skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equal earth (https://equal-earth.com/) is a good well designed map. I printed the pacific ocean centered version and have it on my wall.

There is a lot of conspiratorial woo about this topic, but it is genuinely useful to get a sizes right at a starting point for thinking clearly about the world.

For example (orthogonal to the usual conspiracy talk), it's commonly thought that Russia is super important and unbelievably vast. But a good equal area map shows it's only a 1/3 bigger than Canada + Alaska (and considerably poorer).

Likewise we are much more likely to travel at the world scale by plane with great circle routes. The mercator map is actually a less accurate guide to that type of navigation.

That said it is still useful to have north be directly up and south, east and west be straight lines too. Hence google maps using an mercator-ish projection, to make the zoom from local navigation to the world size continue to preserve straight lines and angles. Mercator is overused but is useful.
The authors of the the attack are primarily theoreticians. The only implementation they provided was a Sagemath one. I don’t think there was ever any distributed impl for this algorithm.
Nothing, looks pretty good, specially the atmosphere.
Very smooth, well done!
With Firebase you have a team managing the service uptime.

When I last checked, Supabase is a group of processes that you manage yourself.

This means that:

- A. If something goes wrong or you need to customise something, it would be quite complex to fix as you have all these different processes and code bases to understand. The sum of depended-on lines of code for all the open source code bases in Supabase would be massive.

- B. You are tightly locked in. Once you code against the Supabase API's you will not be able to move your app off of it. Other API's lock you in too, but because Supabase does so many things you would need to replace a lot of functionality all at once to move away.
Of course, and I still use it in those places where it's required and relatively self contained, or frankly, if it just happens to be the best tool for the job which it sometimes is.

But now that I can expect python3 to be available on the systems I care about, and with the fairly comfortable ergonomics of subprocess.run, I find myself using Python in places I would've previously used bash.

A good heuristic is the moment a bash script needs to use curl + jq, it's time for python. Especially on macOS it's nice having things like plistlib so I can avoid `defaults` and `PlistBuddy`.
The trouble with this, for me, is that wouldn’t such a world necessarily mean the end of new actors (not to mention new worlds and stories)? After all, why hire unknowns when you can stack the cast with the A-listers of all time?

And if everyone stacks the cast thusly, there are no opportunities for new actors to work with old and be mentored + opportunity to simply works since every bit of work is what adds up to make a journeyperson.
It's kinda weird when someone in this position can't seem to take the simple step of removing their personal identity from a product, especially when that's 100% appropriate given the uh, identity in question.

I mean, the product is always going to have his signature so to speak. But his face as a demo? What went wrong here? What's a way to explain this outcome that hopefully avoids the conclusion that the metaverse is where you go to watch Mark perform???

Are creative, expressive users really so hard to find...?
ah the sweet naivete of a junior developer

not every problem is your problem.
IRC with better UX, but Integrations was the secret ingredient
Debian:

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian&pkglis...
And even then, in some languages at least, what constitutes a grapheme isn't always well defined.
Isn’t bleach just a water molecule with an extra oxygen atom? I’m not a chemist but I didn’t think you could make assumptions about the effect of a substance in the way you describe. Am I missing something?
I'm using gmail with filters. I created filter that redirects all mails with subject "ToCheck" to folder named "ToCheck". On Mac I created shortcut (using apple native shortcuts app) that sends an email to myself with specific subject, usually just "ToCheck". Then I binded a keyboard shortcut to this apple "shortcut" so when I copy and press keyboard shortcut my selection would go into mail folder
Imagine having an obese friend and deciding you're going to research obesity, weight loss, etc. How do you expect him/her to react to your 'helpful' advice?

With obesity, you'd only be hurting feelings. With work, you'd be threatening someone's ability to earn a living.

The fact that you're asking this on the internet, instead of a chat with a friend, sibling, parent or mate, means your social situation is not what you'd like it to be. It'd be a very good idea to address that, as soon as possible.
Hmm, maybe. How would that impact the larger curriculum? Are you thinking a new class, or just change how differential equations is taught?

I think there is a little bit of an annoying situation where at least Electrical Engineering students are going to want Differential Equations pretty early on as they are pretty important to circuits (IIRC, I don't touch analog stuff anymore). Like maybe as a first semester 200 level class. This doesn't afford space to put a Linear Algebra class in beforehand (needed for numerical analysis).

Maybe the symbolic differential equations stuff could be stuck at the end of integral calculus, but

1) curriculum near the end of the semester is risky (students are feeling done, and it can suffer from schedule shifts).

2) Transfer students or students who satisfied their calc requirements in highschool (pretty common for engineering students) wouldn't be aware of your curriculum changes.

Or, a numerical-focused PDE class could be added to elsewhere. I bet most math departments have one nowadays, but as an elective.
As others have said "use keyboard for navigation" works, but also you can generally press any button with the shortcut cmd-first-letter-of-button-text. E.G., if the dialog is "delete" and "cancel" and cancel is the default, cmd-D should press "delete". "replace" and "cancel", cmd-R should press "replace". Etc
I actually wouldn't mind porting Zig to our OS; right now it seems it would be pretty easy, and looks like they're going to make the bootstrapping process pretty straight forward in the future as well. I just wish other languages would do the same... Unfortunately for me, we don't have any users that need Zig right now and all my other side-projects are higher priority. I'll probably give it a try eventually though.
As a professional artist, this sounds like hell.
It's in the title - nothing special happens in this year. It is just another year in the late Ming dynasty, still a long way off from its eventual demise. But the author uses this moment as a springboard to describe what the principals did in the past and what they would end up doing in the future.
Post-translational control of beige fat biogenesis by PRDM16 stabilization
In my opinion, stories that assume the existence of basilisks [0] that work on humans (biologically normal ones who don't have brain implants or anything like that) fall into the realm of fantasy, not science fiction.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Langford#Basilisks
scale and cost are already coveted by the plane. the last seems dramatic
You do lock yourself into the software, but at least not a vendor.
The next thing you should do is watch this scene from HBO's "The Wire" and think about what it means for you:

https://youtu.be/xyg_v7Vxo4A
There is a rules tab!

And the code looks to be here: https://github.com/drewblaisdell/conway/blob/master/core/gri...

It's 8 years old!
"no one is required to work for survival"

Sadly, this automates away the #1 source of meaning in one's life. "I made it this far, in spite of all the adversity" is what most decent adults lean into to motivate themselves out of their beds in the morning.
More.

Prompt:

> Website design for Weyland-Yutani Corporation. The Company was founded in 2099 by the merger of Weyland Corp and Yutani Corporation. Weyland-Yutani is primarily a technology supplier, manufacturing synthetics, starships and computers for a wide range of industrial and commercial clients, making them a household name. The website design for The Company is mobile first. Make it pop.

Results:

* https://i.imgur.com/JyhYK5b.png

* https://i.imgur.com/J5aPXCH.png

* https://i.imgur.com/ksqrW09.png

* https://i.imgur.com/uXBcGa5.png
He isn't, you are. Let's look at some other Feynman quotes which we can actually attribute (I can't find a real source for your claim though I've also heard it attributed to Einstein).

> Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.

> I can't explain [magnetic] attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you. For example, if I said the magnets attract like as if they were connected by rubber bands, I would be cheating you. Because they're not connected by rubber bands … and if you were curious enough, you'd ask me why rubber bands tend to pull back together again, and I would end up explaining that in terms of electrical forces, which are the very things that I'm trying to use the rubber bands to explain, so I have cheated very badly, you see."

> we have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. But if they want to defend their own point of view, they will have to learn what yours is a little bit. So I suggest, maybe correctly and perhaps wrongly, that we are too polite.

My best guess is that this misattribution comes from quote ABOUT Feynman and a misunderstanding at what is being conveyed.

> Once I asked [Feynman] to explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin-1/2 particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics. Gauging his audience perfectly, he said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But a few days later he came to me and said: "You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it." - David L. Goodstein

Which doesn't mean what you're using your "quote" to mean. As I stated before, we (the scientific community), don't even know what intelligence is. We definitely don't understand it so I'm not sure how you'd expect us to explain it to an 8 year old. Lots of things can't be explained to an 8 year old. Good luck teaching them Lie Algebras or Gauge Theory. You can have an excellent understanding of these advanced topics and the only way that 8 year old is going to understand it is if they are a genius prodigy and well beyond a layman. This quote is just illogical and only used by people who think the world is far simpler than it is and are too lazy to actually pursue its beauty. They only want to sound smart and they only will to those dumber than them.

Stop saying this and get off your high horse and hit the books instead.

Maybe Feynman was right, we're being too polite. There are a bunch of people in this thread that are not arguing in good faith and pretending to be smarter than people that are experts and performing mental gymnastics to prove that (you are one but not alone). If an expert is telling you that you are using words wrong, then you probably are. Don't just assume you're smarter than an expert. You don't have the experience to have that ego.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-richard-feynman-on-why-he....
Awesome. Is there a collection of GoL implementations? It would be impossible to be exhaustive, but I've been collecting them and I'd love a resource that makes an attempt to document as many as possible.
Some years ago Sweden actually limited mortgages to 105 years https://www.thelocal.se/20160324/sweden-limits-mortgage-loan....
And the word "mortgage" roughly translates to "till death" since that's how they used to work in their inception. So nothing new under the sun again.
Still gotta populate the training data
> Why not pick up a gun to ensure all those three seats are empty throughout the train ride?

This is such a ridiculous caricature and an example of why argument from analogy is so fraught with problems.

I might argue that the more likely scenario in a socialist society (i.e. anti-private property) is that a man who paid for three seat tickets would be forced at gunpoint to hand those seats over to people who didn't buy any tickets.
Nice little tutorial https://youtu.be/82G2G3P3MNs
That your adversarial framing, at the very least, is aligned with some pretty humorless technocrats who find themselves so thoroughly savaged by ridiculing laughter that they're openly fantasizing about going nuclear with the censorship.

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/radicalisation-aw...

It isn't difficult to guess at what other defining characteristics you posses once that is established.
Oh yeah there’s good reason, can’t take everything on the road, budgets and etc.
On your advice, we just agreed to watch it separate rooms with no discussions at supper. No more calling Mrs. Oleson the meanest person that ever lived, in jest, that is OVER (we both are guilty of this one). We are going to enjoy it even if it strips the all joy out of life.

The actress who played Nellie said she used to get hate mail from fans of the show, who apparently couldn't distinguish her from her character. (She said IRL she was friends with the younger Melissa, and some of the cast attested to how nice she was offscreen--both from a special feature on one of the DVDs) Man, we aren't that far gone. It actually is the best part of our day, spending time making fun of Landon's hair.
> Managers/bureaucrats want to make decisions based on 'metrics', primarily
because it gives them cover if it happens to be the wrong decision.

That might be true, but "making decisions based on metrics" is also the core idea of the meritocracy/technocracy. Rather than claiming that a person has special insight or superior intuition, and should thus control the decision, there's this contemporary (post-Enlightenment?) idea that we could instead systematize decision making and thus avoid or at least reduce cognitive bias, corruption and nepotism.
Here is Brian Kernighan mentioning the Unicode work in an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyQxXw_oMQ
$15/TB is extremely expensive if you’re building a raidz2 array.

$9.70/TB 10TB: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275400447467

$8.31/TB 4x8TB: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125132232253

You can get even cheaper if you buy in bulk.

Server cost is $1/TB with reasonable density
The Vault will not prevent someone who has login access to your database and the right grants (or superuser) from decrypting the data. If someone is in this position they are fully compromised and the Vault is not protection against that (nor is anything else really).

In particular if an attacker has a postgres superuser login they can essentially asct as the OS process owner, and could possibly get around the process hardening we already employ to reduce that risk, but again Vault is not designed to protect against a full superuser exploit. You must carefully guard database login access.

However, the secret data that is stored on disk, in WAL logs, and in database dumps is encrypted. This way you are ensured that your secrets are encrypted at rest. The Vault also provides using standard Postgres privilege access control (via GRANT/REVOKE) to control access to the decrypted data.
Way too much fiber in that diet -- you'll end up pooping a lot more and you'll probably also fart. If you stick to a meat-only diet then you will literally never fart.

Also, you might be able to get protein from plants, but you won't get protein with all the amino acids in the appropriate ratios unless you combine different plant sources, thereby increasing your overall calorie consumption because those additional amino acids will be accompanied with carbs if they are plant-based.

So you'll just end up under-nourished if you try to follow a plant-based diet. You may not end up obese, but you're not going be as strong and healthy as you would be if you ate only red meat.
Our species should always prefer more to less interesting work

Look around, your eminence. Most of our species prefer not working at
all, and if we must, prefer expending the least mental effort.
English convicts were moved to an island. Australia is doing ok, I hear.

https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/why-were-convicts...
Generative art and by extension DALL-E has a very fast attention decay imo. We can't avoid noticing patterns and getting bored by them. This makes art and music fun because the things that stick and stay interesting JUST DO for some unknown reason.
Not only were the interruptions inside the episode important, the interruptions BETWEEN episodes was important. When these series are rewatched in marathon format, they just seem to have tons of cheesy unsatisfying twists, because there isn't the suspense of having to wait to see what happens.

I agree that this observation doesn't nessecarily hold for modern media which was designed to be marathoned from the outset ad-free. Commercial Breaks now seem like much more of an afterthought instead of something actually woven into the scriptwriting, which only make commercials more offensive.
Yeah; I'd want to visit every one of these proposals on vacation.

The only exception is the one from Emil Kowalski. That proposal would make it so difficult to excavate the site that the civilization performing the excavation would likely have radiation detectors.

Step one in that is probably burying it sufficiently deep that it can't be found without advanced seismology.
So people who couldn't find a max value in an array will somehow excel at advanced concepts later?
Pop Open Your Neighbor’s Front Door with 12 Volts (2020)
Nearly 90% of Canadians received a vaccination, over 80% got the two most-important shots. Over 55% also boosted.

The vast majority of Canadians are sensible people. The media over-represented the protests. The local and provincial governments were weak and the police, negligent.
That's a hell of a spin on the original statement [1]. The fiscal improvement cited was pushed by the IMF in February [2]. This has nothing to do with Bitcoin and everything to do with San Salvador announcing "in July it had some $560 million available for a buyback of its 2023 and 2025 bonds planned for later this month," which triggered a rally in El Salvador's bond prices.

Still, good news. Successful fiscal consolidation has a poor track record in Latin America. If Bukele can show he has a steady hand on the budget, international investors may overlook his Bitcoin moves and return to finance him.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/el-salvador-debt/el-salvador...

[2] https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/02/15/cf-el-salvad...
No Smell the Glove cover, this is a black day for rock and roll!
DALL-E is still highly probabilistic in its judgement. For instance, in this article, it keeps putting "fire" in the the background on something that is likely to be on fire, rather than lighting up the person.

I have a similar experience. In my own experiment, I can't get DALL-E to turn off the street lamp at a bus stop in the darkness. I've tried "no light", "broken street lamp", etc.; no use. Any mention of "street lamp", the scene will include a working street lamp.

It's just more probable that a scene with a lamp in the darkness must have that lamp providing light, and this is something that DALL-E will not break out of.
Could you share them?
Notionally the "wars" on drugs and terror are more akin to the Islamic principle of jihad, in the sense of a struggle, rather than of military domination, occupation, and conquest.

In the case of World War II, numerous governments were created from whole cloth following the war, amongst conquored territories, in newly-created states, and even amongst some of the winners.

Notably, Japan had a constitution imposed on it by the United States, which largely exists to the present day. Some traditional institutions were preserved (e.g., the emperor), but in almost entirely symbolic form. Germany likewise was reconstituted under a new government, as was Italy. Even France saw a new government formed (the Fifth Republic) in 1958. The states of the Eastern bloc were reconstituted under Communist rule as Soviet satellites. India, Indonesia, the Phillipines, and several Arabic states received independence. The state of Israel was formed. Much of Africa decolonised in the 1950s and 1960s.

There was of course some continuity through all of this, but in large part, new governments emerged and old laws were often voided.
Somewhat unrelated to the article: I am a LADA diabetic (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults, sometimes referred to as Type 1.5). I am insulin dependent, but I didn't become symptomatic until my early 40s.

Lately, I have been experimenting with the "grazing diet". Instead of eating three meals a day one would eat a dozen or more really small meals; basically snacks.

The motivation was that the glucose response profile of my insulin was poorly matched with the glucose response profile of the foods I eat. My insulin (Humalog), has a profile lasting three to four hours, while most of my foods have a much shorter profile, some with a profile of an hour or less. By spreading my carbohydrate intake over more time I get a better match to my insulin response. For example, I spend two or more hours eating lunch. So far, it seems to be helping noticeably.
Poor Man's Global Traffic Manager
It's about both, but the magnitudes matter. Would you do a job you love doing for free? Assuming the answer is no, then to paraphrase Churchill, we’ve established what kind of people we are; now we’re just haggling over the price.

Am I willing to take a 10% pay cut to work on things that are good for society instead of selling ads? Sure. 25%? Probably. But those aren't the magnitudes we're talking about. Total comp for a senior-to-staff level engineer at FAANG (or anyone competing with them) will be, let's say, 500k/year, plus best-in-the-world benefits. Total comp for government or charity work rarely cracks 100k, and even tech companies that are focused on good rather than profit, maybe 200.

And it's not like the FAANG jobs are bad - day-to-day, they're incredibly interesting. There's lots of fun stuff to build with smart people. The only problem is the background existential dread. It's also hard to argue that they're actively harming humanity in a lot of cases - maybe this line of reasoning works on potential Raytheon or Palantir employees, where the delta in morality is much greater, but convincing people to go from neutral-ish to good is harder than convincing them to go from bad to good.

So the question you're asking is, are you willing to take a 60-80% pay cut to possibly do a less interesting job, in exchange for moral fulfillment and knowing that you're helping humanity? You might think the answer is yes, but I think it's hard to fault people for whom it isn't.
All the early startups I worked with used AIM or MSN Messenger.
The main thing Slack did was 1) give each company their own private walled garden, 2) integrations/extension support.

AOL or Microsoft could've owned this space in the 90's... if they thought about it.
Apparently Kernighan is also updating his Awk book of 1988 this summer too.

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10746
I would have said that the 1960s and part of the 1970s were filled with attempts to synthesize, among other things the fields you've mentioned. It wound down with Reagan and Thatcher's elections, which may or may not be proximate cause - the new right at that time were certainly not fond of the humanities in any way.
You must fart a lot with all that fiber in your diet. One of the blessings of switching to a diet that is appropriate for human beings is that your digestive system will operate a lot more smoothly and you'll stop farting so much. You basically never fart on a diet of only red meat. Also, a red-meat-only diet has far more vitamins and other micronutrients than a plant-based diet.