skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hear western kids saying no one used to bathe in the ancient times.

Which western kids did you hear from? Every western kid I know studied that in Roman times bathing was a very important activity; as a matter of fact there were very advanced public baths, thermae (which included "sauna" with hot and cold water) in every city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae
Did they mean potable, or portable? You don't need potable water to wash your feet, but you do need it to be in your house somehow, I guess...
Doesn't seem to work. Can you open that link in a private window?
Ask HN: How to say no to a GitHub issue feature request?
Feeling very upset about a feature request.

The main reason is, the requester behaves like I am hired to customise the software for him. And I should keep working until he is satisfied.

Even if I don't like it, they keep saying this is very good feature, blabla...

What should I say? F... off?

For these kinds of people, they will never understand the manner of GitHub and do some PR.

And they won't pay at all...
You're not doing great at the "politely" part.
The best way is probably to make changes to it because that forces you to really understand the code. If you just read it without making changes it's too easy to pretend that you understand it. If there is one part of the code that you are trying to understand, I can recommend to write a replacement for it; then you at least learn how it works and you might even get a better solution.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove

"As well as warming and cooking, Russian stoves were used for bathing. Once the stove became hot the burning wood was removed, and cast iron containers were put into the stove and filled with water. That allowed people to bathe inside of the stove. A grown man can easily fit inside, and during World War II some people escaped the Nazis by hiding in the stoves."
The part that makes it more expensive is the "Ultra" base. The unit itself with an equivalent base to that of my Roomba is about 200 USD less expensive than the Roomba where I live.
There's always a threshold though.

Proof by contradiction: if there's no threshold, then sound fidelity can in theory be infinitely precise. But nature does not work that way - at Planck length distance breaks down, at the width of a carbon atom the resolution of a vinyl surface ends, etc.
Here is some example of images with code :

long dark, alaska, night

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/10...

samurai, van gogh, portrait

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/10...

black girl magic, reghal, cornrows, epic, majesty, warrior
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/10...

temple, heaven, flowers
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989739808286974002/10...
> If the EU doesn’t let us, then Spain must leave the EU.

It is a joke, isn't?
I don't know why. I use the Discord server and don't like it, my messages get lost in the scrollspam and it's just a bad experience. Surely, a text field on the site would have been equally good.
The law that regulates IP is also wholly different from other kinds of property. Same about owned land.
Oh, so the reason conservatives are concerned about the birth rate is so they have ammo against gay, trans, and women on the pill. Got it. I was wondering why an issue that won't be a major concern until after 2100 was becoming popular.
Edit your text on a virtual beach with VR goggles.
Pretty sure my version is a standard RoboRock S7, only with the "Ultra" base that also cleans the mop. I might have lucked out with the cables so far. Fwiw I do try to clean the floor of clutter a bit when I know I'm going to run it, but it has still encountered charging cables etc during the run. It's just taken a picture of them as "obstacles" and gone around them.
Well, now I'm very confused. Where do you think the conspiracy is here? I don't think there is one. And the Washington Post doesn't count as big tech (nor does the NYT).

The whole point is that there was no conspiracy, and that those two papers were making it up. Like Jones does and for very similar reasons (people love to hear a good conspiracy theory). conspiracy theorising is a fun and routine activity in the press.
Considering that Windows struggles to reliably support bog standard laptops, I wouldn't add another layer of potential bugs.
Google doesn't replace them with split versions (except that it ignores punctuation), nor does it replace them with different spellings or related meanings. The words you search for will be there, in order, the only difference will be all whitespace and punctuation is treated as a space.

>string of bytes which I have quoted

That's tricky. What if there's a line break? What if you search for "some text" but the html contains "some <b>text</b>"? Punctuation would be a problem too. What if you searched for something with "-" (hyphen-minus, unicode 0x2d), but the page contained a "‐" (hyphen, unicode 0x2010)? What if you searched for something with a dumb quote, but the page contained a smart quote? What if you searched for something with a space but the page contained a non-breaking space?
A single axle dump truck is a type of truck that has a single axle and can carry heavy loads. These trucks are commonly used for construction, mining, and hauling materials in various industries.
Well as we have seen in this Alex Jones case, and other recent defamation cases it seems both the public and the legal system are turning from "defamation is almost impossible to win" to something else

the Economics of news is going to be very different is media can not hide by "anonymous sources" and "it is just opinion" while spreading lies about individuals or events.

I think the next cases may find more well known news outlets in the defendants chair of defamation action
> IRBs don't need to be ran by anyone more competent than a 5 year old to catch the cases you're talking about.

Could you give some examples of what cases I’m talking about? I’m just dying to see what kind of straw man argument you’ve been building.
I think these markets were a few orders of magnitude too small for the latter to happen.
There isn't really, the majority of people in the channels are newcomers, it scrolls too fast for you to really see much, and once you subscribe you move to private and only see your own messages anyway.

I have no idea why they went to Discord, it hasn't provided any benefit to me personally, at least.
As both a sound and an electrical engineer the issue here is the if. Many DACs claim 24 Bits, while their power rails are so noise that they will meaningfully reproduce much less. The you'd also have jitter on the DAC clock etc.

Just because it says 24 bits on the datasheet of the used DAC IC doesn't mean your circuit will output a voltage that represents your input with 24 bits of precision. Designing and layouting PCBs with high precision DACs on them is certainly something where a lot mistakes can be made.

But you are right, if the PCB is done correctly, the signal exiting the DAC would indeed be an truthful representation of the digital data.

That being said: nowaday reaching enough precision for even the most critical listener should be not that hard/expensive.
Cultures through history all over the planet had more than 2 genders. Women born in male bodies, men born in female bodies, and 2 spirits in 1 body are old ideas.
Interesting video on sample rate effects during digital music production
https://youtu.be/-jCwIsT0X8M
(It's strange that we're using the term microdose, even in scientific contexts - prefixes have meanings - it should be called a decidose.)

Anecdotally, I've had a degree of short term success treating my depression with smallish doses of mushrooms, but I've never had the continuing access required for a microdosing regiment.

It'd be nice if the government were willing to come to the table on this, but alas.

That said, every time that I've had a months long lift, it hasn't been a small dose, but an epic dose that often cast me into a night of turmoil.

(Which would make the rigours of double-blind testing completely ineffectual.)
The N of this study is 34, but it’s probably multiple observation. How do you calculate power in this case? Is it just based off N, in which case, seems low…
Interestingly, I found the foul language refreshing. It is visceral and easy to read. I guess if most of the things I read were written in this style it'd get old quickly, but every now and then it's fun.
Hi runjake, author here!

Not sure what you meant by the Twitter feed? Doing this since 2017 and it's still fun so far! Hope that helps :)
I just signed up recently with email (deleted the account after my work was done), it asks you phone number after 5 minutes of using it.

It blocks you from doing anything unless and until you give them your phone number.
There aren’t any dependency cycles, as dependencies must take a strictly lower logical timestamp. Dependency resolution is essentially two step: first every transaction that MIGHT take a lower timestamp is adopted as a dependency, then once those transactions have fixed their timestamp those that take a higher timestamp are simply removed from the dependency set.

Once we offer interactive transactions we’ll have to detect cycles, but that should be relatively straightforward since execution dependencies are managed explicitly.
> medieval Arabic language travelers that visited Europe

There was only one IIRC, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, who wrote disparagingly only of the habits of the Vikings of the upper Volga river.
Pretty much my exact reaction to this article.
There actually was a test period (ended 2020) testing a digital drivers license in Finland!

(Finnish)
https://www.puhelinvertailu.com/uutiset/2022/02/09/sahkoinen...
I guess one example is bikeshops providing air for bikes for free. But I agree, not many services provide things for free. I’m assuming gas stations see it as a way to draw in customers, many also have bathrooms for free.
Yes :) The Lamy 2000's been with me after grad. Even had a pen craftsman resharpen my nib!
On Growth and the Form of Limits
You are confusing ABIs with what the C standards mandate. A compiler emitting code for a particular architecture need to conform to that architecture's ABI. Or else it won't be able to interface with syscalls or other libraries. This goes for other things too like calling conventions and setup of stack frames. As klodolph states, long is 64 bit on x86_64, (32 on x86_64-win) and 32 on x86.
Did you try it with more complicated PDFs?
I honestly don’t care about running Linux on my phone. We’ve all seen what a mess Linux on desktop is. iOS definitely does not come with malicious non-removable apps like tick tock or Facebook.
Not sure if the US with it's torture-base aka Guantanamo and torture-safe-houses around the world really has the right to call someone else "evil", i don't mean that as "whataboutissm" but that human lives are not more "worth" in the US as in Mainland China
The mere presence of IRBs should discourage bad submissions however you are welcome to contact your local review board and ask for their juiciest rejects.
Quantum Shorts: Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics
The appeal of these stories lies more in their play with ideas than in their literary merit, but there is enough variety that I think most people could find at least a few they enjoy.

My favorites were The Scent of Strangeness, Quantum Man, and The Relative Uncertainty of Reality: A True Story.
I totally agree. With everyone work remotely (in my teams), there's huge scope for becoming isolated and disconnected. We have a daily status meeting, but it is specifically set up so that the 50% of the time is for talking shit.

When you check in with how you're going, you're allowed to say anything except "Good". "Good" means you didn't think about your answer...
Agreed. The more I exercise, the better I smell.
> The clothing company LL Bean dealt with this same sort

Clothing retailers and similar have seen this sort of thing a lot, even before online shopping was a significant part of their trade.

> Another issue, called ‘wardrobing’ is where a customer buys something to use once and then return

A colleague of mine some years ago used to wear designer shirts and such to company social events. At one point he asked me how I afford as much tech as I bought¹ and I referenced his designer clothes² with the notion that we just prioritise our spending differently with most of my clothes being relatively bargain basement stuff³. In response to this he told me that he wore most of it only once, and returned it within a week or two of purchase as unused, so it cost him relatively little. This was not just mail-order catalogue purchases⁴ but physical stores too where he sometimes had to return items to the same real person he'd bought them from and did so repeatedly. This coloured my impression of his trustworthyness considerably - I have no love for the retail industry but that seems rather low. He said a lot of people do it, which I doubted the scale of at the time but maybe I was somewhat naive there⁵.

My overly long-winded point being that this has been a thing for decades. The internet just makes it easier, makes learning the tricks to defraud the trade easier, and because open returns policies are often a selling point for an online retailer (for obvious reasons) makes those tricks relevant to a wider gamut of products & price ranges, which might not have had such returns policies in the past. The growth in social media and it's influence on how much we see of others outside of our close circles probably makes a big difference where fashion is concerned too.

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[1] it turned out part of this was that my salary was larger than his by more than either of us realised, another factor was how much he spent otherwise trying to impress marks when "on the pull" and how often this expensive hobby happened!

[2] and his taste for expensive whiskey, but that isn't relevant to this thread!

[3] no personal value judgement being made here, I understand what people get psychologically (and sometimes physically!) from improving their outward image, I just have different priorities which doesn't make me more or less right just different

[4] internet shopping proper was only just starting to be significant for everyday fashion at the time, assuming what little I know of such shopping is accurate

[5] he also pointed out, when I failed to disguise my discomfort in the idea, my habit at the time of downloading TV instead of waiting months/years for it to be broadcast or available to buy on tape/DVD in this country, which I admit was a valid comparison. I know my life has been some points sort of 100% morally clean!
> I wish we had a way to just enter all measurements and filter out clothes that won't fit. Clothing sizes are still in the middle ages ...

I would go one step further than just filtering. Production is usually still far too much manual labor (cheapest available). With significantly improved automation everything would change. Even just automating the cutting of cloth would allow to tailor to fit, not just standard sizes, with no significant increase in net effort.

Combined with sewing in cheap parts of the world and any kind of returns policy it becomes a logistics nightmare of course.

The solution is even higher automation.
Maybe the trendy hallucinogenic microdosers should try microdosing food, water, air, speech and constantly being the center of attention. It just isn't interesting giving credibility to a new ignorant generation rediscovering what was known in some cases 60-80 years earlier, in some cases thousands of years earlier. Rediscovery is not interesting. It is embarassing.
I've tried Squad for 10 days, "I will commit to reading at least 15 pages of a business book daily before I commute or before I go to bed" This commitment was mine in fact xD

I had to rest for a day breaking my daily commitment but I've checked in 9 days and achieving goal make me feel good and eventually help me to achieve even more than the very basic commitment. I hope many people get the similar experience using squad or not using squad.
Do you mean a _low_ signal-to-noise ratio?
And then I try the same prompt that produced the tree and get this nightmare:

https://imgz.org/iBFpCWiG/
Two things -
First - I learn how the data flows from the source to the end. That teaches me to navigate the codebase entirely. (User action to database, or source data to end data etc.

Second - I learn how different components are wired together.
iosevka is a great font. Thanks for the recommendation!
I would normally be a bit skeptical of anything published by CSPI.
There is also good question how bathing worked and how much of water was actually used. A family or multiple persons could have shared the same bath water. Thus sharing the heating and procurement costs. Or they could have simply rinsed themselves. 10-20l is quite good enough for washing a body if bucket and something like ladle is used.
I'm sorry but I don't see how the original comment did any of those things...
it doesn't even make mention of any of the topics you have listed.
Sesame oil & gram flour are fancy specialist relatively expensive ingredients here (gram flour a bit less so) - but they're grown in India, much more readily available, cheap, and (as another result) used more.

Hot water - I assume we're talking about a time period where it would've been heated over fire anywhere in the world.
That was meant to say 'misrepresenting' (the phone said 'misre...ing' since the complete word didn't fit on the screen.
That's besides the point the parent is making.
If they won’t pay and you aren’t interested in building the feature I would bluntly state that.

“PR welcome but I will not be writing this personally. Closing for now”
Wouldn't it be better to just connect a normal laptop to a bigger screen?
Even if he prove fraud (which he won't), there is countless evidence of him believing the number to be higher, and that specifically being one of the main reasons he wants to buy it so he can clean it up, so material adverse effect to the deal wouldn't hold
> conventional grain fed red meat

"Grain fed" is not conventional.
Get it running.

I find the only way for me is to actually run the code locally, play around with it until I understand the data flow.
While I don't agree with the tone of your post, I completely agree with the message :)

30 - 10 years ago; Yocto (and its kin) served a very specific purpose. Building super tiny Linux distributions. If you have 4MiB worth of flash (storage) there's only so much you can cram in their.

Any "modern" linux distribution might still require more then that (excluding the likes of Linux from Scratch, as that falls in into the yocto category). Being CPU bound tends not to be the major issue, storage and RAM bound however is.

Personally, I've used debian in an embedded setting which can work great, but recently I've been using Alpine Linux for embedded and if you have a bit of storage (say 32 - 64MiB SPI NOR, or just some eMMC) you are good with Alpine as well.

Self-plug on not-yet-finished image builder around alpine: https://gitlab.com/esbs/builder

One other thing I think is greatly wrong with yocto, is the fact that it is super complex to do CI with it (because its one big thing) and build-times of 3.5 hours are ridiculous. Yes if I had to rebuild every single alpine package I'd probably end up with those build-times as well. But once a packages is built and vetted, just go with it (in your mirror if you will)

As for building the whole toolchain from scratch, sure, there might be exotic reasons to do that, but come on. Just stick your build environment in a container, and use that. Getting the toolchain from a "vendor" (alpine being one) is not a crime...
Yes. Hard to over-emphasize how important this point is. For the longest time I also incorrectly understood the money system because I watched videos (DVDs back then) that claimed there wasn't enough money to pay back all the debt, and I believed them.

The simplest way to understand why this isn't true is to consider the following thought experiment.

1. Alice has $100. This is the only money that exists in the world. She loans it to Bob at a rate of 10% interest.

2. Bob receives the money and immediately hands it back to Alice in order to purchase supplies to set up his new business. Alice now has $100 again, and Bob owes $110. Note: total debt > money supply.

3. Bob creates his business and finds a customer - Alice again, who lent money to Bob because she needed his business services.

4. Alice pays Bob $20 for a widget he made.

5. Bob now has $20, Alice has $80.

6. Bob uses that $20 to pay off part of his loan to Alice. He gives it right back to her, which clears both his interest payment and part of the principal. Alice now has $100 again, and Bob has nothing, but Bob now owes Alice only $90.

7. Go to Step 4 and repeat until Bob's debt is reduced to zero.

In this scenario Bob will eventually pay off his debt even though there apparently isn't enough money to do so. The reason is the difference between stocks and flows, as neilwilson points out. Debt is cancelled by a flow of capital, but money circulates and as it moves it creates flows. The less money you have the faster it needs to move to cancel a debt in unit time.
Try using TOTP 2FA instead of SMS. No phone number needed and it's much easier to use. It doesn't depend on a device you can lose nor a channel that can get hacked.
Many decades ago, before the appearance of any digital audio, most audiophiles agreed that vinyl sucks badly, because the records are degraded after each listening (by mechanical abrasion).

When the audio CD's appeared, their main claimed advantage was not that they offer a superior sound over vinyl (early units had actually modest characteristics, with 14-bit DACs, modest low-pass filters, and possibly also low accuracy and high jitter of the sampling frequency), but that you can play the digital disc as often as you want without quality degradation.

Before digital audio, real audiophiles also had a tape recorder, and as soon as they bought a new vinyl disc, they played it only once, to transfer it to a magnetic tape, and then they stored the disc safely and they played only the tape, for fear of degrading the vinyl disc when listening to it.

At that time, most audiophiles believed that vinyl discs that have been played more than 3 times are no longer suitable as a master source from which to make a copy on a tape, as they were already too degraded in comparison with a new vinyl disc.
Yes, this is obvious.

I still can't see how the cheater with the 1000*1 votes has "achieved dominance"?

> If each of these accounts votes fully for the candidate

Quadratic voting kind of discourages that: the marginal vote has more utility given to another candidate. Non-cheaters will tend to spread around their votes.
Try to profile the code and see where it's spending time.

Get a good flame graph up, and you'll have a really solid visual representation of what's going on.

Bonus: on almost any project, nobody has done a profiling pass in at least a few months, so you'll probably discover some extremely easy performance improvements and you'll look like a goddamn hero when you speed up e.g. the test suite by a factor of 3 in your first week on the job.
It can be everybody involved. It should include NIST based on the history alone.

Some of the commentary on this topic is by people who also denied DUAL_EC until (correctly) conceding that it was actually a backdoor, actually deployed, and that it is embarrassing for both NSA and NIST.

This sometimes looks like reactionary denialism. It’s a safe position that forces others to do a lot of work, it seems good faith with some people and not so much with others.