skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a favorite book of mine as a child. It was one of the last books that I scanned and uploaded to sciencemadness.org. That's probably for the best, since I was still learning how to make good scans and PDFs with the early books.

When I first started scanning and uploading books, Google Books did not yet exist. The HathiTrust did not yet exist. Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders did exist, but their focus on perfect text transcription of non-technical writing did not really suit the books that I wanted to share.

I stopped scanning books because the world largely caught up and surpassed what I could do. Between HathiTrust, Library Genesis, and sci-hub, there has never been a better time for doing deep-dive reading from the comfort of one's own living room. But I'm proud that so many people have enjoyed my scan of this book over the years.
I haven't seen such a zone in 20 years or so. Care to share a link?
Residence of Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Set on Fire
I do. I keep it about 2.5 feet away.
Transcript: Theglobe.com Co-Founder on What a Bubble Bursting Feels Like
The removal of the cash option is a hard nope for me. I don't always use cash, but if it's not an option, I vote with my feet, regardless if paying with cash or plastic.
>informal text

informal and by less educated people. obviously there will be big exceptions, but I would imagine the % of computer-indexed text (i.e. books and newspapers) from between 1895 and 1995 that wasn't written by someone with a degree is not very high. similar to the way you can get a distorted view of the Romans (or nearly any literate historical society) because nearly (if not) all of their literature was written by the educated upper classes
How does Sri Lanka correspond to MMT more than what the proponents of MMT say? Can you be a bit more specific?

Edit: for example, Sri Lanka's outcomes are exactly what have been predicted by MMTers, and Sri Lanka took exactly the opposite of what MMTers have been recommending forever:

https://twitter.com/fadhelkaboub/status/1516630826896744451?...

I don't know what it is about MMT but it always seems like people are intentionally not listening to what people say, and then inserting other words in their mouth. Marxists like Henwood are particularly prone to doing that, for example. Critiques of MMT seem to be based on intentional misunderstanding and misrepresentation.
Your references are all computer animations, smoothed and simplified. I'll quote liberally from https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/03/buffeted-... on an animation of "Inner Life of a Cell" by Harvard Biovisions:

> Here’s the central problem: molecules don’t behave that way. What is portrayed is wonderfully precise movement; it looks like the molecules are all directed, purposeful, and smooth. Take for instance the behavior of kinesin, that stalk-like molecule seen marching in a stately way down a tubule, with two “feet” in alternating step, towing a large vesicle. That’s not how it moves! We have experiments in which kinesin is tagged — it’s towing a fluorescent sphere — and far from a steady march, what it does is take one step forward, two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one back, one forward … it jitters. On average it progresses in one direction, but moment by moment it’s a shivery little dance. Similarly, the movie shows the monomers of tubulin zooming in to assemble a microtubule. No! What it should show is a wobbly cloud of monomers bouncing about, and when one bumps into an appropriate place in the polymer, then it locks down. I made this same criticism in my review of Mark Haw’s excellent book, Middle World, which does get it right. For purposes of drama and minimizing complexity and confusion, though, the animators of that video have stripped out one of the most essential properties of systems at that scale: noise, variability, and the stochastic nature of chemical interactions.

> That’s particularly unfortunate, because it is the seeming purposefulness of the activity of the cell that has made that clip so popular with creationists. It fits with their naive notions of directed activity at every level of the cell, and of their denial of the central role of chance in chemistry and biology.
I'd like to learn how to read billionaires' minds. Anyone know a good book I can read so that I can have the skills of this opinion writer?
not quite yet. Wait til they're selling you your own code back. I'm thinking something having to do with "software BoM" and OSen that can only run stuff from certified sources.
meat is a known carcinogenic in itself.

EDIT: spare the stupid downvotes. Here: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/can...
The back and forth with regulatory agencies is so frustrating.

Another user here pointed out a while back that the better regulatory model, when it comes to health, is to put the onus on the supplier. We must scientifically prove the thing is safe to use, not have to prove it is unsafe to be removed.
I find Hermit very pleasant to read - it's definitely got some uniqueness and "decisions" about the style that I can see would bother many people. I find it cute.
Nobody will ever see this response since the article was posted 3 days ago but:

Another advantage of doing it this way is that the sender can downsample on large/gross movements that would render faithfully as splines with fewer points, and send more samples on tight movements.

If you're not sending uniformly-spaced (in time) samples, though, you'll want some kind of timing information encoded as well.
Why not just use the webpage? I've only ever used Slack (and Mattermost, which my work uses) in my browser, and I'm not sure what reasons there could be to install the app when it's just a less convenient container for the same content.
While this the feedback in this mail indicates a problem, even if you remove the emotional language I don't believe it's constructive. Constructive feedback would not just indicate a problem, but also provide guidance/suggestions on how to correct it.
>people did agriculture before 1974 (without drones)

We've added about 3.8 billion people to the planet since then.

I'm not saying that we can't feed the world without glyphosate, but "Let's just do it like we did in '74!" doesn't account for the fact that we need a lot more food today.
https://carbonrobotics.com/ identifies weeds and kills them with lasers - so no chemicals at all.
I think someone is just doing PR, hence the dowvotes
> I recline while I work

Can you elaborate on this? Sounds like it might be a way to limit back strain? Do you have a desk at all?
can you expand this thought? I'm on your path but not to your destination yet.

Can I summarize it as: Earlier, biology was "hunt and peck" or "observe" ... and now we're moving to a more "rigor of process & ability to create as seen in the past few decades of computer science now applying to biology" type of world?
> Trying to make people care about academic subject matter is very difficult because most people do not care and do not find it useful. Thus they forget most of what they learn in school. Insofar as education is forcing the tastes of one class on everyone else it can burn. Most people don’t care, just like most academics don’t care about sports. Forcing sports on them would also be an injustice.

Ah, yes, we should teach less science to everyone because that would be like forcing every academic to play sports. Perhaps physical and science education should be provided for every student? Education does not come at the expense of sports. If anything, the opposite is often true.
Nope, when a company is struck off (directors given 2 months notice etc) its assets are frozen and passed to The Crown, who appoints an Official Receiver. They liquidate the assets, pay any creditors (pay themselves) and keep anything remaining.

So it's an absolutely nuclear debt collection option, and not fast. But the threat is real if the debtor can't argue the debt away.
Updated Debian 11: 11.4 released
Thanks for these. I listened to the July 4th one. For others who may be interested, the first 20 mins are unrelated and you may want to skip ahead to the 45 minute mark or so for their conclusions.

Here is the brunt of why they think the deal won't go through: because it is difficult to prove extent of damages and because innocent third parties (the banks partnering with Musk) would be adversely affected, the courts will be disinclined to trigger the historically rare 'specific performance' to compel the merger. They believe a more likely outcome is Musk will instead be compelled to pay the $1 billion but a decade-long legal battle will ensue over it.

While it is an interesting listen, I wish they provided more substance for their conclusions especially since they're running counter to most other debate I'm seeing. Third parties aside, I fail to understand how legally the courts cannot pursue Musk's personal assets for the full amount. But I'm not a lawyer and haven't read the purchase agreement in detail.
> Meanwhile, I'm not even sure what it means to say that a society has
depression.

This is a key question. I'll take a punt: It's not that a societal
depression is the sum total of individuals feeling glum. To say
"society is in depression" is more like economic depression, rather
than "everyone in society is depressed" (though that might be a
consequence).

In a depressed society things stop functioning. Like institutions,
health, education, law...

In an economic depression it's a "chemical imbalance" of money not
circulating.

In a societal depression it's a breakdown of ideas circulating (and
that includes "ideologies" and "emotional ideas" like generosity, and
diversity.

There are many enemies of intellectual life that corrode innovation,
hope, vision and the life-blood a civilisation needs to flourish (as
opposed to soulless technocratic subsistence). The Greeks called that
force Thanatos. I do believe its ascendency is connected to technology
and our inability to master it. Valery Legasov, like myself, was a
stanch opponent of the folly of "technological determinism" and said
that "people must take control of technology, not the other about
about, if civilisation is to survive" [1].

[1] In reaction to the Chernobyl disaster.
Archived copy: https://archive.today/qfCEV
As to the original question, unfortunately I don't know where you got the idea that all possible preventative healthcare interventions are covered under the "free" rule - ie no out of pocket - but in the US that just isn't a thing - the free coverage applies to the list I posted prior (ie ACA Preventive Care) - its a bunch of consensus primary and secondary preventative primarily screenings and medications that are thought to have the greatest impact on public health.

> It's fully preventative in my case.

Fully preventative is not a term of art either for delivery or billing - but there is a difference in categorization between screening tests given to the entire population (ie colon, mammo) and screening given to those with personal risk factors or family history (LD chest CT, echo for congenital HD), and then further on surveillance for personal history of a pre-disposing condition (ie surveillance echo for prior potential fatal arrhythmia).

This is where it starts to get complicated - but the need for an echo every 2 years is not normal. I can't really divine your specific history from the information given - and it isn't necessary - but a history of cardiac arrest alone is not an indication for serial echocardiography. There are numerous specific circumstances where it is recommended, and then there are the cases where it is not consensus recommended but there is controversy. I assume because your insurance company is willing to touch it at all it falls in the former - but we are way off the ranch here in terms of the scope of routine preventative care/health maintenance.

As to whether it should be this way, probably not. If a surveillance echo is clearly indicated to prevent costly sequelae (unfortunately answering this question isn't nearly cut and dry as most think), then it makes sense that an insurance or public health agency would want to do this.
Curious if you know if your indication for serial echocardiography falls under the European guidelines? Maybe move there /s. Is Stanford your only reasonable place to obtain an echo?
I’m out of the loop.

Who is this person and why was he banned?
I's that just another rebrand from clevo or something like that or they actually did something on their own?
Bohr really didn't offer anything to the debate other than some hand waving philosophical arguments about how you just can't ask anything about what is inside the box until you look.

Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen put the argument into mathematically solid and testable form. Einstein really 'wins' the argument in my mind either way it turns out because his name is attached to the actual experiment you can run to try to settle the question.

He also got the Nobel prize for the photoelectric effect and directly helped to invent quantum mechanics. The idea that there's this Einstein-vs-QM WWE event is sort of false. He'd probably be more or less happy with the way things turned out since quantum observation can't be used for superluminal communication. It turns out QM is nonlocal, but it still has rules.

If Einstein had lived to 143+ and was still around it might be interesting to ask where we'd be, since I don't think he would have accepted the just sort of shrug-and-accept-it-MWI approach to quantum observation. He'd probably be busy with something like twistor theory and trying to turn matter into tiny wormholes in space-time that can stretch and break and produce QM.
Wow I knew openssh wasn't the first, and that commercial implementations existed, but had no idea the first implementation was commercial.
The rich don’t have a different set of laws they just have better lawyers.
I'm also using a 21:9 and a 16:9 sideways. I mainly use the portrait monitor for API docs and the iOS simulator. The tall format is perfect for viewing documentation, especially browsing through long lists of classes or methods.
> The secret cipher could have been a big selling point for their target audience.

The target audience of a toy is parents, not children.

Some parents might reject the toy due to that feature, which is bad for sales if the children want it regardless of the feature being mentioned.

If the feature were widely known, it would probably result in a lot of the units being put into the cipher state. You couldn't have a display unit at a Toys 'R' Us, without visitors constantly putting it into that state, causing subsequent visitors to think it is broken.
Tried RegEx → English:

\"object\": \[(.*?)\]
----
The regular expression matches a string that contains "object": followed by a space and an open bracket, then any characters, then a close bracket. The characters between the open and close bracket are captured in a group.

Pretty cool.
If you put glyphosate on your lawn, you will stop having a lawn. Glyphosate kills grass. Nobody uses it on lawns.
I was thinking of something that could categorize parts of these strings into a “language”, so there is no non-matching strings. It’s hard to specify in a formal way, but by looking at these strings you may see that e.g. […] is a static syntactic element, and a number follows it, and time precedes it. This would be nice to have to browse logs (which these strings are obviously a part of) but instead of scrolling through thousands of rows, see all of the patterns that occur among them at once, and then dig down into a pattern to inspect what happened and when to improve on “health” of a conpkex system. Of course if you know all of them in advance, it’s easy to filter by each. But lots of software/apis do not document their output in such detail.
Thank you so much for that! Finally something to make visuals when sharing on video sites!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzQt11AOslQ

This one took less than 20 minutes from scratch (never seen this app before) (rendering into 4k is another story - it is hours very slow, which is probably understandable with web rendering involved.)

Quick skim reveals it uses React and WebGL shaders to create these effects. React part is easy. Is there something recommended I could read about shaders in order to be able to contribute objects/effects to Astrofox?
Er, hate to nitpick but photosynthesis uses magnesium, no? In the chlorophyll, at least, although other parts have haems with iron in :)

(Also as with anything in biology, there is no doubt some weird organism that has like a cadmium or similar in its chlorophyll, I don't know)
L-Theanine has also worked well for me for negating the negative effects of coffee.

It naturally occurs in green tea and is the reason tea makes you less jittery than coffee for the same amount of caffeine consumed. I highly recommend it.
In the case of the Rogers outage, other carriers / ISPs were not offline. The Rogers problem appeared to be entirely in L2/L3 -- switches and routers were not configured correctly. The other telcos were not impacted as they run their own routing infrastructure. Basically, make sure your 2 ISPs have their own ASNs and transit providers.
What Are Spam Bots and Why They’re an Issue in Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal
No it isn’t like asking for proof that the sky is blue. You are making an objectively false claim, that people toss it around all the time and/or you truly believe does not change that.
There’s some Emacs modes for that
> implying anyone actually cares about the "radio laws" besides HAM's.
Robotic weed-zapping lasers.[1] Can't make this stuff up.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-dr...
At least on my Arch KDE setup it's System Settings -> Input Devices -> Mouse and I've got an Acceleration Profile option between Flat or Adaptive. I can also just open up the settings and search for "acceleration" to get there. I can also just pop open the "start menu" (or whatever you choose to call it for KDE) and type "acceleration" and the first option is "Mouse"

I'm not sure if Windows has finer grained control in the GUI or not, but TBH I've also never ran into anyone but a techie (and very few of them) who had mouse acceleration set to anything non-standard.
Wow these are the worst possible product photos - does it have a bezel in the middle or not?
There is another position: that in principle the penalties should be the same, but that in practice the culture doesn't yet see the lives of the unborn as as valuable as the lives of the born, and that putting the punishment too far in front of where the median voter stands is counterproductive to the cause. As the rights of the unborn gain more universal acceptance, the penalties for violating them should be increased.
Moved from Italy to Belgium for a better salary as a developer. EU migration is relatively easy. Learning the language is harder
I think it's only feasible for nvidia to release GPL-violating closed source graphics drivers because of the leverage that BSD provides them against Linux.
>Linux+UP3218K, but it requires Nvidia graphics

Care to explain? I found some articles from 2017 claiming AMD cards can display 8k60fps.
Burn off most of the waste in breeder reactors (100x less waste in fact), and the remaining waste is only dangerous for a couple hundred years. That's easily stored underground for the duration. I'm also partial to the idea of dumping that into a subduction zone.
Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic
A man (or woman, or gender fluid person) is not one-dimensional. His personality, character, has many facets, many sides. At least that's how a man should be given enough chance of growth.

I do many academic-type things. I teach sometimes. So, if I were not in research and engineering at industry, I would be working full time at a university. I would still write code, do math, etc.

If that were not viable (either too high paper bar or very low pay), I would be in public administration or be a police officer. I can naturally lead people from the get-go, and have other people skills, I am a very good stage performer, too. Public speaking never frightened me. I can write. Honesty matters a lot to me: to a level that I am sometimes labeled naive and impractical.

I am sure I would make a very good salesman, too. If there's a third world war, and the tech companies, unis are bust, and money, stocks all go to the dogs, I would become a salesman. It is a doomsday scenario. I have been good at fundraising for charities. I am confident that I can sell if I want to.

I am very attracted and regular consumer and creator of poetry, paintings, recitations, movies. Yet, these don't pay even s**. Would never become this. I would have to take normies' opinion seriously to sell more, scale more. Would be soul-sucking. Won't become a professional artist, ever. When I do art now, I don't give a damn what the normies think. I would like to keep it that way. Forever.
It makes me laugh how this is literally the opposite of my 5120x1440 neo g9.

Larger avoid having to stretch your neck as much, but I have to admit this 16:18 would save a lot of desk space.
When you start arguing English instead of backing up claims it’s time to admit you’re talking out your ass
In some regards it's better to get another wavelength circuit going to another city to pick up geographically diverse transit.
You're correct, but are being unduly harsh. Reading the text of the First Amendment only gets you so far. For example, it says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech." But guess what? It also applies to state governments, actions of the executive, public schools, and all sorts of governmental things other than laws passed by congress. And don't even get me started on the universe of legal nuance packed into the other words. (What is "the freedom of speech"? What does it mean to "abridge" it?) And these are just the ten words of the speech clause!

You're right that it (mostly![1]) doesn't apply to private parties, but the text doesn't tell you much about what the First Amendment does and does not apply to these days.

[1] There are some fringe cases where a private company takes on some First Amendment obligations by fulfilling the traditional role of government, such managing seemingly public spaces.
> I’m not sure I agree with that. I don’t think a good cop should have his pension harmed because a different cop in some other precinct did wrong.

Quite the opposite. Police are paid tax money to enforce the law and prevent crime, regardless of perpetrator. If they can't do this, they don't deserve the money.

They should be scrutinizing their own ranks first and foremost, as they are granted special privileges (i.e. weapons) that make breaking the law easier and more convenient.
Unless you are coding in the sun it's not a problem.
Substack is awesome to read. loads fast, great typo, good content
exactly what the web should be like
Even if it is unknowable, there is still the other factors I mentioned.

1) The government doesnt need to make a profit
2) The government has access to capital at a lower rate.

Put together, it should be clear that they could buy or back a mortgage at a rate below breakeven in the private market.
"Safer" oh boy...

That's why it's hard to take some "nature is perfect" people seriously

(of course it's dose dependant, but don't eat manure. period)

Here's a good writeup https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880910/