skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Game of Thrones, filmed all over Europe, and with probably at least a 1/3rd of the cast actors from all around Europe?

Is your problem that it's funded by US producers and the writers were American? Because almost everything else about it was pretty international.

I just think these distinctions are getting less and less meaningful.

Also an example that's a half decade out of date?

Frankly the French, German, etc. cultures and languages are under almost no threat. They have healthy domestic markets and great international influence. As a Canadian I find it almost laughable to hear Europeans complain about American cultural dominance; compare the situation in Quebec to that of France, Italy or Germany. Usually European complaints strike me as borne more out of elitism or essentialism than genuine grievance.

If anything the expansion of streaming services and the decentering away from cable services and Hollywood dominance has meant more exposure of North Americans to European productions.
>That's the percentage of people living off $2 a day. I'm glad to see that number decreasing, but I think most Americans are making many multiples of that. The median household income here is $70k.

Sure, we have a long way to go to remediate global inequality, but huge strides have been made within my lifetime. Ive seen this myself in China, since my wife is Chinese. She grew up in a house her father, a factory worker, built from bricks. Ive seen it. She has a photo of herself as a girl making some of the tiles for the floor. She's now a senior nurse here in the UK, her sister is a departmental manager for a bank in China. I first visited her hometown Hohhot in 2001 and have seen it grow from empty streets because barely anyone could afford cars, to constant traffic jams. I used to count the cranes on construction sites on the way from the airport each visit, it was usually somewhere around 30.

But anyway, for now a certain degree of inequality is an unfortunate fact of life, but it's not like anyone is imposing that from on high. Grinding poverty has been the common state of humanity for thousands of years, it's not like the lives of the ancestors of the remaining 11% in poverty were dramatically better a hundred years ago, or a thousand. It's only with globalised trade, technological diffusion, and investment powered economic development that a majority of humanity have a chance to achieve a stable and comfortable quality of life.
“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.” — John F. Kennedy.
noob suggestion: physics -> mechanics + electrical engineering -> industrial engineering
Nice article - though one misstatement is that ZFS dies not allow you add disks to a pool. It does [1] [2], by adding new vdevs. The linked issue is about adding support for expanding existing vdevs instead.

[1]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/8/zpool-add.8.htm...

[2]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54801/gayrd.html
For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30820367 Are you the author of Stellarium or just a user?
The short answer: Go to https://www.khanacademy.org/. Click "Courses" on the top left. Start working your way through the pre-calculus course. Review Algebra if you're struggling with its prereqs. Continue down the course list (Jump around as required) until satisfied.
That's not all. There was some HTML code that Dustin's girlfriend was looking at when she was hacking into that computer using an acoustic modem. Don't think HTML was a thing in 1983.
> The idea is that we just don't have enough productivity to sustain slightly longer roads, and live in the same houses we used to have on farms in 1920s is insulting to reader's intelligence.

Plenty of academic research/literature on this, as well as books:

> Chuck is not the first to point out the financial inefficiencies associated with sprawl. Robert Burchell of Rutgers[1] has led several important studies showing the substantially increased municipal costs associated with sprawl development; my then-colleague Matt Raimi devoted a well-researched chapter to it in our 1999 book Once There Were Greenfields.[2] At NRDC, we undertook a small empirical study[3] in Cleveland and Chicago that confirmed the additional operating and maintenance costs associated with suburban wastewater infrastructure when compared with that in the cities.

* https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollecti...

Strong Towns is only reporting what the literature is saying. You're free to be skeptical, but that's what they've concluded from the empirical evidence. The claim is falsifiable if you want to get into testing it.

Measure the cost of services per acre/hectare of low-density and of high-density, then measure the revenues. You'll see which is net positive and which is net negative:

> Urban3 is a consulting company that helps cities better understand the economic impact of development. They have worked with many American cities to better understand and visualize the costs of development, and uncover which properties are productive, and which are not. Some municipalities have been willing to share that information, and it has provided a fascinating glimpse into the financial problems caused by sprawling car-centric suburban development.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

Lafayette, LA case study from the video:

* https://www.urbanthree.com/case-study/lafayette-la/

* https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

This is an accounting and ROI issue. If you don't want to believe the numbers… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This appears to be mainly about the DDG browser. Firefox without UBO seems is unaffected.
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I have personally been saved by ZFS snapshots (multiple times!) because sometimes I do dumb things, like running:

rm -rf tmp *

Instead of:

rm -rf tmp*
What's the 411 on MimbleWimble?
Is this supposed to be sarcastic? Can it be stated plainly for those of us who are a bit slow?
Industrial engineering is often just UX research with too much math but I get where you're coming from.
Ask HN: What do you think about Sailfish OS?
Living in Japan, every time I see video from someone's phone from some American street, all I can think of wow, everyone one is so big. There's not even a mix, everyone is just big.
Here are a few candidates:

1) Environmental contaminants in water, food, and air https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/13/a-chemical-hunger-p...

2) Xenoestrogens in plastics, pesticides, toiletries, perfumes, polyester and nylon clothing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947648/

3) Mass consumption of pharmaceutical drugs

4) Vegetable seed oils https://chriskresser.com/how-industrial-seed-oils-are-making...

5) Sugar and hyper palatable foods https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry...

6) Endemic pathogens like toxoplasmosis https://www.hardtowrite.com/pathogens/
Did you pass the interview?
The point of using a Chromium fork is full extension compatibility, same rendering engine and similar-enough featureset (what matters varies by user, which is why just forking Chromium works best). None of your suggestions match these requirements.
I cannot seem to remember which version exactly that was. I remember there were some test input/output files that weighted multiple MBs.

Just installed a quick "data science" like virtualenv, here is the example things I talk about:

$ du -sh scipy
110M scipy
$ find scipy -type f -name '.so' -exec strip -s {} \;
$ du -sh scipy
76M scipy

$ du -sh django/contrib/admin/locale/
5.4M django/contrib/admin/locale/
Time is ticking to replace The Pentagon’s 1970s-era Doomsday planes
By the time the bricklayers are there to start on the project, most of the time the choice of cement mixture is already made. For most projects, a standard cement mixture is used and a custom one isn't even needed.

When issues do arise during the project, an expert is brought in/consulted. Standard cement formula's might change over time, for varied reasons, but it's not the bricklayers that keep themselves busy with that.

The same hold true for most IT projects.
AR for museum guides? For tourism? New sports? Not to mention all the business, industrial, and other applications. Medical AR, overlaying imaging during surgery, or visualizing heart rates, electrical activity, O2 concentration, etc.

The uses of AR are endless and much more than just Minority Report type stuff.

And then as the controllers get better and more integrated, you get the sort of thing that currently only pilots of an F35 get, in terms of being aware of their environment.
Why would you keep something like this secret?

I once had to show a JD how to print to PDF on a laptop, and they acted like I'd just turned water into weed ticture.
You're embiggening my perception of you.
I agree if confinement field tops out at 12 T on coil / 6 T on axis. Double it and the story looks very different.

Some light reading on this:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-ph...
What's the OP's thought on Mimble Wimble as recently implemented on a Scrypt based POW chain.
> How broken of a person do you have to be to reflexively cheat on a simple assignment intended to give you a second chance after you’ve been caught cheating already?

My opinion is that most people only go to college these days because they perceive it as the only path to a good paying job, not because they are terribly interested in the material.

Given that assumption, it's easy for me to understand why people would try to minimize the amount of work they have to do for something they didn't want in the first place.

They are mostly just there for the "job ticket".
It's because he is critical of the work of his peers. Forcing someone to admit to dishonesty is a petty abuse of power. The board is effectively compelling him to grovel.

"It's easy to find a stick to beat a dog"

"Show me the man, I'll show you the crime"
Have you seen how German dubs are made? They're usually some of the best dubs (across all languages), but obviously still noticeably dubs.

Depending on the content it can sometimes come close to the original, it's definitely very different from a single person reading all lines in a neutral tone (which I personally consider absolutely horrible, and I'm very glad that Germany only uses that for interviews on the news)
This. I'm always going into my backup server and looking in the ".zfs/snapshots" directory to look at the history of how files have changed over the backups. Love restic, but the ZFS snapshots are fantastic.
Putin already hinted that in exchange of lifting sanctions he will ship grain from occupied Ukraine. I'm pretty sure that Western politicans will scream "no way" initially but will quietly give in later. Just they way they gave in to Putin's demands to pay for gas in rubles.

Whole rush on occopying south Ukraine (and levelling cities like Mariupol) was for Putin to have grains shortage as yet another leverage on European politicians.

Not to mention that sanctions hadn't made any significant dent anyway. Russian economy is booming unfortunately. Yes import is limited, but local prices cratered due to strong ruble. It's around 60-70 RUB per USD both in banks and on the street compared to 78 pre-war.

These sanctions are a shame while Germans are sponsoring war by pumping billions into Russian economy and drag their feet on promised weapons to Ukraine.

So much blood on Germans once again. Only last time they were explicit about it.
F-35 pilots would also tend to disagree, sure, their helmets have been through a lot of revision and development, but they do provide (apparently) good enhancements for pilots coming from more conventional (eg HUD) environments.
I've found that Ubuntu Studio just works. I've tried all sorts of variations and have trouble sound not working during recording, but good ol' Ubuntu Studio gets it done. I use Ardour for my DAW. I've been able to record live feeds in Ardour while also live streaming using OBS. Jack works.
- California had the tax surplus, not the towns.

- All ponzis look good, until growth stops and the whole thing collapses.

- The towns are being bailed out by the state.

- The fact that you are seeing roads and bridges getting fixed does not mean that poorer cities are. And Strong Towns also shows that the suburbs (even if richer) get subsidized by the city centers.
I’m went to school at a time where everything was curved.

In that environment, you had to fight for every GPA point and were at a disadvantage of you were a stickler for academic integrity. In a 500 person lecture, ~25 were getting a 4. It’s easy to be on a high horse at an Ivy school, where people who don’t show get gentleman’s Cs and the average GPA is like a 3.6.

Obviously this situation in the article wasn’t that. But I think the professor did a good job of empathizing with the students and accepting that there are varying types of motivations.
I feel like ML would have a better chance at producing a better interpretation. But training would be challenge. I guess the best bet would be a human artist. They should do the best but there would be no unanimous agreement.
> There are rumors of diesel shortages and urea shortages. In order to operate a diesel engine on the road you have to use DEF fluid which is urea.

This isn't strictly true, you can remove the DEF emissions control system from most trucks for a small price and this even yields a small performance gain. In my state, this is quite common as there is no emissions testing. The emphasis on diesel/DEF shortages is greatly exaggerated and somewhat misguided, I think.
Austin has 3x higher prop tax rates than Lafayette. El Paso 4x higher.

If only talk about their cherry-picked examples, so bankrupt cities go bankrupt? News at 11.

Austin is a good counter example. It’s large and spread out, not much density.

It’s just got 3-4x higher property taxes and highly productive economically.
Coincidentally I'm doing the same thing right now. The plan I'm pursuing is to design a multi-month course in a particular mathematical subject I feel I need to learn, as if I was going to teach it to someone else. I would need a course syllabus as a framework for the material (in my case, this is something called complex analysis, because I need to understand how it all works, and unfortunately neglected it in the past).

Step One: Find some good source material. Many people have suggested Khan Academy, in my particular case I've discovered this excellent Herb Gross lecture series, 'Calculus of Complex Variables' provided via MITOpenCourseWare. Then, review all the source material and make a list of the topics:

Part I: Complex Variables:

The Complex Numbers;
Functions of a Complex Variable;
Conformal Mappings;
Sequences and Series;
Integrating Complex Functions;

Part II: Differential Equations:

The Concept of a General Solution;
Linear Differential Equations;
Solving the Linear Equations L(y) = 0 with Constant Coefficients;
Undetermined Coefficients;
Variations of Parameters;
Power Series Solutions;
Laplace Transforms;

Part III: Linear Algebra:

Vectors Spaces;
Spanning Vectors;
Constructing Bases;
Linear Transformations;
Determinants;
Eigenvectors;
Dot Products;
Orthogonal Functions;

Step Two: Plot a timeline. Here I'll give myself one week per lecture. I'll set aside 1-2 hours per day, at least four days a week, to work on the material. This might be inadequate. Staying motivated without having some external pressure will be a bit of a problem, but noting that from the beginning helps.

Step Three: Devise problem sets to test my understanding of the material. Here is where having a good teacher on hand would be invaluable, but that's not an option, so I'll have to find example problems. One option is to find a complex analysis textbook somewhere, and also find its solution manual, and use the problems provided there. Having the solutions around to check results can be very useful. A websearch like "complex analysis problems and solutions site:.edu" turns up a lot of results, just look for the simplest introductory ones (i.e. not the advanced proofs!).

So, I think this is the way to go for self-learning in math. If you have a more introductory level subject, say Linear Algebra (w/o complex), or Differential Calculus, just try to do the same thing.

P.S. I find Jan Gullberg's "Mathematics, From The Birth of Numbers" to be a great overview of the whole mathematical world, kind of like a guidebook:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383087.Mathematics
Stoicism, Daoism, Buddhism, all the Hindu religions stemming from advaita vedanta, heck even proto Indo Europeans all have very similar monistic metaphysics, I don't think it's weird at all. Different names for the same thing:

- logos
- Dao
- Brahman
- Wralda

> It's not really a unified coherent practical philosophy when separated from that cosmology.

I absolutely agree with this, and I'd say anyone who wants to take Stoicism seriously should adapt a similar metaphysical perspective. I'd also say that anyone who already understands one of the above religions already has the ability to readily understand the others, at least compared to the standard Westerner.
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How is this kind of "cheating" any different than study groups? When I was in school we would have small study groups where we would collaborate on figuring out homework answers. Maybe this was also cheating, but I don't think so; it was among the most enriching experiences in school and certainly a hell of a lot more like the working world than it would be to toil in solitary silence.
Now someone make one for Hacker news. What was that library that decomps words into syllables again..
Get a private teacher.
> If I say something imprecisely or if I make a non-fundamental mistake, an oral setting gives me the chance to correct myself and prove to the examinator that I have a strong grasp of the material regardless

This is just even further proving the point, which is that in an oral context this means that the animosity of the examiner is much more significant than in a written one, which by definition implies that the oral one cannot be fairer than the written one.

You yourself are saying that you "have the chance to correct yourself". This is either because you will self-correct yourself on recognizing a specific (perhaps subconscious) face or gesture from the examiner, or because the examiner will directly tell you that you are wrong. Both cases present ample opportunity for unfair discrimination. In the first case, perhaps a person is less skilled at reading people, or perhaps the examiner just has a better poker face. In the second case, you are now at the whim of the examiner to decide based on your body language whether "you are making a non-fundamental mistake and deserve a second chance" or just "have no idea of the material and don't deserve a second chance". And, compared to the written exam, there is absolutely no record of the context that drew the examiner to such conclusion -- which is also kind of important, since evidently the written exam is also subject to some discrimination.
There are the recommendation algorithms that are dictating culture and discourse on the left and the right. At the moment, it’s towards extremism and consumerism. More about digital online centralization than ai
How do you handle backups of such amount of data?
> Infrastructure costs are typically around 10% of the budget of municipalities, and almost universally are under 20%.

Today's infrastructure/capital spending is tomorrow's operating spending:

* https://www.dearwinnipeg.com/2020/02/24/accounting-101-for-c...

* https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/11/8/holy-leaping-d...

If you don't believe this talk your local CPA.
I haven't seen anyone mention grade inflation yet, which I've always thought was deeply related to cheating. Obviously undergraduate GPA is a useful metric for aspiring academics, but I don't understand why everyone else is encouraged to care so much about it. I would rather our undergraduate institutions acknowledge that most students are busy learning a variety of lessons inside and outside the classroom and present those students with honorable paths to lesser commitment. Maybe systems split along mastery, competence, and familiarity (and failure). A world where it is perfectly normal for a future web dev to phone it in on a surface-level track for algorithms, but a future civil engineer is completing oral exams in statics to prove mastery.

Nobody _wants_ to cheat. Personally I really regret all the shenanigans I pulled in college to clear hurdles when I felt I had no other option. I wish I would have spoken more frankly with the professor and worked out some way to write some papers or do a project for an honest (and interesting!) C rather than keep killing myself gaming the problem sets for the B+ that was expected of me in classes I wasn't a good fit for.
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It feels like we've gone badly wrong somewhere when processors have to spend so many of their resources guessing about the program. I am not saying I have a solution, just that feeling.
When governments charge too much for waste, people respond by illegally dumping their waste to avoid disposal fees. Waste reduction is good, but there are limits to how far you can push it.

As for water, how do you define "excess" use? We have a water shortage in California and it's not because residents are taking long showers or washing their cars. 80% of our water is used for agriculture, including crops that are extremely water intensive like alfalfa, rice, and almonds. Farmers have little incentive to conserve due to the way water rights are tied to property.
Indeed, just dig A/AAAA records for DDG and see for yourself.
Except for American flags I don’t find any of this recognizable.
Incentives are never straightforward. People can vote for policies that move others' money into their pocket. People can vote for policies that they don't understand (based on either stupidity or naiveté). People can vote for policies that benefit their town to the detriment of the neighbouring one.

People can also vote for people (MPs), who later renege on their promises.

Democracy is a mess, but be careful before disenfranchising your compatriots. If you succeed with that, 10 years down the line you may find out that someone managed to turn the same weapon against you. Politics is rotten enough as it is.
I mean, I'm from Alberta originally and I trash it all the time, but you shouldn't tar the whole province with the same brush. It's mostly just rural and southern areas and the smaller cities (Red Deer, etc.) that this stereotype comes from. Take a look at a provincial election results map for Edmonton, it's almost all orange.

Also, historically southern Alberta was settled by Americans while central/north by Ukrainians, Germans, and Brits. Where I grew up rural west of Edmonton was more blue collar and small mixed farms and predominantly Ukrainian descent, and the whole stereotype of country music and cowboys didn't reflect my reality. It was more perogies and polka than rodeo and yee-haw. Though that stuff sorta came into the picture later.
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