skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a TV with amazing picture quality and don't want to pay a lot, there's nothing better than an old plasma TV. I ended up with a Panasonic 42" (Viera?) model, one of the later ones made. It's definitely quite heavy, and after awhile it gets a bit hot and it probably consumes a lot of power, but it easily surpasses the picture quality of today's LCD TVs. The only way to get close to its picture quality is the new fancy OLEDs, etc.

I also paid $60 for it. Hard to beat.
It is a little bit simplistic, of course, but any such statement will be.

That said, I stand by what I said. If you look at maps of brexit voting tendency, you'll see they map quite heavily onto rural communities and former industrial heartlands. My explanation for this is that they don't see or feel the benefits of the EU and globalisation. But we didn't have a referendum on who wants globalisation to end, we had one on the EU, and so they took what they could.

> The typical profile of a brexiteer is somebody retired, not somebody in employment

I find this slightly weird stated so definitively having just argued I was being simplistic. I'll lay my cards on the table. I'm British but took advantage of free movement, so I've been party to more conversations on brexit than I really care to think about both back in the UK and here. Trust me, however, this is not an accurate statement: there are plenty of people with jobs who voted for brexit and have strong opinions on it. You don't need to take my anecdata on it though, we can look at a study https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2016/0... - to put this into words:

- of every 100 18-24 year olds who voted, 29 of them voted leave.
- of every 100 25-49 year olds you meet, 46 of them will be leave voters.
- of every 100 people retirement age or above 36 in 100 you meet will have voted remain.

I find the 25-49 year old bracket overly broad, personally. The vote flips at 50+, but I suspect it would flip slightly younger based on my own experience.

But either way, it can't categorically be stated that all brexiteers are retired people. Actually I can lay further cards on the table: I used to do statistics as a job. So I take issue with the phrase "older people with fewer qualifications most likely to have voted brexit" used on the table I am quoting. Older people yes, but age also correlates with access to education, since my grandparents left school at 15, so there's a significant confounding factor here. I'd be interested in a more detailed breakdown, and I find the "and uneducated" part to be problematic/needing more evidence.

To come back to my point, I was offering a very qualitative interpretation of an extra factor I think encouraged previously core labour voters (in places that have returned labour MPs for about as long as there has been a labour party to choose) to switch allegiances in 2019. I agree with the fact labour does not represent them any longer. Brexit is part of, but not all of, that: I'm adding that Labour had an unclear stance on brexit, whereas these regions tended to vote more strongly for brexit.

This is obviously my opinion only, offered without guarantee or warranty.
More like 5 years later.
My apologies for any confusion.

My answer was to the commenter's questions, which, to me (perhaps incorrectly), did not involve the article's discussion of "Top Tier" gas.

As you point out in the article, a Top Tier gas licensee must meet the standards for all levels of gas they provide.

What the article doesn't make clear (to me), is that Top Tier is a set of standards that is licensed to almost every brand in the US (toptiergas.com). Being "Top Tier" doesn't mean the regular is Station Brand specific, just that it meets the Top Tier standards.

Given the large list of brands, it would not surprise me if most (or all) regular gas produced in the US meets these standards and is what you get at the depot as a commodity.

But I do not know that and my other info may be out of date. Hopefully there's a active pipeline worker / gas hauler reading :)
> no money compensates humiliation and bullying teachers are experiencing.

I wish I could upvote this x10000. This is the exact problem.
As a New Yorker I’m reflexively skeptical about all things California, BUT I really don’t like seeing people shooting up on the streets. There are a lot of knock on problems and we’ve seen that prisons don’t fix this problem. I’m willing to try more of this, seeing the positive-ish results in other places.
If the school can't or won't educate the student with his/her equal allotment, then the school needs to return the monetary allotment to the parents for parental discretion on how to educate the child. If the state fails to provide the service with the allotment available, you don't just start taking from the other kids' pie.

>An equal $4000/student/year

You're off by almost 4x the average if you live in the US. For reference, for the $~16k spent per year, I was able to (privately) hire someone to take care of my infant over 40 hours a week (and all 12 months), an infant that needed around the clock care and couldn't be counted on to go unwatched for even a few seconds and who constantly irritated others with utterly mind-shattering screaming colic.
And even before that we had services like Kali which would emulate a local network but over the internet for LAN only games. I remember using it to play MechWarrior 2.. poorly, the networking code was never designed to handle large latencies that you would get over modem.
Something tells me the App Store would reject this game :)
I can think of two reasons it matters here:

- Can be used as a library in Go projects

- Memory-safe (could be relevant when processing foreign data, esp as a part of some automated process)
OLEDs at the TV sizes came years after plasma. You could make it natural upgrade.

If you had one with 100 nits, you got defective unit.
> Is that a 4 day week? Is it 4.5? Is it 7? I dunno!

To me that sounds like 4.5 days–in this modern work environment I see “working days” as days where there is an expectation of availability and/or action. An off day therefore should involve no expectation that you’re reachable, or that you’ll make outwardly visible progress on your projects.

Personally I really try not to work weekends, but some weekend days I’ll have an idea, or feel the need to get ahead of things, and I’ll do some work. I don’t consider myself to have a six day a week job in that case–nobody has the expectation that I’m reachable then or that things on my todo list will be getting checked off.
> many Danes drive cars that cost a bit over DKK 100k

Interesting, I'm curious to know what kinds of car are popular there. I searched a bit, and it seems like after Tesla Model 3 (which is expensive), the most popular car models are Peugeot 208 and Nissan Qashqai [1]. I wasn't able to figure out how much they cost in Denmark through a quick search though.

[1]: https://www.dataforce.de/en/news/tesla-model-3-is-the-best-s...
The pandemic is still ongoing, plenty of countries still enforce masks.

Inflation is indirectly taxing people more and more and our society is going to hell because wealthy people brainwash people and destroy families.

Governments all around the world are becoming closer and closer to China every day.

Sure, we may have more technology nowadays (thanks capitalism) - but frankly I would have preferred being born in the 50s.
The article seems to be very repetitive in the way it explains things, but TL;DR:

> When producing password-protected ZIP archives with AES-256 mode enabled, the ZIP format uses the PBKDF2 algorithm and hashes the password provided by the user, if the password is too long. By too long, we mean longer than 64 bytes (characters), explains the researcher.

So the first accepted password would be the overly long one, and the second accepted password is the ASCII representation of the SHA1 hash of that long password. The researcher used a modified version hashcat to get a password which SHA1 hash is also ASCII.
Ehh.. with an android TV media device you can sideload something like smarttube next and have youtube on your TV without ads.

It requires some investment of time and money, sure, but nothing outrageous and far from impossible.
The world is objectively a shitty, awful place for billions of people.
Absolutely not. Thank you for sharing.
The key preposition being "into". It gives us the ability to peer into molecular water [from our macroscopic perspective]
> This little micro-bit of progress simply is not important to laypersons

Yes. Unfortunately, a little press goes a long way in getting funded, so we'll all be reading these over-hyped science press releases for a long time.
The Church of Interruption (2018)
I don't. That's their job!
Are you of a differing opinion? If so, I am desperate for some hope.
I've been working as a software dev for 20+ years,the only time I actually truly worked 60+ hours a week was when I was attempting to get my own startup off the ground.

Other than that, it's usually been 10-15 of actual work work.

Really not trying to brag, but to bring context to the conversation,I make 10 times what a teacher makes.

I think it's a real problem teachers are underpaid and undervalued. IMO schools should have very basic facilities/luxuries, and awesome very well paid teachers (150-200k) who we expect a lot out of, give a lot of liberties to. This way there will always be competition and prestige involved with being a teacher.

Might sound expensive, but I truly think it's an investment that will more than pay for itself in ~1 generation
Resources for improving logic solving skills?
I'm looking for some resource suggestions to help improve my approach to solving difficult logic problems. I feel like my approach needs to be improved. I'm someone who didn't come up with a formal CS background. I would appreciate any mentoring advice. Thanks

Edit - One area I really struggle with is recursion for example. I know I need to separate areas of complexity but really struggle with it.
Simple problem with a straightforward solution--expire copyright at 20 years.

Suddenly there will be monetary incentive to copy and distribute old content rather than keep it locked up forever.
Or to put it another way: it was an era where the people in charge of producing games cared more about making the experience of playing the game fun and less about diluting the game in favor of squeezing out the maximum amount of profit via dark patterns and psychologically-manipulative Skinner boxes.
> At that point, your PDF isn't super-compressed (don't know how to get those)

As far as I know, it's making sure your text-only pages are monochrome (not grayscale) and to use Group4 compression for them, which is actually what fax machines use (!) and is optimized specifically for monochrome text. Both TIFF and PDF's support Group4 -- I use ImageMagick to take a scanned input page and run grayscale, contrast, Group4 monochrome encoding, and PDF conversion in one fell swoop which generates one PDF per page, and then "pdfunite" to join the pages. Works like a charm.

I'm not aware of anything superior to Group4 for regular black and white text pages, but would love to know if there is.
It was more than a moment. For roughly a decade, your options were Plasma, LCD, or rear projection (or briefly hi-def CRT which was pretty wild).

There was not much overlap of consumer-priced plasma and OLED panels.
Why is Apple so hard on small developers with incredible scrutiny on releases and sometimes seemingly arbitrary eval criteria, and Tik Tok can run rampant with a keylogger injected with JavaScript? Genuinely asking in good faith here as this is way out of my domain of expertise. I worked as a UI/UX designer for a company that shipped iOS and Android games exclusively and they (Apple App Store reviewers) were always hard on us for every little thing we published. But it seems like the major social apps have some seriously invasive tech bundled in and I have to imagine if JoeBlowApp LLC wanted to ship an app with the level of data collection that Tik Tok has, they'd get reamed by Apple, no?
> Send the kid home and fail them for the year? They can try again next year. Well behaved kids are the parents' problem

You are speaking a Catholic school here. But there are a lot of other schools in 20-mile radius of my home in Silicon Valley where my wife worked.

1. Big city district with “no child left behind” policy, very stupidly executed. Never again, no matter how high the salary is.

2. A charter school chain - a commercial exercise- that has no money planned on disciplinary problems: no staff, no rooms to deal with reports and detentions. Dick drawing, chair humping - “it’s your professional responsibility to control the classroom”.

3. The Catholic school: “thank you doctor N for joining our school” - from kids! When she got all 25 answers on the first assignment- she cried. She was forced to leave the school because you can’t get California credentials in a State university in a program paid by me, not the state - while working in a Catholic school, teaching exactly the same science course.

But there is no need to brutal measures like expelling. There is say option

4. A public school in an ethnic minority suburb. Three reports - and a conference
with the teacher and administrator, who is absolutely on the teacher’s side but wants to know how to improve the situation. And that actually helps - these badly behaving kids are not necessarily cruel. “No child left behind” too, but executed properly.
I would only trust these certifications if there’s absolutely no money involved in getting certified. Otherwise there’s a conflict of interest.
Wow, thanks for posting that. I am learning more about not interrupting now.
Been a CPAP user for 20 years (am 55 now). Can't sleep without it. It actually fixed my acid reflux symptoms; by not gasping and choking so much to breathe air in, I seemed to stop having reflux.

Mine is nonpositional. CPAP pressure is 16 and allows me to sleep on my back, but I'm ususlly a side sleeper. I use nasal pillows after an over-the-nose mask for the first 6 or 7 years. If I lost weight it'd probably help but I also have a deviated septum and an elongated soft palate / large tongue for my mouth size. So a perfect storm for apnea. Fortunately CPAP works well for me and I've never had an issue with mask fit or any other interference with sleep, aside from the air noises my new machine makes. I sleep with earplugs or earbuds with rain sounds (also have mild misophonia so the sound of the machine rising/falling as I breathe in and out, vs my original actual constant pressure machine, drives me bonkers) and/or a fan in my room to cover up the breathing sounds :)

Sorry to hear that your options have not worked -- it sounds like you've tried a lot of things. Is it worth getting another sleep study to see if there are any other changes that might explain the issues? I know my first doctor/study was nowhere near as complete as my 2nd one. It was the 2nd one that raised my pressure from 11 to 16 and that made a huge difference.

Good luck!
https://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/45/nominal-vers...

> Size standards, maximum moisture content, and nomenclature were agreed upon only as recently as 1964. The nominal 2x4 thus became the actual 1½ x 3½, imperceptibly, a fraction of an inch at a time. It was a 34 percent reduction in actual volume; as those in the trade would say, it’s “selling air.”

> Today, everyone in the construction industry knows that nominal size is not actual size—despite the fact that the 2x4 designation persists in the marketplace. So, why does the awareness about the “slimming” of its actual size matter? For one, we must dispel any notion that the current size is a perfect utility equation of structural performance in terms of strength-to-size ratio.

> Instead, let’s recognize that the evolution of the 2x4 resulted from economic compromise based on simplifying differences and creating a nationwide standard for customers. It is utility optimized for construction speed—speed in shooting together single-family light-stick stud homes which represent more than 90 percent of the residential housing market.
The great thing about the Firebase API is that it's live, so you can subscribe to updates to a post/comment/profile and see them as they're made (no polling, just websockets). I'd hope any future version would retain this feature.

I'm reluctant to lose it as I'm about to release a browser extension that relies on it pretty heavily :)

[Edit]: this feature is undocumented in the link above, but it's a standard feature of FB and works as expected in all client libraries https://firebase.google.com/docs/database
If you had a dark room, plasma was highly superior until very recently.

The actual pixels made their own light, which meant that if they were dim or off, they were off - most LED screens until recently just have a backlight (or a backlight with sections) and so in a dark room on a black screen you can see the light leak through.
The car will beat it in a lot of situations if you add up the time to get to and from train stations or if you want to arrive at your destination at any time when the train isn’t arriving
I used the light phone for a while, it was great, but then I needed e-mail for work. So I’ve opted for an IPhone SE now…

My requirements for a minimal phone were touch sreeen and QWERTY keyboard. Which put the light phone up front. My spouse still uses theirs.

My pinnacle minimal phone would be a little larger light phone (think original iPhone size) that also had an e-mail app.
I had a Panasonic Viera during the plasma glory days and I didn't really like it.

The worst problem I had with it was that, like all plasmas, I can see a high frequency flickering on them, especially in my peripheral vision.

The second worst problem is they're not very bright.

I have a LG C1 now and love it (though there are a few minor issues with that too!).
Plasma TVs had the best image quality, dynamic range, and viewing angles until OLED came along. I believe the Panasonic ZT60 was the last really good one and it was discontinued at the end of 2013. I still have mine and it's an excellent TV, IMO it looks better than most of the LED TVs I see at the store (not as good as the OLEDs though).
That's a red herring. If you want to discuss that incident feel free to comment on that post. This is different.
Why do you want to deny everyone else that “luxury”?
Like saying “How are you doing?” in Europe is an invitation to tell your life story.
Yep, Benthos is an example of a cool project that uses gojq for its jq syntax support.
I'm a huge MSFS nerd with lots of hardware and play exclusively in VR (albeit on a Q2) with a 3080 and 5800x. It is jaw dropping at times, and frustratingly close at others. And when I'm frustrated I try to remind myself how good this experience could be 5 years from now, especially as VR FOV and OLED -driven contrast improvements pick up.

I can see my house complete with car in the driveway. I've navigated IRL on a discovery flight based on knowledge from the sim. My muscle memory messed me up a bit when flying IRL on a discovery flight due to how used I am to all my Virpil Mongoose throttle bindings since I fly in VR, but I still knew where just about everything was in the da40 cockpit and how it worked.

I was not prepared for the importance of physical sensations, or frankly the sensory overload due to the higher frame rates, "graphics", and physical sensations or flying IRL and it stuck with me the entire night.

At the risk of bad habits or missing important details or legal stuff, I'm now reasonably comfortable copying an ifr clearance on vatsim, basic ATC phraseology, airspace restrictions, reading various charts, and flying a pattern.

If any modders are reading this, I'd pay good money for a well done version of KSQL and KPAO. I'm frankly shocked nobody has done that yet even though the models exist from xplane.
When in history has that not been true?
This is a better argument to cut CEO pay by 90% than anything else.

The problem for teachers (and lots of other people in the care sector who struggle to take effective industrial action) isn't that the pay doesn't attract good people.

The problem is it isn't enough to live on, especially given all the training they have to do (plus associated loans) and unpaid work.
I think the overton window plays a part and it's certainly an interesting window to look at the problem of misinformation thorough, but I think that we are seeing something that's even more painful to think about. We are seeing where people believe authority is derived from.

The author makes a mistake by projecting their world view onto others. The author believes authority can be derived via consensus, I do too, but the people who spread "misinformation" believe authority is derived via might (by their king, whether it is Putin, Xi, or otherwise), or via god (as interpreted by their religious leaders).

If I believe authority is derived from academics, how am I supposed to share a world view with someone who believes authority is derived from their pastor? If there is a policy that is directly derived from these differences in beliefs about authority (global warming, evolution, abortion, election integrity, education indoctrination policy), how can consensus be reached?

Thus what we are seeing as misinformation is a much much deeper problem. Misinformation is the manifestation of fundamentally incompatible axioms about the world and how information is determined to be true.

The true danger is where this line of thought leads, because if two people have irreconcilable, incompatible views of the world they must choose to live in a cold war, or annihilate the other. That is why genocide happens. That is why Russia is trying to erase Ukraine and China is trying to erase Uighers.
Shipping water is _hugely_ expensive.

Nonsense! All we need to do, is use huge lasers to evaporate gigatonnes of ocean water. It will blow inland, and rain will take care of the rest!

Easy peasy.
So automate what can be automated to free the teacher to care more.
In theory yes, but finding SHA1 collisions is nontrivial. shattered.io has one, but they used up quite a bit of compute to get it.
Fairly common among contractors.

You just negotiate how many days you want to work on that client.

Plenty of coworkers from Italy do it to avoid paying higher taxes: they increase their hourly rate until they hit the 65k pa limit and then they just start dropping days. If they were to earn even 66k, they would start paying way more taxes and they would need to earn ~30k more to get the same salary after taxes.
A quick guide to the new lunar landers and rovers
> Games are big (file size wise) and prone to updates. Steam helped handle this distribution in a reasonable way.

Indeed. Steam is the original package manager of Windows. It's so good that nobody really remembers what it was like before Steam. They don't remember downloading and manually applying half a dozen incremental patches to their games. People are used to its incredible convenience now.

As far as DRM content licensing digital fiefdoms go, it's certainly the least bad. It's easy to forget that we don't really own anything on Steam. It certainly pisses me off when other studios start launching shitty alternatives to it that are even worse in every single way.
I am someone that regularly rails against in silico work, but come on. Treat this as a sanity check to start understanding

1. if the colloidal thought model explains unexplained observables

2. If the colloidal model makes predictions not observed yet.

It might be too harsh to say this is not a meaningful advance. The system may be too difficult to make predictions without a computer, so having a thought model is useless. Now that we have a computer model, we can start doing experimental work that we wouldn't have chosen to do otherwise.