skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most national governments are also appointed. By the national parliaments, which are elected.

Maybe the EC should be appointed by the EP. That way it would be about as democratic as most national governments. Of course the problem there is that the EP is incredibly fragmented and there are almost no European parties; they're all national parties, so it's going to be hard getting a majority of those to agree on a government. I guess that's a big part of the reason why it's done by the smaller number of national governments instead, and the EP can only approve or reject.
I guess realdonaldtrump is going to be the real litmus test
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I'm surprised more people don't know about ddc (which works over displayport). Been using it with this gnome extension on Fedora for a while now.

https://github.com/daitj/gnome-display-brightness-ddcutil
I heard he plans to opensource the moderation algorithms. At least that is a good thing against bias, or at least it is for transparency. I'll just see, I don't even use Twitter, I'm mostly annoyed by how it suddenly slaps me in the face with that sign-up screen and you can't even scroll back anymore. If he changes that, that would be nice.
Of course they work to subvert due process at every opportunity. Cops gonna cop.
Dinorwig isn't profitable due to energy arbitrage, at least not within 4 decades of construction. It does also get paid for maintaining a permanent on-call capacity for urgent frequency regulation though.

Maybe recent energy price increases has changed future reckoning though
> Isn't it one bit in the beginning(?) of each 16-bit instruction?

No, it's the first two bits of every instruction (RISC-V is little-endian, so these are the least-significant bits). Two bits have four possible values, three of them are for 16-bit instructions, one of them is for 32-bit instructions.

> So a 32-bit instruction has this information duplicated in the same place in the latter 16-bit half, since a decoder has to be able to decide whether it's trying to decode a 16-bit instruction or whether it's in the middle of a 32-bit instruction.

No, that information is not duplicated. The decoder cannot know whether it's in the middle of a 32-bit instruction or not; it has to decode the length of all preceding instructions. That's why it's important that you can know the instruction length without decoding the instruction, so that simple logic can tell decoders other than the first whether they're in the start or in the middle of an instruction.
More bot string jumbling, I'm afraid.
It's more like a potlatch thing (an America Indian status ceremony where people destroy or give away things to prove how wealthy they are) Spending money on perishable items is a power move in the status game.
On displays with high enough resolution/dpi, maybe. But isn't it just inevitable that if there are red subpixels on one side of your text, and blue on the other, that it would be noticeable?

OK, I played around with it and I was able to make it more and less noticeable depending on which boxes I picked. Guess I'll never know if that was possible when I first started noticing it 20 years ago, with worse monitors and better eyeballs :(
Always found the first method of keeping bookmarks to the positions in a table to be the best method. I don’t think the 3 problems given to be an issue personally.
- just loop at the interval that your users can accept the delay
- querying a database 10 times a second is nothing, even 100 times, this wouldn’t cause resource limitations
- the scaling concern made no sense to me, seems a bit arbitrary.

Cool to know this is an option though, but I much prefer not relying on database internals like wal logs, this hurts scaling more IMO.

The only thing you need to worry about with the table method is out of order increment IDs, which is always possible in a transactional database. But there are many solutions for this.
Is there any reason to believe it would be less corrupt with a different economic system? At least now there's plenty of subsidies for the poor.
This. I can tell HR, my lead and skip about how good my communication, soft skills and team work have been this year but come comp review they don't give a crapola about any of that. All they look at is how many sloc I've shipped.
It's way more expensive both monetarily and politically to do it that way and therefore the bar for doing it would be set higher.
Presumably trading meat stock for vegetable stock? ;)
Which is funny, considering how much map-painting happened during the time.
I think you hit the nail on the head: instead of large, sprawling suburban cities built around the car, the US will need to rebuild cities around humans who walk and take bikes.
I bought a Traktor Kontrol S2 and play with headphones in my current house for similar reasons. It's great because it doesn't take up much space, and it lets me scratch that itch every now and then. It just means I can't touch my record collection so I don't have my whole library at hand.
If you're like me and got very excited by teasers like this:

> Another interesting thing we noticed is that there is a computable position in infinite chess, such that ... white has a computable strategy defeating any computable strategy of black—but in the category of arbitrary play, both players have a drawing strategy.

...then here is the original paper, where they go into much more detail:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.4377.pdf

It sounds absolutely fascinating, and I want to learn more.
In fact, there are a dozen on eBay right now: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=google+search+appliance

According to Wikipedia, the 2U models were indeed based on Dell PowerEdge servers, and the 1U models were apparently based on Super Micro servers.[^1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
Hmm, perhaps you're right. I suspect that "highly refined" is an ambiguous term. A quick Google suggests it mostly refers to sugars but also refers to things like rice cakes and white bread that are mostly starchy; maybe it depends, in part, what things it is packaged alongside rather than just the chemical composition of the carbs themselves e.g. whether it is included alongside a fair amount of fibre.
I have never heard of fanless x86_64 boards. Can you share some examples please?
> The writers among us are quite the minority.

Tell me about it. I'm lucky enough to have a supportive manager when I try to define my teams fitness functions, but getting the rest of the team to engage is an exercise in patience testing on all sides.

They don't see the value in writing useless essays, shouldn't self documenting code be enough?

I don't see the value in skipping high resolution communication up front so we can all waste time reworking the same problem for the 5th time that month because we forgot what we decided the 4th time we worked on it.
how else did you filter uploaded videos? i don't remember what the other options are. also, the new UI is faster on my old 10 yo machine.
I think that short-form writing is important (I tend to prolix, so it's not my strongest point).

I was always told that any proposal or explanation that is to land on the desk of a VP or higher (most companies, but the one I was in, was General Manager, or higher), needed to be a maximum length of one page, and not dense text.

I have written a lot, over my life, but I tend to write fairly long pieces[0]. This has meant that I go fairly long periods, without writing, as I get involved in a project (like right now).

I've recently started a new series, entitled "shorties"[1], that will hold very brief writings. These seem (to me) to be woefully inadequate, but I'll get it.

A good exercise, for me, was the idea of a "mini-saga."[2]

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/shorties/

[2] https://www.danpink.com/2005/05/mini-sagas-another-approach/
I had a bad experience with the last (and final) cheap Android TV I got (Philips, really a rebranded FUNAI according to the Netflix device ID) - would take minutes to boot, often not power on unless unplugged, and would get slower and slower the longer it was on. Guess it was haunted as well. I left it in the house I sold.
Very interesting and thanks for the post. Any recommendations on good places for further reading on the subject?
Ah, a classic case of haunted tech. My version is my electric bike that decides it wants to turn the power on and off as it pleases.
> Just to make more money? He already made enough.

It's never enough for these guys. It's a game and money is the score, they just want to run up the score.
Also a fan of mechanical watches, including doing mods/builds of them.

I don't mind winding mine up and setting the time, but if that bothers you, you can get a watch winder that will keep the spring topped off on automatics.

Regarding size, there seems to be a consensus that trends are slowly gravitating back towards more reasonable case diameters. Even Panerai (famous for its massive chonkers) released its first 38mm recently. You can also get into vintage watches. Over 40mm was very rare and mainly limited to dive watches some 30 years ago. Thinness was more of a priority back then too. As an adult male with a standard 7" wrist, 38mm diameter and under 12mm thickness is my preference for a comfortable all-day wearing experience.

Those who genuinely do love sporting a huge dinner plate on their wrist need not worry though, since I'm sure they'll always keep making plenty of the big ones. In the smart watch world, I suspect certain models will get bigger as users demand more battery life and functionality. For example, Garmin recently came out with the 51mm Fenix 7X.
I'm pretty sure corruption in societies is a cultural thing. It'll take at least a generation, maybe more, to truly go away. Ten years is wildly optimistic.
You can't compare software services revenue to cars. COGS model is totally different.
If you ever publish the project, send me a gmail at darius.j.chuck

I'd love to feature it here: https://github.com/jevko/community
Show HN: Empowering engineering can nuke customer churn
There's a lot of confusion and BS around customer attrition, so I wrote this blog to clarify the different terms, what they mean, and how to give engineers the tools they need to deal with customer churn.
Mentor Pilot's videos are top notch. Watching this one made me dizzy I can't imagine debugging a system while enduring 4+ Gs.
For written works we often hear that analysis doesn't need to depend on the author's intent. Why shouldn't that also hold true for visual art?
We export power all over the Southwest Power Pool actually! SPP even trades with ERCOT when we can and help them out if they're short. Kansas is quite green, with about 65% coming from renewables (Mainly wind, then nuclear), but we're too far north for Solar to be {wildly profitable|cost effective}, and wind doesn't blow all the time. Given our climate, with temps as low as -32f in the winter, and 105f in the summer, that unfortunately means we can't rely on renewables 100%. The only practical choice is coal and gas, which isn't my preference, but that's where we're at. I'd love to have a second nuclear plant somewhere in the state.

Ironically Colorado is a very hard partner to trade with. The major consumer (Denver) is in the center of the state. The entire eastern half is an empty plain and the western half of Kansas is a slightly less empty plain. From population center Kansas City to Denver is about 600miles, make energy trade a little impractical. They make a ton of their own wind energy on their open plain, and they were late adopters; they learned a lot from Kansas's expensive mistakes on wind power.
I like flameshot too, but I despise having to hunt for the clipboard or floppy disk icon every time I take a screenshot.
Creating artificial lakes is the definition of climate change. Taking what was a flowing river and converting it into a huge lake massively changes the climate of the area.
How do explain doing business in Japan and Korea? They are famous for stamps, applications, and exceedingly complex rules and regulations. Yet, there are relatively low corruption. I heard Germany and Austria are also very heavy on paperwork and bureaucracy. They essentially have zero obvious corruption.

Corruption is a weird thing. Why do some countries have more of it than others -- holding GDP per capita constant? I cannot explain it. Look at the United States -- "googols" of money spent to influence lawmakers. It cannot be healthy and looks like legalised bribery in comparison to other highly developed democracies.
I like to imagine (with my overactive imagination) that Elon Musk knows exactly what he is going to do with Twitter. I don't think he would be able to do all the things he does if he didn't strategize extensively for every one of his projects.

My _crazy off-the-wall_ theory is that his mid-level plan is to "bring back AOL". That is, to turn Twitter into a paywalled garden like AOL was back in the 1990s before AOL users could access the outside Internet.

Charging a Twitter subscription would cause a massive shed of users, but where will they go to? Charging money would also keep out most of the bad actors. You would have to do a balancing act of how to ensure there are remaining Twitter users left to keep the ecosystem healthy. It's crazy to think about, who would pay for Twitter?

I'm not accountant enough to do the math to calculate the time until monetary payback. But if a radical transformation of Twitter is the goal, then Musk is playing a long game where dollars aren't the first priority.

It would also create a reason to buy StarLink in markets where FIOS/etc is already cheaper, sales pitch: "buy StarLink and get a free Twitter subscription"
Phrasebooks Are Dying Out
Developers hates communication since developers gets blamed for all communication problems even when they aren't at fault, until that changes most developers will hate it and refuse to do it since they got burned.
You can't deny the implication, but whether that elevates it to a position of special relevance is another matter, at least as I see it. Personally, unless I have been thinking about it recently (which is very rarely), I would have to do the calculation before answering the question of how many seconds are in a day (and if I were being more than usually pedantic, I would have to ask "which day?")

In my view (which, admittedly, is somewhat subjective), people are not even tacitly concerned with the number of seconds in a day unless they are contemplating the number of seconds in an approximately day-length or longer period. On the other hand, I can imagine some of my relatives, who were conservative in all matters almost by reflex, responding to the SI definition by saying something like "Nonsense! there are sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, and twenty-four hours in a day, and that's that!" - once they had learned something, it was set in stone. I am pretty sure that the annual variability of the synodic day was not among the things they had learned, and the idea of a leap second would be deeply troubling.

I appear to have talked myself into agreeing with you that 60.60.24 is what matters to most people by default, as they don't know the minutiae of celestial timekeeping or the increasing importance of atomic timekeeping (let alone relativity!) in their everyday lives.
This is interesting. I wonder if one could use PINN or NOOBS on a portable USB SSD drive as well in order to multiboot the needful on one bigly ssd..(?)
I think you're confused about the conversation that's being had.

Nobody is suggesting (reduction in production costs) → (reduction in median consumer price)

We are only suggesting (reduction in production costs as a way to reduce median consumer price) → (reduction in median consumer price)

If there was no reduction in median consumer price, then, contrary to GGP's position, it is fair to conclude that it's not part of Adobe's intent.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/elon-...

Good article discusses possibilities, mainly around potential for new lack of employee attention resulting in threats to the product (stability and quality), it's legal compliance, and its users (safety and privacy) increasing in severity and frequency.
Speech is substantially more restricted in Germany. The US only bans immediate incitement to violence (that is, contrary to the folk belief, yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is ok). Whereas in Germany certain symbols such as the swastika may not be displayed.
I believe the official term was "sidetalkin'" https://sidetalking.com
That was more of a pointed comment at Meta. Other companies may indeed have good uses for talent.
There are two only tangentially related issues here. One is, given you're already overweight or obese, can exercise help you change that? The answer seems to be yes, it definitely can, but it seems empirically that it very rarely works over any appreciable long-term, other than in people who find they enjoy it sufficiently to become at least recreationally serious endurance athletes or at least very active people for the rest of their lives. If your only motivation for exercising at all is to lose weight, it very likely isn't going to work over any meaningfully long span of time.

But the other issue is, given you're a normal-sized, metabolically healthy 10 year-old, will developing a lifelong habit of regular exercise and a generally active lifestyle keep you from ever getting fat in the first place? I don't know that we have any kind of long-horizon, longitudinal research to demonstrate one way or another empirically, but mechanistically, it sure seems like that should be the case, and you can look at manual laborers in developing countries, the Amish, any serious lifelong athletes in sports where being maximally large is not advantageous on its own, as existence proofs that this should help.

I think the comment you're responding to was really asking about the latter scenario. It's not, okay, you spent the last 20 years gaining 30kg, well how active are you now? The question is how active were you over the entire course of the last 20 years? Because it's likely that if you were sufficiently active, you wouldn't need to lose weight at all, and the question of exercising for losing weight would be irrelevant.
Musk made $100B in stock valuation from his Twitter-based PR/advertising operation.
For and edge caching node, it doesn't need to. The vast majority of traffic is for a relatively small subset of the catalog that is popular that week/day/hour. Cache misses are directed to more centralized nodes that do have the full catalog (though not necessarily all on one server).
This has little to do w/ being a developer vs. being human.

People joke about the programmer in a dark corner plugging away and never talking to others, but that's actually pretty rare. In 20 years I've only worked with a handful of developers who don't want to socialize, collaborate, or solve problems together.

The truth is that people - regardless of discipline - generally all want the same things from their work: to work on something meaningful, to be productive, and to be recognized for that work (both output and input).

That's pretty much it. If - as a leader - you can do those, you're going to generally have rather happy employees.

When it comes to this article, the issue is that there are a lot of people who believe that documentation and effective communication ARE necessary, but that work ISN'T recognized, and (because it isn't recognized) steals time that could be spent being productive doing something that is.

If you want effective communication, documentation, etc. at your workplace, it's incumbent on leadership to create that culture. Nurture it, get better at it themselves, and help those less eloquent to find their [written] voice.
The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended
I don't know what part he plays but Drew Berry is credited in some of the most compelling videos on molecular biology that I've ever seen. They really bring the machinery of biology to life. Most of them are at the WEHIMovies channel on youtube. Here's one on ATP synthesis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5AXGS1aL8

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies

If I would have had access to these in high school back in the 90's I probably would have lived an entirely different adult life. It's an incredible aspect of nature that we've somehow just become accustomed to.
For something you use as a main computer, it's hard to see how the time lost on something 3X slower can ever justify the ~$100 saved. At least for anyone who spends a decent amount of time on a computer and is in the developed world with a job.
> More often than not, the picture I capture with my cellphone looks very different than when it was being displayed in the live preview. That part is the one that frustrates me the most.

Is this an android thing? The ones I take on my iphone look identical to the live preview
Depends a bit on your approach.

If you're trying to ship projects and you don't care how things work under the hood, then check out repos that look interesting and start pulling levers.

A lot of projects you can play around with now on Google Colab without really knowing how they work.

If you want to go deeper, really understand what's happening with Machine Learning and neural-nets, then the most-recommended course is still Andrew Ng's Coursera course.

https://www.coursera.org/collections/machine-learning

And if you just want to keep up with the headlines/fight FOMO I'm writing a 20% jokes 80% informative newsletter at https://boteatbrain.com/
And that Supreme Court decision was overturned later in Brandenburg v Ohio.
Relevant commentary from Cory Doctorow:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/
I recall the same thing being said about Apple and USB-C ports in iPhones, yet here we are.
for paradox fans I highly recommend the author's series analyzing EU4's perspective of history[1]. the role of the player is peculiar in EU4 (and Victoria I believe) in that you play as the state itself, unlike Crusdar Kings where you play as an individual holding political power within a state. Brett discusses the narrative of history that this perspective presents.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2021/04/30/collections-teaching-paradox-e...
Why? Do you think Pichai or Cook/Jobs read the code? They hire engineers to build.
I think the via media is that you should avoid pompous, inflated, vacuous, officious language that obscures more than it reveals[0] (psychiatry speaks of "stilted speech" as a marker of disorder; I would add that it could be a marker of a character flaw). The emphasis should be on coherence and clarity. The aim isn't to avoid "big words", only the inappropriate use of them. People who sprinkle their speech or writing with forced vocabulary are like nouveau riche simpletons who think that the more gold you wear, the better. The solution isn't to shun all gold and live like a scrub who avoids all gold, but someone who knows how and when to use gold. Temperance in dress, temperance in writing and speech, temperate in all things. And what is temperance? A lived respect for the order that follows from the nature of a thing.
> I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in

That's an unusually low price, assuming it's new. Can you give a reference of the shop where you purchased it?

For example, the first price I've found of a Gigabyte Brix (a relatively common mini PC) with an N2807 + 8 GB RAM + 512 GB SSD + no wifi, is 210+ USD.

One of the cheapest x86 systems that I'm aware of, is the Odroid H3 (+), which still costs 129$ without RAM/disk/Wifi.

This is definitely a machine I'd suggest as ARM SBC competitor, but I'm not sure that the price is representative of mini x86 systems (when I was looking for one, a few years ago, it was the cheapest by a significant amount).