skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are edge cases with all penal laws.

If one ‘bans’ murder, the legislatures and courts will need to grapple with killing in self-defense, pulling the plug on a brain-dead vegetable, administering drugs in some cases that have a high risk of death, assisting in a suicide, accidentally causing a death vs intentionally, etc.

This isn’t new.

Each state crafts it’s own laws to address these things, each prosecutor uses his discretion in applying them, each jury or grand jury weighs in, each judge crafts a sentence taking these things into consideration, etc.

In short your edge cases are nothing new… every law is over and under inclusive. The judicial system as a whole has been dealing with these issues for centuries.
> How many people could be out in the community and spreading it without anyone knowing?

I wonder whether anyone has checked Rockland county wastewater? This kind of testing recently detected it in London: https://www.science.org/content/article/poliovirus-in-london...
To be a contrarian, perhaps the societies that prioritize selfishness end up dominating as a result.

I act with optimism, teach optimism to my children. When left to my inner thoughts however I worry about the future of our species.
> I believe they had to jailbreak these to get Linux installed on them.

OtherOS was a fully supported feature on the PS3, that enabled you to install Linux on a secondary partition on the built in HDD. At least until George Hotz used it to get hypervisor access and exploit the PS3.

This lead to the feature being removed and him being sued by Sony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz#Sony_lawsuit
The Chancellor of Germany literally appointed an executive from Greenpeace to her cabinet - demonstrating her political alliance with Germany's "Green Party". Being anti-nuclear power is a foundational principle, dating back 50 years. They will NEVER accept nuclear power. No amount of logic or evidence will persuade them.

Despite both the current energy crisis, and statements from the remaining 3 (of formerly 17) nuclear plants and the nuclear regulatory groups that they can continue to operate these remaining plants safely for years with existing nuclear fuel reserves - the German leadership has reaffirmed that they will close those remaining 3 nuclear plants THIS YEAR. DURING THE CRISIS.

Imagine having a flat-earther during the race to the moon, or a anti-vax president during a pandemic. That is what it's like having an anti-nuclear extremist leadership in an energy crisis. They would literally rather burn coal.

It is a form of entrenched ideology that will never compromise no matter how freezing cold Germans are this coming winter.
That works for 80% of the problems, and something that should be done. Some problems require optimizing for the whole rather than individual teams or departments. How do you allocate capital between business units if you aren’t measuring ROI? How do you decide what practices work best if you’re not measuring how people work and what they’re doing?
> many do not like that track record

This is separate from the question of whether the Constitution worked. It did. It produced a stable, powerful society. That some people are dissatisfied doesn’t refute that track record. It just points out there are dimensions on which it failed some.
Moving Pictures is probably my favorite Discworld novel. Even without considering any of the subtext and commentary it's just so funny.
> Is there a large French "analytic" tradition that's getting swept under the carpet here?

Rene Descartes is considered to be the father of rationalism, meaning that knowledge can be obtained through reason and logic alone. The British tradition is more deeply rooted in empiricism with regards to observing natural phenomena, but it is not at odds with rationalism.
Simple, you’re developing like a beast, and your app is ready to go live…
Here's what I'd suggest if you wanted to try to grow or monetize this game:

- Add more eye candy (juice)

- Find a theme that resonates but doesn't get in the way. Household chores (wall painting? retiling the tub?) might be a good theme, for example. Use the theme to explain the game better and give a more friendly FTUE

- Add some simple, skippable monetization (e.g. optionally watch a video ad to get your 2 daily retrys)

- Advertise the game on a lot of channels (facebook, google ads, whatever). Use small ad buys and keep track of where it works and where it doesn't.

- Don't add any sharing features (yet). As you grow your users, watch how they share organically. Do they post screenshots of the finished level? Do they ask for tips? When you notice patterns, build in game features to automate these behaviors.

- Port to mobile, and use mobile ad networks to further grow the game.

- Profit?? maybe? get cloned by somebody in three days? Get bogged down in rewriting for a different engine? Who knows? game dev is fun like that.

Unless lightning strikes, you're not really going to see much impact from sharing features and viral stuff until you hit a critical mass of players (like around 10k DAU maybe?) so focus on making the experience better for the core players at first. A whole lot of the "viral" stuff you see these days are seeded with paid promotion and ad spend at first.
California or just the Bay Area are in a similar situation.
Nice article bro
There are tumblog themes and plugins in Wordpress you can use. Don’t build castles on other people’s land. Use this as a learning point.
(European here as well, so I'm referring to way lower dosages compared for example to the US)

I don't have any 100% proof of it being caused by painkillers, however years ago I took Ibuprofen based painkillers on unusual higher dosage for some time to fight against pretty nasty back pains (driving exclusively bikes for 38 years comes at a price).
After some time I developed some strong anemia, which scared me a lot for having a bad family history (some cancer cases, and my father died of leukemia); by my doctor's advice I did repeated blood tests and stopped taking painkillers for a while (and later never get again to that dosage) while starting a cure with iron and folate. Red blood cells took a while to fully recover but ultimately they did.

About backpains, I later learned with immense relief that in many cases postural training will lead to results that painkiller can only dream of: I still have my back problems, and after a motorcycle accident also a stabilized column with screws et al, but no need for painkillers: I keep them for headaches or other things, but my back has never been so damaged and so pain free (touches various things...:).
Might want to look at how you're wording your ads. At least in my city, it's normal to ask "will you take $x" if the wording isn't clear that it's a firm price, and those offers usually result in a completed sale.
Sony sold the consoles at a loss, and likely had the CPUs for much cheaper owing to having bankrolled the chip itself.
I likewise had a horrible experience where 5 hours before check-in the host asked me to send an additional $1k as a “deposit” over Venmo before giving me the key code, I had multiple other people arriving as well. Needless to say Airbnb support was useless so I ended up paying. And upon arrival the apartment was not even close to what was advertised. When I left a review detailing my experience Airbnb took down my review. I had to do a chargeback on my credit card to get back my deposit since Airbnb was also completely useless in this regard.

Never using Airbnb ever again. Hotels know how to treat people correctly.
Fourier series is one way of separating out multiple time-scales, especially when they are regular and periodic. The example I gave will be amenable to that because the cycles are very periodic. But the different timescales don't have to be periodic. They can be quasi periodic, or completely irregular. They just have to run at different speeds.
The dose where those are an issue are way above the "maximum dose" noted on the OTC posology
Well, sorta but not really!

I kinda expect old forums (and old friends!) to have the same old lingo from before and be set in their ways. But the crazy thing to me is that this happens with new venues and new people too.

I not-so-recently moved countries, and also moved cities, and it's definitely crazy how even completely new people still talk about the samey internet things as the other city. I did the same 15 years ago, and it was completely different.

I'll check your link for fun stuff later!
Submachine Gun-Equipped Robot Dog Goes Full John Wick at Shooting Range
I'm trying to create a first class citizen of loops and trying to improve software responsiveness.

There's two ideas: concurrent loops and userspace scheduling and preemption.

Nested loops can be independently scheduled. I wrote a M:N userspace scheduler[2] and it does something simple. You can interrupt a thread that is in a hot loop by changing its limit variable to the end. You don't need to slow down a hot loop by placing an if statement or checking if X number of statements executed. (Many runtimes do this to implement scheduling and you don't need to do it this way)

Golang schedules away from a goroutine by checking during stack expansion if the thread has used its timeslice.

I think this simple observation is really powerful. The critical insight is that frontend performance can be drastically improved by reducing latency from the user's perspective. Did you ever notice that the cancel button rarely cancels immediately? Or resizing an image is slow and gives no feedback or encrypting gives no feedback?

By having a watching thread interrogate the output buffer, we can create GUIs that visually do things and provide observability to what the computer is doing. Imagine watching a resize operation occur in real time. Or encryption. Or network communication.

One of my ideas of concurrent loops is "cancellation trees"[1], if you model every behaviour of a piece of software as a tree of concurrent loops that are reentrant - as in they never block and each call is a loop iteration of a different index, you can create really responsive low latency software. If you cancel a branch of the tree, you can cancel all the loops that are related to that branch. It's a bit like a tree of processes from PID 0 or loops as lightweight green threads/goroutines.

So as you're moving around in your text editor or browser, if you invalidate the current action - such as press ESCAPE while Intellisense is trying to find related code, you can interrupt all the loops that fanned out from that GUI operation.

Telling the computer to stop doing what it is doing and observability are two key weaknesses of modern computing. GUIs do not always accurately communicate what the computer is doing and you usually need to wait for the computer to finish before it shows you what it is doing. I am sure the cancellation token could be extended to follow this idea.

If you liked this comment, check out my profile to links to my ideas documents.

1: https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4/blob/main/README.md#120-...

2: https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread
Nope. PS3s were initially released with a built-in feature to install other OSes. This Air Force project got a ton of publicity. It directly led to Sony deciding to lock down the hardware and firmware on future releases.
Yeah, it's not great. We had to add logging into our custom app to get around this. The only thing you'll see in logs when adding a delegate is the OAuth log entry for Gmail, which doesn't tell you a lot.

As far as I can tell, adding a delegate or forward isn't even logged anywhere, and being able to see what a delegate is doing was added as a feature only a few months ago: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/gmail-delega...
> There are two groups of people who want TFlops of SIMD compute. Supercomputer groups, and video gamers.

And crypto people, unfortunately :(
I, too, saved up to buy a TRS-80 Model 1 when I was a teenager - my very first of many computers. I had so much fun with that computer!
ClassDojo is horrible because some schools use that as the main way of communication, so you’re kind of forced to use the app, which then keeps pestering about how your life would be better and you’d be more in touch with your child if only you signed up to the paid suscription. So it’s basically using schools and teachers as salespeople to get a foothold and then try to upsell the product.

And that’s not even going into how it tries to “gameify life” for parents and kids even outside the school environment, and turn every moment into a Pavlovian opportunity to earn stickers toward some goal. Basically using motivation techniques one would use with a dog because they are “easy” and don’t require you to understand what the child is thinking; just offer an abstract reward in exchange for desirable actions, like one would in behaviorist training.
If you've ever had to sit through a presentation by an Oracle or SAP sales team, you know presentation matters more than quality :)

I actually envy their ability to sell, even when I know their product is crap and I resent being made to use it by executives who bought a slick sales pitch.
I just ran this out of curiosity to see how Vercel runs Python applications these days - here's the code it generated, which runs some heuristics to check if your app is using WSGI, ASGI or a BaseHttpRequestHandler subclass: https://gist.github.com/simonw/8521ba3385279fde4a9878f2ad8d1...
This is often repeated, but it misses the full story.

I myself used to believe that to be the case, but fairly recently learned that many European cities used to have significantly more car infrastructure and reversed course, while at the same time, many American cities had walkable infrastructure that was later bulldozed for cars.

There’s nothing inevitable about the way we build/built cities in America, it’s a matter of choice and priorities.
If people didn't enjoy it so much, it would probably be an impressively flexible medication.
More than one variable :) x/y/z etc
Is there anything actually interesting to search? The mind imagines the metaverse of Snow Crash in response to the word but I haven't heard of anything comparable, for all the hyped up announcements that metaverses are the future, and it seems that services VRChat and Second Life realized the dream before crypto people did.
In these kinds of situations, I prefer to just dispute the transaction through my bank, get a temporary credit for the full amount (with Capital One at least), and let my bank investigate it. Most of the time this will be the end of it but in some cases you will need to provide additional documents/info to settle the dispute.
If you come at Facebook you better not miss.
Stem Cell Theory of Cancer: Origin of Metastasis and Sub-Clonality
Rented an AirBnB for a friend’s wedding and it caught fire. We were at the wedding when it occurred but I sometimes think about what would have happened if we were sleeping inside at the time. There would have been no escape except through the upper-story window.

The host initially accused us of causing the fire through negligence, then it was eventually revealed to be an electrical fault in the building, which had been built by the homeowner himself.

The bigger problem was that they hadn’t told their insurance company they were subletting. We eventually agreed a deal with lawyers for them to compensate us. (It probably goes without saying that AirBnB was of course no help throughout the whole process.)

It occurred to me that none of this would have occurred in a regular hotel. The hotel would have a proper fire and sprinkler system with actual fire escape routes, the electrics would not be amateur and they would have had proper insurance.
I use PyPy for ETL processes, internal web apps and a critical website for work. My only real complaint is pypyodbc and psycopg2cffi need their PyPI packages updated so that I can stop pinning their latest Github commits. I'd like to see a benchmark comparing CPython 3.10 to PyPy 3.7.9 (CPython 3.8 equiv) to see how much the gap has narrowed.
You did nothing wrong in pointing out the difference in attitude. The change in views is arguably indicative to the extent that Vlang was perceived as a real threat, competition, or could become more successful.

Vlang has continually maintained its development pace and popularity (https://github.com/vlang/v/releases), so that pretending to dismiss it as if it was nothing or attempting to smear the author just does not work. It's not going away. Vlang is also not a one-man show, but has numerous other committed developers, new contributors, and loyal long time supporters.
Yep, took the daughters down the California coast near Pismo to see the migration — maybe a decade or so ago. They covered the trees, ground.

In the years following when we stopped by it was grim, so few of them.
Stray Has Some Annoying Hiccups on PC
Literally every single "supercomputer" is a distributed cluster like this.
I have used LocalStack for all sorts of tinkering and local development without the fear of credit bomb on a “trial” AWS account. Highly recommended and very easy to get started with. So excited to see this growing and hitting v1.0.
The OpenBSD project still uses CVS.
Yes, back then, MPC was just much more efficient on lower spec machines.
> what side effects do you get from ibuprofen

What if I use it more than a two days straight there is something really wrong with me, so I should drop everything and start emergency recovery procedures, involving a visit to a doc or seek an emergency care
What you're describing is generally not considered two dimensions, but just different scales of one dimension.
Ah, just a regular youtuber, then?
and in now-days, it's much more easy-peasy:

PS C:\Users\coolcold> winget search mpc-hc
Name Id Version Match Source
----------------------------------------------------
MPC-HC clsid2.mpc-hc 1.9.22 winget
Pure Codec Dio.PureCodec 20220601 Tag: mpc-hc winget

PS C:\Users\coolcold> winget install clsid2.mpc-hc
Found MPC-HC [clsid2.mpc-hc] Version 1.9.22
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/download/1.9.22/MPC-HC.1.9.22.x64.exe
In that case you might as well classify the US as a terrorist state as well. Continues dronning of innocent people doesn't make it OK when you call it the "war" on terror.
1. No one updates supercomputers automatically. Instead you firewall the compute nodes and have a team dedicated to maintenance and support to do periodic upgrades.

2. I'm sure they had a support contract, which may have included running an entirely different firmware. I have no specific knowledge, but based on other supercomputers I've worked with, these are often very custom machines, despite the "commodity" hardware. The odds that they were running the consumer version of the firmware are low to nil.
It's wrong to say that a quasi-crystal is crystal from a higher dimension. You apparently get a quasi-crystal if you project a higher dimensional crystal, which I guess is neat. But really they are just trying to hype up their own results.
Peter Drucker was originally attributed with "what gets measured, gets managed". It does NOT imply that everything that can be measured matters, or that if you cannot measure it you cannot manage it. Really important distinctions.

But Peter never even said it [0]

[0] https://medium.com/centre-for-public-impact/what-gets-measur...
Is it worth importing the Nothing Phone 1?
How big must the government be to investigate every miscarriage to see whether or not it was deliberate and for medical necessity, or done because the pregnancy was the result of rape? We're talking about hiring a lot of medical professionals and expanding our already large tracking apparatuses.

If we're not talking about expanding government along these lines then maybe we should just leave the choice to the people immediately involved.
I think you inherently distrust something else, perhaps places that don’t look like they were created for nerds.

The man behind Squat University and the author of this article is Dr. Aaron Horschig who has a PhD in physical therapy and a bachelors in exercise science. He also wrote the Squat Bible with over 1000 5* reviews on Amazon. He’s trained many world class athletes including multiple World’s Strongest Man winner Martins Licis. Aaron is known for being a leading expert in sports science.
As a host I couldn’t be any happier about this. I work hard to give my guests a great experience… hosts who do this sort of thing are hurting perception for the rest of us. This should knock some low quality inventory off the market.
Why do you think that that's not a goal and possible outcome of GDPR? The article says that

> Google has indicated that it plans to fix the privacy concerns by August 2023

to me that seems rather slow, as they've known about GDPR for years, but perhaps these kinds of measures are exactly what's required to get Google to act. And then, if by August 2023 the privacy of Google's services is improved, then GDPR will have achieved something valuable, I think.

(Separately, I think it would still be valuable to have some alternatives, but the two are not mutually exclusive.)
There was a big trend to planting tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) on the West Coast. Originally, it was considered a good thing. Now, because the plant's a perennial in this climate and is a good place for spreading OE spores, it's considered a bad thing.

Some people advocate growing it because it's fast-growing, robust, and provides plentiful food. My understanding is that, if you do plant it, cut it well down in winter to prevent the spread of OE.

In my own experience in California, the Monarchs really prefer to nectar and lay eggs on tropical rather than the native narrow-leaf milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis). We've been purging our garden of the tropical anyway.

There are also some milkweed adjacent non-natives that they sort of like, e.g., Gomphocarpus physocarpus (aka Asclepias physocarpa). Again, my understanding is that the jury's out as to whether it's a good plant to have around for the Monarchs. It ceryainly is a striking plant that gets a lot of attention!
I don't get hung up on numbers or whether I actually "finish" the book.

It is a lot easier to read a book like The Pragmatic Programmer cover-to-cover than it is to read a book about a specific language or API. I've been trying to learn Rust and I find that if I don't practice or do exercises then I don't end up remembering what I read. I read nearly all of "Programming Rust" but now I'm having to go back and read many sections because I wasn't writing the code as I was reading the chapters.

As for "finishing" books, I rarely truly finish a book. I've been reading graphics and game engine books but I don't feel pressure to read every chapter. Did I really "finish" a book if I skipped chapters? Who cares. Every graphics/game book seems to start with chapters about linear algebra so I skip those. Collision detection? If I need to find the intersection between a line and a cone then I'll look it up.

I also find it helpful to read a chapter from multiple books about the same topic (thanks to o'reilly books online). Like when I was learning C++11 I read the futures/promises chapter from 4 or 5 different books. I found having the same thing explained by different authors was more helpful than just re-reading a chapter. I also had a learning disability as a kid so maybe that's why I need to re-read things so much.
In terms of underrated options: I have a very strong affection for Pyramids. It's almost completely unconnected from the other books - it starts in Ankh Morpork but quickly heads out to Djelibeybi (Child of the Djel) - the Discworld's ancient Egypt. And it's loosely about quantum physics.