skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently, I saw that people were tagging their input records (test records in git repos) specifically so that later data loaders would reject those records in appropriate conditions. I forget what the tech was called but it was interesting.
Do you have evidence to the contrary? Or is your viewpoint fully driven by blind-faith alone?

We all saw the public moves Elon did upon approaching Twitter on this subject. Or have you already forgotten his major announcements just 3 months ago and the drama about being a "Free Speech Absolutionist" or whatever he was calling himself?

Twitter wasn't looking for a buyout. Period. Elon went to them. That's obviously what happened here.
I'm a PhD student, and as a result often have to write. I've always had the problem of editing as I type, constantly back tracking, writing alternate versions of a sentence, insisting that I get it right the first pass.

Increasingly, I've taken to outlining my work (like Xe Iaso recommends[0]) on pad and paper (helps if you have a nice pen and nice paper), and then trying to write a stream of consciousness for each section.

Then, I'll go to my text editor of choice and start forming more coherent, cogent, and discrete thoughts and arguments from the previous word salad.

All to say, I appreciate that typewriters make it really hard to revise your work while you're writing as it facilitates that draft phase. Same deal with writing in pen, you can only scratch out so much before the page becomes an ink rag.

Perhaps this implementation was sloppy in that it _only_ has this no-cursor/no-backspace mode. A physical dial could be a cool alternative ("Draft Mode", "Editing Mode")

[0] https://xeiaso.net/blog/doing-a-writing
It’s not propaganda that Russia has controlled the south of Ukraine from Crimea to Donbass and therefore has been able to block grain shipments from one of the largest wheat producers in the world.
Hmmm... I speak Russian as a native speaker. The speech honestly does not make sense. This is a fragment of a longer speech that is missing context unless you are tuned into local politics as of 2007.

He's talking about criminals joining the ranks of Russia's army and how he's unhappy about it. Go figure...

He's also upset that the world is not considering him and his people as people.

Deciphering the symbolic was more interesting. He kept his fist closed in the end, but others did not.

The Black/Yellow/White flag is a Russian flag from Tzar Alexander II.
The Blue/Yellow/Red flag appears to be related to Germany.

What's amusing is that Russian March an anti-Putin organization. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA... - use Google Translate to read this instead of the English version.
Ah makes sense it'd be something that would be useful to track and then provides information that people can arbitrage.

I had tried some initial URL hacking that didn't work, but think I found the set here: https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/k35694...
This. Simple, succinct and most importantly correct. Thank you for summarizing most of the other answers in 1 sentence. The second wasn't even necessary. ;)
Dead people's identities are also great targets for e.g. spies, illegal immigrants, and money launderers, so governments have a strong interest in making sure the identities of the deceased get turned off promptly and thoroughly.
What did you read? Any recommendations? Yearning for quality sci-fi…
Side Effects of Eating Potatoes (2019)
No exposure. No symptoms. Good luck. No way of knowing other than getting tested for antibodies and that (I thought) only goes back some number of months. Don’t brag on good fortune to avoid pissing off Mother Nature.
I can second that - exactly my experience, and I did my Masters in Austria.
OK, substitute Iraq War and Afghanistan War for the US then :)
I just wrote up a summary of my side project. It's not a business and not monetized but maybe you'll find it interesting anyway. https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight...
because propaganda implies a nefarious agenda.

propaganda by popular definition is not legitimate
You might be able to use Firefox containers and set FF to forget all history when you exit?

I prefer my private browsing not be remembered by any apps, it generally wouldn't be useful.
Sounds like you’re very smart and self motivated, and you’re good at figuring things out without any help. As a teacher, this describes about 1% of my students.

Your post here really isn’t an indictment of higher learning institutions, so much as it reveals you aren’t the target audience for master’s programs. That it’s not for you personally doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for others.
It's not going to be that secret though, Twitter's next quarterly financial report may suddenly contain $10B in cash and reveal it quite directly.
@TulliusCicero

This was posted earlier today by the Godot team: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-....

The Reddit discussion regarding the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/vzo8tk/godot_and_con....
Or maybe we don’t want to pull the ladder up after us and a lot of us came from poverty too and remember it and have empathy with those still there?
Remember that for congresscritters, it's infinitely easier to cull $20m from NASA's budget than $5 from the DOD.

Also remember that a non-trivial amount of Americans believe the moon landing was faked, or that the earth is flat and NASA is part of some conspiracy. Or that a certain political party has spent literally three decades saying "the nerds at NASA are lying, there is no global warming" and you might start to understand the complete lack of political will to give NASA the funding to do even literally the basics.
While not nearly as lush, this is another impressive bit of Amiga parallax scrolling from six years earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwATApeN2Qw

(Also the only video I could find with the original, heroic-sounding music I remember, as everyone else seems to have somehow ended up with a disk image using an oddly-substituted filler track.)
The background for this is that most existing UI toolkits are a poor fit for Rust.

Rust doesn't like having shared mutable state, but event-based UIs have a global event loop and can mutate anything at any time.

Rust works best with strictly tree-shaped data structures, but event handlers turn trees of widgets into arbitrary webs with possibility of circular references.

Rust prefers everything thread-safe, but many UI toolkits can't even be touched from a "non-main" thread.

Rust's object-oriented programming features are pretty shallow, and Rust doesn't have inheritance. That makes it awkward to model most toolkits that have deep hierarchies with a base View type and a dozen of Button subclasses.

So instead of retrofitting mutable single-threaded OOP to a functional multi-threaded language, there's a quest to find another approach for UIs. This change of approach has worked for games. Rust wasn't nice for "class Player extends Entity" design, but turned out to be a great fit the ECS pattern.
We haven't been talking about the mere fact of someone saying that -- but rather the context in which it was said, and to whom it was addressed.

These being very, very different things.
Not an MVP but an early demo, from my point of view.
Myth.

True for you and me and so it seems true. But everyone else does the same things just maybe a year later, for their own non-programmer mundane reasons and never become programmers, or even close.

<name> spent years on irc and circumventing various copy protections and using p2p filesharing systems, but they just liked <artist> and so did everyone else in those irc channels, and that was that. They are so not-a-programmer they're almost a charicature of a normie. I have to perform the most basic of IT tasks for them, like, why is the sound coming out of the laptop instead of the headphones basic.

<name> learned how to mod video games yet is also not a programmer or in any remotely IT related field and practically a charaicature of a normie.

Once I noticed a few examples consciously like this, I saw that they are actually everywhere.
It's actually not in the shade, its orbit around L2 is quite wide. That's why it has the massive sunshield and solar array, it needs a lot of power.
Yep. If this is about writing, shut off your wifi, open Word/iAWriter/Google Docs/Ulysses/it doesn't matter just quit messing with the font.

If it's about aesthetics—if you want to light candles and put on an old jazz recording and feel like you're a postwar novelist living in Paris—that's totally fine too, you can pick up a real typewriter for under $100.

E-Ink is amazing for ebooks, but I'm not sure what the appeal of this low-tech/high-tech thing is, especially given the price.
most of the eng on my team have masters degrees, and we have standups. this is common where i work and i assume other faang
They get to keep the vested RSUs (first trigger) when they leave the company.
> expensify -> brex

Brex is a shitty company that doesn't want your business[1] unless you're a VC money pit.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/17/brex-drops-small-business-cu...
Might be true for Germany, but other countries are also dependent on natural gas. In 2018 natural gas accounted for 45% of Italy's electricity production [0], in 2021 28% of Hungary's electricity came from gas [1]. And that's just electricity, 63% [2] of Europeans energy consumption is used for heating, I would guess a large part of that is gas as well.

This is bigger than Germany closing some nuclear plants, although that obviously isn't helping. Despite knowing that natural gas is a fossil fuel that we need to stop using the cost of using it hasn't been high enough to dissuade using it. This sudden increase in cost and the crisis it has and will cause really shows that economy is the only thing that matters, people will continue burning whatever they can get as long as it's cheap, since the external cost of global warming isn't properly included in the price. Neither was security risks, and we're all paying for that now.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/873552/energy-mix-in-ita...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1235432/hungary-distribu...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
With Netflix Ad Deal, Microsoft Makes a Splash on Madison Avenue
>Can't we find some better cops?

I feel like cops in the U.S. are just bitter Army rejects that didn’t make the cut due to their overly unhinged behaviour.
GIOS Spring '22, AI Summer '22.

Really excited about Compilers. I've heard it's very good. Haven't decided on a specialization yet; I'm still in that phase where everything looks interesting. TBH, there are ~20 courses that appeal to me, although if I still feel like I want to press on after 10, I'll probably look into pursuing a PhD.
You might be eligible for ATT [gigabit] fiber? Could be worth a shot. (Unless you're in far-east Menlo)

IME the fiber service is faster more reliable than Comcast, but AT&T support is the absolute worst, super incompetent (across the entire company, not just U-verse internet).

It's fine as long as you don't need any support and don't try to deactivate anything, but if your account gets messed up it can literally take a dozen calls and 20+ hours of being on the phone to get seemingly simple issues resolved. </rant>

The Comcast ATT duopoly is pretty atrocious. Given the regulatory climate, how can a new player even succesfully enter into the market?
https://archive.ph/zKXC5
I am just now programming a system where you can make a temporary deactivation and a permanent deactivation of a user account. And a permanent deactivation is irreversible from the UI, though it can be reversed by flipping a boolean in the DB proper. It is intended for situations where, e.g., the employee leaves the corporation.

Should there be an override in the UI? Why? The way you are stating it sounds like a mathematical axiom, but I would like to see it treated as a theorem: with a proof, or at least a powerful set of reasons.

I can see that a particular person may rejoin the same corporation later, but IMHO they should be given a new account, not just have their old account reactivated. They aren't really "the same person" anymore, they might have a different job description etc.
+1 for Eddie Murphy explaining the futures market :-)

and also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySxHud7abko
Discussed in 2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212519
and 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18844948
and 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25452553
All of the packages I'm using for my most recent project (https://github.com/zig-for/snfm/blob/main/vcpkg.json) required building on machine. Takes about an hour and doesn't run in parallel (now there's a good PR for someone...). Vcpkg packages _can_ be distributed in binary form, it just doesn't happen.
If we want rain & stable climate, we need to plant more trees / forests (see bionic pump, natural farming, forest gardens, atmospheric rivers, ...). As mr. Fukuoka says, rain comes not from earth/sky, but from the plants.

We could do that if we'd only replace cow's milk with nut milk and significantly reduce our (egregious) meat consumption. Then we could reforest upto 75% of our fields and it would sure help repair the water cycle / climate instability (among other good things).

If we don't do it, things will get so bad, even west will weep. Good news - it's something even we as individuals can influence. Simply choose plant based food when you can, and help reduce our agricultural impact.

Btw, our fields are not nature - we have too many of them, they are in fact green deserts, it's all deforested land, they don't influence the weather / water cycle in a good way, they destroy biodiversity, they poison everything, even most people have pesticides in their bodies. Our current agricultural / dietary practices are killing the earth.

Sorry, need sleep, so no sources, but somebody has to say it - study it yourself.

Edit: wow, 2 downvotes in less than 1 minute. Let it rain, burger chompers ;)
As near as I can tell, these are the top 1,000,000 domains referred to by other websites they crawled.

The report is described as "The million domains we find with the most referring subnets"[1] and a referring subnet is a host with a webpage which points at the domain.

So to the grandparent, presumably if something is "linking" to these domains, they probably were meant to be websites.

[1] https://majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
[2] https://majestic.com/help/glossary#RefSubnets,
https://majestic.com/help/glossary#RefIPs and
also https://majestic.com/help/glossary#Csubnet
this is basically FUD about potatoes. this article goes to lengths about potatoes with skin on, why don't you tell users that all those problems wouldnt happen if you Peeled your potatoes but no, these people have an agenda against the humble potato so bring out the pitchforks
Are there any periodic reports like this that tie together crop production and fertiliser use?
Thanks - i'll take a read.
It seems a great hack for a new life.

Declare yourself dead and start again!
Has anyone tried "gc_details": true in VSCode? I've just gone through the configuration steps, but I'm not seeing anything obvious. What should I be looking for?

EDIT: found it at the top of the file.
Yeah, makes more sense when I think about it like that. Thanks!
It's also worth noting that Manchester, NH, which is where an Amherst resident is likely to spend a non negligible amount of time (nearest shopping mall, hospital, etc), has a comparable (slightly higher violent, much higher property) crime rate than NYC.
Dust Devils of Mars
Most new ideas build off of existing ideas, so if you want to make new ideas, one way is to learn all of the existing ideas in a particular field (and a few ideas from other fields) so you can reuse those ideas in novel ways.

If you have some idea of what you'd like to have ideas about, research in that field is definitely something you can do as part of a Masters. I can't speak to the OMSCS specifically, but many in-person Masters actually require research.

Don't get suckered into a PhD program, though.
I've always felt that a collection of deep analyses about entrepreneurial failures would be more valuable than any success story. One of the reasons, I find startup school useful is that, it seems like the advice is based on observation of failure, rather than success alone. I wish more individual (suitably anonymised) information could be provided for further research.
Can you recommend a few of the foods you switched to?
*break
I wouldn't even say upper-middle-class. Descended from Irish orphans, jewish refugees, Pennsylvania Dutch coal miners (so the classic Amish Jewish Redhead, without red hair). A relatively safe work environment, owning a home, feeding their family, not having your government try to exterminate you. That was their American dream. You know, the little things.
The visualization that works for me is to imagine the surface of a balloon as a 2D universe. As you inflate the balloon it stretches out despite the skin having no “center” to speak of.
Bear in mind that connection speed sold “up to xx mbps” is largely irrelevant to the actual cost of service. It’s just the sales model that most ISPs have adopted over the last few decades when bandwidth really was constrained. Comcast’s costs are its people, truck rolls, equipment and infrastructure outlay, and advertising.

Convincing or requiring you to pay double for 2x the speed is just the way they can increase cash flow.
I fell for this bullshit before i read the last line "This is what we have designed the Bradfield Computer Science Intensive to be."
On one hand, I see where you are coming from. The vast majority of people overestimate the ability of solar to generate power. It requires a lot of surface area with good orientation to generate "meaningful" power, where "meaningful" is enough to power a typical house, a typical car, etc...

But it is also possible to attack the problem from the other end. Instead of making more energy, make things more efficient. For example, my e-bike is incredibly efficient. A 100 watt solar panel with good orientation and exposure is likely sufficient to charge my e-bike for my (previous) 14 mile round trip commute (since covid I am WFH though). But that same panel would probably get you 1-2 miles in a Tesla (more likely 0 as you couldn't even push enough power to initiate a charge on the massive batteries).

Seems like Aptera is coming at this from the efficiency end. There is an annual collegiate solar car competition and based on previous results you can get a pretty good upper bound of how many miles a "car-like" machine can travel on solar alone[1]. Based on those numbers, it looks like the multi occupant vehicles can get into the 80 miles per day range. This is on a track, going ~30 mph, so definitely not real world conditions. But one doesn't have to stretch their imagination too far to see how adding a few more creature comforts (i.e. vehicle weight, cabin and trunk space) and taking into account real world driving conditions, but also investing more time in aerodynamics and solar panels (the college kids in the solar comp are on a much lower budget) could result in a 40 mile/day estimate. I would probably guess that is on the high side, as Aptera has an incentive to push the numbers in their favor. But I couldn't certainly see how the numbers could be possible.

Aptera has a somewhat checkered history, which is another issue entirely. But just from a quick gut check, nothing they are promising seems to be out right impossible.

[1] https://www.americansolarchallenge.org/the-competition/2021-...
They aren't smart, but they are old and they know that. The don't expect to live long enough to see the bad shit they are causing, so they don't care.
Why stars look spiky in images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Arguably, the steam engine is a form of artificial intelligence. At least with Watt’s engine, the “governor” plays an essential information processing role in modulating the pressure. Sensing and reacting to keep a measured value in an optimal range is pretty much the definition of AI (see Norvig’s definition of intelligence). Autopilot is another example of non-computational AI (autopilot was invented in 1914).
Don't judge people by yourself Ukraine will not surrender.
Police in the US (broadly speaking, of course there is variance from department to department) are trained this way.

Here's an article about a particularly controversial training program: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/police-trai...
You should aim for a research environment where you don't have to justify your existence to some "product manager" every 24 hours. Take it from me as an old person: if you work in stupid environments in stupid ways on stupid stuff... what happens is exactly what you'd think would happen.
Yeah, async makes so much sense for embedded. Async is often billed as "for IO", but really that's only because IO requires waiting for an external hardware peripheral (the disk) to do something, leaving the CPU free to do other things in the meantime. And embedded is mostly dealing with (and often waiting for) external hardware peripherals!
The components are immensely expensive. The mirrors alone required new manufacturing techniques to be invented and these components are largely invented by doctorate level research scientists.

Not to mention the spacecraft and all the deployable systems must withstand intense G forces to achieve escape velocity.

The design also requires complete verification. Each component must be created and a test bench then has to be engineered to ensure viability after launch.
It is an immense undertaking to develop experimental equipment (ultra-high vacuum, pulsed powered laser physics background), to then add the additional expectations of space launch and zero opportunity for corrective intervention means the standards are exacting.
This is a good comment.
I think Aptera isn't intended for the average car owner. It's for someone who wants a specific type of performance, likely an enthusiast.
High end ice cream is something you would normally only eat about a scoop of. But yes most people just get the cheap 4L tubs and shovel a bowl full out.
That sounds a lot like it could be a violation of SEC rules if he doesn't actually complete the purchase.
Not a big deal, no.
Being able to use social media during the work day doesn’t make housing or health care any more affordable. Don’t those count as real problems?
apex domain is different from www cname
Standups are the worst way of doing status updates except for all the others. For me an environment without standups is at least a yellow flag.
“Why build one when you can have two at twice the price” ~ S.R. Hadden. Contact
The good news is that you get the new employee salary increase instead of the token half-inflation-rate increase.
Why the hell one has to use Rust to comment on library name? Is there some license requirement for comments on Rust stuff? It's not like that people go on GitHub and tell authors that their project names are silly and need to be changed.

This is exactly cultish thing about Rust, that unless someone is praising Rust, they are free to keep their mouth shut.
Well, Proverbs says (paraphrasing) "When one party speaks, it sounds convincing, but when the other party examines them, then it doesn't sound so convincing."

That is, the evidence we have in support is Twitter's filing. Taking that as authoritative, or even unbiased, is a mistake.

And, it's not going to matter who approached who. What's going to matter is the words of the signed agreement. Everything else is irrelevant.

Mind you, you're not necessarily wrong. But... back in the day, I spent a lot of time following SCO v. IBM. Public announcements of a deal don't always give a good idea of what the deal actually looks like.
That was the reason I studied SDL2 in the first place.

It's working on linux (with x11), but buggy on Mac.