skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often, if you go to the native language page of Wikipedia, there will be more "relevant" material. See if the page in French has that info. If you don't read French particularly well, you can use Google Translate on the page.

I often do this to get a better understanding of local legends and stories that aren't big enough to make it to the article in English.

But perhaps you know all that. To your point, it is weird! The internet is a vast collection of knowledge and information but things that don't get recalled or engaged with often enough get pushed down and eventually completely forgotten. It's sort of like the human recollection of memories.
It actually negatively impacts Microsoft's bottom line. A slow machine means a new PC purchased which usually means a new Windows licence, so there are negative incentives on Microsoft to improve Windows performance.
Revised:

- Each [failed] attempt to rotate the cylinder could partially compress a spring-loaded lever.

- The return mechanism would always return if not in its resting position, not only after each 5 failures.

- Successful attempts immediately reset the spring.
Sounds like a terminology issue then, I consider it "devops" because they're mostly writing code that goes into our git repo etc. etc., they still have to do PRs and code reviews etc. But the code is to handle deployments, not to implement features.
Abortions must be allowed right through to the last days of pregnancy, because something can always go wrong. If you care enough to learn more about pregnancy, you’ll easily enough find stories about dead late-term fetuses and women who have died because the thing went septic and anti-abortion laws prevented doctors from removing the rot.

By the way, Canada has literally no laws regarding abortion, other than that it’s legal. Surprise, surprise, it isn’t a problem because (a) women aren’t typically psychopaths who rejoice in killing their late-term fetus and (b) doctors aren’t psychopaths who willy-nilly hack out late-term fetuses just for kicks.
You assume that the number of ruminants is invariate. You assume that only North American ruminants participate. You assume that excess from farming to feed livestock, foreign and domestic, does not count. That is crappy science.
Burnham argues (persuasively, imho) that managerialism is a third type of social structure, and that the argument for only either capitalism OR socialism per Marx is a false dichotomy. That modernized version of that brutality you mention was demostrated for many by the past two years of management. China currently has, arguably, the most explicit and advanced form of managerialism but the West is no slouch and moving further in that direction daily (Managerialism with Western characteristics). The pandemic accelerated the trend.
As a Mumbaikar living in the Netherlands (where OP appears to be), you're right - such underpasses will be a terrible idea in the monsoon season for Mumbai-like places.

However for the Netherlands, rain is much more evenly distributed across the year and even "heavy" rain days are much lesser than the amount of rain a tropical city like Mumbai gets - which is why it's unlikely to be a major issue in the NL.

(Side note I don't think there are pumps at every underpass if at all, perhaps only if the underground drains/sewers overflow. Also NL maintains high sea walls/dykes partly out of necessity so there likely will be place to pump it here.)
Not exactly what you're asking for but the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has recently intensified their investigation into the safety of "Autopilot". https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/09/nhtsa_tesla_autopilot... .

On the surface this investigation appears to be focussed on whether the design of "Autopilot" encourages drivers to do stupid things but it does also touch on the fact that some crashes occur when the the car is not under the control of "Autopilot" but in some cases "Autopilot" is seen to be forcing control back to the driver a second before impact so more "Autopilot" then driver.
For me, DOS was a great learning experience. First I learned to master most of it's intricacies. Then I learned how quickly knowledge like that can get obsolete. I admit the first part was considerably more fun.
I'd argue that's wrong. Some people (it helps to be rich) are figuring out how to stay biologically younger, longer.

Just not smoking cigarettes is an obvious one, and now almost all of us don't smoke. Those who do, age faster.

But there are hundreds or thousands of things one can do to slow down phsyical and mental deterioration over time.

Unfortunately there are also hundreds of things that people hope will do that, which actually make no difference. Such is life.

Aging is a process (or really, a set of processes) that happens to everybody, but it doesn't happen at the same rate. This is obvious just by looking at people, and more obvious to the scientist that cut people open after they die, and take a closer look.
As someone who's written a lot of unicode-aware code in multiple languages, I don't agree at all. The problem I think a lot about is collaborative text editing. I need to express an insert into a text document - eg, "Insert 'a' at position X". The obvious question that comes up is - how should we define "X"? There's a mess of options:

- UTF-8 byte offset (from the start of the string). (Or UCS2 offset)

- Extended grapheme cluster offset

- Code point offset

You can also use a line/column position, but the column position ends up being one of the 3 above.

I want collaborative editing protocols to work across multiple programs, running on multiple systems. (Eg, a user is in a web browser on a phone, talking to a server written in rust.)

This post says that codepoint offsets are Bad, but in my mind they're the only sane answer to this problem.

Using byte offsets has two problems:

1) You have to pick an encoding, and thats problematic for cross-language compatibility. UTF-8 byte offsets are meaningless in javascript - they're slow & expensive to convert. UCS2 offsets are meaningless in rust.

2) They make it possible to express invalid data. Inserting in the middle of a codepoint is an invalid operation. I don't want to worry about different systems handling that case differently. Using codepoint offsets make it impossible to even represent the idea of inserting in the middle of a character.

Using grapheme cluster offsets is problematic because the grapheme clustering rules change all the time. I want editing operations to be readable from any programming language, and across time. Saying "Insert 'a' at position 20" (measured in grapheme clusters) is ambiguous because "position 20" will drift as unicode's grapheme cluster rules change. The result is that old android phones and new iphones can't reliably edit a document together. And old editing traces can't be reliably replayed.

Measuring codepoints is better than the other options because its stable, cross platform and well defined. If you aren't aware of those benefits, you aren't understanding my use case.
The shortest period I've experienced is pre-10-years old kids, when they're in that beautiful unsuppressed-by-societal-norms personality discovery mode. I took lots of home video footage of my two "in their natural habitat" and goddam I miss being in the midst of it, and goddam they had a great time being free to be themselves.

Everything is short when it's over. Even pain.
There's a setting called game mode, turn that off.
> I think the issue is with the discoverability of those communities.

Honestly, I think this is why we don't see fatter tails than we see today. Google, YouTube, Netflix, and even Spotify push us into bubbles. Many of us are drawn in because on the exploration/exploitation scale it is high on exploration. But as we use the service more they focus more and more on exploitation. I remember awhile ago reading a blog my netflix (?) how it is actually easier to satisfy customers with wide variety of tastes and love the exploration paradigm. Maybe the next step is to figure out who is who or when someone is in a exploration mood. I'd assume that's common given that everyone jokes about scrolling around on Netflix for 15 minutes only to leave.
I had to look that up, because I thought nobody could be that dumb.

US lawmakers continue to surprise me!
I assumed it was understood that entry of any country into a world government would be decided by a referendum. In normal times, most people see the benefit in cooperation. If it is impossible to imagine the people of a nation voting to join a world government, that is because we are living in strange times.
Are the tests scheduled to take place In The Morning?
The bump key hits the lower pins, which move the upper pins. This is not possible with the Enclave design.

You really cannot move the pins by vibrating the entire lock. The pins are so light that you would need tens if not hundreds of g of acceleration to overcome the spring force.
The three books I often recommend are:

- Difficult Conversations

- Crucial Conversations

- Nonviolent communications

The first two definitely address leading questions. I believe the last one does as well (perhaps indirectly).
Fox News gives the crazies a single, read-only feed with a limited amount of ad space and at least some regulatory oversight. The largest "congregation" you could make with that is to ask all your neighbors to go to your Fox News viewing party. Furthermore, other channels with different (opposite?) biases are a button press away. Biased media has always existed and didn't lead to this kind of large-scale polarization, so it seems like a read-only feed is mostly safe.

Facebook gives the crazies a town square and a set of megaphones, the volumes of which dynamically vary depending on who's at the receiving end to maximize "engagement" (which usually translates to outrage or arguments). The size of the congregation is virtually unlimited. There's also no "channel" you can just switch - if Facebook thinks you will "engage" with a certain kind of content it will slowly but surely start feeding you more and more of it, which would also draw in and radicalize people that were otherwise well-meaning. This is a whole other level compared to a biased TV channel, and something society hasn't dealt with before.
I love that they're improving the error messages, that looks like a huge productivity improvement for beginners and experts alike.
Try this exercise:

Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display.

If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day.

Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials.

Enjoying that? Probably not.

With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a bit here and there. You don't try to view it continuously.

It is interesting to see a very clever product idea that completely ignores human anatomy.
Yeah FamilySearch also has a lot of links and relationships with other organizations, so it's a good starting point to tie a lot of other resources together. Once you get enough stuff put together to get hints of recently digitized records that match your tree, the research almost does itself, and you're just acting as the human in the loop making sure the connections it makes are well-founded.
You can get the full text of any WSJ article by going to https://archive.ph and pasting in the URL of the original article. Works for most other paywalled sites too, e.g., NY Times, Washington Post, etc.
I never said coordinated brain activity but brain waves. You also only addressed (though incorrectly) one of my points. What about the heart beats? Is that also after 20 weeks? I'll give you a hint, it is well before 20 weeks.

Regardless, there is distinct DNA from the mother and as such it is distinct from the mother. It is growing and has human DNA. It is as simple as that.
You can't have judges potentially getting punished for making mistakes. There are a lot of examples. No one would take those jobs in your world.
And that source gets it from? As I said, the natural nitrogen fixing processes are insufficient to supply agriculture for nearly 8 billion people. And that N is more efficiently used by exploiting the nitrogen fixing sources directly rather than by filtering it through pigeons. In no way are pigeons a substitute for artificial nitrogen fixation.
Can we talk about “world’s largest”? This seems extremely unlikely by any measure.
You carry it on your wrist, but that doesn't mean you need to watch it on your wrist.

Even if it is a watch.
Second that with logitech cam on macbook pro works fine no lag issues.
Good point. I pay a roughly 3% commission to PayPal for my tiny side business. I think I do get something. The biggest thing, which I also can't quantify, is probably that I get X percent more sales because people are confident that PP will somehow magically take care of them if I turn out to be a screwball. All it takes is a couple more sales, to completely pay for the commission.

Also, I could knock myself out trying to find a cheaper service, or I could spend that time designing the next product.

Don't know if a similar calculus applies to eBay.
Covid or not, respiratory viruses are infectious, and they are all over the place. Maybe office and school over zoom unless 100% physically required to be onsite and all participants strictly asymptomatic and not exposed to any symptomatic people recently ?
Straight from the horse's mouth, if you prefer: https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html
Indeed! A food for thought: https://twitter.com/khemaridh/status/1538899517629640704?s=2...
The article said that this has historically been used for nitrogen-demanding crops, so it must have some value.

"Pigeon towers became a crucial part of the agricultural economy, providing much-needed fertilizer for melons, cucumbers, and other nitrogen-demanding crops—cornerstones of Persian cuisine."
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperIntelligenc...
WTF is my IP address?
I don't see it as massively different to specialisation between front and back-end developers though - we're all devs, we're all comfortable with reading/writing code, but whereas my specialty and focus is on application-level (typically backend) code, the DevOps guys are specialised in writing IaC scripts etc.
Yes, in principle, any dev could do it all, but there becomes a point that the mental load from juggling too many technologies outweighs your ability to be productive. And some types of development just take different mindsets - I've done my share of front-end/UI-type development in the past, and can easily pick it up again if needed, but I can't say I find it super satisfying, and it's nearly always going to be produce a better result for everyone to hand it off to someone who does. Likewise for CI/CD scripting. And it also happens that if your primary focus is on the scripts and tools necessary to get software deployed to a particular hosting environment, you're likely to have the skills necessary to take care of the day-to-day sysadmin side of things for that environment (indeed, most "manual" changes to the environment are only done as a last resort, and would be wiped by the next deployment anyway, unless the scripts are modified appropriately too).
Every time we standardize mediating layers of leaky abstractions we are creating novel territory that accrues side-effects. Once there’s enough people working to manage these side effects, experts, products and services will emerge to promote the legitimacy of this new layer. There have been many attempts to solve this by revisiting first principles, but most of us are oblivious and/or too vested in one of these layers or too averse to disruptive changes. Hence, when we run up against bottlenecks and side effects we deploy more leaky abstractions and the cycle continues.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Halt and Catch Fire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
I think that was more of a nod to the writer's and I assume director's respect for but disagreement with Ridley Scott's thesis.

They don't actually think Deckard is a replicant, but they're more than happy to channel the idea of him being a replicant, but it's through Gaff where it can either come across as subtle misdirection, a hint to a wayward soul (K), or just playing tricks on someone that presumably took over his job - "something in his eyes".
I think some aggregators, like Jason Kottke, post lots of interesting things, but not usually the weird, unpolished, personal stuff that I associate with the 90s web. Something like early Yahoo would be cool.
They do OCR when it is feasible.

An impressive number of typewritten documents from World War 2 were OCR'ed.

Volunteers do manual data entry and verification for documents that do not OCR well (called "indexing"): https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/projects
All true but the economics are different when there is little cap ex budget. You don’t have to build an airstrip or lay rail to ship bulk goods like grain this way, and it need only go from inland to a port.

Think Almaty to Singapore or Lusaka to Luanda. Any passengers for such a journey can put up with a lot of privation for a low cost trip (but I imagine passenger traffic would be fit into a cargo trip on a space available basis; I can’t imagine passengers being primary)

You could use containers for some goods; bulk goods like grain could be decanted straight into the hold of a bulk carrier
How about all health data. As much as reproductive health is important, it seems so stupid to only protect this subset of health while allowing the rest to be exploited.
The use-case of it could be to primarily listen and just glance occasionally, like an augmented radio. News and sports events could fit the bill for example - listen most of the time and take a look for 30 seconds when something interesting/relevant is mentioned.
Interesting. I understand why the CPU would have needed to do that in the absence of integrated DRAM controller but how does the absence or presence of an MMU relate to this?
I thought the story was fine. Blade Runner's story honestly isn't all that good, the concept of the memories and K's self-discovery is arguably better than the original if you imagine that the original barely has a story as per se (but does have a better defined set of plot-beats).

2049 feels like it asks less questions, but wait until we have better AI in 10 years and watch how prescient including Joi rather than a new replicant character is.
100%! My point still stands though. I don't like buying something when I don't know who I'm getting it from!
GPU Gluts, Estimate Cuts Coming, and AMD Valuation
Both ebay and Amazon get a lot of flack and bad stories/press but in the rare cases I’ve had issues both Amazon and ebay have been helpful.

I’ve had 3 issues this year.

1) eBay I bought $170 worth of trading cards from 1 seller in Germany. After 2 months I hadn’t received anything. I messaged him 2 times in English and 2 times in German. No reply. The tracking number said it was in Germany. But it never left Germany. I contact eBay. Waited 3 days for the seller to reply. He didn’t. EBay refunded the whole thing.

2) similar issue, bought some stuff off Amazon, 2 months it never arrived. Amazon said it was lost in transit and refunded me 100% as gift card to reorder. Received super quick the second time.

3) last night I had part of an order cancelled by Amazon due to damage in transit. I was confused cos I just ordered it on Saturday. So how could it be damaged. I contact Amazon and they said it was damaged in transit to the Amazon warehouse. I said I can’t reorder cos I’ll incur delivery fees on that as I had already paid $75 for shipping I didn’t want to pay more shipping. So they reordered the 3 items for me so I don’t get the shipping fee.

Donno if I’m lucky but this is why I always end up shopping at both these sites. Tho I’m Taiwan most of what I use now is PCHome/Momo/books

Edit: I do have 2 issues tho.

EBay: if the seller uses their own shipping you can request a quote which will combine shipping. However if they throw up discounts on the items you cannot ask for. Quote.

If the seller uses eBay shipping you cannot do combined shipping so you need to pay each individual items shipping, but the seller always combines anyway so it costs you and not the seller.

Amazon: sometimes you go buy multiple items but due to shipping from different warehouses you can end up paying multiple delivery fees.
In this sense, TV and smart phone waste people much of their lives. And it’s only going to get worse for the coming generations.
Isn’t that the fund that invested in people based on their race / gender ?
Be sure to read that contract from Rumpelstiltskin Inc. very closely before signing
Easy to remember, not not as simple as https://icanhazip.com
I think it also helps that, with reading, you usually have one book in front of you. There are no "related books" vying for your attention in the sides of the page. This is more true for physical books.
It's a funny thing. I thought that I would have regrets playing World of Warcraft for years of my life, but looking back, I really enjoyed my time playing it even when it felt a little monotonous. I played from 2005-2007 pretty hardcore. No regrets.

I think you would have enjoyed either path you took. I've second-guessed some of my past choices and I'm not sure I would be happier than I am now, or a better person.
I will likely never have the talent to do so, unless I retire early, but assuming I do retire (the way the UK is going you never know eh, maybe by 77) or just have some spare time and money I'd love to have some reconstructed miniatures of scenes from blade runner.

I guess someone has probably done this already, but I've never been able to find anything with first-order googling at least.
> I need to express an insert into a text document - eg, "Insert 'a' at position X". The obvious question that comes up is - how should we define "X"?

Perhaps using a cursor/rider/however-you-call-it into whatever data structure you're using for editable sequences (since there's a bunch of them) is the preferred solution here? I'm hardly an editor expert but I thought that's how this has been being done for decades (and for some possibly useful but really complicated text representations, numerical indices for positions of operations wouldn't really work very well anyway).
I wonder if the target of loglib-modules and hkg-sol-utils is a specific company running its own internal PyPi server, or something like a scientific collaboration (which can be thousands of people and billions of dollars, especially in the drugs discovery domain).

PIP is designed to treat all indexes as mirrors, rather than to specify the source of a package: So a higher package version of an internal package name would be chosen whether it is on public or private PyPi. Equally a certain percentage of the time it would choose public over private with the same package version.
Well, I guess that my conclusions were completely wrong for home usage. Spending $87 vs $8 per year is not a big deal and $500 CPU cost now dominates the total cost. So it makes sense to donate idle CPU time if you're fine with extra heat and some extra wear.
I think current proper title for RMS - at least among Properly Thinking People - is "misogynist, ableist, and transphobic" [1]. I haven't heard many people calling him a "moron" though. Extreme idealist with some weird ideas - maybe, but a "moron" - I don't think so, especially as his predictions keep coming true. I'm not sure whether his recipes are the solution, but at least it can be obvious he can see the problem.

[1] https://rms-open-letter.github.io/