skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question that should have been considered before destroying the currency.

For a government to be considered legitimate it must be trustworthy.
It is a nightmare.
The interesting part of this is the fact that every radio station is required to a special light that turns on when a Royal dies and this is broadcast throughout the UK by the military.

The UK has a weird, self-important, order-centric hierarchical culture. Even down to the fact this event had a codename pre-planned in advance. "London Bridge has fallen".. just, why? This isn't James Bond. This is the real world, she's an old lady that everyone knows will die. Add to this is that she had no real power throughout the realm.
Cool, so it looks like they take the “raw” GPS location (after the GPS module does processing to spit out a lat/long) and applies statistical methods with a model of the actual 3D geometry. Seems like a smart way to improve the accuracy from “userspace”.

This reminds me of the Comma.ai project, Laika [0]. Since they have access to the raw GPS module data (Ie the actual timings of each received satellite transmitting), they can do things such as correcting for troposphere/ionosphere delays by looking up the relevant astro data as recorded by NASA and others.

[0]: https://github.com/commaai/laika
Phew this went somewhere entirely different than I thought it would when I wrote the first paragraph. My original point was going to be that freedom of market wasn’t the ingredient that allowed standards of living to increase in anything like tandem. It was freedom of society. As our “rising tide” lifted all boats, our economic policies mostly resembled socialist countries’, and their effectiveness was mostly attributable to living in a society where you don’t get dead or put in prison or similarly punished for advocating things you think would improve your life or the lives of those with whom you have solidarity. That’s still true. The free market is an awful vessel for that. And there’s no reason to conflate social freedom with it, if anything there’s every reason to assume unfettered market freedom loves social constraint.
Maybe we could fund the IRS to to conduct more audits by funneling them the grant money that otherwise funds mturk survey "research"!

(This definitely seems like a great idea and nothing can possibly go wrong)
> Popular comment about Bellard yesterday? Bet you'll see a write-up of Bellard submitted today.

I don't know what triggered this particular (re)submission, but I found about his quickjs hours ago by reading a thread about javascript in youtube-dl that is a serious candidate ...
I've personally used trueskill for n-n team balancing: https://trueskill.org/

I haven't had enough players to actually have enough data / joining players to actually tune those parameters. If I did though I would store joining data and try out different strategies offline using gradient descent / grid search.
That's not the case, though. There are even python modules that let you evaluate JS code in v8 (Chrome's JS interpreter). It'd be pretty trivial for youtube-dl to make use of that if the author thought it was worth doing.
The reverse happens too.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MINASWAN

Anyways, Loris Cro is not a random single person, he's more like the public face of the leadership team. For context, Loris is framing the greater conversation as punching back against Rust's dishonest marketing practices.

Should this matter if you like to use the tool? Not for me. But I'm not going to be confused when people look at the PR smell and feel averted.
I don't have a personal platform for this, but am uploading missing content to existing ones I know of:

lvlworld.com - Curated, the polished and more playable end of the spectrum

en.ws.q3df.org (Worldspawn Archive) - Mostly focused on defrag (trick jumping) maps but has a lot for the standard game mixed in.

Excessive Plus's FTP server at ftp.excessiveplus.net

efservers.com/maps.php Elite Force Map Search. Has a lot of regular Q3 content buried amongst the Elite Force stuff.
I wonder if this kind of detection would work even better with hyperspectral cameras that have a dozen or more color channels instead of just the usual three. You could teach an AI to recognise the optical spectrum of specific paints used on munitions that would be undetectable to the human eye.

Such devices can be assembled at relatively low cost by combining multiple greyscale CCD or CMOS sensors with something like a set of dichroic splitters. Old TV cameras used to work this way, with three separate sensors for light split into red-green-blue channels. It's possible to split it further into finer divisions.
There are a few things that I'm seeing differently in the market than what is outlined in this post.

1) Caps and res with 20+ week lead time? I'm assuming they are not building their own boards, but are getting them built by a reputable manufacturer. From what we've seen, the manufacturers we've spoken with all have stock to supply ceps and res for our needs. Why are they not seeing the same?

2) As a start-up, how much hardware are they building now? and why? If you know you are going to need 2000 power regulators (one of the components we've had difficulty getting), find one that suits your need, and buy your needs for the next 12 months. We bought up every EEG chip we could get our hands on because without it, we have no business. Yeah, it cost a few thousand more than we wanted to spend at the time, but it kept us in business. It also kept these chips out of the hands of competing start-ups. :)

3) buying from exchanges is a real challenge. We actually had some breakout boards (I can't remember the supplier) and the chip didn't respond in the way the spec suggested it should. We're assuming it was counterfeit, and programmed around it for a time. We also bought a bunch of stock from one supplier that we're unsure of, so we made a small purchase, and tested it to make sure it was legit before buying more.

I know there are supply chain issues, I'm not suggesting there aren't, but I've found that with a little bit of planning ahead we were able (so far) to get around them and have pre-purchased stock to last us the next 9 months.

Supply chain is now a strategic advantage, not just a challenge. However, it looks like this is already turning around and chips are becoming available again.
In Uruguay, neighbor of Argentina, you can extract up to 500 USD daily from ATMs.
Education and Indoctrination
Kings were limited by the nobility. The English monarch was an extremely weak king. Not all monarchies were despots like in North Korea.
This stuff isn’t super complicated, but it needs to be funded.

My spouse was in a leadership position in a municipal water utility for several years. You have to make capital investments to maintain pumps, filtration systems and have operational funds to perform testing and repairs.

Municipal government often struggles with capital investment, especially in states that tightly regulate the ability of cities to bond or wherever the governor has the ability to control municipal authorities. There’s a “starve the beast” philosophy in some quarters that creates issues like this.

Money is usually the root cause. Incompetence is usually the result.

Another common dumb move is selling the water system to a private entity. Because governments are both more efficient and have a lower cost structure for raising capital, in the long run that leads to higher utility rates and deferred investment.
I think they are just expecting the title of the post to be accurate. If the issue cannot be resolved in 24 hours the post should not say it was resolved in 24 hours.
When they're not actively destroying the Mississippi Delta through incompetence.
past performance not indicative future results , as its often said.
I am very curious how you managed to hold more than half the blocks for a bit!!
all maps of a physical territory, yes. that’s a consequence of ħ, at the very least. but once you’ve encoded this best of all possible maps, the uncertainties in the map are quantified (like probabilities). you no longer have “unknown unknowns” so you can just carry through all the PDFs and create a true risk assessment. and it’s these unknown unknowns which were, AFAICT, the heart of this article.
1. consume product
2. anticipate release of next product.
3. GOTO 1
Probably because mismanaged transitions are very, very embarrassing.

I think of how the only American President to take the oath of office on a Catholic missal was Lyndon Johnson - who mistook Kennedys missal for a Bible.

Not the biggest thing in the world - but people are watching and problems will be magnified out of proportion and talked about for centuries.

Nobody wants to be played as an incompetent civil servant in a Netflix tv show 50 years from now.
Have you ever been in a management position? That's a legitimate question and not trying to be argumentative.

I ask because I was surprised and appalled after getting into management and almost immediately being included in meetings whose sole goal was to discuss ways to squeeze the employees more or cut back on their total comp in a way that they wouldn't immediately notice. These weren't even "fat cats", these were just execs working at regular companies who were making less than what I've seen reported as FAANG total comp for engineers in their second year. It wasn't even effective for producing greater productivity as any engineer with talent moved on for a better paying job or, if they were talented enough, moved to a FAANG where they rationally offered better rewards for better output.

There is a cultural standard in many American corporations where the executives and management class below them seek to squeeze every ounce of blood from their employees not because it is a rational choice for improving profit, but because merely because they can. My take on it so far has been that at some point in the past this _was_ actually a rational choice because there was a lot of value being paid out to employees, but the employee base has been squeezed of all excess for so long that most executives are just cargo culting based on what their predecessors did.
Very interesting since you do connect with people outside your work based on some shared interests/activities.

Do you think if you found out more shared interests with your co-workers, your work day-to-day wouldn't get better? Hypothetically: Like knowing a fellow dev you have worked with for years or a new member of the team is also a big fan of a specific EV or sport like you and is watching the US Open or preordered the new F150 Lightening?

Would that not make work, feel less like work? Overall establish a more welcoming/belonging dynamic?
As I said in a few places, I do apologize for the outburst. Deleting the tweet is part of showing that I do mean to take back my words. As for the time delay, some of it is because it took me a bit to cool down, some of it is just that I wasn't checking on Twitter. One of my usual rants is that I keep Twitter notifications disabled and that the app keeps nagging me about it.
Nobody is going to take a bug report personally because it isn't the same as implying the project is pointless and even morally wrong whenever the opportunity arises.
As someone who grew up with leaded gas and carburated cars, I don't really miss them. I pull up in traffic these days behind an old restored muscle car (which are awesome, don't get me wrong), and the smell of unburned gas makes my eyes water. It's hard to believe that all cars were like that.

I think the article is mostly referring to diesel emissions though, since they refer to the PM-25 particle size, commonly produced as soot from diesels. The new diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), particulate filters, and computer controls have come a long way in reducing the soot produced. But they're complex systems that tend to have a lot of problems. And as we saw with Volkswagen, they can be gamed.
Why start from known bad point? Just build something else.
>Except the corporations speech is being restricted by the government while the user's speech is being restricted by a private corporation.

Government is of, by and for the People. That Corporation is composed of the People which the Government is of and for, and through which the legal fiction is granted legitimacy.

As far as I'm concerned, corporations are de facto extensions of Government.
Yes, in Ecuador that happens, which is nice if you're a tourist from the US. When I was there, the local bank didn't even add a fee for using their ATM, though my US bank added their own charge. Still better than in the US where both banks would add a fee.
They also have a huge presence in nearby Vicksburg (waterways), so it might have been an easy resource to call on.
Being demanding of your suppliers seems like a risky choice. Especially if you're small and your demand is small. But it does have swagger. Being candid about real dates and real requirements sounds great, refreshing even. But then "we need our suppliers to jump through hoops for us, to expedite, to get supply not otherwise allocated to us" sounds like you're asking suppliers to 'hustle' to meet their commitments to you. What if the problem is there's no cadmium available anywhere, world wide? To what extent does oxide care about how supply is produced and how they get their supplies, transitively? What if to secure the supply they need to offer more money, but instead you tell them to "hustle"?

But yeah sourcing middling sized batches of project components has got to be rough in the best of times, since it's probably mostly coming from overseas and mostly from Shenzen. That route gets more expensive with Covid and also US geopolitical tensions with China. Its an interesting time to be a hardware-startup constrained by how freely atoms move around the world. My suggestion is that you hire a few smart, attractive Shenzen biz types, give them some generous entertainment accounts, and watch your orders get filled with ease.
And why didn't they get these guys to fix Flint's water issues?
It's a known issue, idk, look it up in the github issues. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3882 is related but not quite the same thing.

ETA: Oh this is even better: `if (false)` code can (as of 0.10) run even outside field assignment: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12040

Like I said, joke language. I define that as a toy language which is badly broken by design. Kind of like LOLCODE except I doubt LOLCODE runs `if (false)` code.

More issues with `if`:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/10349
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8952
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4491
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5230
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6444
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7097
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Or you can... understand the nature of the hedonic treadmill, and choose to jump off, instead of spending ever more energy running in place, forever.
I am only moderately surprised by this, because I have seen some less egrigious intermittent miscompilations in stage1 such as this one: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/11786

I cannot provide the full program in which it failed, and the small programs I tried did not cause it to fail at the time.

I sort of expect these things to be fixed though. Like, eventually both Zig and unsafe Rust will actually have defined semantics, and eventually expressions containing `if (false) { X(); }` will not call X, and so on.

Edit: after seeing the linked issue in a sibling comment, this is even less surprising. stage1's handling of basically any complex expression in struct/tuple literals is quite bad. I've mostly had it crash the compiler, but it's not surprising that it can also just evaluate incorrectly. It seems plausible that the actual solution to all this is to use stage2 instead, but we cannot move all of our programs to stage2 today because we use async.
> Hard not to be turned off of the Zig language after this kind of thing.

can you explain that? I see this as one person (a person who is not the Zig language itself) having an opinion, being passionate about it, then realizing a mistake was made, and then learning from it and (very likely) becoming a better person for it?

or are you really someone who thinks "Eric Clapton is super duper racist so it's hard not to be turned off of music entirely"

I do what the person behind those tweets did very often, on this site, and every time I realize my mistake and become a better person because of what I learn.
Here an "essential" guide to switches I recently saw on reddit and saved for future reference:

https://i.redd.it/a2rtcrbexwj91.png
They don't.

Preservation notices are incredibly rare, and no drag net requirements exist in Australia. CSPs are free to store such things, but generaly don't - beyond required metadata.
> ELI5: What does a homeserver allow me to do?

Basically, it allows you to run the apps that you were already running natively on your own computer, but now in a browser on your own computer :)
> all maps of a physical territory, yes. that’s a consequence of ħ, at the very least.

Not really. If it's a consequence of anything, it's a consequence of relativity and the finite speed of light: you literally cannot know all of the information you would need to construct the "perfect map" you describe, because you only have access to information from a limited portion of the universe.

Quantum uncertainty just makes it worse, since even in the finite portion of the universe you have access to, you cannot know the exact state.

> once you’ve encoded this best of all possible maps

There is no such thing. Even leaving aside the relativity issue I raised above, non-commuting quantum observables are incompatible, so there is no single "best possible map" taking quantum uncertainty into account.

> you no longer have “unknown unknowns”

This is impossible. First, information outside your past light cone is always "unknown unknowns". Second, even if we limit attention to the data in our past light cone, someone can always measure a quantum observable that doesn't commute with the ones you have data on and invalidate your current model.
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Some of the plant decomposes to the atmosphere, but some stays in the soil too. It is pretty easy to demonstrate it to yourself, with fast-growing plants, after a few years you can have quite a bit of extra carbon-based matter in the soil.
> most people are very smart ... most people are inarticulate.

I share this view, though I would dial it down to just smart.

My pet theory is that people simply differ in what interests them: almost all people are highly articulate on topics/activities that interest them. (A common preoccupation is 'getting something for nothing' or 'how to get away with x'. There are a lot of geniuses in that field!)

Only a narrow subset of humans are fascinated by intellectual matters. And the rest call them egg-heads.
Focus on the business, not the technology.

First off, anybody can say AI. Anybody can build AI. Consider the AI statement about as valuable as "cloud based". If not today, in the very near future, AI will be everywhere.

Now that you've removed the reliance on valuing the AI, what do you think of the company? Do they have an innovative approach to the market? Good business model? Is it something you think the world needs?

If they are just saying "we're the next big AI company", then you'd need to understand why they think they are, and how they are going to market that. What is the market they are going for.

We've got a bunch of AI, but we don't even mention it in our deck. Sure, it's a big part of what makes our product work, but our customers aren't buying AI, they're buying the benefits of the product.

Ignore the buzzwords and focus on the benefits.
The Apple Reality Distortion Field is clearly still strong.
There's been an enormous amount of PR done on the behalf of the Army Core of Engineers ever since people figured out that New Orleans was their fault.
Flint had to replace their pipes before it could be fixed. But it was fixed in 2019, anyone who still posts “the US is bad because Flint doesn’t have working water” is just lying to you.
If you can't think of any other use for a gun than killing other people, that says more about you than the tool mate.

It's an open ended, mechanically triggered, gas generator frequently employed to convert chemical to kinetic energy of a poperly dimensioned payload.

That has many many uses.
Does that include this comment?
I dont know, but as general commentary:

Lead poisoning is not so easy to fix. You have to replace extensive amounts of lead pipe and/or find and remedy another source and then treat the existing poisoning which doctors aren't so talented at.

Most doctors aren't well versed in chelation protocols. Even if you replace all the lead pipes, the problem isn't resolved. You still need medical care.
I feel like if I need customer service for basic banking services (as these banks are supposed to provide), I'm already at the wrong place.

For the rest I guess it's things I don't personally care about, so while it could be better (I have a EUR account for which my recipients get transfers within hours), I don't really notice it in practice.
My understanding of the Flint water issue was the introduction of corrosive water that caused the lead pipes to leech lead. The fix wasn't "Make repair at the one point of failure" but "Replace every water pipe in the 34.1 square mile city."
I found the Blender codebase very intriguing. Overall just amazing piece of software and lots to learn from https://github.com/blender/blender.
The unsettling thing about people who insist that humanity is irrelevant because it's small relative to others things is that they must necessarily believe larger people are intrinsically more relevant than shorter and thinner people.
They're probably talking about The Kiwi Farms, a site which has a lot of trouble finding a host or an ISP willing to tolerate them. They also have people petitioning foreign governments to seize their IP addresses.
This guy’s too extreme … the video seemed to waste one’s time …
OP has heavily editorialized the title. Actual title is "Jackson’s Water Crisis: The latest updates" and the article states that the Army corps of Engineers arrived sometime prior to Sept 2.
L5 GPS will address the multipath-in-urban-canyon problem that Uber worked on.
i relate to this currently and that is a great way to think about it. thank you for posting this.
I've seen developers take bug reports personally quite a few times in my career, and the behavior Loris exhibited today is a very common precursor.
I don’t know much about L5. How does it do so?
> Honestly pathos and emotions can guide us in my eye just as much as logos can.

Emotions allow your biases to manifest, letting you focus on thousand suicides and turn a blind eye to famine for millions. And even feel virtuous while doing that. Utterly disgusting.
This is an attempt to technically excuse away a tool that you always treat as loaded until confirmed otherwise and you never point at something unless you intend to destroy what you’re pointing at. You’re not using it to open doors or fix tractors. A tool to drive nails into concrete with gunpowder is not a gun; it’s sold at Home Depot or insert your big box store here.

Invasive hog hunting? Sure. Self defense? Sure. Clay pigeon shooting? Why not. 45k gun deaths a year in the US, half of which are suicide? Also true. Regulate that which causes harm, that is the role of government. There is a large canyon between “guns for everyone” and “take away all the guns”, and room for improvement as it relates to harm reduction.
How pandemics affect divorce rates now – and 100 years ago