skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the moment from Eastern Time Zone, Mars, Aldebaran and Betelgeuse form a red right triangle in the eastern sky. I believe Mars will pass between Aldebaran and Pleiades in a week or so, forming a straight line with those two red stars as it passes, but I think the right triangle is more impressive. I haven't seen this announced in media. A month ago, Mars' transit close to Pleiades was announced, however.
> but it's not like universities just hand them out to anyone.

No, but at least in the US, they're often given out for things other than achievement in a particular field, like as unofficial quid-pro-quo for large donations to the university.

Perhaps that doesn't damn the practice entirely, as many are awarded for extraordinary contributions, but it does add an unfortunate extra step, having to ask the question, "did this person get this honor because they did amazing things, or because they paid amazing sums?"
The ridiculous amount of homophones is due to what I consider as a big mistake, the Japanese did not only import the Chinese writing, but they also imported the Chinese readings of the Chinese symbols.

The import of the Chinese readings has created some homophones between Chinese words and native Japanese words and also many times more homophones between distinct Chinese words that had different pronunciation in Chinese, but which are pronounced identically by the Japanese.

Spoken Japanese has a higher proportion of native Japanese words, but written Japanese has frequently much more words that are derived from mispronounced Chinese words than native Japanese words.

Scientific and technical literature has an overwhelming proportion of words derived from Chinese, because it contains a large proportion of compound words. Most compound words in Japanese use the Chinese pronunciation of the signs, because the native Japanese words are usually longer.

Had the Japanese always used the Chinese signs only with the native Japanese readings, there would have been no ambiguities due to homophones and it would have also been easy to transition to any other writing system, if they would have ever wanted that.

As it is now, it is unlikely that the Japanese writing system could ever be simplified. The argument that changing the current Japanese writing system would disconnect the people from their cultural heritage, is much less valid than it would seem, as I have discovered when attempting to read some books written before the first World War.

Even if the simplifications in Japanese have been far less than in the transition from Traditional Chinese writing to Simplified Chinese writing, nevertheless in modern Japanese there are a large number of kanji that have been modified from their versions used one hundred years ago. Also many hiragana/katakana spellings have been modified, to reflect modern Japanese pronunciation.

So for reading Japanese writings with an age of more than one century, you need to learn much more than for reading modern Japanese, and that is true also for the native Japanese people. Reading old Japanese books is far more difficult for Japanese people, than reading a book published in 1500 AD, or a Latin bronze tablet from 2200 years ago, is for Europeans.
And like in any game of minds, it goes into a guessing game: ”Are they thinking of X? They would never admit, but perhaps this and that can be interpreted as signal for X.”

This is fine for some situations, like games, and can even be fun.

It is not ”fun” if you are a paying customer and and X is ”Suddenly kill the service I’m using.”

The only remedy to this is trust. (Which a simple short term zero sum game theoretic analysis does not account for.)
I don't think people at Google have a problem innovating or understanding product/market fit. Rather, they have 100,000 employees (think about that for a second, how long it would take to count that many people), and not everyone's project is a good idea. That doesn't mean people don't try hard, it just means that there isn't necessarily a business just because they want there to be.

I think the problem is simply that it's too disorganized with that many people. I used to work on Google Fiber, and something that our customers complained about was that they couldn't upload files to Google Drive at 1Gbps. That wasn't our fault, we were happy to route data at that speed, and we had the peering capacity with Google to support it. (Different ASNs!) The reality was, we identified performance problems with Google Drive, and they simply didn't care. They had other stuff to worry about; only one city in the US had 1Gbps Internet at the time, but they still didn't have 100% of the docs/file sharing market (hi Dropbox), so they were like "it's not a priority" and worked on something that would actually make them money instead. I get it, but it never felt good. That's what's sad about companies with such a large scope; supporting your own company's initiative is rarely the right business.

The reason I like small companies is because if there was jrockway Fiber and jrockway Drive, obviously they would work perfectly together. I would simply not sleep a few nights to make it happen. But at big companies, that's not a thing, and it really confuses people that imagine the brand name means something. (I have similar complaints about calling shitty Android tablets "Chromebooks", when they didn't run Chrome OS. The Chrome OS team was a level above Android in terms of technical excellence, so it just felt bad to have some bug-ridden third-party tablet ruin the brand name like that. But, money. I'm sure people bought them, hated them, and still use Chrome instead of Firefox. But it always makes me a little sad.)
And anti-racism is actually just racism towards whites and Asians.
I've been trying out bullet journaling (basically an enhanced TODO list system), I think it helps with organization, clarity/prioritization, and building habits: https://archive.ph/cTOzT (the video doesn't work, but the prose and images should all be there)

I basically only use the daily log since I'm too lazy to aggregate stuff into weekly or index views. You can incorporate aspects like a habit tracker or mood tracker matrices into the journal to see how well you're performing against goals like exercise and how you're feeling over time. It might also be useful to track which activities make you feel energized vs fatigued, and use that to help determine what you enjoy doing.

As a side-effect, the bullet journal becomes a memento documenting what you experienced and did over a certain period of time, and can be useful for reflection and reprioritization. One tip: you'll quickly realize that you don't have enough time to do everything you want to do, so you end up having to prioritize ("focus") or cut scope ("downsize") ruthlessly.

I also write electronic notes in plaintext/markdown which I type up on my computer and put into a Github-wiki-like web interface. I check these into git for versioning and to be able to diff notes over time. These notes are either log-formatted (append-only dated entries of something that changes over time), or I might reprocess and refine them over time into https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes which essentially becomes a personal knowledgebase.
Energy in the New Era
That’s not the thesis of the book.
Fair enough. I think technical users probably don't need this site, but I think there is value to be had (even for those technical users!).

For a bit of context:

I found myself using this site via my xbox's web browser to make sure my wifi latency is acceptable where I put the xbox.

Also, my spouse and I just moved to a new place, so I used this site on my phone to get a quick idea of the latency on wifi in my spouse's office.

There's tons of web-based tools to test your bandwidth, but I feel there just isn't a similar ecosystem of quick, web-based "ping" (well, latency, since I can't send ICMP packets from a web browser) tools.

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RE: HTTP only, good point. I've set up certbot and the page supports https now. I am not certain how HTTPS will impact the latency measurements, it appears the results are typically a bit higher and occasionally much higher when using HTTPS.

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I don't get the disappointment with the use of JS. It's just a bit of inline JS, easy to manually audit if concerned. JS is quite safe IMO and is a very powerful tool, it makes a rich universe of interactive applications possible in the humble web browser. I basically got into CS because of the fun I had creating things for and sharing things on the web.
I might have some recommendations, please reach out to me if you're still struggling to recover the files
bragging about having 196GB in a thread about real world performance is exactly why this thread happened
Global Orbital Launches – Q2 2022 [pdf]
That’s not true. Why do you think that?
Elon Musk text exhibits from Twitter vs. Musk trial
I guess it makes sense to RMS, but his brain is a very strange place.
As stupid and wrong it is, it is invading every aspect of our professional lives. It's extremely disturbing to find how many of my generation (let's say 30s & 40s) have accepted this belief system uncritically.

It seems at least that zoomers are somewhat more critical, or at least 50-50 on the topic. It's going to take many, many decades to unravel the harm this is causing.
A more interesting video or series of chart would be about the amount of work produced over time in every language, and its potential reach with the amount of literacy in every part of the world. Until recently almost nobody could read anything. Widespread access to books and the ability to read them is very, very recent.
>> Is it not possible to do research on anything else that maybe doesn’t have anything to do with identity issues?

It's the Society for Personality and Social Psychology ...

You may as well ask is not possible to submit to the Association for Computing Machinery a piece of research unrelated to computing.
I think he worked for Samsung : https://www.pranavmistry.com/
"New"?

What's so new about what seems to be like a common Automatic block signaling? I thought that this was a commonly used thing. Hence a small current on the rails (you can even tap into it and charge your phone).
Doesn’t this totally defeat Apple’s intelligent tracking prevention?
At least they include "h. c.", honoris causa, "for honor", which is where we get the (perhaps not all that well translated) term "honorary" doctorate.
Funny I should see this on the front page of HN the day before I finish my Stellarium port for Nintendo Switch [1]. Unfortunately a lot of the UI code in the 1.0 release made it harder to port so I'm currently basing the Switch version on the 0.xy tags, but it's still a great accomplishment for the Stellarium team!

1: Unless I get approval from Nintendo AND Noctua you will need an RCMed Switch with Atmosphere to run it.
Unprofessional and contributing to a toxic anti-woman environment in the kernel mailing list.
How to choose a radon fan (2018)
> they’ve been known to rescind someone rescinding their citizenship

...

> he had applied to restore his Chinese citizenship in 2018

Unless I'm misreading this, or if the latter claim is false, these are two very different scenarios, no?
yes, that's true, but that is not the equality we seem to want in the west. statistics show that female engineers are still a stark minority in the west. we are far from achieving equality here. in muslim countries and in china there are way more women in those fields. there is a school of thought that believes that the reason for that is because in the east, women can't get equality at home, so they find it at work. whereas in the west, women are expecting to get equality at home and are therefore not looking for it at work. my personal guess is that in the west career is more important to men than family, whereas in the east family matters more, and women only achieve equality in the areas that matter less.

traditionally picking up the slack would mean for the man to go earn more money. but women want to keep working. and, this is part of the issue, in middle to lower income families they have to. we have created a situation where a single income is no longer enough to support a family. the economic change is not financial freedom for women as much as a financial dependency on both parents working.

and the narrative we are creating and that we seem to want is that men help in the household and with childcare. and that too is happening but only just enough so that everyone supporting that narrative can point to an example, but not as much as everyone thinks. even in households where both parents are working, most of the housework is still done by women.
Absolutely it is and presented clearly as so.

The book presents 5 questions to settle the question of "Am I racist?"

__always giving primacy to the individual over the collective, or group;

__always embracing the concept of individual rights to help me judge problematic social interactions;

__never assessing quantities of stuff in gauging whether a policy is racist;

__always attempting to embrace the “color-blind rule” when making choices;

__always maintaining awareness of the distinctions between equity and equality; never compromizing equality of rights in order to bring about equity of stuff.
A true act of courage. Suffering personal consequences to stick up for what he believes in and do the right thing. The world needs more people like this.
That page serves me this ad at the top, which is an obvious scam:

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Be honest: How many folks here expected this to be an article about our software (hamburger / dropdown) menus?
> Therapeutically what matters is the increased feeling of well-being that lasts for weeks if not longer.

But what if that is a consequence of the 'hallucinations' changing your perspective on things? What if the psychedelic break with baseline reality for a few hours is the trigger that changes things?

It's definitely interesting to try and understand. I also just react poorly to people trying to create 'useful' versions of a drug without the 'fun' parts. I don't dabble any more but the experience of compounds like these was well worth the time invested.

(I put hallucinations in quotes above because I think there's a difference between the psychedelic experience and something all-out hallucinatory, read erowid reports on belladonna, datura and brugmansia for the latter)
All I know is you gotta have tons of emojis everywhere to really make it big
Asked to leave and then swap to another one. How many police they have. Millions. Or 10 millions.
You are generally free not to stand for the national anthem.

Suppose the SPSS (the professional society Haidt left in protest) had instead made a rule that they would play the national anthem at the start of every conference and anyone who didn’t stand wouldn’t be allowed to present their research.

If he had left in protest of that, would you assume he’s an unpatriotic asshole who hates America or that he’s standing up for free speech?
Or even "Molecules that act like LSD in regards to 5ht2a can counter depression without the trip". Because LSD is also active at other targets, and presumably those new molecules too.
Make your linter forbid the class keyword, it's all about how you write it. The language allows both OOP and functional styles.
Willingness to lose money is necessary but not sufficient. You still need to do something that nintendon't. Sony was lucky in that Sega completely bungled their entries into the 32-bit era, and Nintendo chose a cartridge-based system at a time when cartridges were on the way out, so in reality, the Playstation was the only competently-executed CD-based console available at the time.

Similarly, the XBOX was kind-of revolutionary. If anything, it was ahead of its time. It had a built-in HDD, its controllers were logically USB even if they had a proprietary form-factor, and it had built-in networking, and it didn't use any fancy nonstandard architecture. These are all features that would eventually become standard, so MS definitely had good ideas, and by doing them first they were well-positioned to do them right again. If MS had brought literal nothing to the table, I doubt the 360 would have been able to capitalise on the PS3's various shortcomings.

EDIT: "Doing something nintendon't" might be more literal than I thought. If the real market for Stadia is casuals, then what does the Stadia do that the Switch doesn't? I guess from reading the Reddit thread linked elsewhere, that the main market was ex-PC-gaming dads whose wives wouldn't let them get a new gaming PC. Which makes sense, as those people aren't interested in playing Mario or Zelda. But that's not a big niche to be targeting.
But the SPSP requirement went a step further, dropping "diversity" in favor of "anti-racism," a term frequently associated with Boston University's Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and other works. Among the book's passages is a widely shared one highlighted by Haidt:

"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
The good news is that some of us have instruments attached do those view holes that are capable to reason beyond the URL.
Helix is a very active open source project, with astonishing number of stars and active development. It feels like vim made for modern times, without legacy, quirks. At the same time it has very sane defaults and some small changes in keybindings that make experience more coherent and natural, but it is still easy to migrate for someone who was using it learning vim.
This sounds like something I always wanted. But I can't really figure out if I understand correctly from your website. So could you please clarify: when I edit the keyword of a photo in your software, will this keyword be written back into the EXIF data of the original file? If so, you just got a new paying user.
CBP is not authorized to do so. Asylum must go before a judge.
That was a fairly repulsive move on Google's part. I still don't understand why they did that.
OP here! Great discussion, it's made me realize I should also share my favorite speed test: https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

It both tests bandwdith and gives some cool latency measurements (both idle and under load). It's super helpful at diagnosing bufferbloat if there is any on your network connection.

I don't run it much since I don't want to tear through my ISP's data cap, but is an excellent tool.
The thread in which he changes the topic from garbage collection to "you should be prioritizing making Emacs a better word processor" is just stunning.

Like, no, that's not how it works! This person is a volunteer with a detailed design proposal for a prototype. You can't just ignore the proposal and demand something entirely unrelated! I was blown away.
Canada and Australia seem to be in a very similar situation with regards to the issues surrounding immigration.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/9j04p149
Care to give us some insights, rather than a list of transactions?

Why did you buy again? Why did you buy the older set when you had a newer set, and why did the same reason not apply after Wikipedia matured? How would you contrast the old encyclopedias vs Wikipedia?
Are you saying there is not a single aspect of personality that is unrelated to race?

That seems pretty racist.
I saw this advice online somewhere ages ago and I've found it to be incredibly useful--

Before you ask a question, try to answer it yourself for fifteen minutes. If you still don't know, then ask. This way, you'll know that it's not a dumb question. But if it really is a good question, you won't be struggling for hours before asking anybody about it.
You'll also learn a lot trying to solve it, and remember the answer better than if someone just told you.
I am confident the OP meant “meet God” as short-hand for “a spiritual and transcendental experience wherein the ego is destroyed and rebuilt anew with a profoundly different perspective”.

I don’t think anyone would earnestly claim that there is zero risk to any hallucinogenic experience. One of my hopes is that through study we can better understand the ingredients that lead to profoundly positive experiences vs. profoundly traumatizing experiences. And anyone who claims we know that today is acting in bad faith.
I don't know how reliable of a proof is a received mailing is. I guess it's proof of something...

I think a much more reliable proof is a vouch from another member who signs up to be your "sponsor" -- responsible for all your actions.

If you're interested in seeing a working prototype, check my profile. Some of the things I described have to be done manually for now, however, until the UI is finished.
If you made it mandatory, yep, repulsive. Like that pledge of allegiance thing.
It seems that much of the US felt that way about Kaepernick.
It's about repurposing existing underutilized infrastructure, not building more. Also, who do you think is paying to build, maintain and staff US embassies in foreign countries?

Anyways my only point was that you're welcome to whatever policy you like on immigration like say ban all H1Bs but this proposal seems like an awfully roundabout and dishonest way to do it. Other countries just place straightforward laws in place and stick by them. the US instead has one set of standards in law but has begun to enforce an entirely differently set with tricks like wait times, USCIS agents etc without any communication, forewarning or legislation. It's plainly dishonest. But going by the immigration numbers, you might soon get your wish anyways.
if i were unhappy with my life after an epiphany, i would simply act to change my situation
> Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla has pulled out of an appointment to testify before the European Parliament's special committee on COVID-19, at which he was expected to face tough questions on how secretive vaccine deals were struck.

> The report, by the European Court of Auditors, found that von der Leyen had been directly involved in preliminary negotiations for the EU's biggest vaccine contract, for up to 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, which was concluded in May 2021. This was a departure from the negotiating procedure followed with other contracts, where a joint negotiating team made up of officials from the Commission and member countries conducted exploratory talks.

> The EU watchdog also noted that the Commission refused to provide records of the discussions with Pfizer, either in the form of minutes, names of experts consulted, agreed terms, or other evidence.

> Already in 2021, the New York Times reported on the seemingly-cozy relationship between Bourla and von der Leyen, with the two exchanging text messages in the run-up to the deal.

Sleazy.
I am also doubtful, but the new molecules look quite a bit different to both LSD-like and tryptamine psychedelics, so it will be interesting to see what will the test subjects say, if it gets that far.
> They're not advertising meaningless version numbers anymore

USB IF is the only party responsible for making version numbers meaningless. They are _extremely_ useful for other hardware products - HDMI, DisplayPort, WiFi, etc.

There are scenarios where they would be useful. But USB IF decided to make them meaningless on purpose.

Everything about their history related to version numbers seems anti-consumer to me. Intentionally obfuscating capabilities and confusing consumers was a terrible idea.
You seem to be the one not arguing in good faith. You quote from the Bible to prove your point, and then immediately dismiss counter-quotes by questioning the authorship of the book you originally quoted yourself.

The thing with interpretation is: anybody can do it. If the claim you're trying to make is using a passage that is open to interpretation, I would question how solid a claim it is.
IMO no need for a disclosure if you're just stating a single fact.