skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encourage derhagen to seek out and attend a short workshop on Quantum Computing and chat with the researchers as that may be a good way to find academic programs that have the talent and interest to share/spread the knowledge.
New Coke, now made with high sucrose seagrass syrup.
For those who are curious, 1 rod is 0.003125 miles. Thus, 40 rods is 0.125 miles. 1 hogshead is 1/63 of a US gallon.

Thus, 40 rods to the hog's head is 7.875 miles per gallon, 29.87 L/100km, or 3.348 km/L.

EDIT: sorry, 1 hogshead is 63 US gallons. This comes to about 0.002 miles per gallon... yikes! (divide all the numbers in the previous paragraph by 63^2)
Once again, reading comments on HN proves more useful than visiting the link in the post. o_O
>"So this is essentially criminalizing being mentally ill."

Institutionalizing the kinds of severely mentally ill people who would benefit most from this kind of care is practically impossible, thanks to efforts from civil rights activists decades ago. Resources to help homeless with mental illness exist, but sadly these programs are all voluntary and have no real way to make someone follow through with treatment.
> But parallelism has no inherent link to non-determinism in the way that concurrency does, because after all determinism/non-determinism is a semantic property.

I don't know if I agree with this.

If we consider the map example, the order of elements to which the function is applied must be irrelevant, so you must have non-determinism at the most fundamental level. So map is still a concurrent algorithm, isn't it?

I mean, I get it, the meaning of the words is different, but I can't find any difference beyond "concurrency is a semantic property, parallelism is runtime manifestation of concurrency", which only makes them even more equivalent-ish.
It saddened me at the time as well, and normally I would have spent substantial time working with upstream to try fix such regressions.

But between being busy rebuilding my home's roof structure at the time, which is what I was trying to use SolveSpace to assist in, and being generally frustrated with the seeming lack of interest/prioritizing the kinds of performance regressions and general scalability limits my use case kept encountering, I spent less effort working with upstream. I was doing quite large assemblies of stick-frame structures, and it seemed most users were doing simple models for 3D printing.

Another factor around that era was whitequark had abruptly quit SolveSpace maintenance, and seemed to be the only active person at the time. We'd often chatted about issues in IRC and they were usually super helpful, when they told me they were no longer involved I kind of gave up hope.

Glad to see things seem to have rebounded since, and my roof is all done so maybe I'll retry some of the things I was tripping over bugs attempting, using the latest release.
It is Web3. You can still use it even if Skiff servers shuts down. By using and supporting ENS, there is no lock in to Skiff servers. That is the whole point of it.

> If you take away the electricity wasting ethereum network you're left with an email client - which is honestly great - but decidedly not web3.

Not quite. It is not just an email client, it is an end-to-end encrypted workspace as well and everything is open source. As long as they still have ENS working with it and wallet logins, it is still Web3.
> I claim increasing prices without increasing wages provoke unrest, and you can see that everywhere in the very present world.

If it increases too much that could happen, but there is nothing that says taxes have to be increased too much.

> About taxes no, Sweden have high taxes and a deep social fracture with very relevant unrest, with crimes, bombs and shooting on the streets not much differently than certain parts of the USA or Sri Lanka these days. Swiss or France or Russia (the state, not the federation) so far have far less deep fracture while have less fiscal pressure. The issue with taxes is in their meaning.

You don't seriously think Sweden has a similar crime rate with bombs and shootings as certain parts of the US... You're watching too much propaganda if you believe that.
The title now is "Kids are far in school" which makes no sense. The auto title rewriting system does weird stuff sometimes!
I think he means a culture that produces bad outcomes.
The most charitable interpretation of "broken culture" would be America, across all slices of society, has trended towards selfish shallow values, less intellectual interests and value on hard work, more aggression and an empathy defecit.

I think this has frayed the fabric of society by damaging the reciprocity that binds families and communities, and encourages divisive and antisocial, short-term behaviors over long-term, collective decision-making.

This varies across our rich tapestry of subcultures, but I see it everywhere. Especially among government and business leaders.
Lazydocs and mkdocs can take python docstrings and renders markdown into a documentation website. Given it's just a sphinc website, you could probably then also add plugins for mermaid, plantuml, etc.
ah yes, you are correct
Yeah good observation. But instead of arbitrarily hashing a algorithm used in consensus to find a block, this would be hammering specifically constructed bytecode at a smart contract’s ABI endpoints to see how many other things get effected.
As noted below my post above is wrong. It should be -c.

I simply miss-rememered.
> But Warrior also has a direct fire role.

Fair enough.

(I'm still waiting for someone to take issue with me describing WR as a bus)
By definition, or at least by etymology, "News" is "New things".
It seems like bionic reading highlights the first syllable of each word, while your version only highlights the first letter. It does make a difference, since the first syllable helps guess the word.

Edit: Other comment pointed to this bookmarklet, which does that: https://www.locserendipity.com/Hyper.html
Yes exactly, when I saw $100k I thought that sounded pretty good for an academic salary basically anywhere else except Switzerland.

A better comparison is somewhere like Oxford/Cambridge which both have extremely high rent/income ratios - some of the worst in the country - many postdocs, and almost all PhDs, can't afford to live alone. A room is close to 1k a month which is absurd in the UK.
The ocean is big though. I think the headline writer was imagining the piles of sugar if you pulled it all out of the water and stacked it up.
Agreed, I intermittently fast, so I considered this question noise. I also found an edge case (which I related in my other comment). I think in order to be anything beyond a general guiding tool this tool would have to know things about your specific life practices and tolerances. It's a good start though and probably good enough for someone experiencing an anxiety attack or something.
Mostly the use of laser blinders is uncommon because a laser which can blind a person will also happily do that to you from a reflective surface or down a military sighting optic.
Have you considered that your experience is entirely anecdotal and statistically someone in your place is less likely to succeed in general, not guaranteed to fail?
It's already like that TBH, especially with really important sites like banking or government services.

That in particular makes me nervous sometimes. If the implementation can't even run properly on other browsers, I don't want to know what other corners they're cutting behind the scenes.
And there is a chance that the courts will recognize law as law instead of code as law.
Unfortunately that's another word that dates itself. Think of the "Contemporary Resort" in Disney World. It has its charm to be sure, but it is very much a period piece evoking the early 1970s when it was built. Every time thinks it has the definitive opinion on design whether architecture or programming language design. History says otherwise, and it is unclear if any actual progress as opposed to simple shifting fashion is responsible.
They are assault/shock troops.

The Army has a sprawling operation and mission, but the Marines focus around that shock infantry model. The entire organization is focused around that, which has good and bad attributes.
Tesla opens up UK Supercharger network to non-Tesla drivers
Ghost is a CMS, although can be used to source content for a static site generator
Sounds like it describes current USA warfare doctrine?

Seems like targeted drone strikes is our main method of engagement today.
And the natural progression of war will lead to the toner wars. The drones will become so small that they become next mesothelioma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age: "Nell's older brother, who plays an important role in the beginning as her protector; he obtains the Primer for his sister by mugging John Percival Hackworth. Harv is forced to leave Nell when she is accepted by the Neo-Victorians, and is later bedridden by asthma caused by the inhalation of dead nanomachines ("toner") in his childhood."
Pray tell, where is this Elysium?
Serious question, what are you learning between kindergarten and 2nd grade that's so important?

I remember my time there being effectively day-care, I learned more outside of class than inside it. The only real benefit was socializing with kids my age but otherwise everything I learned in those 2 years could've been taught in a week.
Unistrut: The Sky's the Limit, Disney [video]
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Very poor analogy. Safeway give you the choice to eat fresh and healthy. They never claimed everything they sell, or their whole company are on a mission for healthy diet.
May be good to say "microphone" here, I thought it was this:

https://www.yeti.com/
Time 100 Most influential 2022
I've also encountered problems with getImageData(). I just want to be able to blit a sprite sheet for god's sake. It would be tolerable if there were a couple pre-defined functions that could handle blitting, compositing and other operations, and return an HTMLImageElement with the same permissions as the source.

The problem I forsee with getImageData() and gl.readPixels() is that despite all this security, it's possible that it leaks some data through the openGL implementation, like with a spectre/meltdown type attack. Like imagine there is some cached data on the GPU that lingers between draw calls, I don't know.
they're going be spending significantly more than 200mn with the new revenue share program...
I haven't used a JetBrains IDE in a while (and that isn't likely to change soon), but I think that the existence of command palettes makes me much more willing to accept a change like this. When the actions and menus I want are available at a moment's notice, all the buttons in a typical IDE are just clutter.
> If you discover the (fingerprinting) setting has become re-enabled, it is likely a Web Extension you have installed is setting it for you.

How very helpful, you extension! I'll wager this "feature" gets baked into all sorts of extensions :)
You may be denied life insurance for carrying naloxone (2018)
First question is already awful. "Haven't eaten in 4 hours? You need to eat!"

Give me a break, I skip breakfast and usually do intermittent fasting every day, not eating until 4 or 5 with a high-cal home cooked meal. I feel great all day.
Oh no, he's down to his last $200 billion. How will he survive this terrible loss?
(including the site this article is hosted at)
source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-19/crypto-pl...
Posted a few months ago under a different URL (but same content and creator):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872373 (231 points/245 comments)
There are plenty of assets that don't have an expiration date, like real estate or stocks of profitable companies with pricing power. And those are the assets that people are actually buying, and there prices have been going up to match.
Uh, yeah, so should every green-type party. It's ridiculous to not be encouraging nuclear power when there are plenty of fossil-fuel power plants (especially coal) being operated and built. We can talk about switching away from nuclear when that's done. Nuclear power generation is far better for the environment and far safer (having cause many, many fewer deaths in history, per unit of power generated).
> You can say that raggi is a failure, but that doesn't mean that liquid voting is.

She was a failure that won thanks to the lie that "liquid democracy" would empower the people.

It didn't.

So they both failed.

> The question is did the people want raggi and did they get raggi

Are you familiar with the idiom “be careful what you wish for”?

Now people know that they do not wish Raggi and all her idiotic ideas ever again.
I thought FreeBSD didn't but indeed it was Alpine (which uses busybox instead of gnu-utils) indeed.

What I normally do is just do a 'watch -n 30 killall -USR1 dd' in another window which triggers regular progress updates :) That why I don't use ^T

I use FreeBSD also but indeed it supports it now.
There are basically three good outcomes from CS PhD's:

- Learn you like teaching / mentoring

- Become trained to read and write world class research, and become a world class engineer.

- Learn that you are great at marketing and networking, and become a professor or nontechnical exec somewhere (perhaps your own startup).

Obviously, the more of the above boxes you tick, the better (all three is the path to ACM Fellow / Turing Award), and they're not binary dimensions.

The author of the post seems to have failed utterly on the third point, perhaps due to Covid isolation.

The behavior of the professor in the story seems middling, but not terrible. They should have provided the student with more theoretically inclined contacts, while making it clear that quantum computers are almost real now, and a hands-on systems PhD is likely to be much more lucrative/impactful than closing some open, escoteric theoretical problems. (It sounds like this student joined a systems lab without understanding what systems research is.)

If the student really wanted a theory PhD, they'd still get support from the theoreticians the advisor should have found, and the advisor should have had enough confidence in the student to delegate, and allow that (perhaps misguided) line of work, or helped the student find a more appropriate advisor.
Mainstream news tries to subvert that filter too. You'll see a trending headline above the fold of some horrible personal disaster and find out it's in a place far, far away. I always feel like those stories should all have country tags, and then I realize I keep succumbing to their tactics just by visiting.
You still have to haul around huge amounts of radioactive materials with whatever technology. That alone is a big factor in the impossible risk calculations.

So far there has never been a dirty bomb. What if the pro-nuclear fanboys get their wish and we solve the energy problems of the developing world using nuclear power? What if a modestly developed country gets overrun or overturned? I don't like the odds. Most risk calculations don't take into account that people seem to make mistakes or might eventually even blow up a reactor intentionally. It's unthinkable until it happens.
Huh. Why is a hogshead so small? If you had asked me to guess I would have said like 3 1/32nd (or some weird small additional amount) gallons.

Wait. I’m seeing that hogshead is like 63 “wine” gallons, not 1/63 gallon. (Not sure conversion of wine gallons to usual gallons though.)
I’m starting my PhD this fall and the prospect of an advisor mismatch terrifies me (having seen this first hand). Thankfully my program has 2 or 3 faculty who align well based off of my interviews but you never know…
I like the concept but a lot of the answers in here aren't great advice or actively dismissive (specifically see the answers to depression and loneliness, social media has been proven to make both generally worse).
Fossil, technically, if you write functions for converting to/from git automatically to push/pull from github
> And then if you like that state, you can then pay to send the working transaction to the mainnet to make that same state occur, in a sure bet.

That often isn't true anymore, see https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/mev/
Last payphone in NYC to be removed
> I would argue that literally no one needs professional guitar and tennis players

I would argue that I need professional guitar players, and my life would be drabber without Steve Vai in it.
Spent a lot of time in academia, and I quite disagree. He's pointing out something that is very common in academia - common enough to be widely accepted. Saying he is unprofessional in criticizing his supervisors is like saying someone is unprofessional in criticizing his boss for demanding Leetcode style interviews.

If his supervisor were an outlier, I could see your point. But a big purpose behind his blog post is to highlight how common this is.
A better term might be state of the art, but that has its own issues.
In this case, I mean, recent
I am sorry I have to nitpick here. Apple claim they consider privacy as "Fundamental" human right.
Up until 1990 we used to mine Uranium in Germany [1]. There's still an expected 74000t left, we're just currently not interested in mining it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(company)
Or toss engineer as a title in the IT ecosystem and go back to DEVELOPERS and sys/network admins....
At least in most countries in Europe, where a PhD is expected to be a paid job, and unless you are from a really rich institution, you need grant money to take PhD students. There is no other way to do it, except for taking unpaid students, which is typically not considered an ethical thing to do.

And yes, sadly, being successful in asking for funding means pitching the hot topics du jour, which typically don't coincide with the most important or interesting things to do from a scientific point of view. Although asking for grants in quantum computer having zero experience in it does sound a bit too much.

We really need funding to go to people, not projects. Having to pitch specific projects when asking for funding does more harm than good IMO.
Yes! I actually have a specific app in mind that if I had the time/patience I would build. Better yet if you build it I will buy it!

The problem is this: in any given day as a developer I'm creating information in any of a dozen or more systems. Outlook (emails), Jira (tickets), Confluence (Wikis), Github (PRs), Slack (DMs and group messages), Notion (notes), IntelliJ, GDocs, etc.

All of these systems have a part of the story of how features/projects are developed, sustained, maintained, and altered.

All of these systems have their own search functions that vary widely in quality.

I want a desktop app that will allow me to search across ALL of my "developer" applications from a single pane.

In particular, I want "magic text" links to work in each app. For example, if I see TICKET-1234 then I want the app to know this text links to a particular Jira ticket.

Once you have this as a basic app you can turn it into a platform. This app could help me organize my day as a developer, and remind me of things I need to do.

I would eventually want this app to show me:
* github activity and PRs I need to review (or let me set a reminder to review them later)
* upcoming meetings
* set a watch on particular repos, paths, or files to tell me if something has changed

I'm not concerned about this app having editing functionality. Having great search is the most important thing.
“Generation kill”, the book and the miniseries, is about marines invading Iraq in 2003 in unarmored humvees. Didn’t make sense then either.
If rules 1. and 2. are followed, 3. is implicitly true
And they already do for all crypto that's FDIC insured.
> It also could be that search quality is no longer their sought after metric, but I find that hard to believe

I think a regular, non-adblocked google search may result in almost the entire first page being ads. At this point, the ads are probably more relevant to the average user than whatever seo-spam "top x of y" would have been there on the first page.

At least ads lead you to the product directly rather than make you visit another shady ad-infested site in the interim.
I think it's more to do with the fact that the rhetoric around climate change has shifted. Now the official Green Party stance is that it is the most urgent issue of our time and must be combated by any means necessary. Of course, this conflicts with their (former) anti-nuclear stance, and they've been repeatedly criticized for this hypocrisy. I've even heard young environmentalists speculate that the Greens were secretly in bed with the oil companies.
I've owned a Yeti mic for several years, and when the pandemic hit and we went home to work, it was my time to shine. I knew that I would have the best-sounding audio in meetings.

And then the complaints started rolling in. I don't know if it's the mic or just that my desk setup at home was not proper for audio calls, but I got to the point that I stopped using it. Now I stick with my AirPods, and no one complains.

Not that I'm saying one should use AirPods (or equivalent) for high-quality audio, but I was shocked that the Yeti turned out to have a lackluster performance.
Brute Fact
If you want to see what's left of the Ekranoplan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rozqIdT6lLQ
The CDC seems to agree that the data available is shaky and inconclusive, and that other gun related injuries may outweigh the defensive benefit as I said above, but I take your point.
> The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Jarkesy v. SEC would dismantle much of the system the federal government uses to enforce longstanding laws.

Well, too bad. The US gov’t is explicitly supposed to have limits, despite the creativity of would-be tyrants. Pretending the world will end if we don’t let the gov’t have sway is a poor argument.
Personally, I also don't care much what language I'm in. But not everyone has a brain that works that way.

Also, some of the people I'm referring to are also of non-traditional backgrounds. Meaning they don't have a foundation in abstract computer science in order to ground such transitions.

I'm also not counting changes like, "modify this one if-statement to work this way." I'm talking about actual meaningful changes.
>Or would you be able to average it out somehow

Isn't it pretty obvious? Generate the same image 1000 times and take the median pixel value for each pixel to get the "real" image.
> I'm not even a crypto promoter nor do I own a single web3 token. I was defending nuance in debate,

I didn't see any defense of nuance from you.

> I would doubt that you did so, and couldn't even pass the most basic test.

Here you don't add any nuance to the conversation, you just again attack people based on your assumptions about their level of knowledge.

> you claim to have an absolute and extreme answer,

I didn't see any such claim in the comment you responded to.

> And you're the rational one?

This is defending nuance? Or is this just an ad hominem attack?

> Spoken like a true intellectual.

Look, another ad hominem attack.

If you intent was to ask for evidence to back up those assertions, you did a very poor job of doing that in a way that promotes nuanced discussion.
Buttload is not fake however
It's quite comical how the auto formatter would make that factual, by removing the 'How' :)
> SM7B

Yes. Use it for anything vocal.
Hasura Storage in Go: 5x performance increase and 40% less RAM
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In general, I tend to be of the school that, while I won't say you should never blow up bridges with great force, the default should almost always be that whatever satisfaction is gained by publishing a cathartic blog post or twitter thread is probably better written in a diary somewhere without pushing a publish button.
It does for me. The bold "anchors" make my eyes wanders less. English in not my native language, maybe that helps.