skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The main thing for me is that prepping only work if there is a transitory situation where a buffer can make it easier to navigate.

Everything on this planet is a transitory situation. A buffer will always make situations easier to navigate.

Case in point: having a social or monetary safety net is a buffer against e.g. unemployment.

> I don't care how much food and guns you have stockpiled if I can just take them away from you when I need them.

You need to have at least your own guns in order to take away resources from people with guns. Ideally though you would just have skills that are valued, so you can trade resources for skills and not shoot each other. People (grown men of sound mind, especially) tend to go to far lengths to avoid violence, especially if they've been exposed to it in the past.
You obviously can, but indexing with `[]` is the default way one would think of doing and it can certainly be surprising that it panics.

Besides, the slice API is full of "infallible" functions that panic when given bad parameters - just search for "Panics" in https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.slice.html - because it's expected that it would be more annoying for people to deal with the fallibility (like having to manually `.expect()` or bubble up the error) when they "know" that it wouldn't fail.
The coke example differs, as the product is created and consumed in that region.
I think I understand that as a virtue of Go, but I don't see how it makes it a successor language: C famously has no abstractions, meaning nothing that gets in the way of your work and nothing that helps it either.

The most productive C codebases are the ones that have existed for years, where every possible utility and type has been built from scratch out of need; Go programmers are able to be productive from the get-go.
Yeah we all know big applications work like that and will get finished sometime. Like google search which definitely didn’t change since its first iteration, it does the same doesn’t it?
"None of the above" is already available by leaving blank that race. You can submit a ballot without marking any races.
AFAIK the company didn't lose $4M/day until the advertisers halted their ad buys because of the uncertainties brought by the new management.
There are a lot of things to complain about in the core of mastodon as a piece of software. That's a big part of why there are so many alternatives built on the same protocol.

The idea is that by spreading the users amongst many smaller servers, everyone has a pretty responsive experience while still being able to (hypothetically) interact with as many users as on Twitter.
Yes he needs to curry favors with Republicans to get the big DoD contracts for:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
The name of the band is Fields and Waves… which is also the name of the class that convinced me to bail on physics and to stick with software engineering. :)

Edit: My profile has the band website now.
Or they just have a higher base level of testosterone. 15% of 300 bits of testosterone is a whole lot more DHT than from 150 bits of testosterone.
I just confirmed with a Slackware user today, it still does use Dillon cron. I had a vague memory from before I switched from Slackware to Debian late last millennium.
I don't think Colorado State is a top-tier college - in a pretty quiet place - no big names - but when I visited it from the UK for a conference I could not believe how nice and polished everything was. Beautiful buildings and spaces. I did some coding in a kind of forum with a large open fire and two-storey glass walls looking out over the snow. Very inspirational. I guess it costs though.
When I went to a California community college in the early 90s tuition was $6/unit capped at $60/semester.

The same school is now $46/unit with no cap.

Though, through the google, it looks like there’s some sort of two years of free tuition program so it’s probably a wash practically speaking.
For software, the existing employees will always be cheaper. It has been argued that an engineers value is captured most in their mental model of the system. EG: Want a new feature in a system I built and maintained? Boom, here are the touch points, the gotchyas, and here is the roadmap to get if done in three days. Anyone new to that system will first say, cool, give me about 3 weeks to learn this code, and then maybe another 7 while we implement it and work through all of the trip wires we did not know about.
Ah yes, the ethics argument, completely subjective and therefore impossible to refute, the last refuge of the exposed.

I see the metrics as a chance to provide visibility and support, you see it as a way to “manage” the devs. I see a chance to help, you see tyranny.

I see my viewing of my own metrics as a chance to introspect with an open mind and a willingness to see fault in myself and improve, you see an abuse of authority and a land grab to get ahead.

Then you say “I’m not assuming the worst, or full of negativity” when clearly you are, you just demonstrated it.

So like you, let me fall back on the ethics argument:

I think it’s unethical for a software manger not to take machine collected metrics and to manage on “gut feel” and intuition, just as all gut feel and intuition are not explained as rationale to all decision making (thus are also “secret metrics” - i.e. collected without transparent knowledge of all reasoning)

I think it’s unethical not to have secret metrics and inform every person of every thought and data point you have, so there aren’t any secret measures. (You better call your bank, your insurance company and loan companies and marketing companies who are all collecting secret metrics on you, in the sense their rationale, data points, and algorithms are not 100% open and are therefore secret)

I think it’s unethical to distribute reports that might demoralise some devs without helping them out first, especially if we know some of these reports might look unfair, and we are only using them as springboards for further investigation, like I have mentioned many times in this thread.

I think it’s unethical to complain about ethics and not address any of the points in the above discussion with objective facts.

But ethical things are ultimately subjective, so our conversation ends there, we will have to agree to disagree.
This happened at one of my employers as well. They fired all the Ruby on Rails people and then had to send out new recruiting contracts to hire ROR people a week later as they fired them all!

They should demand to keep the severance and just quiet quit until fired again.
The l looks taller than the 4 to me, which makes it clear it's not another number
The best employees is no employee.
It's still a confusing choice of words.

With my spouse I just call it like, "Could you be there for moral support while I rake the leaves / open bills / do whatever I don't wanna do"
I think my first exposure to this was parchive files from usenet. That feeling when your 3-month download of some "huge" 700MB iso was corrupt, you load up quickpar and suddenly (quite a few minutes later) it's all fixed! No idea how it worked at the time, just magic.
Kagi is to the best of my awareness mostly doing magic with Google results.
Great post! I’m currently getting into Blender, starting with the famous Blender Guru Donut tutorial. I’m absolutely amazed by how capable and expansive the entire application is for being completely free and open-source software. My PC isn’t exactly the most capable (at least for now) but seeing how 3D models are created, even simple ones, is really illuminating and not to mention super fun!
I've tested this a bunch and you can reliably get nice al dente pasta using a low volume of water. If you boil a small amount and add the pasta, then bring it back to a boil the whole process is faster. Kenji has a good article about it, and I assure you that it always works for me.
Confidently dismissing someone else's firsthand experience, exactly the level of intelligent conversation this site is renown for.
Here's another simple way to reduce your pasta cooking CO2 emissions: cook with nuclear electricity
Yeah I also swallow bones, gristle and olive stones for that reason.
Then why is this only mainly a US problem?
Google Maps link with a pin roughly where you might leave the river to travel further south: https://goo.gl/maps/yEeRXqyToC1JYV2Q6
Pasta are cooked in boiling water over a heat source. The water stays at the boiling point all along. There is no loss of temperature due to cooking the pasta. The thermal mass doesn’t matter only the surface covered so as long as all the pasta are covered you are fine.
I'd be very surprised to see a standard US gas range capable of boiling water faster than an electric kettle.
The vast majority of users don't want to pay a small amount to dozens of writers each, but a moderate amount once a month to a single entity.
"Infallible" is not a term that the Rust library docs use, to my knowledge. You'll note that none of the panicking APIs on that page claim to be infallible, only memory safe.

(I happen to think Rust can and ought to substantially improve the ergonomics of infallible API design, as well as provide more compiler support for avoiding fallible dependencies. But it's unreasonable to treat fallibility as a deficit, since it's explicitly outside of Rust's safety model.)
Yeah.

https://www.commoncause.org/colorado/democracy-wire/first-pa...

There_I_fixed_it.jpeg

I do get why the incumbent parties wouldn't want to change the system but surely if day dreaming about saving America this would be an area of focus.
I sometimes make rolled oats in cold milk. Just give it some 30 minutes to an hour to get soft and fluffy.
The simple answer - (awfully) bad LED drivers
> is the fact that tweets called toots

It hasn't even used that name anymore for a while already.
People with GPU on PC do care, it can be pretty loud.
Americans largely don't use electric kettles because Americans largely don't drink tea at home and thus don't use kettles as often as the rest of the world.

Most households I know don't even own a kettle. Not a stovetop one, not an electric one.

If you were to ask most Americans why they don't have an electric kettle at home they won't say "because I only have 120V outlets in the kitchen." They'll say it is because they don't need a kettle.
Pray tell, before the internet how many effective boycotts were there in media, are you suggesting this never existed?

The vocal minority has always had the largest impact in all history, that's just how humans work. And even sometimes the vocal minority is correct and the moderate masses say "Oh, yea, you're right megacorp does suck and should probably change".

Simply put there are a number of relatively high view sites that don't have what we would consider reputable advertisers because those advertisers don't agree with the message of the site.
I can't help but feel that the author's point is, "Wouldn't it be great if all states used RCV for primaries?", which while probably an improvement, I am not convinced will change much.

RCV + first past the post(FPTP) still produces two-party systems. They simply make coordination more difficult. In effect, they chose winners based on intra-party voter coordination ability ie: the ability for a party to effectively communicate a preferred ranking. That may or may not be more aligned with your desires than whatever metric we're functionally choosing winners by today.

Still, RCV is an incremental, and I'd argue necessary, step toward multi-winner elections. To that effect, it's most likely an improvement.
> So, in answer to "why the fediverse," my answer is that if we break up the large platforms into a bunch of small forums under the control of only human moderators, there is every reason to believe that content moderation will become a great deal more possible and effective, and we will get our old internet back - the one based on protocols not platforms.

Reddit 2.0
Cuddling as a service seems to be done in America, too. I searched for "Cuddler for hire in (my state)" or something and got a bunch of results once.

Assuming they were not all fake. But since they're clearly posting a price (competitive with psychotherapy) and not pretending to be dates on a dating site, I doubt they're spam.
I put "infallible" in quotes because a fallible API would be one that returns Option / Result where the None / Err encodes the failure. So on the surface these API look like they can't fail, except of course they do, by panicking.
The New Hydrogen Car That Travels 2k Km with a Single Tank
https://tier.run/

https://getlago.com
You should ask the money back from Wharton. One of the respondents below explains what insolvency means (correction: pretty much all of the comments below).
Few things struck me on this topic in the last year:

- both me and my in laws are buying estate and I found it curious how to both of us (and most friends too), cameras and alarms were priorities

- leaving my old flat me and my SO realized we knew no one in the building

- went back to where my grandma lived in Poland. Classic but beautiful (really) soviet style neighborhood with parks, swings, etc. In the 90s it was so alive, children playing anywhere, women and men speaking on benches, there was a terrific super safe community. Going there it was just sad: no one around, most of the benches and trees taken down for endless waves of cars "progress" brought.
Have ADHD people known they had ADHD all their lives? There are a lot of adult diagnoses of basically any condition.
Asking engineers to innovate on the product side is the same as asking product managers to invent better programming languages.
> that there is still no way to migrate an account to a different instance without basically starting from scratch.

That's not true though. When you migrate the account, your follows and followers migrate too. (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/)

> I do not think that it would be wise for me to spend time developing a so cial network identity on somebody else's instance which could disappear at any t ime.

Meanwhile in the sidebar:

https://www.linux.it/~md/, https://people.debian.org/~md/, My Twitter page. My LinkedIn profile.

I can't tell if this is a troll or not.
From what I see online:

- Wayland is the default in Ubuntu 22.04

- You can still choose to use an X11 session instead

- The XFCE4 window manager xfwm only works with X11

https://askubuntu.com/a/1421682

This is consistent with why xeyes works the way for you the way it always did, while it works differently for someone else.
> Sorry for the rant.

Don't be. These are things worth ranting about; and even moreso they are things worth acting upon.

There are elections in the US this week, right?
All these reasons were disproven by Kenji on SeriousEats. Search the comments for the link.
Some of my queries get quite complicated, but I'm good at writing SQL. Why would I want to mess around with an ORM trying to recreate the SQL I actually want?

CAST() what? I apologize, the example was a bad. I don't want an array on the SQL side, I want to supply an array. Something more like

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE x=? AND y IN (?)

If I pass [1,[2,3]]

It should expand to

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE x=1 AND y IN (2,3)

Which means it actually needs to be written as

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE x=? AND y IN (?, ?)

And I'd have to pass [1,2,3].

At least in all the DB connectors I've seen. I mostly use MariaDB.
Reasons why Fortran is still used (2021)
>Why would they when there were a handful of users there?

Because they could just plug it and make it the most popular social media
Hmm, do you mean N+K+1 (to have enough points for both the data and parity shards)? Why isn't N+K sufficient, fitting a polynomial to N points and emitting K more?
I have no doubt that for most of the people making the decision of which person to lay off it would be hard. They are human.

But, I wonder; are these the same people (managers) that were making decisions that allowed the company to loose $4 million a day? If so, then hard to have sympathy for them.

If the decisions were being made above the managers, in the C-suite, then it is their asses (which we all know Elon sacked them as well). If I had to make an educated guess I would assume their severance pay is orders of magnitude greater than the 90 day severance that the regular Joe and Jane got.

So let's say the decisions that cost the company $4M/day came from the top, not middle managers and not the end employee. The people who say "we have to lay off X amount of people, today, tomorrow, ASAP" are not the ones who are doing the actual telling individuals they are laid off. So in their mind this is "the price of doing business". Again, fuck 'em. Why should the individual who got laid off, rehired, found a new job then give the requisite 2 week notice? It's the price of doing business.

In my mind either we are going to take out the human aspect or we aren't and both sides need to take the same approach. It can't be "it's business" on one side and "the human element" on the other. It can be, but I'm not going to play that game. In a couple of years (if that long) I'm going to be forgotten about and the business will probably keep on keepin' on.
Triac based dimmers + LEDs are quite a dumb combo, effectively the dimmer cuts the sine wave and the LED driver tries to determine how much it was cut.
Technology Experiments tried it.

https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c?t=232
There are a lot of resistive electric ranges, and around 40% of Americans still use gas stoves.
Starting with cold water, the cooked mass is heated more evenly, since the heat has more time to transfer to the core. For potatoes that's the recommended way, but if you want the eggs yellow to be soft, this might make it harder.

I only read this today, and I recommend anyone to just experiment and give new ideas some attempts.
Not the original plan to do that, so there was a forcing function. Check further down for the comments noting that severance is there to cover the WARN period.
You must not be familiar with the American system.
I'm not exactly sure what point you're trying to make.
I see the situation you described in the last paragraph as a very real possibility. Not going to defend Twitter, but at least it can’t ban whole organized communities at once. Mastodon’s federation that is left up to instance admins to decide on is bad design.

I would prefer to use an instance that has no control over who I can follow. As an added benefit, this instance wouldn’t have to fully federate with every instance I follow users from, so wouldn’t add all updates to the federated feed.

This way the instance would only be responsible for user identities but would not have much control over who its users can follow. I still don’t fully understand why Mastodon did not choose this design.
It’s DC, they only want rich criminals.
There's a related documentary of the immense damage brought by paleontologists to those tribes on netflix.

I thought about her too reading the comment.
There are tons of parties in the US.

However, because of the winner take all system, small parties can never gain power. You will almost always end up with two parties in a plurality vote since that is the only way to reliably win.

In other words the party with the broadest appeal will always win. If two right wing candidates both receive 30% of the vote, and the single left wing candidate receives 40% of the vote then the left wins power. So in the next cycle, you have an obvious choice: split the right wing vote and lose, or coalesce into a single party and get 60% of the vote.

Look up Maurice Duverger. He did a lot of theoretical work on this.
Private companies explicitly shouldn’t do whatever they want at all. They don’t even get to decide totally whom to serve, as doing so against a protected class will quickly lead to a really bad outcome for the company.

And that’s a good thing. It is frankly ridiculous that private companies get to decide the public opinion by tweaking their algorithms, it should be managed in a similar way how we don’t allow food companies to put cocaine into their products.
> The article is about prospects of war between the US and China. According to official US policy, which is the One China policy, Taiwan and mainland China are the same country, and any disputes between the mainland and Taiwan is an intra-chinese dispute, not a dispute between two separate countries, and not anything that involves the U.S. at all.

The US has never recognized PRC claims to Taiwan. The US “One China Policy” does not include “Taiwan is part of PRC territory”.

But I’ll admit the US policy is a bit vague and confusing so many people (including apparently you) don’t understand US policy in this matter.
It's a problem that goes away as you get older, for better or worse.
I own a stove top kettle. Only used for hot chocolate or aeropress coffee (but I usually use drip maker)
I'm okay with a corporation outsourcing and financing these kind of projects
Which was my point. It doesn’t mean anything.
Of course not.
The internet rewards the confidently incorrect.
It’s actually a really good (long scroll) illustration of how the two affect the circadian rhythm. Standard time has the lower impact of the two.
I think you have the causality all backwards. Colleges with quality gain prestige, which makes people willing to borrow extra money to go there, which creates windfall profits administrators can use to increase their personal standing by hiring more headcount and do things like paint the dorms and buy fancier food. That doesn't mean people's priorities in college choice are primarily or even significantly determined by dorm quality or cafeteria food, much less administrative headcount that harms the educational experience if it has any effect at all on it.

If you want what colleges used to be like 50 years ago — more power in the faculty senate, greater academic freedom, more focus on doing research and less on grantwriting, greater freedom to research moonshots, very few adjuncts — you aren't going to find it at small private or public schools that are barely staying afloat.
The admin problem is real. We stood up a small instance using a canned image on vultr.com but I would not want to do much with it manually. It’s typical modern Rube Goldberg machine software. Few developers know how to code software that is nice to install and maintain anymore.

I blame Docker to a great extent. Docker made it easier to ship and manage giant balls of hair and chewing gum, encouraging developers to say “fuck it” and stop caring about cleanliness or consistency.

Mastodon isn’t bad on the front end though.
Doesn’t explain why a bostonU accounting degree costs 50k a year. Also doesnt answer why I should pay for someone else’s useless umass Boston econ or psych degree
You sure? Germany is a (shit) coffee country and everybody has had electric kettles since the 90s.
From my understanding, migration of a Mastodon account requires cooperation of the original server. If tomorrow your homeserver goes offline without notice and never comes back you're SOL.