skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This really separates the grinders vs the smart kids as the tests are based on what you intend to study, but most are more intelligence based and cannot necessarily be prepped for.

Can you expand on that? I would be amazed to find tests that truly measure intelligence and where your score doesn't improve with practice.
Although, due to the way ML does that image enhancing it wouldn't actually work for any of the things it's used for in the show (since we still can't create information out of nothing).
I think most top tech IT shops' dev teams do all their development locally (on huge iron) and don't really take into account latencies over the public internet and this has all kinds of implications for usability, to say nothing of the fact that all the big tech website are almost completely aloof to user preferences and are more interested in tracking usage metrics to feed machine learning telemetry gathering.
Well, you survived using Visual Source Safe. (I've lost so much hard work with that tool). I worked on stuff one generation before C#. Visual FoxPro was my money maker for awhile.
I was given a NUC-sized PC when we switched to WFH and liked it more than a laptop, but I still had to carry a power brick with it, doubling the bulk. Getting DC from the display would've been much more convenient.
But all of our inventions are constrained by physics. We invent airplanes too, we do not invent the laws of aerodynamics. We invent electronics, we do not invent the laws of electrodynamics.

Economics is likewise constrained by natural law. This why, for example, you cannot eliminate poverty by printing fiat currency and giving it to poor people.
I haven't used Calibre GUI but have many times used its tool ebook-convert.

Really very useful.

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....
Are you trying to make money with it? If not, just make a Tabletop Simulator mod.
As a low write, high read database that use case makes sense. Everything can stay in git. LDIF is not a nice format to operate for humans, but it's not much worse than json.

I don't think the criticism against regular slapd being hard to configure is fair. It mostly runs out of the box. The tricky bit is LDAP itself, choosing a schema, and that query language which combines extremely long identifiers with line noise looking syntax.
Ultimately, wouldn't that just see which is the most popular background color? Pixel-for-pixel the background takes up the largest percentage of screen space on most websites.

Though I would also be interested to see what the most popular background colors are. My money's on white and off-white.
Pleasure to help.

With this device, all one needs is some grains (I have an uncle who has a relevant subreddit), and spores, which are legally obtainable!
I'd be curious about your grandparents' socio-economic statuses throughout their life and their ages (particularly whether their socio matched their economic). Also which part of your childhood was rural, because lacking resources at 6-7 is going to have very different results than lacking them in high school.

My point is that whether or not something is 'simple' depends very much on what resources you (and your group/family) have at hand. For example, I was coding in elementary school, so from my experience the idea that coding could be difficult to learn doesn't make sense. But it obviously is/can be difficult depending on background.

And never mind if somebody is from an abusive home (like I also was): If mom's passed out drunk and depressed on the couch and middle school you is running after your younger sibling (me again), mom and dad aren't giving you college or earnings talks.

It's not a kid's fault for not knowing these things, although at least now bright kids with no adults can use the Web to help and look up this information.
Everybody loves a kidder, but nobody lends them money...

At 55 with a career in technology and manufacturing, I support your concerns. Your spidey senses, or 'situational awareness' within the business context are warning you about a long-term potential issue.

A sharp wit reveals an active and creative mind capable of engaging in the immediate context as well as operating separately at the 'observational' layer away from the engagement. Strong leaders use this ability for managing the topics, discussions and participants through the engagement in productive ways.

It's a bit like poker where understanding the other players takes time, but offers opportunity for control and manipulation over time.

Ultimately, this is why executives turn into psychopaths because they only focus on the art of manipulation and control with complete disregard for the humanity of others. If this sounds like fun, congrats, go into banking or finance.

For the rest of us, a little bit of wit goes a long way and should be used like habanero peppers in cooking; sparingly and with purpose.

There are some excellent suggestions in the other comments here about redirecting this energy into more creative or productive activity. I recommend first developing interpersonal and engagement skills that help you manage others by expanding your situational awareness tools. Buttress this with other drawing, writing or thinking activities as suggested.

Your concerns about long-term impact are well founded.

Act on them
Other commenters have pointed out that the lack of a self replacing auto-updater in a modern desktop app is striking to put it mildly. It has a pretty bad UI, that seems to be getting worse especially with regard to the shades of grey. If you bring up these flaws the maintainer can react quite poorly, even when the subject is broached politely and in good faith.

And to add my complaints to those of other commenters, hosting the library on another computer or network share is not supported, and you can't use an external DB provider e.g. MySQL.
They have flight simulator centers here in Beijing based on Prepar3d. Very impressive. My kids have flown a Cessna in those several times to teach them the basics.
all of it, I hope...

preferably mostly plants
Rick's "What Makes this Song Great?" does mention quite a lot maybe each is different maybe you'll like a different one. He has one on Rush song Limelight try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P-yUOlOC5M&t=877s
I would hope that if you're looking down at a big puddle of PAH's that you know of a star-trek style transporter or dr. who transmat... Or are in a suit in a nitrogen or halon environment.
Nice!!!! Definitely giving this a whirl!

The only features I need in LDAP

* One-way (master->RO) Replication

* Standards compliance for queries/binds

* Easy authentication for setup/administration

* Add additional schemas (For instance, the SSH Key schema)

OpenLDAP definitely makes all the above quite difficult, but it's doable.

One esoteric feature we use of OpenLDAP is SASL delegation. This allows us to defer some users to Active Directory. Nice party trick.
Does Tron require more disbelief than any other mainstream sci-fi? I can’t think of any off the top of my head. Would be interesting to hear what sci-fi movies seem more plausible. 2001 is even stranger and also anthropomorphizes computer programs. In many ways 2001 seems like it was probably a large influence on Tron.

I like your positive take on Legacy, I will need to watch again. Also thanks for the notes on Uprising, I haven’t seen it and now will watch. I did love the original and it’s why the sequel felt flat to me, even though it was absolutely beautifully rendered and the music was awesome. I’m probably being a hypocrite relative to my first paragraph, but one of the things that bugged me about Legacy was the added real-world physics in the computer world, e.g., recognizers blowing dust & smoke. This is a bit ironic, I know, but that cause me to have trouble suspending my disbelief during Legacy. The computer world in the first movie was a mysterious different place that operated on different physics, clearly it was all magnetics and light or something, right? Adding jet engines breaks the premise of the computer world and makes it less mysterious and therefore more boring to me. It does add visual detail, and as a former CG artist, the movie is gorgeous and took a lot of hard work, but just missed the mark for me in terms of why the first one was good. Oh, and the “now that’s a big door!” gag was eye-rollingly goofy, that one also pulled me right out of the movie.
Yew framework answers my question. Thanks!
My mortgage servicer recently moved to a new system where it apparently has different password standards than the old system, and the frontend will filter it, and doesn't work properly with password managers, and it locks the account after 3 incorrect passwords. The only way to reset it is a call-in system which does not support mortgage accounts - it will not take a mortgage account number or SSN or a third-party-bank checking account number as being a valid identifier. So basically it is impossible for mortgage-only customers to ever reset a password once it's become locked out.

Just start opening CFPB complaints and do your best to push all the buttons in the way that sets off the maximum alarm bells. Yes, this is preventing me from making my payment, why do you ask? Got a call from an "executive support team" two days later.

Her answer was to just batter my way through the phone system until I got an operator because it was definitely, totally the right number... should go back and see if they ever actually fixed it, I ended up just knuckling under and using a short, insecure password that their system would actually accept, maybe I should see where the CFPB complaint is. But if you don't let up, CFPB complaints are a big deal and will absolutely get movement, they've definitely resolved "intractable" (read: bank couldn't be bothered reading the case notes after a half dozen times repeating it to them, even when I repeated it all for them) issues for me in the past.

(I am on autopay but genuinely if something went wrong with my credit union or the mortgage system and I needed to get in, I would be fucked. Sure I could pay by check/paper coupon but I'd have to cancel the autopay first and I don't know if I can do that on the coupon either... it's really only the inertia of a few things still working right that actually did prevent problems with payments in general, so actually "problems with payment" isn't real far off.)
The notifications don't actually work either, I'm not taken to the post/comment they're referring to
I think spaCy (https://spacy.io/) is a great library for NLP
One way to ensure something never gets done is to bog it down with a bunch of politically challenging prerequisites.
I don't think these smart boxes are for mushroom growers (agriculture) but for magic mushroom growers (recreational drug use). Where a "Click&Grow" equivalent is needed. With a hydrometer and water sprayer instead of a timed light.
ESP was an effort to turn Flight Simulator into a general purpose commercial and military sim. They assembled a great team to do that, then shut it all down in the aftermath of the 2008 crash. Balmer decided some part of Microsoft Game Studios needed to be shut down to save costs and the Flight Sim team had always been an outsider with the weakest political connections into the core of MGS, so even though the ESP business plan was much more sensible than most of the MGS products, it was the piece that ended up getting killed.
Uber and Lyft still fail their disabled passengers
It would tank their sales until they offered actual purchases will full consumer rights like reselling.
HN does love to dump on anybody doing anything but I don't think that home mushroom growing tools are in the same boat as easy to use cloud file access.
More sensor input, especially at different frequencies which are going to have different characteristics and so different capabilities and limitations regarding what they detect, is certainly going to provide more data. Since LIDAR is on the order of $1000 per vehicle now, it shouldn't really be a cost concern, but the engineering to incorporate and properly merge that additional sensor input is not insignificant. Tesla has certainly been aggressive in its "FSD" market push, and the quantity of accidents absolutely should be a concern. If the NHTSA determines that the system as-is is sufficient (that is, at least better than the average), then they should say so - but the reverse holds true too.
I'm not picking up on your implications, what are you trying to say?
Respectfully, repeating it won't make it true.

For a vast majority of car buyers, there are only two prices they will care about. How much it costs when they get it, and how much they get when they sell it.

And to the original point, a low TCO will have no impact one someone's ability to buy the car in the first place.
> SQL is old enough and this debate so unsettled

Is the debate really unsettled?

MSSQL considers nulls to be equal, everyone else considers them to be distinct (aside from a few DBs which just refuse to create UNIQUE indexes on nullable columns), and Oracle is apparently huffling glue in a corner.

> As an example of the irreconciliable weirdness of NULL, consider that "NULL = NULL" is false, and so is "NULL != NULL", while rows with NULL still group together in GROUP BY.

Group by is the exception here. And arguably it is so because the alternative is never useful, or close enough as to not be worth it.
You need to define what your quotes mean.

If it was democratic, disagreeing with the government wouldn't send you to jail. Try walking in Shanghai with a sign saying "the government is corrupt" and see how long you last.
I’d bet many people here tried to implement Light Cycles AI as one of their first programs
I will place this here for context

"So rampant was the practice, prosecutors said, that on some days drug traffickers deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars at HSBC Mexico accounts. To speed things along, the criminals even designed “specially shaped boxes” that fit the size of teller windows at HSBC branches, according to the documents."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-probe-idUSBRE8BA05M2...

This is not to defend crypto, but making claims that crypto is somehow root of evil is silly. Anything that can be convenient for value transfer will be used by crimelord eventually - and people who will take cut of their money. Be it gold or diamonds, useless green papers or bit and bytes.
I can't speak to the accuracy or quality, but there's plenty of dedicated CO2 monitoring devices on amazon for under $100. A few seem to have good reviews, anyway.
I love Calibre but "sudo && wget | sh" installation on Linux makes me cringe.
I wish there is an apk or snap.
I'm a freelancer + work in the non-profit space; I don't do corporate work. Which is also on purpose. ;)

The difference is that corporate work never had the pretense of offering me intellectual freedom, whereas academia did. At least if I go corporate, they'll buy my silence with resources/$$$.

Academia? So you want to give me nothing AND restrict what I can say? That's going to be a hard pass.
I did not know that. I thought the book was mostly factual, as far as these things go. The program he references though, are real programs. The budgets and overspending were also correct (where I checked). Do you have a link to any rebuttals? I will google myself, but if you have something that you find convincing I'd love to read it.
he's never getting out because they want to set a precedent for anyone attempting to run a marketplace like this.

yet he's step brother is still free. its a mystery.
Swiss government to introduce digital national identity cards
There are MANY mistakes here.

Offshore wind especially in the north sea is barely tapped and powerful all year round. There are many other constant green energy options such as hydro, waves, currents, geothermal, etc. The value is in including a wide variety of all and over a large enough territory so surplus in one area can compensate a shortfall in another.

Grid energy storage includes MANY creative and easy to implement ideas. Tesla style batteries are the most mundane. The cost and setup of grid scale storage is much lower than the alternative.
Thanks for this, I assumed it was just my computer. Literally 3-4 full seconds to close a thread. Also Ctrl-F search takes forever to open the box and put the cursor in it. They must really want people to use the app or something.
Looks like YouTube has reinstated, though Google engineers apparently aren't smart enough to propagate such a change in less than 48 hours: https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1546419223466999809

It's such a good thing this is the only mistake they made, and no legitimate users have ever been taken down by this mechanism!
The counterintuitive thing is people stand in lineups or sit shoulder-to-shoulder in airport seating with their masks off sipping coffee or eating chips, then get on the plane and put masks on.

It's possible (but not proven) that inverting this would be much safer, since on the airplane the air gets exchanged a lot.
Massive tomes work well as audiobooks: expert reader paces the content well, forcing you to carry through the bogged-down parts.

Anecdote: War And Peace was so massive it broke my audiobook reader app. 400 pages in it just quit progressing.
No they don't. That's like the opposite of Russian literature (at least that which had survived through the ages)

I'd get if this was a difference in interpretation, but I don't understand how can you even make such a claim, when it is a historic fact that most of the "big names" had been in confrontation with czars, had problems with overcoming censorship or were altogether considered crimanals and were exiles.

Either you are confusing the author's point of view with the point of some character (maybe due to cultural perspective and different traditions of virtue signaling), or maybe you don't get the Aesopian language, or worse.

Also, ad hominem is quite a valid argument, especially if it comes to subjective stuff. Especially if we have to consider cultural background.
Shout out to the very thorough reply on GH. They even went through the trouble of watching this guys twitch stream on the matter :o
according to you, who is wrong. According to me, FB allows me to connect with friends. I have litteraly travelled the world because of a friend i met on facebook, and it was the greatest feeling ever. FB is awesome. If it's toxic for you, YOU ARE TOXIC.
Ultimately, the choice most people seem to be making is this:

Do I want to devote nearly all my waking hours to work or do I want to have some modicum of personal time that isn’t devoted to making other people money?

When looked at through that lens, the “WFH debate” seems wildly stupid. The C-suite better wake up to the fact that this is the choice, not the BS narrative they’re pushing. Collaboration isn’t what feeds their egos. Controlling the lives of others is what does, and we can all see it now. The flimsy protests otherwise only make execs look petty and small. The jig is up bros.
There's been something kind of like that in the field of law in the US for around 150 years.

When you were doing legal research on a topic and found a case or statute that you wanted to use you could look that up in a multi-volume book set called "Shepard's Citations". You would look up the case or statute in Shepard's (which people called "Shepardizing") and Shepard's would list almost all the other cases and statutes that cited the one you were interested in, and for each would tell you if you if the later case or statute followed yours or overruled it.

Shepard's is still around but now online, although the print edition is still around.

Shepard's deals with the problem of finding out what happened to a case or statute. Another problem in legal research which was also solved with multi-volume sets of books is finding cases and statutes of interest in the first place. There were books that organized all of the law into a large topic outline, assigning codes to each topic, and books that published cases and statutes with notes summarizing what topics were covered and what the case or statute said about them, and books that indexed those books by topic.

You could go into a law library to research a topic, use those indexes to find relevant cases, use the summaries to see if it is likely a case you need to look deeper into, and Shepardize it to figure out if it is still good.

It was essentially a database system, implemented entirely in books.
Chinese smartphone maker Oppo loses to Nokia in patent infringement in Germany
There's a huge gap between villifying Russian culture and not wanting to watch Russian movies in the current climate. You're pushing it to an extreme that was not in the discussion.

Also, do you really draw a line between hurting "Russian nation state" and the actual Russian people's everyday life ?

I can't imagine the current sanction has no effect on the regular population's everyday life nor near-future prospects, and it's a choice we're making as we have no other lever to pull. I understand the trade-off and am not comfortable sugar-coating it in "nation state" denomination.
So not talking to people on the phone? Or as a light, or a camera, or playing audio/video media?
heh, as amusing as that reference is, it's a bit of a difference between buying a big ol' tub and a spray mister. About £200, apparently.

I'm curious to know how repeated use of the device will deal with sterilisation, which was always the tricky part.
I appreciate the craft type of working! Within a craft you care about your work and your tools.

The German phrase "Beruf kommt von Berufung" describes the howl attitude but all translations to English seem improper. Because it is a pun and probably because the apprenticeship (vocational education at work and school) isn't such important in the English speaking world.
Monad is just an interface; all "monad"s are things that declare some function that conforms to the interface.

You can say "the list monad" reasonably because there is only one sensible implementation of (List a -> (a -> List b) -> List b) in Haskell. You could unconditionally return an empty List b and fulfill that interface, but what would be the point of that? You can't just return a list of all the things the function call resulted in because that would be a List of a List of b, which is not the same as a List of b. You can't sort them in Haskell because you don't have any form of comparability available in that interface specification. etc.

Technically in other languages this may be less true as due to having fewer restrictions (for example, you may in a language that defines ordering on all values, and thus you could sort the result regardless of the types involved) you can do more things, but there's still really only one sensible and unsurprising implementation.
There's a lesson in here about how A/B testing around KPIs that don't account for user experience will eventually drift your app into an unusable mess. You'll hit your metrics every month but every month the site will get worse.
When Microsoft shut down the old Flight Simulator development team and program (FS1 up to FS X, not including the new MSFS2020,) they licensed the commercial version of the platform to Lockheed Martin, who took over development and kept it going as Prepar3D. Lockheed's biggest contribution to the platform over their years of stewardship was to port the codebase to 64-bit and to modernize for DirectX 11.

There is still a very rich library of add-on software for the old MSFS, including some very detailed simulations of airliners, that today are flown on Prepar3D.

Since Lockheed Martin doesn't want to be seen as a video game company, the $60 license is an "academic license." However, this is what most people looking simply for a modernized FS X engine will buy for their home use.
Do you know any Filipino people? I don't see it moving the needle one bit
Uber leaks reveal how it spread ‘fucking illegal’ ride-sharing globally