skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be quite skeptical of that.

Groceries, and fuel expenditures sure. Perhaps even clothing needs can be squeezed into such a budget.

But the tools, dock time, and part costs for required maintenance items really don't seem plausible to fit into that budget, even if they provide 100% of all labor themselves.

Plus if they run a YouTube channel, they have internet costs. Etc.
You might be right (at least until the AI improves a bit), but even so it promises to make artists more productive to the point that we will need far fewer of them. Unless we are able to scale up the amount of art we need by a huge amount.
I live on a boat... AMA
Then you’re arguing with someone else. I’ve never claimed the US is “0/10” or any such silliness. I made sure to acknowledge what censorship does exist here. I referenced FCC authority in that first comment.

“Honestly no better”

That’s what set me off, because it so obviously not true. It’s better in the US. Not perfect. But definitely better.
Toward Fearless "cargo update"
Then the dissatisfied customer throws a fit and warns their peers that the vendor isn't trustworthy.

There is an asymmetry here because anyone can be a customer but not everyone can be a vendor- that requires a certain level of reputation and upfront investment. So it is more risky for a vendor to scam a customer than the other way around.
I don’t think starlink is likely to be a huge ecological disaster but I do weep for what it’s doing to our night sky. The beauty of the cosmos is now very obviously polluted when viewed even with just the naked eye. You can see the starlink sats go by constantly if you go to a dark sky location. With a telescope or binoculars or worse yet, astrophotography, it’s inescapable.
The problem here, for banks at least, is that even if they can be reversed, the fraudster is long gone by then and the funds have been withdrawn.
I like new releases when they mean new features and bug fixes. Not so much when it’s just a designer messing around with the UI and graphic design or some “product manager” removing or changing features on a whim, due to A/B testing or whatever.

New releases should almost always only add features or fix bugs.
Shameless plug, but I’ve written a book about what differentiates a good programmers from great ones. [0]

In my opinion the soft-skills far outweigh a person’s technical skills in terms of importance when it comes to identifying whether is a good programmer and should be promoted to a senior position. Obviously the programmer needs to have strong technical fundamentals, but the essential soft-skills are things like:

* good communication skills (speaking, writing, and also listening)

* Reading and understanding unfamiliar code

* Recovering from mistakes

* Understanding how to add value

* Understanding how to manage risk

* Dealing with conflict in a professional way

* Managing your time efficiently

* So much more

A lot of those things can be learned over time, but historically I’ve seen junior engineers put these things off until a few years into their career when they’re ready to make the jump to a senior role, only to find that they’re lacking in one or more of those necessary soft-skills needed to get the promotion. I’ve always advocated for juniors to start working on these skills as early as possible in their careers, because it will make you a better programmer in the long run.

[0]: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior
Thanks.

The question is, why didn't Europe secure energy supply before inflicting self-sanctions?

When Europe sanctions Russia, they're literally sanctioning themselves.

Why not limit their energy sanctions initially, supply arms to Ukraine, and then plan to get off Russian gas completely over the next 5 years for example?

The need to appease the public immediately seems to have done just as much pain to EU as Russia.
I've found you don't actually need a templating system, you just need format-strings. Write your rendering logic with normal code that just spits out a string

Templating languages probably help with performance a bit when you're rendering at request-time, but for static stuff I don't really see much point

I've got a hand-rolled static site generator in JavaScript that just uses template strings. I only have around 30 pages, to be fair, but when I make a change it re-generates the whole site before I can even alt-tab and reload the page. I assume a C++ version could be much faster
It’s going to be a dark winter here in Europe.

I’m just a bit east of Germany here in Poland: my city has already dialed down street lighting considerably. The night has become quite creepy.

Wouldn’t mind digital the ad displays going away for good though.
Get ready for all artwork being of one of a few standard styles.
Government censorship can look at lot like corporate censorship, remember Zuckerberg said Facebook limited the reach of the news story because FBI informed them something. I am sure this is probably not the first time American government “requested” a corporation to censor something without the public knowing.
I guess I'd try to find a comfortable place to live in exile, start pocketing cash, and figure out how to get there before the doomed ship sinks and angry mobs try to kill me.
It's not really a fear for me. I've spent all of my life to get to a point to where I could live independent from them. They could die right now and, aside from the natural sadness, I would still be able to live my life. I don't really know what I would have to be afraid of, except for the sadness itself - which is far too common in my life for me to fear anymore.
Ironically, I think one could argue that the military of any democratic nation would pass that test despite being a lot closer to totalitarian states[0] than almost all modern companies.

[0] Not a judgement call, I think that is necessary given what they do and the risks they have to be ready to face the moment they are ordered to do so
Is there any value in first class renames other than some performance boost ?
The first words of the Constitution are “we the people” which identifies that sovereign power from which the government derives its power and legitimacy.

I do not wish to abolish secrets - merely to make it clear that US citizens are the rulers of the country and therefore nothing should be kept from them. I can imagine many ways that could be done without the kinds of dire consequences you extrapolate.
And if a population doesn’t like it and/or wants access to the original, then the corrective action is less destructive, more equally available, and more quickly realized.

I.e. “stop subscribing to the censored service and back any company with the means and intent to stream the originals and everyone wins” as opposed to “vote and/or overthrow the dictatorship or die trying and possibly nobody wins”.
Not in a way where your main currency is GBP.

On a plastic boat, you don't have to black the hull, but things do break, engines need replacement oil, new filters. Painting, leaks in window frames, wifi subscriptions.

There is no way that figure is achievable outside a crazy initial investment which needs zero work, and even then, the work will pile up quicly.
ACH and Wires have similar times to "settle". However, rules within Fedwire and NACHA allow banks to hold ACHs for a few more days before releasing them to the customer. But technically funds are both arriving within 24 hours or so.
It's an impressive new technology, and there's nothing else out there like it in terms of the model being publicly available and able to be run on consumer GPUs.
IMHO it is equally hard to wrap our head around the concept of inifity (has always been there) versus there being a start or end to time and space.

It's a bit weird because if we try to think about the end of space our brain immediately asks "well what is beyond the end?" and so implicitly expects there to be more and more - ad infinitum.

But on the other hand if we think about something being infinite then our brain immediately tells us "hold on! that seems fishy, I've never experienced something infinite, it has to start somehow" and so implicitly expects there to be a limit to everything.
What businesses allow you to pay via ACH?

Off the top of my head, the only ones I can think of are utilities, other banks (so you can make loan payments), and consumer payment processors like PayPal. In the first two, they'll have your ID. In the latter, they do the "make two deposits" thing to verify you own (or at least have access to) the account.

I can't go to Wal-mart and pay via ACH. Do they even take personal checks anymore?
> both of those are caused at least in part by obesity

You're letting the word "are" carry a lot of weight where "often" or "can be" might be more accurate.

They're correlated with obesity, which means that they're more likely to be present in obese patients. But they exist independent of it: not being present for all obese patients and sometimes being present for non-obese patients. And since they're measurable on their own, it's kind of a big deal to draw them out as obesity-associated factors more closely correlated with all-cause mortality than obesity as a whole.
I think this is the (only) place in the Nginx docs that mentions 444: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html#...
5

You could do storyboards from a shooting script* now, but generalizing to synthesizing character and camera movement as well as object physics is a ways off.

* A version of the script used mainly by director and cinematographer with details of each different angle to be used covering the scene.
There are numerous neural networks for image matting.
I made it to the comparison operators before convincing myself that it really was a joke. The buildup on this is brilliant -- the crossover between clueless arrogance and absurdity is very subtle.
Fair enough. My defensiveness is based on the assumption prevalent in these sorts of discussions that if you don't share a viewpoint you are just suffering from insufficient education on it.

I'm picking extremes because the OP made a blanket statement about life in workplaces. They didn't say, life as an Amazon warehouse worker is exploitative for example. The statement was extreme to begin with. There are lots of different types of workplaces in America. You didn't really strike a nerve beyond I guess that I'm not a huge fan of hyperbole / sloppy language.

I don't really think you'll get kicked off the gravy train if you dissent at all. There's a good bit of anti-capitalism, "tear down the system" type talk in tech. That said, I agree with you that corporations are not democratic organizations.

My first corporate job was as a cashier at a grocery store. Yes, if I refused to wear the uniform, or ring up customers when they stood in my line, I'd probably be written up and after 3 write ups, fired. I guess you could call that authoritarian. I don't see how it gets you much though.
Computers are fast, sites get updated infrequently, and compiling a static site is a lot less computational work than dealing with the utter *********** that is C++ templates.

Unless you're 'web-scale', it's complexity that doesn't solve any particular business need.
> As I recall, the joke being that it was a "write only" language.

Yeah, which is why I question how it go so popular.
> Starship's engines use methane. Very little black carbon produced.

What's your point? Methane has about 25x the global warming potential of CO2: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
If someone is in sufficiently acute danger that a hospital bed is under discussion, I suspect that the manner of lighting and any putative benefits thereof is a relatively small concern.
Reinventing the wheel can also lead to difficult-to-find bugs that explode years down the road. Yeah, you could reimplement the parts of zlib you need in a couple hours, but just use zlib, even if it's a core part of your functionality.

However, as an industry we don't have a great way to know what is or isn't reliable. I've started publishing component datasheets with my utility libraries because that conveys the sort of commoditization I think we should strive for, but they haven't been very useful so far.
White tea is actually closer to black tea than the name implies. Because – unlike green tea – it is not steamed to stop the oxidation process, it oxides naturally as it dries. This puts it somewhere between green tea and black tea in terms of oxidation (which is also where oolong is BTW[1]). Some oolongs and white teas – if brewed similarly – are very very close to black tea in terms of flavor.

[1] The technical difference between oolong and white is simply that white is processed naturally, whereas oolong has more “steps” (oxidation, drying, steaming, etc.). The steps can be manipulated to give the tea a different character. Oolongs are often roasted, for example.
There's a ton of misinformation in this thread - this is not at all what ACH is. ACH is specifically how banks move money between accounts. It's not at all analogous to wire transfers or more generally payments.

ACH being public information is a bit like nameservers being public.
How much do you think that has impacted the age of founders?

My general assumption is the age would be similar to what it was 4 years ago.
I don't think that's what totalitarian means.
At some point, one has to make a decision on the values the have, and which ones they consider universally valuable.
Wacom tablet(just a display) might be an option.

https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays/wacom-one
If it requires a tutorial for all users, that’s called a manual and it doesn’t have to appear on launch or force you to read it. Unskippable step by step tooltip guides are the absolute worst.

Many features are better off hard to find and left that way than shoved-in-your-face discoverable, or introduced by a tutorial. Those who want to get the most out of their tools will find them and will appreciate you treating them like fellow intelligent beings. The rest will never know what they missed and won’t worry about it either.
That's interesting, you'd think the bigger number hits harder
Are you typically moored or a cruiser? What do costs look like? How do you support yourself?
It's from Alice's Restaurant.
Happened recently, ordered pizza but they delivered to wrong address. Called them they wanted to deliver pizza again but it would have been too late. So they refunded the transaction, though seemed a little reluctant.

My guess is that if I had no option to do a chargeback, it would have been harder to get a refund then.
Isn't that list just "Ops" ?
The fear is that when they go, you've moved right up towards the front of the queue for the chopping block.
Thank goodness that the merchants that I do deals with do not force me to pay with cryptocurrency.
My Summer of Nixon and Watergate
There is a feature in bitcoin called replace-by-fee (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Replace_by_fee). But that is not completely analogous to a refund because vendors will wait many blocks before accepting a transaction (to prevent finney attack).

If you want to have a third party mediate the exchange, you can use a multi-signature transaction (https://monerodocs.org/multisignature/). For example you send the cryptocurrency to a 2-of-3 address where the mediator, the vendor, and the customer each hold a key and two of them are needed to move the funds (the mediator sides with either vendor or customer, or the vendor and customer both side against the mediator). Or you can send the cryptocurrency to a 2-of-2 address, which allows the customer to permanently withhold the funds from the vendor at the cost of withholding some funds from themself that they put down ahead of time, like an escrow that is locked in case of dispute.
I saw talk the other day how these ML art models aren't really suited to doing something like illustrating a picture book because it can synthesize a character once but wouldn't be able to reliably recreate that character in other situations.

Didn't take long for someone to resolve that issue!
Do you move between countries a lot? Is your passport typically checked?
What I've never understood is why the US system relies so much on ACH Pulls rather than Pushes? For example, most banks allow you to pull money from an external account (by verifying you own the external account using something like Plaid Identity or microdeposits) but don't always offer the ability to push funds.

It seems pulling is much more open for abuse than pushing funds. Perhaps it has something to do with the originator having liability for a potential returns.

In Europe, I've never seen any bank allow customers to pull funds (something like a SEPA I guess) but its extremely common to push funds very easily to another account just by entering their IBAN (not so in the US though).
I have no idea, but I also doubt that's the most effective metric for determining people buying/being sold, US culture. I think you'd have to sample a wide range of metrics to gauge how well US culture has been sold around the world. You'd also have to come up with a good definition of culture. I'm using a very generous one here, including pop-culture, tech-culture and lots of what many people might consider trash. But yea, notwithstanding all of that, I still support the notion that US culture has been sold effectively throughout the world by the US and those who have tried to censor it.
Something people don't appear to understand is that the fed only controls the brake pedal and maximum speed limit. They can't force more money into the economy as so many people seem to believe.

So half the time, the Fed is just some sort of con man, trying to trick the economy into doing what they want through press releases and optimistic predictions, etc.

The other time they are just slowing the economy down for good or bad reasons.
working to advance surveillance state, pro-cop activism and political action, shilling crypto pump and dumps, gig economy, etc

good returns for investors on a lot of the above hence the interest and respect from business community. simple as that, accumulated dollars talk. someone can be a ghoul and a charlatan and still be pleasant, friendly, helpful on a personal level to many.
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Since obesity is often caused by a poor diet/lack of exercise maybe that causes obesity and also causes insulin resistance, not that poor diet/lack of exercise causes obesity causes insulin resistance. So you can be fat off salad and be ok and also be thin off canned chili and not ok.
Eh I still do this, "no drinks in the computer room". Told that to my friend the other day and he thought I was joking.
"Follow their adventure on their YouTube channel Wildlings Sailing"

The entire article is more or less an advertisement for a new lifestyle trend and they obviously interviewed people who want to show off that they belong.

EDIT: And of course, their most popular video is ... "The Yunnan Cowgirl Sails to a Nudist Island" https://youtu.be/b72bjCyJLMo?t=305

I'd say Mark and Nadiyana are professional influencers and now they got their big break by being featured in the Guardian.
Er, what? This article seems to be starting from a weird premise. Even the very first sentence, "It is a rare person who can do nothing- purely and without guilt- especially in our current culture of busywork." I can't relate to. Is it really so uncommon for someone to just do nothing... or does the author just surround themselves with such people?

Also, this:

> I suspect this is why from China and Japan to here in the UK, slow and elaborate practises have formed over centuries around the proper way to drink tea. Rituals that the takeaway cup and drink-at-the-desk culture have been unable to entirely erase.

Is comparing apples to oranges. You could easily flip the drinks, and make a point about how the ritual of brewing coffee, taking a cup out to your garden, and drinking it in the sun, is more relaxing than the UK office culture of making (and offering to make) cups of tea which are then consumed at your desk.
> nunchaku

Huh, you weren't kidding. Banned and censored in the UK, banned in Canada, Germany, and several US states... because of Bruce Lee? Bizarre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunchaku#Legality
I don't get it. The big problem with the old meta tags is that nobody follows standards[1], and they were frequently abused to misrepresent the document in a favorable way (especially keywords and description).

How would this help alleviate those problems?

[1] To this day. I've learned, from building a parser for my search engine, you can't just select the <title> tag if you want the title of a page. You need to select the title tag in the <head>-tag. Otherwise you'll get the title-tags people semi-regularly use in the body as well... Like not just hobbyists. Found a major American university that used title-tags to wrap navigational links.
You can find more companies with “Apple” in their names & logos here: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search

https://www.quora.com/How-does-Apple-Computer-Inc-get-away-w...
It looks like this is trending towards making our dreams/thoughts reality in a way in that what we imagine can easily be turned into media - music, books, movies, etc.. Pair this up with VR 'the metaverse' and you literally do get the ability to turn thoughts into personalized explorable realities.. what happens after that?

* Do we get lost in it?

* Does today's 'professional' fiction become a lot less lucrative when we can create our own?

* Is there a to leverage this technology the improve the human condition somehow?
No, the article is essentially pointing out that the 12th root of two to the seventh power is really close to 1.5, whereas the comment you're replying to is saying that if you raise 1.5 to the 12th power, you get really close to a power of 2.

The former is more interesting when it comes to how music works psychoacoustically: the interval of a perfect fifth is fundamental to almost all music. Whereas the "circle of fifths" is more of a convenience that makes it easier to think about keys. Few songs would ever traverse the whole circle and come back to where it started, and if you stick with strict just intonation there is no circle of fifths anyways. (Maybe you could better call it a "spiral of fifths" or something.)
Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript
The law is not a programming language. Believing so is a common misconception amongst engineers, but assuming as much is likely to lead to disappointment, frustration, anger, bickering, conflict, and vexatiously long and mostly unenforceable contracts.

In particular, you can't just write up your own legal fictions and expect them to be honored. It would seem the developers in the story above learned this lesson the hard way.
Rare earth are not rare Euros just don't want the environmental problems and cancer cases.
Even Serbia went full nimby on mining them lol.
> Actually it's perfectly plausible.

No, for this to be plausible, you would need to have some theory of why the two notes matched with each other. There is no such theory; they have been chosen to be as unmatched as possible.

> nobody in 1800 would imagine we'd enjoy listening to punk, hip hop, or Death Metal

This is false.

>> That hypothetical species wouldn't recognize two notes an octave apart as being similar

> Note how I said that this imagined alien race would consider the "divisions in 12-tet as perfect". Note how those do include a perfect octave, that we already recognize as such. The alien race wouldn't change that

Sure. In that case, we can also imagine an alien race that perceives all and only the light that fails to reach its eyes.

Then again, perhaps being able to form a sentence describing something doesn't guarantee that the situation described is possible.
If you are a merchant selling goods and services for money, and had the choice between transactions with finality and without, you will always chose transactions with finality.
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Motor or sail?