skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was reported earlier in the year that [the government] was preparing to formally reject the proposals [for online balloting for unions / industrial actions] citing concerns about security.

So the Tories think that online voting is too insecure for deciding whether union members should be allowed to go on strike, but secure enough to decide who should be in control of the UK's nuclear arsenal?
Hatchbox doesn't provide hardware and is tied down to Ruby.
I think we absolutely should work with North Korea Iran and Russia to do positive works.

I would have no problem if the US collaborated on building hospitals with Russia at the same time we are also in conflict with them elsewhere. Support the good that you want to see in the world and others. Don't support the bad
The problem is that US political parties don't actually express the will of the majority of their constituents.

These "Christian nationalists" are not a majority in any shape or form, but the GOP as a party bends over backwards for them.
That's the argument for container queries, in my view.

I imagine container queries will totally change the way I write CSS as soon they are broadly supported.

Of course this would not make for a truly constrained-based layout definition. But it would at least make working this way somewhat possible.

The example where flex-directon is switched using a container query is spot-on. That's exactly ly what I sometimes miss being able to do in HTML+CSS.

Apparently there is a JS polyfill (awesome given the problem) but I haven't tried it and I assume the performance implications are bad.
The barrier for learning ops is also far higher then learning devs, especially if one wants to get into the industry.

Starting in development requires a laptop. Starting with operations requires a datacenter worth of hardware and applications.
I roughly agree with you but in your deps.edn example, how would you like the tool to respond? Your map/dictionary/object has an uneven number of forms, so what else would you like it to say?
Fountain soda is syrup and fizzy water mixed together in the glass. It is different bfrom bottled.
The point of the article is exactly people in the west like yourself, comparatively rich and well-educated, applying an ill-informed subjective standard of urgency?

You apply a model of reality formed in the western bubble essentially and assume, it applies to the whole planet equally, errors negligible.
That is incorrect.

Not "only" do multitudes suffer needlessly because of such an attitude being common where decisions are made, "mid- and long-term" consequences are obviously closing in and mounting to unmanageable levels.

It is not enough to just imagine one's model of reality to be correct and feel confirmed by people in the same bubble, prone to the same errors of judgement.
> I do wish LaTeX kernel commands (which I'm assuming these are) were more widely documented. As it stands, it's pretty hard to keep track of what already exists. Is there a nice reference for those?

Not really, the traditional commands are rather messy. Of course you can read source2e, but that's not really documentation. For new stuff it often makes sense to write the more programmy stuff in expl3 which is much better documented in interface3. (It contains these commands as `\use_i:nn` and `\use_ii:nn`)

> > Also the Unicode bytes are already active so setting their catcode is useless.
>
> This is true for LaTeX and not TeX, correct?

Right, this is LaTeX specific.

> Also redefining the first octet breaks LaTeX's UTF-8 handling...
>
> How so? (If the else case wasn't broken)

LaTeX's definition of the first byte handles arbitrary valid UTF-8 following bytes by using corresponding definitions or printing correct errors, while even a definition which wouldn't trigger the active character again would just print the two bytes which does not print a useful error message and probably prints two random characters from the font, completely ignoring any potential definition using LaTeX's mechanism for other codepoints starting with this byte.

>...and the else case forms an infinite loop.
>
> If `\Firstλ` was not an active character, would this still be true? Since I store `\Firstλ` in `\lambda@first@oct` before it's declared an active character.

You are correct, if the first byte wouldn't already be an active character (e.g. in plain TeX) then it wouldn't loop. It wouldn't expand to something particularly useful, but that wouldn't be any worse than without the definition so it would be "correct".

> I suppose I should read up on xparse.

Normally `xparse` is preloaded and not a package anymore, therefore also it's documentation has been moved into usrguide3. In this case you still need the package though since the `d` argument type has not been added to the kernel (and therefore also not to usrguide3) since delimited arguments are not recommended for LaTeX commands. It's still documented in the old `xparse` manual though. Just in case you're wondering about the split.
Jetson TX/TK/Nano/Xavier. The older ones should be quite affordable now
Registrars auto-sign the zones that randos create in Europe. They don't fuck with the important zones. That's part of what makes registrar auto-signing so silly.
Agreed, but my interpretation of the following line:

"The Gervais principle predicts the exact opposite: that the most competent ones will be promoted to middle management."

Ie, the competent losers become Clueless. Hence they're capable of jumping ship / or even starting a business if not for their 'delusional loyalty'. (My point being that lots of company brainwashing mentioned by OP attempts to groom Clueless thought patterns to prevent this flight of talent).

True that starting a company is a Sociopath trait in the writeup, but - this is far from an exact science as you correctly stated =)

(nonetheless this doc has caused many great debates over the years, for sure. Reasoning through lens of obsurdities can be fun)
Well, and there's the rub, right?

Jews and Asians are overrepresented because they give the hard signal. Some absurd double-digit number of Asian students at Harvard have a perfect SAT score.

What's taking assessment tests out of that picture likely to do to the percentage?

It's not more WASPs, there are exactly twenty of those matriculating per year and they all drink blood out of a skull†. It's less Asians and more, heartfelt college essays about: you can fill that in, I'm sure.

†I'm not actually blood-libeling WASPs, something about how conversations have gone here recently compels me to point this out. Remember the 2004 election? Me neither.
> "putting their head inside an oven"

Don't try it at home, but it does not longer work like in the movies. The details probably change in each country. Until ¿1970? the gas had a mix of carbon monoxide that is very toxic. After ¿1970? the method to produce gas changed and now it does not have carbon monoxide.

https://gizmodo.com/why-have-people-stopped-committing-suici...
I'm guessing it's the date of when it was/will be published in the print magazine. This article will be in the next edition of Scientific American if so.

Edit: Yes, seems to be correct. https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2022/11-01/ shows which articles are featured in the November edition, all of which have the published date as November 1.
Well that's cause his _actual_ point is that they shouldn't have to, and that public schools should be run differently so as to eliminate the advantage of rich people just circumventing them, ya dig?
Agreed, mainline Linux support with no closed drivers (and, ideally, no closed component firmware blobs) is often important, along with an open source toolchain, if you need the device to be sustainable.
You are expressing your opinion and rejecting everyone else's. It's not more complicated than that.
This sounds great! But as long as there's no GCC support it's usefulness is limited.

These kind of controllers are more than sufficient for most simple control tasks. ARM is simply too expensive here, since the licensing itself probably costs more than the MCU itself.
This would be a great feature but I’d have to think through the implementation. Right now we have no way to know which field to use as a “reply to”. I van look into documenting a set of special field names that have additional functionality.
That's... actually a really good question. I expect you are perhaps trying to push the idea that Republicans are more centrist than Democrats, but I don't think I'd agree with that.

If you were to suggest that your average Republican US citizen is more centrist than your average Democrat US citizen, I would probably agree. But when it comes to the politicians and the people running the parties, I think the GOP is much farther right than the Democrats are far left.
> Can it be exploited. Yes, but as I've said elsewhere. "Evil Corp is gonna evil".

They’re not trying to both have and eat their cake. They chose a license with a known exploit because they think it’ll be best for their users, and they accept the consequences of that. This is (IMO) a good balance to strike, and better than I imagined before reading through the license itself and its rationale. It’s explicitly:

- we want to impose the least burden possible on those least able to bear it

- we think we’ll be more sustainable because in balance those able to bear it are more likely to choose to with this model than the previous one… excepting those who wouldn’t regardless of the terms.

Quite a lot of mutual good and goodwill is the product of norms which are effectively social agreements rather than enforcement protocols and regimes. Will some jerk take advantage of this and eat their cake? Yeah, duh. But it’s better for probably the vast majority of their users than a more onerous license which is viral, and (AFAICT) no worse for anyone but themselves. A one-sided compromise in favor of everyone else.
SpaceX, Pentagon to Deepen Ties Despite Dispute on Starlink Funding in Ukraine
Not OP, but while that sounds like an easy feature to add, suddenly the form might me used to spam, flood or otherwise annoy other email addresses.
There’s a pretty significant difference in tuna stocks between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Japan sources tuna from the Pacific, and for high quality fish that fetches astronomical prices, it has to be caught via long-lining. Purse seiners may turn up bluefin from time to time, but they’re not set up to store and deliver it the way a long-liner is.

Anyhow, skipjack is the most common species of tuna in the Pacific and those are doing reasonably well. The countries with fishing waters are all part of a multi-nation compact that limits the number of fishing days that can be sold. This limit (as well as other limits on fishing techniques) serves to ensure that it’s not being overfished.
Smart agriculture board features ESP32 MCU
> people speculating on animal extinction was new to me and saddens me deeply.

At least they’re honest about it. The people responsible for the extinctions just shrug and either ignore it or lie.

There’s no way to point to your warehouse of bear gallbladders and say anything other than, “These are gonna be worth a ton once all the bears are dead.”
Most of Alabama is unlike Huntsville.
Safety coffins, which had various mechanisms for signaling if you woke up inside of one, were in vogue for quite a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin
> distinction about disk vs network latency

Ah but that's not the distinction I'm making at all. This has nothing to do with the physical latency of the network, which can easily be less than that of a disk. It's about the application-level semantics of your communication.

When you are waiting for a connection to arrive on a listen socket, you have no idea how long you might wait. It might never happen. Someone elsewhere on the network has to take the initiative to connect. Depending on the protocol, the same can be true of waiting for a read or even a write.

> Windows had IOCP

I think Windows is over-engineered in this respect. It doesn't seem to have given Windows any recognized fundamental advantage in running databases.

> And why, fundamentally, can you not use blocking APIs with threads for networking?

Well, you can, especially if you're only talking to a single peer. But when you are talking to multiple parties (especially as part of the same logical task, e.g. talking to multiple back-ends to handle one incoming request) it gets unwieldy to manage a thread for each connection.
Great idea. This is actually already what we do for unsubscribed users. You get a notification that your form received a submission and a link to subscribe if you’d like to see it.

I’lol need to add some additional plans to support higher volume if and have an upgrade option.
> This conversation is over as far as I’m concerned.

Well thank goodness for that. You've offered nothing of any value
except reiterating your own disagreement and sidestepped everything
I've offered you with wilful ignorance. I get it, you don't like what
I'm saying, but your arguments are pitiable. A most disappointing
exchange.
This is a bit like if you stood in the town square, yelled out "Bob's a pedophile, and btw, buy my book" and Bob charged you for each individual person who happened to be in earshot.

But, you know, it happened on the big bad internet, so let's just throw all precedent out and act like it's different.

Anyway, we get the point: 9/11 really was an inside job after all.
The state is like 47th or 48th in education consistently. People are poorer, they live shorter lives, and lack access to basic services like hospitals.

It’s a sad state of affairs.
> Over the last ten years, the market has tried to kill off the hardware, systems, network and security people, and mostly succeeded.

In my experience, people who want to do interesting work on networking and systems. (Think, building large scale networks and systems with high resillience) dont want to work for smaller companies anymore.

They either work at:

A) highly specialized companies which fit their niche. (ISP's or IXP's for instance).

B) do consulting and project based work for a lot of companies who have very specific requirements. (Think, building a identity provider system for a country etc).

Small scale complexity has been disappearing because everyone just throws hardware at the problem instead of thinking about how to architecture their infra "correctly".

Why optimize your OS's scheduler parameters to get more performance from your filesystem when you have nearly free VC money and a budget to burn on resources in AWS?
RAM is incomparable to desktop computers since it's used for both programs and data (i.e. variables used in the program) in the latter.

On a microcontroller RAM is only used to hold program variables. The program itself is stored in Flash memory.
Physics Questions the Nature of Reality (2015)
Also, the AI chip startup Graphcore was formed by a bunch of ex-XMOS guys.
You'll note that Duende correctly does not call their model open source. Is source available a step up from fully closed source? Sure. But it's not the same as open source. So if your goal is to promote open source, I don't see why you would work with a product such as Duende, or ImageSharp if they hypothetically followed this example.
Grades for each subject are calculated into end-of-year grades (for that subject), and a final "total" grade is calculated (some special formula, not a pure average). A mix of those is then calculated into those 40%... I can look up the formula, but yeah, the grades are used too.
OK but whether or not this is a proper definition of "blocking" doesn't really change my point.

Alternatively, maybe my point is that disk I/O is not "blocking" either, it just "takes some measurable amount of time". :)

EDIT: What this says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302587
A Modern Formal Logic Primer
Nit:

> The Advantage2 was released in 2002

Advantage2 was released in 2016! Original Advantage was in 2002. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesis_(keyboard)
GlueSQL: SQL database engine as a library
One architecture I know of that used its general purpose registers for floating point is the VAX. I have no thoughts on this though.
It is not fully managed code though.
thank you for restoring my faith in at least that bit of basic human rights is enforced in the US.
Better answer: “I think it’s obvious to everyone but it still can’t be said enough: the stories we learn, especially as children, define our social reality as adults in ways we often don’t even realize. It’s not just that our desires are shaped by what others desire, though that’s true, also, it’s that the stories we learn become normative, they become our models for how we interact with other people. Ask any parent and they’ll tell you, after your kids watch cartoons, they imitate what they’ve seen. That doesn’t stop happening when you grow up, just all the seams and the hard edges get smoothed over, and the stories you learn as a kid count for triple at least.” — https://zerohplovecraft.substack.com/p/book-review-sadly-por... via https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-sadly-porn
Just in case, to avoid confusion, I'm not complaining about the current submission.

* 50% curiosity about the coincidence

* 50% readers that liked this article may also like ...
Generally, lift with your legs, not your back.
> If I try to pass the async function to gather (for example) without calling it, which makes some intuitive sense

That intuition breaks immediately when you realize that those functions can have arguments, and you have no way to pass them.
And sometimes you just don’t want to add the functionality into a dynamic site. Contact forms are simple but you have to find an email provider, add the functionality to the site, and it’s an extra thing to maintain moving forward. I have been using Sendfly for my customers contact forms for the last 5 years because it’s so much easier to implement and way more reliable.
people don't understand the typing on the lap thing. I can use the keyboard in a variety of different positions (including lying down), and my wrists never come in at a strange angle.

I'd love bluetooth, but have two separate units in the 360 doesn't really work for me...I guess I could make something like their bridge that's a little more sturdy and adjustable.
The TX and TK are garbage at this point. The Nano is (IIRC) going to be similar to a 1050Ti. Unfortunately, prices for the Nano are the same kind of crazy as GPU prices last year: All the examples I could find on eBay were 2-4x original retail price. It’s an okay board, but frustrating to the point that I gave up and built a cheap AMD box using mostly spare parts.
Yep, the source is on GitHub! Yeah, I didn’t set up any but the standard Hohner tunings, but any would be easy to implement.
> You do know that the hospital doesn't get paid for organs donated, right? I have no idea what incentives you think they have to kill you.

Believe it or not, money is not the only motivator of people. Wanting to help someone you have a stronger relationship with (because one patient can communicate, the other cannot) could be incentive enough for some people. And doctors are, in the end, just people.

I am not suggesting that most doctors would do this, or even a sizable percentage, but it would be reassuring that measures would be in place to ensure what the GP is talking about cannot happen. I suspect everyone realises this, and there are actually systems in place to protect organ donors against harvesting whilst still alive.

Edit: this comment suggests the GP's fears are not so far fetched https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33300503 EEP!
Thanks for this, just giving a name for the attack is a major contribution but I appreciate the level of detail you went into on this.
How to Clean Blood Stains
in my opinion, the ops folk who are good at their jobs do automate the boring stuff. (because doing grunt work is uninteresting)

I highly doubt ops will ever go away considering someone has to think about maintaining stability in a production environment. This is usually a different way of thinking a lot of developers are simply not aligned to do.
Kids would instead be locked into shit schools because their parents aren't there, don't care, or simply don't have the time to research alternate schools, but (yay!) private and charter schools get to siphon off money from the public school system.
https://archive.ph/kKaIr
I could have written all of this myself except for the father part. I feel ya.
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that this was your choice. It was a general rant against the sorry state of these platforms that get in the way of the very product they are supposed to be promoting. It sounds like content I would be very interested in. Do you have a blog or somewhere else where this content also lives? Cheers.
A card like a 1080 TI needs a PCIe x16 slot. There's no SBC with an x16 slot. Though there's plenty of Mini-ITX motherboards, which is pretty small at 6.7-in x 6.7-in (17.0 cm x 17.0 cm).
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia did a show about people who could be temporarily woken from their comas by Ambien:

> The first awakening occurred in 1999 when a man who had spent three years in a persistent vegetative state spontaneously regained consciousness after ingesting a 10mg tablet. Since then, hundreds of patients have experienced miraculous recoveries from traumatic brain injury using Ambien.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFicgrVk0w
I heard someone say - 'Problem with corporations is that most of them are run by finance people and lawyers.' I think they fall into your 2nd group - administrators.
Branko Milanović: Let’s go back to mercantilism and trade blocs
It's not being used as a proportionate punishment. Many incarcerated people were never even proven to have committed a crime, and in some cases never even faced trial. There's also no small number of people who were imprisoned for a crime someone else committed thanks to misbehavior on the part of prosecutors, police, or dishonest "witnesses". Sometimes those people even get executed.

The murderer working 8 hours a day in a prison is an outlier. A huge percentage of the prison population are normal people like you or me put in a bad environment being abused inhumanely because people have decided that they deserve it for some reason.
8-9 figures on webhosting/helping non technical people manage and deploy some app? Or you're saying those digital agencies would pay a premium to be an end user.
I think you're getting downvoted for the use of the word superficially (what he does and is impressive and the video you linked doesn't debunk the trick shooting itself except for the split arrow), but this is an important contribution. His historical claims struck me as off, and this video does a good job of explaining why.

"How did the Saracens measure seconds?" — My thought exactly!
The Renegade BBS inspired dashboard definitely tickled my nostalgia as well.
Response to SBF on regulation recommendations for cryptocurrencies
This is just not a take that squares with how it is to live anywhere in America outside of the denser urban cores and some shallow radius of the suburbs around them. Perhaps it was correct at some time in the past before the suburban expansion of the post-WWII era. Perhaps Seattle is different from the overwhelming majority of the United States and is uniquely walkable or upzoned. I would not know since I have not been there before.

In the United States today it is the norm for middle and upper middle class parents to raise their children in car-dependent suburbia. Particularly in the last half century, most new residential developments have been exactly this. The defining features of these places are sprawling circuitous developments of detached single-family homes, massive parking lots, impassable highways, and strip malls.

If you'd like an example, please come visit Loudoun and Fairfax counties. I grew up in that area. They are some of the wealthiest counties in the country, a common destination for families in the DMV, and you will see how much walkability and proximity to schools that money has bought them.