skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sets are more useful when you want to dedupe unknown data. Defining a set with constants to use immediately in a for loop is not very helpful compared to a tuple or a list.

Also, you can make anything iterable in python if you implement __iter__.
Actually we sold FastMail to Opera, and since it didn't really work out, bought it back again. Based on that experience, I'd be surprised if FastMail got (re-)acquired...
Some priests did, but overall the Catholic Church was very against eugenics.[1] On the other hand eugenics was quite popular among US intellectuals.[2] Forced sterilization of the mentally disabled is still legal in the US.[3] Herman Muckermann was at one point in favor of forced sterilization, but turned against it when the pope denounced it. Herman Muckermann was also against Nazism and euthanasia.

>In 1933, he left his post at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, as he opposed Nazi biological racism and the belief that the Nordic race was superior (Dietrich, 1992).[4]

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/103/2/498/1750...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_law_in_the_Unite...

[4] https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree/5233675d5c2ec500000...
The timing simultaneously with the new Polish-Norway pipeline makes me suspicious. Besides, the US needs Europe to stay on the Ukrainian side. Most likely thing to push Europe away from support is needing Russian gas. Threatening Europe's gas supply is not likely to help the US maintain European support.
People tend to forget that while gas is being used for energy production, it is also being used as basis of chemical processes, e.g. for ammonia production, which then starts a whole chain of products (most prominently: carbonic acid, fertilizer, cooling, removing CO2 from industrial exhaust, ...)

We can't just replace natural gas with nuclear power, even if we did, we'd still be in deep trouble.
A couple of years ago???

Around 2010 they had 17 reactors, then they shut down 8. Last years they only had 6 running, now only 3.

Yeah, they needed gas alright, because nuclear seems so much worse...
I didn't think it's a good video. If Microsoft s latest apps don't have a consistent design, they have spent more money on designing each of them separately. Each of those hover effects and custom title bars needed to be coded separately. That undermines the idea that MS "hasn't prioritised spending on design because it won't help their enterprise customers" and shows it's just an organisational problem.
I’m floored by this. We have a sr engineer who conducted an initial technical screen and swore he saw this happening, the person on screen moving his mouth while someone else talked and wrote the code. My managers recounted this story to me, laughing because they thought the suspicion was ridiculous and that the interviewer was just being paranoid (they had not been on the call). Turns out he was not paranoid…
(I'm not him.)

> So you mean saying "oh poor you!" giving a sad look and moving on with your day?

This was insulting.
Do you know about name clash with PRQL [1]?

While it doesn't have the same spelling, pronunciation is the same.

[1] https://github.com/prql/prql
I hate those square-grid-style keyboards. Not sure what they're called but I've had one before in a foldable keyboard. It always felt wrong.

I know the current layout was built for mechanical reasons so that typewriter rods wouldn't overlap. But 40 years of muscle memory is not something I want to give up :)
Why Russia? Biden and sone State Dept official both said NS2 would stop if Russia invaded. Seems like a promise kept
And it doesn't support window and monitor layouts that were possible and useful in Visual Studio 2003, or probably earlier.
How does HN make a hybrid setup work great with meetings where some people join remotely and others are in the office?

My supervisor now insists on taking meetings via zoom (on his own) if anyone is not in the office even though half of the team is there and conference video tech is available, which I find super uncourteous and super draining.

He says he doesn’t see a difference between meetings in person and online, beyond „socializing“ or „hanging out with you“.
Hopefully not for awhile.

Fastmail is bootstrapped and profitable. They aren't beholden to outside investors trying to 10x their money. Fastmail also just doesn't have that sort of culture. (Source: I have friends there). They aren't looking to be a unicorn. They seem very happy to have a profitable business that they can nurture for decades.

Culturally, they're growing a garden, not launching a rocket ship.

Eventually the company will change hands. Knowing some of the people involved, I trust that when that happens, they'll find good stewards.
I only have a master in (engineering) physics but working with statistical modeling and AI I’ve come to appreciate the “all models are wrong but some models are useful”-mindset, and I’ve started applying that to physical “laws” as well: I no longer see them as some divine truths waiting to be discovered, but more like models of the world that will always be wrong but sometimes useful.

From that point of view what’s happening in physics today is no surprise, but it is a bit depressing: we’ve probably passed the level of complexity where models are useful and are now adding detail that make them less so. I guess you can see it as a form of overfitting, like when less scrupulous AI researchers use the test set for validation.
This thread is sus all the way down
mailtemi looks like it's the only native JMAP app for iOS, which is great, even the fastmail app isn't native. It's a free app but isn't open source either. Is this a hobby project, or what's the long term plan for mailtemi?
MongoDB is web scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
What is the end game for e.g. the Blender Foundation? Looking back on a crazy good software project when the Nuclear war starts?
Franco was so bad that a law had to be enacted recently to stop people from cherishing him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Predictions
Yes, it would be crazy, because some of his predictions have already been incorrect.
All the Belt and Road projects have already left Russia, moving south.

For China to secure its northern border they need Russia as a buffer zone; they don’t need it strong.

As for technology - Russia has two, nuclear and military. China already got everything nuclear they wanted, and Russian military tech is, as we could all see, rather worthless.
Update: Now it works fine again.
This happened to me once. It got really weird. My partner and I didn't know there was a fake account made, and we later found out, for days this fake account was talking to my partner - being super nice and genuinely a better person than the actual real me.

Anyway, they later asked my partner to send money to their personal account. I was a little bit sad.
I’ve seen the work remotely part stay true and I feel like 5 day a week commutes for white collar workers will go extinct.

It’s just too wasteful of an institution to perpetuate itself forever.
Like a Swarm of Bees, These Drones Can 3D Print Structures While in Flight
Interlingua is even better for the Romance mutual intelligibility. Esperanto has a lot of Slavic and Germanic influence too.
Europe Is Ready for a Winter Without Russian Gas, BNEF Says
Tool to gather data from different sources?
So with reading some posts of people getting locked out from their accounts (github, google, ..) i would like to take back control of my code/data.

So I want to keep a hard copy of my data this includes.

\* Git repo's on github

\* Git repo's on gitlab

\* Git repo's on a self hosted gitlab

\* Some small databases for custom applications i have made between 1 and 5 GB

\* Some scattered data files on different servers.

\* Some personal folder/documents/files on my laptop

\* Some personal folder/files document on my desktop

\* Some google drive documents, images

So what I would want is once a week the program would take all the data and move it to a specified folder in an external hard drive.
I don't really care about duplication of data. I just want a snapshot of all my important data on disk so I can store the disks in offshore locations.

Is there any tool out there that can do this?

Or should I just code a solution myself?
And if so, are there other people with the same kind of problem and would you use this tool if i wrote something like this?
You blame the government because of free trade policies that led to globalism?
To me it sounds like she is similar to a food/book/movie critic, but instead for particle physics.

Sounds like a good thing. It might shake things up and result in actual progress/change.

(not saying there is not actual progress, but think of it more like swaying some physicists to take a more adventurous road. Who knows where it will lead.)
> So that just means stuff costs a bit more and less net profit margins for companies right? Not ideal but it should be economically viable I would think?

Except you still need to compete with other companies who can undercut your product on price now. A few $ here or there might not matter for some, but most people are going to sort by price and buy the cheapest one. Now there are second order effects - the high volume sellers get economies of scale during manufacturing and better deals from suppliers when they buy in bulk. Now you’re competing with products who are priced much lower. How long before you go out of business?

All is not lost. You could potentially put a “proudly made in $country” tag on your product and charge a premium. You’ll go low volume, high margin. It’s viable and many manufacturers do it. But only the ones with a direct relationship with customers. A supplier making a tiny wizbang can’t sell them to Apple or Ford expecting a premium.
A group of German residents to sue German government over toxic air pollution
Crazy, it's still ongoing.
> they were openly called fascist

By whom? Some political factions before the war were close to Italian fascism but the after-war dictatorship was not fascist in any meaningful sense.
No calibration required for the entire 10 days.

The one significant inconsistency with BGL between my daughter's regular meter vs. G6 CGM was when my daughter had paracetamol in her system. Dexcom do claim (in Australia at least) that the G6 is not affected by paracetamol - which is the opposite claim they made about the G5.

It was actually incredibly dangerous since it was 3am and the sensor was indicating she was very high and she was in fact slightly below target. Glad I thought it seemed sus and chose to do a finger prick, rather than telling her pump to deliver a bolus.

That one (scary) incident aside, we've had no other issues with the G6. In general I've found it to be much more reliable than even a regularly calibrated G5.

Perhaps the paracetamol incident was a coincidence and the paracetamol didn't play a part, but at least personally, I'm careful with medicines that have been known to interfere with CGMs - otherwise I tend to trust the G6.
Maybe, but then, when Jackson is throwing an IOException because of bad JSON, and the file you opened that had the JSON could also throw an IOException, then it's not just catch it at a single place, as you'd generally handle both differently.
It's a cool tool. But for serious learning, and from a more padegogical perspective, it's hard to tell when the AI starts to go off the rails.
Optus asked to pay for passport replacements after agreeing to drivers licenses
Wasn't that a gigantic issue with x87 floating point implementation? It would internally use 80 bit registers and the result of any computation was completely at the mercy of how the compiler used those 80 bit registers as every move to system memory would drop precision back to the 32 bit or 64 bit specified by the program.
39min of rem sleep is not enough for any human.

My Grandad has type 1 diabetes he treats it with a strict routine of eating at the same time every day and injecting at the same time, and testing only if he feels low.

The article I read was a parent in panic, and my only advice could possibly be to try and chill out, which is almost impossible as its your son and you would want to do as much as you can. Which is why I felt empathy to the poster, I could feel his anxiety.
They're more like tax payers. They work so that they don't get the death penalty via killer cells that look for rule breakers
Perfect! Just noticed they need to update the Firefox extension though as it's not supported just yet.
Twitter seems so persistently corrosive and unhappiness-inducing. Why is it? The author's complaints are about other physicists' behaviors and attitudes to her writing, but it looks like much of it is specifically about Twitter interactions: about unhappy, defective people on Twitter (smart physicists, even) drawing other people into their miasma.

These are people using Twitter with good intentions: smart people who login simply intending to have interesting discussions about philosophical topics. Professionals interacting with other professionals, or writing about their field of expertise. They don't seek out to waste time and serotonin on unpleasant social drama, but it finds them anyway.
What you describe (sugar + insulin pump) is called a "dual hormone" pump. No such device exists on the open market.

So that is yet another challenge. You can actuate in only one direction: pushing BG lower. PID does actually work for this, but it is outperformed by algorithms that can explicitly consider a patient model (model predictive control, or MPC). I believe closed-loop algorithms using both PID and MPC have been tested on in vivo, and both have been brought to market, although of course all vendors are very tight-lipped about what their algorithm looks like.

If you are working in the AP space, you are looking at algorithm performance after an unannounced meal (patient doesn't tell you that he's eaten: how much do you dose?). You will test your algorithm in a virtual patient simulator first. Then, if you are lucky enough to work with the research hospital at your institution, you can test your algorithm on real patients in vivo.

The low bar for bringing an AP to the FDA is a provable safety envelope: you will never ever dose too much insulin. Ever. Even if your RL agent learns badly, even if your patient put honey over the CGM site before putting it on. Not having a negative result in the simulator is not enough -- you need a provable bound on dose.

This is why the majority of RL algorithms do not work. And why the problem is so hard. You have this super complex system, with a ton of metabolic unknowns. Unknowns over short timescales, like food response, exercise, illness, stress, and so on. And over long timescales, like your diet changes over time, your body changes, etc. And you have huge variation between patients, with different genetics, diet, and astrological sign between people. Boy it would be nice to learn those unknowns with a computer, which is what every RL paper says about the AP. But: if you get it wrong once, it's all over, and further, if you really want to play, you have to prove that you will never get it wrong.

That's why every AP system out there now is very conservative, and why none of them are using exotic ML techniques. And why, with the standard classical toolkit, the problem is very difficult.

Although it's a bit old, this is a pretty good overview of where the field is:

https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/37/5/1191/38217
What is uncanny is how the US started taking notice of NS2 around 2020, with Congress threatening sanctions against Germany [1], and Biden ominously talking about how there's going to be "no more Nord Stream 2" [2].

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-2-germany-displeased-at-us...
[2] https://iuvmpress.news/biden-ready-to-stop-nord-stream-2-if-...
The biggest weakness IMO is that you still have to memorise the transitivity of every root verb.
We don't have the API = we don't have the DNA for this
This story reminds me of a movie I once saw. I thought it would be a comedy (because of an actor in it) but the movie was extremely sad but I was hooked and needed to see it. I really recommend it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431286/
This reads entirely as "everyone else's approach to problems have been unsuccessful, therefore they should use my approach instead, which also had been unsuccessful solving the same problems"
> the LLC formation that owns the house

> backed by a paper contract

So.... What's the point of blockchain in this case? Other than "hey, we have blockchain"?

> But it’s still gives me liquidity and ownership security

What gives you ownership security is the paper contract, not some bytes in some database.
On Reddit, I think I saw the meme version of what you write here. It summarizes it quite good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/xma9ad/im_...
Doesn't have a time machine, or else I'm sure by now he would've taken the option of "not invading Ukraine in the first place".
My garden came with an old white transparent apple tree, which produces very tart apples. They are one of the first apple varieties for the year and are harvested around St. Jacob's day at the end of July.

It is an obscure variety, because the apples have to be processed within a few days of harvest and are prone to bruising. But, if you have the chance to find them, they are excellent baking apples. I particularly enjoy them in pies and strudels, but they are excellent for apple sauce.
Sure. But the bubbling of checked exceptions adds a lot of "foo() throws DeepUnderlyingException", all the way up to your single catch.

And the worst part is when reading the code in such a situation, it can get very tricky to figure out exactly where the exception is thrown.

There's a reason that the JVM ecosystem has largely moved away from checked exceptions.
Could you write out the implication arrow you think you're seeing for the people who genuinely don't see anything here beyond what has been spelled out explicitly, like me? (I'm not from the US, I presume I'm missing some context)
Parody of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdAe3UAIVs
I learnt both, they complement one another at least.
VS Code isn’t a web app. The first release was and since then most of it has been rewritten to be a native app.
Severe hypoglycemia is a medical emergency, making sure that doesn’t happen is less harmful in the long term.
laws don't dictate morals.
laws were enacted in Australia to stop collecting rainwater to drink.

What are the bad parts? I ask as a genuine question, the only bad things I can find is poor treatment of jews and killing of political opponents, which is pretty similar to everything else that was going on at the time, and seems tame contrasted against communist powers.
I'll add that many huge advances have been made by solving what could be described as psuedo problems, most notably special relativity.
Yup all those beaches you all love - they're ALL going to go away - wont come back for a few lifetimes
The fact, is that the stolen babies here, on Spain, keep happening in the 80 and early 90. And we had a democratic governments since 80's
>note, I am casual observer

No need for the clarification, it's easy to tell.
Came here to say the same thing, titles like these gives me a head ache.
Of course nothing for free, but the point is to trade things you don't need for things you do.

I also expect that chip area and power consumption for IEEE floating point has been optimized quite a bit more than for this novel number format, so there may be some efficiency left on the table on those particular metrics.
An encyclic is just a marketing material. What matters is what they actually did.

The Vatican was gifted to Church by… fascists.
> Can someone ELI5 what Mozilla did to deserve this derision?

Assumption:
People have troubles with certain web applications like MS teams, goto-meeting,.. or youtube.
Mozilla has to adapt to undocumented changes. There are an increasing amount of applications which do not support firefox (strange, because the web should be browser independent).
People think Mozilla is responsible for this.

Mozilla does not generate income with Firefox (besides dontations!). Why is it so important to have the biggest market share with a browser? I suppose there is data to be collected by the other players.
How can there possibly be 33M USD properties per resident anyway? Just seems like a really bad procurement process from the state.
I know this very well... My sister could been stolen before I born.
Single parenting wasn’t stigmatized in 1960s Spain?
> Donating itself is also fraught, however.[...]

That again is a problem the receiver of a donation has to take care of as they'll have to pay for the disposal of actual garbage. When I was donating my library before traveling for a few years, someone was coming to my apartment, checking out my donation and he did reject 2 or 3 (of a few thousand).

> Clothing

... can in worst case be shredded and used for thermal insulation.
And the supreme court is set to severely weaken the Indian Child Welfare Act within the next year. We are likely to see even more native children basically kidnapped like this as a result
The layout is called "Ortholinear", it can be a pain but personally I find handy for lots of things where you don't have that muscle memory like keypads and other accessory input devices. Its frustrating how hard it is to find inexpensive keyboards using the layout, its uncommon so its understandable they cost more. Lately its been a bit of a niche in the customised mechanical keyboard market.
Ping-Pong Virus
Microsoft Kin –The Billion Dollar Smartphone Disaster
I agree with you, it generally makes absolutely no sense for Russia to be behind this (at least not the mainstream Russian state, I have my doubts about their internal unity). What's more, I find the timing of this incident odd, having happened just after the victory in the Italian elections of the far-right, who is somewhat ambivalent towards Putin.

The only conceivable motivation I can come up with for Russia would be a 4D-chess false-flag. If they were to already assume that there's no way the EU will give in to the gas blackmail this winter, blowing up the pipeline and sowing doubt on the US or Ukraine itself being behind it could be a way to divide support for Ukraine. However, it would be an extremely risky and expensive bet with no guarantee of it working.
oh I just meant that it seems to me that everyone is quite open to saying it was fascist Spain, including (as far as I know) francoists themselves.

I don't mind the title, and I know that it was only semi-fascist, but the main point I'm making is that the title seems to bring about connotations that might not warrant it (from my casual observations).
Maintenance should be outsourced a lot more. As in get pros to come and fix things.

Maintenance doesn't seem much in demand in the US in a residential/consumer context, probably because it is expensive and other reasons like the grandparent comment:
> We simply do not appreciate Maintenance people...

Maintenance and service is much more common in India. There are young and old folks in a thriving industry for repairs and maintenance. You will see they are super knowledgable in their vocation and they get stuff fixed well and quick.

Though I do think these industries are shrinking in India - i.e "catching up" to the West. In the US, middle-class probably only services cars and heavy equipment at home. And more things are manufactured to not be maintained but replaced - a weird example is mattresses and pillows.

Of course there must be a lot more servicing happening in non-residential contexts, both in the West and in India.

> simplify your life more and more including the things in your life

This is such an underrated hack. Can't find it now - but think there is a Naval tweet about how getting rid of things is a huge help for creating peace in life.