skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of confusion in your reply.

> Currency fluctuations don’t allow for global trade.

I’m glade to learn every country in the world with their own currency can’t participate in global trade. Obviously fluctuation is not an issue for trading.

I’m guessing that by the pegging to each other you are mentioning the ECU and European Exchange Rate Mechanism. Its goal had very little to do with trade. It was mostly an attempt to avoid speculation and large monetary fluctuations which made debt management more costly for countries. It collapsed extremely fast and the southern countries were amongst the first to exit the system for reasons which are very close to why the euro is so poor for them.

> The solution: a common currency. Germany gave up the privilege of getting paid for their strong currency so weak currency countries could stay in the system.

A strong currency is detrimental to a country export. I’m not even addressing the rest of the paragraph as it doesn’t make much sense. Why are singling Italy by the way? The problem is the same for Spain, Portugal, Greece, in some measure Ireland and even somewhat impact France.

You are also completely failing to address the distortion of the German economy which are a large part of the issues especially after Hartz IV. If you take a look at the German wage levels, saving rates and trade balance, you will see that their money should be much stronger than the euro is.
I'm not sure people who want community gardens are resisting this. It's more about being able to grow for yourself, should one choose to do so. There is a certain benefit to gardening. It is calming, while still remaining active physically. It provides a low cost food source and some benefit arises from the appreciation you get when you grow and harvest your own food.

Both productive growing and localised growing can exist together.
Brain stimulation boosts memory for a month
I'm not the OP that's calling for reducing Bloat. I don't use LibGen enough to give a care one way or the other.
When it stopped working for me I just started using duckduckgo's timer
Hook me up!
I voted you down for you.
These are some of the worst photos you can show of Dresden.

Try some image search instead. It’s called „the Florence of the Elbe river“ for good reason. There are almost no big cities in Germany today that are comparatively beautiful (Münster maybe, but it’s smaller). Some impressive art has been collected there.
What policies was he referring to there? From what I recall, a big part of the German focus at the time was the shift to renewables, with the goal of reducing dependence on Russian gas imports.

Were those the policies that he wanted them to end? Or was it something else?
There are no proofs. Those with proofs have suicide waiting at their doorsteps.
To the contrary, niches can be small worlds where stories spread quickly, since everyone knows each other.
But what portion of that demand is specifically for artisinally handcrafted authentic sex rather than for apparent sex acts?
iFixit has keyboards available if you want to repair it yourself.

https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/MacBook_Pro/Keyboards
I can’t help but think that no average person fixes their own laptop these days. And for that matter, I’d say that the average person doesn’t change their own oil anymore either.
Would a pressure reading TPMS system be offered by manufacturers if they already implemented the cheaper passive ABS based system?
Thanks for the opinion, but the topic implies the conjunction of several sets: 1) actual developers & able to calculate that they really collect 11 mln bits of information per second
OR
2) actual developers & able to calculate how many bits per second they handle during programming & able to correlate the latter with the quality of code
>Remember how many times misinformation was yesterday's conspiracy and it turned into today's accepted truth?

Nope. Please do elucidate as I have no idea what you're talking about.
Upton Sinclair would be proud. Try using a smartphone today, which is becoming more and more required, without giving up PII.

- Our school district requires our kids to do business with Google, there is no way around around it without significant pain. They don't have another option.

- Last week my attempt at buying concert tickets was refused because I would not disclose my phone number and Ticketmaster no longer allows other options. A small thing but they add up.

- More and more restaurants won't accept cash.

- DMV is selling our information, ADP is selling our paycheck information.

The idea that we have "every choice in the matter" is already silly and getting falser by the day.
Not the OP, but xor is a doppelgänger of mine. We met in person decades ago.
xor is always poking around the internet finding interesting stuff.

It's an interesting search pattern. I would be interested to see other kind of "topic/domain" searching done across all .gov properties.
We all know that electricity can be utilized for purposes currently monopolized by fossil fuels, including heating and automobiles. Which means that the end game necessarily includes a rapid transition towards electricity generation from renewables. Germany has gone much father down that road than most nations, even if they have an unfortunately massive amount of electricity still being produced from coal.
Today? It's Metal Slug 5 ;)

https://archive.org/details/arcade_mslug5
What Is the Curve Behind an Iterative Lerp?
I wrote a blog post looking into which curve is represented by linearly interpolating a value over multiple frames in a videogame context. Spoiler alert, the answer is an exponential!
what about glass pipes encased in said metals :-)
> I have a bizarre phobia of things that can potentially kill me.

Me too.
Reddit seems to be mostly circle jerks to me, there is very little tolerance for two sided arguments. On HN two sides can exist in one thread since downvotes are restricted while upvotes are not, meaning that both sides can upvotes whatever they feel is good and therefore we get rich discussions.
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will anyone think about the illustrators? Who will pay them when amateurs can generate 9 good enough images from a text prompt?
I don't see it as "resisting" or trying to go "back". Maybe I'm out of touch, but back when I was in school it was starting to be accepted that both (a) industrialization, globalization, and technological progress have lead to dramatically improved quality of life in general, including the ability to feed many many more people much more efficiently, and (b) the way that we're doing this at the moment is literally unsustainable, in the sense that it just won't be possible to continue to do it this way in perpetuity.

Some people take this seriously, and want to find ways to move forward (not "back") to find ways of thriving that aren't doomed to fail eventually... When you look at it that way I don't think it's "strange" at all.
Heat Wave in China
> Why on Earth did Germany not work to diversify?

So they could benefit financially by being the natural gas hub for Europe. As you said, the reasons not to work with Russia were plainly obvious.
Causal inference, or any similar way of controlling for confounders, particularly for features that are launched at a point in time for the whole population rather than an AB test.

Summarization of open ended feedback, or more generally just making sure there's both measured data and feedback data

Cohorts analysis

Identification of both high and low adoption users to interview each group
Oh I understand. My wife and I have 7 gardens.

But it's a pipe dream that 'everybody should do it'.
> If you don't want them to have your info, simply don't give it to them.

Did you hear about Facebook's shadow profiles?
What's even more egregious is that Germany has ran multiple years with a massive budget surplus (2018 + 2019 alone amass to 100bi€). Imagine if that could be used to be invested in ways to have a diversified grid...
The author ignores another important part: betting on Russia was a bet on domestic security. Tying European countries together through commercial interdependence had a demonstrated track record of causing the longest period of peace in Europe in over a millenium. Well, why shouldn't that work in the case of Russia as well?

Well we all know why is didn't work in the case of Russia. As this article well shows, Germany made a number of mistakes that amounted to not hedging this bet.

But given the philosophies of Europe and the USA in the late 90s-mid 2010s, this approach can't be called utterly foolish.
Because in the past that also would have likely forced a rethinking/reexamination of Germany's defense setup and that would have been impossible to sell domestically.
There are lots of solar driers, but this is a roaster with temps high enough to char the chilies.

They may have eliminated a lot of CO2, but the smoke could still use some attention! (You definitely don't want to get your head near there to see how the roasting is coming!)
We should just define a year to be 360 days long and made up of 12 30 day months.

Then we can elect some druids or whatever to arbitrarily, at the start of each year, define which dates the seasonal borders will land on. Events which are truly dependent on weather can be defined in terms of "Days after the season starts."

Or we could define a 5.5+-.5 day holiday between the beginning and end of a given year. Those days will be declared to not belong to any year. We will turn off all our computers for those days, and pretend they didn't happen. If you are born within them, you get a special hat or something.
Since we've seen it done elsewhere, you'd need to probably show or at least explain where/how it can't be done for Apple.
Nowadays you start with $500K though, which puts you in a much better position when speaking with investors as your initial runway isn’t as close to nil.
Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring ML engineers
You are right, I've used the word "actual" incorrectly. What I should have said was "net". Ie, both short term and long term revenue incentivize behavior and in this case the net result was increasing performance, ie long term incentive > short term incentive.
If you are gonna have a strong opinon on ops, better learn to want to do ops. Read the story "belling the cat".
Why wouldn't I be surprised to see it gone later on? Kudos to Google for reshaping their brand image this way, they made my switch to alternatives much easier.
Absolutely. I started rotating between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers when going out. All feels normal yet I consume half the alcohol.
I read that you have to give longer prompts to Stable diffusion.

This is my bison astronaut:

https://i.imgur.com/ohIuG6F.png

The prompt was:

"A bison as an astronaut, tone mapped, shiny, intricate, cinematic lighting, highly detailed, digital painting, artstation, concept art, smooth, sharp focus, illustration, art by terry moore and greg rutkowski and alphonse mucha"
Even if you are paying full price, inevitably the complany will have some brilliant CEO who figures out that not showing ads constantly is leaving money on the table.
But they don't though.

They go after third parties who are using counterfeit or non-OEM parts.
> Khan, who was extremely unpopular with both the army and the public,

If everybody hates him, then censoring him is pointless. I don't know anything about any of these people or parties but what you're saying doesn't pass my sniff test.
Right, but someone still has to build it.

If no-one has built the madlib template for "a letter to the council asking about my disability benefits" then madlibs being more predictable isn't going to help you.
Community gardening is a form of leisure and organic food is a luxury good, neither of which are a giant step backwards for civilization.
Rename it as “verified speech transcripts.” I don’t need to understand video codecs to watch Youtube.
You may look up the already mentioned Robotron, or Messelektronik. Further Zentrallaboratorium für Rundfunk- und Fernsehempfangstechnik (ZRF). The history of Manfred von Ardenne is interesting as well (first electronic television 1931, but also helping sowjet a-bomb).
THIS. Apply the correct guardrails and learn to optimize.
A real photo is one created by photons outside the camera
I am using forwardemail.net, and that working fine for me, though there is a slightly delayed delivered, but I am ok with that, as I can do it all in gmail.
/CD requires receiving while transmitting, which is probably going to get really complicated in software when trying to precisely time GPIO pulses at .1us intervals on a 133Mhz CPU. Probably need to add an external latch + carrier sense circuit to assert a collision signal.

Side note, I do love the Firesign Theater reference, Mr. Tirebiter.
>As soon as you yield, things become non-deterministic, so aren't compatible with real-time requirements.

SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR.

Although linux is not really an RT OS.
I think it's a tall order to argue that worse performance is a necessary requirement of repairability and height and weight are constantly obsessed over but very few people I've met actually care about it (and a fair number like the Mac interface but would be happy to trade height for keyboard improvements).
>One big thing that YC did for me is it was an ambition multiplier. Pre-YC I thought it'd be cool to make software that could just pay my bills. A year post-batch and I find my default state is much more ambitious than before.

When you talk about an "ambition multiplier", do you mean personal wealth? YC is great for receiving favorable terms in the future. But you can't really take that money out of the firm, or pay yourself some stupid salary. It's just paper wealth. And a bigger valuation and more ambitious growth usually means scaling up a lot faster (fail fast), rely more on future rounds and maximize your valuation.

For a fund they'd prefer a 10% chance for $100 million valuation to 90% chance for an $11 million valuation, but personally I would prefer a 90% change for a million opposed to 10% chance of 10 million, because I can't diversify and run 10 startups simultaneously like a VC can. So I guess that's the downside of the "ambition multiplier"
They already did. People vote with their feet and attention, and people continue to flock to free services powered by targeted ads, systematically out competing services that had other models. If you don't like these services, don't use them; they don't have subpoena power. However, you might find the other options to be lacking, because they have inferior business models that do not allow them to compete on product quality.
> do you use orgmode outside of emacs?

Outside... of emacs? You leave emacs?
I can’t make the argument a previous head of state should be mandated from working where the free market takes them.

I also can’t argue that the decisions of Germany’s leadership make a ton of sense. Or rather I can, the economic argument and Germany not likely to deal with a Russia near home it isn’t able to easily deal with (outside of MAD.) That calculus makes sense to me I get and even still agree with the principle.

But you also have to look out for your national security and it really seems like Germany wasn’t looking out for anyone but it’s self here. Germany faces no serious conventional threat from Russia nor does it currently have competing spheres of influence. However as part of NATO and the EU does.

So it looks to be pretty clear that the Germans do not consider that they and, say, Lithuania share the same goals.
You got to move one step higher and work with ideas and concepts instead of brushes. AI can generate more imagery than was previously possible, so it's going to be about story telling or animation.
Not true but the judiciary did dissolve the democratically elected parliament. Who was more legitimate? Answer: the parliament
When trained to read Lisp, the human reader concentrates on indentation, code shape and the leading symbols. The leading symbols determine the syntax of the expression.

LAMBDA = lambda (args) body

LET = let (bindings) body

binding = (var [value]) | var

actually the syntax is quite a bit more complex, since args have a lot of options and both LET & LAMBDA allow type declarations.

Each of the symbols also determine a certain indentation style and code shape. There are built-in operators, macro operators and function calls. Especially macros provide an unbound amount of syntactic possibilities.

Trying to figure out expressions by looking at parentheses and finding pairs by parenthesis alignment is mostly not used. It's a too complex visual operation.
Think of a lake in the winter. Just the top layer of water is frozen, exposed to the cold air above the lake. Some of the lake water is frozen and some is liquid, depending on its position in the lake.
So, that's one part out of thousands. You're going to write up the 100 page list of all the considerations for how it has to be done, just for the iPhone? And that's going to be enacted into law/regulation?
Its parent was even more pedantic.
I couldn't share a namespace with a better guy!

Really lucked out here that .gov is explicitly enumerated in a published list. For basically any other TLD your first (big!) issue will be finding such a list.
Even if you use a library, it's easy to bake in an "obvious" assumption into your program.

Such as storing location + date + time, because that should be unambiguous, right?
Or confusing "same time tomorrow" with now + 24h. Are you even sure which one you need?
Understood. But things have changed - population growth has leveled off. Efficiency of food has increased geometrically. A sustainable balance could very well be achieved with careful management. And without everybody growing organic tomatoes in their back yard.
I've just learned to do time conversions by converting from the target timezone to UST, then from UST, to the recipient timezone.

Hasn't failed me yet.

Here's why: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/images/2019/12/23/w...

This looks useful. I haven't checked for full accuracy: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
They are finalising the full nationalisation of EDF, their main electricity supplier and owner/operator of their nuclear power plants.

Then, the electricity wholesale price on the open market becomes irrelevant. As long as their set a price that covers their actual costs for their own consumers they are fine and it is sustainable, and certainly does not require any debts since it does not actually cost anything (beyond the cost of buying the remaining 20% of EDF).
And yet, Germany produces more CO2 than any other European nation, and much more CO2 per capita than India.
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Thanks for sharing your notes. Nesting of items is not supported, although the idea has come up. It’s on hold right now – that’s mostly due to practical reasons, because it’s relatively hard to implement in tooling.

Allow me to clarify a few details regarding the spec:

- There can’t be any character before the checkbox. (An item “MUST start at the beginning of a line with a checkbox.”)

- A blank line is defined as “a line that is either empty, or that exclusively consists of blank characters”, and a blank character is defined as “a character from the Unicode Space Separator category (Zs)”. So the description text of an item (that can span multiple lines) cannot contain a line that’s all blank. Reason is that a blank or empty line separates item groups from each other, so allowing it to appear within descriptions could create visual ambiguity. (Even though it wouldn’t be ambiguous from a purely formal standpoint.)

- The format for dates is a subset of ISO-8601, except for the slashed variant (2020/12/31) that’s there for convenience, and the notation for quarters (2022-Q1).
I wonder if they would get better results with a retro-mirror on the other side of the roaster to reflect IR and catch any rays that didn't get into the roaster

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The other question is: is it cheaper to do this, or just to set up solar panels and a resistive heating element based roaster.

I don't know of any super high temperature heat pumps, but that's the next thing I think of in making the process more efficient.
I assumed the difference was more than that. So apparently the premise of my question was wrong. The topographic model seems to be enough for what I want
On demand pricing is also a key benefit of cloud. Instead of needing to make a big initial spend on hosting infra you can pay only for what you need.

The other big benefit is auto scaling, in 2012 lots of companies would launch and be unable to meet traffic from a big push from reddit or HN or others. Today it’s rare to see a new product’s site go down due to a “hug of death.”
Cheap energy has been the focus- almost the sole focus, above everything else. That leads to eased tensions and tons of opportunities, and most importantly, absolute shitloads of carbon in the atmosphere.

Are you under the impressions that we haven't been working towards cheaper energy over the last several decades?
Yeah. It's better, though $500K is still low for a couple founders plus company expenses, given how much rents and cost of living has gone up in the past 6 years.

Especially if your startup isn't purely software, and involves some operational or hardware expenses, $500K is a no-go.

It's also the ballpark of what 2 technical founders could easily make by working for ~6 months in the bay area, and not have to give away any equity at all.

So if you're doing it for $500K, I'd say there are better ways to get $500K than giving up 7% of your company.

Now if YC handed out $2M and cut their batch size by a factor of 4 (being more selective in their applications), I think it'd be a really good play for them.
It's not an uncommon thing for a justifiable uprising to end up in a place worse than before. It doesn't necessarily mean that it was instigated from the outside for that or some other purpose.
Your confusion in this thread stems from the assumption that there is only actually enough CS to cover 4 years for a good student and 5 for a mediocre bs+ms. This is complete bullshit because the truly motivated undergrad would spend the senior year doing 500s and then the next year doing a bunch more for more breadth.

At any of the large CS universities, there are usually 4+ masters tracks you can go down (security, hpc, p/l, HCI, algorithms, etc).

Someone who quits with just a BS has no interest in going further theoretically. The absolutely did not cover all of the topics available - let alone get into research.
So, no technology that others own the patent/license to is allowed to be incorporated into any product?
It's absolutely a problem I've had. I drove on a flat for several miles one winter because I thought the sound was just snow packed into the wheel-well, and driving on snow masked the funny handling characteristics of a flat tire.

By the time I got where I was going, the sidewalls were wrecked. TPMS would've saved me a tire AND a bunch of hassle of getting it replaced; the puncture was small and would've been easy to plug if I'd only known to look for it.
Pretty cool. Although it's interesting that it can't seem to render an image from a precise description that should have something like an objectively correct answer. I tried prompts like "Middle C engraved on a staff with a treble clef" and "An SN74LS173 integrated circuit chip on a breadboard" both of which came back with images that were nowhere close to something I'd call accurate. I don't mean to detract from the impressiveness of this work. But I wanted a sense of how much of a "threat" this tech is to jobs or to skills that we normally think of as being human. Based on what I'm seeing, I'd say it's still got a ways to go before it's going to destroy any jobs. In its current form, it mostly seems like a fun way to generate logos or images where the exact details of the content don't matter.