skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dark mode in the web version please!
Really love the UI. Nice work!
Imagine the panic when you realize Google reclaimed your number for inactivity because you haven't been sending texts or making calls, only receiving them, and you missed the couple of emails notifying you about the change. Now your number is under some random person's control.
The site is called "Going Medieval: Medieval History, Pop Culture, Swearing." I'm pretty sure it is not intended to be an academic article.
I'm amazed that google does that (I didn't know) and even shows the steps! But it still is lacking.

The "solution" here is just a simplification, not something I would call a "solution" (like for an actual equation). But as it isn't an equation, that could be fine. Another weird thing is that it won't simply eliminate the first term with 0x=0. Why?
The input of every competent ADC process is always a well-designed multipole lowpass analog filter below the Nyquist frequency, so yes.

EDIT: This also applies to sigma-delta sampling. Although there you can often get away with a simpler single-pole input filter.
Assuming the backend actually supports mapping of that particular field.
You know what killed nuclear power? The moving targets of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Was the NRC out to make life hard for new nuclear power plant construction? Some claim that, but I chose to believe that they were just doing their job. As more corner cases were discovered in the operation of the existing power plants, the regulations had to be upgraded to deal with them.

This process will continue, that's for sure. But fewer corner cases will be discovered for PWRs than for new technologies. For the reason that in the US the experience with PWR is at least two orders of magnitude higher than with any other nuclear technology.

Still, it took Nuscale 6 years to get their approval, 2 million man-hours and half a billion dollars. Whatever estimate they have for the time their first reactor goes online (2030 currently), it might be delayed because of new regulatory changes. But at least they have a proven design. If someone is trying a new design, the chance of delays increases one hundred times.

I love new technology. I am personally rooting for the gas cooled fast reactors (like Xe-100) or for the sodium cooled fast reactors (like Terrapower's Natrium).

But you need to walk before you run.
Hard disagree.

>The point is that “bad” isn’t a useful descriptor of anything regarding their real-life applications, because it simply doesn’t mean anything.

This is just a complicated way of saying "Bad things have no meaning and don't exist in the universe."

Without getting too pedantic, in general, nobody agrees with this concept. Sure if you get pedantic you may find a couple people in this world who enjoy punching themselves in the face, but in general the overwhelming majority agree that punching yourself in the face is a pretty bad thing.

Note: Punching yourself in the face is just an example of a universally "bad" thing. I'm not personally against punching yourself in the face, it's just something I came up with while writing this.
> Any “good” repl won’t let you exit via Ctrl-C

And in order to achieve that, it has to take the care described in TFA.
Not Carmack's, it says so in the link you provided.

> The algorithm was originally attributed to John Carmack, but an investigation showed that the code had deeper roots in the hardware and software side of computer graphics. Adjustments and alterations passed through both Silicon Graphics and 3dfx Interactive, with the original constant being derived in a collaboration between Cleve Moler and Gregory Walsh, while Gregory worked for Ardent Computing in the late 1980s.[3] Walsh and Moler adapted their version from an unpublished paper by William Kahan and K.C. Ng circulated in May 1986.
> I was thinking SMRs size that could easily fit within a 40ft container.

Those would be 'micro-reactors' and as noted tend to be optimised for off-grid applications.
> >This is then used to drive a turbine that generates electricity.

> We could have Nuclear Fusion but we are still using turbine to generate electricity. :P

This is actually one of the main points of why the whole talk about "economies of scale" for nuclear just doesn't make much sense. More than 50% of a nuclear plant is essentially the same as any other thermoelectric plant. Despite the many power plants being build we haven't seen a this elusive cost reduction. Construction projects (in contrast to things build in factories) don't lend themselves to economies of scale (in terms of building many).

There was an HN submission that analysed the cost of a nuclear plant and showed that there is really not much room for any economies of scale reductions.

> >these smaller reactors are actually likely to produce more radioactive waste than conventional plants.

> >nuclear power expert M.V. Ramana also points out that the cost of renewable energy like wind and solar is already lower than that of nuclear, and continuing to fall rapidly.

> Why are we repeating these same questions when we already have an answer?

> >SMRs could cost more than bigger nuclear plants, he adds, because they don’t have the same economy of scale.

Yes that's always the weird part of the discussion. There are reasons why nuclear plants are build large, it's cheaper.

> I thought the whole point of SMRs were economy of scale?

> >Tellingly, some utilities have already backed out of NuScale’s first project over cost concerns.

> Anyone could chime in here? Was it because NuScale is too expensive?

> I was expecting SMRs, once approved could be built much more quickly. I was thinking in terms of 3 years with perfect project planning. But right now even the earliest ( and likely optimistic ) first SMRs site is 2030. Why does it take so long?
Same. A couple of the cds ‘rusted’ and no longer play. Others lost in moves etc.

I hope we get plenty of warning before they axe it. Imagine that being a google service?!
Indiana passes near-total abortion ban, the first state to do so post-Roe
As pointed out in the comments of the post, this is an LCG[1] PRNG. The Wikipedia article has a good discussion on how to choose parameters, with examples of use in the wild from various popular projects over the last many decades.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/Kx2ML
Well, will ya look at that!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368443
There’s a bizarre fantasy I see a lot of self-hating westerners reference which is that their hygiene and bathing practices were learned from other societies, which from what I’ve read from and what this article shows, is clearly a complete fiction.

Still though, searching “who taught Europeans how to bathe” will confidently return you lots of articles like

https://sawarimi.org/archives/2893

In which the author confidently states that it was only due to African influence that Europeans ever learned about hygiene. It’s a nice idea, maybe? But it’s just completely made up.
Because very few represent a single, cohesive auteurist creative vision. Yoko Taro is the only one I would even consider in this regard ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro
Considering micro-dosing either helps you or at worst it has no bad effects I don't see why you wouldn't try it if you had access to it and the legal aspect didn't hinder you.

Personally and subjectively it did help me, I wasn't depressed but it did help with creativity and learning, I gained like 150-200 points on chess.com just from playing and reviewing games (rarely)
Most (probably all?) of the social criticism in the movie comes from the Phillip K. Dick source material. It was a good movie IMO but Spielberg is not exactly anti-establishment.
I think the comment author meant "a magical constant that has been found by someone by empirical method without a nice paper pointing why it's a good value"

(even though I think now the constant above has a paper on why it's actually so good)
The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery–then gave the tech to China
> What do you think about the linked thread?

I already posted multiple posts in the thread under the same username. Other than adding important consumers of a dependency to its tests, the only solution I could come up with is to move AI/ML packages into their own repository where they can move at their own pace and do pins/overrides more freely and/or drastically reduce the amount of python packages in nixpkgs.
This was an example of a seemingly random magic number appearing in code for a very clever hack. I think the OP was assuming there was something similar at work with the PRNG magic numbers.
Fair cancer impact comparisons. But the point was that increased sunshine can reduce cardiovascular issues so you'd need to look at incidents and impact for heart attack, stroke, etc.
There’s science that shows whole grains are not good for you, just as there are studies showing they’re good for you.
On iOS you could also use the native built in background noise functionality which is good.

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Background Sounds, then turn on Background Sounds.

Rain , Stream and Ocean are my favourite while needing to focus
Security lakes are very 2021, everyone moving to the security lakeHOUSE in 2023 broski!
Probably easier for them to handle all the edge cases of a website via discord. I can imagine a situation where I’m focused on my backend and outsource UX to discord. I also think at this point they don’t need every user on earth, so if you can’t climb a gently sloping learning curve then they’ll catch you later - it appears they’re successful enough as it is. Finally I have to say the prompt training and show and tell discord channels are useful and I find a lot of material to help me innovate in the images I create (mostly in support of things I’m doing with my daughter like a lemonade stand logo and illustrations for its menu, etc)
There are ways of writing that make one look less like a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
For anyone curious, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_cycle
John Denker's 2013 paper/code for using sound cards as input to a HRNG, https://www.av8n.com/turbid/

> We discuss how to configure and use turbid, which is a Hardware Random Number Generator (HRNG), also called a True Random Generator (TRNG). It is suitable for a wide range of applications, from the simplest benign applications to the most demanding high-stakes adversarial applications, including cryptography and gaming. It relies on a combination of physical process and cryptological algorithms, rather than either of those separately. It harvests randomness from physical processes, and uses that randomness efficiently. The hash saturation principle is used to distill the data, so that the output is virtually 100% random for all practical purposes. This is calculated based on physical properties of the inputs, not merely estimated by looking at the statistics of the outputs. In contrast to a Pseudo-Random Generator, it has no internal state to worry about. In particular, we describe a low-cost high-performance implementation, using the computer’s audio I/O system.
Nice. anyone have suggestions for 'i was a dev now i work in a businesss facing role'?
I love excel, but Access is a nightmare by comparison. It sits in exactly the wrong spot on the power/usability curve. It it's super easy to create a crappy database and hard to make a good one.
This is just pure misinformation.
Levi’s has notoriously bad quality control. Five pairs in the same nominal size can all fit very differently. You have to try them on in person.
Just curious, why is second hand book stores that important? I imagine that everything worth reading is available on Amazon and rated in Goodreads. I am just curious and hopefully I am totally wrong as well.
Unlikely to be caught if the measuring instruments themselves are compromised and made to fake data related to that - just like our eyes have blind spots and the brain does some faking.

The effects of sabotage can't be faked - people only need to listen to the victims, because waiting until they themselves are victimized is a losing proposition.
you dont need ecosystem breakdown. could easily happen in pakistan right now
GraphQL: A whole lot of work to do REST differently
Queue lots of confused Nvidia proprietary driver users
Show HN: Generate pitch decks using GPT3 from 1-liner ideas
I guess we should be thankful that it’s effects are comparatively benign, given it’s chronic nature and virality.
Selected excerpts from comments of the user you mentioned, in this thread:

> The highest ideal in Hinduism is "Sarve jana, sukhino bhavanthu" (All living things should be happy)

> Spiritually, It is special, in the sense that Hinduism is not a religion but a philosophical way of life, that encourages debate, discussion, logical analysis and introspection. Historically, the only gift for questioning ones religion was a beheading in the case of Christianity and Islam.

More generally, "pride in their past" comes across in every comment they posted and the narrative that "disruption from outsiders caused poverty, before then food was plentiful, poverty as described in European middle ages was not present in India":

> In ancient times, right until the attacks by Islamist marauders and "civilized" Britishers, none of what you have mentioned were an issue. Your statement reeks of colonialist attitudes of seeing natives of other lands as some sort of brutes and degenerates living in destitution in poverty.

In response to someone claiming that there were (like in medieval Europe, the topic of this post) many poor people in India in the same time period:

> Come on, you can't tell me the poor, barely able to feed themselves, lucky to have fuel for cooking food, lucky to get porable water, barely a roof over their heads, had these luxuries?

The user in question replies:

> Yeah, no. Leaving aside a few famines here and there, India was mostly self sufficient and had plentiful of food.

No one said India was not "self-sufficient", we're talking about peasants in those times, having a low quality of life.

The only source the user shared for their assertions, seems to confirm peasants lived in poverty at the time (like anywhere else in the world):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32364750
Now I want that book :)
Geopolitics, lobbying and money. Businesses go where their government can get them the best deal, and to countries whose government most accommodate their needs. Israel and Japan are close allies of the US. Japan is willing to invest a lot of money too in fabs. The Anglosphere distrust the Germans and the French, and vice versa.
On the other hand, respect needs to go both ways. If a company can't be bothered to maintain a basic standard of competence in their customer support department, I see no reason to waste your own time fighting them.

I'd actually be more lenient on this when it comes to a small business, but when a big faceless corporation can't (or rather intentionally doesn't want to) maintain a decent standard in their CS department - literally the only "escape hatch" for when things go wrong - they don't deserve respect.
The Genius of the Uncool Vacation
> that this only applies to the one direct dependency on a package, but not on dependencies required by that package

Right now in nixpkgs we manage all dependencies in all packages front to back. So all dependencies of a dependency and dependencies of dependency dependencies and so on.
And I still can’t believe that after multiple decades it removes the leading “0” for things like zip codes. It does this even though the default data type for cells is “general” and not explicitly numeric. To my thinking that should cause excel to defer to the source data characters.

When I worked at a lower level I had to deal with this constantly when folks doing mail merges had bad zip formats coming through, and as the “data guy” it all got referred to me to fix.

Still, I think excel is great when used within certain confines. I use it for ad hoc purposes all of the time for simpler bits of work that are one-offs where it would take a fair bit longer to explore the data a bit and make some minimally presentable visuals & tables and some inline notes on analysis and interpretation.
Also, an option to make arrow keys always move the text cursor in the formula bar and never select cells would be great!
My bodybuilder friend used to inject Melanotan II (?) and would get super tan after just a couple days of summer. He'd also get wild random erections while on it. It's an anecdote, but the post title instantly made me think of that.
This isn’t entirely true - when you move to the chat with the bot you still have access to the show and tell and prompt training channels as well as the newbie channels you started in. But you can create without posting in public as you iterate via the private chat with the bot. I believe the newbie channels even still work for image creation if you really want.

By the way, /help for the bot works. Surely we always try the help flags?
in other words, it's up to the folks writing the resolvers to manifest and implement that join as a nested field.
> How can you ever participate in the global economy and definitively say that you aren't supporting something 'evil'?

I'm finishing a show called "The Good Place" that is about the afterlife and how people are judged for their actions - it tackles a bunch of really interesting philosophocal topics (like the trolley problem!) and the writing is top notch. Anyway, there are some episodes in Season 3 that dig into whether it's even possible to be 'good' in modern globalized society because of this sort of issue.
I was looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_stock_exchange... recently and was wondering how developing nations even manage to acquire the necessary know-how and resources to connect to the financial system.

Analog markets seem to be one of the earliest types of "civilizational infrastructure" to emerge, at least once there is a road or shipping route available. But in countries where mainframes have never existed, and computing and the internet are both relatively recent technology, this must be a huge challenge!
They have show and tell and prompt training channels. If you only hang out in the newbies channel then yes, it will be newbies.
While my parents have lived reasonably long, my father until 90 and my mother until 86, they have both lost around 4-5 years of life because of illnesses that have been diagnosed much too late.

In both cases they belonged to risk groups for certain illnesses, but I was not aware of this. Now I wish there would have been some resource enumerating risks for older people and how to diagnose early the corresponding illnesses.

For example, my mother was 1. old, 2. woman, 3. taking for many years a medication against high blood pressure, 4. avoiding to eat much salt for fear of raising the blood pressure.

These 4 conditions create a high risk of hyponatremia and/or hypokalemia (too low content in the body of sodium and/or potassium, because they are eliminated too quickly from the body). Both affections are extremely dangerous.

To avoid any problems, it would have been enough if my mother would have made every few months a cheap blood analysis, to determine the sodium and potassium contents in the blood.

My mother actually made frequent enough analyses of the blood and all results had always been perfect. However, after she became seriously ill and eventually the cause was discovered, I have looked at the earlier blood analyses and while they had checked a myriad of other blood components, sodium and potassium had never been measured.

In the case of my father, he had smoked excessively a large part of his life until he has eventually succeeded to quit smoking. He was also overweight.

These 2 conditions together increase a lot the risk of renal cancer. Had we been aware of that, he should have attempted to check periodically for this.

As it was, the cancer was undetected for at least a couple of years, and it was detected only after it produced a bone tumor (the spread of renal cancerous cells to bones is a frequent occurrence), and even that was detected too late, because after a bone fracture, even if the symptoms had been as in a textbook example of bone cancer, some incompetent doctor diagnosed the symptoms as being caused by osteoporosis and arthritis and did not send him to the scintillation analysis that would have diagnosed the cancer immediately. I have also been too trustful and I did not seek a second opinion.

Due to the many cases of erroneous diagnoses, which happen much more frequently with older people, because the doctors tend to attribute any complaints to normal old age instead of sending them to multiple analyses to investigate for the real cause, it is good to seek second opinions whenever there is any doubt.

In conclusion, I believe that it is important to determine for each parent which are the main health risk factors and to test periodically for the most likely of the illnesses that might begin to affect them after a certain age.
> Remember, what matters at scale is cost cost cost. Turbines might not be sexy, but if they are cheap, then that is what you use.

Exactly. Turbines (along with the accompanying water treatment, condensers, generators, power transformation) aren't cheap. A 600MW coal plant costs $2B.
I would say no.
Without outer space there is simply not enough space (and resources) anymore. Too much tension to solve the major issues...
There’s this stereotype of a programmer, that while I think can be funny sometimes, still reflects a professional that doesn’t really exist anymore from my perspective.

Most software engineers I’ve worked with have been incredibly humble and dedicated. The mythical bearded guy that showers three times a day, comes to the office with shorts and flip flops, and refuses to install Windows on the accountant person’s machine because it’s objectively bad is something I’ve only seen in memes and stories from older people I’ve worked with.

I personally think dissolving this myth, along with the one that programming is easy and / or none of us know what we’re doing, should be a shared goal between people who care about what they do and how others perceive it. Otherwise we’re unknowingly cultivating it into existence, and I definitely don’t want to work with arrogant, dogmatic developers.
Looks like there is no macos aarch64 version on the sourceforge binary download site? Just seeing amd64 (unless that download includes aarch64 compatibility)
Graphql gets hyped by people who have seriously no idea what the hard problems in apis are.

It quite literally solves many easy issues and pretends solve the hard ones, but does nothing to actually do this and just says that you "can".

I designed a typical JSON api that had customizable fields and filters and joins and authorization on orm level on classes(could easily be extended to do authorization on fields of the orm classes.) This was years before Graphql came along and pretends to solve these issues, while actually just leaving them up to the implementor of the resolvers. As if the idea itself of resolving per fields in so special.

And then you have people that think graphql = the semantic web(web3 before crypto shit stole the term). Inventing the same cyberpunk dreams from 40 years ago...

Nobody is even actually doing REST, just Rpcs over http with json. If they read the REST paper they'd know this is what they actually want but I fear it's a pipedream.
This article is quite a roller coaster to get what it is about. As far as I understand it, the author wants SIGINT to become some sort of a universal “cancel” button which may or may not exit a process, because the idea is to stop and rollback to a nearest sensible restart point. E.g. an interactive disk formatting tool may stop lenghty formatting on SIGINT but wouldn’t just exit. It would clean up the mess and return to its menu where e.g. batch configuration happens, so a user doesn’t lose next steps. The author basically wants modern gui features in console via signals.
Is there anything ffmpeg can't do?