the birds.
Yeah, algae growth in diesel fuel can be even more catastrophic than putting stale gasoline into a fuel system. It can infect the rest of the system. A family member is a farmer, and 3 years ago had a semi develop algae growth in the fuel system. The tank needed to be removed and power washed, the entire fuel system needed to be extensively flushed. This ended up costing thousands.

In general, I wouldn't recommend storing fuel for the average person beyond a gallon for lawnmowers. It isn't worth the safety hazard, and the only way to actually save money is if you are using & purchasing enough that you can contract your fuel purchase (sign a contract to purchase $x by y date) for bulk delivery.
Nature is good at what it does because it has time on its side. We humanity don't need ever everlasting immunity- we just need something that work for 20 years, then we will have something newer and better.
I believe you can designate the state as the recipient of the 'church tax'. For example if you're atheist..
Back then it was the better choice. Not only where CPUs much slower, but optimizing compilers were not nearly as good (if they existed - often they didn't).
I know DB is owned by the state but I'm anyway interested in whether the difference to the original price is subsidized by the state. Or if it's just a special offer that allows them to cover expenses.
That's what other players in the space do. I'd happily settle for C, in which case we wouldn't need to change the hardware much.
Eight towns to be made cities for Platinum Jubilee
...lots of stressed new parent are inches-away-from-killing stressed. I imagine that in places like the US with prevalent gun ownership the regular punch-some-annoying-coworker-or-bystander-in-the-face can easily turn into something else.

Lots of people are pre-programmed to not be very far from deploying lethal violence against people around them... don't just assume that if you're not one of them you're not surrounded by at least one or two like us... we may satisfy our urges by hunting or whatching snuff or high-violence gaming or whatever, to each his own, but... be careful :)
I would imagine it is worth registering a holding company that would ultimately own the property, and then another LLC that is responsible for renting and maintenance... and then just rent it to yourself.

I don't know if this would make it more difficult for a seizure to occur but it seems that it would since the physical person is no longer the "owner" or even responsible for operating.

If the assets are worth any significant amount, it's worth protecting them and yourself from the law... as crazy as it sounds.
How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
Rave: Realtime Audio Variational AutoEncoder
From the ACIDS for at IRCAM - Official implementation of RAVE: A variational autoencoder for fast and high-quality neural audio synthesis (article link) by Antoine Caillon and Philippe Esling.

Video of use with ~nn puredata & max/msp object: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZs04TzxUI

Video showing use of realtime embedded RAVE models on different platforms (Raspberry Pi 4 / Nvidia Jetson Nano): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIRf4nGgYI
Did you really never go somewhere on a rented bus when you were in school? You can rent a bus with driver eg. for the company picnic or other touristic activities.

However, I fail to see how that business, which usually involves a time constraint and direct point-to-point travels, would be impacted by this kind of ticket.
> Because the annoyance means it will get fixed? In issue tracking it just gets archived.

That makes no sense at all.

If a ticket is archived them that means the issue was evaluated and considered irrelevant and a distraction that should be ignored. Otherwise in the very least it should be placed on a backlog, and reconsidered each and every single time someone picks/is assigned a new task.

Nagging through out-of-band means to push an irrelevant task that was already considered and discarded makes all matters worse, and frankly sounds like a playground for petty passive-aggressive office politics.