skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really neat and it's not just 8-bit. There's a section for Verilog as well. The instant and continous feedback makes me bang out some small circuits just for fun.
+1 haskell
There are two games I have really enjoyed but that I'm unable to find again

- A single room game where you have to get rid of your inventory (it's a lot more compelling than it sounds)

- Having to figure out a constructed language in a tribal setting to get medicine for your son
Creepy that this is copypasta'ed in multiple places and is a highly upvoted comment...
Well to start, right now there is 24/7 news coverage about how an ex-president took state documents with him on his way out. Seperation of office from officeholder is a pretty key part of a functioning democracy (hell even the british monarchy can do that one).

Or how about how everyone knows the political affiliations of supreme court judges? In a normal country judges are apolitical.
"thousands for an MRI"

MDSave.

I got a brain MRI for ~$450.
Are there a finite number of unitary transformations on a Bloch sphere? (If not, is topology relevant to a structured continuum?)

Unitary transformations satisfy local conservation of thermodynamic entropy. (Is Gauss's law similar?)
One year at the famous Lewes Bonfire night they put an actual caravan on the fire. Nobody was arrested then!
Wouldn’t calcium carbonate be a good and very cheap option here?

The heat of a lithium battery fire will lead to a calcination reaction and suck up heat and turn the limestone into cement and co2. The cement and water along with sand might form a concrete-y slurry?
The most important thing in the world is leverage.

And shame can make for some pretty powerful leverage.

I’m a hyper critical individual especially when it comes to myself. If I didn’t work to avoid shame, it’s very likely I’d be a lot more miserable and a lot less successful.
I'm pretty sure that everyone now living has ancestors who have done deplorable things at some time in the past. Refraining from all sorts of deplorable things, by and large, is a very recent social innovation. (Steven Pinker is especially clear on this.)
I wouldn't be so sure. The US has the concept of "Free speech zone" exactly for this situation. Designate a zone away from the event where all the protestors have to go and arrest those that don't. Seems even more draconian than what the UK is doing right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Problem is the computing power necessary to implement those bigger models increases by some large value as well. An 81MP images is 81 times bigger than a 1MP image. Not sure exactly how the generation is implemented, but I am sure it probably becomes unaffordable if its linear.
I hear this argument every time someone does something bad on psychedelics and cannabis. I’ve also heard that, if the patient had no history of schizophrenia or related disorders, they must have just had it latent and were bound to get it anyway.

Bottom line is there is no way for any individual to really know if they have latent schizophrenia anyway, and I think it’s a conveniently non-disprovable explanation for why psychedelics and cannabis aren’t bad.
Eating meat is the second largest contribution to lifestyle emissions generally after having children. It takes a thousand gallons of water to produce a typical burger patty. You can have as many of those in the desert as you'd like. Heck, we even grow the alfalfa to feed those cows in the desert.

People act like going vegetarian is some giant sacrifice. It's not that hard. Westerners just view it as poor people stuff. If you want meat to be a luxury so bad then let's cut the subsidies and see what the real cost of it is when you factor in the actual impact.
anyone know if it was lifepo4 chemistry?
Could 5G have something to do with this? https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-trouble-with-5...
Seconding the comment, .NET 7 has seen massive improvements to Regex performance on all platforms supported by .NET. Char sequence matching will use respective SSE4/AVX2/AdvSimd instruction sets and for compiled regexes, efficient automata will be emitted. Those two combined produce state-of-the-art regex matching performance.
Simultaneously washing and drying clothes while cooking a turkey in the oven, brussel sprouts in the toaster-oven, boiling water for tea, distracting the children with a computer or tv, doing some welding in the garage, and powering a bunch of Christmas lights. --- This is something that actually happened one year. It is much easier to use a big wire and a big breaker/fuse to the house than to have the power go out.
Sure, but talking about the effectiveness of the protest tactic is totally different than whether or not the state should arrest and imprison you for protesting that way.
How about putting the button on the case, like the good old turbo buttons on 386/486s
What is with americans and might makes right?

What happens when the other side starts shooting at you? Do you think the guns still help you safely protest. For that matter, what use is a gun if someone from behind cover throws a molotov at your face?
NASA Dates – Artemis I Cryogenic Demo Test and Launch; Progress at Pad Continues
"The work capacity of an organization scales, at most, linearly as new members are added. "

WTF? This is a bad way to think about the 'division of labour'.

One man cannot ever get over a 10 foot wall.

Two men together can absolutely do it.

'Work' is not the measurement, 'productivity' is.

Even the fleeting thinker, who works only 1 day a week, but shows up every day, may be absolutely critical to making things work. Paid for that input, when it matters, not 'daily wages'.
> I need alcohol to be sociable

I always laugh when I see this. Alcohol turns me into an introvert.
How is it anti consumer? What harm has a consumer suffered? It seems like your only answer to this is “there’s less weather apps”? If your viewpoint were the one used for antitrust then no acquisition ever would be acceptable.
All those 18th Century Prussian factories?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system
Between my electric heat, dryer, stove, water heater, and car it's easy to get close to the limit, and that's before anything that runs on 120, like computers, a refrigerator, lights, or washer.
Sure. But, examples like buying a high end guitar off criagslist, or a car from a private party, aren't less of a use case because they aren't every day transactions.
I just went googling for it, wondering if the Android version is on-device or sends data off to servers to do it, and couldn't find anything about a device-wide OCR on Android. Guides to developing with MLKit, and something about the feature specifically in Google Docs on Android, but nothing about the device-wide feature. Bizarre.

Same search but "apple" instead of "android" (not even iOS, which is what I meant to search but messed up) turned up tons of hits about the feature on iOS and macOS, and confirmed what I thought, which is that it's on-device.

[EDIT] Mind, I'm not saying it doesn't exist, just that it's weirdly-difficult to find anything about with searches on Google's own search engine.
> They are being arrested for being rude about it.

Is this China or Russia? This sounds insane to me. Meanwhile, the UK ruling class is free to gut the NHS and bleed the population dry and none of them give a shit. The British sense of "decorum" is pure bullshit.
It's odd this is getting so downvoted. A lot of projection perhaps? We don't know the answer and there's good research showing cannabinoids in sperm. Why's it so outrageous to suggest that until we know the answer, don't birth a kid with a weed tinted fertilizer?
So do many people! There’s a reason why it has been a staple of many societies for thousands of years!
I think you're right to a certain extent -- CYOA and parser-based IF are not the same thing and appeal to different (albeit overlapping) audiences and creators -- but also that the IF community is correct that CYOA is a perfectly legitimate form of "interactive fiction", as are a lot of hypertext works. Just like the roguelike community has found, it's healthier to expand the territory than to fortify the walls. Parser-based IF is better off than it's been in years and the increased energy brought to the community by Twine and other CYOA systems is a big part of that.
I imagine it will be just as successful as Xserve. Or Metal. Or any of those other times Apple tried to add a proprietary layer of middleware to fix a problem that was already solved at-scale.

Apple wants to become a serious player in AI? Start by dethroning Nvidia, who's been embarrassing their ML performance on last-gen nodes and 300-watt chips. Until then, all this talk of an AI revolution seems silly to me. A single $500 GPU can garner 10x the inferencing performance of a $799 M1 Mac Mini. That's without making mention of training performance comparison, which is even more dire.
Lace-making as a metaphor for AI art [video]
Ha. I wish my calendar was more open. And even when it is a bit more open, I’m often too distracted to write production-worthy code. I can bang out a PoC or do some design work, but sitting down to bang out code just doesn’t happen much any more. Sometimes I think I should go back to being an IC. It was much less stressful and not much less money (vs being a senior manager).
still unusual, even with that anecdote I can't guess that 9/10 pregnant women buying weed are buying it for someone else.
I fry most everything in ghee these days. It’s delicious and the smoke point is north of 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
This reads a lot like Engelbart's work on organizational augmentation/collective IQ etc.
Tough stuff to get right.

https://robm.me.uk/2021/07/collective-iq-improvement/

https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/256/340/
We are failing to teach those basic skills not because of bad schools, but because of bad home environments (food, safety, etc)
So you are saying that folding in a cross platform company into the platform is a platform advantage... but not a concentration of market power? Apple changed the price of Dark Sky on other platforms to infinity but on it's platform to zero.
I'd imagine this law was a direct result of the (disgusting) Phelps family, given the dates.
Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline
I don’t know, it seems equally likely that mothers with pre-existing mental disorders self-medicate with cannabis to self-soothe. There have been numerous studies showing such things. For example, why is nicotine use highly correlated with mental illness? Nobody is saying that cigarettes are associated with mental disorders.
Do current techniques in electronic warfare, like signal jamming, limit the risk from these types of swarms?
Yeah this is by no means one size fits all. The appropriate mix of QA and automated testing really depends on what kind of product you're building but I can't think of any use cases where you want no automation whatsoever.

Something that's missing from this list that I find extremely useful:

An unstable environment with actual users doing real things with it. They could be internal, they could be advisors, they could be customers who are also investors or are willing to be testers for a discount.

That works really well if your code is designed to fail loudly (validations, assertions, etc...) and you have a culture of fixing issues immediately.
From April of this year:

> Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will resume cleanup of hazardous and potentially hazardous substances remaining after the June 29, 2021, lithium battery fire at 900 E. Benton St., Morris, Illinois. The Agency estimates the cleanup will take five to six months.

> The building housed more than 500,000 pounds of batteries, including more than 140,000 pounds of lithium batteries

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-resumes-cleanup-hazardo...
For technical stuff I think it's pretty accurate. If you're trying to adjust the sound on your computer, a manual explaining the computer is going to be 99% useless except for that one page that talks about adjusting the volume.
When and where such submissive tactics ever successfully defeated tyranny?
Okay but our democracy is actually barely functional. It's not relevant to the above conversation but it is a true statement.
Italy does this. My Italian family hates it, as if you get a bad or bad-fit teacher you are stuck with them for years. Much better to change from time to time, try different things
Largely governments: https://darksky.net/attribution
As per a sibling reply, are you referring to Guy Fawkes night? We don't really observe that at all in Northern Ireland, it's an English thing.

It's also neither a holiday in Northern Ireland[0] nor England [1]

[0] https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bank-holidays

[1] https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays
I was reading this and waiting for the point where you say that his pieces sell for 10s of millions of dollars now :)
>If you are going to attend a funeral […] and hour abuse or hold up signs with obscenities, you will be arrested.

It’s a shame that the UK doesn’t have robust protections for free speech. In the US, you certainly will not be arrested for this. We have Supreme Court precedent preventing it.
My wife uses cannabis for pain management and she used it through pregnancy. Her OBGYN was aware and didn't recommend against it. Our daughter is 6 now and we still think about it. Anything she has trouble with, I always wonder; did we do this to her? Though I don't know that there was a better choice available.

Are there effective painkillers that don't have risks for developing babies? Is good for a developing baby to be receiving constant stress hormones from a mother in intense pain?
As masks are shed, routine visits to medical offices pose Covid risks for some
>We still do not, and never will, sell your location data to 3rd parties.

They sold the whole company. If they had sold to a data hoarder like Google or Facebook, I have very little doubt that the data would have been included.

Who in their right mind thinks Google wanted to buy Fitbit for anything but their data?
It's dangerous to impute causality here given the potential for confounding environmental factors. Consider the chief finding that multiple such exposures had a more significant effect than individual exposure ... and what kind of home environment would tend to be associated with multiple of these exposures, including unplanned pregnancy, and use of alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco during pregnancy.

Also, note that this article is a press release from the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
This is a good observation and it took too many years to extract myself from organizations that were addicted to meetings.

13 years ago I started working from home and 11 years ago started my own business. We rarely have meetings or phone calls. We discuss and communicate async via chat and email.

We try to get together for face-to-face time yearly for relationship-sake.
> limiting his protest to the incoming coronation.

The coronation is months away, he was protesting the ascension at the Queen's funeral procession. That does not avoid disparagement of the Queen.

I certainly don't think he should be arrested but he's clearly boneheaded. He'll have plenty of time to protest both the ascension and the coronation, of someone who is a much softer target that the Queen, especially considering she's just died.

PR own goal if ever there was one. Even Extinction Rebellion have had the good sense to postpone their demos. Is there anyone but the Western Baptist Church who thinks it's a good idea to protest at funerals?

They say if you support free speech you'll end up defending vile people, and it's true, he shouldn't be arrested, he should be allowed to say what he said, but he is vile and it was stupid.
A fun recent twine project (not mine):

"Malefactor” is a strategy text game in which the player takes on the role of a Sauron-style Lord of Darkness with the goal of conquering the world."

https://adeptus7.itch.io/dark-reign
I'm not sure what you are referring to but the carbon in the wood of a house is effectively sequestered.

I've heard the equivalent amount of hemp made into boards holds 60% more carbon than tree wood so perhaps that would be better, depending on the carbon required to convert the hemp to usable lumber.
$5 says it's the food and not the plastic that the food comes in.
I also use weawow ... with darksky as the provider. The other providers (at least the free ones) seem far less accurate (for Seattle anyway).

I've started using willyweather for higher-fidelity UV data, and its forecasts (from NOAA) seem reasonable and I like the forecast-vs-actual graph. Though the UI requires some extra clicks to get all the info that weawow manages to get onto a single user-friendly page. (First-world problems....)
Stories are written for people, and people don’t like their main heroes winning over similar humans who have the same concerns and life depth. It just doesn’t make a good saga or a good background for the key idea, unless it’s related. Dark parodies often literally add humanness to an enemy, both in shows and games (scenes like a trooper talking to his mom about a dinner and then gets stealth killed because hero is too lazy to loop around his post). The idea of showing both (all) sides only makes sense when a plot revolves around that exact idea, and doesn’t otherwise. You have to contrast an idea enough for it to stay primary, and adding a real-world drama does the opposite, because, well, your auditory is not a soulless bunch.
Off topic... What's the best way to easily recycle these batteries? I normally disassemble my old phones and securely dispose of the chips (for my privacy), but the batteries are glued in with a strong adhesive. Just trying to remove them can start a fire. I think most people just throw the old phones in the trash, but I don't like to do that. It's bad for the environment and potentially dangerous to trash workers.

It seems that phone manufacturers should make the batteries easy to remove, replace and recycle. Not sure why they do not do this.

Home Depot has drop offs for old batteries, but last time I was there they told me they were for power tool batteries only now.
ChromeOS is extremely popular and deployed by major laptop companies like Lenovo and HP and Acer and Asus.
Apple announced that it would support WeatherKit on Android based on the Dark Ski API.

https://www.androidpolice.com/dark-sky-api-android-weatherki...

Even if it didn’t, it’s not like little old Google doesn’t have the resources to give Android a similar capability.
I assume this is satire… But I’m not actually sure.
People who use the many web apps that today's world is full of.
Other than maths and physics, there is no natural law that says this and that are so and right. People make the laws amd they are not Americans and don't observe our laws. ASBOs were repealed in England but not Scotland; in England they were replaced by new laws (targeting economically disruptive protests, I guess).
To be clear, this has likely happened fewer times in two decades in the UK than the average month in the US. It does happen, though, as you say.
Do you have any sources or literature on GMO pine?
It does seem like a weak reply to me - it's too equivocal. "We don't know" implies that it's anybody's guess, and that it should be avoided only out of an abundance of caution. Some people will interpret that response as "there's no evidence it's bad, so it's probably fine."

In fact there's plenty of evidence it's bad, both direct (the linked study is not the only one) and indirect (we know that smoking in pregnancy is bad, and that drugs affect the fetus, and that fetuses are sensitive). If you polled medical professionals, they would all say it's probably bad. The likelihood that it's perfectly fine is small.
It's worse even than that. "At most linearly" is someone's idea of subtle irony. You only get linearity if you discover the existing team is less capable than the newly added members, or you're asleep and this is a dream.

If the value of new people diminishes logarithmicly, or much more likely, at the square root of the number of people, you must tackle tasks that a smaller team could not. Otherwise you'll be out-competed by a handful of smaller competitors.

Yes, you can do things a smaller team couldn't do, but you don't really have a choice, if you want to survive.
There's a fundamental difference.

He said something he thought to be true - he was making a rhetorical point, in an uncomfortable and insensitive manner. He doesn't really come from a position of power and notably, has wasn't 'going after' anyone, just making a dumb comment.

The person representing the authority or power in the equation ... it doesn't matter much what their statements were, the fact is they went after him (and others) in a systematic and authoritarian manner.

At most, he should have been asked to apologize for being insensitive.

The school, however, needs to be investigated for systematic oppression of profs. using their weird internal investigations to harass people (aka '9 hour interviews? That's fing STASI like stuff, it's what the FBI does to serial killers. Could you imagine your employer grilling you in a room for 9 hours?).

He spoke out of line, the school acted with retribution using arbitrary authority.
I used to think so too, but I changed my view after seeing how high schools work here in the bay area. The schools here are super demanding, and students work crazy hours. It looks to me that the US schools are great for top students: demanding projects, strict disciplines, wide selection of extracurricular activities, abundant resources like AP courses and college programs, access to world-famous labs, professors and engineers, well-designed co-op programs with top companies, and of course, tiger parents who demand high achievements. On the other hand, we had public schools in Baltimore whose median GPA is below 0.5 out of 4. A stark contrast of two worlds.

That why it pains me to see that progressives thought that lowering standards would help students in need. The three years of Covid showed exactly the opposite.
I like this train of thought. I wonder if "text in prompt" is far too simplistic of an interface as an input to a black box to consider skill level with?

My inclination is to say the interface needs more breadth of options beyond single-line string input, and the outcome needs to have some level of predictability to enable the artist a significant enough level of understanding of how each aspect of their input alters the output.

I mean, the input parameters should be complex enough to let artist intentionally develop a unique style/idea, rather than style being dictated inside the black box.
This was in 2021; it appears the fire was extinguished by July 11 [1], investigated by Vice later that year [2], and seems to still be being cleaned up by US EPA [3].

1. https://www.ehs.com/2021/07/morris-lithium-battery-fire-high...

2. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vj73/everyone-thought-the-...

3. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-resumes-cleanup-hazardo...
So exactly what Anti trust regulations are they guilty of when they announced that they would support Android?

https://www.androidpolice.com/dark-sky-api-android-weatherki...
> Pair it with the abolition/democratization of the Lords, and they'll finish the revolution that Cromwell spoiled.

Ironically, in the last decade the Lords have a much better track record that the Commons. They applied real scruitiny to the opressive protest bill, the Brexit bill and the bill to deal with unsafe building we discovered in the wake of corporate manslaughter, which was a result of rampant fraud in the construction industry. As a result the lords were threatened with dissolution

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56905882

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54882088

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60032465