skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where the author is coming from and I myself sympathize with the idea of sticking to Unix philosophy of composing small focused tools instead of using complicated tools.

That said, I have learned to stick to defaults and start from a clean slate every time. I often say that the main problem in software is containing complexity. When you need to deliver a product that works reliably, you want to remove all but essential concerns from your routine work. So I'd rather create a clean VM, install git CLI, VSCode, write a Dockerfile and get a nice clean package. If I learn how to use everyone of these tools out of the box with the default configuration, then I never have to think about dotfiles, plugins, set up etc.

I think we need more software hygiene. Keep environments clean and ready to go.
Yes of course I should have qualified the colours point by excluding base plates - they were indeed predominantly green and grey. The point though is that these were to denote grass or urban road surface, you couldn't exactly build camouflaged military vehicles out of them!
ActiveSync for contacts and calendar and Cal/Card DAV are now supported for free by the TbSync plugin.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/de/thunderbird/addon/tbsync/?...

Sadly no sign of support for EWS, but Evolution supports that.
Hrmph, MINIMAL is a sort of abstract assembly language that uses common features of a bunch of different machines, so you can target it to different architectures pretty easily. That kind of thing has been done many times, including in Fig Forth, GNU Lightning, Picolisp, and so on. Nothing wrong with it but it's not all that exciting. Spitbol itself on the other hand was remarkable. Its implementation is worth studying.
This looks pretty cool, is there a way to do column layout (or any kind of positioning) when making a PDF, or is it just flowing the notebook html?
There is little appetite for risk in staffing.

Maybe engineering staffing practices should be more reflective of the possibilities, but that’s best for a single Org to define for itself.
Mossad had a great run with Maxwells. 20 years of Robert Maxwell with flawless transition to another 30 years out of his daughter.
Many Brits still do I'm afraid.

It's a sad irony to see 'Dunkirk Spirit' being rolled out at a time of crisis, despite it being a rout of the British army. It was a logistical triumph, which no doubt allowed the British army to live to fight another day. But I also consider Dunkirk Spirit to be about standing helplessly on a beach while being machine gunned by German pilots, while 30,000 Frenchmen die, guarding your rear.
I hope you don't call the person's former company before he signed the contract, you should not do that because he may not have resigned and told anyone about it, this could compromise him if he decides to pull out at the last minute. I would be really pissed if someone would do that to me and I would make sure tell everyone this sneaky behaviour on Glassdoor. Also I've resigned once but decided to take a month off in between so dates wouldn't match.
A quick Google brings up this list: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fer...

I might have been mistaken in saying "Europe" as a whole but European countries are at the bottom of the list.

It also seems that the bottom of the list has some economically struggling families, so this correlation could be mistaken. Fertility seems to be a lagging indicator - if someone can't afford a two bedroom apartment, they're just unlikely to have 5 kids.
Cartoon Modern was recently made available digitally, for free [1]. Well worth the download.

[1] https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/our-treat-to-you
Yes. Around 1994 when I was in college, a friend and I were into video graphics and Intel had a video digitizer chip. We wrote to Intel (snailmail) asking for the data/spec sheet and about two months later, we received a packet with about 120 pages of the data/spec sheet.
It gets down to the differential tracks connecting the PCIe lanes. Tollerance for PCIe3 compared to 4.0 may see tracks on a motherboard tollerant for 3.0 but fall short for 4.0. Higher the speed, the smallest difference in the length of the track routing pairs can see what works become less stable. Which would explain why some can do 4.0 and others not as well.
This is urgently missing some discussion of queuing theory / stochastic processes. Discussing passenger flow in terms of time averages is misleading, passengers don't arrive in continuous streams. The peak load will be many times the average, which impacts power consumption, while at other times they will be running almost empty with just a handful of passengers.
Running is not training. Running is a stimulus; training is the response of the body to the stimulus. You want to come up with an ideal set of stimuli to create an efficient training response.

Outside of a goal race, you shouldn't suffer when you run, especially 'a lot'. You are tearing down muscles and training energy systems that are inefficient.

Slow down. Walk. Fragment runs into multiple runs. Run doubles. You'll get faster, faster. Add volume at your new, sane pace and new, sane volume up to 40-60 miles/week.

Once you've achieved the slow end of 'adult fast', say sub-20m/40m/90m for 5k/10k/half, you can revisit suffering during training. You still probably shouldn't.

Of course if you want/like to suffer or can only run 4 times a week at peak heat during a Georgia summer then all of this is out the window.
> Europe's population

The growth rate has certainly slowed in the last 30 years or so. From 0.98% in 1960 to 0.37% in 1990 and 0.12% in 2020. But, yes, it's still growing overall.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-popula...
But then a human comes and selects one from a hundred images. Not to mention the human had to write the prompt, sometimes a very long and explicit one. I'd say that's enough human involvement to be able to use the image as his own.
Tried to make it a little more conventional and went abstract:

they told him it couldn't be done

he thought it a challenge but fun

and got straight to work

just one little quirk

no light bulb can outshine the sun
The problem with any block system is that the weights are too expensive and the storage capacity doesn't scale very well. Concrete is already too expensive to be practical.

Then there is the engineering challenge of building a crane system.

It just doesn't get better.
True that religion isn't the primary driver anymore. There is a huge indisputable overlap but to say it is religious dogma doesn't adequately identify the "problem". I believe current polarization is much more relevant that this has become a topic again.

Every culture does inflate the value of human life and a society is well served by doing exactly that. Technically this is ideology or religion too, but so is everything you put on a pedestal instead. But that isn't at all a detriment for the argument for abortion even from a purely utilitarian point of view that acknowledges reality that abortions will happen if they are legal or illegal. I do think some societal and cultural problems do increase the number of abortions significantly and there are significantly less arguments against those that want to reduce abortions.

> can't nut up and cause a little quantifiable harm to get to the better solution

This is impotent reasoning. What is sub-optimal? From which perspective and for whom? Acknowledging reality does also mean that there aren't that many people that wish they were aborted. It is a gray decision but "nutting up" is no solution.
In general, I find people's - especially politicians' - abuse of CSAM / child abusers to push through bad policy to be a bigger problem than actual CSAM / child abuse.

How much harmful policy has been pushed through with the excuse that it will stop CSAM? Often without having any particular effect on the issues it claims to be working against. People who spread or produce CSAM will use encryption and cryptocurrencies, leaving everyone else to be under permanent surveillance.

How do you stop them? By investigating and hitting down hard when you catch them irl, just like we always have. Not by racing to a dystopian surveillance state.
They're not opinions they're moral frameworks.

Right wing frameworks value hierarchy, wealth, power, dominance, and status based on assumptions of innate superiority/inferiority, and fear of outgroups. Left wing frameworks are based on egalitarianism, universality, and fairness, and tolerance for/interest in outgroups.

The issues that exercise the right - immigration, crime, guns, abortion, vaccination and masking mandates, homosexuality, religion, taxation, government oversight - are all emotional triggers on the dominance/passivity axis.

The issues that exercise the left - wealth and power differentials, racism, sexism, healthcare, education, collective as opposed to individual survival - are all emotional triggers on the fairness/unfairness axis.

You can't overcome these frameworks with facts, because they're fundamentally different.

The problem in the anglo world is that the differences have become so polarised they're no longer in sight of each other.

If you try to explain to someone on the right that Covid and climate change are both serious issues, the framework kicks in and you get a "Why are you trying to tell me what to do? I don't accept your authority over me" response.

Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of people literally chose to die because they considered vaccination an overwhelming and unacceptable attack on their personal sovereignty.

If you try to explain to someone on the left that you have to use rightwing frameworks to communicate with rightwing people you'll get a "That's stupid and wrong, so I'm going to carry on complaining about unfairness and/or quoting science papers at them, but I'll do it more loudly because that's sure to work."

Neither side is being rational.
Quick iteration. More like I deploy at build time. CI/CD takes minutes to deploy to a shared environment. Rather than contending for a bottleneck, we do local development on a single node K8S environment.

Maintaining docker-compose as well is a pain, and it's repeating ourselves.
Well they don't have the same threat model. Teenagers and grifters can't edit as easily in the case of a commercial publisher. That's not to say that they don't have their flaws, or that they are superior to Wikipedia. Just that the analysis is off the mark.
That's because the Space Shuttle was supposed to carry out military missions too, and the USAF made lots of design requirements that made the Shuttle not really viable.
It's not the Turkish narrative, they are recognized terrorist organisation with a large number attacks on civilians.

I do accept the existence of the Turkish oppression on Kurds and I do blame the existence of PKK on the unjust treatment of Kurds by the Turkish state and I hope that the Kurds in Turkey will eventually obtain their rights and receive apology and compensation for the atrocities of the Turkish state.

It's just that I do not accept terrorism as a fair device of resistance and it is completely in Turkey's rights to push for elimination of grooming and funding of those organisations.
If you know that accesses to an integer are atomic (which they tend to be in C) then you don't need any thread synchronisation, though it's probably to be considered a bad practice.
It’s a bit more expensive but only god knows where it runs*
> tunnel all the Tor traffic out through a VPN?

Same problem. Tunnelling all of your traffic will look suspicious and thus stand out from the thousands of other people who don't tunnel all of their traffic. If I recall correctly, one of the documents Snowden released even specified that people who tunnel all of their traffic via VPC land themselves on government lists for closer monitoring. Regardless of whether this is true or not, creating a lot of legitimate traffic on your same gateway should still make it harder to fingerprint you as someone who exercises in activities that warrant closer inspection.
Fascinating and something to think about as I ride the Piccadilly line escalators with my mind in neutral. Thanks.
I wonder if the inventors are fans of the Megalobox anime:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalobox

- https://www.google.com/search?q=megalobox+gear&tbm=isch
No, this is not a hands-on introduction to ML.
> Because, we didn't do it.

It's not you, you know? Not even your parents were alive to do it. I hope one day you learn to see it this way so when you claim to be an experienced Turk, it actually doesn't sound like bullshit.
I would not think about going international before building the product. Once you have paying local users you can consult with experts on the various international markets.
As a real world example consider the North of England. William the Bastard's genocidal "Harrying of the North" in 1069/70 either murdered or drove out over 75% of the population and left large areas severely depopulated for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
I enable swiping, word suggestions, auto correct, the digits row, the emoji switcher key, shrink the height of the keyboard for easier typing, enable long press symbol insertions, spell-checking etc.
Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year (2013)
>You can configure TB to not show event notifications from the past

How do I do that?
Teaching the Humanities as Terribly as Possible (2018)
> with good extension support

Except that Thunderbird has been actively holding back its own extension support, diverting people to the silly "WebExtensions" and making it more difficult to load and run regular extensions.

(In Firefox it's even worse - it seems you can't load regular extensions at all these days.)

> Let's just face the fact here: email is dying. Once it was one of the most important tools for communicating on the Internet, now days for majority of people, it's just something comes with a Google/Microsoft/Apple account.

It is not dying, but rather - powerful commercial interests are trying to assassinate it. These companies love to control your private data, analyze it, sell it, pass it on to the government (Snowden revelations), and use it to market stuff to you. We all need to make a concerted effort to change this state of affairs.
Lobbying - the crux and bain in all things wrong in goverments. Large corps can employ people to harass, nag, bribe wine and dine goverment officials and label it as lobbying. If the people the goverments serve had the same level of access to such people, they would feel more like a democratic part of the process beyond a token tick in a box every nth years.
Apparently (based on Reddit posts) the DOJ used some kind of graph or map generation package to create the statistical summary that they put on the web. The package worked by accessing the raw data (complete with PII) and producing summaries and a map from it. It also inserted a helpful link to download the raw data. Oops. And that the raw data was reachable from the public-facing server at all was a double oops. And that the web dev department had access to the raw data rather than having it compartmentalized (presuming this happened) seems like a triple oops.

I don't know if the map was dynamically generated from the data on every page load (thus requiring the data to be there), but the slowness of the server suggests maybe it was. Another good reason to use static sites unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. This database only went through 2021, so it wasn't changing.
2M shells in 48 hrs is 11.5 shells a second.
Download managers/mass downloaders have been similarly rendered impotent (can't download to outside of the Downloads folders without individually prompting for each and every download [1], can't intelligently handle naming conflicts between new downloads and existing files [2], etc. etc.)

And somewhat ironically, while I already had it installed for quite a while, I only really started seriously using and valuing DownThemAll after Firefox 57 had already come out.

[1] Eventually they relented somewhat and said that they would accept an API extension whereby an extension could download to the last downloaded-to location (even outside of the Downloads folder) without having to explicitly prompt the user again – but until now it was never actually implemented (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342563).

[2] You can only choose between "automatically rename" or "overwrite", and you can only choose in advance (!) when you don't actually have the necessary information to make that decision (especially seeing as Webextensions can't read any local files, so they have absolutely no idea what sort of filename conflicts could potentially exist). There's no "skip" option, and while there's a "prompt" option (however well/badly implemented that might be), Firefox doesn't even support it.
Meteor was first ever magic web technology I've ever used. The fetching from backend that you wouldn't even see in developer tools, one code base for frontend backend, straight forward cli, developer selection between jquery/react/angular, kadira, build-in simple cordova

Never ever have I seen such a rich product that had everything and was easy to learn - back then their todo tutorial took less then 1 hour, after you had fully working todo app.

Yet too much magic was not what developers wanted, during the process you felt like loosing control over the processes you don't understand nor have access too.

Compering this to building a standard app back then with REST API, and backbone/angular/react frontend seems like saving tons of time, yet developers decided on the latter in most of the cases.

> It soon became clear that the community was splitting into two camps: those who appreciated Meteor’s clear value proposition of simplifying web development by providing an all-in-one environment, and those who wanted more openness towards the npm ecosystem to avoid being left behind by the rest of the webdev community.

That seems to be a case. Also lack of people that wanted to use this in production and cost of developers.

My last app in meteor was written in 2017, after hitting success everything died, even after adding 10x more CPU and RAM. Problem was that Mongo/Magic was sending too much data, multiplying this by few thousands users caused killing node.js server in seconds. Using Kadira profiling and 2 nights of coding problem was solved and app was running fine, both web and mobile (meteor cordova). Client was happy, same with users - it was success. After investor came in, they decided it must be rewritten, because at that time, there were only 2 or 3 companies in Poland that knew that technology - investor decided its a bottleneck - whole thing was rewritten to Java Spring and Angular (or something similar).

PS. I wrote a post about the case in 2018 https://medium.com/qunabu-interactive/tuszama-case-study-met...
Comparing Vat Solutions for Bootstrapped UK Businesses (2021)
Only in the sense that people are bad with numbers and timescales, and that the fears themselves directly led to funding for research that happened to be successful at creating affordable solutions.

The fictional population of NYC in Soylent Green (released 1973, set in 2022) was 40 million, whereas the actual population today is 8.8 million, but even 40 million would give it about the population density of Manila today and wouldn’t look like it was portrayed in the film.

With sufficient industrial farming effort[0] and only existing technology, we could support something like 10 trillion on Earth, but if we did that then everything that wasn’t a farm would look like the top of the Wikipedia list of highest density city districts.

As for the correspondence between the rat experimental world and the human world, as the article itself says:

> Given these wildly varying (even contradictory) readings, it’s hard to escape the suspicion that personal and political views, rather than objective inquiry, are driving these critics’ outlooks. And indeed, a closer look at the interpretations severely undermines them.

Also, we aren’t mice, so while we are doing various — and in some cases, unhealthy — things in response to our world of high abundance and low child mortality, we are doing different things, more slowly, and with the ability to discover and respond to the big picture.

[0] the material requirements are on par with paraterraforming the Moon, because the first step is “make enough greenhouses for most of the land on the planet”, but it could be done.
I found their explanations of how each token works - hijacking an egress pathway - quite fascinating. I wonder if this will ever catch on so well as to see countermeasures.
Have a look at the graphs in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Netherlands and notice how the growth percentage has only just reached 0%, despite fertility rate having plunged all the way to near 1.5 since the 1970s. What's more, many still predict population growths and the government is still stimulating it through subsidizing children and giving tax breaks to immigrants. The Netherlands is on the cusp of declining, but not declining yet.

If you look up the history of fertility rates, most of developed Europe plunged similarly, yet population kept growing well up to now.
An interesting take, thanks for the input! As a layman (pretty much), I had always a bit frowned upon reST since I never got used to syntax. That was probably because Markdown was already so popular when I started using it.

One little remark: You can still have highlighted math code blocks in gh's Markdown. The lang here is ```latex. Anyway, I see this might not be satisfactory.
Companies now actively seek or mention criteria that they were not hiring CA based freelancers.

California's IC laws are a testament to the idea of excessive government overreach creating a mess out of a functional system. At best with good intentions they implemented poorly written laws. Or the cynical view, they implemented a set of laws without genuine concern, simply because these companies were politically beneficial to oppose (the gig economy companies in this case).
Infinite scroll is never good.
I work in a large company, where we have very regular "re-orgs" and it makes no difference. It doesn't change the work I do, nor who I work with. It's busywork for middle management and power plays for executives, it doesn't affect me.

So I don't think that it's interesting to know to judge the position. It's irrelevant.
> If the Armenians did indeed sabotage the Turks during the war with Russia then they should have fled or taken up arms right against the Turks

You speak as if nations are some monolithic hive minds with a single will.. the reality is that most people who were murdered weren’t active combatants or were not even related to active combatants. Also many other Christian people were targeted like the Assyrians, Coptic Greeks etc..
AMD to have Tensor Core equivalent
And now K9 is going to become the mobile Thunderbird App, so things will be even more seamless!
I like this option a lot. I've be teaching in the past. However, I thought it will be very hard to find such a job.

Do you have a platform in mind?
Right now it is flowing the notebook html. It should be possible to add some layout library (Python library that will do HTML+CSS to get nice layout).

Recently I did similar for displaying numbers in the notebook as a good looking boxes. I created a small Python package that takes the number and creates a box with borders with HTML+CSS. It is pretty handy for building dashboards in Python. The package name is Bloxs https://github.com/mljar/bloxs
I feel like this should need a (2013) tag otherwise it seems like a new article from WaitButWhy.
Same. But i was not disappointed. The world has enough databases :D
I don't know what you mean by carbon base generation. You need to compensate for shortfalls in renewable production.
What do you hate the most about jupyter notebooks?