skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right about religion, but what I am talking about is spirituality. Here's the definition for better clarity: the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Modern science stays away from this space for whatever reason, but isn't this just another kind of science like the study of cosmos or microbes? It is a very important facet of life, which dwells into questions such as the meaning of life, what happens after death, when does life enter into a mother's womb, etc. All these questions are of scientific nature.

However, to address these questions we cannot simply break open or dissect things to understand how they work. Naturally, because these questions do not deal with the material world. To understand such phenomenon, one should first understand the subtlety of the soul.

The breathing techniques or pranayama that this thread was originally about deals with yoga. Pranayama is a part of yogic teachings. Yoga is a sanskrit word which means the union of mind and body. The union that the word yoga is referring to is that of uniting individual consciousness (our individual experience of reality) with Divine consciousness (the essence of truth as perceived when we quiet our five senses and reconnect with the Supreme Self within)[1].

So it's not just breathing, or stretching your muscles as it is usually portrayed as. There's a far deeper subtlety in it which is better kept undisturbed from experimentation without having knowledge of the subtler entities.

> ...when someone makes a discovery in a laboratory (a real discovery, the kind that takes years to produce) then that’s a real manifestation of the Universe understanding itself.

That's true as well, but there are yet discoveries to be made by understanding the nature of the "self". Something that involves looking within rather than outside in the material world.

[1]: https://www.yogapedia.com/what-is-the-true-meaning-of-yoga/2...
IIRC, as an example, Newsweek lost its trusted status as it adopted a news tabloid format. Further, they no longer have fact checkers and do not print corrections. Surely that's a disqualification right there.

Though I don't see that specific criteria listed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines

FWIW, here's Wikipedia's roundup of sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
Course? Like with lectures and work? The only one I know that does it is the premium course at https://watchandcode.com/ where the premium's focus is teaching students how to read (javascript) codebases. They start you with a small library then you graduate to exploring increasingly complex open source codebases, along the way picking up concepts in computer science and javascript. It has a heavy focus on contributing to open source, advanced students are working on open source projects such as those from Mozilla. It uses javascript though, so if that's not your cup of tea, then your best bet are blog posts and books, such as

- xv6: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2021/xv6/book-riscv-rev2.p...

- tensorflow (google translate can do PDFs): https://github.com/horance-liu/tensorflow-internals
After 350 years, sea gives up lost jewels of Spanish shipwreck
If it's true there's probably a less controversial source that reported on it. If a controversial source is the only place to report on something, it's probably not true.
Meta, US hospitals sued for using healthcare data to target ads
... and then rely on LexisNexis et al.? Unfortunately it seems that (US) courts don't really have a good collation of cases (as opposed to collated laws which exists as the US Code).
Codebot.Tiny – A tiny library for rendering animated 2D/3D graphics
I might not hold up the new Tappan Zee Bridge as a beacon of meeting design goals.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/mario-cuomo-bridge-s...
> We define the notion of one-shot signatures, which are signatures where any secret key can be used to sign only a single message, and then self-destructs. While such signatures are of course impossible classically, we construct one-shot signatures using quantum no-cloning.

Well, okay. I don't know enough about quantum cryptography to really evaluate this idea. However, conventionally, the way to do this is a trusted execution environment that attests to the hash of the software running and it promises to have really really deleted the private key or the secret after it is transferred. Advantage of this scheme is that it does not require me to study more cryptography.
It mostly is. Very unforgiving if you want to branch out to different types of content or even subjects. You become a person known for one thing that made you popular and it’s hard for most to break out of that unless they had an existing platform.

You either follow trends or make your own. Otherwise you’ll fall off quickly.
> vs being loaded after the video starts.

On a slow or bitty connection that could still impact the video playback, perhaps even causing a stutter or few, due to competing with it for a share of the throughput possible, if only for a short time, so I think it is still valid to consider as potentially blocking content.
Is there a similar class online with PyTorch?
As a NixOS user, this sounds awesome! Thank you
Exactly, Wikipedia is the first step for almost every expert professional in every profession. We all do it, and the world is better for it.

Also the causality of the argument in the linked article seems clearly backwards anyway: it's not that "Getting a wikipedia page for your case makes it more likely to be cited", it's "More important/citable cases are more likely to have a wikipedia page". Which is sort of an obvious point.
Time to interact matters as much as (perhaps even more than?) time to display; I would rather wait a little bit longer for the page to display than have the page display immediately but behave erratically until everything has settled.
That is quite the prisoners dilemma!
Resources could be cached with (1). So subsequent visits will be a lot faster.
and clojure has several such frameworks.
I answered in the other post, also every job search I've gone through has been a multiple month ordeal, I'd spend the the whole time stressing about the next job.
On the bright side: you don't have to keep it clean.
Meanwhile ONU released a report in which total societal collapse is considered likely due to the breaching of planet boundaries:
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/05/26/un-warns-of-total-societa...
>Unsurprisingly, the increase was bigger for citations by lower courts... The researchers suspect this is showing that Wikipedia is used more by judges or clerks who have a heavier workload, for whom the convenience of Wikipedia offers a greater attraction.

This makes sense. I don't know anything about the legal profession but they must have their own search tools and databases? Is it not easily accessible or digitized for all levels? I don't get why it would be easier in the first place to search Google or Wikipedia.
It's a bit (read 'a lot') more complicated than that. You can't compare WW2 1943 UK/Europe to present day no matter how you spin it.

There's valid criticism in how the EU and NATO handled not just the relationship with Russia and Ukraine, but many other issues from energy, mass immigration, COVID, fiscal policies to Brexit.

There's nothing to gain for us by not self reflecting on the mistakes of our political leaders who are conveniently trying to push Russia as the scapegoat for everything wrong today, many issues they set up, before Russia even invaded.

So yeah, 'Russia evil' and all that, but we should still keep our political leaders accountable for their mistakes and not let them get away with everything just because 'EU/NATO good' and if you point out issues then you're automatically a Putin shill like in WW2/cold war logic.
TI-83 Plus One More
Up to 12 x 60 MWe per station reactors means 720 MWe, as much as a CANDU plant. Yet it looks like a bunch of warehouses on the outside because the reactors are stored in underground water pools. I guess you'd need similar security as for any power plant. The NRC also requires that all new reactors designs post-9/11 are able to withstand impact with a commercial airplane.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-1913/first-steps-into-a-new...
What about your draft website layouts and your draft project to one day compare a few static site generators so you can actually write your blog and your draft web hosting setup and ...
Ahh, you're right, I remember now. I deployed n8n instead later, thanks.
Try Ishitani Furniture. Similar satisfying flow but without the voiceover.

https://youtu.be/x51zMg7roIs
Im willing to believe someone if they bring real solid evidence of a BBC disinformation campaign. Id need a solid source though.
I'm the author of this article. Please note that 2020 should be added to the title, as I wrote it late 2020, after I left Uber and my plan back then was to start a startup some months later.

I had recently left Uber, and launched this e-book, and wrote this post with notes on what I thought might be useful skills as I go ahead with that startup.

Note that I did not go ahead with founding a startup, so most of this post should be taken as "skills I thought would have been useful if I launched a venture-funded startup."

I do think you can learn things better if you have some skin in the game. Specifically, learning about entrepreneurship can be easier if you start a small venture, even if on the side.

Also, as PragmaticPulp pointed out, the title is misleading given my advice is based on a book launch, not a startup. I changed the title on the original blog post to "Want to learn about entrepreneurship, as a software engineer? Sell something online."
At a pinch, drilling a hole the external diameter of the plug cutter and clamping that to the board you are getting the plug out of can act as a guide so the plug cutter doesn’t spiral out and cut a hole in the wooden stairs you are using as an impromptu bench (for example).
Haha, thanks, I do love IMGZ.org. It's by far the best image host I've made.
Misleading Pair Programming
You are forgetting TikTok mods tasked to shadowban from "For You" anybody they think is physically unattractive, poor, go political in livestreams, etc. (https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...)

Don't have any illusions, they can easily control what goes viral if it matters to the mothership.
Luck is always a factor in everything, but what really matters is being prepared to take advantage of it when luck strikes.
A regular job has similar issues. Instead of marketing it is meetings, estimates, status reports, process, politics, etc.
Highly Accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation
> My guess is every single video is marked by a human for how much exposure it should get, and if they let something get out that shouldn't, that person is reprimanded.

… Wait what? Why would that be your guess? How is this easier than, you know, anything else?
The problem with SIP though is that this higher than root access is not accessible to the user, only to Apple. You can turn it off completely but there is no way to make your own changes. It's trust Apple 100% or nothing.

In contrast, alternative OSes implementations of mandatory access control do have a role that can be accessed by the user.
How can you possibly discuss Bitcoin without the topics of money and fraud ?

It's intrinsic to what Bitcoin is.
The linked article is describing a randomised trial, which looks like it was set up in a way that's good enough to be sure the causality goes in the former direction.
Vsync needs double buffering. You swap the buffers during vsync to kill tearing. You will have tearing whenever you update the currently scanned-out buffer (except when you do stuff like racing the beam).
Can one make a decent income with woodworking?
Yep, beautiful stuff. Definitely my favorite woodworker on YouTube so far.

I think his style is more mine. The epoxy "river tables" and all the live-edge stuff that is trendy puts me off of other the YouTubers. (Never mind all the Festool marketing that goes on.)
This is quite innovative, at the time most 'digitisers' had a pantograph arm with a couple of potentiometers going into a A to D converter plugged into a parallel port. Such systems cost a fortune and suffered from analog noise problems.

The 'digitiser' survived for a while in things like GIS but what Apple was doing with their tablet won long term.
Is this an actual saying? It made me think of Twin Peaks (season 3) where one character runs a conspiracy, conservative radio show and sells golden shovels that his listeners proudly display.
Are Bowery Farms Strawberries Worth $1 Each?
The Political Environment Might Be Improving for Democrats
I like how there's a comment by Peter Shor commending Scott on the article :-) Knowing Scott's blog, this is likely legit
Not OP, but I generated over 150 images using DALL-E 2. Results in the quality of the images in the gallery are very common. Usually, for prompts as simple as this most of the output images (there are 4) look as good or better.
Good overview, I know these sorts of pains well. Lots of hard questions and few definitive wins/right answers. How to organize a massive repository out in the open is still an open question. On that note, recently, I've been experimenting with this project called josh, which basically is like 'git subtree on extreme steroids, functioning as a git proxy':

https://josh-project.github.io/josh/

It basically lets you unify/view many repositories as a single one, or equivalent to split a mono-repo into smaller sized units of work for CI, specific teams, etc. It's bidirectional, so you push and pull from josh and everything goes into a single linear history in the mono repo. And because it's bidirectional, people in the mono-repo can still do things like make large-scale atomic changes across all sub-repositories, and those get reflected.

Josh currently isn't suitable for a lot of workloads due to various reasons (authentication is one that stands out), but it's actually the first tool I have seen that manages to offer BitKeeper-like "subtrees" that work really well, at scale, for large repos and teams. It requires some care to make sure "sub-trees" can be usable units of work, but it was one of the best features of BK in my opinion and really great for people doing one-off contributions, or isolating trees/changes to specific developers.

I'd be interested to know if there are other open alternatives to this. It's a nice point in the design space between solutions like "integrate with the filesystem layer to do sparse clones" or "just split up the repos."
68% is Burnt for pastures for Cattle Farming.
28% is Burnt for Agriculture, of which 60% is for soybeans, of which 77% are shipped overseas for (you guessed it) livestock feed.

Palm Oil plants are only 12% of those 28%.

That means at least 80% is burned for Livestock or livestock feed. Since part of the palm oil and other plant produce is also used for livestock feed that number probably closer to 85%.

See: https://www.fern.org/fileadmin/uploads/fern/Documents/Fern%2...
> financed predominantly by men and the preservation of norms relating to alimony and child support,

What does this mean? Women’s financial independence is dependent on their ability to secure income to provide for themself without the help of others. I do not see what it has to do with alimony and child support.
Because it’s a novelty abused for attention with clickbait popculture references. It’s not ready for primetime.
Why don't browsers make their DOMs into Virtual DOMs? Then every application can be fast ... and websites don't have to carry the weight of their own vdom implementation.
Carbon is what happens when you have a ton of experience programming in C++ and nothing else whatsoever. It is absolutely littered with joyful declarations of "hooray, we fixed this thing in C++", when in reality it absolutely bathed in the utter fictions of C++ and has no perspective on the entire universe of other things that we could base languages on.

I give it a -1 on innovation, it's so obviously stuck in a cul-de-sac in the design space that I see no hope for it. "We'll get around to memory safety eventually". Riiight.

That said, I'm glad they at least made the leap to, "Hey, we could actually use something other than C++?"
Great games are still being made for it [0] and there’s an awesome show called ZeroPage Homebrew [1] that streams twice or more a week. They exclusively play homebrews for Atari systems and the developers are often in the chat.

[0] https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=24

[1] https://atariage.com/forums/topic/276956-zeropage-homebrew-t...
COMP.LANG.C
Also one year later IRC was invented.

Killer app if ever there was one.
Thank you. I think I'll try to get the most out of Clickhouse, also because of the extremely ease of maintaining it and keeping it running.
Text/image product search, using Python and CLIP
I guess this is like Hacker News but in the 80s?
The Pragmatic Engineer here :) And here is the list of side projects and their status I posted about you might have referred to [1]. I never posted about failed startup ideas.

As I wrote in another comment, this post is from late 2020, when I planned to start a startup, and when I had no idea I would be successful with my writing - it was maybe a month or two after publishing my first book. The context of this article was the skills I thought I'd use when going down the startup route.

On some assumptions of my recent writing:

> "I suspect a lot of the quotes where he says “I interviewed an engineer at ____ might be just be sourced from random Tweets"

When I write that I talked with someone at a company, it means I connected with them directly on various channels (e.g. over DMs, Signal, video call etc). I talk with lots of people, and incorporate some of these into the "The Scoop" articles and sometimes tweet about them (like this [2]). If I base something on a tweet, I'd share that. If I use something else as a source of information I share that as well.

If I come across things that are not true, I aim to correct it immediately (like this [3])

In my new career, integrity is the most valuable asset I have, and I aim to make it very clear when I share information that comes with directly talking with people, versus taking things from other sources.

> As with all content marketers selling advice, please take this all with a grain of salt.

Agree on this, and please see the context on when I wrote this article.

[1] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1481195527467319297?...

[2] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1549867691346956288?...

[3] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1534884178428366848?...
If the part about the tack on the board under the clocks wasn't clear, and you're a visual learner, this video from 3Blue1Brown about the [classic] Fourier Transform might help clarify the relationship to periodicity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
Note: This is an input device, akin to a mouse or a trackpad. It is not anything like an iPad or what you nowadays call a “tablet”. The surface you see is not a display screen. This kind of device is also sometimes also known as a digitizer board.
I like these ideas, I can finally play Mario Golf.

Unfortunately, every time I see these posts / advertisements, they drive enough traffic that they sell out.
Shifting to EVs is not enough. The deeper problem is our car dependence
The comments in the post say it’s been discontinued,
but I was able to find similar bits by other brands, searching for “self-centering plug cutter”.
Somehow I find the Dall-E and othe AI generated pictures revolting … is it the choice of colors or what I don’t know? It’s like looking at an art piece without a soul ..
> Livestock farming is ruining the soil

Crop farming is ruining the soil way faster than grazing livestock. Livestock grazing the land is a lot closer to how the land was before we came along than a rainforest.
“I wonder if I made this cut”, I asked myself. Karma > 10k, check. Then I scroll down and my sci-fi graphic novel (1) is #3 on the hand-curated list. Thanks!

I just finished a short comic for a Webtoons contest; engagement is a significant part of how they’re gonna judge it, so if you like my stuff then check it out (2) and leave a nice comment to increase my chances of getting a $5-50k prize. I don’t make anything near FAANG money so even the low end would make a big difference in my finances. :)

1: http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/
2: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-sins-of-chloe-fran...
He's one of the first major authors to join the fediverse. He's major to a scifi nerd like me anyways.
There's another way. Look up "stairstepping" (popularized by Rob Walling et al).

The short version: build something small on the side, offer consulting around that, then change the mix of consulting/product to be more-and-more product until it's all product.
Yeah, keeping political content off the service must require a company-connected person to review every piece of content that reaches a certain level of exposure.

I don't think they are successful at keeping off political content though, in the sense that denying political content is a political statement itself in favor of the status quo.
The Non-Linearity of Baggage Systems
For me, it was a bit too heavy on the science and too light on the rest.

The vampire stuff was funny, but felt a bit half assed.
Poorjson.sh – A JSON parser implemented in 60 lines of Posix shell
This approach provides SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation right?

What happen if there are page conflicts during the write? The transaction fails and you retry? Does SQLite have a good way of of signalling that this is the case (vs for example a network failure or other write failures).
I dont know how artists feel about DALL-E but as an amateur I feel bad. "This should be forbidden" bad. I guess the root of this feeling is the same as the one Copilot gives OSS programmers, it feels like theft and copyright enfringement. The pictures in this case uses techniques and colors scheme widely used by illustrator in the entertainment industries. Some of them are even above the average quality and that's scary too.

Do we know if regulators are looking into Copilot and DALL-E? To which extent do we want computer doing what human do? I mean.. Art? Feels like bad taste to me.
This is the same logic as "sudo forces people to think about what they're typing", which it doesn't, it just makes you type sudo and your password really quickly and equally mindlessly.
You found a single exception to baisq’s proposed general principle. This is not a good enough argument to refute it.
Don't flowcharts suck? They are bad enough when you have Visio or whatever to help you copypaste through the busywork, but in the old days they had to put them together with one of these toys:

https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=plastic%20flowchart%20templa...

I'll tell you how to service an Atari 2600, though. Even in 1982, chuck it in the dumpster and head down to K Mart for a new one. Put that in a flowchart.
I like Nim. WASM is not natively supported by the core team, and the biggest of all. Cyclic Imports. Rest, its a great great language.

If these two issues are resolved. I am all in for Nim
For what it’s worth - you can have a lot of fun with a small budget wood lathe and not a lot of space. Pens, small bowls and plates, chess pieces… it’s not as spectacular as big slab tables, but it captures the same “show off beautiful figured wood and nice finishes” bit and it’s cheaper and less space intense. If you are really pressed for space, a small lathe is usually small enough that you could carry it outside when you wanted to turn something (you’d need something to clamp it to outside of course). Or you could have a shed setup - that’s pretty common.

Some parts of the UK have real turning communities or guilds still, and they may offer courses or use of much nicer lathes there.
Do you think you could pass a Pepsi challenge of random images from the internet vs Dalle?
How does one afford an undergraduate degree, two masters degrees and a PhD?