skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get this need to try and paint a subjective experience into an objective fact.

"Interstellar" was loved by many yet me and my wife and like half the cinema (we were about 40 people in the theater at the time) couldn't stop cringing and gasping "oh come on!" for most of the movie. Same with "Blade Runner: 2049" btw. There were also a good number of people who left midway, too.

You like "Tron" -- no judgement from me. Good for you, glad you liked it, that's why we should watch movies: to get some positive emotion and/or education out of them, right? But it does come across as pretentious to try and make an art perception into an objective process. It really is not. It's a personal emotional experience.

To give you the reverse example, I absolutely loved the "Avatar" (with the blue aliens), yet I know of several internet communities that will never tire at spitting at it. I am fine with it and I never took offense or tried to paint the movie better when I was there.

I don't need validation from other people to like what I like.
> I want to work somewhere again that sees engineering software as a craft again.

If you find this place, will you tell me? I will come work with you.

I admit though, that I struggle to codify what “coding as a craft” is. And that worries me. I fear I am really just playing a game of “I’ll describe it when I understand it” up-over-that-next-hill-ism with myself that is illusory and delusional.
Full-text search is huge!! I've been using ripgrep-all, and running up against issues with the maximum cache size. Can't wait to try this out, hope it supports virtual libraries, hope it works with PDFs.
Also, JBM is available almost everywhere, e.g. it comes with several mobile apps.
Yeah, it sounds like you order "blocks" to place in the box, and then you harvest the mushrooms once they grow - much like other commercial mushroom kits, it sounds like large parts of it are single-use.

Which is fine, I guess, but I thought this was going to be something that would let me order one thing, and continually and easily grow-and-harvest mushrooms in perpetuity.
Not your computer, not your movie.
I do acknowledge that my experience was a sample space of one!
As a kid, I loved it for obvious reasons. As an adult, I still love it because I really appreciate what how incredibly creative it is.
Er, sorry, but I thought that the answer to tabs vs spaces was use tabs for semantic/logical indent, use spaces for physical/alignment indent.
PARC was so on the bleeding edge they were doing this stuff in the 70s, by 1989 there was definite influence.
This made me chuckle:

> Then someone had a brilliant idea: we would ship US Sprint a blank tape with our usual letter listing the changes in the release.

...preceded by...

> Our relationship with US Sprint was always iffy, and one day we pissed them off one time too many and they canceled their contract

Well, yeah. If your company depends on a small number of large customers, you really can't get away with pulling nonsense like the blank tape trick on them. People aren't idiots.
America's Army is one of a few video games the DoD has put out as recruitment tools. They're a little weird (both sides always see themselves as US troops, fighting an unspecified opposing force), but I'm not sure how successful they've been over the years.

Another interesting one is what Bohemia Interactive does -- they develop and commercially release simulation-style shooters in the ArmA series, and they developed the original Operation Flashpoint back in the early 00s. But Bohemia also has a product they sell to armed services around the globe. It's gotten them in trouble before -- a few developers were detained in Greece while gathering reference material for the fictional island of Altis in Arma 3.
Think of nulls like different infinities. Two infinities may not be equal.

I find it quite useful to know when something is null though I have a hard time explaining it.
https://www.plus9time.com/blog/2020/12/12/worlds-thinnest-mo...

The thinnest quartz watches have all been made well in the past, as far as I'm aware. They were still made to be practical, however, and have thicker cases. They are about twice as thick as this watch.

Could they do better today? Possibly?
Nixon called Neil and Buzz on the moon. Reagan sent a message of good wishes to STS-1 (he was recovering from an assassination attempt). Biden gets to present the government’s telescope pix. It’s one of the honors of being the President.
How can you "prove" it? It is neither a theorem, nor written on a legal document somwhere. It's an observation.
> At my office, people are free to remain 100% remote if they choose to, so some rarely set foot in the office. Those that do choose to meet on the same day, usually meet within the boundaries of their small team - so no more than 16 concurrent desks at one time.

That sounds pretty much perfect to me!

> It's a branching tree of options that can be sliced every which way, not just a binary choice

The only way that doesn't work is having management plus some staff in the office while others are hybrid. It's a disaster for everyone involved in my experience!
Covid aside, a reading of almost 6000 ppm in the bus is extremely high, at this level there is a clear impact on cognitive function.

See this study[1] in Nature that measured the effects of CO2 at 1000, 3000, and 5000 PPM. Quote: "For the Psychomotor Vigilance Test, the probability of achieving an accuracy score of >90% decreased in a dose–response like fashion from 79.5%, 74.7%, 73.4%, to 64.0% for 600, 1200, 2400, and 5000 ppm, respectively".

Another study[2] tried to establish the effect on response time, finding that "For every 500ppm increase, we saw response times 1.4-1.8% slower, and 2.1-2.4% lower throughput."

For a more pop-sci take on this, see this Tom Scott video where a subject is placed inside of an airtight chamber where the CO2 gradually increases, with a major impact on their brain function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nh_vxpycEA

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-019-0071-6

[2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1bd8
If students are not at the nominal learning level for their age, we need to meet them where they are. End chronological advancement and work towards mastery, topic by topic.
Yes. My understanding is there will still be a fair amount of computation by "validators" who need to process transactions and run the methods on the smart contracts, but GPU mining will entirely stop at least on the ethereum network[1].

The difference between validator computation and computation by miners is that validators are running contract code that does something that someone has asked for vs miners are just running calculations just to prove they have (ie the calculations themselves are entirely unneccessary outside of mining.

[1] Bitcoin for example will still be doing this type of mining and "the merge" itself is entirely an ethereum thing.
> What you propose is also pretty ironic seeing that the majority of civilian casualties and destroyed cities in Ukraine are from areas that have majority of Russian speakers.

This is the terrible irony of this war! I've had many colleagues in eastern cities like Kharkov. They would all identify as Russians. It wasn't a big deal, ever - they were Russians living in Ukraine, speaking Russian just like everyone else, of course knowing some Ukrainian but not caring about that much. And most of them would welcome joining Russia just like many people in Crimea did.

But a few days or weeks after the war they realize they are just insignificant pawns in the hands of cruel people: their own kind were shelling them, killing their families and so on. They realized this way too late, it's a tragic situation. (Fortunately most of my colleagues managed to escape, but not everybody was able to, especially old people.)
> Lists are monads

Isn't it just that you can define monadic interfaces for lists, as you can with (probably all) parametric data types?

Saying "the list monad" wouldn't be correct, right? Although it's pretty common to see that phrase.
It is the main one, no-adblocking at all or limited, but only DNS based.
Wow that’s a major hot take I haven’t heard before!
In my usage at least, Calibre is an eBook library-manager, editor, and conversion tool... which has a so-so eBook reader attached that I mostly forget about. :D

It's pretty essential for getting things onto the devices that I actually use to read, though.
The day old.reddit.com disappears is the day I stop browsing Reddit on desktop, just like the day their API access gets too restrictive for third-party clients to make sense (which I wouldn't be surprised to happen at some point, given how they're treating it with the newest features) is the day I'll stop browsing on mobile. Their main site and app are both utter garbage.
Just last week!

Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32002486 (125 comments)
The first step to adopting realism is to stop believing spy fictions and TV shows have relevance to reality. You are a caricature.
There are virtually no free parking places unless you own a house in Stockholm. You can't park your car long term on the street near your apartments block because there is always a day in a week during which parking is forbidden, so you have to move the car at least once a week. If you get sick and end up in a hospital for more than a week or want to go to a long term vacation you will face HUGE penalties and likely outstanding towing and penalty parking fees.

This makes car ownership a constant headache, I don't want to deal with this.
That would be dried mushrooms. No thanks!
Not necessarily unexpected though. Not every mogul-wannabe can handle the give and take/gain and loss of reality. Jobs seemed able to grow from his losses and do well. Maybe Musk will as well, but he's dug a deeper hole.

Listen to your advisors, particularly if they're lawyers...
US grocery stores in general seem no less clean than western European grocery stores from my limited experience. I don't know what the parent poster is talking about -- even Walmarts in the bad parts of town seldom seem conspicuously "dirty".
When Rogers was down if you didn't have any games on disc your games wouldn't launch if you had them on gamepass for the series x.

The industry is staring to make this normal.
Wait, you can change the top bar color? That's news to me.
> It's a common misconception that risk management and risk reduction are synonyms. Risk management is about finding the right level of risk given external factors. Sometimes that means maintaining the current level of risk or even increasing it in favour of other properties.

What’s funny is I seem to have to explain this to senior management anew every 6-7 years. I know they teach it in management school, but it in the real world somehow people fall into the false equivalence when they get promoted. Often they adopt a cartoonish view of things because they can’t get the quantitative signals and everything decision effectively reduces to what I ironically term as anecdotal analytics.

I have this amusing heuristic for risk acceptance which I often use to help people approach decisions: you should kick the decision up to someone with higher authority if your signing authority is less than: risk coefficient times quantified exposure, less mitigation cost where mitigation is within signing authority AND/OR budgeted and authorized spend. I like to view mitigation and opportunity cost/benefit in a similar way so I have some idea of equivalences when evaluating tradeoffs.

It’s not original with me, I must have lifted it from some decades-past HBR article or 60’s rant on quantitative business management.

I could rant on various aspects of risk management application all day, thank goodness I've managed to quit before I really got started sharing...in my experience it’s been very helpful when applied in real world engineering implementations.
How do I get a message to them

I thought it was weird nobody considered donating to a Trump campaign or PAC in exchange for a desired outcome, in 2020 convicts and senators did that to mitigate consequences

Free Ross raises enough money and have enough friends to get the conversations going, as seen by this article, so not doing that path seemed to have lacked inspiration

Its easy to have tunnel vision, that path was still obvious. It is important that he also doesn't have to pay restitution, but I feel like the state sanctioned Presidential pay for play available in the US would have absolved that too
By very far most of the work in nlp now uses pretrained models. So people use HuggingFace Transformers now. https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/index

HuggingFace Transformers is a huge high quality open source repo of pre trained models & associated code. People combine that with Pytorch-Lightning or Fairseq most of the time afaik.
I'm not sure what you mean by intermediate packages, but roughly the main dependencies are:
- Backend: sea-query to build the SQL queries, Sqlx to run them, actix for the http frontend, ldap3_proto to handle LDAP protocol, juniper for GraphQL
- Frontend: built on top of the Yew framework. It needs updating but the new update is a very breaking change, so it's a major refactoring.
First of all, read only functionality would be good enough for me. Especially if it can read from a database view which could be backed by my other tables. I often deal with user databases managed by custom software which we also want to let be consumed by something that speaks ldap, and it would be great not having to synchronize stuff, instead having a single source of truth.

So perhaps if it can read from a view with a schema defined by you, that would work? And perhaps for inserting/updating user/groups, you could require the database have a specific stored procedure present?

Initially I was thinking about allowing templated queries, where the administrator can specify the field names. For inserts, the database will just have to provide sensible defaults or let the insert go through a stored procedure that provides such. But doing everything using views & stored procedures might be simpler?
Viral video of kids' Market St encounter highlights San Francisco's drug problem
Indirection should not make difference.
Ghidra is fantastic, it has some issues and is obviously missing some still-classified components but even still it's competitive with IDA and Binary Ninja.
I think Meatverse would be more like meatspace that people referenced since 1980s. Like, actually going out and meeting up with friends in real life, rather than building up online personas. Imagine if Facebook focused on helping people do that!

Nah, they’d rather focus on the metaverse, than meatspace hehe
The article is focusing on ventilation and air circulation. Poor ventilation results in increased CO2 levels, and it does so in a predicatable, measurable amount.

We also know that poor ventilation increases the likelihood of catching covid from an infected individual. So measuring the level of a space's ventilation is not meaningless data, even if it doesn't translate 1-to-1 with transmission rates.
This is a decidedly personal, anecdotal story too, but I think it's illustrative of some of the reasons to hope for the world.

I was dating someone that was a civil engineer and she absolutely hated the constant sexual harassment that happens on construction sites in Canada. She came from a poor family that fled Russia as the Soviet Union was collapsing.

I told her I could teach her tech in one month. Whatever she wanted, frontend, backend, didn't matter. Enough to get hired. She took the plunge, dove in and I tutored her about 40 hours a week for a month or so. Got her a mini data science contract with some friends of mine and after this little boost of experience she landed a job at Shopify and more than tripled her already above average salary. Stayed there for years and as far as I know she's still doing quite well.

Yes there are problems in the modern economy. Real, awful problems. We need to look at them with clear eyes and make policy changes to make sure that things don't get worse for the least fortunate in life.

But that said, there are a lot of unsung stories out there and the world is getting better in a lot of little ways. We should not lose hope.
Biology is particularly difficult to learn in school or from any book because one cannot “do” much biology on pen and paper.

Math, physics, and certain parts of chemistry can actually be done on pen and paper (or by computer simulations) because it is based on solid theory with mathematical underpinnings.

The only solid foundation biology has is descriptive theories from Darwin and maybe Mendel. All other biology must be studied through experimental data, which means wet lab and analysis. Just reading about a result (which is how school is done) doesn’t mean you are a good biologist no matter how well you can regurgitate the textbook.
Right, I want to hook this up to my existing postgres/mysql database with existing schema.
>accountants/financiers/managers

All of these professions do just fine, even the ones in which there's "oversupply". What these professions don't provide is readily available opportunity for someone of substantially below median intelligence and work ethic to make a very nice living with little more than token effort as is the case in software, or any other "hot" industry (in a cooler industry they plateau much closer to entry level).
> I’ve got an engineering undergraduate degree and a law degree, and when I saw that ad, I remembered the 2020 Democratic debate where nearly everyone raised their hand to decriminalizing border crossings and free healthcare for illegal aliens

Look at the actual policy. One example off the top of my head is that Biden hasn't repealed Title 42, which is used to prevent asylum seekers from entering the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_42_expulsion

The only benefits illegal immigrants can take advantage of are WIC and emergency room services:

https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-immigrants-a...

Again, the reason you remember The Democrats talking about giving away free stuff to immigrants is because our media circus shows a false reality and never discusses the actual boring reality. If polled, most conservatives would agree with Biden's border policy because it's the same as Trump's, except without a wall to funnel money to his cronies.

> Instead of assuming that people are just uneducated and irrational, maybe educate yourself and understand what dynamics are really at play. The median American is choosing greater consumption capacity at the expense of safety nets for those at the bottom. That’s arguably selfish, but not irrational.

I'm not some "big-city liberal" looking down on the "poor uneducated rural folk". The reason I speak with authority is because I have seen this firsthand, these people are my family members. The bottom 10% you mention, know that something is wrong with their lives. Small towns have corrupt police forces, horrible social services. Several of my relatives have been sent to the hospital from drinking the local water. They are upset, but the media they consume deflects their anger towards people they have never met. They blame illegal immigrants for "taking money away" from tax dollars that belong to them (never mind the immigrants are in California/Texas and the city water is a municipal thing).

Also from the beginning of the article you linked:

> By almost any economic statistic we can find, Americans tend to enjoy higher material standards of living than their European counterparts. But when it comes to quality-of-life measures that aren’t included in GDP, Europe tends to come out ahead.

I don't know about you, but I would prefer healthcare that isn't tied to my employer, more time off, better retirement, lower crime rates and rates of homelessness. The only reason I work so hard today is because I need to save money now, not later, since our economy is an infinite-growth ponzi scheme. But hey, at least I can buy more crap I don't need. Take that Europeans!
Yeah it clearly struck a chord with a lot of people. I just wish we could have gotten something more of the original aesthetic... seems Legacy has sort of overwritten Tron in a lot of minds of both people and producers. At least the original isn't going anywhere!
More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years
Assange tried the same thing and destroyed his reputation.
A troll or not a troll, terrible person either way :D

> I couldn't care less if they took over Ukraine or some of the -stans.

> As long as they leave my country alone

Maybe this says everything. Must be really naïve or shortsighted if thinking like this. You would just trade with some serial killer as long as the price is right and he doesn't kill you. At least as long as you pay for the goods.
I don't use his software, I use kitty, the original. Why is he entitled to its name?
> As a pharmacologist, the phrase is meaningless to me.

Glad I'm not a pharmacologist, so I can understand the term in this context.
Regarding speed limits, I had reducing speed on major roads more in mind.

> However, infectious diseases ARE qualitatively different from risks from traffic accidents, as the latter can't spread exponentially.

Which is no longer the case for COVID, hence there no longer being a rationale for restrictions.

> there's no way to be sure the healthcare system won't reach a point where healthcare workers are constantly overworked just in order to be able to provide the extra care required for infected patients.

Then that's a case for increasing resources to a level of care that is deemed appropriate by society.

Not turning society itself into a sick patient.
OpenLDAP back-sql allows you to map anything you can query with ODBC to ldap
Even if this is true, it probably explains a fraction of 1% of the effects that TFA is talking about. The set of "curator etc." positions with fundraising influence is vanishingly small. It's much more likely that the bigger pressure is the need to complete many unpaid internships, which is easier for wealthy folks. (And to add anecdata, the two curators I personally know are both from middle-class backgrounds and have nothing to do with fundraising.)
Honestly this would be good for everyone if the primary platform for misinformation and long form arguments about politics with family members went away. All I really care about is seeing people's kids and pets and memes. Everything else is at best just a waste of time and at worst actively destroying democracy.
People are going to have to come to a point where they realize that their ridiculous libertarian fantasy of living to old age in a cabin surrounded by glaciers ten miles from anyone else is never going to work. There is no transportation solution to poor land use planning. The fact that this particular fantasy can't work is not an indictment of the bicycle, it is an indictment of the fantasy.

Civilized people live in little clumps called villages, towns, or cities, where the transportation problem is amortized by bringing essential goods such as food by truck to the center of the village where it is within walking distance of even the octogenarians.

I recently got so fed up with the meme that most people live far from other people that I made this visualization of where people live in California. The territory-weighted view of life is completely defective. The overwhelming majority of people live near other people. That some people live far from other people is not important for general commentary or policy. Those few people can do what they like and it's just not important enough to discuss. https://observablehq.com/@jwb/californians-from-oregon-to-me...
Both the movie and the book are complete BS, they're funny but not accurate reflections of reality.
It's quite likely that the old Ethereum chain will almost completely die off because although noone can force anyone not to fork it, the transaction fees on the new network will be a fraction of the old one, so there will be a big incentive for people to use the new chain.