skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get them from my garden but I weigh them in pounds. Larger ones can grow in excess of 40 lbs (close to 20 kg).

Am from the Southeastern United States.
yep, still better. “less worse” might be a better term here though.

The US has two issues as far as I can tell: one, (small) constitution amendment should be a normal, regular process, but because it has not been done, now it has become some sort of sacrilege to some, at the very least a “very big deal” to most. Second, the political landscape is so polarized, one aisle will say “no” before the other aisle has uttered the first word. You can’t legislate anything in such a situation.
Web developer spotted :)

I'm sure there will be a ML guy here telling us we could train a NN to recognize bears on the camera and lock the bins (will probably lock out the bins whenever a child brings a teddy bear toy/shirt and or randomly at a small enough percentage that it will annoy people but won't be worth fixing)
Here's an odd idea. Imagine being able to limit the overall momentum of a vehicle based on its expected mass. That is, a governor would cause the top speed to max out sooner for heavier vehicles, so owners would have to tolerate being just a bit slower than their more nimble road-mates.

Sure, people could fudge with them, just like some do with scooters, but could be tied to penalties in the event of a collision or other traffic enforcement that detects the excess speed. Defaults matter, so the net effect would still be improved safety.
The same exist in US parks, including Yosemite.
Google closes $5.4B Mandiant acquisition
In Sydney typically (but not always) the bin truck has a robotic arm, the driver doesn't get out.
Your "meanwhile..." doesn't make sense, why is it disrespectful, technically it's the kingdom's/the monarchy's rules, and this family is the monarchy. And the replacement happened not within hours, but Charles became king at the instant Elizabeth died, that's why the sentence is "The Queen is dead, long live the King!".
Yes, we should do away with all hereditary monarchies. That is a very good idea.
A busy intersection, a bunch of casinos and ugly parking lots. I can think of a few places on this planet with nicer and more interesting views.
No, it does not. When I type "print(1)" into the left box and click "Run" all that happens is that the "Sign up" button wiggles.
I'm in Stockholm too. I find klart.se, SMHI or yr.no to work pretty well.
Nowadays we shouldn't be allowing cats to be outside unsupervised in any case, they can be devastating to local wildlife, including these clever cockatoos.
Paging kentonv for his thoughts on this
This is hilarious. I don't even know how to describe it's connection to the sudo xkcd comic[1] but it makes it more hilarious. That comic was applying a software thing to real world, this attack is like the opposite.

[1] https://xkcd.com/149/
A couple of counterpoints. I think you underestimate how difficult it can be to emigrate to another country without plenty of money (although it is relatively for EU citizens, rights the British have recently given up). Secondly, why should they leave rather than fight hard for change? The love it or leave it argument is so lazy.
A mod.rs is exactly like a __init__.py.

Except Rust removed a couple of annoying edge cases that are present in Python.
Here's a recap.

- The guy was a principal engineer at Mailchimp.

- Assumes he solved the problem of organizational complexity.

- Quotes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy instead of any relevant operational or organizational research.

- Firms tend to ignore outside perspectives and examples. (which is often true)

- Assumes an organization is a distributed computational process. (it's not)

- Kant.

- The *amount* of work (i.e. work hours) a company can dish out grows linearly with headcount.

- Time for parallel tasks amortizes to zero if more resources are added. (no idea what this means...)

- Assumes organizations only write software.

- Assumes people know or care what "superlinear productivity" is.

- Assumes productivity = added value.

- Says that orgs should optimize for individual productivity.

- Queue theory and King's formula and hand-waving about contention

- Management consultants are bad at writing code.

- (I gave up after that)
Yeah, if all you have in your home are Apple devices, sure. You can have a nice experience.

I dropped all my sympathy towards Apple and gave my MBP13 to my girlfriend the day they willingly implemented an outdated version of SMB in OSX that broke compatibility with almost all of my other machines.

I had a leftover Cinema 24inch display too. I sold it because to regulate its brightness I had to install a custom driver under Windows, and to tinker a lot under Linux, because the damn thing had no physical buttons. It is a primary function of a display device.

No more Apple devices for me, thanks. These are just overpriced toys.
how so?
the technical university of vienna, austria, used to have a linux distribution with that name. It was spelled "TUn!x", though.
The name translates to "do nothing" in german.
Get some perspective. It's _just_ a flag... a gesture of respect.
If you won’t spend the requisite time to properly dispose of your refuse, even if mildly inconvenient, then you don’t belong in our parks.
Never said it was typical, only that it exists.

When these conversations come up, people always trot out the wait time line, and it’s true, wait times are generally on the lower end for the US compared to other countries. However, they are not zero. Depending on the need, the region, and the time, you have to wait in America, just the same as in other countries.

Useful reference point:
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/242e3c8c-en/1/3/2/index....
The links provided are neither primary sources nor do they support your original statement.

”The key thing is, energy production is cheap these days.”

This is immaterial if cheap energy is unavailable when needed. See: winter (season)

“So storing energy has to compete against just building even more production and a small amount of storage.”

This is incorrect. More production is useless if the output is zero. Zero times a large number is still zero.

Again, see: winter (season)

”This applies to batteries as much as it does to hydro. But batteries scale down better.”

The problem with batteries is that they don’t scale up.
> How common is this type of message bus outside of a very big

Cloudflare is a pretty big one. There are others, but you're forgetting the much more common and pernicious problem: a proto serialized in a database. The reader, writer, and database itself need to be synced across time as the database takes the shape of a message bus that stores the proto, potentially forever, so now to make something un-required, you have to first do an in place column type change on a database, as opposed to a 3-phase column migration, which is a safe thing everyone adores undertaking.

Just don't use required fields, they're bad. Learn from Google's mistakes!

> Also, I think the right lesson to take from this would be that the message bodies passing through the bus should be opaque

Proto has support for this (in varying forms, there's the `bytes` type and the `Any` type), but these are distinct from required, so if you want to keep required, you need to make sure that the [every] message bus wraps all clients in any, which has, if I recall, a nontrivial performance penalty.
If there is a way to get into a Julia repl, I couldn't figure out how.
" If we are, then we should have a good reason to do so."

Its mere existence is sufficient reason to end it. The very concept of Kings and Queens is anathema to democracy.
Nitpick: Dijkstra didn’t use “considered harmful”, Niklaus Wirth did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#History:

The original title of the letter, as submitted to CACM, was "A Case Against the Goto Statement", but CACM editor Niklaus Wirth changed the title to "Goto Statement Considered Harmful". Regarding this new title, Donald Knuth quipped that "Dr. Goto cheerfully complained that he was always being eliminated."

Reading that same link, Wirth didn’t invent the cliché, either.
> I think some of the confusion stems from the fact the “medicinal” happened in some places before “recreational” happened. At least that’s how it played out in Massachusetts.

People are actively marketing it as a pseudo-medical treatment (like OTC drugs, or vitamins), beyond the medicinal designation. I searched for a random dispensary in Watertown MA, and clicked the first edible on their site [1]. The description of the item is below…

> Go plant-based pills use an optimal blend of plant medicines, caffeine, and cannabis to create an all-natural performance enhancer for your brain and body. Go’s key ingredients increase blood flow to the brain and body in order to boost mental and physical energy and stamina.

This is not at all uncommon to find at various dispensaries and products. Even for products that don’t have additives (as the above one appears to). If you google “cannabis cure cancer” or “cannabis cure X” you;lol find countless thought pieces about how theres new evidence from one random trial that may blow open the door to curing whatever with cannabis. It’s got a very eastern-medicine meets wives-tales meets snake oil vibe.

[1] https://watertown-adult.ethoscannabis.com/stores/Ethos-Water...
There are protocols to merge and squashing was required in two of four github-based teams I've worked with.

The choice is done for you. It is not yours or theirs often enough.
I think you're correct only in the scenario where the feature-flags are binary on/off switches.

The modern "feature flag" is more of a knob that can be slowly turned up, along with ideally a way to send shadow traffic through the feature even before any % of real traffic is allowed through.

In that proper implementation of feature-flags, the overall benefits (easy rollback, graduated rollout, selective rollout based on user characteristics, better ability to manage scale) outweigh the rather-trivial engineering cost of wrapping a few if-clauses around the feature.
I'm not looking for a notebook. I want to try new languages in a repl. Where I type a statement, hit enter, see a result, repeat.
One to one mentoring has been systematically underestimated in scientific education, content helps less than commentary on how to ...
>Can you give some examples of parts of the UK constitution that are debated as much?

If you don’t write it down, no debate, no consensus, everyone believes what suits his life style best.

I am not saying writing it down is foolproof. “Write down a piece of document and don’t touch it for 200 years” is definitely not a good idea, it should be updated regularly.

But if given the choice today of writing down or continue verbally, I wouldn’t definitely attempt to write it down, including a clear process for the document to be regularly edited and updated.
https://archive.ph/rftUX
Honest question: Why is this kind of retro programming at all attractive to younger people who didn’t grow up with that hardware?

For people like me, it’s clearly childhood nostalgia. But to be honest, 8-bit programming was so painful that people couldn’t wait to get rid of those limitations back then. (I tend to think the 16-bit era was the sweet spot in terms of capabilities vs. complexity.)
Nice. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get customers? Do they find you via the Slack store? Or do you go out selling this? Or do you get people find you via search? Or ads?

I am always tempted to make a slack app. Not this particular idea, likely something else.
> You might think this system has a capacity of 1/t (100% utilization) but if you actually try that you'd find that the length of the queue becomes infinite

I'm not following.

1/t = Facilities's rate of work
t = Time to process a unit

If you had an infinite queue of objects (with t time required) being processed at 1/t (rate), your workload/utilization is 100%, right? You seem to be saying otherwise.

Also, what do you mean by "the length of the queue becomes infinite"?

Is there some property of a random Poisson process that has a growth bias? Can I think of it like flipping heads/tails where you might go on a run, however, for a large number of outcomes, it should converge on a number of outcomes in the middle?
> If your name is Dijkstra and it’s 1968 feel free to use the phrase “considered harmful”

The phrase "GOTO considered harmful" was actually used by Niklaus Wirth, not Edsger Dijkstra. Dijkstra had submitted his letter with the title "A Case Against the Goto Statement"; and Wirth, as editor, changed it.

But also, it was already a journalistic cliché outside of computer science before Wirth applied it to Dijkstra's letter.
>no large tech company will be taken seriously if it doesn't have a competent image generation model in the wild

Wow, what a lot of bull. Defining a large tech company as 10k+ employees, I can assure you 90% of those won't ever touch image generation. Why would a company like SAP even consider this crap?
A note that this appears to be, at the time of writing, shared source and not strictly "open source" as it claims to be.

"Stable Diffusion Buddy is open source and free for personal use.

You may not use Stable Diffusion Buddy for any commercial purpose. That means you may not sell or profit in any way from the compiled app, from compiling the app yourself, from the source code, or a fork of it. The images generated by using this app do not fall under these limitations for obvious reasons."
No one is running Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash is a smart contract running on the Ethereum blockchain. At one point someone uploaded the contract, but that person can no longer modify the contract and they are not running the contract. You can arrest that person and shut down all of their servers and the contract will continue to run.
What can an individual depreciate that offsets against hundreds of thousands of dollars of wages that are taxed as ordinary income? I get how depreciation helps you if you're renting out apartment buildings, but the tax code revamp of 1986 got rid of the passive investment tricks that allowed doctors/dentists/etc. to offset their ordinary income with depreciation deductions.

Your point about your personal tax rate going down makes sense. Congrats on the impending retirement!
Ha I just started the course in MiniZinc on Coursera and it is very nice and creative. One tidbit for someone with a mostly econometrics background that (for me, a starter in the language with some exposure to linear optimization in the past) it was hard getting it to perform operations that use floats. For me that took away most toy problems I am interested in. But it’s blazing fast for complex discrete optimization and very forgiving in the language, so at least it’s a great learn.
I browsed through the repository as discovered by colejohnson66 downthread https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx7_rom_disassembly. This is an example of superb, meticulous, lovingly documented work. The kind of thing you don't see every day, congratulations. The attention to detail is really just chef's kiss, starting with a really good repository name (a small thing, but still), continuing through clear and apparently comprehensive documentation of what you did and why, then on to beautifully formatted and commented assembly language (much better than the original source code I'd wager) with coherent and consistent paragraph commenting a particular delight, and finally (and very importantly) dedication to making sure others can reproduce your results and generate a matching binary too. There are likely to be other things of beauty in there I have forgotten to highlight, it's just that good. Oh the FAQ of course, what a great FAQ. Really I am being very wordy for someone that's lost for words.

BTW, I love retro computing too, this is my best attempt so far in the field https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon. I aspire to similar standards to your good self, but I'm not there yet.
The interesting thing about law is that the folks in charge of it are the least interested in streamlining it. The more byzantine and obscure the legal system is, the more attorneys, clerks, and judges it needs. It is a type of jobs system.

Divorce is an extremely common legal activity, yet there's almost zero commonality in the US about how it goes about, or even what it means. We're not talking about the margins. There are colossal differences about everything having to do with it. And this is within different counties in the same US state.
The term is big-business propaganda. Unless you and your time are worthless, don't work for free.
The power density is much higher than traditional photovoltaics (more in line with concentrating photovoltaic power), so in theory the cost should be low, although one probably needs more sophisticated cells to achieve reasonable efficiencies. On the other hand, since there are no moving parts, the temperature can be very high, which increases the maximum theoretical efficiency. (Carnot limit applies.)

The major issues I can see are (1) achieving sufficient efficiency at a reasonable cost, by recycling the low-energy photons instead of absorbing them as heat (2) avoiding radiation damage to this sophisticated device - maybe this isn't too hard with a liquid salt heat exchanger?
Not the GP but I have similar experiences. I do have above-average night vision, though.
Healthcare cost, no, but monthly insurance cost, yes.

$800 per months plus out of pocket sums for each appointment is batshit insane.

Plus, loosing it when you loose your job is even more difficult. I think I finally understand why every Michael Bay movie is starting with a surprise medical bill. I always thought it was somewhat silly.

To give you a example, I pay 75€ per months for the entire family, and we don't have to pay anything when going to the doctor.
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Well that is within the context of young, impressionable, geopolitically and economically sheltered people expressing emotional views. So it's good that we don't enact these amendments on a whim
Stupid blanket statement, while bikes work fine in flat Bangkok or Beijing where I used them daily, good luck riding bike for instance in hilly Prague or other places.
I was unable to find any pictures of penguin bodies on pedestals of ice as mentioned at the end. Even though it happens the same way I'm curious to see what that looks like.

Ars technica wrote about an earlier version of this research a year ago, it seemed familiar. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/physicists-may-have-...
It needs to be independently settable, or it's useless.
One of my pet peeves is the oft repeated slogan “it’s not addictive”. And by definition, that’s true. But neither is Methamphetamine. But people still throw it around like it’s some kind of scientific blessing that you can’t form a dependency.

Also, I think the true cost of marijuana is the opportunity cost - it’s not just what it does to you, it’s what it takes from you - your motivation, potential etc. And it’s really quite toxic to your long term mental health, in devilishly insidious ways - and is usually accompanied by aggressively-defended self deceptions.
I would take inspiration in Microsoft Midori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210216182214/http://joeduffybl...
I mean I think it's clear Harry and Meghan saw the writing on the wall a number of years years ago and decided to go and establish a backup income, separate from Royal ties, in California.

Signing lucrative Netflix contracts, selling "Sussex" branded trinkets, going on Oprah, and bringing out autobiographies (no doubt containing scandal) has no doubt already made them a 7 figure sum.
Haven't seen many cockatoos go for rubbish where I live (they like the bugs more) but if they're anything like the crows at my old school they make a lot of mess when they open a bin. The crows used to lift a rather heavy metal lid and then scatter rubbish everywhere.
A 5 gallon (18.9 L) jug of water weighs... well, almost 19 kilos, and most people have no problem lifting one.
> Anyone who seriously thinks Apple are going to turn into another Google or Facebook needs to give their head a wobble.

To me, anyone stretching over to apologize for Apple needs to give their head a wobble. They are just going for the profit, selling you the lie of privacy. They want to scan your photos, remember. They already gave the FBI the tools they need to unlock phones, and they are of course part of PRISM.
U-Haul discloses data breach exposing customer driver licenses
Well I would disagree that anyone would get to that level. Some folk just never seem to learn how to properly build and maintain a software project. Sure though I agree that any virtuoso coder should branch out to mentoring and architecting as that's basically expected of them having the experience.

Yet I don't know hour-wise how much they'd have to put in having meetings if they already kinda know how to build the system. I don't think that would necessarily be scary to them, just annoying if they had to be constantly distracted by having to mull over details that aren't that important.

To me a virtuoso is the consultant who knows how to build all parts of the project who is not there to lead the team but will help out anyone in the project - and will take care of it being built properly.
What you are now arguing for is that every protobuf field addition or removal needs to be accompanied by a version bump of the underlying message, or in other words proto schema definitions are write-once, because if you add or remove a field, you're fundamentally changing what the api does too. This is, I guess, a technically valid approach to the problem, but there's a reason no one does it.

> Some data is actually required, and this happens fairly often in APIs in my experience. And if that changes, then often you are fundamentally changing what the API does, so it should be a new API.

I can think of some fabulous counterexamples to this that aren't really public, but suffice to say that there are lots of places in code with

msg.foo = "" // This field is required, but has been deprecated in
// favor of msg.bar for <efficiency/external change/time>
// reasons.

And the blame layer is from 2006 or something and it's still uncomfortable to try and fiddle with things today, because of rollout ordering among the potentially hundreds of clients and databases that use some core thing. Which like is the other thing: if you have hundreds of clients, you can't just say "hey use v2 now it's a totally different api, please update your code"
Intentional/incidental biomimicry of high level neural behaviors and structures by ML/AI researchers is hardly a new kid on the block. Sure, with neuron centered approach research is still at the level of discerning urban activity by looking at lighting patterns, but it has obvious practical value even if transformers and diffusion are only loose approximations of what's actually running in wetware.
I guess that by “expressions language” the author means the language used for expressions and statements (the latter also being expressions in Rust).
After the electrolyte has vaporised, the problem is the anode and cathode being permanently shorted, which will keep generating heat and igniting other things. I guess you can prevent the initial fire from breaking out, but if the fire has already started, it's too late.

I'm not an expert, so I could be wrong.